skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Also this one: https://xkcd.com/1726/
I'm thinking more `git commit --amend -s ...`
I think you'd be hard pressed to find an industry that hasn't been disrupted, so I am skeptical that we should understand trucking to be revealed as being unusually weak.

I never said trucking was unusually fragile for the America today. Many other industries follow the paradigm of barely paying enough and relying on a trickle of people willing to put with their framework and all of them are whining but not actually changing [2]. The description of the trucking by duxup in the base of this thread [1] is also a description of how a lot of industries operates. It's fragile, ugly and profitable.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28918853
[2] https://coloradosun.com/2021/10/03/labor-shortage-missing-wo...
The recycling process for a pringles can sounds somewhat simple conceptually.

Coarse shred

(duration???) Submerge within an artificial swamp rich in bacteria to digest the biological components; ideally capture the outputs from this loop for fuel or other bio processes.

When completed a rich 'ore' of mixed metal shavings should be the result, and easier to recycle.
> Saving depositors in regular banking is pure belief as well.

Not in the same way. FDIC insurance goes back more than 90 years. Its value has been proven through major financial crises. It is pretty transparent about what it does, and it's accountable to the public. There is also arms-length regulatory verification between banks and their various regulators to make sure that they aren't taking on too much risk.

Tether, on the other hand is intentionally opaque, run by a small number of people, has mysterious relationships with other players, and has been caught lying about their backing. It has never been tested by a serious crisis. And of course there's no real regulation, so you basically have to take the word of people who have demonstrated they're not trustworthy.
You get paid immediately when opening a short position
The problem with these online resources are that you end up bookmarking them, but you are most likely never going to come back read them. Apologies, if I am generalising.

Learning something is not only reading the course content, that is one part of it (of course). But developing a robust and simple system where you can CRUD your mental model. If you got your note-taking thing figured out, technically you can learn and should be able to learn large amounts of material with sustained and relatively lesser effort. Once again, apologies for going on a tangent.

If anyone is looking to teach themselves CS along with CS Math, then we[1] are creating self-paced computer science courses. Our course content will be available as free online e-books [2] as well as their corresponding (paid) interactive versions and will be started getting released mid-November. We have two free courses as of now.

Although it doesn't start from scratch and we assume that you have got atleast highschool mathematics part covered.

[1]: https://primerlabs.io
[2]: https://primerlabs.io/books
Composing light frameworks can make for a frustrating developer experience. Individually lighter, when combined, the end result may end up more "uneven" compared to the cohesion of a single heavy framework. VS Code is one example of the composition of lights approach.
Its definitely against standard contractual terms (i.e conflicts of interest terms) and here they would all probably come under fraud in the inducement; i.e Kail induced Netflix to enter into contractual terms based on misrepresentations of what Netflix was gaining when it signed the contract (leaving out his personal gain which absolutely would be a material benefit that netflix itself could have gained had it known those terms existed).
What about reuse of batteries for grid storage? Weight/capacity ratio doesn't matter for something sitting on the ground. I presume that with economics of solar you could use even almost-dead batteries profitably.

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EVs are still better than ICE cars, so don't take any EV problems as an excuse to keep producing ICE cars. E.g. even if the grid was entirely oil-powered, large plants burn oil more efficiently and cleanly than ICE, and keep emissions away from cities.

But cars as a form factor are still inherently inefficient for moving people. It doesn't matter if they're electric, taxis, or self-driving: compared to trains they have low road throughput, depend on tires with much higher rolling resistance, and particles from tire wear are another source of pollution.
Software Engineering.

"Just imagine the facade is the frontend."
if (expr) {
doA()
doB()
}

Is doB at the correct level? It's the same thing.
https://press-pubs.uchicago.edu/founders/documents/amendI_sp...

"I will add, that the man who never looks into a newspaper is better informed than he who reads them; inasmuch as he who knows nothing is nearer to truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods & errors. He who reads nothing will still learn the great facts, and the details are all false."

Thomas Jefferson to John Norvell, 14 June 1807, Works 10:417--18

(sigh - sometimes people notice, but not much can be done, and trying only seems to make things worse, ahem, "fact-checking", cough ... perhaps we should lower expectations, and not demand that advertisement padding double up as a source of truth.)
> Of course I have no idea if offering someone a large sum of money to violate any kind of contract

Hindenburg isn't expressly offering the money for someone to break some contract or NDA. They're just offering money for information. Yes, the person with the information may have to break an NDA to share the information, but that doesn't seem like Hindenburg's problem. It's also possible that some insider with knowledge isn't under an NDA and would be willing to share information for $1M.
Reading documents like passports with an NFC reader does indeed work, and does indeed produce verifiable material. Specifically the passport has proof (via a digital signature) that it was issued by a specific authority, and in turn, proof that the contents of the passport (name, date of birth, a picture and so on) are as issued.

But, the problem here is that the issuer is the British government, so, what are you proving? "Here, you issued this passport". "Oh yes, so we did". I presume the British government does own a database of the passports they issued, so this isn't news to them.

A modestly smart device, such as a Yubico device, is capable of providing fresh proof of its identity. My Security Key doesn't prove "The security key that enrolled me with GitHub in fact exists" which is redundant - but "I am still the same security key that you enrolled". However the passport can't do that, your passport is inert, and the fact that Sarah Smith existed isn't the thing you presumably want to prove to a single-sign-on service. You want to prove that you are Sarah Smith, something the passport doesn't really do.

I think the GDS ignores this problem, which is to be fair no worse than lots of other systems, but the result isn't actually what it seems to be, all the digital technology isn't actually proving anybody's identity in this space.

It reminds me of the bad old days of the Web PKI where it was found that the "email validation" being used would accept automated "virus checking" of email. A CA sends the "Are you sure you want to issue a cert for mycorp.example?" message to somebody@mycorp.example and even though Somebody is on vacation in Barbados for two weeks, the automatic "virus" check reads the URL out of the email, follows it, ignores the page saying "Success, your certificate has been issued" and passes it to Somebody's inbox... All the "security" is doing what it was designed to do, but, what it was designed to do isn't what it should have been designed to do, and so it's futile.
Ex-N.Y. Times editor to CNN: Your censorship is causing the world to go mad
You don't need an ETF for that, you can directly short any crypto at many exchanges. To profit from the short you should obviously time the market well.
It's all tied together. If one asset class is crashing people sell others to grab cash. Another way, according to Janet Yellen, that Tether and other stables can destabalize markets, is that they have large portions of reserves in corporate debt, a crisis in these coins would cause a fire sale of billions of corporate debt they hold, itself probably cascading into all risk markets.
That they claim to hold. They won't prove it, and many financial industry insiders have suggested they couldn't possibly hold what is normally thought of as "commercial paper" in the quantities they claim.
"Williams, the Montclair State criminologist, added that all law enforcement data is racially biased in two major ways. First, police disproportionately arrest people of color, especially Black people."

This by itself does not establish bias. The question is whether a black person committing a crime is more likely to be arrested than a non-black person committing the same crime.
Ha, I'd be very interested in seeing a sociology study on Java. There's nothing about the language itself says you need to seize on half a dozen design patterns and beat them into the ground, but that's what every Java project I've ever seen looks like.
regenerative in the sense of regenerating local commerce and economies.

That is wildly outside the definition of "regenerative farming" given by the article.
If you misplace a brace (which is the true equivalent of messing up indentation), the program will also carry on.
I think you're missing the point that there is no H1B being "hired over" a US citizen. Facebook, and most other FAANG at this point, are going to hire everyone that they reasonable can.

In the current environment, if you work in tech, and don't have a job at Facebook/FAANG, there is a reason. There are tons of possible reasons. An immigrant "taking your job" is definitely not that reason.
Depending on how the driver is contracted 100k is not a big deal. Because the take home is not even close to that. For instance take off the fuel costs off that 100k just for starters
Try running a query with a join between the data centers and having state troopers bust your data analysts. Having the data centers doesn't matter if you can't connect the data.
Web App Security, Understanding the Meaning of the BFF Pattern
how about the FDA lets us buy whatever we want without a prescription because we're adults?
> * "CLAs shifts legal blame to the party least equipped to defend against it"

I don't really get this one. The argument in the post is that the contributor does not the money/knowledge to make the legal decision required to sign the CLA. But typically the CLA requires the contributor to confirm that the contributed code is theirs to give away. The contributor should be able to make that determination!
My thoughts exactly. In particular:

> The idea did not spring from any underlying theory....

It all tends to remind me of epicycles.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deferent_and_epicycle
I know a lot of people like XAML, but as a XAML skeptic (yes, I've had the misfortune to work with it professionally), maybe MS should take note that all XAML-based UI frameworks end up being unpopular outside of LOB apps and they keep on deprecating them (or virtually abandoning them like WPF), but still keep on remaking basically the same framework over and over again, developer experience-wise.
Didn't they pay a huge fine for lying about actually being fully backed by assets? This is crypto's biggest problem, the amount of scams.
> consumers assume recycling works as a kind of magical "Get out of Pollution Free" card.

Consumers were told that by the local authorities who put these recycling programs in place. They were not told that behind the scenes it all goes to the landfill anyway. If they knew the truth they might actually make more effort to reduce the amount of stuff they throw out and be more aware of wasteful packaging.
He's gonna wreck it!
Hyperswarm A distributed networking stack for connecting peers
Of historical interest was Interlisp-D as a system that did structure editing and version management. it was at the beginning of time so getting it to work again as a practical development environment is a lot of work.

https://github.com/Interlisp/medley/issues/533
At 6 years the employer can help get them a green card, which if they are within the letter and spirit of workers they can't find at any price in the US, is perfectly fine.
This argument ignores the context of the conversation.

The goal is rarely (almost never?) to find an optimal solution (if that's even possible).

Also why would you assume outcomes would converge? That is not a given in most situations.

You’ve never gotten tired of a conversation with someone that didn’t know when to stop? If so then you are exceptional in you're curiosity. I am a very curious person, but I have plenty of topics that are like nails on a chalk board to me.

Plus, every conversation burns energy, and at some point, people will get tired or bored or both, so continuing indefinitely does not rationally lead to better outcomes. Continuing past that point will lead to worse and worse conclusions.
It's pretty clear that Zeke Faux from Bloomberg existed long before Tether existed as a company.
Crichton gave a lot of cover to climate-change denialism, though, speaking of Murray-Gellman effects.
If a bank makes a loan to somebody else, the value of that loan is recorded as an asset. Customer deposits at a bank are recorded as liabilities. Even when banks loan out money to other people, they are careful to make sure that their assets exceed liabilities--and not by a small amount, but by something like 10%.

Now, not all loans are repaid, and when that happens, the bank will take a write-off of that asset, reducing its assets. In a bad financial crisis, this might hit something 5, 6, 7% of their total assets--but remember that they started with 110% assets over liabilities, so they're still left with more assets over liabilities.

The thing with Tether is that if you look at Tether's claimed accounts, their assets-to-liabilities ratio is 100.2%. When that ratio dips below 100%, you are insolvent. If I recall my math correctly, a 5% drop in the price of Bitcoin would make Tether literally insolvent.

You might argue that all the financial shenanigans are ultimately illusory, but the fact remains that the person crowing about the unreality of finance is the one that is tapdancing on an oil-soaked rope while juggling flamethrowers. And huffing ClF₃ at the same time, perhaps--they're unwilling to tell us.
This is cool. Does the name 'Arnie' bear any significance?
The green card infinite extension is just a bug in the system. H1B was very much supposed to be a temporary program while the company can train an American. It's almost entirely misuse bar a few PhD's.
Could short the futures ETF now. Timing lines up nicely.
Punxsutawney Phil
> "CLAs shifts legal blame to the party least equipped to defend against it"

Ah, I forgot about the hundreds of thousands of dollars of retainer every open source maintainer has dedicated to defending against copyright lawsuits. Silly me.
Yes, the article structure and format seems over-the-top exemplary. Extremely informative and reproducible? Sign me up :)
White people make up 73% of the US population. According to your own statistics, they are then underrepresented.
>Why doesn't it? Is there some evidence that it does or doesn't.... or is this more of a claim?

For the difference to be explained solely by there being more old people because old people are more vulnerable to COVID, I would interpret that to mean that any particular individual is not more or less likely to die depending on whether they live in California or Florida and the overall difference is determined by the difference in age distribution. But, as a limiting case, if all COVID deaths were among elderly people, then a 100%+ higher overall death rate in Florida which has only a 43% larger share of its population who are elderly compared to California would require that deaths per capita among the elderly population would have to be ~40% higher in Florida than in California (2 / 1.43). It's possible that my intuition is making an error here, but I think that the situation with only elderly people dying is the upper bound on how much effect the age distribution can directly have. So, something further is necessary to explain the additional (at least) 40%.

> Is there direct evidence that it's masks and not the density and quantity of old people?

I don't know whether masks explain the cited difference (I haven't seen convincing evidence but I also haven't really examined the matter), just that age distribution cannot explain the entirety of the difference. At least some age groups must have been more likely to die due to COVID-19 if they lived in Florida than in California during the cited period. It's certainly possible that some portion of that additional difference can be explained through downstream effects of the age distribution, but demonstrating that would require some additional evidence beyond the bare fact of the age distribution differences.

My understanding is there were also other policy differences between the two states besides mask requirements, but I do not have any specific reason to believe them to have had a significant (or any) effect, just like I don't have any specific reason to believe that downstream consequences of the age distribution to have had a significant (or any) effect.

> I guess it's subjective levels or risk. Is two percent lower infection rate worth it to require everyone to wear masks?

I couldn't say, although it's also worth remembering that the positivity rate data in question doesn't tell you anything about the infection rate. It doesn't even tell you what proportion of people who got tested received positive results, since the data in question is about samples rather than patients.
They can apply for a green card but they're never going to get it if they're from India or China. I don't think this was anticipated when the law was written.
I would be surprised if as many as 7% of the people in my high school and undergraduate physics classes had plausible futures as physicists. I certainly didn't. It was maybe three individuals. That doesn't make the rest of us lazy or dumb, it just makes us not physicists.

The faculties for software engineering are not quite so rare, but I would argue there's a similar dynamic going on.
Kafka without Kafka?
I have pixel 4a and it has some things like call screening and low light photography. I have used them on occasion but they aren't things I consider reasons to buy a phone.
It wouldn't be a Medium article if you didn't have to wade through five pages of utter dreck to get the significant information.
Those semicolons are redundant but not superfluous. Here are some good reasons why you might want to keep them around even in they aren’t strictly necessary in parsing your program.

https://digitalmars.com/articles/b05.html
Forgive my ignorance, but why couldn't you work to replace it, or at least revert the commit?

If it was completely open source, they would have to prove that you accepted code maliciously, ie: knowing that the code was proprietary and for unfair advantage, etc.

Do you feel like they were bluffing? Because I definitely do.
It is strange, but I have seen in novel court cases where cases in other countries are used as an example. It is possible that they want the court to either confirm that GPL should be treated as a copyright license and not a contract, or that GPL can be seen as a contract in which users has a third-party beneficiary role. When they have that ruling they can use it as an example in countries where a gpl case has yet to be tested. It is also possible that they simply are testing something new when other approaches have failed.

According to the press kit, the case is claimed to be unique.
>shouldn't Elon Musk be doing hard time?

He should be, but they basically gave him the same treatment they give a lot of people: a slap on the wrist.
From "Mortal Engines" by Stanisław Lem:

> Pyron invented the wire telegraph, and then he pulled the wire out so fine, it wasn't' there, and in this fashion he obtained the wireless...

(https://english.lem.pl/works/novels/mortal-engines/136-intro...)

I always loved that passage and it would always crack me up from the sheer absurdity of it.
LOL if you think Hindenburg is bad compared to this stupid ass bloated fraud market with people like Elon Musk telling the SEC to suck his dick. ROFL!!!!!!!!!
They had a pretty serious report against Nikola that forced the CEO to step down and started an SEC investigation.

They also forced a CEO stepdown at Lordstown motors, got the SEC to investigate and forced the company to amend their accounting statements.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hindenburg_Research

And their reports have been pretty accurate this year based on long term market reaction: https://breakoutpoint.com/blog/2021/10/activist-short-sellin...
Moths taking flight at 6k FPS [video]
Any recommendations for what?
Yes, I have one on order! :-)
Kaggle Solutions
Can Tether give you Bitcoin as a redemption? Do you have a source for that?
I _think_ not, it's just energenically unfavorable so it should ~never happen.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urca_process this does seem to be going on though, which tbh I just don't understand so it may contradict what I just said, or not.
Shubenacadie Sam
So I agree with you, but how would you formulate what makes text 'casual'?
Microfines was tested in Israel and backfired: https://priceonomics.com/effectiveness-of-fines-for-late-pic...
I feel like coding in general has broken down. I used to do a lot of coding until about 5 years ago. Back then Google still worked, stack overflow still worked - at least in my memory.

Now I'm coming back to coding and I'm having trouble reading a MP4 video and showing one frame as an image using python. I've never done it, but it's a simple task. Except Google keeps sending me to the wrong libraries (the ones that don't work or are badly documented), and I end up hitting bugs and error messages that seem impossible to google either.

Without a working search engine, and with the proliferation of a huge number of weakly documented or poorly working libraries, coding new things by yourself is really not fun anymore.

(Or maybe I'm getting old and just don't have the patience to spend any amount of time on seemingly trivial tasks and boilerplate?)
To be fair, they are a little better than the OG technology.
It notably doesnt say that their clients dont have any cryptocurrency positions. The $1M is coming from somewhere.
Not just nice, it would be a huge accomplishment. Imagine being able to resurrect (as in saving from a landfill) old tablets, phones and even smart TVs, or making new ones more usable and trustworthy by flashing a lighter OS that doesn't contain adware and spyware, and can be patched to solve bugs or implement new functions (including codecs) to give the product a longer life.
Hardware manufacturers would absolutely hate such a scenario, which is why I'm pessimistic about that.
Love the bibliography section. I have always wanted to reinterpret HTML into other representations. These resources give me good reference
The price in Tethers would rise
Well, a subjective test, in a quiet room, with test tones for references is satisfactory for most purposes - if the system determines that it is unable to assess the situation, it can be escalated to an MD.
Yes but long term? The big question is not if there are real USD behind USDT or not but if Tether has a way to pump the entire crypto market. Basically: did Tether make BTC go to 64 K USD, by printing non-backer tether by the billions and then use them to buy BTCs?

Short term if USDT collapses, BTC would probably skyrocket due to everybody looking for an exit out how USDT. But long term? What if the BTC demand is simply mostly all fake?