skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’m mean credit card fees are still too high but I guess it’s harder to build a payment system? With square on iPads though it seems like an alternate could exist even though everyone loves Venmo...
People are scared as hell of inflation and that's why the Fed was created. The "stable prices" thing is an elegant way to say "prevent inflation". Now people are really upset that the Fed won't allow deflation and is pretty much encouraging inflation. They see this as a betrayal to the public and the reason why the Fed was created in the first place.

There is a misalignment between the Fed inflation preference of 2% and the public inflation preference which is 0% or even -2%

Enter BTC: what draws people to crypto is deflation. People love deflation, they gravitate towards crypto because deflation is hard built in protocol and it brings about financial nirvana for the saver: that is being able to increase one's net worth without doing any tangible work, manual or intellectual.
The Pentagon will have to live with limits on F-35’s supersonic flights (2020)
Google Chrome Vivaldi or Google Chrome Brave - these are completely correct names, until they will fork Blink and start making different decisions from Chrome. I mean really different, not just setting different defaults in the code Google provides, like with Floc.

PS: and speaking of Chrome mods - Edge is arguably the better one out of all of them. At least with MS we know their policies and main source of revenue, unlike with Brave or Vivaldi.
Honestly, no, I haven't. My groceries are the same. My electric bill is stable. The watch I'm replacing today is the same price today as ten years ago when I got its predecessor.

I don't know if it's because I buy different things from you, or if I live in a different place from you, or what. But my andecdote is that no, I'm not paying more for stuff than a year ago.
git is ACID?

I still believe Sqlite is the appropriate store. Unless.. does Git handle power issues elegantly? What happens if you yank power in the middle of a commit? Sqlite is designed to handle that.
Not a good substitute, there's so much more than the rendering engine to safari quirks.
Apple watch seems to have declined in use... I can see why companies don't want to put too much effort into supporting it.
I think most consumer telephony companies let you block calling premium numbers, so presumably Twilio could just ask their telephony provider to do so.
Are there any themes that change when linting/tests are passing? I think it would be fun to add a glow to your text if everything is working well. Or only add glow to areas where you have code coverage.
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Dell XPS 15 or 17?

I had a Matebook X Pro and it worked really well with Ubuntu but the battery life was terrible in Linux. Maybe it's something that's been fixed or can be tweaked.
Poul-Hennings Random Outbursts
Would it really be that costly for Sony to keep whatever NTP-esque server they have running? Sure, shut down the storefront, but an endpoint to check the time must cost peanuts for them to run....
When Google will remove ability to switch Floc on or off from the code of Chrome browser and all it's mods.
BSV Devcon 2021
QAnon apparently believed it was secretly trafficking child sex slaves for Hillary Clinton.

Also apparently QAnon is still a thing ¯\_(ツ)_/¯.
We need to bring back the little "Optimized for X" banners at the bottom of pages!
Data needed Questionnaire about the experience of being a builder and or founder
yeah, it's pretty much how "Twitter clone" tells you as much about the expected feature set as half a page on microblogging, follow and share protocols, tagging and push notifications.

I think they could improve the below-the-fold description quite a bit, but the two words "Calendly alternative" convey the important bit about it being a customer-facing time-slot picker that connects to all your calendars, CRMs and webconferencing tools more precisely than "appointment scheduler" which might miss these features and lock you into various others, and probably gets more relevant search traffic too.
Sorry, I can't speak confidently on this because I can't read Japanese (or Chinese or Korean). I can only report what I've been told by users.

Including language metadata with text was felt to be especially important for Japanese and Korean users. I was told the difference was like having "595 kg" displayed as "5P5 kg". That is, it's possible to decipher the intended meaning but it looks wrong and it takes a moment to work out what was meant. Depending on the language some glyphs can be mirror images, have extra strokes, strokes missing or in different places or at different angles.
It boomed according to certain metrics but fewer people could afford housing and transportation so I'm not sure I agree.
/s I assume?
> Apple Watch seems to have declined in use…

Source please.
> The expulsion and forced conversion of Jews was a foreshadow of the Holocaust.

That's quite a leap...and historically illiterate.

In the Middle Ages, the Jew was primarily a theological concept, not a biological or ethnic one. To be a Jew was to be someone who rejected Christ. In the New Testament, "the Jews" as described as those who called on Jesus to be crucified. Now, who are "the Jews"? After all, Jesus was a Jew. His mother, Mary, was a Jew as were the apostles (from whom we receive the gospels themselves) as well as the many Jews who became the first Christians. Obviously, "the Jews" refers to those who took the negative theological position. The moment you convert to Christianity is the moment you stop being a "Jew" in the theological sense. The Nazi concept of the Jew was entirely biological and racial. You couldn't stop being a Jew simply because you assimilated into some other culture or adopted a different religion.

Now w.r.t. the Church's historical position toward the Jews, I suggest you look at the papal bull Sicut Judaeis[0]. To quote the Wikipedia article:

The bull forbade Christians, on pain of excommunication, from forcing Jews to convert, from harming them, from taking their property, from disturbing the celebration of their festivals, and from interfering with their cemeteries. [...] The Bull said that Jews should be treated equitably and justly, that their property rights should be protected, and that they should keep their own festivals and religious practices.

(Worth adding is that Christians were at times also at a "disadvantage" given the universality of Christianity. For example, Christians were forbidden from engaging in usurious transactions with anybody, while the Talmud only forbade Jews from doing so with other Jews: Gentiles were fair game.)

More about the history of toleration [1].

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

[1] https://www.newadvent.org/cathen/14761a.htm
A lot of IDEs and other graphical tools can point towards a SQLite database. Does it really have to be local though? I assumed you could hit it from any external file share? Or did you mean something else?
I would add that an up-nose-webcam and showing-more-neck-than-you-have-in-reality also don't help. Still waiting for someone to prove that as nicely as this as well ;)
I'm not looking for the best audio, just better than the on-camera microphone without introducing more gear or post-processing steps.
Do you know what Finland and Norways lockdown involved?

They closed schools and public buildings. They didn't force people to stay at home. They didn't stop people travelling, or force them to wear masks. They treated their populations as humans. Their responses were a lot closer to Sweden than to most European countries "lockdown" responses.

And did you know that for whatever reason, Finland has 5 times more flu deaths per capita than Sweden on a normal year.

https://www.worldlifeexpectancy.com/cause-of-death/influenza...

You will also notice the the two countries where masks are apparently the norm, South Korea and Japan have relatively high rates of flu death for developed countries. That implies that the masks don't help.

To use Sweden as an example of lockdown being effective is grasping at straws.

Where is the spike after Texas opened up a month ago? Why is Florida doing better than California, despite an older population?
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I agree.

I think the EU would be open to cooperate on Russia. And India, SE Asia and Aus would like to cooperate on China. I guess Biden has to start and build from there.

Whether the US can completely escape trunpism is hard question. Even now its strong and I'd think twice before pissing off China just to get left to twist in the wind by trump 2.0...
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I think the commenter's point was that genetically, we were just as capable (if not moreso) before modern times.

Of course people's lives and outcomes have improved; that's not in question.
The problem is it’s a tiny bit of maintenance that has to be justified for an unsupported system.

The better way is to factor out the time check/set and make it independent and identical across all systems - they they can close the older store but the newer one continues to reply correctly.

(Though it’s likely signed by certificates and will die when the PS3 root certs no longer get updates).
Browserstack
Folks using usb mics: how do you solve the keyboard noise problem? I use a mechanical keyboard and it’s super noisy.
If more than 50% of people own their house, then renters are outvoted.
For that you can probably just use Garage Band, which is effectively just Logic with less features, and free.
The thing is, I still don’t feel like the vision as stated is proven. I still haven’t heard a single person explain in cogent terms the value it provides and IMO if you can’t explain something that is supposedly a revolutionary technology and the utility it provides in simple terms you don’t understand it. It’s also curious to me how the fiat skeptics/crypto bulls always cheer when crypto trades up in fiat terms.

I’m not the type to conflate funding with utility, and while clearly there is massive interest in crypto, it’s still not clear to me that the entire space is more than just a speculative asset class. I don’t know anyone who uses it to purchase goods, in fact it seems that the bull case for it is that it shouldn’t be spent. Now that it’s gone from $20k to $60k in four months everyone suddenly believes in it. The absolute mania that has coincided with the price ascent alone makes me skeptical. It’s easy to cast aside naysayers when you see such a massive IPO amidst a speculative frenzy like we’re seeing in crypto and say “see, you’re wrong” but I think skepticism is healthy in certain cases and people buying coinbase and crypto now thinking they’re early to this party just feels like a suckers rally.

Companies that are IPOing these days are doing so after having been private for a decade. This results in early investors cashing out on the public markets after capturing the opportunity when the risk was still massive.
> Redis isn't UX. The hackathon isn't about "product design" either.

Please check the parent link for the "Judging Criteria" section (two of the three strands are Usefulness and UX) and "Project Ideas" section (literally all product designs).
All the western countries go through urbanisation, and have been for the last few decades. Back in the days, industry would build a factory in a smaller country town with a few thousand inhabitants and employ half the population there. Nowadays, this rarely happens anymore, only big cities get any industrial development of larger scales. All the office-based parts of the economy also gravitate towards larger cities (often unnecessarily).

So demand for big-city-housing is rising permanently. This wasn't as much of a problem in the last decades. But then, central banks flooded the market with cheap money, making most "safe" investments unviable. Therefore the only "safe" investment left is real-estate which also drives up prices in addition to the increase in demand.

And here we are.

How do we fix it? Get central banks to stop printing cheap money. No idea how that will work out, because it also has other consequences beside the housing market. And stop urbanisation, make the countryside more viable for industry, commerce, office space. Improve transport around the countryside and suburbs. Curb speculation by promoting home-ownership (for the home you live in, not the 20 you rent out) through tax incentives and other measures (currently, in Germany, you pay lower taxes when renting out a property than when living in the same property, because when renting it out the mortgage payments are "business expenses").
If you have an iPhone, you could use that in conjunction with something like Reincubate's Camo. There was an interesting discussion about it on HN recently [1]

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25869460
That’s environment not genetics. History gave modern athletes their baseline, and Science is what’s breaking records.

English longbows for example had much higher draw weights than modern bows so the strongest archer of all time presumably lived hundreds of years ago. The critical difference is effectively nobody is training for that kind of draw strength.
Apple might have changed terms or told them to change something and that might be why.
Assets are less ephemeral stored wealth. Money facilitates transactions, but it is not a factor of production, it is not a consumption good, and it is not backed up by any of these things, so it is a very nebulous type of wealth.
Have any of you tried Ungoogled Chromium? I found it pretty easy to setup on Windows despite being someone who gets easily confused trying to do anything command line-esque.

https://github.com/Eloston/ungoogled-chromium

Obviously Firefox is an alternative, but i personally was turned off by recent censorship comments by Mozilla’s CEO which I won’t get into here.
FBI uses backdoor to remove alleged backdoors.
Or as the article suggests, Peloton is going to make and push their own smartwatch
Isn’t Apple now directly competing with Peloton with Apple Fitness?
I'll have to research RCS some more, but it seems that it is.

https://www.pocket-lint.com/phones/news/144258-what-is-rcs-m...
Fair, though I meant complaining about understandable (but low-quality) audio or video.
I feel the same way about audio quality. There are enough people making informative videos on similar topics that bad audio is a deal breaker, so I'll look around until I find one that doesn't sound like it was recorded on a 5 dollar walmart microphone.
Those accused of heresy were sentenced at an auto de fe, Act of Faith. Clergyman would sit at the proceedings and would deliver the punishments. Punishments included confinement to dungeons, physical abuse and torture. Those who reconciled with the church were still punished and many had their property confiscated, as well as were banished from public life. Those who never confessed were burned at the stake without strangulation; those who did confess were strangled first. ... In the beginning, the Inquisition dealt only with Christian heretics and did not interfere with the affairs of Jews. However, disputes about Maimonides’ books (which addressed the synthesis of Judaism and other cultures) provided a pretext for harassing Jews and, in 1242, the Inquisition condemned the Talmud and burned thousands of volumes. In 1288, the first mass burning of Jews on the stake took place in France.

In 1481 the Inquisition started in Spain and ultimately surpassed the medieval Inquisition, in both scope and intensity. Conversos (Secret Jews) and New Christians were targeted because of their close relations to the Jewish community, many of whom were Jews in all but their name. ...
First, they arrested Conversos and notable figures in Seville; in Seville more than 700 Conversos were burned at the stake and 5,000 repented. Tribunals were also opened in Aragon, Catalonia and Valencia. An Inquisition Tribunal was set up in Ciudad Real, where 100 Conversos were condemned, and it was moved to Toledo in 1485. Between 1486-1492, 25 auto de fes were held in Toledo, 467 people were burned at the stake and others were imprisoned.

https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/the-inquisition
I stand corrected: encrypted PDFs are indexed unless a password is set. However, in the past they were unable to do so[0]: "Generally we can index textual content (written in any language) from PDF files that use various kinds of character encodings, provided they're not password protected or encrypted."

[0] https://developers.google.com/search/blog/2011/09/pdfs-in-go...
As this is HN, to the authors, if they're reading this -- I know you may be getting some pretty critical feedback here (hopefully it's useful!) but I will say this would have handily solved an 8 figure problem for me at a previous company. There are a lot of companies where scheduling appointments in many ways /is/ the product -- being able to have good open source tooling for appointment scheduling is worth its weight in gold. I would definitely have sprung for something like this if it was available in, oh, 2017. Keep going!
I love this site! Is there any way to get the track that is currently playing? I have several songs I wanted to ID
SQLite is great! But if you have mainly analytical queries over your data, you might want to give DuckDB [1] a go. It's an embedded database that uses a columnar representation similar to MonetDB (it's from the same group).

[1] https://duckdb.org/
The article speculates that Peleton might be planning on launching their own smartwatch. That doesn't sound like anything that could possibly end well.
No "Downward Dog" in the whole bunch...
This is just cementing Google monopoly in browsers.
I basically agree with pjmlp: Win32/MFC has always worked and will continue to work.

> in C# land WinForms was discouraged

Portability, it seems. Not unreasonably, they're focusing on C# as a backend language in UNIX-like environments. While you can run WinForms from dotnet core, doing so adds a large chunk of libraries to your deployment and of course only works on Windows targets. I'm not sure I entirely approve of this direction, but it follows from targeting Java, and I do prefer C# to Java.

Of course, if you just want a little bit of the API, there's nothing stopping you from just p/invoking it out of user32.dll, which I did last month ...
Odd that some people don’t notice things like this... https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shrinkflation

Do you actually track spending or just don’t notice?
I guess I was stuck with appearances - it just "looks" like a toy - compared to my Seaboard and Lynnstrument anyway.
Maybe I'm over-thinking this but is there a brief explanation of the purpose of this app/service?

I dislike when apps/services drop you into the experience without any background, or some scenarios/use-cases/reasons why I should consider using the app/service...or even something as basic as an intro paragraph describing what it is that I'm seeing. Clearly, I'm missing the point; so would be very appreciative if someone would kindly provide a little description/context. Thank you!
I know this is sarcasm and I also know we’ll see a Show HN with just this in a few weeks (AI blockchain driven!)
Maybe it's superficial but if you make yourself harder to understand and/or unpleasant to look at on video, I'm far more likely to tune you out, especially on a multi-party conference call that I'm probably only half paying attention to anyway.

So present yourself however you want. And I'll pay attention however much I want.
Facebook urged to scrap Instagram for children plans
Why are taxpayers funding remediation of Microsoft’s shitty vulnerable software?
Yeah, sales declined massively from 6 to only 5.2 million units last quarter. An estimated 100m active users. Dead in the water!
Let me just say, you're doing a superb job with wxWidgets. Having learned and used an uncounted number of UI toolkits, wxWidgets is the least irritating I've used in a 40 year coding career. Standing ovation to you, sir.
> everybody who's been here longer says "it's not what it used to be" in that the vibe of the city has changed greatly with it's increasing attractiveness to foreign (tech?) workers.

Meh. The people who say that have displaced the people who lived there before they moved to Berlin. And the people who lived there before they came also said that when they arrived. The people complaining about this the most aren't "original" inhabitants, they moved to Berlin 10-20 years ago because it was cheap, hip, and had less rules around things. They've changed Berlin. Now it's changing again. The circle of change, if you will. They've done it to others, now it's being done to them. Sucks every time, but claiming some sort of "the indigenous population gets removed" is false.
> No evidence of any AI risks mitigated has ever been produced

Of course, no evidence of any AI risks mitigated has ever been promised, nor could there be, since the best current estimate on the singularity is 40 years in the future.

> GiveWell founder Holden Karnofsky spent $30m of philanthropic cash buying a board seat on the charitable subsidiary of OpenAI Inc

OpenPhil and Givewell are not the same organization. OpenPhil's website explicitly lists AI Risk as a focus area; I don't think anyone would have donated to them without knowing what they were about.

> [i] writing extended "do not recommend; not rigorous enough and well funded enough already" reviews of charities puts people off donating

> [ii] promoting considerably less rigorous and better funded AI risk causes is inconsistent with this

Okay, first of all, AI risk is better funded now. I remember when MIRI had to struggle to hit a million, when they were basically the only game in town that did anything about AI safety, and I still wouldn't call the field well funded. Certainly I'd like to see more AI safety competition that isn't think tanks and policy but basic research. That said, inasmuch as AI risk is funded well now, it's because the argument that it's enormously underfunded was successful.

That said, I think there's a difference between an organization not providing evidence of efficacy because it's dedicated to shaping an event that lies decades in the future, and an organization not providing evidence of efficacy because it thinks it can get more donations by showing people photos of starving children. In a world like that, charities are competing on the ability to provoke pity, which is not the same as the ability to do the most good, or even necessarily related to this at all. I'm not saying that these people don't do good work, because if you go into that job you probably care at least somewhat about doing good for its own sake, I'm saying it would be better if incentives were aligned behind doing the most good rather than having the most photogenic victims. And inasmuch as I don't ask the same thing from AI Safety, it's because I recognize that while every cause that can should provide information about efficacy, the fact that a cause genuinely can't do that doesn't mean that it cannot also be vitally important, and it can show its importance in other ways, such as publications filled with arguments of its importance.
In the Linux Unplugged podcast (Episode 401 "Own Your Mailbox") they said that PipeWire now allows you to use your smartphone as a Bluetooth microphone (A2DP, first 30 seconds of the episode).

https://linuxunplugged.com/401

https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/pipewire/pipewire/-/releases/... ("Make it possible to use an A2DP source as an input device. You
can then use your phone as an A2DP microphone, for example.")
Frank Jacobs, Mad Magazine writer, has died
Doesn't something feel wrong about the post 2008 "boom"? Theoretically the economy is doing great but you have constant social upheaval, a generation where many are still living with their parents, and the need for constant central bank stimulus in the form of cheap credit.

I sometimes wonder if we've managed to mask the real state of the economy by pumping the metrics to make it look like it's fine.