skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
GDP is great. What about changes in standard of living, income inequality, life expectancy, etc.
> for the purpose of forcing everyone onto UTF-16.

Honestly, Py2 was a PITA when handling raw data, it could corrupt your data if you don't know exactly what you are doing.

The goal was to separate (Unicode) text from binary data. It wasn't to UTF-16 though. In fact, you should just assume that text variables are encoded in Unicode points and not care whether it is UTF-16 or UTF-8 (and on Unix-like systems, it is definitely represented to UTF-8). If you are converting it into binary, at least you know what encoding is it: no "Oh no my Python code was broken on Windows/Unix" because even Py2 has already the UTF-16/UTF-8 OS split.
I did this at one point as well but now I prefer not to have root access for security reasons. I'd rather have the ability to remote into a user with limited privileges on a more secure server, given how big of a target mobile devices are. That and it turned out I had no real practical reason to be fiddling with most of my devices -- I mostly work on server & web code, anything outside that the closer it is to 0 configuration the better it is for my sanity.
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Sounds good mate Here's my email aladinbensassi@gmailcom lets set something up
I totally get your point and don’t mean to detract from it in any way - but my wife would definitely argue that Birkin bags qualify as “art” :)
I actually appreciated the explanation. Less so the heavy sarcasm. I'm glad it's boring, obvious cubes and not starfish or irreducible complexity, but not in the least surprised, and I still think atoms are concave.
In most states that is $50/month but you can negotiate it into a plan. The plans are sketchy too, and often subject to changes and/or are limited time plans. One must be very explicit with their support/sales person.
In my dream world, "decision makers" (gov officials, top managers) attend their fancy meetings with one of these, and have on-screen info, fed by an army of people in different parts of the world, to minimize the amount of bullshit said, and make government / admin more efficient.
Yes, they could also have the setup at home, but I think they like the going around in black SUVs, having doors opened for them, shaking hands and all that.
> (but then again, I moved here from the train heaven that is Switzerland)

I hiked the Haute Route last year, and while we were only on the trains and buses a handful of times, it was flawless every time. Like, they had things scheduled down to the minute, and no, not some multiple of 5 minutes, literal "train arrives at 10:42, train leaves at 10:44". Clean too. So nice.
The thing about Garfield being a big orange ball of nothing is you can project anything onto him. Recently there was a phenomenon of turning Garfield into Lovecraftian horror -- exemplified by the ImSorryJon subreddit.
Haha, can relate to that. After a certain point the Reddit tools become really inadequate. I used to mod a super popular subreddit (the kind that are always on the r/all) and we had 3 bots and two dozen moderators and still the mod queues was always filled.

I'm about to graduate so I've stopped all that except for helping a moderately popular sub. Overall it's given me plenty time I needed in other parts of my life, but I miss the small joys that came from my little python scripts improving the day for 20 or so people. That was the first time when something I created made impact on another person's life.
You can also buy your own modem for less than $100
Have you tried it with whole sentences, rather than isolated phrases? For example, the translation of:

La Commission a donc réexaminé la question et a décidé d'adopter une nouvelle approche en deux temps.

is given as:

The Commission therefore re-examined the matter and decided to adopt a new two-step approach.

Similarly, "fake friend" is a valid translation of "faux ami". Real-world example from the Web: "Ton partenaire te poignarde dans le dos et un faux ami ne t'aide que dans son propre intérêt." When I translate "Les mots "embrasser" et "embrace" sont faux amis." it gives me 'The words "embrasser" and "embrace" are false friends.'

It may be that the idiomatic translation would be a more appropriate guess with no other context, but really that's a job for a dictionary rather than a translator, and it really should give both. The more context you give it, the more likely it is to make the right guess.
If they come back with guillotines, then I would be more worried.
I’ve been looking at this and traveling/living it during the Covid craziness - here are my conclusions of top places FWIW:

Austin - it’s grown to be a mini-SF (in the good things) - lots of tech, people, nightlife - but in Texas - so lower taxes, much cheaper (and likely to stay that way, because lots of room for sprawl). Very nice. A bit empty during Covid like all cities, but nothing like SF right now.

Boulder, Colorado Springs etc - a lot of Bay Area people have come here recently (and in the past), beautiful nature, tech scene - but fairly expensive (not SF, but still), and real winter here - I don’t know if I see it becoming a big hub, and I don’t know if there would be enough good jobs going forward, but definitely a nice spot.

Salt Lake City/Park City - very underrated until recently, affordable, lots of tech people have come out, fairly affordable, beautiful nature and town, very nice vibe, decent tech scene. Real winter here too. Could see this becoming a real contender in the future.

Boise - haven’t been personally, but I hear good things from friends of mine. Affordable, decent tech scene, great cost of living.

Honorable mentions:

San Diego - great place, a bit crazy during Covid and city is a bit shut down (like most cities), it’s a bit expensive (not SF, but still), ok tech scene, beautiful weather.

Raleigh/Durham - nice, decent tech, good lifestyle. Pretty spread out (a triangle of three cities), so a lot of driving.

Hawaii - this should be the best remote tech hub, but it isn’t yet. Beautiful place, not that expensive (relatively). But you gotta work remote (not much tech locally) and wait a week for Amazon.

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Hope this helps! Please add to this list if you have good ideas..
I'm surprised "the city that never sleeps" lets their libraries close at night. (not serious)
There's also Sony, which has been using custom FreeBSD derivatives to power PlayStations since the PS3.
Well, not directly the mastercard, but current banking system - lots of people.

TLDR; custody banking model keeps people out of control of their own property.

There is a big problem with private property rights and safety guaranties of your capital today in most of the world. There are three problems: unstable govs in 3rd world countries, capital moving restrictions and QEs.

I'm, for example, not from developed country, so I have several restrictions on my own money, some of which may be applied to US/Europe citizens and some may not:

1) my gov, speaking softly, is not stable. I have no guarantee on my bank accounts in the long term (eg 20+ years). I can assume that funds can be at least inflated in several times, if not withdrawn in the name of some "patriotic" gov initiative. It would be much better to have my funds away from such jurisdiction. It's safer to have the funds out of **any** jurisdiction due to some political conflicts and attacks. US and their banks are likely to freeze Russian/China/Iran citizens funds as well when another conflict will arise.

2) Capital moving. Even if someone assume that some jurisdiction is safe - there is another problem - not any country makes capital flowing outside its border legal. You just **can't** move your **own** funds somewhere where you see it fit the most. Domestic banks may be completely controlled by the gov and too much cash can be easily arrested on its way by customs.

3) QEs, which is my favorite part and applied to any human on the earth today. Your money is used to "save" someone without your direct permission even if you live in good country, paid your taxes and did nothing wrong. Just by printing more money - practically making your hard-earned money cheaper and less useful. They'd say that you can move your money to stocks (US, by the way, there is no stable stocks but theirs), but you both will need to pay tax from your so called profits (the hell, on SP500 I won't even earn on the long run, I barely save initial funds considering inflation!) and forced to invest in american economy, which not everyone (surprise!) want to do. And stocks can fail badly.

With some assumptions, crypto solves all three problems very efficiently.
Of course it's also easy to get fired for manipulating such metrics. It's just another boot that steps on a worker.
I would argue that gold also derives most of its value from speculation, not its physical properties. There are metals with even more favorable properties that are even scarcer, yet they are valued less.

Platinum for instance was at one point considered the level "above gold", but it has since been overtaken. Gold simply is the better brand. It's the same for Bitcoin versus all other digital currencies.

> But it's not really useful for now, people buy it only for speculation.

Speculation itself is useful. Bypassing the financial system is useful.

A price of $18,000 per unit of Bitcoin might sound ridiculous, but it needs to be considered that the market cap of Bitcoin, representing most of the world's cryptocurrency market, is only $200 billion. That is comparable to the assets of a medium-sized US bank.
The pain of climate change will be harder for developed countries to stomach and so they should be more willing to pay to avoid and mitigate it. Consider the forest fires on the west coast of the US this year. They occupied the news cycle for a week. But they killed just 30-40 people. Floods in Bangladesh regularly kill hundreds of thousands of people every year and people for the most part go on with their lives.
> Looking at the bigger picture, if you discard of your vegetarian foods scraps in the trash, they get converted to methane, having emissions on the same order of magnitude as cattle emissions

Oh, c'mon. 1. No they don't. 2. Cows' methaney burps aren't the only greenhouse gas issue w/ animal agriculture. Those animals definitionally eat more food than they produce (in in the case of cows, it's by a large factor). Meat is inherently an inefficient form of food. 3. Don't throw your food scraps in the trash—it's easy to compost.

> need ruminants to provide the fertilizer to soil to make it into a positive carbon sink

No. No you don't. Composting works just fine. But furthermore, the number of cattle we have today is laughably excessive for talking about fertilizer production. It's not even worth mentioning at this point in time.
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> not posting their magnum opus

https://youtu.be/NAh9oLs67Cw
The GSuite apps (when you’re paying) tell you who looked a spreadsheet, doc etc and when they did it. Missing is how long
Cover Your Tracks – See how trackers view your browser
Both Proof of Work and Ethereum's variant of Proof of Stake are based on automated consensus through cryptoeconomic incentives, not trust.
Show HN: multitouch gestures for “native” Linux touchpad drivers (with rust)
i wonder how long it will take until humanity dies out due to our stupidity. i think the chances for that are much larger than the chances for a segregated internet. i mean worst case we can setup our own internet. all you need is somebody with a lot of money and also willing to create a fully transparent system. imagine not even needing top domains. thatwouldbeamazing.
I'm not sure why that is "annoying". Of course, French-centered topics would be in French.

Also, your browser probably has an integrated translation feature. If not, you can copy'n'paste the url on a translation website.
That’s a poor justification. The scenery there is already attractive enough that stupid people will already hike there.
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It would be interesting to see the numbers for bioplastics like PLA. Growing starch-crops without fertilizers is probably the hard part.

With these kind of bricks it would at least not be so difficult to motivate people to find appropriate storage facilities.
> How can an education system teach evaluating sources, and acceptable methods of evaluating facts, when those two things are at the heart of almost every disagreement in the areas we're talking about?

You can disagree about what the evidence is, or what it means, despite having properly followed the principles of reasonable inquiry. The issue is more identifying when those principles haven't been followed. The problem is that school doesn't really get into the tug-of-war between different strands of thought, it's quite parochial: you are told there are galaxies, not about the great debate that led to us knowing that.
The artist’s name is probably on the bottom face of the piece. :)
1. Have a problem statement: What is wrong from a business perspective. Example: Password are unencrypted which dramatically increases risk of class-action lawsuits.

2. Have a list of corrective controls: Staff training, audits, technical controls

3. Cost statement: X control costs $Y.

4. Risk analysis: Problem reduced by 43%.

5. Summary statement: Execute this, it pays for itself.

Bear in mind an executive summary is either superficial or its a lie. You need to have a real technical report behind the executive summary so that it isn't a lie.
Humans are selfish and just don't care. Once mother nature kills off most of our population, carbon will slow sequester itself and the earth will heal but it will take centuries. The earth just can't sustain food and energy for 8B people. My guess it is more like 2B max.
"Permanent Monday" is a blog that does an amazing job of teasing out and/or retrofitting the humor buried in the strip.

In its reading, there is usually a "surface level" joke that isn't particularly funny, but some visual detail of representation will point to a hidden meaning that is usually pretty vicious.

See i.e. http://permanent-monday.blogspot.com/2010/05/movable-feast-h...
Well Android is a Linux distro with a kernel patchset for smartphones.
A nuclear power plant running on the surface shielded by nothing more than some bricks would be way worse than any other ancient industrial technology. Water would get in and leach away any soluble isotopes, poisoning the surrounding area for millennia. Anything you tried to heat using the nuclear pile would become radioactive, because ancient societies don't have a way to transport heat. (In the modern world we use high pressure pipes and heat exchangers. Then, if anything more than household heating is desired, you need generators to convert the energy into an industrially useful form.) They would have to put whatever they wanted to warm up directly inside the reactor. So, you would quickly end up with uninhabitable cities, and everything made in the "cursed furnaces," would slowly kill the owner. The only reason nuclear power is safe is because engineers have figured out how to contain it.
Related blog post: [Introducing Cover Your Tracks!](https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/11/introducing-cover-your...)
Agree with many points in this article. However, there are some enterprise software tools (Salesforce for example) that have terrible UIs for both casual and power users, and offer no performance upside despite longer term usage.

JIRA used to be this bad too, but over the years I've found their UI to improve bit by bit as they adopted more consumer UX standards around their interfaces + adding workflow rules. These improvements have seemed to work well for casual and power users alike.
Well, as others have said, it was illegal. "I'd prefer" includes "I see no good reason to make this an exception to the law".
Understanding web animations: a half-baked history
FNB is about "bompenger", basically a fee paid when crossing certain spots with your motor vehicle, often used to pay for road maintenance etc. Usually you have to cross one or more of these spots before getting into any major city. Since it's a flat fee, it disproportionally affects less affluent families, who often need their car more than the average family. These fees are often quite expensive. You might have to pay €5-10 to deliver the kids to kindergarten, and then get to work, if you live outside the city. That can be as much as €400 a month, just passive, unavoidable expanses for a lot of families. The reason FNB was founded is because these fees have increased substantially in recent years. The camel's back finally broke, and FNB became an actual political block in like a year.

I would argue FNB is a prime example of democracy working for the people. The two established ruling parties kept wringing money from people using bompenger until they had enough and took a lot of power for themselves.
That's not actually correct, it says "arms", not "some arms". If you take guidance from the "militia" part (possibly dubious, as it's generally interpreted as a preamble), a militia, in a current defensive war, would require anti-tank and anti-aircraft rockets and missiles, at the very least. The problem with that is, in Heller, the militia is not really part of the test anymore. You might be able to argue against suitcase nukes, and they don't really have a defensive or targeted offensive purpose, and are only really useful for terrorism.
It’s such a common HN trope now, I’ve stopped even noticing it unless I’m looking fit it:

User 1: A is like B

User 2: Wrong! Here is a very detailed description of why A is not literally and exactly B, therefore A is not like B.

You can find this pattern over and over in the comments section. If you ever want to generate a giant tree of pedantic, nitpicky responses here, simply post a car analogy, and let the programmers do the rest of the writing.
This has also been happening constantly in the past few years with something called Ripple, their token being $XRP. Anyone with more than 5 brain cells can tell that they're scammers with no product market fit, yet their marketing attracts the dumb opportunists.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_pillar_of_Delhi
On DAOs: Decentralized Autonomous Organizations
> Assuming he didn’t mellow or adapt with age.

He did mellow with age, though. The Steve Jobs biography actually latched onto this as a key narrative element—a way to construct Jobs's personal arch—and I do believe it's genuine based on everything else I've read about the guy.

And it's notable that Jobs only really reached his zenith in these later years. The original Macintosh had a splashy launch, but sales began dwindling pretty quickly[1], and NeXT never had much commercial success before Apple bought them. My admiration of Jobs is really for the person he was in his last decade. He was a visionary long before that, of course, but ideas are relatively cheap, and Jobs couldn't execute.

Jobs was, to be sure, certainly still a demanding figure at the end of his life (and I would not have wanted to work for him), but I think Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos have him beat.

1: https://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?project=Macintosh&stor...
Probably something that is so scarce in earth that the monolith alone couldn't have been made by anyone other than a government, a billionare or aliens. Solid gold maybe?
It isn't a prophecy it is reading in what you want to see from it. Snow Crash was over the top camp when it was first written.
I have virtually no cap. But in regards to bandwidth speed. That’s about my marketed down/up anyway. It’s what they sold me, big asterisk, but I usually get 1/5 - 1/4 of that, which is still decent. However, if they have a family all working, studying, streaming, and playing games from home they may need closer to the 1 Tb. It’s their use case, why does it have to be policed and justified as “you don’t actually need that, let me tell you what you really need.” Put another way, even all current use cases do not encompass all future use cases so why promote the restrictions? All of which boils down to: the entitled gall, to dictate.
>An amendment requiring that academic research hew to the “values of the Republic” was scrapped only at the last minute, after strong pushback by scholars who feared that its intent was to restrict freedom of inquiry.

>Education Minister Jean-Michel Blanquer has bemoaned the influence of American critical race theory on the French social sciences, blaming them for undermining France’s race- and ethnicity-blind universalism, and for giving comfort to “islamo-gauchisme,” or “Islamo-leftism.” That term, coined by the French far right, blames progressive intellectuals for nourishing radical political Islam through their work on structural racism and Islamophobia. “The fish rots from the head,” Blanquer quipped.

Wow.
Gas comes out of a hole in the ground, you burn it, stick the CO2 back into a different hole in the ground eg. https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-edinburgh-east-fife-492...
Yes, "with rust" in the title is HN clickbait.

This release was motivated by a recent HN thread [0] where I shared the solution I came up with for myself [1] and learned a number of other people had similar problems with the forced move to libinput. I added configuration file support (instead of hard-coded commands in the rust source code) and some basic literature, packaged it up, and released it under the MIT license.

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24700537

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24702106
I think that less than 1.2 TB is reasonable if you are essentially the only user of that connection and do want to sacrifice 4K for 1080p for example. Once you factor video calls AND videos (this is doubly true for homeschool, you should know that presentations are usually transmitted as video in real time even though it is silly as it is), you start to eat that 40GB allocation for each day. Add two people working at home and two schoolchildren definitely surpass 40GB per day even when they sacrificed entertainment.
The problem with this individualistic agenda is two-fold: some people who understand how dire the problem is believe that individual action is the way to go, and don't pay enough attention to the politics of climate change because 'everyone should just offset their own carbon footprint like I do, and then we wouldn't need big government to come in and take our rights'. Then, there are other people who think 'these damn hippies want me to become a vegan and stop using a car, this is obviously not tenable as a way to save the world, let's look at carbon sequestration so we can continue living like today'.

I'm not claiming that these are the only two ways people react, but I do believe they are two common ways. I also believe many companies and political parties encourage those two ways of thinking, because they allow them to maintain the current status quo.
> My COO has already come out and said that it's not going to count towards anything but still, this is scary.

Yeah, I've heard that one before. When OKRs were introduced at a previous placed I worked, they were supposedly for fun and just for us to see our progress. In the next annual review, they were the primary means of measuring one's "performance".
So you are saying the current Indian goverment cares more about the wellbeing of Muslims in Xinjiang than Muslims in India?

(I don't want to diminish the awful things going on in Xinjiang, but I think giving the rest of what Modi does this would be more cynically down by the Indian government than you make it out to be.)
Ah, if you use the color as a hue then I agree. I was thinking about degrees. As in somebody would say: "30% saturated, 20% bright color at 127deg hue"