skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's actually a Pahonia coat of arms, traditional national emblem of Belarus, and it's officially established by the Third Statute of Lithuania in 1588. All the laws and statutes of the Great Duchy of Lithuania are written using the Old Belarusian language and this language is claimed by a statute to be the language of a titular nation. In a present day Belarus we do not consider Lithuania to be a successor of the Great Duchy, neither culturally, nor ethnically.
On the other hand, a car can provide many options and freedoms that you otherwise wouldn't have without one. Especially now during the pandemic.
https://archive.md/utkoY
Sorry, how you state it, it is just plainly wrong. I am not manipulating my image at all. I am not posting images of my self, but general natural photography. Animals, flowers, landscapes. I am not selling anything.

I also have not claimed that Twitter would be "the news". But it is a great source of specific information. To repeat the example I had put into my previous post: when a disaster strikes a certain place, the best chance to find immediate information like pictures/videos taken is people affected tweeting. This is raw material, just some data. This is of course to be complemented by the news media, though these often enough are limited to the same sources, but they might do some aggregating and processing. Often enough news events never make it to the news, because they are only of local interest.

Also Twitter is often the outlet of official organizations. Like the police of a large city informing the inhabitants about events they should be informed upon.
If the person that lives in NYC (but works remotely) gets paid more than the person that lives in Stamford and works remotely, those Stamford employees should all get together and rent a shared studio apartment in NYC and use that as their primary home address. They can even use it for overnights when they come to the city and stay late.
I read one study that indicated an N95/KN95 mask was 10 times more effective than the regular (non) medical masks. I always thought it was unusual that the US government just didn’t mail KN95 masks to people, or widely distribute them at cost. And encourage their use.

If something is 10 times less effective, it’s basically not even effective in comparison to what’s possible.
It would be cumbersome to develop and maintain rich and complex web user interfaces its approach.
> It says it will update the figures soon and that it is “fully backed by reserves”.

The updated report is here (PDF): https://tether.to/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/tether_assuranc...
Paypal is not a licensed bank. Square, whose IPO was 11/19/2015, only got their bank license in 2020. Why should cryptocurrency be under the purveyance of banking regulations?

Cryptocurrency is pulling back the iron curtain and revealing the real Wizard of Oz when you consider unequal regulatory treatment and unequal enforcement efforts. Remember BOA robosigning fake mortgages and commiting widespread fraud? Remember HSBC getting slaps on the wrist for multibillion dollar drug laundering? Let's see how far this political doublethink and perverse incentive onion goes.
I believe the "sometimes Denuvo impacts performance" problems are related to developers putting DRM checks in places they shouldn't (e.g., checking something every frame).

I can't tell you the number of times that titles have been released with howlers like "check online friend status every 60th of a second" (via a REST request). Use of Denuvo would likely follow that . . . pattern.
If it’s just because they’re working at home then it’s bullshit. If it’s really a pay adjustment for them moving to a different location, meh.
I have to wonder if the people who made this decision even have a medical degree. Software engineers banning doctors for making medical statements seems wrong.
OK, I'll give you some feedback. I want a way to write Python-only in apps that look native on iOS, Android, and desktop , and can also be used on the web.

There's React, which has React Native for iOS and Android, and there are even Windows and Mac versions of React Native. However, React Native isn't really complete for desktop yet as far as I can see. For one thing, most of the Mac interface, which comes from Microsoft, was undocumented last time I looked, which was recent.

Flutter (based on the Dart language from Google) seems like it may be very good for iOS, Android, and desktop. But it kind of sucks for the Web. Dart web apps just don't feel like normal web apps, and either the user has to download a 2MB framework or put up with an HTML-only renderer which reportedly has problems with font spacing.

Recently I ran across Framework7, an HTML5 framework that has themes for iOS, Android, and desktop (the latter theme is called Aurora). While there aren't themes specifically for Windows and Mac, I suspect Aurora would be good enough in a context like nw.js or electron, where one of those is used to interact with the native menu and notification systems.

Framework7 supports React, Vue, and Svelte; all excellent Javascript based frameworks. You can also use it with plain JS.

However, I'm a long-time Python programmer, not a JS programmer, and would prefer to use Python.

What I would LOVE to see is a Python-only application framework that worked with Framework7's JS interface, which would provide good iOS and Android themes, as well as an decent one for desktop and web.

It could be served from PyQt or PySide for desktop-native interfacing and Cordova for mobile, and run on the web too.

While nw.js or electron can be used to get the same effect for JS apps, the solution I am pointing toward seems like it would get that effect equally well for Python.

Maybe there are few problems or difficulties using Lona with Framework7 as things stand already. But it would be great if a developer didn't have to even know javascript at all in order to use Framework7 from Python, and that can't be the case since all Framework7's docs and interfaces are aimed at JS folks.

I'm learning JS now and expect to use Framework7 for an upcoming project. Once I've learned JS, I may not care so much about whether or not I can use Python, because the fact is that modern JS is a very nice language, which has taken things like generators from Python and other things from other languages. It now has standard OO abilities, etc.

But I'd still rather not do that; it would be great if there really was a pure python solution for mobile, desktop, and web that allowed most of the same source to run in all those contexts. Something like BeeWare has that ambition, but it seems like they are too far away from fully implementing it to be usable anytime soon. But leveraging something like Framework7 seems to offer the possibility of solving the problem much more quickly.

It does seem that using the approaches embodied in Lona, Dash, JustPy, etc., that it would be possible.

Just a thought.
The person you're replying to isn't talking about the housing market collapse. The credit crunch that happened after was the much bigger threat to the global economy, and that was entirely caused by businesses operating with zero cash due to the assumption that commercial paper and other types of short-turnaround overnight loans were close to risk free even though they were not.
Why is the obviously incorrect phrase "will stop you" in all of those options?

As opposed to a more reasonable "will reduce the probability of"?
Does the term "Intelligence" have a universal scientific definition, then?
> Walking back to first principals, why can't the USD fail? Because you can print whatever adults in the room decide need to be printed to hold the economy up. You cannot do this with a deflationary digital asset, nor one tied to smart contracts.

The practical implication of solving large scale bank failures with mass currency printing is hyperinflation. You would only get your money back in nominal terms, but its purchasing power would be greatly reduced. See also: Weimar Germany and Zimbabwe.
What is wrong with this economy?

Why can't we be paid simply for what we produce?

Rather than by where we live, the people we know, where we work from, the salary negotiations years ago when we were hired, ...
Most people replying here seem to be strictly thinking about tethered PCVR, and haven't kept up with things like the Quest 2 which is a $300 usd headset that addresses a lot of concerns like price, the screen door effect and the development flow. Unity has a very seemless workflow for the Quest 2 and honestly it only took me a few hours to set up my dev environment in unreal engine. The adoption trend in the last year has been steadily up as well.

https://www.kitguru.net/desktop-pc/mustafa-mahmoud/the-oculu...

In less than one year the quest 2 became the most used VR headset on steam.

It has only taken 5 months to sell over 5 million units with adoption still going strong.

https://www.androidcentral.com/facebook-q1-earnings-show-que...

Looking at all of these things I expect parity with mainstream consoles inside of a decade.
> An imperfect mask is surely going to result in a borderline contacts with infection being non-infections.

Not necessarily. The mask blocks the virus going both ways, so maybe only 10% of the virus particles get inside the mask, but 90% of those that would be exhaled also stay inside the mask.

This is not an opinion on whether masks work, just an illustration that it's plausible they don't.
Unfortunately most solutions are in the realm of science fiction, solar shades and the like.
What real world problem does this actually solve that has not been solved earlier? Genuinely curious.
I know people who moved from Austin to southern California and moved back within a year due to their surprise at the how far left California society is in general. Austin is fairly left-leaning but "extreme left" in Austin is still fairly "middle of the road" in California.
And at that point, the damage was done - the first expose was to discredit, eliminate and silence.

And it works.
You mean the one where Rudy Giuliani sat in front of a camera with a "Macbook" purported to be Hunter Biden's even though it was an LG and ole Rudy just wasn't smart enough to know the difference?
Racism is also just a single axis of progressivism though.
> So, moral of the story is: Reward good behaviour.

I wish. This is an oversimplification.

In many real-world scenarios bad behavior wins unless the rules of the game are changed to encourage cooperation.

E.g. by social norms or legislation or contract
Why should we let obviously captured regulators attempt to wrangle the only thing that even remotely looks like competition to their captors’ core business models?
The train analogy reveals the bad mental model. Thinking we cannot apply a counterforce to the "train" only comes from assuming it's too hard to do so. If we had infinite technological capabilities, we could remove all the excess carbon from the atmosphere relatively quickly. There's nothing, based on physics, preventing this possibility. That doesn't mean it's easy or knowable how it can be done, only that it could be done given sufficient technological means. Which we'll surely be incentivized to develop vs just sitting around and waiting for nature to take its course.

Go back and read predictions about the future from a century ago that failed to imagine simple things we take for granted today like telecomms or high speed travel. They're hilarious in grasping with bad analogies to come to strong conclusions like this. This doesn't mean the person is wrong, just that we ought to not take their beliefs as being factual, particularly if we can identify they've failed to try to incorporate technological breakouts grounded in known physics and our expected collective incentives.
Halloapp.com is exactly this.
FYI, your comment is pure whataboutism?[0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whataboutism
The easiest way to perform the flash is by booting into Raspbian and performing the process interactively. Without this one-time process, you can't netboot, as the default setting is the SD card, then USB: https://www.raspberrypi.org/documentation/computers/raspberr...
So why was the employee not OK with taking a pay cut for all those benefits? And if he is gonna be remote anyway, then why not outsource his job to a country with lower cost of living and therefore lower cost of labor?

And doesn't mean that we have to pay everyone more who _has_ to come to work? I.e. because they need to go the factory floor? Or they need to go the power plant?

Don't just look at half the equation.
I've decided not to work with Aubrey de Grey or SENS
Therefore they should lose sec 230 protections.
If he meant that "cloth masks aren't good enough" he could have said that. But he's a senator. His statement was a dog whistle to his base. They're not looking for an argument that people should be wearing N95s, they want to discredit all masking. The word "prevent" is a red herring -- nothing is 100% -- the goal is to decrease infection, not prevent it.
It is one of those problems that is really easy to ignore, until you can't. I was using a cheapo 8051 based logic probe the other day and had a lot of fun dealing with not only jitter of two different oscillators (probe + device under test) - but differences in response time between probes (within the same sample period). If you ever find yourself wondering much influence your MCU's 4 clock cycle per instruction architecture has on the waveforms you're looking at... you're about to have a very bad time.
I don't think I've ever sat in a chair using VR, in fact boxing and HIIT training are two things I use my headset for most often.
The only issue will be dealing with NYC's draconian tax issues, but it's 100% what i'd do too.
How is that related to what we are talking about?

That article is about choosing between 10 different comparable items. It is not about giving money to a store that happens to be open when you want to give it money, versus a store that is closed.
> the university would be dominated by a minority who were simply good at tests/human calculators but lacking in the customs, morals, and values that contribute to society.

Relevant excerpt from "Why nerds are unpopular" [0]

> I mistrusted words like "character" and "integrity" because they had been so debased by adults. As they were used then, these words all seemed to mean the same thing: obedience. The kids who got praised for these qualities tended to be at best dull-witted prize bulls, and at worst facile schmoozers. If that was what character and integrity were, I wanted no part of them.

[0] http://www.paulgraham.com/nerds.html
Rand Paul used the dichotomy of "works" vs. "doesn't work" which is in line with "stops" vs. "doesn't stop."
Do you find Teams well made and optimized? Eveyone that I know hates it.
> Jacobabad crossed the 35C wet bulb threshold in July 1987, then again in June 2005, June 2010 and July 2012. Each time the boundary may have been breached for only a few hours, but a three-day average maximum temperature has been recorded hovering around 34C in June 2010, June 2001 and July 2012.

Jeez what a hot place... Any idea what geographic features make it so dang hot? It's not too far from water (just looking at a map).
>Bitcoin Cash, Bitcoin Gold, Bitcoin Satoshi Vision. Take off the rose-coloured glasses, "your community" isn't sunshine and roses either.

I think this is unfair. These are splinter communities. It's like critiquing Ethereum's community by pointing at Ethereum Classic and Binance Smart Chain.

>Personally, I think PoW may be what brings Bitcoin down in the long-term.

I pretty much agree with this part. I think it'll probably cause very serious issues for it over the next decade. I predict they'll actually eventually move off of PoW or drastically alter the PoW algorithm, but only after many years of infighting and stubborn refusal to consider the possibility.
Name seems misleading? Not sure how this relates to veganism...

(of a person) Committed to avoiding any product or practice that inherently involves animal use
Don't know why this is downvoted this is absolutely true- was an article about Uber/Lyft/GH/DD et al. doing exactly this the other day.

Some have said this from the beginning but been shouted doen. Same with crypto/nfts et al.

In fact can someone show me something actually good that's changed the world for the better from SV VCvs?
> luxury car

I don't think anyone here is saying "Don't have a car." Unless you're in a situation where that makes sense.

I'm certainly saying, "Don't go lease a luxury car when you need a car," though. Get reliable transportation, if you need it, but there's a large gap between "reliable transportation" and "luxury cars." Spending $10k on a car out of college that will last you another 10-15 years is entirely sane. Spending $100k on a car because, hey, you got your tech job and now you can have the fancy car, is stupid.
DocuSign, From the Inside: Why Defensive Coding Matters
What I find particularly funny about the mask conversation is that if you remember way back to March-July 2020, if you tried to buy a box of surgical face masks on Amazon, there was a large, bold warning in the top description that said “does not prevent the spread of viruses”.

The reason for this was the FDA, which regulates masks, clearly held the position that face masks were for preventing transmission of large droplets and saliva, NOT aerosols.

Those bold warnings went away when the narrative changed and the FDA issued an EUA that meant sellers no longer needed that disclaimer.
Same here...i don't know about others, but over the years, the reason i have tried avoiding javascript is that the browsers/targets differ enough that its annoying...whereas it *feels* like coding in python (or other languages) seems to achieve more of the "write once, run everywhere" consistency concept...whereas javascript forces me to know about, and code for all those tiny, little browser differences. Ugh! Or, maybe i'm the only one who thinks this? Maybe it is my brain definitively telling me that i should just stick to the backend? (I'll admit that i code alot less nowadays.)
Reminds me of older Azure UI in 2018 where clicking on items would open them on the right and if you have to go back you just scroll to left.
Aren't we also worried about the effects of losing so many trees re: carbon capture? I'm persuaded we need to thin forests in CA, but I think overall we need more trees right?
New York Times Tech Staff to Walk Out in Growing Union Fight
Isn't that what the Frontend Ecosystem has been doing, but instead of 20 years it is more like 20 months?
Hedge funds and trading firms. Google doesn't pay the most.
It appears to be personal and emotional

I'd be interested in hearing what you think these personal and emotional factors are.
On the other hand some researchers think cloth masks, specifically gaiter types, are worse than nothing.

https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/6/36/eabd3083

> A bigger droplet scatters more light than a smaller droplet. This insight is important to interpret the result of the neck gaiter. The neck gaiter has a larger transmission (110%; see Fig. 3A) than the control trial. We attribute this increase to the neck gaiter dispersing larger droplets into several smaller droplets, therefore increasing the droplet count. The histogram of the binary diameter for the neck gaiter supports this theory (see fig. S5).
Here are interesting data points for you...

This one is current. It points to the dangers of massive reforestation and, in many ways, the hubris of thinking we can actually control (reduce) atmospheric CO2 concentration in anything approaching a human time scale:

https://archive.is/oBOzM

This one is about reforestation:

https://www.livescience.com/65880-planting-trees-fights-clim...

As is often the case, researchers stop at the "Bingo!" moment and do not go further to analyze the process as I have delineated in my prior comment.

So, one trillion trees minimum. OK. What does that look like as a process. What happens when a billion trees burn (not "if")? Etc.

On the CO2 impact of forest fires:

https://news.mongabay.com/2020/09/off-the-chart-co2-from-cal...

And then there's the world of coal seam fires:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coal-seam_fire

I believe the longest one in the US has been burning continuously for 50 years:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centralia_mine_fire

These things exist world-wide:

https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/52869/5-places-are-still...

And it gets worse:

https://gizmodo.com/the-worlds-oldest-underground-fire-has-b...

From the article:

"At Germany's Brennender Berg—literally "Burning Mountain" in German—the coal has been on fire since 1688. "

1688.

It is said that Chinese seam fires alone contribute over 1% of the total annual atmospheric CO2 generated.

This points to the hubris and danger of thinking we can actually control something at a planetary scale. Can you imagine if we planted a trillion trees and accidentally created more fires? Think back to my "if we left earth" observation.

I have looked at this from every angle, scientifically, not hand-wavy crap. I have a lot more than what can possibly be communicated in comments on HN. I should organize it and publish it on a website so it can be challenged by anyone who might care to do so.

This is not a single variable problem. "Magic pixie dust -> Less CO2" is the usual type of "solution" we are given and nobody bothers to ask about the other hundred or thousand variables that remain without published analysis. And yet everyone gets behind the pixie dust.

As you said. Not a simple problem at all. The sooner we start talking about this in real terms the better.
Tests are a very underpowered replacement for types. They require a lot more work to create, much more maintenance, and bring you much less confidence. Unity tests are the worst kind on each of those dimensions.

It's really not a good idea to follow TDD instead of using types. You want tests for things that aren't practical to verify, not for replacing static verification.
YouTube is NOT the government. If Rand Paul was arrested for his speech, that would be a violation of his First Amendment rights and wrong. The right to speak does not compel a private platform to carry that speech.

Certainly Fox News gives RP and his ilk plenty of opportunity to spread their harmful propaganda. So it's not like, even in a practical sense, his ability to express himself has been curtailed.
First off, thanks for the great reply! My point isn't that it's not useful as much as that it's very preference-based. The good news is though that apparently both Linux (GNOME + KDE) and macOS support this feature, despite my not using it much on any platform, so it's what we're discussing is not even a difference between mac/lin at this point, but just an abstract consideration.

> Being able to check the date or bottom line on a received PDF invoice, without opening it.

I tried double-clicking on a 43-page PDF, and it took less than a second to open on my under-powered Acer (about ~$200, mfg 4 years ago), running stock Ubuntu 20.04. This seems really fast, as it was basically instantaneous from releasing the mouse. Obviously opening up a PSD would be slower, but then again I can always just zoom in on the thumbnail in that case (Ctrl+Scroll zooms in on icons in Linux).

This is making me think perhaps the real difference is that the default programs that open are too slow, eg if Photoshop is the default associated application for all images, or Adobe Acrobat for all PDFs, then I totally would see the need to have a previewer as well, since last time I used those they were realllllly slow.

I dunno, that said, it's all really not important. Then again, what is HN but for getting grumpy about unimportant things? :p
What city doesn't have running water?