skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Vietnam & Korea: I think you have to ask, all that money was spent... where did it go? In great part, the increased military spending went to contractors who don't care how many helicopters get shot down because they get to make more.

The ideological part is about expanding global markets so US interests can extract natural resources and sell it back to them at increased prices. That's called imperialism, but it's also a kind of war profiteering (if you win).

Afghanistan: They wanted to place US military bases within striking distance of Iran, China, and Russia -- the few countries in the world that aren't fully integrated into the US lead world order. Afghanistan is also sitting on trillions in mineral deposits that were mapped out by Soviet planners.

Iraq has some other stuff going on too, but just look at what country sits between Afghanistan and Iraq. Not too hard to figure that one out.
The most obvious issue would be that the 6,000 figure in the article was pre-pandemic, so it might be much higher now.

Also, I don't know the economics of homelessness, but I feel like as supply of homeless shelters increased, demand for the beds would increase as well, right? How elastic is local demand, with people in RVs moving in/out of an area?

Not that it shouldn't be done, but it seems like if all it took to "solve" homelessness was building enough beds, we would already be doing that.
We are big fans of Alpaca, it's great! Will probably use it when we expand to stocks as well.
Motion (YC W20) is hiring a lead fullstack engineer to change how we manage time
that's what a Schema Registry is for... protobuf is a little more polished around managing forwards and backwards compatibility than avro but they both work.
the math doesn't prove anything. we didn't get experimental results until decades later
This is neat. The ever-present admonition against rolling one's own crypto lurks in the back of my mind, though. It is not my intent here to impugn Bunnie's competence, though I do wonder if he's run the design or implementation past any cryptographers to try to verify that the design or implementation are sound, and don't subtly break critical assumptions vital to the security of the algorithm.
Sure, but people writing articles on the subject should know better than to mix units like this.
I agree totally. There's not that much physical world advertising in my part of Europe (e.g. almost no road side banners at all), but I still despise how we've sold bus stops and metro walls to the highest bidder. Public space should be advertisement-free as you can't opt out of it.

Private spaces like inside shopping malls is fine for me.
I'm in Brazil, and the latency is a deal breaker.
Check out itch.io
Can you share some numbers on zidisha? Is there a dashboard of sorts?

I would imagine:

- Amount of loans outstanding

- delinquency rate

- breakdown of country of origin of lenders. Are people really paying it forward?
Reminds me of https://motherfuckingwebsite.com and it's once better but slowly deteriorating ancestor https://thebestmotherfucking.website.
What problem is it even solving? We are not missing space to put panels on, we need to make them cheaper. This will only make panels more expensive and maintenance cost will rocket.
How much of the actual information in the high resolution photos is just noise?

So we buy sensors with more megapixels that just save more noise. Then we need to buy more storage capacity, more bandwidth, more processing, more battery etc.

Since the cameras have been hitting closer and closer to physical limits but something still needs to be sold...

It's like people buying clothes from the mall and taking them straight to a storage building. They don't have enough space at home. And they won't have time to wear so many clothes anyway.
Oh, those policies were put in place, and are still in place at a much smaller scale.

The junkies problem of the 70s and 80s died out, that generation is largely dead and with the changing culture and the closure of most kraakpanden ( squatting places ) no new junkies were added. The junkies died out.
Yeah, or at least "Longish term and guaranteed" . ie, Starting today you will get this payment, or more, for at the next 5 years. We cannot guarantee beyond that date, but we'll keep you informed of changes that may come after 2026.
> São Paulo removed all billboards/branding/advertising with their Clean City Law [0] in 2007 and the difference before and after is massive. It immediately looked so much more clean and beautiful...

Reminds me of how one day, I think in SF, I was trying to go around without reading things and just realized there are so many things shouting at me with words, especially billboards and other forms of public advertising. I would love to even have a city here in the US experiment with something like this.

> I would gladly raise my taxes to eradicate public advertising permanently

I would, too, especially as a consumer, and yet, as a producer, I wonder how annoyed I would be without ads. Maybe there's a balance, and I believe needs to be have more consumer voice, and less producer voice.

> Naturally, how this could be implemented is far beyond me, as are the economics behind advertising, so I suppose I'm doing little more than wistful thinking.

Lol, me too. I guess it comes down to how much does advertising actually work and if advertising disappeared, what downstream impacts would it have on the economy (and would those be "bad")?

I think part of the reason I'd like to go into public office is to run these experiments and also I feel sad that more public offices don't seem to run that many experiments :-)
I think the answer is going to be a form of micropayments.

The system we have now is micropayments. Personal data has economic value and we pay with that.

The engineering problem is to figure out how to make the payment system less indirect so that companies can't rent seek by extracting more data (payments) for the same service.
My end game would be knowing who has my data and being able to say no to 3rd parties getting my data.

Fine, Facebook knows which hobbies I'm looking at on Instagram and has incredible ads and suggested posts. Ok that's fine. But random 3rd party I don't know getting that data... No thanks.
> Imagine if pilots spent an hour debating which sequence to push a particular set of buttons that would be needed after takeoff - where either of several ways would work - to the point that the plane took off hours too late.

Thanks for this, this prompted me to submit an article I read yesterday. Pilots don't need the debate because the work is (for the most part) well-known. There is no debate because the aircraft has a method of working that is well-understood so long as you aren't in the field of flight testing new aircraft, which is to say: the vast majority of pilots. As a consequence, there is zero need for discussion because there is "one way" to do things, and where there are choices (actions that can be done in any order) there are often conventions (such as going left-to-right across a panel to reduce the risk of missing a step).

Software is different. Software is design, which pushes it towards the need to communicate more often and work in a collaborative fashion. In fact, a lack of communication seems to be the problem in the org of the article and not the desire for high quality software. The programmers weren't talking with each other or their customer and instead acted more like the pilot situation, but without sufficient insight to actually make decisions or take the actions they were taking.
Thank you for the clear and quick response. The aggregator is a nice overview.
Reuse follows a parallel of Amdahl's law.

Long-term marginal cost is determined by the nonreusable component cost + minimum refurbish & refit costs per launch. Effectively, the benefits of reuse offer diminising marginal benefit per reuse. Though designing for long-term use (say, a personal automobile vs. a rocketship) can still make sense.

An automobile used for daily commute with a 5 year life sees ~1,000 re-uses. You can vary the parameters to get different results. There are fuel, maintanance, garaging/parking, tax/registration, and insurance costs as well.
Good question - I'll jump in for Gab as its his mum's birthday today :)

With fixed fee pricing we are seen by regulators as a Software provider rather than a trading platform. The other point is that user funds sit on the exchanges and we have no withdrawal rights for greater account safety, so it's easier for us to just charge a fixed fee.
> If we want top-grade products to remain available without a direct monetary transaction

Fantasy world. These products do not exist, as far as I'm aware. The reality is trash products. I couldn't care less if all that trash just vanishes from the internet.
I wonder this too, and don't forget this is only half the equation. The free platforms need ads to support them, but a lot of the businesses buying the ads might not be able to exist without the direct ad targeting that has been possible the past 5 to 10 years. I'm a big fan of direct to consumer brands, yes some of them turn out to be completely ridiculous (like the infamous Juicero a few years ago), but it's amazing that a small team can dream up a new product or better design and start selling it quickly with minimal risk. The loss of ad targeting definitely benefits big existing retail players and makes things more difficult and costly for consumer product startups.
Arizona Calling for Biden Electors to Be Recalled
after

* 11k votes were found by voters not on voter rolls on November 7th

* 74k mail-in ballots were received vs requested

Biden only officially won by 10,457 votes in Arizona.
How much of that work is repair of existing components versus wholesale replacement of larger assemblies?
Nigeria’s equity market declines 6% year-to-date as index falls further
Show HN: Pogged.tv – Endless stream of exciting moments detected live on Twitch
There's a form of cheating I've heard about a while back called softaim. Basically the cheating software doesn't aim for you, but it can tell if you're aiming at the person and pull the trigger for you.

The YOLO stuff combined with softaim is going to be pretty hard to detect. The game can't tell if your video is going into the cheating device. Even if it can tell if there's a secondary input coming in for the trigger... people could just mod their mouse to take external input for the button. Someone pathetic enough to cheat absolutely would do this.

I honestly don't know how multiplayer will even work in a year's time or maybe even less!
You'll Own Nothing And Be Happy About It
Every single point in that article reinforces my point... Aside from some hand-wavy warnings which try to appeal to people's emotions that it's not a reason to be complacent.

I don't know how you can read that article and come up with the conclusion that it's 'debunked denialist talking points' - That is 100% emotional appeal. There is no logic behind it. There are financial incentives on both sides. At the end of the day, you have to look at the facts.
YouTube Censors Video of School Board Meeting
I am definitely a SC Stan too. I learned how to truly master it playing Hollow Knight funny enough. Have a setup where I literally do not need to use anything but the trackpads and the occasional turning over of the whole controller to invoke the map. Absolutely love it.

Only things I don't like are the bumper buttons and I'd much rather USB C than micro usb.

I wish they would make an SC 2 with fixed bumpers, ditching the thumbsticks for bigger trackpads with more advanced haptics and a doubling of paddle buttons like with this new device.
One thing I particularly dislike about SQL is DDL and all the system-specific extensions (e.g. for access control). I don't really get why there is a separate thing like "ALTER TABLE foo DROP COLUMN bar;" if you could have "DELETE FROM schema.foo WHERE name = 'bar';". 90 % of DDL is just duplicating basic DML functionality, Except For That Special Kind Of Object Which Totally Smells Like It's Relational But It's Not. Especially for access control - why is that just not a table? I'm sure it literally is one.

This makes SQL needlessly complex and tools to work with schemas far more complicated than they actually have to be.

In Lisp, most things are a list/pair. In SQL, most things should have been a table.
Microsoft solicits Clippy comeback by asking people to upvote it as an icon
I'm with you. None of the above affects my choice for using Firefox.

It does affect my choice of offering any help, such as a donation. They won't get a cent out of me, given the above.

It's indeed a Mozilla problem, not a user problem. Yet the user base is shrinking, so I'd be curious to know how this will end. I suppose Google will keep Mozilla in a zombie state for a while just to avoid regulation pressure.
I like that distinction between public and private spaces. And I think those rules exist in many places (at least in the US) but maybe not as strict as you may be desiring. I'm pretty sure my town has restrictions on how tall/big billboards can be, and I know they used to have restrictions about how tall the McDonald's or other restaurant signs could be.

I like the idea that inside a private building is opt-in/consent, whereas outside of it is not.
I recommend looking at it, as all those calls are very cheap:

man 7 vdso
I really like it.

I wonder if the text could be dropped once it starts. I found myself reading it each time which ended up distracting me a little and sometimes I would rush and tapped the opposite of what I intended.
I have a hard time wrapping my head on how this program is feasible long term when the single payer health care system was passed in California and later shelved.
Sign-in wall. Did not read.
Isn't that up to facebook to determine how they want you to pay for their services? Just like it's up to disney, apple, microsoft, tesla to determine what their pricing model is. And it's up to you if you can live with this pricing model, and if you don't, don't use the product or service.
Thank you!

I watched the video. Frankly, I disagree with your interpretation of her statements.

Free speech is a right that must be balanced against other rights. That's all she says.

If you disagree with that, you believe in a type of free speech absolutism that has never existed in the real world.
I don't think that was the point of the OP though. It was more that even with people trying to protect the forest through legal means of property ownership, there's an apathetic, and sometimes antagonistic government that won't enforce that, and will even go so far as to help those entrepreneurs against owners trying to protect the forest.
Instead of "not" use white text "no previous experience with: buzzword, foobar, latestfad."
Learning, and Doing, Strategy
This is an oft repeated trope — here's my issue: I'm B2B, and my clients don't want to hear "get back to you this weekend!"

What then?
> Some argue linking real identities to online accounts will reduce, well, all negative activity.

I don't think anybody is arguing that it will reduce all negative activity, just some.
The people I hear from had bad analog. But you can watch bad analog; your TV is just covered in snow. Bad digital is unwatchable.
I find it really difficult to see the value proposition for anti-cheat companies in spending time developing that functionality. Is it really worth spending dev hours on catching what I imagine is a tiny population of people, who you already know are prepared to use hardware modifications to circumvent anticheat? Or is it just a good marketing point?
I am so excited about this
>>> there's no way to get a plane from my house to the city.

I think I was drinking too much coffee.

But railway is just another road. In fact i suspect that we will find self-driving cars are too hard to put into the mix with human drivers and pedestrians. So we shall build / cordon off roads and end up with railways without rails.

Fascinated by the adelaide example - thank you
Sorry to break this to you soldiers.

To the military industrial complex you are not soldiers. You are simply logistics and weapons sales accessories.

I know it is tough to hear this, but most of you already know this.
How to cope with the existential dread of climate change
Do you know how a reduced coking works? I've read about the raptor engine[1] and it explains how fuel rich hot mixture leads to coking, it explains how USA solved this problem before (by using hydrogen as a fuel), but how Musk managed to solve it? Partially burned methane should produce free carbon atoms, shouldn't it? Doesn't it raise a coking problem?

[1] https://everydayastronaut.com/raptor-engine/
On older PCs clippy's coming would be heralded by frantic chirping from the hard drive, and a very long pregnant pause before he rendered his inane, rather unhelpful message at 3 FPS.

I really feel like they should go for the full retro experience!
Very accurate way of describing him.
GA SOS Raffensperger Calls for Fulton County Registration Chief to Be Fired
Maybe he is afraid of going to jail.
Authorization to Operate Field Guide
Ask HN: Leaving out politics, which policies would stop/reverse global warming?
I'm curious if there on consensus on what the solution _should_ be -- if politics were not a problem.

So, in the US, I don't believe Republicans either believe in global warming, or believe it's man-made, or something. Please correct me if I'm wrong.

But let's say we are only talking about the people who believe in global warming/caused by humans -- here in the US and around the world -- what is the best policy/policies?

And it should be 'realistic'. That is, we've seen that we can 'handle' a pandemic with 'only' a few million dead. Any proposed solution(s) should keep the expected deaths to < 1 million people.
but not the best sellers, because devs have no incentive to release native linux builds

with that new console however it can change

valve has to make it compelling for them, by lowering their tax for example
Hardly specialized and expensive, it works fine with a $300 headset aimed largely at serving as Facebook's next social platform hooked up to your PC. It's like saying a Wii game isn't a video game, or that games you can't play without stereo headphones aren't video games.
But he’s not rolling his own crypto - in an algorithm sense - purely trying to speed the execution of an existing algorithm which can be easily validated against other existing implementations
Hopefully I can save up the downvotes for a third pair of replacement joycons.
No. Basically zero chances any of your ideas will work. Even with funds and employees. I did a lot of side projects, maybe 30~ and 2 turned into companies which made me a great, great living and then failed for the most unexpected sh1t.

I’m sorry but you either roll the dice a ton of times with extremely small amounts and hope for a big win Which is very unlikely or you have to play with other people’s money. In case you haven’t attended Stanford, too bad I guess. You’d have to meet rich people some other way.

At this point I regret investing the net worth I accumulated through my companies and investments in more pointless companies of my own trying to shoot for the 9-10 figure net worth. It’s pure nonsense unless you use OPM.
I regret not buying a home in bad conditions and fixing it up to luxury and living happily in it with my girlfriend and dog. It would’ve been fun and awesome and wholesome. Then I could’ve done that many times over, slowly building a fancy net worth in decades instead of years but living Vicariously through every minute of it. So since I just turned 24, my plan is to do exactly this.

So no don’t sell your home please
If anyone wants to send links out of "Freedom to choose" they should be first forced to read https://slatestarcodex.com/2017/02/22/repost-the-non-liberta...
Audio recording and production. I had been a musician for a couple decades at that point and did some schooling and got my AES engineering certification, but didn't move to a city where audio jobs would exist (in more plentitude than here) and pay well. In hindsight, I realize that I could have managed the move with only moderate risk and likely could have gotten a great reference from a well-known engineer. Instead, I sat at home, in the dark, smoking and drinking and sliding back into coding.
Ask HN: What’s Missing on HN?
Features that you would add, if HN is managed by you
Thanks for that perspective! Searching around I found this article https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/platonism-mathematics/#Tr... which even distinguishes mathematical Platonism and truth-value realism. Interesting stuff!
I don't think the author has to divide writing good (quality) with being slow (speed), and writing fast with being bad.

I firmly believe that the goals is aligned on both sides. Client wants a feature "just works" by a certain date, and programmer wants to ship that very feature (without breaking anything else) on that certain date.

The impedance mismatch is that programmers see (code) quality as enabling higher velocity (work on new features without needing to maintain old ones) with the trade-off being the upfront cost. The client sees that the time it takes to deliver feature X as being proportional to delivering feature Y and Z.

The catch is that it is very hard to communicate that delivering feature Y and Z would be quicker (or not needed) if feature X was designed properly. This is because you can only approach this in hindsight (orthogonal thought: this is why upfront waterfall fell out compared to iterative agile).

The hard truth both sides don't want to admit is that the programmer does not know what they are building and the client does not know what they are asking.

Instead of the client wishing that the programmer had more domain experience and the programmer wishing the client had more technical experience, there should just be a stronger focus on empathy and letting things fail as part of the process.

I find it interesting that when things fail, client knows exactly what failed and programmer knows exactly why it failed. Must have something to do with hindsight :)
Are people really that irate about having to buy $5 worth of reusable bags? I had already transitioned to reusable bags because managing tens of plastic bags a week without just throwing them away was annoying and surprisingly difficult in a 750 sq ft apartment. I only need so many tiny trash bags.

Now the straw ban, that's pretty stupid, and definitely isn't helpful anyway.
It is pretty easy to get any result set straight from PostgreSQL as json object:

"WITH _ AS ("
real query goes here
") SELECT COALESCE(array_to_json(array_agg(_.*)), '[]') AS xyz FROM _";

From there it behaves as standard JSON, wich can be easily loaded into any language.
Very cool! Great to see this competition between academia and industry yielding improvements on all fronts.
>"dismantling some/all of the existing welfare state."

I think this is going to be a nigh insurmountable hurdle. To be upfront, I do not support UBI and I am extremely skeptical of it. But plenty of my friends on 'the left' adore the idea.

I don't believe the same people who champion a UBI would suddenly become cold and say to a disabled recipient, "No, you will not get extra money because of your special needs. You will get nothing else because we dismantled your welfare benefits in order to give everyone a UBI."

The response, then, would to be adjust the UBI payment amount for individuals with special needs to make up for the loss of those other welfare payments they needed to live. But to do that you would still need some sort of bureaucracy in order to assess claims and increase the payout. So in the end, can you even say you've replaced welfare with a UBI?
are you familiar wiith the expression "Don't feed the bears"?
Good. Your shitty, invasive, unethical, failing business model is not my problem.