skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> And how do we compare it to fiat where the security is via vaults and sharks with lasers and other types of security?

You can easily compare. Fiat provides orders of orders of magnitude more value added services on top of just money. Bitcoin is consuming all that energy while struggling to send money between to people at a (often an order of magnitude) higher cost.

Oh. There’s not just bitcoin, of course. There’s the joke called ethereum which was crippled by a game which in real world can be run on a mid-2000-era netbook.

Yup. Incomparable.

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Edit: On Singles Day Alipay handled over a billion (yes, a billion) transactions in a day, with a peak of 120 000 transactions per second.

Bitcoin would deplete the Sun attempting the same thing.
This idea is amazing. I always use my personal credit card to make business purchases. I’ll try this before tax season!
This is great feedback. We'll add bulk edits soon!
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Is this because in the US the constitution kinda prevents the state from doing the same? But if they do it via a private proxy they can still do the same?
First I've heard of that Pocket, it kinda reminds me of this https://habr.com/en/post/437912/.
> I claimed that your insinuation that no one in China knows about June 4

I insinuated no such thing. Re-read what I have written. Do it carefully this time.

As I suspected, you lack seriousness.
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Without properly insulated home you got all issues with water condensation etc.

Setting temperature is almost orthogonal. delta T is not much different between 17-18 and 24 if it is -10 outside.
In another article an Israeli scholar speculates:

> that the yellow coconut sweets they make for Purim in Israel must have been a substitute for the hard-to-find original yellow khirret

http://nawalcooking.blogspot.com/2013/03/khirret-cattailtyph...

The article also says that the pollen is high in protein and it's mixed with sugar or date syrup. So one could guess it tastes a bit like a halva.

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

Some of which are quite dense, chalky, and sweet, with an overtone of the particular protein - for instance, some halvas are made of milk, or beans, etc. I couldn't speculate what pollen protein would be like.
I wonder though, if they don't have the manpower to optimize for desktop usages, why don't they stick to server only?

I've tried to use it on a server some months ago (trying out OpenBSD every few years because I do like the philosophy) but things behaved odd and slow, so I just used FreeBSD and problems disappeared.

I'd like to see a completely server focused one instead of trying to do it all and keep issues hanging loose.
https://zulipchat.com/help/moderating-open-organizations has some of that info.
Zulip doesn't have IP-level banning or moderation tools (at least not at the organization admin level; maybe you could hack something together if you were self-hosting).
I agree, and further to your point America has made it clear they only intend to apply tariffs that mirror what is applied to America.
Please change the title, interesting but cluckbait
Our obsession with individual intelligence is usually about selection for (leadership of) elite teams.
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These companies tend to donate returned mattresses straight from the customer's house rather than try to resell (against regulations in a lot of places)
That's true. However, if we look at one's peak, your 25 yr old self had a higher peak than your 35 yr self. If you had exercised as a 25 yr old self and reached your potential, you would be physically better than your 35 yr old self.

It's like driving 25 mph in a porsche vs 50 mph in a SUV. In this instance, the SUV is faster because you chose to go 25 mph in a porsche. You didn't fully explore the full potential of the porsch.

Your physical peak could be at 25, but you also could choose not to exploit it fully.
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Great idea. I personally just hate the stereotypical "customer" (in this case, Karen T.) with a quote that is probably fake. Even if it's not fake, I hate the "category" so much that I end up disliking the service on that front. Note that I might be rather peculiar in my hate for these "business quotes", and please take this feedback with a grain of salt :)
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That is correct!
All this due diligence for a job? Not sure it's the right approach. I would look for other signals, and in general for a good contract and comp package, among other things. What you are proposing is beyond the scope of a normal employee in most cases.
How is that different from buying groceries online with in-store pickup?
> ... no one is raving about how a redesign makes the application any better.

Let's invert that then. Go and grab a ten year old copy of Gmail, Google maps or Facebook from the Wayback machine and tell users that's what they are going to get. All of a sudden they will be really appreciative of those incremental design changes.
While I respect VW's ability to produce I think the limiting factor will be battery production. They've made some aggressive moves into it but I wonder if they can keep it going.
It seems like too many people are planning for the worst possible case, i.e., computers get worse.

What if they get much, much better? Can your design be adapted to use technologies that don't exist yet? Is your design parallelizable?

If people or machines get used to sub-picosecond runtimes, someone would demand your program gets rewritten. I think that's a more likely death scenario for your program than a reversion to punch cards and abacuses.
You should re-read what you've written. No qualifications for generalizing statements, so it sounds like you're insinuating what I'm saying you're insinuating.
right I have two cards, but hey I misplaced one card whatever am I to do with this necessary expense right now?!
Ask HN: What do you look for in a resume, which gets you to talk to the person?
Hi HN,

This is a question mostly for first level recruiters/HR.

I've been job hunting recently, and while my resume (which is currently a list of companies I've worked for, the work duration, and the tech I've worked on), seems to get responses within India, the same resume when sent out to most European companies has so far gotten me only two call backs from about 300 applications.

So I'd like to know, when you receive a bunch of resumes, what makes you decide whom to call up and talk to?

I'm a full stack Javascript developer with experience in React, ESNext, Node, Postgres, Mongo, Express, Electron, microservices, RMQ and GraphQL (amongst others). If there is anything specific about the tech I am experienced in that you would like to see in the resume, do let me know that also.

Thanks
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EU truck: https://www.euractiv.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/12/...

On the US truck, there is an open space under the trailer, where the engine of a car can go in so the trailer decapitates the passengers. On the EU truck, there are bars under the trailer to stop cars from going in there and letting the crumple zone do its job.
All Uralic-Altaic languages have this property. Also there is wovel harmony in those languages. This makes it very hard for computers to understand them.
That's because all of those countries adopted US economic model of development ( aka protectionism ). We used protectionism to protect our industries and helped them grow.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protectionism_in_the_United_St...
You can take the multiple migrations approach and for a short time keep two status fields while you change over, eventually dropping the first and renaming the second.

Or, as most people would do it, within a transaction add the new value to your enum and run an update. Of course, this can't be reversed but if it's a simple `set status = 3 where status = 4` I don't see the problem.
Blocking these: ?, <, >,(, ), ',", /,\,& probably came from a fear of SQL injection.
Is this powered by Plaid? What's the user experience when you can't pull a full year+ of transactions?
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Great idea! However, there wasn't a whole lot in my account's analysis. I can't seem to find the delete button. How do I delete my account?
So much of what is bad about tooling comes from this one assumption: Database schema changes are hard.

If changing the schema is hard, then you come up with silly rules about when the schema can change and who can do it. You make migration tools in other languages to avoid writing the line of SQL that would change the schema. You use 3rd party tools to compare two databases and spit out change scripts automatically (and keep two databases versions up to date just for that purpose). You adopt entire schemaless databases so that you never need to change the schema.

But that's silly. Because Database Schema Changes are Not Hard.

You do the thing the author is scared of: SQL Change Scripts. Insert column, massage the data, flip on the null constraint, add relationships. It's all really basic stuff, and if you don't know the SQL syntax for it you can just ask the db tool you're using to make the change. It'll have a little "Script This Out" button next to the Save button.

If you do that, then you get to live in a world where Database Schema Changes are Easy. You get to have a build that just runs new change scripts in order rather than involving Ruby or some wacky 3rd party tool.

And you can move as fast as you like.
Youtube already screwed their creators before the whole mess with the ads and made it less and less viable to make a living from revenues on their platform. Most creators who do this for a living have switched to something like a direct contribution-based system. Youtube’s seen and inderstood this, seeing as how they slowly started implementing these payment features themselves.

As a platform for making a living the company is completely untrustworthy: they are impossible to contact, quick to act and deceitful. I wouldn’t trust them with my livelihood myself. I mean, they were caught sending robotic replies in response to support complaints disguised as legitimate messages, what else do they have to do to prove to creators that they’re only good for hosting but the revenue has to come from somewhere else and a direct line of contact needs to exist towards fans in case they decide to randomly disappear your channel?
Can they get it done in less than 12 parsecs?
The "IoT" version of the dash button is still available, but it's $15.
Having worked in the EC2 org, the people doing the customer service tickets were usually the oncall, when nothing was on fire, or the daytime SREs. You could get hit-or-miss depending on whom is oncall and picks up your ticket, some people were non-empathic and would reply to those tickets with one word answers or you'd get lucky with people that would dig deep.
> his peers have already learned to bully and harass outside of school now, the teachers can do nothing about it.

Then you're just not creative enough.

You can simply "tail" one of the annoying students continuously when in school. An administrator escorting a problematic student "every single minute of the day" for a week or two would ostracize them quite nicely and the other students would take note of the threat.
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> Of course, in the first 10 seconds or few minutes, but I suspect strongly this effect fades over time.

This is part of the general phenomenon of looking for your keys under the lamppost.

It's easy to do an experiment that tests how people feel about your new design after looking at it for a minute and a half. Want to compare how people feel about the old and new designs after six months of getting used to them? That will take at least six months.
For smaller companies, the fit might not be right for certain people, so moving to a company that allows them a path that works better for them isn’t necessarily bad for the company they left
I think Amazon is the only company where values actually created a culture.
ISPs Violate the Laws of Mathematics
ETS protocol does not provide per-session forward secrecy
Especially if LG manages to block VW's future battery plans:

https://electrek.co/2019/02/21/lg-vw-battery-cell-supply-ev-...
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This is really a perfect case study of why Clojure is the ultimate language for a single person's productivity. Macros and JVM access are a huge productivity increase compared to other functional languages.
Is it just me or is anyone else bothered by Plaid privacy policy on the information they collect? I want to use this app but reading through that privacy policy is the stuff of potential nightmares. "collect information including: account numbers, routing numbers, names, balances, history, loan info etc etc..." pretty much everything. Umm no thank you.
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Derivation is the term for generating one word from another word. I don't think there's a term for specifically deriving verbs.

I did find a paper on Google Scholar purporting to list "derivations producing verbs from nouns" in Turkish, "An Outline of Turkish Morphology" by Oflazer, Göçmen, and Bozşahin.
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The expenses are mostly in marketing to grow their market share- they won't market themselves into the grave.
Here's something I think ought to be more or less straightforward but don't yet know any of the relevant machine learning theory for and so I've been putting it off. I could find a variety of handy uses for it if implemented the way I'm imagining. If it exists already, I don't know how to search for it.

It should ideally be a simple/minimal-dependencies CLI program that can take a command and arguments for that command, go ahead and run the command with given arguments, and record those arguments in relation to each other. When called with any of the command arguments missing, it will run the command filling in the blanks with a prediction for the best values for the missing arguments, based on the historical usage patterns.

My example use case is that I currently manually run a terminal command to adjust my external monitor brightness to a comfortable level at various times of day, and I would love to have a simple cron task scheduled to have it auto adjust throughout the day based on time of day and possibly other variables I can retrieve such as ambient brightness or whatever else. The dumb version would just be a predefined lighting schedule hardcoded in cron, but I specifically want to continue making adjustments as needed based on comfort and have the automation trend towards optimum over time, minimizing the frequency that I need to adjust without replacing my option to do so temporarily. The ML part I don't have the education for yet and I've been putting it off, but I can imagine a lot of other use cases for something like this implemented in a very generic way. The way I first imagined this working, I'm not entirely sure any sophisticated algorithm is even necessary, it might be doable with some high school level math run against the stored data. I presume that with such a generic approach it won't perform impressively well right out of the gate but with an accumulation of training data can be coerced into remembering what the user wants/expects gradually. As I said, I'm not educated in machine learning but I suspect this should be straightforward to do at least a crude version of given some of the libraries available.
I understand about three out of four of these symbols - which isn't enough to follow this with any rigor. Frustratingly, different texts use different symbols. Please direct me to a glossary of these symbols.
Those three choices are interesting because I would absolutely take the designs of those sites from 10 years ago over the current ones.
I don't think he knew Elizabeth Holmes or Theranos.
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Not as bad as snap but what could they possibly be spending $100 million a year on?
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I and almost everyone from my team loathes the new jira released a year+ ago. The menu drives me nuts still and makes no sense.

It's my understanding the use of the word "idiot" in this context implies someone who is primarily responsible for a significant amount of rework on anything that bears no real fruit, ui redesigns being one potential example. Pretty sure big companies make those mistakes just as much as small. Though I don't think its fair to call someone an idiot for this reason--I think its very challenging to do well.
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> I've seen many redesigns and that tends not to be something people do—there's usually a good bump in visual quality in the process.

So really, the important point is that you can gain affordances for usability sins if you have a design that is appealing to people as modern or otherwise trendy.

By the same process: if you have a design that was 100% usable, then redesign and end up making usability mistakes, there's a good chance you'll see net-zero or negative from the prettier UI in your testing.

For the majority of companies that do not have focus groups, usability labs, and a design staff that can spend cycles on R&D, it seems you may be better off doing little more than reskinning existing UI controls to maintain trendiness than full-scale re-wires of your existing product at any time to maximize the aesthetic-usability effect for minimal design work. Examples you cite in a sibling comment have cash to burn on exactly this, however I think that is the exception rather than the norm for businesses at large.

Visual (aesthetic) design change buys goodwill, reinforces and differentiates brand image, but IMO is mostly a marketing tool at the end of the day. I see product design and visual design as sister disciplines that must communicate, similar to two people running a three-legged race, but it is easy to improve one or the other separately from the other in most iterative scenarios. Large-scale redesigns are usually risky, and Snapchat's a great high-profile example of a company that was able to hire talent and let that process go off the rails.
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If the attendees at a conference are high quality, the conference itself will be high quality, there doesn't need to be a heavy overlap of specific interests.

If a HN meetup could someway or another uphold that level of quality, it could be a great conference even if the topics are as varied as deep learning - to web frameworks - startup culture - to UBI economics.