skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is this the same guy that says that interns should work for free and that absolute rights to employees off-work time are OK ? from New York City ?
Maybe if they had released the data sooner instead of waiting for a conference bombshell, the expert who provided the data would still be in a pre stroke condition and able to explain it. Amazing how the deadline needs to get pushed back right at the very latest moment.
There are a lot of areas of crypto where I feel like I have a pretty good understanding, but I genuinely don't understand why anyone would "invest" in a stablecoin. What advantage does holding something like USDT offer over simply putting dollars in a bank account?
You're talking about human nature. You're seeing the problems only. But humans were "like this" forever.

EG: you're dismal about covid because some people won't get the shot. But in the 80s/90s you'd be dismal because people weren't practicing safe sex despite AIDS, and you'd draw that line to a depressing conclusion. And yet in reality, somehow the world moved towards a much better place despite those things.

Same with COVID - you are obsessing on a small number of people not getting vax and getting depressed, but you are ignoring for example super-fast vax development, global awareness, willingness of governments to move in and out of different disease control regimes, etc. Those are wildly optimistic things, but you don't let those things encourage you, instead you seem to seek out the bad stuff no matter how small and and form your view on that.
Acrobatic squirrels learn to leap and land on tree branches without falling
love to see the barriers to building fintech continually coming down.

if it used to be 6-12 months and $500k+ to start issuing cards, what does it look like now with a product like lithic?

would love to hear from any devs who have been building in the card space.
I can't tell if this is a spoof or joke?

This entire section reads like a joke post

> 0verview
Unlike other versioning schemes like Semantic Versioning and Calendar Versioning, ZeroVer (AKA 0ver) is simple: Your software's major version should never exceed the first and most important number in computing: zero.

A down-to-earth demo:

YES: 0.0.1, 0.1.0dev, 0.4.0, 0.4.1, 0.9.8n, 0.999999999, 0.0

NO: 1.0, 1.0.0-rc1, 18.0, 2018.04.01

In short, software versioning best practice is like the modern list/array: 0-based.

We'll leave it to computer scientists to determine how expert coders wield the power of the "zero-point" to produce top-notch software. Meanwhile, open-source and industry developers agree: ZeroVer is software's most popular versioning scheme for good reason.
I think the tragedy of 9/11 is distinctly different from this one. That one was covered non stop by media networks and lead to titanic shifts in the US and to US foreign policy. Comparing emotional states between now and then seems pretty useless. And sure every new crisis can seem bleak but just considering climate change when the field of people studying it have observable depression I imagine things are a bit gloomier than the average person may imagine.

The pandemic, with hundreds of thousands of deaths just in the US hasn't had the same sort of coverage. Nor the fact that we haven't had hurricanes in the Gulf but massive flooding everywhere... my response doesn't come from emotion but from the lack of emotion I see in our leaders to the catastrophes.

We haven't even begin to cut emissions enough to slow down the climate catastrophe and I doubt we ever will. While I imagine the US will start protecting its own supply chains I imagine it will act as it always has, protect the wealthiest and best off and leave middle and lower classes to fight for scraps. Just look at our healthcare system, best in the world for the richest, and one of the worst in the western world for lower classes.
But they didn’t just make a recommendation. They listed specific things about the book, and the writing style, as a reason for their recommendation. If you know yourself, can you not look at those points and weigh them against what you personally tend to like or dislike? Is there really nothing to be learned or nothing possibly useful?
Covid-19: Sydney may call in more troops, Tokyo 'impossible to control'
The default keyboard shortcut for the emoji picker in macOS is Ctrl+Cmd+Space, Fn is not used…
And tracking/notifications. Which is of course why I don’t install it.
> if they tried too much analysis, it would leave a permanent imprint on the record and potentially frustrate later work.

That's interesting. Can you elaborate on this?
If you're saying we shouldn't even trust this conservative outlet's reporting, could you please provide some examples of where you think he is treated fairly?

I think the opposite is true here, and that treating Lindell fairly means not giving credence to nonsense.
What a weird tweet. Firstly, the "goal" was set for two years after 2017, so how is this the 4th annual reminder? Secondly, according to a random google link [1], Uber market cap has exceeded $100B in the last year. Stocks go up and down, that's in their nature.

[1] https://companiesmarketcap.com/uber/marketcap/
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Great question. Generally easier to get a contract job, as the people hiring you tend to want your skills, and care less about things like "culture fit." Generally, I would say the contractor hiring process is more pragmatic. "Show me something you've done kind of like this...great, you're hired." Realizing that it's much easier to "undo" a mistake in hiring a contractor. "Don't come back tomorrow."
Somehow he takes a story which is interesting in it's own sake and would have juicy details to hear about it and turns it to something which is about how all the cool people think it is cool.

Sad.
There are probably lots of MSVC specific extension (COM, C++/CLR, some pragma file_hash-ing https://www.reddit.com/r/cpp/comments/ep77ey/cl_ph_or_pragma... that would neeed to get ported) - just some examples that come to mind.
Apple's is up to 6mo old at release, so currently around clang10/11. Every so often it gets 2 releases behind as they are both on 6mo cycles. It's not bad really and currently Clang 12 brings few compelling reasons to upgrade. The issue will be Clang 13 is supposed to have a bunch of C++20 things, I think, and it will also be one of those ones that has a long time before Apple releases their next one.
I used to own cheeseonthemoon.com, it was one of my first websites back in high school and I just goofed off trying to be funny. It's still on archive.org where you can read about my theory (misinformation?) that there is cheese on the moon. There was a forum where me and a few friends would discuss random topics.
Tell them you're on a sooper-sekret Internet board called Hacker News!
Twilight of the Nautilus
I used to use Uber Eats and mostly moved to DoorDash. DoorDash throws gobs and gobs of deals at me. I can order 2-3 times a week and use a coupon every time.

I return to Uber Eats only when they give me 30% off or something.
Giving this a shot - I love the idea of this. Tabs are just not a great way to stay organized for me. I'm a few minutes in and have a good feeling about it already!
Same, especially him revealing a "dump" as an RTF encoded CSV of IP addresses

https://twitter.com/ErrataRob/status/1425175121963089920
> You think inequality is bad now? Can you imagine what it will be like when people can amass power and fortunes for thousands of years?

Wealth isn't zero-sum, and so it's always weird to see people arguing about how bad inequality is.

If the standard of living isn't improving, that's a problem we should address. If the standard of living is improving and the rich are getting richer, why is that an issue?

From perspectives of history, intuition, and statistics, it's clear that inequality and overall quality of life aren't inversely correlated as many today believe they are.

> House prices are astronomically bad where I live... how bad will it be when houses are held forever?

I imagine someone will get bored of a house after a few decades, certainly after a century, and so they won't be held forever. Additionally, as the population increases, we'll create new housing.
Can you provide examples? I just see this as an example of Gish gallop creating a situation were multiple claims are put forward and it is hard to counter them all at the same time.
Reddit is a marketeers dream. Every corporation, product, game, movie studio and consumer device has a big team dedicated to using Reddit for free. Submissions memes and comments are posted by the teams, often out in the open. Reddit gets no income from this advertising.

If Reddit were to start looking at charging for these, the platform might change drastically. I'm not sure how, however.
>advertising "hey we don't sell via the App Store, go to our website to purchase" is effectively driving sales via iOS without paying Apple for making that possible.

Sounds good to me. I can get programs for PC operating systems (Windows, MacOS, Linux) without paying unnecessary middle men. Adobe doesn't have to give Microsoft a cut when I pay for Photoshop, and they don't have to give Best Buy a sympathy cut either because they run their own website.

Why should I be stuck with unnecessary middle men (app stores) for my phone?
From the sound of it, they're hoping to educate the public about how gerrymandering works, and how to identify heavily gerrymandered district maps. In some states, they might get a day in court, in others, the only remedy is informed voters.
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That's too simple of an answer. These codes did not exist until recent times. The codes actually exist because people wanted them to exist, because car culture influenced the way people think and how they should live. All these codes were put into place AFTER low density infrastructure was already the established norm.

You can see it in how cities are built this country. Cities established in the east before car culture took over are much more walkable and have a different set of "codes"
What? This is an article from a right leaning news provider that backs up every claim that it makes with a named source including some from within the team appointed by Lindell.
I'd love to think something would be done about this, but like representatives and stocks, many people in politics are invested in schemes like this so I don't expect anything to actually be done that would hurt their own wallets.
that's it! thank you
It's a marketing tool to make their competitors look bad. That it is sometimes useful is a secondary side effect.
New project will simulate life on Mars, pave way for NASA's 'next giant leap'
> Every [IndexedDB] library I looked at was messy and made performance even worse

Seconded – I was pretty dismayed when I saw the IndexedDB helper library landscape.

I ended up making https://github.com/TehShrike/small-indexeddb which is ~50 lines to make it less onerous to work directly with the IDBObjectStore.
Maybe a Reddit coin? Use that money to mine it and then seed the Reddit ecosystem at first with coin upvotes/awards, build a merch market for subreddit specific merch, allow advertisers to list items on the marketplace funneling sales there from Reddit ads/promoted posts, original content -> NFT…

I don’t know the details but I think the core base of Reddit would be into a project like that.
uber eats orders come out to be much more expensive than door dash, grubhub, etc. idk why this is the case, but this is why I don't usually use uber eats. they do usually have a better selection of restaurants, I'll give them that.
You can send it to any wallet. No KYC needed. You can do so programmatically thru a standardized RPC endpoint. You can send it to smart contracts (i.e. decentralized apps), to borrow against it, leverage it, lend it,... plenty if things to do once the USD makes it into a programmable blockchain.

Still a scam imo.
> So banks actually produce about 1.5M tons of emissions then according to your link.

Wrong; Gigatons.
Great reply, I would say this is the way to go to learn and then if you get lazy, mailinabox https://mailinabox.email/ it combines everything above into a few hours to deploy.

But you still need to know everything above.

Then once you done this a few times, you have your own niche in tech - email is old and going no where and job security is ensured, it's funny, tech really is a circle.
By pushing for more oil production, the US is killing its climate pledges
Also, not an expert, but I believe it is easier to trade for other currencies and there are less rules around it. They are not really "investing" in stablecoins, but cashing out their cypto holdings and will eventually cash out into real dollars
> airplane flights no longer cost an appreciable fraction of your annual income12 , and people can afford multiple trips a year.

I routinely flew in the 80's and 90's: shorter lines, more cabin space, and food every flight (and fewer yokels airing their stinky bare feet). I'd go back to that in a heartbeat.
I love this. Simple as that.
I don't think you trying to take extra steps to protect yourself should be be looked down on by either side here. It your choice and right to do that especially if you checked that vaccines were being wasted in your area.
In fact finding the for loops to do tensor contractions (think matrix multiply but with many more dimensions) alone was something in NP range. Converting for loops to assembly as is done by https://polly.llvm.org/ is equivalent to Mixed-Integer Linear Programming, is equivalent to MaxSat is equivalent to Sat in a for a loop. In these domains there is a definition of minimal and they are still hard.
Those kinds of maps are already available for study outside of the game for DotA2, eg. here’s the analysis for a game I played. These are incredibly useful for learning and analysis after the match.

https://www.opendota.com/matches/5501229759/laning
The rich client platform is still used for standalone apps, e.g. database-management tool DBeaver.
I re-read this earlier this year and it really holds up. The lectures shared worldwide is basically how I use YouTube.
Big fan of this book. It's incredibly forward-thinking and can be read in an evening. Absolutely recommended if you have not read it.
There are many dishes that you simply can't make without the heat of a gas stove. Mostly I would say you won't find these in the western cuisine though, so it explains how the author might miss this point. Modern gas stoves are pretty much as safe as any other appliance, but I can see why someone who doesn't see a need for one might avoid it.
I bought "butterwank dot com" a few years ago (it sounds worse to British ears) because I noticed I kept getting phone calls from the registrar's sales team offering me web design services for domains I'd registered. I wanted to see if they would call up and ask me what line of business "butterwank" was in because it would be worth the $10 of entertainment to yank their chain. They never called!
Having the rug pull experience minus the volatility.
> With normal review cycle times, this would slow things very much.

I don't think it does. Ultimately you need to review everything so if you ensure that each commit is logically coherent it actually makes reviews easier.

Otherwise, in my experience, things can get quite messy and the history very difficult to follow.

It's also impossible to predict when or if you'll need to revert a commit. If you follow good practices and have discipline then you make your life much easier if things go wrong or you need to cherry-pick something, which is quite common with bug fixes if you have several branches (e.g. one branch per release).
as someone who's been writing Java for Android since 1.0 (but not much recently)

my main pain point with it was more the API rather than Java (e.g. the activity lifecycle, the 20 layers of compatibility stuff, contexts everywhere)

did this clear some of that up?
As someone who tried to advertise on reddit (though it was > 1-2 years ago, so things may have changed)-- Reddit, along with Twitter, is very advertiser unfriendly. And Im not just talking about the users.

I literally couldnt give them my money. I wanted to target a specific subreddit, but couldnt buy any impressions on it for 3 months. The app kept forcing me to advertise on /all, or all technology reddits, which wasnt what I wanted. I did buy $10 of ads, got zero clicks, surprise surprise.

The thing was hard to setup, hard to run, hard to measure, not to mention, advertisers get treated like any other account. I was shadow banned because I was linking to one domain, and reddit considered me a spammer. But I was like, that *is* the whole purpose of advertising. I was forced to post a few cat pictures, just so I could run my ads.

Never again.

I note they have since revamped their ad site-- now there is a new site, but you have to reregister to run ads, and I dont want the hassle.

Yes, everyone hates ads, but thats how free sites make money.

Some redditors were hostile to ads, but the number isnt that big. Most users were indifferent.

Such an ad-hostile company, I wonder how they make money.
Let's say contemporary journalists are considering three separate stories that could tie together the facts, with each story tying together a random subset, about half of the facts each. If the journalists decide on one story, and ignore the half that it doesn't tie together as irrelevant, a large number of things that could actually be important would go unrecorded - if they were wrong to focus on that one story out of the ones they were considering, which may not even have included the real trend driving it all.

It's also worth nothing that false claims made by important people are historically significant, but a paper that's trying to build a cohesive narrative but lacked the ability to outright quote something and call it false (for cultural reasons, stating the author's position on a quote is considered too aggressively opinionated for something published in the news section of a paper), would probably choose not to report the quotes.
basically when buying and selling in an exchange you would buy and sell using tether. similiar to how in your investment account you trade dollars for stocks and stocks for dollars. as opposed to trading stocks for stocks.

and the reason you wouldn’t just deposit actual dollars on the exchange is to avoid regulations and laws related to actually depositing dollars
There is a system of valves that keep the air flowing in just a single direction. Also, there are additional seals inside the mask that keep the exhalation dead space to a small area just around the mouth and nose, not the entire inner area of the mask and snorkel.
> look at the brain drain claim instead. I could maybe buy that argument if they were facing technical/scaling challenges, but that’s not the case

Eh, yes and no. There's that famous thread about how they rewrote the iOS app and managed to pull it off by what can only be described as a sheer miracle. That was a legit technical/scaling issue. But also, the first round of layoffs under Dara came largely because there were too many teams spending time on projects of dubious ROI (there was even an internal joke about how people would build things first and only then write the RFC for it...) and eng spending was kinda out of control.

Layoffs were extremely demoralizing to be sure, but honestly, employees are over it now and the internal atmosphere is back to business as usual.

Recall that pre-pandemic Uber had projections to reach profitability by EOY 2020. Personally I think it's a bit weird to single out Uber as having difficulty retaining drivers when I see reports of labor shortages across just about every service industry. On the rider side, people complain about prices going up, but again, this is happening across the board due to the inflation spike (and doubly so for Uber due to its supply/demand bound elastic pricing structure). Sooner or later, I think the economy is bound to return to business-as-usual with their bosses shortchanging minimum wage employees and people scrambling to pay for bills flocking to Uber for extra cash.

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> These jobs pay really well and they offer a career ladder. You will be able to buy a home, have children, take vacations. But you need to show up every day and work.

They obviously do not pay commensurate to the risks of job loss, lack of quality of life at a job, and/or to make up for the undesirability for the location they are in.

The proof is the data showing wages for factory type work stagnating for many decades now (until the recent few years). People incorporate that knowledge, and let their kids know that those jobs are not worth investing in. How many factory towns are there where the factory closes or downsizes and the whole town goes into economic decline? You need to pay a lot to offset that kind of risk.

The other proof is also that I bet they can get lots of qualified applicants that will “show up everyday and work”. Just offer $200k per year. Or $500k per year. Obviously the purchasers of that type of labor are not offering enough money.
So if there is always a 0. in front, then just take it out an assume it's there
Luckily their TOS says:

> "There is no contractual right or other right or legal claim against us to redeem or exchange your Tethers for money."

Edit: Oops this has been updated to:

> Tether reserves the right to delay the redemption or withdrawal of Tether Tokens if such delay is necessitated by the illiquidity or unavailability or loss of any Reserves held by Tether to back the Tether Tokens, and Tether reserves the right to redeem Tether Tokens by in-kind redemptions of securities and other assets held in the Reserves.

> Any individual who is a U.S. Person and any entity that is a U.S. Person is prohibited from using the Site or any Services, including but not limited to using a Digital Tokens Wallet on the Site

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19793368
Stablecoins have instant transfers between exchanges because they're not dependent on the legacy banking system. Their primary purpose is moving money around. There are also algorithmic stablecoins which maintain their price by adjusting supply rather than being backed by reserves.
You're right that neural networks don't care too much the shape of most activation functions. I assume that splicing together two decaying exponential functions at the origin would work just as well in practice.

However tanh is a bit more special than just having the right symmetries. Sigmoid is the correct function to turn an additive value into a probability (range 0 to 1). Tanh is a scaled sigmoid which fulfills the same purpose for the -1 to +1 interval.

I sometimes wonder if clamped linear or exponential functions would work better than tanh/sigmoid in places where they're currently used (like LSTM/GRU gates).
Facebook could be forced by UK watchdog to sell GIF creator Giphy
I for one would love to get my hands on whatever they offer. If it's actual packet data, that's gravy, maybe I can find something interesting. If it's /dev/random, that's also hilarious.
> It would be quite ironic if, after all those changes, the words “primary” and “secondary” would simply become the synonyms of “master” and “slave”.

As in, to describe actual human slavery?

Most English-speaking countries don't have actual human slavery any more (or at least, they don't use the words master and slave to describe it.) So when using the words master and slave to refer to actual slavery, it's usually in a historical sense, and it seems unlikely that we'd change the words we use to refer to something in the past.
Just Let Me Work
The corrupt developers don't like to publicize their corruption. I happen to know this because I know some of the players (and was even offered opportunities to invest in land before the decision to build a new highway was made public).