skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I think a lot of us grew up being some of the very few people "in the know" surrounded by masses of technologically-oblivious people who couldn't care less about such issues.

TBH, the claim that normal people don't care about privacy has been almost exclusively used to silence normal people who are concerned about privacy on the basis of zero evidence. I remember being "in the know" about when and how people were being tracked and being paranoid about things most people weren't paranoid about, but when I explained it to people, it also bothered them - they hadn't 1) realized they were that interesting, or 2) realized how granular and concrete the records they leave behind are.

I've virtually never met someone who wasn't concerned about privacy other than David Brin-familiar nerdballs and radical devotees of communal living and/or eastern philosophy. What people don't know is how computers work, and people who build their business models around surveillance and rent-seeking make a huge effort to obscure how computers work.
What if a deadly heatwave hit India?
I legitimately can no longer tell if this was being suggested sarcastically, or if you guys are being serious.
Yes, Tether is my source: https://tether.to/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/tether-march-31...
Who specifically are you talking about? In many countries with inflation problems, USD aren't hard to come by. In countries with no access to USD and/or capital controls...then yes, Tether kinda sorta makes sense as an intermediary to get to another asset, but that does absolutely nothing to explain why Tether's issuance exploded and continues to rise exponentially (at least through the end of March 2021 before pausing for a few months without explanation).
It’s a long read, but it covers the period from the original IBM through to the 386 in impressive technical detail.
That's the thing about productivity - it's a very meta word since the human brain works non-stop since birth (some even say that before being born, the brain is still working).

Dossing about, loafing, or idling are not the work of the devil, they are necessary to getting things done since we need to pause and reflect, and conjure up ideas typically in silence.

My favorite phrase regarding this matter is as follows:

"Time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time".
Interesting question, though certainly it is less waste to buy neither.
I bought a few cool domains over the past couple of years for side projects: wrestle.buzz, scots.app, jazzkeys.fyi and jamieonkeys.dev. My favourite (joke) domain is Marco Arment’s bad.coffee :D
Yes, but the work's already been done for years.

Again, I think this device isn't a terrible value, but a $2-300 device would be a lot sweeter proposition for my demographic.
Anecdata, but thats not been my experience. Ive found latex to be a much smoother experience to use than languages like js or python.
Aerosol transmission is an important mode of influenza A virus spread (2013)
Just found this:

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/health/scientists-debate-potent...

It leads with this:

> Vaccines that are injected into arm muscles aren’t likely to be able to protect our nasal passages from marauding SARS-CoV-2 viruses for very long

It might be true, but I would have liked to read more. It's pretty easy to envision a case where that's not true, and the immune system doesn't really care where the vaccine was given.
> that is no argument for fixing a particular meaning or context as more important or 'native' than any other

You missed from my argument that the above statement is part of my argument: it is normal for language to also represent controversial (contextually) cases, but «that is no argument for fixing [such] particular meaning or context as more important» or having priority over, especially, its core meaning.

You are missing that I oppose an appropriation, that reduces of that richness of applications to a "yes but, you see, we cannot forget what happened in Khartoum, there is no return from that episode and now if you mention it I can only think of the event". No, the richness is intact, you are covering it. And the subsequent argument I proposed, replying to you, contains: beware while covering it of not being supportive to some political effort you would otherwise oppose.

Example: one extremist a few years ago apparently instructed his followers, their music shall be that of Depeche Mode - their guts should resonate with that; the authors of «the grabbing hands grab all they can» and «we are going backwards, to a caveman mentality» showed being less than impressed. If people stopped listening to Depeche Mode because an extremist finds their sound instrumental to hook underdeveloped prefrontals, and now there is an association, they should be dehypnotized. The extremist or another could have invented that 'depeche' is now a world that means their attempt world domination: I am not saying that Gore Gahan and Fletcher have a full right to the word, I am saying that one would not be justified to call the word "now embarassing" because some fool came up with his low fumes.

If we measured our associations with the worse in society, we would be in deep trouble, repeat:

supporting and justifying associations following the worse in society is a recipe for collective damage.

Never empower the "wrong side". If already you allow them to bend your vocabulary...

Technically, for the rest: a term is a pattern, one can apply it metaphorically to a large number of cases. (Its transliteration is largely irrelevant - 'jñāna', 'gnoscere', 'know'...) The core meaning is found navigating to the "original" pattern behind all applications. Etymology helps you with that. Forgetting the core pattern is what I called uprooting.
> The worst part is we understand the concept of meters. A meter is very roughly the size of a yard. When a youtube vide says "100 meters or 328 feet", that really doesn't help.

> I can visual 10 meters because I can visualize 10 yards. I understand the rough size of 100 meters because I know how big a football field is. I know how big two meters is because it's (again very roughly) the size of a person.

While I think pretty much every American knows what a yard is, as a practical matter I think people almost never use it. IMHO, it totally makes sense for NASA to ignore it in some video, because people have about 1000x more familiarity with feet for estimation and visualization.

And for intermediate lengths (like your 100 meters), it doesn't make a lot of sense for me to use yards to help someone convert into "football fields" when you could just give a comparison to football fields directly.
Tether volume has stagnated compared to other stablecoins like USDC
Crumbly Mars Rock, Not Hardware Flaws, Scuttled Perseverance’s First Sample
In other words: the system demands that you work over 40 h/week, have an excessive commute and be housing-poor.

Socialism sounds appealing. Where is the revolution?
TIL, about Graph "Protocol for building decentralized applications quickly on Ethereum"
https://github.com/graphprotocol

https://thegraph.com/docs/indexing

> Indexers are node operators in The Graph Network that stake Graph Tokens (GRT) in order to provide indexing and query processing services. Indexers earn query fees and indexing rewards for their services. They also earn from a Rebate Pool that is shared with all network contributors proportional to their work, following the Cobbs-Douglas Rebate Function.

> GRT that is staked in the protocol is subject to a thawing period and can be slashed if Indexers are malicious and serve incorrect data to applications or if they index incorrectly. Indexers can also be delegated stake from Delegators, to contribute to the network.

> Indexers select subgraphs to index based on the subgraph’s curation signal, where Curators stake GRT in order to indicate which subgraphs are high-quality and should be prioritized. Consumers (eg. applications) can also set parameters for which Indexers process queries for their subgraphs and set preferences for query fee pricing.

It's Ethereum though, so it's LevelDB, not SQLite on IndexedDB on SQLite.
This article is either borderline propaganda or just terribly researched. Using averages in this way is just ridiculous. The assertions made are dismissed by common sense. The Guardian is usually decent despite their biases but this is some of the most absurd mishandling of data I've seen from them in years.
I worked for a Wall St. trading firm in the early 90's, as a greenfield developer doing apps on Sun Sparcstations in cfront based C++ using Motif.

Two things shocked me at the time.

1. The company had a LOT of systems running in COBOL, for which they had lost the source code to the vagaries of time.

2. One of the big projects at the time was because of the lack of source, and the devaluation of the Italian Lira, they needed a "splitter"/"unsplitter" to take particularly big bond trades in Lira that overflowed the (eg) `PIC 9(9)` data clause for the total price, split them up into smaller trades, run them through the existing clearance system, and re-aggregate them into 1 trade after clearing.
An absurd and wonderful project!
Show HN: AtomicEdits – automatically remove silences from videos
This is for customers for an early startup, It does look good for friends though.
The problem is those two companies that bought most of it have the power to prematurely end that time interval whenever that makes financial sense for them.
TypeORM is good but sometimes you will have to go through the codebase to understand how it works better.
Evolving the Partner Program
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Most likely they trade out of the USDT position shortly after creating it which would minimise their exposure.
You blame CrowdStrike for saying "trust us, we're experts", and then when someone argues with you, you say "trust me, I'm an expert".
I don't think the author has kids, but as a new parent the 2020s have numerous improvements over the 1990s:

Click & go stroller & carseat systems are magical. Used to be that if your baby fell asleep in the car, you'd have to wake them up to undo the 5-point harness, transfer them to stroller, buckle another 5-point harness, undo it when you get to your destination, and then deal with the screaming baby. Now the carseat base stays in the car, you unclick the carseat, pop the whole thing into the stroller, get to your night out, pop the carseat on an inverted high-chair, and the kid can sleep the whole way or join you at the table.

Cheap plastic has dramatically reduced the cost and increased the safety of toys. Also, electronic toys & learning aids are super cheap now - my kid's got a Mandarin/English pictionary where you hover the pen over the pictures and it tells you the word for it in either Mandarin or English, and it cost < $20.

High-end preschools are better. There's been a lot of research on how to support children's social & emotional development that's now made its way into the classroom.

Traveling is generally better. There've been large improvements in travel cribs like the Pack'n'Play or Lotus, many hotels have them stocked, and there's the aforementioned improvements to carseats. Also airfare is cheaper. My kid went on more plane trips before he turned 2 than I did in my whole childhood.

There've been vaccines developed for many common childhood illnesses. No more rotavirus, no more chickenpox.

The big bugaboos for parents today are housing and work. You need 2 incomes to buy a house now, which makes everything else much more pressed for time. But if you can ignore that, there've been a lot of conveniences invented to help improve the efficiency of that constrained time.
Why start/finish writing code?

I'm talking about people who want "native in-browser" rendering for something other than MathML. If they want their favorite approach implemented in the browser, they're welcome to make it happen. My point is that MathML native-in-browser rending is basically already here.

Of course you can use Javascript libraries like MathJax or something similar to implement whatever you want. But for people who care about native rendering, that's neither here nor there.
Also SPARC, ITER, whatever Lockheed is working on, and probably others.
Hey HN!

In 2020, I quit my tech job to pursue creating content on YouTube full-time. The biggest problem I had with making videos was editing/removing silence from them. (For reference, it takes 1-2 hours to edit 10 minutes of video.) I put aside 2-3 weeks in June to learn video editing technologies (WaveSurfer.js + FFmpeg) and make a proof of concept - this is the result. It's really rough around the edges but saves me some time while editing.

I was originally planning on selling this as a standalone digital product (for $10-20) since I haven't made much money after leaving the industry, but I found another idea worth pursuing. I haven't touched this project in a month and figured that open-sourcing it can help others who may want to take this further.
Mining Hardware – Compare the potential earnings
I apparently cannot parse decimal places, thank you for the correction.
This is for those here that think 'fact checkers' are a bad idea. You don't want a fact checker to deliver your opinion of hard questions, like 'is there life after death', but we need fact checkers because some people are on the fence over whether the earth is flat. this is cut and dried. you can argue fine points, but for people who aren't sure, a fact check report that condenses everything that is known and summarizes as 'scam' would be helpful to alot of people. I'd love to see a argdown platform for this stuff
This seems like an unnecessarily harsh anecdote. I've seen Glitch used for a lot of things! There's a bunch of cool stuff on there.
> if you don't want to read them, then you can depend on faulty shortcuts instead

Or refuse to use software that requires you to agree to long and confusing terms and conditions.
Pigiron, a MIDI Routing Utility with OSC
With Pigiron, MIDI processing blocks, called 'Operators', may be freely connected to form a MIDI process graph. The following operator types are available:

ChannelFilter - filter messages by MIDI channel.
Distributor - re-transmit message on any number of MIDI channels.
MIDIInput - wrapper for MIDI input device.
MIDIOutput - wrapper for MIDI output device
MIDIPlayer - a MIDI file player.
Monitor - display MIDI traffic.
Transposer - manipulate MIDI data bytes.

Pigiron has a comprehensive OSC interface as well as an interactive command-line interface. It is terminal based program only implemented in Go. Currently it has only been tested on Ubunto Linux.
The gearbox casing on my 1965 Volvo Amazon was secured with Whitworth bolts! I've forgotten what size. In 1980 it was difficult to find the right ones.
Note BTC and others are pseudo-anonymous, because the whole world knows the source and destination wallet of every transaction. If someone is ever serious about finding you, they can follow the chain to wherever you cashed out and a subpoena will do the rest.

There are fully anonymous coins like Monero, ZCash, etc.
I call it again and again and again :tether is the fed of crypto
Does Mike Lindell know anybody who isn't a serial con-man?
"Two-and-done" is good, but many times you run into people who don't give a s*t about the outcome. They're just making their employer their own personal debate club. "Oh you think X? Then I'll propose Y. Let's have a debate! Yay!"

So always follow up after a "two-and-done" experience to see if the people who argued against you are suddenly disinterested in the entire project once they've won the argument, and do it your way anyway.
Balena Etcher is spyware.

https://github.com/balena-io/etcher/issues/2977
"It says its Instagram subsidiary has committed to continue to allow rival photo and messaging apps to access Giphy’s library."

History has proven such a commitment isn't worth the paper it's written on, and the UK watchdog is right to assume Facebook would change its mind down the road.
The median age of the entire US labor force is 42.5, construction is 42.9, and "Computer systems design and related services" is 40.6 according to the BLS.[1] In other words, on the scale of human life expectancy, the difference is probably negligible. Even if you were being serious and earnest, you're basing your hypothesis on data that is either incorrect or outdated. (If you actually meant to include mean instead of median, your source isn't a robust data analysis by definition.)

> I also like your story about me, because there isn't a single person who works for me or with me that would describe me as an asshole

If that's true, it's because you play a different character in person. Tell them about how you are "an asshole to morons" on a "flaming turd" of a tech forum, and how amused you were at the example of a terminally ill cancer patient continuing to work as evidence that old people can develop software.

[1] https://www.bls.gov/cps/cpsaat18b.htm
Cities have always collected people from further outside the local area than suburban or rural areas. If you have lived in cities with a monoculture and cities with significant minorities, the multicultural city has more dynamic options for food, drink, music, everything. New York is one of the only places in the world you could probably walk from fantastic bagels to great Italian food to a real HK-style diner. This is a great privilege that residents of these cities value highly.
Docker to the Rescue in an Unexpected Way
No not at all. Unlike CrowdStrike, I'm not trying to convince anyone of anything. You can believe me or not and I don't care.

I've got my bonafides and I have no intention of doxxing myself. There's a lot of very clued in people on this board in lots of areas and nobody really owes you anything or needs to explain themselves. You can listen or not, it's up to you.
What you'd really want is daily at-home tests, even if they're not that accurate.
Static analysis of use requires knowing all the calling parties and having access to their code. A lot of systems these days are not static monoliths but dynamic assemblies.
The late Blake Snyder wrote a couple of books ("Save The Cat!", recommended) on screenwriting with the hypothesis that there are only ten basic story paradigms, and Alien is the classic "Monster In The House" example, along with Jaws.

In short, a MITH movie has our heroes trapped in a space due to a sin not of their making, there's a monster, and at least one character who is a wounded half-man harbinger of doom.

Once you know the ten categories, movies become pretty predictable after the first reel or so, so maybe you don't want to learn them.
High level vector representations are concepts. That's what concepts are in the human brain too.
> Office workers band together and it's rather trivial for them to sideline WFH. (eg, lunch / hallway / watercool, etc)

What? I mean it is way easier to sideline in a WFH environment. Just send a mail, DM or do a call. WFH does not solve sidelining if that is a problem.
> open source maintainers owe you nothing and you should expect nothing of them

I tend not to release projects just because I think people should expect something from me if I do.

On another note, I'm totally down to accept that OSS projects be malleable, but it does irk me when someone:

1. brags a ton about their project just to find it's really not that great or

2. changes things with almost no concern for who it will affect and how or

3. refuse to change things for some ideological reason when tons of people are asking for it ("that's not the right way to do it!" "you don't know my project")
They restrict to a particular country because it makes vastly, vastly more money.

Shows are worth disproportionately more in some territories, local broadcasters are also very good customers they want to keep happy and only license in areas covered by their transmission windows, basic things like the structure of the school holidays and weather make a tremendous difference when it's profitable to launch a show etc etc.
This could actually work for certificate attestation if baked directly into the browser.

https://github.com/google/certificate-transparency
They published hex dumps of RTF files of IP address lists, and a corpus of "lorem ipsum"-style Chinese text scraped from ad copy. You can see it on Github. There is no reason any of us need to take this seriously, or to be at all skeptical of news stories about how it's a scam.
> I used to think that Uber eats meant that an Uber would be dispatched to pick up my food for me ... so I never used it

Wait... that's not how it works? I was under the exact same impression as you until this very moment.
There are a ton of productivity to be gained for people who otherwise cannot be as productive working alone remotely, that’s something you seem to not realize.

There is so much to measure how much an engineer contributes other than how many lines they churn out or how many PRs they merge. Things like training, mentorship, organizational level influences are critical to a company’s success.

In fact, companies values a lot of those soft impact so much more than raw productivity.
> it was for tens of thousands of years in the past

I wonder: Few people traveled and communities were smaller, so generally everyone knew you.
> Reddit has always been dying

I feel the choice of Ellen Pao as interim CEO revealed what direction reddit was headed. Moves towards a more sanitised, advertiser friendly Reddit - but with slap-dash choice of how to apply the new era of censorship.

2014 Nov - Pao became interim CEO

2015 July 2nd - large sections of Reddit were set to private to protest the dismissal of Victoria Taylor, Reddit's director of talent, known for co-ordinating the Ask Me Anything interviews

2015 Jun/July - Pao was the subject of criticism and harassment by Reddit users after five Reddit communities (subreddits) were banned for harassment and Reddit's director of talent was fired

2015 Aug 13th - "Watch reddit Die" was Created

I can't help feel that there is a trend of selling of online communities as "assets" to commercial buyers that have opposite incentive to the members of that community - just look at StackOverflow. The problem is that websites come to own the "commons" they inspire, and then sell it off as if the community are happy to work for free. We need stronger community data-rights; like a GPL for website content.
For the $5M, it looks like that is showing how much disconnect there is between members of the same "Team"

Merritt says it's off the table, but Kurt Olsen says it's still on the table and that "Mr. Merritt would not be privy to that information"

None of those claims contradict each other, the article is saying "This person said this, another said this" and is showing the absolute chaos and buffonery that Mike Lindell and "team" are doing.
There's a cartoonized picture of women's breasts on that page.
We all have an expiration date. As long as you haven't reached it or have any debilitating health problems, it isn't too late.
That novella sounds fun.
Forgive my ignorance but what are the use cases for a device such as this? Are there specific industries or organizations that this is aimed at? Is it something that would be used by consumers/hobbyists for particular projects? Any insight is appreciated!
It's all fine and good until there is a run on tether and they can't actually give customers their money back. They will throttle customer withdrawals, the issue will be magnified, and I would guess tethers would be selling for pennies on the dollar on the secondary market.
The author (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armin_Joseph_Deutsch) spent some time working for Harvard (which has an MBTA subway station), including as a lecturer. The story features a Harvard professor whom both explains and is ensnared by the anomaly. We write what we know.
I wish I were this creative; I've mostly bought domains that are variations of my name/last name, and the only one I haven't let die is my usual username luord.com
Have you considered going to the press with this story? It sounds like the kind of thing that could ultimately lead to a very critical piece in some major news media, which might push the tide back somewhat.