skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They are trying to solve one of the problems, yes but there are broader issues with crypto beyond the large scale environmental issues. And even when Ethereum does switch to proof of stake, it seems likely that many of the people who run large scale mining farms will just move to a different chain that they can still dedicate their GPUs to.
Researchers in the article say it's hard to get reliable data, and that South Africa had been hard hit. I wonder how well the infection rate correlates with the latitude and this average temperature. We see seasonality in USA, Europe, etc as it spikes in winter and is less prevalent in summer. Is this why Egypt only reports 1000 cases/day and Indonesia 400/day? Or is it that public health infrastructure isn't capable of accurate reporting?
The HuffPo editorial board is less diverse than the GOP: https://www.mic.com/articles/144177/this-tweet-from-a-huffin...
the role of ISPs are not to act as your firewall. that's your routers job. NAT does nothing to increase that security realistically since most routers are closed by default to inbound connections.

NAT as security is purely in the corporation realm of usefulness and afaik IP6 supports NAT just fine. it just wouldn't be a fundamental requirement for the internet to even exist.
You've reinforced both of my points without contributing anything more than a false dichotomy.

That the cost of immigration is negligible to you does not mean that it is negligible to the Frenchmen voting for LePen - and one does not need to invoke racism/nazism to explain this.
I really don't think Bangkok is very safe. It wasn't when I lived there a few years ago anyway.

I'm not saying it's super dangerous but it's definitely not 'Tokyo safe'.
Android devices are not optional in some parts of world with low iPhone adaption.

In my previous company of 250+ people only 2 had iphones.
it's just that now, your nosey neighbors softly keeping an eye on you are not limited by the geography of neighborhoods. it's now limited by the scaling capabilities of the entire internet (i.e. unlimited)
I agree; anyone who thinks the two situations are comparable between "out on bail and living in a Vancouver mansion" vs. "held in Chinese prison with no access to diplomatic resources" has been successfully co-opted by the China-led campaign.
I can back that up. Oneplus is infuriating in that they include a way for you to whitelist apps and then kill them anyway. I essentially have to plug my phone in if I want to run, say, a torrent client for more than two minutes.
Microservices vs. Monolithic Architecture. Comparison 2021
> A Noble Gas is a Noble Gas

Probably not relevant for thrusters, but Xenon does make XeO2 and XeF6, and XeF4, and the other gases don't really do that (krypton does make KrF2)...
3D printing is likely not to do a single thing about the cost.
That's the only thing left until our World is indistinguishable from a Brave New one.
Perhaps it's time to realize that scientists in some fields are not able to use their science for predicting purposes, unlike scientists in other fields. And therefore we should reconsider the use of words like "expert" to differentiate people's qualifications.
As an example, I had a postdoc who works with viruses tell me, at the start of the pandemic, that masks don't make any difference. I laughed it off and went to wear a mask before it was recommended to the public. And yet I was right, in a sense, that they do offer some benefit. And he was just wrong. And yet he was an "expert" in this field. But was he or is his science not effective at giving him the powers to predict?
This comes after Marriott Cena appologized to China for listing Taiwan as a country on its website. https://money.cnn.com/2018/01/11/news/companies/marriott-chi...
Mainstream feminism and the activist reporters ignore the issue. It's inconvenient to the narrative they adhere to.

The Google gender pay gap lawsuit was covered extensively a few years ago. It's outcome (men were actually underpaid based on the data) that resulted in a large number of male employees at Google getting payouts and salary boosts was essentially ignored.
Well, I did specifically say "hydrogen gun". ;)
The MSFT team themselves have some of the best extensions. The remote pack - containers, SSH, docker - is fantastic.
Yes, I also agree with this. 98% of this is a mess, but when you get into some of these communities, DAOs, etc. there is a certain level of excitement that reminds me of the Internet in 2002.
There weren’t enough masks for health care workers at the time and we were facing a possible meltdown of the entire health care industry (and societal meltdown). Advising people not to hoard masks, and instead leave them for health care workers, was probably the right move. Even if our government said “go get masked up” nothing would’ve changed, as proper masks were out of stock for months.

I’m not saying the deception was necessary, just illustrating it’s not black and white. It would’ve become a partisan issue regardless with Trump doing his performative masculinity routine and refusing to wear them.
Could not imagine living without Prettier. It's a code formatter. The team agrees on how we want to do formatting, and we check in our Prettier preferences, so everyone's code on the team is formatted the same automatically.

Helps keep the entire code base formatted consistently.

Prettier - Code formatter
https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=esbenp.p...
Looks like an extremely well researched and produced documentary.
This reminds me of something I think i heard ( or something similar ) in a movie :

“I’m not going to kill you, but you would surprised how much suffering you can live through.”
My issue isn't that he comes up with an approximation. My issue is he comes up with a bad approximation. Are you really telling me all 13 news organisations declined to comment to him? Or did he not even ask. And at least justify your arbitrary 13 organisations. It's just really damn lazy. I mean, at the very least they could have just pinged each of the people they found a DM saying "Hey I'm doing a survey would you be willing to share your self-identified race" - a level of fact checking that the actual media would go through before publication.
this does not address the OSS / proprietary choice though. e.g., there are companies providing support for Moodle. it is service that must be paid somehow, whether through internal staff, external partners or a proprietary software vendor as an additional offering.

The mystery is why they wouldn't amortize the development costs of the platform across the vast number of institutions, creating an ecosystem where smaller edtechs could provide niche customizations via plugins etc.
HN is such an idiosyncratic place. You could frame any number of struggles this way and feel smug about being "above it all."

"our people want more of what your people have." -> What "your people have" could be freedom from slavery in 1864, ability to attend the same schools, etc. etc.

Framing it in this way does not make the argument less compelling and I have no idea why you think that race-based discrimination is a "theology" in a country that had explicit legal discrimination against black people up until the 70s and plenty of informal discrimination afterwards.
“Anyone who cares” assumes a much higher level of technical competence and awareness than is actually present in the general population.

Most people have very little idea of the myriad ways they are being tracked (they know that it’s happening in general, but not the specifics), so they don’t go digging around in their phone settings to figure out how to make these changes.

The numbers on Apple’s “ask app not to track” usage demonstrate that the “people just don’t care about their privacy” crowd have serious blind spots.
Sounds like a dinner party in SF
Hey, pollution is bad, so let's just forget about every other issue affecting humanity.
Blackberry had their own software (BES/BIS) running as an intermediary between email and their devices. Were they using the same method for chat apps too?
> If you're an ISP, your choices are basically just that: Expose user networks fully and trust that all users have enough expert knowledge to put up their own firewalls - or put up a common firewall for all users.

This is a false dichotomy.

Given that ISPs now overwhelmingly give you some router to plug stuff into, they can very easily have an opt-out firewall configured on the box they give you. That is in fact what i have seen most ISPs do. The incentives for network filtering etc have nothing to do with "protecting the user", this is both easy to do and actually done, frequently the right way (with user-controlled fw).
Skepticism? I'm not "skeptical" about SpinLaunch. I'm incredulous about SpinLaunch. Skeptical implies that I think there might be a chance, if certain criticisms are addressed. No, I am certain there is no chance SpinLaunch will end up being a thing.

First of all, putting aside the several red-flags for why this looks like a scam, and assuming it's actually do-able, it's still not going to happen. The global space industry is built on rockets. At best, stuff like this--even if it does work--gets a "cute project, kid" pat on the back and then ignored. When was the last time any fundamental redesign of an existing technology take over an industry? It just doesn't happen.

And I think everyone involved probably knows that. You're not going to compete against Google as a scrappy startup trying to make a search engine. You're not going to compete against SpaceX as a scrappy startup trying to make alternative launch systems. Somebody, somewhere, has to understand that. So they have to be in on the scam.

Now, as for the actual idea, there are several problems. First and foremost is: energy is energy. If this thing fails, it blows up just as bad as a chemical rocket on the platform.

At least chemical rockets are based on decades-old materials science. This spinning arm malarky expects us to believe that they can support 10,000x their payload on the arm and be able to release it on a hair trigger? I suppose next they're going to tell us the arm is made of carbon nanotubes or some other unobtanium.

So they want to spin the object in a vacuum. How are they going to seal the spin chamber in such a way that they can generate a significant vacuum while also allowing the payload to escape? They show a paper or some other thin membrane door over the escape hatch that the payload punches through. OK, that means that door needs to be able to support 13.75 pounds per square inch of atmosphere. A 2m x 2m door needs to be able to hold up over 40 tons of atmosphere. The payload needs to punch through a door that is holding up over 40 tons of atmosphere. That payload needs to punch into a 40 ton column of atmosphere. At ~5,000 mph?!

So what I expect to happen is that the payload hits the column of air, creates a mach shockwave that destroys all of the windows in a 5 mile radius, while the rush of air into the chamber and clapping back around the tunnel of vaccum the payload creates blinding spike of plasma (not unlike lightning), that ends up destroying the launch chamber.

Oh, yes, there are "challenges" to "figure out". From their launch command center that was clearly designed for aesthetics more than functionality. Lots of problem solving gonna happen there.
Show HN: I wrote a Black Friday SaaS readiness Checklist [pdf]
No Democracy for Key West
This kind of abuse of power is bullshit, and the worst part is nobody will be punished.
With byebug you can launch a server and connect to it remotely to intercept break points.
> inflate a handful of unremarkable ideas.

some of these ideas you swiftly qualified as unremarkable are: freedom, liberty, privacy, and individuality.
Yep, although I mostly do Remote WSL these days.
> it's encouraging that Marriot's corporate management immediately overruled the Hotel on this and apologised to the group.

Where are you seeing this?
It is, but it isn't going to work against COVID, period. That people take it is their problem, the only study that showed actual anti-viral effects was at several times the recommended dose for people and that was in vitro.

Risks are also low for eating 50 Kg of bananas, it might cure COVID, so why not try it? This sort of reasoning is complete nonsense when it comes to picking your medications.

The null hypothesis is "it does not work". Then you carefully design a study to take care of all the variables, you do your double blind test with a placebo and you look at outcomes. That's the standard. Anything less simply won't do. 'Might work' isn't a reason for (self) prescription.

As for mask effectiveness: they work, there is ongoing debate over how much they work. Like everything else in terms of countermeasures, absolutely nothing will be a 100% sure filter so we layer multiple filters on top of each other to improve the degree of protection we achieve, aka the cheese model.
> fixating on the Third-Reich-esque concept of "human race"

what does this mean? I'm no historian, but I'm pretty sure the Third Reich was focused on the "German race", to the exclusion of all others.

As for ratios, the ratio indicates an uneven pipeline. If idk, programmers were all white and highly rewarded, you might ask why that is. The reason can be one of two things: white people are culturally/systemically advantaged in getting those jobs (for example, those jobs are only available in predominantly-white areas or the education to do the job is more accessible to white people), or white people are more fundamentally capable of programming than others. The former is a social critique, the latter is white supremacy.

If you reject the white supremacist position (as you should), then the question becomes whether you can make the system provide more of an equal opportunity.
You're being silly.

The US can quietly cancel China by just banning them from US capital markets. Trump almost did, but ran out of time.

China will never "cooperate on climate" since they have 3,000 coal electric plants (6x the US.)
Ask HN: What tools do you use to acquire cryptocurrencies?
Assuming you own coins, what is your preferred method of buying and holding your coins?
Sad to see these guys go, I really loved their interface. Between this and Simple it really hasn't been a great year for neobanks.

What are you all thinking for alternatives?
I'm currently between One and Envel, Envel has a slightly better UI.
Anecdotal, but since I moved to Canada I enjoyed the legality of cannabis (thank you SQDC) and started to dose THC oil before bed and it solved most of my sleep issues (used to have insomnia).

Every morning I wake up relaxed, refreshed and it stays the same through the day.

Before that I used to do something similar with shrooms but in the morning. Always had that odd feeling I was borderline of starting to trip even with very low micro doses.

But my experience in both cases is pretty similar to what people usually say about micro dosing.
> Also in 2018, Marriott fired a U.S.-based employee who used a company Twitter account to like a post by a pro-Tibet group.

This is far more significant than the headline.
It's always good to see John Gray's writing getting attention, in my opinion he is one of the most perceptive writers out there. However, the title of this submission should probably changed since the conversation is getting sidetracked. The original title of the article is "Surveillance Capitalism Vs. The Surveillance State" with the tagline "Surveillance technology is the surrogate for the communities Western capitalism has destroyed". The comment about individualism and privacy is a single sentence in the middle. The main drive of the article, as suggested in the original title, is about the convergence of both West and East in terms of mass surveillance and internet monopolies. Considering the vast gulf between their histories and cultures, surely this convergence is an interesting (and not at all inevitable) phenomenon.
I would desperately love for somebody to tell me #4 and how they got there. Most modern (western) social narratives hinge on looking at high level distribution by sex/race/etc and declaring there’s an issue. Nobody is verifying the correctness of these distributions because there are so many confounds it’s nearly impossible, but they move forward anyways.
Is there even an objective set of criteria to measure depression and anxiety?
> People who use Windows XP and Android KitKat today can't connect to most sites anyway due to TLS 1.2

...if they use the Windows built-in SSL stack. For instance, Firefox has always used its own SSL stack (NSS) everywhere; and AFAIK, the last version of Firefox which was compatible with these systems already worked fine with TLS 1.2. The same for root certificates: Firefox uses its own CA roots (from NSS).
> Compared to programming and tech, success in a lot of fields in the humanities, including journalism is far more connected to who you know, what family you were born into, what college you went to, and your overall personal network. In such an environment, it is unsurprising that there is a severe lack of diversity.

This is one of my concerns about the recent antipathy toward standardized testing. My family came over from Bangladesh, at a time when there were less than 10,000 Bangladeshis in the U.S. Didn't have much cultural knowledge, didn't know anybody important, and it didn't matter. Did well on the SATs, did well on the LSATs--in either engineering or law, being a foreigner didn't hold me back. Not sure what would've happened if those objective measures hadn't existed. (I mean I guess I do know what happened--family connections mattered a lot more in e.g. the legal field back in the day.)
1. Starter Bundle https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=JasonAMa...

2. And occasionally skimming through https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/search?target=VSCode&ca...
Think about what country they'd be doing this in.
"70% is an election landslide, but I'm not sure it tells you that one kind of staircase is preferred over another."

I think 70% definitely tells you what kind of staircase was preferred assuming there are enough staircases (and assuming that that clockwise (CW) and counter-clockwise staircases had equal probability of surviving and being counted).

Assume there are 40 staircases, and that 70% (28) are CW. The binomial distribution tells us that the probability of there being more than 27 staircases that run CW is less than 0.83% if staircase direction is chosen at random.

Thus, the binomial distribution suggests that it is highly unlikely (<1%) that staircase direction was determined at random.

If you want to play around with the binomial distribution:
https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=binomial+distribution+...
And you don't see any problem with a legal structure that gives everything to the project's creators and nothing to those 10k internet strangers? Why should we want this kind of thing to be successful?

I know, the answer is "but crypto is just intrinsically amazing and we'll sort out these little legal deficiencies later, hopefully when we're rich enough to buy out all the politicians."
Having a DAO doesn't eliminate the need for a lawyer. If you get sued over claims of ownership, the trial won't be taking place on the blockchain.
If a cure for depression was ever found, you'd be fighting a lot of very rich and very powerful companies with a vested interest in keeping people on their products forever
There was some talk about moving the funds over to Arbitrum, which is Ethereum Layer 2 to save on fees, but not sure how ok the community would be with that.
> nothing in this article made me question individualism as being a strong counter to surveillance.

as I understood it, that has nothing to do with the point of the article. On that level, I'd say the point of the article is how both east and west are converging towards a similar amount of individual surveillance (while most of the article deals with why this may be the case)
> I love this thought process.

Thank you so much.

> but I wonder if you could still integrate as an email/sms app and allow temporary overrides ... like how pihole let's you pause it for 5 minutes

I'm leaning towards avoiding that sort of thing. Like how Gmail has a "snooze" or how Apple's Screen Time has timers that lock you out, etc. That stuff really stresses me out. I tried to make this as simple as possible and as "human" as possible, in the sense that the human experience—or cognitive processes, or biological cycles—plays out on the human timescale, which seems to be more like the day or week or year than minutes or hours.
They sent those too FWIW, I had just ignored them.
I don't know. Look at Texas and their recent changes. I think the larger the group, the harder it is to have opposition and discourse. Making a whole state hell for a whole group of people isn't any better than for one resident. It also prevents other more reasonable towns from not doing so because it is the law.
"We created a problem...as a solution for an issue that didn't exist...and should now get brownie points for trying to solve it unsuccessfully for years"
I'm a big believer in medical use of psychedelics, but if the effect is strictly due to placebo, then there are cheaper and safer placebos we can give.
Microcontrollers are chips. They are consolidating to require less chip manufacturing.
I also have a model 3, and a number of coworkers with them. Nobody has reported any major issues. Panel gap, poor paint, maybe some initial delivery issues like chipped glass, but no major problems. They’re fantastic cars, which I’d happily buy again. If I had one complaint - give me a standard windshield wiper knob on a stock, not software (which surprisingly is getting better).
It is connected.

It used to be that it was good advice to avoid linking out because it could very easily affect ranking negatively, or at least give competitors (either real or imaginary) an advantage.

... and the advice was also that if you did link you should add sone attribute to tell Google you didn't endorse the site. This was a good idea for comment fields but I think it became more of a general gospel in SEO circles.

Personally I don't care about Google anymore. I link to whatever I want. Wish more people would do the same instead of "building an audience".
Your comment is the kind of comment we have to stop if we are going to actually be able to push mens rights issues.

You're using divisive language with your second sentence and poison pilling the entire argument by attacking feminists.

This doesn't have to be a feminist vs whatever war, it needs to be a conversation around male issues and we need everyone at the table to make things better.
Random anecdote: I used to work with a Stephen Mangan voice-elganger!

I try not to post reddit-like comments like this, but found it strange that there are other people out there who sound like this.
I pay $25 to $30 per hour to housekeepers. I question the sanity of a doctor charging $135 per month for multiple people.
> right now, the enemies are the Unwoke

I think the enemies are the "not the right kind of woke". Just look at the treatment of JK Rowling, someone who has been on the left for decades and who was considered pretty progressive in the past. If she didn't make so much money for her publisher she would have been cancelled.

The comparison with communism is absolutely true.
I guess this is a reminder to all of us not to make confident assertions about things we don't really know. Calling BS is a service to those around you.