skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And keep in mind the cost per Gigabyte stored is going to decrease over time.
It's Outlook Express all over again.
Paperwork AND doing due diligence on the companies more effectively than the government can right now.
This article, and the whole PPP program, showcases how local banks and even smaller regional banks and credit unions are so much better for many businesses than the bigs. I'm in Memphis, and it seems like everyone around me was approved, because we have a plethora of small banks and a very limited footprint of the Chase, Wells, BofA, USB, etc. It has become very apparent that a trusted banking relationship is worth its weight in gold when you need it most. Walking into a Wells Fargo branch and waiting in line to talk to a glorified customer service rep puts you at the back of the national PPP line. Any issues or incomplete data? Good luck. Walking into Small Town Bank and the CFO is as a few doors down the hall, they are equipped and prepared to serve. If you have issues, then you get a call from the someone at the top to work it out.

Separately, its also important to point out that the same preferential treatment occurs with the small banks, its just the range of preferences is lower. Very small businesses with bad credit or those of limited value to the bank as a client probably get sent to the back of the line, further compounded, as noted below, that very small businesses' "book keeping" may be wishful thinking at best. (im not opposed to funds being withheld from businesses with poor records, its just going to be the reality of a lot of those old mom and pop shops.

Yet another rabbit hole- cash heavy businesses that skirt the taxman with off-the-books pay, namely restaurants and bars, are reaping what they've sown.
>but rather the ROI for education / medicine, which looks quite different under a communist economy, under which so many other endeavours scale so much worse.

Great point! I might add that this is also true of many "third world" countries even without Communism.
As long as there's no latency when actually editing text, which is my experience with vscode, I don't think it's that big of an issue. As someone that's moved from vim+plugins to vscode, I'll take the few milliseconds of latency here and there as the price of having an environment where everything just seems to work out of the box, including plugins. Sure vim is snappier, but does it really matter if I have to constantly debug why youcompleteme isn't finding my header files or whatever.

Theoretically that doesn't have to be trade off. Theoretically it's possible to build an editor like vscode with a native interface. In the actual world it doesn't exist for whatever reason, so I'm going to keep using vscode.
In Ukraine we used mail mans to deliver pensions, that was horrible for them. Almost every year they were assaults in which they died. They represent a simple target as they don't have means to protect themselves.
I think it's funny. C was originally invented in an era when machines didn't have a standard integer size, 36-bit architectures were at their heydays, so C integers - char, short, int, and long - only have a guaranteed minimum size that could be taken for granted, but nothing else, to achieve portability. But after the computers of world have converged to multiple-of-8-bit integers, the inability to specify a particular size of an integer become an issue. As a result, in modern C programming, the standard is to use uint8_t, uint16_t, uint32_t, etc., defined in <stdint.h>, C's inherent support of different integer sizes are basically abandoned - no one needs it anymore, and it only creates confusions in practice, especially in the bitmasking and bitshifting world of low-level programming. Now, if N-bit integers are introduced to C, it's kind of a negation-of-the-negation, and we complete a full cycle - the ability to work on non-multiple-of-8-bit integers will come back (although the original integer-size independence and portability will not come back).
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What's strange to me is this idea that the normal anger response to greed is somehow irrational. Anger leads to laws and punishment, which changes the incentive structure.
The money is minted, which is to say printed, by the central bank. That is where the money comes from. That is where all money comes from.
People always seem to miss this key point:

The central bank is not a regular bank, it’s a “reserve” bank. Very different function.
There are date functions in most SQL packages which can create the limiting factors you're looking for, just as in procedural languages. Once you have the list of dates you're interested in, the problem becomes simple.
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Even though we appreciate it, the suggestion systems indirectly create a self-similarity of tastes amongst users.

This can happen at varying levels though, where all the unique 'we are all individuals' congregate and realise they're a subculture.

It completely distorts value / signal vs. noise over time and creates herd following behaviour.

Even youtube/google/alphabet realised this and eventually stopped recommending the same videos to everyone.

How many of us got exposed to PewDePie and the like because of the supposed wisdom/democracy/lowest common denominator etc. of the crowds?

We should cherish the moments we have when things like Bandcamp allow us high quality exposure to different things.
How about:

This decision will cause many of those we lay off to endure hardship. I apologize and accept responsibility for that. While I've struggled making this decision, that doesn't compare to the struggle of suddenly being out of work.

To recognize these difficulties, we've offered a month of severance pay for every year people have worked here, and extended the expiry of their vested options to three years.
Right now as things are Banks are just leeches offering minimal value to the world yet receiving a lot of income.
That's not where the value of money comes from, though
While it's definitely a ridiculous bar, one the things that shocked me about working at a grocery store is how many employees worked there. I think there were around 300-400 depending on the time of year. This wasn't even that massive a store.

Not saying that restaurants have that many, just that it can be deceptive how many employees a store has.
thank you! Hope you enjoy using it :)
This is kind of unfair given the timeline that they were asked to launch this in.
I was wondering that, and share your skepticism of autotranslation (it basically never works, and the only reason people like it is that the HDLs are stuck in the 80s).

But I think the "no automatic promotion or conversion" combined with "will error if combined with different width" could actually make extint(8) and extint(16) useful - it's a massive hint to autovectorisers and lets you generate the SIMD instructions for those widths.

Doubly so if they make sure never to write the words "undefined" where they mean "implementation-defined" for extint. At the moment normal arithmetic in C (x = x+1) is potentially undefined behaviour.
The point is the amount they are earning is overly generous for the work completed.

Most banks are only working with existing customers, so the DD is 99% complete. Few are reviewing applications from brand new clients.
How the backlog issues prioritization saved the company
I have done this many times. My preferred solution was to create a recursive CTE beginning with the desired start date and ending with the desired end date. I often based these on MIN and MAX subqueries, but obviously you could also pick arbitrary dates.

You can use days, months, weeks, years, or whatever you wanted as the "increment" in the CTE using the DATEADD function. Then (for nulls) you simply LEFT JOIN your CTE with the desired date part (aggregated) of your table. This gives you your first answer, and a simply filter will get you your second answer.

It's also common for people to just create all these date tables beforehand as actual, materialized tables. In my opinion, this is less elegant (what happens in 2101?! Somebody had better remember to add to the table!) but it naturally works just as well and probably saves some perf.
Thanks a million :)
Because successful fraud takes everything.
Again that perspective is wrong, because India is literally among the cheapest and often the cheapest country to buy data.

https://www.cable.co.uk/mobiles/worldwide-data-pricing/

https://www.forbes.com/sites/niallmccarthy/2019/03/05/the-co...

So they didn't cartelize, and only recently after the insane noise over the 3g auction which fizzled out, did we lose that market.

We've now essentially cartelized (all remaining firms raised rates in tandem), and the few players left are also teetering with Vodafone considering leaving.

This means that we will likely see Jio, and Airtel left, with BSNL constantly being denuded.

Their profits are terrible, and the debt burden because of arrears means they need a rescue, or the future situation will become - impressively - even worse.
I feel like everyone is ignoring the obvious elephant in the room. The insane price model.

$10 for a gig? 1 GB?

$1000 for 100GB? Are you insane?

I can buy an 8TB for $120. I could have 70TB of storage for the price of your 100Gb.

If I bought 2 HDDs up front, had a raid with duplication set up, and replaced 1 HDD every 3 years (imagining one failed every 3 years) I would still have almost 30 years of storage which is longer than you'll exist with this insane price model.
Since Damascus is on the list, it's worth noting that some of the building techniques that possibly originated thousands of years ago are still in use in some remote Syrian villages.

See:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_roof_shapes#/media/Fil...

https://syrianvoicesmediationandart.wordpress.com/2016/04/04...
Coincidentally, before current full stack freelancing stuff, I've spent around two years in augmented reality, often having to dig through tons of published research, only to realize pretentious lab methods do not work outside. We ended up adopting some methods from hacky teens on DIY forums, but never that..
> since otherwise you can tell where a cable is broken or being tampered with by sending light down the cable and seeing how long before light reflects off the broken bit and comes back to the end.

IIRC at BSidesLV last year there was a vendor selling optical splicing modules which were rather difficult to detect using this technique.
compilers do a known thing. security means protecting against unknown things.
Engineering data as a database, query Jira, Jenkins, Opsgenie with SQL
I would comfortably pay up to twice that amount if the content is high quality.
Carthage is listed as "Tangier"? Unless it was just added.
That sounds like bad tooling. Why not have every project use https://editorconfig.org/ and then have your IDE auto-format? It shouldn't be popping up and making you fix it, it should fix it for you.
Interesting! Although there aren't any metrics on how much load is actually balanced this way. The only plot doesn't have y-axis labels.
Cryptography.

Want to do finite field computation on a 254-bit integer? Now you can (BN254, very popular for zero-knowledge proofs)
381-bit? you're covered.

It's very perf critical and the field modulus bitsize and values are known at compile-time. (example in my library where I basically add to implement the same machinery: https://github.com/mratsim/constantine/blob/ff9dec48/constan...)
I wasn't confident in asserting data rates were low, but I've checked and Indian data rates, along with call rates are the lowest in the world.
It's hard to imagine that any small business has not submitted their application at this point.

I mean, our business was literally refreshing the page every 30 minutes last weekend for the application to go live, and I have to imagine that every business that needed the money was doing the same thing.
If it was a business requirement that you have perfectly sequential invoice numbers with no gaps, do it at the application level, not at the storage level.

Let the database do what it's great at doing: efficiently store and retrieve data.
Out of curiosity, did you have any risk factors such as (pre)diabetes/obesity?
When I moved to Canada in 98 from Belarus, I had minimal language knowledge. I was also half way through school year. After my testing was done I was put in to next grade.

Even though I was not the best student in my home country, prolly mediocre at best. With some subjects being better than others, still it was surprising to me.

By next school year I also felt that science classes were way behind what I was used to, and even though I could only read and barely understood instructions, I still was able to do very well in all of my stem classes despite lack of language knowledge. Honestly it was kind of annoying that I had to do things that I already have done in previous grades.

As I have started getting better with English and started paying less attention in class and less to my homework, eventually I fell somewhat behind.
Marhabat. This particular list is pretty strict on the "continuous" criteria. I guess when the Romans plowed salt into it, continuity was broken, for the purposes of this list.

Carthage does make this list. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_cities_through...

It was the world's biggest city circa 300BC.
Yes this works, for the right customers.

We sell a B2B platform for our business and our price point starts at $499/Month (even though we are considering adding cheaper options but that is a whole diff. discussion). Whenever a trial customer signs up, our sales rep. reaches out and tries to talk to them to understand how we can help them and if we are the right fit. It is not necessarily about maximizing profits but ensuring that we are the right fit for them and vice versa because they will otherwise leave anyway. Our platform is complex which means we also need to ask a lot of questions to ensure the prospect sees and understands the value proposition. It is not one of those dead simple SAAS where you signup and can start using it with just 2-3 features (even though if I could, I would love to be running such business, lol).

Btw, this is something our company battles with all the time on whether to try and reduce some of the touchpoints but for that, we need to do a hell of a lot more work on automated onboarding etc which is difficult for smaller companies with low volumes of leads.
This is probably the most well-thought-out comment here. It isn't a knee-jerk "it isn't permanent", "the tech won't work", "the funding won't work". I'm not looking at this from the lens of an archivist, though I think that is important too.

What do you think about the role of IPFS and FileCoin in digital preservation? Is there a role?
You can try it with a dummy account for now. It is ok.
Nostalgia is a hell of a drug.

Music can take you back to points in your life in a way that few things can.

People should always listen to new and old music, like books or movies/shows, sometimes repeated listens, viewings, or reads, can open up new aspects of the music, something you didn't see or hear before.
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There's a postal service bank in Israel as well. Lots of people use it, it's a fine service. They also offer fantastic foreign exchange rates, pretty much the best I think.
No one is saying you don't know how to watch movies! I could totally see how it would be possible to enjoy Outbreak as a fun action movie. Certainly there are plenty of movies I enjoy where the critical consensus is "meh".

I was just relaying my own personal experience with the film — it wasn't really what I expected, and as much as I love the silliness of 90s movies, it just fell a bit flat for me.
I do both, old stuff and new stuff depending on the mood. Lately I've been exploring some genres I didn't even know existed like medieval speed folk (Perkelt is a group I like) and Dungeon Synth (Fief is my favorite so far).
I have used it, and it works fine.
Fizz is an experimental language and runtime environment
Some quick numbers:

- 10bn in Fees

- 4975 Lenders

- $2m per Lender

I think this number doesn't seem unreasonable given the fact that the banks themselves are businesses - they have employees, training, technology, risks etc.
That's currency, not money. USD is not money in the theoretical sense.
> Any thoughts on where this energy should go?

Join the pact:

I solemnly swear to stand by those who fight corruption. Should they go too far, I will not fail to recognize the heroism in their intent. As they are expunged from social consciousness, I will not forget. I will not let their sacrifices be completely in vain.
This was not unexpected at all. They ended up shooting their own legs by harassing lewd artists off the site.
You can (IMO) pretty succinctly enumerate all the days in a month with a recursive CTE. The example in the following link does it for weekdays, but it's the same idea: https://www.sqlservertutorial.net/sql-server-basics/sql-serv...
Coronavirus at meat packing plants worse than first thought
Hm, does this work in Safari? https://caniuse.com/#feat=bigint
I dunno if it's disingenuous, but it is kinda clunky.
Never heard this before -- quite plausible. Do you have any references out in the wider world?
"Fastest" and "safest" are almost diametrically opposed on this topic. The fastest is usually the riskiest.
That's the great paranoia about the Federal Reserve? Seems .. anticlimactic.

Besides, the agency responsible for shipping huge amounts of cash to random people in total secrecy is the DOD. All those pallets of dollars that went missing in Iraq.
> Part of it is regulatory. We don't want money laundering. Have to ask whether this really ought to be up to law enforcement to do, or as it is now a massive burden on the banks, which also have bad incentives.

End drug prohibition.
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I can see this being used in serialization protocols.
> All of those are "premature optimizations".

And they are, until they aren't. And I really do mean that in both directions: Much of the time, the simplest, dumbest, most naive solution is 100% fine for realistic load for the forseeable future. And then some of the time it breaks terribly and you do need to spend effort optimizing it, whatever that entails.
That could be.

Eating lunch at Caffe Mac was just print a visitor badge and walk across the quad with visitor.

Maybe some campuses require transiting team-specific lockdowns, but Infinite Loop for lunch did not.
Born and raised Athenian here, oldest capital of Europe.

Downtown Athens and most of the suburbs are filled with ancient and byzantine ruins, despite the damage that wars, christians and muslims did.

I've watched plays in millennia old theaters. This is damn powerful.
what a pity to know that they will be mining more of our personal data when we are chilling with the sunshine.
I'm not sure I understand in practice how that would work. You have sentence embeddings and a query embedding. You're comparing groups of sentences from a document to the query. But how do you decide how to group the sentences? Are you just up-front grouping similar sentences somehow?
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The limit is 500 employees with a 100K annual salary cap per employee, at 2.5 months.

So $10.4MM is actually the maximum loan you can get - and the vast majority are far less than that.
> Our personal creative projects over commercial products the world doesn't need

It's literally on the page you linked to.
> To know how long the page is

Why? How often the first thing you do is look at the scroll bar and close a document because it's too short or too long?

If you're gonna read it you'll read it regardless of its length.

If you want to do anything else, like printing, you'll see the document size.

> to know what state we are BEFORE we interact with it

Why? If you open a new document you'll be at the top.

It's almost always immediately obvious that there would be more text.

If it's a previously opened document then you may be in the position you were in when you last opened it. In which case, you would remember that you're not at the beginning or end, and again it's usually immediately obvious that you're not at the beginning or end.

We come down to these facts:

- There's almost NO case that's ALWAYS improved by having always visible bars.

- Hidden bars always save screen space for more content and reduced clutter.

- Literally billions of people are fine with hidden bars (iOS, Android, Mac)

- If you need to see scroll bars, there's an option, at least on Mac.

Optional scroll bars are win/win.
> As a side note: in my experience, people who say things like “voting is not acting, you need to do more!” are not reliable voters, and not reliable activists either.

Well, sorry if I take the above personally, but here is another datapoint. I almost literally said the above in the post you quoted. I have voted in every election I legally could do so. I have run as a candidate in a number of elections. I have even organised groups to running for elections. I did broader activism and have organised a number of activist lawsuits. After a run in with the police I had to tune things down a bit for my family.

> Electoral activism leads to broader activism.

It does both, really. It is a rung on the ladder, a lot of activists start there. But it can also have the effect of soaking up a lot energy from existing activists, with very little real consequences. There is a balance. Political activism, civil activism and judicial activism also have a space and can have a better trade-off between energy invested and concrete consequences.
Great advice. This is why it is good to go back to the basics. Adding gateways goes against any lean principles, introduces delays (=waist) in the process.
I love the idea of a not-for-profit tech company... I don't _yet_ trust _this_ company: fancy, connected, rich people's faces on the website may inspire trust in some, but for me, I see that they only paid for the domain name for one year, and haven't registered the two common misspellings listed on wikipedia. I'll wait 50-100 years and then judge them.

If they don't have confidence in their own plan beyond the one year of their DNS, why should I?

Are they just fishing for $100K and then they'll possibly make some real plans?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Lists_of_common_miss...

From: https://lookup.icann.org/lookup

Name: permanent.org
Registry Expiration: 2020-06-11 18:55:23 UTC
(First post on news.ycombinator.com)
Cash delivery?
That also means that they could have easily waived the fees without taking much of a hit, just out of solidarity.
Well with oil prices going negative, maybe they just bundle free unlimited gas with your car when you lease it and the oil producers pay you to take it. The government can bail out these industries to sell for negative prices. This is one way to sort of take the benefits of increased efficiency and push them back to the people.