skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> If it's really that big of an inconvenience for those closest to you, you have to wonder how close they really are.

You are in an incredibly fortunate position if you only ever have to communicate with people or groups of people who find you so significant they will change things to ensure they can reach you.

I am involved in a couple of volunteer groups with about 50 members. Everything is planned and discussed in WhatsApp groups. I am a junior member with no special value to the group and if I declined to participate via WA I would just be ignored. I.E. If I stopped using WhatsApp I would no longer have any hobbies. Great result.

Likewise where I live there is a massive housing shortage, 100 applicants for a flat is not unusual. If the agent wanted to use WhatsApp and I refused, he would just ignore me.
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Having my whole income dry out exactly a year ago surely was a relaxing pause like experience .... And honestly I got it easy, poor people working in culture.
In that state there is no awareness, so you can't really be patient as you don't feel the passing time. It's kind of like a time machine.
Airfilters (with carbonfilters) are quite effective.
How does holding some coins give any incentive to anyone else?
I don't get it, why eat insects over something like a cow?

Cows provide fertilizer, provider highly nutritious meat and have the same neglible environmental impact as other wildlife. Essentially the emissions of ruminants on US soil is indistinguishable from the emission of ruminants 200 years ago.

The studies that proved that cows consume huge amounts of water or emit methane were highly flawed, either comparing the usage of naturally occurring water as water consumed, or comparing whole lifecycle of cow emission to tail pipe emission of a car (compare CO2 of all things a person uses in lifetime to another persons CO2 emission of CO2 during their life).
Not everywhere you can get a board done in 8 hours...

There are places in the world where even DHL Sameday needs 1 month to get.
https://news.ycombinator.com/ but guess you know that.
I'm really happy to see you on here and see that you have remote positions.

I have a Mark2 at work. It's really amazing, the software for it is great, and I plan to fly some parts made with it in a lunar mission!

The carbon fibre demo keychain part always blows people away when I invite them to try and break it. For those that don't know, markforged makes a 3d printer that can embed a continuous carbon fibre strand into each print layer, making for very stiff and strong parts.
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And no decent investment advice includes buying gold.
Most Arduino code I've seen at the hackerspace I used to go to barely had anything defined as functions. Just setup and loop. There were people who coded for many years and did very cool stuff and they didn't know what a struct was.
Even as a long time Erlang user, the rise of node.js was just sad to watch. I understand why it happened, but looking from the outside what kind of nonsense they were doing when there are such better solutions was sad.
anarcho-capitalism isn't really anarchism, in the sense that anarchism is historically opposed to wage labour & private property because it represents a form of coercion. I don't just mean this in a normative sense - whatever you think of the merits of either, anarcho-capitalism doesn't have much historical or theoretical continuity w/ anarchism.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unidade_real_de_valor

> Its main purpose was to establish a parallel currency to the cruzeiro real, free from the effects of inertial inflation on the latter, which exceeded 1,200% per year prior to the implementation of the new currency, the real.

Seems like they didn't create one but two new currencies: URV and the real we use today. There were exchange rates and everything.

Not sure what's so special about it.
> It's like vendors really don't want people to store their photos as files anymore

In case you haven't noticed, there seems to be an active effort to do away with the notion of files. Because making things more abstract is supposed to reduce confusion somehow.
How much estrogen does it have though?
Been teaching as well using an ESP32 based board and we used VSCode with Platformio. It worked really well.
yeah it's Autechre and a load of their mates isn't it?
That's what changelogs are for - keep a polished changelog for important stakeholders, and a rough one for team mates.

I do the same for building in public - changelog on my website, and a super long twitter thread (https://twitter.com/RozenMD/status/1364881512500404224?s=20 for example)
> Whether their ideas and worlds stand up to Asimov and company, or happen to be appealing to a particular reader, is another matter, but the command of writing itself is overall better, I'd say.

But that's just the thing -- science fiction is about the ideas, and about the sociological and psychological impact of those ideas.

Whether a work has literary merit is neither here nor there for most people, and "science fiction" as a genre has been looked down upon by literary folks since it's inception. I don't know why anyone would be interested in praise from a community that is so invested in snobbery.

Regardless, science fiction authors of the time did have literary merit, if that's what you care about. LeGuin and Butler, are both regarded well in modern literary circles as far as I know. Vonnegut himself is regarded well also. At the time however, their books were condemned as being inadequate by the prevailing literary reviewers for various reasons unrelated to their actual writing.

Work from that time is perfectly functional and servicable for the most part, especially if you look at the places where the stories were submitted and published -- a small majority of Clarke's works ended up being published in Playboy, I don't think anyone can blame him for not creating a literary masterpiece when the majority of places that would actually pay him for his work were essentially pulp magazines.
It was a badass move because the CEO was asserting his power and right to say stop.

That channel probably spiralled out of control and spawned social justice warriors and all kinds of "identity based" discussions which completely derail everything. A company does not necessarily have the capability to make everyone politically happy, and to not have feelings hurt or to keep people unoffended. It is a company with a value chain. I mean that a company discussion board is not the right arena. You don't want it to turn into a 4chan cesspool.

Having a CEO to say enough and use his role to park the whole discussion and reframe.

This is my view and not an absolute truth.
The piece you are missing is called the Key Image. The key image can be thought of as a fingerprint/hash (one way function) of the true spender, and is always produced when the true spender signs the transaction. Signing the transaction with any of the decoy keys will not produce a valid key image, and therefore they are not able to spend the funds (or see their amount). This key image is also used to verify that transactions aren't being spent twice - despite not knowing which input in a ring is actually being spent, a transaction with a key image that has never been used before guarantees that it hasn't been spent in the past.
Big fan of Guix, though I've only tested it in VMs, via Vagrant[1], for lack of disposable hardware.

Its usability by non-specialists can be improved (and is, release by release) but the concept is very promising for reproducible systems.

[1]: https://github.com/OverkillGuy/jibyconf/blob/master/GUIXSD_V...
I've didn't meant a federal bank but a regional bank. It is like California having their own state controlled bank called "Development Bank of California" where they lend themselves as much dollars as they want regardless of the FED policy.
Thanks for the write up because it is really details and helps someone to understand and learn. Good job.
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Send the monitor casing to this guy. https://retrohax.net/commodore-sx-64-keyboard-restoration/
I rather imagine we'll see a wasm vm/runtime in rust, and a typescript/js to wasm compiler written in typescript...
I gave it a whirl:

> git clone https://github.com/denoland/deno.git denoland/deno
> git clone https://github.com/denoland/rusty_v8.git denoland/rusty_v8
> cd denoland/deno
> vi Cargo.toml

...
[patch.crates-io]
rusty_v8 = { path = "../rusty_v8" }
...

> cargo build --release
... as expected same failure - good ...

Make rusty_v8 build.rs aware of freebsd

> vi ../rusty_v8/build.rs

...
#[cfg(target_os = "freebsd")]
{
"freebsd"
}
...

Have a quick squizz to see where this is used:

> rg "platform\(\)" ../rusty_v8

build.rs
157:fn platform() -> &'static str {
180: .join(platform());

Attempt to fix... and bang! It's using the platform() result to call a python script that pulls binaries from here:

https://github.com/denoland/ninja_gn_binaries/

And there's no FreeBSD build there. To much yak shaving for idle curiosity on my part.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Letter_of_marque

There's historical precedent for this.
Looks good, but unfortunately my first thought is: this looks like a 1 or 2 person shop, how big is the risk of them calling it quits within 5 years from now?

For that reason, I use https://www.photosync-app.com/ and back up my photo's to my webhost and to B2: both the app and the storage locations are interchangeable in case any of them stops working.
Diamonds are a scam and everyone knows it.
They are an over inflated good held by a monopoly of handful producers that tightly control the supply.

And nobody gives a fuck.

> I see no value being created in these "investments".

And stock market is any better? At the inception stock market was a tool to invest and prop up businesses for long term dividend gains. No its pure speculation tool that doesn't benefit anyone but the concentrated wealth, it is so removed from reality (but you already mentioned that).

At least I made money of crypto, before the blob of ultraweathly descends on it.
> the easier thing to do in a culture where you might have to back insults up with violence is to... not insult people.

Isn't that basically saying that libel laws should be enforced by the death penalty?

If I say my local chiropractor knowingly promotes bogus treatments - should my life be in danger?
Consider this. The maximum possible pay Person Y can obtain in the current market is $20 per hour. However, cutting unemployment pressures this Person to get a $15 per hour job immediately.

For the sake of the argument lets assume that unemployment benefits give $15 per hour. Those $15/h represent $15/h of pure waste because they have to be paid by employed people.

However, someone using unemployment benefits to obtain the $20/h job implies that taking the $15/h job wastes $5/h of your potential and unemployment increases your future potential by $5/h.

Those $5/h are pure waste, nobody gets them, not even your boss because an employee working in a fast food restaurant can generate less economic value than an employee in a warehouse.

However, unemployment generally lasts as long as necessary. Only a handful of individuals live on unemployment benefits over the long term. If you are unemployed for 6 months you cost the state $14400 (assuming $600 in benefits per week and 4 weeks per month for simplicity). It takes $14400/$5/h = 2880 hours of the warehouse job to break even from a macro economic perspective or 1.6 years with 1800 working hours per year. Of course this is not the actual tax revenue, assuming 27% of GDP is evenly taxed it would take 6 years to break even for the government.

This is just a potential benefit from the "unemployment benefits cause a worker shortage" perspective. If you go one step further there are even more situations in which unemployment benefits can help the economy. For example, what if those people will stay unemployed anyway, even if you cut benefits? They still buy products and services that generate business revenue and the business can use the additional money to hire previously unemployed people.

Of course the ultimate underlying assumption behind everything I wrote is that the economy has an abundance of goods and high inequality. None of this would work in an economy with long term scarcity like a developing country. As it is right now, full employment in the US is a "bonus", the economy doesn't depend on it. Other countries are willing to do almost everything the USA can do but they do it cheaper, which negates the need for low skill jobs to be done in the US.
Correct. Pain just means “similar to human beings’ negative sensory input” which is very myopic, if you think about it.
Next evolution of this is some fecal to air counter, with a voice stating "Alexa, IT IS STINKY"
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Oh, what happens now - resources not collected until next deno restart? Or just a non-adjustable timeout?
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US Government murdering parents not opting into child prostitution. Has murdered family members after failing to murder me.

Network and communication rerouted. Hacking and exposure to security breach is massive.

Attacking the people on mass scale by chemical weapons and plans to exact more harm and death.

Consider reading into this please and reach out for more details. #r1V3r
I imagine the "healthy" connotation that the term fresh carries is good for marketing. "generator" sounds industrial, polluting.. makes one wonder if it causes adverse health effects.
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If they don't attempt to address it they'll certainly fail.
I'm in Europe. The government passed a somewhat vague law that basically "recommends facilitating working from home if possible" during the pandemic.

Still as I said, either way I'm prepared to get fired with or without case.
How does this compare to Physical Based Rendering [0]?

[0]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physically_based_rendering
I checked and the guidelines are as follows:

Before mixing, the vaccine may be stored in an ultra-cold freezer between -80°C and -60°C (-112°F and -76°F). Vaccine may be stored until the expiration date.

Before mixing, the vaccine may be stored in the freezer between -25°C and -15°C (-13°F to 5°F) for up to 2 weeks. The total time vials are stored at these temperatures should be tracked and should not exceed 2 weeks.

So once they reach their destination they can be put in a normal freezer, which in turn are abundant and cheap.
This is absolutely up for debate and I refuse to allow somebody to dictate me what kind of sarcasm I am allowed to use in private conversations with close work buddies.
They aren't. The coloring is quite different, and as the article itself says it's all about fixing the linear scale used in the original article, because the images are supposed to be viewed with a logarithmic scale. The original article wasn't updated to use images with a logarithmic scale, as far as I can see in web.archive.org.
I completely agree with you. Also those people who complain about the "dull european" look, did you scroll down and look at the images altered using the Mapillary Vistas set?

The cool thing is that this gives game-designers an extremely powerful additional tool. You could for example easily go for a more retro-look by training with kodakcolor images ...

And I don't buy the argument that GTA doesn't look more realistic because that's what the designers were going for. If this was a game with a clear "comic appearance" that might be true, however I would argue it looks like it does, because the designers did the maximum that they could achieve with their tools and within a certain budget.
And they still suck, 25 years later
The reason for going to Mars is not to avoid mankind’s mistakes (e.g. global warming) but to avoid the great filter in whatever form it takes.
So be part of the 5% if you want that. Problem solved.
germany is unsaturated
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You're right, and that's why I consider their name misleading: these things are thoroughly unhealthy, and may mask another source of unhealth (bad scent maybe due to hidden mold for instance).
I work for a Huge healthcare corporation; they own 23 hospitals and employ over 60,000 people. Yet lunch breaks are 30 minutes long--an Adult can not eat a healthy meal in 30 minutes, a 6 year probably could though, they require far less food than a grown man.

They also constantly promote walking as a real form of exercise---which is a joke. You have to workout to be healthy: working out, in case you don't know, is painful and it makes you smell bad; but there is No substitute.
How is the built in testing? I'm a bit wary because Jest is so good and wonder if it can compete on every front it's baking in.

It reminds me of Angular coming with it's own Router, Forms, Animations and then since they're provided officially, alternatives don't get created and then the half of the team leaves and the packages are abandoned.
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Brave post - the government has jailed people for far less
Google apps you can combine and automate to increase productivity
Insects contain the most protein in proportion of body weight, their food is whatever low-quality biomass you throw at them, their production doesn't take much space... They are simply more efficient.

Edit: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27128086 has a nice FAO quote along these lines.
Why do you want to move from DS to SWE? I've been thinking of moving from SWE to DS because I don't enjoy the unpaid 24/7 on call support, constant fear of something breaking, having to deal with PM's on my case for the next jira ticket. Also making crud apps is more often then not less mentally challenging then DS.
> So donating money because of this post may not be a good idea

Why not? Do we not want all babel mantainers to be paid atleast 130k?
> I bet many people will say that today's circuit boards are so cheap and making one at home is just too troublesome

I've heard this a lot and can never understand it. It's like saying "why use a 3D printer when you can get the same thing for $50 or $10 and a month of waiting?". Because sometimes I want a good-enough thing for cheap now, not a perfect thing for expensive later.
Those two examples are the two examples given by Google themselves in the article itself.
In other words, founders without investors. They seldom have a lot of employees though.
Did you just make up the entire passage about ice strength? Why do you feel the need to do that?

Ice is 0.5 Mpa stong in the freezer and 2 Mpa at absolute zero.

Thats tensile strenght of chalk and limestone - you can get that with a shovel. Tensile strength of rock is measured in Hundreds of MPA.

The smallest, wimpiest digger you can find can handle it.
Germans say they like their privacy. Germans also use WhatsApp, Facebook, Google Chrome and Windows.

Germans may be more likely than Americans to think of "privacy" as something they want to be protected, but that doesn't at all translate to a cultural understanding of data protection. We don't want to be "spied on" but that only translates into an expectation of legislature, not into much real activism.

There was a short-lived popular support of the Pirate Party around free culture, privacy and transparency but as someone involved at the time I have to confess for most people this was mostly fueled by fears of losing the ability to listen to music and watch videos prior to the rise of Netflix and music streaming services.

There's an old cultural cliché of Germany being personified by a tired man with a nightcap as a joke about Germans being politically unmotivated but regardless of why that continues to be the case, it still very much describes how it feels if you try to motivate Germans about any issue beyond a few performative protests.
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Paradoxically, the default state of fiat currency is deflation, because the primary means of money creation is debt. If inflation is 2% every year that means future debts must overshadow past debts. If you raise interest rates people stop borrowing money because it becomes too expensive. The interest rate itself acts as a productivity gate. "You must be this productive to obtain financing." If you stop borrowing money, then the only place for the money to go is to pay off debts, which contracts the money supply and you get deflation which is strong enough to counteract past inflation. The vast majority of dollars were "printed" this way.
To be fair though, that particular targeting option does not require third party data collection, as people announce engagements on FB, which is where they get the information from.
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I experimented 5-6 years ago with a programmable metronome using KnockoutJS and realized quickly how easy it is to cause jitters and unpredictable performance on the main thread. I wish I had come across this post back then!

Although a big contributor for performance issues in my project (and especially OP's) is the amount of UI updates that need to happen in succession (lots of event listeners, css transformations and dom changes)
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Thanks for this comment. While it is a no-brainer for me to support this, I initially felt that this is hopeless and very few people care. But after seeing your comment, it pushed me to also sign :-) We shouldn't give up.
I was interested in Deno from the start. It has a few very nice features. Notably the sandboxing model, native Typescript support and browser based API surface.

But I also was quite skeptical of their dependency model with plain url imports.

With the current implementation you end up with a half-baked import map that's essentially a poor mans package.json, but without any of the tooling that you'd expect. (like npm upgrade, npm outdated)

It recently dawned on me what they are going for: a "cloud native" computing platform that doesn't require builds and packaging. Targeting both Javascript and WASM.

I do believe there is quite a lot of promise in the project. The tooling can improve. It'll be interesting how things evolve.
Improved collection of GP data launched
HINT: if you want a particulate sensor and don't want to solder anything, buy an SDS011 with USB interface.

15 euros on aliexpress.
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SEEKING FREELANCER | Remote (any location)

Need an expert advisor/developer to help us resolve a few road blocks we are facing in the web scraping framework:

- reCaptcha based issues - we use 2captcha to solve, it works fine. But few websites have additional security by validating the reCaptcha if it was manually filled or not. (Eg: https://www.spectrum.net/)

- Web crawlers / automation tools like Selenium being blocked to interact with website (Eg: https://www.t-mobile.com/)

- 2FA - Additional level of security by security questions or OTP (sms/email)

- IPs blocked due to maximum logins done with in a period of time

- Geography based blocking, some website only allow USA based IPs to the website. (Current solution : VPN)

Anyone available for a few hours to help advise/develop the best solutions to the above? This will be a short contract-based role.

Urgency: High Priority/Immediate.

Contact me at harsimran@gerald.app with your work portfolio/resume and hourly compensation for this collaboration.
You can probably have the game output custom-made data to serve as an input for the subsequent NN and skip a whole bunch of lighting calculations.