skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> professors at research universities don't view teaching as their main vocation but as something they have to do (their "real" job is research/writing papers).

Some of them view it this way, and end up being excellent lecturers. They get laid off for not publishing often enough or successfully enough. Like the one statistics professor I've had that was worth a damn.
IIRC it appeared there first, though not by long as is spread PDQ.
Oh, there was little doubt a Finnish application was on the way. From what I can tell from Swedish media, it's more or less decided there aswell.

Both Finland and Sweden signed a defence agreement with the UK yesterday. Norwegian newspapers has claimed Denmark, Iceland and Norway are also going to offer Finland and Sweden military aid in case of Russian shenanigans during the application process. That leaves both Finland and Sweden fairly safe, and the only noteworthy risks would be cyber warfare and Russian psy-ops used to turn public opinion against a NATO membership.

As for the application process itself, Stoltenberg pretty much promised a swift handling in the NATO end of things, but as you mention, it has to be unanimous and there is always a chance someone with power might be in Putin's pocket, or oppose the idea for other reasons.
> France is still going around with "do not humiliate Putin".

Not a fan of Mr Macaroon, but thats how diplomacy works. If you spit in someones face and call them names you are closing down avenues of discussion.

If you call putin a 'blood thirsty child killer' at the international level, russia will not talk to you. Because if they did by proxy they are acknowledging your previous statement - imminently putting them at weaker negotiating position.

Just imagine a situation, you have argument with someone - they keep stealing your cookies, you want them to stop - they spit in your face and call you dirty liar, would you keep talking to them or buy laxative cookies?
Unsurprising. [0][1]

How are the people who bought BTC at $69K 1 year ago with their life savings?

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30057769

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27206314
> Hmm, okay, so what would be fair? Perhaps we want to give each party a fighting chance in each election? Isn't that fair? (etc.)

This is trying to solve gerrymandering with (more, different) gerrymandering. That's not the way it should work.

Districts should represent something from the real world, outside of political affiliation.

It's natural for the political "color" of a district to change over time, because people move, and sometimes get older and change their mind. This should not result in a change of the shape of the district.
> It's unclear whether they'll be judged as worthy of copyright protection under current laws or if these laws will be changed.

If your goal is to register the melodies, you can do that under current law. Write the melody down, register it. There is no inquiry into whether you morally deserve to benefit from the system.
if crypto groups were holding ust and adjusted to usdt, they could be in an uniquely vulnerable spot. not all dips are created equal
Are you aware of Dr. Ellie Philipps? She wrote several books. She’s big on microbiome, brushing at the gum line and xylitol, among other things. Did you ever talk to her? I think she’d love contact yo researchers like you. She also has quite a following from her books, I believe.
M5Paper has a touch screen..
We use ESP32-Wroom-32 module. More details can be found on the docs page https://docs.paperd.ink/docs/hardware/hardware/
no one (including the Finnish government) believes that article 42 has any teeth

https://www.is.fi/politiikka/art-2000008697709.html

(ironically because Finland insisted on it in the last treaty renegotiation)

and I don't think you can really say that it's 90% of NATO without the US, more like 10%
> In general, it's not really part of the js culture

As opposed to the Dart culture? Quite a sweeping generalization. There's bad packages in every ecosystem. There's really good packages in every system. Pick the right ones.

> one nice thing about the canvas based rendering is that you have very good and useful screenshot testing.

React you can snapshot test the component tree, as well as diff images on each platform.

> If you don't upgrade, you're left behind and it will become more and more painful to upgrade later. Upgrade policies of languages also have to be taken into account for the dev time.

Sure, I update major versions every year or so. Past 2 years of React Native have been easy.

> No mainstream app is using native controls anyways. Facebook doesn't, Twitter doesn't, Whatsapp doesn't...

That's plain false, they for sure do.

> Additionally, if you have a terrible phone, this is where Flutter stands out in terms of speed. That's why it's so popular in developing countries. On my Galaxy J3 (bottom of the barrel of samsung), my app is the fastest app I have installed.

React Native performs well on older devices as well.
>Usual caveats that I'm not a diplomat, don't have all the facts, etc etc., but this doesn't seem like a rational move for Finland or NATO. The UK just yesterday agreed to protect Finland in the event of an attack

This pact is designed to protect Sweden and Finland between (deciding to) apply for NATO membership and actually becoming a NATO member.
> Remember when it was discovered that arc welders could produce Carbon 60, and there was a huge run on arc welders?

No, I don't, and can't find any writing about this at all, do you have any links? Because that sounds amazing
so we may need an essay about the cathedral, the bazaar and the slum.
Finland should have applied for NATO 10 years ago or in 10 years, not now with the tense situation.

They are essentially stating that Russian gov. is aggressive enough to be a threat to them in the future but not agressive enough right now to create a "border dispute" to prevent NATO membership.

My take is that they should just have stayed out of the Russia US power game completely.
I always use mawk for its performance. This may be worth a try ...
Maybe this is actually obvious, but it's still a common mistake in startups so I'll say it - you don't have to believe your product is good to start selling; you just have to be better than not having the product. You don't even have to believe it's the best, or believe it's complete, or even like it. People will happily give you money for anything that makes their pain point slightly less painful.
It's not more than double 15k, is it?
Timeline (from Swedish press yesterday - Omni):

Today, May 12: Finnish president Niinistö presents his view on the NATO issue.

Friday, May 13: A new Swedish security policy analysis is presented in parliament. All 8 parties represented there have collaborated on this.

Saturday, May 14: Heads of the Finnish Social Democratic Party meet and decide on the NATO issue. Swedish and Finnish FMs join a NATO meeting in Berlin.

Sunday, May 15: Heads of the Swedish Social Democratic Party meet and decide on the NATO issue.

Tuesday/Wednesday, May 17/18: Finnish President Niinistö visits Stockholm.
Conservative claims of bias would have more weight if these weren't the same people that aggressively legislated and criminalized being employed while black, LGBT, and/or women.

I don't accept "that was the past" deferrals either as that was not very far in the past, such claims seem to presume that all the legal barriers that were being so aggressively protected were suddenly dropped completely when the SC rule segregation was unconstitutional.
I've been looking at replacing my project's website with Hugo (https://gohugo.io). Rather than generating a web page dynamically every time someone comes to your site, you generate the entire website statically whenever you change something. That means hosting can be entirely a "dumb" web server (or a "dumb" web server + apis which feed info to javascript, if you really need it). It also means:

* you can keep everything in version control to roll things back

* content can be fed to it programmatically

* project members can send pull request to post content, rather than requiring a special account

I've only gone through some examples from a book so far, but it looks pretty powerful, and is has good recommendations from others in the community.

I don't (yet) have a personal web presence, but if I do, it will definitely be something like Hugo.
The one thing that I can't wrap my head around with Tether is: where did it all go? Tether must have been paid tens of billions in fiat dollars, and not even their bankers can say where those are. There's only so many hundred millions you can put into villas, cars, yachts and parties before it's inconceivable that it wouldn't get noticed.

When it comes to crypto overall, my impression is that it needs to get bad before it can get good. There are benefits to being able to make binding promises to strangers using open source software, but I see that more as a public benefit than as something to become ultra rich on. BTC, and with it all crypto, MCAP grew massively on the back of largely non-existent funds (Tether), and that's the part that needs to go.
I think this might be a bit of an outlier honestly.

Reading the bug report my takeaways were the following:

1. Here is a specific issue we ran into which to be fair is unacceptable in terms of perf but a blinking cursor in an otherwise idle application has crazy high CPU usage numbers trying to run the animations associated with the blinking cursor.

2. They tried the same thing on Linux and CPU usage was 0% so already it appears this is more of a specific mac bug rather than some general widespread thing.

3. Further in the thread a number of potential solutions get mentioned and were under development including just writing a custom shader to handle the blinking cursor (so a solution looks possible)

They just made Mac desktop support stable as of less than 24 hours ago for the first time. None of this strikes me as that egregious. A whole number of major perf improvements have landed since then and it's not even clear if this is still an active problem in Flutter 3.

I think trying to extrapolate this one bug into some widespread disaster scenario is a mistake.
Yes, that term does have a widely established meaning within the specific context of discussion, technical writing. If the commentator is unaware of what 'docs as code' means in the context under discussion and meant something different, I encourage them to disambiguate by picking a term not already so defined.
> Oral B 4000

Which one? The Pulsonic (sonic) or the Smart (rotating)?
I still don’t follow why the second currency is required?

They will always swap a UST for $1 of LUNA so a UST is implicitly worth $1.

LUNA itself doesn’t have anything behind it though apart from concidence. So we have a stablecoin manufactured from a volatile unbacked asset where the market cap can fall arbitrarily low.

I know it failed, but it’s not quite clicking for me what they were even trying?
"Yield farming" (covered puts) is why.
What constitutes "anti-inflammatory treatment"?

We know lots of supplements and food that seems to be universally considered healthy to have anti-inflammatory effects: olive oil, boswellia, pretty much all fruit and especially vegetables (and an infinite amount of other substance(s) (classes)). Is too much or even just a bit of those bad in some cases?

Or are only the "heavy hitters" NSAID and corticosteroids bad? If so, why? Are they so much stronger?

A little anecdote in regards to chronic pain: A combination of high dosage Loratadine (3x10mg) and Ambroxol (2x75mg) a day helped the chronic nerve pain in my face a lot, when NSAID didn't.
It wouldn't be a big deal, because people would just switch to USDC.
Current Croatia's president Zoran Milanović is planning to veto this. Parliament and PM is against veto.
I had a Bluetooth headset and it was uncomfortable, so I understand that. Also, Bluetooth <5.0 has a few noticeable issues.

On the other hand I cannot complain about my earbuds. If I want to use my earbuds, I turn on Bluetooth, take out my earbuds and put them in my ears. (If I turn on Bluetooth after, I have to manually connect them, but I don't think that's a big deal).

VLC on Android is very helpful in setting up profiles for Bluetooth audio so you can set a permanent delay.

They've never fallen out of my ears. I just put them back in the case when I'm finished with them. I charge the case about once a week.

I don't have a dangling cable get caught on things and hurt my ears.

I don't have one ear stop working because the cable has got damaged.

I don't have to untie cable knots.

I will never buy wired earphones again.
>Obviously these comments make no sense.

Its not so obvious if you've been paying attention to NATO expansion, as compared to NATO promises.

NATO bases have been being used to launch crimes against humanity and war crimes (with seeming impunity) for decades - the Russians have good reasons to want NATO to stand down.

The West has a long and sordid history of committing war crimes, and then ignoring their war criminals - indeed, leaving them in charge with cart blanche to commit yet more wars.

This fact seems easily ignored by those rooting for NATO's triumph, but for those of us who have been paying attention to the Wests' war crimes - for decades - the argument that 'there is nothing to worry about because NATO are innocent' falls very, very flat.
There is nothing "instant" in the process of buying millions of USDT, then sending them over to Tether for redemption against USD. The redemption process of such sums is a manual process which takes at least some days, even if it works out in the end (assuming Tether is liquid).
Who benefits when the camera is on, and in what ways does that affect software development?
Financially literate people see that tether might be backed by thin air. They're pretty clear on their homepage that "Every Tether token is 100% backed by our reserves, which includes traditional currency and cash equivalents, and may include other assets and receivables from loans made by Tether to third parties.".

"receivables from loans" can be worth nothing if it's a loan to someone with no assets.

I believe the whole thing is intended to be sufficiently backed to not collapse easily, but is by no means 100% backed with actual cash.
If I understand it, this is similar to the UK / ERM 1992 "Black Wednesday"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Wednesday

There were more people wanting to sell the pound for Euros at the rate mandated by the ERM than resources the UK had to maintain the arbitrary exchange rate and "it did not end well".
I think that product was too expensive to offer to the masses. It needed huge honking neural nets that cost too much to run.

In the meantime there are open TTS engines with similar quality and language models that can hold better conversation. They don't have a monopoly on that chat-bot tech anymore.
Pretty cool website. Fun to watch in realtime how the market slowly chipped away a 10 mil Tether buy order at 0.983. And now another order of the same size at 0.982.
While the graphs are different, it really comes down to sentiment and trust. Effectively something that was not supposed to happen is starting to happen.

TerraUSD's de-peg wasn't supposed to happen and combined with Luna, it was dragged it way down fast. Knock on effect being USDT which basically sold as too big and too collateralized to fail has shown weakness in the armor.

If there's a run on USDT, you would expect it to go to BTC, ETH. Then if people start saying they want their money out all together then the run on BTC, ETH would decimate the market as a whole.

USDT will be a lot harder to take down - conversely if it falls, it'll take so much more with it.
- Product Market Fit - find that before continuing to perfect the product.
- Market size and especially addressable market size. We learnt it the hard way with children's apps.
- Tech is a tool. Unless you are doing groundbreaking research, dont be in awe of the tools (tech), nor let it go crazy expensive.
- One needs a deep reserve of patience and strength, you will get challenged in all dimensions.
- Sometimes you can do everything right, and still fail.
you don't learn a lot from YC, you do from HN content, they use their userbase to promote their products

we, the users, are the ones responsible of you "learning a lot" by submiting content, and reacting to it, therefore take my suggestion, since i contribute to that too, if you wish to "thank the people who make you learn a lot"

educating people, that's what i am trying to achieve, whether you understand or not, i won't stop
I am not an Ionic employee, I have zero affiliation. I am a hobbyist in GUI rendering libraries technologies, which include Skia, blend2d, pathfinder, webrender, piet-gpu, etc

> what makes a framework "native" for me is that it has it's own rendering stack

lel, the point of react native is exactly that it doesn't have its own rendering stack, it defer rendering to external rendering stacks (android native lib, swift native lib)
Flutter and the web are not native and are not different. They both have their own custom rendering stack, which allow them to improve it.
flutter has not created its own 2d renderer btw, it uses the chromium 2D renderer named skia, in fact android native use the chromium 2D renderer since a few versions already. Simply because its the fastest to exist.

> With webview solutions you are still facing cross platform inconsistencies

crazy how reversed with reality your argument is. React native is by design inconsistent, it uses a separate library for each platform which result in an impedence mismatch of features, performance, and bugs.
A webview has no inconsistencies between android and electron, it's the same chromium behind. Safari is slighly inconsistent (webkit) but order of magnitudes less than using a completely different library.
Only looks like a problem on a micro scale. If elections are indeed 50:50 on a macro scale, then yes, you would want all purple districts, because the "loser" voters are indeed close to 50%.

If the voters are 70:30 on a macro scale, it wouldn't matter if you create a bunch of purple districts, because they all can't be purple when you have exhausted the 30% of that ratio.

Conversely, if you were to create fixed color districts, you could hide a larger majority as "loser" voters on a macro scale by stuffing them to a few of that color on a micro scale.

But to be clear, I don't think artificially creating purple districts for that express reason is a good idea, I just think it would be less of a problem than the current gerrymandering, when optimizing for democracy.
> billions of dollars spent in advertising

Sunday I was watching Formula 1.

Crypto.com Miami GP was the name of the event, starting straight full of crypto.com ads.

Watching Inter vs Juventus Italian Cup final: crypto.com event sponsor, with Inter sponsoring Inter fan tokens.

It's interesting how desperately crypto space needs $ and euros.
Thanks! One unit will have a devboard (PCB) with e-paper display connected on the front side. And there's also the enclosure set which has a front panel, back panel, 4 buttons and 2 stands (check this to get a better idea https://docs.paperd.ink/docs/3d-files/assembly/). We don't send assembled enclosure with devboard, that is DIY.
Yeah, and imagine if libraries really twisted the universe enough to create routes between different places and times. So unrealistic. The man just had no idea about shelf architecture and gravitational physics.

Ahem.

You are aware he was writing fantasy with a referring-to-real-life comedy bent, not specifications & instruction manuals, aren't you?
No, it is not very difficult if your currency is completely covered by an asset it’s pegged to. Many modern currencies work that way.
Again, your argument directly contradicts evidence.

It doesn't matter how beautiful your theory is, it doesn't matter how smart you are. If it doesn't agree with experiment, it's wrong.

-- Richard P. Feynman
How about Hungary and it's seemingly pro-Russian leader, Orban? They could vote against.
This is not much about Twitter culture-war garbage and more about Nina Janowicz and Biden's new ministry of truth efforts.
It isn't inevitable, but some people promoting Julia like to pretend that there is some sort of competition for mindshare happening. There are three basic markets for numerical computing: hobbyist, academic, and commercial. The hobbyists will always remain in Python because it is good enough and there is little benefit to learning a new language for casual numerical computing (this also applies to undergrad-level academics, which is closer to hobbyists than deep academics.) In academics it is possible that Julia will replace R for a lot of use cases, but it is unlikely to make much progress in displacing Python outside of math-heavy fields: a biologist or chemist will stay with Python because of the ecosystem and its applications outside of pure numerical processing code. In the commercial world the race is already over and Python won, it will continue to grow in this role due to simple inertia and because for cases where numerical computation speed actually matters a company can hire people to write the code in something even faster and more efficient than Julia.
I've never seen or heard anyone complain about Russia banning American companies.
One cant do much. I have had a couple of terrible experiences. Its amazing what power does to some technical managers and senior HR. Its their karma and they are going in the right direction of being assholes who will have a miserable old age once the power is gone.
Which other languages do you suggest?
Why is farebox return an important measurement?

Roads aren't usually measured on toll returns - most have no toll at all.

Consider that "All public transport in Luxembourg (buses, trams, and trains) has been free to use since 29 February 2020"[1] - surely you don't think the lack of farebox returns makes public transport in Luxembourg "worst"?

When you measure "passenger-miles per unit cost", are you including indirect costs? Because often these are ignored.

For example, "Germany is considering making their public transit system fare-free in response to the EU's threatening to fine them for their air pollution levels." [2]

Would that fine be included as part of the high costs of having a large car infrastructure? (Which also includes road building/maintenance, pollution, car crashes, zoning requirements for parking, and decreased physical activity.)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transport_in_Luxembourg

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_public_transport
Exhibit A, and the cryptocurrency skeptics rest our case.

Welcome back buddy how’s it feel
The fact you are being downvoted for saying this tells me more about the kind of people criticizing WordPress because of Gutenberg/update_cycles/but_what_about_bad_plugins/i_am_the_only_one_who_knows_hwo_to_write_good_wordpress_code_and_everyone_else_suck_at_this_but_me in this thread.
Templeton Prize-winning physicist pushes back against anti-intellectualism
>Tether is much more entwined with the whole crypto system than it was 5 years ago?

That is uncertain, because the degree of entwining has always been unclear. News reports 5 years ago also contained a lot of worry about Tether's risks, maybe even more than today.

What was obvious 5 years ago, and remains unchanged today, is that Tether claims to represent an enormous amount of money, which is a difficult hole to fill if Tether turned out to be far from fully-backed, as many suspect
There’s literally a market for extracting data from those platforms so people can move to more flexible solutions that they can control and extend.
Pretty much all under the table crypto transactions are in Monero, Zcash, or other privacy coins. Bitcoin’s utility is horrible compared to most other cryptos, its purely a store of value.