skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How many people have ever actually bought some physical real world product with crypto?

Even among crypto fans, I suspect the answer is a very small minority.

As an actual currency, crypto has yet to get out of the starting gate. Any popularity it has is mostly among those who don't know much about monetary policy and for the most part, really don't care. Any crypto "culture" is built around myth and imagination of what might be but has never been.
Thanks! I didn't realize that I was able to vouch...
It's a biological reality that's gotten lost in our modern world. It's kind of funny no one seems to blink an eye that women and children are allowed to leave Ukraine but men have to stay and fight. The idpol segments seem to think that trans men shouldn't have to stay and fight and that is the true outrage. Personally I think men (or any human being that chooses) should be allowed to flee. Honor shouldn't be enforced by the state.
Ah, in the case of developer originated SaaS, then sure, doing a SaaS offering rather than donationware might lead to more income for the developer, but I don't think that free software is alone in this - plenty of proprietary software that would once have had fixed boxed releases is now subscription or SaaS based too.

Recurring income is a stronger business model, nobody's denying that, but that doesn't mean it's an improvement for the user or that those producing software with a goal of financial gain would have just released standalone open source software if only free software licenses had been more sympathetic to their needs. Rather, I think if SaaS did not exist, if their first goal is revenue, many of these groups would have just released straight up proprietary software.
I never said Egyptian...

Also the article you linked says between 4500 and 2000 years ago. So the '3500 years' was a pretty decent guess if you ask me.
> Don't believe everything you read on the internet

> --Albert Einstein
For sure. But one of the bigger issues with flash was it’s runtime being a constant source of RCEs
I’m just coming off Keto for those same reasons. What is your IF routine? I’ve been doing 12 - 7, but it sounds like a lot of people here are shortening that window.
I hear what you're saying. A few months ago, a guy, clearly homeless, rang my doorbell and offered to shovel my driveway in exchange for some small amount, I can't remember. It couldn't have been more than ten bucks. I do not need that. I can get it done in about 45 minutes. It felt posh and exploitative. What I realized later is that he was just asking for some dignity. To earn something, to not be a charity case. He wanted to feel like he was offering something worthwhile in exchange.

I've thought about that incident a lot. I too am disgusted by how society is organized. When confronted by my own relative wealth and privilege, I felt gross. But in that exact moment, you can't re-engineer the economy. You have to choose whether or not to be generous while respecting that person's dignity. I can only speak for myself here, but too often I'd rather just not encounter hardship in others at all. This is a bad impulse. The world is a terrible broken place, and it's right to be generous in whatever way someone will accept in that moment.

This reasoning is often used to justify poverty wage jobs--people want to work, so let them--and that's definitely not my take. I think work can impart dignity, there's a certain amount of shitty work that can't be avoided, but you can't feed your children with dignity, so let's pay people a lot more.
I suspect it is a bias effect. Sometimes, connections are slow for a few minutes: temporary network congestion, maintenance, interference, etc... That's the time you start to check, and by coincidence, things get better as you are checking. I don't think that your test triggered anything.

What is true however is that speed test servers are often located right next to you and maybe given priority access. It means that you can get great numbers despite a poor global connection, but it shouldn't make anything else go better.
If all that eugenics was or is concerned with was the removal of some harmful alleles by consensual methods, and it was not a pile of often racist bullshit falsely claiming to be based on what is actually solid science, it would not have a bad name.
I'm new to Unity and game development, and I'm starting to feel like there's another problem alongside bugs: misinformation. I've been reading through the official manual/prose guides, and many of the chapters blatantly contradict the UI and behavior. Official samples from Unity make typical noob mistakes. Unity employees make incorrect recommendations in the forums. Bug reports will go unacknowledged for a long time, which makes it hard to trust anything you read.

So in addition to having to put in the effort to learn the tools and concepts, you have to be ready to distrust anything the docs and even the employees tell you. Unity itself is a force actively working against you.
Nothing you said has anything to do with security nor preventing cheating. If that's the sorry state of modern anti-cheat then it makes sense why TF2 is still plagued by incredibly obvious sniper bots.

Detecting cheating by window names? Who is getting paid writing this crap?
> Child labour ended around the time it wasnt needed

It ended in England in part because of social pressure and subsequent Parliamentary inquiries [0]

> as did all phases of economic labour division (slavery, ...)

If it ended when it was no longer needed, what do you suppose the second bloodiest war in US history [1] was about?

> A very bizarre thought, which I can only imagine stems from some misperceived impression of one's own importance

Alright then, have a great day.

[0] https://www.bl.uk/romantics-and-victorians/articles/child-la...
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_military_casualt...
Your getting content you didn’t pay for.
This looks promising. I'll look into it. Thanks +1
I don't think so. Maybe. I have no idea. I think dying would have been a bit easier but I'm not sure how that even helps the species.
They don’t have the original.
I'll look into Xt and Xaw. Thanks
They do not recognize ICC and had threatened sanctions and criminal charges should it ever decide to go after the US nationals
For much the same reason adult men between 18 and 60 are barred from leaving Ukraine at the moment: they're the primary pool of conscripts and recruits. When young men die it's never clear who was a non-combatant, while women are much less likely to be enemy fighters, and pre-teen children even less so.

If a drone strike kills five men, who knows whether they were enemy combatants? Your example is murky and vague, through no fault of the dead men. If it kills three kids under the age of 10 and two mothers, it's more obvious the casualties weren't combatants. If you're a journalist and you're looking for examples of clearly horrific drone strikes, you point to the one that killed people who were most obviously non-combatants.

I think you know this and you're asking a rhetorical question about the value of human life, but it's a question with a real answer. "Innocent adults" is a phrase less self-evident than "innocent women and children" because of the way militaries and insurgent groups recruit.
You realise people can have hobbies right? People can save up for an expensive camera for their photography hobby.

Do you think only Silicon Valley programmers have cameras like these? I can assure you that professional photographers don't make that much more money, not nearly enough to justify the expense anyway.
It seems that fast.com overestimates your connection bandwidth if the tab you're running it on gets put in the background.
Seems to be related to the mystery hepatitis in UK that was on HN a few days ago.

Adenovirus 41 one of the main viruses that typically causes the “stomach flu”/gastrointestinal sickness.

If this is the cause, that seems a bit worrisome. Did the virus mutate? And if so, naturally or synthetically?
> Where's the pressure?

the pressure comes from the context - you're in an interview situation, faced with a previously unknown task (presumably you haven't done something similar before). The result of this "test" determines your candidacy in the job (presumably you want or need this job).

It's like asking why a bomb defuser feels pressured.
Yeah, that's the kibibytes vs kilobytes / gibibytes vs gigabytes diffence...
Which adds up to ~7% difference in capacity when talking about GiB/GB, and even 12.5% when talking about PiB/PB

Kibibyte (KiB)

1,024¹ = 1,024

Mebibyte (MiB)

1,024² = 1,048,576

Gibibyte (GiB)

1,024³ = 1,073,741,824

Tebibyte (TiB)

1,024⁴ = 1,099,511,627,776

Pebibyte (PiB)

1,024⁵ = 1,125,899,906,842,62
How about calling murder what it is.
It actually always surprises me just how long human can live when they don't outright starve to death. Or reach crazy levels of obesity (like multiple hundreds of kilograms.

And as person without kids I wonder what is good enough lifespan anyway if you are happy during it 40, 50 or 60 years? Or has it go to close to 80 or 90?
Even if I'd made enough I'd make it a point to use workarounds like these to avoid the scams or inefficiencies of the overpriced CFE cards, just to make a point.
First thing I would do is download and build. Then find he incr method/interfaces/etc. Then rename all of those to mult and try and rebuild and see if mult works identically to incr. Then start working on modifying incrementing toy multiplying.
As a less technical anecdote, I bought one of those usb "sound cards" and it had noise when plugged into the front usb ports but worked fine into the back ones on the same PC.

The sound was transmitted digitally and didn't need that much bandwidth, so the only explanation is "dirty" power on the power wires, I think?
Doctorow is correct here: interoperability is necessary, from a social perspective. Governments should mandate it.
Try THEOTOWN. Available on mac/windows/iOS/android. On iOS it is free. It has mods, end game content, is well balanced and has a lot of beautification content if you in that kind of stuff.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1084020/TheoTown/
> they're artificially constraining their supply of candidates and increasing the cost they need to pay for developers for absolutely no reasons.

On the contrary, rejecting a high number of candidates pushes market rates down.
I assure you that the bank is making good money out of using that capital. Are you suggesting that it’s better that the bank keep all the profits rather than some of it going to the person lending the bank that money?
More and more it feels like one of the central problems of the modern technical is how to effectively scale trust.

Anti-piracy: trying to address the lack or abuse of trust while scaling the sale of products because technology has radically reduced "manufacture" and distribution costs.

Anti-cheat: trying to address the lack of abuse of trust while scaling game coordination because tech. has made massive interconnectivity possible

Anti-cryptography: trying to address the lack or abuse of trust while scaling communication tools.
Weird definition of "recently".
Before Blueprints there was Kismet.

My last kismet project looked like an ER diagram for a government database. Kismet had decent grouping objects to where you could organize your Kismet, but even my largest and most complex kismets could have been replaced by about 100 lines of unreal script. It's just not as expressive as code. I miss unreal script.
> It's good that you are opening to discuss and go through this.

Is it? I don't intend to hijack OP's particular story but I'm actually very interested in this assertion and I know nothing of the scientific evidence for psychology. So this is an honest question not a troll...

Is it actually good for people to "open up" and "work through" things? I know that's the accepted wisdom, but what good has it been proven to do? Are you actually more likely to become a better person? How is that measured?
uh... Not sure where you got that I had a cost estimate? My point was time and money. If they do not have time or interest for something any amount of money is probably too much. That was sort of my point that I had time to think about it.
Is it a typo or is the math wrong intentionally to feed a pin (which I'm obviously not getting)?
Refusal to learn doesnt suggest inability so to do. Once you have seen dozens of fads come and go you may well decide to focus on core skills rather than learn something that you know will be useless in a couple years. With age comes perspecive. With perspective comes the ability to think in longer terms. Choosing to ignore something doesnt mean you wouldnt be able to master it if you wanted to.
I got it from there and it crashed when launching. M1.
Yep. I use two monitors, both on displayport. Bought like 4 cables and one adapter to get a working combination :)
Sometimes NOT doing a thing IS improving things. History rife with examples.
To Godwin it straight away, Nazi germany also built the Autobahn, expanded the German railway, and progressed rocket technology. You seem to be saying we have to take the good and the bad of Meta and add them all up. And hey, at least it's positive for you!
The screenshot [1] they used on their Github page is different.

[1] https://camo.githubusercontent.com/bc5894f89d64f4cb8f01e4c02...
This is a rule in many manufacturing environments. Intel has had the same exact rule for a very long time.
I don't know how it works in other countries but most bigger gyms in Estonia make you sign a contract with them when you join.

If you stop paying without cancelling the contract (which they have ridiculous terms around), they sell you off to a collection agency which then proceeds to harass you until you pay. A friend recently went through this experience and warned anyone against the big-name gyms. (Looking at you myFitness)
I forgot my master password two days after. I thought I had stored it someplace and my guess the phone shaked after typing the master key and it undid the characters. FML moment. Spent a week resetting passwords. I only set passwords once. We use bitwarden. It was a pretty fuckery.
Yeah the browser is open source, but the project is very early in development. After the project has a stable basis, we will fully embrace the FOSS mindset and make contributions open.
I don’t mean to sneer at his choices ( I think it’s cool and fine), I just wish he would spend less time sneering at other peoples choices (especially when that antagonism just makes it harder for someone to not get defensive).
I was sarcastically riffing on the original title, but that aside, the differences between Protonmail are diverging year-on-year, with the new bridge providing features that don’t exist in the app. Adding Calendaring and Drive at the expense of improvements in the core Mail. There’s only so long they can go on touting supposed security benefits at the expense of interoperability and usability. Swipe to multiple actions, select multiple messages, opening calendar invites in other apps. I disagree that they go to lengths to explain how everything is different, a quick look says the opposite, and they don’t establish the trade-offs at all. If you want privacy for “everyone” you have to make hard things easy and not make easy things hard.
Can synthetic data help train your AI model?
The SRA caf was super nice, and extremely subsidized... It was a nice trip out there.
So much for Net Neutrality ...
The Big Bang is unlike mythology in one very important and very significant way.

It was never declared to be absolute truth.
Very interesting points! I admit that my interpretation is very much coloured by the excellent introduction to the Oxford World Classics edition of the Histories written by P.J. Rhodes. I believe Thucydides was far too cynical to buy into the propaganda, and was less than wholly enthusiastic about the way Athens conducted the war, as the placing of the Melian Dialogue directly before the Sicilian Expedition showed. The prominence of Pericles' funeral oration certainly showed that he did not lack pride in his native polis.

The animosity towards Cleon is definitely related to the stark contrast with Pericles, and there's no doubt Thucydides mourned Pericles' death. On the other hand the capture of the Spartans on Sphacteria was due to Cleon, whether it was up to luck or not, and although his attempt on Amphipolis was unsuccessful he paid with his life. These two events largely ended the first phase of the war on grounds more or less favourable to the Athenians, so I would say Cleon doesn't deserve the extra ire directed at him by Thucydides, Athens certainly had worse generals.

Speaking of which, the portrayal of Alcibiades is indeed also very negative (and in my opinion well deserved). Whether or not the presence of Alcibiades himself in the expedition would have changed the outcome is an open question, but his removal was due to political intrigue (democratic politics is always messy) and hardly his own fault. Anyway he carries the family curse so can't be too harsh on him :).

The point of your original post was that historians biases colour our own views. I think the fact that we spent all this effort here trying to guess what Thucydides might or might not have felt about certain things is in itself a testament of the neutrality of his work. It is very difficult to paint him as a partisan purely from the text in his own works, so in this case I believe Thucydides is actually a counterexample to the original argument.
> Unfortunately mental performance boosting seems taboo (eg. Modafinil) almost like steroids.

Well both have effects only as long as you keep taking them. If i recall correctly there's a whole lot of mind altering substances that are illegal because of that...
It’s 8 hours bottle-to-throttle.

https://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/14/91.17
And we have little idea who build it and for what. I expect at least those basics down for anything to be called part of our culture. At least for back-dating purposes.
I love those city building games, especially with this gfx style. 3D simply does not work for me.

As already posted twice in this thread, i love theotown, but what theotown lacks is a proper traffic simulator. It just feels not right. What theotown also does not handle well is the subway system. It feels very basic and is not really necassary for developing a large city.
Not very hard to achieve similar results with LaTeX, just make liberal use of mathrm, custom commands and spacing, eg

\mathrm{det}(A) shorten to \det{A}
What kind of a question is this? Because people want to improve and are self-aware enough to know outside help and perspective could be valuable?

Do you really not know this or are you saying popularity if such posts bothers you?
Maemo Leste's sixteenth update is finally here and it's the biggest update yet
having firecracker use a local cache vs docker with a remote cache means you'd be benchmarking network hardware & bandwidth, not docker vs firecracker
The link between young age and (new) musical production is well established. Everything else - with the possible exception of math which is pretty related to musical ability - less so.
How Rainy Is Seattle? It's Not Even in the Top of Major U.S. Cities (2019)
The founders, investors, employees already HAVE been greatly rewarded for their risk and efforts, and in many cases are already off on new ventures. So the system worked as intended. Now the only risk is is held by the likes of Vanguard and a Saudi prince, who are unlikely to be deterred from participating in capitalism in the future if their positions were closed at $54.20.
Where's that quote about how Spain always seems to be close to collapse, but still somehow keeps going? For a variety of reasons I am often surprised that Spain hasn't turned into a Swiss style federation, at the very least (i.e. with the Federal government almost being powerless). Madrid seems to be the only area that actually wants (or wanted) the state to be as it is.
Until USB4 2.1 gen3 comes along.
I agree with the sensationalism but it's a for-profit company after all. They definitely do more than the average email provider but it's certainly not the Tor equivalent of E-Mail.
The first image on the project page is off. Here is a closeup:
https://imgur.com/a/JtkhVNH

It's 2-1-1-2-1-1-2

EDIT: on closer inspection, it is 2:1, but with a weird artifacting. It does a 1x3 segment followed by a 2x3 segment, repeating.

On the game site, the images do follow 2:1 with expected pixel-perfect rendering.
> If your game is based on technology you dont understand you don't really own it until you can recreate that stack

This is entirely irrelevant to "I wish kids today created their own games". They do, and it's easier than ever to do so.

> you don't have control over your future

Let's see: people create and sell their own games, there's a veritable indie renaissance happening, young people can get into game development (or into programming in general) easier than ever, but... they somehow "don't control their future".

> For the exploitation part

So you want: everything to be free, but you also want people making games to earn "real" money (as opposed to fake money they are earning right now)?
The project is still very early on in development so we haven't decided how to handle extensions/add-ons. But it would definitely be neat and unique if the browser extensions are also written in C.
But the idea behind the browser is to create an unbloated, fast, and responsive browser that is also easy to use.
Yes, but if a social security number wasn't provided then the collection agency can't do more than call and send some letters; it won't impact a credit score or anything.
I don't want to speak for you, but it alsi makes me feel uncomfortable, but I know why.

The 'detached black and white' view of the world us how we got here in the first place.

Clinging to moral absolutes and trying to frame real life in that rigid framework is a lazy/irresponsible way to be efficient. If you don't have to worry about the details (truth), decisions seem easier.
Work camps are just the extreme of the policies that we have yet to implement. We seem to be lubing the slippery slope towards it though, with political correctness and cancel culture.
Say researchers in their mid-fifties, the prime of life.
Most people who need glasses at a young age are nearsighted. That is, their eyes can focus on near objects, but they need glasses to clearly see objects far away.

Vision decline in old age is frequently associated with farsightedness. Old people have more difficulty focusing on close objects, so they get reading glasses.

I've been nearsighted for most of my life. I've always worn glasses to drive a car, but glasses didn't impede my near vision until after I turned 40. Today I wear progressive bifocals when I drive so I can see the road, but also read the speedometer or the navigation app on my phone. Before I turned 40 regular glasses didn't prevent me from seeing the dashboard clearly.
> You have been overly dismissive of Casey's work.

I am reading it not as what Casey is doing isn't cool, just that it is not at the level to enable Casey to be himself dismissive of other people's work to the extent he is.
https://moscow.sci-hub.se/2912/e557ad01807ac82351e1cec98b2b9...
That's a good insight! I'll definitely try to look for them on Github and similar platforms. Thanks!
Age-related decline is happening at much younger ages these days. There is a growing belief that the way we prescribe and use glasses is leading to atrophy in young people that previosly was only seen in the old. Lenses get firmer eith age, but atrophied muscles from inactivity mean even soft/young lenses are unable to focus properly.
Is anyone working on making Python work with it? That would be amazing.
> I was saying it's a mean slur used by bigots. […] Are you trying to cast me as the language police?

What, exactly, does the language police do differently from what you did?