skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Longest and shortest fasts in world this year
While the residents of the Russian city of Murmansk will be fasting for almost 18 hours from 2.43 am (sunrise) to 8.38 pm (sunset) this year, observing the longest fast in the world, the Argentinean town of Ushuaia will be having the shortest in the world, at 12 hours and 23 minutes exactly (from 6.23 am to 6.46 pm), states a report appearing in the “Gulf News.” Murmansk city has just over six hours of darkness.
And there were others who did the same yet paid all the taxes required by law. I was one of those.

Should I ask for a return of my back taxes?
> Because in the end normal users think about the functionality and price first, everything else second.

I think the most important factor here is network effects.
> The articles refer to those workers as contractors and mainly focus on IT market, but these rules can be applied to any workers.

But you say things like this from a reply above, and they simply do not apply to "any workers" (ie. employees) - only those that are specifically taken on as contractors. I'm not going to wake up tomorrow to find that it applies to me as I'm an employee, not a contractor.

I know this is your special hobby horse, but it has no bearing on this story.
Datomic-flavoured Datalog: http://www.learndatalogtoday.org/
I've never received any training, and I'm very happy about that, as I prefer to learn on my own terms, as the need arise, not as a pre-planned course after which expectations are that "now you know how to do that"
It's the Japanese version of "changing the world with disruptive incredible journeys".
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There's Datomic[1] though it's proprietary. Regarding the Prolog, I hope they will take a look at newly emerging "GHC of Prolog" in Rust - Scryer[2].

[1] https://www.datomic.com/

[2] https://github.com/mthom/scryer-prolog
I think it’s a valid argument. Once this is deployed everywhere, people will see the statements “Signal supports MOB” and “Signal has 20 million users” and make a conclusion, “20 million people can use MOB”. The only way to avoid being part of this statistic is to avoid the app.

In general, boycotting the product is the time-tested way to send messages to big corp. if you don’t like your clothes being made by child labor, don’t buy the brand. If you don’t like WhatsApp privacy policy, don’t install it. If you don’t like P&G spying on people in China, don’t buy their products. And if you don’t like cryptocurrencies, don’t use stuff from companies which support them.
Maybe we don't need to let people upload that much video content.
I remember a survey by google about security research and one of the questions was something like "What hinders learning/education in this topic?", and I remember answering exactly this behavior.
There are a lot of vehicles that we don't operate on public roads, for safety reasons - if you want to go "down that road".
> Are people already forgetting how masks were actively disrecommended by 'professionals' at the start of the pandemic while plenty here and in other places were similarly saying that masks are obviously good?

We are talking about science, I thought. Phrases like "obviously good," really are not in the scientific spirit.

Professionals also said that double-masking is even more obviously, obviously good. But that obvious obviousness was, quite obviously, wrong. [0]

[0] https://dossier.substack.com/p/the-cdcs-double-mask-mannequi...
Also, like it or not, the anti-vax pro-corona[0] movement is relatively large here, so using a vaccine that has possible fatal side-effects may give momentum to that movement, even if using it could save lives from a utilitarian point of view.

[0] One of their slogans is literally "Corona, yes please! The virus isn't dangerous." https://www.ooc.one/
Bank transfers are cheap, but as far as hideously backward goes...

a. Until recently, they took about a day to arrive, or over a weekend. Money sent on Friday would be on the target account by Monday. You can build an economy around that, but every online service that gives you instant processing will be in advantage. There is a lot of scenarios where quick processing of a payment is desirable.

b. Transactions abroad were ridiculously expensive and to some degree still are. I remember sending a payment to Lithuania from Czechia by bank transfer. The original quoted sum was about 30 dollars (in then-Lithuanian currency, Litas), and the fees added up to another 20 dollars. This problem was probably less common in Germany, a big market where you will find domestic providers of about anything, but people in smaller countries were getting ripped off at every foreign transaction. SEPA payment system is helping with that, but the fees have only gone down relatively recently, too. At least where I live.
It doesn't matter particularly to the student, but there is some utility, even from the outside, in estimating how much direct value a school provides and how much of a matchmaking service it provides. Your whole premise is that universities mostly provide matchmaking!
How does pause / play work? Does it pause for everyone in the room?
Drugs. Casual sex. Homosexuals. Poor judgement. Check. Makes sense.
> so exports are a political non-starter

...in the US and the UK. In the end it's also a reflection of what is important to a nation. Should the strong help the weak? Is it every man for themselves? Thank you for making my point.

I think pointing to "international organizations" to do something, when you could have done something yourself, is a weak argument.
Worked amazing on Firefox for Android.
haha, yes, I was also quite shocked, but I guess 10 years ago we would have also thought it was normal. I guess that once you reach a threshold of people using the super nice pictures, you can't not do it anymore because you are already one (marketing) step behind others.

Not that selling a house is a problem at all in this day and age, in the Netherlands: I just got an email that all options to view a house are booked, and if "I would be so kind not to call into the office because they are completely swamped and can't handle 100s of phone calls each day"...
I'm glad to hear the migration worked. I tried doing this but got stuck at the reverse proxy part, so my synapse instance was never accessible. It was likely user error, as it was my first attempt at using a reverse proxy. I'm going to move away from PFSense and try again.
Could the CPU load be reduced? If I am only on the page, not even playing any music yet (probably because something is blocked), I get 1 core up at 100% CPU load. This can't all be for an animated background image, can it?
Decsions like that undermine trust. Now scepical people can point at Denmark and say: "See, it is dangerous, I don't take it" Because nobody will take time to understand how and why Denmark came to that conclusion. Not in a time where people are happy only reading half of a headline.
Show HN: I turned an infographics standard into an open-source book
Presentee-ism needs to die full stop.

There is no reason to force another human being to attend your lesson if they can pass your exam / go to work if they can deliver the same results somewhere else.

(I'm not advocating for forcing employers and school to give people flexibility through legislation, I'd just want to see a voluntary cultural shift)
Thanks for pointing out that Ramadan has different length depending on hemisphere and latitude!
Israel openly brags about attacking Israel enrichment. They’ve clearly said the treaty is unacceptable and will strike at Iran.

Words and actions are different things, and the imbalance of power allows Israel to take more destructive actions. When was the last time Iran struck Israel?

I’m no fan of Iran, but Israel is far from a good actor or peaceful nation.
I wouldn't. As you mentioned, I would just find an exchange that supports fiat <-> XMR. I'm just responding to the top-level comment that specifically referred to Bitcoin as the preferred currency for these transactions.
Some folks in Germany created a highly practical infographics / data visualization standard. It's a 150-page manual with nearly 200 examples. They released it under a free license (CC BY-SA), but did everything so that no one will appreciate the good work they did:

— Confusingly named it 'Business Communication Standards'

— Published the web version in a barely readable way

— Hid the PDF behind the paywall

Honestly, I've got no idea why one would publish a standard under Creative Commons license in such a strange way. Nevertheless, I've found it.

I believe the guide itself is useful. So with some Python and a lot of manual work I turned it into a GitHub-hosted markdown book, EPUB and PDF. Give it a try ツ
The number of deaths due to missed TB vaccinations alone will be a very substantial percentage of number of COVID deaths.
That is a narrative that misses the point of the thread and is generally not compatible with hard data. For example, the amount of suicides in US during 2020 went down.
I downvoted because of the waft of moralism in your comment.
My opinion is the opposite of yours - I like RMS immensely, but believe he's no longer fit to represent free software. The article that changed my mind [1] stated that, in short, making public statements on controversial topics unrelated to free software is harmful to the FSF's mission, regardless of how correct those statements may be.

[1] http://ebb.org/bkuhn/blog/2019/10/15/fsf-rms.html
Your scene will appear to warp when you turn the camera anyway, unless you put your eye at the one point in space where it matches the projection. Few people put their eyes so close to the screen.
As anecdata, I've also found that using typed arrays does not speed up (actually slows down, by 10% or so) code which uses integer arrays. Making sure that arrays stay in packed-small-integer format (which is not always obvious: for example one has to replace x => -x with x => 0-x to avoid the old IEEE -0 from kicking in) consistently outperforms typed arrays for me, by a large margin if allocating many small arrays, and by a small margin if allocating one large array.

I found similarly "meh" performance improvements when trying to port my Javascript code to webassembly: either modern Javascript implementations are absolutely amazing, or webassembly runtimes still have a ways to go.
Dry powder for the next thing. Property?

Index funds are high risk! What if there's a big dip and you find the perfect house?

Bond rates are low and a bit uncertain at the moment. What's your 'cash replacement'?
The problem is that you can't separate the economic from the social---even a mutually beneficial transaction can have negative social externalities like undermining the political (and then the economic) power of a whole class of workers or potentially even undermining the individual capacity for independence of the individual involved on a psychological level.

The philosopher Debra Satz's book "Why Some Things Should Not be for Sale" has a great section on bonded labor that captures some of these consequences.

(I think the military isn't a good analogy because the public at large affords military personnel a special kind of respect that counteracts these social externalities.)
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Also without an integrated GC, most modern languages do not run well on ASM.
If you’re having chest pain that’s severe enough to wake you up at night, I would talk to a doctor. It doesn’t have to have anything to do with the vaccine.

I would also not dismiss the nagging feeling in the back of your head that something doesn’t feel right. You know your body more than anyone.
Then how come it did work before? BTRFS as used in DSM is not particularly more memory intensive than EXT4 (which is why it did work before).
Are you unfamiliar with Rakuten? It's like Amazon for Japan. Some people might also consider Softbank (the mobile phone division) and SBI Securities (its securities division, under 'Strategic Business Innovator Group'). How about Line? It's the biggest mobile chat app in Japan.

Other people can comment more on this one: The number of small start-up game studios must be astonishing. Japan seems to have an endless appetite for video games! For publishing, they will team-up with a major, like Sony.
Where in my case "small, computationally expensive library" is a card game engine & its AI search
I also had a good user experience on Android and Firefox.
For now, I agree, probably best to keep using it. But if turns out there is need to re-vaccinate yearly (2x again), the decision is not as obvious.
Do you follow a certain system for taking notes for non-fiction books?
Is bitcoin tumbling feasible anymore?

First problem: transaction fees are currently over $10 per transaction.

Second problem: max transactions per block (2k?). Wouldn’t a single tumbling instance of 100k pieces completely fill 50 bitcoin blocks, effectively browning out the system?
> "The publishers are now...'simplified' plots/sketches.."

In fact simplified plots are not new, but rather a common ignorance. On the flip side the "close community" frequently demonstrates their own conceit in their diagrams by frequently failing to go just a small distance more to label their axis. /RANT
Please take your political crusade somewhere else, "hntroll666".
Sure, but why is the onus always on the individual for macro-level problems? Even the most mindful and/or intelligent person is susceptible to misinformation and propaganda.
Ask HN: Have your bank refused to transfer money for you?
I was more than a little surprised when I found that my small transfer to Kraken was denied by "Danske Bank", and was wondering how normal this is.

I'm even more surprised when I looked into my legal rights which in Denmark are basically "the bank is not obliged to do ANYTHING except provide an account for your salary and basic cash withdrawal from that account at a registry".

That seems like a huge amount of power that has been granted to an institution which we are increasingly addicted to. The next thing could be "we don't support transfers to X store since they carry non-organic foodstuffs" or "we don't feel like you should be able to buy fuel for your car at Y gas station since we don't support some political thing about where their gasoline comes from".

So, I'm interested, what is your take on this? Similar experiences, opinions, go.

Also, side note: A bank blocking a transfer to for buying decentralized currency is a perfect example of why decentralized currency is becoming important.
I tried to implement async/await in javascript staying closer to CPS form without the extra caching layers and state machines (without the promises) that normally wrap every async calls.

https://www.npmjs.com/package/casync

I use it all the time. Except for the lack of language level tooling (that you get with promise wrapped async/await), it works quite well and it's faster than native async/await. I wish something like it would be integrated in the language.
Is this recursive irony?
Weiss kind of made a career out of pearl clutching and decrying the "intolerant left" in academia [0]. A stopped clock is right twice a day, as they say, but Weiss (like most opinion columnists) is largely just in the outrage peddling business, deploying facts only sparingly and selectively. I include Greenwald - linked below - in this group as well, but it's difficult to find any kind of serious rebuttal against her from a non-columnist (because that's kind of the game that's being played here).

Anyway, Weiss is both a troll and a hypocrite, so it's easy to discount her posts as flamebait. That doesn't mean she's always wrong, of course, but she's got a well earned reputation which suggests one should take her with more than a pinch of salt (IMO, this is basically true for anybody who decides to "publish" on a substack blog).

[0] https://theintercept.com/2018/03/08/the-nyts-bari-weiss-fals...
If humanity lasts for more than another two centuries, I'd be surprised.
The issue is presumably that free, easily accessible and anonymous testing is not available in San Francisco.

Where it's available, you just do a blood test every 3 months, test for HIV and syphilis and start therapy if positive.
Maybe, maybe not. TB should be readily stopped by masking and distancing measures; we might get something of a respite from it. I'm not aware of any numbers in either direction yet.
FYI, this is the video: https://peertube.sunknudsen.com/videos/watch/182e7a03-729c-4... ; the links in the description:

KRACK Attacks: Breaking WPA2 https://www.krackattacks.com/

KRACK - Key Reinstallation Attacks: Forcing Nonce Reuse in WPA2 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fOgJswt7nAc
For my phone Robokiller works well, spammers have pretty much given up on me. Used to get 1-2 calls/week, now i get maybe 1 a month or less.
Why are the tops of each window so big and empty, what a waste of space.
I wish there was a way to stop this bs. Robocall numbers used to be easily identifiable. Nowadays, robocalls shows up as a random-similar number of a third party person, which is never repeatedly dialed, so even blocking the number won't stop calls from coming it (as it'd just dial from a different similar number...)
I remember getting flagged on HN and banned on reddit for pointing out that an overreaction toward Coronavirus is going to cause our resources to be misused to "save" a rounding error of people at best.

Here is one of those examples.

Not to mention I imagine most drug research went on halt for a year in an effort to find a vaccine for Corona.

What percentage of people are going to die because our politicians and influential scientists couldn't do high school level statistics?
Yes, as others said.

What's more: you could also interpret the typical stack based execution in machine code as a special CPS style execution: only the order is strictly LIFO so that the continuations can be allocated on the stack. I.e., the continuation object for a function call is simply the function call's stack frame. Everything is there: 'contuation address' is in there: the return address, i.e., the 'ret' instruction, which is just a computed branch in the end, implements the invocation of the continuation, and it passes it the return value as a parameter. Sure, the compiler does need to be careful about the stack pointer manipulation, but the analogy is close enough. This can very easily be changed to a heap-based allocation of 'stack frames'. The compiler can also optimise and do some continuation allocations on the stack when it knows it will run out of lifetime after the call, or on the heap, just by the right setup of the frame pointer. And the compiler may even do tail call optimisations from this, so even with CPS, you get O(1) memory usage if the code is recognised to allow that.

Even more, if the heap is compressed, and a heap allocation is as easy as incrementing a pointer, then the stack pointer could be reinterpreted to point to the end of the continuation heap (careful with deallocations in this case, of course), so just a heap and no stack, the runtime system would not even need more pre-defined registers than a normal stack based execution and instructions that implicitly increment the stack pointer could be used to fill the next continuation object -- it would look exactly like constructing a stack frame.

It's all connected.
The keys are yours. The maths is here https://elementsproject.org/features/confidential-transactio...

The key insight is that you design a cryptographic algorithm that will preserve addition between amounts, even when encrypted but you need to also provide some encrypted data that will allow an independent verifier to validate the whole transaction.

The problem is more nuanced because you need to guarantee that coins aren't produced from thin air.

The problem of the approach in the linked article is that proofs are large. To support encrypted verification (there is no need to decrypt anything in any step of the process) you need thousands of bytes for verifying a 32-bit amount.

Bulletproofs reduced the proof size significantly. There are then additional approaches like MimbleWimble where the proofs on the ledger can be discarded to make it even smaller.
Are those tests practical? In the article, it says that diagnosis is not easy.
Combine that with 2captcha.com, what do we have? Lol
Microsoft to Buy Nuance for $16B to Focus on Health Care Tech
Try Naked Browser (http://nakedbrowser.com/android/ or Play Store link https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.fevdev.nak...)

Despite the somewhat contentious name the naked refers to it being stripped down.

Once you get the hang of navigation it is extremely fast and a simple long press enables JS (if a site really needs it).
I'm lucky enough to have both Comcast and Verizon FiOS available. The latter offers 200/200 Mbps service for $40/month, and I typically get 300/320 whenever I test (speedtest.net).

Presumably the issue is "on your end" each time, until you go through the steps they make you go through, and then it mysteriously resolves just before your support call ends, without them taking responsibility?

https://imgur.com/a/Ghtv1II
See how project roadmap help complement product roadmap
Technically, P-hacking isn't just ethically wrong, it's also statistically incorrect. If you're testing the same data for multiple hypotheses, or performing the same test on multiple data sets, you need to perform a Bonferroni correction for multiple hypothesis testing.
So? Cancel the bandwidth test if the screen turns off.
> men are going to believe they're more competent ... because they've been socialized to believe they're better at it.

That's one of the central dogmatic feminist talking points that are just spouted off uncritically, along with other things men are supposedly socialised for, like wage negotiation and preferences for violence, taking up space and technical subject matter. Included is the starting position that women and men are the same and if women are perceived to be behind, it's because something was done to them irrespective of their own agency and accountability as individuals and adults. It's a conspiracy theory, and an infantilising one at that.

In social sciences, this becomes social and/or (modern) historical determinism, leaning heavily towards assuming everything's a construct and caused by historical precedent, ignoring biology (other animals, hormones, sexual attraction, evolution), long-term history and global invariability of gender roles. Sure, that's a feel good narrative, but is it a rational stance supported by evidence?

> If they asked about cooking or cleaning, you'd probably get the opposite reaction.

If this is about socialisation, the simpler explanation is that men are socialised to project confidence, because that's what romantically/sexually rewarded. The link towards granular, per-topic confidence is more tenuous and requires you accept a lot of feminist baggage at face value or provide an alternate explanation.

> Of course men aren't inherently better at math nor are women better at cleaning.

No, but perhaps they are more interested in maths by virtue of the topic itself, or due to ancillary effects like future status and wages, like women are more interested in nesting than men. Similarly, men are generally more drawn to the concepts of service and duty than women are, which is why vastly more men work logistics, manufacturing, law enforcement, fire departments and the military.

Personally, I find feminist axioms to be a very poor predictor of reality because they fail to account for mating strategies, personal choice, responsibility and preference - which is ironic for a movement that was initially about women's choices in the reproductive sphere.