skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
First, there are fewer than 200 countries.

Second, they've only left it since the 1970's in the current era and that was because the US could use its dominant position to do so (the Petro-dollar).

Third, it doesn't matter if it's a "rock" or not, as long as it's scarce. In this case, this rock has all of human history recognizing its use in this capacity. You have to remember that the monetization of a scarce material, such as precious metals, is a Nash equilibrium. It's the long-term answer, by definition. The markets don't actually always go up, but gold stays gold.

> read the academic work showing that trying to stay on the gold standard

Like Bernanke's PhD dissertation? Sure. Or I can just wait. Because since his tenure we went from $3 trillion to $28 trillion before the Federal Reserve stopped reporting money supply.

Or just compare the US to Germany in the same time period with its hyperinflation. Which fared better?
Seems like the simplest solution would be to just move recovery tooling to their own domain / DNS?
Handwavy rants about shoddy cryptography tend to be just that, handwavy. Repeating that Telegram does not enable end-to-end encryption by default does not make it more of a reason not to use Telegram. Here's what you can do to live comfortably on the net, having conversations with the world and its dog while still being able to plot the overthrow of the government without inviting prying eyes: use Telegram for the former, use your private XMPP server with OMEMO for the latter. There, done, problem solved. No need for angry righteous rants about MTProto or the Emirates - and why exactly would that be the reason not to use Telegram by the way, would it have been less of an issue had they been located in Jakarta or Ouagadougou or Silly Valley - and all the bragging rights of using trusted cryptography for your local knitting club meetings where you plan to overthrow the government.

Source: this is what I do, except for the knitting. Telegram for talking to the family, XMPP standby on the server-under-the-stairs for when the going gets tough, with Conversation (which supports OMEMO) installed on target devices.
Warning for others: I watched the above video and then watched the entire course (>30 hours).
> "...Would you be willing to raise it by 20% and then have me work 4 days a week?" I haven't done the math to figure out if this makes sense,

At three days a week, it "makes sense" arithmetically: that gives the same daily salary they have now. Working on the money end in stead, you'd need to ask for a sixty percent raise to achieve parity at four days a week.
> Keep in mind too that "requirements at hand" can include a significant degree of path dependency, and that it can be a mistake to read too much reasoning into something too.

This is why I'd say there's some value in sticking to spec even if it doesn't 100% meet your needs or do things the way you think they ought to be done. Tacking away is as likely to screw you in the long run as it is to benefit you. The benefits would be much more obvious, of course, in a world that's almost an unimaginable utopia from our perspective: one without intellectual property, in which major advances like Apple's ARM silicon were widely shared and put to the good of humankind in general, rather than held privately for the profit of a single corporation.
I'm self-taught. (OK, I had one class in high school, and one in college. Nobody has ever hired me because of those classes.)

Things I've had to learn:

- Big O notation and what it means
- UML, at least parts of it
- SQL
- git
- gdb

I am not expert at any of these. I've learned enough to get by.

And that's kind of my philosophy. It's like just-in-time learning. I learn what I need to be able to do what I need to do. I haven't bothered to grind leetcode or anything. I let the job tell me what I need, and I learn that. (I do also kind of keep an eye on what else is going on, so that every five years or so, I try to learn the one thing that's going to matter most for my employability in the future.)
> In a democracy, we get to vote on how economic activity is regulated. Crypto is a tool to avoid democracy.

Do you consider the Democratic People's Republic of Korea to be a democracy? The people in that country vote overwhelmingly in favor of authoritarian policies there. I believe it's reasonable to argue that true democracy is incompatible with authoritarianism.
> Knowing just slightly more about the value of your car than a potential buyer can make it impossible to sell it

> This means that the owner of a carefully maintained, never-abused, good used car will be unable to get a high enough price to make selling that car worthwhile.

Both statements are a wrong understanding of the phenomenon. The market collapses because the transactions happen outside of the market. Something similar has in my opinion happened on the job market. Most good jobs are outside the regular job boards. Most good applicants could not be bothered to apply for a job opening but are asked by recruiters or friends.
… what lock-in opportunity? Who’s stopping anyone from copying files off a Mac?
Of that, we are in agreement; one is popping a pill which releases chemicals in your brain which over time correlate with a measurable reduction in quality of life; the other is interacting with an app which releases chemicals in your brain which over time correlate with a measurable reduction in quality of life.

Definitely on the same page; not a strict mathematical equivalence.
Going through that tut literally this week and the docs are horribly out of sync with llvm itself. Solution is to check out 11.0 tag and to follow

https://releases.llvm.org/11.0.0/docs/tutorial/MyFirstLangua...
PostgreSQL can do it all! Thanks for this extension
Such mild criticism warrants cancellation, but we can totally trust studies that show the unalloyed benefits of diversity, right? There are no incentives against undertaking studies likely to show an adverse effect, or to publish their findings?
Someone asked about #4 then deleted after I typed the response, so here it is.. :)

It's queuing theory in general, related to "utilization". The utilization curve is always shaped the same; 50% utilization always doubles waiting time, and the curve is practically vertical when you get to 99% utilization. That's what explains the difference - 5.8 customers per hour, for a throughput of 6 per hour, shoves the efficiency to the almost-vertical part of the curve, which impacts waiting time.
IDK. Maybe someone more in tune with the physics and chemistry can chime in, but I'd imagine you have to release the energy stored in the chemical bonds in some way before you can convert the carbon to a more stable form.

The simple answer might be that you'd still have to burn it, but immediately convert the exhaust to a stable solid. I'm unaware if this conversion can be done with less energy than can be extracted from burning it.
How VR is taking over Vice City [video]
It's fine, only piss water beers advertise anyway.
How UCSF scientists made one woman's severe depression disappear
I put Manjaro on my 2012 Mac Pro and it was so frustrating to even get the boot loader running that I'll never run Linux on a Mac again. Once it was running, Apple's garbage BIOS continued to present issues too.

If I don't have to work with iOS anymore then I'll never even buy another Mac.
Yep. It's misguided attempts to recycle plastic that cause a lot of the environmental contamination in the west.
Will we start seeing people do "escape form a locked server cage" as a stage stunt at conferences soon? I hope so. "CTF" etc needs more stakes.
This article doesn't talk about farming the ocean. It's hypothesized that Azolla water ferns drew atmospheric CO2 from 3500 to 650 ppm over 800000 years: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Azolla_event
I'm not entirely sure our reaction to dealing with the expected and unexpected effects of man's continual technological and global reach is to run global experiments that will impact everyone on earth without any democratic mechanism behind that decision.

It's more or less exactly how we got where we are now. "More of the same, but in the opposite direction" isn't very convincing.
Atmospheric levels are increasing.

You can't use ventilation to bring the indoor CO2 concentration down to, say, 350ppm like it used to be outdoors.

But I think the answer is... practical, sure I guess. expensive? energy intensive? waste intensive? also yes.
Yes I know. Trump was elected because he was an oligarch, not because of his political experience.

Reagan had (comparatively) none of the wealth and real political experience at the federal level. He was not an oligarch.
Well if the precedent from this is any employee can leak whatever they want, violating their NDA and claim the company is committing securities fraud by having secrets why wouldn't they?
In the U.S. there has been an AP Computer Science A exam for decades. The languages used have been Pascal, C++, and now Java https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AP_Computer_Science . There is also AP Computer Science Principles, which requires less programming skill. I think it's one of the "baby AP exams" that the College Board has created to increase exam fee revenue.
It's not only a fingerprint. The fingerprint tells the yubikey that it's you who is activating it.
Does anyone else find fingerprint readers mostly unusable?

I love them when they work, but my fingers are very often unreadable due to dirt, cuts, paint, oil, swimming or bath wrinkles, etcetera. I’ve had the problem with multiple devices (e.g. iPad, Nokia phone).

Because I have to use the secondary authentication so much of the time, I find little merit in using a fingerprint for security.
Yep pretty much.
I loved Eagle until Autodesk bought them and turned that product into a subscription. Now, I’m locked out of my old designs. Fool me once, you’ll never get my money again.
How is that "alt-right" (whatever that means) or a "conspiracy theory"?

It is a direct connection that would be looked into by anybody, including Facebook, who is investigating the information Frances leaked.
Stack Overflow (2020, with incorrect answer): https://stackoverflow.com/questions/61970160/what-is-the-nam...

Stack Overflow with 6 downvotes (2019, with incorrect answer): https://stackoverflow.com/questions/57080923/how-to-understa...

Stack Overflow (2016): https://stackoverflow.com/questions/34745203/using-a-for-loo...

Stack Overflow (2016): https://stackoverflow.com/a/37650932
What about distributed systems? I had to reach for this tool recently to trace requests as they propagate through up to 5 separate devices. Not everything is a web app.
Fascinating. I thought Estonia was the only one who kept an eye on difficulty of implementation.
A regulation like that has to be examined for the incentives it creates, not just the goal. If companies are forced to disclose research that involves customer or public harm, they will probably just stop doing the research, or fabricate false results. Thus, information is lost rather than disclosed. No companies want to say “our product is harmful to our customers.”
Out of all the coins, Cardano is my favorite. Glad you mentioned it.
Carbon is fungible, so trees will consume carbon emitted by any source. So in equilibrium the carbon consumed by trees and other sources will be equal to carbon emitted by decaying trees, or wildfires, or any other source, whether man made, or coming from a comet or volcano. To the trees, it's all food.

But outside equilibrium, the forest canopy will expand until equilibrium is reached, or the forest canopy will shrink until equilibrium is reached. You will also see more hungry plant life supported in environments with more carbon again until starvation levels are reached.

It is like any other kind of food. We can think of food as sequestered in the living bodies of a population, with deaths matched by births, a constant amount is sequestered. But increase food and population goes up until starvation levels are reached and now more is sequestered. Decrease food and population falls so less is sequestered. It doesn't matter where the food comes from. Currently 20% of the earth's carbon is sequestered in plant biomass. This is why various carbon offset programs do include increasing forests as a legitimate offset, but the land has to be allocated to the forest in perpetuity. It's not like you can grow 10 trees, the point is to support a bigger forest where there are 10 more trees permanently.

Thus nature regulates carbon levels at those altitudes that trees can feed from. I have no knowledge about equilibrating mechanisms in the atmosphere as a whole, this discussion is for carbon accessible to plants.
It's still a ~1GB image and ~600MB installed.
I don't even understand the threat model for this, and why it's better than the fingerprint sensor built into the laptop. Seems like it's just writing the software elsewhere. What's up with the micro Yubikeys always left in a usb port operable by anyone made even less sense, so a step up.
I think if you were to do this today, the video store would report to the credit bureaus do they could make you a little less likely to get an apartment or that next job.

So I think we've made progress...
Someone cleverer than I answered you above. “This has all happened before” is true.
> Society grows through investment. This comes either through capital inflow or consumption

Society grows through production. People invest their time and effort in the first place, not money. Consumption is the final non-efficient cause of production. The efficient cause is savings, which represent unconsumed goods and values. Consumption is the end of production, a dead end, as far as the productive process is concerned.
> but it's useful to acknowledge he wasn't exactly a "good guy"

What exactly constitutes a "good guy" for you?

The only possible definition is somebody who wastes away his life, doesn't have fun, works all the times and gifts the discoveries of his endless hours of work to his subordinates so that they can claim as their own.

Obviously rejects any compensation above minimum wage for the whole ordeal, so that he could not even have the temptation to spend, because he needs that minimum amount to eat.

Not even Jesus Christ would manage to make it into your tier of "good guys".

What has the world come to...Feynman being thrown under the bus on HN.
> You can't just pick and choose.

Actually we can just pick and choose. Targeting the largest actor has the most effect.

Our court system uses subpoenas all the time to get access to important information.

And right now, it seems that facebook has some important information that our lawmakers should know.
> Lost most of our ad revenue on existing users (both Google Mobile Ads and Facebook Audience pause monetization on removed apps).

Does this mean the ads themselves were removed/blank?
Here is one of my favorites: The specific heat of a star is negative. (This also applies to a galaxy or any other gravitationally bound object.)

As a star loses energy, it heats up. If you inject it with energy, it cools down. It's a trivial corollary from the virial theorem, but it leads to counterintuitive behavior (like the gravothermal catastrophe).
The world isn't Texas. I'd rather not give Facebook extra data to play with because "well, Texas already sells Texan's data".
Great list!

> 33. "...if you flip fair coins to generate n-dimensional vectors (heads => 1, tails => -1) then the probability they're linearly independent is at least 1-(1/2 + o(n))^n. I.e., they're very very likely independent!

Counterintuitive facts about high dimensional geometry could get their own list. A side-1 cube in n dimensions has volume 1 of course, but a diameter-1 sphere inside it has volume approaching zero! The sphere is tangent to every one of the 2n faces, yet takes up almost none of the space inside the cube.

Note that the distance from the middle of any face of the cube to the opposite face is 1, yet the length of a diameter of the cube (corner to opposite corner) is sqrt(n).
To my knowledge all jailbreaks on iOS are literally exploiting security vulnerabilities that root your phone. Lord knows what these things installed...
Statement by Tesla, including relevant claims not in the CNBC article.

- Mr. Diaz never worked for Tesla. He was a contract employee who worked for Citistaff.

- Mr. Diaz worked as an elevator operator at the Fremont factory for nine months, from June 2015 to March 2016.

- In addition to Mr. Diaz, three other witnesses (all non-Tesla contract employees) testified at trial that they regularly heard racial slurs (including the n-word) on the Fremont factory floor. While they all agreed that the use of the n-word was not appropriate in the workplace, they also agreed that most of the time they thought the language was used in a “friendly” manner and usually by African-American colleagues. They also told the jury about racist graffiti in the bathrooms, which was removed by our janitorial staff;

- There was no witness testimony or other evidence that anyone ever heard the n-word used toward Mr. Diaz.

- Mr. Diaz made written complaints to his non-Tesla supervisors. Those were well-documented in the nine months he worked at our factory. But he didn’t make any complaints about the n-word until after he was not hired full-time by Tesla – and after he hired an attorney.

- The three times that Mr. Diaz did complain about harassment, Tesla stepped in and made sure responsive and timely action was taken by the staffing agencies: two contractors were fired and one was suspended (who had drawn a racially offensive cartoon). Mr. Diaz himself testified that he was “very satisfied” with the results of one of the investigations, and he agreed that there was follow-up on each of his complaints.

- Even though Mr. Diaz now complains about racial harassment at Fremont, at the time he said he was being harassed, he recommended to his son and daughter – while they were all living together in the same home – that they work at Tesla with him.

https://www.tesla.com/blog/regarding-todays-jury-verdict
Agreed. Facebook has a fiduciary duty to it's shareholders to maximize profits. Unfortunately, it's up to the government to create legal boundaries to prohibit the means by which they can do that.
You've gotten good answers, but allow me to expand with an eye towards a Cunningham's law situation. We have to address "how did all that carbon get underground in the first place?" I can't tell you much about oil, but coal is buried trees. They buried because there were not yet microorganisms that could break them down. So atmospheric carbon ended up underground due to the extraordinary circumstance of 1) there were tons of trees 2) the trees died 3) the trees could not decompose, so their carbon ended up buried then subjected to geological processes that turned them into a kind of rock. This takes the thick, CO2 and O2 rich atmosphere that gave us 3 foot wide dragonflies (which, honestly, pretty cool), and turns it into the one where we can live now. This process will never happen again, because now trees can break down.

If you wanted to zoom out and squint and get a little biblical, this is a Garden of Eden situation. There was an atmosphere that could not support our lives. There was a perfect mix of things at the same time to change that atmosphere into the one in which humans flourished. It was something too powerful we'd never be able to replicate ourselves. All we had to do was not exploit buried hydrocarbons. But we've instead made a race to dump as much carbon in the atmosphere as possible, it would seem. And now the comfortable world we live in will doom us to live outside of paradise.
Something you are, protecting something you have, which is designed for protecting something you know. 3FA is too much. Lose any of the 3 and access is denied.
Reading hacker news comments today, I found out that:

1. this is fishy

2. she is a political operative for the dems

3. she has a liberal bias therefore this is all fishy and she cannot be trusted

4. she is rich and has some backing so she is definitely a political operative. This one is especially true because if she was poor Facebook would have been SLAPPed her already into shutting up. So there's no winning here.

5. (US) adults are responsible enough for the government to not have to regulate social media. Let's conveniently temporarily forget about the Rohingya minority.

6. Facebook is a net positive for civilization

7. nothing is actually whistleblown, we already knew all that. Therefore, we're ok with it and we should ignore this. Also see 1.

8. We're dealing with Schrödinger's censorship. Conservative voices are being censored on Facebook which is ran by 'libs' and at the same time they're not censored as the government (also libs) prepares to censor them. Or censor them more? Who knows anymore. TLDR they're going to be censored.

9. the staple of 'tech companies' is discussed all over the place as someone is talking to congress about its internal workings so the news is all over HN. Super fishy (see 1) so definitely a hit piece. If there was only one or two links it would probably be fine. But so many links may definitely be the hand of some lib political operative. Or not? Who knows? We're just saying that to muddy the waters. Big if true!

I think I'm going to be taking a break from forums in general. Either some Facebook friendly PR machine got activated or the collective mind has been poisoned by years and years of misinformation and generally sowing mistrust to the point of 'everything is a conspiracy and nothing is real'.
> Nobody is a do-er. Motivation is impacted by a variety of factors.

Many people are motivated by the satisfaction of getting things done and working together with others toward accomplishing something.

There are many people who are motivating more or less by doing. The people who would still be coding in their spare time if programming jobs paid minimum wage simply because they enjoy doing it.

Counterintuitively, you usually have to pay those people more because they're usually in the highest demand.
Usually it's one third if the case was taken on contingency. They might have done it pro bono though in which case it would be zero
Reminds me of this old bit from Silicon Valley: https://youtube.com/watch?v=JlwwVuSUUfc
Forget your post-Covid hopes: crazy house prices are the only sure thing
Personalized medicine ?

Me: Hey Doc, I got hayfever and here is my genome.

Doc: Ok normally we would give you this second generation antihistamine at the prescribed dosage, but because of gene XYZ( that is up-or-down regulated) Im going to recommend going with the lesser know antihistamine product B at 1.5 the std dosages.
Library fines are not known to increase rates of item return and in reality are a commonly-cited reason why library users never return at all.

A few other points: 1) Libraries replace items all the time for all kinds of reasons, especially if the title is in demand, so a book walking away with a patron who wants to keep it isn't really a business-stopping problem. 2) Patrons can always ask library staff to request an items they need from another library; the library is likely to accommodate, especially if the item is long overdue and they don't have immediate plans to replace it. 3) If the item is somehow absolutely irreplaceable, it probably isn't circulating anyway.
> 16. If you let a 100g strawberry that is 99% water by mass dehydrate such that the water now accounts for 98% of the total mass then its new mass is 50g: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potato_paradox

I really like this one. It's a perfect combo of intuitive from one perspective and mind bending from another.

> 18. A one-in-billion event will happen 8 times a month: https://gwern.net/Littlewood

This one, on the other hand, I don't like. Depending on a whole bunch of subjective definitions, a one-in-billion event can happen a million times a second or practically never or whatever else you choose.