skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So you just shifted the goal posts, huh? First you cared about killing a sentient being, now you care about their suffering.

And why is this any better? You only care about animal suffering because you are an animal who can suffer yourself. Your ideology remains selfish an self-centered. You don't care about killing a potato because the potato doesn't bleed and try to run away. You're still only thinking about yourself whle pretending to think of others.

Anyway it's a muddled and confused ideology that you obviously haven't thought about very carefully.

> Several government health organizations have already stated that humans can get adequate nutrition from plant-based foods alone.

No, that's not what those organisations say. What they say is that a "well-planned" (or words to that effect) vegan diet can be healthy. But only if it is carefully supplemented with all the nutrients that are missing from plant-only diets, such as B12 vitamins. Vegans are supposed to know that and still most do not get enough B12 to stay healthy:

> Most vegans show adequate B12 levels to make clinical deficiency unlikely but nonetheless show restricted activity of B12 related enzymes, leading to elevated homocysteine levels. Strong evidence has been gathered over the past decade that even slightly elevated homocysteine levels increase risk of heart disease and stroke and pregnancy complications.

https://www.vegansociety.com/resources/nutrition-and-health/...

In extreme cases, vegans have fed their children their ideologically-driven diets and have caused serious damage to their childrens' health, even death:

https://europepmc.org/article/PMC/2528709

Vegan diest are not healthy. They are lacking in essential nutrients and are only so popular because most people who eat them, do not understand the danger to their health.
Does it? Here's what they say:

Who could have exploited the vulnerability?

Very few: An attacker would have had to first gain control over the
heart of MEGA’s server infrastructure or achieve a successful
man-in-the-middle attack on the user’s TLS connection to MEGA.

Here's what they probably should be saying:

Who could have exploited the vulnerability?

We could have.
Do you also welcome retail investors that haven’t heard of HN?
It’s worth mentioning USDC (Circle) reserves have never been audited, and they don’t even claim to hold dollars anymore (https://archive.today/2021.07.12-223553/https://www.ft.com/c...):

> Until March 2020, the attestations said USDC was backed by dollars, held in government-backed US depository institutions. After that, they said the reserves were held at institutions and in “approved investments”, but did not give precise details about what those investments were. By June, it changed the wording on its website from “backed by US dollars” to “backed by fully reserved assets”.
Does the 2 years ago lawsuit caused havoc to the Pornhub website? I heard 10 million videos got deleted, so I guess the website traffic must be dropped a ton, isn't it?
There are a lot of banks that will allow you to do just that (at least in the US) - OnJuno is one that I’ve heard recommended. Debit, credit, checks, ACH, you name it.
Useful, installed.

I'm a bit annoyed at the trend of not having man pages though.
Is this true, or is it true of people who don't want to use libsodium, Ring, the Go Seal/Unseal AEAD interface, or KMS because it doesn't feel as cool as inventing your own authentication proof protocol?
This doesn't seem like a vanity project. The wikimedia projects I've come across usually seem useful, though not as impactful as wikipedia. What are some of the projects you consider mere vanity projects?
So there's recently been a fun development in this area.

Other comments mention VSTs; they work, but are typically Windows only and I suspect more on HN use macOS.

Elgato Wave microphones (https://www.elgato.com/en/wave-1 , $100/$150), which are good quality for the price, allow access to the Wave Link software which can be used to mix audio before piping it into OBS. A recent update allows users on macOS to use the native Audio Units (including equalizers/gates), and offers an audio stream that's just the added effects for easy use in other apps. https://help.elgato.com/hc/en-us/articles/4416040077069-Wave...

Alternatively, you can get Loopback for $100 (https://rogueamoeba.com/loopback/) for mixing or Soundsource for $40 (https://rogueamoeba.com/soundsource/) for AUs both of which I believe is what is what Wave Link uses regardless, so might as well get a good microphone out of it if you do not have one already.
If this doesn't go so far as to convince you this is possible, I hope it at least opens you up to the idea that it is an ideal we can get close to:

https://t2tile.com/
Isn't this just "garbage in, garbage out"?
LH2 will be unbeatable as aircraft fuel. Once LH2 airframes enter a market, the old stuff will be totally unable to compete.

It remains to be seen whether existing airframes can be retrofitted with under-wing LH2 tank nacelles, or if we will need whole new airframes.
That's a totally reasonable point of view! OBS is a great recommendation at the entry level and while the work it takes to build a show around it does scale upward pretty quickly, it's eminently doable. GDQ is a good example of running a complex, high-production streamed show through OBS. They operate a pretty heavy software stack and they get away with a lot by pushing it into HTML5. That's not my preferred way to go about it, but you can absolutely go that route.

Why I responded at all was the maximalist dismissal of a pretty large industry of smart people doing interesting things in the video mixing space.
Like any organized human endeavor
Not buying and keeping your currency elsewhere may just be a totally reasonable alternative.
If not there at the very least should be a balance, where code can be "fun" and you can have all the innovation you want while at the end of the day, tried, true, and boring solutions don't get thrown out for no real reason.
The most concerning part of their FAQ is this:

>What data does GitHub Copilot collect?

>...

>User Engagement Data

>...

>Code Snippets Data

>Depending on your preferred telemetry settings, GitHub Copilot may also collect >and retain the following, collectively referred to as “code snippets”: source >code that you are editing, related files and other files open in the same IDE or >editor, URLs of repositories and files paths.

It's possible to opt out, but it's not disabled by default, and this code snippets might be very sensitive.
I'm normally one who vastly prefers function over form and UIs that get out of the way of someone who knows what they're doing instead of catering _strictly_ to the use cases of the lowest common denominator.

But even I think the Calibre UI is pretty awful.
Even if you know something will fall it's not necessarily rational to take a short position. You also have to correctly guess when it will fall. Otherwise you will lose money on premiums or get wiped out by margin calls.
Was there a recent SCOTUS ruling on web scraping?
At some point X-Plane 12 will go on sale in early access, and Laminar said it will include an X-Plane 11 license (because 12 might be still pretty broken while in EA, so in the meantime you can enjoy 11) - source https://developer.x-plane.com/2022/05/x-plane-12-development...

So if you wait for Early Access you will get both 12 and 11 for the price of one.

After that, all minor 12.x updates will be free (they always have been) which means free updates for years to come (XP 11 was out for about 5 years for example)
Perhaps they knew what they were doing just as startup investors take a calculated risk that their doggy social networking site might not be the next big thing?
At a previous job, I worked with two guys who were excellent in a crisis. One of them used to run operations, the other was a crusty old programmer who’d been around for a while. I tried to learn as much as I could from both of them.

At around the same time, I was watching HBO’s The Wire. One scene had a high-profile shooting with a frantic police response; people were running everywhere trying to help. The lead commander on the scene gave this instruction to his sergeant: “Slow this thing down to a crawl. Give these bastards no chance to fuck up in a meaningful way.”

And then it hit me. That’s exactly how they ran the calls. I asked them about this, and they said absolutely – human nature, when things are broken badly, is biased towards action. You want to try to make a change, to reboot a system, to do something to hopefully make things better. But often if you were not careful, you risk losing information about the outage you are in. Best case scenario you luck into fixing the problem and don’t know how. Worst case? You’ve changed the state of an already broken system, and have done nothing but add more variables to unwind.

So now, every time I’m on an outage call, I try to do what Wes and Tim and Major Rawls would all do: I take control, pump the brakes, and make sure that we are capturing enough information about the current state that we don’t confuse ourselves further.
It is heartbreaking to hear about people’s crypto losses. I was on a plane the other day next to a young lady invested (gambling really) only in crypto, Tesla, and 0DTE options (!!!). While not a financial advisor, and with appropriate disclaimers, I provided them with an Amazon gift link for your basic books about index investing and personal finance, as well as real broker recommendations (versus Robinhood).

The knowledge gap is real and incredibly worrisome, and this is real money these folks are losing. You don’t know what you don’t know.
The way of speaking about "data" being an undifferentiated mass of bits, from which you get "useful information" is pretty well-worn, widely observed piece of rhetoric.

(If it's wrong, the scope of the mistake reaches far beyond this article.)
BlockStream satellite, beam your Bitcoin transactions from space with a $50 receiver
X-Plane has been amazing forever. Obsessive.
I used to say he who panics first panics best.
This was documented here: https://medium.com/@parttimeben/mac-it-just-works-horribly-c...

I personally blame Apple for not supporting CEC. I have over 19 apps running in the background to “fix” macOS.
Welcome? Not sure what you mean. I maintain a similarly opinionated Twitter feed. It’s also to be clear not my responsibility. This whole “nobody could have known” is as asinine as it was predictable.
> There are people hit by this who didn't even know they had exposure.

Does it matter?

What's the difference between "I invested in Terra, and I have no idea what that means, and I lost it all" and "I invested in Stablegains, and I have no idea what that means, and I lost it all"?

The Internet crosses national borders, which is kind of cool but also means that anyone in any country can pseudonymously attack people in their home country without any of the normal defenses of borders and local law enforcement / judiciary.

It's actually kind of crazy how physical borders are so heavily patrolled, yet virtual borders have no protection. IMO ISPs and web browsers should be injecting warnings in your packets and UI whenever they transmit data to or from a foreign jurisdiction.
> But that’s so easy to say after the fact.

HN was almost always negative about the crypto currency hype. Even when shitcoins were at ATH. So, no. The criticism is not after the fact.

> If these people really could foresee these events happening, then they could have made a lot of money by taking short positions.

Markets can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent has been a cliche for almost a century. That is to say nothing of the absurd cost of taking a short position and the counterparty risk of dealing with unregulated exchanges.

> As far as I’m concerned, you don’t say anything unless you put your money where your mouth is.

The motivation for a lot of us was to prevent our less sophisticated friends and family from blowing up their savings. The idea that one shouldn't be critical of obvious scams unless one has a financial interest in them is not a particularly well thought out take.
I don't think that's true.

First, shorting is expensive.
Second, people have jobs and bills and don't need their money tied up in some short position.
Third, just cause you think something is gonna collapse doesn't mean you know when it will collapse.

I think certain assets are shit (crypto or otherwise). I'm not going to short them all, and I still reserve the right to say I think they are shit. I'm not a professional trader.
https://pi-hole.net/ - an ad blocking proxy DNS server

https://archivebox.io/ - self-hosted internet archiving solution to collect, save, and view sites you want to preserve offline (this is how I bookmark now)

https://photoprism.app/ - self hosted photo, video application (used to store my family photos); I also use https://www.photosync-app.com to sync directly from my iPhone to PhotoPrism

https://gitea.io/ - lightweight code hosting solution (similar to GitHub and I mirror GH repos with this)

https://www.proxmox.com/ - my hypervisor of choice
Arguably its helping them— you know… not lose more money than they otherwise could.
Ah, so much this!
Why do all these new utils not come with a man page? :(
There are lots of different battery chemistries. All are pretty expensive as places to store utility-scale energy. Prices are still falling. Toxicity will not be any sort of long-term problem, although in the short term lithium batteries will explode fairly often (e.g. in Teslas) releasing gas that turns into drain opener when it hits your lungs. In the future we will prefer safer forms, such as solid-state electrolytes.
What’s more, if the that fine bankrupts the bank, then the government literally caused the problem they were trying to avoid (consumers losing their money)
Offloading all the asymmetric ops would be a good start, since they're generally the most affected by side-channels, and performed relatively infrequently (compared to the symmetric ops)
Not really insecure, because all communication over the public Internet is done on TLS 1.2+. Really, it's at worst as insecure as just using HTTP to the mitm proxy and then having the proxy do the encryption to the outside world, given that the SSL3 connection is entirely contained in a private network. I had actually suggested that initially, but the software refuses to communicate without SSL (which was a fine policy at the time). Also, SSL3 isn't actually that insecure when there is no possibility of controlling any aspect of client communication.

> Why don't you modify the hard-coded `no-ssl3` config and try re-compiling?

I was actually missing an option, but it still doesn't work with OpenSSL 3.0. Fortunately, 1.1.1 works with it just fine, including the latest version released just today.
"calculated risk" is doing a lot of heavy lifting here. "Wishful thinking" is the more likely culprit
So if you think crypto is mostly a scam the solution is to get into options trading?

Staying away and warning your friends/family about the scammy nature of many coins is a perfectly reasonable response.
ManyCam, mentioned by the top-level poster, isn't free and doesn't work on Linux either, so I'm not sure where that scoping comes into play. Past that, not focusing on Linux would be because, for both amateur and professional live video, I can think of relatively few people not using Windows. The overwhelming remainder are using Macs, where there are some options like Wirecast, even if they're not my favorites. (I too use OBS on a Mac or Linux, though it doesn't come up very often. As for me, with WSL2, I don't run a Linux desktop anymore.)

As far as "free" goes--OBS is great where it fits. It's exceptional where it fits. And if that's what you need, you absolutely should use it. When it doesn't fit, you start getting into build-versus-buy territory, and once you pop the cork on buying you can buy a lot for relatively little.
The idea is to wrap the insecure program in a system/network that “translates” it to whatever the current hotness is.
I think index funds are better seen as "savings" than "investments" in most people's mind.
You're right, this has nothing to do with Java. Spring Boot and other modern Java stacks are quite great and very productive actually, as you already know quite well.
Alphabet is spending billions to become a force in health care
From what I read, the efficiency of ammonia production is like 16%, which is well below hydrogen at like 40% or whatever. Even with cheap renewables that is terrible amount of losses even before you get to use the fuel.
Asking for an NDA from an early stage VC is likely to actively hurt as it can make you seem inexperienced in the realm of startups/venture capital. A decent amount has been written on this. Here's a couple examples, but there are others:
http://www.paulgraham.com/start.html
https://feld.com/archives/2006/02/why-most-vcs-dont-sign-nda...
The best datascience projects are ones that started collecting good data 3 months ago. The hardest thing I've had to do is convince engineers to involve DS people in the design phase of their work. Initially they just don't see us, or see us as an annoying extra stakeholder. But it's more annoying to go back to already deployed code and add data collection to it and then waiting, so they learn fast. Anyways, like the OP's link says, there's no magic modelling work that can bring back those missing features and data.
I use a roughly $6 HDMI capture dongle <- a $10 RCA to HDMI adapter <- an old VCR, and OBS is the capture software I use. Comes out pretty well, though you do basically end up watching each tape doing it.
It's very solid software. Extremely flexible and functional, but not too hard to pick up, and they've made it easier over the years. Free too. Can't complain about it. If I ever need high-quality recordings, I use CQP and it comes out fantastic, none of the awful compression artifacts.
You have maybe noticed that only a small fraction of our power is today generated from renewables?

Supply will rise to meet demand.
The physicians guild's have incredible control over healthcare in America, essentially they set the terms for what constitutes a 'doctor' and they fight over what nurses can and cannot do etc..

If we were to 'remake' healthcare today with 20/20 - we may not even have doctors.

We may have 'helpers' who don't have direct medical input but do most things a nurse can do, and then have really highly qualified nurses who are allowed to 'diagnose' and 'write scrips' for some things below a certain threshold, doctors who maybe streamline earlier, much more technology earlier.

Etc. etc..

I have no idea, other than to say it probably wouldn't look like what we have today but it won't change because the institutional powers of Doctrs etc. is strong. They go back very far in history. In some ways these organizations predate the states they work within.
Let's not forget that 10 years ago the largest banks all failed. [1]

[1] https://www.investopedia.com/articles/economics/09/financial....
I thought I was shitposting when I suggested this the other day.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31803593#31805200
> It's not that they want to get rich quick. They just want to make a lot of money really fast.

In their defence, I feel like this is fuelled by media FUD as well as FOMO from the ever-widening wealth gap.

A combination of inflation and unaffordable housing along with stagnant wages means that even with everyone in the family working jobs, you can’t even afford a yearly vacation.

If the wealthy elites don’t realise that this isn’t sustainable, I’m not sure where we will be in a few years…
Java has nothing to do with what you described. Its modern frameworks are extremely productive and performant. Just because you might have had a bad experience with one team that moves slowly (who may very well have their reasons), does not mean that the language or ecosystem caused them to be that way.
> Keith Baldwin, a 44-year-old surgeon who lives outside New Bedford, Mass., saved $177,000 during the past decade. Last year he took his savings and bought USD Coin, putting it in a crypto account that paid a 9% annual yield.

A surgeon saved 177k over 10 years? Something else might be going on here.
Ok I’ve never tried to look into TerraUSD or other stablecoins before.

So I have $100. I use that to buy $100 worth of Terra because it’s pegged to USD.

Then I can.. sell it for $100? What’s the point?

If they promise returns where are they supposed to come from? If my coins are pegged to USD how do they appreciate? Or is the idea they just give me more for holding?

But if the coins are pegged where do they get the money for the new coins they’re giving me?

If they don’t promise returns why would anyone invest in a stablecoin? If they give me more how is that not explicitly a pyramid scheme?

I can at least see the argument for BTC based on past appreciation. This I don’t get.
The sex industry isn't technophilic
I realize how much I sound like I've fallen for a cult or am about to sell you some essential oils. Perhaps I have and I'm not really sure how to NOT come off like that given how excited I am. Perhaps a step in that direction is providing some other/adjacent projects that have also made me feel similar

1. See this video by Lionel Penrose from the late 50s on a pre-digital version of "cellular automata":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1sIph9VrmpM

2. See the, now defunct, outcome of Bret Victor's attempt at building a more communal form of computing:

https://dynamicland.org/
In my experience, it seems that a lot of people have an un-stated gut feeling that "doing something" must out-perform passive dollar cost averaging a broad low-fee index ETF.

If we came up with some obfuscated mathematical dance that, if un-obfuscated, were obviously dollar cost averaging in a broad-based low-fee index ETF, I think it would be more popular.

Edit: There are also lots of investment strategies where people are short tail-risk and don't realize it or properly account for it. For instance, my dad is a pretty smart guy (practicing medical doctor who never got his undergrad degree because he crushed the MCATs and got into med school after 3 years of undergrad, back in the 1970s when med school was less competitive) but he's convinced that his gut-feeling covered calls out-perform a simple buy-and-hold (on a non-risk-adjusted basis). I don't doubt it's possible to out-perform on a risk-adjusted basis, and maybe even on a non-adjusted basis with careful enough analysis, but he's never performed any analysis on the opportunity cost that he has given up over the years. Without any attempts to model or otherwise estimate opportunity costs, I doubt it's likely he's actually out-performing. He sees that most days, he's out-performing, and in the rare cases where his calls get allocated, he just tells himself "well, at least the long stock position did very well". He's short the tail risk, but essentially largely ignores that part because it's hidden by the gains in his simultaneous long position. He feels good because he's doing extra work, and most days he's out-performing, so the gut feeling is that he's out-performing the market on a non-risk-adjusted basis.
They're a victim of their own voluntary financial decisions.
It's starting to come out that all the crypto lenders were exposed to each other. Celsius was also a feeder to Anchor but they may have pulled out early enough to avoid most of the losses. Three Arrows Capital may have also been in Anchor.
> I’ve heard that there has been an uptick in suicides.

I expect it to get worse before it gets better. I imagine that people in this situation are typically overwhelmed by the shame.

I would also venture to guess that specimens like Michael Saylor don't feel any shame whatsoever, despite making statements about Bitcoin intended to convince ordinary retail investors to go all in at the height of the bubble:

https://twitter.com/ClarityToast/status/1536315025278763008