skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
11: PST – The Ipaws National Test
In the Middle East, during summer, you don't need heating at night; it's still easily north of 30C
Does every post about Facebook have to result in a massive circle jerking of comments? These get tiring to read every time. Almost none of the comments right now offer any substance at all, just mindless sound bites and jokes.
If your definition accurately described the difference between rich and poor countries, the people of the Global South would be considered wealthy.

If that wealth is not used to secure stable living conditions (like freedom from environmental hazards) for the people of the country, that wealth is not effectively owned or controlled by the people of the country.

>In this sense it is also a description of America or even a hypothetical anarcho-capitalist zone.

This also describes the conditions that result from the massive disparities in how America's wealth is distributed. After World War II massive resources were poured into segregating people into white-only neighborhoods[1] that accrue value (and wealth) over time and non-white neighborhoods that are targeted for dis-investment. When hazardous industries want to open, they choose the non-white neighborhoods[2] and when they close they leave the neighborhood with the task of cleaning up their messes[3].

America is able to reproduce the dynamics of its foreign policy internally because of this policy of geographic segregation. These dynamics continue to this day even as it has become taboo to implement segregationist policy explicitly. This is because there has been no appetite for the structural change that is necessary to keep the disparities from growing over time.

1. https://www.npr.org/2017/05/03/526655831/a-forgotten-history...

2. https://blockclubchicago.org/2020/05/18/major-explosion-and-...

3. https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/environment/ct-chicago-s...
The wifi is down is going to be a new level of craziness now
Isn't this a Symmetricom card? Being open source is the killer feature here. There are a number of companies that make PCIe timing cards, but they are all proprietary and go out of support way too quickly.
You're not entirely wrong, but we need to compare apples to apples:

Capital = excess of assets over liabilities => capacity to satisfy creditors medium term (solvency)

That's at least 7% to 13% of the balance sheet for banks, and currently 0.26% for Tether.

Reserves = cash (and equivalents) in the vault => capacity to pay out immediately (liquidity)

Minimum reserves required used to be 3% to 10% of deposits, if I read this correctly, but are now 0% indeed, as you point out. Actual bank reserves, however, are much larger than what is required, even when the requirement was > 0 [see 1]. Tether holds about 5% in cash or Treasury bills.

So it seems that banks fare much better on both ratios than Tether.

[1] https://www.federalreserve.gov/releases/h3/Current/
Call me Mr Glass Half Full, but since cold kills 20x more people than heat shouldn't we look forward to a future where many more people survive temperature extremes?

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/05/150520193831.h...
If the goal is to connect people looking for [specific] content with websites [providing it for free] We have failed horribly with a mechanism where readers have to ask and give their OPML before the potential reader can find out their categories.

With so many new websites being created and so many old ones deleted a static file is not a good solution. If we assume you manage to share your OPML with just the right audience it is almost impossible for a new blog to find its way into this promotional formula. You might find it eventually but it wont show up in the OPML for everyone you've shared it with.

My personal client can do OPML but also loads flat feed lists from an url then keeps additional flat lists of feeds that seem broken or gone, lists of feeds that I assume are gone and lists of feeds I'm no longer interested in. Removing the dead feeds and adding new ones still [shamefully] involves periodic manual labor.

Its great that one can manually categorize feeds in OPML and that one can provide categories, tags and even a rating service in the feed it self but if the data is never shared anyplace else their is [almost] no point in doing so. As a result most feeds have none.

We have: Tags, categories, your own rating system, a shared or public rating service, OPML meta data and the one I forgot: The person (or entity) sharing the feed(s) with you is also meta data.

I have no idea how we can wrap all of those into one discovery medium but the idea sounds awesome to me.
And then there's the whole thing about measuring productivity. It's very hard for many managers to understand the qualitative status of a codebase, and to connect future task effectiveness with past decisions that affected that quality.

So the average manager doesn't actually know how to judge productivity. I don't think they think they know, and just are mistaken. I think they know they don't know. So what do they have to go on? Pay, and conformity with their own set of best-loved personality traits (called "cultural fit").
Free software won, the commons ossified as no one cared to invest in fundamental ways, new layers are slapped on to hide the cruft, and the pendulum swings back to proprietary competition.
There is no guarantee when dealing with the US. I mean the last president pull out of an international agreement (Iran) just because he didn't like it. How can you agree to something that in 4 years might just change. Making a deal with the US is dangerous, just ask Saddam or Gaddafi.
Yeah, pretty much. But don't despair, this is how the industry progresses.

First, elite practitioners identify flaws in the standard practices of some corner of the industry and figure out a way to ameliorate them. They give it a name so they can talk about it, write about it, organize conferences etc. They're mainly interested in disseminating this good idea.

The idea becomes popular, and a cottage industry springs up. Some of the original proponents become consultants, but there are others who were early adopters, and many more who are jumping on the trend. You also get an ecosystem of open source and commercial tools. This starts to warp the original ideas, as they stop being about purely about improving results and incorporate a bias for generating more consulting or tool revenue.

This drives wider adoption. Companies start looking for people with experience in the new thing, and people start putting it on their resume. It gets applied in situations it wasn't meant for, sometimes on purpose and sometimes by accident. You start to see "no true Scotsman" discussions where detractors claim they tried the thing and it didn't work and proponents claim they weren't doing it right. There's also cargo culting, where people who don't really understand the ideas try to implement the practices with varying degrees of success.

Eventually things get watered down to the point where the terminology starts to just mean "good" or "cool". The actual practitioners stop using it because it's no longer useful for communication and it falls out of favour.

But. All is not lost! The original ideas were good, and they've been widely disseminated. They get taught to young people joining the industry, and they start to be part of "how we do things." They don't need special names to distinguish them from "mainstream" practices because they are the mainstream. In fact, young people sneer at them because duh, without knowing what they were a reaction to.

You can see this with Agile, Lean and DevOps. On the business side, "disruption". The cycles are slower and maybe less intense in more CS and pure coding domains, but you find it there too with scripting languages, object oriented languages, TDD. Functional programming is leaving the consulting phase and seeing wider adoption.

This is probably not how we'd like to think things work. But they do work.
Or the Urine-indicator dye in swimming pools. A useful myth to spread in schools (which did in my school in the 90s).
From reading his email to her, it's clear that he did realize this, but somehow he also thought he could get away with writing a suggestive email to her about his "adventurous love life" [sic]. (To be clear, referencing such things in a written work email would be regarded as grossly unprofessional no matter what the circumstances, but Laura being 17 and working for him at the time makes it quite outrageous.)
What did you intend by "in the too"?
Yes, that is a valid distinction to make, if the arguments/concerns around Tether were merely "hey, let's make sure regular banking regulation extends to this organization as well, to make sure it's all going in tip-top shape".

But that's not why people bring up the figures. They're acting like it's inherently shady to have less than 100% (or 3, or whatever) cash reserves for something that ostensibly "has your money on demand", and such a scheme is inherently unsustainable, even though this is exactly what banks do.[1]

Be careful not to equate "one technical distinction that makes sense" with "the the things the hive mind is actually outraged about".

(Sorry, would have responded sooner but I got a "you're posting too fast, slow down" error.)

[1] Fortunately, this article is focusing on the point about just extending regulation, but every other time this comes up, the figure is supposed to provoke outrage about "how can they not have our cash ready to go?"
> There is almost no cash value to an article one day later, yet we completely impoverish the public domain for its sake.

If there is no value to an article one day later, it’s literally impossible that restricting it impoverishes anyone.

Copyright law is messed up, but demanding access to something by asserting it’s worthless makes no sense.
I keep seeing this.

Do that many dems really believe that their policies don't significantly result in an increased cost of living?

I thought this was a compromise dems knowingly and willingly made, but it seems lots of people don't want to admit low cost of living has anything to do with being a red state.
I've been playing around with a homegrown version of this. It's really not that hard: just set up a docker context to your home lab server and use VSCode remote containers.

I've been able to remove WSL from my PC: Docker desktop was gouging itself on resources. I can now also shut down my desktop and continue exactly where I was on my laptop, and visa-versa. I don't have to pull WIP commits back and forth between the two machines.

It's a major leap forward, and there is no need to use GitHub infra.
Is there a mirror of the video anywhere? I'd be interested in hearing exactly what was said.
Both Plotly and Streamlit can be self-hosted. I've hosted prod apps in both frameworks. However, I understand why you thought that, because both companies seek to monetize their open source software via offering ultra-simple, semi-automated hosting for apps built in their respective frameworks. Plotly Dash is just a Flask app with a whole lot of other things wired in and a sophisticated front-end operating on a DAG structure provided by the server that is dynamically generated from the Python code. It's got it's issues, but it's interesting nonetheless.

I'm not trying to be some pedantic know-it-all or anything, I'm just correcting you on this because I'm very curious on the deltas between your very interesting looking framework and those. I love these kinds of projects and I'm excited to take a deeper look at yours once I'm done with my current sprint. Very glad to see you made awesome use of your time during the lockdowns.
Thanks!
Whoops! Thanks for the feedback (i am no native speaker)
It’s not because they have a liberal arts degree, it’s also because their hobbies are not technically valuable to anyone. I hold a philosophy degree but I have been obsessed with computers my whole life and learned to code before I had any intention of doing it for a living which is what I do now. Too many people think school is the only way to do anything. That may have been true but now there are very few fields you cannot learn the information side of simply by spending time watching videos on the internet.
Maybe instead of urban planning, you need "urban philosophy".

American urban philosophy is the car and the road and segregation. Everything else is secondary.

American suburbia is just Conway's law on a massive scale.
Sure, but where do the keys come from?
Support for delegated staking is already here, it's just not widely used yet. The trick is that you specify a contract address as your validator's exit address, and that contract keeps track of who has partial "ownership" of the validator and thus is allowed to withdraw their fraction of the stake after the validator exits.

Lido for example, a staking provider, already keeps their new deposits in custody of a contract like this.
Sex and Cash Theory
Memory, battery, and latency are the main reasons.
Use a typewriter, paper and stamps.
> Everyone else has forgotten it.

I personally know quite a few people from ex-Yugoslavia who still hold grudges. Learned about it, to my surprise (they never really manifested those grudges) during the Trump/Hillary campaign, when being pro-Hillary was unacceptable to those people regardless of how low they thought of Trump and his agenda.

These things take way longer than 20 years to erode. But many people that had nothing to do with the conflict at all may have forgotten indeed. Still Not "Everyone else" by far
Disable javascript (easy if you're using Brave) if you want to avoid the forced email signup to read the full article.
Wet bulb requires it to be... you know... wet.

Not very practical to include in your electronics.

I don't know exact method used but I can assure you, there is no water reservoir in any of my gadgets:)
There's plenty of companies that wasted a ton of resources trying to roll their own version of things that should be services. Remember when Uber built their own chat solution? [0]

> With operations in over 620 cities, it was paramount for us to identify a chat solution that would enable Uber employees to reliably communicate on desktop and mobile regardless of where they were in the world.

Did Uber really need their own chat solution? Are they not better served by a SaaS product, one of 5 that 90%+ of companies are using? Are they still using uChat today? (honest question, I don't know)

This is especially dangerous when talking about security sensitive features. It is highly inadvisable to roll your own crypto

Lot of companies shut down or fail for lots of reasons. I think a business should focus on what they do best and what's critical to their mission.

[0] https://eng.uber.com/uchat/
For programmers, remote working is becoming the norm
Democratizing Time: Hands on with an Atomic Clock PCIe Card
The opening to the second paragraph honestly reads like satire of something that could have been said at any point in the last 50 years.
> ... higher level of quality going to lead to worse end-user experience

This is just a management speak where degradation in quality is called 'next generation'. It is worse because it is resource hog and slow even on high end machines.

As a technical user I understand at least what is happening. On other hand non-technical folks are unable to articulate their frustrations which slick developers seems to take as users are satisfied.
This article completely ignores that Sweden has a competitive corporate tax rate, one of the best in developed European nations. This creates a strong environment for startup growth. Payroll & income taxes make it difficult to retain talent in the country, but that can be offset by the welfare and lifestyle benefits.

Source: https://taxfoundation.org/sweden-competitive-spite-high-tax-...
We have been using gapless microlenses on imaging sensors for quite a while now. Also, when the pixels shrink, tech advancements in reducing downstream read-noise also mean that very little ISO performance is sacrificed (if any). Certainly, there is a lot more nuance and tech to discuss, but those are the broad strokes.

https://www.photonstophotos.net/Charts/PDR.htm#Canon%20EOS%2...

https://www.photonstophotos.net/Charts/RN_e.htm#Canon%20EOS%...
Swedish taxes are high for individuals, but the system is regressive. Sweden has abolished all kinds of wealth tax and only has three income tax bands. It is a great place to live if you are rich.
It’s going to be a global scale “north versus south” war like in South Park—everyone will blame Canada… and Satan will… err never mind. :)
It’s pretty easy to understand.

VSCode was an electron app from day one and never tried to be a first-class Mac app while the only reason 1Password is around today is because customers loved having a lightweight, native manager that always was quick to support new OS features.

Essentially, native Mac apps switching to electron is a bait and switch.
They come from wherever you want, better than KMIPS, and hits all the big-name enterprise security requirements
I’m a course developer on a closed-access learning platform for a year. I love slip and have been following you from the beginning.

I think import/export in Markdown would be a killer feature, in particular because it then makes things super easy to synchronize with GitHub, which is a must to version a course. And also, it enables to collaborate easily.

Does the editor enable collaboration? I mean, more than one writer?

A low hanging fruit maybe: may code blocks come with already loaded, popular code formatters / linters? And also text blocks with spellcheckers? I think this would benefit the editor.
Mosh provides a noticeable improvement in SSH reliability even on a home fiber connection in the US.
@JPKab: Ah ok! Thanks for making this clear
Ohhh! that's new! I will bookmark.
> I do not recommend living in Sweden without a good private medical insurance. The public health care is top notch when it works, but without private insurance odds are it will not work well in your case.

What is this FUD? I've never had a problem here. Everything is far better than anything I ever had in the US private or public.

> If you are willing to put in 10-15MSEK for a house/apartment you can choose areas with very good schools, but it will take you many years to find a decent rental below 30k/m.

Again, you're just misleading people. There are plenty of places to live besides Stockholm and Göteborg and many of them even have startup incubators or large corporations with plenty of jobs.
No! Not even a little bit. Do you realize the rapidity of these changes puts our entire species at risk?
Apparently you can set up Codespaces with any Docker image you want, so there's no reason you couldn't use Nix to generate one for use with Codespaces.

The Visual Studio Code server isn't in Nixpkgs/NixOS yet, but there's an out-of-tree effort being maintained here for now: https://github.com/msteen/nixos-vscode-server
‘Jeopardy ’ Announces Mike Richards and Mayim Bialik as New Hosts
Taxes AND rule of law
> There's many, many different graphics abstractions out there for C and C++ alone, and none of them is The solution.

There’re downsides of course (that thing is C++ only because exceptions, requires recent enough hardware e.g. minimum GLES version is 3.0, and a few others), but in general that one is actually good. On the very high level, developers have re-implemented D3D12 over the rest of them.

Things like Angle and BGFX expose APIs which are very far from how GPU actually work, and close to the legacy stuff like D3D11 or OpenGL. For complex enough scenes, it’s pretty much impossible to get good performance on modern hardware with these APIs.

Game engines are designed in a way which does allow them to leverage the hardware, but they are huge, implementing many high-level things like assets pipelines, and are more like frameworks than libraries.

> Your comment actually reinforces the original author's point

Rendering an indexed triangle mesh with a vertex + pixel shader is the traditional rasterization technique. Compute shaders like piet-gpu, or custom vendor APIs like NV_path_rendering are examples of untraditional ones.

> You don't control what the system UI framework is doing with the GPU

Indeed, but good ones support explicit interop: WPF has D3DImage, UWP and WinUI have SwapChainPanel.
It's funny because we told people not to trust big companies, they tell us we are paranoid, they do it, they pay the price for it, then they say we were right, then they do it again.

MS changed. Google changed. Apple changed. Why do one expect github to never turn evil ? Haven't learned enough from history ?

Don't let them control your entire stack! Don't let anybody control the entire of anything.

There is a difference this time though. This time, most of us will say it only once.
What do you mean FUD? Maybe you've got your own way of doing things that works well so far for you with your current projects, but a ton of people don't live with the same experience, and when they do reach a comfortable spot, it's only comfortable until they move to a new set of projects or company.
True, that's a good point. Has it been confirmed that they're just blanket-blocking VPN IPs rather than specifically blocking cases of a customer's region shifting/not matching their registration details?

If the VPN node's public IP matches the country in the subscriber's registration details, then it seems pretty unfair that they'd still restrict their account when accessed from that VPN IP. But I suppose from a technical standpoint it's probably far simpler for them to just find VPN IPs/subnets, add them to a database, and restrict content for any account accessed from any of those IPs, regardless of the account, IP, or content regions.
It's still a git repo in the end, so you can use all the usual tools to work with it locally.

You can also use https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/remote/containers to run an identical container locally to reproduce the environment, and then connect to it.
3D printed nuclear reactor components now installed at TVA Browns Ferry plant
What Happens When ‘If’ Turns to ‘When’ in Quantum Computing?
Opener’s Blackfly Electric Aircraft Will Cost the Same as a Luxe SUV
The pressure difference between your backyard and your basement is for all practical purposes null. It is also orders of magnitude smaller than those caused by gusts of wind and changing weather.
Easy. Just assign some random value to customer value. Assign another random value as the return on investment. Divide the first by the second. Voilà.
Look at this shit! [1] Who designed this garbage?!

[1] https://hypertele.fi/temp/firefox-ui.png
No, because System F cannot be used to express particularly interesting proofs.
> The direction the web is taking is worrisome.

It's 100% economic. "Everything has to be free" means there is no money to be made in selling actual applications. That means the industry pivots to SaaS since the cloud is DRM and by running apps remotely you can charge rent and make piracy impossible. As a bonus you get the user's data, which you can do anything you want with in most cases.

As a bonus SaaS can also claim to be open source if only the client code is open, or if all the code is open but the SaaS still holds all the data and has the network effect. So you get those open source virtue points for free while still locking up the data or the network.

Of course the other response to "everything has to be free" is surveillance capitalism.
Smartphone and internet addiction?
End of the Line for Uber
Your "2 and done" rule stood out for me. While I don't necessarily agree with the benefit of avoiding blame I like it as a strategy for situations that come up a lot.

We have an interview question that asks about what you do in exactly this situation and people inevitably focus on "being right and winning" or "picking the right vs. the wrong solution". In reality it typically is picking one of many good but not perfect solutions and then moving forward as a team. If you answered by explaining your rule I'd be impressed. Bonus points if you shared the historical basis/significance.