skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> when it makes its way to other operating systems.

know you're referring to browser, but an OS - I think Oberon - had desktop as much larger than screen leading to ability to zoom around and create piles of windows
I think the idea that the alcohol rules are authoritarian is misplaced and it’s more complicated than your summation. To have an informed debate you would need to be familiar with the situation on the ground, which I am only in passing, and (respectfully) I suspect you are not at all.

The “censorship” is not really any worse than the UK’s BBFC.

I know what these laws mean for me because I’ve lived here before. They mean very little.
I know you're joking, but your comment inspires me to imagine a blanket of orbiting solar panels that simultaneously generate a lot of electricity, and also shade the Earth. One can dream!
What a terrible Person. My first job in America was a receptionist position. I would be called by people with questions regarding our Xerox toner and copiers all the time. My supervisor instructed me to hang up on them so I did.
Cloud seems like it should be between those buzzwords, chronologically.
A lot of brokers can lend out your shares (usually to short-sellers) and pay you interest on it.

How is BTC any different from TSLA?
Spectacle has been succeeded by Rectangle: https://github.com/rxhanson/Rectangle

I've been using Rectangle for ~1.5 years now, and it's been pretty stable and gets regular updates and patches.
What? Give me a break -- one is completely unlike the other.

Listing candidates to intentionally confuse voters is completely different than (correctly!) challenging the legitimacy of voter signatures. Calling the latter a "trick" is completely dishonest.

This whataboutism in America is exhausting.
The article is explaining how old school waterfall worked in practice. As another commenter noted Moltke the Elder noted that no plan survives the initial battle. What he meant is that planning has to be constantly revised. Moltke the Elder won the Franco Prussian war for the Kaiser which led to the formation of modern Germany. Agile and all of its modern variants are nothing new.
It looks like the entire blog got deleted?

https://blog.coinbase.com/
University is supposed to teach you fundamental ideas that help you think about the world not hard skills. That’s why it’s called a university and not a boot camp.
That's right, the action is against a media company who operates Facebook pages, not Facebook.
Sounds like it wasn't worth it but you learned a lot. Can't believe it took more than three months to reach "Am I depressed or is this burnout? Why not both?"
Orbiting the Giant Hairball (Gordon MacKenzie). I gave my copy to someone, and never got it back, but would love to read it again. Not one thing in particular stuck, but the book as a whole provided some interesting insights on working for big companies as a 'creative' (yes, programmers are creative) individual.
> (1) an investment of money,

Is usdc money?
apache + wsgi isn't even close to being the most performant webapp server software, either. Bet he'd get 5x the performance out of nginx + lua on the same virtual hardware.
I was an IC program manager. I was asked to manage program managers. I stepped back to become an IC within a year.

I did this because my team was immediately starved for engineering resources upon my appointment, I was asked to continue my IC product management responsibilities while managing the team, and I kept getting PMs that were the problem children of the group.

I went on to run product management for tooling and ops processes around that tooling in the post-manager PM role. I never looked back.

However, I got the bug so bad I left to start my own company, so now I manage everyone?
That's such a bizarre take.
I would love to meet these immigrants that care more about whether or not there is gore in Left 4 Dead 2 than social stability, health care, education and economic opportunities.
I thought this was a way to get literally anything to the top of HN - add as much rust as possible.
This drives me insane. I try to boot up and play a game, only to find my FPS cut in half due to some background d operation that Windows has determined critical. But not critical enough to tell me beforehand.
The right to protest during a pandemic is dubious, in direct conflict with other peoples rights. It is also self defeating, when the majority consider the protesters arseholes for willfully endangering the general community and don't get around to considering the actual issue being protested.
I used to be on the top 500 of Alexa with a shared hosting server running PHP. Never had any issue. Mind you, I wasn't doing anything complicated, but still.
> because there are 50 positive cases in a nation of millions

Australia is currently experiencing 1500 daily case of COVID with some 30,000+ cumulative case since the start of this last outbreak which is now some two months old.

> Nothing makes sense here.

Firstly only three of the seven states and territories are in lock down.

Four states and territories are experiencing zero cases and for them life is very close to normal.

However, the reason two states are now in lock down is because, as a developed country, Australia is last in terms of vaccination roll out.

And it is not only last, it is last by a long way.

There are only two ways to deal with COVID:

1. Lock down until the vaccination numbers improve

2. Open up and let the virus rip and hope the hospital system can cope with the increased demand.

NSW is currently in lock down (i.e. option 1) and even with these strict rules in place the health system is not coping well, as it struggles with the uptick in COVID hospitalizations.

The simple fact is Australia stuffed up the vaccination roll out and we are now paying the price for that mistake.
I have noticed over the last few months the Australian Broadcasting Corporation will occasionally disable comments on contentious posts, adding a comment in effect saying that it's because they don't have a moderator available to keep an eye on it.

No doubt their legal team has been anticipating this decision.
Seems to be gone from the internet. Can't find it in archive.today or archive.org either.

reddit comment thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/pk2rjl/coin...

Which points to a tweet thread from Brian Armstrong of Coinbase that is still there for now....

https://twitter.com/brian_armstrong/status/14354409980546539...

unrolled (and probably will still be there even if tweets deleted?) https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1435440998054653959.html
That's probably not a good sign.
Love this idea! Trying it out now.

FYI the window title bar text is still set to "Hello Electron React"
VS2022 ate up 100 GB of memory and what XML bombs had to do with it
Worth it. Free Hong Kong.
Hah! All the more spicy a news item her. Hope this post stays up.
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Guess they figured out why :D
>But the lockdowns are necessary.

Based on what evidence?

AFAIK, lockdowns are something Chinese and European politicians (foolishly) invented last year. It's not part of public health textbooks, nor part of the pandemic/bio-terrorism plans written for various nations. I think the first call for lockdowns in Europe came from Neil Ferguson, a physicist with no specific qualification in epidemiology or public health.

I would be very happy to be proven wrong if someone can point to a document published before 2019 showing how lockdowns are a possible or recommend solution for epidemics/pandemics.

But even if we accept that it's indeed a new technique, where is the evidence that it works? I'm a bit surprised that the "Trust the Science(tm)" crowd who is constantly talking about randomized, double-blind studies when it comes to hydroxychloroquine and ivermectin seem to have a different standard for masks, lockdowns, etc.
It's hard to evaluate what this means without knowing, at least, the demographic make up of your part of the world, the vaccination rates, the vaccination kinetics, and health system capacity and access.

I could equally cherry pick places with more disastrous outcomes as a counterargument eg Italy early on.

Nevertheless, I'm envious of your lack of restrictions. I haven't seen my father for a long time.
On balance, I think it's better, because systems where voting is voluntary seem to really encourage voter disenfranchisement. Also, the system means that the logistics must be in place for the system to be able to handle everybody turning up to vote, so it would be very unusual (in my experience) having to wait in line for more than 20 minutes or so. As opposed to stories we saw in the US of voters having to wait hours to vote.

As others have said, it's an option to just submit a blank paper.
Zoroastrianism -> Parsis -> Freddy Mercury.

Ancient Treasures to "queen" in two hops.
It works for me.

It's a Medium joint, so if you have JavaScript blocked you won't see zip.
You're not wrong but you're probably trying to argue this is morally wrong. If it is morally wrong so are any loans for people to build human capital or skills, e.g. ones to go to university/college.
I installed OpenBSD about 10 years ago and have used nothing else on my personal computers since then. It does occasionally have breaking changes in its updates, but they never happen without you taking action to initiate them.

The idea that we're OK with random popups, feature promotions, nags to use this or that or enable some setting, and outright advertising on our computers is just mind-boggling.
Hmmm, the link just redirects to medium's home page for some reason.
I'm working on a web app right now that does a lot of heavy/live/realtime processing with workers. The original thought was to run those workers on the node servers and stream the results over a socket, charging by the CPU/minute. But it surprised me that the performance looks a lot better up to about 16 workers if the user just turns over a few cores to local web workers and runs it on their own box. As long as they don't need 64 cores or something, it's faster to run locally, even on an older machine. Thread transport is slow but sockets are slower at a distance; the bottlenecks are in the main thread anyway. So I've been making sure parts are interchangeable between web workers and "remote socket web workers" assigned to each instance of the app remotely.
Serious question, under this test, why shouldn't an ordinary savings account be considered a security? Do banks just have a grandfathered exemption?
this was probably in the works before the IP address situation.
I have JS enabled but still doesn't show for me. Just redirects to medium.
Someone snagged an image.

https://www.ilbe.com/view/11365594888
What We Know About Mu, the WHO’s Latest Variant of Interest
"Last Wednesday, after months of effort by Coinbase to engage productively, the SEC gave us what’s called a Wells notice about our planned Coinbase Lend program. A Wells notice is the official way a regulator tells a company that it intends to sue the company in court. As surprised as we were at the SEC’s threat to sue without ever telling us why, we want to be transparent with you about the course of events leading up to it. Background Coinbase has been proactively engaging with the SEC about Lend for nearly six months. We’ve been eager to hear their perspective as we explore innovative ways for our customers ... "

from https://www.cryptocraft.com/news/1105897-the-sec-has-told-us...
I've lived to see this kind of thing enacted in a good portion of the Anglosphere and my visceral reaction is to engage in a combination of civil disobedience and a determination to undermine every overstep made.

With regards to things like the Aussie requirement for phone check-ins every 15 minutes or they will deploy police to follow up and confirm your location, turn off the phone and make them eat the cost of having to deploy all available police resources just to see if people are submitting to the whim of the government every 15 minutes. Bonus if you opt to answer the door naked and claim you were busy showering/having sex/aligning your chakras/whatever.

Any bureaucracy will naturally follow the path of least resistance. It is your job to make it more painful for them to pursue their goals than it is to leave you alone.
If you have punitive anti-drinking policy, and a racial group susceptible to that problem, it becomes a racist policy. There's alternatives that don't set people with problems back even further.
Where is that? How many tests are being conducted per day? What is the population?

35/45 are meaningless numbers without any context.
It's still a sugary drinks company in my eyes, because all the things you listed are necessary parts to become a sugary drinks company as large as coca cola or pepsi in this day and age.
Monash University had a single tech gallery, in a ring around campus. It made some decisions about wiring significantly easier compared to the other Australian Universities, when it came to hook-up-all-the-things. (Monash may IIRC have done their own tty serial line cards for terminals, over copper in this thing before we hit "real" networks)

I believe like CERN it was big enough to drive around. Never went in, may just be rumour.
Covid-19 variant mu detected in 49 states
Non-profits, at least the sort I've been involved with, have very few employees because they have very limited funding, and therefore all their employees do a huge amount but it's mostly networking, managing events and fundraising.

There's just no coding to do really, what they want you (wanted me) to do was manage all the IT stuff including the service provider that they had already dumped everything on.

They were honest with me that there was no way they could budget to hire me, and not much stuff was stimulating in a technical way, so I put in my time, got a recommendation that got me a paying job and moved on.

I don't recommend pursuing an area that you don't have a deep personal connection to, regardless.
PayPal to Acquire Paidy (Japan's BNPL) for $2.7b
TO: @alasdair_ (can't reply directly; thread is too nested?)

> By this definition, a player playing at a craps table with other players all sharing the betting on the same outcome is in the process of creating a security each time they roll the dice.

Where is the "efforts of others" - i.e. non-players? So far it's just a Cooperative (aka DAO in millennial-speak).

> A husband who asks his wife to join him in paying the $25 to sign up for a joint bank account so that they get the free toaster is engaged in Security creation as well it seems

Family isn't considered common enterprise. Also, where is the "efforts of others"?

> A club that buys newspapers collectively to cut out the coupons each club member wants meets all four of the criteria as well.

This is a border case, there were case where golf club membership or timeshare units where found to be securities.
But there is also a consumptive utility, the question is do the club member actually read these newspapers, and does the value of coupons is sufficient "expectation of profit"? :)

The problem here is the US legal system is principle-based, not rule-based. So there is never a legal clarity. That's the disadvantage. But it also makes it anti-fragile and future-proof.
I'm running two different projects on a single instance of cheap VM too. Both of them runs on a not-so-memory-efficient programming runtime, yet the VM handles the load just fine.

Of course, a lot of it depends on what your app does for each request but most apps are simple enough and can live with being a monolith / single fat binary running on a single instance.

The problem with today's DevOps culture is that they present K8's as answers for everything. Instead of defining a clear line on when to use them and when not to.
Maybe GP refers Crimea, but it seems that it's not good to apply the case for Australia.
Just a few months ago, I posted a similar thing regarding SEC suing the Decentralized Content Platform LBRY Over $11M in Token Sales. The SEC said LBRY sold unregistered securities:

https://www.coindesk.com/markets/2021/03/30/us-government-su...
Yeah I do that. It's a pain for small UI reasons, like you can't snooze it before you send it, you can't edit it after you send it, it requires a bunch of clicks and waiting, etc. It's close to what I want but it could be a lot better. That's exactly what Inbox fixed.
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Yeah it's great.

Lockdowns also reduce car accidents, plane accidents, boat accidents, bicycle accidents, gym accidents, etc.

Incredible. I suggest we keep going forever because it saves so many lives.
Stock lending (for short selling) is not considered a security, it is considered lending. Most cryptocurrencies aren't even considered securities by the SEC...only a handful of tokens. It would be reasonable to expect a similar treatment here.
Here's another copy: https://postimg.cc/kBRq5b18
> I'm always kind of surprised by people who move to Australia. It's a country that has had an active policy of censorship on entertainment for a very long time - books, video games, movies. The fact that the populace is okay with such a policy would make me reconsider moving there.

That seems very bizarre to me. I'm not sure what you're talking about here exactly, what you've heard/read. Compared to which countries? Where are you, that censorship in Australia seems like a dealbreaker, or a way of feeling so superior? How would 'it' affect you at all? "The fact that the populace is okay with such a policy" - is it a fact, or your guess?

(Personally, the apparent US movie/TV morality of genitals or swearing being forbidden, but someone shooting peoples' heads off by the dozen being absolutely fine, seems crazy to me. The other way around would be far more sensible. At least for childrens' viewing.)

p.s. I just learned more than I ever knew about a history of censorship in Australia by reading https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_films_banned_in_Austra...
https://pastebin.com/dwB5b2Z9
A web recreation of Windows 7
Interesting that they had to delete it. I have it on my cache!
Bastiat was a so-called right-wing libertarian in all but name only. Rothbard borrowed very liberally from Bastiat (no pun intended).

I don't recall reading anything like state provided welfare in Justice and Fraternity. It has been a very long time since I've read it, but that sounds antithetical to some of his other writings which I've re-read more recently. I would be curious to see the specific passage.

To my knowledge, communal arrangements (like Dejacque seemingly favors) have not proven practical outside of relatively small communities.
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35 students out of 2,645 total.

Tests are only conducted on exposed students (confirmed to be in close contact with positive case)or symptomatic students.
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Do these policies push people back even further?

Again, I'm not familiar enough with the causes or effects of these policies to have a properly informed debate BUT on the surface it looks like these rules have been put in place in partnership with the communities in question, in order to try to help what is evidently a severe problem.

But perhaps the reality is different.

(Edit - perhaps I do have the read on this wrong, and these policies were not put in place with community agreement, in which case they should be changed. In other states such as Queensland the 'dry place' legislation is far more voluntary)
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This isn't quite accurate. Really, Labor over the last five or six years (but mostly in just the last two) has actually moved basically centre-right as well, but still to the left of the Liberal/National coalition.

In terms of the Liberal and National parties (who are in coalition Federally, and the two state branches merged in Queensland), while they are slightly left of the GOP overall, there are definitely a fair few MPs and senators in the party that are just as far right-wing. For the 'moderates', they're mostly captured by business interests (especially the resources (coal, oil and gas) and property lobbies).

For Labor, the shift right is because a massive media campaign spread lies about some of their slightly more progressive policies last election, so instead of trying to correct it, the leader of the opposition who replaced the one who ran at the last election just decided to drop the policies. Also, Labor have voted in lock-step on all the mass-surveillance laws, censorship laws. Finally, despite being on about climate, they have voted for increasing grants and subsidies to new coal and gas exploration, such as in the Narrabi and Beetaloo basins, against the wishes of much of the population, farmers in the area, and the First Nations traditional owners of the land.

They are definitely the "lesser of two evils", but where I would have laughed at the thought of not voting 1st for them ten years ago, now I give my first preference to a minor party or independent (preferential voting is seriously a good idea, by the way).
More like sketchy behavior coming out of Coinbase. Coinbase terms:

Acknowledgement of Risk. By opting into Lend, you are acknowledging the following: Lend is not a checking account nor a bank savings account, and Coinbase is not a bank. By participating in Lend, you are making a loan of your eligible Digital Currency to Coinbase, Coinbase is your counterparty and you will have only a contract claim against Coinbase for the return of Loaned Digital Currency. As with any loan transaction, you could lose all your Loaned Digital Currency if we are unable to repay your loan. Coinbase does not provide you with collateral for the Loaned Digital Currency. You acknowledge that while you have the right to make a Return Request at any time, if Coinbase becomes insolvent or bankrupt or is placed in receivership your Loaned Digital Currency may be lost. Your Loaned Digital Currency is not protected by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, the Securities Investor Protection Corporation or other insurance.

Coinbase may use Loaned Digital Currency in its sole discretion, including uses which generate returns for Coinbase in excess of the Lend APY, which Coinbase is entitled to as compensation for Lend. Any returns generated by the use of Loaned Digital Currency are not returned to you as part of Lend interest. Therefore, although the interest rate will be determined in accordance with Section 2, the interest rate is determined by Coinbase and Coinbase may have a conflict of interest with you in setting the Interest Rate.

OK. So Coinbase wants to borrow your money, invest it in something else, not tell you what that something else is, and hopefully pay you back. In the real world, they're selling you a bond or commercial paper. That's a security.[1]

Morrison and Forster lists these requirements for commercial paper that doesn't have to be registered as a security.

- Negotiable (No)

- Prime quality (No)

- Eligible for discount at Federal Reserve banks (No)

- Not ordinarily purchased by the general public (No)

- Used to facilitate “current transactions” (No)

- Maturity of nine months or less with no automatic roll-over. (No)

Nope, doesn't qualify.

Coinbase is trying to pretend to be a bank without qualifying as a bank. They have to know this; they're a public company and have now filed SEC filings for two whole quarters.

[1] https://media2.mofo.com/documents/151203commercialpaperprogr...