jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
>And if somebody steals your coin, you can go through courts and banks to get it back.

Dubious. I've had the police tell me or others I know something to the effect of 'let us know if you find anything out, we will never catch them' half a dozen times across both coasts. Teams of investigators on your case for long periods of time is a privilege generally reserved for the rich (or the big cases if you're more generous than I). If you have a good enough case to get a refund through the courts they will order a refund of crypto just the same as with USD, a PlayStation, or a stolen motorcycle.

>You can pay taxes with it.

This it a truism. The state that issues a currency lets you pay taxes with it? I Don't think that's slipping by anyone talking about bitcoin.

>It is backed by a strong authority

It is backed by the trustworthiness of the US government and financial system, which is debatable at best.

>is used as the reserve currency/economic driver of the world's countries.

Is now doesn't mean it will continue to be. The US continues to print money and sell off gold reserves in staggering numbers. Maybe it will work out, but I'm not holding out hope. China is buying gold in huge numbers, and look to be positioning themselves to be the new reserve currency.

I've also read some compelling arguments that the USD as a reserve currency is propped up by US militarism and geopolitical games with oil pricing but I haven't done enough research to come to that conclusion myself.

>It is stable and does not suffer price volatility.

Discussed ad nauseum. Change from buying a sandwich with bitcoin a few years ago can buy a nice used car now, while the value of the dollar has dropped for decades. Short term volatility averages out pretty well into the long term trend, especially against a currency that is trending in the opposite direction. If volatility is an issue, dollar cost averaging is a simple and effective way to mitigate it.

>Fortunes do not get lost if they are in cash at the bank.

This happens regularly throughout history though. You also assume that they are "in the bank". As of March the Fed lowered reserve requirements to zero.[1]

We are only a decade into cryptocurrency, the technology is still moving very fast. With things like hardware wallets, M of N keys, and social recovery wallets it's getting harder and harder to lose it all. It's programmable, you could write something cool to help prevent it like time-locked or time-unlocked transactions?

>There's been an uptick of crypto fanboys coming to this forum lately.

Your account is only a month old. Presumably you've been lurking for a long time. Maybe you should give the same benefit of the doubt to others? Lots of old hands don't talk about it from their primary accounts because the fun money they put in it years ago is worth millions.

>if you try to pollute our space

This entire paragraph is polluting HN.

1: https://www.federalreserve.gov/monetarypolicy/reservereq.htm
They have some in the news section: http://gpl-violations.org/news/
Agreed. This patent is not the mother of all geofencing patents: They seemed to have made it specific enough that it is actually not the egregious sort of patent abuse that we so commonly see.

A patent can have multiple independent claims, independently enforceable. In this case, however, there are only a few independent claims, each a simple rewrite that only marginally changes scope. The reset are dependent claims that are specializations.
Keep in mind that many users highlight text as they read, so don't use some color that makes your text more unreadable.
I can echo this for working on iOS with Cocoa touch as well. While there's no native JSON provided by Cocoa touch, there are excellent third-party tools.

XML in iOS is a beast, and a real pain to read (and I've never attempted to write it).

Plus, on mobile devices especially, XML is slower to download because it is more verbose than the equivalent JSON object.

So I agree, unless you need a highly structured document, I always go with JSON over XML.
Surely the cheapest way would be to create a sales button in PayPal (Log in, click "Profile", click "My saved buttons") and then email the book to anyone who pays. If your book (I hope!) turns out to be a seller you can invest the money, otherwise do it by hand :-)
All engineers? Are you sure about that?
TLA is mildly interesting, but the "redo" entry is above-average interesting, as is the blog as a whole based on the 10 mins I spent reading it.

Thanks: good link.
It looks cool, and I love Rust.

A question, which are your frustrations with other text editors? Can it really be the case that you can't find an existing text editor that you like? :)
They open sourced their core module. I consider this a good start. :P
Eclipse isn't really just an IDE, it's almost an OS in its scope and complexity. I agree it's way too complicated and bloated, and worse: the rewards aren't there like they are in IntelliJ or Visual Studio. It's not as polished and not as easy to set up.

The whole point of integrated software is to be able to do everything in one place: debug interactive in editor, hover to inspect values, edit the code and have the ide recompile and reload the changed program.

The IDE that does that likely does other things, but having unused features should neither add complexity nor incur performance costs!

The complexity of setting up a dev env like the above in emacs or vim is absolutely staggering, but the complexity lies in the configuration and setup, not in the finished env, that's the difference. Personally my tolerance for "configuring" my tools (meaning gluing, telling my editor and profiler where my debugger is) is nearly zero.
I feel like on NYE, in particular, most people don't go out without already having made a plan for how they're going to get home, so even if the actual price turned out to be lower than expected, that might not have boosted demand the way one might expect because many people had already made other transportation arrangements in anticipation of Uber being unaffordably expensive.
I was with you until the tequila. Sax on new year's eve is a bad idea.
Remember that the JVM is the major selling point for clojure. (that said there are many other lisps for the JVM)
What part of the world would you be buying from? (I don't do Amazon).

Yes, I found exactly that.

There is a company called QuietMark, I've bought fans from there and sent them back for being above average noisy, they're not interested in outside contact.

I recommend to buy and try for your own situation. Measurements of loudness are not the full story as the tone of the noise will interact in ways that can be unpredictably pleasant or harsh.

The Dyson fan issue is the audible motor whine at lower fan speeds (and with oscillation on, it creaks as it turns).

"If you need a quiet portable fan/filter find one that and has more than 7-8 speeds, preferably in double figures - and put it close to where you want the air, on low."

Ignore the price, cheaper may be better, but having many speeds suggests some sophistication and the option for lower speed means lower noise.
Sometimes just reading mindless things at the end of the day is the perfect way to end it.

I find myself using the evenings to catch up on email, because I can take my time and do it in between other things. I'm sure once family life becomes more prevelant I'll change my tune.
Why is this in particular deeply disturbing? Your tax dollars are responsible for thousands of murders and hundreds of thousands of negligent homicides every year. Why is it that one guy getting killed for doing something that was illegal for him to do in his country is the thing that is getting to you?
This claims hand crafted anime is booming when in reality it is fighting for survival and that is why animator get paid next to nothing.
Friend at coinbase has this option. Said he opted in 20% of his salary in btc.
I thought that until I realised Apple also have a billion dollar ads business
Just apologize for baselessly attacking the gp and admit your condescending "high ground" is indefensible. I've done it on HN before, it feels pretty good vs continuing to defend a rash comment.
Is it uncommon for countries to leave their traitors alive? Saudi Arabia has had public beheadings, it's not unusual for a place like that to murder a guy who was sitting in the USA and publishing the talking points he was getting from Qatar.

The idea that he was 100% a noble crusading journalist is pure propaganda.

This whole story is artificially amplified. Has everyone woken up and suddenly learned what punishments in Saudi Arabia are like?

Take for instance Chelsea Manning - someone who made the US government look bad by leaking diplomatic cables. Torture, solitary confinement, all sorts of inhumane conditions. Is it that much of a stretch to see a monarchy like Saudi Arabia chopping up their guy for making them look bad? Not really. It's what you would expect in a place like that.

It's always been that way, and everyone has known about it. To pretend as if it's unexpected is quite insincere and reeks of some alternative agenda. The way Khashoggi is presented to the public as some kind of hero is really telling.
To be precise, you need the intersection between the pressure-vs-flow graphs of the filter and the fan.

Finding those for fans is _somewhat_ doable if you're buying fans from a components store like Mouser, but that doesn't help that much if you don't also have at least some values for the filter.

Actually, for fans, you'd ideally want a 3d graph of pressure-vs-flow-vs-noise.
Please note that it was not merely "suspected"; according to the report, this was the rock-solid assessment of US intelligence in 2018.

It's just that it was kept covered up by Trump.
The #1 thing I've learned from the covid-19 pandemic, is that online channels are not, and never will be, an adequate substitute for IRL. At best, they are a temporary half-measure, to keep the relationships on life-support until they next meeting IRL.
*Sacha
It seems pretty bold and visionary to me. They've lucked out with gmail, chrome, golang, android, maps, etc. and they still have the best search in the world.

Having a HIPPO tell everyone what to do, how to do it and when is not visionary. Letting engineers do what they want and then making money from the ideas is.
> Among the entries was one named track.nextuser.com

In order to be a supercookie they need more than one entry (since each entry only stores 1 bit of information). Do you see any other entries that look like they could be associated with this one?
There's a general tendency for professions to Dunning-Kruger themselves out of an understanding of the markers for real talent in other professions - or, in the more tragic cases, of the markers for real talent in their own.
Useable, definitely minimal. Goodreads is overkill for my needs and this is a nice start.

A few random pieces of feedback:

- Needs some sort of book registry API when adding books. Especially helpful if I'm adding just a few recent books to see how it actually works.

- I don't like that my read books are crossed off. Instead, I'd rather a second list, or a different color scheme.

Perhaps a nitpick, but it's offputting to see banner ads on a minimalist site. If this is a side project you've only worked a few days on and want feedback for, why try and monetize it right away?
There is something about Finnish products that make them very strong, Nokia, SSH, Rovio.
In the first paragraph:

> “Who do I know in the States who’s not a kid on heroin?”

Are we to really believe that Amalia Ulman only knows young heroin users in the US, and no one outside of that group? How did this get through the NY Times fact checking process?
Fasted once for 4.5 days (5 nights) and and blood work done just before breaking the fast.

The fast was purely water based, cold turkey (no gradual caloric reduction).

The first 2 days were a bit hard because I felt hungry, after that I felt no hunger, slept really well, woke up well rested but with tingles in my feet and felt very alert though also calm.

One night I woke up to pee (I drank a lot of water) and I still don't remember what happened but I woke up with my head on the toilet bowl.

The blood work came up all messed up.

Glucose levels were extremely low.
Sedimentation rate extremely high.
Lots of ketones in the urine.

Broke the fast with some fruit juice and had no problems.

I've also engaged in intermittent water fading for about 3 months. All went fine.

Once spent almost 40 hours of total fasting (no water). Do not recommend it, I felt seriously messed up.
“Once you've got a task to do, it's better to do it than live with the fear of it.”

-- Ninefingers, "The Blade Itself", Joe Ambercrombie
Sorry but this is funny.
I strongly agree. I think if you read the post it is definitely evident that although this was an unpleasant experience, the author is blowing things out of proportion. I know that may seem insensitive, but in the context of your post, I think it's important to be explicit about this point.

The woman was given a rather invasive through-clothing security pat down. Of course this can be discomforting and invasive, especially if you're caught off guard. And of course such searches are extremely hard to justify and should never be codified into policy. Yes, it can be traumatic and violating, but this is nothing like a rape or "real" sexual assault.

A few months ago a jogger around here was hit with a cinder block, dragged off the trail, raped several times, beat with said block more, and left for dead in the woods. _That_ is real sexual assault. Such rapes are not really uncommon, though many less violent rapes also occur, and they are also highly traumatic and serious; much more serious than a TSA worker going about their mundane duties, which they are probably not very happy to be forced to perform either.

The activity described in the post is unpleasant touching, and I agree that we shouldn't allow it, but these events are not even in the same league as "real" sexual abuse or rape. I support your efforts to reclaim the term as a service to those many who've suffered serious abuses whole-heartedly.
Man thats a beast of a machine - each of the CPUs have 8b of cache, not to mention that you get a terra flop of double precision.

Now if only I had some use for this :( (inspiration welcome, I am writing about GPU programming right now).
Very cool, maybe making a visual builder for YAML haters could be and additional killer feature.
The definitive book on this is ‘The Alter Ego Effect’ by Todd Herman (there’s also a bunch of extra resources on his website https://alteregoeffect.com )

He goes into great detail about the method and the science of what’s happening in your brain when you use it.

It’s helped me go from introverted engineer to successful start-up founder that just exited.
What irks me in a position is when I find out the people in higher paying, supposedly more demanding positions are doing less work with less effort/demand. Think like the one hourly with many salary supervisors or similar.
I would say that Flash was artist-oriented, while HTML5 is programmer-oriented.
No matter what system we propose it can’t handle human greed and abuses of power. Bad actors ruin everything.

We need to figure out how to build high trust societies with a shared culture. There’s a reason large corporations are pushing diversity so hard - it keeps abuses like those described above possible.
Indeed. My search was done in a fresh private window on a computer I never typically use Bing on.

Also, throughout this whole situation I always got the Github page as the first result for "youtube-dl".
Einstein: "I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious."

But to be fair: he was smarter than most people.
Please put the cherry back in it's context, or I'll have to ask you to leave the store.
Yet another example of the overwhelming complexity of C++. I’m glad that I can enjoy these now that my job doesn’t require (much) C++.
Yes, the Overton Window must be enforced. We have always been at war with East Asia.
She does work. She has three children to raise.
And what was the purpose of posting the email?

To punish and embarrass. Careers have been ruined in such a manner.
... yes, and also:

https://www.spotify.com/us/legal/privacy-policy/plain/#12-ch...

We may occasionally make changes to this Policy.

When we make material changes to this Policy, we'll provide you with prominent notice as appropriate under the circumstances, [...] We may notify you in advance.

Please, therefore, make sure you read any such notice carefully.

If you want to find out more about this Policy and how Spotify uses your personal data, please visit the Privacy Center on spotify.com to find out more.
Why don't they automatically measure the actual airplane weight with sensors instead of doing this weird estimation?

Based on the article, it seems like they only use that to determine how much engine thrust is needed for takeoff, so it doesn't seem they need to know the weight in advance.
The original report has no title. Unless you think the title should be:

> UTC AAIB Bulletin: 4/2021 - G-TAWG - AAIB-26814

So creating a title to describe it would have always been required.
Given that many screens these days are either 16:9 or 16:10 aspect ratio, it makes sense to try and minimize the amount of vertical space/rows of pixels used up by the user interface. Screens these days have much more horizontal space to spare than vertical space. Compact mode increases the amount of content that can be displayed on the screen. I like that.
> "downvote when disagreeing" could lead to structural discrimination against minorities.

I don't see what I wrote as a willful misinterpretation. I guess I could have added sexist, homophobic, etc to the list.

As for downvoting in general, I may not be able to fully appreciate your argument because of a fundamental difference in expectations. I don't really care about downvotes or upvotes or any other fake internet validation of my value. If people want to flag my comments or vote them up or down, fine. I don't see downvotes for disagreement as a way to oppress me. The rules on this site allow downvoting for disagreement and I chose to comment here.
Was it not `ADD 1 TO COBOL GIVING COBOL.`? I guess different versions allow different things.
So they allocate seating by weight to balance the plane?
This is a real concern for some operators. It’s a particular issue in Samoa, where there is a really bad obesity problem.
(One of the local airlines used to charge for excess passenger weight as well as luggage)
Netlify free tier is pretty great, giving custom DNS and support for NextJS build was so simple.

Heroku is similar, but Netlify is at least equally simple I found. Maybe someone else can shed more light on differences.
There are lots of implementations now! Here are the ones I know about.

* https://github.com/aiortc/aiortc (Python)

* GStreamer’s webrtcbin (C)

* https://github.com/shinyoshiaki/werift-webrtc (Typescript)

* https://github.com/pion/webrtc (Golang)

* https://github.com/webrtc-rs/webrtc (Rust)

* https://github.com/awslabs/amazon-kinesis-video-streams-webr... (C/Embedded)

* https://webrtc.googlesource.com/src/ (C++)

* https://github.com/rawrtc/rawrtc (C++)

* https://github.com/sipsorcery-org/sipsorcery (C#)

* https://github.com/paullouisageneau/libdatachannel (C++)

Also check out https://github.com/sipsorcery/webrtc-echoes for how they work together
> As part of the severance plan for the over 2,800 laid off employees, Pelton is offering a curious benefit: A membership to Peloton.

Is that it? There's nothing more in their severance? I wish the article would explain this more.
The Royal McBee LPG-30 was the computer that Edward Lorenz was using to solve his simplified atmospheric model when he noticed a difference between different runs of the program depending on the rounding error when typing in parameters from the printout of a previous run.
In the embedded arena, Arm (the instruction set) would appear to be pretty replaceable. Arm and MIPS competed for the same business, Arm and RISC-V can do the same. There is nothing magical about any of them.

Arm (the corporation) can make some money for themselves by coming up with increasingly cool Arm cores to sell (a mission Nvidia could have aided immediately and with high impact, but... nevermind) but the instruction set itself is not especially important anymore. There's a lot less path-dependency for companies in the embedded arena than there is among, for example, desktop computer companies.
Thanks for pointing that out. I’ll block Tally using uBlock.
Sure thing, I just added it. I'm signing off for tonight, but shoot me an email and I'll reach out in the morning :)
Dumb question: how does the checking for .env work?
> square bullets

But only at the Turks!
SVG is preceded by and informed by postscript and PDF.

The postscript language reference manual is 912 pages.

https://www.adobe.com/jp/print/postscript/pdfs/PLRM.pdf

The PDF reference is 978 pages.

https://www.adobe.com/content/dam/acom/en/devnet/pdf/pdfs/pd...

SVG, if it's less than either is actually doing well...

IMO these three technologies and the accompanying docs are masterpieces, despite bloat. Digging in to those reference docs can almost be fun

The author's idea of SlimSVG sounds interesting, but I think focusing on the file format isn't enough -- one powerful feature of SVG is that it's part of the DOM. Can there be a better system than the DOM+JS for allowing a dynamic document?

EG, document object model in JSON (maybe with JSON schema) and allow updates with JSON patch, with a client/server model for updates. (There's more to DOM)

Personally I think XML is well suited to this task, and am glad to have learned of SVG Native from this thread
No, Advertising is propaganda.

Period.
This is the perfect summary. We can all be 10x for some period of our lives. The hard part is to not judge your coworkers when you're in that period.
I have a memory that around 10 years ago, Australia banned the very act of downloading and possessing 3-D files to make firearms. Theoretically, if your computer is seized and found to contain the SolidWorks files to make a Ruger, for example, you can be prosecuted. However I don't know that this was enacted into national law or later struck down.

A man in Queensland was given a suspended sentence for printing parts of a gun that did not together constitute a usable gun without some additional pieces[1].

Apparently there have been efforts there to ban 3-D printing of guns but so far they have not been successful.

In the U.S., while it is physically possible to do anything within the privacy of one's home, it is technically illegal to print a gun if you are not legally permitted to possess one.[2]

There are also existing laws on the books against plastic/undetectable guns which presumably would apply as well to resin/PETG/PLA printed firearms that have few or zero metal parts. Actually, one wonders why there haven't been more incidents of plastic guns smuggled onto aircraft in recent years, perhaps because K9 teams of bomb sniffing hounds are randomly used to detect bomb-making ingredients while standing in line at security. They are trained presumably to smell gunpowder as well as other chemicals. Leave your "Gunpowder Solid Men's Cologne" at home.

1. http://www.australasianscience.com.au/article/science-and-te...

2. https://thefederalistpapers.org/us/legal-3d-gun
Archive link to full text of article: https://archive.vn/pxpYi
This reminds me a lot of the WaveFunctionCollapse texture generation algorithm [0]. It "generates bitmaps that are locally similar to the input bitmap."

Very cool!

[0]: https://github.com/mxgmn/WaveFunctionCollapse
So glad euro privacy watchdog has made their stance clear on whether the end of targeted advertising should be called for. Ive spent too many sleepless nights wondering who will call for the end of targeted advertising, and when. For euro privacy watchdog to end all the speculation and call for the end of targeted advertising is a surprise, but a welcome one indeed, bravo sir!