skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Draghi Is Betting the House with Europe’s Biggest Stimulus Plan
They should make it work on the 'old money' system of penny, shilling and pound, with twelve pence to a shilling and twenty shillings to the pound, then use the abbreviation 'd' for pence, and then throw in farthings (quarter penny) and half-crowns (two shillings and six pence) because if there's one thing I've learnt about finance, its that the more confusing things are, the easier it is to make a profit.
Janet Yellen and Mario Draghi Have One Last Job
Design by committee, what could possibly go wrong.
Excellent point.

What you're pointing out is the fundamental tenet our startup is build around.

When writing non-fiction, you start with a very clear promise, and you specify who it's for and who it's not for.

We talk about that in other articles on our site.
Well, that's the project of those "highly opinionated developers". They work for free, and they really sleep well if you prefer to install XFCE or create a fork of the previous iterations of Gnome.
We will, and we will leave you in the dust with our superior energy infrastructure.
Good, so I invite you and your countrymen to spend a few years in India, and live like the average Indian. Take back the lessons to your own country. Hopefully, we can conquer this climate change problem together. If you don't like India, that's fine too. There are many other countries with low greenhouse gas lifestyles.
Not exactly a review, but there's a page on GNOME Shell design available on GNOME wiki.

https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/GnomeShell/Design
The vast majority of people never have negative interactions with police and actually are thankful for them keeping their communities safe.
The ones that do have problems are those that resist arrest and detainment in a society where everyone is armed.

Hence, I wouldn’t know the taste.

I acknowledge the historical precedent but it’s been a long time since such things and I prefer to look at the facts of the situation at hand (as would be done in a court of law) rather than implying conspiratorial motives from history.
I opened the first thread and the top reply is:

"This is brilliant @balajis. India Totally need to add Crypto to India stack. Such a thoughtful piece. Will read it a couple of times and compile my thoughts around it."

This is basically an upvote blown up to a bunch of words I have to read.

Second reply just reads "@balajis you’re incredible".

I am looking for a discussion where only thoughtful comments that add to the discussion are posted. Or at least only those are voted to the top.
"hugely limited benefit"

Erm, no, independance of supply is the entire point. Multiple nations, such as Iran and Cuba, have seen their economies rekt by US sansctions or embargoes. This is literally priority N1 for any country on bad terms with US, whatever the reasons.
(disclaimer: music degree)

I often huff and puff at articles like TFA, but here I found myself nodding: the method is sound and makes sense.

Some comments I must leave though:

Clustering is not the point of black and white keys. Rather it is the facility to pick an anatomically reachable, desired subset of 12 keys available per octave. As a simplified European tradition baseline, that is the white keys transposed by some number of semitones. The salient thing here is to have a row of keys which are mostly two semitones apart but have a one semitone gap at strategic locations to produce the scale.

Much of the music in the world operates roughly on the pentatonic scale which coincides with the black keys, or the complement of "European" scales in a 12 step equally tempered octave. Pentatonic scales are mostly two semitone steps with strategic 3 semitone steps.

Finally, the harmonic model in TFA does not resemble the piano very much. Would be interesting to see how different harmonic models and temperaments in various historical keyboard instruments interact with the computation. The modern piano is equally tempered. In a harpsichord, that would generate a lot of roughness for the thirds which are way out of tune. The modern piano mitigates this by having the hammers strike strings at a position that avoids exciting the 5th harmonic (which produces a justly intoned third on top of fundamental frequency).

Would be interesting to see what kind of difference to the roughness calculation it would make to omit the 5th harmonic!
This is kind of like an Arcade game repair mission.
That's precisely what the author wrote, you just replaced "an extra mouse click" with "press Super or swipe 3 fingers up", hence the additional step to display all running applications still remains with your solution.
If you are press, then wouldn't you have press credentials ?
Not because they have guns, because they use guns.
> ...and has been shown to literally kil.

The argument is much more complete if you finish the sentence.

Police kill to get their way. Its not their job to kill. People should not get killed by police. In the case of this article, the court literally told the police to leave the press alone... then they corral the press and intimidate them .

The argument is that police pointing guns (which they actively use!) at the press (who are reporting on a protest centering around police over-use of deadly force) is not comparable in the sense that "both have done wrong".
Presumably because they don't want people reading their developer documentation to get distracted from what the documentation is trying to communicate?

It is quite common to have company policy for communication. That does not mean you want to change how everybody else in the world communicates.
For my own blogs, I use a homegrown system, a hybrid static and dynamic site generator. I started writing it because I realized that nothing suited my needs:

highly accessible and compatible with ANY browser and configuration for the client,

portable and stable on the server side,

and convenient for me to use from a multitude of devices.

Starting a blog today, I would use this same platform, because I haven't seen anything better come about since I started writing it.
The problem with whitelist and blacklist is that they don’t say what they mean. If you use more descriptive terms then your writing will be easier to understand.
Employees of JL don't own any shares. They cannot be bought or sold or given to employees. 100% of the shares are owned by the Trust.

That also means that every employee effectively has the same stake in the company - those high up in management, for example, don't have a lop-sided number of shares compared to those on the (both literal and metaphorical) shop floor.

JL employees also elect colleagues to hold the management to account, and appoint people to the Board and Trust. How many "traditional employers" allow that to happen?
The Pixel Qi IP is apparently now owned by Tripuso Display Solutions.[1]

[1] https://www.tripuso.com/
It's hard to find, but a "new scientist" column some decades ago had a guy describing doing this with steel plates and "blue" in his apprenticeship.

I checked, and the london science museum has BOTH whitworths and maudsleys stuff.
That really depends on your perspective. Sure, no one needs a shoe where the design and manufacturing is broken down all the way to each individual thread. And the vast majority of people wouldn't notice a difference wearing footwear made 20+ years ago. But that doesn't mean all innovation is pointless either.

A new way of manufacturing won't have the same tradeoffs and limitations, the setup costs, tolerances, material properties. Direct injection is how Adidas makes something like 350 million pairs of shoes a year now. And they have been selling 3d printed soles with knit uppers for a couple years now. The innovation in this story is more about the design and the manufacturing process than the materials. You can't buy size 13.5, or wide or narrow(except a few models), or a pair where one is a half size smaller or larger traditionally. And beyond just the sizing, there is a lot more aesthetically when you are customizing at the individual level.
Boost.Beast has its own HTTP parser[0], during the development of which Vinnie Falco (the principle author of Beast) found many bugs/inconsistencies in Node.js's own parser[1].

Personally I'd rather use this than something based on Node.js http-parser.

[0] https://www.boost.org/doc/libs/develop/libs/beast/doc/html/b...

[1] https://github.com/nodejs/http-parser/issues?q=is%3Aissue+au...
Yes but people like living in certain neighborhoods not just certain homes.
Same as "sanity check". It seems people with severe anxiety or similar issues prefer to change their surrounding environment to not be reminded of their possible perceived shortcomings instead of getting professional help.

It's sad that this happens in the first place, but also in the same breath as change proposals in the name of fighting racism and other discrimination.

I don't want to sound insensitive, but people who struggle with encountering terms like "fat" or "sanity" in their everyday life could achieve a significantly better quality of life by improving themselves. I know that from first-hand experience and from professionals who actually have patients with fear of flying and all kinds of other ailments, and I think being so accomodating actually hurts the affected people more in the long term than it helps.
I think the information who is a contact of whom should not reside with the provider, but be distributed among the peers.

I had a proof of concept of something similar working a couple years ago. I was writing a file-sharing app, and the goal was to piggy-pack on the existing social graph that you had from Facebook, Skype and so on. I could not register as a proper Facebook app, since that required having a domain, and I would be legally catchable in case somebody used my app to share copyrighted or illegal stuff.

Back then, Facebook messenger was based on XMPP/Jabber, which allows sending custom stanzas (secret messages that are not shown to the user). My app would ask for your login, then send a message to every contact, and if it got a reply from another instance, it would perform a handshake and exchange keys. This also worked over (old) Skype, which although it didn't support XMPP, you could do something similar with SkypeAPI. (Unfortunately, a few months later almost every messaging service that allowed such a trick stopped it...)

Now, this trick doesn't help if you are trying to set up a new social graph in the first place. But I think with this "send an invisible message to a potential contact's app" primitive, you could build a list of mutuals securely. (Other caveats apply, you'd let somebody know that you have their number for example...)
It was interesting, but other than the part about developing a genuine interest in what other people like to do I found it pretty difficult to implement most of the advice.

I'm autistic though. Knowing what to do is far easier than doing it when you have crippling social anxiety.

I do think that one bit mentioned above was incredibly helpful though. I have quite a few more friends than I used to. I was actually always interested in most conversation topics I just started paying more attention to when its my turn to talk and let other people drive the discussion.
MacBook Pro 2021 with M2 chip has leaked
Governments cant just trust it to a single 'stable genious' and call it a day
Qualcomm has had this tech for about a decade, but failed to commercialize/improve on it:

https://www.theverge.com/2012/7/23/3178117/qualcomm-mirasol-...
Playing with puppies is popular, getting an A in class is popular. These are all ideals everybody is striving for.

I don't think that this argument really addresses the point that vilifying something might be hurting the problem more.
Given the re-use and re-issuance of phone numbers in very busy US area codes (like 212, 202, etc) it also only allows discovery that at some unknown point in the past, that number has been registered as a Signal user.
You might be thinking of Fizik: "The Adaptive saddle padding is crafted by Carbon using its revolutionary Digital Light Synthesis technology" https://www.fizik.com/eu_en/drops/adaptive.html
> I actually laughed out loud at the Java.com homepage. I was so surprised, I expected a sleek, modern homepage but instead I got a portal to 2010.

The Java download button looks clickable without me having to hover over it. The Kotlin "get-started" link doesn't look clickable, because it's next to a different link that has a different style (both actually are clickable). The Scala one has a download link that also doesn't look clickable.

Rubbing salt into the wound, if you click on the second link for Kotlin ("learn more"), the back button doesn't work.

Summary

Java website: made as obvious as possible, prominent download and search interface on main page; type in your search and press enter.

Kotlin: Links differ in appearance from each other, back button broken for some links, which don't even look like links. Cannot type in a search term until after visually finding and clicking a search icon. Then you type in your search term (two-step process).

Scala: download link looks like neither a link nor a button. Never found a search button. At least "Back" works.

I have to say, the Java landing page works best. That your personal preference is for less obvious and less simple user interfaces doesn't make the simple and easy to use interface a bad choice.
As far as reading for entertainment as opposed to reading to learn, this is one of the best books I've ever read. Very inspiring.
I don't snack or drink calories. However yeah there may be some systemic issue affecting how I'm measuring calories, it's just hard to figure out what that might be.

As far as blood tests show, my insulin/glucose/hb1ac/etc. is all essentially optimal. Indeed, better than one might expect for a man of my rotundity. Thyroid is lower than average, but not outside of normal range.

I'll check out the podcast, thanks.
Why we chose Elm for Humio’s web UI
A tweak: it may be that application access patterns are inefficient WRT block I/O, so that some caching (e.g. read-ahead) is useful but should be aggressively expired.
e-ink displays and 3d printing have both convinced me that patents do more harm than good these days.
Happened a few years ago, not under the current govt. This is one of the things I'd like the current govt to go ahead recklessly with as it does other things, though.

Interestingly, it was the mostly NDA opposition (current govt) that had then went against nuclear plants as a political jibe.
Probably lends itself GNU Taylor which works with central authority.

https://taler.net/en/index.html
Does it work with Linux?
Test for lists in Cython
When considering python standard types and ease of use, such as lists and dicts
To quote what all of them are saying...

>Turning one city into an "ugly" 10 million metropolis could have spared a dozen other cities.

"Great, turn one city like that and spare the rest... just not in my city.
> Avoid the small-talk that can be done before or after the meeting, not everyone in a meeting wants to know about how many goals you're kid score this last Saturday.

With all the pandemic-induced social isolation, we saw the small-talk creep into meetings more and more in our team. What works well for us is to have a dedicated recurring meeting just for small-talk. We have it twice a week in the morning, when everyone is just drinking their first coffee of the day and not up to much yet anyway, so it doesn't seem to be taking too much productive time away.
I'm more annoyed by the inconsistent implementations than anything else (Mostly browsers as server side still sees node being the winner).

Not to mention the terrible tooling to make multiple deployment targets possible (webpack, polyfills and whatnot)
Bitcoin, et al. seek to approximate a monetary system, to bootstrap a workable currency outside the traditional trappings of a centralized state. Being digital is not the point, it just makes the idea possible whether or not it works in practice.

What exactly would a central bank “digital currency” bring to the table?

Dollars, pounds, yen, are already digital.
Oh sure, if that's true, then this case doesn't really show anything. But, I was talking more generally about the term 'autopilot' and its benefits. My example used a 2018 crash where the autopilot half took a slip road [1]

[1] https://www.carthrottle.com/post/tesla-defends-autopilot-aga...
I seriously doubt that is true.
This. This is what the web is for. It harkens back to the web of my childhood before real name policies dampened the wacky fun.
Super interesting talk on this at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EM7NB1_NtC4
Just no.

Hard money is not desirable. Whatever comes out of this "the country's money supply should be determined by some cryptobros" is not going to be the result.
> - Lower power profile

RPi is many things, but the latest generation is anything but low power. It IDLES at 60 degrees celsius, which means it really burns quite a bit of power just sitting there doing nothing.
Yes and it works better than Windows because you can turn the backlight completely off for maximum battery life.
The difference is that people don't care about one form of housing... they care about one form of neighborhood which necessarily includes many houses.
And if you do that, then you have every window’s overview there, so what you and the author writes is false.

Would you like a screenshot of it, because that is what I see precisely in front of me?
> I think the problem is because of the virtual machine, instead of being compiled to an executable.

I learned Java on gcj (gcc support for Java), and it generated executables. I've no idea why they killed it. Maybe someone more in the know can explain.
It is a matter of taste, nothing against KDE, or the minority role it currently holds on Gtk dominated landscape.
build more cities. and move jobs there.

housing is only expensive where land is expensive - city centres. The Government is able to take long enough view to do this. Any commercial actor will be against this due to rent seeking / market cornering.

What is doable in near / short term is to move government agencies out of big cities into smaller ones and start drawing people by creation of stable employment. Right now everyone is more and more forced into the same 1-5 cities per country if you want to have a well paying job. And you have to have one to pay for college / medical insurance.

I think my point is clear also not very groundbreaking. It's only that people who could do this are 50+/old and have a conflict of interest - they want to prop up their house value.
Platonic thinking is a new term to me. Seems to be summed up by "tell me how it is and I will tell you why".

I think people problems, to an extent, have to do with what we identify with. Am I a male, a national, a church member, a political partisan, a human, an animal, a piece of life, a body, a mind, etc.? All those identifications are fine if you can switch between them. Problems start when you're stuck with one, even if it's not useful anymore. It's that loss of freedom or flexibility that fascinates and perplexes me.
Thank you for this link.

I truly don't understand why everybody keeps referencing Mick West's debunking video of the Nimitz UFO footage. I actually corresponded on the guy about inconsistencies in his own claims and he gave no satisfactory justification for his extremely superficial arguments, which essentially focus on his own perceptions of inconsistencies in the footage itself and simply disregard weeks of repeated sightings, radar tracking and up-close eye-witness encounters between trained, professional pilots and the objects themselves in the air.

These are pilots who on at least a couple of these occasions observed the objects from fairly close range, in broad daylight and had their observations at least partially confirmed at the same time by also professional operators of sophisticated tracking systems (radar etc) onboard the Navy's ships.

Mick West mostly disregards all of this

Debunking with a critical eye is good and necessary but sometimes one gets the feeling that certain debunkers feel a need to do so at all costs because that's their label, even if their own "rational" interpretations make leaps of logic much worse than simply admitting that something inexplicable was observed.
Congratulations! Hard work does seem to pay off.
Are they even in business? I mean that site looks like they don’t even want customers...
> This is not available to you

¯\_(ツ)_/¯
>PostScript is like PDF, it assumes a canvas of fixed dimensions.

Actually, the most important way PostScript is unlike PDF is that it's a Turing complete programming language, which is useful for implementing responsive layout.

>CSS is more complex than PostScript because it tackles a much harder problem.

No, CSS is more complex than PostScript because it was designed by a bickering committee and competing companies over a long period of time, and nailed onto the side on HTML as an afterthought of a shotgun wedding.

>This would force you to embed the complexity of CSS/browser layout engine in each page.

Or implement a shared library or user interface toolkit or browser platform or scriptable Hypercard-like environment that makes it easy to implement responsive layout. See my comments above about The NeWS Toolkit, HyperTIES, HyperLook, PizzaTool, etc.
> The 3D manipulation of 2D fabric is just too finicky and screams for the human touch, experienced, versatile fingers. But starting off 2D, mass produced fabric is just so much more efficient and versatile.

3D robot woven fibre composites were a thing for more than a decade.
>Sometimes avoiding those connotations are exceptionally hard, verging on impossible.

Is it? Two years ago if someone told me they think of certain races every time they hear about whitelists or black holes I'd find them a bit silly.
“Peaceful” gatherings are not illegal as long as they follow the rules.

https://www.aclu.org/know-your-rights/protesters-rights/

In every country in the world the rules of protests are legislated.

Peaceful protests can turn violent or break the rules and then police can shut them down.
While in general quite confusing, I cannot help but notice, that they used to use better divisible numbers like 12, to go to the next bigger unit.

I also read that Babylonians or whoever it was, used a system with base 60, even better divisible.

I wonder how it would affect our daily lives, if we still had such better divisible numbers in use with money today. For example 60 cent make a euro or dollar or whatever. Of course then it might not be called "cent" any longer.

In essence, perhaps not all ideas of such an old system were bad in principle.
Probably no one really "minds" or is "upset" about this. As if they are now upset that their gender or race is now being slighted by the fact that we don't want to use male words for common-day things.

What we are upset about is that this is being "forced" on people (Soon, watch. Probably already happening in schools, though). And likewise, that it's being done under the guise of some sort of greater-good when it seems rather petty and won't really change the day to day issues facing women and black people.

We're also upset that this is effectively taking a step in the opposite direction to real equality.

Additionally, I could care less that we stop using "man" and "white" etc. What does bother me is that there is this nagging feeling that this is being done purposefully to upset certain groups (which we can then turn around and say "look, see, they don't like their white/male power being dismantled, they are race/sex-ist and look how much we're defeating sex/race-ism!").
It’s a bad term because it’s ambiguous. It’s better to talk about passive interception attacks or active interception attacks.
txstreet is a bit more informative as a visualizer https://txstreet.com/v/btc-eth