skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But Teams does not support Firefox.
> Every era is less educated technically and cares less about ideological or political goals and more about the bottom line of making some wealth.

There is no bygone era of highly educated and high minded people.
I love reading articles like this. Not because I'm going long on crypto or anything, but because the market needs a crash. If we can't shake off Wall Street, there will be no democratization of finance. If crypto crashes now, I'd feel much better about the future of digital currency.
I'm lucky enough to have an original Pets.com sock puppet still in my possession
I'm pretty sure Arabic is a special case for a person using the Latin alphabet. Would it be true for trying to learn another language using the same alphabet ? That is not tested in the article.
Joplin does not encrypt notes at rest. Only data being synced is encrypted; when it gets to its destination it’s available unencrypted in an SQLite database. Any program running on your computer can read your Joplin notes at any time. The developer has come out against implementing encryption-at-rest many times throughout the years. Their suggestion is that you use another form of encryption, like veracrypt. Notably, this makes using Joplin with encryption-at-rest impossible on iOS.

https://discourse.joplinapp.org/t/requesting-encryption-of-l...
The government, especially since WW2, has increasingly designed its operations to subsidize something for the public and then allow private operators to extract whatever wealth from that regardless of the costs to the public.

For example, research is paid for by the public, but then the products that affect people are completely captured by monopolists and spooned out in such a way to make sure only the monied sections of the population get them until the public protests enough to create a program like medicaid.

If we paid most of the cost, we should get most of the benefit. The monopolists should be happy to make any money at all, not their superprofits. Fair right?
A friend of mine got hers and loves it. She uses it multiple times per year, it is a staple at her parties.

I understand not all backers were so lucky, but it seems to be more a situation of the company not being able to execute on something that a lot of people actually did want (judging by the # of backers they had).
I've admittedly only tried doing this once, but it got no where. The police said they wouldn't/couldn't do anything unless they were on-site and could ID the driver.
I think, smart contracts work, but only the super simple ones.

Everything else is proned for bugs
Best Xbox Emulators for Windows PC in 2021
How many wars could have been prevented if governments couldn’t have printed way more money than they had GDP for and then needed to start a war to try and “fix” it?

Probably none.

Countries have had hyperinflation and then had wars, but I've never heard of a case where the hyperinflation caused the war. They're always linked by the same common cause: some shock (government collapse, market collapse, another war) that caused a supply shortage. That messed with the whole economy until it eventually resulted in violence.

Hyperinflation is a response to economic collapse, not the cause of it. Or you could see it as a measure of economic collapse; again, the metric reflects the problem, but isn't the problem itself.
thanks, I didn't notice that small image!
Yeah of course but as I know in some places people really don’t like that word I decided to self-sensor on this occasion.
> You may or may not believe the NSA actually complies with the law

If you believe that they do, I've got a bridge to sell you. Congress is entirely derelict in their duties of holding them accountable, and has been for a very long time.
Why has the average reading level of news decreased over the decades?
Scale and network effects are complex and non-linear and need to be understood beyond simplistic slogans.

The efficiency of solar panels stays the same with the number of panels deployed next to each other.

The infrastructure to transport electricity (pylons, cabling, transformers) becomes more expensive with increasing capacity. Less centralization requires less transport.
The big challenge is actually the set of core features: decentralization, trustlessness and permissionlessness.

These are the features that allow the pricing to be manipulated beyond any semblance of connection to reality. Any number you see, any stat you see, any data presented to you is likely fake. This is made possible because of trustlessness, permissionlessness and decentralization. Nobody can stop it by design.

95% of all trading volume is fake. Exchanges fake volume to draw in new gamblers. [1] The pricing is determined by Tethers, which account for 65% of all trading volume [2, 3] but are backed by $0.03USD per USDT and hot air and are not redeemable by anyone [4]. Even USDC is now backed by "approved investments" instead of dollars [5]. That's just a small sliver.

Aparently 1/3 of all small and medium businesses in America accept crypto! Fun fact. Are you sure? Because I haven't seen a single one. [6]

The actual market is roughly speaking totally unrecognizable.

The only thing we know for a fact is that new money has to come into PoW coins equal to the cost of mining just to keep the price stable. Anything above and beyond that is almost impossible to know for sure.

This is what libertarianism looks like (humorous take [7]). It kinda sucks.

[1] https://www.forbes.com/sites/cbovaird/2019/03/22/95-of-repor...

[2] https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/jofi.12903

[3] https://coinlib.io/coin/BTC/Bitcoin - among others.

[4] https://www.ft.com/content/529eb4e6-796a-4e81-8064-5967bbe3b...

[5] https://www.coindesk.com/circle-is-not-winning-stablecoin-tr...

[6] https://bitcoinist.com/36-of-u-s-smes-accept-cryptocurrency-...

[7] https://www.newyorker.com/humor/daily-shouts/l-p-d-libertari...
It's still appropriate. The issue is using children to appeal to the emotions of parents, as if children were VIP humans. Yes, they are very important people, but mostly to their parents and close relatives.
iA Writer in typewriter focus mode is great for me this way. It encourages me to treat a document as append-only until I'm completely finished writing it.
You're right, it can do what it pleases; it has been known to behead a monarch.

But it still can't dismiss a judge, because Parliament doesn't employ the judges.
It breaks reader mode, too. I only got the title, main image and a random paragraph from the article.

But yes, good story, and made me think B-52s inadvertently led to his death? :(

I played “Rock Lobster” when I spun the whole self-titled for my kids the other week. They weren’t sure about some of the songs, but that one they understood and had fun dancing to.
People in the 2000's weighed about 10% more than people in the '80s who ate the same amount of calories, with the same micronutrient distribution, and did the same amount of exercise [1].

And what about non-humans? Animals are getting fatter, too [2]. Some of this can be explained by humans eating more, hence making more food available to those animals that eat human leftovers or steal human food. But this weight gain has also been noted in laboratory animals which are on controlled diets.

[1] https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2015/09/why-it-wa...

[2] https://www.nature.com/articles/news.2010.628
Elon Musk testifies to defend acquisition of SolarCity in shareholder lawsuit
I don't think we're going to (based on decades of not doing it so far). So it's time to start moving people pole-wards or get air con tunnels or whatever we do for a 4, 6, 8, 10 etc degree rise.

Sorry, cynical I know.
The only change I'm currently advocating for is the one that involves GP not writing their repulsive comment.
Regular conversations are important in staving off dementia.

I also want to plug https://www.truelinkfinancial.com/card/

I arranged a live-in helper for my parent, during their final years because it was the only possible solution.

The card cut down the obvious petty theft of cash and helped track spending by the helper.

If your parents are mostly fit, then the debit card can instead be used to create an allowance.

Lots of regrets in what I couldn’t do (like actually have them live with me) but at least there are tools to help.
Time for the great Dana Sibera (https://twitter.com/NanoRaptor) to make some wondrous alternate history pictures of a world where there was a BBC Micro smartphone, or a ZX tablet.
That's a great way to put it! It should be indicative of the kind and volume of licensing and training we require of commercial pilots, in order to use a more limited and situationally simple autopilot.

And we still get Boeing-style @&$#-ups at the UX interface.
It seems to estimate the surroundings pretty well in the new version, but the path planner still has issues. I'm not sure if they already do this, but I think Tesla should run FSD on all cars in shadow mode, and then use the FSD vector data and driver actions to train the path planner. Basically using FSD vector data as input and driver actions as output of the neural net. If the network can't reach confidence in certain situations, then information is missing from the FSD vector data and more raw video data is needed. It would be possible to measure the difference between human drivers vs. FSD and automatically send data from errors to Tesla for training.
North East in winter has ~0% chance of getting FSD capable in the next 20 years I think. 80% of the population of my hometown can't leave the house for months at a time safely today; let alone automation taking over for that.
Still, an autopilot should aim to be a peer with the best drivers, not with mediocre or bad drivers.
Where’s the Frye Festival toy tent?
How to use parameters in Google Data Studio in 2021?
I am not sure whether we can reduce this to psychological elements. After all, laboratory rats and wild animals that eat our food leftovers grow fatter too, not just us humans. Arguably, rat or raccoon psychology is rather different from ours.

I believe that the problem is not that different from the problem of alcoholism. Everyone lives in a society soaked with alcohol, some people do not feel an urge to drink at all, some people manage to keep their consumption in healthy limits for 50 years, some end up as hopeless wretches in 10 years.
Infinite coins with reasonable inflation could be better as actual currencies. Anything with a hard finite supply that is also subject to breakage due to lost keys is ridiculously deflationary and will take on the dynamics of a Ponzi scheme.

DOGE is problematic because it's an infinite coin with an inflation rate that is too high.
Is this the one by the Cyber Ninjas guy?
Perhaps operating a motor vehicle is different from supervising an AI doing that same task.
Giant obxonious flashing lights and blinking signs stating "Student Self Driving tech on board"
There isn't a singular cause, but the quality of mass media news programming has also decreased over the decades.
We're lucky that language diffusion works both ways. I've kept my eye on Carp[1] because it takes a cue from Rust and brings deterministic memory management & ownership into a Lisp.

[1] https://github.com/carp-lang/Carp
The Kids Were Safe from Covid the Whole Time
Someone did actually start a business doing exactly that: https://jaunty.org/
In The Wire, Season 2, automation & computerization threatening both dock jobs themselves (through greatly increased efficiency) and opportunities for relatively small fish to make a little extra on the side (though much better tracking), is a pretty big part of the plot.
Are you absolutely certain that the people who complain about the carbon footprint of the Olympics never worry/complain about the carbon footprint of anything else, as well?

The way you write your post suggests that that's an impossibility.
I second the recommendation. I thought it was great.
Dropbox Engineering Career Framework
It was on the roadmap when I gave up however long ago.
I have been using containers for a long time. I use temporary containers for most things, so that tracking isn't an issue. If I have an account that is easy to login to (HN, say) I just use a temporary container and login through my password manager. If it is harder to login to, google say, I create a separate permanent container, name it Google, and use that.

Based on the fact that I now have the worst ad suggestions in Facebook of all the people I know (yes, we discuss this subject) I am pretty sure this works.
> Default is one file at a time (ie. 20)

I don’t understand this. Did they mean “e.g.” instead of “i.e.”?
Agreed. This site is laden with cynicism.
There was a great little video on twitter I can't find where someone took one of those little robots with big on screen eyes and had it reading output from gpt-3.

It was cool since you could basically ask it anything - I'd buy one of those.
Generally, a copilot is someone you can trust. The whole point of having a copilot is to reduce my cognitive load. If I am a pilot and have my copilot fly the plane while I do something else, I may be in charge, but I trust him to fly safely and alert me if things go wrong. A copilot is also a licensed pilot, able to do almost everything the pilot does, he is just not in charge.

The article shows that I can't trust GitHub copilot. So I don't think it is a representative name. Here, it would be more like a servant.
Many are, and in the early days this statement was mostly true, but today there are many legitimate uses for cryptocurrency. In Latin America for instance it is becoming increasingly common to use cryptocurrency for remittance payments, because it is way more efficient than international bank transfers with no questions asked to boot. I expect this trend will eventually start wider adoption by the broader merchant community here, as more people are coming into contact with cryptocurrency in this fashion.
Also, I think the old days with tug of war are the last time anyone won medals in unrelated sports (so not something like fencing and modern pentathlon, or cross-country skiing and Nordic combined) at the same Olympics. Usually it's a case of switching sports between Olympics, like Rebecca Romero between rowing and cycling or Roswitha Krause between swimming and handball.
Quickly Create an Opinionated Tsconfig.json
Exact Real Arithmetic in Haskell
I mean, they had to somehow procure stock from startups that are long out of business. Items nobody actually wants, so what's the point of having _more_ items nobody actually wants?

(EDIT: oh. whoops. they're miniatures haha)
Self determination > logic.

Look at the American Gun debate as an example; carrying for self defense makes you drastically less safe by most metrics. But people prefer to have the modicum of self determinism over more consistent statistical safety.
I've been hearing for years now that this is a Tesla advantage, that they can run in shadow mode, learn from humans, and big data learn all the quirks of the roads so they don't have to learn them in the self driving system.

If this has been the case, evidence here is certainly lacking. Turning down a street one presumably hasn't seen a car drive down in this direction? Failing basic stationary obstacle avoidance because they're in the center of the road? Screwing up basic turn lane behavior?

Either they aren't taking the "years of learning" data into account, or, worse, they are - and even with all that correction, it's still this bad.
Internet outages in Cuba following widespread anti-government protests
The world has changed rather drastically since 1990, both politically and technologically. If you told someone from ~1980 that not only would the Soviet Union not be a meaningful player in 40 years but also that everyone would be carrying a supercomputer in their pocket that could tell them the latest news in an instant and would let them send video messages to their friends and family (not to mention give instant, accurate directions anywhere on the planet), they would think you were crazy.

I expected all those things in 1981. The Soviet Union was running down, because nobody really believed in communism any more, and it wasn't working well. It did break up peacefully, which was unexpected by everybody from the CIA to the KGB.

I expected that many people would be carrying around something that did all those things. But not that they'd get so small and have so much bandwidth. I'd seen Xerox PARC, the Dynabook, and the pictures of the cardboard mockup of the laptop-sized version in the 1970s. That was just waiting for Moore's Law to make them possible.

Didn't see Japan fading out and China rising, though. Nor that radio technology and fiber optics would get so good and so cheap.
I’m dealing with an issue with western union. Well was, I’ve given up. For over a year I’ve been using WU to send money back for my helper to the Philippines. So she didn’t need to go to the crowded mall on the other side of singapore to send it.

No issues for over a year sending to her husband. Then one day I’m told he’s not allowed to receive money.

I call WU. They say he can receive. I send money and WU cancels it. I call again, they said he needs to call. He calls and they say there’s no issues. I call they say no issue. WU cancels when he attempts to collect.

I call again they said I need to contact GCR department. 2 months they won’t reply. Emailed several times. Called again. Talked to WU on Twitter, everyone tells me to contact gcr. No one will reply.

Black hole support systems.
$ julia --lisp
; _
; |_ _ _ |_ _ | . _ _
; | (-||||_(_)|__|_)|_)
;-------------------|------------------------------------
----------------------

> (+ 1 2)
3

> (exit)

https://github.com/JeffBezanson/femtolisp
I consider my self a bit of an optimization geek who sometimes errs on over-optimizing from the start. I think there are two major concerns.

First, you want to write code whose style fits in with the team, project, and organization. If other people are writing high-level code chaining method calls like above and not worrying about performance, then you should write your code that way as well. It will fit in fine and no one will notice the performance impact because all the rest of the code is already equally slow.

On the other hand, there are certain architectural decisions that affect performance that can be hard to undo after the fact. Those decisions can be a little harder but it usually boils down to meeting short-term requirements. Unless your boss or org appreciates optimizations and you can sell it on your quarterly review that you saved X dollars due to optimized code, then why bother?

Your optimization may even cause conflict with people who don't like or appreciate it and don't like the extra complexity it might bring to the project. Or, if you ship with a fast-enough solution and the product's popularity grows to the point that scaling becomes hard, you can optimize it and look like a hero! Whereas, if you had optimized it in the first place pre-launch, your work could likely go un-appreciated.

It's a bit cynical of a take, but a useful one to consider, I think.
In many ways, this is what modern homeschooling really is. Don't get me wrong. I know that many people who are dropping out of traditional school try to recreate school at home and that is a mistake. But many homeschoolers now follow this kind of model.

My family has been homeschooling for 15 years and my kids take science from one person, choir from another. The kids volunteer with me in the community and do a lot of following their interests along with their very basic requirements. Your grade is your age, not your academics so you go at your own pace for learning. We have had so much success with it that I recommend this approach highly.
The trackpad had terrible bugs that pinned the cursor to the side of the screen. That's as far as I got using it. I'm sad that some kid probably ended up with one on account of me.
Why was this downvoted by people. Seriousquestion raises a good point. $800 a year is a massive cost. Lets say the llc is a cleaning service, and they are only pulling in $20k a year anyways. Operating as an LLC is 1/20th of their income to do it legally. This is a valid point, and is on topic.
For those unware, this is the same people behind those Lil Nas X shoes with blood in them that made the news a few months back. While they do sell products, they seem to be less of a traditional startup with the goal of making money and more of a mix of satirists, artists, and trolls.
We are going to need a fundamental breakthrough in AI to achieve the level of FSD that people expect. Like a convolutional neural network level breakthrough.
An an user, safari is great. Has a web developer, safari is hell.
Ambassador Developer Control Plane 1.0 for Kubernetes
And also a fantastic source of Stack Overflow questions when trying to troubleshoot why some old dependency starts showing up "randomly"

Heh, I just realized SO is a potential source of energy if we could harness the copy-paste to SO question to copy-paste cycle. Blockchain! :-P
Why can there be no rich bitcoin holders? Sure you want coins distributed to some degree, but the mere fact that there are rich and poor bitcoin holders is natural and expected. And they will be the minority (less than 10 000).
How to Make Money Online: Using the Internet to Quit Your Job
I don't mind blur in anime at all but it's very noticable (without using pause or magnifying glass) in live action footages, even when using low CRF. I have to turn off `SAO` and `strong-intra-smoothing` when using x265 for this reason.
One hopes there is some dignity to be found in the discovery that, if nothing else, your purpose was to be an example to others.

The OLPC thing is a useful lesson in product design though. It wasn't really a product, it was a mandate about what some people thought others should do, and now instead we have netbooks, the android ecosystem, tablets, and everything else. If someone in the world wants a laptop over other immediate needs, they can get one. Juicero I think had the same problem the rest of juicer market had, which it was a niche product for a nexus of people who both had an upper middle disposable income and thought it was a good idea to convert fibre rich foods into insulin spiking sugar water. Jibo's robot without a purpose was existentially pretty accurate, but they discovered nobody wants that kind of uncanny reminder of the absurdity of their existence hanging around. I joke, but a well aimed joke can destroy a brand, and having funny people around to take those shots can be company saving.
What makes them required is the speed that a reaction is expected. In both the quick and velocity senses of the word.

Unless the user is able to understand and anticipate common reactions, the entire system is unsafe at >25 mph or so.

Or, to put it another way, I'd love to see the statistics on how many drivers can react quickly enough to avert an unexpected turn into an exit divider at 60 mph, after a number of days of interruption free FSD.
> assuming a delta_k of ~1568

I think we can go ahead and rule that out as impractical given we're talking about temperatures which are high enough to melt steel.
If you like that, these might also be interesting:

http://oneoverzero.keenspace.com/d/20000827.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam%27s_Strip
I bet, especially back in 2011 (only 29% of US population with smart phone), people often went and used their computers for free for short personal tasks too, say checking email.

Is that obviously abusive (and specifically criminal?) too? Maybe not?

So it depends on what you are installing software for. I thin it's not just a question of "simply walking into the store and quite literally installing a small application" being obviously illegal and/or abusive. That's all I'm saying, it's not so clearcut that simply becuase he installed software means it's "abusive" (let alone criminal).
But that's still ambiguous. It refers to all the products as toys. So is it actually selling the original hardware, like the Jibo, for $40? Do they "work" in any way? Does the OLPC turn on?