skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> At the very least, you can buy a piece of IP directly from the IP holder

You're not really buying the IP in any meaningful way, though, you just get a non-exclusive, non-transferable (!) right to display it. They can still air it or license it to others without paying you royalties.
It may well be that “Socrates, the mouthpiece character created by Plato" was more real, platonically speaking, than the historical entity that went by that name.
China Outlaws Bitcoin
Cops can't get fired for anything short of shooting a child in the back on live TV and, sometimes, not even for that. California sheriffs are elected and can't be fired at all. The Alameda County (where I live) sheriff is a closet white supremacist in an organization where most of the deputies drive jacked up monster trucks with punisher stickers in the windows, in a county that votes 85-to-15 for Democrats. Sheriffs and their deputies are self-selecting exurban white men with tendencies toward AM radio, conspiracy forums, and horse paste.
That seems like a great technique if it is correct.

Seems obvious to me that many of the top VPN providers are operated by intelligence agencies or have ties to data brokers: they can afford to operate the services at an initial loss for the benefit of information learned later.

For example, touting that a VPN is operated outside of a country with ties to the “five eyes” doesn’t seem like a benefit, it likely means they can operate with impunity on your data.
System A listens to queue B and handles every kind of message b throws at it. But somewhere, at some point in time, some coder has made the innocuous assumption that B_id's are unique.....
With SQL, there are many different ways to write a query and to get the correct result returned to you. Instead of "1+1=2" being the only answer, it'd be more like: "1+1=2", "2+0=2", and "0+2=2". All are correct.

In my experience on SO with both SQL and Python, there are usually a number of correct answers for every question. How correct it is depends on things that usually aren't in the question: size of the data set, dependencies or processes that may break as a result of answer, etc.
With respect to your moderation and authority here, no one was annoyed. It was a healthy debate. Same topic was released by NY before I shared this, but this one attracted engagement. I believe that deserves some respect. But anyway, it is your platform, you are the boss. I share stuff that makes to me. You do what your conscience appeals to you.
There is a live stream right now by Dr. Kevin McCairn (neuroscientist) commenting on this paper, a grant application from EcoHealth Alliance (Peter Daszak) detailing what they were going to do in Wuhan: https://youtu.be/ayNMSFp7pOE
Okay, so in addition to leaving a trail for every business you patronize, this adds a few non-business entities to that trail.

Qualitatively, the difference between the two is academic. I'd take pearl-clutching on this subject seriously if we didn't already scan ourselves into every establishment we patronize, by swiping a piece of plastic. This ship has sailed decades ago, thanks to cash-back, and not actually having to deal with cash, either on my end, or the merchant's end, and thanks to everyone owning a cellphone (Which is a device that broadcasts your location 24/7.)
For example, wrangler dev just stopped working on all my current workers. All requests return a timeout error.

Only workers created with wrangler generate work.

I opened this issue and never received an answer:

https://github.com/cloudflare/wrangler/issues/2077

I closed it because wrangler dev still works with generate, so I assumed it was a problem on my end.

It still sucks that it just stopped working for no reason.
I don't think they've discovered HN's secret feature yet -- the "joke suppression button." It looks like

[-]

Click it, and the joke and all its subcomments are instantly rolled up into a highly ignorable format. :)
Most people just have wildly incorrect ideas about flight because their only experience with it is the hellscape that is major airports. When that's all you've ever seen, it's natural not to understand that it's an extreme, not the mean.
Why is that obviously true? There is not a 1:1 correspondence between calories and mass. There are more calories stores in a pound of fat than in a pound of protein. Why can't you lose weight while running a calorie surplus by losing muscle and gaining fat?

This is an honest question. I've never understood this.
The discussion was about fiduciary duty to shareholders, and share holders care a great deal about market cap since it is a reflection of the current share price. My point was also that Mark Zuckerberg being deposed and/or imprisoned would affect the share price more than the fine.

The market cap is a ‘fantasy number’ in the sense that the liquidity doesn’t exist to market sell/buy all outstanding shares at the current bid/ask, I’ll grant you that.
A lot of the suggestions are incremental changes. Maybe that is the reason they are not satisfying. Could you think big? What is an impossible dream that you have that you have ruled out because rationally it appears unachievable? Could the malaise be caused by this conflict between what your heart wants and what your mind thinks is possible?
> It's going to look a lot less like a Ponzi scheme if/when the dollar collapses.

Even if it does, Bitcoin may very well collapse before the dollar.
The actual infection fatality ratio is nowhere near 3%. The US CDC estimated it at 0.6%.

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/cases-updates/burd...
he's too busy answering questions - he answered five more since this was posted
> It will use a shorter exposure time so you might wanna drop it for low light shots.

Generally, the native camera app will drop into Night mode and automatically disable the Live mode.
Everything leaving HBO Max in October 2021
Yes. I agree. It seems to be getting harder to set up hibernate as an option. Regular (non HN) users might not even figure out that hibernate is a possibility. But it definitely is a better option than sleep.
When I lived in the Cayman Islands, the primary submarine cable (I forget its name) was fiber, and I had better net there than I had in the US. It went down for a week or two one time, and the entire island's net traffic was relegated to a much older copper cable that ran to Jamaica. Cayman is a tiny market, but it still crippled our net because the bandwidth was tiny; it was like a couple T1s for the whole population.
looks like it was first published in 2016
Chinese crypto miners moving overseas
Ad on the losing side of history as well

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boston_Massacre
No, enough with this nonsense. Capturing, liquefying and transforming CO2 into fuel requires energy - due to thermodynamic limits, much more energy than what the fuel can give back. You then take that fuel, and... burn it into 25% efficient engines that spew the very same CO2 back into the air, along with some new carcinogenic fumes and acid-rain inducing nitrogen oxides?

No, just no, full stop. They way forward is electrification of everything, using only carbon-neutral energy, renewables &nuclear. No hydrogen, no methane, no electric to fuel, let's not do these physical stupidities to keep dying industries alive.
Using their own techniques against them, a group of journalists created a LASD gang affiliation database: https://lasdgangs.knock-la.com

For more information see http://lasdgangs.com/
> the complete lack of civic thinking in some circles is really disturbing.

I used to love the idea of the government fixing societies' woes. Unfortunately in my lifetime I've seen several business cycles wherein the rich get bailouts and the rest of us lose our shirts. My country has entered wars I didn't then, and don't now support. I've seen 3 letter agencies topple foreign governments, and I'm watching China leverage its social credit system and implementing CBDCs. I've seen the infrastructure in my country become dilapidated and homelessness skyrocket. I voted for 'change' and got none.

I am civic minded, and to me the government is starting to look like the problem. As such, I support any peaceful alternative. There is no such thing as consent of the governed, and I plan continue believing what I see with my lying eyes.
That's really unfortunate. They sound like they might be the sort that make individual judgments based on group stereotypes.
Given that E2E tests should run in an environment that is more controlled than production, if you can't get an e2e test to perform reliably then it's a strong indication that your system won't perform reliably in production.

If an e2e test is not performing reliably not because it can't, but because the test is half-assed, then that needs to be treated as a bug in the test, and the test should not be used to assess the quality of your software. Developers (including me!) have a natural tendency to treat bugs in tests as lesser than bugs in the product, but given that bugs in tests will mask bugs in the product, this is a problem.

True story: a new e2e test was failing randomly. For 6 months nobody looked at it because "it was just a flaky test." A manager found out and insisted that someone fix the test, and it turned up the test was fine, it just found a (non-deterministic) bug that had been in the product for over a decade.
Hey everyone, I'm the author of the article and maintainer of Linkerd. Happy to answer any questions!
‘Nobody’ looks at banknotes. Also, historically, banknotes were torn and repaired more often. Because of that, you can just cut a 1/10th width strip out of 9 banknotes and glue them together to make a 9/10 width tenth banknote.

Examples: https://books.google.com/books?id=e7QzAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA318&lpg=... (1804)

https://books.google.com/books?id=osjhDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA114&lpg=... (1850s)

A more tricky recent variant replaces the cut-out part with a fake part: https://bc.ctvnews.ca/can-you-spot-the-fake-splice-and-tape-... (why do these criminals take the effort and risk of creating a fake fiver? I would discard the remains of the fiver, and spend all effort on improving the technique for transplanting the hologram to the fake 100)

Of course, this works better with small denominations, if only because people expect larger denominations to look newer.

The risk of getting caught also is fairly large, I think, but a good criminal can feign innocence, claiming to have gotten the note elsewhere.
I don't think you are being serious when you mention Facebook and Reddit.
True. I use VPN to get behind the geoblocking on my banking app which is prohibited to work in my African country. Also viewing movies banned in my country.
If your system can't be tested end-to-end because of how slow and flaky it is to test that way, doesn't that say something about the quality of your system rather than the tests?

Of course once you have such a system, it's probably the result of years of work by many people and most likely it would be hard to make it faster and more reliable. That is probably why people shy away from doing that, and choose to blame the tests instead.
The increased ability to track the efficacy of ads is the value of the tracking that the internet enabled, hence the value of Facebook. Hampering this ability to match ads to purchases reduces the price these ads can be sold at, it is what the whole article and situation are talking about.
Doesn't your indie developer still have to acquire both licenses and assets for all those items, since NFTs (a) don't actually convey a recognizable legal ownership or right of any kind and (b) impose costs proportional to size in bytes, and so can't effectively store the actual data over which they claim ownership?
This is the number system explained in The Memory Book linked by joverholt above.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28642747
Unless the Intercept changed the page the submission also breaks the guidelines about editorializing submission titles. TFA headline reads: Leaked Grant Proposal Details High-Risk Coronavirus Research (I didn't flag it, just voicing a possible reason for the submission to be flagged)
The question is, are bugs rare in rails because of or in spite of the code size? Obviously more code is more opportunity for mistakes, but more code is also the product of more users and more contributors poring over what’s there.
> Manual changes in our staging environment corrupted test data fixtures

there's a lot here.

Manual changes in your staging environment shouldn't affect your tests, because your tests should be isolated from other environments.

Also fixtures are generally bad. Given some fixture representing an initial state S, a test utilizing this fixture along with some acceptance criteria is essentially testing that given the state S, running the tests executes some transformation T such that the state of the system is now S2; acceptance criteria evaluate S2 against some known-good value to confirm that T is the desired transformation. This is meaningless if the initial state S is not actually reachable by the system. The fixture itself does not prove that S is reachable: that S is reachable is taken as an act of faith.

So how do you determine that the initial state S is reachable by the system? Well, you have some other test, that starts with an initial state of nothing, that performs some transition (generating and inserting random data instead of using a fixture, for example) and gets nothing into the state S. By doing this, you've both created the state S _and_ verified that S is a valid, reachable state. Now you run your second test after the first test in sequence. To run N tests off of initial state S, you replay the initial test that produced state S N times, once for each dependent test. Sure that's a lot of work, but each sequence of testing events can be run in isolation from the others, so they can be run in parallel.
B vitamins need to be supplemented for most people, plant-based or otherwise. Almost all livestock is supplemented, too, which is how most people who meat get any B-12 at all.

As for anything else, because you imply there are other vitamins that are lacking in plant-based diets, the onus to provide proof is definitely on you.
If people were willing to work through the issues with nuclear power, running a bunch of nuclear plants to power the scrubbers would be semi-reasonable.
Civilian police oversight agencies: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civilian_police_oversight_agen...
I was hoping this was going to be about Java's stale Collections API, but I was sorely disappointed.
Citing from the grant application, page 12:

> We will conduct in vitro pseudovirus binding assays, using established techniques, and live virus binding assays (at WIV [Wuhan Institute of Virology] to prevent delays and unnecessary dissemination of viral cultures)

https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/21066966-defuse-prop...
Yes, it gave the executive branch those powers but exempted itself.

And with good reason - can you imagine if a sitting president created a new regulation that conveniently put his congressional opponents in prison?
> var myValue = DoSomethingAsync().ConfigureAwait(false).Result;

Came out a decade ago and we still don't know how to use it safely.

This example doesn't compile because there is no Result on ConfiguredTaskAwaitable. Regardless, ConfigureAwait(false) does absolutely nothing here because this Task is not being awaited.

If you're going to block this thread, you must push the work to another thread or it's going to deadlock when the implementation tries to resume a continuation (unless the implementation is 100% perfect and the SynchronizationContext smiles upon you).

var result = Task.Run(() => CalculateAsync()).GetAwaiter().GetResult();

This avoids the deadlock but can lead to other nasty things like thread pool starvation. The only true solution is to go async all the way - https://blog.stephencleary.com/2012/07/dont-block-on-async-c...
It's true, and I'm allowed to (and do) care about the emissions of those, too. I'm objecting to the idea that I shouldn't be allowed to care (“don't use it duh”) as a non-user.

I am encouraged to see the transition to PoS and would love to see PoS overtake PoW, just from a bystander-concerned-about-the-environment perspective.
Apple didn't get rich by writing a lot of checks

ironically, spoken by Gates @0:52 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H27rfr59RiE
The allegation that Xinjiang has prisons and are allowing prisoners to work is almost certainly true. Like virtually every other major economy.

The allegation that the Xinjiang prisoners are actually innocent people being ethnically/religiously cleansed and forced into slavery has extremely little basis in reality, relying completely on claims from a tiny, unaccountable clique of Washington DC based ideologues (Zenz, et al) and ETIM lobbyists (WUC, et al).

However, the article deceptively uses the banal truth of the first allegation as a vehicle to imply that truth of the second, far more extreme allegation. These are classic disinformation methods employed to achieve political agendas.
Thermodynamics is about energy not CO2, you can design negative CO2 devices and we even have proof in nature of that since that's what trees are doing.
Basically the Dell XPS laptop SO BADLY DESIGNED it can not handle the excess heat of being put into a standard, used-by-everyone laptop bag!!

I would assume they just laid out the standard "Example Design" without any thermal design analysis that NORML ENGINEERING companies do with any of the latest deep nanometer parts.

The thing is: if you do NOT using good power supply or thermal design, the CPUs, RAM, Flash, etc. will only have an operating lifetime on the short end of the current 5-10 years usable life for these parts. If you overheat them, they will attain <5 year lifespan. If you do good thermal design, you'll get closer to 10 years. If you use a schlock power supply to charge the battery and use the battery power, you will attain <5 year lifespan. If you design an ultra-low-ripple power supply and use quality battery power chips, you will get closer to 10 years.

We are now at device physics lifespans that are so close to economic lifespans that now this kind of design MATTERS ENTIRELY. If you cut corners, you will quickly destroy your brand value because you will not be able to exceed economic lifespan expectations with your physical/physics-defined lifespan realities.

The standard business-as-usual will fail now because things have changed now.
If you don't think HN users get annoyed by duplicate threads, all I can tell you is stick around!

This is just standard/boring forum moderation. HN has done it for many years. Moreover we do it so often that if there were even a slight tilt of community opinion against it, we'd never hear the end of it. That's how I know the community likes it.
I'd be interested to know how often Congressional stock trades have been used to reason about classified information, i.e. a number of senators invest in a certain stock, implying that a suspected but classified decision went a certain way.
This isn't the only team trying this. See https://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/news/making-methane-m... for another team working on the same thing for the same purpose.

It is worthy of note that the process that is described is exactly the one that Elon Musk was already planning to use on Mars. This is exactly why finding water on Mars is critical to his plans, and is also why Starship is designed to run on methane-oxygen. (Starship will be the second methane rocket ever. And the first, Starhopper, used the same raptor engine.)

It is also worth pointing out that producing methane here on Earth for use around Earth is not particularly helpful. Methane is hard to store and is a better greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide. Then if you use it for a rocket, you put that carbon dioxide back in the atmosphere. We benefit a bit from the shade provided by the water vapor so it isn't quite net neutral, but it is pretty close.
But they don't use the same standard permission box that they force 3rd party apps to use.

That's shady....
Their financials were shown to the new york attorney generals office who then reached a conclusion and settlement which you can read. What they did wrong was issue an IOU to bitfinex which was hacked. Not run up a 10:1 reserve market pumping scheme like tin foil hat wearers claim. Theres lots to say about tether thats bad, but thats not it.
This is one of the silliest things I've read in all my discussions about animals and diets.
that's why these were "Wontfix: Working Poorly as Designed" :^)
I think this is the crux of the matter. Since Task and the TPL predated async, iirc, people get befuddled by the parallelism Vs concurrency (if that's the correct term) parts of the Task API.

Certainly the async story is a lot more complicated in desktop but it is very simple for most server scenarios, simply put "use this async call so that the thread can do other things while you wait for the db to respond" and the model in code is much preferable to callback hell.
I was into memory training after reading "Moonwalking with Einstein" (Excellent book btw). But it gets a bit cumbersome at some point.

> I used to read a book, maybe take notes and hopefully take some new action. Next year it's gone, maybe I recall 3 ideas. How could I get more out of reading? So I memorized books.

I built something that exactly solves this problem:

1. You read book or watch video lectures

2. 1 year later, you remember less than 5%

I propose using a conversational learning system, that forces learners to respond. Their responses then act as "memory breadcrumbs" which helps to retrace the entire context. Think like your own chats on Whatsapp or FB. It's not a perfect system, but it works.

You can read my comics-based blogpost on the same: https://primerlabs.io/comics/memory-breadcrumbs-comics/

And if you want to try out, I have released two free courses on Conversational Learning Platform:

1. Python

2. Fundamentals of Computing.

You can try out https://primerlabs.io (No signup is required)

We create self-paced courses to teach yourself computer science and it's an excellent way to do that, IMO.
This is slightly tangential, but it's Atlantic-cable-related, and I just learned about it. Let me set the stage. By the 1920s, analog fax technology was established and there were a variety of experimental and early commercial systems in use. One of the first uses of modems was to transmit faxes over the long-distance telephone network, turning a voltage into a pitch, and vice versa. The electronic marvel of the 1930s in the newsroom, aside from the teletypes, was that you could take a photo in San Francisco and have it published just hours later in New York.

But how do you get a picture across the Atlantic Ocean? Those analog fax systems suffer from noise and in the experimental systems of the 1910s and 1920s long-distance was impractical. Shortwave to get over the Ocean was right out. There were no transoceanic telephone links. But there were submarine telegraph cables. Morse code or Baudot telex. Not very fast with no amplifiers along the lines yet. But you could send a telex across the Atlantic ocean.

Enter the Bartlane transmission system. First, five photographs were developed from the original negative, at different exposure levels, using a conductive developer. So each point of the image is more or less conductive depending on its exposure. Each of these photos is scanned, as if it had pixels, and a 1-bit intensity value collected for for all five photographs, creating a five-level greyscale bitmap image on tape basically. (Five bits worked with existing Baudot code equipment.)

This enormous tape was then sent over the wire. On the receiving end a printer, with intensity controlled by the level indicated, would then selectively expose a spot on a photographic plate to light, as it stepped through the tape. Six hours to send a small image. But digital was the only way to send a photograph from London to New York overnight from its early trials in the 1920s until the 1950s.

http://www.hffax.de/history/html/bartlane.html