skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is not an unexpected, one-time $370 expense. It's $370 spent over six years.

According to CBS [1], the cheapest city to live in in the US Harlingen, Texas. The Nacho Supreme at Pepe's "homey" Tex-Mex "joint" [2] is $9.95. If you can afford to treat yourself to a plate of those nachos once every two months, then you could have afforded to secure all of your passwords.

[1]: https://www.cbsnews.com/pictures/10-cheapest-places-to-live-...
[2]: http://pepesrgv.com/
you can build your own fusion reaction in the comfort of your home. Apparently fusor devices [1] are hobbist level difficulty. They are nowhere near break even, but they do generate a lot of radiation which can still be contained safely on a benchtop apparently.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fusor
Web as a building block for user experience [video]
Bob Lazar Says the FBI Raided Him to Seize Area 51's Alien Fuel
lacking test under load make this not a very good article.
New versions of grep just call regexec(3): https://github.com/apple-open-source-mirror/text_cmds/blob/9...
You can use an ATM (or localbitcoins) to cash out Bitcoin without any connection to your bank account. Bitcoin doesn't have to be ubiquitous to use it even today, you just have to find businesses that accept Bitcoin. A buddy of mine accepts rent from a tenant in Bitcoin. There are exchanges to buy gift cards or Amazon credits with Bitcoin which you can use in real life to buy food. You can realistically go about your life completely in 2019 with just magic internet money. What a time to be alive.
How to scale a high-growth startup
Yeah, I later found that the map just centered on where most employees were, and that was always Europe/US, so Asia was never really displayed.
> A turbine lasts about 20-30y

Half that.
some humans have a mutation that means they don't smell
Unity's new Data-Oriented Technology Stack (DOTS) aims to take advantage of multi-threading by default. It's done transparently as far as it is possible, with the help of a new burst comipiler system, their new job system and the Entity Component System (ECS).

https://unity.com/dots
My suspicion is that you are thinking of the tool VisIt ( https://wci.llnl.gov/simulation/computer-codes/visit/ ). VisIt vs yt has some tradeoffs, but by and large it is very useful for rapidly visualizing numerical simulations and supports a large variety of them. I use it daily.
Don't know how that works in US, but here in Europe the answer is yes, the main reason people become contractors is because taxes for contractors are lower than for employees, which means more take-home pay for the same cost for the employer.
> enforced two-factor

In what world do wire transfers require 2FA?
So the general rule is that if the companies holds some kind of user lock in they now must accept all legal users. Since a hosting company has no such lock in and moving to another one lets you reach exactly the same audience then they are safe.
How did that work out for DropBox? Google and/or Microsoft could announce tomorrow that they are either giving the same functionality away or bundling with their Office product.
another comment estimated that every user would have to pay about $28 a year for a no advertisements policy to be revenue neutral for facebook. but not every user is equally worth advertising to; I would assume that users who were actually willing to pay the subscription would be some of the most desirable advertising targets. maybe the price where it would actually be worth it to offer ad-free facebook to people who would be willing to pay is too high to admit publicly.
> Actually that's the behavior of python 2, it works fine, until you send invalid characters then it blows up.

> In python 3 it always blows up when you mix bytes with text so you can catch the issue early on.

Sometimes you don't care about weird characters being print as weird things. In python 2 it works fine: you receive garbage, you pass garbage. In python 3 it shuts down your application with a backtrace.

Dealing with this was one of my first Python experiences and it was very frustrating, because I realized that simply using #!/usr/bin/python2 would solve my problem but people wanted python3 just because it was fancier. So we played a lot of whack-a-mole to make it not explode regardless of the input. And the documentation was particularly horrible regarding that, not even the experienced pythoners knew how to deal with it properly.
Precisely. Bitcoin isn't a substitute payment system to Paypal.
This is the thing I find very disturbing. That an industry as highly regulated and essential to every day life as banking can pick and choose based on management's moral choices.
Underrated comment :P
It's not so much that it's "hard", but that it's time consuming when you have hundreds or even thousands of python scripts to port -- and since those scripts already work and you probably weren't going to have to touch them at all, you're not really gaining anything for all of that porting effort.
For some reason, our cat used to be absolutely crazy for anko. The first time he ever encountered it, he stole a dorayaki out of someone's hands and hid with it in the closet growling (it was wrapped in plastic so he couldn't actually eat it). After that, I used to give him a tiny taste any time I had some but I noticed he would always throw up soon after. Now that he's a bit older he seems to have no interest in it at all.

Could it be that they can taste sweets at a young age but gradually lose that ability?
Why just ads in social media? It seems like you could replace social media with the mainstream media in this argument and it would make just as much sense.
Why is it true? It relates to exponential growth.

Start with any number and repeatedly add any percentage, e.g. 10%. Repeated multiplication will get you through the 2000s quicker than it got you through the 1000s.
I don't save tabs and have about 10 addons. I'll try to see if any of them are the cause.

Edit: I should note that Firefox is only slow on the first opening after a cold boot. Firefox is fine after that. Might be some caching issue.

Edit 2: After a cold boot, Firefox loads quickly in safe mode. Disabling ABP did not seem to eliminate the problem. Disable NoScript seemed to help a bit. I might switch to uMatrix instead of those two and see if that helps.
some of the greatest damage the progressives have done to our society came from convincing people that the slippery slope is a fallacy
Ask HN: What financial tools or advice do you think are essential?
Mostly because I wrote those scripts many years ago and I've been reusing them since. I'll look into RMarkdown for the next paper, thanks!
All advertising is bad-looking. It's intentionally created to draw your attention without your consent, and distracts from anything actually of interest.
This argument (loopholes will kill enforcement) are brought up time & again.

The goal isn't to eradicate ads, it's to make them cost more so there's overall less of it (or that it's embedded in ways that don't seem like ads).

I'd argue that product placement is less bad than outright attention theft. Because I ignore it or I notice and think less of the content (or in some cases it's like Waynes World where it's a mockery of the product placement which bolsters the content).
Also in NJ, it's pretty well known that both businesses and individuals are flowing out of the state due to taxes when they are able.

The main reason my parents moved south when they retired wasn't the weather but the fact that they couldn't retire how they wanted with the property taxes in this state.
"try to charge" , and "survive only on ads" are not mutually exclusive. FB could charge for ads-free, but nobody would use it. It's delusional assume otherwise, with FB costing the average person $40/year, which is in some places on earth the entire year's income. I also assume FB doesn't offer the option because it's too much work to filter all the tracking in and out of their properties.
Corporations don't, or shouldn't, have a right to free speech.
15".

It's a good 1.5" from the right arrow key to the edge.
You're not gonna have to rewrite it in a few years. Languages only go through the mess of retrofitting unicode once.

Besides Java and Python already discussed, another big mess of a transition was from Qt 4 to Qt 5, where all the strings became unicode.
> It baffles my mind that there are billionaires out there who are being pestered by badly placed ads.

I like to imagine that behind every billionaire there's a 'Technical Secretary', or whatever the title might be, installing PiHole and doing whatever else to solve these stupid problems that for whatever reason their employer doesn't realise is a stupid problem that every user of the employer's app has.
I believe this is because 1000 in Latin is “mille” (also modern French), so 1 million is one thousand thousands.
Ah, the first thing that comes to mind when someone disagrees with you is accusing them of being a paid shill..
They are pretty unique and are good, although they are slow to update the service and it's starting to hit some real issues for me.

The most relevant issue for me being the lack of U2F (now WebAuthn, I guess) support. It is also really annoying you can't have restricted SSH keys to allow for automation that is locked down to single sites.

They have had those issues on their feature voting for years.
Yep, just noticed that today as well.
The European Union will stop fossil-fuel funding by the end of 2021
Can anyone explain how this even happens?

Who could possibly threaten a bank over handling financial transactions for sex workers? And what could they possibly threaten the bank with?

Even if it's some big business like Chick-fil-A...

Presumably they only bank with one bank, and presumably the porn and sex work industry has more money at that bank than Chick-fil-A.

How's this actually work? It's not making sense to me.
The printing-money-will-not-cause-inflation was predicted by Keynesians:

> Suddenly it seems as if everyone is talking about inflation. Stern opinion pieces warn that hyperinflation is just around the corner. And markets may be heeding these warnings: Interest rates on long-term government bonds are up, with fear of future inflation one possible reason for the interest-rate spike.

> But does the big inflation scare make any sense? Basically, no — with one caveat I’ll get to later. And I suspect that the scare is at least partly about politics rather than economics.

* https://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/29/opinion/29krugman.html

The economic models said that the Fed should have decreased interest rates until they reached -6.7% (i.e., well below zero), but this that was impractical, the next-best thing was flood the market with cash equivalent, and that inflation would not appear:

* https://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/11/16/the-madness-of-...

> It seemed totally obvious to many people that with the Fed adding to the monetary base at breakneck speed, high inflation just had to be around the corner. That’s what history told us, right?

> Except that those who knew their Hicks declared that this time was different, that in a liquidity trap the rise in the monetary base wouldn’t be inflationary at all (and that the relevant history was from Japan since the 1990s and from the 1930s, which seemed to confirm this claim). And so it proved, as shown by the red marker down at the bottom.

* https://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/05/17/money-inflation...

> According to mainstream theory, among the characteristics of a liquidity trap are interest rates that are close to zero and changes in the money supply that fail to translate into changes in the price level.[2]

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liquidity_trap

The [2] is a 1998 paper by Krugman talking about Japan. So ten years before the Great Recession there were already models on how to think about increasing M2 from other countries' experiences.
some advertising is ugly. most of it is intentionally designed to create a positive emotional response, in many cases including art. Think different.
Do they not require independent contractors to contribute premiums for that? That's how it works here in Canada (same for mandatory pensions/"social security").
Citation needed. Like not saying I don't believe it, just want details.
"The before pictures look like a vibrant and alive city where things are happening and commerce is being done."

That's what you get when you have competent, professional painters, typographers, photographers and designers deliberately trying to make their work exciting and attractive.

Without the ads, all you see is drab, flatly painted buildings, which are not nearly as exciting.

The feeling of excitement and aliveness does not require advertising, however. Some towns and neighborhoods revitalized their run down buildings by hiring artists to come and paint murals (which, to my eye look far better than virtually any ad), or commissioning other artwork (such as sculptures).

But even if that's not done, I'd personally much rather see flatly-painted buildings than advertising that's trying to manipulate me.
I don't know about those particular authors. However, the vibe I get from the rust community as a whole is "unsafe is where dragons lay". Most, I'd say, treat it just like inline asm in C++. Sometimes a necessary evil, but not something you should be in the habit of using.
> Nothing is impossible with the right resources.

And yet we still can't manage to put a person on Mars despite having the resources to do so for over half a century.

Your adversary has a budget too.
> but macroeconomics is a bastardized combination of sociology and capitalist political theory mashed into an unfalsifiable 'science' and taught as such.

It also serves as highly effective propaganda for its embedded political ideas. It's a lot harder to question the politics if you've been indoctrinated into believing they have the truth of a natural science.
Personally, I resent it when I see ads everywhere I look, even if they're "good looking". Advertising is inherently invasive.
CockroachDB Passes TPC-C at 100k Warehouses, 100 times more scalable than Aurora
Fed sees climate change shaping economy, policy
I heard sex workers actually do use Monero when they use crypto (not BTC). It's funny how the supposedly bad UX doesn't matter when there's a compelling reason to use it.
It's not a moral choice. It's a case of the business is not worth the hassle. KYC rules mean the bank is on the hook if they are found to harbor ill gotten gains and the sex industry had a some troubles in the past, while not producing enough volume on an individual level to make it worthwhile for a bank to overlook things.
> a lot of macroeconomics seems to be politics in disguise.

It used to be called political economy. But macroeconomics went off on a math-trip in the 20th century that rivals string theory in its practical applications.
I'd wager that Benford's law doesn't apply to distances to stars.
I have the same issue and my only active addons are procrastination guard and adblock. It happens at startup when there are no tabs, but I frequently have between 10 and 20 tabs.
you don't have to do these things in python 3 either, your problem was that you had python 2 code that was already broken and you are started adding encode/decode to fix it, typically making the problem worse.

If you write code in python 3 from the start you rarely need to use encode() and decode(). Typically what you always want is a text not bytes.

Exception to it might be places where you want to serialize like IO (network or files, although even files are converted on the fly unless you open file in a binary mode).
> As long as communication has existed, communicating false or misleading information has existed

I don't think it's ever been at such level, though. The whole modern economy incentivizes the amplification of false and polarizing information for the sake of maximizing engagement.

> The only way to combat it is with skepticism and critical thought

It can only get you so far. You can see that even respectable sources are slowly slipping into reporting unverified info and hot controversial takes for the sake of clicks and ad revenue these days. If left alone, this trend will produce a situation where there won't be any source you trust enough to cross-check against.
I'm in the US and bought perfectly legal supplements from a US company using BTC from my Coinbase wallet. I and several other customers of this US company had our accounts terminated by Coinbase. This US company we bought supplements from also accepted and still accepts major credit cards. Coinbase certainly cares.
Property taxes turn out to be a better way for states to do the bulk of tax collection. The focus on income taxes is probably a big part of why the property values in some of Cali are so insane.
Allow me to provide you something very concrete and convincing, a blank cheque. How much money will it take for me to ejaculate into your mouth on camera? You must play with it and pretend it tastes good before swallowing like in the videos. Logistics can be arranged via the email in my profile. If there is no such amount, please explain why. If it is an issue of sexual orientation, please extend this offer to your closest heterosexual female friend or family member. Thank you, and I look forward to our doing business together.
Great. What's the Sourcehut of password management?
Mercurial, perhaps?
US won’t clean up Marshall Islands nuclear waste [ ] but [ ] anti-U.S. graffiti
Per SEAT, not just over all cost per launch, Boing could just keep paying Russia and pocket the difference.
I doubt the current administration is targeting gun dealers.
> Because the price would be too high.

What is the correct price? Do Facebook and other internet companies have some sort of a God given right to at least their current revenues? If so, why do I have to comply with a whole slew of laws and regulations that society has "decided" are better for the greater good, but we can't impose similar restrictions on them?

> Also the necessary 20% price increase every year

Lest the executives maybe make more money but a smaller profit margin? How about instead of spending resources on psychological exploitation of their userbase, they either cancel that expenditure or redirect it to adding beneficial features that users want to pay for?

> How about instead we just stop using Facebook?

If that can solve the problem, I'm happy to consider it.

> I dropped it 3 years ago and haven't missed it one bit.

And yet, we still seem to have a problem.

Once again, an utterly obvious problem seems unfixable because of some combination of excessive corporate influence over politicians combined with a disinterested public who seems to have been convinced that humans live in a world whose parameters we have absolutely no control over, all while being told how superior, powerful, and necessary democracy is. Meanwhile, over in China, when something is causing problems, the problem maker is asked to stop, and if he doesn't, he is made to stop, or else. And from anything I've seen, the Chinese government seems to be improving the well being of their citizens at a rapid pace (in both relative and absolute terms), and they have high support from the public, despite the lack of absolutely necessary Democracy.

Why is it that a bi-partisan group of politicians can't get together to come up with a plan to improve the situation, and while they're doing that telegraph to these social media companies that something is going to be done, possibly very much not to their liking, so it might be in their best interests to come up with a plan B of their own that is fundamentally different than the pure advertising model of the day? Of course, there are many reasons for this, one of them being that the political system in most Western countries is effectively broken and outdated, completely incapable of managing the complexities of the over-optimized societies that the scientists and technologists have built for us, while no corresponding discipline developed to handle important questions like whether just because we can do something, should we do it?

As always, I imagine we will just continue the charade of pointing our fingers at each other and the Russians, fiddling while Rome burns, as China grows ever more powerful and socially united.

I hope I at least live long enough to see how this will be explained away in the future as something that "no one" could see coming, just as "no one" could have seen the 2008 housing bubble coming.
So many ad-hoc solutions, but I can't seem to find the maximum power consumption/TDP of the RasPi4, which would inform the kind of dissipation you'd need.

Best I could find was the BCM2711 (the Broadcom SoC at the heart of the RasPi4) "datasheet" (a frickin' Word document) [1] that says the board requires a PSU capable of providing 3A at 5V.

So that'd be 15W.

[1] https://www.raspberrypi.org/documentation/hardware/raspberry...
Not with these servos or this mechanical arrangement, that's for sure. But, it's very interesting to think of ways to improve the precision of imprecise hardware, using only software.
You have to be in very close physical proximity for a recording to occur. Most recordings that close will be benign. It is worth considering the privacy implications, but it isn't equivalent to a fixed security camera recording and storing everything that happens in a broad area.
Absolutely. Tracking and data collection is the issue, ads qua ads are fine, I don't think this was ever really a significant conversation in offline advertising in newspapers and magazines in years gone by.

It's the tracking (online and offline) that's unpalatable.
The encoding/decoding is heavy in codebases that have to run on Python 2 and Python 3 at the same time, and authors are worried about handling unicode correctly on python 2.

Ironically when your python 2 app doesn't care about unicode, the porting to python 3 is actually much easier.
if someone puts ads "everywhere you look" then you shouldn't be there in the first place. I can't think of many places that are saturated with advertising and also worth looking at. The internet is a unique in being so saturated because advertising is so cheap.
Really? Because I run a Pi with a servo board on top that gets quite hot (too hot to touch) and it seems like CPU is performing time sensitive calculations (walking kinematics) adequately. It could be that the calculations are simple enough that they are insensitive to the throttling down. Do you have a suggestion how I could write some Python code to check if the 3 is throttling down? (Maybe a link to an example?)

Maybe it wouldn't be an issue on the Pi 4 that I think it is. In that case I have been holding back on switching to a 4 for no good reason. This is very helpful, thank you.
Automatically rewriting raw pointers to Rust references would be amazing.
I think that's called "throwing money at the problem"!

Taping the coin (or heat sink) down should give you better heat transfer, therefore better cooling.

Designing your own case in OpenSCAD and 3D printing is a piece of cake, building a large fan into the case (lower noise) is a nice weekend project.
But it's not that simple. How do you handle fraudulent paments when you can never refund a bitcoin transaction?

What about scale? If 20 million people used bitcoin, it would take over a month for a single transaction to process. You couldn't even use bitcoin to pay for rent on time.

And no, the solutions to these problems are tacked on and over-engineered, which to GP's point, is too complex for average payment users.
I think there are strong ethical arguments to be made about why it's wrong to force a company to not advertise inside of their own services.

But I don't really think that adverse economic impact is one of them.
It depends if the de-platforming is happening for reasons of social outrage / offense (bad) or commercial reasons (maybe not 'good' but at least 'better').

If it's about this particular industry sub-group having a much-higher-than-normal rate of fraud or returns or buyers remorse or whatever causes more hassle to PayPal's processes than they're worth, then that makes commercial sense.