skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Dollar shortage and stable coins are the keys to increasing the use of alternative currencies (cryptocurrencies in this case)

Improving usability will open access to African countries, who are starting to understand better and using this kind of technology.
I get downvoted for this, but look above, not one of you has come up with a better layperson than the explanation from me above ;) You gotta up your game!
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=pj84_N9dZVY
Definitely it is not the place to be if you want some privacy.
Western Digital’s SMR disks won’t work for ZFS, but they’re okay for most NASes
Sure, lets get in touch.
IIRC, aside maybe from some technical limitations, the reason it was not "proper" encryption where you can't make any sense of the signal is that it gave some idea of what was playing. The sound was completely scrambled but from the picture you could tell the program and tell if it was a football game, movie, talk show, etc.

I had that channel for a while and watching WWE with French commentary was a favorite when I was a kid :)
One group of protestors makes awful points, so I judge them to be engaging in pointless and risky behavior.

The other side doesn’t, so I’m much more supportive of their protest, even though there might be associated risks.

As long as I don’t call for the first protest to be made illegal this is a perfectly consistent argument.

Sometimes you have to look at the content of a protest to judge if it’s valuable or not. And it’s perfectly ok to judge a protest as not being valuable.
The rate quoted by the parent, I believe, is the number of deaths divided by the number of people estimated to be infected, by prorating an antibody test sampling to the wider population. So that doesn’t assume everyone got exposed to the virus, and assumes the sampling is a representative sample (but in NY it was sampled in grocery stores, which tells you nothing about infection rate in nursing homes that made up 40% of the deaths).
There is this game called Warframe and it has hundreds of weapons. The top 10 weapons are so good that they take out the skill involved in the game. Veterans get burned out after spending 1000 hours in the game. The "meta" (hyper optimization) is actually quite boring. I've had way more fun using "bad" weapons. Once you made it there is no need to hyperoptimize. If you find something you like then don't beat yourself up because you think there are better ways to spend your time.
Is Python Wheels the equivalent of Ruby Gems? Or is it better?
Hey, We didn't expect such huge feedback, and the website was made just for fun without any testing. We know that the webpage is ugly. Moreover, we're hosting it on a limited free Firebase tier. Sorry for the inconvenience.

As a temporary solution, you could use https://hackaday.io/project/172188-control-your-audio-wit-th....
It's interesting to compare this model to the Lightning Network on top of Bitcoin.
Essentially, the Lightning Network uses this kind of "friendships" (payments channels) with the exception that parties do not need to trust each other in order to transact.
It would be interesting to add LN to this page: https://docs.offsetcredit.org/en/latest/intro/blockchain_com...
Basically, the differences between LN and Offset would be the security foundation (bitcoin contract) and origin of money (we put actual bitcoin in channels).

Offset's model of relays, nodes, transactions encoding, routing, multi-path payments could very well share a lot with the Lightning Network's model of nodes, gossip protocol, onion routing, and so on.
I could even see both systems work together.

I am still going to try Offset with my friends, could be a good experiment!
Oh poor Tim Paterson.

Later M$ hire him to port MS-DOS correctly to IBM PC.

But biggest loser is Gary Kildall and DR/DOS. This is discussed here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Kildall#IBM_dealings
Americans preserved British English (2018)
The only problem with Twitter doing fact-check was they were unilateral and biased. If they were neutral, probably they could to the fact-checking without problems.
CBDC: On your reading list and probably on your phone sooner than you think
Quote: "Three thousand light-years from Earth sits Kepler 160.."

To put some thing in perspective. If we get an instant teleport technology to go there tomorrow, it will be a planet that had passed 5 times more time then we know since our humanity almost went extinct 60k years ago.

If we get technology to go at speed of light we'll get there in 300k years, again 5 more times then our modern humanity as we know it.

Yeah, space is vast.
I think it's misleading to refer to a "third gender". If there were a "third gender", why wouldn't there be a "fourth" one and a "fifth" one? According to an international standard there's a third option for the field labelled "sex", and the meaning of that third option is "not specified". So it's not a "third sex".

See the references and external links at the bottom of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Machine-readable_passport

Interestingly, civil servants working for the British government like to use the expression "third sex" (or "gender") when rejecting petitions for there to be a third option on British passports. People ask: please can we have the option to not specify our sex on our passports? And the government responds: we reject the notion of a third sex!
Comparing pears to pears:

Number of adults with diagnosed heart disease: 30.3 million [1]

People in the United States infected with corona virus: 1.9 million [2]

[1] https://ftp.cdc.gov/pub/Health_Statistics/NCHS/NHIS/SHS/2018...

[2] https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/us/coronavirus-us-c...
We could detect oxygen in the atmosphere, which could indicate life, as oxygen will rapidly disappear from the atmosphere through oxidation without life resupplying it. I don't think we have any built or planned telescopes that can detect oxygen 3000 light years away though. This article[1] discusses detecting oxygen in the atmosphere of exoplanets 5 pc away, about 16 light years, using the James Web space telescope that is yet to be launched.

[1]: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41550-019-0977-7
On the topic of compactness: is FORTH ever used in the demoscene?

As I understand it, they tend to write assembly, and compress the resulting machine code, for decompression at runtime.
Gieß Den Kiez – CityLAB Berlin
That reads like apologism.

> So anyhow, the Bishop had apparently witnessed a mass human sacrifice.

Did the bishop also destroy the bible after witnessing or learning about the mass murder/rape of the mayan men, women and children by the invading catholic spaniards?

Did he burn the bible after his inquisition against the mayans which led to the torture and murder of countless people?

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

> And it really got to him, convincing him that their religion was strictly satanic.

All religions except roman catholicism was satanic.

> That would've gotten under my skin too.

But not the inquisition, the torture, slavery and the genocide of the mayans by the spanish/catholics. That wouldn't have gotten under your skin? Are you burning the bible and destroying catholic crosses at every opportunity?

The guy most likely ran an inquisition to consolidate catholic power over the mayans. And used the human sacrifice ( real, imagined or invented ) as justification. Just like hitler used excuses to justify his atrocities. Unfortunately, we only have his words to go by and it'll be naive to put any faith in them.
Thanks!

We didn't expect such huge feedback, and the website was made just for fun without any testing. We know that the webpage is ugly. Moreover, we're hosting it on a limited free Firebase tier. Sorry for the inconvenience.

As a temporary solution, you could use https://hackaday.io/project/172188-control-your-audio-wit-th....

Maybe I'll fix the webpage in the next couple of days
There are privacy reasons that one might drive one to prefer a smaller, unknown prize.
Cool stuff! This seems to effectively be a digital, distributed, implementation of a LETS[1], a system which has had some popularity in various places at various point of the last 40 years.

This sort of system is particularly useful in communities where there is a lack of money. For instance say everybody is unemployed and nobody as money to buy anything, but people would be happy to trade services/goods with each other if there was a way to do it efficiently. They could barter but that is inefficient and it is difficult to match services/goods of different value.

Because the system allows monetary creation, it enables people to start trading even when nobody has money.

It may be useful to check out the circumstances in which LETS were/are used, as it may be a good indication as to which types of community may be most interested in using Offset.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Local_exchange_trading_system
I'm in a similar position as the author. I never thought I was expert enough to blog about how to code. I did rely on other people's blogs. Sometimes they were good, but quite often, as I developed my own expertise, I discovered better ways of doing things. At some point I started discovering that some people gave just bad advice. And not even just anonymous bloggers, but official documentation might present examples of things that seemed like a good idea at the time but the community eventually discovered better practices (I'm looking at Angular 1 in particular here).

Unfortunately, as I discovered better ways of doing things, I still didn't start blogging about them. I probably should.
>If we get technology to go at speed of light we'll get there in 300k years

Light takes 3000 years to travel 3000 light-years, not 300k years
I agree with you, but I must also admit it's not much of a concern if you live in a country with solid health insurance.
Brill. Thank you!
Hey, We didn't expect such huge feedback, and the website was made just for fun without any testing. We know that the webpage is ugly. Moreover, we're hosting it on a limited free Firebase tier. Sorry for the inconvenience.
Because the page is in German only (but fairly self-explanatory imho):
this maps the 625k registered trees in Berlin and crosses the data set with rainfall patterns showing which trees need attention of neighbours to survice.
You can "claim" a tree and mark it as taken care of.

I believe the origins of this are two heavy draught periods summer 2018/2019 where many trees succumbed.
There are few black people in Germany. They are racially profiled, probably just as much as middle-eastern looking people, but excessive police violence against them is rare, and usually properly investigated and punished.

In Germany, much of the ire around unpunished excess police force is around riot response squads who regularly use excessive force against leftist protests (anti-G20, anticapitalism/Occupy, anarchists), especially if some of the protesters turn to vandalism, start setting fires or attack the police.
First line of your comment is very representative of what I hate with HN. So elitistic, patronizing and snarky
Ssg can be used by simply editing txt files with whatever editor on any os and even using github online.

The only way to succeed is to build 100x better ux in your app than ssg with fancy img, video, frames inserting etc.
Well, live and bitwig are both made partially by the same people so you could basically talk about them workflow wise as the same. They are a bit more oriented towards live performances than other DAWs which is evident by the clip view which is used to trigger and schedule clips (samples, midi or effects automation).

Reaper is much more traditional as in it has a playlist where you can drag midi patterns and audio clips around in the main time line and throw stuff on the effect rack. It's very comparable to other DAWs like Cubase, Logic and Studio One for example. Main difference in those are basically some very specific functionality and how they're used in that DAW and what effects and plugins the software comes bundled with.

Reaper is especially geared towards tracking audio into the DAW and handles multitrack recording better and more robustly than my own personal choice of DAW, FL Studio, does.

Reaper also comes with a VST bundle called ReaPlugs which is actually free to download and use with any other DAW as well and one of the plugins provided is a JS interpreter where you can create your own scripted audio effects.

Long story short, it's a real proper good DAW that ticks all the boxes and is just as good (if not better) than any other DAW as long as your needs align with what Reaper has to offer. At it's price, it's the best value and despite its price, its not cheaping out on features.
> The audio stream is interleaved at the end of the blocks.

If I remember correctly, audio was transmitted on a subcarrier some 6 or so MHz higher?

Edit: Later in the article it is actually stated: "A normal SECAM signal uses FM on a 6Mhz carrier"
Because 12 people is not a threat of you are a politician
Intel Reveals PL1, PL2 and Tau Values for 10th-Gen Comet Lake-S Processors
I’m using Strapi + VueJs for making a static website more dynamic for a NGO and it works like a charm !
The only issue I had so far is that the admin form customizations seem to be stored in the database instead of application files, so it’s not possible to replicate them easily between environments
Mnemonic*. Pneu- means related to air.
Puree , in french , means smashed potatoes. Just saying
Apple patents long distance group selfies tech
> If your language is slow to compile, it cannot be that good.

I know compilation times are a problem, but this seems untrue. Compile times are a problem of the compiler and not the language. GHC is slow because of how much it is doing behind the scenes. Other, more streamlined compilers may be faster.
A few times a year our office loses power, which causes the machine we have running for data evaluation to crash. There seems to be about a third chance for that to damage my Anaconda installation.

Last time I could only solve it by deinstalling everything and reinstalling an updated version. Took ages to get all packages running again. Luckily my code still works but now I get depreciation warnings (and not in my code). Who knows what will happen next time. It only took like a day I needed for actually working with the data as well... urgh.
> This really isn’t what a PhD is like. A PhD is a research degree - you do research in your own time. You don’t have to be in seminars if you don’t want to and you don’t have to teach (unless you need the money.)

At least in france there are some minimum legal hours of seminars you have to attend and classes you have to teach during your phd.
> From a taxation point of view I'm under the impression that for a country such as France for example seniors are gonna get _on average_ way more benefits during their pension than the equivalent of their lifetime contribution. Mainly due to demographics and life expectancy evolution.

(I'm making a digression here from the main topic, so don't read on if you're not interested.) I'm not sure why you would think pensioners in France will get far back far more than they paid in.

Under the current system in France, when you're working, you pay into one or more of the dozens of different pension plans. Each plan is designed to be self-sufficient. It receives money from those who are currently working, invests or saves the money, and pays out those who paid in in the past and who are now retired.

Doing things this way has several pitfalls. The main problem is that if demographics change (greater percentage of pensioners as compared to workers) it puts a strain on those left in the workplace. This doesn't mean however that each pensioner is getting more than they paid in, it just means that proportionately there are less people left paying into the plan.

The retirement system is currently being revised. In the future, there will be one universal plan where each euro paid in will buy a certain number of points, which will have some value when you retire. Since the value of a point can fluctuate, pensioners may end up getting more or less than they paid in. (They'll get what the plan can afford to pay out.)
Thank you!

This is awesome.

This is important enough I'd donate right now, if (1) there were a donate button (2) it'd fund further development to the point where this was production-ready.

Bringing this from proof-of-concept to mass-market would be a huge amount of work:

1) From the video, latency would need to go way down.

2) Pressure support is important, if not critical.

3) Packaging. To be impactful, this would want to be distributed in Apple's store, and in Debian/Ubuntu repositories (or at least a .deb). Paid on the Apple side is fine (and not contrary to open source -- I'm paying for convenience, and that's a payment I'd gladly make).

Next step would be to go from mirroring to second display. This is less bad than it might seem on the surface; it doesn't involve a whole new X driver, so long as outputting from the current one to a phantom device, and mirroring the phantom display (same thing as if I unplugged one of my monitors; HDMI keeps going out, and I could continue to mirror it).

One possible way to get there is to get the architecture to a place where others can do that work (e.g. leave appropriate places for people to plug in, and appropriate breadcrumbs where others can finish the work).

Disclaimers: Of course, one donation isn't enough to fund further development. I'm not rich, so we're not talking massive donation. Aside from that, by the time you set something up, I'll likely be long gone from this discussion (you don't have my contact info to follow up). But that's also not an abstract comment; I donated to Digimend before, and this would address part of the same major gap. Take the offer more as an indication of the massive value this would provide to at least one person.
Sorry, we didn't expect such a huge interest from the community. The website was made quickly and without any testing.

I know it's ugly, sorry.

Maybe I'll try to fix it these days.
2 orders of it’s your boss!

But seriously I hate working with non self critical developers because it’s exhausting trying to refute what they say. Although “asking questions” can help.
I've tried to get into Clojure multiple times and it feels quite unergonomic to program. I think my brain is not correctly shaped for its constructs, whereas Haskell fits my mental models perfectly.
Escape velocity is a velocity to escape gravitational field. Orbit velocity is a velocity to orbit a thing inside its gravitational field.

For example, ISS has orbit speed of about 7.7 km/s at 350 km above the ground. Orbit speed "at the surface" of Earth is about 8km/s, I believe.
Source Repository stanzas and github's fork button (or similar buttons on other platforms) help me to avoid any blocking coming from upstream packages[1]:

[1] https://www.haskell.org/cabal/users-guide/nix-local-build.ht...
FYI, I optimised the "python3" code by using numpy. Total runtime on a laptop CPU was 1 s.

This is why all classes for scientists I've seen teach numpy.

(Incidentally: total time to "optimise" and TEST is less than 5 minutes.

Total time to rewrite in Rust: ongoing after 2 hours, with issues filed on the best available crate for the task, whose documentation examples fail to compile. Not even going to try in bare Rust due to the issues with > 32 length arrays.)
I distinctly remember skipping school when I was about 10 years old and stumbling across the old black and white film version of Great Expectations from the 1950s on the local PBS TV station during that day while my parents were at work.

My parents were not educated people, so that was the first time I knew there was "high art" in addition to "low art." I didn't need to have a formal humanities education or literary parents to know what the difference was exactly, it was just on a whole different level than anything else that was in popular media.

~35 years later I do have a formal humanities education, which I suppose started on that day and never really ends.

Thanks, Charles Dickens.
I think it's just local ;) I'm in CEST (UTC+2), so it's 12:22 pm right now, and schedule page shows that orange line in 12:00 PM box.

But I agree - it should mention timezone or if it's local time. I saw "AM/PM" and also assumed it was some "stupid" American time.
> What fulfillment in life would one have if many productive and/or desierable tasks were reserved for the young?

What productive activity is she going to do with her PhD at the age of 66? It's a selfish egotistical vanity project.

> Wouldn't it make the later years even harder for them?

"Mate" did you read what I wrote?

"I'm all for continued learning but can't that be done in a non-credentialed manner that doesn't disadvantage young people?"

I'm all for the elderly learning and doing what they want. My problem is when their vanity project hurts younger people. A person with a PhD at 26 has a lot more to contribute than an old person with a PhD at 66. Not only that, the old person getting the PhD at 66 is taking a spot from a 26 year old. That is all.

I know the average age here is like 70, so I'm sure people will get upset about it. But from a practical and fairness perspective, I think it's better to let a 26 year old get the PhD and not the 66 year old. Let the 66 year old learn in an "off-credentialed" basis.

How about this, you have one slot open in your PhD program. You have equally qualified 26 and 66 year old. Which do you give that spot to? Most sane people would give it to the 26 year old.
Hey, We didn't expect such huge feedback, and the website was made just for fun without any testing. We know that the webpage is clunky. Moreover, we're hosting it on a limited free Firebase tier. Sorry for the inconvenience.
We, the Dutch, have such toilets too ( mine is of this type ).

And my biology teacher told us : keep an eye on your shit. Excrement I mean, pardon my English.
On top of tomduncalf's excellent answer, I'd recommend reading through the Audiobus forums [1] which, rather than being Audiobus specific, have just become the place where iOS music makers and devs hang out. And as someone who makes music entirely on an iPad with no external hardware, I'd recommend Nanostudio 2 [2] - it has some limitations (like no audio tracks, and some automation restrictions) but it's my favourite iOS DAW by a very long way. For jamming, AUM can't be beat, it's an incredible piece of software, but Endlesss [3] is also worth checking out - remote, collaborative jamming with friends and strangers - genuinely a game changer in my opinion. There's a really beautiful album [4] out, all created inside Endlesss by a band who met and formed through the app.

[1] https://forum.audiob.us
[2] https://www.blipinteractive.co.uk/nanostudio2/
[3] https://endlesss.fm
[4] https://theveltrontransmissions.com
OK this is 2020s Drupal all over again.
EDIT: uses Mongo DB

It's now 2x red flags for me. Bye.
With only free software, a Mali G31 chip can now run GNOME
Yes. Corona has a higher mortality rate than heart disease.

Those are just the kind of meaningful insights you get when you compare pears to pears, apples to apples or oranges to oranges.
This one's a good start, but it's still painfully behind other IntelliJ language plugins. E.g. I expected HSpec tests to work in the same way that I can run JUnit tests within the IDE, but no such luck.
You could try talking to the people from the Westmidlands Branch of BIS:

https://www.bis-space.com/branches/regional/bis-west-midland...

I went to some talks organised by them a few years ago. Many of the members worked on rocket propulsion for a local company and had connections to the Rocket Propulsion Establishment.
http://www.thewebcomicfactory.com/comic/the-antiwar-comic-ka...
The "make sense of what could be" might have been a good way to make people tempted to subscribe actually: it was so frustrating to identify a program you could be interested in and not be able to fully see it.