skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This study primarily focused on rural poor in Bangladesh.

Trying to project the conclusions on to relatively wealthy (on a global scale) societies like the United States isn’t going to make much sense.
Thank you!

I am currently looking into how to generate an RSS feed. I personally don't use RSS, so I am not sure how you would like to have it be implemented, I have two questions:

1. Do you want all articles on HackerDaily added to your RSS feed? (HackerDaily only shows the articles with 100+ points, so that's about 30-50 articles per day)

2. HackerDaily uses your local timezone to find the articles per day, would you like to have this for the RSS feed as well, or is based on UTC also okay?
> If, instead, we had identified sessions using only layer 4 data, then mobile IP would have worked perfectly.

Remember kids, never use semantic data as a database primary key.
Restoring bankruptcy protections for student loans is obvious much needed reform. In the USA; I have no clue how others manage this.

The linked podcast episode touches on some of our bigger inequity challenges. My only notion is restore state funding to public institutions (to greatly reduce tuition burden). It varied greatly by state. My own state's universities used to be ~80 state funded and are now almost ~100 tuition funded. So wrong.

Maybe also treat loan for private institutions differently. It's really distasteful that our elites universities are hoarding so much cash (endowments). They should use it or lose it.

Edit:

Another reform for mitigating inequity may be increasing supply to meet demand. I truly don't understand this dynamic. Admissions are down overall. But demand for the elites is ever greater. Meanwhile newly 100% tuition supported orgs are now dependent on foreign exchange students. Ad nauseam...

It seems to me the Pareto curve of credential issuing orgs has to be releveled. The elite have to either expand enrollment or partner with other orgs to share the glory or...?

I've read a lot of criticisms (gripes), but can't remember any policy proposals. The most concrete I've seen is Scott Galloway's new MBA teaching startup (https://www.section4.com), which really looks like an ITT (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ITT_Technical_Institute) or Phoenix University model, but I really don't know.
Oh true, there's a lot of computer assisted tools for level designers and it has definitely made game worlds feel more realistic. The strategy is to let the computer generate a baseline and then hand-tune from there.

Humans aren't really good at making an area feel wild or natural... we stink up the place with hidden order. So algorithms that generate terrain, tree placement, tree shape, etc are already outperforming humans because their form of pseudorandom is more natural-feeling than our own.

I don't know how famiar you are with the industry so apologies if I'm over-explaining, but check out SpeedTree if you want to see one of these products. It's really cool.
The evidence is that the curve of new cases/hospitalizations comes down a few weeks after each lockdown is called. This seems to happen multiple times from the curves I've seen in various newspapers.

In that sense, it "works". Whether it's worth the cost is another issue, but it does sound like certain hospitals were filling up rapidly.
I don't think that's what it said. It's not a recommendation, just a summary: 1% do it now, but 90% would do it if they had the chance.
Your so focused on your own take on human nature that you ignore obvious evidence disproving it, namely that Scandinavia isn't a hell hole.
Exactly!I don't know how to live without maps.me.So many times, the app has helped me
Arrest in suspected poisoning of Chinese video game tycoon
There's nothing 'extreme' about GP's sentiment. It's called being a good parent.
Ask HN: What are the main problems you have with software you currently use?
I'm currently using Notion to take notes. The main problem I have with it are how slow it is. Craft looks to address Notions shortcomings, but paying for a note taking app isn't in my nature.

Do you have similar experiences with software you currently use?
The problem is that unless the bad regulation is hurting everyone a lot the regulations will be around for 10-50yr after you vote them out.
Of someone at Apple copied the Google interface they'd be fired for substandard results.
It's a big topic to get into, but what I really mean is there are certain resources that we either throw away or don't distribute that wouldn't require relocation, and could be given to people without needing to police them for having kids or whatever. Do you not think Nigeria and Bangladesh have this problem as well? It's not just the developed world. Underdeveloped countries have resource allocation problems and definitely have excess resources in some cases.
Hierarchy is not an all-or-nothing phenomenon. We can reduce levels of inequality without producing the negative outcomes you fear.

I’m not sure whether this applies to you (I’m not implying that it does), but I continually find it interesting to hear Americans expressing the fear that acting to reduce inequality will somehow limit social mobility, as if they don’t realize that much of the developed world has greater social mobility than their country (or that many countries also rate higher in measures of social welfare, despite having greater social mobility and lower inequality).
Tried to join the waiting list but it requires a zip code (and no country) so I guess it is US specific?
They imagine if the system were upended they wouldn't be low status. They are wrong.
I thought the article would be about Low-background steel [1], which is also an interesting topic. Basically most of the steel in the world is irradiated because of the nuclear tests, which makes it not usable for radiation sensitive equipment. To get clean steel, it is extracted from old shipwrecks.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Low-background_steel
2020.12 Network Breach
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It's there, if you hover Free. I have to make it more clear. Thanks for point that out.
That's a different issue. Big companies hate APIs because that interferes with product development and brand control.
Probably a case of semantic narrowing.
This looks pretty cool. I'm a bookmarks nerd. I love collecting and organizing web resources in a useful way and returning to blogs with good content, or a website with nice design or accessibility features.

I try to keep my bookmarks page up to date:
https://l-o-o-s-e-d.net/bookmarks

I wrote a quick script to parse the convenient json export from Firefox into collapsible divs for easier browsing.
How many nurses have seen their salary increase due to the shortage of nursing staff due to Covid?
Like every market it relies on three large groups existing. One large holding the asset with no intent to sell over the next “horizon” whatever that’s defined at. One group holding the asset and needing to sell it soon. And finally one group holding USD (or your local context equivalent) looking to buy into the asset. The winners and losers as far as appreciation of the asset (I made money holding it!) or depreciation of the asset (I recovered 70% of my value) are determined by how large each of those groups is.

The stock market has been great because the population has been booming. The holders looking to sell have no trouble finding buyers looking to buy so they lock in their appreciation. The real estate holders in Detroit and now maybe SV (recent buyers) didn’t do great because demand for their asset cratered.

It’s anyone’s guess what will happen to Bitcoin. Will it go mainstream causing the buyer class to massively outstrip the seller class and lock in huge gains for the current holders (to the moon!) or will it become as illegal as heroin in the major markets causing all legit holders to exit and the price to tumble to next to nothing?

Only one thing is certain, in this time of uncertainty, you will certainly have no trouble finding lots of people willing to tell you which one it’s going to be with absolute certainty in their conviction.
Thank you for your honest feedback!

I quickly added a page with a darker background[1], is this more readable? If not I might need to increase the spacing between the items.

[1] https://hackerdaily.io/darker
> These conclusions seem to spit in the face of "meritocracy". It's always puzzled me that this idea of meritocracy, especially in tech (notably USA)

Just to be clear this paper’s about peasants in Bangladesh.
Just so. What's your prescription?

Take your time. No pressure.
The graphics of The Forest (the second link by GP) remind me a lot of Crysis, a now 13 year old game. What was cutting edge 13 years ago is now commoditized because of vastly greater computing power and much better tooling (today's Unity editor is much better than what was available in 2007)
I feel a bit dumb having to ask this, but how do you turn on the dark mode?
Raspberry Pi Alternatives in 2021: Hackboard, Zimaboard, RockPi, Odroid and More
> "we hire only according to merit" <signed, Diversity Manager>

What you would consider a better policy? Hiring according to a fair dice roll?
I normally agree with Dan's essays, but this time I very much disagree. As someone who first started programming around the time Brooks's article was written, my conclusion is that not only was Brooks right, but, if anything, that he was too optimistic.

In the late 80s and early 90s, a lot of software development was done with various RAD languages (Magic, Business Basic -- my first programming job used that -- and later VB). We fully expected the then-nascent Smalltalk, or something like it, to become dominant soon; does anyone claim that JS or Python are a significant improvement over it? Our current state is a big disappointment compared to where most programmers in the 80s believed we would be by now, and very much in line with Brooks's pouring of cold water (perhaps with the single exception of the internet).

My perception is that the total productivity boost over the past three decades is less than one order-of-magnitude (Brooks was overly careful to predict no 10x boost due to one improvement in language design or programming methodology within one decade), and almost all of it comes from improvements in hardware and the online availability of free libraries (Brooks's "Buy vs Build", which he considered promising) and information -- not from changes in programming methodology or language design (although garbage collection and automated unit-tests have certainly helped, too). The article also mixes hardware improvements and their relationship to languages, but we knew that was going to happen back then, and I think it's been factored well into Brooks's prediction. Moreover, my perception is that we’re in a period of diminishing returns from languages, and that improvements to productivity Fortran and C had over Assembly are significantly greater than the gains since.

The best way to judge Brooks's prediction, I think, is in comparison to opposite predictions made at the time -- like those that claimed Brooks's predictions were pessimistic -- and those were even more wrong in retrospect.

I would also add that if you want to compare the ratio of essential and accidental complexity in line with Brooks's prescient analysis, you should compare the difficulty of designing a system in an accidental-complexity-free specification language like TLA+ to the difficulty of implementing it in a programming language from scratch. I find the claim that this ratio has improved by even one order of magnitude, let alone several, to be dubious.

> Brooks states a bound on how much programmer productivity can improve. But, in practice, to state this bound correctly, one would have to be able to conceive of problems that no one would reasonably attempt to solve due to the amount of friction involved in solving the problem with current technologies.

I don't think so. Although he stated it in practical terms, Brooks was careful to make a rather theoretical claim -- one that's supported by computational complexity results obtained in the 80s, 90s and 00s, on the hardness of program analysis -- about the ability to express what it is that a program is supposed to do.
Will Bitcoin climb to $100k this year?
CloudBalkan: CentOS was the most popular distribution for Cloud Servers in 2020
Having something self-hosted would give me a little more confidence in the long-term lifespan of my collection and its formatting.
Your example regarding immigrants & hate agrees with my observations.

I believe those host nations that (as far as I could tell) harbour no hatred towards immigrants could be separated into two categories: countries where locals tend to feel broadly confident, and countries where locals tend to feel innately superior to non-locals.

In the former countries, immigrants indeed seem to be perceived simply as a bunch of differently-looking people with quirky customs.

In the latter countries, feeling of superiority seems to preclude anger or hate, but contempt seems to be possible in some circumstances (I suspect contempt might be fear in presence of superiority).
Similarly, GNU/Linux phones, like Purism Librem 5. I expected that by 2020 we would have a huge ecosystem of smartphones like this.
> this gives you %75 chance of being middle class, about %90 chance of not being poor

It doesn't. Those numbers are descriptive, not prescriptive. You're basically giving the advice to be more middle-class in order to be more middle-class.
Liveable necessities like water, food, and housing, that are either wasted on inefficient food production methods or given to rent-seekers (by the economic definition of the term). No one is claiming we are post-scarcity and that everyone can have the standard of living of a millionaire, though I would argue that one having a standard of living like this could take away from other people's standard of living.

Basically my argument, since this thread is quite far down now, is that over-population is not robbing the globe of resources in any amount worth worrying about and therefore population control is not going to solve inequality since it's a distribution problem.
I once heard that Meetup is "one night stand for friends"
> All this wonderfulness depended on the ability to start over and throw away the legacy cruft we had built up. And that is, unfortunately, pretty much impossible. Even if IPv6 hits 99% penetration, that doesn't mean we'll be rid of IPv4.

This bout of pessimism seems unfounded in the article. Of course most services and networks will get rid of v4 when a sufficiently high percentage of users and devices have moved, just like they do with other protocols. It won't disappear off the face of the earth, just like other old protocols didn't, you'll just find that you can't use it on most networks.
Did you miss that WikiLeaks met with Trump campaign staff that had close relations with russian secret services and then leaked DNC campaign mails so that right wing actors could make that into a pedophile pizza place conspiracy theory?

I used to be a big WikiLeaks supporter but these days are long gone.

They promised leaks on russian oligarchs that never happened. They promised to "bring down" Bank of America. They promised to release another video showing war crimes by the US that was never released. They criticized the release of the Panama Papers.

People who still support WikiLeaks are either lunatics or they tend to have right wing agenda of their own.
A lot of good ones in this thread. I try to get out of the tech head frame with about 50% of my listening. Super niche but one of the best pods for a sports team I follow https://www.redandwhitepodcast.com
I respectfully request to cease comments of the type of "weeps in x". You don't have to honor this request, but I would feel better without reading these.
It's only safe in the sense that most people aren't trying to rip you off.

A moderately technically sophisticated attacker will concurrently broadcast one txn version near miners, and another to as many other nodes as they can reach. Their success rate on double spends can easily be >90% and the marginal cost of the attack is approximately zero.

Other than the technical know-how to setup the transaction broadcasting and the risk that you might just pay for what you were buying, there is no cost to the scam.

Same story on Bitcoin and BCH (here is a tweet about making 2511 successful double spends on BCH: https://twitter.com/peterrizun/status/1051088866743017473?la...).

The situation is somewhat worse on BCH in the sense that they only have ~1.2% of Bitcoin's hashrate, so there are many single Bitcoin miners that can reorg bch, so even single confirmations aren't particularly safe.

There are, of course, plenty of cases where 0-conf could be accepted-- e.g. you could credit someone assets but not allow withdraw until they clear, or if goods will ship the next day you need only check that they've confirmed before shipment. Some places do this now.
I strongly recommend upgrading your GBA if you still have it - you can get an IPS replacement screen (bare minimum, it's an enormous improvement), USB-C Lipo battery, new shells/buttons, louder speaker, etc. I think it costs around $100 for the lot, but it breathes a lot of life back into the platform. Personally, I prefer the standard GBA for superior ergonomics, and the lack of moving parts (and it's the one I had!)
While it’s certainly not as fun or approachable, you can at least VESA mount the current iMac on an arm.
Krystal and Rachel: How Soulless DC Ghouls Are Faking Their Zoom Bookshelves
The protest for Dakota isn't about the pipeline, it's about where the pipeline goes. Would you be okay with a pipeline going through your house?

Also pipelines are usually taking the human element out. When an oil train derails, you know about it. When there's a hole in a pipeline, it can take days for anyone to notice.
Huh, it's not? Why exactly?
Your sugar example is not a good example because the US setup a mandate to be totally food supply independent after the Dust Bowl/famine in the early part of the last century.

So foreign sugar sources, like any major staple, are heavily tariffed.
Lol. The dark pattern could already be smelled from the post title, a growing list of paths, turns out the set is so small, calling it growing is just a click bait. Just wait long enough and you will be thrown some infomercials.

Yea great site nonetheless.
What if Github added a default license in their TOS? Language like "If you don't explicitly add a license to your repo, we assume you meant MIT". I think that'd clarify that gray area.

In that same vein, a torrent site could have something like this on their upload page: "By adding this torrent to the tracker, you certify that you have the rights to distribute the file, and you hereby grant permission to distribute the file to every user of the site." I don't think Hansmeier could pull off his stunt anymore, as he just granted permission to everyone to do what he was trying to catch them doing.
You can’t expect people to just see their children as individuals who must go fend for themselves

Why not? There's plenty of people arguing for exactly that mechanism when it's not about their own children. A 100% inheritance tax (with no loopholes through business or legal constructs) might force a lot of people to rethink how they vote -- because then, they can't use their wealth to shield their children from how society functions any more.
No, it really doesn't.

The whole point of v6 was no more NAT. The consequence is that a prefix change is a major event.

The original designers imagined the prefix to be eternal. Reality, predictably, turned out to be quite different.

Sure there are ways to deal with this, but it's far from "v4 with more bits".
> "we hire only according to merit" <signed, Diversity Manager>

There doesn't have to be anything contradictory here. Diversity efforts can work to offset biases and enable getting closer to meritocracy. For example hiring the best in your network coming from a high-class university doesn't mean you're hiring the best overall. The diversity effort may be for example to make sure that the job offer is visible to the brilliant person who wouldn't even find it otherwise. Or it may be an effort to ensure a less biased review (masking names?) Or it's making sure that people do behave well internally, so the company isn't avoided by the best people for hiring racist assholes for example.
Please note that this study is in the context of extreme poverty in populations such as rural villages in Bangladesh.

It’s an interesting study and worth reading if you’re interested in what it takes to lift these populations out of poverty. The authors propose that their extreme poverty is a meta-stable state that prevents them from accessing wealth-building opportunities. The authors show that time-limited wealth transfers of sufficiently large size can help these people escape the meta-stable poverty state and transition into a wealth-accumulating state.

However, the comments here rushing to project the conclusions on to the relatively wealthy (on a global scale) citizens of countries like the US and Europe are abusing the study’s conclusions. Similar wealth traps may exist in these countries, but the relative thresholds would be akin to a homeless person living on the streets trying to secure a job. Attempts to project these study results on to things like hiring practices at big tech companies, where anyone able to apply at all is already orders of magnitude more wealthy and privileged than the subjects of this study, are missing the point entirely.
Readability Focused Hacker News Clone
Ah, they now have the same detail OSM had five years ago. Who knows, maybe some day they will be on par.
The previous comment's argument appears to be that heritability of "being smart" is not strictly limited to genetic factors, that measures of "smartness" such as an IQ score also measure other factors that are not strictly related to genetics
Show HN: Turn your boring bookmarks into embedded audio and video cards
The route of the Dakota pipeline was along the exact path of an existing pipeline.

The real reason for the protests was that the tribe was NOT paid off because the pipeline CIRCUMVENTED their reserve.
My biggest frustration with Google Maps is that no matter how often I report my address to be in the wrong location, nothing ever changes. Another example of the “customer service” Google is famous for.
Compressed air is hot, but the reason it makes a craft hot is that the air is touching the craft in a certain way.

Is the difference that hearing due to compression is a normal head-on collision, and heating via friction is a parallel "scratching" collision?

If you dropped a cube from space, the heat would be on the front face due do battery from air particles, not on the sides?
> I personally just think everything works better when the best people are in charge and rewarded for being the best.

The problem is that they're not necessarily the best i.e. some poor person if given the same resources, education, access etc. might in fact do a lot better with what they have, we'll just never know.

I mean if you look at the state of today's world, handling of COVID, shams like Nikola etc. are these really the 'best' people humanity has to offer?
First-class logic/constraint programming like in Flix (https://flix.dev/). This would make complex logic easier and powerful.
I'm sort of wondering about that "tap board" in the Snom 870 VoiP phone. Pictures here: http://buggedplanet.info/lost+found/20180323/

I can't tell which parts are supposedly not part of the original phone. The 870 doesn't have bluetooth, but some very similar looking models do, which could account for the antenna on the board.

Edit: See my follow up below. I'm now convinced this is a pretty complex tap inside the VoiP phone. No reason for a UHF transmitter to be inside a desk VoiP phone.
Really cool display even if it has problems with tearing. I played around with that display a bit - https://youtu.be/8S1BXnx-vLE (STM32, 60+ fps), https://youtu.be/Wql4WTpPrWs (ESP32, ~40 fps)