skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Sir Andrew said the next thing might be "a variant which is even better at transmitting in vaccinated populations", adding: "So, that's even more of a reason not to be making a vaccine programme around herd immunity.""

I am starting to see more vaccine mandates come out which is contrary to a lot of these experts believe. There is so much you can do and message to reduce covid symptoms at home by yourself but they still strongly believe vaccine is the only way. I'd love to see hospital capacity which since the onset of the pandemic is to not overwhelm the healthcare system. I'd love to see more historical stats because I know a lot of people get admitted with a bad flu (pneumonia etc).

https://www.alberta.ca/stats/covid-19-alberta-statistics.htm...
Are these rhetorical questions? I'm not quite sure how they address my comment.

There is a difference between that and the systemic concerted efforts by wealthy countries to poach and take the most valuable, skilled, educated of the human capital from poorer countries who are in positions of weakness and far less bargaining power.

I understand that the narrative is that it's about "helping the unfortunates", but really it's not. If a country wanted to help people you wouldn't "help" mainly the ones who can give them something (they are actually helping you), leaving the many more less fortunate ones in an even worse state.
If you are in a high trust environment, once you accept that both yourself and people can change, are subject to external factors and have an open mind with enough forgiveness, having this ability to revisit conversations is a net positive.

If people are not adversarial then all extra information that you can handle properly is good.

It will also help people perceive a lot more depth in other people.
And that will help good relationships grow and help avoid bad relationships.

It will help alleviate miscommunication issues and give more weight to intent.
Another thing that the game emphasized (based on the 1984 book “the Evolution of Cooperation“) is how misunderstandings increase mistrust. The Web is full of misunderstandings.

The other takeaway is to foster Win-win situations as opposed to zero-sum games.
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It would make sense for the site to add requested topics to be covered and allow users to upvote/+1 them. That would give content creators some idea of the demand for those courses.
That's a 4 year old copypasta, an attempt to troll I guess. https://www.reddit.com/r/copypasta/comments/7ffsjg/i_went_to...
Chromium is not 500mb, and at this point the discussion is a dead horse. Every time it's brought up someone makes up new numbers because they've never worked with it nor understand why it's used. If you don't know, don't comment, it's that simple.

The actual bundled size is about 120MB, it can be lowered. Actual memory usage is about the same but is relative on how much memory your system has overall.
> I can very easily rattle off lists of "why that won't work" or "what's wrong with that", but it's a challenge for me to come up with lists of "why that would work"

A framework I have found to temper this instinct involves shifting from predicting whether something will or won’t work to finding the smallest, most-plausible set of assumptions which need to be true (or false) for the idea to work. You’re still identifying potential weaknesses. But instead of resolving the question around that weakness with flippant dismissal or a gut-feel guess , you’re considering how to solve it and being explicit about the boundaries between what you know, what you could learn, and what you cannot know.
My reading was that the issue is the massively increased footprint of every building, not the cost of the concrete.
> With estimated leverage of 383-to-1, Tether would be unable to honour all its tokens after losses of just 0.26%—a safety cushion that regulators would never allow at a bank.

So even if they are telling the truth, it is still on the edge.
I work at a downstream customer of some company like yours. They like their windows mobile 6.5 devices very nicely, thank you very much. so when 2005 rugged wall-mounted tablet-with-barcode scanner or more commonly an RFID inventory scan gun dies, they just order another one, use MDM like Avalanche to give it its network policies and programs, and next shift grabs it and are off to the races.

Using a rugged android phone is talked about and sat on, that's about it.
The Economist this week has a really eye-opening article about the state of Tether. "With estimated leverage of 383-to-1, Tether would be unable to honour all its tokens after losses of just 0.26%". The moment we have a major adjustment in the bond market this not-actually-stable coin seems likely to explode.

https://www.economist.com/leaders/2021/08/07/why-regulators-...
> - doesn't understand yet or doesn't care that being an a$$hole online has consequences

What are the consequences? I have never seen any. Trolls continue to be trolls. A$$holes continue to be a$$holes. Isn't that what the grandparented post was saying though (in a roundabout fashion - I am presuming they do not "verbally abuse people face to face" but perhaps I detected sarcasm where there was none).
>Or they experienced an out-of-context problem. Saw something which didn't fit into what they knew.

While I don't think aliens are responsible for the Bible, something along what you've said here is a good explanation for the burning bush Moses saw, even from a believer's perspective. Specifically, before modern times the only common sources of light were the sun and fire. If an ancient person saw something emitting light the only points of reference they would have to compare it to would be the sun, a campfire, a torch, a lamp, or something to that effect. So if light was coming out of a bush they would assume it was on fire, and the fact that it wasn't being consumed would be a reason to marvel at it (like Moses did in Exodus 3).
The OpenSSF post linked to has a more detailed description: https://openssf.org/blog/2021/08/11/introducing-the-allstar-...

tl;dr it's automation to apply rules defined in its sister project, Scorecards.
YouTube suspends Rand Paul for seven days
> Crypto is not backed by any real assets

As is fiat money.
Intellectuals should stop advocating that people be treated like children. PayPal and other e-wallets are not required to have bank charters to issue dollar-backed digital currency, and neither should stablecoins.

In the wake of the 2008 financial crisis, a well-capitalized player, Walmart, which was expanding its banking activity via its Sam's Club lending, was well positioned to replace the incumbent Wall Street firms as a major lender, but that was forestalled by Congress withholding a bank charter for political reasons:

https://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/17/business/17bank.html

Gatekeeping a market activity is extremely dangerous because it allows for massive rent seeking through corruption of the gatekeeper. It's inherently concentrates power in the hands of an elite.

e.g. this is a bit dated, but gets the point across about the revolving door between regulatory agencies and major market players:

https://philebersole.files.wordpress.com/2013/10/venn-diagra...

Even a non-corrupt gatekeeper can do enormous damage by poorly regimenting the industry. Something that has a systemic impact on a market is a systemic risk to the market. And government intervention is the only phenomena that no market player can opt out of, so it is the only one with a truly systemic impact on the market. Reducing government intervention reduces systemic risk.

Right now there is a free market in stablecoins. If you trust the attestations of USDT [1], you can use USDT. If you trust those of USDC [2] more, you can use that instead.

People should decide for themselves. And the systemic risk argument for limiting people's choices is absurd. The risk posed by any financial asset is not distributed uniformly across the economy. Its impact on any party is proportional to their direct and indirect exposure to that asset, which is something that they control and have to take responsibility for.
In the absence of the government bodies that socialize the losses of irresponsible actors, those actors who take on imprudent risks would see the share of the financial market that they control steadily shrink at the expense of those who do not.

The suspension of this market feedback mechanism is what increases the risk of financial crisis.

[1] https://tether.to/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/tether_assuranc...

[2] https://www.centre.io/usdc-transparency
You can just pretend to be the narrator if it will make you feel better.
I think you could whip something up in an hour (30 min to write and 30 min to style it). I was thinking:

------ handles payments --- video lessons --- interactive

Udemy ------- Y ------------- Y ---------- N

Slip ------- Y ------------- Y ------------- Y

XYZ ------------- N ------------- N ------------- Y

etc

ugh, formatting is a challenge even here
If scales just fine. It's embarrassingly parallel even.

It's not a scaling problem - it's a provisioning problem. And Facebook isn't willing to pay for it.
I prefer dynamic typing when writing code that I perceive as "volatile". This is especially true when it's a piece of code that's currently only being worked on by me. Static typing adds boilerplate that feels cumbersome, especially when the types of the variables are already made obvious by the variable names.

However when a piece of code becomes mature, doesn't change often, and starts to be depended on by other people (eg a core library), then I start adding types for additional safety and documentation. This system of gradually adding types when needed is why Typescript is so great for me.
Valve’s upcoming Steam Deck will be based on Arch Linux–not Debian
I'd go with something along the lines of: "I'm looking for a company where I can show up and work hard during the day, and go home to my family at night. Will that fit the culture here?"
I didnt downvote, but these stats seem to pop up a lot and often are being used to illustrate that "white people are discriminated against". The key flaw if thats the intention is that students are usually of a certain age, and Americans are more diverse than they used to be since the laws against marrying across races and immigrating when non-white got repealed.

Probably also likely a second generation immigrant effect and there's a lot if people in Asia.
What's not normal is misleading your customers about it. I confess I'm mostly thinking about Tether here, since it's the largest example of a coin that pretended to be backed by dollars and actually isn't. But this case doesn't seem much different.

Also banks are highly regulated about requirements for backing assets. Triply so since the 2008 collapse.
With the Compute Module 4, two more possibilities open up:

* NVMe (native)

* eMMC

(SATA can be used natively, too, but you can't yet boot from a SATA drive on the Pi.)
Because they make money from outrage.
The Oracle vs. Google battle has shown that compatibility is different from copying. Amdahl and IBM went through this, too, with mainframes.

I see this as a victory for all software makers.
Furthermore, if "the other side" on any particular issue is spewing vitriol and harassing people then your side loses a little by not doing the same because the other side's behavior will (at the margins) cause the normal people caught in the middle who might support you to keep their heads down thereby making it look like your side is less accepted and their side is more accepted. So not only will people do it but it is incentivized from a game theory perspective.
I'm not sure it was ever sold to the public.

Buddy of mine owns timestamp.com and we were building a service where you could hash/timestamp emails (we would take over the MX for a domain and become a forwarding service). All of this was long before we had blockchains.

Sadly, it never really took off so we abandoned the idea (what is up there now is currently another half attempt at the idea).

Others have tried, but it isn't really a huge demand despite the apparent need.
How will they do that without access to the images?
The question I'm interested in a corrollary of the above question:

What's the use case for microsecond-precise timekeeping, that is of interest to (i.e., benefits) FB?
Accessibility is the special focus of mwcampbell :)
So if 0.26% of tether is withdrawn into currency the coin would collapse? Am I reading that right?
I am using social media to be - social. My facebook friends are mostly composed of people I have interacted with in real life first.

I use Instagram/Facebook to display the photos I want to publicly share, easiest way to get some audience, especially people I know.

I use Twitter mostly as a news service to follow people whom I know to post interesting content. Especially Twitter can be a valuable source of very up to date information if you have a trending hash tag. E.g. with the recent flood disaster in Germany, you could get a stream of posts from the affected areas.

The trending hash tag can though be quite a snake pit, as, depending on the tag, a lot of bad posts can appear too, there are a lot of hash tags to avoid :)
Can we just admit that making social media a "global town square" has been a horrific mistake, and just move on?
Qanats are a fascinating engineering feat requiring a precise slope of 1:1000 or less, built over 2000 years ago. It is really amazing what these ancient civilisations built with the technology available.

ETA: Also one of the few scrabble words with a "q" but no "u" :-)
how long does one need to work there before being fully vested and not required to give the phone back? 1 week? 1 month? 1 year? 2 years (like a phone contract)?

I might go work for burger king for a day for a new phone as long as I got to keep it after that day. Any longer than that would be a nope.
People from less fortunate countries wanting to better themselves in more developed countries is somehow whitey's fault. I...wow. I never thought I would see such backwards retarded thinking on HN, but here we are.
> Do you think most/all stablecoin firms went into this space thinking they would go all cowboy and skirt all regulations?

Yes.

As a first point of evidence: “get into a space and cowboy it up” is basically the whole SV operating procedure. See Uber, Airbnb, Tesla, etc.

As a second, auditors have no problem auditing every multinational corporation and signing off that their complex shuffling of funds to utilize tax loopholes follow the letter of the law. Even people who are breaking the law can successfully be audited. If your books are so unclean that they are literally impossible to audit, it’s hard to fathom how you’re possibly operating legitimately.
> If you have to save 5-10 years for the deposit, you can't afford the house in a meaningful sense

In the UK, people are already having to save for 8-10 years for their deposits. The difference is that for a £470k house, a couple on an average salary will have to save more each month (by aggressively cutting expenses). It may not be acceptable in some countries to wait for so long, and many people may find the lifestyle sacrifices not worth it. Even for those prepared to go through with it,

> "It is literally possible for them to risk their finances with a huge loan on a mortgage they will struggle to pay if anything goes wrong" is not really the same thing.

That is not what I said or even implied. The monthly mortgage repayments a 5-bedroom house will most likely be cheaper than rent on even a smaller house, so the couple should be able to still build up an emergency reserve.

The hardest part is getting the deposit together, which takes sustained discipline over a long period of time living below their means while everyone else is living it up, and can still be disrupted by life events (job loss, family needs, etc.). Only some working-class people earn wages that are high enough to do this. But once they have the house, not having to pay rent anymore will actually increase their disposable income, not even considering possibility of renting out the house if they face financial difficulties.
The film "A Perfect Day" [1] revolves around the Bosnian war zones, and one of the more interesting characters is an old grandma who walks her cow in front, and then steps exactly where the cow stepped for reasons you can probably guess. Lots of dark humor but the whole thing is a pretty sad affair unfortunately.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Perfect_Day_(2015_film)
That’s true, and a fair criticism, but it’s quite different from saying people don’t have a choice.
That sounds lovely. A recorded, transcribed, indexed version of my life (something like MyLifeBits[0], I suppose) would be a glorious addition to my biological memory.

If I could be assured of privacy in the recordings (which I think isn't achievable today) I'd jump at the chance. I don't think I have a particularly bad memory, but it's not exceptional and won't be getting better as I get older. The idea of enhanced recall is very exciting to me.

I wish the technology was something available to everybody should they choose to partake. Society would have to adapt. What is human history, though, if not a narrative about society adapting to technological change?

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MyLifeBits
I don't know if this is true for everyone, but I had no issue a decade ago. I only started wringing my hands once I started seeing people abuse online moderation policies for political gain. I've seen increasing evidence of that over the years, and the big crossover point for me was in October, when Twitter moderators banned a newspaper article about a presidential candidate's son under the premise that obtaining his private documents was hacking.
I followed this when implementing my own ~$100 stratum-1 NTP server. It's all over the place but if you spend enough time on it you can make your own guide. I know I made my own set of instructions after the third fresh install.

I never got SNMP/MRTG logging running correctly, but that's not a big deal to me for now.

I have been trying to make an accurate and precise raspberry pi desk clock. The key thing I need is PPS output. The older Uputronics modules drop the PPS signal when there isn't a 4-point lock. They also don't have an on-board RTC but the new ones do (grumble grumble).

I haven't been able to compile any repos that enable PTP emulation yet, but I haven't tried in the past year. The proper solution is probably to just buy another (newer) module with fewer quirks. The RTC alone would have saved me from an hour of headaches bootstrapping my home network.
Idris works by compiling the language to a fully specified intermediate representation that the checker acts on. The IR is described in a well-written publication and could fulfill the role of your suggested general checker. However, since proof checkers are relatively easy to write, most of the work being in the standard library, people don't seem to mind remaking them every time they design a new language.

The biggest advantage would be gained from increased interoperability between dependently typed language so that they could use each other's standard libraries, but the field may not yet be well-developed enough to standardize on basic definitions.
> stop advocating that people be treated like children

Stablecoins are money market funds. Those initially came about due to regulatory limits on deposit-account interest rates and risk thresholds. They nearly took out the real economy in 2008. Stablecoins are recreating that structure, guaranteeing a peg against a portfolio of risky assets inextricably tied to the mainline financial system. (This is a summary of the article.)
If you prefer to reframe away from the bullshit marketing language, you can think of "personal brand" in terms of integrity, conscientiousness, and reliability. These are virtues that make you valuable.
Depends on which RPi you use, the Compute Module 4 comes in 2/8/16/32MB eMMC flavors[1]

1: https://www.raspberrypi.org/products/compute-module-4/
Really nice of them to release this. However, unless I'm missing something, the HDL for the FPGA on the Time Card is not part of the release. It looks like it uses a proprietary IP core from NetTimeLogic

https://github.com/opencomputeproject/Time-Appliance-Project...

They do include FPGA bit streams, but it's disingenuous to claim a fully open source release.
Making Generative Art with the 3n+1 Formula
> The US government is extremely unlikely to bail out Coinbase.

Part of Coinbase's implicit strategy is to become the "too big to fail" of the crypto space. And if its collapse would threaten to destabilize the broader financial system, the US gov absolutely would bail it out.

We've not reached that point yet (and hopefully never will), but it's important to understand the play here.
Not sure if they require one, but Paypal has an EU banking license since 2007: https://www.faz.net/aktuell/wirtschaft/netzwirtschaft/intern...
Tech giant mega-platforms dictating policy...
> None of it is encouraged by the private industry

I don't know how you can make this claim when you even admit in the very next sentence that the prisons get kickbacks... an obvious incentive to keep gouging the prices?

Then, I don't have any idea how you then turn it into a conversation about higher taxes? As if when someone is being exploitative but the taxpayers should make up the difference between the grift and how it should be?

How does any of what you are saying make any sense? I am just misunderstanding your point here?
China overtakes US in AI research
> Even though Idris is marketed for “practical programming” it doesn’t have partial functions!!

Both Idris and Agda have partial functions. Idris uses a keyword "partial", and Agda uses a pragma "NON_TERMINATING".
Question. I have been slow to make the jump into Typescript. Do you think TypeORM is a good way for a developer to get their feet wet without making a full codebase conversion to typescript?
Re-read the comment you're responding to.
From where I'm sitting, the overnight focus was on establishing public health protocols to prevent the healthcare system from a black-swan type of event-driven collapse.

And passing legislation to provide financial relief.

And coordinating global travel restrictions.

And coordinating vaccine development efforts.
George W. Bush’s claim US war in Afghanistan protected women is “Shameless Lie”
What does this do that a dollar doesn't?
First thing I wanted as well. I want to see how this thing feels. Can you see the joins? Is it a normal webapp at first glance or some clunky monstrosity?
Not sure if I’m understanding “yiddishism” correctly here, but internet anti-Semites do mock kvetching all the time.
Oh god, that can’t be something anyone can get away with asking. I don’t have a family of my own, but I’m tempted to just fabricate one so I could actually ask something along the lines of what you are suggesting.

‘I have a family, how do you guys adjust cadence for people with outside commitments - eg let’s say I need to leave every day at 5’.

Gah, there’s no way to ask without setting off the alarm bells with these bastards.
I don't see a big deal here.
You are using a very expensive free-running time-base (MAC - Rb clock) to implement the holdover. These MACs are really expensive, and basically unobtanium if you are not a big corp.
You should have done it with a DOCXO and some clever training software to correct the DOCXO vs temperature and aging when GPS tracking is lost.