skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> >Bitcoin has no value beyond what someone is currently willing to pay for it.

> A little under a trillion for BTC alone, all in.

That’s not what we’re talking about, but it shows where your misunderstanding lies. The current value of a Bitcoin is what you can sell it for — there’s no intrinsic value and while Bitcoin is a fiat currency it’s much weaker than anything else because there isn’t any sort of guaranteed demand created by things like the need to pay taxes or handle government contracts. If 1 BTC is $10,000 today, it could be $5,000 or $50,000 tomorrow based solely on how much someone is willing to give you at that time. That’s why it’s so volatile historically and one of two reasons why it’s not widely used other than for speculation — no business wants unpredictable spikes in the difference between what they paid for their inputs and what they receive from their customers.

This is important to understand because what you’re doing is tossing out a big number by multiplying all of the coins by the recent hard currency exchange rate. That’s not accurate, however, unless you know that there are buyers collectively sitting on $1T USD willing to buy all of those Bitcoins. If I buy one Bitcoin for $1M that does not mean that the value of everyone else’s Bitcoins suddenly changed because nobody else is crazy enough to overpay by that much. Similarly, if I think the bubble is popping and start selling, I may not find a buyer if many people decide to wait and see — and since very few people need Bitcoin, there isn’t any pressure to push them off of the fence like there is with a fiat currency backed by a sovereign state.

> So it will basically shrink to fit black market demand. Bad for speculators, good for crims.

Not good for them if they can’t convert into the things they want to buy, and it’s especially risky to leave a signed transaction log for the police when there’s little legal traffic to hide in.
> Skilled trades pay better than most bachelor's degree track jobs.

The impression I get from hanging out a bit in the welding subreddit is that a lot of people get into welding thinking it'll be a lucrative profession (because that's what people on the internet say about plumbers and welders and electricians and so forth), and what they eventually discover is that while it's possible to make a lot of money as a welder, that really only works if you own your own business. If you take a job working as someone else's employee, the pay usually isn't all that great.

That isn't to say that people shouldn't get into welding, it's just that they should have the right strategy and expectation going in.
You are right regarding the IP, the question would be however, why this isn't deactivated by default.

Regarding the cloud:

> In 2020, the EU Court of Justice struck down the so-called Privacy Shield data protection arrangements between the bloc and the US in what is now known as the Schrems II ruling, which has ramifications for US cloud providers, social media sites, and providers of online tools.

> "This is a very detailed and sound decision. The bottom line is: companies can't use US cloud services in Europe anymore. It has now been 1.5 years since the Court of Justice confirmed this a second time, so it is more than time that the law is also enforced.
8 colors is plenty eye candy :)
Thanks for sharing these resources!
So I asked it to do this:

# Evaluate a Lisp S-expression
def eval_list(s):

This was the third suggestion:

def eval_list(s):
if not s:
return None
if len(s) == 1:
return s[0]
if s[0] == 'quote':
return s[1]
if s[0] == 'if':
if eval_list(s[1]) != False:
return eval_list(s[2])
else:
return eval_list(s[3])
if s[0] == 'set!':
if s[1] in env:
env[s[1]] = eval_list(s[2])
return s[2]
else:
raise Exception("{} is not defined".format(s[1]))
if s[0] == 'define':
if s[1] in env:
raise Exception("{} is already defined".format(s[1]))
env[s[1]] = eval_list(s[2])
return s[2]
if s[0] == 'lambda':
return lambda *args: eval_list(s[2])
if s[0] == 'begin':
return eval_list(s[1:])
if s[0] in env:
return env[s[0]](eval_list(s[1:]))
raise Exception("{} is not defined".format(s[0]))

Huh! Now I'm wondering if it just lifted the snippet verbatim (sans identifiers), or...
Hopefully not.

Not re-implementing Gnome. Not re-implementing macOS which Gnome strives to imitate. OTOH I see the value of that: many people got used to macOS, and making things similar, and the cognitive load of switching low, makes business sense. Same as with Windows in early 2000s.
I came out of “solo-game retirement” for two games this winter: Disco Elysium and Valheim, (which I also play with friends), neither of which I feel pressured by, beyond being well-designed play/exploration spaces. I swore off WoW and anything with daily quests awhile ago, knowing myself well enough now to be wary of those systems.
Solo videogames cut into my reading time. That’s an ongoing challenge, as my future self (now, for my past self) would rather I have access to that much more information.
That's fair, I do think people expect instant solutions to these kinds of problems too often. But the flip side of that is I don't see too many companies actually investing in training, so this could remain a problem much longer than it needs to.

In my (admittedly brief) experience at a FAANG I also noticed there were some very menial tasks taking up engineer time. I'm pretty confident there is work to be done at these larger companies that could be satisfactorily accomplished by someone within their first year of training.
Probably not but I can easily imagine people currently using Pop considering System76 for their next laptop.
For fans of FOUNDATION: notes from its production designer
I picked up a cannabis habit in various forms lately, on a daily basis. It has been wild to feel my body react in positive ways. Today I woke up without significant gut discomfort, which is the first time in nearly a decade. Happened immediately after switching from edibles to smoking (just as a temporary experiment).
There’ll always be something. When you have a presence and interests (???) in most countries of the world, along with a compliant domestic media willing to go along with whatever story you put out there about how our Capabilities have to be Augmented to Address the Emerging Threat, there will never be a time now or in the future when we can all agree that it is finally safe to massively decrease military funding.

You just have to see the game for what it is (a giant scam) and opt out.

The US military should be disarmed and turned into a purely domestically-defensive force.
Don't they have mandatory reporting requirements? I know they exist in my jurisdiction.
Here's my solution:

loopTapApp.score = Number.MAX_SAFE_INTEGER;
>When cat'ing a file the space bar should also advance the page.

That's the job of a pager (like less, more, or bat), not cat.
Upon rewatch, im not even convinced its bullet time and not just a bunch of people standing very still. Which worked for the most part in Anna Karenina and that one video of kids playing basketball.

Your point makes sense though, the commonization of frame interpolation is a landmark moment.
That's my case - as I know that some music videos/clips will disappear soon or later for any reason (happened in the past), and as I cannot buy+download them then the only option I'm currently aware of is to download them with youtube-dl. It works reliably and it's simple to use.

In my case this often happens "in addition" to buying+downloading the song's mp3 (usually on Amazon).
The nerve and brain concept sounds fascinating, but I don't have enough background in sensors to quite grasp what you mean. Could you please provide a specific example?
Modern TVs are much better at it than an article from 2014 would suggest. Though computer monitors aren't; you shouldn't watch a movie on a computer anyway since it has to fit 24fps into a typically 60fps display.
Whilst others have mentioned their application is architected to cope with this I wanted to echo the sentiment. This post feels very much like a “draw the rest of the owl” meme.
You can use thepiratebay to download legal videos too, but the RIAA still cares.

Not saying that I agree with them, but "I use it for a legit purpose" doesn't mean they are going to act sensibly.
> how the issues in these cases apply

This part right here is the important part of how to apply it to apple:

"You tried to imply that this would be impossible, for Apple to currently be having a large enough control of the market, such that it can engage in illegal anti-competitive behavior. And that is wrong. Because the court system already ruled otherwise."
To be fair, you could just give them the question ahead of time. Email them 3 days before their interview with the question and say see you soon. That is much closer to actual conditions
Common Virus May Play Role in Debilitating Neurological Illness
See https://othersociologist.com/otherness-resources/

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Other_(philosophy)

It appears the people in Ohio were using the black label as a tool to erect a population of “otherness” across the river. The race labels was just the most familiar tool in the toolbox at that time.
> Overall my takeaway is basically "if you want to upgrade a large Postgres db, you'll need like an hour of planned downtime and a lot of careful work"

HA is one of those things where MySQL wins hands down, sadly. Sadly in the sense that PostgreSQL HA still looks like a couple of hacks held together with duct tape, at least when compared to MySQL solutions.

The Percona MySQL distribution has multi-master HA (Percona Xtradb Cluster) which is great for HA, and vanilla MySQL 8.x has group replication which iirc also is multi-master. MariaDB instead has multi-master based on Galera Cluster (although i'm not very knowledgeable about MariaDB).

In PostgreSQL world there are many HA solutions, none of which is both multi-master and open source (sadly).
> She made $45k year one, and a year later is the director of marketing at her company making over $100k/yr.

That...is one heck of a promotion. Good for her!
Amniocentesis carries a small, but real, risk of miscarriage
It's called hypoerbole and kmix's position is laughable.

No one is banning ads, targeted ads or data collection.
Ok but you could do that on literally any platform. I could encrypt data and stick it on google drive or aws and the hosts wouldn’t have any clue what it was.
If Google is involved, I don't trust it.
Here is the PR: https://github.com/rust-lang/futures-rs/pull/2551

Yield = wake the `waker_ref`. Avoiding the yield would be clone().wake().

That said, "poll immediately" isn't actually a thing nor was it ever a thing except in incorrect implementations.
This really misses the mark. Any 2-3k camera beats the image most movies had 20 years ago.

The reason Hollywood uses expensive gear is because the human cost is so enormous, that any improvement in gear to reduce human cost becomes a no-brainer.
It includes references in Wikipedia, because those must be from reliable sources.
I believe that to maintain copyright control you need to enforce it. By not enforcing it they are effectively granting permission to the behavior.
> In addition many are not welcoming to women at all

Many universities aren't welcoming to men at all.
For a relatively new language that still is not everywhere it's a good example of its viability for such a project. Also, it either testifies the richness of the ecosystem, or promises that it will get enriched in the process, because the development appears to be open-source.
Most "skilled trades" are gated by some form of licensure, not actual difficulty.
About 70 S.Korean attendees of CES test positive for Covid-19
>(Hint: Just because your compiler accepts JSON as input doesn't mean that that's what the humans have to directly output or edit.

Ah, the JSON_IR!
But how are they to run a fear campaign if they can't manipulate the numbers, and how will the companies profiting from the scare be successful if they can't use shady tactics to achieve their desired goals?
Tarantino, Nazis, and Movies That Can Kill You (2011)
"de facto " is better, but still, it's "may be" considered evidence.
These "industries" forget that public domain is the default. It's natural, it's just how things are. Copying is not just trivial, it is natural. People infringe copyright every single day without even realizing what they are doing.

The fact is society is doing them a huge favor by pretending their works are scarce. In return they abuse our good will and erode our public domain rights. All we have to do is stop pretending. Start treating everything as public domain. That ought to be enough of a reality check to an industry that thinks it can monopolize numbers for hundreds of years.

Nobody cares how much money they spent to make stuff either. They don't get to deny reality just because they spent money.
Again, the energy storage scales just fine: linearly. Rocket propellant tends to scale better than linear, but it is not in every case better than lithium ion batteries! For example, the R7/Soyuz rocket family is the most-launched orbital rocket ever, and it uses a hydrogen peroxide gas generator to drive the turbopump. That has a concentration of 82.5% peroxide. Pure peroxide has a heat of decomposition of 2.84MJ/kg, and turbine that is typically 30% efficient (actually, it might be much less than that… I think the V-2 turbine was only like 10% efficient, maybe worse… so 30% is optimistic) gives you a usable energy density of only 700kJ/kg, or about 194Wh/kg. The best lithium batteries available are about twice that, up to 400-500Wh/kg (with those in the lab even better still), and electric motors can have 90-95% efficiency.

And gas generators using main propellants are better, certainly, but less than you might think because they have to haul all their oxidizer with them (unlike aircraft) and are also usually run very far from stoichiometric (maybe just 0.3 O:F ratio compared to a stoichiometric 3.4) to keep the temperature down. So unless you have a pretty high temperature turbine, you might not beat peroxide by much!

So the easiest gas generators have worse energy density (keep in mind RocketLab does stage off batteries if necessary…), and the next easiest, while better, aren’t MASSIVELY better without careful efficiency improvements. The real efficiencies come when you use like an expander cycle or a staged combustion cycle or you feed the gas generator exhaust back into the nozzle like Merlin Vacuum or F-1. And those are all much more complicated. A level of complication that is not worth it for small rockets but is for larger.

So it’s really not about electric scaling poorly (electric scales just fine) but about the greater complexity of better engine cycles being worth it at larger scales.
Interesting. I wonder why the googled numbers were so high then. I'll take a look sometimes; wireless streaming would be cool.
IBM owns RedHat, one of the largest open source companies.
Other issues aside, CatalyzeX has annoyed me for a long time. The creators of the extension used to spam almost all ML/DL related social media. Maybe they still do, I don't know cos now I've stopped following all of those platforms.

Why did it annoy me so much? - They would share the popular, latest papers that most people in the ML sphere would anyways come across if they follow academia twitter or ML subreddit. That is fine in itself but no, those posts would hijack the original source (mostly arxiv or respective project page) by taking you to the CatalyzeX website which is mainly designed to drive traffic to it and has all sorts of irritating design patterns. Mostly, it just felt dishonest and a blatant shadowing of the original authors' hard work to me.
Yeah, GNOME should just admit that it's an OS and stop pretending to be a framework or DE or whatever.
I think this might take another generation. The Oscars represent the high production values/costs of the entertainment industry. Giving an Oscar to a 17 year old with an iPhone would threaten the foundation of a lot of that industry.

I suspect we'll see a tipping point soon (if we haven't already) where more minutes of time are spent watching content produced on an iPhone vs an expensive film camera.
It all probably boils down to you being of less value to smaller clients than to larger ones. Software and web are a force multiplier. They don't produce value on their own, they just increase what's already there. If a new, better website can get the client a 20% better conversion rate, or if a new software will decrease their costs by 5% - that can be dramatically different in CorpX and in Ma&Pa.

The multiplier itself can't be dramatically different - you can't write software that'll bring a 99% decrease in costs. But the base that you're multiplying can easily be 100x larger (10000%). That's the value you're creating, some part of which is your fair share.

So how to successfully sell to small clients? The correct answer is "en masse". The only way to make up for the difference in productivity is with numbers - you don't write custom software, you make a product and sell it to thousands and more.

Small clients simply should never work with service providers directly - they just waste time that'd better be spent by making a bigger client 0.1% more efficient. I know that's the opposite of what idealism would say, but it's true. The _smaller_ cost for society is burned out and pissed off developers. The real one is the opportunity cost of what they could have been doing instead.
Having children as soon as possible may not be a win, but having a house surely is. How could owning a valuable and necessary asset not be considered a win?
Regardless of the content, it should be noted that Pozner had (and probably still has) a very nice broadcast time on one of the most popular Russia's channels.
He is smart enough not to look like an obvious regime proponent, but he is far from being very critical, AFAIK. He is like a figure made for all those "liberal" conformists, who think they are very progressive.
And those that did, used the funds to build new campuses and cutting-edge programs. And students overwhelmingly chose to go to these more expensive and larger schools while smaller and more modest schools struggled to attract students.
Software has been outsourced since the 1990s and still wages continue to increase.
The issue of side effects being downplayed by the media is entirely a response by public health and media to the large amount of disinformation about vaccines. It was a calculus that was identified and decided on quite some time ago- the reasoning being most people need to hear a simple, straightforward and consistent message to be compliant.

The media and public health leadership has to work on a very thin "knife's edge" when communicating with the public. They have to do 10X the work to debunk garbage than the people have to work to dissemination garbage. And then, a reasonable set of people who do have vaccines problems end up in the middle. The symptoms I had when I had combined Flu/Pneumonia were: could not use left arm for a week, felt super-sick and couldn'tr work for a week. I know that's probably better than getitng a bad flu or pneumonia, but my doctor couldn't even care. She was just happy I got vaccinated. i do think that is a problem.

But it's a different problem and raising that and having a rational discussion about it is not something that can happen in a venue like hacker news, or really any social media.
> You mean EU politicians decided. And it was an abusive decision which hurts more than helps. I want the right to use my data as I see fit, including exchange it for "free" services and products.

Did someone ban it? Last I checked you can still give away your data.
Coming soon to kill your open source project: a current chain of custody and audit certificate that all corporations will require in your repo (along with that MIT license!). Too expensive for you to procure because this is a hobby side project? Don't worry, some other company will fork it and take control--most companies would rather have an OSS library from some other corporation than github.com/fortnitedude anyways. Thank you for your OSS contribution, we'll take it from here.
I for one totally trust the New York Post to reliably report biomedical news.
Don't Look Up: When the End Is Nigh
I'm not a physicist and barely understand some of the things I'm reading in this thread, but your question reminded me that I did hear about a relativistic MOND a few months back (called TeVeS): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tensor%E2%80%93vector%E2%80%93...
>Good things are exaggerated, bad things are smoothed over.

They present bad things(imperialism) as good things. Today.

>What is wrong with empires by then?

It's like asking what's wrong with slavery or serfdom in the 19th century.

>Are we supposed to condemn that?

Maybe not present it at prime time on TV, in a way that tells the audience that Russian/Soviet imperialism was a great thing, was sorely needed, and today's actions are a continuation of these great deeds, right before the "news" segment with its usual "these westerners are out to get our poor "Russki Mir"?
Student loan processor Navient required to cancel $1.7B in student loans
Yeah which is why I think the US should start by going after the US institutions involved.
Notes on Hiring Developers
Definitely. A modern iPhone can do a pretty fantastic job at capturing a somewhat cinema verite sort of video--with appropriate eye and editing. For relatively modest expenditure, you can take that to the next level. But it probably requires hauling around a lot of gear and being less spontaneous.

I was fairly interested in video at one point when film (Super-8) was just transitioning to video. But it was all such a hassle that I pretty much just kept to still. An iPhone (or a videocam that's a few hundred dollars) would have been so great.
> 4) Student loans are a horror that needs to stop. Young people should not be put in debt-bondage. Imagine America's financial health if we let young people start families and careers debt free.

Nobody has forced anyone to take a student loan. In fact, many young adults would probably learn a lot about life, financial management, and restraint if they saved for college and waited till they could afford it instead of going straight to college and going into huge amounts of debt. Generally society doesn’t condone going into debt carelessly in other situations so I don’t understand how we give (or want to give) students a free pass for racking up thousands (or hundreds of thousands) in loans.
How Clozure CL Implements Closures
My degrees are not in CS related fields at all (both in Architecture). I know that just being able to "check the box" has gotten me in the door. Only a small handful of the places I've interviewed with over the last 10+ years have cared that my degrees weren't in CS. In some cases I've corrected them, "no, building architecture, not software architecture", and no one's seemed to care.

While you don't have to have a degree to get into tech, having one certainly makes things easier
One of my high school friends told me her first creeper catcall was when she was 10. A guy in a pickup rolled alongside her for two blocks saying disgusting things and trying to convince her to get in the cab.
Many vendors were at the White House meeting today. Here's Red Hat's statement: https://www.redhat.com/en/about/press-releases/red-hat-state...
Ah, my apologies, it wasn't obvious from the second site how to get to the actual paper. I think this is fair to say there are ways that attempt to be objective in defining what is fair licensing cost, but I'd have liked to see one of these methods explicitly mentioned in the license so as to not have this question left open as a landmine.
Strongly disagree, a less educated society is nothing to celebrate. This isn’t a problem being solved, it’s a country giving up.