skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I suspect who you will eventually see move into this space is Airbnb. This may be some time off though and after they absorb hotel booking.

Another possible one is Zillow or one of the real estate apps. They seem less savvy than the Airbnb guys though so I'm not so sure about that.

Both of those seem like good places for innovation to me. One of the challenges you might find is that in both cases they are connecting to the legacy economy with phone calls rather than api's to get things that haven't been put on the internet yet (random bankers, listing that haven't been posted yet).

Those aren't insurmountable problems though.

As far as stuff you can use today, you can shop banks yourself rather than using a mortgage broker (obviously here you run the risk that the broker would have found the better rate).

In a way just using sites like Zillow or realtor is a big disruption. Think about how much more dependent on a real estate agent you would be if calling them on the phone or driving by a for sale sign was the only way to find a house.
1. Children shouldn't have had their development and future health jeopardized to protect teachers.

2. Children are not major spreaders of COVID: https://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/147/4/e202004...

3. Even if children were big spreaders, they could have been allowed to continue having a social life without exposing teachers to them.
I'm just trying to avoid all the JS spaghetti.
Curious if you have such a camera on your person every day? It’s an extra thing to charge, you can’t edit and post directly to social media, getting pictures backed up is not automatic. It’s a totally different experience and for most people, they don’t want to hang large prints of their photos at home. They just need enough quality to show their friends and family.
Cracking is just a profit center for Tutor-Perini. If the structure lasts for more than a few years how are they going to get paid?
Absolutely astonishing. Answering questions on a Q&A site may not on its own be heroic, but at this scale it’s hard to see it as any less.
Doesn’t that mean the US dollar maintain it’s price by providing useful goods and services?
Haha.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/xi-jinping-aims-to-rein-in-chin...
Other than immutability by default and pattern matching I don’t see the Rust connection.

Out of curiosity, what is OCaml’s baggage that you’re thinking of?
Beyond that... a Ukulele, while a stringed instrument like a guitar, it's purpose isn't to replace or compete with a typical 6 string guitar. It's designed to do something different, it has a totally different tonal characteristic.

OP, is making a weird comparison is all I'm sayin I guess.
are you ready to die for crypto? most people aren't
There's a lot of obvious flaws when looking at the images on a good monitor but that's part of the point I guess the images generally look amazing on a phone or when shared to instagram and displayed at a smaller size. Also suprised how much obvious compression artifacts there are on the hi res vimeo embed, very muddy and I imagine doesn't do the original footage justice.
I think there's a potentially valid argument in saying "who better knows how to protect us from these people than one of their own?". It's perfectly valid to doubt their motivation (and I do), but there's a reason defectors are valuable.
> If you think you want a VPN for "privacy", use Tor Browser

so replace a vpn, which might be logging your traffic, for a service which absolutely is logging your traffic?

Tor is an anonymity service, not a privacy service.
In the UK at least, the apple connector is the dominant one, with >50% of the share. The 'odd ones out' are the non apple phone makers. Perhaps they should be forced to use lighting connectors.

Absolutely would love to see apple on usb-c, I honestly dont know why they have not, unless they are waiting for a mini usb-c or just trying to keep the current product cycle going a little longer.

This EU initiative is fantastic, it worked, it continues to work. For all the abuse the EU gets for its bright ideas, this was an actual issue back in the day and they have had a material impact in this space.
Benioff is a fucking idiot. He's just another commie globalist trying to rule the world. Expendable sub-human trash.
This is probably what happened with the last major coronavirus pandemic. Strong circumstantial evidence indicates that HCoV-OC43 caused a worldwide pandemic that killed a lot of people starting in 1889. Now most of us get infected as youths and experience common cold symptoms. That gives us some protective immunity as we age.

https://sfamjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/175...

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7252012/

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC544107/
For sure. And I think that speculation (with attendant market manipulation) are the main observed purpose of it these days. The total drugs market is large, but I'd be surprised to learn that even 1% passes through all the cryptocurrencies put together. Especially Bitcoin given how traceable it is.
What does GP stand for?
How come?

Just think about all cases of fake liceses? This could be verified rather easily with an NFT while faking it would be quite hard.
> “personal relationship with God” is solely a trait of Christianity.

I don't think this is true. Judaism and Islam both feature the same fundamental concept: there is a single god who cares about you personally and that your behavior and belief will shape that relationship in terms of direct, personal consequence. This is not true of the pre-Abrahamic faiths, it's not true of the religions of Asia or Africa.

> Many other peoples [ ... ]

Can you name any other conquerors in history who had a clearly and repeatedly stated goal of the complete elimination of the conquered? I'm not saying there are none, but I'm not aware of them.
If a program wants to perform a task in an async way without delegating it to an external program (like a database server or the OS' I/O system), it has to use threads, right? I think the point is that concurrency, for some tasks, basically requires multithreading. Not for the parallelism benefits, but just to be able to make concurrency possible for a task that requires blocking a thread.
Architecture guidelines for large Angular applications
It's kind of odd that JetBrains chose async/await for Kotlin considering the JVM is going towards the Go approach for virtual threads. I guess they had to since they wanted to support android/js?
https://bitcoin.org/bitcoin.pdf

What was Satoshi lying about? What has he done with his riches?

> The Times 03/Jan/2009 Chancellor on brink of second bailout for banks

This is not the motivation of someone trying to get richer. It's someone who cares deeply about humanity.

Is it so hard to believe that there are others in the space with similar motivations?
IMO, that does not it really answer anything. It's just one date point.

How many similar contractors are there, say what about India?

Another thing, the moderation is a combination of ml technique and human, the next question is how much load ML takes a way from human operator. How efficient are their tools?

What is recall and precision of removing violent content?

How does this compare with other social networks?

How much moderation is done organically by users?
‘Some ﬁlters are relatively straightforward, such as removing Lorem ipsum placeholder text. However, we ﬁnd that another ﬁlter which removes documents that contain a token from a banned word list, disproportionately removes documents in dialects of English associated with minority identities (e.g., text in African American English, text discussing LGBTQ+ identities).’

A word so lovely that we really really don't want to risk putting it in our report...
Plus, all photos shown were shot in proraw and edited with expensive software.
> Honest question: it's still a consensus that they do have value in situations such as airport Wi-Fi, correct?

No. I don't think this was ever a consensus. When is the last time you've used a (sensitive) website that is not run over HTTPS? Unless the CAs (or the certs) are compromised, you have no reason to use a VPN when on public Wi-Fi, because it is encrypted with this so-called "military grade encryption" that VPN providers love to mention.

Edit: forgot to add, if the CAs or the certs are compromised, VPNs won't help anyway.
Impressive!. But if you look at many people's comment history on reddit/Usenet/Facebook/Twitter/Slashdot it isn't hard to find 25 entries per day.

Also an eye-opener about how much time an average person spends on message boards typing shit when they can be creating volumes of artifacts
A blockchain is a database of blocks which are cryptographically hashed such that manipulating any previous entries would invalidate all future ones referencing it. That is pretty much it. This can be constructed on a single machine in someone's basement if one so desires. In fact, the entire point of Bitcoin is that the entire blockchain can be validated by any node which anyone can start with something as trivial as a raspberry pi. Now Bitcoin adds a decentralized mechanism on top of this using Proof of Work. But that is not inherent to blockchains.
One case where I saw this was a friend who for some reason was being routed to game servers around the world when trying to connect to an Overwatch game, and a much closer server with the VPN.

Was this a bug in Overwatch? Almost certainly, but the VPN was an effective workaround.
You can read about its early days in this document by Dan Ingalls and collaborators: http://www.vpri.org/pdf/tr1997001_backto.pdf

and here:

https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3386335
"banned" as in, you get arrested, put in a van, taken away

don't be obtuse
> How do you think the dollar keeps its value?

Base demand for dollars is created due to taxation. As the money supply is managed via fractional reserve lending, each new dollar that enters circulation is backed by the demand for repayment of that loan. When someone borrows money from a bank, the bank enters a negative balance in its ledger and the borrower gets a positive balance in their account. This is how money is created. As the loan is repaid, the money is destroyed.

Dollars are fully backed by demand for dollars. It's really quite elegant.

> Do you understand that the reason it has value is because it’s backed by the US military, which provides peace and stability for industry to consume a vast amount of energy to produce goods that get shipped around using fossil fuel?

This is utterly irrelevant. The US military existed for hundreds of years on hard money. World wars were fought on hard money.

> Have you calculated the total energy expenditure of the entire US financial system, direct and indirect, and then compare it to proof-of-work calculations?

Sure, and as a percentage of transaction count, transaction value, or basically any other metric it utterly pales in comparison. [1]

> Don’t just parrot what the current-day zeitgeist told you to think.

Ditto the crypto echo chamber.

[1] https://digiconomist.net/bitcoin-energy-consumption/
Gary Gensler thinks crypto is part of their remit:

> The SEC has a three-part mission — to protect investors, facilitate capital formation, and maintain fair, orderly, and efficient markets in between them. We focus on financial stability as well. But at our core, we’re about investor protection.

> If you want to invest in a digital, scarce, speculative store of value, that’s fine. Good-faith actors have been speculating on the value of gold and silver for thousands of years.

> Right now, we just don’t have enough investor protection in crypto. Frankly, at this time, it’s more like the Wild West.

>This asset class is rife with fraud, scams, and abuse in certain applications. There’s a great deal of hype and spin about how crypto assets work. In many cases, investors aren’t able to get rigorous, balanced, and complete information.

>If we don’t address these issues, I worry a lot of people will be hurt.

(taken from one of Matt Levine's emails talking about the SEC and Crypto)
Some things simply don't have an async API at the low level, e.g. DNS lookup: there is no asynchronous version of getaddrinfo(3). So if you look at the .NET sources, you'll see that Dns.GetHostEntryAsync pushes a task to a thread pool that calls getaddrinfo(3).

In the end, you arrive at a "sync top-level APIs -- async library APIs -- sync low-level OS APIs" sandwich of dubious efficiency.
Yeah, and this means the regulation of shady activity on the part of the legislature falls to the legislative body itself.
And I get the philosophy behind it, but it's the figurative fox guarding the henhouse here. This is why any legislature proposed by the few principled figures in Congress that proposes to curb corrupt practices like this in the legislature is usually dead on arrival.
Two people have said it is detrimental to communication so far yet nobody has requested any form of clarification on what I said

If anything my frequent lack of punctuation needs correcting first, that has caused infinitely more confusion. Weirdly in 20 years of forum use I've never had anyone start a discussion about it.. :)
My Scholarship Journey as a Son of Poor Church Worker;
Playlist of 48 podcast episodes on the subject of time
Volvo to stop using leather in new cars by 2030
The terms of service and privacy policy (https://policies.google.com/privacy) are the contract. And my rough understanding (not based on reading the contract, something said internally at Google a while ago about what is in them) is:

- Your "content" (data in Gmail, Docs, Photos, etc) won't be used for advertising. (Only for personalization, like the Gmail smart compose, asking Assistant about the status of your order, etc.)
- Your "activity" (your searches, etc -- what you can see at https://myactivity.google.com/item roughly) can be used for advertising, though you can turn it off (see https://adssettings.google.com) or delete it. (IIUC, you have more granular privacy controls as a logged-in user as you can delete individual items….)
From my understanding of the announcements, Chinese companies will be banned from performing any cryptocurrency related services, transactions or exchanges, including smart contract platforms like Ethereum. No firm mention of private individuals, or what particular penalties companies would face.

But either way, it greatly limits the value of cryptocurrencies (and related concepts) in China.
The climate is unlikely to be fine, regardless of whether or not crypto mining is banned. At this point we're just affecting just how bad it's going to get.
If you look at many people's reddit/usenet/facebook comment history, 23 entries per day isn't much
Your proposition:

1. Cities increase police funding in response to increased crime

2. Therefore, decreasing police funding increases crime.

However, 2. does not follow from 1, since many other factors affect crime rates, from legislation to enforcement and from social issues to societal issues.

In fact, even the inverse of 2. does not follow from 1: increasing police funding does not decrease crime rates.

If you disagree, please provide an academic source for the direct causal relationship between police funding and crime rate.
It's funny I knew it was Gordon without even opening the article - quite the mad lad - there should be a special of honor for beating him to the draw on SO .. ! (I think I've got 3?)

He also has to be in the top 10 in terms of comments on questions and answers, he's everywhere :)
"Under no circumstances should you leave a laptop powered on and in any sleep/hibernate/standby mode when placed in a bag, backpack, or in an overhead bin. The laptop will overheat as a result of that action."
An NFT is decent evidence in favour of the keyholder being the creator of a work, if there's no earlier evidence of somebody else being the creator of the work.

When people first started talking about them I thought that was the idea - a kind of people's copyright registry on the blockchain. Which seems like a fairly reasonable idea, as far as it goes.

Edit: To be clear, I mean a copyright registry that is used for the sort of thing copyright registries are used for, ie. adjudicating copyright disputes. I am not saying an NFT of the Mona Lisa is good evidence you painted the Mona Lisa (unless you minted it in 1502), and I'm definitely not saying the current market in NFTs is sensible.
“We normally see that viruses become less virulent as they circulate more easily and there is no reason to think we will have a more virulent version of Sars-CoV-2,”

That's just not true. Viruses mutate randomly and various evolutionary pressures can make them go more or less virulent and deadly. https://apnews.com/article/fact-checking-011488089270

See e.g. myxoma virus
These images appear to be significantly downsized for the blog, you can't use them to judge sharpness.
> Surprisingly this can be the case as long as the combined link to VPN + target is better than the direct link to target

Is that surprising? I think that's what you would expect, and it's what the above commenter is suggesting (quite reasonably IMO) is very unlikely.

I think the issue is that you're implying the road to the target is a dirt road, but the road to the VPN is a highway, which seems a bit questionable.
The authors want to establish the conclusion:

> a long-term increase in activity does not directly translate into an increase in total energy expenditure

But they argue from a correlational study. This cannot establish that an intervention to increase activity would not lead to an increase in energy expenditure. Something like the Lucas Critique[1] applies to the human body and any adaptive system: once you make an intervention, the system might adapt in ways that don’t reflect correlational data from before the intervention.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucas_critique
I really wouldn't make such conclusions without seeing the actual original file. To me this looks like it was crushed by the encoding bitrate.
I'm currently using an iPhone 12 Pro Max, and the quality is quite good.

However, I also recently purchased an Olympus OM-D EM5 Mark III because I wanted more control and the ability to take better photos. This is a Micro Four Third's camera, and I think this is really the ideal "middle ground" for getting great shots without the weight of a full-frame mirrorless or DSLR.

It's not quite "pocket" sized, but small enough to throw in my over-the-shoulder bag, and I'll regularly take it on bike rides around the city I live in.

As others have pointed out, the best camera it he one you have with you, and the iPhone does quite well in more and more situations, but if you want the best of both worlds: interchangeable lenses, world class IBIS, full manual control in a small package that won't wear you out after a few hours, the MFT cameras are great.
> One of the few VPNs that actually don't log traffic.

How can one be so certain that this is the case? The only thing that's for sure is the claim they do not keep any evidence. I don't have anything against this VPN, it's really just an inherent trust problem with any provider. You take their word for it and be smart/ethical enough not to have any sketchy activity when you use it because there's a pretty good chance logs are being kept.

I don't mean to make this personal to you but it's weird seeing a tech-literate crowd like HN act naive when it comes to VPN usage, based on arguments like "oh X is shady you should use Y instead, it's 100% private!".

My point being, don't expect that doing extremely dumb shit online means any service, no matter how reputable, that may aid you do so will have your back.
> As per raises, they haven't received one since 2009 and I think it'd definitely make sense to peg that to inflation.

I think it would make more sense to peg it to the lower of a set multiple of each per capita GDP and median after-tax-benefits adult individual income, with th multiples set so that they both work out equal the current pay now.

Rewarding Congress for driving up average consumer prices when they are paid far enough above median income to start that their spending basket is different is...perhaps not well considered.

But any peg has a problem that ultimately, whoever is measuring the thing to which pay is pegged is accountable to Congress, so the result is to make the measure less trustworthy by tying Congressional pay to it. Forcing Congress to vote on their pay changes and face election after they do so and before they go into effect, as the last-ratified-amendment of the Bill of Rights requires, is not only Constitutionally-mandatory, but a very good idea.
I just hope that Epic Games will still release games related to Unreal Engine to apple store.
> All an NFT is is a token that represents ownership, like if the title to your car or house deed was on a blockchain.

No. An NFT is just a few bytes of text pinned to a blockchain. They are essentially useless, and every useful property of an NFT can be achieved using asymmetric encryption or digital signatures, the blockchain component is just wasteful hype.
But half of the magic of DSLRs is in the lenses, and unfortunately there is no single lenses that can work everywhere.

Regarding portability, yes point-and-shoots are portABLE, but in reality you don’t have them in your pocket 100% of the time, like you have a smartphone. You need to think about packing one more thing, that you may or may not need, so you won’t bother.

In summary, with a point-and shoot you are making two compromises: 1)photo quality 2)availability. In my opinion they are worse both than a DSLR and a good smartphone.
Ancient footprints could be oldest traces of humans in the Americas
"Ancient footprints could be oldest traces of humans in the Americas" https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-02597-1
I am far from an expert however following https://www.investopedia.com/terms/s/seact1934.asp the SEC can over see over the counter securieties (https://www.investopedia.com/terms/o/otc.asp) that seems to cover financial contracts that derive their value from an underlying asset. As far as I understand Tether is backing its value with dollars and has already been in trouble over lending the money it officially used to back its cryptocurrency away without disclosing that to its users.
Answering a technical question takes more time and effort than making general comments.
If this really needs to happen then I like .GetAwaiter().GetResult() instead of .Result to get the same exception behavior as await rather than the wrapped AggregateException that .Result throws. This is especially helpful if DoSomethingAsync sometimes throws synchronously rather than returning a task.
I'd agree, but I'm willing to wait and see for 10 more years. For one, I do see some developments nowadays that are making me excited (not money related). Also, tackling blockchain problems is hard.

And in all fairness, the speed at which you can send Ripple and similar cryptocurrencies is actually quite cool. It's a shame that it's mostly in its own little bubble still.

> Bitcoin was used to either buy drugs

In all fairness, I'm not necessarily against it. I'm not pro, but I do believe that many drug laws in most countries are against the idea of freedom. And I find it a comforting yet troubling thought (for different reasons) that cryptocurrencies fight against that (troubling: a 13 year old buying/using some very strong drugs, comforting: a 31 year old doing it for experimentation -- freedom is important).
Then make it a total market index fund with small, mid-size, and large companies.
Most of the time the end user equipment is the bottleneck rather than the internet backbone
SO speed-running any%
It is when you do it for 3144 days in a row. Plus they're not just a bunch of 'lol' type low effort responses.
I agree I chose the words poorly: my point is the long term risk to the climate posed by crypto seems marginal given the tech trends and incentives.