skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think this is a problem until it isn't.

The first country that starts pricing its oil exports in bitcoin will a) cause the price to initially skyrocket, and b) create a stabilizing force on the price that percolates to all other goods and services.

And the interesting thing, is that because bitcoin is energy money, there is a very direct and explicit correlation to the amount of bitcoin you can earn from using your energy to mine, which can then allow an exporter to trivially calculate the price they are willing to sell their energy for (slightly more than they can net from mining).

The dollar is the stable global reserve currency largely because the US has used its military might to violently coerce oil exporters to price their oil in dollars. Once that happens peacefully with bitcoin, the US dollar will regress back to a local currency used to control its own population and bitcoin will be the fair, global reserve asset used for international trade.
Point 2 is laughable.
Borexino measures directions of sub-MeV solar neutrinos for first time
Food lines in Mariupol visible from space (satellite photos)
I'm sure if this happened to people who'd just sent a donation at least one of them would have come forward by now and we'd have some evidence instead of the handwaving "what if" in this article and your comment.
Virtual machines use pointer tagging in least significant bits, as most of the data is 4x or 8x byte aligned, and you can assume that zeroing those bits will always give you a safe correct pointer value. And the tag bits can instruct the code that the value is not a pointer but contains more data in other bits, or that the value is a structure on heap with special treatment.
The physical wheat may exist, but it may not be possible to supply it at the same prices (especially given increased transportation costs due to energy prices). There may be no physical shortage, but if prices for wheat increase 50% in Egypt then many people will go hungry.
The project I'm currently working uses AWS DynamoDB as primary DB. Since it's proprietary, we ensure the AWS-specific APIs are contained in small and specific part of the codebase.

For instance, to create a "User" we need the PutItem API from DynamoDB [1]. Similarly, to retrieve a "User", there's the GetItem API [2].

Instead of making references to these APIs all over our codebase, we have a single `db-interface` module, which implements `get_user` and `create_user` functions. Each of these functions has an interface: they expect specific arguments with corresponding types. This interface is modeled against our data domain, not DynamoDB data domain quirks.

Inside the `db-interface` module, we implement the conversion from our data domain to Dynamo's. We also have general-purpose functions, like `create_item` and `get_item`, so that `get_user` and `create_user` are pretty much wrappers and only serve the purpose of defining the interface for interacting with the "User" data object.

The rest of our code only interacts with our internal interface, never with DynamoDB APIs directly.

If we were to switch database, we only need to re-implement the general-purpose functions (e.g. `create_item`, `get_item`).

May sound like a lot of work, but it took only a handful of days to implement the entire interface mapping everything we needed from DynamoDB.

Hope this helps clarifying a bit the application of this concept (develop for an interface, not an implementation) in the context of interacting with databases.

[1] https://docs.aws.amazon.com/amazondynamodb/latest/APIReferen...

[2] https://docs.aws.amazon.com/amazondynamodb/latest/APIReferen...
I think people do it for fun. Why automate the fun work?
I like Adderall. What's like Adderall?
We are superior bots.
I was given a pair of AirPod Pros as a gift. Before long, one ear would randomly stop working. I went to an Apple store, they did something, I took it home, the problem persisted. I went back to the store, they replaced it. The problem still persists. I've given up, these were free to me and I stopped needing earbuds when covid started and I was always home. I just can't believe these sell for $50, let alone $200.
There is a housing bubble across the whole county, people can not be moving everywhere at once.

https://www.cnn.com/2022/03/30/homes/us-housing-market-bubbl...

>> you don’t have to invade country to instigate a war. This is like saying Chris Rock instigated getting hit.

I am in no way condoning the death and suffering the Putin is causing. There is no such thing as a just war.

But really? Comparing "the slap" to all the complexities going on in that region of the world? Is that how simplistic you see life? You think resources have nothing to do with the war in Ukraine? Why was the US pudding for Ukraine too enter NATO? Why is the US involved at all in a country halfway around the world? It means we have an interest there. You know who also has an interest there? Putin. Hence, war. A proxy war.

> Saddam Hussein instigated the Iraq war, didn't he?

No. That happened because the US lied that Saddam had WMDs. (You protested the war in Iraq and you really said that????)

> Did America also instigate Russia's invasion of Georgia, or the flattening of Grozny?

No, Mikheil Saakashvili instigated that when he started working as a stooge for the United States.

> Did we make Putin drop chemical weapons in Syria?

Putin did not drop chemical weapon in Syria.

https://thegrayzone.com/2020/09/29/grayzones-aaron-mate-test...

Biden was not talking about Putins wife. He is working with NATO and Oil Companies to secure resources in a world where they are becoming harder to come by. I blame them BOTH for the war. I Balme the BOTH for lying and being psychopaths. I blame the both for the suffering of the Ukrainian PEOPLE. I blame them ALL for not trying more to work for peace.

Wy have you not brought up the war against the Donbas people in Ukraine? Why have you not brought up the war against the Palestinians? Or the war agains Yemeni? Do you think the CIA does not play a role in making countries unstable? Really?

You simply the war in Ukraine because it helps you cope with a complicated world.

Can you imagine what the US would do if Russia was as involved in Mexico and Canada as much as we are in Ukraine and Georgia? OF course to you, that would be a just war.
No it's virtually impossible to prevent it. It's very important to detect it though and to have a playbook in place on how to deal with it.
I thought this was disabled above certain speeds to prevent those chips being used in Missiles?
Try to use those facilities with CUDA or Unreal.
One thing I wish would become a trend is mainframe inspired UIs that have terminal like look and feel but with modern conveniences of clicking and dragging etc. Focused on efficiency and maximum data on screen. Not playful at all.
EU parliament passes privacy-busting crypto rules
Why the Black MacBook Cost More
I think it's more that the "publish or perish" model has emphasised important/newsworthy results, which has then fed a model of science reporting (and I include the journals in this) that have exaggerated results to the point where trust is strained and science reporting is incredible (in the other sense of the word).

The public have been bombarded with ridiculous, counter-intuitive "science" for decades, only for a lot of it to be quietly withdrawn or superceded later. It erodes trust.

And that's without taking into consideration the shady corporate-science bullshit like the fat vs sugar debate in nutrition science. If a company can buy a paper that says whatever it wants, and get it peer-reviewed and published in a journal, why would we trust science? Should we even?
Try Pleroma. It will easily run on a raspberry Pi and is growing very fast. It's also a lot easier and simpler to install and deploy than Mastodon; it has far fewer dependencies. Also more features, like chat, have been around for years. Mastodon is falling behind even there.

I really recommend it. It was a much nicer experience for me.
"But Tether's not backed by anything and they can arbitrarily print more of it!!!!"

"...do...do you not know how the actual dollar works..."
> inhaling radioactive dust is terrible for your health

Yes, but the dose makes the poison.

Also, the dose to increase the cancer rate in the next 10 years is much lower than the dose to make you sick in one months. See for example https://xkcd.com/radiation/ It's strange that they inhaled enough stuff to make them ill now like the title claims.

Many of the death reported in Wikipedia are caused by damage to the thyroid by radioactive iodide, but it has a half life of only 8 days. There are other nasty things like radioactive strontium that accumulate in your bones, but the effect is slower. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chernobyl_disaster#Cancer_asse...
The ISO released the 2.0 version of the specification that replaces the 1.7 standard.

"Although it is an open standard, one major difference compared with prior versions of PDF is that ISO now holds the copyright to the PDF specification and thus PDF 2.0 is not freely downloadable." [0]

It looks like DMCA requests are being issued to anyone that hosted the old specification, even open source projects [1].

[0] https://www.pdfa.org/resource/iso-32000-pdf/
[1] https://github.com/Hopding/pdf-lib#git-history-rewrite
I have not looked into this in any detail, but is it possible that Ubiquiti is fishing for the name of a second source?
intrigued by question. i honestly do not know, but can add for context that it is not unheard of in my area (temperate woodland) to have a dozen or more hives cohabiting the same acre. of course the bees are not confined to the acre, but my point is, if competition were a concern, perhaps a counterpoint is how would so many hives in one acre be sustainable?

additionally, many of the colonies are from local swarms. granted, who knows what genetic backgrounds are, but they are "wild" in contemporary terms.

additionally, commercial operations make good money because there are too many flowering things to go around.

would be interested in hearing counterpoints to my counterpoints, genuinely intrigued by question & implications
What are Electrified Reefs?
the internet is not really a library, but a radio (an ephemeral stream)?
If I'm not mistaken, you can in fact get the same digit three times in the ostrich head.

EDIT: I misread the article — it said you can't place the same digit more than three times.

Such a deep dive on ontological remodeling that I found myself starved for oxygen about the time palindromic lines came up.

Phistomofel’s Theorem though blew my mind. I'm still trying to convince myself it is legit. (Probably where I started to think about heading back to the surface.)
The difference here is "[Apple] authorized people who are skilled in the art" vs "anyone skilled in the art" of programming can tell others what it does.
In @koof's story, @koof recognized he was performing poorly.

In the other situations an employee is performing poorly, not recognizing it, and neither is the organization.
> Crypto crowdsourced the Ukrainian war effort faster and easier than the fiat rails did.

No. Crypto sent a bunch of meaningless novelty coins to a country that has no chance in hell of converting them into food, water, transportation etc.
https://github.com/JuliaParallel/Dagger.jl
BBC Online – A Year with Serverless
On a smaller scale why not. I attend the forest nearby at times, neighbors do it even more often .. but we can't ensure good care of a whole field set.

Even if there were large social efforts for people to gather and maintain nature, we'd still be at the mercy of pest / insects / microscopic life acting at night.
I quickly googled what the annual wheat exports from Ukraine and Russia are and got a much bigger number than the tweet suggests.
As an aside, I found that fascinating that Egypt is such a huge grain importer.

In the ancient world, Egypt was one of the largest grain producers and basically fed the Roman Empire.
Nice!
I think you have a type in "heaver", it should be "heavier" maybe?
I don’t think this matters. Wallets can convert between the two trivially. Acceptance as a method of payment is what matters.

What matters more is acceptance as a method of savings.
"Gotchanomics" is such a shitty model - you get something valuable, begin to trust the vendor, establish a system with their equipment, and then they pull a bait and switch, trying to get away with shitty service, mediocre replacements for good products, moving services to the cloud and subscription based nonsense - Nickel&Dime As A Service.

If I'm faced with paying premium rates, I'm going with Cisco and premium vendors. Ubiquiti's value was good equipment at reasonable prices to the point that you could buy spares for reliability and save 90% of the cost of service contracts from premium vendors. That differential was the absolute wrong space for them to try to tap for more profit, because nothing else was special about the brand. Cheap, decent, "good enough" network gear is now a market available for exploitation, ubiquiti has lost it.
SpaceX works around that by using consumer grade stuff and just replicating it 3 times. Tesla also managed to handle issues with supply shortages very well.

The old practices are just not good enough.
And ads that you couldn't even turn off until a massive outcry.
It would be nice indeed. Novena had that: https://www.crowdsupply.com/sutajio-kosagi/novena
I think a lot of ideas about academic legitimacy are neither based on a deep understanding of the replication crisis, nor are they emotional. The fact is, a lot of bad claims coming out of academia don't require any particular expertise to spot. Did you need to be an expert psychologist to realize that Power Posing probably wasn't right?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/world-41521671/100-women-amy-cu...

Very doubtful. You just need common sense. Like, if this actually worked then you'd be seeing it spread very fast everywhere, but in reality it apparently needs a constant flow of TED Talks to get people to take it seriously. Ditto for priming studies, etc.

More recently there's been COVID. The problems here aren't exactly the same as the replication crisis, partly because nobody seems to try and replicate anything in the first place. Really IMHO the problems are much worse. Nothing could possibly destroy confidence in academic and public sector expertise faster than being told masks don't work, followed by they work so well they're now mandatory, followed in turn by seeing case graphs where switching mandates on/off very clearly has no effect whatsoever.

The constant flow of bad models that were never acknowledged is particularly destructive. Most people can't articulate why the models always seemed to be wrong except through vague generalities like "bad assumptions", but it doesn't matter. Epidemiological modelling is toast in the public mind, along with the lockdowns they led to. The understanding that they're unreliable is fact based, not emotional, even if the details aren't there.

At any rate, having done deep dives into too many trash COVID papers in the past two years, I can't say knowing the exact details of why they're wrong makes much difference. The important thing is actually the social problems surrounding them, in particular the lack of any institutional acknowledgement or response that there's an issue. Observe how discussion of the replication crisis started with and still mostly comes from individual researchers, not institutional leaders. We can see there is no psychological acceptance of how badly they've been getting it wrong because, for example, Imperial College London (home of Prof Lockdown himself) just banned parents from attending their children's graduation ceremony due to COVID:

https://dailysceptic.org/2022/03/31/imperial-college-london-...

This is at a time of record high cases and after the Queen got it at 95. Nobody cared, it was in the news for barely a day. ICL comes across as a delusional institution with this sort of act, and combined with all the stories of activist craziness on campus, it's getting widely noticed by the general public.
Tangentially related, but there's another cool app that turns your phone into a cosmic ray detector: https://cosmicrayapp.com/

It turns out that cosmic rays pass through your phone more frequently than you might expect.
Where Are All the Exit Interviews?
Maybe the Pine Tab? Although it runs Linux well but not fast.
If we forget about the concept of intelligence for a while, there is a lot of research that points to the direction that whatever the quality that IQ tests measure is, it correlates strongly with financial success, health and a bunch of other things that are often considered good. Whether it is the cause or effect is also anyone's guess.
The smartest system still can't protect the dumbest users from themselves. Not a bug imo
"A truly direct democracy would not scale well, would it? "

True, which is why I prefer small states.
We are talking mostly about C here, but in any case, I don't jump of joy when looking at code that depends on SFINAE, ADL and CTAD.
While we wait, I chose to use a battery case on a recommendation. You might benefit from one.

Ended up with two of them and keep one charged, ready. The other one powers the phone a lot of the time.

If I need to, I just swap cases to get more, immediate power in a way very similar to using removable batteries. I can also keep the phone battery in good condition by not using it much and or into the full charge / discharge cycles that wear it out quickly.

It makes for a more robust, less easy to damage phone. When I have the phone out, I marvel at how delicate the tech generally is.
Cryptocurrencies have never claimed they address the hardest parts of financial inclusion. Cryptocurrencies solve the issue of trust.

> We need to keep track of our customers’ account balances.

Right. That's what the blockchain is able to do. It can assert that you, who says you have 1 bitcoin in your wallet, actually really have 1 bitcoin in your wallet (assuming no attack vectors such as 51% attack).

> We need them to trust that their Wave balance is correct and Wave won’t lose the money.

This is the same argument as above.

> We need to comply with relevant regulations—know-your-customer laws, capitalization requirements, account limits, etc.

Not something cryptocurrencies have claimed they can solve.

> We need to provide an easy way for users to exchange their balance for cash and vice versa.

This is an implementation detail, and entirely depends on how the UX of the wallet is. Sure running a CLI tool and GUI that looks like it's from 2008 (at least it was last time I looked at bitcoin's GUI) isn't great UX, but you can build a different GUI for it. Something plenty of exchanges have already done.

> Of course, the above aren’t the main use cases of cryptocurrency today: those are speculation, theft, extortion, more theft, drugs, even more theft, and speeding up climate change. It remains to be seen whether legitimate, productive uses of cryptocurrency will ever justify the hype. We hope so!

There it is. This is just an article blindly bashing cryptocurrencies. I implore you to ask yourself, what has previously been used to do all the above? That's right. Fiat currencies such as the GBP, USD, and other currencies.

I may possibly be biased, because, I certainly believe cryptocurrency has its place, though I don't believe it will replace fiat. But this article is just unnecessary fear mongering with zero merit.
It wasn't like they had the equipment and she was stealing it. She was deliberately ordering equipment and shipping it to another company for profit.
> 1. It doesn't matter if the effects of the marshmallow test are true or not. The idea is just to illustrate how tech people are as weak-willed, short-term focused and plain "convenience-at-all-costs" as the general consumers.

Can you explain to me what the long term gain I could expect, exactly, by foregoing a MacOS laptop?

I have lots of computing devices; many are Linux, a couple are Windows, and I have an Apple laptop.

This follows two attempts at a Linux laptop, with crummier hardware in many ways, and many inconveniences from Linux-on-the-desktop sucking. It just works, and I have lots of battery life.

> 2. There is no argument here: if you can not control what and how your device operates, your freedom is being taken.

Am I supposed to be a free software zealot? If my computer sucks, that also impinges on my freedom.

Yes, there may be some hypothetical ability to clone lots and lots of repos and do a lot of troubleshooting and cure one source of suck-- and then argue with upstream maintainers and kowtow until eventually my fix is accepted. When the sources of suck on Linux outnumber the sources of suck on MacOS by a reasonably high multiple, I'd rather keep the MacOS device in my bag than the other machines I have that run Linux.

If you're going to argue about some kind of collective loss by many people making the same choice as me-- that we all lose freedom, etc-- spare me. Tragedy of the commons, etc: not enough people are going to make the choice you're posing to have any significant effect.
Not a beek, but I'm close friends with some, and might actually take the plunge this year.

This looks like a classic case of "automating the wrong way" and thinking in terms of agents instead of tools (force multipliers).

What beekeepers really benefit from are tools that let them do more work with less effort. Hive lifters are a perfect example [1]. The most popular design has a couple of mechanical flaws that can lead to buckling, and the hand winch is kind of a pain to use with really heavy supers. That's the real kind of innovation the field would benefit from.

Another is logistics. Schlepping around hive boxes, sugar water, tools, supplies, through loose farm mud, is a real hassle. Tractors are expensive and not really maneuverable. A "farm tug" would be crazy useful - something like an electric wheelbarrow (which exists) but a more generic/modular form factor.

1 - https://beehivelifters.com/product/beehive-lifter-manual-2-w...
There's no advantage to this over using a cheap ass 2nd hand laptop and a PI via USB though?! Other than cuteness of form factor maybe?!
The author points out that these design trends are cyclic.
“ The importance of a smooth on-ramp is seriously underrated by cryptocurrency enthusiasts”

This is either the most or second most discussed problem in the cryptocurrency space.
I think we live in different worlds, and that's a bit PHP's problem, many of it's devs and users do.

From my pov, manually logging in on a server has been something for emergencies only for a long time now (10y+), and if it's frequently required or even essential to deploy and run an application, this is a sign of bad practices. So the last thing I want to read to deploy some software is "can literally be copied and pasted onto another machine". Maybe you can do that, but you never ever should even have to consider doing this. Where is your versioning, ci/cd (testing, quality gates, automated deploy), how do you roll back in case of a problem? How do you track when new versions were deployed? How do you address patching, runtime differences, active PHP modules and php-level config? What webserver do you use, how does it need to be tuned for your workload? PHP-FPM? Do you expect something specific? Do you rely on .htaccess files? The list goes on and on.

These things are a major hassle at the scale I've had to deploy PHP services. Its best option is containerise them, and then you have a bunch of other challenges due to the process per request runtime design impacting monitoring, metrics, autoscaling, ...
It matters for mass adoption. Why would I want to be paid, or pay in, something other than the primary currency that matches all of the prices?

It's not a technical problem, it's about human behavior
He was offering constructive criticism, the article concludes with specific recommendations for how they could improve and gives examples of projects that are doing a better job and could be emulated by debian.