skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Have a look at construction materials pricing. Lumber is up 200% since last year. Plumbing materials are going up like 30% every few months to the point a local supplier here has to post signs indicating price increases.

Was speaking with a contractor who told me quotes they put out a year ago they’re having to revise about 40% (depending on project) for clients that are requesting work start now.

Labor costs haven’t quite risen in that field yet but with insatiable demand right now I’d expect it to. A carpenter I know has been working 6 days a week for months now.

Money is cheap and people had a great year of saving due to not taking vacations, etc last year. Combine that with supply lines being disrupted and it’s a bidding war for materials.

Go to Home Depot and be shocked at the price of a 2x4.
Funnily enough, most houses already have a roof, so I don't think you need to incur that cost again when installing solar panels.
Oh sorry. I should have elaborate.

People already use telecom minute as money in Africa as a whole. The African diaspora does it abroad as well. ( I’m aware that Africa is a continent, I think it’s a broad practice. Idk, I can only speak for the Maghreb)

The use case here is :

You cousin pay you back some debt worth 50$ in telecom minute X.
You accept, spend some of it. Then realize you need to pay back someone else.

That person has no interest in telecom minute X and can only use the Y company.

You have to buy brand new Y minute. Few mécanism exists to convert one in another.

That particular crypto aims at providing that.

If that work and the fee are not outrageous. That would be massively useful.

Hope it’s help.
But epubs aren't books. What is the point of trying to artificially restrict a format ?

(Though a (sub?)format dedicated to "e-ink" readers might actually be a good idea ?)
POSIX did standardize those, but the functionality is marked XSI, so only XSI-conforming implementations are required to provide it.

There is never a reason to use them, though. They can be replaced by the shell's && and || operators, which nicely bypasses the parsing ambiguities at the same time.
The interesting part is how to perform updates without an ORM. All this "just use SQL" statements seem to ignore this problem. If a domain model is used there is no simple, obvious way how to find out what needs to be updated in the database and how to generate performant SQL code from it. I'm really interested in some examples how to do it.
Note that this is a relic of the past, as TFA explains. Modern bash can be totally manageable and even fun, if you take the time to learn and have a good style guide and shellcheck by your side.
I too found bigSur to be really sluggish. I downgraded my 2018 MBP15 to Mojave and it was a night and day difference.
Nuance used to buy every company they could get their hands on. It didn't work out so well for them in the long term. Microsoft has been doing the same recently. Every week there is a nother big company they are trying to acquire (Pinterest, Discord, etc). They are becoming another Salesforce in my opinion.
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> The investigation shows how Facebook has allowed major abuses of its platform in poor, small and non-western countries in order to prioritize addressing abuses that attract media attention or affect the US and other wealthy countries. The company acted quickly to address political manipulation affecting countries such as the US, Taiwan, South Korea and Poland, while moving slowly or not at all on cases in Afghanistan, Iraq, Mongolia, Mexico, and much of Latin America.

Alternatively, Facebook itself is more interested in manipulating political outcomes in the US, Taiwan, South Korea, and Poland, and less so or not at all in Afghanistan, Iraq, Mongolia, Mexico, and much of Latin America.
You would be unable to write an API like this without unsafe and being encouraged to write new APIs in a way that works in safe rust is an improvement. When I look at chrome/v8 source it is a series of example many distinct APIs each repeating this context problem, probably since this style of API can be the same as in Java, but the Java version is safe thanks to the GC.

(Since their new exploits tend to be in big new APIs that relate to new flags, I think they would be well served by using rust for this splattering of new apis.)
Facebook and Facebook representative lied about many things.

There is no good reason to assume that they say truth.

And in addition, why you think that you know `everything` about Facebook?
This is the reason I don’t like this whole “everyone should do therapy” movement and also the “mindfulness/meditation” movement.

It creates this hyper-awareness which creates more problems by making everyone over-analyze each other and overly-sensitive to things.

This over-sensitivity is such a negative for US culture. If you think long enough about things you can find everything triggering in some way.
see:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/dev-tools/kunit/index...

https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/tools/testing/...
Why would you send me a picture of your passport? I think you are getting downvoted because you are spouting propaganda about a place you have clearly never been to. I also think there are a lot of Israelis in the tech community and active here.
> This is a lot simpler than migrating to (and getting locked in to) systemd

Depends on your perspective - for a developer, “do whatever you want in whatever way you’re comfortable with” is simple. As a sysadmin, I much prefer the simplicity of “there is one way to do it; features like resource limits and automatic restarts work out of the box, and are consistent across all services”.
I assume that carbon and potasium are not equivalently replaceable stuff for animal metabolism or we would have a very strange chemistry, so the comparison is not really very useful.
To me, "The Boy Who Loved Math: The Improbable Life of Paul Erdos" [1] by Deborah Heiligman and LeUyen Pham is a true gem. I suppose it might raise interesting discussions on how and why one should tolerate eccentric people. A book full of warmth, both in storytelling and illustrations (wow!).

1: https://www.amazon.com/Boy-Who-Loved-Math-Improbable/dp/1596...
GitHub and GitLab has pretty decent browser based editors for basic markdown and image uploading. Certainly not as easy to use as Wordpress but they’ve been good enough when I really need to edit something and can’t get to my workstation with the clone and a decent editor.
If there is a feature that you can opt of out, but which they rely on for funding, how can you be sure that the opt-out will stick around?
My second task at my first job was to connect up a horrible mess of bash, sed, awk, python and R to use a web service as input instead of local files. I ended up rewriting the whole thing to python. It was a good decision.
Why is it a problem exactly?
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Single File works better IMHO.
> Those numbers are only used to help friends find each other in the site

Yeah right. In the same way as 2FA phone numbers were never used for spying, targeting advertisements and so on? Facebook lied also about that.

And even assuming that it is true: it still leaks info in horrible ways.

Like repeated cases of people treated by a given therapist getting friend suggestions about each other. Or people getting therapists of their friends as contact recommendations. And the same happening in other similar cases.
Ironically, the project's web page greets Tor users with that ubiquitous Cloudflare captcha.
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Was curious about this. If implemented, exactly how expensive would it get in the first 24h (assuming ETH at $2000USD)?
The "can be counteracted" part is the one I doubt. Of course if people were perfectly rational they just wouldn't consume sugar, but sugar is addictive and the human psychology doesn't have a simple off switch.

If it can be counteracted, it's only with measures that don't depend on individual choice.

Also for covid apart from old age the main risk is with all the same cardiovascular issues that sugar is a a causative agent for, so by decreasing sugar consumption we could probably lower covid deaths as well.

Maybe a tax on sugar like on cigarettes. One of the main reasons for our high sugar consumption is the food industriy's reliance on sugar to replace taste from proper ingredients. If sugar is more expensive than using quality ingredients the food industry would have a profit motive to move away from it.

On the private consumption side, I bought my 1kg of sugar about 2 years ago. If it costs 50€ to buy instead of 50 cents, I could still afford my birthday cake, but would be nudged to consume less.
Novel vaccines have performed remarkably quickly and well
What games have you been playing and on what platform? I remember being amazed how well surround sound worked in Left 4 Dead 2 on PC back in 2010.
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Yeah the video is just an ad for a product trying to get peoples attention. I also expect to see inflation and have slightly increased my real estate debt accordingly
People are regularly paying $75-$250USD in gas fees to mint individual NFTs
Obviously almost nobody should be taking any trains in Europe at the moment - that's a given.
The book “Try To Remember” lays out the terrible damage done by such therapists.
In my book with zsh being a very popular shell and it having been a bug as little as 5 years ago, I’d almost learn towards recommending it rather than recommending against? It seems like a relatively low impact fix that improves portability.
Or on a pregnancy test:

https://twitter.com/Foone/status/1302820468819288066
I'd be willing to pay twice as much. The issue with this scooter is not the price though but the price-to-quality(specs) ratio. I would not want this one for free and they are asking some 2k!

Also "It is absolutely impossible to turn your Äike on and ride without turning it on through your personal account on our app." This is a no-go. No way! It is like one of those "security measures" which complicates lives of users without adding much if any to security.
Alternatively you can use the newer (and highly recommended) bash syntax that is also quote safe:

$ a=1; b=1; c='!'; d='!'
$ [[ $a = $b && $c = $d ]] && echo true
true

For anyone writing bash scripts today I would avoid the old test/[ functions entirely.
> Real geographic features tend not to form right angles.

Assuming they were created by normal geological processes and not magic. I could see why an evil wizard would want to create a 'natural' castle around his fortress with mountains.
may end useful for lambdaz that are unable to... well you know...

being useful in your programming context... I respect this.
Making an argument that even the person who was supposedly fired for poor performance was STILL able to find what she found with almost zero effort on her behalf isn’t the compelling argument you seem to imagine it to be.
Those lags are exactly what we experienced. Click on start menu, get a blue spinner. Folder in explorer? Same. Click on the settings panel, get a spinner. And not for 100ms, but for a second or more. Now, this was on a fresh install, so maybe some cache needed to be built, but it was maddening.

We did it in part to benchmark some games which I do suspect will work better in Windows.
Your reply intrigued me. I worked with Nuance about 20 years ago, around the time VoiceXML was being created. I was writing code in a language that was one of the precursors of VoiceXML, and then for a while I was writing code that generated VoiceXML for telehony user interfaces and that depended on Nuance.

I even wrote a VoiceXML interface to Zork that used Nuance. The user could say stuff like, 'Go east', 'use axe', etc. It was pretty silly but you could play original Zork via the telephone :)

20 years ago people were talking about the big money in voice recognition being in enterprise call centers. And so it's interesting to me that this is still the big market force.
Meditation without yoga may be problematic, but is there any problem with practicing yoga without meditating, in your opinion?
This field also seems to attract (or foster) a particular mindset that we might call "I am smart and hyper-rational", which then adds an additional set of blinkers and an enhanced ability to discard and ignore evidence, and an enhanced faith in one's own powers of deduction.

All people have that skill, of course, but this field seems to have more than its fair share of such.
> Any reason they shouldn't just switch to Chromium

The most likely reason that Google continues to pay them for being the default engine, is that Google wants to be able to point at Firefox like "see, we're not a monopoly, there's this other browser as well". If Firefox were just a Chromium frontend, that argument would be weaker, so I could imagine Google tying their payments to Firefox being technologically separate from Chrome.
I wonder what happens when $var starts with ‘-‘, it wouldn’t surprise me if it’s taken as an option.
What do you mean? I've yet to play any AA or AAA game without support. Games like RDR2 or The Last of Us 2 allow you to configure your audio output to a high degree.
Does it really matter how long CI build takes (in terms of it being a few percent slower/faster)?

And incremental builds when one develops does boost performance significantly.
Nah we don't. Journalism was never for interest of the people. Those get shutdown as 'foreign actors' and we can't have foreign actors messing with our thoughts unless vetted by our ICs. We need less gullible brains, but that would make us realize how far the corruption goes, so far that no one can currently dare call it corruption.

This goes against anyone who currently runs 'a journalism'. We need to stop giving them our attention. We won't
Exactly this! And I'm curios to learn how to solve this update problem (in an elegant way) with pure SQL.
ex. Fortnite don't seem to support it (but it does support some binaureal sound). When I got the system I ran through a couple of games on my steam Library to try it out and found very few supported it. Most vere based on the big engines (Unity / Unreal) and I kind of just suspected it to be a compile time swith on the devs side, but maybe im wrong - are sounds mixed in a studio and not on a "per source" kind of way ? - maybe they are not really attached to a position.
Yeah, it's a webdev posturing on how he reinvented the wheel three times in a decade. Look at the code he linked, and weep.
Do you know if the software "phones home", or requires an Apple ID?

Can you use this as a development environment, or would you need an Apple ID?
But any of the VPN services out there do that for you without the incredible stigmata of having an IP of a Tor Exit Node and the reduced performance of the Tor Network.
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Sure, but I have the right to ask my government to pass new laws, so I don't beg Apple,Google, Facebook,Steam to be moral I ask my government to act for our common good and the giants are free to pack their bags and leave.

So when someone in EU asks for Apple to open up the US people should not trigger as much since they can keep their locked versions of the phones, nobody would force them to buy the unlocked EU version. Similar when banks were forced to reduce commissions on stuff, or mobile networks were forced to reduce big charges in EU the companies could ahve left, but the banks and companies are still here and not US citizen was directly harmed (maybe some will still cry that there are places where big money is not enough )
Keep in mind that the stock price reflects the best estimation of the future long term prospects of the company.

I definitely disagree with that. I think we can see many, many counter-examples; so many that they're not weird exceptions but a significant part of the picture. Take the recent fun and games with Gamestop, or Hertz, for example. The best estimation of Hertz at the time was that they were going out of business (or at least going through one of the uniquely American phases of a business in which their debts get cancelled, the bankruptcy exit plan leaves shareholders with nothing, and Hertz gets to carry on); yet the share price kept on climbing (perhaps the most common estimation of people involved in buying Hertz shares was that they had a rosy future).
As I understand it the solar roof is a ‘vanity’ roof designed to blend in with traditional roofing, rather than bolt-on panels.
Tesla's solar roof has never made sense unless you value the aesthetics of it extremely highly. Add onto that the fact that they can't deliver in a timely fashion and are being shady, I encourage anyone interested in solar to look into local installers who will do a great job, install panels that are just as effective, or more, for less money, more quickly.
It's more in control in South Korea than it is in Europe or the US. The daily infections (per capita) are lower than the US or UK, even though they have not deployed nearly as much vaccine. Things may end sooner in the US, but probably not better overall (South Korea is likely to speed up vaccinations once more vaccines are globally available).

I'm also under the impression that their interventions have been less drastic than the US (but I haven't been following closely).

Are we really stuck thinking that a thing has to be a complete solution to be worth doing? It seems clear enough to me that identifying clusters and helping infected people isolate both have a big positive impact (both in disease control and in keeping things more open). Apps can be a piece of that puzzle.
Nice thing about fpgas is that at least in theory it should be relatively easy to interface pretty much anything to them, so you could grab your favourite retro keyboard and connect it to MiSTer.
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They just made king kong vs godzilla. Plot doesn't matter in action movies.
Or use any non-Apple browser engine.
This looks great! Is it possible to create templates or script workflows in this app?

For example, when publishing new blog entry in my Eleventy site, I have to create a new folder, then create a markdown file in that folder with some specific frontmatter. Can I have GitJournal do that all for me?
You should just accept your ambivalence and hypocrisy.

It’s really hard to be on the bad side against such an awful theocracy, but you made it, congrats.
It's always fun to assume everyone is running Bash until your Mac's zsh or your Ubuntu's dash (or whatever) choke on your script a few times. When this happens enough times you eventually reconsider...
Does it not concern you that the entire enterprise is based on organized theft which channels money stolen from taxpayers to Tesla?
Something I’ve been really curious about: Crystal Quest responsiveness.

I remember specifically feeling like it had an extremely low mouse to pixel delay, possibly even better than current computers, but I have no idea whether that’s romanticizing.

The tools exist now to objectively measure it on those macs if you’re up for that sort of thing.
> and 25% of sea lions have cancer.

You got it wrong, they are talking about percentage of sea lions stranded ill, that is a different issue than percentage of the whole population of sea lions. Is like saying that 80% of people that enter in an hospital are ill and concluding that 80% of people in the city is ill.

That cancer started at the same time, so is suspicious, for sure.
> Am I allowed to mention the prime number or am I not?

Since "the colour" is the whole context which led to you mentioning the prime number, the answer is "it depends".

In practice you can publish it as a part of mathematical paper on primes. You cannot publish it saying "here's a prime that decoded as X does illegal thing Y".

Anything in-between is gray zone, with the disclaimer that courts don't like "clever" schemes that try mess with the "colour". So if you try to publish a fake mathematical paper to thumb your nose at the illegality of publishing something, the court will be unsympathetic.
From experience, non-android java project will build roughly in the same time as comparable amount of C# code, with both maven and gradle. It is definitely android that increases it.
Your own "this Covid joke is getting old" refers to itself. Yes, that comment of yours is getting old.
>...what if we wrote a text commentary about Shakespeare's Hamlet that when SHA-1 hashed, it gives you that same information?

That would imply that it would be practical to create a document that hashes to a specified value. The SHA-1 pre-image resistance would prevent that.
I have shell functions to scrape the date from Google or the first appearance in the wayback archive. It’s a good rough estimate.

(This info gets added automatically to any article I send to my Kindle for later reading.)
I was just re-reading it (LoTR) the last few days and I often found myself thinking that the geography didn't seem very natural; delightful to read this in the light of that!

It seems to have been submitted a handful of times in the past without getting traction, but maybe do so again? It's an excellent read and a shame it hasn't got much attention in the past.
Sure, you’re completely right, but as a hobby project it would be pretty neat!
Shadowsocks and similar tools are mainly about obfuscating your traffic flow so it‘s harder to classify and block by the GFW, right?
The Tor Project has the „obfsproxy“ project for that I think, or is that aimed at something else? I always wondered why that did not overtake shadowsocks.
You're probably thinking of the OFFSystem (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OFFSystem)
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Sources? I imagine toiling away at bullshit academic tasks will have some weak positive correlation with job performance.
That sounds very useful.
I', so tired of explaining to people that journalism is about making money, period. The "news" is the click bait and the ads and opinions are the product. Always has been this way, since the dawn of printing for the public.

Why anyone is still on Facebook amazes me. You all know the corporations is one of the more evil presences in our society. Smoke up boys!
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Try on youtube, it loads ads on chrome startup that ublock usually blocks.
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> There is never a reason to use them, though. They can be replaced by the shell's && and || operators, which nicely bypasses the parsing ambiguities at the same time.

Not sure I agree. The equivalent of more complicated expressions like (a AND b) OR (c AND d) with && and || isn't always so "nice" IMO. e.g., try it for this:

[ -f a -a -f b -o -f c -a -f d ]

I think the simplest syntax will require you to spawn subshells, which is neither particularly nice, nor particularly performant (especially on Windows).
In this context, the dimensions are the degrees of freedom that a particle can move in. I think it becomes meaningful when you consider the metric (ie. definition of distances) and the laws of nature inside that space, and if additional dimensions help in formulating more phenomena with a less complex system of equations.

-> Classically, there are 3 spatial dimensions (directions of movement) with Euclidean metric, and all the classical laws (Newton's laws, gravity, etc.). Quite successful, but breaking down in extreme cases (high energy, ie. velocity/mass/etc). +there is a whole range of seemingly unrelated laws necessary.

-> with relativity theory (both special and general), time becomes a 4th dimension, but it has a special status in the metric (opposed sign), making spacetime non-Euclidean. One effect of this is suddenly you don't need a law of gravity anymore. Things just follow geodesics in this space. It also explains some effects that could not be derived from classical gravity. Essentially explaining more phenomena with less "overhead", in exchange for more dimensions.
Great find, thanks for this!