skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> However some people interested in and working on blockchain and related technologies are pursuing ambitious goals that could reshape the economy and politics in ways that makes them more open to participation and "strongly typed"/formalized.

That's great! Could you provide some details on what these projects might be and how they aim to reshape political and economic life to be more open, formal, and participatory?

As others have noted, and indeed the author might point to, this kind of response is sort of a quantum woo dodge. It asserts that some of the quantum woo is genuinely helpful and useful and functional with clear mechanisms, but by coincidence fails to point to any in particular or specify mechanisms.
It’s random. They don’t care what you have to say. Biasing the rollout would defeat the point of the A/B
There is also a likelihood that people are shopping because they are depressed. There is a link between compulsive shopping and depression.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/9164428/
Seems fine then. Move fast and break things.
Many of the laws against things like gambling apply to the gambling establishment rather than the participant.

When the internet was new, people set up offshore gambling sites and people used them. Then the government started harassing payment processors to prevent people from transferring money there. Which doesn't work if there is no payment intermediary to pressure to cut them off, so now they're back.

Whether this is illegal or not depends on which law and jurisdiction you're talking about, but the whole concept is kind of ridiculous. If you can go to Las Vegas and legally place bets, you should be able to place bets at a Las Vegas casino over the internet from anywhere. The ability to do this is a feature of the internet, not a problem to be "solved" with more authoritarian control over everything.
For battery health/longevity, you'd end up keeping that car charged to 50% at all times. So 2,500 mile range on any day.
Not like he's worked there for a decade though, the problems of social scale aren't something he's had to deal with
That doesn't seem surprising to me. If your plan is to sell data, then you want to get your device out as far as possible. That means cutting the price to the minimum. You'd give it away, if you could. So making more money on the spying than on the device sounds like the plan working as designed.

It doesn't say anything about the counterfactual (how much would they make if they stopped selling data and instead tried to turn a profit on price and features). I'd imagine that their marketing department has a good guess.
Switch from Google to Microsoft.
Cloud for Preservation
You're using HttpClient wrong and it is destabilizing your software (2016)
Well the form is embedded on your website, not one controlled by the Matrix server. I assume this open source code sends the request directly to the Matrix server. But it'd be impossible for a user to know where it's being sent when they enter their details on the random website that's embedding this. You could watch network requests but obviously when you notice it going somewhere else it's too late and your account is stolen.
I've been planning to buy a house in the near future with my partner, and this comment has a great breakdown of information useful to anybody starting the process. I agree with you that the other poster's numbers are wildly unrealistic. Since you seem pretty informed, do you have any resources on how to get well-informed enough to take the plunge and buy a house?
> I don't think it adds any value and it just takes up extra space, making the code less readable.

I agree here. What they want is to be able to get a superficial understanding at a glance of what the code is doing--in other words they want to give the absolute minimum effort in terms of reading. But when you actually read/write the code and understand it, the shorter names are an advantage. IMO it comes down to who the names are really important for--the reader/reviewer who will likely move on to something else in the next hour, or the person who has actually given some attention to the meaning of the code?

I think the short names also have the advantage of making the logic of the function body understandable at a glance.
Reality is complex, and a simple up/down voting system doesn't ever capture it even reasonably well.
You assume low interest rate has no negative effect in long run. In 30 years the house may be worth $100M on paper, but is unsalable and in neighbourhood that look like Detroit .
Rail Transport in Japan
The smart contracts you are seeing now are relatively simple programs and are woefully insufficient for nation-state level use.

Imagine a future with multiple levels of smart contracts that allow for court intervention and arbitration. It starts to resemble the checks and balances we have in place now, but the rules are public and codified.
Maybe we're envisioning different scenarios here. If someone just committed code
yesterday and is still working on it, absolutely discuss with them first. I'm imagining a scenario where someone comes across duplicated code months or years later. What if the original author is gone? Code needs to be clear enough to understand after the original author is gone.

Change for change's sake may be bad for team dynamics. But if the change is one that everyone agrees is for the better, no one should be offended by the improvement.
Only if you've never watched a video because it was suggested to you
I've seen projects before that take this a step further and let people leave comments on any site on the web for other users of the same project to see. Unfortunately, they don't see a lot of adoption. But there always seems to be a small crowd ready at any time to try out one of these projects.
I think going for a speciality database at this stage is premature optimization. Go with the safe choice (Existing tooling, knowledge, free tiers) and use Postgres or something else established. Later on you can always move workloads to other databases if needed.
> every time it tries to backup it claims the backup is corrupted and needs to be re-created

I had that problem repeatedly, but used the same backup drive with Monterey and it worked flawlessly, with better feedback (TM's menu gave a percentage on the pre-copy, "counting file changes" stage), so I was pleasantly surprised.
Statistics. Accounting. Etc
I hear your point, and you’re right about TCP. I’m only clarifying that even though you disagree, I (and parent I believe) don’t disagree with you. There’s a lot room for vagueness and potential for miscommunication hidden behind the word “arbitrary” - it can be a shorthand for too many or too complex or too ad hoc to account for.

The point was basically that history is ‘arbitrary’, at a larger scale than the intention of the TCP design or the reasons it got chosen for standardization. Maybe the primary reason that TCP stuck is because the military committed to it first, and that signaled to the rest of the world that it was good enough.

It doesn’t necessarily require competition for something to be arbitrarily canonized or standardized, things just happen the way they happen. There can be good reasons all along the way, but it still could have happened a different way, and just didn’t. TCP does choose some specific tradeoffs, it’s not the only way the internet could have come about. Being first without competition is one way it happens. When this happens it adds enormous friction to later alternatives that have or make different tradeoffs.
At least until self-driving kicks in
Good example on how 5x less doesn't work.
I want to like this article but it seems like a data dump of methods and methodologies that almost work. I don't get "here is how to get started" or "anything usable is known about this subject" but rather "this is preparadigmatic".
Individuals do matter but outside of their immediate manager no one has knowledge, time, or attention span to account for it. It is a case of "all models are wrong, but some models are useful" and this is why sufficiently high level plans and budget allocations follow the assumption of fungibility.
Also, a major source of electrical demand is being systematically diminished: lighting. Energy-efficient lighting is more and more prevalent with each passing day.

Last year, my town's side streets were equipped with LED streetlights, which meant replacing 175W mercury-arc and 150W HPS fixtures with 40W LEDs that are noticeably brighter and produce a far more pleasant light.
Using it for app development. Better performance than android emulators, and better workflow if you place the copied screen side-to-side to your IDE.
I disagree, it is not matter of running out of idea's it is that YouTube does not desire to be YouTube anymore.

They want to be CorpTube. Allowing just anyone to upload videos is $$$$ and the vast majority of content I assume likely does not do very well for ads.

They are putting their efforts behind attempting to be another Over the Top cable services plus a clearing house for Corporate media "Clips" and redistribution.
That can happen all kinds of ways. In my case, the economic crisis, then Obamacare's impact on small medical biz, then embezzlement by a biz partner, then my wife developed psychosis & left me w/o a vehicle for a year, eventually agism and most recently housing has increased 70% from last year while transportation costs have tripled.
How+to+List+All+Tables+in+Oracle
Ok, that explains how it works for now. Still not sure what the "we will do something even better" (after the removal of official API on disliking) part means in the following statement:

>Hey there, I have just checked the Youtube's official change-logs and it seems that they will stop providing dislikes in the youtube Data API. That's why I am launching an archiving API that will allow anyone to see dislikes of any videos. This package will keep logging number of dislikes of any video and feed it to the API. In future, we will do something even better!
NPM – "is-even", 160k weekly downloads
Could remove the driver too
Thanks for taking the time to share!

That's sounds like the general approach I take for "projects" even toy projects. My day jobs have never fit the virtualenv use-case. So at home I often have to look up how to use it. It's so rare that when I make an alias I even forget those.

Most new things are one-off scripts; move or rename some files, extract data from something, or pull from a resource. Something that requires libraries or is too big for a shell script. For example, the last one I see in my bin is a web scraper for appointments. It pulls a website, fills out a form, and gets the result a few times--about 70 lines. What's annoying is sourcing some environment just to run this one tool.

Most people have a directory of scripts (a mix of shell, Perl, or Python) they use if they spend a lot of time at a commandline. It's quite a pain to source the environment just to run a quick script. That's generally the libraries I install into user. I don't care much about the version and troubleshoot things as they come up.
the early 3600s were actually wire wrapped. we had a fair number of field repairs.
Absolutely – I was sad that the post didn't point out the better (correct?) way to clean up that code:

leave the objects alone, but write pure helper functions that implement the most common expressions inside the mathy parts, and have all the similar-looking objects use those helper functions.
Of course single and child less couples don't get this privilege. We are trying to create incentives to having children.

In the US, we have a program called WIC, to help women with infants and children with nutrition. If you are a poor man or poor single woman, this program is not available to you. I would not consider that a privilege. We are trying to help foster the next generation and improve society.
But, if there is a "court intervention" clause that just lets you say "Transfer X money from Y to Z", then why bother with full blockchain/crypto? You have effectively central control.
People "get it" when it's the rocket equation for space, but from prior discussions, they don't want to accept the implications as far as electric aircraft.

Electric aircraft you are always "flying with a full load of fuel" which means every joule of energy is "the most expensive energy" as someone here put it, analogous to the last mile of range for a liquid-fueled aircraft. You never have that ability to "take off with a half tank" and trade fuel for extra payload, or operate more efficiently by tailoring fuel to actual needed range, or benefit from higher efficiency at the tail end of a long flight.

Unless electric power becomes significantly more energy-dense, it's always going to be a problem that dogs electric-powered aircraft. And it's hard to see that happening since it's very much the opposite - liquid fuel is significantly more energy-dense than batteries anyway, plus the implications of the rocket equation.
Most banks are running on older core banking technologies that are overwhelmingly batch driven. Moving to real time transactions isn’t a minor shift for enterprises that have hundreds or thousands of applications, which would be a mix of in-house, COTS and SaaS solutions.
What's US gov debt servicing look like as rates go up? Not so good. Interest rates should rise substantially (to stop inflating assets and allowing zombie companies to continue to operate suboptimally), but there is no appetite. The US government owes ~$280B/year for each percent increase in interest rates. Dollar-weighed maturity of current US debt is 69.1 months. When rates rise, within one year roughly 1/3 debt would be financed at the higher rates. Within three year, >50% would be issued at higher rates.

https://www.cbo.gov/publication/56910

https://home.treasury.gov/system/files/221/TreasuryPresentat...

(this is not investing advice, for educational purposes only)
Right, for an article espousing the virtues of evidence they don't seem to provide much for that claim.
The 12 trillion dollar sounds like it includes the federal reserve actions.

Congress passed about 6 trillion in covid spending and there was another 1 trillion was spent through executive actions.
They don't allow you to take the test without the camera. I had to retake the test someother day for Amzn by borrowing laptop. If I remember right microphone should be turned on too.
Another series in the same vein is the Safehold series by David Weber: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/72199.Off_Armageddon_Ree...
I share a similar fear (generally speaking), but in this particular case I think the risk is worth it because the cost of setup is next to zero and the speed of the thing is unreal. If something catastrophic happens with the project years down the road, at most I'll have spent a few hours getting it wired up (worth it considering the positive impact it's had on my productivity).

It's not the usual JS personality screaming "wEbPaCk iS dEaD!!!lol" it's clear the author is thoughtful (observable via the project itself, the docs, and how he interacts with people in Github comments).

Restored my faith quite a bit.
Wonder what percentage of the questions are genuine creations of Hackerrank & not just garbled up CS questions from other textbooks/generic code
Woz wanted an open hardware platform. He co-created Apple, but got silenced by his co-founder. Yeah, and, so, what? Just because a co-founder has an opinion just means another person with an opinion.

What is this co-founder's current position at YT? "When the site was introduced in February 2005, Karim agreed not to be an employee and simply be an informal adviser, and that he was focusing on his studies."--wikipedia So, not very influential.

Again, it's just another person's opinion.

* Also from wiki: "In November of 2021, Jawed updated the description of "Me at the zoo" to "When every YouTuber agrees that removing dislikes is a stupid idea, it probably is. Try again, YouTube ".
Death by a thousand meetings and not wanting to shut down Janets lame ideas again...
If the house can’t be sold, that’s not the value on paper. Valuations are made based on real sales of comparable properties in the area.
U2F?
Why would you read from someone you verifiably know they are not reporting the news accurate and unbiased?

Are you telling me people are fooled to miss on the correct reporting? Or whats you train of thought?
Breaking everything now to maybe win in the future is not Microsoft's way.

Their way is: Make a new thing, use the old thing to push the new thing.
I agree with you, playing devil's advocate though I would argue that Office largely won because it targeted casual usages even if it meant hurting professional ones. Then give it away to schools for $0 (in the 1990s) so they'd get a mass of beginner/casual users that brought it with them into professional settings.

Word is awful at professional typesetting, but it is really easy to use casually for making resumes/letters/etc. Excel is excellent for making lists of things and basic accounting/graphing.

Aside; the original Microsoft Office formats (e.g. doc) were formulated in C header files (i.e. a serialized array of C data types). They were garbage. Current Microsoft Office formats (ending in "x" e.g. docx) are night-and-day better (they're standard zip files with boring XML files within). People should go unzip a docx file and check it out, very not-intiminating.
in the old version the highest rated comment was 19 lines split over 7 paragraphs and contained internal lists! The highest rated comment at this time on our version is only 11 lines over 4 paragraphs! A win for our side already!!
I think a lot of people thought the allegations were real. You only need to look at how hard the media was pushing the article. You know the old belief that "if you think it's true or are told it's true long enough, it'll eventually come true"? Same thing with modern media.

I'm sure the numerous articles that Washington Post and other media outlets have deleted regarding the dossier (without posting any retractions or justifications) is evidence enough that the media had the job of pushing the dossier so much that it became true to the eyes of people gullible enough to watch and internalize mainstream media. Especially when you can tie it to other things people hated, like a certain orange haired man.
There's no free lunch. Just because regulators haven't caught up with things, that doesn't mean it will stay that way.

Here's how it's going to go down, like it always does:

1. Gov. tries to regulate and restrict usage

2. If that fails, they will go after bank accounts tied to brokerage accounts etc. Hell, in some countries it's extremely hard to use money made from crypto as a down payment for mortgage, auto loans, and what not - because how hard it is to prove that the money has been earned legally.

Some banks won't even touch crypto customers with a 10 feet pole, because all the regulatory uncertainty.

3. If that fails, they will start to lay down the law with even more drastic measures.

I love technology, I really do - but there's this extremely naïve and arrogant attitude in the community, that if you just power through in the name of technology, and ask for forgiveness later, then it's OK - it rarely if ever works that way. Regulators do not suddenly give in, and abolish "arbitrary" laws / regulations because someone found ways to circumvent or skirt them.

FWIW, I'm not saying that the technology is a dud - only that trying to circumvent regulations by "doing it with crypto" / "decentralized" is a flawed way to go on about things.
They starting printing money (and have largely not stopped) and not letting banks fail that needed to die.
There is no problem JS transpilers+bundlers tackled that earlier compiler writers had not tackled, better, before.

> shipping dozens of plaintext source code files over the wire that then might get executed in an environment you have no control over that doesn't actually support the code you wrote

What does "plaintext source code" or "over the wire" do to distinguish this from "compiling a binary targeting a minimum supported ABI"? Bundled JavaScript doesn't even have to deal with dynamic linking!
The violent suppression of minority languages and religions would count as "ethnic cleansing" in a 21st century perspective, but the UK (and for that matter France etc) did it before it became really unpopular. The use of the Irish language is still a bit of a flashpoint in NI.
some cute things have been added

- pre emptive auto fill based on context

- sparklines (tiny graph in a cell)

- cute conditional formatting UI

- some web data fetching can be of use if your sheet is dealing with external / world data
Clinician peer networks remove race and gender bias
The only thing I can think of is a reintroduction of something like Shotgun Shacks, somewhere in between trailer parks and suburbs. Something like Boxabls, Tiny homes and container homes.
I have no idea if this is parody.
> I stopped using Time Machine years ago when they started using hidden permissions on Time Machine backups that made it impossible to "garden" my family's backups on the network backup drive. Even as root, you couldn't delete old backups -- you had to log in to the particular user's computer to delete old backups.

You can no longer do that, AFAIK. Not even from the same user account or from root, since TM volumes are set by APFS as read-only except to Time Machine itself.
The post your originally responded to claimed that YouTube was taken down legitimate sources of information. You then claimed they are false information as why they are taken down or deserves to be taken down. My point it regardless if it is true it should be shown and not censored. I never mentioned anything about impersonation and said the opposite of what you are questioning.
If its unconfirmed/unproven, as a journalist, shouldn't you not publish it. So I disagree that it is not an indictment. If you label yourself as news, then you should be reporting factual information. Right now NYT, WaPo, Fox, all look like propaganda from the left or right arm of the US of A. The talking heads did this for 4 years . How that is not an indictment I fail to understand. Open to having my mind changed.
I still like Calibri too. :)
Does anywhere require you to share your password? That just seems... idiotic and contrary to all sense. I've certainly never had to, in fact my bank (like every other password-protected site) warns not to share passwords with anyone.
Innovation without revenue streams don't get funded by profit seeking organizations.

EU didn't innovate their way, it was regulated into place.
I'm actually still using office 2000 at work. All my documents and sheets are generated with it (and I use it a lot to generate various bureocratic stuff).

My only problem is the fact that it has difficulties opening docx and xlsx and it can't save them at all, so sometimes I may have problems exchanging docs with colleagues. But that's a small price to pay for its stability, speed and how much light weight it is! Also, it has no real copy protection! If you've got a serial you can install it to all your machines!
Because then someone (e.g., YT or advertisers) would use this as a monetization KPI and then creators would get punished for users not hitting the like button when they fell asleep and YT auto-played 37 videos overnight.
I remember when Liberals rightly criticized Fox for reporting "Now, I'm not saying this is what happened, but consider <salacious unconfirmed attack on the integrity of [Democrat politician]>.

The Steele dossier was junk to anyone who bothered to think about it as evidenced that Buzzfeed published after every other media institution passed on it.

The honest way for those media that passed over the dossier to report the Steele dossier was: "The Steele dossier, which we passed over because we think it is junk, claims that Trump [...]"

This was not an honest mistake. I know many people who loathed Trump in '16, crying when he won, who voted for him in '20 because of this.