skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The benefits are not that obvious and visible in a European country.

In general, there are benefits and drawbacks:

- efficiency: well, despite having a fast transaction time the machinery behind banking system is old and in-efficient, scary even to think how it’s still working. Cross-border is another major friction.

- flexible monetary policies and tools: e.g. directly depositing relief money into the accounts of people in crisis times, or negative interest rates.

- financial inclusion: not everywhere people are banked and part of socioeconomic circle to receive benefits, e.g. African countries or small portion of modern world, where banking is privileged. In theory, one does not need a whole banking backend to store coins, as seen by crypto world.

- innovation backstop: the new currency could act as a settlement layer for the known stability model of money in a country to create new tools (asset chains, etc) or automate them at much lower cost.

Of course, it comes with a risk (from CB’s perspective) of disintermediation of banking system, technological challenges, privacy concerns, etc.
From 2011 - that's when the book was copyrighted. As the book explains, this was the 100th anniversary of the formation (by merging three smaller companies) of the Computing-Tabulating-Recording-Company, later renamed IBM.
Opinion pieces? The first link is a study that measured the amount of droplets that each mask type blocks using optical equipment.
Also as a shameless plug since I never made it to the first page either :)
Would love some feedback on real-time video enabled multiplayer gaming https://multiplayer.app/

Only Jigsaw works right now.
I read somewhere that in the US some banks took the QE money and put it back into their accounts with the Fed where it collected interest. Rather than lend it out, they essentially got paid just to hold it. There’s an economic argument saying that it made them safer, etc. but it doesn’t sound quite right to me.
Sweden is moving away from its no-lockdown strategy
Thanks! So it's using Ath10k? Does it work well in practice? In the past, anything but iwlwifi was really awful.
CA only owns 5% of the forests. The rest is private or federal.
One point, Google regularly makes false announcements about unpopular changes. When they changed search results to better hide which ones are ads they announced they’d backtrack on it, then didn’t. When they started hiding parts of the URL they backtracked on it, waited a few months, then re-implemented it. When they decided “don’t be evil” isn’t really appropriate for them any more they said it’d only apply to Alphabet not Google, then waited a few months, then applied it to Google.
Net domestic migration is the change in population attributable to people moving to/from another State. The blue counties had net negative domestic migration, which means more people moved out to other States than moved in from other States. In other words, the article's description is correct.
Show HN: Animated Arc-Reactor in Rust
Ah right. I misunderstood your question.

No, Rust won't help you with that. On the contrary, Rust has excellent type inference, and in this case the name belongs to a type, which itself is inferred. As a casual reader, you'd have to track the documentation on the preceding calls.
New AI algorithm rapidly and accurately predicts material properties
I went from from shaving cream can to shaving brush and soap. It made shaving so much more enjoyable. I highly recommended.
George: I’m doing X, and I got this error, how do I fix it

Jasminda: Are you actually trying to do Y? If so, you shouldn’t do X, you should do Z instead

Argh, this makes me so stabby. These days 90% of Stack Overflow "answers" are of this form, where the respondent does not respect the possibility that the questioner knows what they are asking and why. It is not always a sunk cost fallacy, where the questioner "might be attached to the steps they’ve taken so far" as the article states. That's also condescending!
My idea would be to flood lower than sea level deserts with ocean water and then start a mangrove forest. (They thrive in salt water)

Of course the evaporation might raise the salinity above what they could handle. Perhaps a monthly flush out somehow?
Basically, anything with IPQ40xx: https://github.com/openwrt/openwrt/tree/master/target/linux/...

Those just work and are reasonably priced (~90 USD).
I think it's easier to discover people on the same server as you, that's all.
Buy the best bed for your needs as soon as possible. Best bang for the buck IMO.
First, if Rust's solution gets to pull in crates, then a C program can use regexps, with pcre or cre2.

Second, it's not clear to me at all why this problem asks for regexps. Both examples used a regexp to check a file extension, and then to find word boundaries. Both are trivial† to code directly.

Am I misunderstanding the problem here? It seems like there's hardly any string manipulation in it at all.

† admittedly, I didn't bother being careful about word boundaries
This is a very helpful reminder ;-) It’s not about you or about showing how smart you (think you) are, but about being helpful and helping others to grow.
Awhile back, I was playing with 2.11BSD for the PDP-11 in simh and was trying to learn PDP-11 assembly. I would read things about overlays, but I could never find a resource to learn more about them. Were there any manuals or textbooks which gave good coverage to overlays?
I bought an Amazfit Bip for every person in the family, it is very light, has an always-on translucent display and does not leak your data on the internet if you use Gadgetbridge.
Yes, stalling auditors and engaging in a coverup to hide information from auditors tends to draw some harsh findings. It’s 9M that’s known to be missing, it could be much larger (or smaller). But generally deceiving your customers isn’t the best way to keep them coming back.
Agree, educating oneself is a great investment even if not immediately actionable. The knowledge you gained will pay dividends later when it comes in handy.

The issue with news is that I'm not sure reading all news sources is an effective way of educating yourself.

Another problem though is that of shared values and goals. In your example you said:

> the democratic process gets involved with the question of how best to manage the western forests

But how does it even get to this point? Does news play a bigger role in that part of the democratic process? The part where we decide on our values and our priorities?
Architecture has had a moment where it was proposing green rooftops and nature-integrations for large developments. Where did that disappear to? There aren't even any recent nominations of projects which beautifully and functionally integrate green spaces into their construction.
> For me, my AirPods Pro, my Dyson vacuum, Audible, and Spotify are the first to come to mind

One of these is not like the others.
That is 380 times larger. Unless they are massively underutilizing the current wastewater stream, they need to multiply the irrigation water use efficiency that much, unless they think of forest is going to alter weather systems in such a way that brings rain to the area.
And here is the non pdf link

https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.10.15.341602v1
This says the humidity of the Sahara desert is 25%. I wonder if you could devise some kind of system to collect water from the air? (Taking advantage of the big difference in day and night temperatures)

https://saharadesertinfo.weebly.com/humidity.html
Sounds like they need a little Permaculture…

https://www.permaculturenews.org/2009/12/11/greening-the-des...

The video above is a followup (6 years later) to greening a section of the desert in 2003.
> (A) generates income, directly or indirectly, from the collection, processing, sale, or sharing of user data; and

OK, this is substantially better than any other proposal I've seen. It means that any platform that doesn't make money off of user data (e.g. one that makes money in some more ethical way) is exempt.
This is a bit of a hail mary but I also really enjoy the data engineer role. I came in to the role from the software engineer side when I took a job at a data first type start up. I was recently offered an opportunity at Amazon as a data engineer but while the SE reviews are good the DE reviews are not. Any experience with either Amazon or other FAANG type DE jobs?
This is good and all, but there is a much simpler solution to this problem and others:

Progressive taxation of companies

I know this sounds outrageous, but hear me out. What if monopolies split themselves? Wouldn't that be great? Does the same company really have to make the phone and the charger? No, but there are 2 reasons apple does:

1. Collaboration between the phone department and the charger department is slightly easier.

2. They can abuse their monopoly on iphone chargers to force you to pay more for them.

Apple makes about 30 billion on iphones per quarter. Assuming all iphones were $600 (which they arent) and everyone uses 2 chargers per iphone (because the first one broke) priced at $20, apple would be making $2 billion from chargers.

Say, if they didn't abuse their monopoly position for chargers they would make only $1.8 billion from them.

This is $2.0 billion - $1.8 billion = $0.2 billion less revenue.

Now if you just tax apple progressively such that taxes for 32 billion in revenue are more than $0.2 billion higher than paying taxes for 30 billion in revenue, apple will split into iphoneapple and chargerapple by themselves!

Now in practice you might not want to tax revenue but for example the value of the company or something else.

Also you don't want the 'split' companies to still behave like they are one company, this means that you want the split-off company to have different shareholders from the main company, because otherwise they would just behave in mutual interest.

More in line with the topic, netflix might decide to split into a 'movie suggestions algorithm' service and a 'movie streaming' company.

Google would split into a gazillions of different companies.

But some interoperable internet legislature might be a little more realistic :)
Youtube Premium for $10/month. No ads to break your focus.
A phone cover with a pocket for cards. No more wallets!
I'm not a big fan of the word hysteria (literally "condition of having a uterus"), but that said, the two are not mutually exclusive. Wearing a mask is rational, and there are also people acting irrationally out of fear (remember how hard it was to get toilet paper?).
Delete This Web
DELETE
One of the great things about In Our Time is the breadth of topics: at the end of an episode about ancient Roman history, Melvyn will say that next week they will be talking about particle physics, and after an episode about palaeontology he will say next week they are talking about a 19th C. novelist. Fantastic :-)

They have an absolutely huge library of old editions of the programme. I quite like looking at their twitter feed https://twitter.com/bbcinourtime for suggestions about old episodes to listen to, because it gives me some of the randomness of listening to the latest weekly edition.
NKSP Scripting Language for LinuxSampler Audio Engine
Hating Monday
>In Europe salaries are not worth personal sacrifices

That's exactly it!!
This year I upgraded my tool shed in the garden with the help of my brother and brother-in-law so I now have a fully insulated 3m2 office with painted plaster walls, wooden floor, my desk, a bookshelf and a filing cabinet.

It makes such a huge difference now that I am not allowed to commute to work and have to work from home.

Other than that:

- my house

- basic tooling (hammer, saw, a set of common bits/wrenches/etc, caliper tools for the car, battery drill) that I have bough over the last 13 years.
I know conservatives and liberals fleeing TX because of property taxes. It’s a conservative, low service state where everything rolls downhill to the counties and cities. Peoples valuations going up 20% a year.

The best thing that could happen for TX is a Prop 13. The state would have to go blue to deal with reality and adopt an income tax.
On Windows Rust calls out to `CreateFileW`[0], and by default uses the `FILE_SHARE_READ | FILE_SHARE_WRITE | FILE_SHARE_DELETE` share permission[1].

[0] https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/blob/master/library/std/sr...

[1] https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/os/windows/fs/trait.OpenOption...
A futon.

I used to regularly get cramps in my back when I slept, bought a futon, never had one since.
Well, ultimately it's a question of authority. I cannot, or have no time to, validate even the simplest statements about something non-controversial, e.g. physics, but I choose to trust scientists and ignore some guy on Youtube who claims relativity is a hoax.
Removing the video from youtube by the fact-checkers would be problematic anyway, however it would be fine if there was a disclaimer on it referring a specific authority in physics that has views that disagree with it.
Always answer the question first.

”Here’s how you fix that error. But that’s an unusual situation and it sounds like you may have taken the wrong turn. What was your original goal?”

Another frustrating thing is trying to teach when the asker is in hair on fire mode. Don’t do Socratic methods when there’s an emergency or the person is stressed about a deadline. Help them, then bring it up over coffee next week and explain the teachable moment.

edit: Why the downvotes? Does HN really prioritize being unhelpful? That's weird
> Agree that the solution on the site need to be changed! Don't know Day/Hypercore - do you have a link? I couldn't find (or at least I couldn't understand what I found!)

My apologies, that was an autocorrect-fueled typo, it should have been Dat, not Day.
Yeah, a bad habit.
Does the content get sent if 'auto completion' predictive search is turned off?
> Maybe you have some assumptions about how new laws would be put in place post Section 230 that make this work?

I don't have to have assumptions, I know of real life examples. Not long ago I worked for a company that had a 24 hour live news broadcast. How do you think they handle this?

One specific example I can recall is closed captioning. These are federally required on all TV broadcast channels, including live. The company had a contract for a third party to manually transcribe the broadcast in real time. One initiative we wanted to explore was automating this process using speech recognition software. This was difficult because it turns out that incorrectly transcribed closed captions can lead to lawsuits. So the company that was contracted to handle the closed captions also provided insurance/indemnification against their service causing any lawsuits. No AI speech recognition solutions that were available also included this insurance so it was deemed too risky to switch.

One of the underlying assumptions in all of this Section 230 talk is "it's too hard to moderate the deluge of user generated content" .... so why even bother trying I guess? Why is that the underlying assumption? Why isn't the assumption: You can publish as much user generated content as you are capable of adequately moderating? The idea that the current free-for-all is some inherent "right" is perplexing to me.

> so many, if not most, forms of one to many real time communication would have to be discontinued due to lack of the ability to moderate in real time. Hence they would be lost along with the value they generate.

Again, that doesn't seem like the necessary conclusion. It prevents centralized platforms from publishing massive deluges of unvetted content. They are not in a position to moderate the billions of videos, chat posts, images uploaded each day. So, maybe instead of leaving the free pass we've given them open we question: is it reasonable for single entities to be the sole publisher of billions of unmoderated pieces of content? That doesn't mean all content everywhere goes away. It creates limits on what sole entities can accomplish.
Ministry of Culture announces discovery of (cat) geoglyph in The Pampa of Nasca
Ask HN: Do you think this take home task takes 4 hours?
The goal is to build an application utilizing the GitHub API to show data related to a given user. We expect you to build a React app, preferably using Typescript.

We expect that you’ll need around 4 hours to complete this. Please send a link to a private repository with your solution to me and give me access

Recommendations:
- Pick tools/frameworks/libraries that you are comfortable with.
- The assignment is open, so please show your creativity.

Requirements:
1. The user can type in a GitHub username
2. Present data about the given GitHub user
3. Write a readme with instructions on how to run the application and explain any relevant design considerations.
4. [Optional] Cover relevant functionality with unit tests

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> has been shown to be biased

Well, go ahead and show us, don't just hand wave this one by.
> Mastodon, instead, has an extra layer between your network and the whole world: messages from people on your server. This is called the local timeline.

This is not the right way to do decentralized social media imo.

Why not just use a real social graph? If I want to branch out, just show me all of my 2nd degree contacts (friends of friends) and their content?
As someone who doesn't use iOS often I have to agree. Changing the brightness on an iPad took me a minute because I had to work out which corner to swipe from. Such poor design.
lost way too much time the other day trying to figure out how to do encryption for a legacy PHP application. apparently it's incomprehensible to stack overflow writers that there are reasons i might want to know this beyond "implementing an unsafe login system".

that said, this is talking about coworkers so maybe it is more appropriate when you can go back and forward on it
I’m paying 2.5% on a 30 year fixed mortgage with no prepayment penalty. Genuinely curious what about that is insane - just the length? Because it sounds like almost-free money to me.
Funny to see Greene's "Mastery" mentioned here ...
Y Combinator and Paul Graham's story, are used to illustrate the "mastery" process that is the basis of the book, among other real life examples.-

So it is a neat place to find a comment about the book. :)

BTW: Second the book recommendation. Very inspiring. Particularly the advice on how to "gladly suffer fools" :)
... and how it puts the life-work of geniuses like Mozart in context, showing how even -they- had to deal with the mundanities of finding their own place in the world, while dealing with others.-
Extra device chargers. Now wherever I sit around the house I have a cable nearby, I don't have to be lugging them around everywhere. So worth.

A power tower. Simple, doesn't take up much space, but lets me do a variety of upper body exercises on-demand without having to set anything up. A great way to fit exercise into the day without friction.

A good rice cooker. Makes the rice perfectly every time without me having to think about timing.

A good wardrobe. Started getting compliments on how I dress all the time. I never cared about this very much, and that made me unaware that other people did care.
An ad-blocker does the same for free. And both methods don't get rid of sponsor ads within the video.
>Deutsche Telekom

Hehe, the most expansive one is the direct copper to vm (DCtV) with unlimited Volume ;))
TIL. Are there any downsides to running Chromium instead of Chrome?
Gonna need some Freman to operate it....
Lots of people can't test Safari because they don't have Macs.
L-DOPA as well as L-Citrulline are Rx only, so you're either outside of US/EU or you suffer from some condition that requires that medication.
Things happen and time can only move in one direction. What use does it serve to wallow in victimhood and self-pity VS adopting a stoic attitude to events?
You might be interested in these: https://www.bose.com/en_us/products/wellness/noise_masking_s...
That's a misconception. The respondent absolutely respects that possibility. It's just virtually never the case. If anything, your type of criticism does not respect the low effort involved in almost every question asked.

There's a bit of Dunning-Kruger to this too: the stupidest of questions will come from people who are absolutely convinced that in their case The question is warranted. It's just practically never.

When one in a thousand misguided-sounding questions is legitimate, the only sensible thing to do is to assume all questions that sound misguided are. Then it's up to the person asking to be clear in why it's not. (Not to mention that clarifying that also tends to reveal other meaningful constraints on the answer.)
Yes, but it won't have gained mass because of the cosmological event horizon resulting from the expansion of the universe. (That is, anything that's not in the observable universe already is moving away with a effective speed due to Hubble expansion greater than the speed of light, and thus can't[0] be retrieved for use as fuel.)

0: without violating the known laws of physics
This shows why it is so important not to speak of just cookies when you're talking about privacy.

Cookies aren't the problem. Tracking is.
Sometimes you just have to copy what worked for someone else in their venture and apply it to your own venture. I know that the world tells us that we need to be original; that we need to come up with new ideas to apply to our lives, careers and businesses; that we are special. However, I believe that sometimes, we can achieve tremendous success not by trying to come up with new ideas but by leveraging ideas that have already been tested by someone else.

The article https://leveragethoughts.substack.com/p/originality-is-not-t... provides a case study.
Or just use uBlock origin which is free
We're gonna fix healthcare...because...technology. Let's throw in some buzzwords like "machine learning" into our one-pager for good measure.

As if nobody in this $2.5 trillion industry has heard about software before.

Healthcare costs and waste are not a technology problem. They are a policy and incentives problem.
Anyone suffering from Dry Eyes: https://www.amazon.com/Tranquileyes-Travel-Sleep-Nighttime-R.... Expensive but worth the price compared to cheaper warm compress masks.
Your mileage may vary. I have a memory foam mattress and it works fine for me. I never noticed a particular sweating problem, haven't noticed any problems turning over. But, then, I just try to pick a position and go to sleep. I don't look for a comfortable position, per se, more of "I've conditioned myself to go to sleep when my body goes to this position".

I like modal sheets which run very high in absorption, so perhaps covering with extremely breathable bed materials makes a difference.
What if I have no app-capable smart and mobile device? Does the government provide me with one? Do I get an electronic ankle bracelet instead? What about a collar?
Every modern OS filesystem interface was designed in C. The places filesystems are hard in C, they're hard in Rust too. In practice: no, fileystems are easy in C.
It has been proposed in the past - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sahara_Sea.
If it really was a few bucks per month, I would consider it. Frankly though, I think you’d be hard pressed to find someone that thinks their random thoughts are worth $8 USD per month.
Not the GP, but I really like the Polk LSiM 707 I picked up during clearance a year ago.