skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am puzzled by one thorn it is intended to solve.

In the case of merchant/customer interactions, the LN channel blocks customer funds from their balance, but they will never receive money from the merchant. So that balance will be sent to the merchant, payment by payment.

Not only does that block funds for the customer (which wants to reduce those, to avoid blocking too much, but that reduces the number of payments that can be made off-chain), but it also blocks the merchant’s reception of those payments: the merchant wants to be able to spend it soon, but it can only spend it on-chain.

That is compounded by the fact that most merchant/customer interactions are rare one-offs in the real world. I just don’t buy stamps every day.

LN channels are only most useful when the two parties exchange money bidirectionally on average.
Learning a trade:

- I have a solid career/business-opportunity to fall back on when I get tired of the tech industry. Many trades have been around for hundreds of years and can't really be outsourced.

- I can use all common power and hand tools and do my own home projects.

- I've saved thousands of dollars on quality (non-particleboard) furniture over the years by restoring thrift store or sidewalk finds.

- By far the most important part though is learning the value of craftsmanship, and the process of starting as a beginner and gaining competence via prolonged effort.
How many people died of the flu this year?
While this could very well change as the app evolves, my current vision is that Spark Bible bridges the gap between a normal Bible app and more academic tools like Logos. I would like for people to experience the same ideas that a biblical scholar has via studying commentaries and Greek/Hebrew using Logos, but without having to go to seminary. Organizations like BibleProject and many seminaries are making some great educational content freely available online, which in large part gave birth to this idea.
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Propaganda has bad reputation partially because it is associated with world war 2. Prior to that, it was freely used without negative connotations.

Think about it like this. Parents manipulate their children all the time to make them do things they don't want to do. They do not do it honestly, but it certainly it not perceived a societal harm despite inherent dishonesty.
I recommend the preface and first chapter of "Killing hope" for a look into communism and anti-communism.
yes - agree.

I think that the testamentary on this thread from current Amazon employees that they have ditched API requirements is evidence that it is also unneeded to sustain the kind of company that Amazon is.
US home prices jumped 23% year-on-year
> Americans are also wealthier in general though

Americans are higher variance (wrt wealth) in general, which makes some of these comparisons quite difficult.
The benefits stop when you start shaking and can't sleep.
One reason to consider Julia for workflows like this is that it's been designed to improve reproducibility. Julia makes it really easy to distribute package state (through manifest.toml files), that make it easy to get exact copies of the package versions that the original author used.
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This.

For many people including me, coffee consumption throughout the day reduces the appetite a lot. Two cups of coffee and my food consumption might be 25 per cent lower.

That said, this effect may be balanced out by all the people who just must have a cake with their coffee and who sweeten their coffee with sugar.

Also, none of the booze lovers I know drink coffee much. As if the beverages were somehow incompatible. This will show on the liver side as well.
Grants of patents are done under the auspices and oversight of a principal officer as well, and most invalidations are done by inferior officers. (In fact, appeals in the patent application process are handled by the same Patent Trial and Appeal Board that handles patent challenges at issue in this case.) This case doesn't concern who usually makes the decision; the case concerns who has the final, authoritative say in the decision -- the inferior officers have to actually be under the direction of a principal officer.
Google only charges users once per user per click.
Deposits are liabilities for banks and much of the injected money has found its way back into the Fed's balance sheet, exchanged for Treasuries the banks need(ed) to maintain collateral requirements (offset deposit liabilities). It may have made passes through the 'normal' economy, but is now caught in a repo loop that has little to a negative impact on velocity, but is inflation negative.
Talk to your manager. They may be okay with you looking for what to work on on your own.

I started doing that a couple years ago. I'd scout and talk to people about what they needed. Eventually we'd find a project that was worth working on.

It's gone really well. I was okayed to basically choose what I worked on after a while, so that made work more fun. And your employer may recognize that and reward it.
That's a strange argument. "If we pay you for the product you give us, we'll never be able to pay our service providers. Instead, we'll give sell it to someone else."
So-called heretics have been scaling Bitcoin in spite of BTC's braindead decisions. Last week, 50K TPS were demonstrated publicly on Bitcoin SV: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i3As9-9uSXs. More privately.
It's great these people liked their jobs. I don't think you're going to find enough people like that to fill every janitor position though. Not to mention all the other jobs which tend to be less desirable that society needs. In any case, I think the discussion has changed here because there is a difference between 'hating your job' and 'doing a job to get paid'
You're using a different definition than the article. It's developed a negative connotation, but originally it referred to any dissemination of information made to influence public opinion. It refers to the motivation, not the content. Even citing true, non-misleading statistics in order to accomplish something good for society is propaganda, according to the old meaning. ("Propaganda" comes from a word that literally just means "propagate".)
I think the way YouVersion got around it was having the public domain versions downloadable (so KJV and ASV I think). Maybe that would be enough for now?
Wise (formerly TransferWise) ETIF drops (UK S1 equivalent) [pdf]
Once you learn the propaganda techniques, you start seeing it everywhere in the mainstream media. I used to think about 10% of the mainstream media was propaganda, now it seems like about 90%.
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...so anyone who's under the age of 35 is just screwed? That's what you're effectively saying.
Past related threads:

Using aligned word vectors for instant translations with Python and Rust - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27465287 - June 2021 (35 comments)

FastText embeddings of field headers to improve NLP - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23405965 - June 2020 (1 comment)

Fast and accurate language identification using fastText - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15393518 - Oct 2017 (12 comments)

Multilingual word vectors in 78 languages - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14167539 - April 2017 (23 comments)

Facebook releases 300-dimensional pretrained Fasttext vectors for 90 languages - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13771292 - March 2017 (70 comments)

Fasttext and Torch: A fasttext implementation based on Torch - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12862541 - Nov 2016 (1 comment)

Facebook AI Research Open Sources fastText - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12329094 - Aug 2016 (5 comments)

FastText – Library for fast text representation and classification - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12226988 - Aug 2016 (52 comments)
> And as time goes on it seems more and more things are being written rather than spoken.

Agreed! Writing scales (write one, can be read by many dispersed in place and time), it is searchable (far more easily than audio), there's no accent barrier, has a high knowledge per byte ratio.

Love the description of 'evoking a reaction'.
It was a wave of public emotion that gout Eich ousted.
I used to run a newspaper. The business model question is very hard.

There's basically a choice:

You can write clickbaity ad-revenue-optimised shite, which draws people in, gets them to open the article (and get served the ads). But once they've done that then there's no point in getting them engaged further - from a business point of view there's nothing gained by getting them to read stuff once the ads have been served. So you target the journos for 5 articles a day, minimum, knowing that that's not enough time for them to write decent articles, and get your editors to make the headers clickbaity. Job done. Except ad revenue is declining year-on-year and you're trashing your reputation for journalism.

Or you can do "proper" journalism, which involves paying journalists for good articles, investigative journalism, Pulitzer prize stuff. It costs a fortune. It's not worth doing for ad revenue because the clickbaity stuff actually earns more money. But it does increase your reputation. And if you get your reputation high enough, people will start paying to access the stuff you're writing.

At least that's the theory. No-one (as far as I'm aware) has actually made a profit from either model since about 2000. The Guardian has done very well out of the Wikipedia model, but all the opinions I hear is that that's probably not sustainable, and is anyway very specific to them because they cater to a niche that is very politically aware and fairly well-off. i.e. they have money to spare to support the Grauniad, and identify with its political stance.

So, yes, optimising for ad revenue when you have a paywall is stupid - people who are drawn there by the clickbait header won't pay the paywall. And people who have paid for the paywall will be annoyed if the article is optimised for clickbait (ad-revenue). I hope that makes sense? Let me know if not and I can explain it again.

I'm a geek, I enjoy messing with this stuff. The enjoyment of the technical challenge of "hacking" their paywall was more than worth the time it took. The article was probably not. Not sure I'd do it again.
Correct me if I am wrong, but most of these services, such as the electronic signature, the electronic seals and the document exchange functionality outlined on that website are all dependent on a central authority are they not?

Your signature certificate is issued by your government (or an organisation working for said government). The seals are created with certificates that are, once again, created by a central authority.

The document exchange is really just a fancy way to store files on your device and send them.

As far as I can tell none of this is decentralised? I don't really see why they would want to decentralise it either, your digital identity as a citizen only exists because a central authority, a nation in this case, validated you to be a citizen ...

As mentioned, correct me if I am wrong, but as far as I can see all of these EU plans are basically just giving each EU citizen a cert that is issued by their government and some nice applications that build around those certs?
Well, immutable code is imperformant code!! /s
You have no reason to feel guilty. The relationship between employee and employer is fundamentally one of exploitation.
FYI -- I tried it in Hebrew and its weird. Hebrew is read right-to-left, and the _words_ in your sentences appear correctly, but the _sentences_ are in the wrong order.

at https://bolls.life/WLC/1/1/ -- the beginning of the second sentence is at the right (beginning) of the first line.
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The War on Sensemaking is a great series of videos on propaganda and the information ecology in the modern social media driven world. I highly recommend it.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=7LqaotiGWjQ
…because the mob said so…

The only reason Wizard cared was because there was an associated twitter shitfest. Why didn't they simply ask Noah to stop making sexual advances at “work events” if it was really a pervasive problem outside of the twitterverse affecting employees at the company? It’s not illegal to hit on someone. Inappropriate is such a fuzzy definition it can literally mean “he gave me the up down”.
Thanks—cool idea! I could definitely see it used as a platform for other texts.
Have you done proof based maths before? I restarted my maths education from scratch awhile ago when realising my basic math foundations was shaky. I used basic mathmatics by Serge Lang which makes you prove things as you go. This got me used to proof by induction, and proof by contradiction for simple problems.

That might be bit basic though. Something like the book "how to prove it" or "book of proof" may help get you started.
I don't disagree with your general take although it matters what sort of higher-level position. It's true that a senior individual contributor can potentially cruise if they can churn out quality work quickly. But senior execs mostly work pretty hard, (normally) a ton of travel, lots of calls at all hours of the day and night, etc.

ADDED: Not sure why people disagree with this. Yes, those senior execs are well-paid (some would say excessively paid at the largest companies) for their hard (as in long hours/stress) work, but it doesn't mean they're just taking it easy.
If you want modern commentaries, you often have to pay. For example, check out Logos.

But there are Bible apps that include a number of public domain commentaries.

I'm definitely not a fan of the idea of the distraction of video within a Bible app, so I think I'll pass on checking out the app, personally.
I mostly agree with you but I do think you’re missing the most important piece: who has power and leverage.

Low level employees don’t have much power (in the US at least) so they’re overworked and underpaid. Senior leadership are literally the people who make the rules, so they’re not going to force the same degrading conditions on themselves as they put on low level workers.

Then there’s something like the cushy engineering jobs some of us have in SV, that’s because they have power in the form of a labor shortage and can demand good working conditions.
Try this,seems to be quite detail and fairly reasoned:
https://www.quantstart.com/articles/How-to-Learn-Advanced-Ma...
Landlords are welcome to sell their property (at a likely tidy profit from what they bought it at, I might add, given current prices) and go elsewhere, if that’s what they would like to do.
What quintile do you think the median salary is in? Hint: it’s not the bottom one.

The bottom quintile of US households made anywhere between $0 and $25,600 in 2018, with the mean being $13,258. All of these numbers are well outside “global 1%” range you quoted.

And that’s before we begin to adjust for cost of living, because you can’t just compare income without considering the cost of food, housing, health care, and transit.
You're assuming you can keep what you already earned and then become a janitor, which is different from starting as a janitor
Hello everybody! I created this service so that there was someone to talk to during a break and take a break from work.
Last year, due to remote work, only a cat was my interlocutor))
The communication time is specially limited to 5 minutes, so as not to get too loose. Smoko-rooms open 2 times every hour, .00 and .30 minutes. The number of interlocutors in one room is limited to 5.

You do not need registration to connect, only to create and manage your smoko-room. I have made several persistent threads. The project uses Janus, the code and the server are being optimized, please do not judge strictly for possible failures and load restrictions.
Communicate, meet, relax. Ask a question and get advice from a colleague.
I would be grateful to the HN community for a discussion.
Best regards, Konstantin.
I do the same. I look at advertising and marketing completely different now. The enemy of propaganda is an educated public that is capable of critical thinking.

This is one of my favorite YouTube videos. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=KewaCcYF9nY
I've done this experiment, and you should too. Ask the people who complain the loudest about income inequality the following question: if you could eliminate billionaires from existing but it wouldn't raise the standard of living of anyone else, would you? Every time the answer has been "yes." That tells you all you need to know.
What is/was the recall for? Is there something unique about the treadmill that makes it more dangerous than 'normal' treadmills?
I tried to quit HN cold turkey once. I held out for like 16 hours.

Won't even entertain the thought with tea or coffee.
No :-)
And if the name is "Johnsonville Presbyterian Church" then what?
Random submission, but what a fun game. Detective/officer waking up in a shitty run down city, with just amazing spunk & dark settings. Fantastic interesting dialog. Really spirited game. I'm not that far in but it blew me away.

One thing I mentioned two weeks ago here, randomly, was a reply "Many People Have a Vivid ‘Mind’s Eye,’ While Others Have None at All"[1], which made me think very much of the amazing character-sheet for Disco Elysium, and in particular, one psyche ability, Inland Empire, which is one of those names for things you already know but never knew how to think about before you heard the name. I'm still no-where near as good as the game was at quantifying this ability, but I said[2]:

> I struggle to describe it, but it's kind of the inner reserve of imagination, resounds very much with the hyperphantasia extreme described in this article.

I guess now I might say, it's that ability to let yourself explore real & imagined situations about you fantastically. To dive deep & travel far with ideas, to let your inner voices weave interesting tales about you & to follow & explore those threads. Thank you Disco Elysium for- I'd say concreteizing, but I'm still semi-nebulous- identifying the idea of Inland Empire, reifying it for me. It's been enormously relieving to have this term.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27437001
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/08/science/minds-eye-mental-...

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27438528
I flagged it too. If we take it to the extreme... and I see tons of bible app discussions on Hacker News then I will quickly lose interest in HN. The bible isn't based on facts and contradicts itself many times over.
Sometimes I actually find more energy for working on an endless slog at work when I have an exciting side project going. Easy to get caught up in the side project, however.
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Your commentary convinces me completely that the US is a better fit for you than the UK was.
I like the idea and it looks well done! I'll be giving it a try.

Good job!
> Being competent (top 20%)

What sort of toxic exceptionalism led you to think that only 20% of workers are suitable for their jobs....
The price they can get for it will be reduced by the new risk of rent moratoriums.

There's a general exodus of landlords from Seattle going on due to a series of punitive laws passed against them by the Seattle City Council.

https://www.seattletimes.com/opinion/editorials/stop-new-ren...

What this means for renters is less places available for rent, at much higher prices.
> but to manipulate through dishonesty.

That's a narrow view of propaganda. You can manipulate through honesty as well.
I think it was the number of chairs :-)
Thanks for pointing those out! I'll add to the todo list.

Yes, I definitely plan to add deuterocanonical books at some point, although I think it's low priority for the average Bible reader. It does add a good bit of technical complexity since there's conditional logic involved if you expand outside the Protestant canon.
> documentation is really low tier compared to Django, especially when it comes to Phoenix. I was spoiled by how good the Django docs are and with Phoenix it’s been mostly digging through old forum threads for basic stuff. Docs assume a lot of prior knowledge about the elixir ecosystem, making it hard for beginners, unlike rails and Django. Their docs need a lot of work.

Are there any concrete areas of the Phoenix/Elixir docs that you could point to? I'd love to make some doc PR's to make it more understandable, especially to Elixir beginners.

> there is no equivalent of something like Django REST framework for Phoenix, which is annoying, but writing Phoenix is quite productive so it’s all pretty trivial

It's not quite ready yet, but I'd recommend keeping an eye on https://www.ash-elixir.org/
It'll even generate an admin for you: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aFMLz3cpQ8c (although I haven't used django so I can't compare it to that, although I hear good things about django's admin)

> community can be a little elitist or idealistic. Try asking how to get JWT auth running on elixir forums, watch it get shot down in minutes because “jwt is insecure”. they can be very friendly but also very unhelpful, sometimes lacking pragmatism

Yeah this makes me sad sometimes.

> Maintainability and reliability is important for me as a solo maker. I want a resilient web app that can operate without babysitting, I'm a full time student.

Great point! Have you written about your web app anywhere? I think solo development of an application is a really interesting space that I'd like to investigate further at some point.
https://archive.is/avAli
What on God's green earth are you talking about? In what way did Finland "unequivocally win" the war? The Finns had to concede more than the territory demanded by the Soviets before the war[0]

0 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moscow_Peace_Treaty#Terms
I don’t believe it’s that high anymore. And further, we have one of the lowest homeownership rates as compared to other developed nations the last time I saw these figures.
"The Case Against Education - Wikipedia" https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Case_Against_Education
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The article says:
"In versions published after the 9/11 attacks on the United States in 2001, Chomsky and Herman updated the fifth prong to instead refer to the "War on Terror" and "counter-terrorism", which they state operates in much the same manner."
This is interesting, but the paper still notes that in most "real-life" applications people will likely still prefer gradient-boosted trees, just because you need to allocate significant computation to hyperparameter tuning even in the case of the MLP-with-regularization-cocktail. For just getting something off the ground quickly based on tabular data, GBDTs are still unbeatable.
Gitlab 14 signals shift to modern DevOps
This is why you cook vegetables like potatoes and don't eat the green ones or sprouted ones.
The actual headline is Justice Department Announces Largest Health Care Fraud Settlement in Its History, so the it refers to the JD, not to Pfizer. The headline posted on HN does not follow HN guidelines.

dang?
Spent three days fighting with this and didn't think to try the -v flag on his apparently-hanging process?
Doesn't propaganda require intent? You may be seeing bias but that isn't the same as propaganda.
For as long as I've been tracking (76 applications since 2018), my numbers for PM/design/research roles are roughly:

- 1/3 will either never acknowledge your application or ghost you mid-process

- Two weeks between human contact is about the average for a company with its shit marginally together

- It's taken as long as 238 days for a formal rejection, but the mean is more like two months