skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Bitcoin as a currency is a scam. That is true beyond a doubt. Every promise made about Bitcoin as a currency has predictably, proven to be false (claims proven false include easy/cheap transactions, no traceability, no depreciation).

Which is why the Bitcoin industry now pushes it as an investment, which would require it to have diametrically opposed properties than as a currency.

The only question remaining is whether there is some genuine use for Bitcoin, but the original marketing of Bitcoin is indisputably false at this point.
Note that the second best font may not be the one in the final two, due to the single elimination format.
I can't stand the smell of cigarettes, many of them make me feel nauseous. This may be because I'm young enough that public smoking has been banned for most of my life, so I never ever got used to the smell.
Because you can't enact systemic change in two years, and because politicians don't want to make the healthcare system more robust.
PHI is not the ‘raw data’ they’re referring to, and you know it.
Valid warnings also don't mean anything.
I once lived in one of the more dangerous neighborhoods in Chicago, where murder was pretty common (there were at least 3 murders within 5 blocks of where I lived, and probably more I didn't know about). And my girlfriends have all been pretty terrified of the police, often moreso than of other people. I'm not sure whether or not it matters, but they've all been raped, and they feel the police do not help at all.

So I've seen the violence up close and I've listened to the vulnerable women, and I think the police are still part of the problem. One of my exes basically described them as legal thugs, and was terrified the police would rape her as well. You should look up statistics for police beating their wives, they're not exactly known for defending women against violence.
Neat!

Every now and then I recall tripped out dreams too. In the most recent one I remember, the entire universe was a discrete regular lattice whereby neighboring points would influence the "color" of each other, very much like a network of coupled oscillators.

These couplings allowed for some Game of Life-esque life-forms to exist as locally coherent "color patches" on the lattice, of which I happened to be one.

Most of the dream happened internally to this lattice, i.e. I was not some narrator looking down at it, but frustratingly that internal experience quickly faded from memory, to be replaced by the external view which ended the dream.

Fun times!
I'm not sure either. Particularly how, even in the presence of any policies, they could police the system: Does YouTube send someone around to check on the Ryan's World kid and the work environment?

Even with child labor policies it doesn't seem like platforms would be much better at managing them than content moderation.
Epidemiological studies might not be very strong evidence though, since moderate alcohol consumption is likely correlated with class. And inversely correlated with the use of more dangerous drugs.
>Looks like there's plenty of countries that offer remote work visas

Not really; the selection of countries is very small and the visas very restrictive/bureaucratic. It's essentially a non-option for most people. Regular work visas are still the way to go unfortunately.

"Nomad visas" are essentially a rainbow-and-unicorn thing; we (developers) really want it to exist but it doesn't (at least in the way we'd like).
And by following the money its reasonable to infer something interesting.

Preventing this scenario of user friendliness but lower ad spend rent is likely the primary reason why google funded making chrome!
Well, it depends on how much you smoke and how much you travel. Thing is if I smoke even one cigarette like as a digestive after a big dinner once every four months I have to pay 600 dollars of extra health insurance per year because of how all this bullshit messaging about how nicotine works. And of course it's to protect something like only 35% of the human population that will get addicted to it.

I stopped smoking for months or years many times and I never ever had any side effect except maybe I'm a bit tired the first days. I don't even put up extra weight or anything like that. I feel like an adult baby being treated like I need financial punishment to help me be a healthy person.
> and very few people are willing to say: the less a government does, the better.

A lot of people are saying that, and in most cases just out themselves as loud and not very knowledgeable people.

Governments exist for a bunch of reasons. Many things are only possible or can only work well if done centrally and without a profit motive (like most things infrastructure and utility, healthcare to name a few). Yes, people want their governments to do things said people want. What's the problem that? If i want more bike lanes in my city, you can bet your ass I'll petition and lobby the mayor for that. Who else could do it? A benevolent rich person? As if.

Same goes for many many many other things. Banning single use plastics? Carbon tax? Giving incentives so that energy generation and transportation switch to less carbon intensive ( nuclear, renewables, EVs, rail electrification) energy? Creating good public transit so that less people need polluting and space wasting vehicles? Etc etc etc.

The US libertarian "small government" dream simply doesn't work. And the best part is that state governments that ostensibly follow that dogma are still able to force their nonsense pet preferences ( like abortions in Texas) or ask for federal help when disaster strikes ( the recent Kentucky natural disasters). Off the top of my head i can't think of other places in developed countries that went so far on the "the less a government does, the better" thing, that's why I'm only giving them as examples.
That's too bad! Consider moving to a state that doesn't completely shaft employees with "use it or lose it" benefits.
Europe is the exception here, not the US.
This news truly deserves a HN top black belt. :(
> Those who are still concerned are free to quarantine of their own free will, but I do not think it's fair to force the youngest to put their lives on pause because some people are still terrified of this.

This is the whole reason we can't got back to normal tomorrow, even if you could make it so by being "in charge". When I look around at the faculty in my school district, I see a whole lot of comorbidities, and those are just the visible ones. And yes, some of the faculty have died from Covid, one of them was 37, the other 43. How do you get kids in school and protect teachers at the same time.

These teachers already have to deal with the looming threat of school shootings. But now they also have to deal with Covid, and on top of that they went from being called "essential workers" to being called criminals (just look at the comment section in TFA). This is leading to a teacher shortage, where young people no longer want to enter the profession, and older people are retiring. So if you really, truly want to open schools for the sake of children, figure out a way to do so that makes teachers feel safe to teach, or start teaching yourself.
Psychosomatic illness is a real problem. I understand that they don't want to mock people with it (as it's not really helpful), and post viral syndromes do exist, but the mass hysteria people are raising is even less helpful.
Tuning HTTP Keep-Alive to Prevent Gateway Errors
You've nailed it. I can't afford my mortgage and kids school if I take a startup gig unless I start burning my investments. It's way too risky, especially since the investments are doing well. I totally would love to work for a startup, even do longer hours, but no one is willing to make offers for people in my class. I'd even be willing to burn some of my current investment if the startup gave a serious equity chunk, but the offers ive been seeing would require years of steady and significant growth for the equity to match my current FAANG comp. And that's just match, not exceed. Startups are way too greedy with equity.
DeepMind co-founder leaves Google after a rocky tenure
Having written a commercial memory allocator a quarter century ago, I remember dealing with freelists, and decided they were too much of a pain to manage if fragmentation got out of control. I chose a different architecture that was less fragile under load. Interesting that this can still be an issue even on today's hardware.

It's also interesting how much a tiny detail can derail a huge organization. My former employer lost all services worldwide because of a single incorrect routing in a DNS server.
Came to say this! Loading their homepage at the moment gives me a plain text response that reads "upstream connect error or disconnect/reset before headers. reset reason: connection failure".
I recently switched to YouTube music from Spotify.

I was a heavy Spotify member for many many years.

I can’t deal with Spotify inserting podcasts into the music listening experience. Music and podcasts are two different use cases for me. I love both, but don’t love both in the same UI.

So far I love YouTube music and very happy with the switch. I love that I can listen to live sets that people post on YouTube. Great recommendation system too.
>menu bar

I never leave it enabled any more. When I was a beginner it was helpful but as time goes on you learn more of the system and better ways of finding commands.

One thing I suggest is building emacs without dbus and using only Athena widgets. Both contribute to overall emacs stability.
> As an aside: You should pull out the SIM from your mobile phone anyway

No, the idea is that you use your phone without a SIM card at all: no mobile network, wi-fi to the VPN router only.
Yeah, useful selectors for researchers, and still no identity.

We learnt that somewhere there is a man/woman that is depressed and has weight management issue.

We can take policy actions in order to improve the situation and monitor how this affects life of people (e.g. how much antidepressants are used in a year, are the food policies effective, what conditions are often linked to sudden cardiac arrest, etc).

And "Rebecca", nobody knows it's her, except herself, and those to whom she decide to publicly disclose her conditions (e.g. on social networks or to specialists).
I've heard that many of those "remote" positions are nothing more than bait and switch--once you start talking to them they try to slip in that there's office time required.
You have to bear in mind that Hobbes wrote Leviathan in the middle of a civil war when existence was precarious and news consisted of terrifying unverifiable rumors about everything. I too think much of his prescription has turned out to be a Bad Idea but he probably meant well as an individual rather than scheming to lock humanity into its current boring dystopia.
Viral mutations trend toward reduced risk to carriers as a means to being more sustainably transmissible.

Like other biological entities, viruses evolve to survive and replicate more efficiently. If the hosts die off, survival and replication is stunted.

We’re not out of the woods yet w/r/t dangerous variants, but health risks will likely wane over time, and we’re obviously well past the point of meaningfully controlling transmission. We will absolutely experience seasonal waves and variance similar to the cold.

All of that said, we need to do some realistic cost benefit analysis at this point. We have a new cold-like virus on the planet, and we’re implementing new ways to protect ourselves and treat it (if we’re smart). At this point, are the mental health and quality of life sacrifices we’re making worth it in the face of an inevitable endemic?
I'm shocked that nobody has mentioned Enron in the context of grid collapse and insane spot market prices. Granted, Enron specifically manipulated markets to create scarcity of supply, but the effect was the same: prices skyrocketed when electricity producers were unable to meet demand.

In my view, electricity shouldn't count as a commodity. Virtually any other commodity in the world has some amount of buffer in the supply chain. Oil can be stored in tankers, grain in silos, etc. Electricity doesn't work like that. Production and consumption must always be in perfect balance. Sure, it's possible to address that by implementing grid scale batteries, but very few electricity grids in the world have done so. Australia is an exception, and the Telsa batteries are able to blunt a lot of the price gouging caused during periods of increased demand.

I can't see Texas investing in batteries to create a diversity of supply given how hydrocarbon-centric the state is, especially if they can't even mandate the easy/cheap fixes to their existing infrastructure.

Markets are great when they work, but governance matters when they fail.
Like a drone that you sit in – but would you feel safe?
I'll go ahead and add this to killed by google now instead of waiting.
In my mind's eye, I see a whole lot of Twitter engineers swinging into frantic action. Godspeed, all of you.
That article seems to back up the idea that no level of alcohol is safe, given that low / moderate alcohol consumption is still associated with a small decrease in life expectancy.

(Though there are always potential confounding factors in such studies)
The adrenaline receptors in his brain were probably stuck wide open throttles at that point
If you're doing a slow rollout, it's not always easy to tell whether the thing you're rolling out is the culprit. I've been on the other side of this outage where we had an outage and suspected a slow change we had been rolling out, especially because we opted something new into it minutes before an incident, only to realize later when the dust settled that it was completely unrelated. When you're running at high scale like Roblox and have lots of monitoring in place and multiple pieces of infrastructure at multiple levels of slow-rollout, outages like this one don't quickly point to a smoking gun.
Is it, though? It's a lot more dangerous. I'm not sure that's necessarily worse somewhat safe hopelessness.
Netflix warning on subscriber growth sends shares plummeting
https://archive.is/H0byv
There are over a thousand breakout sessions at every reinvent every year. Some of the speakers are sales people, some are engineers, some are managers. There are L5 or junior engineers who give reinvent session talks. It's a fun gig, but it doesn't mean that the speaker is some top executive or anything like that.

Rich was in the sales org. His primary job was sales. Reinvent is a sales conference. Speaking at reinvent is a sales pitch. He was a salesperson. I'm not sure why you're so offended by that. Being a salesperson isn't bad, it's just an explanation for why engineers wouldn't have heard of him.
I canceled my Spotify subscription for YouTube music. People will leave Spotify if they continue hurting their UX trying to mesh music and podcasts.
Maybe? I suggested it because these are the three possibilities for the shape of the universe and it does a great job of visualizing the 3-sphere!
Except that now those vehicles are used and may be more difficult to sell again. If you don't go through the trouble of retitling them, then clearly they were never really sold and the courts will see right through this scheme.
> Raw data” is submitted to the FDA in the CDISC format. This format contains a lot of pretty sensitive medical information, including which diseases a patient has, their medical history, what drugs they take, etc. This is supposed to be anonymized, but if the public were to be able to get this info, I strongly believe there is enough information to re-identify patients

At the time when you inject hundreds of millions of people with it, I'd say this should be mandatory to disclose as much information as possible regarding the actual trials. I don't trust the FDA one bit.
ex-RV employee - it's a powerhouse of data for every significant moment in your life - from health to utilities to mortgage and everything in between. I personally don't see anything wrong on with this specifically.
how is it a scam in anyway? i use bitcoin daily and I do get cheap and easy transactions
Fun fact: All the major cities in Texas are further south than even LA.

San Diego -> Dallas is a tiny northern move, though.
At least there’s some correction when administrations change.

Otherwise, you get two more massive, unaccountable bureaucracies laying down and enforcing their own regulations.
Fair play to them, as I imagine it's going to be a long day...
What are you implying? Here's how I interpreted 3e and 3f:

- An individual is not responsible for someone else's mistakes

- An individual should not be shamed on account of their race

Those are perfectly logical ideals.
I was similarly confused with the contradiction of her kids having spent ‘one third of their lives in lockdown’ and mentions of going out to restaurants and seeing friends at their houses. Is that lockdown?
If anything, it’s a cheap distraction from lockdown Christmas parties.
> I am curious about the actual numbers around CSAM on encrypted networks, and if there's other enforcement avenues.

I'd be also curious to see the budget breakdowns for the different detect-deter-deny-disrupt activities going on, and the effectiveness of each. Like is intercepting encrypted communications addressing production and materially stopping abuse from happening, more effectively than tracing victims, social work, etc (I don't have a good sense of options available). Or is it just a low hanging fruit that catches a few criminals, but provides an important pretext for broader snooping like you say. They would have a much more compelling case (in any e event I disagree with violating innocent peoples privacy to prevent crime) if they explained why this was the best option.
just clicking around, i cant even tell what the license is in the free evalustion stuff.

it definitely looks professional and probably worth it, but the site itself doesnt seem to sell any bootstrap model.
Not for children.
>I don't think encouraging the spread of disease is likely to cheer them up much.

Describing socialization and face to face interaction in these terms is incredibly callous.
Exactly this, it’s a vector for DOS
A reduction of obesity. Living a healthy lifestyle has many benefits beyond Covid.
You are wrong. Heck, even Jump was criticized to hell and back for being synth garbage instead of the shred metal that Van Halen was known for prior to that song.

There has never been a time in history when more great music was being created and made accessible to the masses than today. And I say that as a crotchety jazz nerd.
You mean among hospitalized individuals? i.e not children

> Initial reports of neurologic syndromes accompanying COVID-19 described changes in level of consciousness or cognitive dysfunction, weakness, and headache in hospitalized patients...

> A UK-wide study of hospitalized patients identified the most common neurologic conditions...

> Direct examination of autopsy brain tissue has caveats—those who died with acute COVID-19 had severe disease that may not be representative of the majority of those infected with SARS-CoV-2.
Always interesting when one group reports a subjective phenomenon, and someone else refutes their experience by pointing to an X mg/dL change in some serum test.

Obviously the experience is what matters, not what the machine says. Alcohol increases cortisol levels? Ok, all I know is I feel nice and relaxed right now.

Of course if I overdo it, or do it too often, then the next day will demand the debt repaid, or my baseline will shift upward. Ok, so don't overdo it.
> But claiming there is no ‘safe’ level does not seem an argument for abstention. There is no safe level of driving, but government do not recommend that people avoid driving.

False equivalence. Drinking is not necessary for life (and it's harmful as we see here), but driving is required for many people's livelihood.
Careful about running your systems in us-east-1, folks
While I agree with sentiment, I don't agree with the premise or the method. Corporations aren't the only ones stacking charges. Prosecutors and private citizens (usually operating pro se) are just as capable of frivolous litigation. The best action a judge can and should take is to dismiss the meritless claims before proceed to court phase.
The current administration is asleep at a wheel with regards to the economy (inflation and government spending) and their sad grasp at voting rights (i.e. we aren’t gonna win unless we “reform” voting in our favor) only shows their desperation and lack of understand of what’s important. As James Carville famously said, “it’s the economy stupid.” As everyday items and gas prices continue to rise and the stock market continues to plummet (destroying wealth and retirement) I fear they are not equipped to addresses the economy and make tough (anti progressive) decisions.
It's obvious when it's pointed out in an article like this. It's less clear when it's one of many changes that could have been happening in a day, and it was an operation that was considered "safe" given that it had been done multiple times for other services in the preceding months.
No, I haven't. There are thousands of reinvent sessions every year. I don't watch them all (I don't watch hardly any of them, and most people I know in Amazon watch a couple breakout sessions if that. Some don't even watch the keynotes). Their targeted audience is AWS customers, not internal engineers. Reinvent itself is a sales conference. If internal Amazonians want to learn about something like DDB, there are internal talks and documents given by the engineering leaders that we watch.

>At the same time you are able to this internal lookups?

I looked him up on LinkedIn. Nothing internal about it.
Not snark: did MongoDB ever go away?

I've seen it used in many places over the years.

Today I would choose JSON in Postgres before I would just jump to Monogo but it certainly serves a purpose for many shops and it is still widely used AFAIK.

I _really_ miss RethinkDB.
That's correct, all intoxicants are prohibited in Islam. The word (khamr) refers to any substance that masks a person's thinking ability (the word "khimaar" is a face veil, and both khimaar and khamr derive from the same root). And it's not a reading as much as an explicit text:

> "Every intoxicant is Khamr and every intoxicant is unlawful."

https://sunnah.com/nasai:5699
Apologies for the tone. You're right to call that out.
Oh sure. At a high level (and I'm not super well versed), infant mortality statistics are only based on live births. In the US, this includes any baby that breaths or otherwise shows any sign of life. In several other countries (including western european ones), the check for signs of life doesn't happen immediately. There's also the question of if countries mark extremely premature births (<22 weeks) as live births or miscarriages.

It's a politically charged issue, because many people consider it to be the loss of a child, and no doctor wants to tell them the child was never born. Since 2001, France has more than doubled the number of stillbirths, because of new standards that moved what were once miscarriages to the stillbirth category (some driven locally, some in response to new WHO standards based on the ability to care for premature infants.)

It's also politically charged because many groups have a vested interest in downplaying any results that make their country look bad. I'm not going to claim it's entirely a statistical artifact - the US lacks comprehensive neonatal care and that's an issue.
So less than 2 years? Who cares? Don’t be like the folks who sold off in 2008.
In general European countries have bans on smoking in public places much stricter than the US.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_smoking_bans#Smoking_b...
Yes, I was thinking the same thing. Hopefully it's down long enough for us to wake up from this nightmare and move on with life.