skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah I'm talking about Argentina.

It's not so much a day to day living with crypto kind of situation but rather a being able to save one. Say you have a salary that's getting devalued by the month yet doesn't raise at the same rate.

If you're lucky enough to be able to save say 10% of it, you want to stabilize it's value somehow. I don't even mean invest at a profit, I mean have a way to save that money so when you do need to spend it down the line (say to buy a 100k USD no-bedroom apartment to live in), you wouldn't have lost most of your savings' value due to inflation.

You can't hold value in land since there's no credit, cars are 10x as expensive due to the economy being so protectionist, and you likely don't have space to hold a stock of long-lasting food that you might be able to sell. Crypto, particularly stable coins, is then a very attractive option in such a situation. You could buy 50 DAI a month for example and then have a good shot that when you need it a few years later, it'll still be as valuable as it was when you bought it.

A lot of old people who trusted cash and didn't realize how bad things are getting and didn't invest in a solid keeper of value, are only now realizing that their whole life savings are worth about as much as a TV, and even less every month.

Nowadays, even kids need to learn about exchange rates to keep up.
An IRC analogue of this is https://hack.chat.
> so rare to see see something so true, yet insane to the average person at the same time.

People here definitely tend not to be average, myself included. However, I think for the "average" HN user, it's at the point where you could make it work if you wanted to.

For the global average user, it's not "technically" far off, just practically since most apps are only for iOS and Android, so even with perfect hardware support the OP6/6T or really any mainline kernel linux device wouldn't be a good fit.
FWIW, Caddy can act as its own CA, so it can issue certs for any private site, and you can add the root CA cert to any machines necessary.

> but hasn't been that for ages

Huh? It still is. This is all you need:

:80 {
root * /path/to/files
file_server
}
> You can find misinformation of all levels of sophistication, all the way to incorrect scientific papers if thats your shtick.

This isn't new at all. "More doctors smoke Camel Cigarettes". https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gCMzjJjuxQI

And the Tobacco industry funded all types of scientific papers, that were published all over the place to demonstrate Tobacco's "health benefits".

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The only reason we can't find examples older than maybe the mid 1900s or so, was because doctors weren't even trusted until the 1900s. 1800s doctors were well recognized as quacks and had very little reputation among the American people. So there was no reason to use doctors as a propaganda point back then.
It is likely that the censorship and massaging of visibility is done by a team composed largely of ideological activists. Dorsey as a founder and leader would have the sense of ownership that would allow him to push back on that. I would expect that team to steamroll over the new CEO because his ownership is weaker.
Yes, the key being never let it connect to the internet
That's also the CCP's opinion!
That post lists 3 applications, which is not enough to be "many". No live demos.

I don't know what Google uses to make "question answering" replies to searches on Google but it is not to hard to find cases where the answers are brain dead and nobody gets excited by it.
So wait.... Did they at some point remake their website in html since it is still working on modern browsers?
Why don't we just train rats to react to transpiled digital stimuli instead of CNNs?
This is the way. But also creating information bubble.
He quit so he could have better management run the company he owns and so he can enjoy his money.

His move is the ultimate founder/rich playboy move. Maybe he will buy that magazine.
It does with WACUP

-dro
Joel Spolsky called it fire and motion.[1]

[1] https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2002/01/06/fire-and-motion/
Ask HN: How to do private front end feature flags?
There are times where an engineering team might want to privately test out an upcoming feature in the frontend, but doesn't want to make that public for all to see prior to its public release (i.e. enabling a feature flag only for a certain population). This is difficult/impossible since frontend code can be inspected in the browser. What are some good solutions to this problem? What are industry norms?
Very well put. You got me thinking about what I do as a software developer that might be considered entertaining. Maybe computer security events like capture the flag (https://ctftime.org/) or coding an AI agent in a simulated environment to achieve a goal (https://www.codingame.com, https://gym.openai.com/) or simply competing with others to solve an algorithmic problem either on time constraint or code length constraint.

Without appealing visuals none of it will be interesting to people who don’t have a development background. Maybe generative art is the answer but IMO it is more about art than programming.
Why I mean is you can’t ask them “why is OK in the middle of the phrase” because the answer is “that’s how it goes”.

No different from asking an English speaker how some foreign loan word entered their usage or why, say, only the accusative. “Agenda” is singular in English and if you asked a random person on the street why they would shrug.
I'm sure we can discuss this at length... but regardless of how you view NFTs as a representation of ownership, my main point is that enough people use the NFT ecosystem on these chains to the point that it gives these chains importance.
Continuous Vulnerability Management with a New Amazon Inspector
> Last I checked, it's owned by a foundation that's very okay with advocating that others tell me what I should see on the 'net. "We need more than deplatforming" are not words I ever want to hear from a privacy organization's mouth.

Ugh, I dislike the title of that post. I still claim that you're misinterpreting it, though. It should have been something like "We need better answers than deplatforming." Deplatforming is not the answer, and we need better ones.

Sometimes deplatforming is the right answer. Not when it's about a political agenda, but there are many many actually harmful uses out there, many of them illegal, and ignoring those on your platform is the same as facilitating them. But deplatforming is about as effective as sticking your finger in a dike for truly improving things.

In my opinion, Mozilla has done a decent job of being apolitical when possible. Yes, it does think you shouldn't see some things on the 'net, but those things are things like scams and malicious disinformation. It does not say that you should not see the latest blatherings of Trump or whoever, except perhaps when they're directly encouraging violence or sedition.
How about the shitty Sceptre specials from Walmart?

https://www.walmart.com/ip/Sceptre-50-Class-4K-UHD-LED-TV-U5...

> Let's you view your pictures as a slideshow or listen to your favorite music via the USB port. Just insert your flash drive into the USB port for the ultimate entertainment.

I'm pretty sure this is the one I have. But even if it's not, the fact they're advertising playing music via USB flash as the "ultimate entertainment" tells me this is not a smart tv.

Enjoy.

Edit: Oops, looks like it's out of stock. But you can probably find others if you just look for the shittiest 4k you can find. (You'll probably need to wait a bit as black friday probably annihilated the stock in this class of dumb tv.)
> That wouldn’t explain the delay

That and expected maximum market size (or, more precisely, expected shape of the demand curve) do, I thimk, explain the delay, and higher price even before considering subsidy from advertising/data revenue, because there are fewer units to amortize fixed per-design production line costs across.

4K OLED laptops are more available and at a much smaller premium, perhaps because people buy a lot more laptops than desktop and larger monitors.
Two of the most important settings:

Game mode. This turns off most/all the image processing, which greatly increases the lag.

Overscan. Also turn it off. This zooms in the picture a little to crop out artifacts around the edge.
Forest ecosystem soil is fragile, because the soil is very loose due to animals, vegetation, insects, mushrooms. A large, old forest only produces on the order of a foot of topsoil in 50 years. It is possible to produce more artificially with rainwater mitigation and drainage paths that are engineered rather than left to chaos.

As a side effect, growing in the Sahara would also potentially drastically reduce Atlantic hurricanes. So we have to decide what's more important, trees (move them to Sahara! Or at least replant equal numbers in Sahara and elsewhere) or human lives and infra.
Jack Dorsey's Exit from Twitter Could Worsen Tech Censorship
One-letter variables aren't always bad coding style. Some single letters are meaningful. It's conventional to use 'i' for an array iterator, for instance - or i and j for two dimensional iteration. x,y, and z are cartesian coordinates. It would be downright perverse not to call the base of the natural logarithm 'e'.

And so it is with greek letters. Many of them carry intrinsic meaning, or a loose collection of related meanings - they effectively are labels. It's not that people want to write dense and impenetrable code, it's that they would rather write μ than coefficient_of_friction because that is its proper name and how it appears in formulas and textbooks.
What a weird nonsensical statement.

Monitors and TVs are manufactured with the same "tech", just to different specifications to fit their desired purpose/niche, and to capture the maximum possible value from that market.

You could maybe make an argument that Samsung panel tech is behind LG's or something, since companies have separate R&D labs and actually have different technology, but in order to do so you'd have to be an industry expert.
Would you mind linking to something written by Sam Neal? Not familiar with the name.
The ancient tablets revealing the mysteries of Babylonia [video]
You can have different builds for each audience and use bundler to remove dead code hidden behind if (process.env.AUDIENCE === 1)
What? He's still CEO of Square. One public company keeps someone plenty busy enough
Yeah, true. The human element and team dynamics would be more interesting to show on screen. Programming will be just a task to bring out the actual content which is the case in a lot of reality shows.
Can screen readers still not read text in images? Years ago I could understand that being a problem, but now? If that's still true then it seems to me those screen readers could really use an upgrade. My phone has been able to copy text out of screenshots flawlessly for years.

I do agree with the overall point though that images are a suboptimal way of conveying text.
Energy is scarce though. Only Chinese smelters have dolomite based production, which is much cheaper than bruteforce electrolysis.
> why people got a bit jaded about such large scale projects

China seems to be doing fine with large-scale projects. People didn't get jaded. Certain cultures did.
What does this mean for Square? Does he spend more time there or focus ever more on cryptocurrency?
Well… it is 18ft diagonally. Of course, you need a place capable of housing such a thing.
> it feels like integrating a monitor manufacturer would be a quick and easy business win for the TV guys.

What does this even mean? The same companies that make panels for monitors usually make panels for the TVs as well. They already have production facilities that can manufacture panel sizes ranging from cell-phone size to 200" commercial wall panels.
Not the OP, but your examples of bot level garbage and trolling content are perfect for Twitter. I would include self promotion, but that is such a core part of social media.
It might be great if it weren't extremely buggy.
like big tobacco selecting tobacco plant strains with more nicotine to ensure addiction
Hey everyone,

We've built a free tool for meme marketing, it's a simple app that lets you create meme contests, share it with your audience and reward the winners.

We think meme marketing is a VERY interesting field so we made it free for anyone to use, the only thing we ask in return is that if you have good results with that tool, share with us, we'd love to learn how that marketing channel can be helpful!
Since no one replied to this submission I thought "what the heck" and I created a new Facebook account using a nickname + surname, and then I started adding that new account as an admin on the pages I handle.
Facebook didn't require anything special for this new account, only an email address. Is that weird?
Just don't connect it! LG OLED screens, at least, don't /require/ network connection and aren't yet proactively connecting to any open wifi or have an built-in 4G connection.

Far easier to just not use the smart features than try to find a dumb tv.
How about also promoting 'talking'? Get extra points for doing the activity with others? You can make more difference in this world by bringing people together while being active. Maybe by bringing people together based on the similar routes. We need to get more out of our bubble ;-)
In some sense that podcast episode is much more interesting than a 2015 article of course.

The transcript you linked in particular is a giggle if you actually know what's going on because of course it's wrong all over the place in ways somebody who doesn't know can't fix. A few of them are generic (e.g. it's normal for English speakers to say "fifty-two eighty" to mean 5280 and then of course the transcript renders that as 52 80, and it's normal to pronounce ETSI "Etsy") but many more are not (if you know Ryan is saying PKIX then you can recognise that, but if you don't then "Peak X" or indeed "Peacocks" is a fair stab). [Maybe one of the many PKIX implementations should name itself "Peacocks" in the same way that "Secret Rabbit Code" stands out from other Sample Rate Converter libraries]

I assume the transcript is at least human curated to be as coherent as it is, but maybe not.

Ryan doesn't mention it on that podcast because it wasn't official yet, but much of the public role of Ryan (Sleevi) is now played by Ryan (Dickson).

The entire "How to be a Certificate Authority" podcast premise seems to be er, what if the "Honest Achmed" Bugzilla ticket, but a podcast. Which you know, fine but you are very late people - did you already do a "Steamed Hams" episode? Also, I'd be fascinated to hear from anybody, in any sector with auditors, who thinks they're actually getting something like that Affleck / Kendrick movie "The Accountant". Maybe Thomas thinks he's Ben Affleck? I've worked with auditors, both internal and external. They're like a code review from a junior. They might see something you missed but they aren't going to find anything you actually hid. Thus audit is valuable, until it isn't. Should I talk about that?

In fact Thomas has already brought up Symantec so why not, if you go back and look at that, one of the things I highlighted very early there was that Symantec are relying on auditors, and we know auditors are the worst option other than nothing. So, this is the right choice if your alternative was nothing, but Symantec had lots of better alternatives and didn't take them.

And this is one of the many places where I think Thomas is just obviously wrong, he describes CAs as "A force for evil" but er, no. We don't see a lot of evil. Now, honestly I'm not looking for evil, but even if I looked I don't expect to find much. What we see are the usual human failings: Laziness and incompetence. Maybe some greed. But mostly laziness and incompetence. I talked about hiding earlier. Isn't that evil? Nope. Just laziness again. You could fix the problem but it's a lot of work, so lie instead. Not evil, just lazy.
This is a huge problem here in Michigan, too. Many cars come with automatic headlights, but many do not, particularly of a certain age, and the LED DRLs seem to be bright enough that people do not realize that they don't have their full lights on. I find this particularly infuriating in ugly snowstorms and the part of the year where the sun sets before 5:00pm... sigh
OK, fine...

Marshall Field's, the company founded by the man who coined that phrase and which used it as a slogan and marketing campaign for decades, went out of business. It eventually got eaten by Macy's.

Happy?
Switzerland has more immigrants as a portion of total population than any country outside of Australia, Jordan, Persian Gulf states and a bunch of micro-states/city-states[1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_sovereign_states_and_d...
I'm in a post-Thanksgiving charitable mood, so thank you, Jack. The execution hasn't been perfect (as has been commented on ad nauseam), but Twitter is the closest to a worldwide-accessible [1] Speaker's Corner [2] I know of, and that - despite all the completely valid criticism - is a valuable public service: mediating access to information has been the defining tool of control for those in power pretty much since civilization began, and I, for one, will always pick an imperfectly moderated cesspool over the prior status quo where a church or a government told me what's true and what to think. FWIW, you've also championed transparency and decentralization for your platform more than any other SV social media titan [3].

[1] If you have access to the Internet, that is.
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speakers%27_Corner
[3] https://twitter.com/jack/status/1204766078468911106
not all. some require a network connection at least to get started. some find an open network and connect "for you"
> the enormous increase in agricultural output in the US has been sustained without any significant increase in these two inputs. Land use has stayed roughly flat, while labor has fallen dramatically. That suggests it’s technology that instead accounts for the big upswing in production.

It's mind blowing to me that I could find no reference to the Haber process[0] in the article at all.

The missing input here is fossil fuels.

Certainly mechanical automation has played a factor, but the number 1 contributor to increased crop yields worldwide is the use of nitrogen based fertilizer. We have completely disrupted the natural nitrogen cycle and are completely dependent on nitrogen fixation for modern day agriculture. The Haber process is an essential part of nitrogen fixation and is also completely dependent on natural gas as a feedstock for the process.

We have had amazing growth in agricultural output in the last century not because of our inventive minds but because of our ready access to hydrocarbons.

In a world increasingly at risk because of this dependence on hydrocarbons it's borderline irresponsible to use agricultural production as a proxy for "technology" and not even mention the relationship to fossil fuels.

[0].https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haber_process
Even the new Pi Zero 2 W is not bad to begin with.
i've been using tweetdeck the last 2 weeks and its a dream. is there something better?
Idk, we do live in a bit of a climate emergency so using government policy (not the free market) to discourage density seems like a bad way to achieve that. Also I guess I left out the worst bit of the high cost of living equilibrium. Homelessness has been connected pretty cleanly to high housing costs. It isn't even that surprising, people find moving difficult and even more so when you're at the bottom of the economy just scraping by and then you actually run out of money. There's also a common feeling that forcing people to move is a bad thing. That seems at least reasonable to me.
>The last time I checked a 65" digital signage display was roughly 5x the cost of a similarly sized television.

The question then is why would any company pay 5x for a device without smart functionality? Does that mean there's now a market for buying smart TVs, stripping out the "smart" tech, and reselling at, say, a 4x markup?
I found the problem I think. I've had a typo in my global site url config for a year probably. Yikes.

Thanks! Nand2tetris is great stuff! I'm having a ball revisiting it and trying to apply recent stuff I've learned.
I would check what TV you have and what patches are available. I have a smart Sony TV, but I've only connected it to a network twice to get patches. I did so once because it fixed an audio issue that was very annoying.
Are you trying to say this is Twitter's version of Uber's Travis Kalanick getting pushed to the exit moment?
Haha, that was what I was afraid of too.
yes, Twitter is crawling with bugs and problems of scale (with an obvious lack of user support).

see /r/twitter for a summary of issues people see on a day to day basis.
That in itself makes it more heavily moderated than Facebook or Twitter, though of course that’s also attributable to manageable scale.
I recently bought the latest Sony OLED and find that AndroidTV works just fine for netflix/hulu/hbo/apple/etc...
Any public facing URL should have https (SSL certificate installed) and any http request should always redirect to https. There is such thing called "SSL Termination" where you may have a public facing load balancer/proxy which works on https but terminates SSL which means that any upstream backend servers under that load balancer are http only (but are not publicly available).

Whether you have api.coolstore.com or not, that is more of a design decision. It is a common practice to setup website and API separate where API is hosted on subdomain. So you could do coolstore.com and api.coolstore.com but install https on both and setup http->https redirect to both.
I started using asciinema[0] two months ago and I must say that it's excellent! One minor annoyance though, it forces the use of the default shell instead of using the shell you launched it in. Other than that I am very excited by this release, more speed is always welcome.

0: https://asciinema.org/~rmpr
There's also re:amp which is a decent implementation of the Winamp classic skin support.

-dro
thats all that was shown, straight line travel, doors reward with food, running into an enemy blocks travel until enemy dispatched.

I wasnt impressed until i realized this id a starting point and it could be further developed potentially.
In the Spotify/Apple Music, etc; era - wtf is the selling point on this?
The cars shown on the Inspection page[1] are certainly not from the 1990s.

[1] https://www.toyota.co.jp/en/kids/car/inspection.html
It would be at least as fast if it wasn't burdened with decades of legacy API compatibility.
Also just a giant botfest which happens to also pump crypto.
In the library I wrote this post for, the encryption and mac keys are separate, with both the keys being randomly generated, and then persisted to disk encrypted with an argon2 produced key (with some tertiary validation), which is what I generally recommend. The use of Blake3 as the mac _should_ avoid most of the problem with using a key that's derived from a password, but I very much like not leaving that door open.
I can't even imagine what kind of lovecraftian horror will arise to take Jack's place at Twitter.
I think the car stealing example was referring to the in-game behavior in GTA online. You expect car theft in GTA the same way you expect unsafe overtaking when driving in India.
Archive.org has a pretty easy interface. I prefer it over the Android apps I've tried, because I can easily move to desktop using synced browser data, or send books to other devices. Example:

https://archive.org/details/scaramouche_gm_librivox/
anyone remember the XMBC project from twenty years ago? Rooting Xboxes and replacing the OS with a slick custom media player OS?

I find it a little remarkable that there isn't a similar "scene" built around lobotomizing smart TVs. The desire is obviously there, and surely rooting Android isn't terribly hard. The OS's for smart TVs are barely maintained.