skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's a very interesting article with a lot of relevance for today's American media world, which also seems to have a very intertwined relationship with the various intelligence agencies (16 or so) of the US government.

One case that stands out today is that of the Washington Post and its editorial/journalistic direction since it was bought by Jeff Bezos for $250 million in August 2013. This was preceded by Bezos' AWS getting a $600 million CIA web services contract in March 2013. This seems to have resulted in a rather striking shift in coverage and editorial opinion at the WaPo.

Prior to this, the Washington Post had published a striking expose of the national security state, by reporters Dana Priest and William Arkin, entitled "Top Secret America". Here's legendary nuclear weapons historian Richard Rhodes reviewing the book that came out of that effort in 2011:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/books/top-secre...

> "“Top Secret America” originated in a 2010 Washington Post series of the same name that set out to enumerate how many Americans held top secret clearances — about 854,000, the Post’s investigative team found, more than the population of Washington. The book is far more ambitious than was the series, however, and makes the team’s investigations available in detail to those of us who live beyond the Beltway..."

Since the change of ownership at the WaPo, with the new owner probably interested in the perpetual renewal of that AWS CIA contract and expanding such services to all the other intel agencies, I can't think of anything even remotely similar being published at the Post. Note this doesn't mean WaPo employees have gone back to being CIA agents, rather that the editorial board has realized that publishing any more such exposes are probably not going to help with their future careers at the Post.

Another Church Committee with the power to subpoena all the relevant parties under oath about this situation might be a good idea, but don't hold your breath.
Adyen introduces Android based payment terminals
Some yearn vaults invest in liquidity pools that let users pay 10bps or whatever to trade one stablecoin for another. So the yield comes from that 10bps fee.

The sUSD yVault deposits sUSD into overcollateralized lending protocols and collects interest on loans to other users (who are presumably using Aave or CREAM as places to buy leverage to get super fucking long crypto). So the yield comes from other users paying interest to borrow sUSD.
Evergrande defaults, contagion in China - ripple effects in china. Global media needs a story line to rattle the market, traders make money on the news. The world rolls on - it's not big enough to be a major problem. China can absorb this one.

Now if the entire real estate in China goes south - thats a global problem and a huge political issue. That would signal that we might be on a warpath as the party would need to stabilize the economy with some kind of threat narrative or risk being run out of office. This is *highly speculative* of course.
I really want a way to search for ad-free apps.
I don't bother very much with the Android store because of this.
If I want my 4 year old to use my phone I don't want her clicking some ad and leaving the app by accident.

As a result, I only have apps by the BBC and a couple of others.
It's easier to trust the boys in blue when you're white and red.
Would be even illegal in germany...
> Haha, I have seen many speeches of the US presidents and they all come off as nationalist.

Who cares about speeches? It's policy that matters. Chinese leaders actually pursue nationalist economic policy, while the US leaders dress up globalization with nationalist rhetoric.
Ask HN: What Is Happening to the Market?
I am a dev with 6+ years of experience.

What is happening to the dev market? I can't help but notice a trend.

On twitter, I see 17 year old devs pulling in 120k+ annual income [1].

At 17, I had not even started my college yet.

Is this the new normal?

It all seems to be a bit surreal seeing teenagers make so much money in high school while they struggle to even make a proper git commit.

[1] https://twitter.com/PrasoonPratham/status/1468899558289592322
Ask HN: What tools have you written that had a great impact on productivity
The was a long discussion here[0] about the pros and cons of sharing tools/scripts to increase productivity but there weren't a lot of people describing what they've created. I thought it would also be a good discussion.

What have you created for your self or your team that helped boost productivity by an outsized amount?

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29486243
the worst recruiters are those that don't look closely at your profile/resume and or don't ask you what your salary requirements are and then you interview for a job where you do well technically (i.e pass leetcode tests and system design) but the hiring manager sees that the role he is hiring for isn't a fit for your experience, nothing worse than spending hours on interviews where a simple screening would have sufficed to rule me out. These recruiters all ways say something like "oh we are looking for people strong in engineering", but if you and a person who had experience in the role are competing, he would get the job over you 8/10 times, so in essense they are just shotgunning candidates. This is why these days i always insist on meeting the hiring manager before we proceed with the technical interview.
Are there any tools that will download either the metadata or even the entire video from my YT subscriptions, and that just runs natively on my Linux system (i.e. no Docker/container stuff) ? Something I could look at that isn't YT but would show me the latest (if any) stuff from channel's I've expressed interest in?

I've seen tubearchivist and tubesync, mentioned below, and these just don't operate with the sort of technology I'm comfortable with.
Do you have a source for them only keeping "some" at hand? You brought up PayPal, which holds 100% of users crypto through an intermediary (Paxos).
Sure, let's talk shit about a new system that's largely censorship resistant (or trying to be) and call it the biggest scam in history (without any evidence) while praising the world's most authoritarian government. Hard to take you seriously.
for example. there are around 1.6 billion people who call themselves muslims and they don't touch alcohol and haven't done so for around 1500 years. is that "fighting evolution" ? muslims have grown to not like alcohol, peer pressure, religion and what not. the result? people don't sneak out and have a swig. its just understood that no alcohol means no alcohol.

i am assuming that is the long term goals of new zealand
Gary Webb showed journalists what their choices were, so if the CIA wants media influence, they get media influence.

edit: Also Michael Hastings, according to some. Webb was pretty blatant.
I agree. Masks are so effective at stopping the spread of disease. As a former teacher/tutor/sub who moved around a lot, even before COVID-19, I got sick all the time. Little kid diseases are often less apparent in the little kids than adults, and teachers are just surrounded by runny noses, kids couching and sneezing, touching stuff, picking their nose, etc. It's nice to have a little protection. Hand sanitizer I don't think is as effective, but washing hands for sure.
I think the main answer to most of these questions is that everything works well as long as BTC and most others currencies continues to rapidly increase in value as a result of a lot of cash inflows into these cryptocurrencies. This papers over all of the fraud at least for now...

When the explanation is too complex for anyone to really grasp or verify, realize that this is probably intentionally opaque in order to hide the fact that it is either hugely risky, built on a house of cards or it may be just outright fraud.
A timber house is very much different. I find them very cozy and preferable anyways.
It is a balance you have to strike. The benefits are very strong IMO.
Users are interested in apps that have no ads. Whether or not an app has ads is not part of the standard app info fields, so while publishers could lie in the title, where else can the users find out whether there are ads and why couldn't Google instead just ban apps that lie about having no ads instead of outright banning "no ads" in the title?

I think Google makes no money from free ad-less apps, so it is plausible that allowing free ad-less apps to promote themselves as "no ads" (over apps with ads or paid apps) is not directly financially beneficial to Google and is perhaps even harmful. You can see the disincentives at work here.
Maybe try the NAND to Tetris

https://www.nand2tetris.org/
Uh, option roms are still a foundation of how PCIe/etc work. So, unless you don't consider PCIe to be plug and play, option roms are very much a part of PnP. Ever plugged in a GPU? How do you think the BIOS/EFI/GRUB/etc display things on the screen? How about net booting of a random network adapter, or storage controller that isn't AHCI/NVMe?

So, all that said, your mental model of how a modern machine works, seems like its stuck with the idea that linux is the center of the machine and can access all the hardware, and that the HW looks like a 1980's PC with "registers" that actually modify HW states. Which is provably false, and will continue to be that way as long as people want inexpensive and/or high performance machines. The mainframe guys go on about channel processors, but that concept (using a small cpu/etc to manage a piece of hw or communication) is fundamental to a very large percentage of HW produced in the past couple decades. There is code buried in pretty much every single USB device to manage the bus, as is true for nearly every storage device where those microcontrollers manage everything from queue scheduling, signal processing, etc on spinning media, to the flash translation layers and error correction on SSDs. Then, there is all the power mgmt code running to control internal bus power/frequency, as well as cache power mgmt, etc, etc, etc. Even things you probably think are simple register model HW devices (say XHCI or NVMe) have microcontrollers buried in them actually driving the bus and maintaining connections. Overwhelmingly what you think of as HW registers are actually mailbox interfaces to micro controllers running proprietary firmware.

So, as I mentioned pretty much the entire HW docs for the RK3399 were released years ago, and that SoC and the dozens of boards you can find it on, still in general won't work out of the box with a random upstream linux kernel on any random board you can find. And when it "works" the power mgmt tends to be terrible. That is because it actually takes engineering time to make these things work well, someone has to write the drivers, device tree's, etc and go through the pain of getting them merged to mainline. And its very obvious that while sometimes there are people willing to spend their holidays and weekends making it work, those people are few and far between. And that's just for a few pieces of HW, if there were hundreds of manufactures making variations on say the pinebook pro, pretty much none of them would work outside of the hacked up debian/whatever that the manufacture shipped on the device.

And then, say linux actually works well on it, what happens if you want to run netbsd?
This is the same way other bureaucracy shut down programs or persons that are critical of them. The tactic of deny, defer, delay.

Eg: Just do a FOIA request - wait 50+ days for the response - by which time some new bullshit is going on and everyone forgot the last one.

Not just police but other government regulatory agencies too
For formal resources:

You might like the Princeton Algorithms Coursera course:
https://www.coursera.org/learn/algorithms-part1

SICP is an amazing book, but I HIGHLY recommend you follow along with a lecture video as the textbook was designed to go along with lectures for electrical engineering computer science students. Brian Harvey's lectures are fantastic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4leZ1Ca4f0g&list=PLhMnuBfGeC...

And maybe some math? All of this is kind of abstract to start out with. It might be useful to combine this with youtube videos on your project, because you may be discouraged with doing a lot of abstract work and not concrete work on your project.

Also, freecodecamp and youtube in general is an excellent resource if you're stuck on any particular part of CS. Freecodecamp has compiled a lot of the best videos across the internet on particular concepts and you can get a deep dive into a topic if you're ever stuck. Nowadays, if you're stuck, often viewing someone else's explanation can get you unstuck fairly quick.
I "subscribe" to any channel I think is decent, supposedly it helps their numbers, but I rarely use the YouTube interface to figure out what to watch next. My real subscription list is my RSS reader and I'm highly selective about what goes in there. When I do watch something on the site, I habitually put it in theater mode right away, which hides the suggestions. I'm sure lots of people would set theater mode as the default if it were an option. I'm sure it's not on purpose.
Pyramid schemes like Rodan and Fields can go on forever, they will grow and contract over time, but there will always be a new group of people who are interested in getting rich. The mentality isn't much different than gambling at casinos I guess.
This is what people don't understand, the CCP is not playing a co-operation game. They will play a co-operation game until they get what they want from you. After that its the domination game.

It's like patriotism, nationalism have become bad words in the USA. The USA and its values are really worth fighting for (am not even from the US), but this thing about "lets not be nationalistic", and if you criticize the CCP you hear "oh let's not be sinophobic" needs to stop.

All the 3rd world countries who got into the Belt and Road "co-operation" are really getting belted now.
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Montreal is a little late to the party. I think the fact that the weather and English speakers aren't competing for Real Estate there has slowed the rise in price. It's only a matter of time. But really, 730k for a 3 bedroom/1 bathroom/ 1954 starter home? They didn't even list the sq/ft of the house (the entire lot is 5k sq/ft) it's so small, my guess is it's no more than 1500 sq/ft.

Anyway, give it another year or two, it will get there.
No, I'm aware of those situations. When I say "net negative" I don't mean "universally negative," I mean "taken as a whole given all available data."
Measurement of SK-Ecat performance (Univ. of Bologna test report) [pdf]
Could this be in response to apps indicating that they don't have ads even though they do?
FYI, there are a ton of definitions of 'intelligence', some fit with what AI algorithms can do, some don't.

I found reading 'A Collection of Definitions of Intelligence' quite interesting myself https://arxiv.org/abs/0706.3639
When do the lawsuits start against YouTube for demonetizing independent news?
I've lost count on how many independent news orgs have said their news stories have been demonetized or blocked because of some made up reason by YouTube. Then YouTube will gladly run corporate news videos from CNN or MSNBC that use the same video from the independent news org. This is quite obvious collusion between YouTube and the major corporate news orgs. Also they are blocking stories that make people in power uneasy.

If you listen to newest episode of Breaking Points. They say they have been demonetized just for reporting on CNN and the Cuomo brothers. https://open.spotify.com/episode/4qXx9lOhB4APrV3HecKiEv at 1:25

This has also happened to Status Coup news org repeatedly and has repeatedly been demonetized.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/rachelsandler/2021/02/04/youtube-is-taking-down-raw-footage-from-the-capitol-riot-as-it-tries-to-crack-down-on-misinformation/?sh=691b5e854c10
> And he ultimately delivers product, something most Musk-wannabes fail to do.

Where's are the solar roof? Battery swaps? And "coast-to-coast full self driving", $35,000 Model 3?

Do you think the personal assistant robot will ever be a delivered product?

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Musk has mastered the ability to make the public forget about his promises. He doesn't deliver on these promises at all. I think we're generally wising up to his game: Musk carefully SEO's his words and public image to make the internet itself forget about these claims.

Only people who actually rely upon their own personal memories (ie: the Battery Swap demo from 2013) can pull this information out. Otherwise, they're fogotten.

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In any case, this video-games while driving thing is just more of the 2016 claim of "coast to coast full self driving by 2018". He hasn't delivered upon the promise and needs to muck up the waters even more on the subject.

https://futurism.com/elon-musk-teslas-autonomous-car-will-dr...

> [Elon] said that the coast-to-coast test is still on track to take place at the end of the year, and that all Tesla cars built since October 2016 would be updated. The plan, announced in a Ted Talk last month, is to “go all the way from a parking lot in California to a parking lot in New York with no controls touched in the entire journey.”
New AOT Engine Brings Spring Native to the Next Level
A lot of people are hesitant to call 911 to test things out. Thinking it's illegal or whatever.

My experience (Canada) has been that they don't like it when you call and hang up.

But I would sometimes call and say "Hi, I'm mig39 from my organization, and I'm just testing that I've programmed the phone system here to dial 911 properly." They had no problem with that at all.
How can you read the whole article and say there was no proof? The article certainly provides plenty of evidence why celcius can't be offering the interest rates they're offering.
There is no over population problem in many of the worlds countries. (In some especially in the EU it's the opposite).

Some of the statistically overpopulated countries work okay with it (e.g. Singapore, Japan).

Most of the "problem causing" over population is in Asia and parts of the middle east. (Which doesn't mean they cause problems for others, but there are overpopulated countries which have "some" problems cooping with it.)

So why should any regulation affecting mostly Western states at all matter wrt. over population?
Anyone remember Opera Unite, https://web.archive.org/web/20091120143058/http://my.opera.c...

I was all-in on it being a new decentralisation of the web, that Facebook et al. would become syndicators of our broadcast content. We'd publish the content from our own computers and online services would cache it for access, but it would always be available as long as there was a direct route from my home computer to yours.

Still, I see that this sort of system could happen, basically a web-mesh.
To add to this, inflation is manageable. The USA isn't experiencing anything close to worrisome levels of inflation, it's more like normal levels of inflation after a long period of below normal levels.

Deflation, even in small amounts, can be devastating. It's a contagion that can cause a deathspiral, that if left unchecked. When businesses and people lose income, they can't keep up with debt payments, causing their assets to be liquidated, which causes the assets of others to suffer further depreciation, causing more losses and bankruptcies.
Even with its downsides, crypto serves as a useful medium of exchange for fringe goods. Digital (gaming) goods, guns and accessories, adult materials, and all kinds of things are flat-out banned at many payment middlemen (PayPal, Stripe, ...), and it causes problems from time to time even for large players.

CBDC's _might_ fill that void, but governments would need to treat it as infrastructure and not exercise some of the power that companies like Visa enjoy (blocking otherwise legal transactions).

To be fair, crypto hasn't really stepped up as being fantastic even for those fringe goods (insufficient adoption, painful user experience), but some utility still exists.
My personal issue with this idea is that cars - presently, are driven by humans, and while we can look to the future, the present necessitates that we design by these standards.

Cars are methods of transportation (and even though I'm a car enthusiast, who enjoys driving) they should be driver focused. The center screen in a Tesla is where _all_ the information is available for the driver. There are no secondary gauges or other driver-specific controls or displays. The car, presently, should be oriented for the driver to pay the most attention to the vehicle, the road, and their surroundings.

If there's a display behind the driver, or solely on the passenger side of the vehicle out of sight and reach of the driver, then it can be presumed to operate for the passengers of the vehicle.
I don't actually see a legitimate rebuttal to argument #2 (passing the tax on). In the article, the author simply says "...no, because land is special in that it is scarce and nobody can make any more of it." It's not clear to me that this is an argument against the proposition that the tax will be passed on. Indeed, you could argue that it makes it more likely, since the scarcity of land gives the landowner more economic leverage (ie, if you don't like our rents, go try to buy your own land). There may very well be a sound economic argument that explains why the tax wouldn't just raise rents, but I don't see it in this article.
> I think there's also a lot of survivorship bias.

this is critical to keep in mind every time somebody is wanking about how old things are better.

you only see the old things that happened to make it. the cast iron pan that happened not to have any voids near the surface, the cheap wooden furniture that happened not to have any sapwood in the pieces used for it. or whatever.
Sorry, if it's a basic question - but does recompiling C/C++ code(with/without flags) produce more efficient code most of the time? For example - let say I am using a binary that was compiled on a processor that didn't have support for SIMD. Assuming the program is capable of taking advantage of SIMD instructions, and also assuming my processor support SIMD - would it make sense to recompile the C/C++ code on my system again hoping the newer binary would run faster?
Those P2P loans get also lost quite often. If you have transaction logs that show you making consistent 12% for years that would be quite interesting to many.

Due to the nature of p2p lending sites the sites often have incentive to make it look good for the investor, as for them any activity on the platform brings fees in.

I think it is pretty logical that if some place makes consistent 12% to have that lowered along the years as investors will find the good places quite quickly and start competing for the price.
With regards to the museum backstop... I think it's coming. The big auction houses are there already and it's a blurred boundary.
The war on drugs expands.
So, let's be clear here. The problem is not that they've prohibited people from putting this information in the app title. The problem comes if they've done so without introducing another way for the user to express their preference for ad-free apps. E.g. it should even work better if, hypothetically, the search function prioritized ad-free apps anyway when the user puts "no ads" in the search box.

I can't tell if this is the case right now because, well, the store is still full of apps with "no ads" in the title. Those are still coming up first.
Wtf. Would be good for me but i still find it pretty scary...
Sounds like this would be an epic fail. I mean, just add a spoon of oil more, and your calorie guess is totally off. This is a clear cut case of SEEMINGLY helping. It certainly does not help the end customer. It might help the restaurant, as they don't care if the customer is receiving valid information, as long as they are buying.
Note that a 4th edition of this book (frequently referred to as CLRS) is coming out sometime early next year.