skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you willfully ignore regulations you don’t like, ones that were established through democratic processes, and advocate for others doing the same … that’s undemocratic lawlessness.

If instead you are saying that it’s good to find loopholes in laws that violate the spirit of the law, but not the letter of the law … well, you just explained why smart contracts are stupid and will never work.

Edit: by your definition, this “hack” was just innovation designed around the “law” of the smart contracts ;)
Totally silenced. A ban from YouTube comes with a ban from Fox News, NewsMax, Twitter, Facebook, newspapers, local TV stations...

/s
> Seeing platforms control the narrative to this extent is truly fascinating. I never thought it would be as overt as it is.

Remember the Hunter Biden's laptop story?
Study on Kids Passwords: Gap Between Knowledge of Best Practices, Behavior
As someone who started learning about Cardano recently and has listened to some of Charles' broadcasts on YouTube, I'm not really sure what you're referring to. To me he seems happy to celebrate success in other crypto platforms, has some strong opinions and a libertarian bent, but of course is building Cardano according to his own vision.

BTC maximalists are quasi-religious in my experience but Cardano just seems to recognize the inevitable ascension of the blockchain and is building for that future, very similar to Ethereum.

Maybe he's full of it; I've encountered other comments criticizing him but none that were deifying.
It points out that we build terribly and build for the wrong things.

I expect we will continue to do so and continue to make bad decisions.
I don’t know how anyone here can accept that. Are we all planning to never get old? We can’t do this job until retirement? We need a career change mid way? Is anyone warning the younger generation that this is only half a career?

Seriously, what the fuck is everyone’s plan?
Who said anything about being totally silenced? Are you arguing that being banned from YouTube isn't the same as being silenced to some extent?
I would ideally like a little more justification for those statements, but right now it's not even possible to check if the video had any.
Gene therapy clinical trial halted as cancer risk surfaces
They don't work? This article is claiming otherwise:

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-02801-8
The site has a guide for installing NTP on Windows servers that has saved me more than once. Under-rated source of information.
> PayPal and other e-wallets are not required to have bank charters to issue dollar-backed digital currency, and neither should stablecoins.

Paypal actually has a bunch of state licenses. [0] Twenty-three of those are with a banking commissioner or department.

[0] https://www.paypal.com/us/webapps/mpp/licenses
No living trees that I didn't plant myself. The fire was so hot all the seeds died as well. So the idea that a new forest would spring up from the ashes was sort of wishful thinking.
I'd definitely start with FEI, I've only heard good things about them.
See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28130560
Really cool project! Might want to add 2015 to the title, so people who have seen it before know it's the same one.
I guess Tether make it hard to withdraw dollars for a reason.
Wikipedia is equivocal about it (my highlight):

> The windcatcher can function in two ways: directing airflow using the pressure of wind blowing into the windcatcher, or directing airflow using buoyancy forces from temperature gradients (stack effect). The relative importance of these two forces has been debated.
The best hope for treating addicts is urging people not to get into it. The sad fact is that even the relatively successful treatment programs require the motivation of the addict to get better, because there really is no other treatment. You can flood as much money at the problem but it doesn't change anything. The best treatment is warning people not to fall into it. Setting up addiction centers only prolongs their pain, without solving it. But that only shows all the more that they don't really want to solve it, because they don't think it can be solved.
Should technical leads write tickets?
When using ticketing software like Jira to manage the work of a development project, what % of tickets should be written by technical leads vs product managers?
Fiat money is backed by the fear of gratuitous violence from the military of its nation.
many writers over the years have written about the evil of usury.
I've had to port some old Visual Basic WinForms apps to C#, only a few hundred lines of code for each app, and even that was a huge pain in the butt. Transpiling anything of significant size and complexity will require a metric ton of cleanup and refactoring just to make sure it all works right and can be reasonably maintained by other developers.
They are throwing relativistic, highly charged gold ions at each other. Then when the gold atoms barely miss, the cloud of insanely high energy photons streaming off of them merge in the area between them. Intensity of photons is going to be start of the universe high. Frequency caused by doppler shift and monstrous energy levels will also be insanely high.

At those speeds, the blackbody radiation from a 1 pound rubber duck from your bathtub would be doppler shifted into the gamma range. In addition, due to the velocity of the duck, they would stack up in front of it in a huge wave of such intensity that it would create cosmic background that would herald the arrival of your duck with the intensity of a megaton nuclear bomb.
That isn't how life is supposed to be, you're manipulating your image and selling a version of yourself that isn't truly you.

Twitter is also not news.
The way FDIC insurance works is that each account is insured for 250k. If the dollars are held in an omnibus account on behalf of GUSD holders, and the bank holding it were to go bust, Gemini could distribute $250k pro-rata to the billions of dollars of GUSD liabilities. Not particularly useful.

And if Gemini itself isn't trustworthy, FDIC does absolutely nothing. FDIC insures Gemini's bank's failure, not Gemini's failure. Gemini is not a bank.
Yeah, it really doesn't seem all that plausible that cloth masks do much at this point. Not only was there never good evidence for them working, the best ones only block something like 90% of virus-bearing particles. To put this in context current estimates seem to be that people infected with Delta produce 100-1000x the amount of virus that previous variants did; the effect of mask wearing is absolutely miniscule compared to that.
What's really problematic is authentic, substantially N95-equivalent masks are now:

- Available

- Cheap

- Plentiful

- Comfortable

Without a conversation, it's impossible to get people to wear them.

As a footnote, COVID19 spreads through both large droplets and aerosol, and infection is highly dependent on initial viral load. Eliminating large droplets is helpful, especially on the way out.
So you agree with him, as he is saying specifically that not all masks offer protection, and that cloth masks don't.
I am sorry for you and your children, I am sure your perspective is colored by such an event.
Simplified, there are several groups of people in the United States: immigrants, people that forgot they once were immigrants themselves that want to close the door on others now that they have theirs, people and their descendants that were brought there against their will and Native Americans.

All of these groups have their own idea of what America should stand for and their lack of agreement is materializing in a societal schism that I don't believe can be bridged under a single political system.

And yes, America has a responsibility to Afghanistan, but mostly because they are one of the major forces behind the current mess in the first place.
Webviews can't access the V8 engine, have different implementations on every platform, and are worse in performance.

As a business would you save 120MB in filesize, or thousands of hours in development time?

Electron isn't even unique in this. Blender is over 200MB now. Photoshop and Autodesk products have been big for a long time.
You mean where the US is no longer interested in nation building and occupying another country years after the military victory?
But does that really require an absolute time reference?
Would love to some amounts invested as well. (Can’t dig for that now, maybe later…)
Styling Excel Cells with OpenPyXL and Python
95 Fahrenheit is actually quite survivable. It is dangerous for old people, young people, and the very sick when combined with sun exposure and other factors.

I spent much of my life living in that temperature range without A/C, working outside during the day in the sun.

It's hot but not going to kill you. In fact, there are massive homeless encampments outside my window right now in extremely humid, hot, Texas weather (it is 95-97 all week and very human). The homeless have endured many summers like this.

It is a massive stretch to say these temperatures are not survivable. They are not healthy in the long run - but neither is sun exposure.

It's an incredible exaggeration to say Chicago (where 600 people died in the heat wave) is not survivable at all when millions actually did survive the heat wave without AC.
I’ve always been interested in these, but the environmental cost to them is higher than the article would suggest: they’re emission free during use, for sure, but their construction represents a significant use of carbon.

They look attractive when compared with AC systems, but that’s an apples to oranges comparison - they can’t get nearly as cool as AC, and they can’t protect people on days with dangerous heat levels. When compared with a closer equivalent, fans, they are much less attractive in terms of energy savings.
I work in trading, but mostly on the asian markets, so not sure about mifid. Usually the exchanges seem to give milli to second precision (which is very annoying: if Thailand says it's second-precision to timestamp their order executions but Taiwan says it's milli, our system has to use the most precise when ordering them and we get questions from our own multi market clients about why all these executions are seemingly simultaneous or why our system source marked the request at .480 while the exchange replied with 0.0 for the execution.

But, by no mean, does it mean we use special timing - but now that I say that, I realize I have no clue where our time signal comes from, clearly it wouldn't be the internet because our trading servers aren't exactly directly connected there, we must have an internal ntp sever o_O
To be fair, the only non-electron (or browser) thing I can think of that I use for work on a regular basis is the terminal. VSCode is electron, Joplin is electron, Teams is electron.

To be honest I've done a complete 180 in my views on electron. As long as the application is well made and optimised (which, to be fair, is somewhat rare) I often prefer it to native. People talk about vendor lock-in when it comes to their data, but very few people seem to consider OS lock-in as another, just as important factor. If I'm using a native app that only runs on windows, that'll discourage me from moving over the linux should the want ever arise (and it does). Obviously there are exceptions like Sublime, which are both native and cross-platform, but like the well made electron apps, they're an exception to the rule
I have two Electron apps on my computer, one is 470MB and the other 511MB.
Basecamp does this.

Every ~6 years they completely rewrite Basecamp from the ground-up and sell it as a new product management tool. They are currently on rewrite #3 and rewrite #4 will be released next year.

https://signalvnoise.com/posts/3856-the-big-rewrite-revisite...

The only difference to your analogy is that they continue to support the old versions of Basecamp so that if a customer doesn't want to migrate to the current version, they don't have too.
> but it seems the switches typically don't support unicast PTP.

Doing a quick search, the documentation for Cisco, Arista, and Juniper all mention unicast PTP, so it may be the feature is becoming more prevalent.

See also "Enterprise Profile for the Precision Time Protocol With Mixed Multicast and Unicast Messages":

* https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-ietf-tictoc-ptp-...
The big difference is the FDIC.
I do like how we think owning property is like a natural right that just exists.

Apple only owns that property because our social contract says they can, that social contract can be broken if we feel like they're abusing that "right".
> Simply shutting people up convinces no one

I mean, effectively shutting up one side of a discussion will surely convince most people to agree with the side being heard.

This just isn't effective (yet?).
If apple was scanning the video for potential evil and contacting the FBI when evil was spotted, then yes people would say "1984 IS HERE".
At some point, the adults need to be in charge. I for one applaud YouTube for taking this step, because it's not an easy choice, because they'll get pushback like this.

Misinformation about Covid is deadly. Rand Paul is spreading misinformation - masks stop the spread of everything because it prevents bodily fluid particles from getting on everything, and also stops people from touching their face. Both of these are key vectors for disease to spread.

If corporations are to be treated as people, then it's good that they behave as if they have a conscience, and show an unwillingness to sacrifice real people on the alter of libertarian free-speech political correctness.

If I worked at YouTube I would be proud of their stance.
Yeah, up to 100k per bank here in europe. Anything over that is simply gone. In return you're paying negative interest, or some custody fee of around -1%.

offtopic, but I don't believe banks will be bailed out any more. They did so, and it didn't turn out so great.
Only the outer walls would be 2 meters thick, right? So we're talking about adding less than 4 meters to the diameter of every building, which... I don't know, that doesn't seem like a ton of extra space being consumed.
Most of the food you get in McDonalds is very healthy. They allow you to have a healthy diet.
I've just gone through this process over the last couple of years. To be honest, the most effective learning tool for me was dedicating my free time for a little while to learning Haskell. It's a higher upfront cost but a huge pay-off, not just in terms of understanding fp-ts but more broadly in how you'll be able to view programming through a new lens.

That said, I wrote this[1] a year and a half ago for some colleagues just as I was getting into it myself. I hope it helps, and if not let me know if there's anything more specific I could help with.

[1] https://samhh.com/blog/js-fp-jargon
The smart thing to do now would be for everyone around to world to start digging underground relief shelters.
665 comments yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28127240

Other active thread today: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28141464
Except they are effective. They are not as effective as a N95 mask but all scientific data shows they are still effective and reducing transmission rate in a population.
I mean, you can buy a syringe of solder paste for thirty bucks and do the reflow in a toaster oven. Anyone not doing it simply isn't trying.
Fundamentally disagree. Locking citizens in their own homes nationwide is terrible precedence for “balance of rights”. If that’s what “balance of rights” looks like then I have a history book to sell you.
It can be. There is a button to flag posts. Moderation can prioritize by the flagging and the amount of flags a post gets. Considering how many analysis is done onto the facebook users, it should be relatively easy to come up with a scoring system. Could be as simply as how often a post by a certain user is flagged (and potentially removed by moderators). Also just randomly check posts can be effective, if consequential action is taken.

Yes, this is some effort and will cost money. But we are talking about hugely large and profitable companies here.

While it might not be possible to "solve" the issue entirely, it could get a lot better if done thoroughly.
Official govt channel of the country whose Ally's buggest politicin and at the time presidential candidate laughed at what they did to lybia.

Western media is cancer
Part time junior -> full time junior -> senior -> lead over 5 or 6 years.

Also if you have stock at a successful company in the past couple of years things have gone vertical.
I just switched from TST to sidebery. I would have preferred to stay with TST, but the ability to switch between different trees is a killer feature.
> if I move to Luxemburg will they pay more?

Yes, or at least if you move to higher cost markets (Zurich, sf, etc.) You'll be paid more than you might have been otherwise. It just happens than Google already has established offices in like all of the most expensive cities.
In the past, Google's motto was: "Don't be evil."

Their new one; "Evil."
Yes, since internet anti-Semites mock kvetching anyone using yiddish words in a comment on a post about yiddish institution is an anti-Semite engaging in hate speech.

https://www.yiddishbookcenter.org/collections/oral-histories...
I'm a 23 year old software engineer and I ask this question on every single interview. It doesn't matter that I don't have kids and don't have to go to bed early every night. I have a life unrelated to my job, and I act in the belief that everyone else also does.

I can't say for certain whether that's cost me a job before, but I'm also probably not missing much if that's the case.
Frustrating that the US extradition case gets a legal boost while the UK courts ignore the evidence that the US indictment of Assange is based on lies https://stundin.is/grein/13627/
Dongles are still very much a thing, though I'm pretty sure no processing is offloaded to them:

https://cpl.thalesgroup.com/resources/software-monetization/...
Gross oversimplifications like these that are barely related to the specifics of the article somewhat make your point
And they sent the guy with hindu religious thread
So what? It's easy to find a million articles that say whatever you need them to say. The point is that Youtube has decided which articles are "right" and "wrong", when they have no business deciding such things.
Which, if it were to fail (which is exceptionally unlikely), is backed by the US Treasury and the Federal Reserve.

EDIT: 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.
> Static typing adds boilerplate

That’s not necessarily true anymore. Languages like Haskell have both strong static typing and very good type inference.

> 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.

That’s a practice in Haskell development as well, but the safety and guarantee of consistency are already present prior to the annotations.
Add to that, remember when a president was impeached over a "conspiracy theory" regarding Hunter Biden's time at Burisma? One year later, fact checkers had to admit that the FBI was indeed investigating him.

Edit: From +5 points to -1 in one hour - I didn't realize so many Burisma employees read HN!
You are completely entitled to your own opinion, but personally I believe that the 2001 attacks accelerated the divide to the point that it may have made the difference between Trump getting elected or not. Without the Iraq war a whole pile of stuff that laid the ground for Trump would not have happened.

We agree that this was already happening prior to 2001, but I simply doubt it would have resulted in the extreme situation that we have today. Social media, similarly is an accelerator, not a cause.
> At that point you're not copy-protecting software, you're releasing a hardware product.

Not really if the hardware costs $5 and the software $1000, wouldn't you agree? Also, the same hardware-design can be used for different software products.

> couldn't I just move your ROM over to a raspberry pi or etc?

Well, you could tamper-proof it. For example, wrap a thin copper wire around the board, and immerse the entire thing in epoxy. When someone tries to get to the CPU or flash memory, the copper wire breaks and the flash is reset. Or something like that.
> our leading politicians still debate whether climate change is real or not.

But the Great Barrier Reef is definitely no endangered, because UNESCO says so!!!

Australia is a joke of a country. It's just a Texas with ocean.
The issue typically isn't just the COBOL itself, but the surrounding architecture. This will take in the nuances of the underlying operating system, system language operations and batch tasks.

For example, the COBOL might potentially have been on an ICL VME system. This will undoubtedly have a lot of support code written in things like SCL (System Control Language), and potentially even 68k assembly.

There are companies which specialise in migrating COBOL code from legacy environments. This can involve migrating the COBOL code itself to a different variant and rigorously testing it, and then often introducing utilities which replace operating system functionality which was present on the original mainframe.

The alternative is to "salami slice" bits of functionality into modern services written afresh, and slowly work towards decommissioning the old setup, but often this has to be done at the same time as a migration to modern hardware, due to the scale of the systems involved and the time taken for these sorts of projects to complete.
My wife and I were looking into traveling from the US to Europe this summer, if the borders had opened up earlier.

At the time, Germany was not allowing cloth masks on public transport. N95, surgical masks, or stay home.

So here we have a sitting US senator being censored for agreeing with the German health authorities. WTF?!?
AKA: You, the American taxpayer.
You're putting the onus on the individual to identify and flag abuse, meaning they still have to experience it.

If you're trying to say that automatically flagging all abuse correctly isn't hard then I don't think you appreciate the problem.
Talk about soft power. Not a single politician in Australia has been able or willing to put a price on carbon.
How is blocking X% of the virus particles less impactful if there's more of them? Fewer particles admitted means reduced chance of infection, no? Always better to less virus particles than more.
My home has an air circulator that’s designed to pull in fresh air every hour.

As it’s drawn in it passes through a heat exchanger so the air coming in is nearly the same temperature as the air inside the house.

This means the house stays cool/warm without much addictions energy required.

I’m sure larger buildings have similar features but it’s a really great system to have if you find yourself building a new home.
SIMD usage in C++, C# and Rust
Why haven't we seen significantly better outcomes in states with mask mandates vs. those without?
There are plenty of ways to hear someone's message, especially someone famous. I have to wonder if RP specifically experimented to get this to happen so he could get the extra publicity and victim credibility.

A friend recently posted a YouTube video on FB. It was someone complaining that their voice was being "silenced" so that nobody could learn what the complainer had to say. And BTW (at front and end of the diatribe, as well as in the text under the video) "instead you should visit my web site at XXX which has all my videos and articles." The clown may have encountered some resistance to posting some videos on YouTube but has no problem getting their message out for anyone who wanted it. The victim card was used to drive traffic to their own web site.