skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well - Apple makes everything. From my point of view, they are more similar to a game console platform where a completely verically integrated product experience, including marketing spend and everything sort of justifies a partner-like split of revenue. Google is really just hobbling together a pretty shitty phone platform, with terrible OEM support and drivers OEMs do all the work that Apple does but Google slides in there with the app store and takes a cut. To me Google is much worse
What if you go to a bootcamp, get saddled with an ISA and then work at mcdonalds and somehow get a better job that has nothing to do with the bootcamp? The bootcamp gets your money. Quantity over quality.
Can Saudi Arabia become the world’s biggest hydrogen producer?
Our internal monitoring has seen more outages than they listed here. Theres been 4 full days where github actions have been mixed between completely broken and degraded status.

It's nice to finally get some comms, but this is incredibly late and incomplete.
Her comment on the consequences of sanctions in Iraq has to be one of the worst things I heard in my life. I thought about it recently in the context of the sanctions on Russia and Biden looking to deal with Maduro. So the people of Venezuela are suffering for years now because the most powerful country in the world is leading the charge to basically destroy them as a sort of necessary moral stance against their government. But once another moral stance was needed, suddenly everything was forgotten including of course all the consequences of the actions in past years. These are not only headlines and macroeconomic trends, they are basically a bunch of destroyed lives of regular people like myself.

These people in charge of all this are obviously completely immoral, so the catch is - how can they possibly take a moral stance on anybody, including Sadam?

She was a terrible person. Rest in peace?
That’s correct. It’s pretty infrequent that I assume I know better than the market is pricing.
Siezed by an exchange. When your coins are on an exchange you don't control them.
Learning a protocol by writing a toy client (or toy server) is a blast. It's so satisfying to see a real, production-quality server sending real responses to your little mess.
I think the issue is that there is demand for a reputable (hirable) $3,000-30,000 program which can teach you to program in less time and/or more flexible schedule than traditional university.

I think one good solution is Western Governor’s University which falls in that price range and is extremely flexible on timeline.

But honestly there are a lot of students who want high quality intensive instruction but cannot attend a top-10/20 university. It’s very very hard for most people to find high quality learning outside of those programs unless you get extremely lucky to be in the Bay Area or at a company which can provide an environment full of experts to learn from.
Non compounding interest? I think there is a better word for this.
You've used the words "frame", "reference" and "invoke" to describe what the original commenter did vis-à-vis the blood libel and associated antisemitism.

All of those words can imply intent. They can also be somewhat neutral.

You're doubling, tripling, down on your original comment. I think your original comment was a big leap, honestly.

The "obvious" reference to ~"drinking blood of children to preserve youth" (OP now edited out) is vampirism, or possibly Silicon Valley (HBO TV) / Peter Thiel analogue.

Not Nazis though, not for everyone at least. You jumped there, and while I do think it's fair to warn of the adjacency, being more clear that you were reading OP charitably would have avoided this kerfluffle.

And FWIW, the blood libel accusation is ancient and Christian. The Nazis just borrowed it because it was convenient.
This does not warrant PR excitement getting built up. It’s just another payment option, not a discount package deal for consumers, so … who cares enough to make a press release about a feature this boring.
How to use a Python variable in an external JavaScript (Django)
The main criteria was their audience similarity on youtube (youtube recommendations), as I told you in the first reply. I took the obvious pro-Kremlin channels and then pulled all of their top recommendations until I stopped finding new channels. Almost all of the top recommended channels were the ones you see in the graph, most of what I removed were various music/movies/etc channels.

There's a similar network of obvious pro-Ukrainian propaganda out there on youtube as well, and a large anti-Kremlin russian opposition network, they are all fuzzy but you can still see the clusters as similar channels have similar audiences and get cross-recommended by youtube.
New frontend to one of 100s repos on github?
Either pencil and paper or ViM... things with buttons never go well for me! :-)
It’s funny you mention Minecraft. My kids recently said “I hate Microsoft. All they did is ruin Mojang.”

They don’t know Microsoft for anything other than ruining Minecraft. They didn’t know Microsoft made the Xbox or even Windows.

They made this statement after Microsoft forced them to migrate their account they’ve had for 5 years to a Microsoft account. That broke their computer for a few days and reset their games. For no useful reason.
I'm not sure I believe that any particular religion is correct, but it doesn't take very much faith to believe that there is a God.

Look at it this way: scientifically, the best explanation we have is that there was nothing and then from an infinitesimal point all of the entire universe sprang. For no discernable reason. That's pretty freaking wild.

The idea that there's a God out there past all that doesn't seem that much crazier.

Now whether or not you actually have a soul is a whole different discussion...
Ah, OK, yes I was talking at cross-purposes to some extent then, thanks. (Jupyter notebooks are hopeless in version control due to the JSON format, but I'm not familiar with Rmarkdown notebooks -- do you get sane diffs?)

Yep, so what you say makes sense. Isn't it sometimes a bit overly prescriptive to assume all collaborators use Rmarkdown? (Perhaps not! I used to work in biology and statistics and R was very ubiquitous.)
>As is often the case with tech companies, new business models, like tipping in this case, play on ancient ideas and practices, but make them many orders of magnitude more accessible and scalable through software.

The scale is the very thing that kills this model. With a small, close community, there is huge societal pressure to live up to your obligations, and not doing so has huge social costs to you (you become isolated from your community). At Internet scale, you no longer have the community to enforce social norms, and not living up to your obligations may actually be lauded in r/lifehacks.
TLDR: They still don't know why this is happenning.
Superluminality isn't required by all interpretations of QM. MW doesn't need it, for example.

I'm not aware of a mechanism by which causality would arise from known QM, so I wouldn't expect a priori planck scale to play into it. There would also need to be an energy term for h to make sense as the relevant constant.

The most compelling source of temporal direction I'm familiar with is that it's a regional cosmological entropy gradient rather than a fundamental aspect of physics, although it strikes me as suspicious that the time direction lies inside the 4-cone generated by the odd-dimension-out in our spacetime
metric. That certainly lends some credence to theories which would predict the direction of time as fundamental to physics.
You really don't need an expensive shelter. It comes down to the amount of dirt between you and the nuclear fallout particles. Every 3.6 inches (9.1cm) of well packed earth will halve the gamma rays that make it to your body. So, with around 18 inches (45 cm) of earth, you reduce the gamma radiation exposure to 1/32. After around 2 weeks, the vast majority of the fallout will have decayed and it will be safe to evacuate if you would like.
Something like Cloudflare Argo tunneling would work great for this. No certs at all for the user to mess around with, it terminated on the public internet, not in your house.
Interesting take — hadn’t thought about it that way before.

There is one crucial piece missing, though: universities’ incentives. At least in Norway where I live, universities are paid the same for many STEM, humanities and social sciences programs. This causes an oversupply of e.g. historians compared to e.g. software developers, as universities are free to ignore labor market realities.
No one gives access to crypto, you have access.

If you open your wallet and you find a global reserve currency then you should buy the book that was linked earlier about privilege.

Maybe it's just me, but when you live in a place where it's illegal to purchase foreign currency and you are forced to convert all your income from exports into a currency that evaporates in front of your eyes, your view of crypto changes dramatically.
Yes. Long term bots, or people with malicious intent. This is not why were are at HN. People like them are completely ruining this site.

Spreading hate and missinfo. She wasn't in power both when 91 and 2003 invasions (it was republican presidents for both parts).

Also they are leaving the part:

Sadam invaded Iran

Sadam gased/chemical attacked Iran

Sadam invaded Kuwait

Sadam Chemically attacked/killed almost 100k of Kurds in Northern Iraq

Sadam was cruel to his own people and killed and repressed many

There you. They wont tell you that the sanctions of the 90s, were directly correlated with his brutal repression (up to using gas attacks) to the Kurdish people in the north.

So, whoever ommits these things is completely using dissinfo for hateful purposes.
I email/matrix myself GPG encrypted files of my wallets so I don't even need to carry them... so definitely easier to carry.
If we want to make the situation better for customers then companies like Apple and Google should provide subscription management/payment API for IAPs for free to developers so developers are incentivized to use the centralized platform. Customers can manage and cancel payments through that centralized platform. The only reason developers come up with these roundabout methods for payment is because of the massive fees that Google and Apple have.

Steam isn't a monopoly like Apple and Google are with their respective marketplaces so it doesn't make sense to compare the two. If I want to publish or play a game there are a lot of different ways to do so that don't involve Steam.
Well, not really, because there are 3D displays with shutter glasses and lenticular displays that can show graphics with depth without the use of goggles or glasses. The graphics may be rendered in 3D, but the monitor itself, the thing I spoke of, only shows 2D images.
Why would Microsoft not migrate to SQL Server? MySQL is owned by Oracle. Microsoft cannot be happy about using a product from Oracle. SQL Server is a pretty good product and the conversion will give them even more tools and expertise for their consulting wing to do it for other companies.
USC Pulls Out of Education-School Rankings, Citing Data Errors
Climbing - because it's fun. And I need it to be fun to motivate me... There is a tonne of skill and technique behind it that has a lot of depth. I meet quite a lot of coders who are attracted to it for that puzzle solving aspect.

I'm 45 - so no spring chicken. I started climbing when I was 40 - off a very low fitness base. I don't go all out every day (which is ill advised anyway) - just fairly easy bouldering routes just to get the body moving. Mebbe one or two sessions I'll try to go hard (but only with a very long warm up). Mostly it's just about the routine as opposed to achievement and crushing goals.

Unless you are very old or suffering from injury or disability - there is no reason you can't start climbing now. Just take it slow. It will be difficult on your forearms at first for a few months. Regularity is key. Living near your gym is super important for me. Mine is a 3 minute walk away. I bought an apartment very close to my gym - and it was one of the biggest reasons for my choice.

Rest of the day WFH - coding... till 5 - 5.30. Often down to the shops during lunch. I'll try and go for a walk before dinner if I can...Cook dinner... TV and chill before bed.

Nothing exciting - but a routine that is working pretty well for me.
I don't think that's what your parent post meant, but, Chrome actually mechanically requires CT logging in order to trust a site, the expect-CT header doesn't come into it. Safari has the same policy, and Mozilla intends to some day do likewise in Firefox but the politics of the exact rules are tricky for reasons we could get into if somebody cares.

When your Chrome connects to a TLS server, the server has to provide a certificate, and Chrome examines that certificate before any HTTP traffic happens (and thus before you could send an HTTP header like Expect-CT anywhere) unless you've got Group Policy or similar rules saying otherwise:

- The certificate must have proof it was logged in the form of SCTs. For most sites the SCTs are baked into the certificate when they got it, they're all that incomprehensible gibberish near the end of your certificate if you've read it.

- The certificate must have been issued relatively recently (825 days or less previously) and it must expire within 825 days of issuance or if it was issued since some time in 2020 when Apple's policy change happened, 398 days.

- The certificate says it is for TLS Servers (in most cases certificates say they're also for TLS Clients, and sometimes other things too, but Chrome checks it says specifically TLS Servers here)

- The certificate has a Subject Alternative Name matching the DNS name of the server, or, if the URL we're resolving is for a numeric IP address, a SAN matches that IP Address. SANs are typed, and are not free human text, so a DNS SAN and an IP address SAN are distinguishable even if 10.20.30.40 was a valid DNS name, which it is not. Old-fashioned "Common" names are disregarded.

- The certificate must be signed by a trusted CA (or by an intermediate which in turn was trusted, and so on recursively).

I think I hit the big ticket items, there might be some others.
>The teen is so skilled at hacking -- and so fast-- that researchers initially thought the activity they were observing was automated, another person involved in the research said.
Seems like a gross exaggeration. Larger RU experiencing some difficulties annexing one her smaller neighbours with foreign support is history rhyming, down to both sides thoroughly entrenched in their own propaganda. This is regression towards mean in terms of typicalness of peer war. Note scale, paper deals with insurgencies.
Review sites are littered with advertising likely preventing any results from being indexed. It also doesn't help that most reviews are now in the form of video.
I understand, but Open Banking has been wonderful. My main German bank has a crap app, but I can use the excellent one from the Sparkasse to access my DKB account, which has made life far easier. Plus all my accounts are in the same app.

I guess it's a two-edged sword.
Word...

Nothing matters but the next hold...
I wish Ken & Roberta would work on a new 2D pixel art point&click game.

Doing VR well takes a lot of effort, which would be better spent on story and creating beautiful pixel art - which somehow has a richness that VR can't seem to replicate (yet).
Prepper videos on YouTube are heavily monetized by snakeoil companies preying upon people's anxiety. Or made by people with various belief systems in conflict with reality. Theyre not effective, either.

1. You will never have a "bomb shelter". Dropping a crate in the ground is a good way to die from carbon dioxide poisoning and offers no bomb or bullet protection. At that point just have a house with a basement. Actual bomb shelters are a nightmare and do not last long. Metal rusts, the earth moves, and if someone wants to they'll plug your exhaust anyway.

2. Most foods, even canned, do not last that long. If youre canning yourself you have to add preservatives, even. Water does not stay good sitting, again, you'll have to have a method to treat it. However if you live in the country you already have a well. No you do not want short well. Think about how to deliver 240V30A for short periods for the well pump. The electrical systems to do this are expensive.

3. If you are actually having to live in a basement on limited food and water you're already dead. There is no scenario that you will have to do this and come out alive. If the world becomes post apocalyptic and people want your supplies they will get them. Doesn't matter if you have a giant vault. Play a bit of fallout to see what I mean. If nukes are dropping you're dead in months anyways.

Focus mainly on real, independent solutions to being self sustainable. Solar power, solar greenhouses, self defense, farming methods. Don't buy into rhetoric or belief systems. Have math lead you.

When it comes to construction people on YouTube are terrible. They build all sorts of things that will not live long.
Right, and on Coinbase a round trip costs you 1%, or USD 420. Last time I looked (when they IPOd), Coinbase alone syphons off 0.4% of the entire crypto market cap in fees every year. Traditional equity exchanges are dreaming of margins like that.
American ones too - there may have been an espresso bar, but the free option for us was a Starbucks “iCup” machine whose output tasted and smelled nasty.

Now that I think about it, maybe we should’ve checked the water supply.
But then you're adding even more parties to trust as it's often the case that Docker images are not provided by the same people that are maintaining the project.
MUD is a general term for text-based roleplaying game - Multi-User Dungeon has always struck me as an unhelpful definition since it applies a lot more focus on mechanical components than most MUDs actually have.

IC is in character.

I can explain this better with an example I believe. While playing as a jeweler in Minas Tirith in a MUD I had need to consult with an armorer PC to receive some in-character training on basic armorsmithing as Gondor was, at that point in the plot, in desperate need of arms and armor quickly so all of the PCs who had any sort of forge capable of metalwork were trying to make an effort of supporting the war effort. While there were lots of weaponsmiths in EST the one armorer I knew well and enjoyed playing with happened to be a Chinese player who occasionally overlapped with EST. I ended up staying up late one Saturday night and having a very fun scene with them, but there were serious logistical complications and a bunch of DMs sent back and forth to make sure we were both available.
Or an actual DDoS, not self-inflicted.
They held seselj in Hague for 10 years, and couldn't really do anything to him.... his legal process was better than any reality show ever made.
We stocked up to one month of supplies in January '20 due to pandemic fears. At the time we were concerned that we wouldn't want to go to a grocery store or that there would be a run on the markets. Our stores are currently at about 50% now. I intend to go up to 3 months of stores in the next couple weeks.

My main concern is grain and fertilizer. I expect food price spikes and shortages. I don't expect shortages in the sense of starvation risk, more like - they won't have the brands or types of food we're used to. The stores are mainly protection for if goes worse than I expect.

Regarding nuclear, I've looked at what installing a bomb shelter would cost, but it's a nonstarter with my wife. Instead, we've just decided on where we'll go and what we'll do if we get the warning on our phones. Luckily, I still think nuclear exchange is highly unlikely.
Huh? The vaccine passports didn't seem to be much of an infrastructure?

It was a voluntary opt in QR code with pencil and paper back ups that's already disappearing?

They seemed purely convenience focused to me.

Are you this concerned that people need driver's licenses to drive and insurance?
They mention the fee for small businesses but don’t say that there is 0 fee or a reduced fee for this program, so it’s pretty obvious that they’re still at least making 15% per transaction under this agreement, maybe 27% if they do what Apple did by only reducing their fee to account for the fee taken by the alternative payment processor.
I'm not a prepper, but I have some supplies. I think it's pretty responsible to have a 30-day supply of water and preservable food in the house.

Rice, beans, water, propane stove. Nothing major, but I could shelter in place for a month or so, if I had to.
Hmmm... I probably changed provider within that timeframe so maybe I just don't remember.

Thanks for the info!
To me, it kind of feels like the coup attempt against Gorbachev, where a bunch of the coup leaders were drunk, and the whole thing quickly fell apart. It's the same level of incompetence.
For a lot of human history (and even up to the present in some places), but certainly around the time cattle were domesticated, starvation was only ever just one bad harvest away. When last year they were deciding whether it's better to eat their own kids, let the kids eat them or just all die painfully together, drinking cow lactate was probably the least bad thing that happened to Grog and Grag this year.
That's the problem. Web3 adds payment layers to things, instead of finding ways to make things "too cheap to meter".

Decentralized insurance seems like a horrible idea. Who makes the decisions? And who do you sue if they turn out to be a scam? How can you sue anyone without a centralized legal system?

At best, DeFi seems like a last resort, being marketed as a replacement for the whole bank system, while still not providing core services the current system does, and calling the lack of those services a feature rather than a bug.

It may have uses to certain niche groups, but the name web3 implies it's some kind of revolution on the scale of web2.

But most people have exactly no use for cryptocurrency. I don't want my money outside the traditional reversible financial system.

DeFi loans seem to mostly be based on large amounts of collateral. Greatly defeating the purpose of taking out a loan, which, unless you are rich and doing wierd finance stuff, is because you need money that you don't have.

I know very few people with any reason to touch Web3, unless it provides something of interest for anyone but rich people with a grudge against the government.

It would be fine as a niche thing, but unfortunately it has completely taken over the tech scene to an insane degree.
Even your 2.9% number is probably too high. Perhaps for AmEx or in super-high-risk situations you need to pay that kind of fees, but for regular MC/VISA in developed countries, even a medium-sized business can get below 1%. Large companies, like Apple, can almost certainly get it lower than that.

Source: Involved in multiple such deals over the years.
You and others like you have basically caused the problem since our JIT supply chains can't deal with such sudden surges.
Infinite banking

https://jlmwealthstrategies.com/what-is-infinite-banking/
I think there needs to be clarity about what is harvested and how. Most centralized services actually respect people’s privacy to the extent that they’re not asked to infringe it by law order.

Most major tech cos have encryption at rest and highly regulated access checks. It’s also not clear that they actually do harvest every bit of data they can. They might for the purpose of better UX within the service, but Google ads doesn’t collaborate with gmail or Google photos for example. There are, however, botnets all around the world scanning the web for security flaws.

This is why, in this sense, I argue that most people are actually better off using a safe, centralized service with encryption than try to reinvent the wheel at home and be more exposed.