skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think we should be paying football coaches that much, but I don't think the majority of other positions are overpaid to the degree the author asserts/implies. Especially individuals in education, considering we have millions of school age children.

Something else that annoys me in media in general is hyperfocusing on government liabilities (pensions, projects where existing bonds aren't sufficient, etc) as unfunded, while ignoring unpaid individual liabilities (credit card debt, car loans, student loans, mortgages, etc), that are also unfunded. I think we should start referring to all future financial obligations as unfunded liabilities, unless there's already a framework in place to ensure future funds are available for them.

I especially look forward to Tom Selleck saying that reverse mortgages aren't a way for the bank to take your house, they're just a way for the bank to make your unfunded liabilities worse. :)
> What you have in your bank account is not digital cash. It's effectively a note that the bank owes you cash.

Yes.

> as far as I understood without physical money there would be no bank accounts.

I'm not sure why that would be the case. I've never withdrawn a physical dollar from my bank account.

> how could an economy go 100 percent electronic banking, if banking is built on the existence of physical cash? This is the missing link.

I don't think that's the point of CB digital currency. The point of CB's digital currency is to reduce the indirection between policy and business/consumer behavior.

NB: this includes both fiscal and monetary policy. So e.g. provides a mechanism to cut the retail banks out of things like covid relief funds.
Oh, no, that's my guess as to what happened here.
Zapps (Apps in Zoom)
> What about my bank? They have >100M users, and with an app/service portal, they'll be required to be "interoperable". I don't want my bank or my bank info to be interoperable.

Here in the UK we have something like that, called Open Banking[1]. IMHO the most noticeable benefit to consumers is that many of apps from the UKs largest banking providers now allow you to view your accounts from all your banks through their app (traditionally you could only view accounts you held with that bank). I believe that some budgeting / spending-tracking apps also take advantage of it to amalgamate information from all of your accounts.

[1] https://www.openbanking.org.uk/
The Dacia Spring Electric is now available
would like something like this to be opensource...
Yeah sorry, I can't think of anything to solve that. But it does have me thinking that I bet someone out there has made a wrapper program that intercepts network system calls (using LD_PRELOAD hacks) from a target executable and routes them all through a specific interface.

Failing that, you're probably stuck with iptables and maybe Linux namespaces.
That's what I thought, too. I see no screenshots for the game. Places like BoardGameArena.com are a better model.
I used to wonder why there's always a constant flood of new new technologies, frameworks, products, etc. instead of improvements over existing solutions.

Now I believe I know why; it's about growth for the business, at all levels. New technology may give the business a competitive edge but more importantly it will give the developers who created it as well as those who learn it, a career boast.

This is why we get things like software updates for a UI that no one asked for.

In the end, the core idea is that "good enough" is never enough. Because improvements, not maintenance, drive careers forward.
A real fireplace in a cold climate.

A siamese cat.

A Zojirushi water boiler.

A Nespresso machine (Not Keurig!).

A boat & a fishing rod.
Well, they became the new big iron once powerful microprocessor-based machines became commonplace.

(DEC did make a microprocessor version of the PDP-11 called the DEC Professional, but it failed to catch on.)
Hmmm, wouldn't the CBDC be safer than any other place to put your money? So in a crisis, wouldn't you sell everything and put it in the CBDC including potentially government bonds precisely at the time the government probably needs to borrow cheaply?

That seems like a recipe for disaster to me.
I couldn't find any information about what games I can play or host. Why would I sign up for a mystery product? Please focus your landing pages on the service you provide.
I used Meshuggah - Bleed and a carrying harness to get my then 2 month old to sleep. Close enough to white noise, and motivation for daddy to keep rocking. Not sure I want to read research on whether that was a good idea..
would love to see the correlation between "throwaway" accounts and racist invective like the above.
Not related to the article contents, but the font rendering on the document exhibits are really bad. Here's how it looks on firefox: https://i.imgur.com/z7xbUN4.png. I suspect It's because there's a slight rotation which screws up the font rendering. It's slightly better on chrome but it's still there. Anyone else getting this?
As I linked above, introduced Feb 2017 found Jan 2020

https://openwrt.org/advisory/2020-01-31-1

A bug in the package list parse logic of OpenWrt's opkg fork caused the package manager to ignore SHA-256 checksums embedded in the signed repository index, effectively bypassing integrity checking of downloaded .ipk artifacts.
They like money, what you're going to do? BTW Enjoy your 50Mbs copper DSL connection.
And have hospitable climates, which is why there are a lot people there in general.
I have been looking into this exact route. You sound like you have experience with this, so maybe you could give some recommendations:

a. How critical is it to use such dedicated hardware - could I use a RPI4 with an added usb3-gigabit eth adapter? (I don't need a wired lan, only a wifi one).
How much worse would that be compared to the hw you link?

b. Which AP would you recommend? I think the Ubiquity AP lite one is reasonably low cost - are there better options with similar cost?
Thanks. How about PERL? Hear it's good at string manipulation but never used it.
3 bits for the 8 addressing modes, 3 bits for the register. For double operand instructions. that's 12 bits - so only 4 bits left over to encode double-operand instructions.

The most important of which was probably MOV (0001, or 01 octal). Thus, something like the C 's++=t++' translates direction to a single 16-bit instruction:-

0001 011 001 011 002 = 012122

The cleverness though was that by using the addressing modes on the PC (R7) things like loading a constant into memory or moving memory contents was all single-instruction as well:-

e.g. MOV #7, @#1000 # Put '123' int address 1000
==> MOV (PC)+,@(PC)+
==> 012737 7 1000

The same trickery made relative addressing easy, made PUSH and POP nothing more than MOV instructions (though it did take me some time to understand the use of R5 for passing arguments in Fortran).
I think that’s by design...

From Sun Tzu (loosely): when an enemy is large in number, divide them.

Isn’t that what news does, especially the political crap we call news in the US - divide the population so they fight among themselves.
If you don’t read the news you’re uninformed.
If you do read the news you’re misinformed.

— unknown
> In 2015, emails show that Garda employees discussed how to keep TD Bank from learning that a single branch couldn’t find $924,000 of the bank’s coins.

If that was all quarters, that is somewhere in the ballpark of 25 tons of material. That didn't go missing by employees carrying it out in their pockets. You can't run that through the local coin star. How on earth is this possible?
Oh, good point -- the instructions break down nicely as one leading bit plus 5 octal digits. Branches are a little bit of an exception, but you're right that octal works overall better here. Still, that doesn't explain the use of octal at the top where it's not referring to instructions.
Yes, diminishing returns eventually. But you don't want a very cheap one either.
This is a thing already. In my understanding, it's a staple in several kinds of recycling processes. Random sample of related links (there's a seemingly infinite amount of these though):

https://youtu.be/mLya2NuY4Yk

https://youtu.be/GJeOfHxMWQo?t=87

https://youtu.be/bWUuBz2hWc0?t=83
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I did sink into it for a bit, playing with a matrix of 9 different schemes. However instead of Forth I’d implement Leroy’s ZINC model and implement a simple RPN version of the lambda calculus.
I think if we want to argue that central banks will soon be pushing for CBDCs to let people have accounts directly with the central bank we need to argue why they at the same time are opposing* narrow banks, which to me seems to be a different technical tool achieving an equivalent goal?

* At least the Fed seems to be: https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-03-08/the-fe...
That sounds a bit like Canada's LVTS [1]. On the retail side we also briefly played with something called MintChip [2].

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Large_Value_Transfer_System

[2] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/MintChip
I know that was trolling :) But let me answer you:

32GB+ RAM on laptop lets me run complete micro-services production-like environment (Java, VM, Docker) locally with efficient development/debug capabilities.

And that is at any place where I can get electricity and LTE/4G/3G which is enough to git pull/push or check on-line docs few times a day.
Pay adjustments aside--and those might absolutely come into play with lower cost areas of CA as well--it's not hard to imagine that: 1.) Some people might want to remain in CA for various reasons and 2.) Pay considerations, there's something to be said for being able to drive to an office now and then rather than having to get on a plane.
I see. But then again I am a bit confused by this text in the report on digital euro[0], which was recently posted on HN.

“While the Eurosystem would always retain control over the issuance of a digital euro, supervised private intermediaries would be best placed to provide ancillary, user-facing services and to build new business models on its core back-end functionality. A model whereby access to the digital euro is intermediated by the private sector is therefore preferable.“

That sounds like a bank to me. But I guess it must be so that the relationship between the central bank and intermediary will be different.

I struggle to find the defining features of these CBDCs so that it is more than empty branding. I guess you might sum it up as “bringing the central bank and currency-users closer thanks to modern technologies”?

[0] https://www.ecb.europa.eu/euro/html/digitaleuro-report.en.ht...
Have you seen what's going on in San Francisco and downtown LA?
Documenting FAQs is so important. I found the private StackOverflow tool to be really useful for the documentation of all sorts of questions. From debugging (“What do I do when I get paged with a critical error?”) to process (“How do I create a good pull request?”) to tooling (“What’s the easiest way to run unit tests in Visual Studio Code?”). It’s a big force multiplier if you’re in a scaling organization.
Sometimes. More often than not though, I suspect it stems from ignorance, hubris, and incompetence (and sometimes all of the above).

Basically people that don't know better, but think they know better, try to reinvent the wheel.

https://xkcd.com/1831/
PS. Don't buy memory foam, it doesn't breathe well, makes you sweat and if its a thick layer of memory foam will make it impossible to turn on at night (you will sink into a stupid, sealed hole). A little layer of memory foam is bearable, but what would be the point then? The only reason they add it is marketing. A good breathable mattress is far better.
AFAIK low-power MCUs are always used in race-to-idle fashion because nothing beats <<1 µA sleep.

For computer processors, DVFS isn't used like OP suggests, it's really more like Dynamic Temperature And Power Scaling (DTAPS), because it's meant to extract maximum performance from available power and thermal budget. Also while CPUs _do_ change power and frequency at >1 kHz, they're intentionally designed _not to_ downclock in the example GP gave (inter-frame idle).
They (EU bureaucrats) may not own everything but have enough power and money to corrupt natural processes or create top-down toxic abominations absolutely in the same way.
How about: noon = 1200 and midnight = 0000 ?
Totally agree. My parents got me a Merkur Solingen Futur as a gift about a decade ago, which I'd never have considered buying on my own. I haven't looked back since.
This is a significant misreading of Stockdale's actual experience. Michael Gibson wrote an article on the same situations:

https://www.1517fund.com/post/the-inadequacies-of-the-invinc...

--------

The truth was, despite the consolation it gave him, Stockdale never thought Stoicism would help his tortured cellmates. He never tapped Epictetus’s maxims in code through the prison walls to his friends. “You soon realized that when you dared to spout high-minded philosophical suggestions through the wall, you always got a very reluctant response. No, I never tapped or mentioned Stoicism once.”

Still, years later, people would want to know what kept the captured pilots going. How did they survive for so long? Stockdale’s answer was not Epictetus and the Stoics. His answer was always, “The man next door.”
"Being older was associated with lower susceptibility to misinformation in every country except in Mexico."

Very interesting that this study correlates age with an inverse susceptibility to misinformation, given a wealth of studies correlating age with an increase in heuristic reliance, a susceptibility to exploitation & reduction in skepticism, etc.

In other words, doesn't this data fly in the face of the American tropes about our American elderly and FOX/Sinclair/sensationalized news? Something seems off.
How large were the losses when compared to the fees charged by GardaWorld for cash management?

Every business needs to make a tradeoff of how much money is spent on security vs how much theft occurs... And it might be that GardaWorld has made the right tradeoff here, and all they need to do is pay to replace the lost coins.
I've used many cloud providers over the decade. It's not uncommon to lose a week to fully open an account, going through some checks and verification with support. I was expecting Hetzner to resolve the issue a couple days after contacting them, just like AWS always responds after exactly 2 days when I send them a request.
Couldn't find any information about the games available to play (there's only one page for rules, so it appears only one game is available). Couldn't create a game after creating an account. It's not clear that this site is even at the MVP stage?

Bounced off this hard.
Hmm. It seems to be mostly open source though? I found a document about differences on Linux, and I didn't see much.
https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/+/master/docs...
Sweden is probably the most advanced in considering an "e" currency and so far the proposals have been of keeping the two-tier system, i.e., you still have an account with a bank.
> It's an interesting idea, but would take a fair bit of creativity to execute well I think.

yeah for sure, it's a hard problem. but at least a high level listing of similar libraries in the same category with # of recursive deps and total bloat size clearly visible so it was easy to shop around and sort by whatever attribute the developer wants to prioritize.

it would be similar to category-specific filters & comparison tables for features of e.g. SLR cameras, usb3 power supplies on amazon.
Similar experience here. Also cause I have it on schedule it also indirectly forces me to keep things tidy so it can clean the floor without too many obstacles.
Where are you from where a 30yr fixed is abnormal? Everyone I know in Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas or Missouri uses 30yr fixed with no prepay penalty. Then you can just toss whatever you want in over the top and pay down your premium when times are good. Then if things get rough you can just slide back to the minimum monthly payment.

(Also, fixed interest is like below 3% right now.)
May be it would be not the worst option: good fences make good neighbours.
The "UBI consumer serfs" already exist in Germany, because the government only pays you benefits if you don't have any property. The moment you start saving up your money, they stop payments and demand you to live from your savings instead.
A "fun" thing to do is to zoom in on anywhere at all in Google Earth.

There's basically no natural world left, on land anyway.
Presumably GNU MES, used for Guix: https://www.gnu.org/software/mes/
Harris was a progressive superstar?

And Fox News is propaganda ... it's not a good thing for any news organization to be like that - regardless of the media environment as a whole.
I think that the good faith of "politics" is more related to "winning elections and/or otherwise gaining the power to create and change legislation". This differentiates it, ideally, from e.g. processes to find solutions to problems that have different kinds of approaches depending on your political outlook.

Someone who says that any discussion of e.g. energy policy is "political" is just being stupid. Someone who points out that someone is taking a particular position w.r.t e.g energy policy purely as a cynical political move might be right.
I was curious how bad that was compare to a place like Ontario,Canada. California is an example of Fiscal Excellence.

It is difficult to even imagine there is a place like this that exists, all on borrowed money.

Over 166k Gov Employees making at least 6 figures and beyond.

https://www.ontario.ca/page/public-sector-salary-disclosure-...

Some other stats while dated still extraordinary.

https://torontosun.com/news/provincial/ontario-government-em...

California is not even close to in Trouble......
It would be good to see some example challenges and the format of the challenges
Hey, ol' pal! You're welcome down here. I think this article is notable because it's observing a countertrend. Texas is definitely turning purple in part to Californian tech workers coming to the cities, as well as a growing Hispanic population. Too many articles to cite—just search for "Texas purple".

I'd argue the citizenry is a very blue shade of purple, but elections lag that because we're No. 1 in voter suppression. https://www.texasobserver.org/the-long-tail-of-voter-suppres...
How does one play as a guest?
I get the idea but it seems clear that it will result in unmanageable spaghetti code in very little time. This model forces the developer to entangle versioning with logic. Since a big part of Temporal's value proposition is dis-entangling logic from state management and other orchestration, I expect you can see why this is a problem.

Put another way, it's a great big leak in the abstraction.
Using two different number bases sounds painful, especially considering hex wasn't very common at the time. Also physical unibus addresses are 18 bits so they divide nicely into octal digits.
> I’ve worked on actually pretending not to be surprised even when I actually am a bit surprised the person doesn’t know the thing and it’s awesome.

I try to do this too but sometimes I forget. However, I find that acting surprised is ok if you then show your excitement to tell them about the thing e.g. xkcd.com/1053

The key is to not express “You don’t know about this? What is wrong with you?” but rather “You don’t know about this? You’re going to love it!”
Name clash again… I thought about https://deepstream.io/
I completely agree. We're better off as everyone mixes, otherwise you do end up with the situation like we're talking about "Oh God those blue people from CA are moving here and are coming to change our state".

But, like you said, it's hard to say if "all the people moving" are conservative or liberal leaning.

I'd venture to guess the first people wanting to move are likely conservative, as you say, and the article points out.
Computers are actually the more competitive electronics. Probably because they're easy to acquire, refurbish and transport.

Refurbished home appliances like washers/fridges/dryers/dishwashers/ovens are a good product to sell, there are lots of small shops that buy dozens or hundreds of them for resale, and of course, lots of individuals furnishing their own place.

Energy efficiency for them is not going up anytime soon, they've been stuck in the same ratings for more than a decade. They're simply as efficient as possible already.

Liability and warranty would be handled by the resellers, and if agreed, by us. Mostly by return and replacement, but it could be feasible to create an on-site repair service. We can provide the necessary parts, too.

The thing is, a properly fixed appliance will last just as long as a new one. In fact, the failure rate on used electronics can often be lower - newer models that use a new internal design fail more than older, "proven" appliances. The saving grace for them are the warranty and return policies.

Customers will still give 4-5 stars even if their first purchase was a dud, but it was swiftly replaced with another one. That always surprises me, btw. It's like, "oh my new Indesit fridge was DOA, but they replaced it the next day. 5 stars."

Anyway, a big downside is that transportation costs are rather high. And they can only be loaded by forklifts with special attachments, or several people at the same time.

However, the more thoroughly they're checked, repaired and cleaned, the fewer returns, the less money spent on transportation.
Mass vaccination isn't expected to stop the disease from spreading. I know some regions have made plans under the assumption that vaccines will eradicate the virus, but no experts that I'm aware of think that's likely. (Other countries have said that they're just going to be okay with whatever level of disease burden exists after a vaccine, which I think is a defensible plan.)
Looks good for me in Firefox on macOS. https://i.imgur.com/s8wLsBZ.png
this is a link to the wikipedia page on "Trump Derangement Syndrome", and contains little, if any, "explanation as to why".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trump_derangement_syndrome
Allen Institute produces many nice things.

One thing I don't quite understand about this project is, what kind of noise it removes? Any kind of noise from any kind of dataset?

I wish there was a more beginners like explanation on the README.
The living computer museum in Seattle is pretty sweet too. https://www.livingcomputers.org

Although its future is uncertain now that it's founder, Paul Allen, has passed away and the pandemic has forced it to close for now.
sorry for spam, but do try us out: https://www.thefactual.com
It's like the nets are all over you except in place where they'd prevent you from falling down.
I personally haven't really used OpenWRT, so I'm not familiar with its GUI.

However, the PFSense GUI is pretty straightforward. Shorewall has no GUI and is all text based configuration, but personally I prefer that.

If OpenWRT supports wireless APs then sure that seems like great software to use. In my experience most Wireless APs have proprietary firmware and are not supported by most open source solutions. I block all egress on them.

Having a router/AP combo that runs OpenWRT is great, the solution I proposed just expands your hardware options for non OpenWRT compatible hardware.
Yes! All the services that start at 5 bucks... you can only want a couple of those and only indeed if you are actually using it enough to deem it valuable.
Still have one of those and one of OpenSolaris. That was great for testing, owning a physical object made it motivating to play with.
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SPAC + dubious product sounds a lot like Nikola. We'll see if this goes the same way. The valuations being thrown around are shocking though. A lot of Kool aid going around in investment right now.