skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You can be skeptical about the vaccine, and fringe theories are normal and some are legitimate. It’s fully normal to be skeptical because you don’t have all the facts. But look at what Tucker Carlson is doing, as one example. He asserts outright falsehoods cynically. Take the wind turbine debacle in Texas for example. He asserted lies that frozen turbines caused the blackouts with implications that wind tech/greener tech is evil. Governor Abbot came on and added his authority to the disinformation. People believed it and got outraged. I watch political Twitter a lot and I can literally see how a cynical lie begins, produces outrage, and goes viral. What’s your opinion on that phenomenon? It seems that has something to do with governments losing credibility.
your claim is that clocks are not marketed as devices that tell time correctly?
Tesla launches its Full Self-Driving subscription package for $199 per month
The jobs numbers paint a rather different picture, at least here in the UK: https://www.itjobswatch.co.uk/jobs/uk/c++.do

But that‘s not even what I‘m talking about as it merely reflects the fact that C++ has been replaced by higher level languages for development of regular business applications.

What I‘m saying is that now for the first time there is actual momentum behind a language that is a suitable replacement for C++ in its remaining core domains.

And that momentum is driven by serious computer science concerns within large companies rather than by the usual suspects when it comes to hype cycles.

I‘m not predicting C++‘s decline. I‘m merely saying that it would no longer surprise me as there is now both the substance and the momentum to drive such a development.
Sec. Haaland on healing from the indoctrination at Indian boarding schools
Baidu’s Ernie 3.0 Framework Surpasses Human Performance on SuperGLUE Benchmark
I think the main difference is that by making replicas writable you lose the ability to have redis throw an error like Postgres does when you try to write to a replica. The upside is that you can write to replicas when you don’t need a global write without rerouting the request somewhere else, the downside is that your app has to have that knowledge about which one to use in which situations. It’s definitely an interesting set of trade offs for the two use cases!
I'm forgetting the specifics but I read a story about how little the muslim world cares about specific instances but universally they are outraged by mohammed cartoons. Everything else is political and doesn't unite them.
The NUCs and Minisforum would be fewer cores for price (with 4 cores per $400-500), but I'm sure they'd be way faster. Excellent idea.
For a self sustaining colony on Mars you need to span a huge part of the Martian globe to get access to enough raw materials to build things like the microprocessors required for basic life sustaining devices.

But the more you scale to reach the required resources, the more of those resources you will need - especially when you'll more or less have to tunnel your way everywhere if you don't want everyone to die of cancer in their thirties.

And one of the biggest potential limiters is water: we don't actually know how much water there is on Mars. The reserves we know for sure exist at the poles are somewhat small, and it's hard to say how much of Mars' ancestral oceans froze and how much were boiled away and carried off into space along with the rest of its atmosphere. All of the water is frozen (very hard to extract) and likely full of corrosive salts (very hard to separate). Water used in industrial processes is going to be very hard to recapture, and water that evaporates is likely to be lost forever to space (slowly but surely).

You'll also need massive ecosystems to sustain an industrial chain with 0 access to fossil fuels, since you'll need to be able to produce bioplastics and biofuels in addition to food. Again, you'll consume huge quantities of water to achieve this.

Finally, energy production will be extremely difficult, as solar panels are extremely inefficient, efficient forms of solar require boiling water compounding your water problems (and so does nuclear), and both wind and solar of any kind will have massive dust problems, probably insurmountable with today's technology.
New search engine (private beta)
Already taken to its logical conclusion: https://esolangs.org/wiki/Perligata
If humans were biologically immortal, they would likely have immune systems strong enough that cancer would be rare.

Species such as whales and elephants, who have a lot more cells than humans do, have much stronger anti-cancer mechanisms than humans and rarely get cancer.

https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2018/08/elephants-rarely-get...

https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/325178
I remember when there were several providers offering "Pi Colo." I had a Pi at PCextreme in Amsterdam for years before they ended the service. This is pretty clever, I like it.
None of this is related to the minting/burning across multiple chains or their cross chain redeemability (or lack thereof) but here are their respective claims:

USDT claim (“Every Tether token is always 100% backed by our reserves, which include traditional currency and cash equivalents and, from time to time, may include other assets and receivables from loans made by Tether to third parties, which may include affiliated entities (collectively, “reserves”).”) [1]

TrueUSD claim ("We work with independent third-party financial institutions to provide cash management for the underlying reserves backing TUSD tokens so that each TUSD token is backed by an equivalent amount of dollar deposits, cash equivalents, short-term government treasuries, or liquid investments. To achieve this, a portion of the dollar deposits backing TUSD are held in one or more depository accounts at our Banking Partners whose deposits may not be insured by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (“FDIC”). [2]

Frax claim ("FRAX stablecoins can be minted by placing the appropriate amount of its constituent parts into the system. At genesis, FRAX is 100% collateralized, meaning that minting FRAX only requires placing collateral into the minting contract. During the fractional phase, minting FRAX requires placing the appropriate ratio of collateral and burning the ratio of Frax Shares (FXS). While the protocol is designed to accept any type of cryptocurrency as collateral, this implementation of the Frax Protocol will mainly accept on-chain stablecoins as collateral to smoothen out volatility in the collateral so that FRAX can transition to more algorithmic ratios smoothly. As the velocity of the system increases, it becomes easier and safer to include volatile cryptocurrency such as ETH and wrapped BTC into future pools with governance. ")[3]

[1] https://tether.to

[2] https://trueusd.com/terms-of-service/

[3] https://docs.frax.finance/overview
> you can't really do much if a majority of people believe an untruth

Treat the propaganda campaign like the war it is - and arrest those who are serving as foreign actors for treason.

The earlier people are finally willing to admit Russia and China are waging a war against the whole Western world, the better.

The big multipliers - #45, Alex Jones, Fox News, Newsmax, OANN - are publicly known, as are most of the people spreading the stuff on FB, and can be taken down. No need to resolve to a surveillance state, just public information is enough.
An "asteroid", under the strict astrophysical definition, isn't a big threat. Predictable orbits, and, as you say, all the big inner system objects are mapped, and smaller objects aren't global threats.

Comets, though. We keep spotting alarmingly large comets only when they get close enough to the sun to show up in low-sensitivity sky surveys, long after they've crossed the Earth's orbit. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C/2020_F8_(SWAN)

A ultra-high eccentricity Oort object, covered with low-albedo goop from spending millions of years in the periphery of the solar system is going to be damn hard to detect. Worse yet, they'll be traveling fast. Kinetic energy is the square of velocity. Won't ever see em coming, and they'll hit hard. Worst of all worlds.
We use ms word, one run book per app for third part applications. That have to be reviewed/updated/APPROVED at least once per year, not optional. It's this that adds the value, not how the info is stored.
Now put this technology in the backseat watching your conversations with friends and building a decent profile about you for ad targeting purposes :)
The biggest difference is if alcohol is part of your routine or just for special occasions.

If it's part of your routine you might have a glass or two of wine with dinner most nights. Or a couple of pints in the pub after work. Maybe you never really get drunk, but you're drinking a lot of alcohol.

I used to drink pretty infrequently. Sure, I'd have a six pack a party every now and then but most of the time I was busy with other things.

Now that there's not so many 'other things' to do I do find myself drinking more and more regularly.
That’s a response to that the movie people stated they cleared the scenes with his widow.
I think Daz3D uses Filament as a Viewport Renderer.
Their egos are so massive that Earth isn't big enough for them.
It is impossible to read the article for me because of popups, dynamically changing layout while loading something etc . I miss old working internets
In decision making processing points automatic runbooks won't help.The percentages are circumspect. Runbooks won't help where human sense is required as it is not imbued with AI.
No---an effective anti-tank weapon is a ditch:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-tank_trench

You might need to make a bigger one for a modern tank than a WWII tank, but the tools to make big holes have been around for a while.
It’s a lot better with an ad blocker. I share the lament, though.
Thanks for the explanation!

I can certainly perceive all those flickering effects when moving the eyes. Slow PWM is hell, but some stuff like colour separation can be cool too.

My favourite trick is making a digital clock's numbers "slide" over the clock's surface, in a sort of parallax way. I guess that's due to low refresh rates, so for a very brief moment there's a disconnect between the clock's physical position and the last know position of the digits.
They're pretty fast, with a few hexacores. Quite a bit more than a RPi4 but still under 25W each. There's a few NUCs for $350 or so.
Wow, I’ve never seen a photo of Roy Conrad before. He… does not look like what I imagined.
They use FB messenger more than email to communicate. Email is basically the same as mail now, a place for receipts and newsletters and so on.

It’s a bad point from both of y’all tho since you’re ignoring what marketing verticals are. Email and slack are seen as pro tools, not everyday stuff
ObsidianMD on any/all devices, Syncthing to sync it.
So, Google is going to stop advertising its own products?

That's great news!
> Why doesn't the Government fund an emergency trial on Ivermectin?

Because there's no evidence that it would work? Nobody has explained how it's supposed to act on COVID-19, when it's a nerve poison for invertebrates.

There's not infinite time and effort available for patiently trying every theory with no sound basis, and the worst thing is that there have been small trials with poor or inconclusive results which people ignore. https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/ivermectin-is-the-new-hydro...
We very likely obliterated a few along the way but that seems to be the exception rather than the rule.

Humans had the power to exterminate many more but chose not to, and continue to choose not to.
The Status Quo in 3d is always moving ahead. Having another good open source PBR Renderer available can be hugely beneficial. Game engines with non-state-of-the-art renderers coudl try to integrate it - or more general: any app that wants to display realtime 3d content in a convincing way could benefit from it - most 3d content creation pipelines nowadays are tailored towards PBR (f.e. Metal/Roughness Workflow). If it focuses on mobile then it probably also perform well on desktops. Sadly, no DX support.
Those bass notes really do sound glorious.
This was offensive? Seriously? Christ, you lot are weird.
Well, it's not so clear cut. If you live your life according to a Mediterranean lifestyle and drink your glass of wine each day (mostly in a social setting, which is especially important when you grow older), you will be healthier than most other people.
No, think about MySpace. No one will ever replace by piggybacking off their API.

But Facebook did beat MySpace. That’s what network effects are
You sent me to a mobile link; ironic. I happen to be browsing on a GPC.
Joe Biden has dementia?
Part of the Amazon is emitting more carbon dioxide than it absorbs
Ask HN: How do you come to terms accepting a hard-worked project is going down?
A few days, ago, I posted [1] on Show HN. It was my first serious project and one that I had decided to actually ask people for feedback. While I did get a few encouraging words and some criticism which I've been working on a lot, I've been getting VERY few downloads (pip installs, here) in the past few days. I'm talking an average of 1-2 or maybe if I'm lucky, 5 a day. It's been only getting worse in the past week - especially in the past few days, and it doesn't look like having too much scope further on. How do I come to terms that something I've worked so hard on for the past month is probably dwindling down? I want to learn from this, and it gets very hard to see it go and accept it's a failed one.
Thanks for any advice. [2]'s my project

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27782397

[2] https://github.com/BrainStormYourWayIn/sierra
https://youtu.be/ouxYTQ_UuIw
Depends on what the situation is. If it's clear existing police malfeasance like the murder of George Floyd, then discreetly recording is the best way to stay safe.

But in other situations, the person recording is often trying to escalate the situation to get something YouTube-worthy that can go viral, where they can go on Good Morning America and talk about how scared they were, etc. They're trying to get harassed without getting shot. In those cases, the police playing music does effectively thwart their goals... even if they can get some good "content" they don't achieve what they wanted to if it doesn't go viral.
you are not wrong - but that is changing.

small data point - so the overall affect could be negligible - however,

6 years ago a youngster I was watching came home with digital literacy handouts and had teachings about internet hygene, non-trustworthy data sources, and more.

since then, more than once a year we use news stories to discuss false info, digital stalking, methods used to dox via photos, sextortion scams and more.

we've spent time talking about checking multiple sources for information, especially health or sex info - and especially for any 'viral challenges'.

So it won't be long before this next gen is adults that have been taught to look for these things, and I'm sure many have witnessed at least part of the shit show the parents have been going through yelling at their screens and each other about fake news and similar.

Not sure that the apps are making it easier to check sources, but at least the teaching of the option is a thing much more so than I think most of 'the adults' of today had a chance to learn anyhow.
How though? By what mechanism is alcohol leading to an increase in cancer rates?
Everybody dies. I can only make so many sacrifices.
It actually hampers innovation because innovation requires decisiveness. Nothing clarifies what’s important than money and the lack of it
I have an honest question. Why do people want self-driving? To read a book, take a nap, or watch a movie? I like to drive. It keeps my body occupied while I think, day dream or meditate. Driving is pleasurable for me. In fact, letting the car drive itself would be stressful, because I'd feel compelled to monitor it's performance. It would take me out of the moment.

Zen Driving - Be a Buddha behind the wheel of your automobile
https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/2089307
I wouldn't use the Internet without an AdBlocker nowadays. I even set up a PiHole on a Raspberry Pi at some point and it was super nice.

Whenever I need to consult something on my phone though, it's a real nightmare.

I hope some day publishers will understand that aggressive ads are killing the experience and drive users away. Hell, ever since they've implemented the purple screens on Twitch, I just don't go on the platform anymore.
Empirical evidence may not be there, what about theoretical formulation of the mechanism by which smoking affects the lung? Shouldn't we able to explain it only on the basis of theory?
If something is bad when a government does it, surely it's also bad if a really large company does it.

Come to think of it, why would it be bad if a government censors speech?
Is there a way to download?
Consensus on eventual consistency is eventual.
The Cuban government and intelligentsia are connected, but ordinary people are not. Until 2018, the only way for most Cubans to get online was via public wifi spots, and while there is now some 3G data connectivity, the pricing remains prohibitive: at last check 1 GB is about a week's salary.
The evidence only demonstrates it is at least that old.

This is a common feature of subtractive constructions, also tunnels, catacombs.
The problem is the extra federal payment on top of state UI and the extended benefit period. Those aren’t connected to income or employer unemployment insurance premiums.
You get a copyright automatically on anything you write... why not on your likeness (insofar as it specifically refers to you)? The 1,000 Elvises are part of the problem: although Elvis chose to be an extremely public figure, I'm not sure he would want his likeness to essentially be a cartoon character for Vegas weddings and the like. I would say that a person's likeness should be off-limits to everyone, unless specifically authorized while alive, for the duration of the copyright term (70 years after death), and then become public domain (family members should not be monetizing their relative's likeness after their death, unless specifically authorized to do so).
I think there are many examples, from French Revolution to day to day examples of people throwing others under the bus for a promotion.
Another perspective on the Axiom of Choice would be to formulate it as “you can select one element from each set in a given set of sets, and the selected elements form a set”. So we accept the existence of infinite sets (since we have an axiom stating that infinite sets exist), but acknowledge that they are tricky and that not every “collection” of whatever constitutes a set. For example, a collection of all sets does not constitute a set. In this interpretation, you can still choose one element from a set of sets, but the Axiom of Choice tells you in addition that the result of such choosing is not just a collection of elements, but itself a set, so you can apply all other axioms and theorems of set theory to it.
Writing from Prague, where the # of tourists has gone significantly down (to the levels of late 90s or so), life is so much better.

In my opinion, there is such a thing as overtourism and we have entered that territory right before covid. Narrow medieval streets stuffed chock-full of people (sometimes I wondered how no one gets trampled to death). So, so many tourist traps selling weird shit. Flocks of Segway riders dispersing pedestrians. Locals living there for decades were pushed out by short term rentals.

Plus, the unhappy fact that especially young British guys arrived with only one objective, to get monumentally sloshed on (relatively) cheap booze. Then fight the police or random civilians, puke everywhere etc. Oh the joy, straight out of William Hogarth's morality pictures, only with modern clothing.

Tourism makes money, yes. But it can be overdone. And I wonder what the effects are for further development of the country. If you have a choice between studying something hard (engineering) and getting your money from neverending flocks of tourists that come your way, the end result may be societal laziness.
It's easy to think that the most powerful entity is the one with the biggest stick. Consider this though: imagine a VIP and their bodyguard. The bodyguard is much stronger and carries a gun, but he is not the one with power. The VIP can replace the bodyguard at will.

An entity that gets to tell millions exactly how to vote and which nuke-wielding bodyguard to hire is surely more powerful than said bodyguard.
It's useful on long drives where you get tired and not as alert as usual.

Also useful for traffic jams, nothing pleasurable being stuck in traffic and moving once in a while.
The app experience is very smooth. I managed to make a flashcard and review it very quickly.

Do you have any support for cloze-deletion? I find that is the number one way to improve your output in a foreign language.

How are you going to stop people making hundreds and hundreds of cards and being unable to review them? I find that people often start of using SRS systems by putting in way too much information and then getting overwhelmed by reviews.

Final question: any plans for teacher/student models. Quizlet has a few nice features for this but there isn't any spaced repetition as far as I'm aware.
Your message implies that you trust that Google will use this message in a clean way. They won't; they have a history of using algorithms to detect TOS abuses in a very Gung-ho way without any sort of functional appeal process.
That's overly-dramatic. It's not that difficult to leave the iOS ecosystem. There's adequate tools for exporting data for emails+contact.

If you want to move to Android, you'll have to buy a new device and spend maybe $100 on apps, but most services support both platforms. Yes it'll suck to lose that one "killer app", but there's likely alternatives that are almost as good.

Changing ecosystems is always a viable option.
1)depends on the domain 2)not for a lack of trying 3) theories can be challenged, new proofs can be found

Also “history” is a broad term. I would say a true scientific method didn’t mature until roughly the 19th century.
> Google isn't spying on your private files

Yes, it is.
If you live that same life and drink a glass of grape juice instead of wine everyday, you'll live even longer.

Alcohol is a poisson and there is no "safe" level.

Now, it's a personal decision how much risk is acceptable to you, but don't lie to yourself how "one glass a day is not going to make a difference".
There are many worse offenders then those who sell fossil fuels and use the revenue to make yourself sustainable. Canada and Australia come to mind :/
'Ethereum leadership' did a rollback once, so there is zero reasons to believe they won't do this again if this will be in their interests. You see, 'code is a contract', but then it isn't.
The people most affected are well beyond child rearing age.
I wouldn’t call this a hit piece. I have fond memories of this from when I was 13, but reading through his critique I find myself nodding and agreeing with every single point. That biking fight sequence in the canyon was incredibly annoying and my memory seems to have just glossed over it.
Either

1. 8 x 40 feet (standard "long" shipping container), or

2. 15 feet, 9 inches x 72 feet (largest modular home size allowed on some US state highways)

I think 8 x 40 would be pianomax, 15 x 72 would be super pianomax. Alexander Piano is ~18 feet so it should fit inside of a standard 8 x 20 ft container with sufficient bracing. You're probably looking at 60-80 tons (guess) of wire tension for a 40' piano, maybe more.
But if you're going down that route then why should other western governments not treat the US as a threat too? There's extensive spying going on by the US against them and there's plenty of American propaganda too. Should Europe ban Hollywood movies? Arrest American businessmen for spying? Where does it end?