skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When I left Australia in 2006, inter bank transfers settled every four hours. Often by ISDN lines between banks. "Constantly talking" is a BS excuse. As far as I know (someone still there can correct me) inter bank transfers there are now down to 5 minutes.

The US banking system is arcane and archaic. It's cheaper not to modernize to be sure. Forgive me for being frustrated at banks cheaping out on this when they average quarter of a trillion dollars in profit every year over the last few years.
They called themselves antifa for years before Trump heard of them. They have facebook groups, websites, stickers, and flags that use the word proudly. I don’t think you are familiar with them.
+1 for the Charles Babbage reference
How a Cancer Drug Carrier's Structure Can Help Selectively Target Cancer Cells
It does if you do '!g' which most people do a lot as the Bing results are often crap.
Classic Pong Game programmed in SunVox modular studio (2020)
A lot of the design of the Apple I stemmed from Woz’s experience in arcade videogame hardware. In particular he was famously great at taking other people’s designs and refactoring them to have equivalent functionality using fewer components. He also knew a lot about how to drive an NTSC signal on next to nothing. Thus, the high bang-for-buck color support of their first computer.
Yeah I just don’t understand why we can’t put the full industrial capacity of the U.S. government behind this. I’m genuinely curious about the on-the-ground details which make manufacturing this stuff hard. Would love to see the playbook for raw materials to vial of vaccine.
Being in a tech city sucks. I moved to San Francisco for a better job with better pay, and was overwhelmed with people with shitty politics and group think. Working in a community with people who do tangible things is much better.
I love the coded language of the title.

Hey guys, we've encouraged Facebook to ban everyone we dislike but now they are banning the people we like and this needs to be framed as problematic, and specifically because of what team I am on.
From the Bouchon Bakery cookbook:

"""

WEIGHING VERSUS MEASURING

For years, chefs, professional bakers, and cookbook authors alike have urged home cooks to become comfortable with a scale, but habits are hard to change. Your mother and grandmother probably didn’t use scales, and you may even have their measuring cups in your kitchen drawer. But using a scale will change the way you cook and bake for the better in many ways.

And the merits of weighing are not only about accuracy: weighing is also more convenient. Weighing is a much easier and cleaner way to measure peanut butter, molasses, or corn syrup, for example—you simply set the mixing bowl on the scale, tare the scale (set it to zero), and measure the ingredient into the bowl, rather than having to scrape it into and out of a measuring cup. And, of course, there is the additional bonus that more than one ingredient can be measured into that same bowl.

Precision matters more in baking than in savory cooking, which is why Sebastien and Matthew provided exact weights, for optimum results. You’ll see that most of these recipes have what may seem crazily specific weights: 519 grams of flour, for instance, or 234 grams of sugar. This is because we converted these recipes from the larger-scale recipes used by the bakery. (This is another benefit of using weights—all recipes can easily be halved, doubled, or tripled, and so on, and they will work.) Do not be intimidated by these specific amounts—when you use a scale, it’s easy to measure 234 grams. However, when converting those weights to volume, we often had to round them off (despite Sebastien and Matthew’s preference that we not). In a short time it should become readily clear why weighing is the preferable route.

We strongly recommend using digital scales, either a bigger one that weighs to the tenth of a gram, or a basic kitchen scale for larger quantities and a palm scale that weighs smaller quantities.

"""
According to lawsuit, Subway’s tuna sandwiches contain “no scintilla of tuna”
The entire North Africa campaign certainly was the sidelines, by any measure. It involved a tiny fraction of German forces. Every day spent in Africa was a day not spent advancing on the German heartland.

That said, the US was far from ready to advance on the German heartland until after the time they were pottering about in Africa. It was a way to look busy.
Quite possibly.

This laptop is the first computer I've owned for myself though, and is what let me get into Linux. I tried dual booting for a while, used Windows ~2 times, and never went back.

I can get 8 - 10 hours pretty easily with Linux, and that's using GNOME, so I just haven't worried about it.
Are you implying that Google search is any longer the only quality search engine? Honestly, I've been using DDG for years now and only less than 1% of my searches do I ever jump over to Google for.
Stop using apps whenever you can.

Use your browser.
Yeah. Fuck DRM. Id rather pirate them not only because of price gouging but also not buying into this scheme does not promote it.
Though I have to wonder.... would these be good gaming systems? Are there any scenarios where the perks (stupid numbers of cores, 8-channel memory, 128 PCI-E lanes, etc) would help?
Zacks doesn't make any such claim, in fact Zacks very clearly states that settlement is T+2 and points out that this change happened in 2017.

Directly from the link:

"In 2017, the SEC amended the T+3 settlement cycle to a T+2 settlement cycle, effectively shortening the three-day rule to a two-day rule."
Have to agree! I love my remote work lifestyle, especially since I have kids at home. But it works for me partly because I have a strong network that I built earlier in my career in face-to-face settings. There are lots of people I can call outside of my immediate group to learn about different areas, hear the actual gossip in some sub-industry, or get a recommendation for folks to hire. I've found it much harder to make new connections like that while remote, and I think this lends itself to professionally productive but not personally close relationships.
So let me ask you a question, how were they negatively impacting your mental wellbeing? I ask this genuinely, because I have a tendency to feel these tools only negatively impact people who use them in stress-creating ways. That, however, feels like victim blaming. There's a difference between a using a circular saw dangerously and a circular saw that is MADE with electrical failures that shock you. Let me give the example of MY use so you can contrast it for me to help me understand.

I use GMail, Google Search, Youtube Twitter, Amazon, and Facebook.

I'm not thrilled about FB but it lets me keep tabs on friends. Sometiems I interact with a few people who are friends but sucked in by a lot of the disinformation around, so I try to engage with them sometimes but not often. I also spend maybe 15 minutes a day on it, tops.

Twitter never stresses me, I don't follow toxic people, just friends, entertainers, tech people and such. Again, maybe 15-30 minutes a day, tops.

I get a lot of satisfaction from Youtube, I even pay for premium so I don't get ads, and follow a bunch of great creators.

Amazon's pricing and delivery are great. that makes me happy. I just make sure not to by crap/scam products and I'm good. I use Amazon Music every day, and their video streaming is great too (although they need to stop changing the name).

Google Search is by far the best, IMO, and saves me hours every day.

I have my personal domain go to gmail, and it makes managing ages of email a breeze.

So I can't see a way in which ditching any of those would benefit me, and aside from Facebook, I feel NOT using them would cause me more stress, or less enjoyment.

I'd love to know how you find leaving them has benefitted you.
I hope you understand that this is all relative... what if you were in a situation where all of your friends/news are on Facebook? Where you don't have time to update 30+ accounts/subscriptions to reflect a new email address? Paying $500+ for an iPhone? Depending on the person, that is a hell of a lot of effort. If it wasn't, FAANG wouldn't be the empire it is today. It would be taking million user hits like WhatsApp after a single scandal.
"The Right to be Forgotten" is a strong step in the right direction

You mean "The Right to Rewrite History"?
Yes, it's a complex problem. Yes, mythical man month, etc. But US banks over the last several years have averaged a quarter trillion dollars per year in profit.

They just have very little incentive to change things. In the meantime, they're earning interest on funds.
The Labor Market Impact of Immigration: Job Creation versus Job Competition
WSL2 has been awesome so far. I just recently decided to buy a surface book instead of a Mac because it felt like Microsoft was embracing linux more while Mac was drifting away.

After a month, other than keybindings, I’m very pleased. For me, the python experience made the difference. It’s 1st class with VSCode and remote debugging over WSL.
Read NY Times / WSJ articles without paywall
I have the opposite problem. I started with hunt and peck as a kid and never learned a proper technique. I believe that caused me more problems...

Switching to proper touch typing was really hard because my adhoc method is so much faster... Until I become proficient.

During quarantine I acquired a kinesis which was interesting - typing "incorrectly" on it is difficult! It took me about a week or two to touch type on it without frustration ...and I find my hands have less rsi from it.
I use Facebook for my Etsy shop and finding funny FFXIV memes. Pretty much a ghost town of a feed beyond that. Both of which I feel increase my quality of life.
You completely rewrote your comment and inserted the "EDIT:" comment after I wrote my second reply (this is my third reply).

Here's the text you inserted after reply 2:

EDIT: removed a remark about Fauci and herd immunity, I thought I read this but couldn't find a reference. My apologies.

It's fine to edit comments. It's ridiculous to substantially edit them in an attempt to rehabilitate them or re-contextualize replies.
But don't the states make some pretty immediately impactful decisions, like mask mandates enforced by health inspectors and sheriffs, school and work closings, curfews, etc.

The feds have things they can do. I guess a lot of that is splashing money around. But it seems that the states have more directly and immediately applicable legal powers.
You say that like Candyland is a bad game.

;-)
People do not want to learn PHP or work in PHP.

The majority of new programmers might not want to, but I consider it a clever strategy for new devs to get their foot in the door with their first real job. There's always a huge amount of open PHP jobs and if more elite devs are passing over those jobs then it means an opportunity for somebody. And some of those people who start with PHP will move on to more modern or better languages after they get their legs. It's a smart path to get on the dev career track, especially if you don't come from a traditional CS or dev background.
Gave me a flashback to when Photoshop added the ability to undo more than just the last operation, up to as many undos as your RAM could support. That was life changing.
Ah, I forgot an important detail: my parents are over 70 years old. The biggest problems with these vaccines are that they can be less effective in old people, and it’s hard to find data on old people.

Just as an example Sinovac is not even used in old people in China as far as I know.

There’s a similar question with AstraZeneca right now, German vaccination committee would like to see more Phase 3 data on old people before moving into Phase 4.
It wouldn’t make sense for macOS to use the binary prefixes for file sizes, as it uses the decimal sizing method to show file sizes.
I love how things like this are thrown out as if the shear terror of being accused of having proximity to someone with problematic opinions is supposed to make everyone recant immediately and beg for forgiveness.

So you breath air? Even though Hitler breathed air as he was murdering millions? And you're seriously willing to defend that? Monster.

Yes. As a jew with immediate family who died in the holocaust, I'm willing to defend free speech, even the free speech of ethno nationalists or whatever other boogeyman you wanna throw out
No that just ends up redirecting your browser to google.com with the search query, it's equivalent to going there and typing it in yourself.

Which if you were to give up Google Search, is something you wouldn't be doing (or would have blocked).
I hope this is something that changes post pandemic.
This is something that would also be lovely for those people trying to learn musical instruments.

Without this component, programs like Rocksmith are a lot less valuable than they could be.
This is a good read https://usefathom.com/blog/ddos-attack
Okay - that begins to explain the problem a bit. So people being afraid and just holding on to their newfound gains in just cash or say, T-bills - can depress the entire economy by a lack of interest in stocks. Structurally it seems a little problematic though that companies would depend so much on issuing stock to fund their operations or even growth - ideally they should be able to do that with revenue (or even debt)...
I just got a 16GB M1 MBP, and I can see the HDR option in Youtube even on the inbuilt display. Didn't know that the inbuilt display supported HDR too. I thought HDR was going to be reserved for the future mini-LED displays.
That's fine I guess, but the problem is that there is no option to disable it. I've even read recently that they removed from settings the option to delay the updates or something along these lines, because it was "too confusing for users". Can't they just do something like what hardware manufacturers did, which is "if you screw with our product on your own too much, you lose the warranty and we are not liable for any damages"?
Ok, then I'm ridiculous, I should have flagged that I removed that statement when I couldn't find a reference, didn't catch that there was followup already. Let's get past that and continue the discussion.
> I think I’m more productive because I can’t just “show up”; if I’m not making a difference I might as well have spent the day at the beach.

Wonderfully put. This right here is the perfect expression for why I love remote work. You play your part and make a difference, then the rest of your time can be enjoyed elsewhere. No “the next 8 hours are dedicated to being at the office, maybe I’ll get some work done and chat with my co workers and go to meetings...”. Remote work seems to condense all the dead space in between, by allowing you to fill it with other non-work parts of life.
Fidelity has zero commission stock trades. Commission on option contracts seem low (~0.65 per contract). I seemed to be getting slightly better prices with Fidelity than Robinhood. Even before this latest fiasco, I wasn't seeing the point of continuing to use Robinhood. Is there any?
Amazon is great, Twitter can be great if you use it well, and the other two are pretty easy to drop.
Caltech to Remove Robert A. Millikan and 5 Other Eugenics Proponents' Names
This is true, macOS reports it using decimal sizing.

I believe the reason is that all storage devices are marketed in decimal sizes anyway.
I did it:

- LineageOS + MicroG and F-Droid for mobile.

- NextCloud (and DAV) running on an old laptop for calendar, contacts, and file storage. The mobile app uploads all my photos automatically. It backs up to Backblaze

-ProtonMail with a custom domain for email.

Amazon is pretty avoidable. Shipping has gotten faster and cheaper everywhere else at this point. At least for the rural place I am.

I'm not particularly tech savvy. This took a significant time effort for me. At this point, it's all pretty stable, I don't really have glitches anymore. I imagine the average HN user could easily replicate it, and if this type of setup got more popular, it would invariably get easier to set up.
The "Orwellian Nightmare" is 100% correct, but it's not about 1984. In 1943, Orwell wrote an essay, "Freedom of the Press", that was meant to be published as a preface for "Animal Farm". Ironically, the essay itself was censored in exactly the manner Orwell described, and would only be published in 1973. Here's bit that rings truer than ever:

"The sinister fact about literary censorship in England is that it is largely voluntary. Unpopular ideas can be silenced, and inconvenient facts kept dark, without the need for any official ban. Anyone who has lived long in a foreign country will know of instances of sensational items of news—things which on their own merits would get the big headlines—being kept right out of the British press, not because the Government intervened but because of a general tacit agreement that ‘it wouldn’t do’ to mention that particular fact. So far as the daily newspapers go, this is easy to understand. The British press is extremely centralised, and most of it is owned by wealthy men who have every motive to be dishonest on certain important topics. But the same kind of veiled censorship also operates in books and periodicals, as well as in plays, films and radio. At any given moment there is an orthodoxy, a body of ideas which it is assumed that all right-thinking people will accept without question. It is not exactly forbidden to say this, that or the other, but it is ‘not done’ to say it, just as in mid-Victorian times it was ‘not done’ to mention trousers in the presence of a lady. Anyone who challenges the prevailing orthodoxy finds himself silenced with surprising effectiveness. A genuinely unfashionable opinion is almost never given a fair hearing, either in the popular press or in the highbrow periodicals."

https://www.orwellfoundation.com/the-orwell-foundation/orwel...
Mobilizing the masses to murder
> if you plug in the equation a reduction of deaths due to other causes you figure out pretty quickly that things were pretty bad.

This is pure speculation.
Only adjacent to this: am i wrong to think that in many places this lack of available vaccines in a predictable manner is leading to a staggered immunization and (unneeded?) delay of effective mass immunization?

I mean: if you waited to stockpile large enough quantities first, you'd then be able to apply the vaccines quicker (given right logistics and man power) speeding up heard imunity. Am I wrong?

Wouldn't this accumulation strategy make more sense even if it's harder to apply?

I ask because it's clear that vaccination has become so political everywhere that govs are rushing to "start immunization" while not being able to garantee a sustainable rate of vaccinations.
It's really not. Google.com is still there. You can use the alternatives 99% of the time and get what you're looking for. Google itself is not a perfect algorithm. It's exploitable, censorable, etc. It doesn't always find what you're looking for. You shouldn't ever limit yourself to a single search engine, honestly.

I think YouTube is a far stickier service than Google Search, just because it's acted as an informal video archive of the past 15 years of internet video history. But I fully recognize the risks with this monopoly structure in place and have started to embrace alternatives like https://odysee.com/ and https://rumble.com/. It's time to disentangle from monopolies. Take your digital sovereignty back.
Texas Attorney General probes GameStop trade curbs from Robinhood, others
Which one? The one also made by Google, the one paid for by Google, ones of those based on the one made by Google, or the one made by the other smartphone OS owner with a walled garden?
You edited your comment like 6 times there master blaster, I don't believe your characterization of that activity is in good faith and am checking out of this thread.
Language is evolution.
They changed the behavior of macOS a number of years ago (2012?) because disk manufacturers advertise storage capacity in 10^x, and the operating system displaying sizes in 2^y made the disks seem smaller and (in theory) caused confusion.

My MacBook Pro's internal "1 TB" disk is actually 1,000,240,963,584 bytes -- neither 1 TB nor 1 TiB.
Public investment in the EU doesn't work like in the US. Expect to see a shit ton of money trickle down to Eurocrats and bureaucrats in their respective countries, before one ounce reach one country.

Another issue is the fragmentation of the EU. If there is a pool of funds for a particular research target, the EU has to divvy it between its major countries. So even if a university in country X doesn't have much of a history researching something, they still get funded from the EU pool, as long as their country raises a tantrum over it.

Meanwhile the US' (and most other countries') policy often looks at funding individual projects to one or a few unis at most. More targeted funding = better outputs.

Not that EU doesn't have its successes. Galileo could be called a success, but the road to it was very very bumpy.
And the person is already on the way out.
They could set one simple achievable goal which would drastically reduce obesity: every single high schooler graduates as an athletic machine. The government could do it easily. Schools already require students to participate in gym class, the problem is that it's an absolute joke. They could change that if they wanted. The health benefits are obvious. It's not like they don't know it's an option. They just make excuses for why they can't make any progress fighting obesity, probably because they don't want a healthy population.

Of course some in shape people will become fat as adults, but almost all fat adolescents stay fat until they die.
By the looks of it, Saskatoon is an hour further from the UK than New York is, no?
Don't watch the YouTube channel "audit the audit"... It will just make you angry.

A lot of the interactions are about people videoing or photographing in public places.
The most annoying thing for me is how easily people can game the “healthcare worker” definition. I know folks who are on the board of healthcare facilities, zero interaction with patients of course, and they get first priority and have already completed both rounds. Similarly, folks who stay at home all of the time to take care of disabled family get first priority, despite no external contact.

Meanwhile, teachers who are forced to stay in a confined space with dozens of little rugrats who despise wearing masks, especially when coughing/sneezing, still haven’t gotten anything.
What phone did you load LineageOS on? Do you know of any guides for it?
France uses Matrix but not Element. They forked it and called it Tchap.
I'm no trading expert, but why allow sales then? Wouldn't it have had similar implications?
this sounds both illegal and extremely fun
They use their own matrix client : tchap. They also use their own app store (not sure what it's based on)
Therefore, French ministry that use matrix may not be affected
This is very disruptive to me. Our business chose to use Element because of the privacy and interoperability functions it afforded us through end-to-end encryption and the bridges feature (matrix.org/bridges).