skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Cost effective" does not mean "profitable." This is a straw man that transit advocates like to throw up. No transit system in the entire U.S. is held to the standard of "mak[ing] money." All transit in the U.S. loses money on an operating basis, even excluding capital costs: https://www.citylab.com/transportation/2015/06/how-much-mone.... (Contrast many other countries, where transit often at least breaks even on operating costs, if not capital costs.) The issue is the magnitude of the public subsidy on a per-trip or per-mile basis.

Right now in D.C., transit advocates are fighting battles for service that costs $20-30+ per trip (late night Metro service and the streetcar). That's just a waste of taxpayer money when subsidizing Uber/Lyft could allow those same trips to happen for lower cost. Even more generally, rail service is subsidized, on a per-passanger-mile basis, about an order of magnitude more than automobiles. (While roads receive several much more funding than transit, they comprise about 50x more passenger miles of travel.) https://ti.org/antiplanner/?p=15144
Glad to see Israel has nothing to do with this.

Wherever CBP presence increases, questionings increase, regardless of race. To frame this tension as harassment targeting natives is disingenuous. CBP often gets accused of racism, especially towards Hispanics, though some 70% of CBP officers deployed along the border are Hispanic themselves.

If the protests are happening within CBP jurisdiction (100 miles from the border), how is deploying authorized surveillance per law "abuse"?
As I understand it, it's not always about money.
During the cold war, space race ensued between USA and USSR. This is Space Race 2.0 between the corporates!
Interest rates in the US are not set directly by the government. Instead the federal funds rate is a target rate that the Fed aims for by either expanding or contracting the money supply.

Also the TIBOR and LIBOR and all the other *IBORs aren’t set by the government either. Certainly government monetary policies affect these rates, but ultimately it’s a free market function.

Having the government directly set private lending rates is a very bad idea and would certainly result in disaster (much like how all other price controls are terrible ideas).
There are developing nation in need of investment and developed countries with negative interest rates hmmm ...
>Why the insistence on Tor?

Short answer: I'm a privacy activist. That should be a valid enough reason for this context.

>I also don't understand the 2FA point, that says nothing about your accounts' intentions.

No, but it shows my account is secured from intruders, which means reCAPTCHA is just an additional nuisance to me, the legitimate account holder.

>The account history is an interesting point

Yeah, and they just glance right over it. It doesn't mean anything for my case that I've been an active user with this account for almost two years (I had a previous account for a bit and then left Discord because I was not in any communities worth sticking around for). Never have I done anything wrong on Discord's platform; haven't uploaded any lolis or evaded any bans (I believe I was only banned from one guild, even). They just don't seem to want me as a user, and that's fine.
The Count of Monte-Cristo carries a depiction of a public execution that is rather ... vivid. The convicted is clubbed to death. And not too cleanly.

Quick research doesn't say whether this fashion was used in reality or not. The wikipedia article on Italian capital punishment doesn't go into style details.
For individual savers they did have the same guarantees. The EU operates a scheme that requires members to offer some amount of guarantee denominated in Euros. Brits whose local banks failed were bailed out almost immediately by the British government, in full - far more than was legally required, but every individual with an EU account got their legal due eventually. In fact some of the nasty corner cases were non-EU banks that outsiders would think of as British but are legally not, based on Man (an island between the mainland and Ireland) for example. Those had "guarantees" that are worthless because they're underwritten by a tiny island that can't pay. If London or even Madrid owes you money they're ultimately good for it. But Douglas (the closest the Isle of Man has to a city) doesn't have any money, so their guarantee is worthless.
Would you have examples? Starting SpaceX required far more capital than NASA?
I can't fathom why you got a negative response for this comment. You seem to be precisely right.

Down the road from where I live, there is a family with a veggies stand in their front yard. They sell anything they grow in their modest greenhouse but don't manage to eat. Leave a few dollars in the jar and take a basket of tomatoes, cucumbers, etc.

When cannabis is normalized in your community and people grow it for personal consumption, there will invariably be some left over that gets sold to family, friends, neighbors, etc. These sort of small local transactions are totally outside the purview of any government. The family down the road from me doesn't have a license for their veggie stand, I doubt they pay taxes on the proceeds, and nobody gives a shit because this is the way it has always worked and it's a generally pleasant and agreeable arrangement.
You might be thinking of kippo?
Honeypots are fun to think about and toy with - I just never have any idea what to do with the logs and data?
It depends how you make calculations, but yes, globally savings in Germany are "high" see here:

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

Germany: 27.4 % GDP

As a comparison:

USA 16.9 % GDP
UK 15.8 % GDP
I wonder if there's a system where the contractors apart of the program, which according to the news reports are so above budget / behind schedule, could submit post mortems to whichever agency audits this program. What hurdles they wish they knew going in.

Similar to this: https://mozyrko.files.wordpress.com/2014/10/77-failed-startu...
Let’s be clear, if you mean the modern notation, that was was ‘invented’ after the dark ages. So under that definition it’s ~0 people world wide in the dark ages. Excluding independent discovery.

However, if we are talking about the number of people being able to accurately do 1234 / 56 = 22 r 2. That was regularly taught in the Middle Ages with plenty of examples of such calculations being available.
Prepend to the url:

outline.com/

So:

https://outline.com/https://www.livescience.com/medieval-executioner-life.html

https://outline.com/https://www.livescience.com/medieval-exe...
> that's a bit less than healthcare as a fraction of the nation's GDP

Let's assume you're talking about just the USA> What do you mean by "a bit"? How did you just calculate healthcare, given the massive social programs in play? $1000 is not ANYTHING near health care costs (not to mention the post-life care). The ambulance ride alone, when someone is in distress (or deceased) is $1000 today.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1361028/

UBI is idiotic, but healthcare costs are horrific.
Have you tried earlyoom?
While this isn’t at all what the article is about, I think phrases like “knowledge without understanding is meaningless” are a bit dangerous out of context, because they imply that rote learning is bad.

Furnishing your brain with a library of facts on a subject means it now has more items to make connections between, which is what allows understanding to develop.

These days, when I’m learning something new, I’ll try to accumulate as many basic facts as possible. Subjects that seem impenetrable can often be conquered in this way. The more connections you can make, the faster you can develop an understanding, and the more creative you can eventually become.
It can still be useful if it’s a means to an end, a goad.

One bit of advice I give is that if the code doesn’t work the way you want then one option is to pretend. If you can emulate a better interface using the existing code, then you can start making the lie true later on.

But it does require that this section of the code be something that will receive ongoing attention for some time. You will have to amortize those changes over a lot of stories. Otherwise it’s a bad candidate for the technique and you will get the Lavaflow antipattern along with unnecessary indirection.
Using OSX on a laptop, Linux at work and Windows while playing. Tempted switching back to Windows now because of WSL.

Using gstreamer, creating gstreamer custom filters, performing graph changes on the fly. Awesome and a joy.

WebAssembly as target(compiling C stuff with emscripten and then enjoying it in the browser).

Playing Stracraft II, high impact of rapid decisions, dealing with complexity as some kind of reflex. Started one year ago, never waste more than 15-20 minutes. I am more focused at work, keeping myself in the zone for longer periods.

Not necessary tech, but being more tolerant towards people in industry not driven by passion, but by salary and day to day life chores.
Ask HN: Why has Slack’s stock price been tumbling?
Slack’s stock price ($WORK) has dropped 30% from its high around its IPO in June. Any clues why the market seems to have turned, especially since other enterprise SaaS IPOs seem to be fairing pretty well on average?
School season is upon us. Consider tutoring or coaching. Helping kids succeed can be quite rewarding (for both of you!).
I would not be surprised, if 2-3 weeks from now,
one of the US Presidential candidates, will be talking
how they would save money (and redirect them into other programs), by decommissioning this kind of wasteful military programs.

And they will refer to this, 'well-researched piece by a 'reputable news source.

Let's see if I am right, will check in in 2-3 weeks...
I know, it’s not like I wrote anything unorthodox. Most criticism of the Euro from both right and left come from claims that it is not an optimal currency area primarily due to lack of fiscal integration.

I assume the downvoting comes from economics being a popular topic on which people like to opine whether or not they understand it (insert joke here about economists being subject to this rule as well)
Most of my time this year has been with browser streaming, async Rust, and vanilla JS. I think the last has been the most useful. I highly recommend really learning the DOM. Implement your own client-side routing. Make a view framework. See if you can make an app without a bundler/build step. Or even without npm at all. It's fun.

In general, I think it's very valuable to have a deep understanding of your platform, even if you don't need all that information on the daily.
Which was killed by streaming, not by people storing songs locally.
2FA is account security, not proof of being a good human user. TOTP is a very simple algorithm (python impl: https://github.com/pyauth/pyotp) that can be easily automated. After all, your phone telling you the code to type in has automated it.
They provide valuable jobs, otherwise employees wouldn't agree to it
Information on Selected Airlines’ Non-Discrimination Training [pdf]
> Thinkpad

Which Thinkpad model do you recommend?

And which Linux distro do you use?
Finding the balance between quality and price is innovative. It is extremely difficult. But in the end it means more people across the globe get more and better quality clothes.

You can always go pay for higher end clothing. Nothing stops you expect... price. Lol
Yes. The "trillion dollar" figure comes from Wikipedia, where it (a) is denominated in 2070 dollars, and (b) includes "operations and sustainment".
What are the likely implications for Space Junk? Will all these objects passively de-orbit if they fail (i.e. failsafe)?

Are thousands of new orbiting objects enough to be a complication for new launches?
A lot of comments here are saying that this is good, and/or one is not entitled to a non-negative return rate on a bank account. Ok, so as an individual, how am I supposed to store money? Under mattress? Or should I embrace the new way of spending everything I earn immediately, possibly by turning my life into a portfolio of subscriptions, and paper over all unexpected spendings (illness, car breaking down, family issues) with insurance? How are low-to-middle-class people supposed to improve their financial situation in this reality?
>Malicious actors constantly attempt to brute-force logins on our system - generally from public password dumps or other leaks. A lot of these brute-force attempts come from TOR, and other public proxies. In order to avoid information disclosure, we always captcha logins from these kinds of IPs, regardless of whether or not an account exists with the e-mail in question, whether the login credentials are correct, or there is 2fa enabled on the account. So, the "captchas" you notice are not really specific to your account, but rather, the origin of the login. Using TOR is not a crime, you are right - but - it's also our responsibility to our users to make it reasonably hard for their accounts to get compromised on our platform (even if they don't employ the best security practices - and reuse their passwords across the internet.)

Solution: add a checkbox "disable account security measures", so a user who doesn't want CAPTCHAs when logging into their account doesn't see them. It would have a warning so any user selecting it would know what they're doing.
I always assumed this is because Linux package managers such as apt and yum are first-class citizens on the platform, while Homebrew is a bit of a de-facto solution on macOS.

This still holds, right?
Until you need/want some project that's relatively new and you pine for the days of brew. Technically inferior Perhaps but often much more up to date. :/
"Are the rest of the details of the article, about domains I don't personally understand, equally subtly inaccurate and misleading?"

I think that's the case for most things where people who are not complete subject matter experts write about something. A lot of our own conversations about things are probably quite inaccurate in a lot of details.

In this particular case the author may even have asked back but what is the author going to do if he/she gets fed inaccurate information? I think the only blatant inaccuracy is the reference to DevOps, otherwise the description of agile is pretty OK too me.

I hope people won't fall into the usual trap where some inaccuracies in some media leads them into reading much less accurate but more extreme media which is something you often see in politics.
If you think CBP monitoring protestors isn’t abuse if it’s happening within 100 miles of the border, then I think we share too little common ground for this conversation to ever be productive.
There’s also tmuxinator[1]. I setup profiles for my different development environments (panes for db/repl/vim).

Just a command away from it setting up the Tmux panes with the right sizes and processes running.

[1] https://github.com/tmuxinator/tmuxinator
I maintain this script:
https://github.com/Nyr/openvpn-install

It's a simple bash script which just gets the job done fast, without dependencies or too much trouble.
Because embedding a model in the logic of the system is not practically achievable in many systems
A Reason article makes it to the front page of HN????

Not that I'm complaining, but have we somehow shifted to the bizarro dimension?
I'm surprised there was no mention (yet!) to fast.ai here. I've decided to learn deep learning this year, after many failed tries with other approaches. Their framework (built over PyTorch), their course, and their community around it are simply the best I've found so far. Very much recommend to anyone who knows a bit of coding and wants to learn Deep Learning quickly and pragmatically.
Truly curious as I don't code in C, or any other low level language. What is the problem with it? That there might not be enough memory allocated at *q?
Thanks for posting, happened to catch this in new. Anything I can tell people about Dark? (You'll generally find more info in https://medium.com/darklang, though we're redoing the site now).
Posts about history, arts, and literature have always had a place on Hacker News. Please see the guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
All the people I've seen who praise i3 and tiling managers seem to spend way more time finding the proper windows between dozens of tiles on half a dozen desktops than I do on a very minimal setup with Divvy on one desktop.
Flagging this. The VPN industry is full of companies competing against each other using underhanded social media tactics, astroturfing, bots, sock puppets, etc.

This is clearly one of them, just a shill for Mullvad by a likely astroturfing or affiliate blogger who is "not an expert in VPN".

There is zero reason why this should be on the HN frontpage.
Ooh, could you write up a piece on this? Few people really know how to write speedy C# code!
That's Twilio's database, not Discord's. Maybe it's fair to be upset at Discord for using Twilio if Twilio can't keep their database up to date, but I don't think there are that many alternatives to Twilio.
Yes, NordVPN and ProtonVPN are both owned by Tesonet and runs office in Vilnius, Lithuania.
One of the developers here! Thanks for posting, and feel free to contribute / provide feedback.
Leetcode covers data structures and patterns for efficiently using data structures. Most of the ‘puzzles’ could easily be isomorphisms for real life problems programmers encounter. I don’t think it’s a waste of time and it will make you a better programmer.

The responsibilities you bring up are valid but meaningless if core concepts are neglected or misunderstood.
You're correct, it's an uninformative article by a non-expert just shilling for Mullvad. Just flag it and ignore.
The taxes are on the dollar cost, and at least in Ontario, hidden in the price tag (as it is with alcohol, lottery tickets and gasoline).

But it is a major part of the price, and everything to do with how upon legalization, it immediately became more expensive than buying illegally. This is despite assurances that the pricing would make it more competitive, and remove the incentive to street purchases.

They decided early on that it should be round or about $10/g. People who voted for this didn't seem to pay attention to the fact that sure, a dime bag might cost $10, but the price of a half-quarter, quarter, half, or ounce gets progressively cheaper per gram.

So now we easily spend about $280 for an ounce of blah, when on the street you can get $210 for something that'll blow your mind.

Mostly in Canada, only people getting medical marijuana and on disability (compassionate pricing) get prices that are on par with street value.
I am aware of it. I'm also aware of the fact that it's a lot of bookkeeping, i.e. not counting bank bailout costs, pension guarantees etc, the implicit public debt looks very differently. And keep in mind that the last few years with little to no new debt (on the federal level) were during record tax income and strong growth that is now turning into a recession. With explicit public debt hovering around 65% of GDP, Germany is pretty average in both the world and Europe.
Not a problem with Arch packages and the AUR.
You're correct, and probably getting downvoted by bots or Mullvad voting rings. Just flag the article and move on.
Agreed - I consider it more of a general purpose VPN (and what I use personally). Streisand is more opinionated, in ways that folks that use Proton services might find appealing.
Is there a gradual path on learning Unity ?
I mean, what is it ? A visual editor of 3D worlds, but not Blender / 3D Max, together with code editor and C# ?

It looks more like Adobe/Macromedia Flash as IDE, used to like that very much back in the days, till flash died due to plugin need / proprietary / security.

Would still prefer to ship an app in a single file, that progressively streams, just as SWF used to do. Now, in the web area, all is utter crap, one billion files to download, CDNs, fallbacks, signatures.... argh!

Heck, would choose VB or Delphi as IDE for building apps in no time against all this React / Angular / WebComponents tech salad with no substance and ephemeral lifespan.

I am still able to compile pascal code from 1997 in Lazarus / FPC.
I think a view of "while things are running let's not spend more than our income, that way we can make debt in a crisis" is fiscally responsible, and in essence what Germany does.

It's much more difficult when you then ask Germany what to do about a country like Greece, where years of spending and a recession left the government with more debt than it could bear. "just save money" probably wasn't the best response, but it's not like "just take on massive debt to fix your economy" was an option either (it would have been an option if Greece had taken on less debt in better years).
Do you know about the behaviour of German savers? It is fundamentally different to America, the UK, most other countries in Europe. The only similar nation anywhere is Japan...and even then, still significant differences.

The ECB is making a huge push, without any kind of democratic consent, towards a finance-based, American/UK-style financial system. This won't work because German savers have virtually no experience of such a system.

All that will happen is: banks go bust (more bust, most German banks are insolvent), and savers lose all their money. Either they hold their money in banks or they take it out and lose it all doing stuff they know nothing about (if we don't have an immediate recession, you will see French investment banks swarm Germany...French bankers have some kind of innate ability to produce bullshit derivatives aimed at savers with a conservative bank-led culture of saving).

It is kind of insane that we have got to the point where policymakers actively ignore markets. All that matters are the textbooks. But this doesn't work. You can't just transplant economic policies from another context and expect them to work the same.

That said, it will be nice to see Germany return to the early 2000s. Objectively, Germany has one of the most vulnerable and poorly functioning economies in the G10. Combine this with utterly insufferable, self-important policymakers and you have quite a nice example of natural justice.
It’s a common attitude, investing is seen as little more than gambling.
Yea, the community has progressed a lot more and the documentation (wiki, example files) is quite well done.
> the bank levies a micro tax on all holders of the currency with the expectation that their investment in the receiver of the loan will yield a better return?

No.

Banks compete for deposits and compete to lend. The spread between those rates must pay the bank’s costs, cover its risks and turn a profit. When central banks reduce the return on safe assets banks hold, their income from lending to the government goes down. The banks thus seek to replace that income with other lending. Unfortunately, everyone in the system is doing the same thing. This competition forces lending rates down.

Savers are competing for investments next to the banks. There are lots of them crowding into bank deposits; this lets those banks lower the rate they pay. (Nobody forces savers to deposit Euros only in German banks.)

This is a system of feedback loops. Nobody is charging a tax, though banks may charge a fee for a service it costs them to provide. Depositors are free to take their business elsewhere. And entrepreneurs who think they can do better are free to launch competing financial services.