skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The fact that those countries were colonies is not why the elites in France and the West more broadly are pushing for immigration.

I googled "degaul algeria immigration".
https://berkleycenter.georgetown.edu/quotes/charles-de-gaull...

>Do you think the French body politic can absorb ten million Muslims, who tomorrow will be twenty million, after tomorrow forty? If we integrated, if all the Arabs and Berbers of Algeria were considered French, would you prevent them to settle in France, where the standard of living is so much higher?

-Charles de Gaulle

Obviously deGaulle didnt agree with you that being a citizen of a colony gave someone the right to immigrate to France. Algerians being admitted to France for serving in the military is exactly what "invade the world invite the world" means. After the Iraq war Iraqis who collaborated with the occupiers got green cards.
The comment is just a direct rebuttal of the claims from CPLX for the reason that gold is so valuable.
> Did not even realise there was a leaderboard for HN karma.

It's a well kept secret.

And I've been much happier since I stopped looking at it, but every now and then I fall off the wagon and sneak a peek.
But isn't it the well oiled marketing and advertising industry that is keeping us constantly unhappy and forcing us to compare our own (projected) shortcomings against others?

My hypothesis is that wealthier people are even deeper in this trap, as once you can afford nice clothes, accessories, cars, houses etc., you are immediately exposed to others in the same (or higher) wealth bracket, thus exacerbating these feelings of comparison and inadequacy. It is a self destructive feeding frenzy that can never assuage itself.
Why not make DevOps part of the fun with setting up their own environment?

In all seriousness, while I'm an adult, when I started learning to code I got a major sense of accomplishment from getting my Ubuntu virtual environment setup.
Well, I implore you to do us all a favour and NOT publish the link to the leaderboard... :)
In my opinion, it's not as underhanded on aliexpress as it is on amazon: when I buy the brand name on amazon I never know whether I'm getting the real deal, a hastily repackaged used item sold as new, or a knock off. Aliexpress is only knockoffs, and they are marked as such so I know what I'm getting: I'm paying the price of a knockoff, not retail for the genuine item. If I want the real deal, then I'm getting it from a physical store that doesn't have a tainted supply chain.
Read up on sunspot equilibria and multiple equilibria.
I agree that self-assembly, auto (as in self) generation is what's lacking. Not sure what form it would take in software, but I feel that all the seams in man-made objects are limiting progress in tangible forms large and small. I suppose in software, these boundaries are apis and protocols, which ought to be stitched together in a more organic, self-learning way.
We’re not going to act. I’ve come around to accepting that. We need to plan on what we do if we don’t reduce carbon emissions because it’s too late for that already.

Even if everyone is driving electric cars that’s just going to lower the price of gas and people will put it to other uses.
500-Year-Old Body of Man Wearing Thigh-High Boots Found in London Sewer Build
> "Golds value comes entirely from the fact that we as a society give it value."

thats true for anything. that includes currencies, what you get paid, the value of a hockey card, the value of a car, the value of a banana, etc. sure, if society doesn't want to pay you anything for 'it', you can do with it what you want, like eat the banana (before it becomes worthless to anyone).

I am not a gold bug, i personally dont think its a great investment. its not a hedge against a declining market, and its difficult to own in large quantities. however; statements like 'its only valued because people give it value' are not very informative. everything is valued that way. everything.

also, the industrial value of gold is not laughable. its negligible because we have plenty of gold to meet industrial needs. but its not laughable, its in your smart phone, its in your desktop / laptop, etc.
Because lots of things were stores of value that aren't anymore.

Can I interest you in a share of Bear Stearns?
Extroverts Don't Belong on Mars
One thing the map doesn't quite get right, with my knowledge of Afghanistan geography, is that traveling through the country was not a straight shot from herat to Kabul... Mountains and almost impassable roads in between, in the exact centre of the country, meant at the time, and now, there's generally two viable routes.

Going straight through the center of the country, through Ghor and Bamiyan provinces requires a high clearance 4x4. For more normal vehicles, one route from herat to the northern provinces and the Mazar-e-sharif region, then salang pass to Kabul. Or go southeast from herat to Kandahar, and then Kandahar to Kabul.

Also there was a fair portion of the hippie trail that went to Kabul, then to Kandahar, and to Quetta, bypassing peshwar and the nwfp. Though the cannabis lovers certainly all wanted to visit oeshawart.
This is not a peer review process. I’m not here to persuade anyone who is determined to be skeptical. You’re welcome to propose another cause for my illness and explanation for the fact that it kept getting worse while I kept enduring trauma and started getting better as soon as I started resolving that trauma. Others can judge the merits of responding with a sneering dismissal to the perspective I’m trying to share.
A New Hope: The Future of Application Platforms
TLDR; Michael Norton did the survey of people with networth > $1M and most said they need 2 or 3 times more. People with networth > $100M also don't feel satisfied because they tend to answer the question "Am I better off than last year?" by comparing to other folks who did even better than them.

It looks to me that if you are in $3M to $10M bucket, you have financial freedom to live low key upper-middle class life. This is what Tim Ferris refers to as "New Rich".

However when you are above $10M, something else happens. While you have financial freedom, you are also just starting to taste freedom of will. Sooner or later it might get annoying that you must wake up at 5 AM because that's the only flight available OR that you can't get the penthouse suit because someone more wealthier decided to book it out for entire year. You still depend on publicly available utilities fiercely competed upon. Unlike your peers with $100M you can't own GulfStreams or have $25M Malibu mentions overlooking Pacific with infinity pools.

When you get to $100M, things change again. Now you do have little gulfstream but it's far cry from private 747 with king size bedroom, office, bar and a chef. Sure, you got that mention in Malibu but that large paradise estate in Hawaii with its own beach and waterfalls is out of your reach. When you meet your billionaire friends in blue waters of Greek island of Creet, your little yatch looks like baby's first toy missing things like its own sub and helipad. Life is good but not that good because resources at your disposal have still limitations to achieve maximum possible freedom of will. People tell you how awesome you are but you keep finding new limiting ways you are restricted to act by your will every single day.

I think its only above $3B that you are in realm of pure score keeping, the quality of material possessions cannot be improved further and freedom of will is pretty much maximized. Now you are truly limited by time, and much less by ideas. So until you get in to that top 1000 individuals, it's going to sting one way or another.
When thinking about such unprecedented powers, I prefer to consider the worst-case scenario of the laws as written, rather than what seems currently acceptable.

Because even if the current government is harmless, the next regime might not be, and these powers are basically the equivalent of a nuclear bomb with respect to privacy. They move the pendulum far away from what many would consider reasonable for a free society.

These laws just seem so rife with loopholes and ambiguities that even as an honest law-abiding citizen with nothing of interest to hide, I find them honestly terrifying.

If they're doing these things for legitimate reasons then there would be little reason to be against having reasonable limits to scope, reasonable oversight, accountability, as well as real reporting on the actual number of citizens whose data has been accessed.

The fact these concerns and all the consultation submissions from experts in both legal and technology issues have been ignored makes me strongly fear the whole law has not taken citizens right to privacy into account at all, and that is a terrifying proposition.
It worries me that you believe there's a natural conflation between the genuinely valuable services products like Kindle offer, and the specific business model of purchasing ephemeral licenses to media content. Kindle, Google Play, iTunes, whatever; they're amazing services that provide a lot of value. But that value could still be conveyed if the products they offered didn't have additional restrictions beyond those restrictions already present on physical media.

I'm not going full RMS here and saying DRM is evil. I'm just saying that: I should be able to loan digital content to other people. I shouldn't be afraid that Apple will, one day, just say "I know you really enjoyed spending $200 on all that media, but its all gone. See ya." Maybe that means they need to offer downloads of the content, or maybe it means we need legislation which says we can sue the hell out of them when they try it. I have no preference. But consumers need more protection.

Also its worth clarifying: I don't hold subscription services to the same standards. That's a different business model.
What if importing an excel sheet actually means importing an excel sheet, formulas and all, instead of a CSV? Commenting on a hypothetical estimate on a hypothetical story isn't adding much value...
-MS Ergo 4000 for the last 5 years
-Ergo monitor stand
-Anker vertical mouse
Any miners paying less or the same as the lowest have no motivation at all. And dirty energy (e.g. unscrubbed coal) or energy from backroom dealings (tons of mining arrangements in eastern Europe and China) will always outcompete any legitimate competitors using renewable.
Just as a heads up since I don't see it mentioned in the comments yet, I got a description of Palestine for Peru, apart from the hiccup it's definitely a lot of fun
Bring it.
Tabnine does it on your project
I think some rich people are not into making more money to be happirr but just to have more than the guy next to him.
I believe he was 19 years old.
Converting a MySQL database'schema to a RESTful golang APIs app
>We're essentially talking about a physical item here

I don’t even... OK, you have yourself a nice rest of your day.
The -a to -z of Command-Line Options (2003)
Pretty sure anichhangani is referring to consumer cross-border payments, which right now are not cheap or fast. Wire transfer fees are a joke and banks often take stupidly high commissions on currency conversion for non-institutional customers. There are some smaller services that have popped up in the market for this recently, but one of the original cryptocurrency use cases was basically "nearly free value transfers from anyone to anyone anywhere". The exchange fees have mostly destroyed this use case, but there's no reason spot conversions to/from a cryptocoin with a wallet transfer within a few seconds couldn't be possible.
It's only semantically CPS in as much as all code is semantically CPS. Thinking about the parallels with CPS does nothing to help, here. Async/await is just like threaded code with the blocking/concurrent calls specially marked.
I don't think a lot of rich are into making more money to be happier. But rather to have more than the guy next to him. It's treated more like a game.
South Korean law to punish boosters passes in the National Assembly
True, I read an article about it a while back. Things are still the same
> there is always a disconnect

This is incorrect. There are plenty of efficient, well run government institutions and projects. There are also plenty of inefficient and badly run (for the consumer) market-based companies.
It's not updated with great frequency but the suckless list of tools is great.

https://suckless.org/rocks/
Wouldn't dream of it.
That is literally what the article is all about
I want something very simple. Scala.rx + scalatags.
I have been an admirer of Alexander's A Pattern Language book on architecture for 40 years.

Even then, this is new to me. I recommend you read this article, even though it's deep and difficult. It can be read as a fundamental criticism of UI/UX as it's practiced today. In particular it could be seen as a rejection of Jonathan Ive's (Apple's) design principles, principles which I have increasingly found disturbing and lacking in human relevance.
My cell phone plan lets me do this, so yes? And I can of course call any other iPhone or Mac, no matter where it is in the world.
None of this is visible on VisaList, either?

The New Zealand visa website is pretty good, as is the one from the Netherlands: https://www.immigration.govt.nz/new-zealand-visas/ and https://www.netherlandsandyou.nl/travel-and-residence

It includes all these things. Perhaps other countries are less helpful, but certainly in these cases VisaLink isn't really adding anything in its current state.

Also, "You do not need a chip & PIN card to use an ATM — your standard magnetic card will work fine" is wrong for the Netherlands, as magnetic cards were phased out years ago. They're not accepted anywhere AFAIK.

Getting good data on "the entire world" as you're trying to do here is hard, and requires real experts. Just copying/scraping Wikipedia is frankly not a good place to start, actually investing money and paying domain experts is.

I know it sucks to have people be critical about something you spent a lot of time building, and maybe one day your website will have better data, and I wish you the best of luck with, but right now I don't see how it's adding value.

Sorry :-(
> It's like they spent much more time refining the UX and feel of moving around clicking on things.

I just gave it a whirl - for an hour or so - so take this with a grain of salt.

Looks much nicer, and there definately has been more effort put into the design compared to trello / jira.

Thats about where things end for me though.

I don't think the UX is refined at all, it's full of usability faux pas and their CSS could undergo some basic usability testing as well.

Jira's usability isn't that bad if you use sane defaults and avoid overconfiguration. Jiras main problem (and its a big fucking problem) is responsiveness.

I did have a look at their suggestion forum and it looks very active I think I'll give them another look in a few months to see if they've managed to reign in some of the BS or if it only gets worse. (I suspect the latter will occur for various reasons.)

And please, don't take this harsh critique the wrong way, if I was choosing a platform today I'd probably pick them, beauty is a hell of a drug - just don't confuse a nice looking design with UX.
JIRA does not have those problems.

Portfolio allows for multiple layers on top of epics. Boards can be set up to pull from multiple projects, and boards are what are tied to sprints, projects are not tied to sprints (mostly, there’s some oddities).

Portfolio is implemented somewhat badly (Why the hell can’t I do skip level relationships?) but it certainly has the features you say you’re lacking.
TDK Announces Battery-Driven Plasma Generator
I must be extremely disconnected from this author's perception of the world (and their relationship with their daughter).

This quote at the very top of the article really grinds my gears: "Few things are more painful than loving a 15-year-old girl, particularly when she is your child."

The rest of the article isn't as catchy, but reads a lot like a very long (15-year) case of postpartum depression.
Download time is not the only metric you should watch out for, there's also execution time.
Uneconomically high salaries, and uneconomic job security provide a powerful incentive to slow down projects.
Note that it still uses double line-spacing, or something too close to that. (The embedded Scribd butchers some formatting on mobile, but I think line spacing is preserved.)

Double line spacing is wrong: it violates the principle of proximity, which is a cornerstone of all visual design―because it simply describes how humans' visual perception works. Practical formulation of the principle of proximity is very simple: there should be obviously more space around an item than inside of it, for the item to look like one integrated thing and not a bunch of them. This works on all scales.

Double spacing makes it look like you can stick a line between two existing ones. The lines don't stick together anymore, and this makes the paragraph shaky, like it's falling apart.
We see very different things. I'll have to re-read the article from your perspective.
What’s really interesting for me and something I haven’t been able to find good literature on - is how the civilization seems to severely regress into the dark ages after the ancient times.

While Rome fell, Byzantium continued on. The state even continued to refer to themselves as Roman.

Certain construction items change and have good explanation, such as the Roman concrete - it’s volcanic components were no longer accessible to Byzantine builders, so the use became impractical.

But how did we manage to lose the knowledge behind the Antikythera device and why was it not recorded?
And lots of other things that were stores of value still are.

Anyway I’m done with this, I don’t even have a horse in this race.
As others have pointed out, it is certainly not turing complete. The spectacular technical achievement of the antikythera mechanism, apart from its overall complexity, is the presence of differential gearing. Specifically, a differential turntable allows it to add or subtract angular velocities: you subtract the effect of the suns movement from the lunar movement to compute the lunar cycle.

PS Gears and cog wheels were only invented a century or two before the antikythera mechanism; scientific progress during the Hellenistic era was very rapid! Then the decline after the roman conquest was quite rapid as well - by the imperial period (eg Heron's writings) techniques like differential gears had already been lost, and they wouldn't be reinvented till (i think?) the 18th century!
When the elites in your country are so hell bent on the repression of the people they rule over, that popular political candidates are cut off from the banking system and have to borrow money from banks in other countries, that should make you think twice when those same elites tell you populism is just a rouse perpetrated by people in the few countries willing to lend their support.
> Yes. A $100 counterfeit handbag costs American companies at least $100 in lost profits

What do you think is the reason the economist sounds so dismissive of that idea?
Quick comment.

I got 3 incorrect questions on population wrong.

In the "try again" mode at the end, I couldn't actually remember which ones I answered incorrectly for each question.

So it might help to indicate which answers you already got wrong in that phase.
How's your precision with that thing?

From the photo it looks like I'd be mousing with arm muscles instead of finger/wrist.
Used to have very bad hand pain.

Tools to fix it:

Fully standing desk

Kinesis Freestyle Edge split keyboard

Logitech trackball mouse

Weight Lifting Gym membership
Agreed, but you tried to make me sound like a pussy for understanding that tradeoff.

"Unless you're scared of a little moving fast and breaking things."
The entries on the table for K-25 through S-50 are included in the Oak ridge total.
OneNote Documents Rendering to PDF and Image Formats Is Enhanced Using Java APIs
Boris Anthony’s Practical Abstractions
I agree. We have been conditioned to use wealth - which is neatly expressed as a 1-dimensional value - as a proxy for merit.

If we are asked to do something that in abstract we would consider stupid or pointless, but is now accompanied by a large amount of money, we accept with the presumption that no one would offer so much money if it weren't very important.

Money provides a very simple, neat way of valuing every item or service on Earth. Deceptively simple.
The most helpful addition to this site would be a list of biometrics that the country collects. Eg: fingerprints, photo on arrival, etc... That way we can avoid the fascist, fingerprint hoarding countries!
If he's able to get that much of an improvement with 5532s, I'm curious what he could get if he used modern opamps. Granted, the 5532 has been the opamp to beat for sound quality for decades, but someone posting by the handle NwAvGuy dis a shootout of opamps comparing and measuring the specs that actually matter for quality audio use back in 2011[1]. That was 7 years ago, and the various component vendors have released some new devices since. I suspect a slight redesign using a 2068 for the gain stage and a 4556 for the buffers would do even better, and drain the batteries slower because of less quiescent current of modern devices.

The circuit design looks weird to me. Wouldn't it be better to use a inverting setup on the opamp to get get some attenuation, and then feed the gain stages into a high-current opamp like the 4556 as a buffer to drive the headphones, or perhaps a transistor that'd be good at the job? And why are there a pair of parallel gain stages on the ground line? Why not just throw your gain stages on the signal lines, ground ground and let it be ground?

1. https://nwavguy.blogspot.com/2011/08/op-amp-measurements.htm...
I wear a watch because I don't always have my phone on me. Also, sometimes I need to check the time in front of people without them noticing. Just to not appear rude. A watch is perfect for that.
Platinum is valuable because it's an unbelievably good reaction catalyst and is unbelievably rare. Look at Palladium (also used in catalytic applications, and still quite rare) price charts for confirmation.

Bismuth's attractiveness is subjective, but what is not subjective is that it's found in ore in mineral form, not in pure form like gold. It's also brittle, and not easily worked to jewelry by primitive methods like gold.

Anyway, agree that gold is largely assigned it's value based on social reasons. Also would say that, in spite of its many faults, it's a much, much better investment than cryptocurrencies.
No. O2 pay-monthly customers got a text message from them saying the credit will be automatically applied.
A rockers guide to management
I know that there was a backlash against it, but sometimes I find the simplicity of the Agile Manifesto to still be a good reminder not to get carried away with a highly specific way of doing things. There needs to be a balance.

"Individuals and interactions over processes and tools...

...That is, while there is value in the items on
the right, we value the items on the left more." [1]

In this case, highlighting all the discussion about JIRA vs. what you actually do / what works for you / your team / product / organization.

[1] https://agilemanifesto.org/
He said compute, you responded with money.

You are not comparing the same things.

Specifically: Bitcoin is done on specialized ASICs, while the tech companies have general purpose CPUs.
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I must be extremely disconnected from your perception of what an insightful comment is, because this is just low and dumb and adds nothing.

Go be hateful somewhere else.
"with the right library support"

Well that's the thing it's all about libraries, and now in Rust it's nowhere compare to Python for the web dev.
Thanks. Totally agree. I've been considering on how best to handle that in a way that helps the user learn. The game is still very much a WIP and I hope to have an update to the that feature quite soon