skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Central banks are keeping a close eye on it, so I think we’ve crossed the ‘remotely plausible’ line:

“Earlier this year, Deputy Governor Tim Lane spoke about the circumstances when it might make sense for the Bank of Canada to issue our own digital currency. This includes a situation in which most Canadians stopped using bank notes. We don’t believe that a digital currency is required at this time. But we are moving forward with contingency planning so that if we ever judged that we should issue a digital currency, we would be ready.” (https://www.bankofcanada.ca/2020/06/opening-statement-160620...)
As a kid I was a compulsive liar and would make up non-existent stories.

With the advent of search engines I discovered that any story I can come up with actually happened somewhere in the world and has an article about it already.
Estimating pitch with SPICE and Tensorflow Hub
Supermarkets already exist that don't accept cash (in NL at least)
Author here - the article has been read and retweeted by actual world class experts. Given that the article is now nearly two weeks old, I would have heard about any gross inaccuracies in there by now. There is some minor feedback and it needs a few tweaks, but overall it holds up really well.
Thanks for the link. Had a quick look at the top rated comment, but "Python spends almost all of its time in the C runtime - This means that it doesn't really matter how quickly you execute the 'Python' part of Python" is already wrong. CPython is an interpreter, and this interpreter is implemented in C. You cannot argument that due to the fact that the runtime spends most of its time in C functions it makes no sense to improve it. That's exactly what a JIT (in contrast to an interpreter) is for.
VS Code in the Browser
Business Applications in Go: Things to Know about DRY
I agree with you 75%.

> No one benefits from this current situation except Apple.

This isn't true. See top comment, but all the FAANGs and their smaller siblings benefit in the exact same way.

The problem is systemic, and it starts with lobbying and disparity of legal standing between corporations and individuals.
Lambada dataset: Word prediction requiring broad discourse context (2016) [pdf]
Nope. It’s just non-obvious to experiences desktop browser users because desktop browser ad blockers are extensions, not standalone apps. And Apple didn’t do the best job of publicizing the feature.

I use Refine, fwiw.
A brand that I had a hard time trying to track down, by now, unless I wanted a long drive to another state.
It is worth reading for people that are in the same situation feeling there's something wrong with them just for not fitting in a certain academic environment. There's bullshit everywhere, but when you're not experienced enough to have seen that by yourself you are likely to think you're the problem, so it's good somebody points that out, even if the actual cogs say it's not worth the read.
Oh right, it's just ASCII.

I initially thought that it was a 5-bit Baudot code until I realised that it didn't make much sense in any 5-bit encoding.

I was trying to work out how an editor would've screwed up the formatting without breaking the vertical line on the right which probably why I was so confused.

I'm amused to see that ppt(6) is still kicking around in OpenBSD (in the "games" base installation package) and is probably still sitting quietly on many machines today (have Apple removed it from OS X?).
Only if they are operating when they are in range of the telescope. The satellites know where they are in space, they could just shut off when passing over. Usually not many customers where these things are installed anyway.
Why do you think "northern hemisphere summer" would have any (positive) impact? I mean, just look at Brazil, an "eternal summer" country, they're not doing that well... Except if it's the combination of heat+low humidity, there might be counterexamples to that as well though (Iran?).
You would be surprised how even the most innocuous electrical systems can draw down a car battery if the car doesn't move for extended periods, especially in cold weather and with a battery that's already degraded or only gets charge from short drives.

I have an old car (with a modern <2 year old battery BTW) sitting in the driveway that rarely gets driven. For a long time, every time I wanted to drive the car the battery charge would be so low it would fail to crank the engine enough to start it. I would jump-start it and drive it for at least an hour, and if I would drive it again within a week or two it would be fine, but after ~3 to ~4 weeks the battery would be dead again.

When I finally got around to diagnose the problem and measured leak current while removing the fuses 1-by-1, I found out that the tiny light in the glovebox compartment was not turning off because the lid switch did not engage properly. The current was something like 100 mAh but it was apparently enough to drain a less-than-full battery within only a few weeks...
I really loved reading this. I am a veteran failure for lack of a better phrase and I am trying again. I have been in mental burn out for years primarily because I was chasing leaders.

After going through counseling, I figured I still want to build something and I want to gobble up advice, but I ponder on them and see if they fit my lifestyle.

I am nomadic now (Asia but could be anywhere) and want to stay indie (bootstrapped, perhaps angel investment). I can not give into the pressure that YC lectures sometime make me feel. I am happy and for the first time I am on a product where I just got two clients (first time in my life, 14 years professional experience).

Startup School has incredible value and I will take out what I need out of it. I will incorporate where I want and am happy if YC does not care. Find your own way, I know I want to.
There is no true parallel. It's small chunks of time, separated by interruptions and context stwiches, and interruptions and context stwiches are expensive.
Because they were sentenced in Austria, under Austrian law, and the ECtHR can merely check if that violates the convention (which is an agreement by states, which explicitly added a clause allowing local laws to add those restrictions). And given that the convention on human rights includes states like Russia, Turkey and Azerbaijan, there's some different standard to be expected. (which is why I think the EU should maybe have their own, narrower convention on top of it. Which again is something the states need to do in the end, and Austria could just fix their own laws first if they thought that needed doing)
> On a larger scale, big tribal feuds are often among groups with small differences, like Christian denominations and wars over dogmatic debates on the details.

Did you have a big Christian war in mind which was specifically about dogmatic differences, and not primarily about monarchs exerting their power over some group or another?
Lambda only gives you 512MB pf local “scratch space”. If it had to provision and de provision gigs of space at each invocation, it would probably cause longer start times and shut down times.
Apache Pinot 0.4.0
Apple doesn't and won't care as long as its customers don't care. One can already see from some comments here that Apple is infallible and ever correct to some - and this is more of a technical crowd. Imagine what it's like for those who have a slight to little understanding of the issue at hand.

Unless a strong competitor comes along that does things differently and better (especially in marketing) Apple can continue delivering mediocre products and being an ass to devs. Unless it directly affects the majority in a tangible fashion, it won't care.
Even so are you really comparing that to slavery?
There are jobs, but probably, in terms of volume, it's 0.01% of the volume of backend or frontend jobs. Which in itself might not be bad(as there's less graphics programmers to fill these positions as well), but they aren't as geographically distributed as more mundane jobs, which limits your living options.

Also, at least in Europe, they pay much less than doing backend contracts for big corporations with plenty of money. For example, senior graphics dev in a CAD company in UK will make maybe 50-60% of backend contractor's salary.
Book: The Manager’s Path by Camille Fournier

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Can you reuse the grains? If so, how many times until they stop working?
Actually, albumin seems to be filtered out as well and replaced. If I understand correctly, albumin is a transport protein, so it carries around a lot of stuff. When it gets replaced, it is replaced with a "blank" version.
At this point I am hopeful (but not optimistic) that the EU competition/antitrust investigation [1] might go somewhere and get an outcome. The trouble with investigations like these, as we all know from previous cases, is they tend to drag on rather than yield rapid outcomes.

In this case, it seems we've sleepwalked into a situation where there are conflicts of interest like never really seen before - companies with global scale, able to arbitrarily decide which competition they wish to allow to be present on "their" marketplace, and make them either raise their price by 30%, or be 30% less profitable.

Resolving these conflicts, and recognising these aren't simple "creation of a moat", but rather some actual, tangible, anti-competitive practices would be a good starting point. But what is the outcome? Apple's view is "we're protecting users from bad things on the internet", but perhaps this kind of arbitrary decision-making is not one to be getting made arbitrarily?

[1] https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/ip_20_...
I am outsider interested in this topic, it would be great if you provided some links. I've found Web of Trust addon [1] and its Privacy Policy [2]:

> Automatically Collected Information

> Internet Protocol Address (trimmed to permanently remove specific location information other than country, city & postal code); device type; operating system and browser; Search engine results page (keyword, order/index of results, link of result, title, description, ads); web pages visited and time stamp of the visit; display ads; and WOT user ID.

That is awful [3] but that's what almost every web page wants to do. Privacy Respecting browser should not run javascript, ignore cookie, and block non 1st party resources. That's what my browser does. But this is not where consensus lies.

As I understand Mozilla allows to collect information if it is defined in Privacy Policy. It would be great to have badge "Collects Information".

[1] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/wot-safe-brow...

[2] https://www.mywot.com/privacy

[3] https://www.pcmag.com/news/web-of-trust-browser-extension-ca...
No, that's not what he said.

What he said is that people can be blind for a long time. That it is not correct to assume that if there is a big bubble people will notice it immediately.

It is useful when it prevents you from assuming there are no huge bubbles around because if there was one somebody would notice it already.
I work on the Kurento Media Server open-source project, and the two main channels for engaging and interacting with users are a community Mailing List and the Github bugtracker. Everything is delivered by email, so that's my medium for 99% of cases.

There's however the issue of your question, time... it normally slips away while working on the actual project, so there is maybe only 1 or 2 days a week I actually can dedicate time to stop and check out the community. So my response to your question would be: in repentine bursts.

I don't feel bad for that, though. The general attitude (documented in our support page [0]) is that you can always "request" more explicit attention from the team, that's what support contracts are for. Otherwise all code is free of charge for you to use...

[0]: https://doc-kurento.readthedocs.io/en/latest/user/support.ht...
So Wells = modernist and Joyce = (early) postmodernist? This all looks familiar and relevant to our times, the struggle between one who believes in a shared reality and possibility of progress, and the other whose MO is to persistently challenge and deconstruct. I’ve only read Dubliners so not an expert on Joyce by any means though.

> But the world is wide and there is room for both of us to be wrong.

Perhaps not so in the 21st century, the postmodernists have won. External reality is a mirage now and we can choose from any of the countless, mutually incompatible narratives as we see fit.
Are these still around though? Single-rail designs have been trickling down into lower and lower price points, meanwhile the cheapests power supplies never had independently regulated rails in the first place.
Ah! Sorry, indeed I understood the reverse; that as product owner you have to make videos to show everything by making videos.

Yep, absolutely right!
Kenya's Judiciary to exclusively accept the filing of cases electronically
Exactly, that's why I spend very little/no time there.
Chaos monkey seems more apt. Except set loose in a system without robust resiliency.
Radical Life Extension, the End of Gyms, Scientific Thinking, Product/Market Fit
TIL about European Union Public License:

https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/collection/eupl/introduction-eup...

OSI-certified, copyleft, non-viral, GPL-compatible, SaaS-aware, multilingual
Competition in a government space would be a good thing, imo. For a while at least. Beats being quite permanently attached to a shitty gov at birth.
From Wikipedia article:

> There was an armed standoff with police,[6] who lobbed tear gas canisters at the building. The MOVE members fired at them, and a gunfight with semi-automatic and automatic firearms ensued.[33] Police used more than ten thousand rounds of ammunition before Commissioner Sambor ordered that the compound be bombed.

Seems like the bombing was perhaps not an unreasonable response? I mean, in this case an armed militia fortified itself in a bunker-like property and fired at the police. What were they expecting?
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What you said is/used to be right but GP is also probably right, hardware companies love to migrate distributed and reliable system into overcomplicated but integrated Linux contraptions
Cyclic?

More accurately: Checkmate.
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My nanny won't let me install extensions. She keeps me snug and secure in her warm and loving arms.
People spend much more time outside and the school is off. Also the European summer is mostly not as hot as the Brazilian.
Move was a group who's guidelines looked like cult material and who's members had a lot of criminal convictions. A cop got shot up and the mayor asked them to disband.

Keep in mind, this is a country where you are innocent until prooven guily. The cops don't get to legally go form hit squads and go shooting people they don't like. This isn't the 1800's.

I can certainly agree overwhelming force is not in general a good answer because it emphasizes and strengthens the belief the police are not to be trusted. Would you come out of a building someone was actively firing into? Surrounding the compound at Waco and firing into it was just dumb when dealing with a doomsday cult because it's just going to reinforce their beliefs.

The correct way to look at this tragedy is many police officers were previously soldiers, so keep in mind when they see a cult, their mindset is to kill or capture or dispense with extreme force and what you get is a whole lot of stupidity as compromise.
Dell servers are quicker than most, HP seems to perform a high mass before booting.
Youaregonnaloseyourjob (In Physics Research)
You are entirely free to show adds and to charge money. The popups are only necessary if you additionally want to spy on users.
Nice! I been there many times. One of the things I would've told myself travelling back is to move to Canada in some mountain village. Too late now, but that always drew me there.
They probably want reboot after crash to be also quick
Why America and China's disregard for soft power will define geopolitics
If we're thinking of the same YouTube channel, there are some excellent lessons to take away from those disaster investigations.

Now whenever I hear phrases like "we have to use the manual override most of the time" or "this alarm goes off all the time, it doesn't mean anything is broken", I am happy that the worst I can do is break a deployment, not explode an entire block.
Yeah app review have been surprisingly reasonable to deal with, from the "they seem like humans" point of view.

It sounds like OP is dealing with the account fraud department instead
> In fact there is hardly anybody who earns triple as of anybody else in the country.

Bullshit. I live in Germany, there's somewhat less income inequality than the US, but this is a gross exaggeration. A programmer in Munich easily earns triple or more than what someone gets at a random McJob like at Starbucks, also in Munich.

The bigger reason for why German rents are lower is simply that they allow for way more housing supply. In the US, even in major cities it's common to have wide swathes of land zoned for mandatory single family homes on large lots. In contrast, Germany doesn't have any such zoning in the entire country. You're always allowed to make at least some level of multi-family housing.
Kill Your Masters
"An effort to rename racist language in computer terminology"
Yeah maybe this was it. Any significant changes must be reviewed again.

But from the way it sounds the author was not actively developing the application, so I am not sure how many changes went into each 90 day revision, perhaps Apple does not look kindly on resubmitting a build just for the sake of resetting the TestFlight 90 day activity counter. This might be seen as a way to try and avoid deployment and the final app review process.

The 90 day counter is mentioned here
https://testflight.apple.com/
Look for it under "Testing"

From the way I have understood the 90 day counter before is that the app should be updated with new functionality/patches to be more beta tested, otherwise your app is obviously not being developed so no need for beta testing anymore
yes, definitely. I had a depression last year and I was slowly recovering from it, after everything became remote, less conversation with people, more pushing myself to work harder, because no one sees you are working and for people with imposter syndrome, layoff news and other mental issues you start worrying about your job and push to work more. which again leads to anxiety
I'd used lua in my early teens to script some games and ended up receiving money for my efforts, so I put it on my resume coming out of university.

It turned out that one of the first companies (embedded, automation) I interviewed with used it for integration between various third party subsystems. I think those conversations helped me feel like less of an imposter at the time.

I never use it anymore, but the language is nice. I wonder what web development world we'd live in now if they'd embedded lua instead of creating JavaScript.
I'm reminded of the classic Emo Phillips joke:

> Once I saw this guy on a bridge about to jump. I said, Don’t do it! He said, Nobody loves me. I said, God loves you. Do you believe in God?

> He said, Yes. I said, Are you a Christian or a Jew? He said, A Christian. I said, Me, too! Protestant or Catholic? He said, Protestant. I said, Me, too! What denomination? He said, Baptist. I said, Me, too! Northern Baptist or Southern Baptist? He said, Northern Baptist. I said, Me, too! Northern Conservative Baptist or Northern Liberal Baptist?

> He said, Northern Conservative Baptist. I said, Me, too! Northern Conservative Baptist Great Lakes Region, or Northern Conservative Baptist Eastern Region? He said, Northern Conservative Baptist Great Lakes Region. I said, Me, too!

> Northern Conservative Baptist Great Lakes Region Council of 1879, or Northern Conservative Baptist Great Lakes Region Council of 1912? He said, Northern Conservative Baptist Great Lakes Region Council of 1912. I said, Die, heathen! and I pushed him over.
Check out https://buildpacks.io for a better approach (in my opinion) in terms of maintainability, patching, updating.

Keeping a Dockerfile uptodate can be hell, especially if you have many apps that need to be patched... Updating base image is not sufficient, gotta update all downstream dockerfiles as well :-/
I monitor the issue tracker and explore the source code from time to time. The developer posts on HN and seems to be committed to the project and everything it stands for.

I'm not sure if builds are reproducible though. I don't think the author would allow the extensions to be hijacked by malicious actors but it'd still be nice to be able to verify a packaged extension was built from a given git commit.
Is nice to see Plausible gaining traction. Here is an blog post [1] about how they were asked for using it on site with tens or hundreds of million page view.

I am wondering if HN is interested in hosting analytics like plausible that is open for us to see. Sometimes I do wonder how many page view do HN get per day, where are we all from etc. For example the plausible demo site. 35% are using macOS. But only 15% uses Safari.

[1] https://plausible.io/blog/april-2020-recap
Try this. https://raw.githubusercontent.com/jart/cosmopolitan/master/a...
Server side was how it was always done back in the early days of the web, and analog[0] was state of the art.

Around 1999/2000 there was a rise of ISPs needing to install reverse proxy caches because the growth of consumer access meant they were getting seriously contended on upstream access. I was working at the time at a UK 0845 white label ISP called Telinco (was behind Connect Free, Totalise, Current Bun and other 0845 ISPs), and to my knowledge we were the first in the UK to install a Netapps cache. It was the moment we realised (by checking the logs to see if it was working), just how much porn our customers were accessing.

Those caches blow server side analytics to pieces, because frequently you wouldn't even know the user had hit the page. What server side analytics was useful for is what we'd now call Observability: they gave reasonable Latency, Error Rate and Throughput metrics, which combined with some other system logs might also give you a sense of Saturation.

As such, they were not too useful for marketing. Google Analytics was the first product that allowed high fidelity analytics even if reverse proxy caches (and even browser caches), were all over the place.

And here we are. In a World where we are tightly surveilled by corporate entities in order to try and get us to click on things. Bit sad really.

I'd encourage people to think about what they need these analytics for.

If it's marketing, you might just as well using GA: it's the best product out there. We just need to lobby for better regulation (at least GDPR and cookie setting popovers give us choices on that regard now).

If you're stroking your ego, consider whether such an invasive technology is worth the price, and if you need those numbers.

If you're making sure your infrastructure can handle the traffic, use server side analytics alone. Parse your logs using the huge number of tools out there able to do that in near-realtime, and leave your users' browsers free of tracking cookies and javascript.

[0] https://www.web42.com/analog/
> Wayland remains very immature

Many people (me included) use Wayland as a daily driver, so I guess it's mature enough to be used, and I don't even use a DE with all the convenience, I use Sway, coming from i3, and everything I used is working fine, either with an alternative, or relying on XWayland.

>it still has significant shortcomings in hardware support

Apart from Nvidia (which is not that great with Xorg either) I don't know what you're referring to.

> It isn't responsible to suggest it as an alternative

Some mainstream distributions (e.g. Fedora) have defaulted to Wayland, are you calling the maintainers irresponsible?