skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The problem isn't that they are shrinking, its the after-effects of shrinking and what it entails.

- The population shrinks but density in the cities still increases -> decreased land utilisation/abandoned villages.
- Decreasing birth rate -> inverted population cone/less taxes and more high cost individuals (old people with health problems and no income)
1. The device doesn't have a battery, so when it boots it thinks the time is Jan 1, 1970. X.509 wasn't even invented at that point so there are no valid certificates for that date.

2. The device is being MITMed so it receives a time of, say 2010 with a certificate that is also valid for 2010 even though that certificate is long expired in reality. The device has no way to know otherwise.

I don't know the point of this attack though.
This article is total garbage. Nicotine is no more harmful than caffeine if used in moderation. Some people are so anti-tobacco that they lose all logic and resort to old research. For more objective, modern research, read https://news.sky.com/story/nicotine-no-worse-than-cup-of-cof...
The key is not relying on any exchange/entity to hold your cryptofunds.

There are software solutions (such as electrum master public keys) that can be used to dynamically generate “pay to” bitcoin addresses against your own bitcoin wallet without exposing you to any hacking risks.
I have not looked into any of this, so I tend to think it’s probably bunk since authorities dismiss it as such. Many others, it would seem, do not dismiss it.
http://adventuresinautism.blogspot.com/2007/06/no-evidence-o...
>evidence

in this case, user/advertiser metrics
I don't care about what murderers or white supremacists think. Their morality is wrong, and they don't deserve a seat at society's table.
You can - move to a country that doesn't provide those.
If you honestly believe paypal is in the business of stealing a couple hundred grand from a few overnight success stories then you may be the one suffering from willful blindness.
You’re confusing “contract rent” (an amount paid on a recurring basis for the temporary use of goods, services, or property) with “economic rent” (an amount that is paid on top of the “natural” price due to a distortion in the market). Rent-seeking refers to the latter definition of rent.

Renting property is not rent-seeking. Wielding the power of local government to prevent new housing from being built is rent-seeking.
As in Norwegian, I have to ask... is Vildanden (the wild duck) not one of his most known/iconic plays outside of Norway? I would say it's easily one of the three defining plays people would know about over here, so it confuses me to see it mentioned like this.
You probably fit the "principle engineer" or "technical lead" titles better. But it's hard, because no doubt in many companies these titles have been corrupted* to mean something else.

End of the day, if you're happy and delivering value your title doesn't really matter. But it might when you want to move role in the future, so you might want to keep one eye on what the market is branding you as.

Fow what it's worth, I'm glad you're happy with your role. :)

*or maybe just changed, who am I to decide what words mean
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You know the famous spam "hello office, your password is [redacted] and I recorded you watching pr0n"? Well, I received such messages about my TransferWise password, so I obviously informed them, and what did they do? Simply shut down my TransferWise account. Would not recommend.
Numberplates are the tip of the constantly-broadcast data iceberg. Most phones are constantly announcing the ESSIDs of their known WiFi hotspots, and WiFi hotspot map data is readily available. It's like shouting out a map of home, workplace, favorite cafes...
Would it be a case of the norm was to over-engineer (thinking victorian times mostly as examples of structures standing and still in use) compared with today in which we have a finer insight into the maths, which allows us to engineer just-enough.

Or is it a case of market/management pressure pushing the limits that is the driver? With those pushing the limits getting a competitive edge - that draws others into competing in the same way.
Adyen won't talk to startups. They are not interested at all.

The current state of the market for European players in the payment space, is that it's not startup friendly.

Take companies HQ in Europe like Worldpay (London), Adyen (Netherlands), WireCard (Germany), Fidor Bank (Germany) and Mambu (Germany).

Not one company wanted to talk to my startup.

No problems with US based players. They are more than happy to work with startups and will actively work with you to become a unicorn.

After all, the higher transactions the startup does, the more money they earn.
We are an ant on a leaf in a bathtub with a fancy tiny telescope. These observations aren't going to make sense until we get far outside of our mono perspective from Earth (eg travel
to Andromeda and take more data).

Yes, I realize this requires FTL. :-]
This advice is a trend from the 80s.
>Anyway, my only other IDC related story is that of going from ICD-9 to ICD-10, when decimals came into play. We had several projects where we had to go back and do global replaces on ICD-9 codes to play nicely with the ICD-10 codes.

I like how ICD 9 and 10 don't use mutually disjoint sets of codes so there's a tiny overlap where the same code is present in both but means very different things. But only a tiny overlap so a QA cycle probably won't catch the issue.
With the exception of the number 1, the inverse of any natural number with respect to multiplication is not a natural number.
This is a good point. And that is why land taxation is preferred to property taxation.

Land ownership = people give you rights for exclusive use. So you pay them for the privilege

Property tax = another form of income or labor tax. Somebody put effort and energy into the building, proportion of which is taken away
You could. Try it and see. Being on Facebook is probably incredibly damaging for them in terms of what news they are exposed to anyway, you’d be doing them a favour.
As a consumer I totally love chargebacks.

Very easy to deal with fraudulent vendors and discourage shady business practices.

That said merchants definitely hate that because it’s lose-lose for them even if they win (mandatory $25-$40 fee they pay regardless)
> What about the people owning homes as investments, or as part of their retirement plans?

Housing as an investment does not benefit society.
If you were serious about providing a reasonable, modern life for Americans wouldn't you provide high quality free healthcare as a basic right? Wouldn't you provide free education and eliminate student debt? Wouldn't you ensure a dignified retirement and old age for all?

Your manifesto doesn't include these things, why not?
Well, we can all agree that the word "love" is overloaded.
With my parents and my kids.. my love is truly unconditional.

No matter what they do or say, I will always love them.

Unconditional love has no place in romantic love. They shouldn't even be sharing the same words.

Romantic love is absurdly conditional. We need a different word. The word "lust" is also a temporary state, even with new couples.

Music, romantic movies and shows like "The Bachelor", have warped our cultural ideas around relationships.

However, sometimes media can explain it perfectly:

"Listen Morty, I hate to break it to you, but what people calls 'love' is just a chemical reaction that compels animals to breed. It hits hard, Morty, then it slowly fades, leaving you stranded in a failing marriage. I did it. Your parents are gonna do it. Break the cycle, Morty. Rise above. Focus on science."
MS is extremely successful and if anything is soaring not declining.
Density creates land scarcity which in turns gives a lot of power to landlords who collect the lion's share or economic benefits created by density.

Density should come hand in hand with power-rebalancing measures, e.g. tax property hikes, more efficient zoning, and government-controlled rent, but practically it doesn't happen.
Paypal also uses redirect to their own domain ensuring you don't give your CC to just anyone. This is the biggest selling point to me.

Services asking for a credit card number directly on the site may or may not be using Sprite, or a similar legitimate service, and may or may not contain malicious code that captures your input regardless. I really have no way of knowing.
Unfortunately it's an Electron app.
Does this posit a strong argument against trunk-based development patterns?
According to Wiktionary the early Latin word was gnōscere. Old English had cnawan and cunnan.

Besides “know”, etc., modern English words “can”, “cunning”, “canny”, etc. also come from this root.
Microsoft had ebooks until pretty recently but I only found out about it because of the news about the cancellation of the service. Google Books added audiobooks a while ago but why they don't advertise on YouTube videos and podcasts I'll never understand.
Liberty reserve
This reminds me a lot of this idea: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/Kbm6QnJv9dgWsPHQP/schelling-...

"Normalization of deviance" would be the mechanism by which a slope becomes slippery; a schelling fence (in this case... a checklist?) is then a possible fix, even if it's just to trigger a re-evaluation of "normal"
"Bizarre" probably refers to something both more extreme than Marilyn Manson or face tattoos and far less interesting/well-coordinated.
Venmo is Paypal. Alternatives are provided without context as why you'd seek one out beyond mostly similar transaction fees.
All I'm saying is, with something like love, for most people it matters if the other individual can actually feel something too. Suppose there are two guys, both in a relationship with someone. One is in love with their significant other, the other is not, but their actions are exactly the same. If each of their significant others asks "do you really love me or are you just pretending?" and each guys answers honestly, you can be sure that the significant other of the guy who is pretending is going to be pretty let down. That guy's SO thought the feelings were mutual, but they weren't.

Now imagine that you know up front that a machine can never actually feel love, just act like it loves you. This is a similar situation.
Revolut always sounds so interesting, but I’ve been on their waiting list for a year and a half, 70k people in front of me and 35k people behind me, I’ve not seen either figure change in months. I don’t know if I fell through a crack or if they stopped accepting people to the wait list or if something else is going on. It does sound like there are people actually using the service .
> the problem still exists beyond the bubble of my own consumer preference

Rain isn't very wet: it's only tiny drops
> Sonic Youth inspired most nineties bands

s/most/some/; s/bands/grunge bands/;

Let's not overplay it here.
The U.S isn't a monolith. Tech is the thing that made places like San Francisco really successful. But people in the midwest haven't really benefited from big tech companies (outside of access to those products - they can google things and have FB accounts). If anything, big tech is accelerating a trend of brain drain across the U.S.

That said, breaking up companies is a pretty ham-fisted attempt at addressing a real issue. Big tech companies do a lot of lobbying, potentially for things that aren't in the interests of the general public. They've also taken advantage of the global nature of tech to shelter billions of dollars of profits from tax. Big companies (tech or no) should probably have less influence on the government and they should probably pay their fair share of taxes (you'll be hard pressed to find many who would say that Amazon is paying their fair share given their $0 tax bill right now along with wild sales figures).
Consumers love PayPal because it’s more friendly to buyer (than to seller).
Thus supporting PayPal is beneficial to vendor.

For vendor it makes sense to exercise caution: not leaving large balance on PayPal account, attach only intermediary bank account to PayPal to prevent PayPal tapping into your funds at will and have reserved accept payment method in case PayPal gets awry on you
Daily+Deal-Letter+Free+Now
Why is it better for everyone? I imagine we have the current hubs because with a more liquid job market it makes finding jobs and employees easier. It's probably also good for investment since having many potential acquirers nearby increases the chance of a positive exit.

I guess it's kind of an insurance against terrible (local) government policies if people move from city to city when one of them screws up. That doesn't sound like a terribly efficient system though.
well, where is the wine?
This LCA study shows wind, large hydro and 4Gen nuclear to be in the same range. With solar pv being higher.

https://www.mdpi.com/1996-1073/11/12/3452/htm
That recklessness and self destructive behaviour make for excellent scouts of opportunity (aka as stupidity and statistics), which is why its important to fall quickly for them, cause they might be gone tomorrow.
Following up on your prompt: people and documents are resurfacing (and will continue to do so in the future), but for starters (these are internal LB reports and people, calling VILIBOR a cartel (possibly too strong a word)): https://www.15min.lt/verslas/naujiena/finansai/viena-nuomone...
They’re absolutely contradictory. Coinbase will shut down accounts based on certain activity.
Do committees who do such reviews equally ask themselves - if this does fail - can we live with it and justify our initial risk assessment and stand by it?

So often - risky decisions are made - many pass without incidence and yet, problems happen. Often such risks are reviewed in hindsight and the weight of the realisation of risk that pass into actuality. Though when they don't fail, nobody passes a second thought and over time, such risks get normalised.
When you have a chronic, relatively rare disease and are moving countries.
If da Vinci had 50 billion, he still wouldn’t have achieved flight. There were things he just didn’t know, and until those things were learned, all of his efforts were in vain.

We’re still learning too.. and there’s no telling if we know enough to achieve fusion. It may require physics that we won’t learn for another 100 years. Until it’s invented, we don’t know what’s required.
There's also the Detroit Land Bank: https://buildingdetroit.org/?SID=od96l337m03770qo0gcsfta3h1
> Great success, sending more people from reddit to their own hate platform that will grow and exploit synergies among groups of particularly toxic people.

Fox News seems like a rather good analogue of this. Despite promulgating information and opinions considered false and unacceptable by many, they are quite successful both financially and at exerting political influence. Shaming and shunning them and their viewers only hardens their viewership's belief in the truth of what they say.

By shunting the "basket of deplorables" off to Voat/Gab, we might be inadvertently creating the next Fox News.
I agree that Sonic Youth sounds a little dated at this point. But a lot of classic rock (not all, but a lot) still sounds pretty revolutionary to me, The Doors in particular.
On the flipside, the city of Barcelona is no longer handing out tourist licenses to property owners, even if they want to run a licensed rental apartment.

A tourist license could be had for a one time €200 fee before, and apartments with these licenses are actually often 20 to 30% higher in purchase price than those without.

Hotels are also actively lobbying against the further handing out of these licenses (because Airbnb rental apartments tend to be much better value for money -- even if you run everything legally and by the book). There are always two sides to a story.
The base of the land value tax is the value of the land though. If the land is in the middle of a high population density area then the land is worth more and it generates more tax revenue.

The difference between this and property tax is that if you have a 12 story building on one piece of land and a 2 story building on the adjacent one, otherwise identical piece of land, they both pay the same tax, giving the second property owner more incentive to build.
I’m talking job growth and demographics. The answer isn’t to make everyone learn to code. We need jobs for other demographic groups. Look at San Francisco and the displacement that’s occurred. To pretend it’s orthogonal to race or age or parental ses is simply wrong. Yes, you and many others may be somewhat exceptional, somewhat. I’m referring to aggregate statistics, not exceptional cases.
This is a good list, but many customers (i.e. more than 50% in my experience, especially if they're non-US) prefer to pay with PayPal rather than bank cards. Some don't even have bank cards. So if you use a service on this list, be sure to choose one that supports PayPal as a secondary payment method, like Shopify or Braintree, otherwise you could lose potential customers.

I also find it funny that Braintree is on this list, since it's entirely owned by PayPal since 2014.
Yup. My grandma was a nurse and she used this. Many genetic disorders have characteristic facial features, such as the Pierre Robinson sequence.
And it can’t be built everywhere where energy is needed, due the its complexity.
Surya Namaskar Yoga exercise is way more effective than any Aerobic exercise.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3193657/
The name “Evelyn“, the image and the repeated references to the girl scouts may make your use of the pronoun „he“ suspect.
My very small side-business uses PP, and it has been frictionless for 12 years. When I started up, I imagined the customer thinking: "Would I rather give my credit card info to PP or to this guy working in his basement who probably has no grasp of data security?"

With that said, there are people out there who have, for whatever reason, vowed to never use PP. Maybe they had a bad experience. Most people who want a PP alternative seem satisfied to send me a money order. If my business were to grow beyond $15k/y, I would think about adding a secondary payment service.

On my end, PP is my accounting system. I use the PP credit card to pay for all of my supplies. At tax time, I download a huge spreadsheet of every transaction, and mung it into my year-end numbers.

Dealing with chargebacks, frauds, and disputes... my view is that the idea of being able to get a refund, no questions asked, has been established as a consumer expectation by the large physical and online retailers such as Home Depot and Target. Those companies can afford to "eat" a few bad transactions. It's harder for the rest of us. If someone has very low sales volume, or is moving big ticket items, a single chargeback or dispute can be painful. Anybody who's thinking of setting up shop online, should think about how they can maintain a cash cushion to absorb the issues that can arise. Eating a few bad deals has to be just part of your budget.
Think of the global financial crisis of 2008 when the economy collapsed because the banks hadn’t been properly regulated because they convinced the authorities that they could do it themselves.

Also Boeing and the MCAS fiasco
Not to mention amazon isn’t always going to be the only source for resources. Could be a mix of blog posts, video courses, research papers...anything really
It’s a blog post by a mathematician who knows more about pure mathematics than music, and is riffing about a conversation she had with a Girl Scout troop.

We shouldn’t be expecting that to be equivalent to a PhD thesis about musical harmony or whatever.
It's great to see Ghidra being put to good use
It's currently at 1200$ for a pro license
It still seems less than ideal to have people live in places that require long commutes or result in lower income jobs (likely meaning they could be more productive elsewhere) so that someone can accumulate investment properties in the more desirable areas? To me this seems like someone complaining that prices of vegetables and meat going up due to speculation and someone pointing out that rice and bread are still cheap.
There is Hal Chamberlin's Musical Applications of Microprocessors which is a pretty approachable book and has some good background theory, there is also Chowning's FM Synthesis book.
> Free-market fanatics see this all as a good thing but I'm really not happy with this rapid return to piece-work, which was outlawed in favor of hourly rates and minimum wages.

Piece work is making a comeback because of the failure of the alternatives. Insisting that we should keep on with the same rigide system despite its obvious failing is the real fanaticism here. Doesn't mean piece work should be the norm, it just means both have their place and completely outlawing one or the other seem like a big mistake. None of these two are going away as they are both needed.
I don't think the scarcity of options is due to any shortage of potential communities on the internet--there's a perpetual scarcity of extant communities due to naturally-monopolizing network effects. If Facebook weren't the place, it would be somewhere else. Any old forum would do if it were where the people are.
Has anybody tried dynamically changing the tuning of an electronic instrument, so that when you play a fifth or another chord, the individual notes are exactly tuned so that the chord is itself perfectly tuned? Basically a per-chord adaptive tuning kind of thing. Or would that sound bad in another way.
Are you arguing that iq isn't correlated with success?
What is usually meant by rent-seeking is more akin to rent-extraction. Here rent doesn't mean the monthly payment (lease) but an 'economic rent'. That is an income which is guaranteed by some distorition of current market conditions. Most often by some kind of monopoly. Eg. rents for pharma industry because potential competitors are not allowed to enter the market due to industry regulation. This allows the current players extract the guaranteed rent - monopoly income.
One should ask why the "bad and wrong" arguments are so dangerous that they need suppressing.

If it's so bad and wrong, it shouldn't have a leg to stand on, surely?

There are kernels of truth unaddressed by the champions of so-called-good because they undermine the groupthink. That's the real catalyst for conversion in the rabbit hole funnel. Having a subreddit is just a convenience.
> 2019 has basically every new UI (and many rewrites of old ones) being built in Javascript

yeah... no

> See also C unassailably at number 2. I think we can all agree that in 2019, there is more active development in Javascript, than C

bubbles, bubbles, bubbles. the immense majority of large companies I see start new GUI projects in Java, C#, C++, ... daily. Count the hundred of thousands of programmers working for gigacompanies like Samsung (with more than 40k devs), ATOS (122K employees, mostly devs), CapGemini (211k employees, mostly devs), etc... they are far from all doing JS.
Forthcoming Debian 10 New Features
Just updated 1k city and 100 countries startup ecosystem rankings
It is not obvious what the competitive advantages are from the webpage. Why should I uninstall Trello and install TodoX?
The have been several studies that showed that cities foster innovation and living in larger cities leads to faster increase in income. It's also cheaper for society as a whole to provide good infrastructure in one place rather than spreading it out. Unfortunately we are currently hiding that cost and people living in cities are subsidizing the costs of roads and other infrastructure for people in low density areas.
> Does anyone know what are the difficulties to provide a pleasant experience for Inkscape on Mac

GIMP doesn't use the XQuartz X11 compatibility layer that Inkscape uses. Work is ongoing according to the Inkscape GitLab [1].

[1] https://gitlab.com/inkscape/inkscape/issues/84