skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not obvious at all.

Cryptos provide no value to the world at least today, and consume tremendous amounts of energy, it's probably a net negative.

Amazon has clearly some externalities, but it's obviouos that people 'want stuff' and they dominated on the industry shift to e-commerce.

Amazon will probably be around for a while, selling useful stuff to people.

If Crypto dissipated tomorrow, or by the stroke of a pen were made 'illegal' - the world wouldn't skip a beat. Nothing would change. A bunch of people who invested in 'Digital Baseball Cards' had them burned up in a fire but who cares. Nothing material to the economy has changed - other than some money changed hands for said 'Digital Baseball Cards'.

So Coinbase is not obvious in hindsight, and the kinds of valuation and leverage going on are not obvious either.

I suspect that 'Financial Populism' will remain and Coinbase will be around in one way or another, but they are in a different territory than most other new companies.

"common sense is right most of the times." <- there is basically no 'common sense' in crypto, or rather 'common sense' would imply that the value of crypto is still 'potential'. Since we don't actually use crypto for anything, but it is really cool and 'could be used', then 'common sense' would indicate we value it for it's potential and not much more.

Valuing things that have no material value in the order of 100's of billions is the opposite of common sense, I think future historians will probably wonder what we were thinking.
How proficient do you have to be in Redis to have fun in such a hackathon? I use Redis mostly in combination with Python Celery.
It isn't left broken per say, in fact you should be able to version the state and rollback to the previous state and have it remove whatever new resources were created when you re-apply.

I just take another approach which is if something doesn't work, then I'm able to quickly blow it away and re-deploy without affecting the end service by having the apply only target specific environments.
I'm confused why this even came up? Why can't the panics just be caught at the driver interface to the kernel and kill off/unload the driver on panic?
It’s extremely relevant. Alas, all entitled to our opinions.
Dark ages for India during Mughal Empire? You must be kidding right or you are in denial.

Mughal dinasty is probably the richest Indian dinasty and most probably the richest dinasty ever comparable to Byzantine empires. The older Indian dinasties before Moghul are not that rich or successful otherwise tourists will be visiting their buildings like pyramids in Egypt or Aya Sophia in Turkey.
Have you considered that in some cases (though probably not Calendso's), that may be on purpose?

The VC crowd would have you believe that every product must disrupt the whole world – for the casual visitor, their gradma and their dog.

But niche products have to ward off tyre-kickers and what-if time-wasters, as much as entice their target audience. Using industry-specific jargon kills both flies at once.

If you "don't get it", you may not be the target audience.
I tried to figure this out with Python on https://colab.research.google.com/#create=true

Here's the closest I got, but it's not pretty

!pip install ColabTurtle
from functools import partial as f
from ColabTurtle.Turtle import *
initializeTurtle()

def repeat(n, *commands):
for _ in range(n):
for command in commands:
command()

repeat(5, f(fd, 80), f(rt, 144))
You can also have different classes of equity, you can have equity with reduced or no voting power but the same dividends rights, or the other way around.
It is rent control - which basically exists throughout Germany. Even in SF rent controlled apartments can increase some % per year, it is just controlled how much. In Germany this is often done by looking at the region's average price for similar properties and then fixing some limited increase against that. This is distinct from the rent cap that was overturned, which stated no rise in rent at all for five years.
Yes, In India incoming calls are free (been like that for a very long time).
If you're using them with Bluetooth, you're not only sounding worse than you could but also the audio that you get is much worse, because Bluetooth audio in bidirectional more is very low quality. I also use a QC3, but I bought a good desk USB mic and use the headphones just for output. I can hear people much better and vice-versa, and I'm even less tired throughout the day.
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Serpent Mound
So in your opinion they should try to find judges outside their company?
> unlikely to be treated fairly

Discussions about biases that purely stem from modern synthetic biases merely created by social movements for the sake of recognition are an interesting topic. Bias-ception maybe?
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The Road from Rome
You are correct, but if you don't own a Mac/iPhone, you cannot test on Safari.
In 2012 HN was not so pessimistic about crypto.
Yeah, but then you have to prove it. Previously your employer had to show the dismissal was fair, now you have to show it was not. In such subjective cases, that is very hard. Like you say, no one will say "you're too black, you're fired". But before they had to actually have a reason that wasn't subjective. Now they don't, they can hide behind the equivalent of "no comment" and you have to find evidence...
Too few.
Have you noticed how your cash is buying fewer items than it did a ~year ago? My daily item costs are WAY up, which is really just saying the value of the cash is WAY down.
I'm well covered on ungoogled chrome options on unix-likes.

But... what is a maintained, open-source ungoogled chrome for Windows?
It depends a little bit on the contract with the provider, but the idea is that we are an NGO/charity and we don't want the farmers to have to incur costs for this. If we answer the phone they pay, if we hang up and call back we pay. In some cases we are able to set up toll-free numbers and then we can just answer.
Compare with your past self and make small achievements (level IRL as I put it). I would like to have a successful company but TBH startup grinding isnt really what I enjoy. So I quit that thought and think of other stuff to do.
Yes, if you don't type frantically at the same time on your mechanical keyboard and keep it at the right distance by stacking ~20 cm worth of books :)

In all seriousness I had it, the sound is good but had the physical usability issues. Had two, the USB port seemed to die after ~1-2 years of active use but that's the lifespan of these devices anyway.
Use a longer lens and you won’t have to show any of your tiny box! I hooked up my mirrorless camera behind/on top of my monitor and have a 35mm (APS-C so 50mm equivalent) which is perfect to just frame my head and show basically nothing behind me.

I don’t know why webcams are always so insanely wide; we don’t need to see your whole room with your head only taking up 5% of the frame. Just like audio, I wish everyone else would use this camera setup so I can see everyone clearly.
It is amazing to me that we still have such a distance between people on this.

Some people have basically created a tv studio at home with a nice set, good lighting, nice background, quality camera, and mic. Having a video call with these people is a nice and smooth.

And somehow we still have people that think sitting in a noisy, messy room with the sun at their back and using their laptop's built-in mic/speakers is fine. Calls with these people are torture!
By default in Firefox, indexedDB is disabled in private browsing mode (dom.indexedDB.privateBrowsing.enabled=false in about:flags), so you can detect it with something like

var db = indexedDB.open("test");
db.onerror = () => console.log('private browsing');
db.onsuccess = () => console.log('not private browsing');

Based on Bugzilla, it seems like currently the backing mechanism for implementing indexedDB will write origin names to disk which is not something they want Private Browsing to do. See this older bug https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=781982 and this newer one https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1639542
You seem to be misunderstanding a few things: nobody is treating them as employees, they are "contractors", and this concept was there since forever in Serbian law. These "freelancers" paid no taxes even if they were required to self-report their income.

I only said that the tax rates in question are the same for social security, and the income tax rate is effectively 16% (20% of 80% after 20% expense deductions; with proposed 43% of expense reductions, it's 20% of 57%, or 11.4%), which is not too different from the 10% income tax on employees. They are claiming the law doesn't recognize them, whereas in fact, it does, and the rates are worse than for employees. Which is why they should have registered.

Note that expenses are supposed to be business expenses, and if you've got much bigger real business expenses, they will be accepted (article 57 of the law: https://www.paragraf.rs/propisi/zakon-o-porezu-na-dohodak-gr...).

> I find it hard to believe that a Serbian company would pay employment tax if they hire a freelancer, as you claim. Are you really sure about that?

Serbian company is obligated to pay for any taxes that a non-company owes (income, social security) because they usually have an accountant and a physical person doesn't. If these freelancers were working with Serbian companies, all the taxes would have been paid for them.

This is not "employment tax", it's just that the same or similar rates are applied.

I am not an accountant, but I've been in this boat in Serbia ;-)
I was struggling to respond to the GP in a way that explains it well, so it's fair to say that it's impressive you did. Thanks :)
Or the ad supported industry finds ways to be supported without ads. That would be the ideal outcome. It would align them with the needs of their customers.
"Economically viable" must not be confused with "extremely profitable". Housing is economically viable as soon as revenue is positive in the mid- to long term.

Extremely profitable on the other hand is much more attractive to investors than economically viable. It promises short term ROI with great revenue and very low risk in overheated markets.

There's a balance to be struck here and thinking in extremes just isn't helpful.

And yes, I do consider buying up land and just letting it sit there until housing crisis becomes severe enough that developing luxury housing becomes profitable to be gaming the system.

It's funny how quick investors are to complain about something not being economically viable and praising the free market and its power to innovate, while at the same the cost of developing houses goes up and up and up.

Where's the innovation there? How come a portable supercomputer can be bought brand new for the equivalent of a day's worth of work today, while at the same time fewer and fewer people can afford to own a home?

Why hasn't the increasing demand for affordable housing spurred innovation in that sector and why is nobody even asking that question?
We shall see, but I think the left/right paradigm is something that has only gotten worse through time we need ranked choice voting an more participation from third-parties or we'll quickly end up right back where we were.
Nextcloud also has an app called Appointments now that does this: https://apps.nextcloud.com/apps/appointments

Might be interesting for people who need CalDAV support.
It wasn't that simple. The problem of the conversos was a major political problem. This didn't happen over night. Jews had occupied many high positions in Spain and following the ultimatum that Jews either convert or leave, the widespread belief among the populace that many of those converting were merely simulating conversion simply to remain in those high positions was a threat to social order and probably even an existential threat to a Spain just recovered from Islamic Moorish rule. The Inquisition set out to determine whether these claims were true in a process that was actually much more just than was the norm during that time period.
This isn't an error code from SQLite. Usually ECONNRESET is related to a TCP/IP connection.
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There's an official search engine here: https://sepiasearch.org.

At least it's what's used when using the search bar on https://joinpeertube.org.
>for many people the "worse outcome" is no worse than the status quo.

Is it really, though? In most cases where the worse outcome did happen, people were convinced they had nothing to lose and went with whatever radical idea was being proposed, then when things went pear-shaped they found out they did have a lot to lose.

An extreme example is the Khmer Rouge.
Oh, can you tell me then, of a Laptop with Touchscreen, good hardware and Linux support?

I have been looking for one since ages.
The year is 2078 and night time is as bright as day due to the density of the Starlink satellite super cluster.

Maybe that’s how Musk will solve global warming launch enough satellites to block a sufficient percentage of the illumination the earth receives.
I recall that VBA in Office 4.2 or thereabouts supported localized versions of Visual Basic.

Excel also supports localized formulas and cell references.

HyperCard also supported localized versions of HyperTalk, but I think only a French sample localization was ever provided.
C does not work any more, maybe it did 50 years in the pre-internet era, but not anymore
This is disingenuous at best. Next.
You can use services like Browserstack, but they are expensive and slow.
I'm guessing pre-rendered animations. Better alternative if you're optimizing for performance, but maybe not if we're optimizing for other metrics.
A simpler answer is that these people aren't actually leftists.
> What might interest you is all the psychedelics I did were technically legal. Shoutout to 4-AcO-DMT and 4-HO-DMT.

They are both illegal where I live (Poland). The government maintains a huge list of forbidden substances (link only in polish: https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wykaz_%C5%9Brodk%C3%B3w_odurza...). This is in response to a big designer drugs crisis that started over decade ago. Which most likely than not was caused by tightening of the drug laws happened around two decades ago. It's a bad situation that will take another decade to improve, I suppose.
Change what I said to "comparably as bleak" then, I thought it was clear that's what I meant.
Here is a good estimation based on seroprevalence data from different countries [1]

> Taking France as a reference population, the ensemble model estimates a population IFR of 0.79% (95% credible interval, 0.68–0.92%).

Crucially, IFR correlates with the capacity to treat the infection.

[1] https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-020-2918-0/figures/2
If you're going to pay for a prize competition in product design, when your company doesn't have product design as a core skill, then maybe it would be a good idea to find independent, expert judges of product design from outside of the company?

Sure, that's what I would do. But that part is up to them.
I was fortunate that, at the beginning of the pandemic when such things were essentially unavailable, to have a high-end external Logitech webcam. I had bought it a few years earlier for a project that ended up not panning out.

I subsequently set up my DSLR as a webcam but, while it worked, it's more trouble than it's worth for most purposes. (I do use it for video sometimes but the webcam is just more foolproof for day-to-day conferencing use.)
There's workarounds, such as browserstack.
Poor taste.
Yeah, looks like a straight upgrade from Google Chrome. It's got a built-in ad blocker even on mobile. There's a built-in ads platform which actually pays people for their attention and can be turned off.

All it needs to compete with Firefox is browser extensions on mobile.
Not negative, just more realistic as experience builds up and patterns emerge. It doesn't mean that people can judge everything perfectly, but it is backed up by the fact that the vast majority of new crazy projects don't end up actually doing anything.
Documents and other preserved artifacts are often a very "low-res" view of what actually drives the course of events. Even with a well-ordered chronological archive of documents, there are far too many dots to connect between any two of them. Connecting the dots ultimately comes down to interpretation and creating a narrative. And narrative-based history is almost always wrong, deceptive and politically-inspired.
>> you were crawling news.ycombinator.com, right?

No, for retrieving the Hacker News Posts we were using the public Hacker News API, which returns the posts in JSON format: https://github.com/HackerNews/API

The crawling speed of 100...1000 pages per second refers to crawling the external pages linked from Hacker news posts. As they are from different domains we can achieve a high crawling speed while being a polite crawler with a low crawling rate per domain.
The Case of the Slow Websites
Meanwhile, Britain has retired twenty nuclear submarines since 1980. None have been disposed of, and nine still contain radioactive fuel in their reactors.

https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/royal-navy-having-rea...
Pretty sure ijoey on this thread is a time traveller, as BTC/USD reached $60k when Coinbase IPO'd

> Boy. This is the 60000 dollar question isn't it? Who wants to be my partner? Good luck. I really hope you find them. Taking on the credit card industry is going to be awesome!

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3754835
Regardless of how simple fingerprinting is, I'm pretty sure that cookies are still the main way in which advertisers track users. Why make their job cheaper than it has to be?
Sometimes I think there are mostly parrots on HN ;)
> "They try to get away from that model, though. Not very successfully [...], but they try."

Honest question: do they? What evidence supports the assertion that they do try? I haven't seen any story suggesting Mozilla is trying to get away from that model of funding Firefox.

> "(how to get people to pay for a browser?)"

The Thunderbird email client (formerly maintained by Mozilla) switched to being independent from Mozilla and asking for donations; so far they are successful. Donations are now sustaining a team of 15, thanks to yearly 2.3 M$ donations [1], and they keep hiring.

"A team of 15 isn't remotely enough to sustain Firefox", you may say, and you'd be right. But then, if Thunderbird is able to find enough donation money for 15, what would Firefox (who is way more popular than Thunderbird) be able to score if it found the courage to make its case to its users, and ask for money? Could it afford a staff of 150? More?

[1] https://groups.google.com/g/tb-planning/c/-jbmYvYdX1g , https://www.reddit.com/r/opensource/comments/m9td33/thunderb...
Looks like they are talking only about the Roman Empire in the west. The Empire in the east, which was bigger and wealthier, continued for another 1000 years or so [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byzantine_Empire
Which can did you buy?
Money is stored wealth, the ability to buy goods and services in the future. The problem seems to be that we live in a time of societal upheaval. The future of stored wealth becomes cloudier and more uncertain the further you go out in time. So, what is the best place to store wealth? Will my wealth be eroded by inflation? Will the companies I invest in become obsolete by technology or market-manipulating nation states? Will regulation changes suddenly damage the value of my investment? Will changes in tax regime eat my earnings? Will corruption and crime take my wealth?
Clearly, some people are getting out of hand with speculation and credit (a suitcase full of lottery tickets is not diversification). As Warren Buffett says, when the tide goes out you learn who's been swimming naked. The economy has its ups and downs and speculative fervor ebbs and flows. There are no certainties, but IMHO all you can do is stay diversified and maximize the probability of your success.
Hey there, sorry to hear that. Are you able to login to your account at all? If so, can you open a ticket and share the number here so I can take a look?
> Consider that total installed capacity of renewables is by far China, electric cars are being driven by the USA, and the country in Europe that has done best at reducing carbon emissions and coal burning (taking coal to zero) is the UK. Germany's energiewende meanwhile has been a failure. The EU has no notable wins to its name in the environmental space.

If you ignore the countries that didn't rely on coal in the first place, like France, Belgium or Austria just to name a few, all of which fare better in consumption of CO2 producing energy like oil, coal and gas.

Cars are are much more of a thing in the USA than in the EU, so slower electrical vehicle rollout is completely normal. And even then, sales are exploding.

> As for employment standards, that's a double edged sword; making it harder to hire people also locks young people out of the job market. Where do ambitious smart young people with no familial ties go to seek their fortune? Not Italy

Yes, that is indeed a problem many are trying to tackle ( via reform, encouraging hiring, startups, etc.). I don't think scraping all employee protections to make it easier for young people to get a shitty job is worth it.
Does the opposite hold true? Do newscasts that carry audio but have lost video tend to continue? Just realizing I've never really seen that that I can think of.
The looming software kill-switch lurking in aging Playstation hardware
You then need to do more stat calls — one per hierarchy level — and you waste more inodes.
Oh god I hope not. Neumorphism is just what dribbble "designers" who have 0 idea about usability like to drool over the past couple years. Absolute drivel.
> The author recommends a "podcasting" microphone, but a $35 standalone headset mic[1] is almost as good and much easier to use.

so if it's almost as good how smart does each one make you sound?
I mostly listen to audiobooks nowadays which is less than ideal but much better than not "reading" at all I would say.
thank you for your work, man.
redis is awesome
You sure about that? They pulled the rug under parler.

But let's say there is a contract or TOS that says they won't, and they do - what are you going to do about it? Go to court for 2 years?
If you’re on Mac a fairly cheap way (around $300/£250) to get a great sounding voice is to buy an ok microphone and Logic Pro. This will sound better than buying a microphone of the same price.

In Logic add an equaliser to counteract microphone and room deficiencies. Then finish off with a compressor to add extra “warmth”

Once done, output logic audio to a virtual sound card (eg sound flower) and use that as an input for your audio conferencing.

Great audio, for not too much money.
Missing hiker found after man using computer at home pinpoints his location
Philippines ‘buy now, pay later’ startup Plentina raises $2.2M seed round
Seeing problems on changing things.

To be honest, decentralized crypto is terrible for any financial service.

If you get scammed, you're money is gone. Nothing in crypto is fixing this and i don't see a real future without it.

And i don't think it's even possible without keeping it's essence of existence.
Oh, sorry, I was talking about the traditional TV that comes through the old standard antenna cable. In those, the TV itself lets you do it, but I realize that it may not be possible in paid TV services. I wonder why they don't themselves move the HD channels forward, though... I suppose by now, an overwhelming majority of TVs have HD.
As I said in another comment, I do have my DSLR setup. But for most purposes, I use my external webcam because it's just easier. I do zoom it in a bit (and agree with your general comment on field of view) but for routine video calls I also don't want to be tightly framed as I'm probably moving around a bit.