skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Have you ever heard of the term 'Closed Circuit'? Same thing.

Of course I've heard of it! Very much not the same thing. The cooling chain is open at both ends. It isn't closed like a circuit, it is still called "geschlossen", which is exactly why I'm trying to tell you it's a mistranslation and "uninterrupted" conveys the actual meaning much better.

> why didn't he use the German word 'Verstand'

To sound "spiritual", literally, so he can connect with religious nutters instead of just nerds. What do I know of his motivations?
We had elections during the Civil War, when we were openly at war with 50% of the country, and losing tens of thousands of lives in bloody slogs.

Unless you mean there is no process for creating bumbling dictators, in which case there shouldn't be one. "Creating chaos" isn't the issue, it's enabling buffoonish authoritarians.

And make no mistake, if I was Trump I'd be holding on for dear life. As long as he's the POTUS he's mostly bulletproof, but all of those lawsuits and charges in NY and other states are going to continue aggressively once he's out of office. Right now he's a usable asset to Putin, to big business, the Saudis, or to whoever is pulling the strings this week, but once he's back to private citizenry he's on his own.
I just spent 15 minutes with old women at my job. It was all about how much interpersonal issues they had during their career, the backstabbing etc etc

Having suffered from this beyond reasonable levels I assure you, isolation would yield way more benefits than issues.

Now I'm not an extremist and being able to deal with some level of office politics to get a few more bonds is neat. But in my case, work sociology is synonym for hell.
Are they? If you have a pile of 1,000,000 chips, can you really get any of the elements out at reasonable (by almost any metric) cost?
Please don't come at this with simple models since the real-world interactions are very complex. What you describe only works that way in non-competitive markets or where there are artificial constraints on supply. Food and product prices are pretty much all determined by marginal costs in competitive markets since if you try to increase your prices "because my customers have more money now", your competitors will undercut you and you'll go out of business. This is why things have been getting cheaper over time as a portion of income, even while incomes have risen [1].

Housing is its own story because anti-development policies have constrained supply, which artificially forces prices up. However, 1) it's important not to conflate it with cost trends of other basic needs, and 2) there's a strong argument that increasing base-level income also increases mobility to lower-cost areas, which has a stabilizing effect on housing. The few reputable studies on UBI-equivalents I've seen show pretty minimal price inflation in comparison to the income gains, for example [2].

[1] https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/?g=1xKh

[2] https://www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/app.6.2.195
I've only posted about 1/3 of the Stack Overflow questions I've written. Forcing myself to break the problem down into a clearly explained question often brings a solution to mind or at least gives me a few new paths to go down, which often leads to an answer.
Controlled in the context relevant to this case relates to the number of copies, not the duration of each lending term. It doesn't matter how long the lending term is if you lend infinite simultaneous copies.
There certainly is. I have done this with a non-payment card. All you need is a magstripe reader/writer. A few tens of passes of writing random data to the magstripe should do the trick.

Not sure how this would impact the usability of your card though, in case you do end up relying on the magstripe.
I think you missed the point. This has nothing to do with thought police or trying to ban porn itself.

It's not about the viewer becoming an abuser him/herself.

It's about creating porn with people who are being abused, exploited and trafficked.

It doesn't necessarily have to be a violent porn video.

This is about the owners of those porn platforms having to take this issue more seriously - which they didn't according the investigations, i.e. profit is more important than investing more money in their platform to detect and take down those videos with trafficked and exploited people.
That’s why https://en.routeplanner.fietsersbond.nl/ allows the user to pick from limited stops, racer, shortest, car restricted, scenic, etc. Unfortunately, it’s only for the Netherlands.
But the testing should be automated so that incremental changes are just that incremental. Stop the world massive changes are an anathema as it so much harder to pinpoint the breaking change.
Why would bureaucrats and/or supercomputers would have to base it on market information? They could keep bending prices as they see fit.

By the fall of USSR, big chunks of black market were becoming legal :) Black market was a massive portion of economy throughout USSR existence though.

Some people still buy old good CCCP propaganda. And even questioning fairy tale propaganda is bad for those people.
That's a great idea with a lot of moving parts, so it would definitely be a fun challenge. I'm currently working on a "pantry search" to help you find recipes with the exact ingredients you have on hand.
Terrible tag idea, it's implicitly negative and accusatory. In this instance, the guy was apparently just honestly misinformed.

The main problem is that most of the original thread ballooned with upvotes because it became general "<big corporate entity> is bad" kvetching which is perennially popular and probably doesn't belong on HN at all. As long as these kinds of threads aren't modkilled, these things will happen, you just have to deal with it. Tagging them won't solve anything.
Interesting, it actually does. I agree that's cleaner than the Promise.all() pattern.
1M+ documents from the House antitrust panel build a far better antitrust case
Right here at the beginning:

"Our HAProxy1 logs aka traffic logs, are currently stored on two SQL Servers, one in New York, and one in Colorado. While we store a minimal summary of the traffic data, we have a lot of it. At the beginning of 2019, we had about 4.5 years of data, totaling about 38TB. "

and I asked myself, why the hell would you want this data?

Logs serve two purposes:

- find a fault and fix it
- audit what someone (or many someones) did

You never need years of data to find evidence of a fault: either it's available in the last few weeks or you didn't log the data in the first place (unless, of course, it's a bug that only shows up on leapdays, or leapseconds, or is similarly rare...)

So that leaves tracking your users in a way which isn't covered by your user's own history. Again, a month or two might be helpful, sometimes... but why years?
60k household income is 47th percentile

https://dqydj.com/household-income-percentile-calculator/

Most of the people struggling are below this figure and not because they spend too much on TVs.
I used to refill each cartridge in my (7?) color canon printer when it ran out.

Then I gave up and would order the el-cheapo amazon refills and change all 7 at once, empty or not.

(one big change every few months instead of random refills every week or so)
Lattice Gas Automaton
In a startup, are you sure you like to spend 600 bucks on a db edit tool - what stage is your startup ?
Point taken; bureaucracies were even slower back then. But...

> it was a tool for censorship

When did that change? Did it ever?
What is crazier still, is I wasn't even sent a chip & pin from my bank until just last year. At least they did everything all at once, chip and contactless. But I'm still waiting for Capital One to send me a contactless card (its my preferred card to use internationally where contactless seems to be the standard).
I can't help but wonder how many of the issues with scientific papers couldn't be solved with technology. The notion that science is so deeply rooted in antiquated concepts like paper journals and academic constructs like tenure is absurd when the internet has been around for as long as it has.

For example, imagine if scientific papers were voted up or down by a community, kind of like stack overflow.

Or imagine if scientific papers had to publish all of their source materials and instructions for replicating the experiment, and there was a system for tracking and showing whether or not the experiment had been validated or disproven?

What if you "game-ified" scientific papers and gave people points for publishing, but also gave people twice as many points for disproving a paper?

Imagine if we had a platform for tracking scientific theories and experiments that was a combination of democratic/meritocratic administration (like wikipedia), change logging/tracking (like github), and reputation management (like stack overflow)...
I'm in the process of migrating a ~5.4TB time series database. This is also slow/painful. I wonder if there are any general-purpose/open source tools that could help with these sorts of tasks (I've had to roll my own job queue/ETL worker script infrastructure to manage this). In my case, it looks like the full migration will take around 10 calendar days assuming no issues come up.
According to their pricing page, a 50TB SSD from Nimbus costs $12,500. That would have been worth the expense in DBA time alone, right?

Edit: added the link. https://nimbusdata.com/products/exadrive/pricing/
Im aware of that. Also, he can’t on his own. He needs the congress afaik. Not saying it’s not dangerous. It is.
The benefits of having a data room and how to build one
That was interesting, thanks for sharing it here.
US suffers worst decline on record in second quarter as GDP contracts by 32.9%
Case in point, one of my favorite system architecture/design blog posts:

Providence: Failure Is Always An Option

https://jasonpunyon.com/blog/2015/02/12/providence-failure-i...

Which has one of my favorite quotes about scope creep:

Kevin and I have essentially become allergic to big projects. We attempt to practice “What can get done by Friday?” driven development. Keeping things small precludes a whole class of errors like “We need a new datastore”, ‘cause that ain’t gettin’ done by Friday. It’s hard to sink a week on something you weren’t supposed to be working on when all you have is a week.
Good idea. I’ll add that to my todo list.
African Countries (With Cities) API
Currently, I am working on a personal project and I needed a list of all African countries and their cities and some other data. I needed the data all together. I searched and couldn't find a library/API that offered this. So, I decided to implement it myself.

For this, I decided to use Node. I released the package yesterday on GitHub: https://github.com/babajidemm/african-countries-api

Your feedbacks and suggestions are very welcome. I'd also like to hear from people that will be using this module in their projects and experiences with it.

#africancountries #api #africancities #nodejs #nodemodule #africancountriescities #africancountriesapi
I was following the founder on the Telegram for last year – definitely not fake.

https://t.me/zhovner_hub
Seriously. If a group of vampires have been sucking so much blood that everyone's anemic, the solution isn't to have "universal basic transfusions" to make sure all the victims aren't tapped out and die when the next extraction rolls around.
I believe that my mother may be suffering from the early stages of Alzheimer's disease. It seems to have plagued all of the women in her ancestral family lineage, and she is therefore well aware that she will likely inherit it. Because of this she has tried to be as healthy as possible her entire life in terms of diet and exercise; albeit, she's now at the age where these issues may start to surface. Is there any benefit for someone like her to get tested?
Why the tech giants may suffer lasting pain from their Hill lashing
How is it not well defined when we can observe positive correlations between unrelated cognitive tasks?
Here come the taxes... peoplorget that non of this is "FREE".
Show HN: Power your growth with robust competitive insights
Nice looking site and product! I watched your drag and drop demo for the kanban board. You may consider having a “best of” at the top, I wouldn’t watch a vlog because of the time involved, but I would definitely watch a couple of top rated videos from your journey where you talk about pivots, big feature demos, etc. you could manually curate the top ones for now and influence them with thumbs up and view as there are more user metrics. Good luck!
Good point! We also have to think how long it takes to go from having to work pointless jobs to not having to work at all. Maybe it would be a generational thing where the first group of people will primarily spend time doing things that are deemed pointless (making dancing videos on tik tok), and the next generation is able to grow up more liberated and able to produce more "valuable" things--art, music, poetry, whatever.

Right now, a lot of people seem to think having any job is what makes them valuable. That's not something you get over quickly or easily.

Even stay-at-home parents have this up-hill battle. People in the US are still trying to fight for paternity leave. "Not working" is such an evil concept.
Yes. Or even stripe some cheaper $/TB drives together in a RAID to cover the needs.
Yes, the edit is precisely what I was trying to get at. Do you happen to have context around this?

edit: also, “spectre mitigations” was just a shot in the dark. It does feel like this mode of jmping (modifying saved registers and restoring them) would be more prone to interfering with speculative execution.
> A few years ago, following Google maps cycling directions me and a couple of friends on road bikes were led through muddy forest trails, old rail road tracks and green lanes on a London -> Paris <24hr attempt (we took 26hrs).

Yep. It's clear that Google Maps optimises for city riding and that's cool, but it does fall down badly on longer tours. To a large degree this is inevitable - only OSM actually has the level of surface quality information required for this sort of planning.

With my site, cycle.travel, I've taken the opposite tack: generating quiet, safe routes for leisure and touring rides, while still being as fast to generate routes as Google Maps. Sure, I want it to be usable in cities but it's not the main focus.

People have used it successfully to plan month-long tours across Europe and the US. One of my favourite bits of feedback was https://www.cyclechat.net/threads/swindon-to-orkney-a-wet-we... , where someone just punched in a start and end point at opposite ends of the UK, and rode the route it suggested without any tweaking.

https://cycle.travel/map if you want to play - always happy to hear suggestions/feedback (and thanks to Jake for including it in the post!). Currently Europe/North America/Australia/NZ only.
Already the same in the US once EMV was rolled out.
The book takes place during Stalin era, yet hardly mentions Stalinist atrocities.

It is as if someone wrote an anti-US book that takes place in antibellum South and never mention slavery.

I'm not saying that every book set in a certain time period must delve into the worst parts of that period, but it could hardly be called anti-that country if it doesn't.
How I get more benefit from technical reading with Anki
Ah, I see. This is for a different firmware issue. They have so many these days, it's hard to keep track. :/

Thanks!
In case you or someone else may find this helpful, you can install Whited00r on older iOS devices like the iPod touch 1st gen to access AppTimeMachine, which gives you access to a community-contributed collection of legacy iOS apps.

http://www.whited00r.com/
Intro to PGP Encryption
Gas pump readers are very expensive. The solution for the wise customer is to go inside and use the POS terminal at the counter if possible.

Old school gas station attack: many gas stations queue and forward transactions for reconciliation in batches, waiting to do so when they don't have connectivity. People have taken advantage of this fact by climbing up on the roof of stations with satellite connections for their POS terminals, tin-foiling them or otherwise blocking their transmission, then buying a bunch of gas with a stolen credit card. Head down to the next gas station, lather rinse repeat, and by the time things get figured out you've got maybe a hundred gallons of gas and a bunch of candy bars you can trade for meth (this is not a Bond Villain-level crime).
"Rebranding"... or "Lying" is lying, thank you.

Much like the architect of Obamacare (Gruber) admitting that it really was a tax.
Totally agree. I would be curious if anyone who is saying why didn't you use XYZ has actually migrated 500 billion rows of queryable log data from one tech to the other. For everyone complaining about PII. The article shows a 6 year log retention which fits with many regulatory requirements for data retention. We forget that a lot changes in 6 years on what makes sense to do. ELK stack according to elastics history page became a real thing in 2015.
I do wonder how many emails they receive though...
I'm not aware of any evidence that Amazon sells stuff below cost.
It appears Tianwen rover is only about 200-300 kg, but their orbiter is massive at 3000+ kg.
You must think CPU's are very intelligent
Or to create change.
Earthquake preparedness: What to do before – and during – a big one (2018)
Why the Russian government specifically? Plenty of nations do encourage this of (some of) their mathematicians and this practice is also poorly regarded by some.
At the time of the decision was made(4.5~ years ago) it probably was $0. Now it's worth the cost to migrate because the value of keeping that data has been proven worthwhile by the cheapest initial solution.
Author here: I actually tested this out after seeing someone else post the same solution, and it does run in parallel. Because the awaits don't come until after both requests have been created, the second request isn't blocked by the first.

Personally I agree that this is cleaner than the Promise.all() solution, but I also think it emphasizes just how misleading the syntax can be, given that those weighing in on this thread can't even agree what this code will do without trying it out.
https://www.datanyze.com/market-share/email-hosting--23

Seems like 1/3rd is more or less right. I think you're underestimating how big enterprise buy-in for the G-Suite is, Docs and Sheets are both widely used at this point.
Another benefit besides those you listed is teamwork. Playing together in a band, there is no way to "game the system". Everyone needs to learn their part to make the overall piece enjoyable. It proved to me at an early age that people can come together to create something greater than themselves.

From the original study: "-evidence indicates that engagement in music has no impact on people’s non-music cognitive skills".

My intuition says the evidence must not be comprehensive enough then.
Ah, right. Thanks :-)
But that's not how a land tax would work. The idea is that it captures most of the value of the land (removing the rent seeking ability). So the tax would be at a level that makes owning the land itself not very profitable, it's the improvement upon the land that offering return on investment.

So you'd likely see a $1M plot of land taxed at $100,000+ per year. It would make zero sense to sit on the empty plot or build a single family home. It would incentive someone to building a $10M building on it.
Hmmm. So maybe this is a reasonable explanation.
I love the thought you covered in your first video about "why not YouTube?", so best of luck with building a more specific community.

I think some will say that you'll lose a sense of discovery by not being on one of the largest video platforms, but you'll gain an opportunity to build something from scratch and see what you can cultivate. It really comes down to your goals/intent, and I think you did a great job of explaining your choice so far!
Sounds like you need a smart toilet lid.
You're right: monetary damages are measured in replacement cost...based on the depreciated value of the item to be replaced. Meaning, less than the value you originally paid.

Jail time wouldn't apply in this case, and I don't know why you think it would unless you can cite a violation of criminal law.

The judge will order them to return the property and the local prosecutor will charge them with possession of stolen goods.

??? You still possess the glasses. Nothing was stolen from you. The company is merely turning off their servers on their property.

Specific performance is a common form of remedy when damages would be hard to calculate (such as in this situation).

Specific performance is a rare remedy, and would never be imposed when monetary damages are easy to calculate, as they are in this situation: you paid X for glasses, so X are your damages.

Moreover the monetary damages are not calculated based on the initial cost of the services (which may have been sold at a discount), but the damages at the current time (which may be substantially higher, or lower).

??? Monetary damages are based on reasonable damages for relying on a service, and moreover require damaged party to attempt to minimize damages by finding alternative services. I'm not aware of any unique service provided by the North glasses that could not be replicated through other devices and services.
New study discovers one weird marketing trick you'll never believe!
So you're saying "intelligence is the ability to eat lots of pizza" is a better definition?
You sure? Most of the gas stations I use to fill up have me leave the card in for the chip reader, as opposed to slide it in and out quickly as before.
That is an interesting connection for sure. The gag was "One Laptop per Child Soldier": https://archer.fandom.com/wiki/Cecil_Tunt
Front page Cloud logos that are circular look like buttons to get more information. Expected to see a copy page about how the product works with a given cloud and was really surprised that they didn’t do anything on click.
> You can do mdraid, you just have to stick the metadata at the end of the drive rather than the beginning. The utilities that set up your raid even warn you about this because this setup is so standard.

You're screwed when the firmware decides to write to the ESP though.
Upgrade to pip 20.2, plus, changes coming in 20.3
The fundamental factor that will determine the amount of lifetime earnings and individual makes more than any other factor is their education.

In the US today -

- 50% of inner city school kids will not graduate high school.

- 66% of the prison population is functionally illiterate.

- 75% of the prison population has not finished high school.

- 19% of the US population is unable to read a newspaper, and nearly the entirety of them are earning near or below poverty levels of income.

John Allison, the former CEO of BB&T, (the bank) talks about how they tried to open a customer service call center in a historically low income area of North Carolina, due to it being geographically near to their headquarters. That's an entry level job that would have paid good wages, and with a good career path (potential for promotion to management positions or transfer to HQ of the bank). Why couldn't it open? They literally could not staff the center because so much of the local labor pool could not read or write at a functional level.

The Right is correct in the sense that if you are lazy, you won't have much success in life. The Left is correct in the sense that it's not the only factor at play. You can be the hardest worker in America but if you can't read you just won't be able to earn that much. If we want to boost social mobility among the lower classes, we need to get them to a level where they can actually perform higher paying work. Despite enormous expenditure (an average of $15,500 per student per year!!), the public schooling system in the US has failed a huge portion of our lower income population.