skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am. As a medium of exchange (buying things, sending people money), I only use USDC which is pinned to the US Dollar.

For sending money to friends in other countries, it is so much cheaper, faster, and more reliable than the traditional money-transfer options I had before.

For buying things around town, I have a debit card that draws from my USDC wallet. Currently, it's less convenient than my credit card, because I have to keep that account full enough to be used, and if I need to fill it up in the moment, it takes about five minutes to jump through all the hoops necessary to not incur any fees. But, as an early adopter I don't mind. Fixing that UX isn't the kind of thing that requires a major technological breakthrough.

USDC operates on multiple layer-1 blockchains, for example Algorand. When transferring USDC between Algorand wallets, the transaction takes a few seconds and costs a small fraction of a cent. Compare that to the shit show that is Western Union, or Small World Money Transfer, or wiring money between non-cooperative banks.

I also own ALGO coins. I could use these as a medium of exchange as well, but I don't, and it would make less sense to do so. Instead I think of these as stocks. Their value fluctuates with the market, and they allow me to vote in Algorand governance voting sessions. If I wanted to liquidate these assets, I would wait until the price went up and then convert them to USD or USDC. I wouldn't spend them with a debit card any more than I would spend stocks with a debit card.

Of course there is an additional use of ALGO's as a medium of exchange - transaction fees for executing smart contract transactions. I haven't found any compelling dApps yet, but in theory this will become another primary use case.
I think it's a step in the direction of personal freedom, because addictive substances are kinda the opposite of free will.
What are you talking about?
From gay rights to trans rights, from abortion to smoking weed.

Democrats have gone from victory to victory.

If that’s good or bad depends on your point of view.
This depends on how tightly contracts are enforced. For all we know the government is the one telling Evergrande not to pay USD denominated bonds. What recourse do the bond holders have if the courts tell them to fuck off?
>I wonder if this could have other legal applications.

Not in any country that believes in equality before the law; the concept is that you're not allowed to create 2 classes of citizens, which is what this law effectively does.

Not that the US is at all perfect in this regard, and nearly every state establishes some form of this, but effectively making a group of citizens permanent children should be troubling to anyone who values the concept of equality before the law.
I can't support any legislation that so blatantly discriminates against a whole class of people. People should be treated equally in the eyes of the law.
There is absolutely nothing outrageous about this. There's nothing wrong with the passenger playing a game.

There are plenty of other distractions in the world, if you can't stop yourself from looking at a screen while driving, you shouldn't be driving in the first place. It's not the job of the car to stop you.
To be fair, I've worked at federal agencies on the receiving end of FOIA requests and for every reasonable and actionable request there are a number of unhinged, overreaching, and ill-defined requests that all were handled with due process. These ones tied up limited resources delaying responses for all requests. It was a poisoned well.

But your point is well taken and I have no doubt in some situations FOIAs have been slow-walked to dissuade criticism.
This is so funny. You know, maybe you're just wrong and people that are smarter than you think differently. Have you considered that?
> What is interesting to me is a distribution of accurate, inaccurate, but also debatable critiques.

Yeah, that is interesting, isn't it? It reads at times like a high school essay written by a somewhat informed, yet not entirely world-wizened, teenager.

Thing is, it really isn't hard to meaningfully critique US policy and society... we have soooo many social issues that you don't have to exaggerate at all to make us look bad. So why do it?

I wonder if some of it might be dog-whistling to domestic propaganda talking points that Westerners don't hear or respond to? The style reminds me a little bit of North Korean propaganda and its frequent calls to Juche values (but much toned down), which to outsiders often seems ridiculous on its face but maybe has more emotional impact on their own citizens?

Maybe it's also a translation thing. I wonder how it reads in its native language.
Tesla autopilot use nowhere near competitive with a human driver, no matter what they claim.

I'm bullish on self-driving in general, but Tesla's misrepresentation of their self-driving capability has always been just shy of "fraud".
I mean, it works, kind of scary when you modify the firmware of society and society actually goes along with your fake ideology when you personally believe something less extreme, but its nice when you can just leave.
As an ex-smoker I would love if nobody ever smoked again and this scourge was eliminated from the face of earth.

But not at this price. A few years of life more will never justify another war on drugs and this level of government control.
Any NZers on that know if this is likely to pass?

We have bills like this in the US a few times a year but they never have real chances of being signed into law.
I know how the Big 5 model was developed. Creativity is more complex than just openness. Needing new experiences everywhere is novelty seeking. It's more complex than openness too. And openness distributions for software developers and everyone else are about the same as far as I know.

Creative people can thrive in many companies. You're right startups tend to be good for novelty seekers.
While I agree with you, it brings the moral/legal dilemma about who is responsible when FSD kills someone.

I'd love to see all cars being on FSD and communicating with each other around, dropping deaths (and even minor accidents) to virtually zero though.
Because prohibition worked out so well in the past. And the war on drugs is a supreme success.
So this one? By Cormen, Leiserson, Rivest, and Stein (CLRS)

https://mitpress.mit.edu/contributors/charles-e-leiserson
The wind goeth over it – musings on the symbolism of wind in literature
You know what would be cool? If you could use driving mechanisms as the game controller, like those arcade racing machines but in a real car. Imagine playing Forza or Mario Kart in your Tesla. Given that it’s all electric, this should be doable, right?
Many leave office more or less where they started, then make it up on board seats, the rubber chicken circuit, etc.
That's if you're using a NodePort service, which the documentation explains is for niche use cases such as if you don't have a compatible dedicated load balancer. In most professional setups you do have such a load balancer and can use other types of routing that avoid this.

https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/services-networking/serv...
The way I've done this is to be quite aggressive and only allow content from my channel subscriptions appear on my landing page. Anything else that shouldn't be there gets a "Don't Recommend Channel" ding.

If I'm looking for new material such as tutorials or documentaries, that kind of thing then I search in a separate non-logged in browser profile so the YT algorithm doesn't try to pollute my signed in account with junk. This has mostly worked quite well for me.
IQ tests for employees? Like other people said, you need to look into yourself.
Ask HN: How to deal with odd interviewer?
I was interviewed for a senior position and one of the interviewers was smirking all the time, although nothing funny was being sad. The other interviewer had a blank/sad face, not much facial expression.

As the last question, the smirking interviewer asked me if I considered myself junior or senior. I thought that was an odd question and I admitted I didn't know everything in the world but I'd still rank myself senior.

I don't know, it left a bad taste in my mouth. I'm not used to interviewing people so my first thoughts were 1) they didn't like me and 2) they thought I was wasting their time.

I have other interviews this week and I'm trying to not let this experience get into my head. Any advice is welcome.
So you might say the FBI is forcing the public to go dark on this.

Things like this usually are the way the are because someone wants them that way.
News like this should really be followed by something along the lines of...

Quill users leaving Twitter with others following suit - largest loss in active users in the history of the service, loss of network effect spells disaster for the bird's future

Alas, the sheep remain docile as long as they get their daily servings of outrage-in-200-characters-or-less.

Why does anyone use Twitter? What is the appeal, other than the named outrage factor? As far as I can see it is the modern equivalent of the stockade where the populace gets to throw rotten tomatoes against heretics and dissenters, patting each other on the back for their perceived loyalty to The Cause™. Just ditch the damn bird, that thing don't fly.
I don't know... but I think you're wrong: https://twitter.com/ericschmidt/status/1468308027296075778
The irony is arguing for monolithic kernels with a pile of such layers on top.
The Sigstore Trust Model
Has nothing to do with the US, is the same everywhere.

A whislteblower has acted against 'the group'. Nobody will want to touch you anymore.
Most of the US is obese and unhealthy as well. If we remove child deaths from ancient Roman times it wasn’t that different not accounting for infant mortality, and in Britain for males it’s 79.

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20181002-how-long-did-anc...

>If one’s thirties were a decrepit old age, ancient writers and politicians don’t seem to have got the message. In the early 7th Century BC, the Greek poet Hesiod wrote that a man should marry “when you are not much less than 30, and not much more”. Meanwhile, ancient Rome’s ‘cursus honorum’ – the sequence of political offices that an ambitious young man would undertake – didn’t even allow a young man to stand for his first office, that of quaestor, until the age of 30 (under Emperor Augustus, this was later lowered to 25; Augustus himself died at 75). To be consul, you had to be 43 – eight years older than the US’s minimum age limit of 35 to hold a presidency.
You're assuming Android devices have cellular modems. Tons of Android devices do not have cellular modems. Think tablets, desk phones, etc.
What's the basis for this? The first amendment limits what the government can do to limit speech but it doesn't mandate that any private organization has to give you free resources to spread your message.
abortion

In case you haven't noticed, that's about to be overturned.

Democrats have gone from victory to victory.

Lol, are you sure you're not employed by the DNC? Victory for whom, the American people, or the politicians and their friends?
Boring Haskell Manifesto (2019)
> Where would we be without Tesla succeeding?

Hydrogen Fuel Cells and probably more widespread PHEVs.

Which would have been a superior future than where we are today.

10-million cars with 200lbs of Li-ion batteries each would save more energy from our transportation network than 2-million cars with 1000lbs of Li-ion batteries each.

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At this point. Elon is incredibly anti-progress. He's switched into fighting against alternatives and is diminishing progress on legitimate strategies (both H2 and PHEVs) because he wants to hold onto his market advantage.
The alternative I'd like is making common user expectations into formalized properties of the software, making them visible and searchable. Like how it lists "Offers in-app purchases" currently, it could also list "Ad-free", "Free", etc.
Google the man page? I hope you're not serious.
What do you even mean by Crypto? It's like saying "Internet is probably the most brilliant scam in the history of mankind". It's so non-specific it's meaningless.
Because crypto wallets are really complicated ? As much as I’d love my mom to use crypto I wouldn’t be able to explain it to her if I tried.
Lots are recommending CLRS, but IMO it is way too dry and dense for a first course.

I taught myself algorithms with the Algorithm Design Manual by Skiena, and I strongly recommend it. The first half is an exposition on algorithms, and it is mercifully readable, fun, and short.
The second half is a catalog of different algorithms. You don’t really read through it, but it is useful as a reference if you have a specific problem you’re trying to solve and you want a background on algorithms in that area.
Ending China’s 20-year WTO winning streak
> should be part of the store's listing - not the title.

How long has Google store been operating (under various names)? Over a decade I think. Do they know people would love to choose between apps with and without ads? Of course. Why they decided not to implement it in the listing? Because they live from ads. There is exactly zero chance they will do it as you propose.
A couple friends of mine in similar situations spoke very highly of The Imposter's Handbook (https://bigmachine.io/products/the-imposters-handbook/)

I have a CS degree and I still really enjoyed reading through the 1st ed. of the first volume. I haven't looked at what was done with the material since then.
Or radon.
I fully support this. I truly despise the SEO spam on Google Play. The title should be the name of the app and nothing else.
I want to underscore this suggestion for another reason: computer science isn't one thing, but a whole host of related disciplines. I think of medicine as an analogy. Even if someone wanted "the basics", and you ask 10 computer scientists, you might get different answers. Turing machines? Automata? Compilers? Algorithms? Solve time?

What we tend to think of as "basics" happen to be what the problems were 50 years ago in computer science. If you don't have machines, you study the theory. If you have a very simple machine, you study the solve time (big O notation type stuff, although with exponential growth that is becoming more, not less, important).

All this is to say if you want to study VR/AR, perhaps the most important aspect is the relationship between the view angle, and the object. You would need to know linear algebra, transforms, the effect on the viewpoint and so forth. Linear algebra is one version of "the basics".
Blogger has always been the way.
Nice! Those video titles are a hot mess :( I'll have to go through them at some point over the break and figure out if they're high enough quality to recommend over the OCW videos.
This has also happened to Status Coup news org repeatedly and has repeatedly been demonetized.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/rachelsandler/2021/02/04/youtub...
Would love to hear an example if you can share more!
Twelve hour breakdown of map pl_badwater from TF2
Covid is highly infectious, there’s nothing localized about it. Those ice cream licks could be case 0 for thousands of infections and multiple deaths.

It’s a bad example, not sure why you’re defending it.
I'm pretty sure you can use aurora store without connecting it to your Google account, though you can only install gratis apps this way.
People are definitely buying better schools for real estate and it's pricey.

https://www.brookings.edu/research/housing-costs-zoning-and-...
https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2016/08/propert...

https://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/05/realestate/your-address-a...
Wow. I'm surprised this is still an issue. My friend was suicidal a few years ago and I couldn't call 911 on the original Google Pixel. Made a scary situation that much worse. Made sure the next phone I bought was an iPhone. You'd think it would be fixed by now.
There may well be many ways to get ROIs in excess of 12.68%. There are also many ways to obtain investment capital on better terms than a fixed 12.68% APR, especially if you're really, really good at investing. And if you want as much USDC as possible it's even odder to lend some of it back out at 1%!

I guess the charitable explanation for them raising capital as expensively as possible from randoms on the internet is they're feeling charitable themselves. I seem to remember that was how all the pre-crypto HYIP "investments" explained the generosity of their compounding daily return offers
Hmm, I see what I mean wasn't super clear. Of course they are valid lifelines as long as they work. My point was about that working condition though; think battery charge not being exceptional, seems to drop dead easier than when dropiing a brick phone. Then again maybe I just had bad luck.
Let's not get carried away bashing Italy. Perhaps the best indicator of the standard of a nation is its median life expectancy, which in Italy is 83.2 years, almost 4.5 years more than that of the US. Italy is a first world nation, and a wonderful one in many aspects. The average Italian has a very good life and does not envy the average American.

Yes, California, Washington State, and New York easily beat most other places on the planet when it comes to IT, including Italy. 30 years ago, when high-tech meant electronics, Japan was a leader. When high-tech meant mechanics, Germany was one of the leaders. Now, high-tech increasingly means digital, and the language of the digital age is English. Places where close to 100 percent speak English at a high level at a young age have an advantage.

I visit Italy almost every year, and it's one of the places in the rich world with most immigrants. They literally drown trying to reach Italian shores. Yes, it's not of the highly skilled type, but they are foreign and they want work.

Whereas Italian democracy and public administration leaves something to be desired, Italy didn't have a near coup in 2021, and Italian parties are not busy trying to win elections by preventing voters from other parties from voting. It's whole legal system is not so fragile that half its population cares whether one octogenarian justice dies during what they consider the wrong president.

From a startup perspective, Italy is not where it happens right now, but neither is the US Midwest. Italy's population is very old, and it's not a leader in the English speaking digital economy. Let's see what happens.
Why have we culturally accepted the states harsh treatment of our courageous whistleblowers? No monuments, no history book lessons... the state is evil and corrupt to the core.
I've found Harvey's lectures do a little too much, and risk less motivated students missing the forest for the trees. In my experience, SICP really focuses on the core points and belabours them until it's 100% sure you got it.
1993/2001 Teatro Escuela Central Sigmund Freud Federico Herrero LISY Maclean
> Use videos for faster learning though.

I'm pretty sure I can read at twice the speed that an average video is spoken.

And more importantly I can pause to think, re-read a sentence I didn't grasp and pace myself. All of these are far more cumbersome to do with video.

There my be entirely valid reasons to prefer videos. But I strongly contest the claim that videos are faster.
For a moment I thought you're talking about POSIX directory services.
On Bernstein's reliability here: in December 1977--January 1976, the House Intelligence Committee held hearings on this subject which strongly support Bernstein's claims through direct testimony of CIA officials and officers involved. Those were published in 1978, and are now available at the Internet Archive:

https://archive.org/details/CIAMedia1978Hearings/page/n3/mod...

The New York Times ran a six-part series by John Crewdson concurrent with the hearings, based in large part on them though also independent research and interviews by the Times. I've compiled that series here:

https://joindiaspora.com/posts/cdec9a80ce3b0139a0df002590d8e...

“The CIA’s 3-Decade Effort to Mold the World’s Views” (1977-12-25) https://www.nytimes.com/1977/12/25/archives/the-cias-3decade...

“Worldwide Propaganda Network Built by the C.I.A.” (1977-12-26)
https://www.nytimes.com/1977/12/26/archives/worldwide-propag...

“C.I.A. Established Many Links To Journalists in U.S. and Abroad” (1977-12-27) https://www.nytimes.com/1977/12/27/archives/cia-established-...

“Colby Acknowledges U.S. Press Picked Up Bogus C.I.A. Accounts” (1977-12-28) https://www.nytimes.com/1977/12/28/archives/colby-acknowledg...

“U.S. Correspondents Give Views on C.I.A.” (1977-12-29) https://www.nytimes.com/1977/12/29/archives/us-correspondent...

“Ex‐Envoy Says Risk of Exposure Negated C.I.A. Propaganda Value” (1977-12-30) https://www.nytimes.com/1977/12/30/archives/exenvoy-says-ris...

The total set runs about 50 pages formatted as PDF (ask me how I know). Markdown / HTML / ePub / PDF are available.

As to current practices, the CIA have pinky sworn they totally wouldn't....
If you deliver information to the public, that the public needs to know to make informed decisions your a journalist.
React Conf 2021 – Replay [video]
What's wrong with that? Salary is all relative to cost of living. And Git is typically not taught in schools.
The biggest US real estate developers don't appear to be on the verge of default, no.
"The overall US leadership class has internalized the dogma of free trade, to the point of openly and uncritically accepting the national-level negatives "

I see, and this is why the US is enforcing so many global trade embargos?

And as for the collateral of them, here in eastern germany the economy suffered a lot by the embargos against russia - as did many other branches in europe. I doubt the US economy was hit by it in any significant way by comparison.

Or that the US was (and is) using massive pressure, so that germany abandones north stream (a pipeline to get russian gas directly) and rather buys cheap US fracking gas?

So sorry, but I can't really take the "free global trade" rhetoric much serious.
The US is pro free trade for sure, but only as long as US interests are not hurt too much.

And all of this happens with or without Trump.
Wild! It's self-evident that you can't solve addressability with a blockchain, you can't get anywhere near the requisite scale. What am I missing?
This gets really messy when you start talking about physical addiction versus mental addictions. Not to mention substances that are only physically addictive to some people.
Very interesting, but this is a pretty unique chip and I would definitely not risk it on a coarse method like that. But if I had a bunch of them I would probably try it on one or two.
Where Are the Workers? Millions Are Sick with ‘Long Covid.’
My friend has a real Picasso. It’s a lithograph print, one of maybe 30+ of that image. It’s worth maybe $5k only. How is that scarcity any truer than an NFT? Picasso could have printed as many as he wanted, and indeed, printed so many that the value today is not very high.

In both cases, an artist merely places their “this is official” stamp on something that is effectively a copy, and limits the number of copies available based on the desired economics for their work. And the fact that the “official” version is worth more than a “fake”, is merely because humans value genuineness and provenance, even when the end product is indiscernibly different.
If that's really the case Europe should revisit their privacy rules immediately (preferably by more technically capable/visionary entities).

Claiming that on-device processing of driver's video feed without uploading/storing, for safety reasons, is a threat to privacy is outrageously unacceptable.
Without Stem Immigration Reforms, the United States Will Not Stay Ahead of China