skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Conceptually this is one transaction; from a book keeping (and beancount) perspective it is, or can be, two.

Often (in the US) the dates are different- debit from the bank on day X, post to credit card on day X + 1 or X + 2. For my stuff I want the dates in beancount to reflect the dates on the respective statements, so that the balances, which are date-specific, match.

So I capture these as two transactions. I do it as- debit the bank, credit the "ether", then debit the "ether" credit the credit card.

Beancount just wants the postings within a literal transaction to sum to zero. If this conceptual transaction is split into two literal transactions, with some fictional bridge account in between, they can live in different beancount files.
Kinda like when you buy a used car at auction, but it turns out it was stolen.
Ignorantia juris non excusat.
You or your clients may also be in breach.
MS aren't held to a different standard.
"Instead of fetching a specific site, you fetch blocks of sites."

I have been doing this for many years, putting bulk DNS data in HOSTS and personal use zone files served from loopback addresses. It is easier than ever today with so many sources of bulk DNS data.

DOH now lets users retrieve DNS data from recursive DNS servers (caches) in bulk, using HTTP/1.1 pipelining. Here is a working example: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23242389

Many years ago, I started doing non-recursive (no caches used) bulk DNS data retrieval for speed and also for resiliency in the event of outages. However the privacy gains are obvious. A rough analogy is downloading all of Wikipedia in bulk and browsing articles offline as opposed to making separate requests online for each article and generating all the requisite DNS and TCP/HTTP traffic. Openmoko's Wikireader experimented with the idea of offline Wikipedia.

Not only does the DOH provider get a record of all the user's DNS lookups, she can now associate each request with the particular user program/device that made it.
PayPal US micropayments rate is on the left, payments rate is on the right :)
That would be amazingly slow to call an out of process function on each match when the page renders. Extensions run as a separate process. I would be amazed if Apple would allow something that inefficient as careful as it is about battery and memory efficiency.
I love AWK with a passion. It's just perfectly fills the gap between grep, sed and 'I better fire up a text editor'. I guess 'perl -pie' used to sit in that niche, but I've never used it much.
Rogan is happy for people born female to complete in male sports just not the other way around.

You can't discount how unfair it would be for women to compete against people who have lived for years with high testosterone levels.

Maybe we need a new non gendered sports category where athletes are free to take any hormones they wish. That might be fair. But may cost the athletes their health.
The Europeans were emptying their chamber pots nearly 1000 years after the Greeks invented most major math theory and were sending water hundreds of miles on aqueducts.
Why is your suspicion 'fleeting'?
Of course they have. And when they have, it's almost always because of more nuanced reasons than off-the-cuff random internet posters are privy to.
Sorry to accuse you without any evidence, sounds a bit aggressive in hindsight.

I just find it amazing that you created a very similar tool by the exact same name without realising it "howdoi". However I can understand it.

Funny story, my username "gitgud" was something I chose at random (I think git is good). Turns out there's a reasonably popular project called [1] gitgud, which I didn't event know existed! (so I can understand coincidental name collisions like "howdoi")

> But, overall I'm quite happy with the response I got here, and I still really wanna make more of such things.

You should! these projects are why I come here :)

[1] https://gitgud.io
Trello is moving into this space with some of their automation plugins.
Why a mere WM; I can imagine booting into VS as some people boot into Emacs.
I disagree. It uses too large fonts, too large boxes, to narrow areas, etc.
As part of my job over the past 2 years I’ve been migrating a data warehouse with data being loaded from Mainframe into BigQuery. I’ve learned a lot and gained respect for the platform.

One of Google’s differentiating products is the TPU, to train neural networks in hardware. Meanwhile, the mainframe has specialized hardware for TLS, gzip compression and encrypted storage.
You’ve probably already heard about this, but there has been a large discussion about how charging from the traditional left side of 15” (and I believe 16”) MBPs results in heat and fan issues. A lot of people have had improved results just by switching power to the right.
I didn't have that much trouble switching initially.

However, when I have a task that requires continually switching between Mac and Windows machines, it gets annoying. Double that frustration again when I'm using a Windows VM on a Mac.
Why is Bobbleheads a lottery win? Buy a domain for something people like to buy. Find a supplier to manufacture them. Build a reputation with good product and service. Has to be as far from a lottery winner as exists.
Hmm.. maybe by certain definitions of the word.. 9,000sq ft. 6 bed/9 bath..

https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/47-Dapplegray-Rd-Bell-Can...
Why try to use the base layer for micro payments? Lightning Network allows amounts down to the msat (millisatoshi).
Similar: https://www.focusmate.com
What I would prefer to see is user settings for box shadow rendering, so that the user can configure how much pronounced it is or to disable it entirely, with presets for imitating Firefox and for imitating WebKit.
> While it isn’t uncommon for dense urban environments to feature subsurface parking garages, it takes a substantial leap of faith to assume that every building in the game is equipped in this way. So what if a CBG dared to adopt a more realistic parking model? Steve Librande, a lead designer on SimCity 2013, is said to have remarked, “so much of the screen would be dedicated to asphalt that it’d be too boring to play”"

I mean, it's also not uncommon to have surface parking garages. You can have 15 times the parking in the same land area that way, and that's what people do even in very thinly populated cities. Or suburban malls. It's not a choice between "all of the parking is underground" and "all of the parking is on the ground".
The trackpad on the Magic Keyboard doesn't have a hinge at the back, there's a single button under the center and a lever that runs under the sides which actuates the button and makes the physical click movement: https://www.ifixit.com/News/41291/dang-the-ipad-pro-magic-ke...
This is a nice tool. It has a great range of color spaces. However, the problem I have with it and similar tools is the schemes. These so-called harmonic combinations have a long history, but are almost entirely unsupported by science. Certainly, many high-order images such as paintings and movies employ basic RYB compilatory pairs (red/green, yellow/purple etc), but beyond that their arrangements ate fairly arbitrary.
I remember years ago after I had switched to Apple using a Windows laptop and I thought, “How is this trackpad even acceptable?”

In more recent years I have noticed Windows machines have made some very good trackpads.
Banning trans women from competing in sports it telling them they aren't "real" women. The societal repercussions of that are much larger than the outcome of high school athletics (and this issue is almost always about high school athletics and below). I fundamentally don't understand arguments to the contrary.

For the record, I care deeply about sports. I think it is fundamental part of both our culture at large and the education of a lot of people. You can dig deep into my comment history on HN and see I regularly defend the importance of sports to the usually derogatory "sportsball" comments that are common in intellectual and technological communities like HN. I just don't think the outcome of specific games is important enough to justify further ostracizing a group of people who are already incredibly marginalized.
I support a number of podcasts through Patreon, for a nominal five bucks a month. But that's more than I pay for Netflix and amounts to several hundred per year.

I'm happy to do it. It's worth it to me to support people who are often working full time to produce quality content. But it's no surprise that only a microscopic fraction of people do. It would be nice if a higher fraction gave a tenth as much.
The US women's team is best in the world, US men's team doesn't even come close to being best 20 teams in the world. They are high level athletes but not world class (especially for soccer) by any sorts.

Anyway's here another link: https://www.cbssports.com/soccer/news/a-dallas-fc-under-15-b...
> Alex Jones is riling people up on conspiracy theories that actively do harm in order to make money.

This is literally what Rachel Maddow did with the Russia conspiracy nonsense.
https://digiconomist.net/bitcoin-energy-consumption

Any delta is due to the 45% drop in hash rate after the halving. Extensive methodology is provided.
"AWK build scripts are surprisingly hard to kill, even when people want to"

Truer words have not been spoken, in my opinion. I've used AWK heavily for decades, and still use it for a wide variety of parsing.
Covid-19 Data Lake
Thanks for sharing this - this is exactly what I've been looking for.

How are their tagging/categorization abilities?
breadit
Which means they’ll invest more to produce it, providing greater security to the network by making it more expensive to conduct a successful double spend attack. The users also want it to be secure. It’s a great alignment of incentives.
I agree with the "I will teach you to be rich" (it's a book) approach a bit more than "i can't buy a $5e coffee daily".

Their approach is more like a performance engineer. You look at the biggest costs first and reduce it down. I.e. Ask for a raise, refinance your place, find a cheaper place to rent, etc.

When you get down to the coffee you would be faced with: is it cheaper to make good quality coffee, or am I paying for the experience?

Personally I tend to view these re-occurring costs and I try to look at a way I can amortize them over a longer period of time. It's easier to justify the cost of a 200+$ espresso maker if I'm really that big of a fan and already have a defined habbit.
Has she said exactly what she was told to change?

That would be more helpful to really understand it. All we have is her characterization of what happened.
> It's actually not that big of a deal to load an MP4 into a <video/> tag, turns out.

Kind of a big deal if you can't host that MP4 somewhere? If Google/Twitter/Facebook/etc. don't want your stuff ... chances are Amazon doesn't want to host it either. Even if you stand up your own hardware, you're at the mercy of whatever company is providing you the internet connection.

Free speech as a principle isn't about hearing stuff you like. It's about hearing stuff you don't like. That's where the tolerance part of it comes in. When you're tolerating something, it means you're putting up with it even if you don't like it.

And it's not about the law. Yeah, they can do whatever they want since they're private entities. It's about what values we choose to uphold as a society.
Genes and your body's physical characteristics have a lot to do with it. I have a slipped disk in my neck from bad posture related to using missized chairs and desks while looking down at a 12" laptop for years and I'm not even 30 yet.

The combination of slouching your shoulders forward to keep your hands together and face-down for typing on a small keyboard, and looking down exacerbate such problems, faster for some than others—unless you happen have the build of a horse jockey.
> simply because newer bills are harder to counterfeit. There's more risk with old currency, so they're discounted (or rejected entirely) for risk.

Alternatively, they might be just as easy to counterfeit, but by virtue of being newer, less counterfeiting has actually happened.
Popovich never coached Jordan.
Show HN: Waywords – An anagram word game built with Flutter
Hi all,

I just released my own twist on the anagram solving genre which I've been working on during the lockdown. I've been inspired by other word games such as Text Twist, Wordscapes and a 9 letter target game published daily in my local paper.

Compared to Wordscapes specifically, I've found that you're forced to play a lot of easy puzzles before you get to more interesting longer words. So my version's difficulty increases quickly and has a larger number of 7+ letter puzzles to solve later on.

The game was built using Flutter which I quite enjoyed working with compared to working on Android apps in the past. Especially in terms of its declarative design, async features in dart, easy animation support and hot reloading. I was able to get an app out quickly on both Android and iOS.

Would love any feedback. Hope you like it.
The Curious Case of Python's Context Manager
Reminds me of the saying, "I have used this broom for 20 years. I only needed to change the broom head 20 times and the broom stick 10 times.".
As I stated, right now, the direct transaction fees are low because the total fees are socialized. Miners make that back in block reward. Recently, people refused to pay more for transactions and BTC price remained constant-ish after the halving so hash power went down.

The actual cost of a transaction can be represented as the following equilibrium:

(E * pkWh) = F + (R * pBTC)

- E is the average amount of power required to process one transaction, a function of hash rate (~700kWh)

- pkWh is the average price paid by miners for power (~0.08 $/kWh)

- F is the average fee paid for a transaction directly (~5)

- R is the average block reward per transaction (6.25/3500)

- pBTC is the market price of a Bitcoin (~9500)

If (F + (R * pBTC)) is ever less than (E * pkWh) as happened after the halving, something's gotta give. Either the fee has to go up, the price of a Bitcoin has to go up, or the hash rate will drop. The halving demonstrated (3).

Make no mistake, though, the cost of a bitcoin payment is ~$50, you just have to distribute it over the parameters.

You didn't think miners were given you "almost free" transactions for their health or something did you? Your very-low transaction fee is the tip of a giant cost-burg.
Scala Native Next Steps
Except the auction house is next door to a well known car thief's garage, the news is full of stories about a string of car thefts, and someone tells you those cars are probably stolen making it crime to buy.
Huh, I might misunderstand it, but that property appears to be broken in account-based cryptocurrencies like Ethereum. Since there's no concept of unspent outputs, what could protect ETH etc users in a similar way? Wallet transaction index?
>That argument could be used against any company.
No, counter to the basic definition of a company stands that human nature is not so simple.

>Cases in point: Canonical with Ubuntu, Red Hat with Fedora, etc. Those are companies with profit motives and they sustain open source, but no one questions their motives like they do Microsoft.
Canonical got heavily scrutinized and is still called spyware by some because they sold search metadata from their OS to amazon (iirc). It doesn't take much effort to find similar sentiment on Red Hat (which is now IBM, which famously gets even more flank than MS).

Keep in mind that Microsoft is simply a bigger company thus gets more attention as a much smaller company would.

>Maybe Microsoft is transitioning from a software company to one that provides support for enterprise software, and open source is just a byproduct? Who knows?
Is Microsoft moving away from software?

>Maybe I’m the crazy one thinking that the culture of a company can radically change over the course of two decades?
Sure it can, it would be stupid though its system clearly works and there is nothing wrong with applying strategy and clear thinking, doing anything other than that would be a failure to their employees and other people they are protecting and serving.

I hold huge personal respect for large cooperation that manage to sustain over time as Microsoft does. And think there is nothing wrong or evil about applying strategies in a competitive market as long as it remains a competitive market. Even the old directors joke about this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fI_xuFA18m4
The corner still worked as a start menu, and they told you that on first run. It was as incremental as possible.
It doesn't count when the popular side does it.

/s
There are many blogs today but when (many) people say they miss the old days of blogging, it is mostly not about the number of blogs.

Back then, there was a huge community around blogs. That community has moved to Twitter and other places. Previously, people would comment on blogs and if you are a frequent reader of a blog, you would recognize a lot of people who comment there and you may even become friends with them. Constructive comments have moved away from the blogs and are now on Twitter, Hacker News, Reddit etc.

There used to be services specifically around the blogging space, like Technorati (and even StumbleUpon to an extent).

I also feel, and this might just be me, people have started associating purpose with mediums. If you want to post silly or just casual stuff, you post it on Twitter. If you have something really valuable and on brand, you post it on your blog. People used to post everything to their blogs because that's where they could previously share their thoughts.
Were those commercials aired by the US in Arabic / Farsi / whatever local language, for the benefit of the local populace? Or were they in English, aimed at Americans?
the data in question was more concrete, like confirmed cases or ICU counts

There's been been accusations of government manipulation of perceived infection rates through under testing. More concrete data is arguably only an improvement if sufficient testing is being conducted.
No, pretty sure Spotify doesn’t allow any random RSS link, podcasts need to be added explicitly
Trailer: https://youtu.be/eGuxoi_vUIQ

Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.betterwith...

iOS: https://apps.apple.com/au/app/waywords/id1513301225
Both `-O` and `-C opt-level=3`. I'm guessing this is one of those high throughput scenarios where having a GC is quicker because it's able to defer deallocation until the end of the program.
I will use this immediately. I loved Airtable, but the pricing was a non starter for our business. We already have office635, and we’re likely to use this all over the place.
Academic super-computers targeted by malicious crypto miners
gee, who would have thought that a super rare artifact well known for being in a specific museum in a specific country ravaged by war and all of a sudden showing up at auction would be stolen. They must have done a hell of a job with their due diligence.
Perhaps I'm missing something but isn't there already pretty much the same functionality available when you press just [Win] (instead of [Win]-[R]) and start typing?

> Keys will be remapped as long as the Keyboard Manager and PowerToys are running in the background, and you can swap individual keys and even Windows shortcuts.

Keys can already be remapped via a Registry entry under HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Keyboard Layout, which does not require anything running in the background, although this works for individual keys only.

There is even a great GUI utility to simplify creating the correct Registry entries: https://github.com/randyrants/sharpkeys
Huh, I can't find it.

I can confirm I've read the same thing though, years back.
> Then do salaries and taxes by the second and split off tax payments right where the transaction happens.

ACH literally takes O(days) to move a few bytes of data from one bank account to another and the system simply stops working evenings and weekends, so this is a bit much :)

If / when BTC and LN become ubiquitous, you can probably achieve this without much effort.
Why are you paying so much? I'm curious what carrier you are on. If it's a major carrier (guessing not) then try an MVNO like Red Pocket Mobile.
I remember yelling at my computer screen during some Apple announcement while some VP pontificated about how touch is the natural, convenient, intuitive, superior etc. approach all while ignoring the GIANT SCREEN.

Honestly I am not wanting for a touchscreen but if you are going to rant about how great “touch” is just swap the screen with an iPad and shut up.

While I’m ranting, the other year when I saw the Microsoft Surface Studio (https://duckduckgo.com/?q=microsoft+surface+studio&t=iphone&...) I thought, “10 years ago if you made me guess who made that machine I would have said Apple”
And it’s only eighteen months away!
A few people have mentioned that it seems the author didn't realize this is already the 4th parameter in `box-shadow`, so I made a quick demo:

https://codepen.io/gkoberger/pen/rNOommB
I have been playing around with Blazor WebAssembly since its preview.

Personally among with Blazor Server which I also use, I feel Blazormost enjoyable web development experience I've dealt with to date. At least I don't feel like I'm pulling my hair out...
> You are moving the goalposts by switching from a highly skilled game like basketball to one that is mostly dictated by physiology. There are certainly athletic competitions in which the gap between men and women differs

There are no goalposts, but this is just an internet argument for you so I can see why you'd think that.

As for Semenya I don't know what the right answer is. Intersex is hard. It's also rare. So I don't know. Despite being easily the most elite 800m female runner in the world she wouldn't have even touched the top 150 high school boys times that year, so it's hard to know what to do. Forced downregulation of natural T levels just to compete seems immoral.
I love notion. I want to support them and I hope they and their product continue to grow and improve. But I can't help facepalming a little bit as I just bought 1 year of notion.
Ehm, plumbing is a bad example since the Romans did that WAY ahead of the Muslim world. For that AND sidewalks, you're welcome. Thanks for the numbers, that was handy.
The resurrection of the tamagotchi (2020 edition)
You weaken your argument by making a rediculous statement that "and it wasn't that long ago that most computers had less than 200 MB of RAM total."

Yes it was. 1997 was a long time ago. Kids born that year can legally drink.
How complete are your LAPACK bindings?
Amazon isn't very likely to care what's hosted on their servers, as it's not as likely to be damaging - both in terms of brand and of legal liability. You don't know a website is hosted on Amazon Web Services the same way you know a video is hosted on Youtube.
...how much does a meal from a food stand in Costa Rica cost?? A $20 seems like spectacular overkill.
Come on, you are just splitting hairs now. Neither the youth national team or the academy team of a professional sports club are anywhere close to being equal to normal high school teams. I'll admit "world class" is a vague phrase, but wouldn't you admit these athletes are all much closer to a world class standard than they are to the average high school player?