skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I get your point because I also often have to just pause and realize the difference every once and a while, but I also don't think it's all that deceptive. Who among regular people are really fooled by the difference? If you are none the wiser about MB why would you be fooled by ratings listed in Mb? I would think most people's cognizance about that extends no further than, e.g., 100Mb is less than 200Mb and that is less than 300Mb and I want the highest number I can get.

I guess what I am saying is that all things are really relative and humans operate on generalizations, e.g., in this case assumptions that a higher number is better just like a higher number of apples is better than less apples.

It's usually the technical obsessive types, most prevalent in the modern era that are obsessive and work themselves into a frenzy about things that are both inconsequential and also only really matter in the bubble they have constructed around themselves. "We must save the poor innocent people from the evil deceptions of MB vs Mb!" decries the obsessive modern … while the regular person just shrugs and says "I don't care, I'm buying the biggest number I can for the credits I have. I don't understand any of this anyways. I just want my drug of empty stimuli as fast as possible. I have Disney content to watch."
I remember talking to a dude 10 years ago at an unconference whose grad project was to reimplement Database indexes to use GPUs. He was saying in some prototypes he was yielding orders of magnitude better performance, but it was still a very obscure idea.

This is the sort of stuff I'm sure they're already working on to find new customers.
On RSA-style prime-based crypto potentially but barring a much stronger result than merely being able to cheaply find primes things like ECC would probably still be safe.
Price, for one. And also the company's reputation for transparency.
That’s nothing, I quit caffeine at least three times a day :-p
That would eliminate bias, but also totally de-humanize work. People are shitty to each other sometimes, but is it worth throwing out all human connection to eliminate a subset of undesirable behaviors?

I think there's definitely benefits to making open application positions more anonymous, but purely anonymous employment sounds terrible. You can already kinda get that with some outsourcing firms, and it's only useful for a very limited set of tasks.
Electric cars still result in Phoenix, AZ. What we need is Amsterdam.
Yes, I am aware (why wouldn't I be?).

To me it is obvious that the solution to the global climate change crisis isn't rich countries buying new luxorious cars, that happen to be electric. That's a very western-centric view.
If you look around on the internet (e.g. Reddit) for quitting plans, 2-3 weeks is the standard tapering time to avoid side effects.

If you don’t have the measurement tools or discipline, there are products with pre-measured doses you can buy to walk you through it, e.g. https://www.weancaffeine.com/

Following that regime I not only notice hardly any side effects, but also by day 3 or 4 feel noticeably better than during addiction.
As a Norwegian, I've been thinking the same for a while. The argument that "our" oil would just get replaced by some other oil if we stopped pumping feels hollow.

That being said, given how much of our workforce is directly or indirectly tied to pumping up oil and gas, I also get that simply stopping the pumps tomorrow will pretty much make the country collapse.

As such I think that spending our black money to help foster greener technologies like EVs is at least better than nothing.

We're also using our oil fund a bit more actively[1] when it comes to climate and investments.

[1]: https://www.nrk.no/norge/for-forste-gang-kaster-oljefondet-u...
So the Norwegians are getting even richer, great!
Surely you’ve heard of ICE and the sorry state of their “detention facilities” by now?
Open-spec, community-backed Linux SBCs under $200
i m glad the greek govt copied their design: https://www.gov.gr
> it is a very rare threat model

I agree, but perhaps password managers aren't a one-size-fits-all solution. People in high risk situations (e.g., admin @ crypto companies) that are likely to be specifically targeted, might be better served without a password manager. But yes, if RDP, e.g., is left on and open then a keylogger could be installed anyways...
Why would "dumb" users create a root account on their phone?
He's also ignoring how the substitution effect, which normally serves to tamp down realized inflation as folks change the composition of the basket of goods and services they consume, is not applicable or less applicable to most of the red lines (food, housing, medical care).

On a long enough timeline if food and housing prices keep outpacing other prices, the proportion of consumer money devoted to such items will trend towards 100%. And if the basket is 100% stuff that keeps quickly going up in price, then CPI is also quickly going up in price (ipso fact).
Which is a direct quote from a Bible verse, and would make more sense (but be less mysterious)
Pgagroal: A high-performance protocol-native connection pool for PostgreSQL
Another really exciting co in this space is Runway (https://runwayml.com/). Primarily focused on ML-enhanced media production workflows.
Yes, the core problem here is that unblocking the preventive block in 7 days is both unacceptable for the client and a big OPEX ask for github.

What I’m not sure at all is that github had the obligation to preventively block cases instead of the alternative to investigate high risk cases prior to block. As long as they had a sound Compliance process for determining sanction enforcement needs in a reasonable time it should be enough - though for sure more expensive than autoblock followed by non-specialized, non-time sensitive (for github!) customer service followup.
Oh yeah, totally agreed. Maybe just square would be great. 4:3 at the widest. I guess there probably are 16:9 webcams, but aren’t they typically narrower?
> That resonated for me because I've seen that happen in software, that classic pattern where cowboy coders ship garbage to QA. The lowest bug rates I've seen are where everybody cares about quality.

On the flip side, I get nervous when I hear something akin to "We don't have QA here", sometimes as a matter of pride. Think of those times when you've heard someone snear at "Safety First", but for QA or testing.

Perhaps one ideal would be to promote a "everyone cares about quality" environment whilst still having some people focused specifically on QA.
> Github fixes the problem that most users have with git (but are ashamed / too ignorant to admit): That it is de-centralized.

Git is designed for an environment where there are multiple canonical trunks. RedHats kernel is equally a master as SuSe's. So you are maintaining various tips in a semi-synchronized manner. In most projects there is a single repository branch that is the true branch (with perhaps a few tags for LTR) that represents the project. For that reason a lot of Git's mechanisms are unneeded complexity.

The killer features of Git is GitHub, and to a lesser degree local commits (after all, Mercurial has that too).
That's what obfuscating coins like Monero or ZCash (with private transactions) are for - in theory. In practice no exchange directly offers conversions between those and "classic" currencies so you have to somewhat awkwardly convert via a more commonly used cryptocurrency. Oh and if anyone ever finds a deadly bug in the protocol transactions might be de-anonymized in the future.

On the other hand if you pay digitally with "classic" currencies today, your privacy is severely diminished as well. Fintech companies often rely on third parties for some aspects of their services and financial data has special legal standing making it harder to control like you could do with other personal data (under the GDPR, for example).
I vote for making this AskHN monthly recurrent like the ones for jobs.
My interpretation of the comment you're replying to is that "people with money" doesn't refer to the wealthy - who, as you point out, are typically asset-rich - but instead of a cash-rich, asset-poor middle class (or even anyone in the working class with some savings).

Certainly if you're currently saving up to buy your first house in large parts of the West, inflation is your bogeyman - it threatens to simultaneously drive up house prices further and devalue your deposit.
FDA warns U.K. strategy with Pfizer vaccine could create “significant risk”
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FL is using EventBrite to schedule vaccination slots and it’s not going well
>"About 87 million miles (140 million kilometers) above the Grand Canyon, an even larger, grander abyss cuts through the gut of the Red Planet. Known as

Valles Marineris

, this system of deep, vast canyons runs more than 2,500 miles (4,000 km) along the Martian equator, spanning nearly a quarter of the planet's circumference. This gash in the bedrock of Mars is nearly

10 times as long as Earth's Grand Canyon and three times deeper

, making it the single largest canyon in the solar system"
You're conflating Diplomatic Strategy and Pandemic Control together
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Wow I completely forgot about this style of game. I always found the concept kinda neat.
Most of the problems tend to occur when you are forced to interact with legacy versions of tools that were built prior to the buildout of the new gov.uk.

The old sites are all over the place.

I think part of the reason gov.uk has been a success is exactly that they were not forced to replace old systems wholesale, but were allowed to build out a platform and methodology that works well and replace public facing services bit by bit.
This feels good to use. Is there "quicklook"? When I press spacebar it selects the file.

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Update: Michael got back to me via email and pointed out there's a quicklook plugin.

https://github.com/mherrmann/QuickLook
I've reposted a few times and I can recall at least one occasion where the repost got much better traction. It's a nice feature that this is allowed, since there are large number of users and submissions.
Isn't GDP also kind of subject to inflation, as it measures monetary value of things? If so, saying "it's OK, because GDP grew at the same rate" doesn't make much sense.
Agreed, the two dead comments in reply to mine are a perfect illustration of my point.
5. Github is bound to obey US law and international trade agreements.

I think github is the last one at fault for this.
Show HN: OpenFaaS template for headless Chrome and Puppeteer
Oh yeah? I will try it, I hadn’t heard that. Thanks!
I drink black tea in the morning and coffee at noon to afternoon. When I started drinking my tea out of a can, so round about 3 cups instead of 1-2, i noticed that my heart rate would sometimes mess up somehow (happens with too much coffee too). The caffeine (or teeine..) amounts in tea are comparable to coffee (~between 1/4 and 1:1), so in the end it stands to reason that tea (black, green, white, yellow) can have a very similar effect as coffee.
That link has no description of the consensus algorithm they are using, and links to a youtube video, not a paper. Not that I feel like reading new crypto papers, there are dozens of unproven claims around. When something gains actual traction, I’ll read its paper to see how rigorous and secure it is.
Sounds like Tesla did what they were attempting to: dragging everyone to EVs faster.

Edit: Would governments be starting to implement new combustion vehicle sales bans without robust charging infra and large quantities of EV deliveries quarter after quarter? Unlikely.
Code is (almost) always better when it's re-written. So, maybe it was a blessing in disguise...
Looking for a CTO / tech co-founder with Python {numpy/pandas/scikit-learn} experience (or equivalent in other languages) for Automated Crypto Trading startup.

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The very laws of physics imply that artificial intelligence must be possible.

Einsteinian Physics or Quantum Physics?

Maybe the problem with trying to create "intelligence" is that we don't really understand the physics that makes "intelligence" work.

At this point, we're really just intelligence "alchemists" --- we keep putting binary logic in and just hoping that by pure dumb luck something will pop out and surprise us. Thus far, it hasn't.
Deco X60 Review: Is Budget Wi-Fi 6 Worth It?
I mean, just take a look at their own damn videos. [1] The thing runs choppy and had horrible input lag just typing the lockscreen passcode or opening the dialer.

I don't expect my mom to need iPhone 12 performance, but even my mom told me her older LG G-something was slow getting slow, and having played with it before her switching phones, it wasn't nearly as choppy looking as this video.

You and I obviously have very different definitions of "quite smoothly". And specs related or not, UI is a major part of the experience. The initial point still stands: Linux phones are pretty damn far from being anywhere viable for anyone but the most hardcore enthusiasts.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qimtzxMyfq0
It seems like Volkswagen is making some real inroads in the EV market based on that data. Is this correct? What has fueled it—is there a particular model?
Not my website, also I don't vouch for the accuracy :). Though I do use it myself.
https://e.foundation/

You can even buy it preinstalled on Fairphone: https://esolutions.shop/shop/e-os-fairphone-3/.
The title relates to the article and the video is a supporting piece of media.

The article talks about the personal story of how the author first met the Riemann Hypothesis.
Don't worry, I'm planning to do this monthly.

Also, created a central repository (document) with all the info.

Everyone, please fill out this form with your info
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1O0pFRvwvPkXtINcTkFPV...
I'm working on a site called textmyapi.com (site's not up yet). It's a little SaaS platform that allows you to quickly define commands that can be sent over text messaging to invoke REST APIs. I got the idea when I was out camping and wanted to get some stats from an API that I had but I didn't have great internet connectivity, so I thought it would be fun to wire up my APIs so that I could hit them via text message instead of through a web interface.

I'm about 90% code complete with the MVP, would be fun to find someone else who is interested in this kind of stuff (preferably US based) and might want to help work on expanding the functionality or coming up with other interesting things to do with it.

Platform is React, Node, PGSQL.

my contact info is:
recurry AT outlook DOT com
My startup had similar rules when we were only 10 people.

Beyond just the Iran issue, it's known that trade secrets on employee laptops are at risk when crossing some international borders, particularly in airports. Border agents can confiscate electronic devices on vague suspicions, compel you to unlock them (or hack them open in some cases), and then leave them in unsupervised settings with yet more border agents who have the barest electronic security training. These risks terrified me during my travels!
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2-3 weeks without side effects sounds like a good trade off. I guess the point of my comment is that dragging it out for a year is way longer than it needs to be.

This person is likely causing themselves more hassle than they need by trying to micro-manage their levels for an entire year what can be done in 3 weeks.
> the lack of an IDE

What's wrong with Intellij with Cursive?
> Without caffeine I was felt distracted by little things I was noticing or thinking of, made worse by the WFH situation.

Same here. I only drink coffee to make me focus, I don't care much about the taste. If there wouldn't be such a thing as coffee I probably would have to self medicate with adderall or ritalin.
Thanks for your reply! I gave it another try, and it works now beautifully :o (Possibly last time I tried it, there was no LetsEncrypt integration and the external URL setup was more involved?)
What are some cool things that are possible? - extract resources I guess. Is this Russian program trust worthy.
I understand your sentiment but you are missing the point. When recruiters of any sort are going through thousands of CV's, they will filter on anything that helps them find candidates more likely to match a job. Regularly out of work because they are bad at a job, regularly out of work because of a one time issue (family death, illness) look exactly the same when filtering for work gaps, but only one of those is a meaningful signal. But its sufficiently uncommon that you may not lose many quality candidates by doing it. This is what bias looks like, and how it is propagated as well. Desigining a system that may be used by thousands of recruiters has to make decisions on these tricky points, and thoughtfully design around them.
True, but have you see the current state-of-the-art? It’s ACH.
So you expect a performant niche phone for a low price?

Concerning the transparency, I agree, they have some issues. But it does not concern me as long as they actually deliver (and they do).
I was one of the people whose first reaction was to look on gov.uk to understand the scope of the new lockdown, rather than some rehash of it in the media. It took me just two mouse clicks (open gov.uk favourite, click on a link [0] near the top of the page) to find this info. This is just awesome.

[0] https://www.gov.uk/guidance/national-lockdown-stay-at-home
What the hell are you so mad about? Most contemporary critics of postmodernism are themselves implicitly entrenched in postmodern thought lmao
There probably aren't publicly-available studies on the subject, but, in general it is true.

1. Material science has improved dramatically, even since the 90s. We now have oils that don't break down for years, even under extreme temperatures, and tolerances within engines are tight enough that oil can go 10,000 miles without meaninful gasoline contamination. Also, rust-proofing, rubbers, and plastics (!) are much, much better.

2. Solid state electronics have replaced mechanical systems. This is a big one: vacuum lines were a nightmare, carburetors were fickle, distributors wore out, etc. All of these systems have been replaced by maintenance-free electronic versions.

3. Better computer-aid modeling. This is kind of a good and bad, since now components aren't overbuilt like in the 90s, but they are also less likely to be underbuilt.

There are absolutely manufactures who still make unreliable heaps, but generally, reliability has improved. Most of that reliability comes in the form of less maintenance: no car needs the valves adjusted every 30k miles anymore (except maaaybe exotics).

Jay Leno likes to joke about how cars used to come with 90 day warranties in the 70s. 90 days!
Hi, I'm Dustin, and I've been working on abstreet.org for about ~2.5 years to fight car dependency in cities. Aiming to explore and advocate for short-term transportation changes like creating low-traffic neighborhoods and fleshing out bike and bus networks, and moonshot ideas like congestion charging zones in city centers, superblocks, and zoning changes. Targeting the general public, rather than planners who've already got tools they trust, for education, gathering feedback, and prompting citizen advocacy.

We've been growing an open source & academic community fairly well, but I want to hire more full-time engineers, and money's becoming a limiting factor. Looking for a partner on the business and PM side, so I can focus on the technical. The huge disclaimer is that I'm unwilling to compromise on the project being open source, so I have no idea how to squeeze a business model in here. I've also done a terrible job so far of actually getting public transit / cycling advocacy groups on board, so the need for a PM is pretty severe to make sure we're building the right thing.

Contact on github or HN.
In 2009 the price of a colchicine prescription went from $ 4.00 a month to $ 360.00 a month. But I don't think it registered in the inflation statistics.

(The last time I got some it was handled by my mandatory obamacare insurance... which means it cost the insurance company 240 and me a 160.00 copay. Yay high deductables.)
Yep. So it's really not finished. In order to be finished, it obviously has to do everything. Since the old UX must exist forever for compat, I could accept some part of the most extreme settings to be hidden there (After all - in the end we are still resorting to registry edits for anything that isn't in the control panel!) - but the network card settings, audio device settings that are used by almost every user, is still in the old world.

It works, but navigation is confusing, the experience switching between different paradigms is jarring, you can't search for things from the top level and find it in the control panel and so on. They have eft it at 60% finished instead of the 95% or 99% that would make it actually usable.
quasi-socialist?
The options returned from -h match that repo[0] so I'd assume they're the same.

[0] https://github.com/zevv/bucklespring/blob/master/main.c#L81
Massachusetts plans to ban the sale of new gas-powered vehicles by 2035
Because most devices can't be updated? Supporting version 4+ gives you a much larger audience than limiting to version 7+.
Green tea can totally have more caffeine than coffee, especially if you re-brew like many people do. But the theanine in tea takes the anxious edge off.
Apple takes podcasting mainstream (2005)
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I'm frustrated that people don't recognize the moral rot that comes from "all you can eat" services like Netflix, Spotify, GAME PASS, etc.

In particular, once I subscribe to GAME PASS I have given up any input into what games get made. It is all decided in a dark room that is no longer filled with smoke. The one thing I know is that some phallocrats in Montreal will have their bad behaviors and bad games subsidized by Microsoft and there is nothing I can do about it.
Fontpreview: Python library for font previews
> The CCP is also discriminating against Uyghur marriages.

I assume you're referring to this part of your link:

> In March 2017, Salamet Memetimin, an ethnic Uyghur and the Communist Party Secretary for Chaka township's Bekchan village in Qira County, Hotan Prefecture, was relieved of her duties for taking her nikah marriage vows at her home. In interviews with Radio Free Asia in 2020, residents and officials of Shufu County (Kona Sheher), Kashgar Prefecture (Kashi) stated that it was no longer possible to perform traditional Uyghur nikah marriage rites in the county.

Such a policy against nikah marriages would also affect other Muslims, not just Uyghurs.

> Combined with some forced sterilization and forced contraception and you get a “mild” form of genocide that destroys a people without producing mass graves.

Similarly, forced sterilization has been part of government restrictions on reproduction for decades, and although the limit has been raised with the abandonment of the one-child policy, there's still a limit. So it doesn't just affect all non-Uyghur Muslims in China as well, but actually everyone. https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/07/world/asia/after-one-chil...
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