skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Did you get a ‘handwritten’ note offering to pay cash for your house?
Reads like the Onion, Intel and RISC in the same line. Good news for RISC-V though.
Hidden Dangers of Crypto Investing
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> Which software exactly is functionally the same yet consumes more resources? Can you give some specific examples?

Here is one concrete example: visual studio startup and debugging. Source: https://youtu.be/GC-0tCy4P1U

Maybe I could start collecting examples. I never did because it is so obvious. I mean, have you never updated android/iOS/windows on the same hardware?

Regarding the "exactly" part in you sentence. Why would more features equal less performance? The only possible reason I can see this happening, is if you have features that run in parallel. Otherwise it's just another callback/if etc. That is, something to be triggered by the user that should have imperceptible impact (slightly more pressure on the instruction cache) on the performance of other features.
Bitcoin is not inherently deflationary.

And the inflationary consensus in mainstream economics is not one born out of reason, evidence or good faith. The truth is, inflationary monetary policy is mainstream because of political reasons, not economic ones.
What translations do you use?
I feel this, but for me that means I haven't gotten fully into vacation mode. The goal is to not think about work at all, and don't do any. Once that feeling goes away, you're on vacation. It takes me ~2 eventful fun days. I can tell I've gotten into vacation flow when I go back to work and the first 2 days back are just as difficult.
I use the Peloton app with my Keiser M3i. I bought the Keiser because I believe it to be a better product. I also didn't want to be bound to both Peloton hardware and software. I had the Keiser for years prior to subscribing to Peloton. I just made up my own workouts. Ultimately, it's easier to just pick a class and do whatever the instructor tells me to. Overall, I'm happy with the decision. I can be a competitive person so I miss the leaderboard stuff at times but not enough to regret my choice.

In practice, it took me a few workouts to translate the resistant callouts from the Peloton to the Keiser. Also, some instructors are better than others about repeatedly calling out cadence and resistance. You can get lost in the workout if the instructor doesn't call them out enough.
Adobe does two of these every year, one in winter around the holidays and one in July. From my perspective as an individual contributor, there are a few advantages:

- With no feature/project work that week, there is zero pressure to check email or slack.

- Teams are forced to build systems that are automated, resilient and documented enough that most of the staff won't need to be contacted during the shutdown week.

- The business has to prove it can run with just the necessary amount of staff for operations and customer support. (These staff generally work with their managers to take an equal amount of time off.)

Personally I use that week in summer to disconnect from work and do something theraputic for myself- go for a 7+ day motorcycle ride, preferably through places where internet connections are poor.
Windows never failed in desktop OS. And didn't succeed in mobile in the first place.

Nadella could quickly release office cross-platform because of work during Ballmer.
Housing and medical care are in fact included in the CPI: https://www.investopedia.com/terms/c/consumerpriceindex.asp
> you've both ossified into separate individuals with rigid expectations and assumptions about life

This is the real issue, not the dating pool.

The obvious evidence against the dating pool is that a fairly large number of divorced people I know getting into serious relationships and married again fairly quickly regardless of their age when the divorce happens.

All of the unhappy single people I know (and there are some happy ones that don't mind) share the same paradoxical thinking: I'm unhappy with how my life is, and I want to be in a close relationship with someone, but am absolutely unwilling to change anything major (sometimes even minor) about who I am, what I believe or how I live.

It seems obvious, but if you are unwilling to change anything about your life, then the only changes you experience are going to be those that are thrust upon you, such as the pandemic.
Lumber prices are still 2x they were VERY recently.
This is the relevant FARs section:

https://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/14/121.547
There’s more of these sprinkled in the image captions.
I expected that there would be something more productive than VB6 Forms eventually. Alas. We've punted on GUIs for twenty odd years.
You don't own it if you can't hold it.
I wonder what percentage of HN users would consider themselves religious.
> Thats why you rarely see discounts >30% in amazon warehouse

I think it's more that, if an item is in genuinely resellable working condition, lots of people are willing to pay 70% for it, so there's no reason to go lower. Heck, stuff in excellent condition is usually around 90% the original price, because people will pay it.

The fact that Amazon permits third-party sellers to sell used items in the first place seems to be evidence that Amazon isn't worried about them cannibalizing sales of new items. And after all, Amazon knows buyers interested in used items might buy elsewhere anyways, so Amazon prefers to make that profit itself. That's why "Amazon Warehouse" exists in the first place.

On eBay, when you find items that are akin to "open box" but are only 40% or 30% of the original price, there's usually something seriously defective -- the screen doesn't work, it's missing a required accessory, etc. They're basically being sold for parts. That's just not the business Amazon's in.
I think a better long-term solution that would have less cascading effects would be a cure for Lyme Diseases and the accompanying symptoms that follow years afterwards. Sorry you had to go through such a brutal disease. I've seen what it can do to people in the long-term and it can be devastating

But it would requi.re such advanced medicine that doesn't exist today. Although I'm all for tick pest control (up to a certain point).
Doing a stablecoin to replace something like the USD is an extremely difficult problem. Reserve.org is one company which understands the gravity of the issue and is committed to producing a stablecoin for anyone, worthy enough to replace the USD.
I think you're right, but I don't think this organizational discomfort with remote work will be true of the next batch of hip companies to work at. So you may yet get your chance. :)
This really isn't an elaboration on the grandparent comment but if you are interested in general in learning how Elixir excels at data pipelines I'd suggest looking at this library:

https://hexdocs.pm/broadway/Broadway.html
I’ve worked at places with security cameras. There’s nothing I’m doing in an open office that I wouldn’t want on camera.
The local-reasoning properties of Elixir (and any other functional language with emphasis on immutability for that matter) make it soooooo much easier to onboard. Meanwhile over in a Rails/Laravel/node-framework-flavor-of-the-month you can get lost in the monkey patching and mutation. It’s nice to be able to look at a single function and know what it does, without having to reason about what might happen beyond getting a return value if you call another function.
Mah dude, they're already doing that from your credit card information.
I was replying to a case where there was no fever but CRP was high when measured.

I have been in a similar situation where after several days of illness my condition didn't appear bad enough and the doctor sent me home. This was some 15 years ago and they didn't have quick tests back then, but luckily they did prescribe a lab CRP test and called me back in for treatment immediately after they got the lab result later that day.
Which information do you think is unnecessary?
> The fact that having a deflationary money supply is bad.

Your "fact" encodes a lot of presumptions. Bad for whom?

Moreover, post-civil-war US (deflationary) is a good counterexample, not entirely clear that that era was "bad", hell, a good chunk of the population was emancipated from slavery amidst deflation.
Bible Project (https://bibleproject.com) also has a lot of great content they are creating along with mobile/web apps (https://www.readscripture.org).
I agree, it is a bad assumption. Not everything has to be about money.

In the last 15 years, I have averaged over 15 hours a week writing Creative Commons licensed eBooks and the open source code that goes with the books. Even though a few people choose to buy my books rather than take free copies, I do this with no expectation beyond hoping to meet interesting people and improve my networking.
> First of all, "130K" is a meaningless number except as a percentage of items sold/returned.

No, it's not. 130k of _anything_ is a stupidly high amount. It may be 0.1% of items sold, it's still 130 000 perfectly good items destroyed. In many countries, supermarkets are obligated by law to give away unsold food as long as it is not perished. The exact same thing should happen to Amazon.
I think the former is a perfectly reasonable consideration, while the latter is short-shrift.

Am I wrong?
So the idea that performing the same daily tasks on modern hardware feels about the same speed as before (and sometimes slower), doesn't have a ring of truth to you?
Just wait until you find out they run on software, some of it with bugs that they won’t fix.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.theregister.com/AMP/2020/04...
There must always be one or more distractions to keep the American people from thinking too hard about why we still don't have universal healthcare, sane vacation time, or any number of other European standards. Wars were the pastime of old, they've gone more or less out of fashion, you'd think a pandemic would encourage universal healthcare but of course those in power made sure that would not get any media cycles, and now we have aliens.
>>Certainly anyone who seriously argues "but you forgot to account for the energy cost of nuclear carriers in propping up fiat currency"

I honestly don't think I've seen anything like that here - but once the crypto threads get too long I stop reading cuz all the cranks come out.

But even if we stipulate that as true, is it fair to paint the whole crypto community with that brush? I see cranks in everything from cancer treatment to prepping to stock investing. Everyone seems to realize those fringes don't represent the majority views..So why is it when its crypto, the fringes suddenly represent the majority? It's a bit annoying, like we're all out there mortgaging our houses on this stuff...
More than you think. But I think more would call themselves "spiritual" or "unaffiliated religious" than be members of organized religion. I have no peer-reviewed evidence for that though, it's just a personal observation.
Good luck getting unbiased news at any price.
> how do you generate recursive designs in vhdl? e.g. reduction trees?

>> preprocessing/templating

> so your tool (vhdl/verilog) requires using another tool (perl/tcl/python) to be productive and you think that's not a failing of the (first) tool?

In my opinion yes it does, and yes that is a failing. But what I was saying is, that alone is not worth the large cost of moving to something new. I was asking if Slice could offer anything more to justify that large cost.
In the UK a lot of the Amazon returns end up on John Pye auctions, which haven't been running at the same volume during the pandemic.

I wonder if Amazon are having to dispose of more items this way because their usual liquidation disposal chain is massively backlogged? If people like John Pye have all their warehouses already full, then there's nowhere for Amazon to send the stuff they'd normally dispose of that way, so it ends up at the local dump.

(Which, as an aside, is my local dump, as I live ~5 minutes drive from this specific Amazon warehouse, and the pictures in the piece match the local landfill site.)
That sounds a lot like our bewilderment over inaction on climate change, several decades ago. Here was a civilization-ending, even species-threatening catastrophe unfolding before us and it was nigh-on impossible to invigorate a meaningful response from Governments and passion from the public.

My gut reaction is that most folks are brushing it off as a non-event because it doesn't directly concern them, and they've become numb to outlandish, world-changing news.
Only if wages rise accordingly. There is some sign it may happen given the still-high levels of unemployment combined with companies actively seeking workers, but it’s too soon to really tell.
Welcome to the legacy of Rails! Jose Valim contributed heavily to that ecosystem back its heyday. Nearly all of the cultural norms like embracing "convention over configuration" came from Rails.

Thankfully, Jose appreciates performance and engineering more too, traits the Rails community was as keen about.
Small bit of feedback for the landing page Theo: On a MacBook Pro the image of the app looks a bit shoddy. The font doesn't look as crisp as it could. It would be better if you could serve a retina option. These days it's pretty easy with srcset. Good luck!
Experimental Midgard/Bifrost Vulkan driver merged in upstream Mesa
Due to hedonic adaptation, what matters is not the absolute state of existence, but the trajectory that that state takes throughout your life.

(a small positive slope in terms of life quality is much better than a negative or neutral slope at the same level - or even at a higher level).

And people underestimate the importance of relative standing as opposed to absolute. Ultimately, we are a packet of genes that are made to reproduce (with a brain attached). Relative standings matter a lot more than absolute quality of life as far as reproduction is concerned (and as far as our genes are concerned). The human brain is but a simple abstraction on top of those genetic drives.

> standings
Surely that changes when the government of a country has shifted to an aggressively anti-Russian one which will threaten one of your country's few naval ports and will likely welcome American military bases with open arms.

Or should Russia just bend the knee to the US overlords and be a good lapdog?
Getting pregnant is not the only risk factor that rises.
You speak about videos, sensors and tracking. But there are many cases over the past decades where radar records match what multiple eyewitnesses observed simultaneously: Physical objects performing maneuvers not possible with human technology.
No mention of federal I Bonds, which would be a decent low risk investment if inflation actually does get high for the first time in 40 or so years. I guess TIPS work roughly the same way.
This isn't specific to the Bible (although it's prevalent in that community), but I've never understood why it's seen as so important to understand what the original authors of literature meant or intended. They're fallible like everyone else, and therefore might be wrong. To me it seems like it would make far more sense to focus on seeking the best conclusions using the source material as inspiration, rather than treating the source material as an authority and seeking to understand exactly what they meant.

In terms of impacting people's lives for good, I definitely feel like religions are at their best when they are inspiratory, and at their worst when they try to impose authority.
> chance of getting unacceptable side-effects

There are a considerable number of people out there - some of whom are young and healthy and at vanishingly small personal risk from Covid19 - who if you mention the phrase "unacceptable side-effects" their first thought would be of side effects from vaccination, not the virus.

The boss at my daughter's kindergarten had Covid19 last summer. She had to quarantine for two weeks, then came back to work. She told me (unprompted) that sitting out the quarantine was way worse than the virus.

Telling these people they are stupid or anti-social - or simply downvoting them :) - may not be the most effective strategy to make them change their mind.

How should society approach this?

How should governments approach this?
The parent poster is not talking about "the idea of UFOs", they're talking about aliens among us!

This is an issue - as this disconnect shows, "UFO" clearly means different things to different people, so it's easy to see how a seemingly clear message can be understood very differently among a large group of people (and maybe a conspiracy is born/given more fuel).

This doesn't just happen with "UFOs" either.
>"Why is that? What's wrong with SF for dating? (just curious)"

Where to begin?

The tech industry is massively skewed towards male, so right off the bat your odds of meeting someone in your work life is near nil. Then, with the complete lack of affordable housing, there's no such thing as just being a single 20-something living independently and supporting yourself on a non-tech salary. Bare minimum subsistence income is about $80k. So that filters out the vast majority of women who are in non-tech careers and simply cannot afford to move there.

At that point you're basically left with the lucky few locals who have parents that bought houses in the 80s/90s and live with them rent free, or the unicorn types who make enough to live in SF independently.

From that vanishingly small pool of women, you're now competing with the guys who made startup money or have the $300k+ FAANG gigs and can afford luxury vacations, nice condos, BMWs, etc.

An average dude doesn't stand a chance.
> Given that the various "tictac" reports appear not to be natural phenomenon,

[citation needed]
Because the "binary" in QR codes (actually they call it "byte" mode) is supposed to be ISO-8859-1 per the ISO/IEC 18004:2005.

Which means it is a text mode, and actual scanners do treat it as text (although usually UTF-8 which goes against that standard, meh).
Have you ever been in a Turkish prison?
sorry - I lost track of the former and the latter... Guess I need more coffee :-) What are they referring to?
> So someone in Kansas or Florida should be limited by grades that aren't even with a day's drive of them? Do you seriously believe this?

I never said that. I think the current tow rating system does represent the safety margins needed in real world towing. If a truck can't tow X pounds up an actual hill on an actual US highway, then it shouldn't advertise being able to tow X pounds.

But, if you live in Kansas and you are sure that your brakes can handle a higher load, that's fine. As you said, it's up to you the driver to know what's safe and not. I also think you have it coming if you lose control of an overloaded truck and your insurance company refuses to cover damages, etc.

I view it similar to overclocking a server. Servers are clocked somewhat conservatively to ensure reliability. You are free to overclock a machine you own, but you run the risk of instability and you cannot complain to the manufacturer if you have downtime resulting from running your machine outside of spec.
As a flight bag / printed material replacement.

Try tapping on Belfast Muni airport (KBST in ICAO) in Maine in ForeFlight, and the dataset consolidation will pull Bost airbase (BST in IATA) in Afghanistan. While it’s fairly obvious that you’re not going to Central Asia in your Piper, imagine pulling the 3x longer runway into your FMS and have it compute landing settings or add it as emergency alternate for your A350 into Boston.

It’s still completely different levels of reliability.
Regarding binary and QR: seems like the state of QR scanners is a cruel joke. There are multiple specs, of which only ISO 18004:2006 survived.

It says:

A QR code contains a mode indicator, character count and the bitstream encoding the characters. Modes are:

- numeric: 10 bits are used for [0-9]{3}

- alphanumeric: 11 bits are used for [0-9A-Z$%+-./:]{2}

- 8 bit Kana/JIS X 0201: (8 bits are used for every Japanese character)

- Kanji

- mixed mode (switching between multiple character sets in one stream)

- extended channel mode (ECI) - latin1, cyrillic, etc

https://www.swisseduc.ch/informatik/theoretische_informatik/...

Note that the document mentions that stuff like 'font size' is not specified in QR (?), while saying nothing about basic questions like 'what about non-printable characters'.

Then it got it got superseeded by 18004:2015. When a person asked on StackOverflow what's going on, the answer by the author of the most popular QR library (zxing) says "There is one (not obsolete) ISO spec for QR codes, ISO 18004:2006. Most of what you observe is just lack of compliance." - https://stackoverflow.com/questions/18699739/tools-for-qr-co...

Looking at other questions ("how do I store utf8"), it seems like scanners do some heuristics (scanning for BOM, valid unicode codepoints, etc), not even slightly conforming to the modes: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/51516612/choosing-a-char...

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So, you can do base64 with ECI latin1, and risk the scanner performing some heuristic... or you can just take the alphanumeric route with 45 options (26 letters: [A-Z], 10 digits: [0-9] + 9 special characters), which is compact in terms of QR representation (not in terms of modern 8-64 bit words in memory!) and call it a day: https://tools.ietf.org/pdf/draft-faltstrom-base45-06.pdf
Mine is more than a inch thick, I'd say it's about an inch and half thick. The cooling system is probably a joke on mine too, it often reaches 80°C while being idle.
EPO grants them anyway, now if you want to fight the all patents covering 4G, feel free. The Unitary Patent Court will make things worse, as those patent court will have the last word over the "as such" interpretation, without any involvement of the CJEU.
It's funny (or maybe dystopian) that businesses don't really care about getting stolen from anymore, as long as they can identify what was stolen/how so that they can have their insurance pay for it.
Maybe services using wasm will pull compute back to the desktop, even though end users won't realize it.
Intel had some nice RISC processors, the i860 (used in HPC accelerators and the NeXTdimension color graphics card in the early '90s), i960 (used in many laser printers) and the XScale (next generation StrongARM, technology acquired from DEC, back then the fastest ARM CPU).

Unfortunately, they killed them all...
I'm completely with you on this.

I believe treating the disease is better than eliminating species with cascading effects we don't entirely understand.

But it seems like killing ticks is much, much easier than completely curing a disease, so it's a short-term solution people approach instead. Not an ideal paradigm in my opinion.

Would love to live in a world where parasites live in the ecosystem, but we're utterly immune to them, as opposed to a world with no parasites.
That's what I thought at first, but others that have PC supposed to be slower (I have the "scientific" one) have a much smoother experience.
It may not be what informed observers want it to be, but it's still what every single person I've seen trumpeting the virtues of cryptocurrency here on HN has been shooting for.

The argument is invariably "the value of cryptocurrency is giving us a currency that's not controlled by central banks". Never have I seen someone saying cryptocurrency should be used because it's highly volatile and great for speculating.

So there seems to be a significant divide between the people who use cryptocurrency (but don't attach a moral value to it) and the people who believe in cryptocurrency (but ignore what it's actually used for).