skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>iOS

Apple doesn't advertise much outside the United States, and given Android is significantly more developer friendly, there isn't a reason for a student to learn on iOS.
Use of $100s is in sharp decline for most retail transactions in most of the US, as is cash in general. Most USians under 30 don't carry any cash at all.

As someone who always pays in cash, this is increasingly inconvenient. There are occasionally shops that won't take cash at all.

Cash can still be found in poor communities, as well as the big cities in NY and CA, as well as Las Vegas. Everywhere else is rapidly going cashless.
Two things are surprising to me.

One is that copper pennies still circulate. I'd have expected most of them to end up in hoards. Gresham's Law (also observed by Maimonides centuries earlier) states that "bad money pushes out good." When a new batch of gold coins is minted with less gold, very quickly only the bad coins circulate. I guess this is a minor violation.

The second thing that surprises me is that the law actually stops the coins from being melted. Isn't someone somewhere willing to commit this hard to detect crime?

Is it legal to sell 100 pennies for more than $1? If so, 99% of these penny hoarders need not break any law. Just sell them onto someone who will.
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Sounds like an Onion headline lol.
Caffeine and theanine exert opposite effects on attention (2017)
Eavesdropping on Hormones to Help Understand Reproduction
No, not arbitrary. It could have been any other technique or proof that potentially makes breaking ciphers easier, but the idea in the novel is that the proof might have constructive applications or could at least lead to them, and the mathematician who developed it is specialized in the topic and not a crackpot. The decisive factor for the plot is that other agencies want to have it, though.
This is what happened in Sweden. As equal opportunities increased, the disparity in representation between men and women became even more drastic, due to individual preference.
> I have difficulties understanding this. I learned Basic ard 84 on a c64. I don't understand why anybody would learn it without access to any device.

You don't understand my youthful obsession with computers? Or you don't understand that my family couldn't afford a C64 when they first came out?

I hopefully don't have to explain the 2nd reason to you.

As for the first, I don't quite know how to explain that. As I learned of what computers where, and how they worked, it just overtook my ambitions in life. Being a firefighter or astronaut could just not compare to being able to command a machine to perform complex tasks at my bidding. I wanted to work on robots, I wanted to make an AI that could converse with me, I wanted to explore strange new worlds, and more.
There are no collectors here, though, only self-dealing dealers pumping up prices.
only 12k? I want one!
Maybe it's like a variation on the old fiddle scam. Someone (with high-grade stock) are working with someone inside, and now they're trying to pump up prices to attract unsuspecting new money.

It's no different than selling art, only that the rating companies are the ones setting the standard for how "rare" something is.

9.4 rating? Sorry, dime a dozen.

9.6? Million dollar piece.
We could build THREE transcontinental high-speed rail lines every year with the money we spend on personal automobiles

Once you get to the western mountains, there are only four rail grades that are suitable for freight. The old Northern through Montana near Glacier National Park; the original Union/Central Pacific route along the Platte and over the Sierras around Donner Pass; the ATSF route across the Colorado Plateau south of the Grand Canyon at Flagstaff and over the Sierras at Tehechapi via the loop, and the all weather grade through the Gadsden Purchase along the Mexico border.

The reason there are so few routes is simply geography. North America's mountains run north-south and there is more than a thousand miles of them between Denver and the coast. And since the west is dry much of what is west of the first line of mountains is desert as well as mountains.

Those are the grades that work for freight to the west coast. Notably, none serve much population between the Mississippi River and the Pacific. West of the Mississippi the US population density is low. The densest state California has about 1/5 the density of the Netherlands. The second most dense, Arizona is 1/20 as dense.
Guilty. There's not a great level of abstraction between bookmarks (I definitely want to remember this) and open tabs (I need this in my working memory for a day/week/month, and/or this is interesting but I don't have time to read it).

I guess session savers? Never really got into them because (at the time a few years back) they weren't great for indexing within pages. Might give it a try again.
> they can charge 30-40% of orignal price to receive electronic items

Ouch. Hanlon’s razor aside, it’s almost as if the government is intentionally preventing the economy from modernizing.

Really sad that some bureaucrats couldn’t see the huge long term gains of a more technology-oriented economy, and instead could only focus on whatever marginal short term revenue these tariffs generated.
What’s confusing? Bubbles abound.

20 year old pickup trucks with six figures on the odometer are selling for $20k. Pokémon cards are going for millions. Houses are being bought above asking price, sight unseen. P/E ratios on the stock market have gone to plaid. An NFT collection of animated gifs sold for Picasso prices. And a satirical, dog meme currency has a $25b market cap.

It’s unsustainable, but you won’t find me making big bets one way or the other, because, as John Maynard Keynes said, “the markets can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent.”
The thing is, computers have been moving away from that nested filing cabinet idea for some time now, and many of us miss it terribly.

Saving a file in Excel now is a huge hassle. They WANT me to save to one location in my OneDrive folder, but I hardly ever want it there.
How a thing like "swatting" exist at all? AFAIK it can happen multiple times to the same location and directed against same people too [0].

It happens for baseless unconfirmed allegations against someone.. "Oh I have heard that he/she is a drug dealer and they are walking with a gun in their backyard" - and whole swat unit is sent - no questions asked. What the hell?

This happens to the super rich and famous too [1]. SWAT team comes to the neighbourhood full of 20MM+ houses and is not second guessing what's going on?

[0] a bit too lazy to search, though there were infamous swattings of famous youtubers.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swatting#Other_notable_cases
Many times, "diversity" and similar terms are dog whistles for "less white"
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Caffeine and theanine exert opposite effects on attention under emotional arousal, Grace E Giles et al., Canadian Journal of Physiological Pharmacology, January 2017.
Is [Unprovable] the same as [Not equal]? It seems like the only way that's possible is if P!=NP, since in the other case there's just so many proofs available (proofs be example, algos that solve any of several hundred known problems in poly time). So in a sense, any proof that there is no proof would be proof that P!=NP. Maybe I'm missing something?
Amazon delivery drivers, thank you for urinating in water bottles. It allowed to me to go for this exclusive "roller coast ride" in "space".
I don't get what the big deal is.

That's an entirely appropriate set of people to thank.
Didn't branson run a music monopoly, and screw over musicians to get rich?
I think the argument is usually in the context of "it's mostly people involved with gangs, it doesn't change much for the murder risk for a 'normal citizen'"
Ah thanks. It’s a decent size Swift project. So it should have quite a bit to work off. Maybe it’s the settings. I’ll check what I can tweak.
Ondine's curse – sufferers can die if they fall asleep
> But I doubt that I could have gotten a firmware password for most of them. They would just have been thrown in the garbage.

Exactly! Thanks for confirming my personal experiences. I almost thought i was going crazy with all those Silicon Valley fanboys telling me my personal experience does not exist in the real world :)

> Maybe the BIOS should give you full ownership if it can check that the device is not reported missing after one week. But I guess that would give robbers a motive to kill the owners.

I don't think most people (even most thieves) would kill for a few hundred euros. But hey it's just my personal bet i don't have actual statistics :)

> Maybe devices should just unlock when they 5 years old.

Yeah maybe auto-timeout of BIOS lock could be nice to enforce for reusability of hardware. Something like you have to re-enable BIOS hardware (such as iCloud lock) every year or let it will auto-expire. This way the Apple cult can be happy with their brand new iCloud-locked iPhone which costs more than a second-hand car, while older devices could be reused instead of being thrown away or piled in a drawer.
It's not that hard really. You can get everything prefilled as if none of those points applied. Then you make changes which apply to you.

Various levels of deduction exist in other countries too - for example in Australia. But I get 95% of the form prefilled from employers/banks/insurance and only add what's missing.
Same in Norway, and the rest of Scandinavia I think. For most people there is nothing to do.
This just in, person uses computer to learn computers.
Don't mention it.
I guess it depends how hot. But you're probably right that India goes above the point that it helpful.
This is a very interesting article. Two countries that are very similar (on the same island) show very different rates of development. The author analyzes a lot of different possible causes, but does not really try to push one of them as the final answer. The problem of why some countries develop much faster than others is an important question. Please read this article.
You seem to be giving these companies a pass to sell software that can be used to create absolute surveillance states. If this sort of software is available, it needs regulations. The people responsible for the regulation are the exact states that would love to acquire the software. Do you not see the conflict of interest here? (Yes, it's the same for other weapons sales. That's a quagmire of corruption and double standards as well.)

Don't make the mistake of conflating North Korea with any other state. The people in charge of the intelligence organisations have very similar opinions on the efficacy of these tools no matter where they come from. It's been shown many times that the heads of the relevant agencies in the 5 eyes, let alone the rest of the international intelligence community, aren't very concerned about the legality of their activities.

Two ways to prevent the misuse of this software are 1: ban it and convict those who peddle it, and 2: have independent oversight and transparency over every use of this software. Who it's sold to, who it's used on, what it's capabilities are.

Unfortunately, I don't see either of these as realistic, so basically we're up shit creek without a paddle.
Weapons are designed to intimidate targets into compliants, not necessarily to harm them.
Yet we have recently had the interesting experience of many low paid workers suddenly being deemed “essential workers”. I don’t think any agile coaches were essential workers.

There are many jobs that are low paid because they are low skilled and have low barriers to entry, but otherwise very useful to society e.g. refuse collectors.
At least 25 dead in Chinese province's heaviest rains in 1000 years
Love to see the can-do, self-starter attitude.
That would have units of money^2 and wouldn't type-check. You'd have to do something like a geometric mean or choose a money-valued scale, like the price of a smug bumper sticker, to divide by.
So only criminals should have weapons? Who will stop the criminals, without weapons?
Suppose you have at an old analog clock with a second hand that ticks. Look somewhere else in the room, then look at the clock. The first tick as you're looking at it takes much longer to occur, or at least that's the way it will seem to you.

The human eye doesn't move continuously, but moves in short rapid jumps. [0]. Your eye isn't perfect, and during those rapid jumps it produces blurry images. Rather than feeding those blurry images to the image recognition centers of the brain, those images are thrown out. That prevents your brain from using known-faulty data, but now you have a problem because motion tracking requires continuity. So you cheat. You take some of the images that arrived after the blurry images, extrapolate backwards to make an estimation of how things looked before, and then feed those to the motion tracking [1].

The neat thing is that this depends on how the second hand of your analog clock moves. If it ticks every second, then the brain's back-extrapolation to fill in the missing images sees a stationary second hand, and assumes that it was stationary in the past. If it rotates smoothly instead of ticking, then the brain's back-extrapolation sees the motion, assumes that the motion was constant during the past, and back-extrapolates accordingly. So if you glance over to a ticking clock, the first tick feels like it takes longer, but you don't have the same effect glancing over to a smooth motion.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saccade
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saccadic_masking
Great point. In a way, the PMI becomes like an added aspect to the investment side of buying a house, in that you can either pay more money up front (the PMI, I mean) but get a better return on investment by having gotten in the market earlier. Whereas if you wait to save up for a down payment, the rising house prices may outpace your savings.
Another fun example:

function fib(n) {
if(n == 0 || n == 1)
return 1;
else
return fib(n-1) + fib(n-2);
}

fib(100);
I don’t have reason to be confident about any particular percentage. In 2019, 7.7% of the Indian population had incomes lower than $1.9 PPP. A literally undocumented homeless person in Berlin could make more by collecting forgotten drinks bottles and claiming the deposit for recycling them (this is an actual thing that happens: I’ve had beggars asking for my empty bottles since I came here).

7.7% of India in 2019 is ~105 million, so if 4% of the poorest people in India starved as a side-effect of the pandemic, that’s still 4 million excess deaths.

I would be willing to believe 4 million deaths caused by any of bad harvests, loss of labour opportunities due to economic slow-downs in other countries, COVID directly, the response to COVID, or by diseases that developed economies would consider minor and easily remedied.
That threat even has its own name now: a denial-of-wallet attack.

The limited protections available against this threat from the big cloud providers have to be seen as a warning sign. It's only a matter of time before any small business using these services for hosting can be subject to sudden shakedowns by criminals. "Nice business-critical infrastructure you have there, be a shame if anything were to happen to it." Some of the providers do offer a DoS mitigation service, but the cost for the higher levels can start to look like a shakedown itself.
To clarify a bit. By law, a human life is the "good" of highest value above everything else. Just committing a crime does not exempt you from that principle. Wether self defense was justified is judged by whether the level of force used was an appropriate reaction to the threat at hand. So not sure whether using a military weapon (assuming not going full automatic) vs. private actually matters at all, or if that would just be a separate violation.
I mean, you can absolutely go faster than 15mph on an electric bike in the UK, it's just that it has to stop providing any boost past that point.
It is obvious that Musescore does not care any more. They're in damage control mode and they're doing a terrible job at that.

The fork was the right decision.
>> NN weights are not "compiled".

Can you show me where in my comment above I used the word "compiled"?
```
$addresses = [ { 'name' => 'John Doe', 'address' => '123 Any Street', 'city' => 'Anytown', 'state' => 'TX', }, { 'name' => 'Mary Smith', 'address' => '100 Other Avenue', 'city' => 'Whateverville', 'state' => 'PA', }, ];
```

this already confused me. is the $ vigil for scalars? Why is address using it? Isn't address an array here?

Don't get it.
I got interested in drone tech and this source has more info: https://edition.cnn.com/2021/05/27/middleeast/clouds-electri...
There are usually several more options to access/use bookmarks than manually crawling a tree structure:

- in most browsers when you type something in the url/search box it can search through your bookmarks too

- bookmark toolbars allow you to use bookmarks as a top-level or drop-down (folders on toolbar) menu
I agree with many of your points. One not though, in the state where I live, we have awful drivers (I think) and covid deaths in 2020 were ~100x average yearly motor vehicle deaths.
What Startups Taught Me About Writing a Book
> Really, in 21st century if you want to write portable 3D code just use a middleware engine, with plugins based backend.

Isn't this why Vulkan was designed the way it was. It's lower level, giving more control to things like memory. In this way I view it somewhat like the ASM of the GPU (even though though there are lower levels still).

I'm curious if anyone with a lot of experience writing graphics "middleware engine" backends agrees.
Browsers really should have an option to automatically cache your bookmarks offline.
Normally I'd say "Gestapo tactics" is an exaggeration for deleting a comment someone wrote on the internet, but given that the company in question has threatened someone with the specific brutality of the Chinese police, I think it might be warranted here.

https://www.theregister.com/2021/07/20/muse_group_deportatio...

> I will have to transfer information about you to lawyers who will cooperate with github.com and Chinese government to physically find you and stop the illegal use of licensed content.

> If found in violation of laws, residency may be revoked and he may be deported to his home country. This becomes even further complicated given another repo of his – 'Fuck 学习强国', which is highly critical of the Chinese government. Were he deported to China, who knows how he may be received.
Of note: they're not paid, they're compensated.

Which is why only officers have a base comp' above the minimum legal salary, the lowest rank gets 8.08 (euros) (the minimum legal salary is 10.25), but it's tax-free.

And that's on active duty (which doesn't necessarily mean on-site, it might be training or admin or whatever), when on-call it's generally half-that (legally anyway, some places give volunteers more).
> Sadly, attacks on those groups from bystanders are steadily climbing...

How is that? What kind of idiot would attack firefighters or paramedics?
You mean use guns to steal people's guns?
I like seeing little notes from prior readers. References to other works, question marks, and angry exclamation points are all fun to see.

Underlining or highlighting can be interesting to see what the other reader thought was important. Highlighters can be distracting when they overdo it, but even then it can be fun to see where the highlighting tapers off were the prior reader just gave up.

But dog ears or times when someone folded a whole page in half is just painful.
Oh, on the GCP story I was always reminded of this:

https://blog.tomilkieway.com/72k-1/
Exactly. If he didn't thank them, he would have been in headlines for not thanking them. Same shitty people attacking over anything. Lots of times and reasons to attack Bezos. This is not one of them.
That's well written little story there. I could picture every bit of it.
This is the most social media click crazed article I’ve ever seen.

He never thanked them for his wealth, he basically said “because Amazon was so successful, we could use that money to fund Blue Origin”.

But nobody would click on that title so NYTimes comes up with “vast wealth” headline.

Has mainstream journalism come to this?
> Pretty sure the car is the most harmful invention of the 20th century.

A bit of perspective: the automobile cleaned up cities, which used to have a huge infrastructure to manage animal waste. The automobile enabled freedoms: not just freedom to travel, which the manufacturers emphasize, but freedom of association, unlocked a wider freedom to work, in particular for women, and in general, ironically, enabled the growth of cities which are themselves not only environmentally more efficient but act as crucibles of growth.

This is not some pro-car screed -- I myself got rid of my cars four years ago and primarily get around on foot, bike, and train. I also recognize the malign influence of the automobile, both IC and electric. But there is an enormous literature on the sociology and economics of the automobile, and I think a blanket condemnation, especially the extreme you mention, is utterly unwarranted.
I think that it comes off as condescending and possibly insincere.

It's like a king thanking the peasants for their sacrifice so the king can live so comfortably.
Then the same applies to Mr. Watts’ statement, and we are therefore under no obligation to take it as true.
You’ve just reminded me of a question I had on a driver’s test many years ago.

The free-response question was something like: “What is the single most important thing you can do to improve your safety as a driver?”

I answered: “Always drive sober.”

The “correct” answer was: “Fasten your seatbelt.”

I can only imagine the grader’s face / thoughts when they had to mark my answer as incorrect.
> … said Representative Earl Blumenauer, Democrat of Oregon. “We pay taxes on plane tickets. Billionaires flying into space — producing no scientific value — should do the same, and then some!”

That was a stupid thing to say. This is the start of the commodification of manned space travel. The more we do it, the better we get at it, the more we learn about it. That’s scientifically valuable. But it’s not free, and getting the costs down is an important enabling factor.
I know if you're born from a US parent you get citizenship, but what's stopping them from only filing for the birth of a Canadian child in Canada and never acknowledging they have American citizenship? As long as you don't get a birth certificate and SSN in the US, the IRS will never know.
Well if you read the article you'd see one is being charged. The other is ambiguous but it appears authorities know who it is.
A lot of MuseScore employees just going about & closing issues without reason/resolution.
The Straits of Gibraltar has a strong net inflow current, which might make drone submersibles a bit prone to getting lost.

Also, the prior art for smuggling across the straits were fast launches which would bump upon to beaches and be quickly disgorged. This means that the Guardia Civil take a lot of interest in what happens along the coast.

Also, let it be said that the coast up East from Gibraltar is very much not as empty as it is from Algeciras Westwards, with a lot of development on the Costa del Sol. Makes it hard to have slower than launches/ribs submarines do their thing.
Why not use a dedicated escrow service for that, which wouold work with all expenses, not just AWS?