skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just a coincidence that I watched a video today that claimed NYT implied a Youtube vlogger must be paid by CPP. Here's his response
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cvvj_3QMGAM&t=234s

I would not say NYT publishes propaganda. They just truly believe their own opinion based on some ideology framework but confused their opinions with solid facts. So they see anything not align with their belief as a propaganda. In other words they seem to be against propaganda.

It's a meta-dishonest which is worse than dishonest which is a form of honest dishonest because many people trust meta-dishonest journalist. There are a lot of such kind of MSM journalists. Don Lemon for example.
> Managing your own monetary policy and being able to spend without limits is important tool for governments.

Sure, but we're talking about switching to BTC, which doesn't allow this either.

> Bitcoin is the only currency which has very high guarantees of its expected monetary inflation.

As somebody else pointed out in another thread, bitcoin is either a currency or an asset depending on who you talk to. You mention it is a currency, but it's hard to find it credible in this role given its volatility.

Given that its price is a function of supply and demand, but that we can't predict what the demand will be, which strong guarantees are you thinking about?
>I do wonder though how "stable" embedding files is.

I was surprised to see this was still working 3 years later:

$ curl -s https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Dq2sPGNU0AEKyyC.jpg | dd status=none bs=1 skip=599 count=40| sh

From https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18347985
My deepest thanks for whoever did that decision in Alibaba.

I hope the price Alibaba has to pay for it won't be too high.

Through I expect Alibaba to now fall-in-line wrt. Future decisions of this kind, it's not that they have much choice.
The hash will change depending on how the file is broken down into chunks and and a different hash can be used for multiple versions of the same file. I expected to be able to compute a hash and see whether the file is in the IPFS network; then upload it if it not in the network. That just feels wrong to me.
Will you need to scale?
Teenagers will socially reject you if you do not use iMessage. I suspect even as they get older they will continue this practise as it as been ingrained in them from a young age.
>The book forms a coherent whole

In order to derive meaning from your statement, I think it's logically necessary to imagine a counterfactual where it doesn't form a coherent whole.

If you think the Bible is coherent, can you explain what it would be like if it were incoherent?

I'm putting it this way because I think it's probably useless to try to argue directly whether it's coherent.
Lots of software does that these days because it’s the standard way to distribute stuff in Go and Rust. So much software is just dependent on kernel and architecture.

Terraform is a good example of a moderately complex piece of software distributed that way.
There were emperors in China and many other countries all through the past several thousand years and it is the expectation of the world that they suddenly give up that entire way of life and thinking in one century?
I laughed so hard at this. It takes a super computer to run resharper alone.
Old Navy is also fast fashion.

TJ Maxx is interesting in that it is fast fashion but it provides a useful outlet for clothes that would otherwise have been trashed.

So immediately it is a positive since it ensures more clothes are worn than they would have been otherwise.

In the long run, however, by providing those clothes value beyond their original life TJ Maxx helps prop up the finances of fast fashion, so maybe it’s a net negative? It’s not clear to me.
The Universal Food API
We made the first API that powers searching & ordering from every restaurant and grocery store in America. Think of it like the Google places API but real-time info and with ordering. We're hiring!
The ease with which the term limits were removed indicates that they were never a real limitation in the first place. What prior leader was actually bounded by them?
The difference between liking/enjoying and gaining benefit I think is crucial here. It's akin to the difference between pleasure and happiness. No doubt the vast majority of people (if not everyone) on social media gains some pleasure from it. But as far as increasing happiness, aiding in quality of life and well-being and similar measures, it - in general - does not move the needle and not infrequently pulls in the opposite direction (in the absence of personal bonds).

The other important difference is between using social media sites as "literature" (i.e. not interacting with it but just consuming its thought-provoking and useful content, as you mention) and as a conversational medium. The former - in the absence of obviously harmful content like people showing off and then comparing oneself to them, or outrage porn, ect - is as far as I'm aware harmless and has a similar profile to reading in general.

But the constant one-off interactions, like this? It hits different. We know that consistent interaction with the same person - even if it is light meaningless interaction - has benefit. One study that comes to mind is of the daily interaction between customer and cashier every morning at the coffee shop. Believe it or not that has a statistically significant (though by no means large) positive effect on a person's mental state. Deep personal one-off conversation in person also have a significant benefit, at least in the short term.

But this - whatever this is - generally doesn't. Of course everyone is different, and obviously not everyone uses it exactly the same way, so there are outliers. But also human beings are talented at lying to themselves about the effects of things on them, often in the direction of exaggerating or inventing a benefit (and also failing at the afore-mentioned differentiation between pleasure and happiness). That's one of the big problems that researchers in outcomes studies on any number of things have to deal with. Objective observer and close other ratings of a person's happiness after say therapy or anti-depressants are often wildly less rosy than the person's self-report. We humans are often not good at being honest with ourselves.

But you are right about the "attention economy" context. We - near worldwide it seems - have little perfected the art of leisure. Our institutions have failed us, and we in turn have created little to take the place of the old ways. Our choices are too often between similarly poor options. That's probably why work and over-work have remained as popular as it has - what lies outside of it is too often stupefying. Which is one reason why I'm here now, talking with you, embracing (or stomaching) this momentary pleasure in what is perhaps a trade-off with a bit of my happiness.
Because the fiat was easily recoverable in the traditional financial system. If they had not caught the guy, or he had already moved the BTC to a mafia-run account, not one he still controlled, it could be lost forever - The great 'benefit' of BTC is that the government has a hard time seizing it.
Which cryptocurrency would work for example? Monero?
Agreed. Many people assume that identified users will automatically be held accountable for their trolling but history shows that this isn't happening. If we want better behavior we need to demand accountability directly. Anonymity is a side issue.
I guess we'll see. On the west coast, it's my last gym night.
A car has obvious practical utility if you live in a country where a car is the only way to get around. In many places it's basically essential to having a basic life where you get to your job, and so on. A television has comparatively little such practical utility, and the downsides to setting your sights on a cheaper one are much easier to live with.

The value of a car is also substantially greater (making a cash purchase less practical) and your odds of recovering a substantial portion of the purchase price through resale are much better (indeed with a TV you'll likely pay to get rid of it).
That is not quite what R0 means. R0 is the reproductive rate in a naive population. I believe the variable you are looking for is R(t), which is the effective reproductive rate at any point of time.
Thoughts on the GPT3 Decision (2020)
Sure, I would agree with that characterization. But apparently LendUp was even more predatory, to the point that regulators shut it down. So in retrospect, I think we need to take the claim that they wanted to create a kinder, gentler kind of lending with a grain of salt.
A Christmas Chrestomathy
Unlike North Korea, China doesn't have a China to prop them up as a buffer state.
That's not the case anymore. From [0]

>As recently as 31 May 2021, China's government has relaxed restrictions even more allowing women up to three children.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-child_policy#Abolition
On many aspects it's more evil. On many other aspects it's less.

Shits not a binary. In just pure number of lives fucked, the US has the record for now.

We shouldn't let China's shit mean that we should praise the US and not thrive to fixing our own problems.
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Well, as weird as it is, I took the approach of AI itself deciding it wants to utilize quantum computing to, itself, realize a more generalized intelligence. I like Nick Bostrom so that should give you a sense of the direction I come at this stuff from. My understanding is that quantum computing is quite good around combinatoric challenges, as we're not to shabby there...I was thinking it would be helpful.. anyway, it would take a long time to explain the conversation but generally my thought was that AI operating classically will probably want to outsource some of that thinking, especially probabilistic.... it's "future thought" if you will, to something more like QC.
I strongly believe that theres no freedom of speech without the freedom to replicate that speech.
> The "airport radio" in question is weather radar

Ah, ok. Weather radar is very different from "airport radio". For the latter I have a very hard time seeing how someone's ordinary wifi router could cause interference, but weather radar antennas have to be much more sensitive.
Don't forget the underwear on the outside!
Without the CCP it seems rather unlikely North Korea would continue to exist in its current way for long. The only remaining factor standing in the way of their fall then would be western nations not wishing to accept the sudden flood of North Korean refugees that would immediately emigrate from the country when they are no longer held there.
Probably, but before getting to that stage, they most likely used similar EM waves to transmit signals. We must be able to detect at least some of that radiation, but still nothing. The galaxy is insanely quiet, which worries me.

On the other hand, it could be that they advanced to the age of using EM waves not too long ago, which means their signals are still on the way and we'll probably detect those in the future.
When near the ground and moving slowly the wings are stalled and not providing any lift; they're essentially just dead weight. A bigger risk near the ground with older turbine engine VTOL designs was ingesting hot exhaust gasses back into the intake, thus causing a sudden loss of thrust. The F-35B mostly resolved that by using a shaft driven lift fan in the forward fuselage.
Let's cut the BS. The fact was that Ali Cloud failed to report the issue to MIIT (required by law, it has to be report cyber security incidents to MIIT immediately) weeks after notifying Apache(a foreign entity).

I'm not sure if such behaviors would be desirable in any country.
Web -5.0 to web 100.0 (in tweets)
Unmaking a Murderer
I worked at a company headquarters and some guy in accounting just switched the banking info for one of the vendors to his own bank info. He stole money for literally years. I don't know how it worked for so long because somehow the vendor must've been getting paid, maybe he was also falsifying invoices or something. I dunno. Anyways, no crypto and this was the corporate headquarters for a company most Americans would know.
Replying to myself - also in this case people are reporting that load balancing service provided by AWS failed so it doesn't necessarily help if your own stuff is tested and working.
Well, it would be strange if humans are constantly generating new novel thoughts.
On US laws, is it only some states where you can walk away from a foreclosed home, taking a loss on the asset, but not being forced to repay the mortgage remaining after the bank sells the house?

Because I've always thought that was a very generous law indeed.
I agree that the generic idea of "deregulation" is sometimes not to blame but I do want to point out that the Marquette decision is basically the lynchpin in this particular case AFAIK -- usury laws AKA consumer protection regulation (which is the regulation that was bypassed/minimized in this sense) already differed from state to state, but that wasn't enough incentive for banks to move their headquarters.

Intranational competition/racing to the bottom is fine within the bounds of regulation -- capitalism is a powerful force but in my opinion the job of the government is to set the guard rails.

The EU problem is an international problem which is why it's so much harder to solve. You can't force another nation to charge certain % for taxes but there are other things you can do. Unfortunately most of the actions you can take to disincentivize that behavior aren't quite so friendly, so the politics intensifies and countries go for what they can get away with. The control dynamic is different compared to intranational regulation.

There's certainly competition between states and companies but it's always when the guard rails bend/break that we see explosions in a certain kind of activity and then the repercussions 5-10 years later. It happens over and over again in history -- regulations that reduce corporate tax rates, roll back environmental protections, etc -- it happens across party lines, and there's usually a happy/boom period for a while for some market participants... Then the chickens come home to roost.

The addition of regulation can do it too, of course, and some of the time the ambitions are noble, but to me the removal of regulation that was well established (for a good reason) and the subsequent ill effects always feels the most avoidable.
As far as we know, information cannot be transmitted faster than light, even between two entangled quantum particles.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/chadorzel/2016/05/04/the-real-r...
Interestingly Hu Jintao only gained control of the army two years into his term.
Do bridges such as the discord puppet bridge work?
If I remember correctly, TJ Maxx usually buys excess product from other brands (and possibly removes or covers up branding if requested). So they contribute less to this problem -- if anything they give less successful runs a second chance should mitigate damage slightly I guess.

I don't think this detracts from your broader point, though -- your specific example just happened to be the unusual exception to an otherwise good rule.
If by any chance I come up with a wallet that has BTC in it, who do I transfer those BTC to my wallet ?
I actually didn't know that, I thought manufacturing was gated behind FFL licenses.

That's good to know, I appreciate the correction!
Maybe, but what will they do when the collapse comes?

Like there are many cases where governments tried to avoid an internal collapse by applying external pressure in form of starting a war.
That's just closing the barn doors after the horses have left. Much too little, much too late.
Ten Terrible Dinosaurs is the one I remember reading regularly when my child was little.

But it was just another book we read.
Mu is a more common surname than Xi, but they weren't so worried about stigmatizing that name. I have no doubt that they _would_ have avoided it, had anyone brought it to their attention, but they didn't. Yet somehow they avoided Xi.
To be clear -- only runners up complained. Podium position went home with grace (and $50K).

Hackers complaining the rules weren't clear enough? Red means FAIL not DECREMENT? The fourth place finishers not being in the official comms channel with everyone else is a legitimate beef, but they came out this side of the bell curve, so I want to learn more about the gravity of the complaints.
Chinese surnames pronounced 'Mu' are similarly common to 'Xi'.

There is a Mu variant of Covid[0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SARS-CoV-2_Mu_variant
For air taxi service do you think the battery can be recharged in the time it takes to unload passengers, service the cabin, and load new passengers? If there's a long delay for charging that kind of kills the economics.
What an easy way to dismiss an article and inject bias without saying anything substantive yourself. There are several interesting bits about specific acts by apple, as well as an introduction to the Small Technology Foundation, which seems like a worthwhile effort to counteract the subject of this "rant".
Run it on really bad hardware, might be easier to see the differences. Could use some of the dm drivers to inject latency on disks too.
Oh man, can you imagine thinking you successfully stole $154M and then it just vanishes from your bitcoin wallet?
The policy has changed but generations of population demographics haven't.
Do it over a holiday weekend. US banks are notoriously slow anyway.
I would also argue that this is just another side effect of a society that has conditioned us to overwork ourselves to such a level of exhaustion that to spend less of our resources(money and/or time) will always feel logically justified.
>There aren't. There really, really aren't. You can only trust computers that you control, or that are controlled by people that you trust. Trying to implement these leads to obscenities such as the Clipper Chip, Sony's rootkit, ring-0 DRM, and so on. Every single one takes control of the computer away from the owner and gives it to somebody else.

And even then it won't work. Video games are a great example: a lot of annoyance is caused by cheaters. Games have been ruined by cheaters. And yet there exists no solution that gets rid of them. Even LAN tournaments in CSGO have had an aim botter at a high level. The hardware they use is provided on location, but the players bring their own mouse and keyboard. In the case of CSGO the mouse had an aim bot on it.
Too little too late. The inverted demographic pyramid and the huge skewed gender ratio are baked in at this point.
No, the choice is indeed between scans and no scans.
> Isn't the point of SSR to avoid needing to have the client make additional requests for the first render?

Yes, hence why it was able to call the Go functions directly during SSR, the results of which were bundled with the payload delivered to the client. gRPC played no role during initial render.

If the React app needed more information/updates as the user used the app then the function calls would transparently happen over gRPC instead.

Consider:

const MyReactComponent = () => {
const [things, setThings] = useState()
useEffect(() => {
// In-memory call to Go GetThings function during SSR render; gRPC call
// to Go GetThings function when running in the client.
GetThings().then(setThings)
}, [])
return <div>{things}</div>
}

Architecturally, not a whole lot different to how you might build a SSR React app on Node. The backend was just written in Go instead and that backend had a built-in Javascript runtime to execute the frontend code for SSR purposes.
How is it similar to Sweden, when Sweden is colder?
Really wish I'd seen this article before I spent $90 on a KVM splitter off Amazon. Whoops!
Trust.

A blockchain copy can be better verified than a database.
It was a rant, sure. But I found it perfectly straightforward, and it was pretty clear at the very top what the main concern was, actually.
PortableApps.com is where I started programming back when I was 11 years old in 2008.

The community completely changed my life. I learned a lot about writing software on forums and the IRC channel from numerous people that were just willing to give advice to a stranger. I'm glad this community is still alive.

I proudly say my first programming language is NSIS. (The Windows scripting language most wrappers on the site are written in.)

Thank you John.
It is not unlikely that the podium position went home happy because they didn't face the communication issues; not taking anything away from them of course, but having played dozens of CTFs, communication issues are real and affect some teams more than others. Specifically, they affect those teams that faced communication issues, heh.

It is entirely possible that different teams had different experiences, due to any number of factors. Changing the rules mid-stream, for example, would likely affect one team in a positive way and another in a negative way, so of course the team that was affected negatively would be the more likely one to complain.
That's still running their stuff in your data center.

What it tells me is that someone new needs to step in.
The answer is simple: Abstraction, or the lack thereof. Building real-time web applications are difficult. But the difficulty is accidental complexity that could be abstracted away. However, most of the tech stacks are not there yet - mainly because the request-response model is good enough for most of the sites, so the industry wouldn't push it forward wholeheartedly. Maybe the situation would start to change after WASM take off, or maybe not.

The best bet is to work on platforms that already have great WebSocket support. PHP might not be a great choice. Node.js is okayish but not great. Blazor sounds interesting but I'm not sure about the performance. Elixir/Phoenix is probably the best bet for now. It has nice, abstracted APIs, it's performant, and it can form clusters either by itself or with Redis.

It's very hard to scale WebSocket because of its stateful nature, so please look for platforms already solved this problem.
That wasn't theoretical installed base, it was actual power produced.
> The most powerful man in China is the Chairman of the Central Military Commission.

It's interesting to me that they allowed that to happen, both the US, with its civilian control of the military, and the Soviets, with their convoluted division of manpower, equipment, and commands, took measures to stop that situation from occurring.
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Planing to use it on new SEO project https://vim.expert
Turns out there wasn't that much more to the story
It's so lopsided you'd think every hacker news reader moonlight as an engineer at a nuclear plant. I count 5 "insane" on that page already. German policies are insane, California is insane,... you get the drift.
I assume they meant the binary encodings of asn.1 like BER/DER.
Yes, asymmetry abounds in open source.

For example, open source wants/needs support from business but offers no support in return.

Found a problem? You fix it --- you've got the source. Easier said than done with nontrivial software.
Would web3 going to solve this problem? I mean decentralized protected world? Or there is no such thing?
However, when the laws greatly restrict one’s ability to do things, are they really free? Whether or not you agree with a law, laws are nearly always aimed at restricting people.
It's not the same thing to develop and keep an exploit for yourself, as it is to require the public companies in your country to report the important bugs they find while effectively also under a temporary gag order. They are super different things.
People still use iMessage? At least in my relatively multicultural social circle, everyone is either communicating via Instagram DMs or Telegram.
The ticking time bomb refers to the aftermath of the one-child policy. Demographically, there won't be enough adult children to support the parents of the one-child generation as they age.
Or Microsoft if you don't want to be under a FAANG's boot. ;)