skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Look up who started Compstat and what their vision and their actions were like. Starting with Giuliani, the mayors didn’t help at all. They made things worse. Jack Maple is a flawed but awesome person. It’s unfortunate others like the mayors get so much credit.
This graph you linked to is also bunk, I’m sorry to say. I’m not saying that technology hasn’t advanced, but this particular framing is very, very bad.

What, exactly, is the Y-axis of that graph? How many things did it leave out? Why are 3d movies on the plot, what technology does it represent, and why are 3d movies placed after driverless cars, when in fact they were invented long before MSDOS and the internet? Where is the camera, the atom bomb, and the microscope? How about the sewing machine, hydraulic machines, the battery, or matches? The list of omissions is way way too long to list here. Why are microprocessors placed long after the moon landing, and just before word processors, when in fact integrated circuits were invented well before the moon landing, and were used for the moon landing?!? Why does this plot name a bunch of brands like Facebook, YouTube, Google, Ipad, MSDOS. What fundamental technologies did those things bring? They didn’t, and they’re included for the sole purpose of selling the idea that there are many recent advancements, but it’s cherry picking bogus data and ignoring many, many achievements of science, math, physics, and industry, before the invention of the microchip.
What exactly does "dressing down" mean for these folks? Does this mean we'll see fewer of those "Midtown Uniform" fleece vests?
Yeah, Mathematica is basically MACSYMA on steroids. Wolfram is indubitably a genius, and he took it far past what the general research community and even the Lisp research community did. But I can't blame him for choosing to become a billionaire rather than a vulnerable and derided eccentric like RMS. I hope he chooses to share his work after his death.
Some of the European cathedrals took centuries to build. The people who started them knew they'd never see the result.
It's been tried so many times esp when 3d printing got hot 8ish years ago.

Removing the shipping distance creates a host of other problems. Storing of raw materials, increased cost of non-shared tooling, local labor cost vs non-local just to name a few.
I mean sure, but do you really feel like that’s necessary for someone to be motivated to do a good job. IMO there’s plenty of incentive without that.
He was on the board. It's their job to know what's going on, but they just didn't care to look or maybe know how. The people on the board were there for prestige rather than serving any real function unfortunately.
The sites themselves are aware of this reputational damage risk, and discuss this openly.

https://www.niemanlab.org/2019/10/a-merger-of-chumbox-monger...
Squaring Up to Defend Mathematics
Fisher has published works confirming his belief that different races have different “innate capacity for intellectual and emotional development”. Is that not racist enough to be considered racist?
Why can't they just test this hypothesis that Yersinia bacteria growing under refrigeration cause the symptoms?

Simply culture a small amount of Yersinia, spread it on a cracker and give it to a Chrohn's suscetiple person (and also placebo) and repeat with non-Chrohn people. The disease tends to have quick flare ups, so it should be easy to quickly draw a conclusion (unless they don't think flares are directly related).
Crime is down in major metro areas all over the world since the start of the pandemic. The tangible erosion of public safety is unique to the U.S.

I've lived in both NYC and Chicago in the past decade. The rapid changes in both cities are quite alarming and no amount of hand waving about 5-30 year time frames is going to make people feel better about the sharp reversal that has occurred in the past 18 months.
Its mind boggling how mich energy is spent in transporting stuff around the world.

What's truly mind boggling is just how little energy is used to ship things around the world. Container ships are crazy efficient.
yes, they deployed it on mainnet Ethereum, they could also deploy it on non Proof of Work platforms that use the Ethereum Virtual Machine, their wish was to display it on the NFT marketplace Opensea, which currently reads data from Ethereum mainnet and Polygon mainnet so they have two choices.

to answer the more facetious but concerned prior poster, blocks use energy no matter how many transactions are involved, so the existence of the transaction itself was not a meaningful contributor to the energy use. completely empty blocks use almost the same amount of energy, which inevitably solidifies the actual concern about Proof of Work energy use, but also highlights how its not a useful comment on any thread that coincidentally used a Proof of Work blockchain as a development platform.
For better or worse, the reputation for referring to himself in the third person is one he shares with Julius Caesar.
For .NET, there is also Terminal.Gui [1] from Miguel de Icaza himself. I've been using it recently to build a specialized terminal-based calculator.

[1] https://github.com/migueldeicaza/gui.cs/
Trenchboom is good. I watched a few videos and was thinking about going back to mapping. Should be fun LOL.
don't a lot of twitter users regularly complain about how much they hate it, or take breaks or whatever?

> but most people think it’s entertaining. We know this because it generates more clicks.

All this shows is that it fosters engagement. That can also mean it's addictive - which it is because it's designed to be. That doesn't mean it is really entertaining in a nourishing way.
New technologies start out less efficient than existing technologies. Early cars were less efficient than horses. Early computers were less efficient than a room full of people doing math by hand (when you account for the time building, programming and debugging the computer before anyone knew how to do those things).

That doesn't mean we shouldn't ever develop anything new. The clunky inefficient phase is a necessary step to figure out how to get to the sleek, efficient phase. It's a nonlinear process. The slope is pretty flat at the beginning of the exponential. Shortsighted people often mistake this for failure.
No, tactical flying is highly technical and requires years to master. Most lieutenants and junior captains (winged aviators, mind you) that check into a squadron are tactically useless for the first 12-18 months as we train them up and they aeronautically adapt. Your three-to-four year Captains will do most of the flying but even the CO generally flies 1-2 times a week (Marine aviation).
The poll is pretty obviously flippant.

All the same, for such a widely-used dark pattern, the visceral hostile response is absolutely overwhelming.

Think of all the weasly, greasy, contemptuous justifications that have been offerred for this practice. Clearly, someone's lying, and not at all convincingly.
Goddammit, where do they get all of it? Is it just for rich people?

I'm fine with breaking the law for it, but I still can't get amphetamines.
There's a big, big difference between acting against your ally, and irresponsibly proliferating technology that's used against them. cf. France's Exocet sales and the Falklands, though much lower impact this time.
Just go for it! Maybe it’s not so lame as you think.

Or take inspiration from the author’s epiphany mentioned in the first paragraph :

“I carried that image around for the next 20-odd years, too scared to try something that seemed so profound, and then finally, in 2012, noticing that I wasn’t getting any younger, not wanting to be the guy whose own gravestone would read “Afraid to Embark on Scary Artistic Project He Desperately Longed to Attempt”, decided to take a run at it, in exploratory fashion, no commitments.”
I also read it as utility an usefulness in a more practical sense. It's useful to differentiate between horses and donkeys, so we call them different species.
> They cost $30... It would be an easier advice to consumer if they were $19.

It'd be easier if it were $0 too but what does that have to do with anything? $30 is what it costs to make a cable that can do high speed data, high speed display, and high power. If you want a cable that does all of this it's going to cost more than a cable that doesn't. If you want a cable that's cheaper and doesn't do everything that is also an option. Apart from both options being available anyways this problem has nothing to do with USB standards.

> and still not support 240W

When the brand new standard actually hits the shelf you'll be able to get a TB4 240W cable, as of now there just aren't any 240W cables in general. Also not supported: USB 6 and 2 kW PD or anything else from the future instead of present.

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Type C is an interface specification not a guarantee that you're $19 cable will be compatible everything man could desire to implement in your lifetime.
Nothing to be ashamed of tbqh. Post-scarcity is the type of thing that will probably give everyone nowadays nightmares and existential ennui.

Imagine life where the guy bumming on the street and the guy working hard at his craft are both contributing the same amount in the long run because there is more than enough to keep everyone living comfortably, with no need to actually compete.

In fact, I imagine the trauma of the paradigm shift could very well break a generation or so adjusting to it.
Coding Jams: Playlists for the Daily Grind
The more technical people in our group tried to register accounts but we were never able to "find" or message each other. It was orders of magnitude more difficult than getting started with telegram or signal. Don't get me wrong, I do want to use Matrix, it was just not feasible at the time. I do know that it's technically the more sustainable choice.
We can praise an accomplishment without forgetting context. But monuments cannot.

Unless there’s a proposal for building an “un-monument”, when we put up a statue for a bigot who did a good thing, we’re elevating the good thing without the context of the bad.

We should celebrate that FDR’s policies got us out of the Great Depression, and also never forget that he signed off on internment camps.
I would argue it is taken from people (yes with violence if needed) in exchange for goods and services provided, part of an implicit contract you are forced to make when you are a citizen.
OP asked a simple question and did not say "crypto is the primary existential threat we face". Crypto's environmental impact is a valid concern.
It is, the main point is that it improves the NFT standard, as one of the valid criticisms about NFTs is that their images are not stored onchain and are either on decentralized storage like IPFS or have completely centralized components via websites that can and will go down.

So the more important aspect of this generative art is showcasing how there is enough blockspace for generative onchain dynamic art, as this level of nuance isn't understood well amongst either NFT proponents, speculators, or "right click save as" or "its all money laundering" critics.

The price shouldn't be a distraction here, that particular marketplace is pretty much the best place to display NFT art right now and all listings have a price, much like Ebay.

The smart contract code can store the inputs to return an SVG or encoded images. The visual platforms can read those functions in the getImage() method and the browser doesn't really care how/where that output is stored as long as it gets the right data to display an image file type it recognizes.
Dole fought in World War II.
If USDT collapses it will take out multiple exchanges with it, and the fact that you have a winning position won't matter if the the people running the exchange it was on have entirely disappeared to sandy beaches somewhere. Counterparty risk during the systemic "banking" collapse will be very high, and completely uninsured.
> killing the soma is on the surface such a massive waste of resources

How is it a waste of resources? Evolutionarily, the goal is to produce another successful generation who then begets another generation and so on. The rate at which that happens is a balance between what is necessary to confer the best chance of survival to each child, the number of children needed to outweigh the mortality rate, and the required mutation and crossover to adapt to the environment. Keeping the same individuals in circulation longer doesn't confer an advantage to their offspring since they already posses the same genes. It would more likely hinder the propagation of their genes by taking resources away from their progeny and competing for mates, territory, status, whatever.
Zero-days.

"They and other targets notified by Apple in multiple countries were infected through the same graphics processing vulnerability that Apple did not learn about and fix until September, the sources said.

Since at least February, this software flaw allowed some NSO customers to take control of iPhones simply by sending invisible yet tainted iMessage requests to the device, researchers who investigated the espionage campaign said."
This is awesome!

Another reason to be bullish on SpaceX starship. Being able to send mass to space on the cheap opens up many new astronomical exploration avenues.
Fun fact: strangely enough, there are two conditions for which smoking is known to be a protective factor. Parkinson's disease, and Ulcerative Colitis (UC).

Interestingly, though Crohn's Disease (CD) and UC are strikingly similar forms of IBD, nicotine has the opposite effect on both. Nicotine will increase inflammation in CD and reduce it in UC, through the a7 receptor and up/down-regulation of Treg cells: https://www.jimmunol.org/content/187/5/2677
I would define a spice as a non-nutritive plant substance used for flavoring and not consumed as an independent entity. Garlic is not non-nutritive, and it is consumed by many people as a whole food. Whole roasted heads of garlic are awesome.
yes, that's obviously racist. But you do realise that publishing about how much he hates racial minorities isn't the thing he's being celebrated for? Robert E Lee's primary contribution to the world was trying to defend the right to own slaves. If Fisher was being celebrated as a race scientist or whatever then I'd be against that too. It's not like celebrating Fisher's accomplishment is an endorsement of his racial beliefs - a statue celebrates a person's achievement, not the entirety of their being.
With the two parties' loyal voters locked in already, and these races pretty much being about the swing voters in the middle, this sounds like a landslide, in American politics.
I haven’t seen nicotine as being protective for alzheimers, but it is protective for Parkinson’s and Ulcerative colitis.
In fact during medical school I saw a young patient who was trying to get healthy to help deal with her autoimmune issues, and had stopped smoking, inadvertently likely triggering a massive flare of UC
They did.

"A State Department spokesperson declined to comment on the intrusions, instead pointing to the Commerce Department's recent decision to place the Israeli company on an entity list, making it harder for U.S. companies to do business with them.

NSO Group and another spyware firm were "added to the Entity List based on a determination that they developed and supplied spyware to foreign governments that used this tool to maliciously target government officials, journalists, businesspeople, activists, academics, and embassy workers," the Commerce Department said in an announcement last month."
That won't happen. They've specifically said that they maintain it because it helps them sell more product. They also encrypt their models. If they open source it, they lose both encryption and exclusivity.
Having a window removed is not a big deal at all (depending on who pays for it).

Having a window removed because of misrepresentations made with religious zeal by a social movement is a huge deal. That should be enough to reverse the decision and sanction everyone involved in putting forward the lies.
The studio behind The Chosen is hiring engineers. Remote friendly. :) www.angel.com/apply
The switch overhead need not be the same. When the OS wakes up a thread and schedules a processor to run it, it has to make sure that said processor has whatever state it needs. If said processor was previously doing something else, the OS has to save the relevant state. Note that the OS doesn't know what's important, so both save and restore are conservative.

Yes, switching from one activity to another also has costs, but you only pay what you need to pay and much of the overhead is handled automatically.

That said, blocking-for-IO threads do have one huge advantage - the OS knows when to wake them up. With async, something has to look for changes in IO state. Check too often, and you're wasting time. Don't check often enough and you're wasting bandwidth.
Try making an international transfer to a country that does not use USD/EUR/GBP without losing more than 5% of the total value to exchange fees ("official vs parallel") and government taxes on finance operations. Brazil not until long ago had a tax of 0.38% on every bank transfer (both ways!) and they have been talking about bringing it back.

Try working as a service provider with international customers, receive a payment from the client but getting notice from the bank saying it will take them 60 days to clear the money order, or that you can take it right away if they skim some of it.

Try living in Venezuela and seeing the government confiscating whatever property they can if you happen to be in the opposition. Try to keep up with hyperinflation while all of those in the elites can park their cash offshore.

Try to withdraw more than 600€ from your bank in Greece.

Try using an international contract as proof-of-income in a bank, in case you want to get a loan for your business. Try searching for a micro-credit solution that is not going to charge you usury rates.

Try running a business that is deemed "offensive" and see how you can not accept credit card payments. Not illegal. Just "offensive".
> I don't recall specific deadlines for accepting the 2016 TOS

Based on what I see in the archived article, it looks like accepting the TOS was a "roadblock" popup in the app -- you couldn't continue using the app without accepting the terms. Any accounts which hadn't accepted the terms after two years could have simply been closed for inactivity.
He was asking for it rolling up that sleeve and flashing his watch. If he didnt want someone to grab it he should have covered it up.
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This is being publicized only now.

The issues were patched in September, the exploit was being used as of February, and it took some time for someone to notice that an @state.gov Apple ID was among the compromised phones.
It's a shame that the most nefarious companies succeed over and over again.
Yes.

"A State Department spokesperson declined to comment on the intrusions, instead pointing to the Commerce Department's recent decision to place the Israeli company on an entity list, making it harder for U.S. companies to do business with them.

NSO Group and another spyware firm were "added to the Entity List based on a determination that they developed and supplied spyware to foreign governments that used this tool to maliciously target government officials, journalists, businesspeople, activists, academics, and embassy workers," the Commerce Department said in an announcement last month."
I don't feel a particularly strong inclination to agree or to disagree with your ideals as you lay them out in this statement.

but when the standard of how to judge your comment is based on practicality and not ideals, what is your _actual_ position? because you know it will take another hundred years to clear just the confederate statues.
Imagine paying 11% of my city's budget to a service that just causes people to riot, then having the audacity to blame a party trying to reform the policing for causing the goddamn riots to begin with.

It's classic republican projection, and they're all in on it. Only a simpleton would cheer this bullshit on.

Overnight the office changes from R to D and suddenly cops start ignoring crime intentionally, and that's somehow the democrat's problem.

The elected government is paying their collective bargaining extortion for a shitty value return.

Bootlickers gonna bootlick. Cops gonna bow to Republicans because they're yet another politically active group in a conflict of interest where they shouldn't be.

All these home grown McJohnsons with Cs in high school, you think any rational person would trust them with their lives?

Supporting the police is easy. Bootlicking is easy. Criticizing something objectively is a talent, and it's one you seem to lack.
Author of the article here—please do tell me more about the Thunderbolt 3 and USB 4 relationship. I used “basically” to hand wave over some of the detail, but would love to know how to dig down on this further. (And I welcome nit picks. Seriously! We just did a couple tweaks. Some folks who buy HDDs said they see 3.0 Micro-B all the time, and that is absolutely true, so we modified a sentence about that.)

I'm leaning a bit on three things:
• The USB-IF says that USB 4 is based on Thunderbolt 3 and incorporates Thunderbolt 3. If it's optional, they buried it in the spec? Would love to know where if you do so I can make that clearer. (See https://www.usb.org/usb4 for instance.)
• Apple’s USB 4/Thunderbolt 4 controller ostensibly incorporates all previous standards with backwards compatibility, so the question will likely arise in a specific case: a Thunderbolt 3 device with a Thunderbolt 3 controller attached to a USB 4 controller that isn’t a Thunderbolt 4 controller. In that case, the host computer’s USB 4 controller would have to negotiate down to 10 Gbps and USB 3.1 Gen 2? (???)
• In practice, I wonder which controller modules major brands besides Apple will adopt: it seems most likely they would want USB4/TB4 not USB 4-only?

Per the above about the lawyer, too, the USB-C Charging Cable Apple offers (no video, 480 Mbps USB 2.0 data, and up to 100W power) is absolutely the most maddening cable on the market.
I agree with most of what you wrote, but I will say that "I'm just a dumb grunt" is better than senior leaders who just spew buzzwords like "Big Data, AI, Cloud, 5G, Zero Trust, etc." as if they know what they are talking about, and convincing everyone above them that they are technical wizards.
Suppose they use a fully centralized oracles, isn't there still a huge benefit in having much lower fees and tighter spreads, even if it's not decentralized? For the end user, having settlement, custody, and market making decentralized while having centralized oracles is still a huge advantage.

Then consider that people are tackling the issue of decentralized oracles. The most common platform for that is Chainlink [1]. In this space specifically, Augur [2] is among those who has attempted to make decentralized sports reporting Oracles. I'm not sure if their solution is fully fleshed out, but regardless it doesn't seem to be an insurmountable technical issue for something that is as easy to verify as outcome of a game.

If your willing to accept that the Oracle problem will be solved, I'm not sure how you would say this doesn't create value for consumers.

1.https://chain.link/education/blockchain-oracles
2. https://augur.net/