skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It seems like you are confusing two pieces of software: There is Baloo, which is the KDE file indexer. And then there is Akonadi,

Oh right, seeing those Gio in my ~/.local/share/akonadi, I was supposing that it was for file indexing and that was somehow the storage for Baloo or something like that.

I haven't investigated more than that as I don't want to spend too much time on it and just killing Akonadi server from its console is enough (the downside is that after killing it I can't use KMail anymore, which otherwise is a really great MUA).

So maybe it has something to do with my email settings then? I'll try to find time to investigate and check if I haven't activated anything like offline storage, otherwise I'll create a bug report.

Anyway thanks for the great work over the years, beside this little issue, KDE works flawlessly and I like to be able to customize just what I need when I need.
India is a mess precisely because of the never ending virtue signalling and good-on-paper rules.

We always have the most protectionist rules and then we wonder why industry isn't growing. Welfare schemes don't work, period. 99% money ends up in a politician's bank. Disinvestment is a necessity. Government-owned institutions provide sub-par service and are a huge money drain of taxpayer money. I live in a tier 2 city and get daily power cuts for hours. And then the "public servants" have the gall to screw up the power transformer for 30 hours after making thousands of millions of loss. Not acceptable anymore.

Idk the populist government is finally bringing on some unpopular policies to reduce tax wastage and the detractors are up in arms. Timing is horrible, I'll give you that.
You can also see that the building just to the right of the nearest tower is damaged, presumably due to cables or part of the tower landing on it.
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Hi HN!

A short blurb on this:

Travelling now is a complicated experience. Can you go to a country? What do you need to travel there? Are masks, quarantine and tests required? What is the situation like there - can you go to bars and beaches, can you do business there?

On top of this, the regulations are changing all the time. How can you be sure that the trip you booked in two or three months time will still be allowed? These questions aren't going away, each country has their own rules and risk levels. The uncertainty and overhead is real, and this is what the Travel Advice API looks to help with.

Using a simple API, you can get all the required information about a trip at your fingertips. Imagine booking a trip on AirBnB or Booking.com and having real time information about that destination shown to you. And then being able to opt in to notifications about any changes in your trip, allowing you to not worry and only need to amend arrangements when you are notified.

We've built the API to allow this for any website. The two products are direct API integration, and our User Itinerary Service. Direct API integration let's you use this information in your website or service how you want it to be used, giving the most value to your customers. The User Itinerary Service allows any customer to be pro-actively notified before and during their trip (one or multiple destinations) about any changes they need to be aware of.

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This is a great quote in that first paragraph! I need to save it.

But the second paragraph looks like you blamed facebook for making locally optimal decisions and making the system stuck in a suboptimal Nash equilibrium :)
This also applies to storing value.

See what happened to Greece in 2010, where many individuals lost large amounts of cash stored in their bank accounts. This would not happen with Ethereum. If you hold 10 ETH, you’ll continue to hold 10 ETH until it’s transferred elsewhere (or you lose your keys).
>I like you and I think your posts are generally high quality

Thanks! I try to add the ocassional low quality comment for balance :-)

>so I am going to say that an elitist "screw people who cant afford an overpriced mac" is not a good thing imo.

Well, my intented meaning was more like "Don't create/sell apps for a platform you dont even own to test in".

The main reason to go for "by the minute" builds on the Cloud for a machine you don't own is to either help with porting to an architecture you don't use, or to churn apps with some cross platform framework to a platform you don't use/care about.

I think the latter would be more frequent.

If they were mere poor hobbyists guys legitimately coding for the platform, they'd own a machine, either new, or second hand, or whatever. It's when you don't code in the platform, but only want to target it for selling that you have an issue...
The more money people throw at crypto the more risk they are taking. It’s actually the most equitable investment I know, open to almost anyone, and same return rates regardless of amount invested.
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Africa's internet economy to reach $180B
Their website is down, but IMAP still works, at least for me.
I've been noodling with Hans Boehm's constructive reals package since the "Toward an API for the Real Numbers" post:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24700705

The Android calculator app. got some nice usability improvements by using a combination of rationals, as described in this story, and recursive (aka constructive or computable) reals.

A previous post on Microsoft's calculator brought my attention to an old package it uses called Ratpack (aka ratpak), another implementation of rationals:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19321217

It has some nice properties for use in a calculator, but it can be quite slow.

When I come across a library with, shall we say, an exotic numeric representation, it's nice to have a library of mathematical functions included. I see that python-cf indeed includes a solid batch.
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No, but that's why the web is a subpar experience to native...
They do allow OSX to be run in a VM..... but only if the hypervisor is on Apple hardware :P

And under the new EULA they don't allow renting a VM, only a device in its entirety
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I read it. It does not say "why" anywhere.
There's actually research out of Princeton, that says blockchains destabilize if the rewards are dominated by fees.

https://www.cs.princeton.edu/~arvindn/publications/mining_CC...
I fall into that habit a lot. For me it largely comes from a feeling that there are a large number of tasks that I have to get done.

The biggest thing I do to overcome that is to take a day off and don't do anything productive at all (easy if it happens to fall on a weekend, more effective if I do it on a weekday). This breaks the first step -- less productive does not mean spend more time working, it means taking time off to recover.

For me it's about "reminding myself I don't have to do things". That voice in my head telling me how vital it is I get all the things done is just one voice. All I need to do is work well enough to ensure me and my family are fed, clothed and have somewhere to sleep.
I TAed this semester and a surprising amount of students have totally terrible internet. One poor kid had to attempt the blackboard exam a dozen times due to connection issues. Even my home network gets saturated with everyone in the neighborhood working from home, which makes zoom calls impossible when lag is spiking, despite having the fastest internet my limited ISP choices offer me.
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> So the F-35 makes jobs...

I wonder about that. It's been a while since I studied, but the phrase "deadweight loss" looms large in what I remember of the one economics class I took in college. So I wouldn't be surprised if the program is actually a net negative for job creation.

Only that doesn't matter, either, because the point is not to create more jobs; the point is to influence job creation in a way that benefits the people who hold the purse strings. If the cost of doing so outweighs the benefits, that's inconsequential. Those costs are so widely dispersed as to be invisible, immeasurable, and difficult to discuss except on theoretical grounds. They'll never be as compelling as a staged photograph of a senator in a suit and a hard hat, sticking a shovel in the ground.
This would be 10x faster and smaller if they just built these components into Busybox.

Package management, library management, etc are solved problems when it comes to Linux distros. The only practical improvement you can make is containers (or similar).

Static binaries cannot deal with external dependencies, and many applications require external dependencies that cannot be compiled in. But even by trying to compile-in all the dependencies, you've only shifted the complexity from the filesystem to the build system, and you still have applications with incompatible features and interfaces across versions.
The wording and language in that blog post is absolutely wild. Its demonstrably and undeniably better to have access to smaller virtualized Mac instances, or per-hour/per-second billing, or general use. Undeniably. There is literally no cogent argument I can think of to the opposite, on any of these points, but I understand why Apple is making these guidelines; If I had to follow them, I wouldn't be happy about it, but similar to the App Store guidelines you just gotta do what Apple wants.

That post exudes happiness at the guidelines, like an oil company that just got a regulation passed banning solar energy. I understand the happiness at finally getting validation that Apple is alright with this business model, but that's separate from exuding happiness at the terms of that validation.
I was referring to longer term developments, in case this is unclear.

Using staked ether in the defi ecosystem will be possible once withdrawal and smart contract functionality is enabled. Until then, there are liquid staking services that offer eth2 derivatives that can be used in defi, as you point out.
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You can't seriously expect to come to night exausted and sleep-deprived, only to be "productive". I don't want to be productive, I want to empty my mind of responsiblities and serious stuff, even if that means shooting aliens in my underwear for no benefit at all.

Actually, the "no benefit at all" is the entire point.
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The key to making the parent post make sense is to not think of time as personal/work time. My job is 100% project based so I don’t need to be owned by my job during the 9-5 hours. If I nap all day and work nights and my projects all complete, who cares? I understand not all roles fit this model.
QEMU powers clouds, and can be run KVM accelerated. You're safe. If you don't trust QEMU, stay well away from any cloud service.
> That's not a good example to justify any of this, in my opinion.

It's a real example from recent history, where technology A was able to solve a problem that technology B could not. This should affect one's belief in the merits of technology A.

> Such as?

During the recent US election, Facebook has struggled to present itself as a neutral broker of information. There were occasions in which it appears that Facebook charged higher or lower rates to different parties for political advertisements. All of the major social media companies are now facing politically-motivated attacks, where political actors are attempting to undermine confidence in the neutrality and efficacy of moderation, ad allocation, and recommendation algorithms. There is a plausible argument that open, verifiable computing networks could be a useful tool in dealing with such situations.

I put the emphasis on plausible because the standard for plausibility is not especially high. There are plenty of other solutions to this problem. I personally think that this is sufficient to make Ethereum interesting.

> I think that's just false equivalence.

What is false about it? My statement about how Linux was perceived in the early-mid-90s is definitely true. The key difference between Linux and its competitors was that it was an open system that could not be controlled by a single private actor, which was a serious concern given Microsoft's dominance of the OS market (which led to their antitrust trial). Ethereum has broadly similar positioning as a provider of computing services, whose only competitive advantage is that it cannot be controlled by a single private actor.
Have you actually tried this on MSVC? This is my program. I created a file called `small.c`

#include <stdio.h>

int main(void) {
puts("Hello World!");
return 0;
}

I then compiled it using this command:

cl small.c /MD

The result? 9kb! That's 9 times the size.
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