skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is the whole thing with crypto.

The only benefits thus far that have come to widespread fruition are illicit purchases and speculation.

For it to be broadly accepted, it has to lose the rest.

Anonymity? People are unsurprisingly very in favor of KYC so we can apply anti–money laundering and terrorism laws.

For it to be trusted you have to insure deposits. Those fly-by-night exchanges going poof with everyone's coins aren't what the public are looking for. I have never met a human being who is anti–FDIC (what insures bank deposits in the US up to $250k).

For it to be used as regular currency you have to have price stability. No one wants to go to the grocery store and find out that they lost 10% of their budget on the walk over.

People don't know how to manage private and public keys. Anyone who has built SaaS knows that reset password requests are one of the most common issues users have. Now they're being pitched something that losing a file or losing the password to that file loses all of their money (???) Of course you want a third party!

Immutability? Well that's fine until there are exploits. And then you either have to live with a DAO losing millions of dollars or you have to hard fork. The former is terrible publicity and bad for the people who hold most of the money, while the latter violates the spirit of the whole thing. Guess which wins?

It's all so silly. People are re-inventing the wheel and building something worse.

Have people made a ton of money? Might it still get adoption? Sure. But there's a hell of a lot of problems in the world and a hell of a lot of bright people building bullshit.
Bidets are cheap and easy to install -- highly recommended.

Edit: I was referring to bidet adapters (no power or hot water, attaches to existing toilet). $35 delivered, I was able to install easily in my last house, and just recently, installed for free by the management of my apartment.

It's not perfect but works good enough.
Depends on the size of your household. Add in kids, and you burn through stuff really quick.

The key thing is to (a) only buy stuff you actually use; and (b) rotate it.
You're absolutely right! And all of those concerns were flying through my head too.

One nice thing is that it's an evaluation on both sides. If they cancel, it's a mutual benefit, because I wouldn't want to be in a situation where someone was unhappy with my services. But the reverse is true: having the option of noping out after three months is underrated. All signs point to "this is an awesome company and I'll be here for many years," but eliminating the uncertainty is no small benefit.

One other interesting aspect is that when you bill daily, you can do two gigs at once. It's impossible to have two salaried jobs, but having two contracts is entirely feasible, as long as you can do the work. So that was another tempting thing that tipped the scale. Taking a salary job generally means you'll need to either backburner your existing contracts or call them off entirely, since full time job + contracts is a recipe for not having a life outside of work.

COVID made some of these things easier, too, so it may be a recent phenomenon. Getting the sweet jobs used to require a commitment to e.g. San Francisco. That may be true in 5 years, but circa 2021 I can do this in my pajamas from lovely Lake St Louis middle-of-nowhereville. (Our aunt is coming to visit us on Monday, and she's bringing her cat -- I'm super hyped to see both of them again. Stuff like that is normally a nonstarter when your aunt would otherwise have to fly across the country to come see you.)

It could all be a terrible idea. It'll be interesting to revisit this in a year. But it's also exciting to try out a new path. Hopefully it won't be the wrong sort of exciting. :)
By symmetry of the exponential curve, your ancestors would be just as justified.
Anecdotally, that's not my experience with epi people. A fair few come from a bio/medicine background with a sufficient amount of experience in wet lab and theory to be considered a 'double threat'. Choose your own team.
Imagine if the same rule were applied to international bankers, military generals, or plumbers. Why should a virologist be able to have a say as to which part of his plumbing system I work on? Leave that up to a panel of like-minded plumbers to decide for him.
I feel the sociological effects of internal regulation, but there is a long way to go before alternative behaviors are normalized, especially in the US.

A panopticon is fine if all the prisoners are unified, not ideologically, but in terms of acceptance.

Ultimately, it boils down to a perceived notion of "us vs them" which is entirely contrived.

I can only hope that individuals might resolve their philosophical disputes along a long enough timeline that the primitive notion of individuality permeates the collective and that personal fears of "the other" are dissolved into a unified something... I don't have the words for it.
I’ve always thought that $Nk/yr salary and $N/hr as a contractor was the rule of thumb.

(Sure, if you bill 2000 hours/yr, they’re different amounts of money, but most consultants aren’t billing 2000 hours/yr.)

Being able to squirrel away a substantial multiple of the 401(k) limit is a huge benefit, though!
Hi, one of the maintainers here.
We don’t have a WebSockets implementation for WASI yet (the WebAssembly System Interface), and in fact, WASI doesn’t have a networking implementation at all yet.

This is why we have been experimenting with the outbound HTTP implementation [1], which is available in WAGI.
In theory, you could take the same approach as here, with the difference that a WebSockets connection is persistent and long-running.

[1]: https://github.com/deislabs/wasi-experimental-http
>...he was not in uniform...

Why would the officer have a body cam if not on duty? GP is correct, you're ignoring what was written and fabricating details.
Oh, I am willing to pay. What I’m not willing to do is to pay $10 here, $10 there, $10 over there and maybe another $10 somewhere else.
For the first 4 or so years crpyto did what it was advertised. And then the drug dealing situation got out of control and then in 2017 hackers used it to launder money (wannacry). And then this led to the era of KYC and chain analytics, and pretty much defeating the original use case.
Vaccine nationalism and the dynamics and control of SARS-CoV-2
I'm surprised FB, YT, Google, etc and these fact-checking websites don't get sued more often. Or maybe they are, and there's some loophole like "entertainment purposes only". It's horrifying how many people defer to these websites without hesitation, as if they somehow transcend bias, malice, and incompetence. It's the privatized version of the ministry of truth.
this is exactly right. negotiating up is hard.
Let's not conveniently forget the damage caused by mining and using lithium...tired of ev fans burying their dirty secrets.
Most unanswerable commentary I've read for a while. Thanks!
I am a fan of the Netherlands. Two generations ago my ancestors left it for the US. My connections with the country aren't strong anymore and I haven't been in a long time, but there really are so many big and little things to appreciate there.
`async` tells the compiler to generate a IAsyncStateMachine implementation
https://ranjeet.dev/understanding-how-async-state-machine-wo...
I don’t think costco needs to resort to this type of thing. Should have at least some reason for suspicion before sowing doubt.
That’s a reasonable assessment. I worked at startups for 3 years before joining a FAANG company and they flat-out ignored my startup experience for leveling purposes, placing me as a junior engineer.
Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. You can't hide behind the "go and look it up" response as is often uttered by science deniers.
Yeah that was more my point. If Dude is to become contentious and it's not to be identified as unisex, then so be it.

It hasn't been a sex specific pronoun for me in Australia or in the UK where I use to live. As you said, I don't think anyone here was being intentionally rude.
Actually, it doesn't run that different of software from the Quest. The Quest is fully backwards-compatible with the Go, and Carmack has complained on multiple occasions about how they took out compatibility intentionally for the Quest 2.

The Quest is still getting a surprisingly good amount of support for now, and can run pretty much every 'blockbuster' game on the platform reasonably if not well. I wouldn't be surprised if they stopped supporting it in three years (or, more realistically, no game supports it in three years), but the Quest and Quest 2 can both stream software from your PC to the headset, if they do.
well that and the entire Mayan corpus.

what pittance of codices we have today come from Christianized Maya scribes, a massively condensed post-columbian highlight reel of their obliterated textual culture compiled at the behest of the Spanish crown and under the direction of their Catholic overseers.
The TOTO Washlet is Japan's greatest gift to civilization. They start from around $400. Power is likely a problem in the US, I suspect. Japanese bathrooms have GFCI plugs right behind the toilet, and I don't recall that being common in the US.
I still don't understand why the question of originality or whatever is anything but a red herring. Europeans came and nearly wiped out the existing peoples and destroyed their cultures. Are we really going to split hairs and say that's a fine and dandy thing to have done? Because if so you'll have to follow it up with an argument for why that same logic does not apply to a hypothetical future invader of the United States, and good luck with that.
Yeah, I understand she's a woman. Just pointing out dude isn't sex specific. Or hasn't been in my experience.
Does C# not have an equivalent to JavaScript's Promise.all??

In JS this could be...

const [
fooTask,
barTask,
bazTask,
] = await Promise.all([
GetFooAsync(...),
GetBarAsync(...),
GetBazAsync(...)
]);

... PS in your code above you assign GetBazAsync to bar and baz. :-)
Except for the ones trafficked knowingly and the illegal alien children, but yeah live with yourselves.
If you insisted on telling the machine to do everything it does, you'd get nothing done. I suppose you could use an abacus.
Maybe related?

https://www.wsj.com/articles/big-truckers-say-vaccine-mandat...
> start making a difference for real

What is the actionable advice here?

Go the technical route and develop countermeasures to facial recognition? And then play the cat mouse game of counter-counter measures, and making counter-counter-counter measures to those counter-counter measures until the facial recognition is as good as humans? Then what?

Or do we go the political route and try to affect legislation? What I’ve learned from reducing climate change is that politicians only listen to you if you represent a group of people. Building coalition’s are a must for any kind of political change. We do build them, for tech people, on HN by posting articles against facial recognition. The thing we’re missing here is a way to organize collective action. But I think YC would want to avoid the kind of attention that would generate, so I think the site is designed against incentivizing that.
The long(er) patch cycle is why I switched away from Debian.

Decent privacy, questionable security vs stability if you're serious about it.
People don't get movie references anymore?
The extraordinary claim is that the virus was man-made.

Edit to say: I don't think saying the virus came from nature requires any additional proof. The claim that requires extraordinary, indisputable proof is the claim that it was man-made. And I have yet to see it, from this or any source. Just a big compilation of weak, circumstantial evidence.
The Rift is still usable without a Facebook account, without any particular "tricks."

There's even a pretty well-documented "trick" to use the Quest 2 without one, but it would be silly to post it in a place with so many Facebook employees that could be baited to "fix" it.
There’s the classic diagram showing tests as a pyramid[1]. At the bottom you have unit tests, white box stuff that mocks all dependencies and runs super fast. At the top you have E2E tests (or acceptance tests or whatever, names are fungible), but very few of them, to catch bugs at the boundaries between systems. In the middle you have stuff that maybe runs against a live database instead of a mock.

As you go further up the pyramid, tests get more expensive in every dimension: they are slower (and are run less frequently as a result), more expensive to debug and maintain, and maybe a bit flaky, though you should still de-flakify these tests as much as is practical.

The key is to push tests as far down the pyramid as possible. Never test something in an E2E test if it can be meaningfully tested in a unit test. For example, a regression test for a database date/time serialization bug should run against a real database. Meanwhile, a test verifying that an HTTP service returns the correct response code in a specific situation can run against mocks.

1 https://martinfowler.com/articles/practical-test-pyramid.htm... (holy crap that is a mountain of text, but the diagram is near the top)
People trusted Mt Gox for 4 years and it handled 70% of the world's bitcoin trading until it abruptly shut down and everyone's bitcoin more-or-less disappeared with it.
Right, so the same as Windows.
> This. There's nothing wrong with using mature technology that is still being developed.

Surely this decade they've squashed the last bugs that nginx or anything newer won't have...
Move you angular CLI app to Nx
Negotiation is also about not calling the shot first. And if it is necessary, don’t name the lowest you are willing to accept.
Your first scenario is unlikely given that he wasn't otherwise uniformed, the second we could assume for both scenarios.
Serial passage isn't magic, it is just what nature does.

In the lab you'll get a handful of mutations not thousands.

After serial passage through some large fraction of a billion humans, with large evolutionary pressures due to the recent species jump, the delta variant is still well over 99% homologous to the reference Wu-1 strain.

A 96.1% different would require serial passage through billions of organisms, but they measure this difference in terms of years of evolution in nature which is on the order of 30-40 years.
I'd love to get root access on an Index, but it's not possible right now.
The works of Aristotle were translated from Greek to Arabic by Islamic scholars in the early Middle Ages, mostly pre-dating the Latin translations, and they were sometimes the source from which the Latin translations were made.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recovery_of_Aristotle

2. https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/arabic-islamic-influence/
Other people, aka hell, according to Sartre.
China says all cryptocurrency-related activities are illegal, vows crackdown
It really is time for the US to adopt the "bum gun" culture from SE Asia and elsewhere. I haven't bought or used TP in years. $20 off Amazon, 10-15 minutes to install and problem solved.

Pro-tip: Ikea sells a more flexible hose that works great LILLREVET.
If nothing else, they already don't stop you from flashing earlier versions of the Quest firmware, and some of them were actively exploitable. If there's any demand for something of that nature, I'm sure someone will figure it out.
Still kicking myself for missing out on the 2 dollar bonanza. 50 times growth is no joke. Even some regular folks might've made their first million with Lisa.

Is it too late to buy AMD stock? It hasn't made much progress since last year. ASML, on the other hand, has had a fantastic couple of years. Buying stock nisbrisky. Being indecisive is also risky due to the crazy inflation.
The chain is probably secure enough, there's no loss if the gas is flared vs burned for mining, just a different flow of funds.
> Six hours to send a small image.

Imagine the price of exclusive use of a transatlantic telex line for that length of time! Teleprinters back then commonly ran at 50 baud, so a 400x300 dot photo would take a little more than 40 minutes (120000 dots / 50 baud / 60 seconds)

The linked article mentions that the punched tape could be cut into several pieces then transmitted in parallel over several telex lines at once. At the receiving end the punched tapes would be spliced back together in correct order, and then used to create the photographic negative.

That's an interesting piece of historic technology. Thanks.
So link to the actual indisputable proof.
Good article. The next black Swan will smack a lot of roaring twenties Twinkies into reality...everything from the first black Swan in early 2020 until now was merely a distraction and a test...to see how far you can be pushed, stepped on and controlled...you will literally do anything they tell you...look to Taiwan...you sheep will get slaughtered and deservedly so.
'sup bro!
If you have anything other than an Nvidia GPU, ALVR works pretty well on Linux now. It's not direct support, no, but it works pretty well.
Oh yes you’re right I understand that reasoning, and I don’t necessarily disagree with it - but my point is that it’s still a reason for hesitation.

That very act of avoiding the topic/suppressing it and pushing “specific science” makes lots of people - many who are very intelligent and aware - suspicious. Pretending that these people are conspiracists or of lower IQ is just counter productive, and will get nowhere.
"Anecdotally"
Closest known relatives of virus behind Covid-19 found in Laos
Salaries, bonuses and RSUs at FAANG are regular W2 income. The high salaries you read about at these places are highly taxed.

I'm not saying that's a bad thing. I'm just saying there's little shelter along the lines you describe for a well-paid engineer at $BIGCO.
> Rural electrification only happened with government intervention and farmer-owned collectives who sold the electricity to the rural areas.

That's a bit of revisionist history.

Putting things into perspective, in the great depression there was a general banking collapse, cutting off credit to all businesses. But especially hard-hit were businesses trying to bring electricity to rural areas. Whereas credit in the late 20s was quite cheap, the spigot had been cutoff by the 30s, when rural electrification was just getting started.

One of the Roosevelt era projects was to extend government loans to support rural eletrification -- and this program was a great success.

But the reason it was a success was not because "companies in the 30s refused to build electricity" but because banks were refusing to lend money to companies to building electricity infrastructure.

And this was because the banks were extremely risk-averse after the banking crisis. Whereas the government could step in and make risk free loans (guaranteed with the full faith and credit of the taxpayer) to rural electrification.

Moreover the reason there were farmers collectives was because these were required by the government in order to get the loan! So that's a pretty strong incentive. Therefore it's not that private businesses didn't want to service rural areas, but the banking system collapsed (in large part due to federal policies) and then the federal government stepped in and provided a lending program that locked out private businesses from participating in it.

Fortunately by 1944, the requirement of only lending to cooperatives was lifted and that was when rural electrificaiton really took off.

You can read the act here:
https://www.rd.usda.gov/files/UEP_IP_100-1.pdf
should be fixed now, sorry about that!
Books were still hand written and centralized, they’d have been burned such that we aren’t aware of them today - doesn’t matter if it’s 15th or 17th century
Pretty sure it's still illegal for Chinese citizens to use them.
There are thousands of search results for “Why should I invest in Tether?”, indicating that general public investors may well expect a profit from their investment in it. After all, if there was no general expectation of profit, how else would Get Rich Quick scam pages sway the general public so easily to invest in it, and why else would these pages exist at all? An investment with no profit potential does not attract flies, and investment is not explicitly restricted to businesses that have fiduciary need to use Tether on behalf of non-investors. It’s certainly enough for the SEC to bring it to trial.

I would encourage you to reconsider your assumption that someone commenting about the Howey test needs you to explain what it is to them. It’s very thoughtful of you to offer that PDF, but offer it with less “you obviously don’t know what you’re talking about” condescension next time, please.

(I am not your lawyer, this is not legal advice, etc.)
Wrapping the car might be problematic because the law regulates where the number plates are located on the car, what they look like, their size and colors. In some places it’s criminal to display illegal number plates, this would most likely qualify as such.
Also, languages like Guarani survived because of the efforts of missionaries (the Jesuits in this case).

(But I will say that the current policy of "protecting" the isolated tribes in the Amazon from human contact by categorically shutting them off is quite horrible and uncharitable. This is rooted in the preposterous myth of the noble savage. Tribal peoples are not innocent children.)
Coinbase can disable your withdrawal/sending ability at any time on a whim.

Their support is email-only and has a backlog of months. Try taking a look at /r/coinbase for examples.

There are some very good reasons to put your crypto somewhere you control. I am in the process of moving everything I had off of Coinbase after they silently disabled my send/sell ability, but not purchase/receive, without ever providing a reason. Others were not so lucky as I was for them to reply to my support ticket after only 6 weeks of this status. None of their FAQs or support emails acknowledged the exact problem correctly or plausibly answered any of my questions as to why.
The comment reads pretty positively to me?
As in, "the kind of people who are strong enough to break through glass ceilings are more than just interchangable corporate robots".
Mary Barra bought a 10% stake in a company for billions of dollars that was a blatant fraud.

Also weird how your chart didn’t include Tesla. You must be genuinely comparing her to her competition and not cherry picking the lowest performers.
You're neglecting the fact that human development is not exponential. Population, for instance increased in its growth rate over the past 1000 years, with a sudden step up due to the industrial revolution. It didn't look the same 1000 years ago as it does today. The growth rate was less than 10% of what it is now. If population was exponential, the growth rate would be constant.
The actionable advice is to start posting "arguments against posting arguments against something".
So will your children

We’ve been on a long upward curve of progress for awhile now, but this isn’t guaranteed to continue forever. The future could be a mad max / book of eli hellscape that may set us back two thousand years.
Should.
This problem, and the general problem of a national party in minority being continuously over-represented in the Senate and the Electoral Collage, is so easily fixed by the California Democratic Party giving incentive for 2 million California Democrats to move and establish residency in Wyoming, South Dakota and North Dakota, turning these into overwhelmingly Blue states. Heck, they could spare another 2M to move into Idaho and Montana doing the same there without jeopardizing California's Democratic politics.
Yet another reason to ban paywalled sites.

I really don't understand why a site that wants people to actually read the article and discuss the contents promotes articles that at least 90% of readers won't be able to (easily) access.
If you got poop on any other part of your body, would wiping it with some dry paper convince you that you were clean?
Yeah, but for defamation the burden of proof is on delta.