skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>So billions of dollars of institutional trading means BTC is widely accepted, engaged with, and in use by people and organizations in commerce. So, you said it's a currency.

This is a straw man. USD is a good currency because it is widely accepted, engaged with, and in use by people and organizations in commerce.

BTC is not a good currency because it is not widely accepted, engaged with, and in use by people and organizations in commerce. Even in your paypal example, they first convert your hobby money to USD (a real currency) before commencing the transaction.

Having billions traded or invested in it is a characteristic of an asset, which you keep repeating, and not a currency. You're failing to understand this distinction.
Got the Pacifica a few years ago, never looked back. Probably will buy a new one in a few years.
>... I referenced very specifically which part to me is Randian. The sentiment that if we give people free money they will be lazy and sink into a life of dependence.

I'm not GGP who argued against UBI. Nor did I make any argument for or against UBI.

And I didn't make any argument even approaching "if we give people free money they will be lazy and sink into a life of dependence."

In fact, my argument was that if we make the safety net robust, we will allow people to be more productive and entrepreneurial.

I'm not sure who you're arguing with, but it's not me. Are you sure you replied to the right comment?
different companies need different skills and it changes even as a company grows. Part of the frustration about this entire process is that it feels very cookie cutter and sort of like a lowest-common-denominator type effort on behalf of companies.

Huge companies like google are for the most part hiring people they can slot into almost any team in the org so it makes sense for them to place less emphasis on tooling expertise. They have plenty of time and money to upskill employees.

The same can't be said for the vast majority of consumer start ups that really just need people who can rapidly prototype.

Of course those groups are not mutually exclusive, I just think it's sad that everyone has adopted the approach that works for a select few companies
I was a triplet in the 80s where the fullsize van was a family favorite, and I haven’t seen vans much since.

Why did the fullsize van fall out of style? (Assuming it did)

It doesn’t seem much bigger than the other goliath SUVs and pickup trucks that saturate our US streets.
I felt the same way in 2002, and although I like opensource the reason I dropped opera was because it came with built in ads. I switched to phoenix, then firebird, then firefox, and have not looked back. Except for a year or so where i primarily used konqueror, but that was only because I was using kde and it was built in.

The one cool feature i considered going back to opera for was built in torrent support, I really thought that would catch on.
Maybe its finally time to walk away from

Cloud

Centralisation

Corporations

and invest time, money and energy into a different Linix eco system
Without kubernetes, Docker Desktop is fine. Been running it for years on my current and previous mac book pro (the 2012 model). Docker performance has never really been an issue for me. The bundled kubernetes seems to burn a lot of CPU though; so I keep that disabled.

I work with other people in teams and I don't get to tune every project I deal with to be just right for my tastes and hardware. So being able to run their stuff as is with emulation is preferable to me having to customize everything before I get to run it.
Very old LaTeX PDFs tend to have this issue too. Chances are pretty slim for profs to edit PDFs witb Preview, I think…
None of this makes any sense. What even is a "data broker"? And how will taking a random exam help?
You are correct and the page is wrong.

To calculate churn you simply divide the number of churned customers by the number of those customers you had at the beginning of the period.

Note I mentioned "those" customers, because you need to be looking at the "cohort". You can start the month with 1000 users and end the month with 1000 users and have 100% churn, because you actually lost 1000 users and gained 1000 new ones, so your churn is 100% in this example.

The tip about using Stripe customer id's is very helpful. The way we do it is having a cron task running every monday that takes the user_id of all our active users and stores it in the database in a serialized (or jsonb) column.

When you want to calculate churn between these 2 dates, you just do [array1] - [array2] and you get the number of customers that churned. Divide that by array1.length and you got your churn %.
> That's what we're calling socialism nowadays

It is (and even the more moderate forms found in other parts of the developed West including the US are) also what Karl Marx called “socialism”, though of a subtype (“bourgeois socialism”) of which he explicitly disapproved as doomed to reinforce and revert to, rather than defeat, the dominant system of his day which he labelled “capitalism”.
Thanks for the heads up on the PHEV and the stow-and-go seats. That one would be a no-go for us because we it to haul stuff all the time. With the seats fully stowed it's practically as good as a pickup truck.

Of course, you have to get all the toy cars and goldfish crackers off the floor first if you want the seats to actually stow.
But still no finance API. For shame, Google.
> There has been zero such enforcement this time around.

Totally false.

> Public health powers are old, precedented and powerful. They are barely being used here.

Barely? Barely?! Trillions of dollars of economic damages. Millions of lives will be lost due to the prioritization of the COVID over all else.

My children can’t go to school.

Barely. I can’t even.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2020/07/31/florid...
Hopefully. Canonical needs the profit.
> State governments have the power to pay people to stay home. They might have to shift funding from other areas or raise taxes in order to do so.

But they don't have the money to do so. Plans like that require deficit spending, which the federal government can do but the states can't.

Your alternative suggestions are not serious ideas. Do you really think the states could find the money to pay people to stay home by levying taxes on basically those same payments?
> PDF is one of the strangest file formats I've worked with.

Do you by chance have a "definitely strangest" file formats? Just curious if something out there is vastly weirder, or more perplexing, than PDFs?
They abandoned the parallel layout engine which was arguably the most important bottleneck that Servo was attempting to tackle.
Technology adoption has changed since those analogies were developed.

Bitcoin has been consistently "around the corner" from mass market for a decade now, while other technologies have been released and adopted.
Does anyone know what exactly what were the legal/financial mechanics of RedHat 'absorbing' CentOS in the first place? Is "CentOS" a trademark? Is the CentOS logo trademarked?
Who exactly owned the servers that CentOS was distributed from? Did CentOS have people on the payroll who took jobs at RedHat? (Did CentOS have a payroll in the first place?)
...and that reaction was anaphylaxis, and was mitigated with ephinephrine, antihistamines, and steroids. this person is doing fine now, but is guarded from 2nd dosage.

https://www.adn.com/alaska-news/2020/12/16/alaska-healthcare...
Once again, the Hacker News comments prove to be more useful and insightful than the article itself.
"It can be a little windy inside with the jet engine running but not too bad. "

Now that is an understatement. Despite all the (self-described) obsessive engineering that went into this, the driver of this beast has the intake of a GE T58-8F helicopter turbine engine less than two feet from their head. HELL NO.
Running an engineering manager book club
> published in SSRN, a repository for so-called preprint papers that have yet to undergo formal peer review

https://tylervigen.com/spurious-correlations

Thanks to the Economist for our daily dose of sketchy papers
Are web pages/archives really less fixed than PDFs if you don‘t want want them to be? I mean I know they are in practice, but I don‘t see why you couldn‘t use them as a fixed document format.

Some contracts may need to be upheld between creator and consumer. If the consumer doesn‘t want to, well, that‘s freedom, isn’t it?

Of course it is the most code executing document format to ever execute code, so if that was the issue...

Is postscript (that‘s what PDFs are ultimately right?) capable of thing‘s that HTML+CSS+SVG isn‘t?

Edit: Oh no I completely blanked on the fact that web pages literally don‘t have pages. Seems like a big one.
I replaced Chrome with Brave more than a year ago and I recommend it as basically a better version of Chrome. The script blocking feature is especially useful for nytimes, and other paywall sites. The one problem I have had was my computer crashed at one point and Brave completely lost my session (4 windows, probably ~100 tabs in total). So now using Firefox mostly, even though I like it less, with Brave as a 2nd browser.
Which is fine, but anecdotal. You're describing a hobby money because most people do not do what you are doing.
It's weird that when I tell my kids that when they want to help, but they won't help in the way that someone needs help, that they aren't actually helping, they understand it.

Mozilla has buckets of money, between the Corporation and the Foundation. They are separate, for good-ish reasons? But they are separate. If they start allowing customers or businesses to pay for Firefox, then they will have to provide an entirely different level of support. They will need a billing and support team that is beholden to those paying customers.

It will shift the focus that Firefox has on attracting and retaining users to attracting and retaining paying users.

It will mean they need to meet various warranty and regulatory requirements around the world, and potentially introduce new business risks and liabilities related to those requirements (e.g. non-compliance with specific regional legislation).

What you are asking for is to pay Mozilla for Firefox, and to get there you need a radical shift in the organization that supports and ships Firefox.

Or, you could do what the rest of folks who want to support Firefox do, and make a donation in the way that Mozilla is signalling is the best way to support Mozilla's mission and Firefox development.

If that isn't good enough for you, track down an OSS contributor to Firefox, and give them money. Direct action for the win!
They are doing some sneaky (and IMHO rather abusive) user-agent sniffing --- change your UA header to some old or obscure browser and you will get the PNG as desired.
Honestly, I'd probably just use Tailscale for that, so I guess the bounce server solution occupies some middle ground where one doesn't have control over the network and either doesn't have the money for tailscale or likes owning their infra end-to-end.
Rosetta is limited to running Darwin/x86-64 user processes on Darwin/ARM64 but Docker needs to run Linux/x86-64 containers/processes on a Linux/x86-64 kernel on a Darwin/ARM64 host.
I like the Apple Books app because

- It syncs across all my devices. No 3rd party storage like Dropbox required. In fact what I don't like is GoodReader asks for too broad an access to Dropbox/OneDrive if you try to set it up.

- Books is first party app so absolutely no tracking whatsoever. GoodReader had Facebook SDK and Google Analytics and was trying to contact a bunch of other trackers the last time I installed it.
I don't know about what the Peloton experience is like, but:

My bike is on a trainer, and I see the following down-sides:

a) My bike on a trainer is really loud. Can't do it early; can't do it when the baby is sleeping, etc.

b) It's a moderate pain in the ass to hook and unhook. Not a huge pain in the ass, but I certainly didn't do it any time of the year it was feasible for me to bike to work.

c) It's dirty. I mean, the bike. I dislike washing the tires so I can bring it indoors even a couple of times a year, never mind if it's coming in and out constantly. And never mind the fact that even washed, my wife sure as hell isn't letting me bring that into a corner of the bedroom.

d) My bike has exposed chains and gearing that, if I'm not mistaken, the Peloton and similar bikes do not. I've got a toddler.

e) Indoor exercise bikes are usually reasonably set up to let you have somewhere to put your phone, or ipad, or kindle, etc. Bikes on a trainer do not. When I'm working out indoors, that makes a big difference for me.

This hasn't been enough to convince me to buy a Peloton, but I can certainly see why someone with more disposable income (or square footage) would.
DIY project? He purchased a brand new, off the shelf spin bike and put a cadence sensor on it.

I'm not sure when it happened, but the bar for saying things like "built" has become so low that we get titles and "projects" like these.
Authentication for email and other passive services is a bit trickier.

For example suppose your mail server falls over, then is restarted. Does the mail client on your phone go "Hey, I need to re-authenticate to this server?" and meanwhile you don't receive any email? That's a not-great user experience.

For SMTP this is a bit less fraught because at least the user presumably just did something to cause sending, so we can ask them to authenticate at that point. But that still can be a bit trickier than you'd like.

There's also a much nastier backward compatibility story for email than for a relatively recent thing like GitHub. There absolutely will be a user with an Amiga 1200 using email on a big email service. Do you cut their service off? Maybe you have to, if that's the only way to secure service for other users. But it's a real last resort.
What complexity are you referring to? And do you actually encounter issues while browsing using Firefox?

I am curious as I don't relate to this and recommend Firefox to friends and family.
OpenPGP is a standard, and a very flexible one.

That's pretty much what makes it the opposite of 'modern cryptography'.
Ask HN: Best book to learn about SQL and databases?
> It's kind of a prime example of how the scientific model isn't the correct one to be using in the first place.

This seems to be a category error - after all it was science that found the problem also.

I think you are poking around the edges of something real here, but suspect the thinking is muddy still and falling into a false dichotomy. There is a lot of confusion about the role of science and what it can and can't do, but I don't think it maps at all purely onto the "culture wars" as you are seeming to suggest.
It seems more likely that the players you're facing have one safe opening that they almost always play, so they know from experience where it can accept modification at this level.
I think the point is that the newsworthiness here is that a nation is fighting for control of their TLD. It doesn't really matter what nation it is, and most people have probably never heard of it. The issue is that there exists a nation at all that has this problem. I think most would assume that all ccTLDs are well under the control of their respective nations.

IOW, I don't think headlines aim or should aim for information density, but rather focusing on the points that makes the story newsworthy to the target audience. Aiming for information density causes distraction from the point of the story and consequently maybe disinterest the specific potential readers the author is aiming for.

Saying "a tiny island nation" rather than specifying the nation is also better because it focuses on the fact that its problem is probably due to being a tiny island nation, i.e. a nation that is largely unknown and ignored. Putting it like that might invoke sympathy. Saying "Niue" instead might cause the target audience to think the news is not really relevant to them since they don't know "Niue".
It’s one of the only things which prevents Apple and Google from being able to carve up the open web between them.
Ratings on chess sites are massively inflated compared to USCF/FIDE ratings. 1700 on lichess is probably somewhere around 1200 USCF.
It's a v1 Quest.

I have a combo routine that involves Synthriders then Beat Saber and finally pistol whip. These all exercise different aspects - Synthriders builds muscle mass in arms, Beat Saber is more cardio, and pistol whip has me crouching / squatting to do my legs.
HYPER-REALITY by Keiichi Matsuda

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YJg02ivYzSs
Has anyone dabbled in Fischer’s chess 960? The idea was to semi-randomize the starting position each game to prevent players needing to memorize a huge body of openers. Kasparov’s response iirc was “...let’s not pretend that research is not an important part of the game”
Yes but then somebody would make Rocky-2
> There are ways to punish their moves, but I would've needed to memorized that. So, I have to come up with changes to the memorized opening on the spot.

This is a good way to put it. I don't yet understand what makes an opening such a personality. Like, what the "attitude" of an opening is beyond "white tries to dominate the center with a fiancetto from the king-side and crush the opponents defenses through pressure on f7" (this is like how every Wikipedia entry on openings is written). Great, thanks! I think this is probably one of the things that separates enthusiasts from naturals, because while I get the basic point of the sentence, I don't see how that plays out for 10 moves. Or maybe I'm overthinking it. I keep waiting for it to "click" one day.

But yes, seeing someone deviate from a memorized opening doesn't help me win either!
We know how to drastically reduce abortions. Provide free long term contraceptives to women. We've seen it work in places like Denver who cut their teen pregnancy and abortion rates in half while saving $6 in medical bills for every $1 spent on IUDs. We cannot get programs like this more broadly because half our country thinks outlawing abortion and teaching "personal responsibility" is the solution despite evidence that neither actually work.
The end customers for advertising are businesses.

The argument in the complaint is this (paragraph 16):

The monopoly tax Google imposes on American businesses—advertisers like clothing brands, restaurants, and realtors—is a tax that is ultimately borne by American consumers through higher prices and lower quality on the goods, services, and information those businesses provide. Every American suffers when Google imposes its monopoly pricing on the sale of targeted advertising.
Research Alert: Martin Nowak is the same Harvard professor who invited a convicted child rapist by the name of Jeffrey Epstein onto the Harvard University campus and gave him an office and a flattering web page on his program's website for several years until victims of sexual abuse at Harvard forced him to take it down.

This article was probably written to defend MIT president Rafael Reif's decision to mark Epstein's post-conviction donations to MIT as anonymous.

While Epstein was still alive, he was paying Nowak to publish articles about how punishment usually serves "no noble purpose," presumably because Epstein was still scared that he could be re-indicted on sex-trafficking charges despite attorney Allen Dershowitz' heroic efforts to secure an immunity deal for Epstein that protected him from future prosecution ... as well as all of his co-conspirators (think all of the professors who visited him on "Pedophile Isle").

In light of Epstein's "facilitation" of the mega-donations from billionaires Glenn Dubin and Les Wexner to Harvard, this article certainly strikes a resonant chord:

https://www.chicagojewishnews.com/2019/08/jeffrey-epsteins-j...
Twitch Bans ‘Simp’
Just because you can does not mean you should. You are responsible to arrange your workspaces in a usable manner yourself. I personally make use of i3's (also a tiling WM) tabbed mode where I can make a stack of windows occupy the same area with a list of windows above it, much like tabs in a web browser. Tabbed mode is useful for when I open a bunch of programs that I don't want to close, but don't need to see all at the same time either.
How close are we to be able to deploy arm64 images to production/AWS/GCP?
SpaceRyde, a Canadian microsat launcher, completes field trial of rocket carrier
Disclaimer: I am an Avionics Specialist at SpaceRyde. Ask questions!
Prior to 20th century? For my grandparents' generation it was common that about a third of their siblings died during their chilhood, mostly before one year old.

And I'm not so old ;)
It looks to me like the design for this was https://github.com/ampproject/amphtml/issues/3133

(Disclosure: I work on ads at Google, and I'm friends with some of the people at the link. Speaking only for myself.)
> It will solidify the belief that these authorities treat us like children

they should absolutely treat people who think 5G cell towers cause covid like children.

or people who think wearing a mask will kill you

or people who think the earth is flat

and so on.
I haven't worked with it myself but I heard Photoshop's PSD format is a good candidate.
The author conveniently left out the cost of the tablet, which is included in the Peloton price. Adding the tablet pretty much doubles the cost of this "DIY build".
>Now, what if Facebook gave each person 10% of what they personally brought in? That wouldn't take much more tracking than what they already do. But in this case, you'd have a lot of people maximizing their time on Facebook in order to increase their payout. Win for them, bigger win for Facebook. Heck, Facebook could even get rid of all their stupid dark patterns, and stop the endless research into more dark patterns, improving their bottom line even more. No need to trick people into engaging if they are voluntarily engaging for a small sum.

I still don't think the ROI for the user is there.
The average FB user spends about 35 min per day, or 210hrs/year on the platform. Assuming 10% revenue sharing, that is $0.10/hour.
If the average user were to double their time on the platform, they would make an extra $20/year.

This is a laughable incentive for most people, let alone your most valuable add targets (people with disposable income).
Yes, Adobe's PSD is definitely more weird and perplexing than PDF.
I am not sure where this is going. I think this is a really bad idea. How can we trust anything that comes out of the mass media? Is this the end of trusted news from official sources?
This should be in the dictionary next to cherry picked
When I was young in the 90s, our car didn't even have seat belts for the back seats and child seats were unheard of.
In the out of scope section of the spec:

> Any kind of signing (which is not a tooling problem, but a trust and key distribution problem, and to the extent that tools matter you should just use signify/minisign, and for keys we should probably use SSH ones)

Yeah, they could implement it, but why not keep the utilities small and specific to a use case. You can shasum over the backup and sign it if that's what you want.
Yes, thank you, I assumed it was obvious: I meant playing against a computer while keeping stockfish running, figuring out my next move, and then seeing what stockfish recommends, then trying to follow that line to see if it makes sense. Like asking for help from professor, except you have to figure out the answer, which doesn't always help.
https://testing-library.com/docs/svelte-testing-library/intr...