skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a known tactic by Elon.

He does something that is so incredibly outrageous knowing it will get denied but in doing so, it pushes your mental anchor so far out, that it allows him to "meet in the middle" to get something approved that would not have been approved otherwise if he hadn't anchored you so far out.
Being on HN, this is unfortunately no surprise.

Front page severely lacking "good news" cryptocurrency stories etc.
NFT blockchains don't create composibility beyond anything that a regular, non-blockchain API would provide.

NFTs are not secure or persistent. The asset at the URL could change at any time.

Liquidity is a function of people, not of the underlying technical structure of the marketplace. This is tautological reasoning. "more people will use the NFT marketplace, creating more liquidity, because of the greater liquidity of the NFT marketplace."
The nearly vertical line over the past two years, yes. I don't think you can call simple supply and demand a conspiracy theory. If MMT theorists said that wouldn't cause inflation, I'd call that a conspiracy theory soundly disproven[0].

[0]https://www.pbs.org/newshour/economy/u-s-consumer-prices-spi...
So you're suggesting that instead of names, we refer to UUID's when talking about a service?
The ancient law that might save Roe vs. Wade (2021) [video]
"-fno-math-errno" and "-fno-signed-zeros" can be turned on without any problems.

I got a four times speedup on <cmath> functions with no loss in accuracy.

See also "Why Standard C++ Math Functions Are Slow":

https://medium.com/@ryan.burn/why-standard-c-math-functions-...
Do you really think Google gives a damn about the FCC, much less the state governments? They'd probably just ask them to submit a feedback request with a screenshot.
Robotic Research raises $228M Series A
i.e. social media

All big tech is selling is mindless churn

Reality TV has become life

Why? Because we’re destroying the planet consuming it so we need to build rockets to escape!
No, because you're rich as hell and will hire an actual expert to validate the origin of the painting. Come on, you think art history experts are the ones actually buying these paintings, as opposed to rich folk with too much money?
Yeah, that would be confusing. I'd personally suggest making them a bit more specific and, if you can, creative—just not so creative as to be unintuitive to their purpose.
Golang Implementation of Java Stream API with Generics
Moreso than most, this regulation is written in blood. The reason this and other FCC 911 rules came about was that there were numerous cases of people trying to call 911 and failing due to software "issues". The FCC said enough and mandated that if it were possible to complete a call, the phone is required to.

Installing your own OS that intentionally doesn't support 911 handling would be in the "not possible" category just like a user who cut their antenna. For anything less than that, Google (and other manufacturers) are absolutely responsible for ensuring the 911 code path can't be disrupted. People have literally died from this.
I'm quite happy as a passenger to play some games in tesla while on a road trip.
Tesla's multi media center is a vision of phone-less experience in the car. I can see every day people swiping their phones, doing shopping while driving. In fact every 3rd 4th traffic light "sleeping" driver is due to the phone. How tesla games are that different from having a phone? Tesla at least doing some measures to prevent this. The order of problem of a phone with Tesla screen is not even comparable. And yes, FSD beta detects when you're on the phone.

Does any car manufacture or phone manufacture ( AppleCar android auto doing something to stop this )?
The Federal government should exclude these non-cooperating departments from the 1033 program[1] then. I hate it when Democrats just throw up their arms and act exasperated; there _is_ a way here. Withhold FBI's cooperation from these departments too then.

[1] https://www.cnbc.com/2020/07/09/why-police-pay-nothing-for-m...
* Is it a currency or an investment? None of the major coins seem usable as a currency to me, the values are too volatile.

More of an investment, for the time being.

* What does it offer me over using USD? For me at least I see very little value, I often cannot use it for purchases and most of the places that I have seen it offered do it for secrecy, VPN or counterfeit goods. I am not trying to perpetuate the idea that cryto is only used for illegal activities but for myself I have little to no benefit of using it for purchases.

Yes, I've purchased like one thing with crypto and that was back when you couldn't buy hardware wallets with USD, so crypto was the only option.

* Would you compare your "store of value" use case the same as owning gold? It is interesting to hear coins having a store of value since for me at least the volatility kills it and without a huge use in the economy I don't have confidence in it holding up.

Yes, I do compare the store of value use case similar to owning gold. Gold is just much harder to transport, send across the world, store, etc. Gold has also been trading sideways for about a year, so I don't think it really protects from inflation (someone correct me if I'm mistaken about that). I actually do own both gold and crypto, so I've been able to compare them first hand.

Also, crypto is super volatile, for sure, but if you think about it over a multi-year horizon, similar to how someone would invest in an S&P 500 index fund, then I think crypto will in general appreciate and the volatility should go down as more people hold it and consider it valuable. The idea is that it stabilizes as its market cap goes up. Also just want to call out that I consider Bitcoin its own thing, apart from the rest of crypto, since Bitcoin actually has a max supply cap. Many cryptocurrencies do not (they can essentially print money), or their max supply is so ridiculously high as to barely matter at all.

Thanks for responding! I like to hear about how people are thinking about this, beyond the point that it's only used for illicit activities.
Zillow it yourself. $300k is the going rate for a studio near the UN in Midtown. $500k goes far just outside the downtown core of Boston in places like Brighton or Jamaica Plain or Dorchester.
Artists regularly paint similar pieces. And it's not clear if one of these was a draft. Although, from what I know of Picasso - I don't think one of these would've been a draft. It was probably just a similar piece. You can probably find a lot of pieces close to this similar that Picasso did.
I too am interested in this.

I long for the day where Kubernetes services, virtual machines, dedicated servers and developer machines can all securely talk to eachother in some kind of service mesh, where security and firewalls can be implemented with "tags".

Tailscale seems to be pretty much this, but while it seems great for the dev/user facing side of things (developer machine connectivity), it doesn't seem like it's suited for the service to service communication side? It would be nice to have one unified connectivity solution with identity based security rather than e.g Consul Connect for services, Tailscale / Wireguard for dev machine connectivity, etc.
Disclosure: I work for GM, anything I write here is solely my own opinion.

First off: I appreciate the article. I think modern safety culture has vastly improved quality of life. I think we need to be very aware of harms that accrue at industrial scale. I think we only get good results when people are intentional about understanding and dealing with negative externalities. I think safety and security require leadership. We need to guard against motivated reasoning.

All that being said, this article is very much written from the present perspective. I am NOT arguing that ethyl lead is or was ever good or acceptable, or that GM or oil companies should have ever fought to allow it.

The author talks about an industrial incident where a significant number of workers were poisoned. It is important to acknowledge the harm here, but it should also be viewed in an industrial context. There are risks in industrial and lab activities, even today. Chemical and pharmaceutical processes have precursors and reagents that the public is never exposed to in anything like the amount present in the lab. For instance, the amount of thimerosal is injectable medicines is miniscule to an individual patient, but in the lab or industry context it is absolutely a risk.

We now know that the exposure to the public of lead from gasoline was never at an acceptable level, but the author uses an industrial incident, not public exposure for their example.

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The other thing that is difficult for modern readers to understand is how ignorant the general public was about risk at scale. Bear in mind that people who work and manage industry come from the general public, so while they may have more knowledge, it takes a while to understand facts and then translate that to changing motivations.

For instance: If I run an artisanal lead smelter or mercury still in my backyard, I would adding some amount of lead or mercury to the environment around me. I would be causing some disease to people; but it would be limited to a small area.

As those operations scale up, the harms would spread exponentially.

For another example, compare wood fire emissions to diesel emissions.

This seems really really obvious, so one wonders why anyone would participate; and it's easy to blame the profit motive and evil corporations. I also see a simple bias towards doing work. I have some job to do, so I do that job. As I do that job, I am creating risks and possibly causing harm. My drive is to get the job done, and I only have so many resources for assessing harm.

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SO difficult, especially given that just because you're in the 'same' field and technically qualified to do a peer review doesn't mean you actually understand what you're reading.

For example, I'm qualified to review papers on educational programs for children. I should never be asked to do that.
Your google account was terminated because you installed a different app store on your phone?
As per Thier comment, Android 10 and up all devices. They would have to essentially take down Teams on android.
I tend to have two kinds of musical dreams: there are those when my fingers are magic and everything comes out amazing and those when everything comes out awful. I think I've managed to retain a dream melody once or twice.

Recently I dreamt a poem that was absolutely amazing but when I woke up it had melted away even before I awoke. I have some dribs and drabs of it that I'm trying to reassemble into something coherent.
God bless you. I tried reading the AOCP books and it's hard... and I have a degree in CS
They are spending $$$ for pictures of anthropomorphic monkies and pizzas that are small variants of similar pictures; that's pretty irrational.
Style rules used to suggest an apostrophe for initialized items such as C.D.'s for sale. Of course, modern style rules suggest CDs for sale (but don't tell the New York Times).
Recent post on the same topic that gets the same information across with fewer words: https://kristerw.github.io/2021/10/19/fast-math/
Both Google and Apple monetize app discovery by selling advertising spots and such, and both collect revenues from inside apps (be it the mandatory-through-them in-app purchasing systems or advertising). As they are monopolies on their respective platforms, they have no reason to improve your experience, and so they do not care if you find the best app.

They care that you find the app that generates them the most revenue, and that's exactly what they're going to do.
Apple car unit loses key engineers to Jobi, Archer air taxi upstarts
> Owners aren’t banking on rent, so pay them $3k per month. It’s all about appreciation.

But why would houses appreciate if lots of them stay empty?
I guess we have different ideas of small handful. I’m not thinking continuous growth, I’m thinking things in the range of Dunbars number.

Personally I haven’t seen anything work for more than about 5-10 people, and group chat really works fine at the < 10 scale in my opinion.
Licking food in a grocery store during a pandemic isn’t an minor crime. It’s reckless endangerment.

The gp comment is feigning moral superiority but at the same time condoning some seriously f’ed up behavior. It undermines their whole point imo.

We should hold both corporations and super spreaders accountable for their actions.
Yes. It's in the advisory: https://grafana.com/blog/2021/12/07/grafana-8.3.1-8.2.7-8.1....
Basic Microprocessors and the 6800 (1981):

https://www.amazon.com.au/Basic-Microprocessors-and-the-6800...
> NFT as a concept will live

I think we just need to wait until the first NFTs start disappearing because of the servers hosting the images shutting down. The actual images aren't stored in the blockchain, it's just a URL.
CBDCs aren't really cryptocurrency though, for good and ill, they're just a database with extra steps.
True, but I think choosing which cases to prosecute (or not prosecute) based on political expediency rather than weight of evidence could be the danger here.
You can! There are downsides though for any sufficiently polyglot organization, which is maintaining all the different client SDK's that need to use that.

Sidecars are often useful for platform-centric teams that would like to have access to help manage something like secrets, mTLS, or traffic shaping in the case of Envoy. The team that's responsible for that just needs to maintain a single sidecar rather than all of the potential SDK's for teams.

Especially if you have specific sidecars that only work on a specific infrastructure, for example if you have a Vault sidecar that deals with secrets for your service over EKS IAM permissions, you suddenly can't start your service without a decent amount of mocking and feature flags. Its nice to not have to burden your client code with all of that.

Also, there is a decent amount of work being done on gRPC to speak XDS which also removes the need for the sidecar [0].

[0] https://istio.io/latest/blog/2021/proxyless-grpc/
> try sending large amounts of money around in the legacy system

Well, cryptos aren't really money so actually sending money via crypto requires transferring crypto from a bank to an exchange, making a purchase, withdrawing it to a destination wallet at an exchange, selling it, and transferring the proceeds to another account. That takes days, requires multiple transactions and costs boatloads of fees. By constraining it to transfer of an intermediate representation you're not making a good faith representation of the process.

Second, the only thing you can do better with crypto than a centralized exchange is crime, grift and regulatory arbitrage. What you're describing is the third. Sending money in any classic fintech system takes milliseconds. What takes longer sometimes is AML/KYC and security. Crypto pretends those don't exist. Like any other regulatory arbitrage you can certainly make things faster or cheaper, for instance by dumping chemical waste into lakes. Once again comparing a car to a little buggy with a 2-stroke engine and no catalytic converter on the basis of fuel efficiency is disingenuous too.

Anyways, sending "large amounts of money" isn't a problem most people have by definition. And if you actually do have large amounts of money, sending it around isn't an issue. I've had six-figure domestic wire transfers clear instantly with no questions asked from my brokerage account, free of charge, same day. The first time they called to check. I didn't mind.

Most of the world has free or nearly free instant transfers. Europe has SEPA, the UK has FPS, Canada has Interac e-transfers, Australia has NPP. The US is getting RTP and FedNow in 2023.

[edit] In fact, the cheapest way to move USDC from FTX to Coinbase is actually to request a free wire transfer from FTX to your bank account, and then either a free wire or ACH from your bank account to Coinbase. Saves $25.
Why some people find it harder to be happy
We're a global platform that runs an intra-fleet WireGuard mesh, so we have authenticated addressing between nodes; we layer a couple dozen lines of BPF C on top of that to extend the authentication model to customer address prefixes. So, effectively, we're using WireGuard as an identity. In fact: we do so explicitly for peering connections to other services.

So yeah, it's a model that can work. It's straightforward for us because we have a lot of granular control over what can get addressed where. It might be trickier if your network model is chaotic.
It's absolutely insane that the answer to "Police aren't participating in a required program" is "let's shut it down and give up".
It doesn't because the people most affected are not the main customers!

The further the negative affected is "away" from the one who gives direct marked feedback the less does marked self regulation work.

Similar the more the negative effect is subtle affecting people often in a non-obvious roundabout (but potentially still massive) way, the less does free marked self regulation work.

Which on our modern Globalized, hyper Complex, high tech World means:

It can't work well, potentially not at all in some areas.
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I think the storage was replicated by 2013? Definitely by 2014. It didn't have automated failover, but failover could be done, and was done during the relevant drills for some time.

I think it only stopped when the storage services got to the "deprecated, and we're not bothering to do a failover because dependent teams who care should just use something else, because this one is being shut down any year now". (I don't agree with that decision, obviously ;) but I do have sympathy for the team stuck running a condemned service. Sigh.)

After stuff was migrated to the new storage service (probably somewhere in the 2017-2019 range but I have no idea when), I have no idea how DR/failover worked.
Nordic countries are restricting the use of Moderna’s Covid vaccine
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The industrial infrastructure catastrophe looming over the US Gulf coast
Tesla Model Y Driver. With FSD beta it will disable autopilot even if you stare too much on a screen. It also detects when you're on the phone. It's quite strict.
That paper is a good example actually. The first clinically approved, commercially available breast screening CADe system using NN models was available in the 90s. It too was aimed at the 2nd reader problem. At the time there was a lot of concern radiology circles that algorithms were going to take over. That pretty quickly died down as people worked with CADe and CAD systems.

Breast is one of the obvious targets, as data availability is pretty good. So over 25 years there have been incremental improvements, sure, but no real eye opening jumps, The move to deep models has helped a bit but nothing revolutionary. You still find very influential radiologists who aren’t convinced it’s worth the time, yet. I think all of them expect it to be a growing part of the workflows over time but that’s about it. Personally I think the impact will both be much bigger than the pessimistic radiologists think, and much further off than the optimistic ML think (for both non technical and technical reasons).

I suspect the broader availability of good digital data has had far more impact than the modeling updates. Don’t get me wrong, I appreciate the tools and modeling developed over the last decade - but I think the big wins are far more about data, and secondarily compute availability than about models.
art serves a similar purpose and the community is "being rich"
Land isn't scarce, but economically viable and productive land is scarce. Economic viability is a moving target, but for the most part pretty steady.
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The Bolivian supreme court shot down the term limits constitutional amendment from 2009 and he still won the election coz he was well, the most popular candidate.

That didn't fly with the Bolivian opposition who rioted. The US wasn't happy either. The real kicker was the military and police telling Morales to step down, though. Control over the police and military is the key determinant of who wins an attempted coup. He lost that.

The US treats its own constitution with a sort of theoretical reverence, but e.g. the 4th amendment which existed for about 240 years was trashed completely and it barely merited comment. If there were violence (e.g. like the capital riots) because of, say, the 60 year old 22nd amendment being repealed by the supreme court it would be less about the reverence to the constitution and more about flagrant partisanship.
Owning a car vs. renting one allows me to keep it in my garage indefinitely.

If I try to keep in my garage without the ownership title, the police will come, take the car, give it to the owner, and put me in jail.

What does owning a NFT of a JPEG allow me to do that I cannot do with just a saved copy of the JPEG on my hard disk? (Selling the NFT itself doesn't count, for obvious reasons.)
Another interesting thing of note is that Tether made loans worth billions to Celsius with bitcoin as collateral. [1] Now, whether that's good or bad depends on whether you think Tether itself is a ponzi but it definitely has an colorful history.

[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2021-10-07/crypto-my...
I would be interested in seeing other articles on this topic.

As someone new to DeFi, I found the article sparked new questions, even though as you said it wasn't deeply researched.

If Celcius is basically reinvesting into a bunch of other assets, it's possible, or even likely, that the high yield assets are too good to be true. That's where my concern would be. Is BadgerDAO rock solid? Compound? I would be curious to see expert analysis of these. Celcius is simply built on top.
On 8 December 1991 "Gorbachev called it an unconstitutional coup.".

On 25 December 1991, in a nationally-televised speech, "Gorbachev resigned as president of the Soviet Union – or, as he put it, "I hereby discontinue my activities at the post of President of the USSR."[137] He declared the office extinct, and all of its powers (such as control of the nuclear arsenal[138]) were ceded to Yeltsin. A week earlier, Gorbachev had met with Yeltsin and accepted the fait accompli of the Soviet Union's dissolution."

You are claiming thse are two different Mikhail Gorbachevs?

That's without even considering the case of parliaments and leadership of the other former Soviet republics also discussed.

Your claim has no merits.
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Well, the RKI models pretty much predicted the German Wave Four. Case rates, hospitalization and so on was predicted pretty well. They missed the timeline by roughly two weeks so, if memory serves well. Little matter, since they first modelled that in summer.
Or in other words - to treat them as children, for the rest of their lives.
You think just because you're rich you can't have any taste in art?

Look - MBS bought that fake Da Vinci for $450M or whatever. I don't think the majority of people buying $50M+ paintings are complete morons. Maybe they are.
This is still only for the foreign stuff tho, right? For Domestic Propaganda they consult the FBI.

I can certainly see a reporter having no issue with hearing about things the government would like to know before doing a trip someplace, that they want to know might be newsworthy itself. Not disclosing the connection is where the ethical alligators lie.
Yields for nascent crypto projects are basically marketing budgets and user acquisition costs passed on to the user as profits instead of going to Google Ads or being a coupon for free fries with your order. They want to incentivize people to bring liquidity to them, and pay them for it. The real question is whether or not this actually leads to retention or of it's wasted capital, but that's beyond the point of the article.