skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hm. My bet would be that you can now count the number of years until imgur links go dead on one hand.

This prompted me to check whether there were any backup efforts already, and how much data that would involve. Indeed, archiveteam has some good info: https://wiki.archiveteam.org/index.php/Imgur

> Imgur serves a massive amount of traffic. In 2012 alone, 42 petabytes of data were transferred. Fortunately, the amount of images uploaded is much less, albeit still a lot. In 2012, around 300,000,000 images were uploaded; assuming an average size of 120KB, that's 36TB in one year. As of 2014, there were 650 million images with 1.5 million being added each day according to one source. An analysis in 2015 based on extrapolation from a sample of random image IDs estimated about 2 billion images with a total raw full-resolution image size of 376 TiB.

Also makes me think about whether/how much I currently link to imgur in various places on the internet, and whether there's anything that I should prepare to replace. Do people have suggestions how to best approach this?
Smart contract code is open-source[1], so the centralization you're talking about shouldn't be confused with the (de)centralization of power people talk about when they talk about the decentralized web or decentralized finance. Circling around a small set of trusted open-source technologies doesn't cause centralization of power, as we can see with GNU/Linux, HTML/JS, ...

[1]: On many platforms smart contracts are stored in the form of high-level interpreted languages. On Ethereum, the blockchain stores EVM code (assembly), but contracts that haven't "verified" their source, typically by uploading the high-level code to etherscan.org, are seldom used (with some notable exceptions).
I think there are a lot of things that men take for granted that are not equally available to women. To me, the thought of going into the woods for a weekend with no connection to the outside world sounds peaceful and rather wonderful. But to my wife, it would sound downright alarming. I think it's hard to focus on connecting with one's true self while also worrying about one's physical safety. So I'd like to read more female perspectives on actively seeking out solitude (as opposed to just experiencing loneliness).
Bertrand Russell, famous logician, made essentially that argument at the time.
Actual footage from the Facebook board meeting discussing responsibly building the 'metaverse'.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KpPE85Jogjw
Don't get an Amazon credit card from Chase
I've been buying stuff from Amazon for years. A few months ago I finally gave in and signed up for the Amazon credit card. Big mistake!

The card had a $500 limit, which I didn't realize or would never have signed up. I maxed it out the first month. When I called Chase to get the limit extended, it was a big runaround with non-native-English support reps I couldn't understand, plus to get it autopaid from my checking account, I had to sign up for online crap with Chase. So I canceled it. 2nd big mistake.

My insurance agent calls the other day and said my insurance went up more than 8% because my insurance score went from 950-something, a high score he said he rarely sees, to 851, which is high but not unusual. Trying to figure out what caused the drop, he asked about my credit - had anything changed. After talking about it, he guessed it was the new credit card that was canceled. It makes sense because one of the credit risks used in scoring is the balance to credit limit ratio. With that $500 card I hit the limit. LexisNexis goes into more detail:

https://consumer-solutions.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/2523

My insurance is now costing me $400 more a year, and according to that page, it could stay on my credit report for 7 years. That's messed up.

Don't get an Amazon credit card!
You can ask Buterik to roll it back for you. He did it once for the DAO guys, so worth a try.

(Of course, that rollback also demonstrated that Ethereum is a centralised coin with a controlling entity, and that 'code is law' is just a lie, but that's another story)
To further clarify, you have actually compared reMarkable 2 (and not reMarkable 1, which was never equally praised) to all the other devices you mention?

(Basically, that would make me not get a reMarkable 2 before I can try one out, and if my impression matches yours, I wouldn't bother and would instead wait out for PineNote)
Well you started to support local suppliers with real dough, which is a start. The real question is, is Nokia or whoever can grab the opportunity and put down more cash on RnD?
Not in every case, for sure. But many cases are pretty easy to arbitrate. This one for example: when the transaction fees 230× greater than the transaction amount, it is fair to assume that is was not meant to be that way.
If I loose my credit card and/or it gets stolen, and someone uses it in the time between when I declare I lost it and when it is blocked, my bank is required by law to refund me (and I guess my bank attempts to get their money back too, but that's not really my problem).

Also:

> There's fraud where people buy an item online, then claim they never received it and get their payment refunded while keeping the item.

A blockchain can't solve that kind of problems. And it never will. It is not because something is written on a blockchain that it is true, except for cryptocurrencies because that is how they define truth. But as soon as you have something happen in the real-world (in your example, an item sent in exchange for a payment), then a blockchain is useless, or at least, it is not any more useful than any type of ledger.
Dunno, I pay Linode $10 a month, haven't had problems. Have a few friends and family that send and receive a fair amount of email.

I've talked to a fair number of other mail server owners, doesn't seem like a big deal. I've definitely had more problems with university mail servers getting blacklisted than my personal mail server.

I have noticed problems that fit well with some mail servers considering the age of your domain name.

Sure SPF, DKIM, DMAC, and friends require some work, but so does mysql (which I use for domain, users, forwarding, and similar tables), postfix, sieve, etc.
So you can justify low wages and no benefits
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The same pattern of hospital work process and crazy shifts occurs also in countries with very different healthcare funding where the vast majority doctors definitely never become rich and are significantly behind the other "highly skilled" careers. So the long-term perspective of richness is definitely not the only/main thing driving potential doctors to do what they do.

"highly doubt anybody would put up with what you do for med school if you're prospects of earnings was similar to that of a business analyst." - I'm asserting that people do put up with that in many places around the world, where doctors' earnings actually are quite similar to that of a business analyst. And not because they're somehow different, homo sapiens think/work/behave pretty much the same everywhere. The only practical difference that comes to mind is that they don't go into immense debt during med school like in USA.
I'm curious which US manufacturer directly stole source code from a Chinese manufacturer to create a competing product. China has never been interested in free trade. They've been interested in free flow of trade secrets into China and free flow out of competing products at a reduced price built off those trade secrets.

https://web.archive.org/web/20110915023155/http://www.busine...

https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10485560675556000

https://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/06/business/t-mobile-accuses...

All of that is ignoring Nortel...
Imagine a scenario where a popular contract is discovered to have a serious flaw years down the line, and they can't be patched.
wait who was the miner? that's quite the claim to make
How that came to be is an interesting study in company PR. MSFT arguably should've had a much more prominent advisory position in WHATWG than Google but WHATWG ended up solidifying in a large part to counter act all the non-standard behavior folks experienced trying to develop cross browser pages in the days when mentioning ie6 would cause a terrified silence to fall on any web dev department.
This has happened to Tesla too and I recall people saying they would prefer to buy a Ford because of "OEM quality"
Merges, rebases, cherry-picks, are all the same kind of thing. A merge is essentially a rebase that squashes all the commits being picked.
>1) I feel like you know that is an oversimplification,

No it really is this simple. Jobs that have negative economic value (wages do not cover value) are not maintainable in a free market for anything more than a short period of time. I'm sure some exist but jobs with negative economic value are not in any way plentiful compared to ones with positive or break even value. If I have a job that gives me $14/hr in value it does not make sense for me to offer it under a $15/hr minimum wage.

The ones actually acting in "bad faith" are those who fail to disclose to the ofter marginalized people working low wage jobs that their policy goals are to eliminate the only jobs available to these marginalized people, forcing them to operate on the black market or let their skills and work history decay in unemployment. The farther you slide the minimum wage bar right from zero, the more people you eliminate from the labor market: the nuance being if it is low enough it only destroys the earning power of the most marginalized that some of us are happy to forget about.

> We, as a society, are okay with, going by your own argument, eliminating all the $5/hour jobs (with state minimum wages being $7.25+) because it does not lead to significantly less overall employment

Well it does lead to significantly less employment for anyone who cannot provide minimum wage in value. But what happens is a mixture of elimination of those jobs and the pushing of those jobs to the black market, where those persons (including many illegal immigrants) just have to work in the shadows without any unemployment insurance or labor protections and have to live in constant fear the IRS will find out and also get them for unreported income. So they're definitely a lot worse off.

>elimination of jobs is not equivalent to unemployment

It is if there is no alternative job because you can't offer enough in value to make the minimum wage cutoff.

>Do you have evidence this would not also be true with a $15 minimum wage?

Do I have evidence that employers will have to eliminate jobs if the position doesn't create enough value to cover the wage? One example is when QFC had to close a couple Seattle stores due to mandated 'hazard pay' [1]. Simple logic tells you the jobs generating under $15/hr in value will either become black market or be gone, if it's illegal.

If you're in retail and can't find anyone to pay $15/hr, and think you are worth that, why not try it on the open market? You can come to my border city, where mexicans engage in retail without any boss whatsoever selling retail snacks and elotes. If you can really produce over $15/hr in value then go ahead and do it for yourself. I'm sure many of these street retail street vendors make more than that, and at least in my city the police don't care at all if you have a license or not.

[1] https://www.supermarketnews.com/issues-trends/kroger-s-qfc-c...
Hide? Your post is nothing but an ad hominem.
As mentioned, Apple launched an app just for that, Music Memos, and it was a great idea but fairly niche and not updated much over the nearly five years it was out. Apple discontinued it in December 2020.

Fun (well, maybe not fun, but interesting) fact: when Apple was doing press briefings for the app, they managed to get me a quote from now-disgraced musical artist Ryan Adams (who was in the middle of a career renaissance of sorts after his acclaimed cover album of Taylor Swift’s acclaimed 1989), in part because they knew I was a big fan of his. It just feels awkward nearly six years later, but at the time, Apple was leaning really hard on the respected establishment community of musicians to push the app.

It’s a shame it never seemed to have much life or uptick after its release because as a 1.0/MVP it was really good. And with just a few more features, it could hack been an insanely useful app for lots of musicians who naturally use Voice Memos to capture lyrics or riffs or other content.

Alas.
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In the US, for 2020, kids and teenagers seeking help for suicidal thoughts doubled, suicide attempts in that group increased by 50%, and successful suicides increased by 20%.

Can we have a sane debate about the drawbacks of lockdowns and school closures? Weigh the pros and cons? Estimate the cost of each option?

Nope! Hysteria it is, and if you disagree you're a grandma-killing science-hating Trumper.
Fruit (and no sugar added juice) consumption can make a difference in someone's diet.

I've seen people getting fat just by eating too much fruit because "fruit is healthy, it's not candy" and not having limits.

It's a infinitesimally small problem compared to processed sugar, though, so I completely agree with your point.
I'm sure there's good reasons for this. but I'd be curious for details.

I wonder if Reddit would be what it is today without imgur. I started using Reddit shortly before imgur launched, and I can still remember the day that it went live. It was by far the best image uploading experience I'd ever had, and I'd used most (maybe every) major uploader that came before them, between 1995 and 2009.
I mean yes not all areas have affordable food, but to claim, for example, that NYC has worse food than any average suburb is just absurd.
This is one of the greatest pieces of website comedy I have ever seen.
You sir, gave me a good laugh. Kudos.
Yes, if it is a harmful perlocutionary act.
I'm not sure to what degree her perspective is specifically feminine, but Sara Maitland has written two books on solitude and silence:
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20518977-how-to-be-alone
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4437202-a-book-of-silenc...
And effectively censorship since such a comment will end up as the last child of its parent and with a text-color barely darker than the page background. Or hidden entirely if a couple people hit "flag" instead since "showdead" is opt-in.
If it were money laundering, they would have not broadcast the transaction.

In this case, the transaction was broadcast to the mempool before it was mined.
You just connect single pair, it should auto-negotiate if other device supports it, otherwise you need to set mode in network card settings manually. https://i.imgur.com/xIsJJiN.png
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I've seen a lot of this recently, both on the types of posts in the article and on the posts of controversial / extremist right-wing politicians like MTG.
Of course people who use spreadsheets are programming; they're building data structures (with columns as object fields), generating values from formulas, and debugging the program's execution when editing cells.

What develops typically don't get is that the paradigm of the programming language and environment matters a lot, triple so for people without formal training in coding. Most people who can code with a spreadsheet would be totally unable to create a very simple shell script, because the paradigm of imperative, syntax-led classic programming languages require building a mental model of a whole Turing machine in your head, which requires years of training. That's the gulf the GP was referring to; not from which people happen to use them, but from how they think about coding.

The functional-reactive paradigm (and spreadsheets in particular) avoid that need, because they're highly composable so you can truly think of each part of the program in isolation, something which side-effects and program flow in imperative programs won't allow.
You're not making a coherent argument here. If you want to get a holistic picture of what these systems actually cost, it comes down to up-front investment vs ongoing costs. Rail needs to pay high costs initially in purchasing cars, acquiring land, and laying down track, but from there it just becomes about maintenance costs. When it comes to roads, it's usually a smaller one-time cost to acquire land and lay down road, then ongoing maintenance on the road itself (which is worse than track wear-and-tear since there's more surface to fix, hiring crews to come into the area is more complicated, and because conditions of usage on a road aren't as tightly controlled.)

To make matters complicated in practice, gas in the US (since that's where this argument makes sense) has long been considered the holy grail of the economy, and gas taxes have not been raised to account for inflation since 1990. Since the 1980s, the US has politically favored cars and airplanes over trains and buses. Roads are never expected to make a profit, though most transit in the US is. Aviation has had things like the Essential Air Service that offer subsidies for rural air routes and carriers that serve rural airports, whereas the closest thing that transit has to this is Amtrak mandates to service cities; these are hamfisted mandates that Congressmen stuff into spending bills to make their constituents happy but don't actually create the kind of healthy market you would need to offer quality service. Moreover Amtrak track is often leased from freight carriers _because_ America apportions less money to rail than it does to roads and transit, so Amtrak trains often must yield and wait for freight trains to go first. That and the fact that externalities from emissions aren't accounted for mean any alternatives to the plane and the car in the US are at a heavy disadvantage.
I'm trying to roll with you on this idea, but I can't help but think that this is just a square-peg round-hole thing. I am a (mostly non-practicing) lawyer; but I teach IT full time.

Like "A.I," a lot of people dream about the idea of revolutionizing or strongly improving on law via code, and I don't see it happening, ever. It's this well meaning and seductive idea that we can leverage the superior power of computery thought and ideas to "correct" the foibles of humans -- but I think "human disputes" are too slippery to be bound by code, and the beauty and triumph of "law" as a system is that it too is slippery enough to manage it reasonably.

To me it's strongly related to the complete layman fantasy of "well, they should have just written the law more clearly and everything would be fine."
People inject heroin, drink liters of soda and gamble their life savings away too, but none of that is evidence that these are healthy or socially valuable activities.

My explanation of the prevalence of DeFi is that it's currently at or near the peak of the hype cycle and there's a ton of money to be made either by trying to legitimatize the ecosystem or else via run of the mill pump and dumps.
There's a story by George Dyson that gave me chills. He's playing in a barn as a kid and finds an ancient (clunky, weird) computer abandoned there. (George's dad, Freeman Dyson, was a heavyweight close to von Neumann & co)

George then realizes that computer was a prototype built by von Neumann – one of the first "modern design" computers, ever.

That's like coming into contact with the first life, directly, physically, in a barn.

There's something magical about these origin stories. What's it like to face such a sharp historic discontinuity, to hold it in your fingers, knowing what comes next?
'Babylon 5' is getting a reboot
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> Paying us money doesn't entitle you to anything except owning less money

Brilliant
> Ethereum doesn't support floating point

The software that interacts with it does.
OK, but both problems are "realigning your notes".

It is possible to render an element to the side of the main text in a flowing epub; I did this when I wanted to include line numbers in a text. You could use that idea to keep visible notes near their original location while reflowing the epub. But it wouldn't work at all with notes that appear over the main text.

It's also possible to just print the notes within the text; this is the approach taken by this recent edition of a selection of the 太平广记 ( https://www.amazon.com/dp/7540351934/ ). Rather than being reproduced images of older printings that include notes, it's all flowing text and marginalia is reproduced inline, within brackets and in a smaller font. (This goes so far as to indicate which part of the page the marginalia originally appeared in, though I think this is more a matter of there being different words for marginalia from different locations.)

That approach, of course, will not handle non-textual notes well.
Aside from the actual fiber itself: literally your entire computer. No part of a modern consumer computing device has 1Tb/s bandwidth - RAM, SSDs, networking cards, PCI, the front-side bus, and everything else, with the possible exception of the L1 cache[1], have maximum bandwidths well below 1Tb/s (= 125 GiB/s).

[1] https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/329789/how-c...
Let's imagine this as personal relationships.

On the one hand, your trusted and long-term partner shares a credit card and bank account with you, so you're aware that they know how and where you're spending money. You spend a lot of time together at home, so it's likely they're listening into your phone calls.

On the other hand, a malicious individual has infiltrated your bank account and installed surveillance equipment in your home.

These two situations are not the same.
As a parent of three home schooled children, the social aspect is always brought up by those not informed about home schooling. My kids are socialized through various group activities (P.E, dance, piano, art classes etc.) and with close friends. They also have friends of various age groups since they are not forced to socialize with kids of their age group as they would in public schools. Overall I find the social aspect to be of higher quality than my experience as a kid going through public schools. One big benefit is not having to deal with being bullied, which is very common in public schools.
Well yes, every industry has an organizational pyramid. There are just simply more fryer and cashier positions available than regional manager positions. But the fact that 9 out of every 10 operators started out at the fryer seems to indicate that there is clearly upward mobility.
https://metacpan.org/pod/PPI
> The debt is governed by the contract you signed, not by their ability to charge your card.

Yeah, but my ability to cancel is also governed by contract, not by their arbitrary policies around it. Unless the contract explicitly says otherwise, an email, chat, or phone call saying "I'm cancelling" is sufficient notice.
But who are these companies that successfully provide this service?
Not very likely IMO. Even if they US paid for the hardware many (most?) users of Huawei tele equipment would not want to touch it (especially not US made). Huawei had a much better reputation (and in my experience they still do with people that actually touch the hardware) for listening to requests from users/buyers than pretty much any other manufacture. There's a reason their equipment is widespread and unlike what most seem to believe price is at best on par with them being better. The difference in what I have heard and read from people that work with this and the mainstream-media etc. is mindbogglingly different. Only in a few articles in mainstream-media have I seen those people even asked their opinion and then the picture is much, much less one-sided.
Those two or more accounts have a shared device id