skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
By convenience, backups are often stored on the cloud provider. Yes, this violates the rule of 3, but cloud providers often don't make it easy to do otherwise.
Thank you. Sounds like they'll have a ton of data for LA, not so much data for Detroit ))
>I saw mention of some forum software that could also provide NNTP access.

is it this?

https://github.com/epilys/tade

"tade is a discussion/forum/link aggregator application. It provides three interfaces: a regular web page, a mailing list bridge and an NNTP server"
most people are saying it may break in near future. Your comment says people said it should break by now. That isn’t the case.

> Meanwhile, Twitter is at record-high usage.
Why do you have loyalty to someone who doesn’t care about you — Elon.
If they punished them, especially in a way that would cause then not be funded in their next election, they could just switch parties.
That's not true. They are therapeutics are reviewed the same as drugs. The FDA's vaccine division does not review these therapies.
I’m with nonrandomstring and others. Delete your Facebook. It will be better for your overall health and well-being.
AI and Language Learning
Every time I need to automate something and I look at these solutions it becomes clear that I can put together a Ruby script to handle it much faster than getting one of these automation solutions up and running.
Not everyone is working to build something new, and I say this as a builder. This is important to understand.
FWIW I've been building a product on top of Orange Pi Ones (a $20 SBC roughly comparable to Raspberry Pi 2) with Armbian and while I have to dig into the forums for certain configurations (enabling hardware serial is an edit to /boot/armbianEnv.txt, while switching the micro USB port from OTG to HOST mode is an edit to a file within armbian-config) it's been a smooth development experience with about 10 days lead time from Shenzhen via AliExpress
So what if they tell their friends what to buy and sell?
This guy is committing fraud.

Two of his jobs are hourly, and he bills each job 40 hrs. Obviously he’s not working the full 40.

He’s probably rationalizing it by saying he’s delivering 40 hrs worth of work / value, but that’s not the agreement. If he wants to work that way he should bill by the project / output.

It’s no different than if my mechanic, lawyer, etc does a project in 2 hrs, and bills me 4 hrs.
Office365, Zoho, there are many options.
Instagram, at the time, was significantly limited in functionality. IG didn't have Android and web support until 2012, it was iOS only until then.

The more features you offer, the more complex your system needs to be, the more people you need to maintain and build on top of the system.
>Presumably more people are getting sick and dying in the control group.

In the Pfizer mRNA vaccine clinical trial there were actually more deaths in the vaccine group than the control group, but the sample size wasn't large enough to draw any conclusions from this.
This really goes to heart of what it means to actually OWN something. Can it still be called ownership if a few years down the road cars come with a paid subscription and not paying for that subscription stops the car from functioning altogether? That would be more like leasing or renting, rather than owning.
Lost treasure, a la <<Cryptonomicon>>, or King Solomon's mine?
Steam Deck Games Losing Verified Status: What Drives the Change?
I don’t follow Twitter much. Twitter Spaces is newer than years.
How effective? You realize they never tested the major vaccines (Pfizer, Moderna) for transmission or a reduction in ability to get infected?

You can access the clinical trial protocol by googling it. They never regularly tested patients in the trial, only when they were symptomatic. There is no clinical trial data to prove a reductions in infection or transmission.
Normally, that's a good idea. But based on OP's description this is a prototype or exersice in building /delivering an mvp. I don't feel that full unicode support is usually part of an mvp.
At least in California, non competes aren’t enforceable.
Sports, especially global sporting events, are always political.

Double especially when cities bid and bribe for the right to host.

Triple when they have to build infrastructure that wasn't there before.

Asking someone, quite politely, to merely acknowledge the impact this event had on tens of thousands of people is not out of line in the least.
>Seems to me it would be pretty hard for them to stick to their guns while cancer eats away at their insides.

Not if the cancer vaccines are as effective at preventing cancer as the covid vaccines are at preventing people getting covid.
Ideally they would get the street-level shoplifter to inform on the shoplifter's boss in order to get a low sentence or immunity, so that the real kingpin can be caught.
I think their username of "ignoramous" is rather apropos
The amount of risk taking obviously has some increase in the number of cyclists that get into accidents. However the outcome of the accident is more important.

So for each accident: how bad was in the injury, cost, permanent damage, and recovery time. Then compare that between both groups.

For example it could be that although wearing a helmet increases the risk of an accident by 15% it decreases the risk of serious brain injury or long term damage by 60%. If that were the case then the helmet is beneficial.
That’s silly. Take Airbnb for example. It was literally started by art students. Sure there are amazing apps made by hackers, but there are also amazing apps that weren’t.
"our data from the CDC today suggests, you know, that vaccinated people do not carry the virus, don`t get sick, and that it`s not just in the clinical trials but it`s also in real world data."

That's not bad communication it's an outright false statement.
Elon Musk says Twitter to provide 'amnesty' to some suspended accounts next week
If you drop an email to the mods using the footer contact link, they can talk more about it (and maybe reply here!).
If this only harmed the people who voted for it, then I'd have no problem with it. The problem is that it's also harming all of the people who voted for the opposite but lost.
Haha! I'd agree and it is one of the reason why I hadn't been on it for over a year. It is just that a part of me would rather leave on its own terms, than be forced out - which is what this is!

On a different note, I can survive not being on Facebook, but I often dread what would happen if I were ever to lose access to my gmai? The aftermath would be a massive, massive pain in the wrong place..

How did we end up with our identities so entrenched with just a few corporate entities? I wish things were easy to switch
Issue dialing 911 on Google Pixel 6 cell phones
Fun fact: Fail Safe was released the same year as Dr. Strangelove by the same studio. Directed by Sidney Lumet, it’s also about nuclear war. It’s a fine movie in its own right. From the Wikipedia:

> Fail Safe so closely resembled Peter George's novel Red Alert, on which Dr. Strangelove was based, that Dr. Strangelove screenwriter/director Stanley Kubrick and George filed a copyright infringement lawsuit. The case was settled out of court. The result of the settlement was that Columbia Pictures, which had financed and was distributing Dr. Strangelove, also bought Fail Safe, which had been an independently financed production. Kubrick insisted that the studio release his movie first.
Right, instead they made false statements and overpromised which gave the anti-vacciners even more ammo.

It was a massive cock-up by the government.
Yes, mainly debugging stuff I didn’t bother fixing.
And so you use force and violence on that person. What other groups are "guilty by association" that we should curtail their speech because some of their members have committed acts of violence in the name of their movement? Antifa? Communists? Environmentalists? BLM? Socialists? Anarchists? Union organizers? Can you confidently assert that you belong to no groups such that if the political winds changed you'd be comfortable allowing your opponents the authority to censor your group's speech if any members commit violence?
Regulations don't mean anything if there aren't enough resources to enforce them. You're not going to get those resources with smaller government.
Personally I would never land multiple jobs at the same time because I have strong ethics. My employee pays me for creating value, and that is a daily mantra you should repeat yourself everyday, especially if you’re remote. Overemployment would just lead to a mediocre work for every employee you have. I’ve been remote months before the pandemic and the most difficult thing is to keep focus, not the required focus on the assigned task, but on the big picture, on the direction and the main goals the company wants to accomplish, how you can help accomplish them and push more value than requested. That’s how you get paid well, how you build a long relationship made of trust, the kind of trust that raise your pay every year without asking. Let’s be honest overemployment is just another word for describing low effort programming, the production of yet another can of digital trash, and I just wish companies go back to the (un?)balanced ratio of remote/in person job like it was before the pandemic
https://web.archive.org/web/20220102223330/http://www.antarc...
Wouldn't misinformation also be a similar situation. If you make a choice based on misinformation or incomplete information, is that democracy.
Here is the associated Google Pixel subreddit thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/GooglePixel/comments/z3knqv/action_...
I don't disagree that this type of moderator exists. I've left spaces because of this type of moderator. And I have no issue with your other points, but we're talking about different things.

I've also noticed that there's a group of people who absolutely hate to be told what to do. They have an innate psychological reactance toward it. It shows up in defiance to regulation, paying taxes, and yes even the idea that their internet posts could be moderated. It's a strange attractor in personality-space and they are very effective at using the mechanisms of social construction to pass their ideas off as the natural order.
IIRC doing just the latter messes up your brain.
If you're interested in retaining your cognitive function long-term and avoiding early onset dementia, maybe do both.
Write things down when you hear them, then copy the important bits over to Obsidian at the end of the day.
That is completely false. 18 people died in the Pfizer vaccine study and it went to completion.

You realize people die all the time? Even when participating in clinical trials?
One interesting thing I’ve noticed over my career bouncing between the video game industry and general software industry is that every decently sized game studio I’ve worked for has had people in the role of technical artist, these are the people who bridge the gap between art and engineering, but I’ve never seen a similar role though at massively larger software companies. I’ve seen people with strong design sense in engineering and people with engineering skills in design, but it’s always been siloed enough that they’ve never been able to really make an impact one way or another on the final product. I’ve always thought I would reuse that same structure even if I was making non video game software.
Garlic mustard: invasive, destructive, edible (2020)
They both suck and both should be criticized. But also both crypto and banks are diverse and not all bad.
People were getting priced out of hosting an instance with "only" 10-20k users and the instance hosting services quote <= 4k users with the 4k end being >$US100/month. With the "low end" 1-200 user instances having 4 cores, 5tb of monthly bandwidth, etc.

The general sense I have got is that mastodon - the default software at least - is extremely resource heavy for relatively low user counts. My assumption/hope was that the bulk of this is that the server software hasn't ever really been under sufficient pressure to improve, and takahē seems to indicate that there's at least some room for improvement on the server side (i.e. performance problems aren't entirely protocol/architecture problems)
Look I can't change the world. I certainly can't change the practices of trillion dollar companies. I just don't want ads.
> I’m happy with my decision to work multiple jobs at once, because not only do I feel like its given me more time with my family and friends

I wonder how this is the case - generally you would have less time doing this unless you are working the jobs concurrently, in which case, that is incredibly unethical and likely to get you fired from both companies if either found out
Possibly, but what percentage of the population actually has the basic knowledge you presume?
Maybe that's what they're arguing for, but the people they've picked absolutely would not be non-violent.
Weeks after Fortinet disclosed an authentication bypass flaw, researchers have found cybercriminals selling access to Fortinet VPN on the dark web. The impacted versions of the Fortinet products include FortiOS, FortiProxy, and FortiSwitchManager among others.
> No one interacts with my tweets anymore. Meanwhile, I get response on Mastodon that reminds me of the early days of Twitter, before they betrayed their developer community and hired a legion of people to cut ad deals.

Out of curiosity: is your excitement about ActivityPub, based largely on a greater amount of perceived engagement, as compared to other channels?
WhatsApp data leak: 500M user records for sale
I've had the exact polar opposite experience on any company running systems with paying customers. Usually it's "don't care what it costs, just fix it" which lines well with AWS' behaviour on this. When downtime costs tens of thousands of dollars _a minute_, people tend to stress less about some inefficiencies like this
Not to mention the Christians in Constantinople, now known as Istanbul
> where is this federated IRC you speak of?

IRC has the ability to form networks of servers which share identities and chat channels. There used to be a few large networks and many popular servers were part of one of them. Back in the 90s "being on IRC" commonly meant having a nickname on one of these networks.
World’s oldest meal found in 558M-year-old Ediacaran fossil
One characteristic of a parimutuel system for a relatively illiquid market is that the odds can swing quite drastically whenever anyone bets. In fact, even the amount one person bets is going to affect the odds they will get, so you need to display a table of odds for various bet sizes.

This may or may not be a problem, but I've found it requires more... infrastructure (notifications etc) for people to avoid being confused by it, and give people a chance to withdraw their bet if the odds are no longer favourable (alternatively put in stops, but that also complicates the system.)
What does this even mean? The government (the elected portion) isn't an entity outside of the people that are elected.
Lack of global discoverability. On Reddit, if you have an interest and you search for some keyword related to that interest then you will likely find a sub related to it.

On transitional forums, you'd have to use Google. And your ability to find a community would be directly impacted by the owners skill at SEO unless you're constructing rather advanced queries.

There was also a poor UX compared to social media. Site owner doesn't pay the monthly hosting fee from their web host? Site is down. Can't really admin a MySQL DB? Site is frequently down when it grows past some point. Shitty web host? Site is slow (or down). Reddit solves this by being centrally managed.
> I’ve also noticed a weird tendency to downplay theft lately, either through projecting a theoretical moral justification on to the shoplifter or by insinuating that retail stores are evil corporations and therefore deserve no sympathy.

Let me try to convince you without defending the morality of the shoplifter or declaring corporations evil.

1. On the totem pole of crimes, petty shoplifting (without violence) is pretty close to the bottom when it comes to harm done the public. Jaywalking and smoking weed are lower.

2. These corporations that are being robbed already build shrinkage into their budgets. $300k of baby food is nothing to Walmart, a rounding error, and I doubt you can even see it in their bottom line. Even a smaller shop is not going to go out of business if someone walks out with all their toothpaste. It’s not analogous to stealing from an individual.

3. There are a limited number of police and I’d rather them be out there deterring violent and serious crime than protecting the inventory of companies. When every rapist, murderer, white collar fraudster, and drunk driver is behind bars, and the police have nothing left to do, then sure, go bust those dastardly deodorant thieves.
Ah yes, the "simple solution" of uprooting your entire life because it takes ~2 minutes longer to buy deodorant.
So what is Twitter's business plan? How is Elon planning to recoupe his investment here? Advertisers aren't going to like turning the platform into a free-for-all hellscape (which is what's going to happen). There's already been an industry wide pullback in marketing budgets across the board due to economic downturn fears. I imagine Twitter is the first contract they cancel after the recent chaos. They don't need Twitter; Twitter needs them. A subscriptions service and charging for blue-checks is not going to cut it - the users don't need Twitter either and would just as soon drop it.

Seems like Elon and crew got into Twitter thinking it should be "free speech" platform first, and a business second. As it turns out Twitter was only ever a business, and business is fickle.
A quick way out of this issue is to ask users not for how much to stake, but how confidently they believe something to be true, and then reward/penalise based on a score function derived from this and the actual outcome.
Well yeah, there are hilariously bad and evil comments on any forum with enough people. HN is pretty good for what it is.
A large percentage. There's a reason Trump's “drain the swamp” slogan resonated with so many people.
What is a good book for someone comfortable with maths (but very out of practice) to get up to speed on the topic. Not being scared of not understanding stuff and needing to learn prerequisites (so doesn’t need to be too easy). Because the wikipedia article isn’t really for learning but it does give a flavour. And it sounds fascinating, sort of like a monte hall problem to me.
Unexpectedly find myself defending the detested Qajar dynasty on the internet. What a strange day it has been.)=

The Qajars were not clients of the colonial powers until towards until the tail end of 19th century, and the dynasty got started in late 18th.

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

Fun bit to tempt you: "Even when the French were in occupation of Moscow, Russian forces in the south were not recalled but continued their offensive against Persia,"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russo-Persian_War_(1804%E2%80%...

And here I thought our modern world was strange. Can you imagine if they had our gadgets back then? The Russians would get demoralized and make a beeline to go defend Moscow and Iran would still have Georgia, Armenia, and Azerbaijan.

Oh well.
Twitter is rife with porn and links to onlyfans and famous for its mob justice and crypto-scamming. I think you're overselling what engineers can accomplish.
> PS this story doesn't make sense because you can tell when a voltmeter is out of range.

It's also a bit sloppy with the bounds. To me, "reads only as far as 100" includes 100V, whereas the measured voltages only go as high as 99V.
True but it changes the amount of guilt right?

Maybe they were just helping companies donating to then, the letter is about cryptocurrenty in general.
443 comments as I write this. I searched for the word "boost" and "Fentanyl" and was surprised that neither word had been mentioned.

There is another engine driving this phenomenon: addicts "boosting" to feed their addiction. Drug use is another crime that society seems uninterested in prosecuting or punishing as of late. Add illicitly manufactured Fentanyl (1) to that recipe and you have an absolute onslaught of retail theft.

In interview after interview with addicts, it's clear that boosting is one of the primary methods of funding drug use. (2) If we are not interested in curbing drug trafficking, sales, and abuse, we will continue to have a huge problem with retail theft. (And also an unconscionable death toll that is growing rapidly.)

(1) https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34603876/
(2) https://www.youtube.com/@SoftWhiteUnderbelly/videos
Fundamentally, the more value you create, the richer you become. If you take two equal cave-men, and one builds a house and start farming stuff and the other not, then suddenly you have one rich that possesses all the value in the world, and one poor guy that has nothing.

There is nothing wrong in this dis-balance, it's just natural. The rich one did not steal from the other and does not owe him anything.

So the right question is "What prevents the other caveman from creating value?". Historically it was access to resources, how the climate favored access to food, etc...

But now that science and technologies can do wonders, we are indeed often left with political barriers to the development.
Intent matters. Even if these congresspeople are correct that the SEC shouldn't be doing what they're doing, if the reason the congresspeople wrote that letter is because they received "donations" from cryptocurrency companies or PACs, then I think we should still give it some scrutiny.
Not everyone celebrates Thanksgiving
> New York is where the jobs are. Just leave and get another 200k job as a banker where?

What percentage of New York makes over 200k? They can stay, the rest can leave.

IOW, it takes all sorts to make a city work, and if you have labor (those people who work, at whatever wage) move away because the policies favour non-labour (those people whose income is from theft) it doesn't really matter how many 200k stockbrokers want to stay - they'll have to move eventually too.
Requisite pointer to "Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Names" (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1438472 from 12 years ago; use HN search if you want to see the more recent threads).

If you've ever seen "FNU" as an Uber driver's name, that's a consequence of the _US gov't_ enforcing rules like this; it stands for "First Name Unknown".
I never said either of these things is unique to crypto. I implied that they're inherent to crypto.

There are plenty of non-crypto vendors we avoid for ethical reasons (e.g. Amazon, Meta).
You can push whatever you want over email. I have used email as a federated queueing system... It worked fine.
I was wondering about that. I think it is about having the ability to go A->B without being able to go B->A.

But, as with many of the Pearls, it is heavily context dependent. And if you aren't well versed in "primitive" computing paradigms, you'll be confused.
Pretty cool stuff.

For people know who the capabilities of Arduino, is it possible to do real time image processing using opencv or similar library on it?
It's accurate but extremely manipulative because it implies this the congressman were directly helping FTX.
Like the other poster said, that's what libraries do when they're done with books. I help at my kid's school library, mostly shelving books, but also processing discards, which is remove from catalog, remove or mark over the barcode and library stamps so the book doesn't come back, then the librarian has to do some procedural junk and if nobody at the school wants the books, they get sold to a used book wholesaler and then hopefully to someone who wants it. The wholesalers don't pay much, but it helps buy new books the discarding has made room for.
Clicking on the number should ideal take me to footnote but it isn't. Instead its redirecting to a different page taking about scroll