skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And yet if I walk into a grocery store, I can buy milk with USD. Weird — it’s almost like there is something backing it, and it’s not just strictly gold/silver!
If Google could just buy the Olympics that’d be great. Apparently global revenue is only a few billion dollars, so really it could be organized and funded by a single wealthy patron to let the world watch sports together.

Edit: but even if it was just YouTube doing something profitable that would be much better than the current situation with NBC. I guess we’ll check back in 2036.
Matrix is anything but a Signal replacement. It’s so convoluted and really questionable UX for personal communication.

I think Signal (in its current form and direction) is a gone case but so is Matrix.

Matrix is anyway chasing Slack not WhatsApp. I think that’s a smart move.
The tone of your replies is needlessly aggressive.

A typical nuclear plant isn't designed to be cycled regularly. What you are suggesting is that most nuclear plants are not generating power for more than 50% of the time.

A cursory search of capacity factors will show that this is the opposite of reality. A typical wind or solar installation on average, generates zero power for more than half the time.
Who am I to believe? The published costs of installations coupled with power company records or studies which don't look anything like real world data, but always unerringly tell me wind is cheaper.

I based my opinion on real world data, and only real world data could change it. Maybe that sounds ridiculous where you're standing, but I'll never know.

And like my man Richard Feynman would say if he were alive today, p-hacking, cargo culting, and outright fraud are alive and well - endemic in the life or death sciences - and super-saturating the more politicized sciences. Takes 5 minutes to get a rough estimate of something to see if a study is even close to being accurate. Try it. Pick a small wind market in ideal conditions, pick an established utility with public records, and do the work yourself.
It makes me happy just seeing non-corporate kernel work. Signals [continuing] long term health of linux IMHO.
I do not know anybody with cable TV. It's like saying "If you have a rotary phone..."
> What an obnoxious style of writing.

It's good to see counter viewpoints but share what you or others would be looking for instead.

"This sucks" isn't helpful.

"This part sucks but would be awesome if it {did this}" is.
Significant figures. Without that decimal place we don’t know how specific the measurement is
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Yes, I should have added that. It intersect with the type system in a complicated matter, since two functions can co-exist in the same namespace as long as their signatures are incompatible.

Which of course means that, if I'm correct that the community is moving away from type signature as much as possible (they will still be needed to some extent to control dispatch), the problem of namespace collisions will increase over time.
> Almonds are on the high side compared to other plants but their water usage per calorie is much less than animal ag.

The world produces far more calories of food than is needed, so water impact per calorie is a dumb metric since calories aren't the critical figure of merit.

What matters is water impact per $ of dependent economic activity.
I read both for a while and consider WSJ more reliable and far far less sensationalist than NYT (as of maybe 5 years ago).
> I have a hard time to take seriously any disinformation talk from the political and media establishment after the lab leak theory twist, where it had been shameful disinformation, until it suddenly wasn't.

The "lab leak" theory hasn't actually changed any. Intelligence has the same conclusions as they had last year, they don't know. The only thing that has "changed" is the rabid reporting on the subject, either calling it 100% not true or "highly likely". Both conclusions are false, and any outlet reporting it as either one doesn't deserve your time.

> and some signatories confessed they'd signed it only because Trump had been promoting the theory

Source?
We are all sitting in the same boat here. Fingerpointing to the West is insincere because it's the same attitude the West had when nobody cared about the environment yet, but directed outwards. It's also not helpful at all. Developing countries have to also somehow take part in the climate change mitigation efforts, else the West will have trouble convincing their citizens to accept climate change mitigation policies, and the latter will be right in the assumption that their contribution won't matter.

And you have a good point, but eventually, also people in the West will have to accept that climate change will impact them somehow. Sealevels will continue to rise, weather extrems will become worse, viable farmland will become more rare, and overall living cost will rise even without an increase in taxation.

Carbon tax is just a tool to account for climate change in a capitalist framework. Increased taxation on obsolete and inefficient technologies should be offset by deductions and subsidies. If the carbon tax becomes burgeoning, reducing or dropping the VAT could be worthwile.
"There will come a point sometime in your life (for me that was the ripe old age of 14 or 15) when you realize that you are simply not smart enough to make the cut."

Chess playing ability is not a good measure of intelligence.
What are your favorite MLOps courses, tools, books and research papers?
People really latched on to that "single button mouse" thing, completely ignoring the other 2 reasons I listed that I don't like MacOS. Not to mention that I wasn't telling people they should use Windows or criticising their reasoning for using MacOS.
Quick summary: The investigation relates to whether Tether misrepresented transactions for crypto in 2014. The statute of limitations for fraud is 5 years, but because it involves a financial org the SoL is 10 years.

Note that the lawsuit has nothing to do with Tether backing (despite the majority of HN comments as of this writing). As I've said elsewhere: In order to believe that Tether lacks backing, you have to believe that AG Leticia James got the data from the NYAG subpoenas, and then ignored the fact that Tether has insufficient backing. Not likely.
> Where I live you need to mount the antenna at least on an exterior wall, if not the roof to get a clear signal

Windows work too, depending on how your room is oriented relative to the nearest broadcast tower.
I'm pretty sure Ryobi just licenses their name, and the tools are designed/made by Hong Kong's Techtronics. I don't think you can even buy Ryobi tools in Japan.
I think these are most of the guiding principles that I wish I understood a lot sooner than I actually did. I spent a lot of time fumbling around, tweaking CSS back and forth, and not really understanding why things weren't behaving as expected.
Why should you Hire Shopify Developers?
So the answer to the question of life is c++?
Carbfix Turns CO2 into Stone
"...about to..."? What happened to cause this new thing? Do you mean that some of the people who work their asses off and destroy their health in order to generate all the money will get a tiny share of that money? Don't worry there will still be plenty of money left over for Dabo!
> If you have cable TV, you can watch everything at nbcolympics.com/schedule so it’s actually quite accessible.

This is the site mentioned and linked to in the article as a "site where you can actually watch live. And they have replays… of preliminary matches"

I've also found out to be quite good-- not sure why the author is so negative of it.
That’s pretty disingenuous, it’s not “hidden” in terms and conditions. And it’s not complicated legalese.

If it’s a scam why do they have sections explaining “paid and free domains” why do they have a “price chart”.

Free is in their name because they offer a free 12 month domain registration unlike other domain registrars which typically all offer discounts for the first year.
Re point 1 (JIT latency): This has been done to death, but truly fixing it would make Julia part of my toolkit. For example, right now I'm experimenting with numerical diffeq solvers for chemistry. It involves experimenting with parameters, and plotting. AFAIK, this isn't possible with Julia unless I switch to a REPL or notebook workflow.

This brings up a key question: What is the technical limitation behind compiling dependencies every time you run the program? Is non-REPL workflow an afterthought? I'd rather use Rust for something like this! `cargo run` works faster than Julia's JIT since it doesn't need to recompile dependencies like a plotting or numerical lib each time I change a parameter.

Out there idea: What about a new language that takes advantage of Julia's strengths, like clean mathematical syntax, 1st-class array support, and being a fast scripting/numerical language, without some of its problematic design decisions? Julia's been the language I've been wanting to love for years.
The US pro sports are the tail that wags the dog.
I wrote up some instructions here:

https://arkadiyt.com/2021/07/25/scanning-your-iphone-for-nso...
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> How about just moving on?

Things can have faults and be worth investing in, it doesn't need to be an all or nothing false dilemma. Nothing would get fixed if we all just self selected in this way.
> that even includes the older generations.

I've personally found the older people to be the most friendly. That was one of the biggest surprises. Not sure how much of that is older people just being happier in general. This could totally be biased as the older people I interact with are either in a service role, or a wealthier traveler, which may be more friendly than the general population.

It's refreshing to see other foreigners not feel bitter about Japan. The subreddit of foreigners in Japan feels like a cesspool of people with this dogmatic view that Japan isn't like their home country
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I doubt the average American can even name Fischer.
Wonder if the is verifiers will be using a gov backend for identity verification?

It’s kinda easy to photoshop an ID + passport so these systems can be abused. Could also use a convolutional neural network to generate a new photo.
It's more likely for the stronger player to have 8 wins and 2 draws in that line-up. If you're up against such a big divide you should play safe and aim for the draw, it's quite attainable.
Well, it was more complicated than that, and situational, as things usually are.
I have registered at least a dozen for the standard fee (~$10/year).
I recently started playing blitz games on lichens.org. It has a similar rating system. It takes 10 min a game and I have been having lot of fun. Wish it translated to fide points.
I agree with much of what the article gripes about. To me it's not prohibitive, and obviously brilliant stuff is being built in Julia as it is right now. But I just feel that things could be that much better.

That said, I do feel some of the defensiveness around these topics from years past is fading somewhat. Still, while some of the things are fixable in Julia 1.X, others likely will require a 2.0 release...
More like the opposite of that. Bell’s theorem tells us that there are two choices: either QM is inherently non-local, or there are influences (hidden variables) that can operate faster than light. Although both choices are in a sense disturbing, most people realize that we have to accept the non-local option. If we do, everything still works, even if we might feel uncomfortable. If, however, we accept faster-than-light influences, nothing works.
> It feels like we're at the beginning of one of these Hollywood "end of the world" movies

Another common thread among those movies is a large number of people in decision-making positions who could have taken action much sooner denying the very existence of the actual problem until after it's far too late.
It’s so new, that 4.0 doesn’t suffice. Wow
I don't see how it stands. You're like "HA HA pictures of butterflies are actually DEAD butterflies" but all I have to do is point to a real live butterfly that looks like the picture.
For what it is, this movie is surprisingly good.
This is a good point I feel is often lost. There is a difference between "it's possible a coronavirus that was being studied leaked from a lab" vs. COVID was a bioweapon the Chinese Gov purposefully unleashed on the world.

Because the bioweapon theory was the prominent one early on (and it was spread at a time when hate crimes against ethnic Chinese were exploding) you can see why it was shut down.

The more reasonable idea of a virus taken from nature, studied in a lab, then escaping, was not the narrative labeled as a "conspiracy" last year.
Would never work for a manager who doesn't think 1:1s are important
You're right! Most castellano speakers don't make a distinction between /b/ and /v/. Some latin american countries do make the distinction and also some spanish regions, like catalan/valenciano speakers in certain regions have a stronger or softer, yet still distinct /v/ sound, such as in "a veure, Vicent" (let's see, Vincent).
Yeah that's fair, I just don't want this to potentially affect my general google account since I made the campaign from my personal e-mail. I'm more concerned about any potential implications from that than the advertising for what is really a project in the validation stage.
While I'd have loved to see Fujisonic or Panajitsu, they were probably prohibited from using either of the parent company names for the joint venture.
I'm not sure if I buy that logic. The U.S. is also on the high side, in terms of average annual hours worked.

If we tried to extrapolate that hypothesis, shouldn't it imply that countries with considerably lower averages (e.g.: Germany, France, Sweden) ought to be considerably further ahead in automation than they currently are?
Who can dictate what pose a butterfly should be drawn in?
How is the pheromone gradient maintained in the termite hill?
I don't think that lasted very long. E-Bikes are so common now that I don't think other cyclists give them a second thought.
I was generally speaking about praising someone's accomplishments because/despite of their age.
> The second part I think simply denotes a misunderstanding of what playing chess well means.

The quote is from Paul Morphy, the best player of the 19th century. He practically invented playing chess well. And he hated it, he felt he should have become a lawyer and did something useful with his life.
I don't live in CA and don't even live in a city. But I understand why someone might want to live in a city and, given that, for me SF has many attractions--though, as you say, the other side of the ledger is increasingly long. Personally, if I had to live in the Bay Area somewhere and had the money, it's unlikely I'd live in the city. But I have no real interest in living in the area generally. I can always visit.
There is an amazing 100m lecture from Douglas Trumbull linked from above, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FBaZQojd1_s

This is super cool, but not the optical setup I thinking of.
Give a tangible example of the NYT putting out purposeful disinformation that's even in the same sort of ballpark of the kinds of sources that millions of people are consuming on a daily basis via Facebook & Twitter. It's not even close. Stop with the false equivalencies.
The idea that you can Google how to pronounce a name is in itself presumptuous. My name from a European country is spelled the same but pronounced differently as a name much more commonly used in South America. If you googled how to say it you would get the wrong answer. I’d rather you just butcher it in American than make assumptions about my origin.

If you want an analogue, think of Muhammad Ali. Arabic name, non-Arabic pronunciation.

That said, I certainly wouldn’t get upset at the effort. I’d assume you mean well, so no foul. It’s just not that important.
"Tether's claims that its virtual currency was fully backed by U.S. dollars at all times was a lie." -- NYAG Letitia James
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>"It's insanely hard to avoid that main stream media content (celebrities, dramas, dramas, dramas and $bad_stuff/propaganda) that affects the mood, even when I don't use "normal" social medias."

I personally do not have this impression. I truly do not give a flying fuck about "mainstream" (whatever that means) and just read what I want.
I feel the story was your former example, not the latter. If anyone dismissed it as "proven false", they were wrong. But at the time (and now) there still is no evidence for it, which is an important detail when discussing.
It's very interesting he would make this an open letter for the public to see. Outright waiving billions of dollars in payment shows he can afford to take a huge short term loss to get more contracts in the long term. He really wants to take that contract from SpaceX. It's going to be interesting to see how Musk responds.
> Makes you wonder if there is a modern equivalent overzealous belief system in the west that has caused country after country to to fall into revolution and disarray.

This is quite a profound point. Thank you!
> Absolutely, and the gap is so deceptive - it doesn't look like there's that much of a gap when you watch the pros.

It's the unknown unknown. I used to play a lot of ball and lucked into playing pick up with some good college players and even ex-pros who played over seas. Until I had that experience, I had no idea how much better they were.

There's also nuance in the sport that requires knowledge to see the difference between top players. For example, when I started training BJJ all black belts were the same - as in they easily kicked my ass. After a few years of training, they still easily kick my ass, but I can feel the difference and have some idea just from our rolling which ones are better than the others.
I wonder if this is a situation where there is reason to be concerned about this given event, but it's also an easy path for an investigation to proceed / check if it has happened even further?

Pull this stunt once, maybe twice, more?
Depending on how low you put your bar for what passes for "democracy", I would very much disagree. Countries like Nazi Germany, USSR, North Korea etc all had/have elections. Of course, you can argue that this does not qualify for a democracy, but then one can argue that neither did the "bad" monarchies in history qualify for proper "monarchies".

To me democracy is also the failed form of it, you cannot just pretend that democracy is that part which you like. And also, you have to consider what better things it prevents us from having. Also, you cannot compare things out of their historical context. Of course democracy is not very bad when we have food and iphones, but you don't have to look very far (North Korea, Venezuela, Africa - you will be surprised how "good" democracy some of these countries have, yet they do not prosper) to see what happens when we don't have them.

One good book on the topic is "Democracy: The God That Failed" by Hans-Hermann Hoppe. It goes into massive amount of details and is not a pleasant read. Still, probably the best book in existence, for someone to understand what is wrong with our world.
He's nothing if not persistent.
But Blue Origin has consistently under-performed, which is one of the reasons they lost the bid. All of Jeff's persuasion and all of his money can't alter that fact. He's trying to tout the BE-7 engine when the BE-4 has missed several deadlines and still isn't ready. Should NASA take a chance on a company that has yet to get itself together?
Understanding fully that this is meant to serve just as a reference, this type of article risks positioning hiring as an end — not as a means to an end.

Better to take external advice on typical team sizes / talent needed to achieve specific milestones specific to your business. Hire to get meaningful work done. Not based on a funding-centric "target" org chart.
> It's something we've never encountered as a global civilization

I'm not sure what that means. There have been periods of population stagnation in continent-size swaths of land before.

Culturally speaking, stagnation has effectively been "official policy" in Europe for centuries, before the XIX/XX century changes. It ended simply because technological advance by growing societies made it culturally unsustainable to pursue ideals of eternal stagnation. If you don't grow, somebody else will and eventually they will show up at your door. This is also the case of Japan, btw. They were effectively forced to grow and progress by foreigners demonstrating military power and tech that they could not match. If they stagnate too much, they are at serious risk of somebody else (China) doing it to them again.

If you think a global policy of stagnation would not have such drawbacks, you're effectively stating that no interplanetary species will ever show up at our door with big guns, ever. That's kind of a big gamble.
> just filler to sell more toilet paper or something

This has also bothered me, all the ads I get are toilet paper and insurance. I don’t feel the least bit influenced by them but they must spend gobs of money to make sure I know their name.
I think focusing on improving current rigid education, work culture, and immigration policies are far more likely to make a meaningful impact.

It’s the more boring solution, and also one that most requires facing uncomfortable truths, however.
>Japanese companies make some incredible tech that never finds its way off the showroom floor

Japanese tech does find its way into industrial robotics and CNC.
I guess for me, I have a hard time judging it as an unfair trial when there hasn't even been a trial. If the trial happens and it's unfair, then I think we discuss that.

Right now it seems as if we're discussing how it is unfair for them to indict him and seek extradition to conduct the trial.

At least for how I understand the US justice system as an American, if I'm indicted, even if I think it's a sham indictment, I don't think I can fight it at the indictment phase. I fight it at trial. Now, if I think the trial won't even be fair, then I'd probably flee, but now I'm a fugitive in the eyes of the law and it doesn't seem to give the trial a chance to be fair.

So I'm confused, what should we demand better of? That the government shows more evidence to the indictment in order to gain the right for a trial? How much evidence needs to be shown before trial vs during the trial?

*edit: deleted duplicate sentence
I don't just mean Fox. MSNBC, etc seems to mostly be talk shows too.
> There is this push, which seems mostly from the right, to say, "do your own research. you can't trust mainstream news media!". Yet they'll then push tweets from random people as facts.

Which is an attitude that makes one far more vulnerable to the kind of disinformation-for-hire the OP describes (a lot of it is astroturf, fake fact-checking, fake personal accounts of "what's really going on", etc.).

However, many people here aren't discussing the OP, but using the word "disinformation" in the title as an excuse bring up some hobby horse complaint.
So turn off Gatekeeper. It's just a couple terminal commands.
Clojure has no TCO so it can interop with Java. It is the last language I would bring up as evidence.

https://clojure.org/about/functional_programming