skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Do you have any income to start out with?

I’d say to start off trying to buy and sell crypto on an exchange for profit: no fancy maneuvers like shorting or trading with leverage. Your risk of loss would be limited to the sum you invest.

It’s a 24/7 market so you can practice anytime, and you can start with a small bit of money.

Do that for a while and learn how to read a chart, learn financial terminology, see how daily news affects the markets, see how the rumor-mill online works, and get a handle on basic trading psychology like keeping your fear and greed in check in good or bad moments.

Eventually you’ll run into a learning roadblock and will look to bigger and better things. Maybe afterwards you’ll look into stocks or more advanced trading maneuvers.
As long as facebook remains online there is a chance that someone, somewhere could post bad opinions. Doing everything they can would therefore mean shutting facebook down. The literal interpretation is ridiculous and no one could believe it. So we have no choice but to interpret it as "doing everything reasonable that they can". But what is reasonable? That is where subjectivity enters.
The simple reason our beliefs are often wrong
It's an old Robert X. Cringely quote, I must have lifted it off one of his COBOL books.
I had no credit. I think they asked for an ID and that was it. I returned their property but didn’t pay their fine.
It is something that have to be done anyway, as the other benefits matter too. But how it is done could be the difference between a solution and a far worse problem.

Global warming is already pushing toward more frequent forest fires, or droughts in vast regions that if they have trees will end burning up as well.

Intensive tree planting in relatively small areas probably is a bad idea, or will have a big maintenance cost to try to avoid that risk.

But, in any case, it is the low hanging fruit of carbon capture. I just hope that it is done in the right way.
I once met someone who worked in the Australian department processing refugee applications. They told me that they had a bunch of professional analysts who could identify false stories by asking hyper-local / endemic trivia: things like the shape of buildings, the local names of geographical features, the dates of recurring endemic events, etc. They said the number of Pakistanis trying it on as Afghan refugees was ridiculous. This would have been early noughties.
The impact to Tesla's bottom line is precisely the point.

$130 million dollars of the award is punitive damages. They aren't supposed to compensate the victim. They are supposed to punish Tesla and force them to follow the law in the future.

The penalty needs to be large enough that it significantly hurts Tesla.
What I think it really suffers from is that the buyer isn't Apple's target audience, it's the person watching the person using an Apple product. Second is Apple (well actually the first is to serve Apple too). This skews priorities.
The correct answer was not provided as a multiple choice option, which means by definition that 0% of test takers selected it.
In regards to the linked issue; I wouldn't trust the security of a team that says shit like that.
It's something you need to manually configure. We would like to have an option for Windows folks that want to enable - but it would always be off by default (opt-in). It's understood that enabling this is going against the OS defined behavior

Worth noting that in order to offer a toggle, we'd need to get around the default protection (same as Firefox w/ setting default browser). People can only currently use this by going to the `Defaults` handler in Windows and replacing Edge themselves
And here we are trying to please managers who need a kubernets cluster for our 100-customer website.
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It is also very easy to turn a "do-er" into someone unmotivated by ignoring or discounting their experience, knowledge, and effort. You should also consider if you're really "educating a do-er," or engaging in some form of nepotism.

The confluence of these two notions is at a sort of induced early blooming in potential workers and thinkers, where simply being chosen for extrinsic support and attention is a better predictor of outcomes than actual or initial ability. That scares people because it doesn't just fly in the face of meritocracy, but questions it at a fundamental level.
I think most people in that bucket knows not to serve in bulk from AWS and so just use existing CDNs. (Or, as you say, builds their own.) A good fraction of Cloudflare's business has to be fronting things that are in AWS.

For this to be disruptive, there has to be a significant amount of business that will move from AWS to Cloudflare because of this change.
My favorite paradox in physics: what happens when you spin a disk at relativistic speed? The circumference should contract, since it's parallel to the direction of motion, but the radius is perpendicular, and thus should not contract.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ehrenfest_paradox
"Free speech is a right in the USA, not a "value"."

Speech on someone's private platform isn't a right, it's a privilege that they're choosing to extend to you. That's why in this instance, this ID verification law is merely protecting the ethical value and culture of free speech, not the legal right to do so which remains unchanged. It's a shame we don't have separate terms for the legal right of free speech and cultural value of free speech, since it's easy to confuse the two.

"As for alcohol - purchasing alcohol isn't a protected right and not analogous to speech at all."

I hadn't thought of the angle that banning kids off social media was effectively a government restriction of free speech. Interesting perspective! Any 1A afficianados want to provide commentary here?
It's not really a fair characterization to call the first Mac a flop; it sold reasonably well, though obviously not as well as the Apple II given the higher price point:

https://www.cultofmac.com/479113/today-apple-history-first-1...
The library could actually pay a reasonable interest on that, say, a bit better than a bank account. So there would be no downside in parking the 200 there rather than a bank account.
Missing one that still makes no sense to me: The Ramanujan Summation: 1 + 2 + 3 + ⋯ + ∞ = -1/12

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1_+_2_+_3_+_4_+_%E2%8B%AF
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Two things I'd like to see
1) show me the progress of the clip I'm listening to. You've got the length of the clip, but I have to listen to the whole thing, I can't skip through it. I can barely get through the first clip which is only 1:30
2) let me play at a faster rate. I'd easily listen to this at 1.25x or 1.5x
Definity Language v0.1.0
You can setup alternate valid credentials. For example, in the case of the "have", you can have multiple valid keys. In the case of the "know", multiple valid passwords. In the case of the "are", perhaps on this model or a future one, multiple valid fingerprints. You can also setup e.g. alternate 1FA with a really strong password.
It's not knowledge per se, it's the personal experience and skills of the workers.

Like the old joke about the blacksmith's invoice and the hammer.
> At FAANG scale, "one in a million" happens a lot more often than you'd think.

And it happens less than you think too, sometimes, which I think is closer to the original point.
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> JP Morgan had built the one and only network.

And Facebook isn't the one and only social network, or means of communication over the internet. They don't own the infrastructure, and throttle all other sites into uselessness. They don't manufacture all of the mobile phones so that they only use Facebook.

>It was the fastest and easiest way to move goods and people so that’s what people “chose” to use.

Facebook is not significantly faster or easier in this regard than other solutions. A few years ago someone made an app that just texted "yo" and it got a million dollar valuation. An app that sends texts over the internet isn't rocket science.

>That’s what a monopoly is.

And clearly what Facebook isn't. Thank you for making my case so strongly.

> The negative externalities go far beyond “a slight annoyance”.

Not when it comes to the simple matter of being able to communicate with people on the internet. If losing Facebook means you in essence lose communication with the outside world, that isn't because Facebook controls all world communication, it's because you chose to center your entire life around a single application.

This was a non-event for most people. If Facebook had the stranglehold on global communication that many claim it does, the entire Western world, if not much of the entire world, would have come to a screeching halt.
It could be a household thing; nobody would expect an eight-year-old to deposit their own $200 for their own individual account.
Under this model, if the transaction of quality goods happened anywhere, some buyer reached information symmetry. But among the assumptions in the article is that sellers have no alternate market (they just "leave", whatever that means) and there is no credible way to provide information on the quality of goods. But then how do buyers know to lower their prices with what's left in the market?

There're a lot of unreasonable assumptions and maybe that's why the paper was rejected 3 times. You can also run the thought experiment backwards: lemons should be removed from the market first since, as stated, those are the ones that sell, but then you should be left with a market full of peaches.
Of course Gabriel’s horn doesn’t exist in physical reality, but it’s still interesting that such a thing exists in a mathematical theory that is normally a pretty good model of physical reality.
> To be clear, I don't believe Facebook is solely to blame here. What we're seeing is an amplification of human behavior and tribalism that predates the existence of social media. What makes the current climate interesting and problematic is that such tendencies are being exploited and encouraged by algorithms, and the platforms are no longer neutral to the problem.

That seems pretty reasonable. I am sure the Facebook recommendation algorithms can be improved. I would be in favour of more transparency here. Without transparency we simply can't know to what extent Facebook is trying to improve things, or if they even are.

To be clear, I do think recommendation algorithms are useful in content aggregator sites (which Facebook basically is). I just think we'd be better off if we could see what they're doing.

> And we had safe elections prior to 2020 as well. There were no insurrections in the current era here either...until January of 2021. I'd argue that we're just starting to see the 2nd and 3rd order effects of modern social media, and we can't necessarily just look to the past or to make conclusions about the present.

I don't thing this argument is falsifiable. It's totally possible. But I think we'd expect to see this in many countries where Facebook is available if it was a single cause of these kinds of outcomes. And so far that is just not happening.
I agree it's not realistic. Or even within a year. Which means this is not a disruptive change on it's own. Could there be other changes made by Cloudflare that are disruptive? Sure. Could they make use of this? Also yes. But this on its own will not cause significant customer movement.
The entire point of the quote is to say that education is easier to acquire than motivation
How did that Inspiron get its Linux support? Principally it was from hard working hackers reverse engineering the components and getting drivers working through painstaking dev test work. Dell then built a machine with hardware they knew worked thanks to all that effort and slapped a “Works with Ubuntu” sticker on it. That’s the sad reality. The idea that the PC platform and it’s peripherals are somehow an open platform paradise is a delusion.
No, I have no opinion about picking people. What I do have is the notion that it's very easy to convince yourself that you know when you just have theory. (I have a physics degree, and that seems to come with the territory - there is an XKCD cartoon, of course, that lampoons the physicist considering some long-standing problem in biology or chemistry and believing that the idea they just had after 2 minutes would be somehow novel or useful.)

Theory is great, and opens a lot of possibilities. But until you pull out the soldering iron, or the compiler, or the hammer and saw, and make mistakes, you can't really say you know a thing. At best, you know how to start.
I really think that action changes attitude faster than attitude changes action. Learning this the hard way in my 40s, it's been really life changing for me. Particularly when you're depressed, demotivated, find yourself procrastinating, etc.

You can try this yourself -- the next time you're feeling demotivated, start with the smallest amount of tiny measurable action. If you can't get out of bed, move your fingers, shake your head, work your way up to standing up, walking, leaving your house, and very slowly building momentum.

If you're procrastinating about work, start with opening up a terminal, launch your editor, write one tiny snippet of code that just compiles, add another snippet, build momentum.

You'll find yourself making excuses, telling yourself that none of this matters, or that you're too tired, or that you're not in the mood. Accept the thoughts and push through the actions.

Very quickly, as the dopamine hits from these tiny successes arrive, you'll find your attitude changing, and this turns into a feedback loop where you end up performing more actions, further improving your mood and attitude.
Are we just supposed to leave out that many empires simply collapsed, like the Roman Empire? So that it didn't go back to a gold standard because it no longer existed?

I mean, maybe you have a point. Few that become heavy meth users ever go back to being healthy.

"Since those dim beginnings in the forests of the Stone Age, governments have been perpetually rediscovering
first the splendors and later the woes of inflation. Each new government discoverer of the splendors seems to
believe that no one has ever beheld such splendors before. Each new discoverer of the woes professes not to
understand any connection with the earlier splendors. In the thousands of years of inflation's history, there has
been nothing really new about inflation, and there still is not." -- Jens O. Parson

https://recision.files.wordpress.com/2010/12/jens-parsson-dy...
Yes. This. Been using log15 in Go for a while now and really like it.

https://github.com/inconshreveable/log15
The fee is assigned to your account, but you don't actually pay anything (no money is actually exchanged). If you return the item after 30 days the fee is cleared. Even if you pay the fee and return the item within 90 days the fee is refunded.

You need to accumulate $100 in fees before they suspend borrowing. It all seems very fair to me.
How do I become a do-er?
Block reward is only changed on halvenings. Difficulty retargeting changes to try to keep blocks and therefore bitcoin emissions per unit of time (10 minutes) the same.

The issue is that there is now too much electricity & therefore carbon emissions being spent on security the bitcoin blockchain. If the bitcoin community could adjust this down for slightly lower 51% attack defense they might be able to avoid the pressure from outside groups.

But the bitcoin community has shown it's self unable to make changes or establish any consensus outside of what is already believed.
Oakland Public Library did something similar awhile back; it turns out late fees piling up discourages patron attendance. Source: https://oaklandlibrary.org/news/2019/05/opl-eliminates-overd...
If the police/border protection/etc ever took your fingerprints, don't worry, they'll get to them too. Maybe with even less effort than would be required for your password, depending on how diligently you protect your passwords.
I agree, but really only for somewhere with a big library with multiple copies of most books. My library typically has 0-1 copies of a book I want to read, and if it's even moderately popular, I have to place a hold on it. This would be terrible without late fees.
Unless you buy that exact gif on a different blockchain.
Wow. That was some hit piece. Nothing was spared — They even managed to "casually" reveal her sexuality. For some reason.

Absolutely disgusting. I can't believe intelligent people read, let alone cite, this Enquirer-level garbage.
What ever happened to the Coral Content Distribution Network. (From co-counder of Timescale.) Such a cool project.
What if the government gives each valid person a unique token that they can use to register once per social media site?
what? that's incredible ...
You're just moving goalposts here. A distributed "ratings system" has the exact same problems: fixing ratings, spamming someone with fake ratings, etc.
In a way political discourse is like that, but the problem is everyone pretends that the parties who are stake holders and their relative positions of importance are vastly skewed. Like the need for politicians to be re-elected, the need to keep their donors happy, the need to do something media worthy to get more donors, and also all the business interests threatening to pull donations if the politicians don’t do what they want.

Ultimately that’s why I’m so for both term limits and monetary election reform. We can’t have yearlong elections for house terms that only last 2 years.
That's fair. I suppose Apple does care about third party OS support as long as it sells them a bunch more Macs with comparatively low engineering effort. The ability to run Windows probably helped them sell a significant percentage more Macs, probably especially so when the Mac market was smaller just after they switched to Intel.

The Linux community had to reverse engineer Apple T2 drivers itself though. Apple didn’t restrict anything there, but the community had to figure it out on its own.
Two web apps I use every day at work have this behaviour when I look away and my session times out. Both of them break web expectations by having the same generic URL for every page. I leave half a dozen tabs open, come back later or the next day and if I'm not careful to login again in a new tab before I refresh them, they're lost. It's the kind of thing which makes me convinced the developers never use their own system, never sit with real users, and think a lot less of the vendor even though I have no power to influence the decision to renew them or not.
I just tried it out, but it doesn't work the way I hoped it would.

I was hoping for some kind of SIGSTOP equivalent on any JavaScript when the tab doesn't have focus (without unloading anything). Instead, it basically closes the tab but leaves it on the tab bar, and when you return to it the tab gets reloaded.
Aside from MBAs (and even of those, the more prestigious among them) after undergraduate $some_profession, when has 'a business degree' ever led to much significantly better than 'a retail management job' on average?

The only problem if there is one IMO is that everyone is so encouraged/socially pressured into university, that even in the absence of any intellectual curiosity or merit in a particular field they must go. So of course certain programmes or universities get saddled with poor 'retail management' (or worse!) metrics.

There is a stigma against not pursuing undergraduate study (ever increasingly far down the socio-economic ladder) and also against having working to lower-middle class jobs with a degree! We can't have it both ways! If so many people should be post-nominally lettered, then naturally so many jobs should be staffed by graduates.
Sorry, I don't have time right now to listen to a half hour podcast. What specific conduct does the author propose making illegal? "Surveillance capitalism" is incisive rhetoric, but it's not specific enough to serve as the basis for law.
ctrl+f "Free books"
:eyeroll:
I'm not sure how/why a new event type would need a new index. Is each new event type stored in a separate table?
> "We're really putting the focus on the physical object that needs to come back to the library rather than the revenue stream — that really wasn't a revenue stream," Telli said.

That's not at all how they sold it. They claimed at the time .. fees for late book returns were regressive and harmed lower income peoples while discouraging them from checking out books/continuing to check them out.
Agreed, it isn't. Would it be better if GP said "two far-right tabloids and one that isn't, but sometimes gets co-opted by the far-right?"
Of course it would be. People move away, or decide the library is not their thing any more. Interest should be accrued too, so people don't see a down-side to parking the money there compared to a savings account.

You go up to the desk, say you want to cancel your account, hand in your card and get your money back, no questions asked.
When Safe Proved Risky:Commercial Paper During the Financial Crisis of 2007-2009
I agree, most of the violent rioters were armed. It is well documented that organizers had to encourage attendees to leave their guns at home or in their cars (as you mentioned, several were arrested with firearms in their cars on their way to or from the riot).

> The vast majority of participants weren't actually part of any of the so called "far right" groups (e.g. oathkeepers)

LOTS of self-recorded evidence shows that isn't true.

"wait for the 6th when we are all in D.C. to insurrection [sic]"

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2021/03/24/capitol-attac...

We know many members of the Proud Bois were there (since arrested). The Oath Keepers even had their little logos printed on their hoodies! You linked to an admission of guilt from a founding member of the Oath Keepers, you...do realize that right?

> The officer died of a stroke within days of the protest, not from injuries.

Strange, the medical examiner disagreed, saying "all that transpired played a role in his condition." Hmm he was pepper-sprayed and beaten by a violent mob, only to die of a stroke hours later. What a cowinky-dink!

The other officers had no history of mental illness. After being beaten by a violent mob, their partners described them as acting unlike their usual selves, shortly before committing suicide. Another chance coincidence I guess!

The medical examiner said of Officer Jeffrey Smith that the "acute, precipitating event that caused the death of Officer Smith was his occupational exposure to the traumatic events he suffered on January 6, 2021." Are you really that gullible?
Do you really think Berkeley, of all places, working to make BSD available to the world for free, including excising all that proprietary AT&T code, wasn't engaging in a political act?

That the open source and hacking cultures of the 70s, 80s, and 90s weren't founded on an intentional rejection of the increasing balkanization of software and technology after the 1974 determination that software was copyrightable?

I understand, at an individual level, it might seem like throwing some code up on Github with a permissive license might not seem like a political act. But the history of open source is inseparable from the politics of intellectual property, copyright, and all those things that follow, including issues like the right to repair.
That is hardly it... The US population largely agrees that the military budged is way too bloated, that infrastructure spending is way to low, and there is a general lack of a single payer health care system and tuition free public schools.

I’m sure you’ll find way more happiness towards paying taxes in the UK and China then in the USA despite being as diverse and even larger then the USA.
You should use cointracker: https://www.cointracker.io/

If you want to DIY instead, I think it's an invocation of wikihtmltopdf + a simple script that turns CSVs into PDFs.
I can respect your viewpoint here. I know my response isn't adding much but I think it's important to recognize respect for a differing belief or opinion.