skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Good question. The original plan was to take normal payment methods (Visa/MasterCard) but it became apparent after Bush passed the ban on online poker that Costa Rica was going to follow suit (or that visa/mc would soon start holding up payments from CR casinos... in which case we might be stuck with debt we couldn't use to pay winnings). Setting up a CR bank acct as a shell requires you to hand over power of attorney to a CR citizen, and also given how shady the entire corporate structure there was and the legal outfit we hired (who thought we could take $100 deposits as payments through their fake real estate portal) I evaluated other routes. These included landing funds in Cyprus and processing through Israeli banks at a 10% markup, and other shady sounding things. I had begun to give up on my little side code project when Bitcoin showed up. The benefit of the Isle of Man was that all funds could be landed there - in a Bitcoin wallet, on a caged dedicated server - without triggering any other financial issues. the only trouble was randomness and gambling.
Sounds like an easy 'dev mode' to add, and capture a large market of developers. For years I've been looking into eink for development etc.
You can do it either way in XPath thanks to how you can use a path expression and/or predicates almost everywhere in a query

# Find all elements li and select the parent element for each
//li/..

# Find all element nodes with a child element named li
//*[li]

# Non-abbreviated queries
/descendant::li/parent::*
/descendant::*[child::li]

# CSS using :has
:has(> li)
The Howey test generally hasn't applied to loans I don't think. What makes this different than other loans?
> This is fine if you are working with a small data set. It is inefficient, but if it's quick enough, readability trumps efficiency IMHO.

And this is how you end up with the problems the parent is describing. During testing and when you setup the system you always have a small dataset so it appears to work fine. But when it’s real work the system collapses.
Atlassian founders are the wrong place to look for tech and VC mentorship.

Every company here has a values round copying them and doing things that atlassian does.

I believe tech and VC ecosystem will improve once they become bigger. There are companies like okzellar, shippit which do not have that atlassian bias.
The near and far side of the moon spent the same amount of time in darkness, so there's no advantage gained by putting it on the far side.

Edit: I just realized this idea comes from radio telescopes. Those would actually benefit from sitting on the far side of the moon, because that way they'd be shielded from the radio emissions of human civilization. That concept doesn't transfer to visible light or IR telescopes though.
Nothing to do with cartography specifically, just "parchment" effect.
I'll add a convenient reminder that it is possible to view flagged comments by checking the appropriate box in your profile. If you don't mind the occasional, easily identifiable spam, you too can subvert those who elect censorship as their favored form of disagreement.
Not GP, but I think the point made was that McCarthyism is precedent of US citizens getting into serious trouble because of things they said. It's a counter-example to the assumption that the US government will protect its citizens' free speech.
Something weird is going on. They used to also sell licenses on the website, but it disappeared. Now they have a sold out $5 tier on Patreon, unless you visit the site's direct link? It's just odd.

e: Status update from project lead as of 2021-09-01: https://github.com/onivim/oni2/issues/3811#issuecomment-9103....
> Are customers conditioned to cheap meat, or no meat?

To cheap and always available meat. Throughout history, a rise in wealth has been closely correlated with a rise in meat consumption (as seen e.g. in China, https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2008/may/30/food.chi...).

> These customers surely live in a market economy, and understand that no matter how much they may bitch on Facebook, prices... Fluctuate..?

And politicians are highly afraid of the public bitching on food prices. Revolutions have often begun with a public pissed off about food prices!

> It's because they are afraid of being stuck with high wages after the labour shortage ends.

The never ending history of "corporate whining": http://leftycartoons.com/2009/09/04/a-brief-history-of-corpo...
Erm no, I really liked your post
> I’ve chasing this dragon for years for the purpose of working outside; first trying to hack a kindle paper white

Really? I've never understood why Amazon wanted white kindles, but this is the worst possible use case for one. Actual paper books aren't usable outside, because they give off too much glare in sunlight. Kindle solves that problem! Use one of the gray ones; they're better anyway.
How is saying Trump won the election an act of political dissent? Trump was president!

The overton window has shifted so far on this site that saying "I don't like this person" is grounds for starting a whole debate about cancellation! Y'all are absolutely out of control

People are allowed to not like other people. Sorry if people you like aren't liked by other people
This is in one of the few jurisdictions worldwide with zero covid trasmission, and the government wishes to keep it that way.
But is Lend a security? As far as I can tell, there's no contract for capital flows that you can trade with others. Lend isn't fungible, the USDC is.
El Salvador mandates Bitcoin usage via Chivo wallet or so it seems
I like it. I especially like the minimalism.
> School Vouchers which are used in Sweden

That has been a disaster in Sweden. With increased segregation, corruption, and inflation in grades to please "customers".
I agree the customer doesn’t always have the last say, especially if all market players move decisively and quickly enough.

That said, Adobe has a much more influential market position where it is than Ford or any auto maker does; and Adobe didn’t slap a recurring fee on top of the one time purchase price but made the full shift to a service model.

It is quite reasonable that automakers do the same transition. Most of the people finance their cars anyway, so they pay monthly. Just move the financing burden to the automaker and add usage/features flexible billing and there you have it. Nowhere as objectionable.
Very weird. Have they caught any mafioso with this strategy? Who would write that in a paypal transaction related to actual mafia?
Looks like the last release was in April? It's something I'd be interested in paying for, but only if it's being actively developed?
> they swap a basket of assets for another basket of assets atomically and without counterparty risk.

Of course there is counterparty risk - the contract writer could be adversarial. People dont always audit smart contracts (or may not realistically be able to, especially if the contract writer is attempting to obfuscate a subtle bug they can use for their own advantage). Thats the point of the above comment.

If the traditional world, courts would interpret such a contract as not valid. In the DeFi world, code is law - at least until law enforcement and regulatory agencies catch up to it.
The problem with Retalk is this: It’s closed sourced.

If we want to talk about Reddit alternatives, I would rather we look at ones which are open source, including Reddit itself until 2017 [1], the Mastodon Twitter-like web app [2], Discourse [3], Lemmy [4] (use a fork [5] if you can’t stand the slur filter), and the old school PHP discussions boards like PhpBB [6] and MyBB [7].

[1] https://github.com/reddit-archive/reddit

[2] https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon

[3] https://github.com/discourse/discourse

[4] https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy

[5] https://github.com/innereq/lenny

[6] https://github.com/phpbb/phpbb

[7] https://github.com/mybb/mybb
Patents no longer fulfill the reason they were created, and exist only to fill the pockets of big businesses and the lawyers they employ.

Patents do nothing to advance science or technology, and everything to prevent new invention.
Reminds me of a joke.

"They say New Yorkers are selfish and unfriendly, but its all untrue. When I visited, a guy overheard I was a tourist and came right up and offered me a great deal on Staten Island Ferry tickets. Just $7.50 for a round trip!"

(In case you don't know, the Staten Island Ferry is free).
Protecting Supercomputers from an Extraterrestrial Threat
I agree with you, we have friends next doors, one bought a model Y and the other an ID.4. The quality of the model Y painting is really bad, it is brand new (delivered 3 weeks ago) but already looks old.

But it is maybe deliberate. I am in Germany, I have no ideas where the model Y is produced but maybe the type of painting we have normally in Germany is different than the type of painting in other parts of the world.
You need to start using the asterisk in your title searches...
Who cares if all the court cases happen there?
> In some like the UK, that trust was misplaced, and compliance with isolation rules was under 50%.

More like, people in the UK more correctly assessed the risk of COVID. While is a dangerous disease, it's not so dangerous that it is worth giving up all of your civil rights to avoid it. In Australia the cure seems to be worse than the disease.
s/ICO/exit scam
They do, it's just that Windows runs defrag automatically as a background task nowadays so you don't notice.
It is obvious that there are many attributes that varies (skin color, eye color, eye shape, hair thickness, hair color, nose shape, lactose tolerance, height distribution, breast size, etc.).

But, it doesn't mean that every attribute varies this way. That's exactly what I'm arguing against actually.

About psychological traits you mention, there's so much cultural influence I don't think genetics would have any visible impact even if it was a factor (I'd be surprised if genetics played zero role here, but I expect the genetic-induced variance to be much lower than the culturally-induced one).
It’s disappointing to see American companies and celebrities also cave into the CCP’s pressure. For example consider LeBron James’s spineless parroting of CCP talking points against free speech (https://thehill.com/opinion/civil-rights/467295-uighurs-chin...) and his stance criticizing those who spoke in defense of Hong Kong protesters (https://www.cnn.com/2019/10/14/us/lebron-james-nba-china-int...). All of this suggests that despite the woke bonafides of companies like Nike or Disney or sports organizations like the NBA or celebrities like LeBron or The Rock, they too ultimately care mainly about their self interests to the point that they will stand up and defend an illiberal authoritarian genocidal communist government (https://www.latimes.com/sports/lakers/story/2019-10-14/lebro...). Remember these are the same people and groups that will readily attack America’s values and founding principles. I think you are right about the difficulty of criticizing China but it might be a present reality rather than a future possibility.
The problem isn't spending because governments are a macroeconomic and microeconomic entity bundled together. Everyone wants to present it as a moral failure but it is quite simple. When your country consists of one industry and that industry is gone, so is your country.

You can borrow and spend money to diversify. Lots of successful countries have done it.
In what sense is "retro-futuristic"? Colour scheme?
It is indeed impossible. There’s not a scooter which costs $1k (you’d be hard pressed to find a good mountain bike for that amount).
Believers always feel attacked by fiction, because the existence of fiction opens the possibility, that the basis of there faith could also be completely fictitious.

Nerd on nerd violence has to stop.
Do you have an example from this century?
Which is why Lemmy needs more users to promote diversity and mainstream usage. Right now its filled with leftists mostly because they get banned from sites like reddit.

The thing I enjoy about Lemmy is that you can join an instance and if you don't agree with the policies and the people there you can join a different instance.
I'm Australian. Your argument seems to be "If only the tech sector in Australia had some smart people". That's nice but I don't think that's what is going on.

Most of the general public is apathetic to this kind of thing. They just don't get worked up like Americans do about freedom. Especially in the middle of an epidemic (covid19 is now out of control in the two biggest cities).

We have a conservative government at the moment. They're interested in power for the sake of it and very much against transparency. They're certainly not going to listen to anyone's opinions about it - they'll just do it and wear what they know will be a negligible hit they take in the polls.
I made a joke to a colleague about 20 years ago that they’d rewrite vim in JavaScript one day.

It’s no longer funny.

Edit: comment retracted. I am an idiot. Left here because I’m not a revisionist.
I did some looking into this subject after Veritassium posted a video regarding cosmic rays changing the election result in Belgium some time ago[1]. But looking further into the issue, it seemed that there was (and is) scepticism regarding cosmic rays being the actual reason for the miscount. [2][3]

1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AaZ_RSt0KP8
2. https://web.archive.org/web/20070927185155/http://wiki.ael.b...
3. https://blog.paco.to/2017/cosmic-rays-did-not-change-electio...
I don't understand your comment. Your link does not seem to be about Ai Weiwei.
Expecting a new graduate/junior to stay at the same (probably his first) company for 4-6 years seems a bit optimistic. The companies often pay shit to such people and even if they excel at what they do, that additional +X% performance impact on their salary will barely matter if their starting salary was shit. Often job hopping is needed for any significant bump.
I think vim is the retro part...
Western governments don't even protect their own citizens from this. In fact they encourage it if they deem you a political enemy.

There are many European political dissidents here that had dozens of bank accounts canceled on them. Sometimes the only way to have a bank account after reaching a certain level of popularity is to bank in countries like Georgia, Bulgaria etc. where nobody has heard of you. Until they, too, cancel your account and you're unbanked again and unable to participate in a modern economy.

IMO the only way out of this kind of oppression is crypto, at least in the long term.
Tribalism in Australian politics might not be quite at the levels it is in the US, but it's certainly a factor.

Politicians and parties still attempt to create outrage as a way of attracting or sustaining attention, and diminishing their opponents.

I agree that a lot of effort goes into getting out the vote in the US, and that's much less a factor here, but the same tactics still tend to be used.
Media outlets lose High Court appeal over Facebook defamation ruling
As a non US citizen who knows very little about these things, could someone ELI5 what the implications would be if the Coinbase Lend program is successfully classified as a security?
Don't car makers normally create 'platforms[1]' anyway, where a bunch of designs and production features are re-used across brands in the group?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Car_platform
Who's given up "all their civil rights" ?

That seems like a massive hyperbole.

In WA, there are no lockdowns or any real coronavirus restrictions once you're in. Looks good to me.

Might want to compare those death rates too.
Sure - the basic concept of a multi-ethnic social organization presupposes that ethnicity doesn't affect how you react on social conditions. In the 19th century and early 20th century, it became fashionable to say that only nations of one ethnicity could ever function. There are, however, many centuries of empires functioning with a myriad of ethnic and cultural groups living under the same law and administrative structure, and it works fine, because people are basically the same everywhere. If they weren't, it wouldn't.
I always have to laugh when someone uses the words "ergonomics" and "vim" in the same sentence...
We Made an Open-Source Tennis Match Tracking Software
Agreed, but this cuts both ways. Intent has a lot of moral judgement attached to it - if we're redefining a word to be primarily about outcomes instead of intent, we should also drop the implied moral assertions around it.
i dont know in detail how 401k is managed, but if you're nearing retirement, you do not keep such a high allocation of stocks in your account, because the volatility is going to prevent you from being able to accurately plan financially.

So it "doesn't matter" where the prices are - because a well planned retirement means you convert some % of your allocation to a more stable asset, like bonds, and live off those bonds. In the mean time, fluctuations of the stocks doesn't affect you as much, and you can strategically sell when the prices are "high".
That sounds a lot like Yahya Abdul Mateen.
Yay. This is something that, as a Go programmer, turned me off of Rust. We need to build a new world on new foundations without the risks of libc.
> one entity that owns the core technology

Correct. Ownership is governed through intellectual property laws, the type of license used, agreements and so on. Lemmy's code is released under a GNU Affero license, and so ownership and usage are governed under this license.

Large open source projects tend to set up legal entities (foundations, non-profits) which manage their brand, trademark, intellectual property rights and so on.

> but the operators of the servers are distributed and independent.

In the era of classic web forums, you would download a copy of vbulletion, phpbb,... operators would download a copy of the software and set up their own intance(s) on their own server(s).

The federated model operates the same way. The distinction, though, is that all these instances are interconnected. They can communicate with each other. In the federated model, you have an account on server A, but you can use that account to subscribe and see content of and participate on server B.

> How do they typically manage things like scale, data growth, security, monetisation etc.?

Each to their own. Operators work independently. The operator of instance A is entire responsible for their own setup regardless of what happens at instance B. Operators get to set the rules on their own instance as to moderation, monetization, topics, community growth, etc. etc.

Since servers are interconnected, each instance can use an allowlist to determine which other instances, and their users, are allowed to connect and participate. As an operator, you get to decide that users of B can connect with your server, but users of C aren't allowed.

> Is the experience likely to vary a bit across the operators?

Communities are groups of people. Just like in real life, a community establishes its own culture, its own identity, its own way of communicating. So, yes, the experience can vary across the board depending on who's active on your instance.

Functionally speaking, all Lemmy instances operate the same way. You have communities, comment threads, voting, posting, etc. Barring configuration differences, as a user, the experience is quite similar across servers.

> And how do users trust which operators then want to join?

The same way you'd trust your ISP, your bank, the garage that services your car, etc. You read reviews, you try to gauge sentiment, number of users, etc. etc.

Mastodon - a Twitter clone - uses the exact same federation protocols as Lemmy. Mastodon has an order of magnitude more users across its instances. A big feature in Mastodon is the ability to just move your account from one instance to another instance. A thing Lemmy doesn't seem to have at the moment:

https://lemmy.eus/post/8181/comment/31995
https://docs.joinmastodon.org/user/moving/
The project is acively developed, you can have a look at its repository: https://github.com/onivim/oni2/

I think they are doing quite a good job, the editor is blazing fast and you can already use almost seamlessly many VScode plugins. It is clearly still a developer preview, with a number of rough edges, but the devs are very reactive on the issues and on the discord channel.

I bought it in the very early days to support the project. I still cannot use it as my main editor, but I have been using it more and more recently (I am using the nightly version).
Well, you are living a period of incredible prosperity: plenty of money, jobs, fantastic weather and a quiet social status quo.

Comfort makes it hard to rebel.
levels.fyi does not agree with you. I feel we are making more software engineers than jobs that are available. Many are offshoring product development to India.
As a kid I made over 4% APY interest on my savings account. Risk free.

Yes, I realize their are important differences here but I don't think that getting a 4% risk-free return should be seen as an "obvious" problem.
Samsung wants to have a 576MP smartphone camera in four years
It's not written in JavaScript.
It's obviously an excuse for suppression.

The premise is "A is being suppressed. The response is 'I don't like A.'" Do you think that is a valuable insight? Is that useful received wisdom?

There is strong of evidence that introduction of reactionary 'feeling' consideration acts as a countervailing force to analysis.
Modal editors are mostly one key at a time. That is much easier to 'ergonomize' than chords, more so if you are not using a US keyboard.
> Supporter

> €4.50 per month (sold out!)

> Thank you for your monthly support of Onivim 2!

> This tier gets:

> - Access to downloadable builds

> - Month-to-month commercial use license

This information was not on the donation page, so I went with 1 buck. Never used Patreon before and I now don't know how to change my donation.

This is a pretty bad onboarding. I'm willing to pay, at least for a month, just to try this, but it is ... hard.

edit: I found it, upped my donation to 5€, still can't download. Somethings broken here.
lxml is one of the most pleasing to use Python libraries ever, managing to wrap a hot mess of XML APIs in a consistent and Pythonic fashion that you rarely need to escape. IIRC I used beautifulsoup to parse the HTML of a site, and then lxml and either find items and fields by CSS in IPython for quick and dirty data munging, or knock up an XSLT file to transform what I'd scraped into good data in an XML file :)
Ghana: Anti-LGBTI bill stirs up hatred, persecution and discrimination
The Howey Test, I believe, is that Coinbase is taking the money being given to it by "account holders" and performing some "thing" to that money to generate value.

I don't understand it nearly well enough to explain it, but the wonderful Matt Levine has given it a shot: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2021-08-09/money-...
Why don't we just build several identical copies of things like this during development? Surely most of the cost is in the engineering, the added cost of fabricating a few of everything must not be that high. Then if it does fail for some reason, we can just try again.
A misguided laugh?

Vim is highly ergnomic for the task it was made to do. Whether it was designed as such or it was a happy accident is orthogonal.
That's not reduction ad absurdum. [0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reductio_ad_absurdum
If this is in the github editor, or a new jupyter frontend, that would be cool. An app replaced my neovim setup? No thanks.