skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Then everytime you want to watch something, your "smart" TV will make you wait for it to check and download new updates (mostly advertisements).
It was unclear whether you were talking about american or foreigner in that context. For a foreigner, you'd have to contend with local banks that are subject to requests from local police.

You said "not everyone lives in the USA", so I was speaking of non-americans, keeping their money out of the reach of american authorities. But for the German citizen keeping money in a German bank, what specific activity would lead his money to being seized that would not also subject himself to arrest and prosecution.

literally any of the civil forfeiture horror stores that show up on HN from time to time.

I've seen lots of cases reported where cash is seized, but what ones had their bank accounts seized without having committed a crime that would lead to prosecution?

Again, I'm just asking for a specific example of why someone would use cryptocurrency because they are doing some legitimate activity that would lead to their bank account being seized, but wouldn't also open themselves up to prosecution.
> Developer sentiment towards Cloudflare is comparable to Apple fanboys of the previous decade

I consciously stay out of negative threads about Cloudflare because I feel way too attached to them.
I'm not sure what engine it uses for OCR, but I recently had to convert some image-based subtitles to text-based `.srt` format, and had quite good success using a tool named `subtitlecomposer` to do the conversion. During the initial import of the original image-based subtitles, the software stops on every character it does not immediately recognize and asks you what symbol it's looking at. It then builds up a "symbols" map by doing this over and over again, each time it does not recognize the image of a letter, number, or other symbol. This map file can then be renamed to match other subtitle files, in order to process other subtitles in the same font/typestyle. Eventually the symbol map ends up so complete that entire subtitles get converted automagically on import, without ever needing to ask the user any further questions.
In most developed nations, capital gains tax applies even against "like-for-like" trades. The swap between crypto types triggers a capital gain event and resets your cost basis. So people using USDT to move funds between exchanges without paying taxes on their gains are probably asking for trouble.

USDT _IS_ a useful tool to facilitate quick movement of funds between exchanges without the delays and expense of the conventional financial system, though.

I'm not an accountant, and I'm not your accountant. Not financial advice.
Clearly they believed the underwear gnomes on South Park.
> * 'Get Info' or CMD + I
> * Select the icon in the top left of the dialogue box
> * Copy it using the keyboard shortcut CMD + C

This sequence of steps to obtain the file's icon art has been consistent for a very long time, going far back as early as Macintosh System 7 (1991).
Thanks for this link. I was hugely into atheist discourse during this time period (about 2008-2012) and it was fun to read through Scott's thoughts on the decline.
They gave away most of their reserve, over a billion in BTC to "professional market makers" to defend the peg - people realized and are now dumping LUNA, the counterpart to the peg.

To make matters worse, the algorithm effectively mints new LUNA diluting the supply if the peg breaks downwards.

It’s a closed feedback loop of death right now.
I've tried on multiple attempts now to decipher WTF this means.

Essentially, Adobe === BAD in your opinion, is that it?
I respect the honest response. In my case, I'm not rich. I’m just trying to build up enough passive income to retire someday. There’s no pension for me. I can’t depend solely on my 401K. I’m just trying to be moderately responsible about my own future.
Look at the graphics in the section "Concurrent applications," specifically the first one.

At T0 Client 1 writes 'color = red.' Write 1 completes at T1.

At T2 Client 2 writes 'color = ruby.' Write 2 completes at T3.

At T4 Client 1 reads 'color = ruby,' the result of Write 2 from Client 2.

The explanation above says "Because S3 is strongly consistent, R1 and R2 both return color = ruby." There are clearly some subtleties (as explained further down the page) but I don't think Amazon are really being deceptive here.
Perfectly OK for me for the last hour or so...
Usually it's Coinbase that goes dark right about now.
If the company needs additional cash and it does not meet the current expectations it might be hard to keep the value at its current level. I would count the options' value at $0 when considering the job's compensation package.

The options are a bonus for you taking the risk of working for the startup. Make sure you get paid market value for your work since those options are likely to be underwater relatively fast.
I just wanna equivocate about a single phrase: scale out.

I have a few years of experience w/ SQLite as a backend for dev/test purposes, and the biggest lesson has been in reinforcing best practices... the kind Postgres demand and you're lucky if MySQL reminds you about.

So my newb two cents is that Litestreams makes some unique and significant contributions: it's not "scale out" but "pivot out" to reflect that you've got great backup/replica solutions with impressive agnosticism around what the future solution is.

Thats a lot of leeway to prove that "X's brainchild is a viable product" while minimizing "Y's devops team and infrastructure" without compromising on durability essentials, especially where the solution to so many things is "dump/serve a(n) [encrypted] copy to/from S3" already.

Eager to drink some more kool-aid. :-)
> There were certainly some serious winners over the past few years, but only if you got out and my guess is that most of those folks in meme stocks can't give up the ghost and over estimate their abilities.

You might be reading WallStreetBets too seriously and underestimating the financial literacy of people on there.

At the very least, most of the people still there know what IV Crush is.
Make sure to really take your time, assuming you can afford it. It took me 3 years to get back on my feet after a major case of burn-out and I was done with the business world for a long time after that.
I was trying to understand how it works, and it looks like there are 2 things at play here. First, UST can always be burnt for $1 worth of LUNA (determined based upon the price the oracle establishes). There appears to be some sort of rate limiter or something, and it's trading a few percentage points above this.

Secondarily, you need to transfer out of LUNA (via a bridge or some other mechanism) in order to sell the LUNA. The problem is that the network is.. quite busy, and from what I can gather, bridging is taking a few minutes to go through.

I seriously considered bridging back and forth between Terra and Ethereum, buying UST on Ethereum, transferring it to Terra, trading it for LUNA, transferring the LUNA back, and finally selling the LUNA for more UST. The potential delays in bridging expose me to more risk than I would have expected.
cool well unfortunately you're not in charge, a bunch of venture capitalists are. It's great to appeal to ideals but the reality of the situation is that people who don't possess the skills to judge this for themselves are being told to buy in by Matt Damon.
As a russian I like coinbase. It promotes crypto, which makes my world warmer.
I gave it a shot (watched the testimony at the linked timestamp, which was just a few minutes). Here's what I got from it, but I didn't fully understand everything:

This guy is a "yard master" - the air traffic controller of the rail industry.

1. Railroads are focused on "units per train" - increasing the length of the trains.

- They're running long trains that are 10k+ feet long, but we have many old RR yards from WWII era that only fit 3k ft long trains. Takes 3 hours to put these trains together exiting the yard and no other trains can use the yard during that time.

- Something I didn't understand that causes train cars to derail on bridges

- Some trains are longer than the range of the 2 way radios that conductors typically use. There's a procedure that involves a conductor inspecting the train as it goes by, and apparently they can't always contact the train.

2. Consolidation of terminals.

- Some regional stations for inspecting coal trains closed down. I didn't understand this explanation either.

- Moving yard masters to a central location and having them run the yard with cameras. Has resulted in peoples' deaths

3. Workload on people. Yard masters work 16h/day 365 days/year.

4. Management metrics reducing headcount + extra engines / equipment leads to lack of redundancy

Two things he'd ask for:

- Max 8k ft length of a train

- Disincentivize any reason to store a locomotive
They can buy Oxide Computer and become a truly back-to-1997 retro-futuristic cloud company. Hindsight is 20/20. In gradient descent optimization, sometimes it is important to take backwards steps to get out of the local optima. We're going to look at AWS/GCP/Azure with the way manner we currently look at IBM/Cisco/Oracle. I also have no idea what I am talking about.

As far as them going bankrupt seems pretty unlikely as some people are saying. Remember - Paypal, Yahoo, Google, etc. amongst many survived through the dot com bust. Cloudflare can generate positive cashflows anytime they want by stopping future development.
Considering the market caps of other crypto currencies that serve no purpose whatsoever (other than going to the moon, obviously), one could argue that by being interconnected with UST, LUNA is actually one of the more sensible currencies. Because at least it's not _just_ for speculative purposes. Though I suppose that says more about the rest of the crypto space than about LUNA's legitimacy.
> buying high quality real estate

Really crappy advice at the height of a bubble and considering the likelihood of a major recession.
This is a delightfully succinct way to put it, going to steal this one!
It relies on people to keep buying the second coin (Luna) in order that its price is supported to a level that the peg mechanics work. But there's no fundamental value anywhere in the system, you can't pay your taxes with this, it's not backed up by a government with a monopoly on violence nor by a large economy of productive output. So the "trust us, it's valuable" part (which ends up being the only part that matters) doesn't work.
i.e. the aberrations and detector aren't limiting the resolution of the image?
I lived in SF for ~8 years and left during COVID and bought a house. I have worked remote for 5 years (long before covid). My quality of life is just better not living in SF. I should have left earlier. It is all of the reasons you listed and more.

Also, I am a startup junkie and avoiding CA's 13% capital gains has more than offset any pay cut I might take by working remote (which hasn't happened).
macOS and Windows 10 have included a license for H.264 and H.265 for a few years now (encode/decode are OS API calls). Linux does not, however GPUs like Intel's QuickSync, nVidia's NVEnc/NVDec and AMD's VCEEnc/VCEDec have one. If you paid for the GPU or CPU with a built-in codec, then that included a license.

ffmpeg can be compiled with support for your hardware encoder.
I know nothing about NET other than the 30seconds I just spent looking at their financials - they managed to triple their revenue over three years but they seemed to have managed to about triple their losses over the same time period and they trade at ~30x sales, MSFT is ~11x, guess people believe they’ll be earning a ~$2b/year in the next several years?
$212M quarterly revenue with a $41M loss. In this climate you better have a solid PE as a public company or you’re in deep shit. This is the second dot-com bust. I worked at eToys for the first. $6B market cap and was delisted. Assets sold off for $2M when liquidated. Make no mistake about how bad things are about to get.
Ask HN: Why can’t I use emojis on HN?
AV1 is an evolution of VP9 (based on unreleased VP10 + contributions from other codecs).

In terms of compression efficiency it's on par with H.265, but it's free to use.
It's tricky in a transitional zone. One week of extreme heat and dry weather can erase a lawn that survived a decade. For ~7500 sqft of lawn, you can get by with about 1500 gallons for each of three days and have a good chance of surviving that event.

I find that most of the time, it's not the heat or dry that's killing lawns, it's disease and pests. If I was foolish enough to water fescue regularly in the summer heat, I would lose it to dollar spot or brown patch. I've been completely wrecked by web worm while on vacation. I have a new residence with a larger lot and plan to switch away from fescue once I've lived here a few seasons. I'm also convinced the USDA 2012 hardiness zone map is overdue for an update. Regardless, I'm not going back to a high maintenance lawn.
Try adding `-row-mt 1 -tiles 2x2`. That will essentially tile the video into parallel streams that can be encoded on different threads. You should get better CPU utilization that way.

I don't think AV1 will ever get to the encoding speed of a codec like h264, because in a very general sense; simpler math is easier to do. AV1 can encode the same information into fewer bits, but that efficiency has a computational cost.

It really depends on what you're doing. If you're trying to livestream it could be a big issue. If you're going to encode a video once and then store it for years, it's probably not a big deal. Totally up to you. For me AV1 has become a pretty good option.
Web development shouldn't even be a thing in the year 2021. We were supposed to have flying cars, and instead we pay people 3-5x salary of the average worker to make a screen display some text and pictures. But it's fancy text. It requires codes.

This whole industry is a mass psychosis that generates dollars.
Why is this suddenly discussion-worthy? Poster didn't even bother with a submission statement for such a vague link to a wikipedia page?
Intel's ControlFlag 1.2 Released to Use AI for Spotting C++ Bugs
“It’s wrong to force people into childbirth against their will” holds up well as a coherent, objective moral value statement. I’m a bit baffled that you supposedly can’t see the morality argument for respecting bodily autonomy.

On the other side, many of the politicians currently running for office as Republicans in my state have been dragged so deep into the anti-abortion purity spiral that they’re publicly insisting women should die rather than terminate a non-viable and life-threatening pregnancy.
Yea would like to know any cons in this strategy. I’m dca’ing a portion of my paycheck every month. In Canada we have tfsa’s which allow for a certain contribution per year that is tax free if you get gains.

For the last few months my monthly contribution gets swallowed up by the losses and the balance hasn’t moved lol
Maybe it's just my suspicious-of-everything-distributed brain, but that diagram seems to assume a single universal time scale without any discussion of the implications.
A plummeting stock won't prevent Cloudflare from excelling, unless they are short of capital and have an urgent need to issue a secondary stock offering.
I both agree with you, and sympathise with GP because I'm bad at following your/my own advice.

I suppose it comes down to conflicting opinions/strategies - I'd be way over-allocated in Amazon & Cloudflare (and probably 'tech' and the USA) if I always did.
Best option for SQlite with node is this.

https://github.com/JoshuaWise/better-sqlite3

Author is all over the issues section, and seems very knowledgeable about how SQLite works.
It was fun at first! Then it got cringeworthy. Then it got sad.
That link is confusing, because it's not a license by dav1d creators, but a copy of the official AOMedia license: https://aomedia.org/license/patent-license/

and it's backed by these companies: https://aomedia.org/membership/members/
Almere is the Dutch equivalent of US suburbs I agree.

Obviously America is bloody BIG compared to the Netherlands and the distance between Almere and Amsterdam is smaller so you can use a bicycle. But the concept is the same: a place where middle class people with families live and commute to the city for work and entertainment.

Almere is a one off because Flevoland was created. We don't have the space for more Almeres- and thank God for that.
Not only earnings but interest rates too, to work out the time value of money
Who would have thought that a concept of value so quickly memed into existence could lose its value so quickly?
Grim Dawn(kinda gritty) and Torchlight II(kinda cartoony) were also a good time for myself and friends. I only bother to play with friends though, I'm not really into singleplayer.
My wife, a practicing surgeon, refuses to work as a wage slave.

She already performs a significant amount of her practice as "charity care" where she gets no reimbursement whatsoever.

Given that for a fellowship-trained (3) board-certified (2) surgeon the train-up period is measured in ~2+ decades, not 4 years for regular professions.

> What an incredibly ignorant take, no wonder we don't have any healthcare solutions

Please don't assign false morality to the compensation people expect when their working career is effectively halved due to their extensive training requirements, and their educational bills dwarf by comparison every other profession.

The US already subsidizes medical research and bigpharma profits for the entire planet. We're not the freeloaders you're making us out to be.
wisest comment on this site in the last week ^
The three results/problems you listed, I think, are all related;

- Cold outreach has low uptake anyway, especially if not targeted properly. People tend to largely just ignore or decline these kinds of messages.

- People not looking for work confirms you're probably targeting the wrong people, especially on LinkedIn.

- Job ads by design, will get a lot of responses. Filtering them out quickly and effectively is an art.

I've had all these same problems myself when hiring, crafting the ad and targeting the right people is BY FAR the hardest part to get right.

Find a good tech recruiter that's experienced in your area, maybe even a couple of them, and let them do the work. It's very hard to compete with the years or even decades of connections, skill, and networking that a good recruiter will have.

I've had the best experiences with people who aren't just ex-HR drones looking for more money - ideally you want someone mildly technical themselves who's able to tell if a candidate is a BS artist and screen them out early. One of the main benefits of using a recruiter is not having to do 90% of the screening yourself, so make sure they're good at it.
> If you don’t seek it out, you won’t find it.

Until it does. I didn’t care about any of it myself until I got an email saying my mild mannered Midwestern law school professor declared himself a “a racist” in front of the whole school: https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/northwestern-univers.... Then my high school declared standardized tests to be racist: https://www.newsweek.com/states-ask-high-court-halt-race-bas.... Then I got an email saying my third grader was learning how to “develop her identity” around her “skin tone.”

A lot of the people who are in charge of telling you what to do and pulling the levels of state power to coerce you into doing stuff, and people in charge of reporting the news and socializing your kids and in many cases making public health decisions, buy into this woke stuff. And if you think the things they believe won’t affect you, just wait.
Implications of Starlink for the Future of Warfare
The idea of a visual editor that replaces code tends to dominate, but I really want better tools to augment it. Firebug and all the descendants of Firebug like Chrome's inspector are a good start, but those tools help you view and make minor edits to your markup tree rather than build it.

I think the problem is that HTML and CSS are so fiddly and so big. Seemingly okay things don't work properly. You end up with an editor that only works on a subset, and then you're back to replacing rather than augmenting.
Why doesn’t Microsoft take the hint and make a decent pdf viewer / editor thingy?

They seemed to get the hint on the terminal finally…

Handle basic viewing, editing, signatures. Etc…

While we are at it a GTK one would be great in Gnome too…
Back online after being down for about 1 hour for me

https://downdetector.co.uk/status/twitter/
> If they sold to the US investors they have to abide by US rules.

If you look closely at that statement, however, you can see that it's recursive and missing the base case: the rule which says "If they sold to the US investors they have to abide by US rules" is itself a US rule.
yeap... it's great when the thing you bought loses 43%

Also not smart when you use credit to buy ahh good times
In an efficient free market. The efficient is the frictionless spherical cow of economics, useful to describe theories even if it's never been observed in real life. That's why we have critical jobs, that are understaffed and poverty wages. If we had a perfectly efficient market, it would never happen. We don't, so it does.
You may want to go see what $COIN's P/E is and get back to me.
Guess I'll buy some cloudflare along with hashicorp
Whenever cloudflare has an outage and like half the internet stops working, it reminds me to buy some more.
Ending Legacy Favoritism Will Likely Not Cost Harvard Money
And yet, Edward Snowden still sits outside of US prison.

Obviously the extradition treaties have limits.
Down 71% from the recent peak, still up 264% in the past 2.5 years.
Seems that .70 floor might possibly have been due to some mechanics at Binance https://twitter.com/hasufl/status/1523817151471230976
Kraken for the win... Coinbase doesn't even sell Monero/XMR
It's a great time to buy more
These comments don't seem very relevant to stablecoins such as this one, which are algorithmic rather than backed. (Although they are now trying to back it, but that's not how it's designed.)
A great walkthrough of the architecture by one of the engineers

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oEuXA0_9feM
It also has better file puppet than Windows or Linux. I can hit space on an STL and it will show me a preview.
I didn't say there was no fraud in the PPP program.

The OP comment didn't mention the PPP specifically as stimulus.

The context of the article, is individuals investing money in meme stocks.

The PPP went to business owners (with the assumption they would pay employees rather than laying them off) and likely wasn't being used for meme stocks.

I was reading through the WSB Reddit sub at the time. There was a lot of chatter there about people using their personal stimulus payments for investing in meme stocks.

I also spent a lot of time on Reddit subs checking chatter on PPP and EIDL. Of the two, my guess is there was a lot more widespread fraud (more people involved, but with smaller disbursements) with the EIDL. The EIDL was giving out 1K per employee (up to 10K) for anyone who claimed they were business owners. That didn't have to be paid back.
Are you engaging in a CF thread here?
It would appear that sqlite is merely "deceived" by a secondary client, its normal operation is not affected. https://litestream.io/how-it-works/

Keep in mind that sqlite is most likely the most tested 100k lines of C code in existence. They have tests covering WAL behavior.
For the dutch, sure. But architecture begins with the local culture, landscape, environment, ecology, and climate as foundational axioms. The European model has never worked in North America because of vast differences in those conditions.
Pretty sure this holds no water if you observe past trend lines. Even if it did, the %s being lost right right are significantly higher than in any recent year. But hey, it rhymes.