skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Bitcoin never claimed to replace all uses of USD or gold

If Bitcoin is not going to replace USD or get rid of the externalities of USD, then it is a waste of time to argue that Bitcoin is more efficient because it doesn't have those externalities. You are propping up a currency that is less efficient than gold and USD in terms of energy usage, and does next to nothing to prevent the negative externalities of those systems.

> but it does reduce the total external costs in many important ways while providing the world with a powerful new alternative

Bitcoin in its current form is not an alternative to USD, it is at best a system that complements USD, and I see no evidence at all that the existence of Bitcoin has reduced military presence anywhere in the world. You don't get to act like Bitcoin can subtract the negative externalities of USD from its environmental ledger when it is not currently reducing those externalities.

> peer to peer, can be self-custodies, and has a fixed low inflation rate from now to infinity making it harder money than any that has ever existed.

I'm not going to get into it, but I disagree that Bitcoin is P2P in the way that most people actually care about P2P; Bitcoin relies on a mostly functioning Internet, there is no way to securely make payments on the blockchain without eventually connecting back to the rest of the network and reaching network consensus. This is in contrast to what people usually think of when they talk about P2P networks, where information often does not need to propagate to the rest of the network at all. The most exciting work in P2P networks are in areas where constant consensus isn't required at all.

I also think the inflation claim is ridiculous given that Bitcoin's price fluctuates wildly. And the inflation is not "to infinity", Bitcoin is set to eventually run out of coins on purpose. The inflation is set to eventually reduce to zero. Bitcoin is a deflationary asset, not an inflationary asset. This is actually one of the things that turns out to be bad for Bitcoin as a currency, Bitcoin has been a good demonstration in a lot of ways as to why a deflationary asset is inherently not particularly well suited for transactions.

And again, by your own admission, Bitcoin is primarily a store of value, not primarily a currency designed to be regularly exchanged. If you want to talk about Bitcoin like it's an alternative to USD, then I'm going to criticize the fact that its transaction rate and per-transaction environmental costs are garbage and unscalable.
> I'm bad at reading scientific papers

Reading scientific papers is hard. They are dense and packed with numbers. Nobody is "good" at it, it takes effort to unpack them and digest them.
I dunno about OP, but it's not that I hate programming, the stress comes from dealing with the people and sometimes working on draining problems. The more frustrated I get at work, the higher my S.O. reputation gets because I find comfort in helping to answer impactful questions
For all of the things you would find in user manuals (that operators are trained against), then yes, one would imagine such info is commonly known.

As far as I am aware, all of the information "leaked" has been of this kind (the leakers have mostly been operators!).
Rust is not an appropriate solution for iOS, I don’t think it’s even possible to use it except through some hacks. So the options aren’t buggy Objective-C++ vs inelegant but safe Rust.

It’s having a product vs. not having one and the latter guarantees a lack of commercial success.
I don't hate electronic shifting. I don't like the innacurate disparagment of an older, simpler, generally more reliable technology, even if it is possible to name some benefits to the new stuff.
Thanks! I tried finding a link, but your search-fu is apparently better than mine :-)
The full text pdf is gated, but it's probably indentical to this one: https://roar-assets-auto.rbl.ms/documents/16093/Sweetened%20...
Love brain.fm

It's magic how I get into a flow after acouple of minutes and get dine so much more so much quicker
Until some update randomly flips the value or starts using another setting with default=on value
Three laws of technology rise or fall – ScienceDirect
Yes. The claim is that all-cause mortality decreased. So coffee makes it less likely that you died from stroke, heart disease, cancer, infectious disease, Alzheimer's, car accidents, drowning, drug overdoses, natural disasters, suicide, etc..
I don't think it's easily fixable, but I don't think the author's advice to embrace office politics is very good advice for most people, because it isn't easily fixable, and if you're low on the org chart and don't have much influence, the primary kind of politics you can reasonably engage in is at that level.

One fix for the seating chart problem is to do away with seating charts - give everyone a laptop and equip all the desks with identical equipment, and let people sit where they want. This has costs and other downsides, but seating chart politics isn't a problem anymore. But if you're someone who has an assigned seat, you don't even have access to the political relationships to advocate for that change, so your only options are to A) not play politics and roll the dice, or B) find out how to make the people who determine seating charts like you. The only available politics in this situation are toxic politics, so "embrace politics" is inherently toxic advice.

Opting out of the politics game is a rational option for the many people who just want to get their work done and go home.
> they have been very innovative

Not really there were many solution much better in the market, below had some list with solutions offering much more then list above. It's just that Shopify had investor money to burn to have market dominance through marketing.

Indeed that's visible in their balance sheet that they grow by spending money not due to technological innovations.
Some (all?) parts of Shimano's Di2 system communicates via a proprietary protocol. The industry has standardized on ANT+, Shimano uses their own protocol. Hammerhead had a license agreement to use it. Shimano revoked (or opted to not renew) that license.
Right. While at the same time as they clumsily block any IPs with unknown reputation, they seemingly cannot reliably flag a poorly formatted, obvious and well-known fake invoice for "Norton 360 renewal" as spam (and really, it's worse than spam, it's a scam).
> But I wonder, if you can't just open up your relationship a little bit and be polygamous, without going all in with the whole poly scene.

"Polygamous" is not likely the word you were going for. Perhaps "monogamish" or "ethically non-monogamous"?

Polyamory is a funky mix of Greek and Latin roots for many loves. ENM does not require love, but it can be on the menu for many; it depends solely where you (and everyone you're involved with) mutually decide to draw the lines.
Wow.. you've done a lot thanks for resurrecting this!

Like many of the others, WebOS kicked off my career into software development and was my first endeavor building software larger then a simple website.

I created GetMeVino as a simple wine resource for myself as there were similar apps on IOS and I wanted one to use on WebOS. I remember posting it on precentral forums and actually got interest from Palm themselves to build it out further and release it on their catalog. I was blown away, inspired by the possibilities and that really lit a fire in me to want to continue creating even outside WebOS.

Definitely wouldn't have been here today without WebOS.

Some other highlights, the browser based IDE Ares way ahead of its time, WebOS at CES2010 and the Palm developer relations, getting invited to Mozilla for Firefox OS.

I am going to need to find my old devices now!
17,000 per quarter = 68,000 per year
My experience matches yours. Recently, I was trying to solve an optimization problem using Deep RL. As usual, I had to run many experiments over several days using various tricks and hyperparameters. Finally, it turned out something related to the symmetry of the action space made a huge difference in learning.

Anyhow, the experimentation stage requires a certain discipline and feels tedious at times. But the moment when learning takes off, it feels great, and for me personally, compensates for the tedious phase before.

It's certainly not fun for everyone, but I guess it could be fun for the target audience of the course (ML engineers/Data Scientists).

Regarding frameworks, my experience has been different. I find RLlib to be more modular and adaptable than SB3. But the learning curve is certainly steeper. The biggest differentiating factor for me is production readiness. Assuming that we are learning something in order to actually use it, I would recommend RLlib over SB3. The equation for researchers may be different though.
They already moved on from micro-USB so its happened once already.
> If you have a dirty filter it may be actually making your air quality worse (in some ways) than just not running the filter at all.

I might have to check the air filter. I’ve been having the worst sinus issues I’ve ever had outside a sinus infection. My eyes constantly tear up, my nose will on occasionally completely shuts, and I’ve been having back to back sneezing attacks.

I originally chalked it up to seasonal allergies, as pollen count is quite high, but I’ve been suspicious of indoor air quality as well. To add to the confusion I got COVID around the same time it started.
I have no vested interest. If they are securities they should be regulated. All I am saying is that the article makes a parralel saying "there are only 180 currencies worldwide" while most tokens represent ownership of some game or defi or service.
If there isn't 1) intent for defamation, and 2) identifiable damages (monetary) then there's no viable lawsuit; and arguably any reputation "damage" is deserved if the organization they're in charge of allowed this to happen so easily.
I tend to agree. There are certainly potential bad outcomes but a lot of it boils down to SWATing and there are almost certainly easier and less traceable ways to SWAT someone. And getting attention on Twitter or whatnot presumably means getting the attention of people who can quickly determine that something is amiss.

ADDED: While this process should probably be fixed in this case, at the end of the day, there's probably no foolproof way to keep people from sending you illegal stuff in either the physical or digital world in general.
Apple’s WWDC22 Swift Student Challenge winners help communities through coding
I fully expect apple to make a phone with no ports in the near future, charging or otherwise. I wonder how this will effect a phone that can only charge wirelessly.
I know someone recently who had that happen. Work paid for a special work network to be added to the house.
It’s not valuable information in that there’s no much a company can effectively do to change anything. From a security and operational risk perspective it should be covered under existing policies and everything else is fine to be reactive.

The false positive risk is more harmful than any benefit gained.

The odds of “I read your email and saw you’re thinking of leaving so here’s a raise” working are negligible.

This seems like a way for someone to waste time on thinking they know something useful.

I’d love to see how frequently people talk about this and leave. I expect there’s dozens or hundreds of instance of people who apply for a job or network looking for jobs vs people who leave. There’s no published data on identified leavers who leave so that’s where my assumption that this is garbage data.
Maybe you're not looking for an adjective that describes extremes.
It’s not that simple though, the study states that replacing the filters removes large endotoxins, but not small ones. The small ones are still present
Uh, OK. because if you were doing life and death stuff with 30 samples, people probably died due to false negatives or positives in your model, in a way that would have been better handled with more samples. Sorry to hear it- it's one of the reasons health care is so shitty.
When you say open source components, do you mean more commodity consumer-grade hardware or just the software components?
You should always overstate your capabilities not understate them.
Except this has never happened within the Bay Area. Even in the 2008 pop, it never was that bad and you got your money back by 2011.
Well said.

Part of the problem is that different folks have different experience with and ideas about the folks running big corps, so we wind up over-generalizing and talking past each other. I did it myself above when I used "these guys" to mean a handful of bad actors, not the whole of all those companies' executive suites.

> Like yeah, evil, but i will continue to use it is a funny concept.

Yeah, I find that perplexing too.
I'm sorry, but I don't buy that argument.

Google--a technology giant with algorithms and heuristics running most operations--is not up to the task of improving algorithms for email server reputation? No, they are definitely capable of improvement. It's simply not of interest to them.

I can hardly blame them because the cost-benefit analysis clearly says, "why bother?"

Of course anything can be gamed, but magnitude matters. I've had the same domain for 24 years, with many hundreds or thousands of email conversations between users of my server and those of the major email players over the years. I had to switch my mail server's IP address two years ago. Immediate zero reputation from many big players.
I think the issue is that you tried to confront a joke with a fact. It was a joke, after all (LA will last a lot longer than Florida, for instance).

I suppose there won't be any Korean BBQ in Florida by the turn of the next century.
PassMark appears to be more reliable. https://www.cpubenchmark.net/
Agreed. Since its Linux under the hood, I was thinking a little cron job could fix that. Just haven't got around to trying
Is the company planning to pay taxes to tax jurisdictions where the employees are located? Those taxes help pay for things like unemployment benefits, regulations such as protecting rights of workers?
> to "mayonnaise potato and bacon, 1000 cal at 10% protein/20%carbs/70% fat,"

I never thought about something like that being considered salad... but maybe I'm the weird one? Also, whoever orders that knows that this is not healthy right?
This is why people should stop watching news, because its all pretty much agitprop these days.

Amazon has no major issues with worker treatment. Sure, there are bad managers and shittier places to work, as with any big corp, but overall most people are content with work int the warehouses.

How do I know this? Prior to COVID, unemployment in US was at a record low, down to the frictional levels. Warehouse positions are entry level jobs. If it was bad, people would just quit, and take another job somewhere else. But not only did people not quit, Amazon was able to hire enough to roll out Prime 2 day and 1 day. Turns out, people like the high starting wage and want to work at Amazon.
Could you spray the filter with Lysol or another generic disinfectant every once in a while? I do that with my car filter.
I love music and as far as I know, I'm not a robot. However, I really dislike live events.
Of courses, there are a lot if different set up, but we're talking small gigs in a local place.

I can't describe it other than "sensors overloads" (maybe I am a robot...). Too loud (the sound, but also the crowd). Too many peoples, too crowded. The smell of cheap beer, sweat, smoke... It's simply too much for me. I feel the urge to go far from that place, as quickly as possible.

I know your point was more about "a simple thing to support and enjoy your local artists", but live events are'nt for everybody sadly.
Reasons high oil prices are here to stay
> NFTs can be easily stolen in some cases (compared to real world assets).

I can't see an argument for NFTs being more easily stolen than real world assets. I'd argue the opposite is true.
I mean, I would love for you to expand upon how:

>Take dark matter/energy for example - if we get a better model to understand that, it will revolutionize how we think about the universe, but it will (hopefully) have less impact on day-to-day society than the nuclear model of atoms did.

Is unrelated to:

>I would argue that general relativity barely affects humans day to day lives, whereas the nuclear model of the atom completely changed the global political system.

Maybe to help you, I was using General relativity as a time marker (i.e. it was the first sea-change scientific discovery that had limited impact on day-to-day human life)

You then argued that my premise was incorrect, because before general relativity was formalized, people could have believed that all future discoveries were too abstract to affect day-to-day human life.

I then argued that you were correct in that general relativity in fact was too abstract to affect humans' day-to-day life.

Then you made a personal attack against me.

Now we are here.
Putting the theory of special relativity into practice, by counting galaxies
How then people write high-performance servers in JVM?
I don't make the rules, if in USA courts have decided that that such contractual prohibitions override the copyright law companies will use them.

Even if there is virtually no risk for them, they will protect themselves because they can and the law gives them the right to override user's rights.

At least VS Code is open source and everybody can compile it and inspect it, except the proprietary bits from MS. Which sounds a lot better than old MS.

Anyway, nobody complains that they can't reverse engineer AWS.

Cloud computing is much more dangerous for users' right, and yet...
Not to support Trump here, but taken the other way, look at how much value and effectiveness America is bringing to the NATO table. And the cost of having access to that power was a mere 2% of GDP (something that many EU countries that were incredibly reluctant to meet are now increasing frantically to make up for lost time).
Definitely. I do feel like this attitude has contributed to the decline in hitchhiking in recent years. Still there are enough decent people to make it viable. I did end up having to wait a while in some areas to get a ride (pro-tip wear sunscreen). Anecdotally every single person who picked me up smoked weed although in CA/OR/WA that might have just been a coincidence.
There are technical ways to avoid that, I suspect. Paying Njalla with monero comes to mind.
yes, that's a design. It's hard to see the details because the video is poor and the explanation is a bit rambling. It looks much more complicated than necessary and from what I can tell, the rolls themselves aren't truly independent because dice can interact with each other.
There's also a wide range of sugar amounts you can add to coffee. I add only about 1/3 cube of sugar to a cup of coffee to slightly offset the bitterness, where I see other people sometimes toss in 3 cubes (which tastes awful to me).
That's about an order of magnitude difference right there.
There doesn't have to be those things to make your life hell, at least not in the US. There just has to be enough of an argument where a judge will be OK with bringing it to court - and even if he isn't OK with it, you'll still have tons of lawyer fees to deal with.
Gene therapy for pancreatic cancer shrank tumors in one patient
Note the things I want to accomplish in the morning (and review/carry over the unfinished ones from the previous day.

Block time on my calendar for a single task / Use a tool like focus@will and set a timer.
Same here. Long ago I tried to generate an encryption key by flipping a coin. After getting a rhythm and flipping heads 20 consecutive times I gave up.
> Children flourish better under stable parenting environments. They don't do as well under single parents or divorced parents --other things being equal.

False dichotomy here; you excluded the benefits of multiple loving figures in their lives, and instead just went for the cheap shot of equating poly with single parenthood, broken relationships, etc.
After you have a binding deal like the one he signed, it's very hard to get out of it. Being forced to complete the deal anyway has precedent, like 2 years ago when LVMH tried to back out of their Tiffany deal due to Covid.

https://www.law360.com/articles/1324006/tiffany-lvmh-lower-m...
Anecdata: Everyone I know with kids in elementary school is reporting major outbreaks at school for the first time in the era of Covid. This includes my family. The transmissibility (specifically among kids) appears to be significantly higher than before. And the symptoms fortunately appear to be light for everyone I know who's caught it recently.
Unless I'm reading my invoice incorrectly, your formula is off

The business plan is not (99/m * 12), it is (99 + (99/m * 12)), so more like $10,700 than $9500
It made sense originally. Most people did not originally have telephones at home. It skewed towards businesses, and then public venues like hotels. Almost immediately, a secondary business started up around each telephone. A grocery store, for example, might let customers place outgoing calls for a small fee, and reserve slots for incoming calls, and take messages. A single phone might be installed on the ground floor of an apartment building, and one of the retirees became the building phone operator.

As you might imagine, a lot of free outgoing calls were snuck in. Just pick it up when the clerk isn't looking. And no one wants to sit around all day guarding the phone, anyway. And so payphones. In those environments, you'd want them to be able to receive calls at a pre-arranged time, as well as place them. And it just kinda carried forward. But many regions in North America did start prohibiting incoming calls on payphones eventually. You couldn't do that in the 90s where I grew up in Canada.
When I saw "funny yet embarrassing" I pictured something like rewrite-the-internet-in-Qbasic.com, creating grounds for a lawsuit is completely optional.
> Using the word “private” as “anything that isn’t on a cloud” is a low bar, in my opinion.

I agree it's not a high bar, and I appreciate that some developers have higher security standard than others.

But I think "anything that isn't on a cloud" is an OK definition for "private". I can cut internet access from my private computer, it will still be able to run malware. I will blame myself for loading the malware into the computer, I will blame the malware's author for their malicious intention, but I will not blame my computer for executing the code.

I look at privacy as user's ability to control their own data, not necessarily the ability to control a software's behavior.
Why do you think Elon Musk hates work from home so much? He's in business of selling cars. People need less cars or no car at all if they don't have to commute.
Crazy to see that Annals of Internal Medicine prominently highlights "metrics" for the article including "Picked up by 215 news outlets." Are academics supposed to be like Buzzfeed writers now, chasing media instead of peer citations or lasting impact in practice?
Except "fixing" this problem involves deliberate hiring bias. As per your other comment [1], the solution involves direct sexism in the form of gender discrimination in hiring. Direct sexism, in order to fix the "sexism" that most normal people just call "choice" is not something many would support.

1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31604394
Apparently, all you have to do is replace the filter, which should be done anyways.

EDIT: and apparently I was wrong.

"Overall, endotoxins deposition in the alveolar region increased regardless of whether the air purifier was loaded with used or new HEPA filters."
No, but it is oddly specific. Why is a sales tax not enough on its own? Why does entertainment need a specific tax?
https://archive.ph/1nRQk
Largest known plant on earth discovered at Shark Bay and it's 4,500 years old