skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, he's using SCRUM to make sure all creativity and spirit is lost to
"the process".
Doesn't the US democracy work the same way though? The constitution is a contract that can't be broken...until the citizens vote to change it of course.

I'm not a lawyer but I think they could have easily covered their butt if they added a clause to the contract saying the DAO can change the contract if necessary. But looks like they won't be going to court anyways since both parties formally agreed to the final deal.

Of course this is going to be a stain on the DAO in question. Investors are going to be more wary of signing on. But I don't think this effects the concept of DAOs in general. Ultimately governance is determined by the people, not by contracts.

For example, next year the US could pass a law that redistributes the wealth of all billionaires. Completely pulling the rug out from under this tiny tiny minority of people (just like the aforementioned DAO situation). But this doesn't mean democracy is broken. It will just have massive downstream effects where people become afraid of reaching billionaire status. It wouldn't be a failure of democracies in general, just a failure of one particular democracy.
> Firearms are a legal, legitimate industry that about half of all Americans participate in, in one form or another.

So is also the porn industry but they don't show you ads.
Highly recommend reading The Dreamt Land by Mark Arax if you'd like to learn more about this. The plants should never have been planted. Decades of unregulated groundwater pumping and effectively stolen federal water is feeding what used to be desert. There's no real plan for what happens when the water runs out (which is beginning to happen, evidently); just keep guzzling water while the going's still good.

The current model of farming in California is ultimately doomed; much of the groundwater depleted over the past century cannot be replenished as the ground has subsided and compacted itself after the water was pumped out. Basically the entire Central Valley sank by about 16 feet between 1920-1970 (https://www.usgs.gov/centers/land-subsidence-in-california/s...). Data since then is spotty because we basically stopped monitoring it.
What Is a Feed? (a.k.a. RSS)
In the book Dataclysm by Christian Rudder, he performs an analysis of OkCupid messages and responses. Number of responses received after an initial message was used as the success metric (because that's really the only thing they can accurately measure, no reliable way to quantify the quality or satisfaction from a conversation). Unsurprisingly, the men who sent the most messages performed better than average. More surprisingly, men who copied-and-pasted the same messages over and over again to different women did even better.

I don't know if this applies exactly to apps like Tinder and Bumble who use a hidden elo system, but it seems like sending as many messages as possible is (intuitively) a winning strategy. More messages = more opportunities.

EDIT: Sorry this is like the fifth time I've edited this. I think the conclusion from the OkCupid data is that writing thoughtful openers quickly hits diminishing returns. Thoughtful discussion won't ever be a bad thing, though.
There are, by default, no drop shadows either.
I think it's not so much a single book, but that he writes long series of them with well developed characters that bridge across them. There is one series (Alex Cross) I'm listening to on audio book now that has at least 29 books in it.

None of them are super great but its like comfort food ... you finish one and the familiar characters are all there when you go back for the next. So this is the secret to have people buying huge numbers of books ... you always want the next one in the series.

Mind you, I borrow these for background listening / when I go to sleep at night. I would never spend the time on them as a focused activity.
I think he's talking about the lack of a bigger community than lack of help.
The source is musks father, and Elon disputes what he claims.
Coffee Meets Bagel has people be presented with a handful of profiles a day ("handful" being a bit variable but...). So no infinite profile browsing.

Everyone I know (and I met my partner through that) has felt like it's a nicer system.
Botched and silent patches from Microsoft put customers at risk, critics say
I think some skills are more valuable than others because they don't change that much.
Java is valuable. Go is valuable. PHP is valuable. C is amazing.
JS frameworks...not thanks. I think of moving from full stack development to backend due to this..its a bit more sustainable.
By exploiting people with views like yours, and by hiding the truth about it's own nature? Look at the EU for an example of how to do this. The hard core remainers are all convinced anyone who doesn't like the EU is brainwashed, racist, stupid or all three but they struggle to keep up in a debate involving the details of what the EU really is and how it works. That's what converted (deconverted?) me: realising at the start that my pro-EU position was based on the sort of wishful thinking your comment implies. It's all about cooperation and world peace, right? Then I listened to the Brexit campaigners and discovered that I had no idea what was really going on in Brussels. It was very far from the friendly face.
> Blockstream's Adam Back helps promote Tether and maintain the Bitcoin Core GitHub repo to make sure BTC is unusable as peer-to-peer digital cash

Not what you'd expect from the most convincing candidate of Satoshi Nakamoto's true identity [1].

[1] https://chainbulletin.com/the-unmasking-satoshi-aftermath/
Inflation hurts the poor the most, or is that what you are saying?
You'll never convince me that a functioning sewer system isn't necessary—and the mechanism for that is zoning. Look at the problems people have in tent cities with sanitation and disease when clean, usable toilet facilities aren't available. The modern pathologies of zoning come from its abuse and I've made no claims regarding those.

Your words are angry, so if you'd like me to read otherwise please reconsider them; right now I'm just getting a spittle-filled rant. Done here—cheers.
Along Came a Spider if you like crime books. It's pretty decent. There's a movie with Morgan Freeman if you'd prefer to go that route.
> I've never engaged in this debate before but I'll try this once. We'll see if I regret it.

>

> From what I understand, abortions happen. Period. People get rid of unwanted children before they are viable. The question is not whether or not this should happen, because it will happen -- it happens all the time, even when it's strictly illegal with severe punishment. It's a tragedy, but it happens a lot and apparently we can't control it.

>

> The question is whether -- once it happens -- we want it to be safe, above board, with medical professionals informed. Or if we want it to happen in a moldy basement with a coat hanger, at significant risk to the woman involved.

>

> What's your take on this?

I'm not the OP, and I can see your argument in the good faith that you intended it, but I gotta question whether the argument "It happens whether you want it to or not" is valid at all.

Murder happens all the time, we still criminalize it.

Rapes happen even more frequently, and have a very low successful prosecution rate, and yet we still criminalize it.

Suicides happen often, harms no one but the subject, is criminalized in many jurisdictions and is also not financed by the insurance industry[1].

There are plenty more less severe actions that are criminalized, like Jaywalking, gambling, solicitation, drunk-driving, etc[2] that, in 999 out of every thousand cases, result in no harm. But, they're still criminal acts.

For any $FOO, do you really want to:

a) Argue that because it will still happen, we may as well make it legal

and

b) Because it is legal, the insurance must cover it. Because even in places where suicides are not necessarily illegal, the insurance still will not cover it!

This has nothing to do with whether abortions @ whatever trimester should be legal or not, it's whether we want to go down the path of legalizing things purely because enforcement is difficult.

I don't find that argument compelling at all, because if that is the reasoning then I feel that a lot of the more serious crimes should just be decriminalized due to difficulty in enforcement.

[1] No death benefits are paid for suicides.

[2] I'm not going anywhere near the subject of drug usage.
If you're in a public space and the most attractive person is surrounded by more desirable prospects and ignoring you, do you join the throng or potentially lower your expectations and talk to someone less crowded by competition?

I haven't experienced online dating and I'm sure it's grim, but I also know people who've perhaps had unrealistic expectations and stayed largely single into their forties.

I've said before, but I think the dating apps are mostly grim for people around 20-25. Anyone after that is more realistic about their prospects and what's worth looking for in a partner.
Isn’t that what people are in when they mindlessly pull out their phones to go to Twitter?
Interesting.

I run the literature recommendations site Gnooks:

https://www.gnooks.com

And Patterson is on position 39 of the most like authors.

Position 1 is held by Joanne K. Rowling:

https://www.gnooks.com/top

I wonder what that says about the demographics of Gnooks. Maybe that the users are younger.
Which is not an issue for independent beef or paper suppliers.
Amazon isn’t a company, it’s a paper clip maximizer that’s goal is to “acquire money” and it’s doing so exponentially
There are ways to print solar panels on a plastic substrate too, and led's look possible. NFC antennas are already doable with the same process.

When all the devices can be 'printed', you might be able to put electronics on pages in books/newspapers or on labels of products for zero cents because you're already putting that paper through a printing press.
If the owner of the website dies, the site may shut down due to not paying the bills.
Would You Buy the First Laptop with an E-Paper Screen?
Alright, the actual figure is $1,2M for the 90-percentile household net worth. For the individual that's to be divided by 3 (since there are about 120M households in the U.S.). We are at the 96-percentile for $3M household net worth.

So yeah, 4%-ers then. Really makes a big difference to my point. This is totally gonna change everybody's life. (I.e. those who can afford it, while the majority is scraping by from paycheck to paycheck.)
Then start adding FPGAs!

Seriously, this has been talked about for ages now. If every platform had a good enough FPGA, it could be used for cryptography and/or to accelerate some specific computations. Abd without having a set of algorithms baked into the silicon, it would not make the device eventually obsolete as the world moves to better algorithms.
weird. It isn't the nicotine that's harmful in cigs but the combustion products like tar. So smokers would be forced to burn far more cigs to get the same nootropic nicotine hit that they normally get from one cig.
Is it Agile
There are countless ways to mislead without technically being false.

One way is to intentionally be ignorant of the facts and give an uniformed opinion that fits your agenda.

Take the letter from the 51 former senior intelligence officers who cast doubt on the Hunter Biden laptop.

https://www.politico.com/f/?id=00000175-4393-d7aa-af77-579f9...

"We want to emphasize that we do not know if the emails, provided to the New York Post by President Trump’s personal aSorney Rudy Giuliani, are genuine or not and that we do not have evidence of Russian involvement -"

Reading the letter, you see that they don't say that the laptop is misinformation, or that the emails are fake. Only that, without attempting to verify the evidence available, they suspect it is fake because it is Russia's MO.

Why would people who make their career from verifying intelligence evidence not look at the actual evidence? Not attempt to verify before assessing it. So they don't have to lie about it.
It was just an american spy plane.
Spend lot of money trying to come up with something else to justify the price and growth...
The future is vegan. While most people are still refusing it I can see the cultural attitudes changing. Your coworker is a dink for sure but most other people are just going with the flow or are misinformed. For every smirking edgelord there are loads of people who just aren’t ready to change because of nostalgia and weakness rather than malice.
I wasn't suggesting that anyone should buy my car. I was pointing out that even my car seems usable and that newer models are much better.

> In most peoples eyes, paying that much for a used electric with a 7 year old battery is insane.

Obviously not in the eyes of the people who are part of that market or the price would be lower. But I get your point.

Nonetheless there are quite a few brand new EVs available at that price and lower. Even in 2021 there were about 15 EV models available in the US at less than that brand new, see https://insideevs.com/news/534027/electric-car-prices-us-202...
docker desktop stopped working on my windows box yesterday.
tried clearing my containers, didn't work. factory reset, didn't work. uninstall reinstall, didn't work.
finally the reset kubernetes button was ungreyed and that worked but i still don't know why if i already reset everything.
lost my dev data.
not happy with docker desktop, but haven't issued any death threats yet.
>They didn't redo it, they redesigned it.

My point is that they have clearly acknowledged it's a thing and that it matters.

>Music

I really don't get your point here... I'm listening to Music right now and just spent a few minutes trying to use the keyboard. I don't really feel unable to do so.

>How can it be less constrained when they literally crammed toolbar items into less space and redesigned dialog to be narrow? :)

The dialog that they're... expanding in Ventura? Where they acknowledged it should be bigger for certain cases? I've not been bothered by it in Big Sur/Monterey otherwise since most apps (understandably) aren't cramming shit in there anyway.

You're welcome to dislike change, I just think you're really stretching here.
It does raise the question... Why didn't they just use an Intel 4004... The patents have long expired and plenty of other companies make very old intel clones to out in modern products (eg. Most optical mice use a 50 year old intel to control a custom DSP to do image processing to figure out which way you're moving the mouse)
And if doctors are worried, the first step should be doing actual tests to see if people are experiencing pain. Not making some judgement based on their cynical bias whether someone is lying or being truthful.

It is amazing how much of the medical community states they believe in science, yet they seem entirely disconnected from it at times.
I don't think maintainability is the reason, though.
The post by Nicolas Vereeke quoted in the blog post is a dystopian jab at games, right? Not a serious attempt att describing something either gamers OR publishers would want?
Where did I say it was wrong?
We can look at how other places in the world solve the unsolvable problems that Americans have.
Region-locking was optional on Mega Drive cartridges, meaning publishers could choose whether or not to include it on their games. That's why so many Mega Drive games are region free. Sega started to implement it after a certain point on games they published. It could be bypassed with some kind of pass through attachment.
If your formula is sufficiently wrong, which is the rule not the exception, you can’t make up for it with perseverance.

You can make up for it by examining your formula and experimenting with changes to it though, even when something is hugely wrong. Persevering with the same thing when it doesn't work is stupid; understanding that and trying to fix it is not. It's what startups call pivoting.

You might still fail if you pivot but you'll definitely fail if you stop.
more like survivorship bias?
There's a new plan to regulate cryptocurrencies. Here's what you need to know
Wondering if it might be possible to measure the pain people are feeling somehow. It’d be interesting to compare a person with a traumatic past vs one without
I always assumed this would be a winning play for dating apps. Limit the browsing and offerings so people are realistic in assessing others. Give people thousands of choices and they'll go after the best. Give them a realistic selection and they're more likely to take time and see positives in each opportunity.

Make sure the listings are accurate (quality, recent photos). Then repeat daily for each gender interest, location, etc.
I am actually not familiar with such limitations with storage VPS against webservers. It doesn't seem to be the norm, and I would still search with "Storage VPS" as search keyword in e.g. https://lowendtalk.com.

I've personally used the following in the past. It was quite cheap and generally happy with it.

https://www.time4vps.com/storage-vps/

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You might also want to get (snipe) a server off https://www.kimsufi.com/uk/servers.xml — the best ones usually sold out within a minute or two, but nothing beats the price.
Go into any book store or library (at least in the us) and you'll probably find out. Every one I've been in has had a table at the main entrance full of his books or on a table in the young adult section.
If they are bad languages then you should give most of the credit to the programmers that were using them.
On the Pleasure of Hating (1826) [pdf]
Liberty + pokemon on the m505 was a dream. Before that, native palm RPGs were the shit: Dragon Bane and Kyle's Quest on Palm III. Black and white with that blue backlight felt so cool. Is it weird to miss greyscale?

My palm devices were also gifts. Dad got his black-and-white Palm III from work. Aunt got hers from the elementary school at which she taught. The common denominator was "adult who doesn't understand how these devices help productivity" --> gift to a child. Also "child who wants to play games but parents won't buy them a console" --> turns out they gave me something better.
The books are formulaic, they're pretty straightforward, the plot twists are sometimes easy to predict. I've listened to / read over 25 of the Alex Cross books (the main character of his most popular book series,) I actually like the characters and their personality and their continuity throughout the series. It's not the best prose.

I read a lot. I think of it like watching Law & Order or some other cop TV show. I mostly read these types of books on airplanes or listen to them when driving.

The books aren't really meant to have the lingering impact of a 19th century classic or a 1984/brave new world or something like the alchemist. They don't take you to a new world or explore sci fi concepts. No aliens or weird tech or anything like this. Just a mirror of the real world with real world constraints with likeable characters and interesting, if sometimes dated, plots.
So by limiting the amount of money that can be withdrawed?
Usually means hiring a GM and checking the books / visiting once a month.
What happens in five days? Crypto margin call?

Seriously, if income-producing ideas we could spin up in five days grew on trees we would call ourselves retired somewhat experienced developers.
> psychopaths would make better soldiers

No, not at all.

Soldiers work as part of a team, which is part of a larger team. You can't count on a psychopath to care about the team or the larger organization.

What (should) motivate a solider to kill is the same emotion as a sheep dog protecting the flock, or a mother bear protecting her cubs.

What motivates a psychopath to kill is harder to say, but it is not something which is generally recognized as morally good.
Came here to say exactly that. And despite my comment’s redundancy i’ll say it again. I love this language. Straight to the point, easy to learn, read and write. I wish it gained more traction.
It's not that unusual. Tom Clancy has been doing it for decades, and before that "Carolyn Keene" (the collective pseudonym of every Nancy Drew writer).

It's a brand. This brand happens to be presented as a person, a single author. But, as with every brand, scratching the surface reveals more to the story.
As someone who lived in a communist country, I can predict you that it would not go well and as intended.
Politicians are expected to do what voters are demanding.

They can guess reasons why they think voters want it, and some voters may suggest reasons they think will be persuasive. The pols might offer reasons, too, but they don't really know, so you won't really know either.

And, it doesn't matter. You will vote for, against, or abstain, regardless. People can try to persuade you, but they are not obliged to tell you the truth about their own reasons. The pols, anyway, just want to get elected again and hope that supporting or blocking a referendum vote will do that for them. That is their actual reason. but it doesn't help you any.

If you really believe everybody is telling you the real reasons why they do, promote, or block this or that, I have a bridge to sell you.
That is the difference between you and me. I can see both your worldview and mine, but you can only see yours. I know your worldview because that's the old me.

Here is a challenge: try to imagine a world where bullets are an asset. A world where an "asset" is:

An asset is a resource with economic value that an individual, corporation, or country owns or controls with the expectation that it will provide a future benefit. (https://www.investopedia.com/terms/a/asset.asp)

Maybe you should open your worldview a bit to see various ways on how you store value, not only the obvious financial instruments. But if you don't, no problem.
> if you filter out someone based on race you are potentially throwing lots of opportunities away. I find it hard to believe people who have race preferences aren't attracted to a single member of their non-preferred race.

Ditto gender
Tom Cruise runs. But is he any good at it?
This is hilarious, it is a great choice for start ups, to do what? How is it that what you do isn't the first thing that affect your choice of technology, but the "type of company" you are is?
Try contabo.com
Have good experience with them. They are now available outside the EU too.
You can choose between ssd and hdd. If you really price sensitive and need a cheap vps give netcup.eu a try (eu only)
I use a Hetzner CX11[1] VPS running nginx. Files are stored on Hetzner's 1TB Storage Box service. Storage Box has built-in WebDAV HTTP interface (among others). Costs about €6.50/month in all.

You might also want to see their Storage Share[3] service - similarly priced but more user-friendly with a NextCloud frontend and WebDAV HTTP interface.

From another discussion here, I found that Backblaze B2 and Cloudflare R2 are still cheaper. May want to check them out too.

[1]: https://www.hetzner.com/cloud

[2]: https://www.hetzner.com/storage/storage-box

[3]: https://www.hetzner.com/storage/storage-share
I was taking it, but then I died
Choosing a metric because it’s the only one you have doesn’t make it a good one.

The only person who cares how many responses you get from random people is a data scientist.

Presumably, you’re there to connect with people you’d have a good time with. You want to optimize for suitability, which has nothing to do with that metric.

(And besides, all of the apps now penalize indiscriminate swiping and other spammy behaviors that are cheap to track)
..and a dramatically increased likelihood of something unrelated going on in the system ruining your results. It's easy to dismiss mitigations like this as "not a solution", but at least those that add uncertainty to sidechannel attacks seem to complement each other quite nicely. Uncertainties don't add, they multiply.