skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Even within crypto/defi, it's still people making the decisions. People wrote the algorithms. The only advantage I see there is that, in theory, you should be able to see what rules are encoded in that algorithm, so it's slightly more transparent in that sense.

Agreed. People still create the system, but they have zero to little sway in each individual transaction. So, the system can be biased, but with increased transparency, that should become apparent.

> On the negative side, though, there's essentially no rule of law to prevent the people making the decisions in DeFi from doing things that are bad/illegal/invalid.

Very true, there's a lot of scamming going on. It's still very bleeding edge and not ready for mainstream adoption.

> In the regulated finance world, these sorts of restrictions would be disallowed by the rule of law. You can sue them if they try to enforce those rules, and depending on your jurisdiction, you may win and indeed win damages. What's the equivalent in DeFi? Who do I sue? What court do I ask for relief?

At least in the US, this is not the case for payment processors. Banks may be under more strict regulation. Visa/Mastercard can revoke the ability for anyone to process transactions on their network, even if the activity is completely legal. E.G. OnlyFans/Pornhub recently.
Exploring the Opportunity for DeFi Interest Rate Markets
Super neat! Years ago after first seeing Kakaotalk I thought about offering the same kind of service. But the service idea also seemed ridiculous to me at the time. I like the way you're doing it!

And I'm not sure why it's taken so long for stickers to come to the US when they've been so popular in Korea at least (dunno if they're as popular in other East Asian countries).
Well, that's a super annoying design. Listicles are popular for a reason.
PDF here: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2010.00590
Up all night with a Twitch millionaire
I can truly relate to this article, especially where you mentioned trying to extract only the specific contents of elements that you need; without bloating your software. To me, that seemed intuitive with the minimal experience I have in web scraping. However, I ended up fighting the frameworks. Me being stubborn, I did not try your approach and kept trying to be a perfectionist about it LMAO. Thank you for this read, glad I am not the only one who has been through this. Haha...
Yeah I'm wondering what the chances are (something like Marek's disease). To put humanity on a path forever dependent on vaccines. If one shot is enough for life then fine, but two shots per year forever? Scary thought.
Twitter Censoring American Heart Association Warning on Vax
That new ceo is even crazier than Jack.
where does it mention fresh burials? I just rechecked the article and still missed it.
>Find me a single successful QT based app

What?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qt_(software)#Applications_usi...

What a weird thing to say. Ableton, 3ds Max, Photoshop Elements, Google Earth, Mathematica... Qt probably has a longer list of success stories than any other cross platform UI toolkit.
And I can't do that with any of the Electron apps that I use with the exception of Nota which just sits in the background not doing anything since it is a text editor.

If I keep Tabby open for too long it starts to spike the CPU and I suspect that this would be the case for any active Electron apps.
The article quoted a sound designer who was oblivious to your take:

> ... when we got a look at that spec, they require it to be based on the overall [volume] of the film, not on the dialogue level of the film. Consequently, that's a big action movie with shooting and cars and big music, and the result of that is that you have a much more squashed up, un-impactful mix ...

Yes, I want it somewhat squashed up! Please do that! I understand the artistry and desire for dynamic range, but when the character is whispering some critical plot detail, you can zoom in for a feeling of intimacy/privacy and have the actor stage whisper so everyone knows what was said. It shouldn't actually be a whisper that people a few feet away can't hear. When you follow it up with an explosion, sure, make it a little louder, but not real-life loud! That would you blow out your speakers and wake the baby.

And yes, darkness on-screen is another problem. Not everyone has plasma or OLED displays (though the latter are becoming more available), nor watches in pitch black. And when downconverted from 10 bits to 8 bits, streamed through compression algorithms, and displayed on average TN displays...no, you can't see what's going on. Tom Scott did an excellent video on this subject a while ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h9j89L8eQQk. Game of Thrones in particular was unwatchable for me because of this.
"I'm Pro Nudity" would be a good t-shirt. but nobody would wear it.
If you haven't, get your vision tested by a good optometrist.

I had an unknown-to-me astigmatism with otherwise perfect vision. I hadn't seen an eye doctor in (ever?) so I don't know when it started.

I didn't notice I was having the problems you describe until I got some corrective lenses to use only when I'm on the computer. Blew my mind.
> China is projected to be the single country that doesn't get Omicron

There is also zero chance that, had Omicron been first detected in China, instead of South Africa, that they would have done the responsible thing and disclosed it to the world.
The term I would imagine applies to software not to the hardware
> Who wants to spend hours every day stuck in traffic and looking for parking and then pay outrageous rents for the privilege?

I'm guessing you didn't live in Beijing or Shanghai. Though to their benefit, both had reasonable transit and lots of affordable taxis. But...I've never seen traffic as bad as Beijing in the USA, even in LA. And the wild parking is crazy: how can someone afford a black Audi A8 yet still have to park it on the road illegally because they lack a parking space for their apartment?
Because your contract here is with the subscription service, not the bank.

Just as you can’t cancel your brothers subscriptions, the subscription service has no reason to accept a cancellation request from your bank.

Even if the service was no longer able to charge your card, you would still owe the money. The debt you incurred monthly is separate from your choice of how to pay that debt.
This was flagged earlier cause it doesn't toe the party line.
Latticesemi’s Supply Guard helps with this type of security: https://www.latticesemi.com/Solutions/Solutions/SolutionsDet...
I can't believe the 32bit Spotify thing, I have had it happened to me a few times where it exceeded that 4GB threshold and I had to restart it.
Java is very lean compared to Electron.
the geos version of aol was pretty brilliant for its time. prodigy technically predated it, but prodigy looked like crap (think bloomberg terminal) while early aol was all geos.

i think i had a discounted early adopter "charter membership" for aol... shame it didn't come with stock.
Copernic ( https://copernic.com/ ) had Copernic Agent Professional, a for-pay desktop application that had really good search features, a while ago . Not sure if they discontinued it.
> "Not everything really has a very crisp, cinematic sound to it in real life, and I think some of these people are trying to replicate that," he tells me.

Well... there's no loud background music in real life, and some sounds (like rain, etc...) are usually less loud in real life than in movies...
That forces people who shouldn't own a house to buy one. Renting vs buying as which is a better investment is a complex calculation, but for some people renting is clearly better, and you have just ensured they are forced to make a bad investment.
I dont know. I think you underestimate how difficult it is to make big organisations work well. As soon as any organisation grows large enough (say, a large municipality), it becomes an incredibly difficult task to run it perfectly. Everyone trying their best, but still people from office A have no idea what people in office B does, bosses make the wrong decisions because they dont have access to correct knowlegde and are overworked, employees stop taking responsibility because their bosses are overworked and the decicions making structures are opaque and feel futile.

None of this is evil or bad faith. Its simply very hard problems that are hard to solve individually. We try to organize or build systems to fix these things, but its a very hard problem.

I'm not denying that there are powerful people doing evil things to benefit themselves, and that this is huge part of why everything is bad. Im just saying we shouldnt lose sight of the fact that a lot of our troubles come down to our problems being extremely complex and human nature doesnt interact that great with that kind of complexity. Our biggest problem i think is not nefariouss badguys, but the immense scale of our issues and our inability to tackle them at the proper level.
I was really surprised to read that most movies have a different mix for streaming. Most of what I stream has such high dynamic range that it feels like a cinema mix to me. I can only imagine how bad it would be if we actually got the cinema mix.
Why doesn't it generate any value?

There are crypto networks that does betting. The natural next thing is insurance, which can be considered a special case of betting.

The "harsh" truth might very well be, that a lot of industries that have been governed by priviliged organisations will turn into algorithmically governed DAOs.

A lot of people in the financial sector will probably loose their job, as cheaper alternatives for financial products will occur in self regulated algorithmically governed systems.

The "bitcoin is the crypto definition" view should be abandoned. And it should be understood that crypto means algoritgmically governed economies for now. Later it will be algorithmic governance.

Ie. Cryptos market cap is at least equal to the financial sector. And probably we are only scratching the surface with that statement.
Faster than ARM A-77: https://www.phoronix.net/image.php?id=2021&image=sifive_p650... . Performance comparable to Apple Icestorm architecture, the 'efficiency' cores in M1. Considering A-710 is the fastest ARM core currently available and its successor will only be available next year, SiFive is just a few years before real competition starts in an arena currently dominated by ARM.

This will be beautiful to watch.
This. Texas once openly bragged about how they've solved their homeless problem by simply buying their homeless a bus fare to L.A. (See Gov Rick Perry bragging about this during one of the GOP presidential candidate debates.) While they don't openly brag anymore, this is still their primary policy for dealing with the homeless...

We know this because while writing a series of LA Times articles a few years ago on the homeless situation in Hollywood, George Lopez (the reporter, not the comedian) discovered that most of the homeless people he was interviewing weren't even L.A. locals. The overwhelming majority of the homeless came from the Midwest (mostly: Texas), because someone bought them a ticket and told them the weather here was great.

And the bigger problem: when offered shelter, most homeless refuse because almost all shelters in L.A. are sober facilities that do not allow contraband (i.e., booze or drug paraphenelia) and they would rather keep their drugs/alcohol than have housing. This is why L.A. is attempting to introduce new rules that would prohibit individuals from camping in public areas if there is shelter space available and they refuse shelter.
If you could ignore the UI, 8 was actually a great OS underneath...which is why 8.1 was pretty solid, they fixed the UI
Electron exists because cross platform native desktop development is a terrible experience, and many developers (some who even frequent HN!) prefer going with the easy and fast route (due to a variety of pressures) over the native route.

It’s the same reason why people gravitate towards MIT and Apache licenses over things like lGPL. It doesn’t require a developer to think as hard if they are in violation of the license with their project. Though plenty of developers still screw this up even with those licenses (see the devs of sonic colors ultimate and the violation of the Godot Engine’s MIT license)
Maybe some artistic soul could make a great meme with NBA stars and Winnie the Pooh on one side and WTA on the other and the text:

TIL: tennis balls are bigger than basket balls.

I know there are quite a few here who also hang on other parts of the internet and who knows how to generate memes.

Anyone up for the challenge?
Nixery: Ad-hoc container registry, powered by Nix
The idea is to use the compressed instruction extension. Then two adjacent instructions can be handled like a single “fat” instruction with a special case implementation.

That allows more flexibility for CPU designs to optimize transistor count vs speed vs energy consumption.

This guy clearly did not look at the stated rationale for the design decisions of RISC-V.
I own a stone tool with representational carvings that would have been incredibly valuable to scientists had my great-grandfather not uncovered it by sluicing down a mountainside looking for artifacts. It's the only known example of a minor art style in a specific location, and it's completely worthless because some dude pulled it out of the ground and put it in a box.
And 50 years ago he probably would have been given awards and accolades.
The fact I'd need to go check this every day (or check it on the last day) to see everything is... inane.
For some reason Windows apis are like hieroglyphs to me — coming from Mac Storyboard/ UIKit conventions…

Any advice?
I'd guess they pay much more than this due to some licensing/t&c issue. I haven't read them but I speculate that they same something to the effect of you can't make it accessible to the public as a shared, paid for resource etc and that amazon has a separate agreement and they pay more.
"Twitter Censoring" needs to be a meme.
Would you please stop posting unsubstantive and/or flamebait comments? You've unfortunately been doing that a lot lately, and it's not what this site is for.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I don't think it's a good idea to make more and more solutions to problems that we don't understand.

What about we spend more time to study the problems, to study us.
I get the feeling that we could all just copy and paste our comments from the last Electron post.

I doubt anyone is going to chance their mind about it. It is the jQuery of cross-platform development.
Another review

https://www.newstatesman.com/culture/books/2021/12/hg-wells-....

Today I learned: HG Wells' lover Moura Budberg and George Boole's daughter Ethyl Voynich nee Boole (who later married Wilfrid Voynich owner of The Voynich Manuscript) both dated the two people, Sidney Reilly (the inspiration for James Bond) and R. H. Bruce Lockhart, who tried to overthrow Lenin and the Bolsheviks.

There's certain moments in time where paths crossed and lives intertwined, like Mary Shelly's Lake Geneva ghost story telling, or 1913 Vienna, or Budapest Hungary Schools that make me wonder what kind of crazy melting pots happening now there are that will some day be unearthed.

https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-21859771

https://slatestarcodex.com/2017/05/26/the-atomic-bomb-consid...

https://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/29/travel/lake-geneva-as-byr...
Why is it called "earthly"?
Thanks! I was a Tabs Outliner user myself and the BrainTool Topic Manager is inspired by it. NB BT can import the JSON exported by TO if you want to transfer your stuff.
I'll venture some guesses here:

* How transmissible is Omicron?
Very. But how much? Based on current data, there's a sort of invariant involving a tradeoff between greater escape of post-infection/post-vaccination immunity and greater transmissibility where anything along that invariant line can explain it's aggressive rise. Either way, it doesn't really matter. If it continues to behave as it has, we'll see a lot more of omicron. ~60% confidence

* Are Omicron infections milder, or more severe?

That's the BIG question right now. I've seen one MD describe patients that they've seen with omicron as being mild. On the other hand, there's also been a significant rise in hospitalizations in affected areas, however, if there's simply more infected, that would be expected. I don't have a good guess here. We haven't had enough time to find out.

* Can Omicron become dominant in this Delta environment?

Given it's very rapid rise to dominance in the small subset of testing data I've seen, I'll put money on it out-competing delta. ~60% confidence

* How much can Omicron evade the vaccine-immunity and/or natural-immunity?

Another good question. Despite the fact it has a lot of spike-protein mutations, and many experts believe that immune escape is likely here: I'm not convinced that's the best metric, and I've only 20-30% confidence in my agreement with it. I'll revise this according to the following pieces of evidence I expect to see, in increasing order of how much confidence I'll gain in that assessment for each piece: I'll gain more after I hear a lot of anecdotes about vaccinated getting sick, more if I see lab results confirm lower antibody affinity, and more still after actual numbers to high statistical significance confirm that previously infected or people 2-6 months post-vaccination have a high rate of infection en par with the rest of the population.
Yes I know. I'm responding to the "not forcing them to pay for automobile storage they're not using". This website says it costs 25-50k to build an underground parking spot [0] which when they can charge $3,600 per year it is totally profitable to build them without any subsidy by the renters not driving.

[0]: https://www.dbsg.com/blog/surface-parking-vs-underground-par....
The poster didn't say he wanted the city to provide free car storage. Parking on the street is being put on people because the city isn't putting in the realistic requirement that makes developers deal with the fact that people actually do have cars, especially in LA
I would give soo much for a native GTK MS Teams client
Might be faster to link to the Wikipedia page [0]. As an American some names that stick out to me are Sinclair Lewis and Ludwig Wittgenstein.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022_in_public_domain
That's a great point. Choice is often between Electron or nothing. Why? Because even when they can afford it, software development corporations prefer to save money on the development. Even if they save peanuts, as in my example regarding apps on M1.

Obviously, this can exists only when there's no or minimum competition for the end users.
You just show how disconnected this discussion is from reality.
Apart from the reasons in the post above, there's also the fact that i wouldn't have enough space on my desk for multiple monitors at a much higher resolution, unless i were to use fewer of them - few large monitors at high resolutions (or just one) also work for some folks, of course.

The aforementioned window snapping issue would also take work with my current workflow.

And in regards to games and multitasking while playing them, having some titles take up the whole screen and not let me watch a video in the background would be annoying, too, unless i were to always play them in windowed mode.

Oh, and don't get me started on software, especially the kind that doesn't utilize native UI frameworks, not respecting high DPI configurations and everything therefore being unreadably small. On the other hand, resolution scaling in Windows sucks in certain software, e.g. i have a 27" monitor at work and scaling with a factor of 125% makes things blurry, which is really annoying.

So it's also a certain bit of modern OSes largely being defective and insufficient when dealing with certain configurations.

Would having a better GPU be nice? Sure. In this economy? Probably not. I also throttle my RX 570 to a 50% power limit, otherwise it tends to get loud sometimes.
Of course not! Please don't suggest that I would say such a heartless thing! We're talking about someone who had to be sick for months, probably inside a hospital already.

The important thing to do is get everyone vaccinated, including in Africa where there is a tremendous shortage of vaccines. The more the virus spreads, the more chances it has to mutate into new variants. Also, when everyone is vaccinated, the elderly and immunocompromised are less likely to be exposed to the disease; vaccination should be seen first as a public-health policy, not as a means for individual protection. Not to mention that, even though the vaccination is less effective individually for the immunocompromised, they are one of the groups that are at most risk from covid and therefore most benefit from being vaccinated.
Similarly, the second case in the US was just found in here in Minnesota, probably for the same reason (at least compared to the rest of the US). MN typically has "more" cases of seasonal diseases like flu compared to other states since our Dept of Health has been reasonably functional and funded.
We have this very famous writer in our country whos works are in the secondary school curriculum. So one day a teacher is giving a lesson to the kids and off she goes into the wilderness about the man. One girl in the class quickly points out that she's wrong about this and that and in fact it happened this way. Teacher quickly goes into a meltdown accusing the girl of being out of her place. The she asks who is she to tell these kind of things to her. "I'm his granddaughter"- replied the girl...
As of sizes ...

For Sciter Quark ( https://quark.sciter.com ) I've measured size of minimal "Hello World".

- Electron: 50 MB on disk, 200 MB of RAM and at least 2 processes running.

- QT: 5 MB (and 30 MB if + QtWebKit) and ~70 MB (200 MB if QtWebKit) of RAM.

- Sciter Quark (standalone Sciter executable): 5 MB on disk, 32 MB in RAM. That includes HTML/CSS UI, JS engine, NodeJS alike runtime.

Out of the box Sciter works on same platforms as Electron.
Some of these things are essentially unknowable without time. Yes, you can model them but stuff like sampling error and model error will bite you at this early stage.
Same. I miss the darkroom, and ST:TNG looks so great on film!

In case you're unaware, you don't need a darkroom to develop 35mm film. I don't use an enlarger to transfer my photos onto photo paper (which would require a darkroom). Instead, I develop in the light but using a light-proof changing bag to load my film into a light-proof Paterson developing tank. After I pull the developed film out and let it dry, I scan the negatives using a photo scanner (I use an Epson v600, but there are plenty of options out there for scanning film negatives). Reddit's r/analog and r/analogcommunity is a thriving community.
Also consider how interconnected the world is that Delta spread around the globe in a few months.
It's not a coincidence that a lot of cryptocurrency projects are started and maintained by relatively young and inexperienced programmers.
Why do you think this?

Obviously, the discussion above (read: comment thread elsewhere) about "middle density housing" is the same armchair urban planning as your comment, but middle density seems like a much more "moderate" solution by comparison to your proposal.
99.999% of what Electron does may be achieved bundling your content into a single HTML file on your desktop. For the remaining .001% you are paying a ridiculous prize in terms of performance and space utilization.

Electron does not solve a "massive problem". It solves a very minor problem. But web developers are precisely the people who rather than studying the target's platform or studying their own platform (you probably don't need Electron) would just do the most nonsensical thing that comes to mind.
This is the actual link - HN cut it off:

https://twitter.com/safety/unsafe_link_warning?unsafe_link=h...

and the article/censored link in question:

https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/circ.144.suppl_1.107...