skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Pretty sure they are being sarcastic and referring to wooden construction (majority of US homes).
Gold isn't a "fiat" currency. It's a commodity that acts as a store of value. A fiat is paper which is asserted to have a specific value (likely unenforceable in a post-apocalyptic world). A commodity has a value because that's what the market will bear.

Gold does have intrinsic value. It's used for electronics plating and for jewelry. Other precious metals can augment gold as commodities, each having different intrinsic values. An example of a metal which might have no intrinsic value in a post-apocalyptic world is platinum or palladium, which are primarily used as catalysts for emissions equipment on cars (no refined petrol => no driving => no need for platinum/palladium).

I think the statement about cigarettes and booze is correct (as well as toilet paper and ammo), except they have different lifespans and durabilities. Also, consumables will get more rare as time goes on (like dollar bills that erode, tear, burn, or are lost), whereas precious metals may keep in-tact.
I experienced hyperinflation and the government did not collapse nor did the population become anarchist, just poorer.
Tasks/actions attached to events in your calendar
Covid-19 has exposed a US innovation system that is badly out of date
We all need downdraft hoods. Eating out with friends will be like going to hibachi, but instead of a grill between your friends, it will be a downdraft vent pulling all of your exhalations away.
Thanks for recommendations
I know our local waste department has had a very hard time finding anyone to recycle the glass they collect. Some of it ends up crushed and tumbled to be used for landscaping. But most of it is crushed and layered over the landfill liner. That is technically recycling/reuse as I think something else like gravel would be used otherwise, but it isn't what people expect when they recycle their bottles.

I don't have any official information about what prevents it from being recycled but I've heard word of mouth that transportation costs are a huge factor if you don't already have glass production in your area. Also that sorting is a big issue, as different glasses have different additives, and need to be recycled separately but sorting is hard to do safely and cost effectively.
Yer generalizing... that's racissss
Tether is largely used to run pump scams on BTC. It's other uses are marginal at best.

It is common for Coiners to remain willfully ignorant about the price manipulation, because y'all don't want to admit how small, fragile, and wildly corrupt your ecosystem is.
Under the creakingly ancient system the conservative holds to, man is a wolf to other men. Under the shiny new system the progressive touts, it's exactly the opposite.

(I hope you are either a masochist or don't read many social writers from times past. The Code of Hammurabi indicates social issues 3'700 years ago are similar to those of our day.)
Pension managers, and probably all fund managers, make stupid decisions all the time. I suspect especially so in cases where they have to be seen to be actively managing things to justify their salaries.

I don't think it has anything to do with the fact that there's an assumed long-term 8% return. Fund managers in situations where no such assumed returns exist make the same bad decisions all the time too.
"Still, hand-tuned assembly is hardly a relevant example, let alone selling point, as it creates hypothetical expectations that are never ever matched in reality."

There's a ton of hand tuned assembly running on your system in numerous libraries. Media and data compression? Hand tuned assembly. Matrix math? You guessed it. C-standard library functions? Yes, really.
The Greatest Teaching Techniques Don't Compute over Zoom
The point of the protocol is to distribute data efficiently. It has nothing to do with privacy. Maybe you’re thinking of Tor?
US Announces a New Position on Maritime Claims in the South China Sea
I don't entirely grok how the Bay can be the IT capital of the world and also have such poor fiber penetration. I've experienced commercial fiber first-hand in downtown SF, but that was never an option for residential use. Only Comcast, Spectrum and a couple of smaller mom-and-pop ISPs mostly focusing on WLAN.
Astronomers Have Found the Edge of the Milky Way at Last
This is good! Brief, easy on the eyes, well-suited to the HN crowd. I subscribed despite being on an unsubscribe tear. Job well done.
The machine looks awesome, but it's so complex. It looks like it wouldn't survive two seconds in the Ugandan wilderness. Why not just zip tie the optical cable to the conductor? I bet it could move a lot faster too if it was just tacking the cable instead of this big helical movement.
Although brains cannot do it "out of the box". Most kids take years of practice to achieve decent dexterity in even simple manipulation tasks. And learning a new skill like guitar in adulthood makes it very clear that, however sophisticated your capabilities in other areas, you have no innate ability to perform complex physical tasks well without a long grind of practice.

So yes, brains are incredible in what they can eventually achieve, and the fact that the calculation involved becomes hidden from conscious awareness can make it seem "effortless", but when you consider the sum of time and effort spent practicing physical tasks over a typical human lifespan, it's really anything but.
That's nice, didn't know that one.

Worth noting that you don't get things like " built-in FTP client; ability to mount MTP and iOS devices; RAR, TBZ, TGZ, 7z formats support; Dropbox integration; Terminal emulator"

These are all things Linux FMs have for free, but it's a good first step for sure.
At least here in Spain very bad red or white wine which is used exclusively for cooking comes in cartons.
There isn't much of a difference between digital media and "services." We'd all agree it would a dick move if I walked out of barbershop without paying, even if the barber didn't have any other available customers at the time.
For those who are interested:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sousveillance
The positive, negative, positive cases are almost certainly testing artifacts rather than reinfections though - they all seem to involve someone who was infected testing positive after a relatively short time period, and researchers in countries like South Korea have found that the patients don't seem to have any viable virus or be able to infect others when they test positive for the second time: https://uk.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-southko...

As far as I know, their original claim is still true: there are zero confirmed reinfections with Covid-19.
If I understand correctly, the primary advantage of using a secrets manager is that you can log all of the requests.

If your security is compromised, it's compromised, but having at least some kind of auditing can be hugely beneficial from a security standpoint.
On the contrary. It is extremely easy to know the IP addresses of all downloading. This is a major problem in PeerTube as well, as you can know what videos someone watch. I'm not up-to-date with this, but last I checked, this was still unsolved.
I recall reading an article about this before 2018. IIRC, it said that corn came to Europe a bit late to change the structure of that society. But, it's contribution was to be a high-variance crop where the booms helped a lot and the busts could be covered by reserve stores of wheat.
Python is the new VB. Popular and easy to learn.
> Why is the burden of proof on the poster arguing that India is more democratic rather than the side arguing that US is more democratic?

Because they made the claim, and I found this claim more unconventional and potentially more interesting to draw out than the claims in the comment they replied to. There was no conscious hidden agenda here. If someone (on whatever side of this discussion) makes a novel claim, they should be expected to provide a reasonable rationale, or otherwise expect that it will be questioned or just disregarded.
Mighty Health (YC S19) created a wellness app with older adults top of mind
Transmitting implies an exchange of messages. Broadcast implies
indiscriminately ... broadcasting.
Here in Cincinnati they use a series of microphones to triangulate where the shot came from
I don't anything about smalltalk, but one issue that was highlighted at that time was the inability to scale the number of "objects" to the required numbers (I can't remember exact typology, sorry). They used one of the smalltalk provider at that time, and went way beyond the upper limit.

That was the official story anyway. A lot of things were claimed when I worked there, a lot of it BS.

The culture in banking was definitely not for me: generally fairly smart people, but very perverse culture. This was the only environment I ever worked where people who actually lie to my face to make sure I made mistake when coding and fail. Everything was custom, and sometimes that meant athena, sometimes that meant terrible systems such as a "distributed database" that was a single threaded wrapper on top of an C++ STL hashmap running on NFS. The guy behind it was reworking its own protocol based on UDP instead of TCP because said system was too slow...

There was 0 abstraction, so if you wanted something such as EUR/USD pair, you had to ask the one guy who knew which id it was, so that you could get the data from in code. To this day I am convinced this was done on purpose for job security.
They need cash. Arm is one of the best asset that they have.
Yes, but consumer ADSL/cable..are still..within the USA IP Address list block.

By blocking the entire continent, if you are paranoid, you won't be on that list.

I doubt they will engineer much of a solution for non-local markets e.g. UK instance catching USA Ip address, though in the end it is not that hard to move that metadata around.
Galaxy Note 20 Ultra leaked
Curious. That omits the Three Sisters, the agricultural practice that I think of when somebody says "maize farming".

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Sisters_(agriculture)
The problem is, that they lied about how they got te evidence.

Eg, they plant a hidden camera in your house, see you packing drugs and puting them in your car in your own garage, and driving away. Since they got the info that you had the drugs from illegally set cameras, they can't just stop and search your car, but they can "randomly" stop you for a traffic check, and just "randomly" have a drug sniffing dog present, which finds the drugs in your car.

If the judges let this go through, the police would use more illegal methods (illegal searches, etc.) to gather data, then just "randomly" detect crime, and then the state would win cases.... and we (the people) don't want that. That's why, if you prove, that they knew the drugs were there from an illegal source of information, everything derived from that illegal source should be dropped as a illegally obtained evidence, to disincentivise the use of illegal methods.

Basically, the officer saying they randomly stopped you, would be a lie (=perjury), because they stopped you due their illegal cameras.
> Enforcement is the state forcing its will on you eliminating the individual’s ability to evaluate risk.

Except that the primary benefit of masks wrt covid is to significantly reduce the likelihood of the wearer to spread covid (by reducing how much spit escapes ones mouth). So the decision to wear/not wear is not directly about the decider's risk, it's about societal risk.
Not a Bay Area resident, but I like to buy houses in older residential areas because I like big yards and roomy interiors. Since the advent of WiFi it has been my experience that they seem to be about 10 years behind new neighborhoods. My understanding is that it's vastly easier to build new infrastructure to large developments than to bring it to older, less-dense areas.
Mateo, have you thought about adding an email signup for people who would like to receive occasional development/feature updates?
My biggest pet peeve is the downsampling of my high dpi figures to get the image size down for the publisher.

Also, open access journals will eventually dominate, but I think the idea is hurt by all the scam open access journals that plague our inboxes.
To add a data point, I upgraded Ubuntu from 19.10 to 20.04 a week ago. It was 99% uneventful maybe for the first time in 10 years. I didn't have to reconfigure even the dozen Gnome Shell extensions I use. The missing 1% is the new openssl. It didn't let me connect to a few servers with old ciphers. I had to google how to enable them again. Hardly Ubuntu's fault and I don't have control on those servers or I would have upgraded them too and solved the problem in the right way.
Is there a particular “cure” that was recommended by Marx/Engels for addressing their observations on the relationship between capital and labor in mid-19th century industrialist England that you found specifically impractical for the time?
Calculus (from math) is not related to lambda calculus, they can be learned independently of each other.
Exactly this. They’re basically signaling financial distress somewhere else on their balance sheet (one could make an educated guess about where). Arm is a significant growth business and the decision to part with it wouldn’t be taken lightly.
Blitzscaling in African markets: Opera's OPay optimizes its Nigeria operations
> I'll have to figure out some kind of early warning system for approaching people.

I put my sunglasses under my monitor with the lenses facing me and whatever is behind me. A rounded mirror works well too.
Yes there is, at least in EU, not sure for how long do they have to keep the logs.
I believe you, but at the same time all countries have to go through the phases of development (and sometime regressions, like what's going on right now in the world) to get to better lives for people.
Tail call removal is much broader than that. Compilers will remove even indirect tail calls, which is useful when building a fast interpreter. I tried this with a small example (using Godbolt, of course), now let’s see if it works for a full interpreter.
As a word it would just be "aff", though. There's no "foo".
blackarch-linux-live-2020.06.01-x86_64.iso 14.37GB

I'm totally outed.

Those other IPs in my subnet do like their porn. Well, someone's porn.
> inflation is in the asset prices. The rich… get richer

Numbers rising don’t equal values rising, the definition of inflation. It benefits borrowers as well.
Can you explain why? I can understand why people want things for free, but thinking that you shouldn't contribute towards the production cost of the programme you enjoy seems strange to me.
BigCommerce S-1
Nice idea, what did you use to create this?

Also, just a thought. It's interesting you called it what did you learn today, which makes me think this is about someone elses learnings and not about mine.

I'd call it WIL.today, what did I learn.

Or am I able to see other people's learnings somewhere?
Agreed but that's also reason for the EU to continue blocking entry to Americans so that doesn't seem likely to change.
That is interesting.

pgx does a lot of that too, but for only pg10/11/12. And then it post-processes the bindings and builds a "common.rs" for symbols that are identical across versions.

That way you can target all three versions at once, and then you can use Rust's #[cfg(feature=)] directive to opt into support for specific versions.

pgx has also done a little bit of work to mask differences between the three versions so they appear as part of "common.rs" anyways.

I wanted a framework that let me know, at development time, if I was trying to do a thing that isn't supported (or the same) across various PG versions.
They can't make something retroactively illegal, but piracy is already illegal. They'd just be retroactively making it harder to get away with. Much like how we've used forensic evidence to put people in jail years later, even if our forensic techniques didn't exist yet at the time of the crime.
I don’t get this argument at all. Are you saying that the rise of online forums and then social media had absolutely nothing to do with it?
<html>
<body>
<img src="/path/to/my/rendered_output.png">
</body>
</html>

This is also spitting out HTML...
The thesis of the article appears to be, in broad strokes, examining how material conditions shape patterns of thought. If there is truth in that, perhaps it's not the best idea to push the tone of thread titles on a discussion website in the direction of sensationalism and forwarded emails.
Which is the most sheltered comment I've ever seen. We are talking about online marketplaces, not gangs and terror groups, I know the narrative is media driven but you should be able to tell the difference.
> Though I am not sure the one I linked could cross pylons, and as such could be only for HV, not MV lines.

IMO the entire point of the post is that they can now run the fiber on the Medium Voltage lines. That allows cost effectively running fiber on existing infrastructure thats much more widespread and passes closer to homes.

From the article, MV is the harder challenge for running helical cable than HV because the lines are bunched closer together, can't carry as much weight and have far more obstructions. The cool thing this new approach does is make a compact robot that can run smaller cables and handle obstacles. This is going open up fiber as an option to way more communities where it previously was not cost effective to do so.
What gotchas or traps are on the lookout for?
I'm no expert in these things, but I'd imagine there would be a soft flag for possible fraud, that triggers something like text messages to customers confirming their purchases.

If within X minutes you see Y cards and Z of them are known to be stolen, you set the soft fraud flag on all of them. Values of X, Y and Z would be set based on historical data.

You could still test your stolen cards, of course - but 5 at a time, not 50 at a time.
And medical devices. I've spent my whole career working on them.
Thanks for the update.

> edit: PS, thanks for the idea of putting what I assume is the backend pid in psql's prompt. I need to go figure out how to do that right now!

Here's my ~/.psqlrc:

andres@awork3:~/src/postgresql$ cat ~/.psqlrc
\set QUIET 1

\pset pager always
\set VERBOSITY verbose
\pset null '(null)'
\set COMP_KEYWORD_CASE upper
\pset linestyle unicode
\pset border 2
\set PROMPT1 '%/[%p][%l]%x%R%# '
\set PROMPT2 '%/[%p][%l]%x%R%# '
\set PROMPT3 'c:%/[%p][%l]%x%R%# '
\set HISTCONTROL ignoredups
\set HISTSIZE 100000

\timing on
\set QUIET 0
Second wiki.js.

I've used DokuWiki for over a decade but it's showing its age. It's just a collection of hacks to add features and sometimes third party plugins are too buggy but wiki.js has most of what I wanted built-in.

It had WYSIWYG editor. Frankly a bare markdown editor is out of the question as it is never intuitive for anyone but some techie who likes remembering all the tags and I'm s programmer for a long time but I'd take WYSIWYG any day for managing structured documents.

It has plenty of auth targets from LDAP to oauth and many others.

It doesn't force you with some weird rule such as "link first and create page" but just hit the "New page" button and since it has list of pages for both front side and the admin panel, you'll never have some page left in limbo.

Admin panel is good. It lets you put custom CSS, so you can control the look pretty well including removing the parts you don't want.

Custom navigation let's you add any links in the menu and access control is good, so it's easy to allow a group of people access certain pages.

And it looks good.

I'm just a user.
That seems to me to be obfuscating the factors that everyone knows. Cases are growing exponentially in some states, while deaths fell tremendously in the states that previously had the most cases. California and Florida didn't have deaths fall 70%; they had deaths more or less plateau, while the age of the infected shifted younger, and now the increase in cases is getting to the point where it more than compensates for the lower death rate.
I would tend to agree. I think the issue is the LTS model, it's great for servers, but not so much for users.

As the LTS version gets older, most of your software starts to get seriously out of date, so every time you need something newer, it's easy to make a mess because you will have multiple versions of the same thing, as well as the dependencies and so on.

Upgrades are also quite scary, and often results in broken systems.

Rolling releases like Arch are much more user friendly in that regard, and breakage are uncommon. Installing older versions of already installed software is also much less frequent, and with the AUR it's really easy (at least compared to PPAs).
"Civil disobedience" is a rather grandiose way to dress up not paying for things you use because the person who owns them didn't sell them exactly the way you wish they did. You're not marching in the streets, you're watching TV.
"Hurtful" terms? Seriously? Dumbest response here.
I'm in San Jose and am very fortunate to have AT&T Fiber aerials constructed in my backyard a few months after I moved here from Santa Clara. (I feel your pain.) AT&T now has quite a few customers in my neighborhood because they are faster and cheaper than Xfinity.

Unfortunately, I believe this install was one of the last under the DIRECTV merger deal which required AT&T to deploy residential fiber.

The spools and amount of manual work to install the fiber lines was really something to see over the course of 3 months and I can really see the value of an automated robotic fiber deployment. The legacy cables are really huge.
From what I've read, by itself, it's not a great system. For example, you can shoot a gun somewhere else to distract officers, and some noises are misclassified as guns (teaching officers to ignore those alarms, making the system ineffective).
When I read stories like this I always wonder if they are setups. Like, it feels too stupid.
He pulled an ebay. The product was called AuctionWeb but the URL was http://ebay.com/aw/
If you have no money, it doesn't matter what's the value of the internship.
I'm not a virologist, but it seems like even in NYC the antibody test was "only" ~20% positive. ~30% if you drill down to certain subgruops: https://www.6sqft.com/new-york-covid-antibody-test-prelimina...

I think it would mean, even in NYC, its current "herd immunity" would reduce the so-called R value by only 20%. That doesn't sound enough to explain the difference between NY and CA.
Note the plural, bubbles. There is a big disconnect between the real and financial economy. Hopefully they’ll inflate the debt away with massive government programs. The alternative is deflation which is rough and long.
That would be fine if the quote didn't include this bit:

"...and their improvement is made to depend on allocating more resources to the management of hospitals, schools, and other agencies in question."

That's where he veers into making a policy recommendation (defunding social institutions), and where he is no longer engaging in critical theory but in pushing a particular policy agenda, therefore opening his critique (some of which I'd even agree with) to practical criticism from people with more skin in the game.
> Your question is answered quite directly in the post

You're right, I didn't read the post carefully. Thanks for the clarification.

> it likely wouldn't be useful to anyone to open-source it

All source code is potentially useful to someone. I doubt if open-sourcing Feature Explorer would reveal any of Jane Street's trade secrets. Why not just do it?