skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If they can get people buying stuff on Amazon to type the URL into their browser instead of searching for "Amazon" in google and clicking the add that pops up they probably save more money than it costs them.
This guy always cracks me up:

> A Freedom of Information Request has shown that Daszak organized a letter to squash rumors that COVID leaked from a lab, in a way that did not link back to collaborations between WIV and EHA. Before his organizing role was revealed, Daszak called the lab leak theory terms such as "preposterous," "baseless," and "pure baloney," and claimed the WIV wasn't culturing viruses similar to SARS-CoV-2.

> It later emerged that WIV had been working with RaTG13, one of the closest know relatives of SARS-CoV-2. Daszak had denied WIV had been actively working on RatG13, telling Wired: "We thought it's interesting, but not high-risk... So we didn't do anything about it and put it in the freezer."

I'm surprised the calls are only that he resign. He should be under criminal investigation for unleashing one of the most disruptive contagions in human history.
As Ron Paul once said about the Federal Reserve system, "If that doesn't make any sense to you, then you understand it just fine."
its a 60's hippy pun.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weather_Underground
Anecdotally, my wife works for a pharmaceutical company and is mandated to report possible impacts that people report about a drug, even in casual conversation. People working under this mandate simply avoid these areas entirely. We avoid watching certain Instagram and Youtube personalities with certain conditions in the chance they might say something she has to report.
I store them in a keepassxc database for syncing and alsomprotect it with a yubikey. Lets me back it up to other places while also allowing them to stay secure. Most other password manager solutions should also be able to be used to keep them secure and backed up.
What's really going to happen: "log in with Google"/"log in with apple" will be the only choices. Are you ready?
Hey all! I'm one of the co-founders of CodeSandbox and a big fan of Rust. Rust support is something that we've been working on for a while, but the recent addition of Docker support in CodeSandbox really enabled it. Happy to answer any questions!
Looks awesome! I hadn't had the chance to dive into eBPF yet, but I had hoped someone would be able to use it in a clever way like this!

I was digging through the docs and it looks like you have custom language detection. Did you consider trying to extract the language detection features from buildpack to do this? I imagine you'd get more reliable results and less to maintain if you used that as the basis.
It's a helpful exercise for naive young people who always believe the simple publicly-reported stories, and haven't yet had the life experience to know there's often more to the story, which only comes out years later (if ever), or via private conversations to deeply-knowledgeable personnel!
> it's baffling that we are pushing for internet non-public non-state-run identity authorities, while in UK, Japan, Russia, USA and many other countries such an authority don't even exist for real people...

This I'm fully onboard with. We absolutely need to be more active in moving away from this approach of centralised authorities - there's unfortunately no rreal candidates for this outside of the blockchain space. I think we're stuck in an awkward time where many "I need an alternative to centralised systems" innovators end up turning to blockchain, which inevitably leads to vapourware. Hopefully that tendency disappears soon.

Otherwise though, you seem to be avoiding the elephant in the room with HTTP.

> there's no problem if what they do doesn't need security

The fundamental problem is that users need security, and implementers are tasked with making this decision on behalf of users (users don't "choose" to use an unencrypted protocol on the web). Implementers have historically not been the best stewards of user needs. IOW: there are far too many cases of things that do need security where implementers don't believe it does.
That doesn't seem correct. It's pretty simple to buy BTC on Coinbase and then transfer it to another wallet. Then you can do anything you want with it.
It seems like this follow up paper clarifies the data's vision a lot more. Notable changes from the previous version discussed in a sister thread here:

- There is no more emphasis on price-only-inflation-adjusted returns. Good riddance: getting rid of dividends makes no sense and is borderline intellectually dishonest just to make the point.

- He no longer argues stocks don't work for the long run, just that bonds were as good in the past. This is a lower bar to meet as bonds in the past, especially corporate bonds as he's included, are actually quite risky!

- Finally there is some argument to be made that bonds are better investments when monitoring technology is poor -- since insiders can steal equityholders' wealth. But the 20th century invented good accounting, auditing, etc to reduce that and drive up equity returns.
Because humans are expensive, and you (the customer) aren't worth the effort and expense unless you're a major client with lots of money.
Voxenko – a voxel editor made with the Godot Engine (2020)
Again?? I definitely have to try out BentoML then to see what the hype is about!!
Norman Wildberger's YouTube channels are the most thorough I've seen ( https://www.youtube.com/@njwildberger and https://www.youtube.com/@WildEggmathematicscourses ).

There are hundreds of videos, organised in playlists, from undergraduate lectures ( https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL55C7C83781CF4316 ) and research seminars ( https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLBF39AFBBC3FB30AF ) all the way to basic fundamentals like how to think about counting (e.g. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Puk-ipOTiD4&list=PL5A714C94D... )

The reason I find them fascinating is that Wildberger doesn't agree with some of the conventional approaches, in particular with the use of infinity and taking limits. This leads him down interesting paths (e.g. Rational Trigonometry and Algebraic Calculus), which (a) show the process of mathematics (exploring, making definitions, building up in different directions, etc.), whilst (b) remaining mostly grounded and approachable (e.g. no appeals to inscrutable lemmas from abstract research areas).

For example, he's recently been making videos about "multisets" (computer scientists would call them Bags), their arithmetic (where "adding" is union, and "multiplying" is pairwise/cartesian product of the elements), and how this generalises: from an algebra containing only empty bags (trivial, but self-consistent; behaves like zero), to bags of zeros (behaves like natural number arithmetic), to bags of natural numbers (behaves like polynomial arithmetic), to bags of polynomials (behaves like polynomials in arbitrarily-many variables) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4xoF2SRp194
The Yale Halloween controversy involved a couple who were cancelled in a way that it would be disingenuous to describe as hardly mattering at all:

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2015/11/the-new...

For me the most illuminating cancellation was that of Brendan Eich, inventor of JavaScript and co-founder of Mozilla, in 2014. He was forced to resign as CEO of Mozilla because someone unearthed that he had made a $1000 donation in support of California's Proposition 8 of 2008, the California Marriage Protection Act, which was approved by the voters. It was upheld in State court but was overturned by a federal court.

https://www.businessinsider.com/mozilla-ceo-prop-8-controver...
This post suggests that your English communications skills could use some work. That might have something to do with your difficulties.

EDIT to add some hopefully helpful information:

> I may have 2 years of experience in the Cloud

That statement makes no sense. Either you have 2 years of experience or you don't.

I think if you make that statement to a potential employer it will raise a huge red flag.

There were some other unclear and/or non-idiomatic things in your post but that is the biggest issue.

I suspect what you meant was something like: "Though I have 2 years of experience in the Cloud ..." but that's not at all how it came across to me initially.
Total bummer. I loved AmazonSmile. It wasn't about _their_ impact, it was about the impact of _my_ purchases. Which is now gone.
Copepods are pretty much everywhere, do you need some copium to cope with that? Sorry I couldn't resist.
What is Zig's Comptime? (2019)
Sure, but how does coinbase know that? For that matter how do we even know you’re telling the truth now?
I am not on coinbase's side, because the advent of cryptocurrency, should it work - will make it trivially easy to avoid nasty letter regulation as it exists today.

They are taking steps to comply with a regulatory policy that is not voted on, nor written by legislature, and failing to make their case to the people that they should own their own money.

I understand why, but it bothers me that the CEO is pro crypto, has tons of money, and yet consistently fails to fight for the user.
Generally agree. There are books, and some are better than others, but unless you have both the passion and the aptitude, there is no book that will magically make everything understandable. If you struggle with math, it's probably you and not the book you are using.

Edit: just to add, I struggle with math, lest there is any misinterpretation of my perspective. I went through phases where I thought I just needed to find the right books or the right teachers who could explain it in a way that meshed with my "learning style," but ultimately concluded I just don't have a very strong innate ability in the subject.
While the ads in question should have been banned, I find it interesting that it is Meta's responsibility to stop civil protest in some countries, and also its responsibility to be the platform for civil unrest in others.

This is a very concerning problem, as the media outlets so concerned with Facebook's role in the US and Brazil were openly encouraging the development of such features when it comes to things like the Arab Spring.

Now, these countries are not comparable, but one should think wisely when encouraging social platforms to do X in country Y, because thing X might happen in your country too.
In a previous role I used to pay contractors all over the world - Estonia, Kenya, France, Italy, Spain, Peru, South Korea, China and the UK just to name a few.

TransferWise was awesome at what it did, and it was pretty quick too. In some cases I could send money straight to my employee's phones - particularly in Kenya (via M-PESA) and China (via some sort of Wise-WeChat partnership). The fees were very competitive & reasonable, and their customer support was great in the few times I needed it to be. Can't recommend them enough.
My guess is that it is a challenge to pay them because they live in Crimea or Donbas and carry a Russian passport. There are no issues sending money to Ukraine using conventional methods.
There are currencies that are similarly unstable (I was unable to get actual rates for UAH, but the official/pegged rate dropped 20% suddenly mid-2022), but unless the salary is denominated in BTC, the only thing that matters is short-term fluctuations between the point where the amount is converted to BTC and the point where the recipient converts it to local currency.

The advantage of BTC here is the decoupling of the sender and recipient exchanges: Instead of having to find one company that handles the whole transfer end to end (i.e. is active in both the sender's country and the recipient's country), it shifts the problem to finding one trustworthy exchange usable by the sender and another trustworthy exchange usable by the recipient.

Unlike banks or classic money transmitters, there is no need for trust/coordination between the two exchanges.
>Police departments are having a hard time recruiting; this is one of the reasons people don't want to work in these departments.

Yeah, but your original statement is kind of a lie-by-omission. You're saying they're not able to hire because a bunch of people mistrust the police, as if the blame lays with those people for being mistrustful. But you're leaving out that they mistrust the police because of the police's own actions to earn that mistrust, repeated over decades.

> the Minneapolis city council voted 12-0 to completely defund the department and replace the police with "peace officers" who presumably would have had different obligations in terms of interacting with people

I live here and you're way wrong. Lisa Goodman would never have voted to "completely defund the police." In fact there was never a vote to "completely defund and replace [MPD]". As you said, they couldn't do that without changing the city charter. There was a long and bitter fight over that charter amendment, with the conservative wing of the council and the conservative mayor fighting and continuing to fight tooth & nail to shield MPD from all reform attempts. I can't think of any meaningful votes on this topic that went 12-0. I wonder what vote you are actually thinking of.
An Introduction to Clascal (1984) [pdf]
Section 230 does not care, has never cared, and was never intended to care. The ENTIRE point of section 230 was to make it that someone posting child porn to facebook doesn't put Zuckerberg in jail for distribution of child porn
Sounds a little rough, and the support times aren't the best, but admittedly Coinbase is designed for consumers, and for large-volume traders with their institutional products. This low-volume business case is pretty edge. They could do better but for most people in most cases, the product works very well.

They were recently fined $100 million [0] for compliance reasons (essentially not moving quickly enough on a few cases), and the amount of info they collected was already heavy before that. When you can't make a mistake or you get fined millions, the edge cases on any money transfer system, especially one involving crypto, will probably default to not letting you get through rather than letting you skirt through easily.

[0] https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/04/business/coinbase-settlem....
METARs Aviation Weather
Damn. I used AmazonSmile to support my favorite extremist group. (Firearms Policy Coalition)

I wonder if that had anything to do with it...
Could you potentially do it with steam and the right catalyst?
Grandmas usually don't set up two-factor authentication in the first place.
For what it's worth, the METAR network (NADIN) is maintained by the NWS, not the FAA.
Also works for me on v106.0.3 on Arch Linux.
Incredible technology but moreover, that is the coolest "mad scientist" esque lab I've ever seen! Victorian era brick building next to a futuristic rod and lab?!

However, it's kinda obvious this could lead to an incredibly cool weapons system.
The statistics I gave where in comparison to the average. They also have higher rates of injury and pay less in taxes.

Amazon has had wage theft issues, but I don’t know how they stack up on undocumented workers or the average retailer which includes Costco etc not just tiny corner stores.

Wage theft: https://www.theverge.com/2021/2/2/22262294/amazon-flex-wage-... more wage theft: https://www.wweek.com/news/2022/11/15/murmurs-amazon-settles... you can find a bunch of these going back years but this is what I was initially thinking of: https://www.fastcompany.com/3020175/employees-sue-amazon-ove...
How else would decentralization work besides being peer to peer? Of course it’s more inconvenient that’s why centralization always seems to win.
For sure a human baby has lots of initial structure that ChatGPT is lacking. Skinner made the point that operant conditioning and evolution are abstractly very similar processes. If this were the case then it would make sense to think of learning as a process that takes place both within individual human lifespans and over the course of evolutionary history. In fact, on almost anyone's account these days (including that of proponents of LLMs), learning is not very much like operant conditioning. Thus the analogy breaks down, and one can't excuse the amount of data that ChatGPT requires by hand waving about how this is just the equivalent of the 'learning' that a human baby got indirectly via evolution.
Hmmm... Seems like the traditional vector skin actually brakes the page now? Charts and pictures are all over the place.
Probably because there is a war happening in Ukraine and the people OP is trying to pay do not have easy access to banking
The CEO of Bank of America says that they're slowing down hiring because
There are distributions of Kubernetes that use SQLite instead of etcd, for example k3s: https://docs.k3s.io/architecture

The drawback is that it's not replicated. With etcd, you set up multiple control-plane nodes (ex: 5) and you can tolerate a minority of them being down without any effect (ex: 2/3 down). With SQLite, you can only have one control-plane node, and if it's down your control-plane is unavailable. This is fine for small clusters where you don't want to run multiple control-plane nodes, or you don't think it will go down, or you don't mind fixing it.
In the US, the Liberator rocket heater is a great option.
It's UL listed if you care about that sort of thing. https://rocketheater.com/
Ukrainians aren't under any kind of sanctions so why not just use a service like Wise?

As for anything related to crypto, most of it is a scam so it comes as no surprise that the few companies trying to be legit in this field are under so many restrictions it's incredibly inconvenient to use them...

Anyhow, everyone I know transfers money to Eastern Europe with Wise.
I host many things free on Github pages without any kind of Pro account... what is being paywalled?
Try Bisq. Its a P2P exchange system that acts as a good "on ramp".
Not a book, but an animated short: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_in_Mathmagic_Land

“If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up the people to gather wood, divide the work, and give orders. Instead, teach them to yearn for the vast and endless sea.” --Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Well yes, I completely agree that they seem to have set up a series of security flags that they do not understand themselves, even though the flags were mandated for a legitimate reason initially. Coinbase paid $50 million in fines for that (see [0]) so they would rather lose some business from people like you than risk a fine like that again.

[0] https://www.dfs.ny.gov/reports_and_publications/press_releas...
I mean - all ethical systems favor boldfaced lying in some situations? Even Kant's Categorical Imperative simply says that, if you lie, you should do so in a situation where anyone in that situation should lie (i.e. hiding Jews from the Nazis, etc). Even within a Kantian framework, you could argue that in this context (a formal job application) it is moral to lie because no one believes your answer represents your most deeply held beliefs - but rather represents your willingness (and ability) to perform a role (the role of the Good Employee). If you can't be a Good Employee you should reveal it by not lying - but if you can be you can reveal it by lying on the form (which reflects the lying you will be expected to do in the job).
No, user personas have names because they represent an individual. Not all software developers are Sasha, but Sasha is Sasha.
I mean, this misses this huge problem of having a (mental) model of the actual physical world. Sure, that LLM model have seen the word ladder used in conjunction with climbing many times, but it sure as hell don’t have any reasonable “idea” on the weight, weight distribution, usability of a physical ladder, ground, toolkit, the whole 3D coordinate system, orientations, gravity, etc.

This is the same problem why FSD likely needs AGI, is that plastic bag in the air a reason to emergency brake on a motorway? Sure, it can be special cased but we have so many learned knowledge of the world around us that we don’t even think of as “knowledge”, that current models are just toys, comparatively. (And I don’t mean it in a dismissive way at all, don’t get me wrong! Research is on good track, but there is likely a lot ahead of us)
Injuries per item picked or per capita might be a better metric. It's pretty easy to say the injuries are higher if you have more employees and higher volume than the competitors. Same thing with fraudulent items on Walmart.com.
Turning this into dichotomy between website operators needing to crusade on government overreach and not using GA has got the be the worst faith argument I've seen in a minute.

This entire premise of this article advantage of people who aren't technically inclined and can't know well enough to realize that reverse engineering GA fingerprints is not even close to how the government would de-anonymize visitors.

If your local government decides to overreach and find out who's getting abortion pills, Google Analytics will not even be your 1000th biggest problem. ISPs will readily share which sites people visit, the stores themselves will get leaned on, your mail carrier with share where you get packages from.

I mean did you even read the article? "Abortion Ease, BestAbortionPill.com, PrivacyPillRX, PillsOnlineRX, Secure Abortion Pills, AbortionRx, Generic Abortion Pills, Abortion Privacy and Online Abortion Pill Rx."

What do you think HTTPS is going to do when one of these urls shows up in your traffic, email inbox, and a reverse mail address look up leads to one of these?
Micropython tools for EdgeImpulse data ingest
I think you mean public space:

https://definitions.uslegal.com/p/public-place/

Rather than public square:

https://nclplaw.org/area-of-law/rights-of-expression-in-the-...

Generally a public space doesn’t mean you can do anything you want in it, and the owner can restrict speech they deem offensive in their space and expel you. They can not block entry though without reasonable cause, and specifically not on protected statuses.

A public square is publicly managed space and the government can not restrict your speech on it but can restrict your conduct. The bar is very high for the government on a public space (although in practice the modern militarized police does what it pleases). They can also restrict the time and duration of your activity and speech if it’s somehow disruptive to the normal function of the space.

I would say social media is much more like a public space than a public square. It is not a sidewalk maintained by the public. It is not actually a public institution in any way whatsoever (publicly traded equity doesn’t make something a public entity).

As such, they can put up a “no shirt, no shoes, no racists, no service” and kick you out of their place of business.
what you're missing is that Bitcoin is still a prototype. The intent was for it to be decentralized but people are still trying to achieve that, and once it became popular, it became overrun with scams and get-rich-quick schemes.
Meanwhile, I needed to pay folks who have fled the country, and now are located in Kazakhstan. I used... Western Union. Surprisingly, it was without any fees, I sent the exact amount in dollars from the US and they received exactly the same amount in US dollars in minutes.

I don't know why Bitcoin today is something people want to use, since you can send Western Union or use other payment methods (like Wise) to almost all countries.
Normal use also abrades fabrics, the point is normal use doesn’t collect these damaged fibers so they all just end up in the environment.
Yes. A lot of the common solutions to making TOTP more user-friendly defeat it. You might as well just use single-factor auth with a strong random password stored in your manager, which is what I do.
Money Can’t Buy Happiness. It Can’t Even Buy Status, a New Book Says
Interesting, thanks. As someone with little understanding of chemistry, can you clarify why "adding a source of hydrogen" is not possible/practical?
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This is the first link: https://paste.pics/dca5897542c8fb939608262307aeafed

Many thanks for the query workaround!