skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Even more unpopular opinion: humans should be as free as capital.

Making capital transfers easy while restricting the movement of real people ghettoizes and traps people for corporate convenience and cost savings.
Find it incredibly hard to believe they will allow an intra-bank transfer of $1B for free, even just going to another Canadian bank all bets are off and they certainly would want something in return.

Do have any proof of this claim or is it extrapolated from the fees for sending $200 to another RBC account?
I don't think I'll be trying this, but it's a really interesting DIY solution to ensuring eye contact when video conferencing. https://youtu.be/2AecAXinars
Does anyone know if there's a way to stop Firefox giving me "http://weather/" as the first suggestion when typing 'weather' in the address bar? I have never in my life wanted to visit weather.com but I can't seem to make Firefox stop suggesting it. It doesn't do this for other keywords.
I am curious, what would you do when you lost your map in a forest/mountain while hiking, but assuming you "remember" the map that you checked the day before?
Ah, thanks for the correction! :)
> but the lack of ecosystem makes it unfit for anything larger

What does this mean?
It's not only ugly: whenever I click in it to edit a URL (pasting in different UUIDs for testing, things like that), the change of font size means I don't know where the selection is. That's so confusing.
Hatemail {Hatred as a Service}
Check out http://hatemail.me , it's mind boggling.
What specific alternative is Mozilla proposing that solves the same use-cases that portals seek to solve?
> In-person encounters are crucial for establishing trust and building successful teams, according to research

Sources of many counterexamples: EverQuest, World of Warcraft, Warhammer Online, Dark Age of Camelot, Rift.

In all of these games numerous groups of people who have never interacted with each other in person have formed long term successful trusting teams.

EverQuest in particular in its first several years required a lot of teamwork to reach the highest level content, with each team member having to put in effort equivalent to a full time job. EverQuest had a huge "death penalty" compared to pretty much every MMORPG since, with a death sometimes wiping out days or even weeks of advancement and preparation.
It was designed so that you could do very little solo or even in small groups at the high end so you had to rely upon and trust your teammates.

Later MMORPGs toned it down a bit compared to EverQuest [1], but they still all had things that greatly benefited from successful trusting teams, and those teams formed in all of them.

[1] As did EverQuest itself. In fact, EQ today is actually a quite fun and interesting game to play solo. On a free play account you can reasonably get a character up to around level 50 solo, which was the limit in original EQ, and that solo character will be able to do a large fraction of what had been the high end content back in the day. On a paid account, which opens up access to more abilities, you can easily solo into at least the 80s or maybe 90s (115 is the current max level).
I like this trend
No the average person is less well off in a world where $1 billion can be moved anonymously.

The need to move such funds anonymously is usually due to illegal activities, money laundering, or at least tax evasion (evasion, not avoidance).

This leaves every average person at the very least, on the hook to pay for those taxes evaded, or lacking the services they would have provided.

If the need is due to criminality beyond tax evasion, every average person suffers the corrosive effect of that criminal activity (e.g., while I'm for most drug legalization, I can't begin to argue that organized criminal drug distribution is anything but a massive destructive tax on society - & in fact, a main point of legalization is to eliminate that corrosive costs of gangs).

So, the average person is definitely worse off with the existence of an ability to move & billions anonymously.

(edit: avoided/evaded)
I feel like any other tool, it largely depends on the context in which it's being used. I think that video chats are phenomenal in certain workplaces, or for certain people, and terrible in others. I've been in situations where half the team was offshore and it took a long time to build rapport because it's a lot more difficult to be casual while on calls - you want to get to the point while you're on a meeting, so you never get to chit chat with them the same way you would chit chat with the coworker you have right beside you.

But on the other side, I've also worked with people on the autism spectrum and noticed that interactions became a lot easier through video conference than in person. On my side at least, I tend to get thrown off a lot by out of place mannerisms so it was easier for me to communicate with them.

And as some other people have pointed out, there might be working environments where home working actually helps to avoid/reduce tension/intimidation/toxic relationships etc.

Edit: also worth mentioning that my husband and I met and fell in love after skyping for many years (we lived in different continents) and I'm certainly not the only one...
Maybe. But in the latest Cra1g Wr1ght drama, he claimed to the court that some early addresses people thought might have been Satoshi's belonged to him. A message surfaced afterwards which was signed with those addresses calling Cra1g a liar.
I don't know, is it that different from being able to send an encrypted message, or lock something securely in a safe?
There's a proposal (not implemented yet) for a 0.1% "Tobin tax" in the EU: https://www.europarl.europa.eu/legislative-train/theme-deepe...
Use care when considering these companies. I have been researching these for a couple years now, and thus far I have seen some pros and cons. I won't name names.

Pro: They can help you with getting permits and they are all-in-one for some features you would expect. If you just need a fairly quick installation of a safe room for your family to evade a tornado or hurricane, these are probably the quickest path if you have $100+k laying around.

Con: They are super expensive and you are paying a premium for not getting a local engineer to draft a plan and custom build a solution for you. These pre-built containers are small and meant for short term usage. Their air filtration systems are extremely expensive and yet still noisy. Their generators are noisy and too close to the living quarters. They are not designed to protect against civil unrest, as attackers can block / lock you inside. They assume ground level is not a flood zone, so you have to ensure that all water will run past your hatch. I mention this because even their own videos show them building in flood zones. They have a ladder and hatch which is not compatible with the elderly. You need to plan in advance for conduits, welding and wiring for solar panels. The hatch is very small, which means equipment has to be broken down before installing or replacing. Adding things after the installation is completed may be problematic. Their sales people are very pushy and make aggressive videos trying to take down their competitors. Each claim to have a secret sauce which is a warning sign to me. This suggests they are not following best practices that military bunkers have used for many decades.

In my opinion, it might be better to research this well in advance and look into existing plans created by people that have built "earth ships" and other environmentally friendly geothermal optimized homes that are either partially or completely under ground. There are thousands of videos on youtube of people that have done this for about the same cost as these all-in-one solutions that provide more living space, storage space, less dependency on generators, and the list goes on. You may even be able to get a grant in some locations to offset the cost of an earth ship.
Or, not do Scrum. Do another process, like having an experienced team that respects the other team members to plan their time and prioritize tasks, with good communications between members of the team.

Looking at 'scrum master certification test questions' online I don't see anything about technical debt, variable-length time boxes, re-prioritizing work during a sprint etc.

A real and reasonable criticism of Scrum or Agile is, the structure is not helpful to the actual work. Sure, making a list of tasks is quite useful. But the time-boxing and task atomizing can dissect the work to the point of dysfunction.

If nobody is doing Scrum right, we're right on the edge of a No True Scotsman argument.
> I'm sure many would love to see some change there and finally overrule Torvalds' decisions.

Is forking no longer a solution to this problem? Or are you just wanting to wrestle control away from Linus?
I interpret this as you need to do everything yourself rather than using off-the-shelf libraries.
I think some(?) smartphones adjust your eyes via post processing to create the illusion of eye-contact when taking selfies, I wonder if this is fast enough to also do it with built-in webcams in laptops.
I've been using my Yubikey in GnuPG smartcard mode for years to do the same thing, from what I can see from this tutorial FIDO2 seems a bit easier to setup initially but it also seems much less widely supported at the moment. Are there other tradeoffs to consider?
Are you trying to argue that a financial transaction - a service provided by a bank where THEY take all the risk and responsibility of said transfer - should be free of charge?

I mean if I transferred a billion and my bank made a mistake, I would not lose any money. Make a typo in your bitcoin transaction, and you're screwed.
If you replace the entire body wouldn't there be a blanking that occurs regardless? Or does the browser not repaint the parts of the page that look the same in the before and after?
Most normal people I know have 10+ year old laptops machines. People that buy laptops every 3 years are pros or enthusiasts that want the best performance.
2005 article (on an in-vitro study) also:

"Chloroquine is a potent inhibitor of SARS coronavirus infection and spread"

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1232869/
I've built something like this in the past (I was running a beefy server for my friends, and wanted them to know how much it was costing us at an hourly rate, before they ran it for 3 weeks straight).

It's definitely possible and not very challenging, but the API Documentation for prices was pretty weak when I built it (a year or two ago, written in Go if it makes a difference). The google cloud prices API was similarly gross. It was kinda fun, but I wouldn't enjoy maintaining that code. In reality, it turns out that $/hour isn't a super straightforward metric (there are many dimensions that go into it), so it's not super straightforward to query.
So the receiving bank applies a fee, but the fact it's in Greece has nothing to do with anything. Don't do business with crappy banks.

Plenty of people regularly do cross-border SEPA transfers for free. I do, and I'm not even in the EU/Eurozone.
There's a 1 in 4 billion chance of fat fingering it.

https://learnmeabitcoin.com/guide/checksum

The thing to be really aware about is insidious malware that detects valid bitcoin addresses being copied and modifies them in place, sometimes even to the point of including the same first/last alphanumerics to a certain degree.

You'd hopefully be using a bootable linux distro and multisig for transferring such amounts.
Reddit was a smaller community back then, and just like the article implies, smaller communities are easier to manage and of generally higher quality overall
Fork+PyTest=New way of testing device
And yet it happens - as does putting the value in the "fee" box!
I think it’s a good time to invest in a Mac Pro. While working from home I’m asking myself the benefit of a laptop when a desktop could give me so much more performance.
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Confirmed and updated, thanks!

The fact that it didn't work out-of-the-box in Ubuntu 19 (needed a udev tweak) and a failing USB port on my laptop gave me the impression that it also didn't work out-of-the-box in Ubuntu 20 (which I booted from a USB key, hence the good port was unavailable), but I just tried it using my laptop's good USB port and a hub and I can now confirm that it works out-of-the-box in Ubuntu 20.
Doesn't stop you from making a UI error and entering the wrong value in the wrong box.
Intel Graphics Unlocked Drivers
> As of this release, Intel Graphics DCH drivers are now unlocked to upgrade freely between Computer Manufacturer (OEM) drivers and the Intel generic graphics drivers on Download Center.
I honestly don't know if it can be tested unless it's determined to happen in some area of the brain, that can be monitored externally for increased activity.

When I paint myself I usually compose a scene in my mind. When drawing characters, I mostly follow whatever my mental image is, then as I trace the lines I can visualize how they connect. When drawing characters that aren't mine I make a point of not using a reference picture.
Basically I can "see" the whole result as soon as I have the eyes drawn, then I just draw single lines until it's "traced", undoing if it doesn't fit the shape I need. Only problem is that at times I don't close lines so using a fill tool is always a pain.
When painting proper I just make a quick color base and I add the rest until it fits whatever is in my head, then I add minor detailing to complete the piece in a more mechanical manner like "this gravel can use more texturing" or "add some grating in this robot's armor for cooling".
My speed when drawing characters is very high, I at times like to speed-doodle stuff for friends and each piece takes about 5 minutes once I decide on an angle/pose, so the process doesn't seem to interfere with agility.

I can also doodle stuff while not conjuring any mental image (such as idle doodling on a notebook or such), however, it just has weird proportions or so. My point being that it's not something necessary at all as you can still paint/draw/write without doing it. Doesn't seem to be a necessity or provide any significant advantage over plain "logic" (as logic as creative stuff can be, but stuff like light usually works in rigid ways)

When doing things like coding I plan the structure in advance, but it doesn't resemble the process for visual arts at all. There's no mental image there, just something like "okay now loop here and call this function".
Not a great first couple of impressions!

1. Safari uses a completely non-standard extension model and right now I'm the only developer so we're Chrome and Firefox only for the time being. Definitely sucks.

2. That's great feedback on that modal. Seriously, it never even crossed my mind that we don't explain why the extension is required before displaying it. Also that the "Add to Chrome" button makes it seem like it will trigger an install instead of bouncing you over to the Chrome store where you can see screenshots and a description of how it works before choosing to install. We really need to fix that ASAP.

Re tracking: When the extension is triggered (limited permissions, it only runs when you click the icon) it runs a script on the web page that tries to identify the primary text of the article. Once identified, we mark the individual words as having been read, starting at the top left of the viewport. Since we keep track of individual words you can scroll around and read out of order and the tracking will still work properly.

This process runs on a timer that allows for a pretty fast reading speed (probably around 500-600 wpm) but doesn't allow a user to just sit on the page for a long time or scroll right to the bottom. As you point out you can cheat it by scrolling very slowly through the entire article. Still waiting on that mind-reading API!
We don't know the person though; we know a wallet address. Similar to a bank account number; it's just a number.

I get what you mean, the transaction is public, but that's the point of bitcoin / cryptocurrencies.
I can visualize to a limited extent, i.e. I can see anything I want but images are always very "unstable".
I'm much better with music: I can listen to music in my head very clearly, even though there is a strong focus on the lead melody (e.g. voice, guitar). But I can also create music from scratch and let it unfold seamlessly, with any kind of instruments or vocals I want.
With or without udev tweaks? That has been the major caveat on linux in recent times.
React was made in 2013 and is pretty old at this point. How does Hyperapp compare to current tech like Svelte?
Scrolling was broken for me until I removed the extra parameters in the URL, to make it https://magazine.atavist.com/a-thousand-pounds-of-dynamite
When I used Chrome, years back, it was always despite the developer tools, which I always found to be worse that those in Firefox.

To me Chrome is the browser version of Windows. I can get by and it sort of does what I need. It’s just that somehow it feels a little half-baked, while being too much at the same time. It can as you say: be confusing but you are also left with the: why is this a feature and why is this in my browser.

Firefox has a few feature which only exists so I have something to turn off, but Chrome is starting to look like Emacs, all it needs is a good browser.
I don’t know. Which left-leaning subs, specifically, have violated the Reddit ToS in the same way that the_donald and the various “clown world” subs did and were not treated the same?
No. I think there are two separate camps within the Democrats, with very little overlap. Progressives on the far left, and centrists. Think Sanders vs. Biden, for example. And /r/politics is completely dedicated to propping up the progressives.

To be fair, I don't think it's filled with fake news. It's filled completely with progressive-biased, one sided interpretation of actual news events.
Yeah good point. I just don't want to be chatting digitally with somebody for so long... it's kind of a waste of time for both parties, but esp for a guy.

Biggest concern is bringing it back to my parents accidentally. Do you go on dates or just chat online?
I think those are pretty much the only ones, the Yubikey in GPG smartcard mode was always too fiddly for me and interfered with my agent in other ways, but this is trivial to set up and use.

Also, a big draw of the USB SSH key for me is that I can plug it in to other computers and connect to my servers, which smartcard mode didn't do, so that was a big drawback for me.
With one of my best friends we met playing online games and we developed trust between each other by force of voicechat and game-specific trust-based mechanics (remember those Portal 2 game trailers?[0] Well that kind of stuff, but along many different online games).

When we met in person it was like we'd known each other for years because we had known each other for years.

I think the issue here could be related to the dissonance of seeing a face, the brain expecting eye contact, but being totally unable to get it because of technological limitations. Since the brain doesn't have any other "source of trust" for that face (be that the voice, past behavior/experiences, having met that person to being with) it clicks the "do not trust (entirely)" response.

Of course I'm not a psychologist/psychiatrist/neurological MD and I'm talking entirely from my experience.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZMSAzZ76EU
Agree. The importance of eye contact cannot be overstated.

I have a 43" screen. I bought a very small but generic UVC camera on AliExpress. With this I can lower the camera down on the screen without be too obtrusive while dangling on the wire. This gives a really great result even if the change is just on my end. People seems much more "present".
I can only imagine how "real" it would feel if done on both ends.

Before this I was using an Elagato CamLink with a Canon EOS RP. While it gave a great quality image the offset position was not worth it. Furthermore it seems that most common video chat programs downsamples as noone saw a difference between this and a crappy 720 webcam even though it looked glorious on my end.

So have a go with a cheap small FHD UVC camera. It made wonders for me.
From a Euro bank account all 10 euro should arrive.
Definitely. You only really need to meet once and the trust can be maintained for many months, or even years. There is just something about meeting in person that sets it up in a way that video calls can't easily match.
It's all client-side. When I click that link, it opens the site as usual.
Because the "first order" "data correlation" tools that we use (typical statistical measures like correlation coefficients, means, stddev, etc) are inadequate for capturing the critical correlations in the kind of large, real world data sets that ML is shining in right now.

One example, if you have a thousand dimensional data set, and 3+ of dimensions are correlated, but only for certain value ranges, to find something like that with classical statistics, you would need an intuition and some digging and even then you might not see it.

If you suitably prepare your data and throw it into an ML it's trivial. Think of ML as automation for statistical inference. Because all neural nets really do is learn complex, super multivariate probability statistics - down to individual pixel-pixel relationships, for image data.

Edit: I'll add that one other reason ML works so well is that parameters in nets can learn (and represent) complex functions which are impractical (if not impossible) with mathematical notation. Which is what most complex real life distributions probably actually look like. It's like the bridge between analog and digital math, a sort of topological compression, if that makes any sense
Total aside but I love the train theme to indicate status of the proposal, and showing who is currently "holding up" the bill.
I agree, and banks + the government do just that; large transactions, or 'pattern' transactions flag up in fraud and money laundering departments and are investigated.

But, bitcoin is free of oversight or centralized control, which was the exact point of the system.
Khronos Release of SYCL 2020 Provisional Spec
Let's say you are shopping for a new sofa. Often people will imagine their room and how imagine how the new sofa would look in the room. Usually people will visualise that imagination process.

Now re-read the above and consider that I've asked you to imagine yourself imagining something!
Nice. Yeah honestly once you get a solid few months in the city and do all that jazz, it's just more of the same. End of the day you need to find your own ways of being entertained and growing... sounds like your location gives you that.
Google would not allow Mozilla to do this
I feel like Antirez has already done everything needed to ensure this doesn’t happen, by 1. building the module system into Redis, and then 2. working with companies like Redis Labs to establish that Redis is enhanced through these modules, and to ensure that modules offer everything required to enhance Redis in all the ways that matter.

In essence, Antirez has protected the core of Redis from needing to bloat, by making it possible for anyone who wants to build on top of Redis to literally do so—build on top, rather than inside. As such, I expect future PRs to Redis Core to look much like current PRs to Redis Core: just fixing bugs, adding stability, and resolving infrastructure-level interoperability concerns.
"Passwordless" mode unfortunately doesn't work for me in Firefox, I implemented it on https://www.pastery.net/ but I'm not sure if I did something wrong. Chrome works fine, though.
Reminds me of Rise of the Expert Beginner:

https://daedtech.com/how-developers-stop-learning-rise-of-th...
Looks like Mike Pall is still actively working on the project: https://github.com/LuaJIT/LuaJIT/commits/v2.1

The last commit is from 5 days ago.