skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I just want to throw in some perspective.

From the 1900s to the 1960s, it’s fair to say that Korea’s economy (that is, the few decades it was independent) was worse off economically than what you’d think of, say, Haiti today.

1895: The one Korean ruler trying to modernize the nation was assassinated (Queen Min).
1910: Japan “annexed” Korea (a 400 year old goal finally realized), and it tried to strip away the native language and culture.
1945: Japan lost.
1950: Proxy war between China and the United States, razing the entire peninsula.
1953: Now, Korea is finally ready to rebuild. Divided,
but at least it’s quiet.

The 1960s to the 1970s were remarkable in that it transformed the country into a very productive and industrialized nation. It just took a bootstrap of reparation payments, loans, some export treaties, and a dictator who meant well but was fortunately assassinated (my personal view) at the right moment.

Even in the 1970s, North Korea had a more productive economy than South Korea.

It’s not until the 1980s where Korea came into its own.

If I recall correctly, South Korean nurses often were sent to countries such as West Germany en masse during the 1960s and 1970s, in order to get more cash flowing into the economy.

In that context, prostitution was yet another way to get money flowing. Definitely seedy (looked down upon, absolutely) but Korea’s recovery and rise was a drawn out hard-scrabble.

My family was a former “0.1%” before losing most of it in the Korean War, but even what was left over was enough to live reasonably (my parents graduated from top colleges, for example), then eventually leave.

I joke with my wife that my life would’ve been more comfortable in South Korea if they’d just stuck it out, but I don’t blame them for never wanting to go back to
live there.
I was going off of the fact that at least here in the UK more than half of all hydroelectric power dams are less than 6MW[0], actually closer to 1MW than 6MW, and for nuclear power the Bilibiono power station operates 11MW reactors[1]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydroelectricity_in_the_United...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EGP-6
I made it configurable, but seems like most services have quite a long timeout: 30-120 seconds.

You know it happens that a user adds 10 sites, one of them is slow and he complains that I send false alarms :)

Thank you!
Thanks for the clarification. It's possible that what I said used to be true but looks like it is no longer the case. It's also possible that in the pre-internet days, the fact that you had your TV connected to an aerial was used as strong circumstantial evidence that you actually watched live TV but it was never actually used as the sole basis to fine you.
A little rich coming from the people who exposed Reality Winner.
I haven't seen one here for years but I always assumed they were a fake-out! There are definitely criminal penalties to not paying, but mostly it's done by sending threatening letters for addresses that don't have licenses, and visiting as a last resort.

I heard in Japan there isn't any penalty for not paying, and I was captivated by a Murakami story of the "NHK man" who raps loudly on apartment doors and can only yell at these closed doors trying to shame non-payers.
Still, science can't explain why we are aware of the universe (i.e. we're not philosophical zombies).
> cheap

[citation needed]
> I think he's exaggerating for effect.

I wasn't. You'll never make it through your first resonance point without current feedback, and a good stepper driver can easily go into very large multiples of that frequency.

Then there is microstepping.

> Most hobby machines don't have enough rigidity or spindle power to require more than a few pounds of lateral cutting force.

This is true, but a different problem.
The Monty Python-inspired comedians in KLM made at least one story about it https://youtu.be/iaVMO4t_D8c (length ~1 minute)
Counterpoint: Here in Germany there is relatively little centralization. For example, the government could not implement country wide corona measures, which in the end meant that much less was accomplished compared to centralized countries such as France. In France, one can just close borders and announce curfews. In Germany, such measures always end up as the minimum consensus between 16 states.

Frequently, federal politicians pursue policies beneficial for their home state. For example, the current government is dominated by Bavarian politicians, who channel funds and attention toward a state that is already doing well. Indeed this is likely to continue with the next chancellor being likely a right wing Bavarian.

By contrast, people from other states, especially ones with higher population like NRW, feel like they have little to none representation in a federal level. This gives an incentive to vote for opportunistic demagogues.

The same thing is probably happening on an EU level, where many people feel their local government has less power than before, but the EU institutions are dominated by countries with different interests. For someone from a relative minority, decentralization seems to be a one way street. If some countries do their own thing, then I would like my country to be separate entirely.

So I‘d say decentralization can also endanger democracy, as only complete separation can really be fair. In a centralized system, however, there is at least the chance that the central governance actually represents all of the population.
> were ready to eat

Am I the only one who pictured the lab workers munching on 100M year old microbe colonies?
>One of the biggest problems is probably that there's almost no way of using an android phone and purchase apps without a google account

Get an iPhone then? Or a feature-phone?
They lock content away from UK users too, it's mostly made by third party, paid by UK public, and so it's locked from international use so those companies can sell rights abroad, and locked from UK users so they can buy the content again (despite paying for it already).
And that will give you slop which will translate into imprecise workpieces and surfaces that aren't flat.
It’s not, it was in the making for a long time. TV censorship and regulations body got its power over the internet and the laws leading to this were passed way before the recent US events.

Netflix had to cancel the production of a Turkish TV show for having a gay character in the lead and remove content that the government doesn't like.

This is happening to Twitter, Youtube etc. now because the time given for them to comply ran out.
Anecdata: No (+1 for Betteridge)

I tried to get people in my life to switch and failed. One person tried it out and quit in frustration because (a) messages dropped over the weekend (apparently during their downtime, and then (b) when they downloaded the desktop app they couldn't naturally continue the conversation that had started on mobile because the previous messages were not visible and so they could not be "replied to".

The first point isn't really an ease of use issue, but the second is definitely a tradeoff between usability and security.

So my friend left in frustration. Trivial inconveniences that would not deter someone who cares about using Signal can easily dissuade people who were not really motivated to switch in the first place.

And now I have my own frustration: once a user joins Signal once, the app shows them as having Signal even if they deleted the app and haven't used it in forever. So here I am sending messages to people who once tried the app and then quit and instead of those messages getting sent as SMS (which would happen had they never joined) they go nowhere.

Honestly I'm not really the target audience for a security-focused app. I'm interested in privacy and regaining autonomy in my digital life, not being beholden to the whims of a $BigTech ToS that changes every month and is my adversary. So I'm looking at Signal because it seems the best bet, but I'd prefer something that made fewer UX sacrifices for security.
There are multiple creationist theories. The one you described is close to sanctioned Roman Catholic view, for example.

Since _Humani Generis_ by Pope Pius XII, the accepted view is that evolution, indeed, goes as it does, under divine supervision, and then when bodies reached a form fitting the pinnacle of creation (human), another act of creation occurred - that of human soul. And that miracle of creation keeps happening daily for every human born (or conceived?).

So, definitely not a Darwinian materialist view, but certainly evolution-friendly.

Generally, largest blocker to marrying salvation religions and materialist worldview is with a human. Salvation only concerns humans, and that implies that humans are very special in the Universe. Paganism wasn’t that arrogant, so might be more compatible with scientific method, funnily enough.

I’m an atheist, so this, naturally, this is my interpretation of other interpretations I’ve read and heard here and there.
I don't know if this will be satisfactory to you, but you could install an on-device firewall app like Lockdown [1] and block Facebook connections completely from all apps. The default doesn't block all Facebook domains, but you can change the configuration.

[1]: https://lockdownprivacy.com/
Hah, much as the host occasionally annoys me with his interrupts, I can't recommend this podcast enough!

Honestly, my only real complaint is the audio levels of the various guests. It seems like they're not normalized(?) enough so the audio goes from loud to very quiet.

But I can definitely recommend going through the backlog of this podcast. Great stuff.
In my htop, user threads are not green. The only difference in the display is some text at the top telling me "414 thr". Is my setup messed up?
We have mandatory 1 business day bank transactions in Euro currency in Germany and the EU since 2012. If your bank is taking "up to three _work_ days" for regular Euro transactions they are violating the law (§675s BGB).

As of last year, most banks also offer instant (10 seconds) transactions for a small fee. This is planned to be made mandatory at the end of 2021. My bank is charging 0.50€ for such transactions which is significantly less than the median Bitcoin transaction cost (more than $1 in 2020 average, more than $5 currently).
I'd love to leave!

As soon as someone comes up with a half decent hosted calendar service that's half as good as Google Calendar.

People like to give GCal a lot of shit while comparing it with local apps; there's very few hosted services that are so versatile.
We really need better tooling for this. It is possible but you have to parse snaps which I think is expensive ish. Would be great to get something useful info commonly used tooling though.
maybe add a health meter for response time?
God doesn't solve that issue, for identical reasons.
Ah, but that wouldn't be enough in a democracy because people might choose to vote against it given the right conditions. Your best bet in that case might be to communicate it to the voters in some sort of news programme - taking us back to square one!

But in all seriousness I do accept that unbiased outlets basically don't really exist and it is an impossibly high bar. The reason I talk about this in the way that I do is not as some kind of campaign against the BBC: on the contrary, I think public service broadcasting is in general a good thing and frequently produces higher quality content than the vast majority of privately owned outlets, at least in the UK, despite its biases.

It's just that to me, everything has a bias, and it's important to understand what any particular outlet's biases are before you start accepting information from it. I'd say this is the one redeeming feature of our print media, despite how much crap they often produce, they are at least usually very open about their biases.

You can get a lot of good information out of the BBC news and politics programmes, but I'd say you do have to use a fairly critical lens to get the most out of it.
Most of their content is streamable worldwide. Exception being licensed content for which they only acquire the rights for streaming to Germany. Why would they buy worldwide licenses? Netflix and the others also don't do that – they only get licenses for the local market (of which they have much more of course), travelers are just a byproduct.
Why wouldn't they be? Is this some totalitarian state?
Ask HN: Does Facebook sink posts that include the word “fuck”?
There is a book titled Powerful Medicines that proposes including efficacy as a factor in new drug approval.
Yes, that's an option. Technically that is a servo system from a classification point of view. Anything that contains a motor, a controller and a feedback mechanism is a servo system.
I think yours does a lot more than OPs.

Go was made for this kind of problems. It is very easy to write efficient networking code on go that can be read and understood by mere mortals.
> for a country to have a grasp over the communication of its citizens

It's never the country that has this power. It's particular government bodies.
Turkey's population or its government?
Well, it worked for Luxembourg, Ireland and the Netherlands. it works between counties, it workd between states in Germany.
I thought this would be a post referencing a recently infamous twitter thread on how Bitcoin is effectively a ponzi scheme

https://twitter.com/smdiehl/status/1349307219318345728

Though I wish he hadn't disabled comments
Hackers leak “manipulated” Covid-19 vaccine data to undermine public trust
While that's galling to see, it's targeted to convince the anti-vaxxer, or really the person who's on the fence. If they just dismiss the ideas, the anti-vaxxer says, "Oh look, the mainstream media covering up the truth again. Must be paid off by ${EVIL_BILLIONAIRE}." If he's given a chance, debates, and loses, that's a much better impression.
Yes! I found that oven bacon is pretty great and low effort. But slow. Air fryer bacon is amazing though and fast. But still I find pan bacon the most enjoyable and then I can vary the qualities so the kids get crunchy and I get soft.
Saying that there was a nuanced difference in what these two companies tried to accomplish would be a gross understatement.
Giraffe in the arctic, after seeing other submissions I think no other is similar: https://paint.wtf/ranking/IdF9/mHjesZ4qkfj6JqljXsdk
That's why they ask for the latest time??? Presumably if some parents cook their kids breakfast and thus would want to bring their kids in later since they would spend some of that time cooking + eating, they can but the kids should be there by the time that the instructions explicitly say should be there?

If anything, it is a good test question precisely because it asks for a nuance that could confuse unless the reader actually understands what they read and what question was asked of them.
You seem to have an idiosyncratic definition of “demeaning”.
Well, it still has ties and insight useful to apply to the non-intentional case of awakening of similar microbes due to climate change effects...
> Some people say "I have nothing to hide, I don't care" which is essentialy [sic] ignoring basic human right and making this right worthless to you and very precious to others.

As ever, this isn't to do with rights. The government isn't forcing you to do this. Neither is Google.
How to build a peer-to-peer marketplace: 4 main methods
That's actually a really good idea, I should do that too.. Thanks!
Tips fr simplifying your classes
Yes, XDMX is amazing, but the last time I used it (literally 15 years ago), it required a hand crafted xorg.conf, which is not really practical in 2020 with notebooks and frequently changing settings.

XDMX won't work with Mac OS, thought, except you want to work with X11-only apps (defacto a lightweight "virtual machine" without native mac apps).
chmod +i .htoprc?
> I think the reason why centralization is a danger to democracy, is because of lobbying.

They're misattributing something to centralization which has nothing to do with centralization, casual vs. causational.

A failsafe mechanism is possible here to counter lobbying of industrial complexes. Andrew Yang's policy proposal of Democracy Dollars for example, earmark $100/year to every eligible voter to contribute to politician of choice - which will wash out lobbyist money a factor of 8:1 with money from regular citizens.
I have a VT510, non-graphical. It's a little dim, but I like it.
Yes, that is indeed how things work. It is not part of the budget and the ruling coalition has no mandate to bargain with it. I believe most European countries have similar checks and balances in place. I do not understand what the contradiction is, but if there is one it must be widespread.

We pay for many things we can not use, roads where we don't live, schools we can not attend and health care for the opposite sex. That does not mean public funding is good in itself, only that the grey area between what is public and what is private is large and politicized and settled over time. I disagree with many of them but that is no reason to get counterfactual.

There was a loud public debate about the migration crisis, both at the time and for a long time afterwards. It is important to recognize these things even if we don't personally agree with the outcome. That's part of living in a democracy.
>quoting the article, it doesn't say the microbes themselves are 100M years old, only that they're in sediment which is that old. Big difference!

Might be a difference towards them being even older then the sediment though...
I think it’s good because I don’t even get the distinction of all these services.

Around here, we have Amazon, Amazon Pantry, Amazon Now and Amazon Fresh and they all sell more or less the same things.

I mean I know there must be a difference but it sure isn’t obvious to me.
Don't delete your account, that means giving up control over it. Never log in.
Ebay. That's by far the best place to spot really good gear for a small fraction of the sticker price.

The usual suspects for brands, personal favorite: Panasonic Minas series drivers + associated servos. Cheap, super reliable and available in just about every size that you could possibly want.
> Sorry, yes, I meant nondenominational.

I know, and actually that's how I assumed/read it.

I think we both agree that nondenominational deities are not religious material (by definition). They have a certain appeal because they don't immediately contradict observation, but they're currently just as impossible to prove as, say, any of the Christian god variants. I'd argue it's a mistake to postulate non-religious gods but allow religious claims to take shelter in them, on account of some perceived common property.

It's true that making a "god" more generic increases the likelihood of existence, on a statistical level. But our scientific models do fine without any supernatural consideration at all right now. I would argue to keep it that way until we actually see supernatural agency at work. Until then there is not really a reason or need for it.
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Vintage Klipsch KG4 and Sonos Bi-Amp with IKEA Symfonisk
Angular -> React, presumably.
Although I understand that matrix-soup is kind of the entropic endstate of all high school mathematics pedagogy, I think it is a real tragedy: In the UK especially even the best and brightest barely touch any real mathematics until after they leave secondary school so they leave with almost literally no idea of what university mathematics consists of. It's all well and good training people to be engineers, but the universities end up teaching the whole syllabus to them again in about 6 weeks. It's just shit.

The only reason why I am now doing theoretical physics (I was in the dumb group initially and worked my way up largely by myself) is because I read a calculus textbook by accident and got hooked when I was 14. Even when I made it to the top of the pile I still wasn't allowed to do anything more than calculus because the module system means we had to choose as a class whether to do group theory or not.
Of course, but the out-linked news items have them with millions in funding a year ago.
Are Covid-19 vaccines effective?
I live in a suburban neighborhood Florida and less than half of the all cars here live inside of a garage. Many people who live in apartments or condominiums do not have a garage at all. I don't think slow overnight charging is feasible for even half of the cars here, and we're not even in a dense location.
This is why I don't understand why people like to take photographs of planes. They look the same every time!

(The same holds for cars).
Gear reduction gives you slop, if you need to reduce the better way is probably using a kevlar toothed belt and two pulleys. Still not perfect but better than gears. Finally, the best way (and most expensive way) is by using a properly pre-tensioned ball bearing driven spindle ('ball screw').
Should making a donation, campaigning for a candidate, or exercising other forms of political speech disqualify one from working as a civil servant?
Investors Push Home Depot and Omnicom to Steer Ads from Misinformation
The comment you responded to never made an attribution of intent. The comment itself is an accurate reflection of reality. America largely abandons the mentally ill, orphaned, and military veterans to prison, homelessness, and addiction. We (conservatives, to be accurate) even abandoned the 9/11 responders as soon as we (conservatives) realized that they were catching cancer from their rescues on 9/11.
No, not seriously. But also seriously. The article is based on % change which is of course ridiculous because the % increase of a small population isn't at all interesting. And GP also has a ridiculous claim. So I'm offering a stake in the ground to determine if Julia is on the track that GP claims. If GP wants to come back and discuss where the stake should be, it will be an interesting conversation.
It's called Luminance Contrast: https://stackoverflow.com/a/36888120
Solid colors get higher ranks
In Australia, instant bank to bank transfers are free. And I always thought it was behind the rest of the world (except the US).
Digital transformation: New careers, organizations, and means of communication
Forwarding UDP is a bit more complicated since you will have to keep track of "sessions" unless you are relying data between exactly two points.
Given that all the current HHS political appointees have handed in their resignation letters for use in less than two days, "current administration" will become inaccurate during the lifecycle of these comments - maybe that's the reason for clarification
Kelly Cordes wrote about it in 2008 or so; it wasn’t a new thing then.

It’s a useful heuristic.
What do you mean?

If it's a thing for checking performance, like "your site is up but very slow", I have lighthouse checks as well, plus I write response time to database.

Just took a look at the site which had troubles, it has 2-3 seconds response time. But this is only for getting first host, not js/css resources etc. So probably indeed sometimes it takes more than 10 seconds to get response...
Or maybe we will just act like the state of Oregon when they didn't like that an engineer educated in the EU called them out for not properly timing their traffic lights, and fine him for reaching conclusions we don't like.
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I thought one of the big selling points of IPhone vs Android was greater privacy protection, and the fact that Apple's business model isn't based around selling user data? There's also the possibility to use a de-Googlified version of Android like https://lineageos.org/.
> The surface area of the sphere at 1400km is far greater than the earth's surface area

It's only about 50% larger (1+1400/6371)^2 = 1.49
Perhaps an American will confirm but I believe that 2L bottles of soda are one of the few common items sold in metric quantities in the US. Smaller soda bottles are measured in fl. oz. and milk in gallons.
Fox Settled a Lawsuit over Its Lies. But It Insisted on One Unusual Condition