skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Agreed, and I do think the psychological impact of people seeing some debt bills go away completely is an emotional boost that helps them keep going.

Imagine having bills for $8k, $12k, $6k and $2k. You decide to cut current expenses and take a side job - you're getting serious about this. Getting rid of a $2k bill completely in, say, 4 months, is a decent psychological boost. You might be paying a bit more in interest if the other bills are higher interest rates, but you now have one gone completely. That's bigger progress to many people.

I think one of his quotes - or perhaps from someone else - is that you didn't get in to a bad debt situation purely by numbers and math in the first place. There were usually some emotional factors in overspending (and perhaps hiding the debt from family/friends). Trying to ignore the emotional component of getting out of debt is silly, and the 'debt snowball' is simple enough for people to grok and work.
I am always wondering that there seems to be demand for a PoE hat. I have never heard of anyone using it. So who uses it?

Also how large is Raspberry Pi’s share in commercial applications?
Following China and Korea, Taiwan also zooms on its chip equipment industry
Yes bit innocents are murdered during the dictator's regime.
> in case of Snowden they would only have prevented him from getting to South America.

And you know this how, were you working for the Austrian government at the time, and were you a member of the team who searched the plane?

Chances are that they would have at minimum detained him and allowed the US to start extradition proceedings. Whether they would have eventually extradited him, is not certain; but they would not have searched the plane (and sent the Austrian President to talk directly with Morales) if they were not minded to detain him.
Phones alert residents before Christchurch quake arrives
Think of human during hunter-gather's era and how they were looking at nutrition. Only if they could get a steady source of food, they could leave healthy. As soon as we have that steady source and no famine, look what happened with our food and nutrition.

Same idea with the promises of the early WWW, and now with cryptos, decentralisation, etc. I could not be more agree with the author, while being upset that it is a very dark conclusion.
That reminds me so much about "The Expanse" and i don't know why!
The implication is that police are routinely scanning all Encrochat photographs to extract fingerprints and other biometric details to match with existing databases.
I think Intel was more concerned about the time it took to make a new CPU rather than the cost. At least that was my impression of it at the time.

That testing is a cost is a given. But it's a known cost compared to what a huge batch of faulty CPU's can cost. Or how about a ruined reputation, how do you even know what that could cost you?

I suppose Intel already use a lot of automated testing, but given all the bugs since the change it seems it is not enough.
It would not be economical to do this unless the board is small.
The PCB for the transformer is especially tuned for its performance: what dielectric is used, what copper weight, what distance between layers, how many layers, all these are complex parameters that need to be tightly controlled.

On the other hand, for the rest of the board, the PCB can easily get away with 4 layers on standard FR4 which is cheap to fabricate.

Using these low profile transformers is getting common, especially if you can't afford the height of a standard transformer on just one side of the PCB.

You should look into the magical stuff that powers small DC to DC power supplies: transformers entirely made of PCB, tight integration of the components inside the PCB itself sometimes. It's quite amazing really (and this is 5 years old, so imagine the progress made since):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K6om51cr8Mk
NotebookFanControl is the only one that works on newer machines in my experience.

https://github.com/hirschmann/nbfc

I'm asking because I'm wondering how often it hits 99 degrees and throttles. And if it doesn't, I really need to take a closer look at it, because that would be incredible.

Dell and HP machines have this problem, 6 core Intel processors run slower than 4 core ones because the former always throttle (even though the TDP is supposedly the same).

If you want, you can use Throttlestop to set better controls/limits on clocks and power (and possibly undervolt it) for better performance, battery life and temperatures.
It seems like a company called IRRI bought his technique in 1979, but I can’t find accurate source：

> IRRI became involved in hybrid rice research in 1979

https://www.irri.org/hybrid-rice

> in 1979 ... my aid Li Yuanqing and I are working in a IRRI experimental plot...

from Yuan’s oral autobiography https://books.google.com/books?id=AVp_DwAAQBAJ&pg=PT283&lpg=...

> IRRI ... halted its research the following year, only restarting it in 1979 after China had fired up international interest by commercializing the technology.

from a journal called Rice Today(the first footnote of https://www.irri.org/hybrid-rice)

EDIT: no, IRRI is a Philippine company.
I use one for a raspberry pi running a VPN, because it was a bit more convenient in terms of wiring (everything else on the network is also already PoE).
Clearance to fly through and clearance to make an emergency landing due to doubts about the fuel gauge (we have the cockpit audio discussing the latter...) are not the same thing.

If there was really a dastardly plot to capture the guy that wasn't even on the aircraft, they'd have gone for fighter jets, not "don't land in our country, land in the country you're flying over where a diplomat will be mildly undiplomatic towards you [or fly back to Russia completely unmolested]"
Thanks so much! Yeah that idea is really itchy now :)

I guess some people don't see (at least immediately) the artistic value in such things, and then it seems rather pointless.
Which game installers use torrents?
A major dealer in Liverpool is almost certainly someone who has his prints on file for previous crimes. They'll have suspected that account was him for a while but didn't have reasonable grounds, this photo clearly convinced someone it gave them that.

But sure, let's take talking points from another country and apply it here too to get angry because question mark
What are your needs in ML development?
333 comments and only a handful get the point.

Centralization can happen for technical reasons but 99% of the time is about power and money, where a big company benefits enormously from owning a walled garden.

It was always very political. Feudal-society-vs-democracy level of political.

> The idea isn't unlike competition / anti-trust laws. But would it require making new ones?

Good question. If anti-trust laws were applied to network protocols the same way they are currently applied to all sort of physical goods, it would be already illegal to create walled gardens based on closed protocols (e.g. instant messaging).
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> NANO transactions confirm instantly.

> XMR transactions confirm in <2 minutes.

> ETH2 with Optimistic Rollups can scale to 100,000 TPS.

Do you have figures for how much compute power they need for those too?

I could write an ACID-compliant DB that could do 1M TPS but if to achieve that I had to buy a gaming rig or two, run it at basically full capacity, then it all sounds less impressive.

> Again, this is a technology in its infancy.

But when will it stop being in its infancy? At what point do we cut our losses and say this approach isn't working (if I may add, a question every scientific experiment should reckon with)?

> I do not understand the disappointment - Rome wasn’t built in a day.

But we move at a faster pace than the Romans now and if a technology hasn't matured after 11 years, then that's reasonable grounds for disappointment don't you think?
https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/world-news/corruption/bel...
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If you have the skills, you should definitely try it.

We have a full team working on this for about 7 years. Constant improvements to our algorithms, new challenges, new technologies. A ton of other functionalities besides counting (e.g. forms, reports, integration). A lot of work on the backend, UX. Also, a lot of sales and marketing involved.
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Wuhan does not have bats, indeed.

Some of the evidence is not co-incidence based, for example, the documents that appear to show the US was funding GOF research on bat coronaviruses at the WIV.

However, the reaction of the Chinese authorities (destroy all the evidence, block any investigation) is pretty much the definition of a conspiracy. I'm not sure it merits the term theory anymore - when the authorities are very visibly covering up all the evidence related to a critical event, that's what a conspiracy is. The only question now is what is the conspiracy hiding? Well, there's only one obvious possibility, isn't there?
Not so. Sanctions can be devastatingly effective applied by a significant majority of the world over a length of time. Sanctions were the instrument that brought an end to the Apartheid regime in South Africa: sanctions, having brought the South African economy to its knees, were a key factor in forcing the ruling regime to the negotiating table.

Yes, in some fairytale world the ruling National Party could have continued "doing whatever they want". Here in reality things would certainly have got worse, and the National Party government could see that the end-game was inescapable. Sanctions worked then, and they'll work again.
That whole "get the match from an employer at all costs!" is, imo, silly in its own right for many many many folks. I did that at one point for a bit, then... realized later that if you're fired or quit... that money isn't really there anyway. Most of the time (ime), there's a multi-year vesting schedule, and you don't have control over how long you'll be at a company. IF you're already getting the full value, perhaps, but I've never worked anywhere long enough to get that. I got $x 'matching', but only 25% of that was vested in the first 20 months (after 2 years, it would have been 50% IIRC) but... only that 25% was available to 'rollover' when I left the company.
No, the head propagandists (RT's Simonyan, Solovyev) are ecstatic and can't stop congratulating KGB.
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Are they reading HN?

And just updated Ryanair's statement still does not include info about two "arrested" (kidnapped!) passengers of FR4978 flight in Minsk...

JFTR, Originally title of actual thread on HN was: “Ryanair’s statement on FR4978 does not include info about arrested passengers”[0]

[0] https://twitter.com/hn_frontpage/status/1396775444071002113
I’ve noticed immigrants to New Zealand are often highly motivated, work hard, and are well on their way to success.

i suspect that this is because there is a strong selection bias: it takes some serious effort and skill to be allowed to immigrate here (plus some luck maybe!).
Transhumanism Patents
I'm collecting patents regarding transhumanism. So far I've found WO 2020/060606 A1 filed by Microsoft et al. and titled Cryptocurrency System Using Body Activity Data. What other patents exist which relate to transhumanism or posthumanism?
Yes, I think it was indeed the flashcards part.
IMHO the concept of "parallel construction" is mostly an USA specific thing because USA legal doctrine is heavy on fourth amendment application and "fruit of the poisonous tree" doctrine that can make evidence inadmissible depending on how it was obtained. But all those things and rights are specific to USA, not in general, and not even for other common law countries.

As far as I understand, such "fruit of the poisonous tree" doctrine is not applied in UK, as long as the evidence is believed to be true, it would generally be admissible in court even if it was obtained through e.g. mass warrantless wiretapping, so if they knew who he was already, they could and would have just gone ahead and there would be no need to put in the effort for some parallel construction.
They don’t sound so useless to me then :)

They clearly led to the development of skills that produce great economic value.
Right, it seems like he was discussing criminal activity on Encrochat, posted his fingerprints in the picture, and the Police must have had his prints on file from previous incidents. No rights violations required, not that such rights would apply in the UK anyway but that's a different issue.
I don't think there is a fruit of the poisonous tree doctrine in UK.

Of course there might be other reasons not to admit to illegally obtained evidence.
But the users might make different choices if they knew how often mail they probably want to receive isn't reaching them. The problem at the moment is that the failures are largely silent from the user's point of view. To be fair to GMail, although it's obnoxiously aggressive with classifying things as spam, as far as I know it doesn't silently drop incoming mail without notifying either the sender or recipient, which is the worst thing that some major ISPs do.

I have had customers contact my business to ask for help with something, and we send them a quick reply answering their question, and then the next day we get a frustrated follow-up asking why we are ignoring them, and this continues for another round or two until they give up on buying something from us or cancel a subscription.

I have had friends send me a reply a month after a big party saying they're sorry they didn't make it but they only just found the invitation and the follow-up I sent them in their junk folder.

Those sorts of cases are annoying and seem to happen all the time these days, but imagine if a missing email was something really important from your doctor or your kid's school.
Obviously because Miller busted the Space Cheese Cartel. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YcNnUHSwOHI
A lot of game developers have written a 'toy' game engine.
A lot of embedded developers have written their own little OS.
A lot of web developers have written a 'click this button to autogenerate web pages' tool.
And so on.

Face it. You are just not that hot. Another X Compiler for Y. Great. Probably doesn't really work. Senior devs probably care more about that you can finish boring project or stack. Spend hours on some tiny thing and make it work.

It probably also depends on how you present those hobby projects. Instead of saying "Look, I am so cool!", you can say you use this as a means to become a better programmer.
Don't be silly - Belarus is a sovereign state, they control their airspace and they had every right to land that plane down. Assange made US looked stupid in that incident while Lukashenko made Protasevich looked stupid yesterday.

btw nobody sane is believing that US wouldn't force to land plane flying over US with Snowden in it - but Snowden isn't that stupid I guess.
Haven't taken FP directly, but have read the material and listened to his show before.

It might make you rethink your goals overall. It might make you consider just saving and giving yourself a bigger savings setup, and then pursue your startup goals later, when you can perhaps self-fund a lot more of it, and attack it from a position of stronger financial security.

Or not...
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No one will stand for Belarus. Sanctions have the effect of running Belarus into Russian\Chinese debt pit even further.

Until the military sides with opposition (it won't) there will be no changes at all. Even if military gets involved, there will be russian "voluteers" (see Russian volunteers in Moldova 90, Balkans 92-01, Chechnya 93, Ukraine 14 ) that are there to help fight new "junta".

And then it will result in Ukraine II: electric boogaloo. Eastern Belarus is de-facto a part of Smolensk oblast' with some Russia funded murderers creating an "independent" republic. This was played out to death over the last 30 years.

And don't get me wrong. All while this will be happening, EU will be very concerned, that is for sure.

None of this will happen ofc, because all resistance will be suppressed with excessive force, at the very start. No trials, no judges.
Similar to how companies "don't discriminate" when hiring or firing.
Wholeheartedly agree.

Every now and then I will naively take on some kind of difficult programming challenge requiring lots of hacks and out of the box thinking. These can be quite fun projects, and very rewarding if you make it to the end. But sometimes, as you work your way through the project, and the number of exceptions and edge cases grows, you have to step back and ask yourself is it really worth it? Sunk cost fallacy usually kicks in and you hate yourself for a couple of days, but ultimately you realise it was the right decision.

"They were too occupied thinking about how they could do it, that nobody stopped to ask whether they should."

I don't know what drives Wikipedia contributors to do what they do, but I imagine there would be a large number of them who would want to go out and be the first to write a summary and select/upload a picture for as many articles as they possibly could. If the motivation simply isn't there - gamify it somehow.
A close friend has been doing wet sifting at Crater of Diamonds for years. Low wage work with the promise of a lotto ticket sprinkled in is exactly how I would describe it. This article felt like a very long ad.
There is an important difference. The Bolivian plane was warned sufficiently in advance and had enough fuel to flight back to Russia at that point. The Ryanair flight was forced to land with a military jet leaving the pilots no choice but to comply.

But I agree that what Western Europe did to Bolivian flight backfires now badly.
This is a random result when you search for Borrell in Moscow. Look for his behavior in Turkey if you want some more examples of how random this guy is while he is considered an EU representative. His position requires for him to coordinate responses of the 27, but he is just wandering around wasting time and resources. As far as the EU is an economic powerhouse, letting dictators do whatever they want while allowed access to the market is making him irrelevant.

https://www.euractiv.com/section/global-europe/news/borrell-...
Status Anxiety as a Service
Step down converters are commonly used in car ECUs. Similar input and output range, power and everything goes on a single PCB. So there must be a different reason.
> As for crypto, I recommend people read about Bitcoin being used for the purposes of sending remittances to start.

I followed your recommendation and this is what I found: bitcoin might, in theory, work for the purpose of sending remittances, but in practice it doesn't.

So, returning to the original question, can cryptocurrencies offer an innovative solution for migrant remittances to developing countries? Yes and no. In theory, cryptocurrencies can really provide an effective and economical channel for money transfers to help alleviate poverty through remittances. However, there are two principle problems. Firstly, coins such as Bitcoin remain too volatile, in fact ten times more volatile than major currencies (Baur & Dimpfl 2021). This means that if migrants were to use such channel they would be exposing themselves to extreme risks. But, more importantly users of bitcoin may find themselves victims of speculative attacks, as the cryptocurrencies’ value remains completely speculatively constructed. Secondly, as with international bank transfers, cryptocurrencies need a bank account to buy and sell it. As explained above, having a bank account is not a given and represents a high barrier to entry for many of the poorest migrants.

https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/humanrights/2021/04/29/cryptocurrenc...
The Story of Nebulus
Focus on quality and share it in a relevant subreddit.
Perhaps a great way to get them to show up, would be to give them the opportunity to be the first to write a summary and select/upload a picture for an article in their field? :)
I remember way back in 1990 when I first got to my university, salivating at the idea of getting access to their Cray-2. It had been paid for by the DOE for a research lab, and basically nobody got access to it. It took me three years to work my way up the computing center ladder, but I was finally able to get an account on it through connections.

UNICOS was weird, and the interactive shell was slow as molasses. But it sure ran my raytracing jobs a heck of a lot faster than a Sparcstation 5!
A good policy, were the European Council agree on a half-decent response, would be to directly reimburse any airline for the extra costs of flying around Belarusian airspace. At that point even the Ryanair scum would probably agree to the detour.
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No amount of technology will keep you anonymous if you freely post details that identify you. This example is just poor opsec. He might as well have posted a picture of his driver's license! Just like that guy who posted the exact GPS coordinates of his terrorist camp.
Since I can’t just copy & paste the entire article back to this comment:

- All mentions of Canary Island refueling are post Austria landing

- Spain is the conditional search-for-landing country (comment given by Spanish PM in aftermath of Austria landing)

- Morales’ flight requested to land in Austria because of fuel reading issues, not geometry.

There is no indication of “boxing in”, unless Belarus, Ukraine, and Russia are part of it. The flight had permission through Poland, Czechia, and Austria before being denied Italy, France, and Spain. Morales called their bluff by landing in Austria instead of calling Czechia’s or Poland’s by heading back to Russia and proving the box-in.

We’re left with “More airspace walls & boxing-in” being entirely hypothetical and untested, “geometry > fuel” with a flight choosing to land because of fuel issues, and an end point in Vienna because they never turned around.

A gun to one’s head is much simpler, and indeed significantly more threatening than the convoluted political games involved in searching a diplomatic flight, if only for the reason I can’t call the gunman’s bluff by simply sitting down in Austria.
I don't understand what you are trying to convey? Are you saying that state-sponsored hijacking can only happen once, so the fact that is has happens before is evidence it cannot have happened now?
Yeah, you become a better programmer. And if it is fun while you at it, it another win.
https://www.merseyside.police.uk/news/merseyside/news/2021/m... is the police source for the news. The fella pleaded guilty, so (I guess?) the rest of the evidence didn't have to be revealed in court.

Of interest is that Liverpool police arrested 60 people because of the Encrochat "hack" for selling drugs and weapons. I imagine some of those would be customers, but I imagine a few hundred would have been arrested across the country.
half dozen who survived :)
Would you prefer a strong, centralised EU government with a strong leader (aka dictator)?

Well, I don't.

But this is the only way to take direct action - as the individual members are not of a single mind.
This appears to be copied word-for-word from the Aviation Herald, the original source: http://avherald.com/h?article=4e7d7208

Edit: seems this is allowed by AV Herald under certain circumstances [1]:

> If you purchase a subscription, you are allowed to republish any textual information provided by our articles during your subscription period in any form within your publication - you are allowed to copy and paste our articles onto your website/newspaper/magazine - provided you credit The Aviation Herald properly by providing a link to our original article.

And the footer of that article says:

> This article is published under license from Avherald.com. © of text by Avherald.com.

Anyway, it's probably better to link directly to the original (also a lighter website).

1. http://avherald.com/h?faq=
I agree. There is a lot of armchair whining here. Are people really in favour of an invasion of Belarus?