skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Most of us don't find "just watch this YouTube URL, it explains everything" to be a helpful reply from an interlocutor. I can't ignore the fact that it is a very common tactic of conspiracy theorists of various stripes, poor deluded QAnon believers, and drinkers of ivermectin.

I gave you the benefit of the doubt and it's a 10-year-old recording of a nearly-hourlong lecture by a single scholar. I'm not watching that.

You implied there is a significant number of professional ("serious") historians that don't believe in the historicity of Jesus in 2021 and I just don't see how this video supports that.
Tips are not tax-free in the US nor the UK — you are supposed to declare them and pay the tax yourself.

Sure, individuals often don’t pay tax on their tips, but blaming that on the government seems harsh.
>I recall hearing the EU wants to legally mandate the mechanism of Content ID, just another nail in the coffin for the open web really.

It already passed. Now we're just waiting for the consequences.
Also the same name as a very dubious IDE plug-in:

https://www.reddit.com/r/Python/comments/pn49pa/psa_kite_is_...
Eh, thanks but don’t feel bad for me. There’s hundreds of other countries I can visit. I feel bad for the dissidents who are targeted within their own country and have no hope to leave.
Don't the shareholders already kinda "tip" the CEO's in a way? A lot of the time they get performance based bonuses or extra incentives from shareholders.

Except they want to get bigger "tips" from shareholders by exploiting their workers and not paying them fairly so that they get better performance.
Just grab something like pfSense or any variant that will give you a GUI to do this wayyyyy more easily and with someone knowledgable configuring it and testing it.
The website you linked doesn't even list any evidence supporting its claim that "statistical patterns of voting fraud can be detected", not to mention the "easily reproducible" part. It only has a single page, claiming that there is fraud and asking users to fill forms.
Very cool! Random weird suggestion: you could get very substantial further space savings (2x-16x) by storing the data in a compressed texture format such as ASTC HDR. What makes compressed textures different from other compressed image formats is that they are designed for random access of the compressed data, with fixed size blocks. Compression is lossy but you can choose the compression level to match your data. I expect that weather data is very suitable for compression so you should be able to get a large benefit with few artifacts.
The stability is precisely what I like about Jekyll. I can come back to a website I haven't touched in years and update it and it works. It's so rare for software to work like that.

The latest version of GNU sed is almost two years old. Does that mean it's time to ditch it for the latest rewritten-in-Rust tool du jour? Of course not.

Infrastructural software such as Jekyll should be finishable.
Thanks for all the links and pointers!

And yeah, now that I know the term "NFT hydroponics" that is exactly what I was imagining, just didn't know what it was called. "i want plants that are plugged into the matrix. living in a fake reality, the organic component of a larger machine that nourishes me.".

As for NPK, I (obviously) don't know what I'm talking about, but I'd really want to do something optical. For one, I think you're right, it strikes me as bad to use electrical conductivity to measure both hydration, and relative concentrations of ions, and two, optical just seems ... cooler... to me. In theory, you can "just" use 3 tuned LEDs and a photodiode...

Wow, that last link is... now my standard to strive towards for project writeups.
UK hotels are already 50% more expensive than normal due to the post-covid domestic travel boom, on top of being more expensive than most other European countries to begin with. I won't use them unless I absolutely have to.
This. Don't like the terms then don't work there. Startups are invariably setup for founders not later employees.
> who read 320TB of text

When you said "less data", you did not specify the type of data.

> Could it play chess based on a text description of the game?

We don't know - nobody tried it yet. We tried with 320TB text only.

> If we fed a few years worth of video an audio to a neural network, could it write War and Peace?

As Sonny from "I, robot" said, "can you?"
Intuit makes some of the worst engineered monopolistic software there is but no one hates them because the kind of people who hate software companies don’t use quickbooks.
This is brutal to see. Hoping he can get some help ASAP.
More than happy to but I have many years worth of evidence I can show and I'd rather not spam this post with the info. Is there someone I can DM my evidence to? To start, I actually found this post via his current reddit account: https://redd.it/pnbi59 Deleted to hide, of course - that's his M.O. One can't prove he's a spammer from a casual glance since he covers his tracks and deletes stuff constantly. It's trivial to dig his posts out of archives and point to 20 variations of the same name that's been banned on medium or the same 20 accounts posting the same 50 or so stolen clickbait articles he regularly reposts year after year.

Edit: a plain account ban won't work, he'll just make more accounts. Mods/admins need to be creative here since he'll just rotate his IP and be back an hour later.
They were paid $55m for a single contract with Saudi Arabia, this money alone are enough to buy you tons of 0-days
That requirement is there so that YouTube can't just block videos in Germany again. It's entirely there just to make sure that Google and other platforms must make a deal with the copyright holders. It's perpetuating the same garbage system and removes tools to fight back against it.
This is fantastic... very nice. thanks!
> You mean through exclusionary rules, investing in monitoring and punishment etc all of which divert resources from the productive activity solely by the existence of the incentive to overuse the "commons" or others' goodwill.

No, I mean through collective policing and social pressure. In villages before privatizaton, free-riders faced social pressure, shame, and other consequences for violating the group trust. This is how most societies operated for the bulk of human history.

> True, while the subgame unique subgame perfect equilibrium of most models is full free-riding, most lab experiments show less than full free-riding. That does not mean the incentives are not there.

The lab experiments show "less than full free-riding" because humans are predominantly a social species, not a value-maximizing algorithm.

> That's a silly statement: No one decided to invent money in a similar process of invention like the lightbulb. Instead, coins, tokens, and other recognized mediums of exchange dominated over barter because barter is inconvenient and inefficient.

Except there's no historical record of that happening anywhere. The two things that look like money are trade goods between distant groups and coinage required by rulers for taxes or tribute. There's no record of money being invented de novo to replace barter in societies which didn't already have it.

> Even animals can learn to use a medium of exchange[1].

Obviously, but I haven't seen any record of chimps spontaneously deciding to coin money, so I'm not sure what the point here is.

Edit for the point I missed:

> Why are dorm bathrooms not as clean as bathrooms in your house?

Because my mother doesn't live in the dorm.
As someone who slept through a very large percentage of classes (and failed 5/8 classes one year), and who has been gainfully employed since "completing" high school, I completely agree. I learned far more, and far more relevant/valuable stuff, by pursuing my interests at home via the internet and computers. I was far more interested in the seemingly-infinite world of technology, music and software than really anything that was being "taught" at school. Turns out my interminable pursuit of my interests was validated with lucrative career opportunities -- much to the surprise of naysayers who thought I was "going down the wrong path". :)

People tried so hard to get me to care at all about high school but no one could possibly convince me that the rote, mundane textbook crap was going to be worth spending my life on. Indeed, there is no time I look back and think "I wish I paid attention in that class". I got to enjoy my teenage years delving into fascinating, rewarding stuff, and developed tons of awesome skills in the process, too.
Bogdan Popa has been doing some interesting work on declarative GUIs in Racket: https://youtu.be/AXJ9tTVGDwU
You are right! The coordinates in the graph have the wrong label. I will quickly change it. Thanks!
Ian Beer with Google's Project Zero gives an amazing walk-through of what it took for him to build a similar exploit.

https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2020/12/an-ios-zero-c...
Just as a note regarding extra calls for weather APIs for historical, there is generally a good reason (coming from someone who built a global weather/energy API).

A) Using Numeric Weather Prediction models (NWP) data as 'historical' data is highly dependent on use case. For some application, this is totally fine and the best available data but with more rapid observation satellites becoming quite low latency, using a +2hour NWP forecast as 'historical' could be quite wrong and source of the data should be clear. For a lot of parameters this is the only choice but certain models have different biases for different areas of the world, limiting the use case further unless your backend is willing to apply improvements based on these known biases.

B) A lot of use cases really are only interested in future predictions and they can also store forecasts at +0 and keep a their own record for performance tracking. Yes it is handy for some, its wasteful for others.

C) This separation allows you to separate your infrastructure as keeping even a relatively short historical record at high geospatial/temporal resolution with good query time gets expensive quickly. Eg, satellite data (I dealt with cloud detection) is commonly at 0.5-2km resolution at update every 5-15 minutes you start having to sub sample locations quickly if you want to store even only weeks of data that is low latency available, if you track 1-2M points at 30 minutes even 2 weeks is 1.3B rows ignoring the number of parameters you might be storing. Where as forecast data can be moved to 'cold' (high latency) cheaper storage more quickly since the latest forecast is the more valuable, quickly losing its value over time. This means you can use storage like Redis to store latest forecasts for rapid ingestion and fetching. Storing historical forecast data per model at +N hours/minutes ahead and you start multiplying your historical data costs again.

Massive kudos meteo-jeff for building this service, accessibility of public data can be extremely frustrating and while GRIB/NetCDF make looking at data over an area through time somewhat more manageable, a lot of use cases are just interested in a single point. My contact is in my bio if you ever want to chat, great public service you are doing, well done!
"You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means." - Inigo Montoya

I mean, maybe if I had the option of not paying it, but somehow I suspect I don't...
My experience with Intuit's Quickbooks Online suggests that all Mailchimp users will be paying 2-3X within 3 years for a worse product. I'd plan on transitioning soon. They're awful.
Prescribing a medication that puts one at risk to save another would violate medical ethics.
looking back on the thread posted by dang from 2018 (in this thread), some links are dead, some are still active (and some of them are amazing).
I wonder if they dont get purged if they have a certain number of views /likes, or if posted by user with an account.
Very strange to read this from my German perspective. School is compulsory here, and it has its historical roots in a the Prussian education system which didn't just convey knowledge but socialized kids and young adults, essentially making them citizens.

And that's still I think the most important function of a proper education system. Not only do you acquire basic knowledge, but you learn how to function within an institution, work within groups, face adverse situations, follow instructions, timelines, interact with authority, and so on, you learn the basics of democracy even, how to function within a small political community of sorts.

The majority of people will continue to go on and benefit from this. Whether they work at a large corporation, administration, the military, the legal sector, a medical profession, academia. Most careers are highly structured. People saying that their school experience is nothing like 'real life' in my experience work in highly idiosyncratic professions that only employ a minority of individuals.

And as a side note, my parents couldn't teach me anything past 8th grade. the entire notion of leaving the school system is essentially preserved for people whose parents are affluent or fairly educated.
>Why is anyone seriously talking about Ivermectin

Probably because Ivermectin has gone through the rigorous process of testing/approval required for use in humans, that we haven't had time to do with the vaccine. I mean, it's completely understandable why people would seek out well-tested drugs, that are more predictable due to the scientific scrutiny they've been under, than a vaccine that got rushed into production. Are people honestly surprised by this? I mean, sure Ivermectin probably isn't a good covid treatment but if there aren't negative side-effects and it has a chance of helping then I don't see a problem with taking it under doctor supervision. I mean, we want to stop the pandemic, right? What's the big issue with looking to well-tested, scientifically-scrutinized medications as possible treatments for people who already have covid?
That's basically it. A lot of options but they all have some flaw. Rocket Chat and mattermost both lock features behind an enterprise paywall (although Rocket Chat is more forgiving and has optional E2EE), Zulip is nice but still a small player and some people aren't fans of the UX, and Matrix lacks the polish of slack and moderation tools are not up to speed with Slack/RC/Mattermost, which is a problem for larger groups.
> I would estimate that the majority of exploits are the result of source code theft, leaks of potential vulnerabilities from people who have access to the source code and social engineering.

No. Some Apple source code has publicly leaked (iBoot) but stealing this kind of stuff is bound to leak. And reversing binaries for vulnerabilities is not that much harder.
How much tipping these days is cash vs card? I would imagine that cash tips are underreported on tax forms.
> Please dont be dismissive of “flyover states.”

Especially since the Wright brothers are from a flyover state. No one would be "flying over" without them.
Battery life (4-5 days) and being able to have an extra battery or being able to share is what I miss most.

I also miss the customizations for alerting. I would set personal colour coded alerts on the led - that was perfect. Customization of alerts is very limited on anything else I’ve used since.

The iPhone keyboard seems to be getting worse with its auto correct. If it gets any worse (or maybe it’s me) I will get to a point of wanting the physical keyboard back.

Modern phones seem to be like a bloated MS Word with 90% of features I don’t need. All wasted.

I was recently in an area with limited cell reception. My old Blackberry would have done its job only requiring limited data using the BES. I was amazed that some iPhone apps couldn’t even login. Using the house wifi that had +500ms latency some iPhone apps failed as well. Interesting to learn how little effort is put into low bandwidth or high latency situations. Blackberry had that nailed. But they were in the wrong end of the market for cell companies.
This comment implies that manufacturers need 3rd party dealers/distributors. I think Tesla has globally proven their market.
If they're smart, you're probably right. That would almost certainly be the best strategy.

The question is, are they smart?
> From my perspective, it is not the FDA (or the government's) job to evaluate the need for approval of a booster. It's their job to evaluate the safety of a booster product being sold.

Effectiveness, as well as safety, is explicitly part of the FDA mandate for approvals generally. That's not precisely need, but since it incorporates marginal impact, it is quite closely related.

> The FDA already approved the vaccine. It's not their job to approve when it it is given

This is wrong. The FDA doesn't issues generic approvals, it issues approvals for specific uses.
Agreed. It's a point he makes over and over again: the world is complex and any alleged narrative is just a simplification we make to help ourselves understand the complexity or influence others.

"Good guys" and "bad guys" are just a part of this narrative we create. People are a product of their past, which is also complex, but good and bad are powerful models we are programmed since childhood to apply to the world.
If only you could tell people of the past the problems of big government
He seemed like a very strict teacher, probably not the most enjoyable character.
My recommendation is to not use enums; use plain string unions instead. There's no wondering about how they compile or serialize (or deserialize), there's no importing/exporting (except the types), you even get autocomplete. And TypeScript makes them every bit as safe as enums (more so, based on some things I learned in this article).
Not a purely musical mashup, but one of my all-time favorite youtube videos features a mashup song with the beatles, joan jett etc and clips of the 250 top imdb movies in 2 1/2 minutes:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U0x9HtYgVqA

I do not want to know how long that took to create.
I used to live on a horse ranch, and honestly, it made me dislike horses in general. There were a few that were
enjoyable to be around (the draft horses, despite being the biggest, were genuinely friendly), but the bulk were just plain jerks.

What really surprised me was how friendly and fun the donkeys were. The one that did coyote patrol for the emus always made hilarious happy-donkey sounds whenever he saw me walk the fence line, and it was nice to be able to work in his paddock and have a buddy to hang out with instead of a sneak horse-nip while you're focused on something else.
An employee will pick $200,000 over 150,000+options.
You are correct. I may have read more into GP’s post than they intended. I assumed given the issues present in the tread and the original tweets, I assumed they were referring to the Committee submission document from 2020 [1] and the ‘uproar’ from non-FAANG developers.

1 - http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2020/p213...
Is this viable in 2021 without huge resources? Can you go ipv6? What's the startup cost of an AS like? I assume there's the technical cost, but what about actually getting an AS assigned (time/money?), etc?
The Treo 650 was my first smartphone, followed by the OG iPhone, the Blackberry Pearl, and the Nokia N900. At the time, the iPhone was actually a step down from the Treo but my Palm phone had died a watery death and they weren't available anymore from my carrier so I went with the iPhone. This was before the App Store, so everything not already installed was a web app and they all sucked back then.

After just a few months of suffering on the iPhone, I went with a BB Pearl, which was hardly better app-wise but much better as a communications device overall. As soon as the N900 dropped I bought one at full price and I was back in smartphone nirvana. Of course, by then Android phones had hit the scene and the iPhone had vastly improved, and the N900 started feeling slow and cumbersome compared to my coworkers' and friends' devices.

Later my love for the Nokia device transferred to Windows Phones, which I still maintain were the best smartphone paradigm ever made. For once I felt Microsoft finally "got it right" on the OS design and people-centric interface. I sorely wish they still made phones with mobile Windows 10, but I get why they left the market.
How is that any different from Apple selling the iPhone in their own stores versus a third party store? Or literally any other consumer good?
I do have a few contentions with your assessments.

I got my Windows Phone in the summer of 2013. It was WP8.

It had pretty fast notifications. In fact, I used to get real-time CNN notifications and I got information much faster than when what show up on the news channel. I even got wind of Nelson Mandela's death before Wikipedia made any edits and any obituaries made it to Google's first page.

The browser was Internet Explorer 11. It wasn't the best, but it performed well enough for reading articles.

Apps. I agree and that's still a problem almost a decade later.

IM was actually one of the strengths of the phone with the People Hub/Rooms feature. You could use Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn all in one application. I don't know why they removed in Windows 10 Mobile.

The games were mostly iOS ports, so quality varied, but many were well-known. Angry Birds and its myriad variations, Fruit Slash, Candy Crush, etc. It even got GTA San Andreas. But a distinctive feature for achievement junkies was that many of those games had Xbox Live integration (still works too). The phone also worked as a touch controller and remote with the Xbox 360 and the Xbox One.

You're right that it wasn't the most capable phone. But it offered a lot more than a refinement of the basic essence of a phone.
How is Woz involved? These days, it seems Woz is paid to endorse, or otherwise put on the board to bring attention to a lot of projects, without much involvement: https://medium.com/@pabischoff/steve-wozniak-walking-billboa...

This recently launched: https://efforce.io/team/steve-wozniak

The token is "WOZX". Clearly they're attempting to capitalize on his name.
Keep fighting.
> Could you elaborate on how "'inventing money because barter is inefficient' doesn't seem to exist in the real world"? The idea that barter's inefficiency drives demand for money seems to me to be self-evidently true, so I'd be interested to hear a different perspective.

Others point out Debt below, and that's the canonical argument here. Effectively, the kinds of small societies that most people lived in for most of human history manage exchange based on personal relationships and reciprocal exchange, not abstract or closed monetary transactions. Money arises in the context of either long-range trade, in which sustained relationships aren't guaranteed, or in the context of large states which actually require some form of bookkeeping to track things like taxes and tribute.

The "self-evident" nature of the "barter becomes money" story is the origin myth of Economics - it absolutely sounds like a way things could have happened and feels deeply plausible, but there's no evidence it did.
The FDA website isn't targeting the third world. It's directed at people living in America, where they are able to get the vaccine for free.
Must be nice to be a tenured professor teaching a few hours a week with plenty of time to homeschool his kids.
Second one — yes. All sources, per request.

But as a general rule, we crawl all we could/know which is a news website.

Can add any niche/industry-specific websites on request.