skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not a scam as long as you stay in crypto-space. Then one token equals one token and there is no concept of value beyond that.

It is a scam in the traditional sense of failing to deliver expected value, since we want crypto to carry value and thus people still expect to be able to use crypto to buy things. The rub is that prices of things are still typically tied to fiat currencies, even if expressed as crypto prices. E.g., buying eggs with crypto depends on the price of the eggs, which is almost always controlled by the global economic order which is essentially governed by the (petro-)dollar, because of the economies of scale that have grown around egg production and distribution.

The only reason any plausible deniability still exists about this basic feature of the crypto space is that crypto does not concern itself with participation in economies of scale, and the prices set in crypto-space are essentially just in crypto-space (even if all the reporting equates buys of NFTs, etc. to equivalent fiat amounts).

One could say this is the ideal, but when the source of that value-as-expressed-in-crypto is value-as-expressed-in-dollars, you are siphoning realizable value from naive folks in a way that is functionally indistinguishable from a scam.
Literally could not contact customer support without paying them for a support contract.
> I have seen with my own eyes the devastation and ruin which American war crimes have wrought.

No doubt those things have happened and are very serious, especially to the victims, but morality is a property of sinners; it's not meaningful for saints. What makes morality special and meaningful is that we have it and use it despite our sins, despite having the free will to chose evil. Saints don't exist anyway - we would have no morality if it required them.

The world is rallying around Ukraine because of morality, because of a belief in freedom, self-determination, and justice. That is why the United States has so many allies, and countries like China and Russia have very few - it is possibly the great realist, geopolitical advantage of the US: we have allies who trust us, welcome our bases, invite our intervention, because of the (limited, human, very flawed) morality.

> I would like us to earnestly try building a bit more of it!

I could not agree more! Thank you for saying it.
Here's an unclassified 82 page report on NATO information operations [1], which designates a role for a Deception Officer and indeed defines that,

>Deception involves measures designed to mislead adversaries by manipulation,
distortion or falsification.

Nor is the overall function limited to the "adversary", for example on page 23 you can read that Info Ops are performed to create "desired effects on the will and understanding of...approved parties", which include "potential adversaries, decision makers, cultural groups, [and] elements of the international community".

I'm not saying that NATO is necessarily in the wrong to do these things in this situation, but it's certainly a bit naive to think that both sides are not fighting in the information space.

[1] https://info.publicintelligence.net/NATO-IO.pdf
I think the more important bit here is that the earnings reported weren’t typical and in many cases appear to be completely fake. The subscription model is egregious, and probably illegal in most states, but that’s not the main problem.
> they have uniform torque over the entire RPM span

That's not true, electric motors make peak torque at low RPM and then it drops steadily with increasing RPM.

But yes, it's acceptable enough to allow for single speed transmissions for most road cars.
Well, you are.
Nietzsche's quest was to discover how to lead the good life despite the implications of nihilism.
Really?

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=rt&ia=web

Works fine for me in the US. RT.com is the first result.

What countries are you referring to? And is this DDG’s decision or are they being forced to comply with the country’s law?
Interesting, you use the word matrix differently than me. The way I use it, a 2d array isn't necessarily a matrix. It's only a matrix if it represents a linear map between vector spaces with respect to chosen bases. Then again, I'm not much of a programmer, but I've taught linear algebra a few times. My head is just in a different place I guess.
If it's so hard to find people to adopt, why on earth would we limit the pool even further by ensuring people can be 100% sure they can handle and integrate whatever random child they end up with? That's an impossible task, and would vastly reduce the potential adopter pool even further.

Sometimes adoption process fails, and the family can't handle the kid, perhaps even after years in that family. You can't just shut them in together like trapped rats with no escape hatch to seek another family to adopt so the kid has some chance of being with a family that wants them.
All humans are created equal and are endowed with inalienable rights ...
Do you just take a contrarian approach to anything claimed there? Or are you actually saying that you learn truthful information there? I can't tell, nor do I know which is the right answer.
Ah, I see. Thanks for the explanation. That being said I'm gonna have to disagree with your last point. The value of careers is determined by the free market, not some ancient social norms made by the patriarchy. SWEs are paid more than liberal arts majors not because of historically backward value systems, but because a SWE can have a hugely profitable impact on a business that other jobs can't.
Do you have plans for a web-based reader app, for use on desktop computers?

Context: I'm a happy user of NewsBlur and find being able to go back and forth between Android, iOS, and desktop to be quite useful.
> Every lane change that anyone makes significantly increases the risk of a crash vs. just staying in the same lane.

Ah, yeah, that's why you see 10,000 people dying every second from changing lanes out on 101.

Get off the roads guys. You're really bad at assessing risk. If you think CHANGING LANES is going to KILL EVERYONE then you are in the same group as flat earthers as far as critical thinking goes. Stick with caltrain if this is how you guys truly feel. Your ideal mode of transport I'm sure. It's only got one track going each direction - can't even change lanes!
The last 25+ years of American history prove this wrong.. and it’s not like the last administration was concerned with massive deficits, adding $7T during strong economic times. It seems a bit odd to blame progressives for this one…
I am not sure I've ever had the flu. Haven't had a severe viral illness in decades. Wouldn't want to say I remember well further back than that.
Adding HLSL and DirectX Support to Clang and LLVM
Big discussion earlier: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30632695
> Also whenever I have the option to do so, I sign up for subscriptions with PayPal. It's super easy to cancel recurring subscriptions on PayPal.

Is this like with expiring credit cards, where you just let it lapse (which it's my understanding does not automatically get you off the hook—you just hope it's not worth the company's time to pursue you), or is there actually a mechanism automatically provided through PayPal to cancel subscriptions?
>You did also literally say "what other stance could I take?" which I interpreted as meaning you didn't know your options for helping combat systemic problems.

And you interpreted that incorrectly.

the "stance" I take (in this case, support for the equal rights and equal opporunities of all) is the stance of one who doesn't have governmental or corporate power to directly impact change other than my behavior and my advocacy.

You interpreted what I said to mean that I'm powerless to effect any change. Which is unfortunate since not only is that not true, I neither said nor implied anything of the sort.

All that said, I suspect we're, in large part, in violent agreement on this topic.

Go back and read the comment[0] to which you originally replied. You'll see that it makes clear what I think.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30608880
No, the west has been monomaniacal and there is no reason to expect succeeding world orders to crusade the same way. Indeed, preceding hegemonies did not behave this way.
I actually thought this was an onion article at first until I saw the reuters logo.

This shit is depressing.
Lol. Not only have they worked out, but virtually every developing country is building their own suburbs. Is traffic an annoying inconvenience, sure. But I (and most people) love the freedom, the space, the variety granted by a car out in the burbs rather than being stuck in a cramped, super-expensive, single-window box in a city somewhere, and relying on public transportation to get anywhere beyond 10 blocks. Been there, done that, for far too long.
You've really gotta try to get pulled over here. I just broke my streak, been in the Bay Area for 20 years but finally got pulled over last year. First time ever interacting with police at the side of the road in California. 20 years.

Lest you think I'm a saint, I got 4 tickets the year I moved away from Seattle alone.
good point, many asian countries (where public masking has been commonplace well before covid) have notoriously terrible students and learning issues.
What do you mean, "docker command pull alpine:latest is not good"? Was there a specific breakage?
Question, we're a long time Windows shop and just recently have been spinning up some linux containers (redis, rabbitmq). The decision fell to me and I went with Ubuntu. (I'm confident in our networking team that everything is firewalled well and not externally accessible so these are local LAN only.)

Should I instead be using Alpine? If someone is isn't distro aficionado and is utilizing "mainstream" docker images, what's the recommendation?
My guess is no. I don't think the headache with producing a large variety of cars is the drivetrain. I expect almost all of it is the crash requirements.
Scarcity of ownership not necessarily access
> If it was SEO spam then the fix for that would benefit all of search.

SEO spammers co-opt legit techniques, so there’s no 1 size fits all solution. Google has to ban and penalize sites all the time.
Hypochondriacs do exist in the world, but I think you're being very dismissive.

Lung scarring is certainly real and can take a long time (up to a year) to fully heal. This isn't imaginary: lung function and capacity can be quantified and measured.
I wish search could be hierarchically visualized so I didn't have to page through several hundred articles of the exact same thing being reported for the exact same quotations for the exact same events. Deduplication, hierarchical organization would allow me to see true variance among a topic rather than use a very limited way of ranking relevance. I want perspective, not top 10 exact same things being said.
Thanks! Some good thoughts in here. I took a month off before starting my current position and it made me feel even less interested in writing code once I got back to work. Maybe finding a different place in the field will get me interested again.
https://httptoolkit.tech/blog/frida-certificate-pinning/ has a good guide and Frida script that will disable certificate pinning automatically in most cases.
> and then a mile or two down the road I pull up right behind the exact same driver at a stoplight or other non-passable thing, and I feel that I've made the right choice.

This is what we in the business call confirmation bias. As many times as that's happened - I'm sure there are many times where they also didn't get stuck at the traffic light. Yet - you never saw them. Thus you never thought about. Thus... we call it confirmation bias. Interesting.
We should require ventilation improvements in buildings. Small cost that makes life better for everyone that uses the building.

Should also try to push back against a culture of going to work and similar when blatantly symptomatic (I don't want a cold, I don't care if it is mild, I don't want it).
I appreciate the explanation, thank you. So it seems that the Fed would much rather err on the side of inflation than potentially misstep into deflation. As someone who owns no assets, I would really love for the inflation to stop, but admittedly I have no idea what deflation is like, and historically it hasn't been pretty.
> You asked to download your archive on 2022-03-10 22:33:57.

UTC, I think. It's been a couple hours; let's see if there's a link. My archive is almost 50 GB, but that's not been a problem yet.
Well, for starters Gab is banned from the App Store for their near-absolutist stance on free speech.

More than that is the general culture of suppression of the "wrong" view of reality. Most people who were merely to the right of center moderates in the 00's are now accused of being absolute evil if they voice any opinions. I've been told by well more than a dozen former co-workers that they're afraid to say anything or let anyone at work find out about their political opinions because they're afraid of getting fired & won't be able to feed their families. The suppression and censorship is very real.

One or two exceptional counterexamples do more to prove the rule than to disprove it.
"Last night I dreamt I went to Manderly again." -- Daphne du Maurier, Rebecca
while i feel there's a lot to consider & balance, @dcodeIO has advocated in the past very strong stances for very strongly Windows quirks positions.

personally i havent valued compatibility with the niche technical issues @dcodeIO attests very highly. just because windows decided to go to some freak utf16 weirdshit doesnt raise alarm for me that all else ought. i see a ton of very very high quality contributions from dcodeIO, they are a very good voice generally, but these kinds of bizarre character encoding complaints keep arising from them, having heavy windows biases, & they have long felt over emphasized & out of place.

imo theres a strong perspective distortion field trying to apply itself here. with a history of false umbrage, for pokey irrelevant unimportant minor factors affecting very few.
We don't fully understand the long-term effects of COVID, but there's not much we can realistically do about it (short of continuing the push to get everyone vaccinated). There is little evidence that NPIs are meaningfully effective at scale, at least when practiced in a way compatible with the normal functioning of society.

I'm much more sympathetic to the death rate concerns (admittedly: Omicron makes it easy to have that kind of sympathy) than to the long-COVID stuff. Appeals to long-COVID all seem like an appeal to an application of the Precautionary Principle that, taken to any sort of logical conclusion, would shut down society. You can do shutdowns (and I supported them!) to manage an acute crisis, but you can't generally do them as a precaution.
Anecdotal but I work on a performance oriented application and there is no such measured performance penalty from musl. For that particular use-case, like all benchmark caveats. Older musl, perhaps. Musl in other domains that bottleneck on something less performant, perhaps. Ymmv, measure twice cut once. :)
Lenovo P40w-20.

Dell's has one for a year or more. LG just released theirs as well. I think those are the only 3.
> I have never understood why there isn't a low cost automaker that has only the bare minimum - the style barely ever changes and looks decent, manual everything, bare minimum heat/ac, minimum radio that can easily be replaced, as cheap as possible - is the only reason this doesn't exist because of ever increasing regulations?

No, it's because people who buy new cars don't want this.
I just did a search on Zillow for Pasadena. Most houses were at least $1M, and their mortgage calculator says at current interest rates that is $6000/mo. After taxes, that $228k gets you about $12k a month. If you have a family, that's $1k a month for food, and many more expenses. Car payment? And, your career is only ten years.

There is a not a lot of room left over with $228k, and remember, that is the HIGHEST paid person on the team.

I read countless statements here on HN about people excited about living away from big cities and maximizing their tech incomes. This is not the case here.

I'm not saying it should be fair, but we should at least pay attention to it and be honest about what this means for exceptional women.
You’re probably overestimating the network effects of perceived morality and underestimating the effects of being by far the most powerful nation since 1945.

If China doesn’t implode and becomes way more powerful than the United States, we will lose most of our allies regardless of popular opinion.

But I really like your attitude!
“ Because one side is busy shelling and starving civilians right now?”

well technically the ukranians were doing the shelling first, starting on february 17th, killing ethnic russians in donbas. but you probably dont know that bc of the censorship. so basically you want propaganda amplified because you arent aware it’s propaganda, and have no way of figuring out it’s propaganda bc you want everything else to be censored.

“ There is very, very obviously a "bad guy" here, and most of the world (even outside the US/NATO sphere of influence) seems to agree on this point.”

no not really, china and india dont agree and thats half the world
IMHO the best view of Stalin and Stalinism, and certainly the funniest if your taste is for black humor is the film "The Death Of Stalin" - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Death_of_Stalin often available on streaming services. A new version with s/Stalin/Putin/ would be good, and perhaps given oligarchs etc. even funnier.
Clearly there are no Andromeda Strain fans here.
> No because those flu viruses were not novel, or as deadly.

That information always lags reality. When/if the next deadly flu strain emerges, it will have emerged before it is discovered to have emerged. If you're not planning for this scenario, are you really planning for the worst case? You could be Patient Zero for Spanish Flu Part Two, with your preemptive masking being the difference between global disaster and nothingburger.
> Enterprise: buying IBM meant (a) job security and (b) high cost. AWS is that today.

My experience with Enterprise is the complete opposite, especially Enterprise that makes its money anything directly or peripherally related to retail.
Probably using QEMU and an macOS VM.
Unfortunately, gold is also susceptible: https://nepp.nasa.gov/whisker/other_whisker/gold/index.htm
In other words, engine efficiency has increased dramatically but so has car safety, and those competing goals mean the bottom line efficiency is similar.
>>If I’m using a small website, there’s a chance that my little Python script could take down their service because it’s doing way more requests than they’re able to handle. So when I’m doing this I try to be respectful and not make too many requests too quickly.

What is a reasonable rate to send requests? I've done a little scraping and I wanted to do the same thing but I realized I had no idea what would be considered acceptable use and what would be unacceptable. If anyone has a heuristic they like to use I'm all ears.
Enums and "sealed" classes enable closed vs. open dispatching. Static (compile-time) vs. dynamic would effectively be devirtualization.
This is not how it works. There are two different toggles, one for the Find My system, and one for just having your iPhone report its last condition. If you dont care about being able to find your phone/devices when theyre off, then you can simply opt out of the Find My network and rely on the basic position reporting.
There are also https://db-fiddle.com (I use this one personally) and https://sqlfiddle.com.

Edit: wow, DB Fiddle UK has a lot more databases!
I just tried this with the LightBlue app. Interrogated an iPhone. Reported 0% battery then disconnected. lol

Update: now I know exactly which model macbook and iphone my neighbor has, whom I have never met. That doesn't feel right somehow.
I'm also a big fan of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warnock%27s_dilemma , which I wish had gotten more traction over the years.
There is no point in calling for violence on social media against anyone, the Russian people including.

It may feel liberating for some to post such calls, but the actual killing is happening right now on the real ground, not virtual.

This is what needs to stop!

Channeling the anger and helplessness against the aggressor into the hate is not making people stronger and is not going to stop the aggression.

If anything, expressing your own thoughts and feelings about the current events and how they affect your daily lives could be not only a way to cope with this crisis, but also a way to document this uneasy and fearful time for the future self and others.

Posts, tweets etc. describing our individual and collective human experience of this is what may eventualy help find a way out of this nightmare, not the hate.
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
They were better off when their sponsor was the world super power and neighbor. Now the South has that kind of sponsor.
I think I've read this piece before and when I did it certainly had pictures, plenty of them. I think maybe they removed them because he escaped from jail and they don't want to ... cause trouble? To anyone?
Demand is not constant.

Demand fluctuates relative to amenities, jobs, goods, services available on either end of a thoroughfare. If people like the offerings in one metro area vs another, or in a suburb vs a larger city, more people travel to and from that place. If they have things they want to do in their own backyard, they do not do that. The distribution of all of those things changes over time because of course it does.

Thus the law of conservation of traffic flux is violated and none of your conclusions are sound.

Sure sounds like public transit design is a red herring, no? :o)
> You can't have trillions in deficits without massive inflation

You empirically can, because the US has at times done so, but progressives (particularly MMT practitioners) not only recognize the relation between government spending balance, they hold up monetary effects like inflation as the only valid constraints on government spending balance, rejecting the idea that spending balance ought to be governed by the pretense of a fix purse that must be filled by tax or borrowing (the “fiscal” approach), while monetary concerns are controlled exclusively elsewhere on the system.
I'll check out that essay, thanks for the words.

I've worked mostly for younger companies (5-10) years old, typically building tools for in house use. CRMs, sales tools, management systems etc. I've always wanted to find an organization I feel passionate about but haven't found a good match yet. Maybe that's where I should be starting.
Hahaha, I have to ask where you're making this up from? Like no one reasonable aside from 'west haters' and bot accounts would give this a serious line of thought.
Is every package coming into Germany screened for Lead? Could you not just order some from another country?
Except that is not true. We get the common cold quite often, but real flu very rarely. If you get the flu you know about it - it is much more severe than the common cold (which is why it kills people).
The perception of reliability still has an affect on price and depreciation. So maybe it's a good idea to buy them used.

Another complaint I've heard of Alfas is ergonomics sacrificed for looks, which is kind of a deal breaker for me.
The subtext on all these discussions is generally mandates, so we're talking about a risk/reward calculation made on our behalf, not by us individually.
Oh interesting, thanks. Might require a TPM though.