skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Unfortunately that is one of big myths that has kept a lot of Africa from developing. Western nations have focused too much on education. But what you end up with are highly educated people who simply move out of the country at first opportunity.

Capital and quality government is the key to development. Things like registering a business, getting permits e.g. cannot be too difficult.

Rich countries tend to be rich in large part due to capital. Capital existing in the form of extensive road and rail road networks. Quality harbors for ships. Power stations and power grids. All these things are very capital intensive and poor countries tend to have big problems with this.

Hard to run a business efficiently when you get power only parts of the day if at all, and there are no road connecting you to customers or markets.

The west has focused on improving education and health care and so that has perhaps been quite ahead of the standard of the infrastructure.
Excuse my ignorance, but couldn’t they just add a SHA256 hash to commit objects (or some new commit-verify object) of the entire trees current concatenated content, leave everything else SHA1 and get the same benefit without rewriting the entire thing from the ground up? Git could even do that as part of the git gc step slowly over time - tag commits with a secondary hash.

Rewriting the whole thing including every git repos history seems like throwing the baby out with the bathwater, when you could just add a secondary transparent verification instead. Just seems like there has to be a better way.
What on earth led you to believe that?

It does look like wishful thinking now :)
It's not my code :) However, tagged template literals won't allow dict expansion the way this solution does. Also, a template literal is evaluated at the time of assignment. This will allow you to re-use an arbitrary template string with any matching values:

tpl = applyTemplate("Hello ${a}");
tpl({"a": "you"}); // --> Hello you
tpl({"a": "dude"}); // --> Hello dude
90% seems good with poor fit. That's a far cry from people saying its pointless to use N95 masks outside of a hospital setting.
Institutional momentum and lack of legitimate alternative.
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Cool 3 letter names. Reminds me of the commands in Bloomberg Terminal/some old HCI. I really like how you've built a whole stack of custom tech there.

That's my aim too. My work is all Vanilla. I hate to use external frameworks and libraries in the browser, but love to use stuff on npm. I prefer to write something I like to use, rather than use something that exists that I don't like working with.

You can see portfolio here: https://github.com/cris691/Portfolio. Bepis and Dumbass are vanilla front-end alternatives to frameworks.

I'm really interested on what you think the hate for not-using-2ton-framework-of-the-month is about?
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> and if the pump fails your CPU instantly fries.

Perhaps if you don't forget to activate the BIOS CPU warning at high temp, you shouldn't worry about this .

I recently fixed a PC where the pump died without anyone noticed, and the only evidence, was that the BIOS was powering off the computer when the CPU gets too hot.
Hashing everything in one go doesn't scale well. When making a new commit you want to only hash a proportional part of the repository, and the tree structure of git allows that, only the files and "tree" objects (directory listings) that change are hashed again.
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If you hate smearing, and it causes problems for you, then you're likely exactly the person this library is for.
I can already see my own apps work without Javascript support. I'll convert video streams into permanently loading gifs and add 2 million invisible pixel sized form buttons arranged in a grid on top of the entire website so that I can send pixel coordinates to my server. Oh, and there will be a virtual keyboard made out of a form element so that there is no need to listen to keyboard events. There will be a huge spike in users who disable Javascript and they will flood my servers until the site crashes from the massive load.

I seriously hope this will never happen.
Instead of providing a phone number you can also email support and complain about the account lock. But yeah, it's a pretty scummy bait and switch behavior.
>He didn't take the money from anyone

So he summoned it out of thin air
> They could toss a coin

Funny you should mention that...

https://theweek.com/speedreads/893489/iowa-officially-first-...
> Immediately post crisis, inflation was a big worry with the increase in the money supply.

Only amongst right-wing politicians and their economic lackeys.

People who actually looked at the models concluded it was nothing to worry about:

> 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...

A 2000 paper explaining Japan, monetary supply, and inflation:

> Those who use Hicks's famous diagram as the point of reference for evaluating monetary policy will recall that at some low rate of interest the horizontal portion of the LM curve emanating from the vertical axis is meant to represent the lack of influence of expanding the money supply on the rate of interest; monetary policy thus does not shift the intersection of the LM curve with the IS curve that determines the equilibrium level of output. Since monetary policy has no impact on the level of output along this horizontal portion of the LM curve, debt financing of government expenditure remains the only policy capable of influencing output.

* https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=219494

In 2009 US entered the same situation Japan has been in since the 1990s ('zero' interest rates), and so the knowledge was transferable across the Pacific to those who weren't blinded by political ideology.

The liquidity trap goes back to Keynes:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liquidity_trap
The Promise System (1992)
Just because it's an Internet Draft doesn't mean anything at all (2014)
> They will all eventually will migrate to US once the policies are relaxed.

It takes at least 5 years to get Canadian citizenship. 5 years is a long time to build a life somewhere that people wouldn't want to migrate to the US. You are assuming it's just more money that motivates everyone.
App Used to Tabulate Votes Is Said to Have Been Inadequately Tested
Can you estimate how much time you put into the assignment? Did you get paid?
> outside of rush-hour they're driving around virtually empty.

Even during rush hour, most cars drive around virtually empty.
I think the server CPU area will be more immediately interesting. What's interesting this time, vs Opteron, is that AMD doesn't need to convince a bunch of conservative data center managers.

A few key wins with the three cloud giants, and Intel will feel it. And the cloud giants can start with things like managed messaging, databases, etc, where it's not directly exposed to end users. Similar for the various high end AARCH64 CPUs. Intel is in for a ride.
Because they are young and do not use it?
Cybercriminals Outwit Behavioural Biometrics. And what we can do about it
Tell HN: I created IAvisa, a visa requirements website
IAvisa.com started over a year ago. 5 months ago I posted a Show HN of the website beta and got mixed reactions. Some people liked it, some people didn't like it.

Also a lot of bugs were shown and also a lot of false and missing information I had on the website regarding visas.

I went back to the drawing board and started working out the kinks. I created crawlers that check sources like IATA, Wikipedia, various Airline companies such as Emirates, FlyDubai, AirFrance etc. and updates the website's information once changes are made in the visa requirements information. This wasn't an easy task as you might know and it took a very long time to finalize.

Of course, even IATA and Wikipedia get it wrong occasionally, which is normal due to the fact that inter country deals and procedures change almost on a daily basis but I hope that the IAvisa website is the most accurate source for visa information right now on the market.

I'm planning on expanding the site with many more features and I know that the design is not 2020 but working with few resources has it's drawbacks.

Today the site's first version is fully launched and I'll focus all my time and energy making it better each day.

https://iavisa.com/
You're absolutely seething. Have a day off.
Your comment makes no sense. Besides the fact that this is showing Lidar scans with depth and 3D textures (does look cooler), the relevant part which is feature detection is a lot poorer. It doesn’t seem to detect lane markers or boundaries, sidewalks, traffic signs, or show path estimates like you can clearly see in the Tesla video. Plus the texturing implies the route is pre-mapped while Autopilot is doing all the work in real time.
i searched many queries leaving anything empty apart the state, nothing found.
Any working query ?
Debt-based monetary systems will skew towards ever increasing growth.
Despite Election Security Fears, Iowa Caucuses Use Smartphone App
Technology glitches prevent same-night release of Iowa caucus results
Can you get countries not to compete?
Well, reliability.

I have one computer with Gigabyte X399 Aorus Xtreme and it is an utter crap, especially the firmware. It randomly resets its settings, even after you just saved them. Sometimes it takes few reboots to get it to acknowledge, that yes, I did enable AMD SVM and want to use it.
Did they get the job, though?
Tesla’s system can still estimate where the car should be without markings, just like humans do with their vision.
West Virginia is expanding its controversial smartphone voting push
The ABC of Observability – A to D
Michael Lewis has a great episode about this in his podcast "Against the Rules". He actually gets a consultant to try to explain why CEOs are paid so much. The answers are pretty telling.
Are these the same models that said the mortgage CDS’s are all AAA?
https://sshreach.me (disclaimer: I am the author)
It only looks straighter because the X-Axis units are larger. We still end up at the same destination, anaemic growth.
Does our brain trick us into perceiving time? [video]
>Anti-cheating software actually used to be optional. I used to have the option to host or search for servers with anti-cheating disabled. During installation, many games offered me the option to install the anti-cheating module. Battlefield 2 comes to mind.

It was the same with Enemy Territory, you could choose not to enable PunkBuster. It worked quite well, since when PunkBuster stopped providing anti-cheat servers for ET, server admins had to be more proactive with banning - and it worked (and works) pretty well. The issue with games like Overwatch is that you don't host your own server, and you therefore can't choose to ban a certain player if you know they're a cheater.

If Blizzard were to implement host-your-own-server, like older MP games, it would fundamentally change their game dynamic, which is balanced matchmaking with other people in the queue. I'm not a fan of the random matchmaking model (it has destroyed the local community spirit of MP servers), but it does solve some problems - I can now be confident that I'll only be playing with people ranked similarly to me, and it provides a region ranking system where you can gain a higher skill rating and play against more experienced people. In ET, you could join your favourite server and spend a long time getting rolled by a really good player, consistently, and your only recourse would be to abandon that server and find another one, and hope there's not a really good player there either. It's not fun to consistently play against people miles ahead of you.
Hydrogen can also be used in internal combustion engines with most of the benefits of reduced emissions (NOx not withstanding) with minimal modification. If there was a source, distribution and storage infrastructure for hydrogen we could start using it tomorrow.

Personally I don't see much hope in that direction. Hydrogen combines high pressures with corrosive nature (see hydrogen embrittlement) and high flammability. Unless someone comes up with a really good storage matrix for it.
You don't need all that many Watts. Cars are parked about 23h a day. Electric cars need something like 20kWh/100km. Most people don't drive 100km a day, so on average you need a lot less than 1kW per car if every parking spot is also a charging point.
E-field-based 3D gesture-recognition chip
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The same security a bank gives you with a vault with guards.

Sure, you could put the money in your safe at home, but security always has tradeoffs.
> Doesn't it? I suspect almost every country (in Africa especially) has a wealth of some resource, they just don't know it's there and don't have the technology to mine it. Perhaps the smart educated folks may discover it occasionally.

The problem is quality government. I live in Norway which is big on resources too and work with people who are geologists and do surveying. Norway is insanely expensive to do mining compared to Africa in terms of labor costs, environmental protection laws etc.

However many mining companies would still pick Norway over Africa. Why? Very stable high quality government. Mining requires large investments for years. You don't want to lose those investments because of civil war, or some dictator takes power, or a populists nationalize mine without compensation.

And even if an African country gets a mine, they run the risk of it not helping the country develop much. Because:

1) A western company may extract most of the wealth. In principle that could happen in Norway too, but Norwegian government will tax these companies far more. A western company can often squeeze poor African governments to get very low tax deals. Or they simply bribe officials.

2) Government corruption. There may be a lot of wealth, but it may end up in the pockets of corrupt officials who use it to buy foreign luxury products hence it benefits the local economy very little.

My point is that developing a country is a very complex task, because they tend to have a whole cocktail of problems that reinforce each other.

Often many approaches to solving these problems make matters worse. Zero tolerance towards corruption e.g. tends to make things worse. That allows corruption charges to be used selectively to imprison political opponents.
I was interested in how fossil handled the SHA1 transition, and found this nicely explained as below:

https://fossil-scm.org/home/doc/trunk/www/hashpolicy.wiki
The streets are lined with cars, but the pavements aren't. A lot of places already have narrow enough streets -- we should be making it easier to walk around, not harder.
Why has this not taken off? Off-the-surface gestures seem like they'd really enrich smartphone experience. I don't get why this low power proven tech has not been incorporated into phones. It's already 8 years old!
Why can’t you wait to see pro-brexit teams picking fruit, etc.? Are you implying that low-skill jobs are degrading/undignified?
It's not VanillaJS but it feels like it https://github.com/alpinejs/alpine/ I have been using alpinejs and is really easy to start and complete! something that is difficult to have together.
Have you ever wondered why the user/kernel split in modern operating systems even exist in the first place? And no, it’s not to annoy the heck out of game developers. Kernel programming requires much more care and effort than userspace programming, and if you grant kernel access to any application that asks for it, you're bound to make the whole system unstable, insecure, and underperformant. Operating system developers spend a lot of time designing interfaces that are safe to use, and applications should strictly stick to those. Taking a “move fast and wreak havoc on the whole system” approach with your customer’s devices is not acceptable however justified you think you are.

This is all assuming that the developers of anti-cheating software have any sense of self-restraint and strictly limit themselves to anti-cheating, which is obviously not the case given their track record. The reality is much, much worse and no amount of legal gibberish they stick in front of their users before installation would make it any better.
Two points:

1. I'm reminded of the exploitability of the rootkits folded into games like MapleStory a few years ago. Anybody with the rootkits installed had kernel-level authority available for the taking. Unfortunately don't remember exact details, but my vague memory suggests this was unfixed for years.

2. Link-chaining a bit I got to https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rj6ukLPiY10, "The Norwegian CS Cheating Scandal". I didn't watch the video but I did read the top comment, which rightfully highlighted the utter inability for software to detect cheating via DMA (in the noted case over PCI-e, but potentially theoretically doable over ThunderBolt and FireWire too).

Hopefully these rootkits are a bit better at doing one thing and doing it better than the iPhone SecureROM ;)

Most seem to not realize that poking PCI-e isn't that expensive, but thankfully the specialist reverse engineering skills required are still well outside the 14-year-old script kiddie attention span.
The average tax rate for a single person making 250K in Sunnyvale is 32.93% [1]

The average tax rate for a single person making 250K in Ontario is 39.80% [2]

But with the extra taxes you also get some better benefits like healthcare, cheaper education. Of course if your main goal is to save as much money as you can, then it probably better in the US because you earn more salary and USD converts better into other currencies.

[1] https://smartasset.com/taxes/income-taxes#I4RNWQ9WYm
[2] https://simpletax.ca/calculator
I never really understand the special status given to national sovereignty. We all give up some control in a democratic system, from the local level upwards. Why is there some special status for the national level? What is it that’s so bad about giving up some control at that level as part of a greater system?
With the help of an additional “proxy”, you can. One such proxy software is Apache Guacamole. It doesn’t only do remote desktop, it also does SSH.
High cash flow, high margins. Low customer turnover, stable growth. Its a much safer investment than most unicorns.
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The nature of corruption probably matters. Corruption is quite high in China e.g. yet it still develops very quickly. Some quite rich countries like Italy are quite corrupt but still kind of manage.

I suspect the devil is in the details. Certain forms of corruption is likely more corrosive than others.
The linked article doesnt contradict the original post. Linked article says strength of 2 hash algos (of this type) is only as strong as the strongest and not the sum of their strengths. But original poster only needed the combined hash to be as strong as the sha256 for his/her purpose.

Notwithstanding, i still dont like it as an idea.
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India: Flipkart’s struggles to match Amazon’s catalogue
Yes, lovage is great, surprised it's not more popular.

Growing it in my garden as it's not in any of the UK supermarkets.
I'm not sure how you would fund pensions without growth
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Short answer: No

Long answer: https://ourfiniteworld.com/2011/02/21/there-is-no-steady-sta...
Many things in the universe live in a vacuum.

China doesn't need a high productivity because they have man power. Sometimes you get 10-20 or more "assistants" for a technician if you are there for a business trip.
Not sure why you’re being downvoted, but this true. For most people the inactive ingredients have no impact, but for some people they do.
Just looked over it. The website seems ok, the design indeed could benefit of more contemporary elements but at least it is straight forward to use. Visa information seems to be accurate. Keep working on the website.
They even started on the Mac before being ported to Windows. At least Excel did, not sure about the other two.