skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
On some level it is also a huge insult from Russia by leaving just enough bread crumbs, intentionally or not, to essentially say "look, we're doing this and getting away with it; else we're not doing it". And it is part of their strategy for both cases to be equally plausible rather than to be overwhelmingly without blame.

It is disinformation-as-policy to bolster their political might without flexing their full military. The finest example of Hypernormalization.

Embarrassed that their government represents people of my heritage. Путин просто хуйло.
like whataboutism about russian trolls, right?
I am skeptical of the utility of private arms in resisting a home-grown tyrannical government. I'm extremely skeptical that they're better to have around, than not to have around, from a preserving-liberty perspective, in a developed state, especially.

I'd welcome any evidence that they're of much use for that. I see too many mixed outcomes (private arms aiding in the installation of tyrannical government, notably, of which I'm aware of way more examples than the reverse) and cases that are too different to compare—every single example I'm aware of involves extensive foreign intervention and/or resistance to a foreign occupier, which is very different.

I think the odds of an armed US militia resisting tyranny being popular enough not to end up being opposed by even more armed militia who are pro tyranny, in a situation in which the military is not also mostly on the anti-tyranny side, is effectively zero. I think the reverse is far more likely (private arms supporting tyranny). I'd welcome evidence that would change this view, but as far as I can tell the scales strongly lean toward my take.
In a dystopian world, where algorithms judge everyone by some arbitrary metric, you get to decide which algorithm will choose your fate. Which one will it be?
Other than acceptance, that's a rather bold blanket statement.

Visa and Mastercard handle roughly 7000 transactions per second. Solana's chain (as an example) is among the highest performing and can handle north of 50k TPS.

Edit: Please challenge my position and make me think. Votes are pointless, but being proven wrong is a learning experience.
I was wondering this as well. FB tech articles never seem to start with a use-case, application or statement of problem.
Hey Reilly, we're looking at the cookie/registration/login flow issue rn.

we plan on adding support for sql courses :)
Ask HN: Germans with money – you want to talk?
Hi,

tl;dr: I have too much money (for my age) and need to talk to people in German language who can understand my situation.

I‘m directing this request more to German speaking people as I‘m German myself and need somebody to talk to about having way-more-than-average money and how to deal with it. German language would benefit me to express my problems better.

To make it short, I‘m nearing a million Euros worth of stock, cash and crypto. I don’t need the money now. I just want to let it work for me to grow until I want to retire.

The problem: I am unhappy and unmotivated and I‘m suspecting the money to be a main driver for this. While I want to keep the money untouched as a retirement account I also at the same time use it as an excuse that nothing bad can happen to me.

It is affecting my job performance heavily (I basically don’t work even though I’m employed) and I don’t really care about the negative consequences. I just sit there and couldn’t give less fucks about it. „Even if they fire me, what should happen to me?“ I lost interest in doing anything in my life even though I have loads of time and resources.

I need someone to talk about this who was in a similar situation or never got there even though money was not a concern.

You can reach me at hansifransi12345@web.de or via the comments.

Thanks!
The young MBA people are intimidated by people who can reject their schoolbook ideas coherently. Most of those people are older, but not all of them. I started noticing this before I was thirty, either reacting to me or to someone I agreed with who happened to be older. It only gets worse.
All right, we can see he has a rock in his hand in that video, however...

He's facing the crowd of actually masked protesters, surveilling them which is probably why he got caught, they completely outnumber him, which makes me thinks it's probably better for his defense to hold a rock in his hands.

I mean, look at this crowd of masked people, some even wearing gasmasks, holding red flags, with god knows what in their backpacks, claiming that the infiltrated agents are there to "provoke them", what a joke of bad faith.

You don't want them to do that? Letting them do more preventive surveillance would be a solution then, that'd be an upgrade for everyone. But you don't want that either so I guess we're stuck in this status quo.
You don't really get any benefit from writing it in javascript, other than the normal benefits you get from writing anything in javascript. (I say this having very little experience with server-side javascript, so take it with a grain of salt)

DoM emulation and selectors are pretty much equivalent between nodejs and python, you can use css or xpath selectors on html/xml content on either of them. Either way you need to emulate something like a DoM, as neither language/execution-environment has a "native" DoM.

You don't want to execute random javascript code from the web inside your scraper, and just being able to parse the scripts doesn't do you much good. So you're not getting the main advantage I think you're suggesting, being able to emulate page javascript, being able to actually run that code.

Generally if you want to interact with javascript you need to do it in another process (I guess a sufficiently advanced sandbox could work too, an interpreter in your interpreter, but so far that doesn't exist). If you're already going to be running that javascript in a different process for security reasons that different process might as well just be a "remote controlled" web browser.

Historically that was done using selenium, which has good python bindings.

Now days it's being done more with playwright, which started out as a nodejs binding but is moving towards python....

Ultimately I think the reason is that there's no real advantage to using javascript and python is a nicer language with a healthier ecosystem, but your mileage my vary.
Everyone should write tickets including product managers, technical leads, senior software engineers, users, etc.

I don't think you can define a broad % of who should write how many tickets because it's highly dependent on the use case and the context that each of those people share.
> And doesn't mean that we have to pay everyone more who _has_ to come to work? I.e. because they need to go the factory floor? Or they need to go the power plant?

You only have to pay someone more if you cannot find someone to do the job for lower pay.
F W-96M with default straps. & The other famous cheapest casio. Gonna look into nato straps.
One thing I always wonder about with these small scale NTP projects is: they often reject getting 1PPS through a USB-to-serial converter, because USB is polled and just has too much jitter - then they'll choose a Raspberry Pi 1 and serve NTP over... a USB to ethernet converter. Or sometimes even USB-to-wifi!

One would think both interfaces would suffer the same problems, after all.
>>>>> The economy functioning is of greater benefit to the whole than the value of currency hoarders maintaining its value. If you want to preserve wealth, own things you expect people to trade their time or capital for into the future.

Retirees on a fixed income; immigrants, the poor, and people with no access to credit would like to have a word with you
Huh, i read what you linked and it's mixed. I'm not trying to imply he's right about climate change, but more about ecosystem change (rebuild soil, retain water)
I want to offer explicit congratulations on the FmcToJs.js source, it is very, very well done and the emphasis on translation to a reasonably efficient JS program is evident from that file alone. I may even try and work a translation layer from my personal programming language to Fmc just as a fun project for the weekend.

As a quick question, the self types as the primitive for induction seems to resemble the general mechanism Robert Harper exposes in PFPL, i.e. a recursive construct over a sum. If that is not the inspiration, do you have any publications (or blogs, etc) that talk in more depth about the induction principle in Kind?
One can look at it as what's the null hypothesis. Presumably it should be "masks DO NOT work". But for whatever reason, media, tech, politicians, doctors chose opposite as a null hypothesis - "Masks DO work" shifting the burden of proof. Neither has been proven though. There were studies, e.g. DENMARK-19, etc. but after this became a political and ideological issue it seems no one interested to find the truth to the question "do masks work in reducing transmission of respiratory viruses". Notice that there's also question - what does it mean "work", let's say it reduces number of viral particles but that reduction has little effect on transmission, it should mean it doesn't work.
PayPal should also be a licensed bank.

Problem solved.
I had the same question - there are obviously a lot of applications for this, but why would a company like FB need it?
I don't think that's the right way to read it.

Currently, all the holders of tether could ask for dollars, and they'd all get them, and there'd even be 0.26% of the original balance left. (Under quite some assumptions, namely that they could sell the commercial paper at the value at which they hold it in their accounts.)

However, if the value of their assets would shrink, say, by 1%, their equity would be wiped out, and they'd not have enough dollars to satisfy their liabilities. Then, if people would start demanding their dollars, the last 1%-0.26% = 0.74% of tether holders would get nothing, because there'd be nothing left.

That could trigger a good old bank run - you don't want to be among that last percent of bag holders, so better take out your dollars now while they still have some.
The fed has expanded money supply to react to shocks before, and there was no hyperinflation. Even if clearly at some point, given enough money-printing, inflation would result, there's no reason to assume it's some binary thing; either hyper-inflation ala zimbabwe or normal inflation. It's more likely you'd see gradual inflation, and that the amount of money printed influences how much inflation results - so assuming that any expansion of the money supply is reasonable, and not egregious.

Frankly, if banks start failing to the extent that FDIC is not only necessary on a large scale but even possibly unsustainable, I kind of doubt that a bit of inflation is going to be the worst of our worries.
fission and fusion did not begin with private interest at heart. Not everything should be profit motivated, especially with public goods.[0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_good_(economics)
They are going to forget about it and move on.

There’s no viable place to go that isn’t performing the same function.
It is the differences between the US and Weimar Germany / Zimbabwe that make it possible for the US to print its way out of most problems.

Other national governments didn't stuff Z$ into their armored-up national mattresses to bolster against the collapse of their local currency, and there wasn't an IMF holding debts denoted in Reichsmarks to create a demand for them internationally.
On the other hand, if you just want a standalone, turnkey stratum 1 server, I've used a TM1000A for years. GPS, easy to set up, just sits there quietly and works. Not dirt cheap but not a lot more expensive, considering. (Not affiliated, just a satisfied customer.)

https://timemachinescorp.com/product/gps-time-server-tm1000a...
for a collectivist mentality you owe everithing to the community thats own you
Honestly, I agree with the policy. The fundamental misunderstanding that people who say "Why aren't we paid for what you produce" is that the existing compensation _is_ paying for what you produce, it's also taking into account the price of the location you're working.

Why _should_ an engineer working from Seattle, where rent is ~2k for a 1bd, not get paid more than the engineer working from Bentonville, AR, where a 1bd is $800? Your compensation is made up of what the company expects for you to spend _because_ you're working in a particular location.

(Disc: I work for Google, opinion is my own tho.)
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Commercial plumbing in Calgary is a bit different from residential plumbing because it is on large scale. Plumbing in business buildings, shopping malls, service centers or government office buildings is on big level which needs high quality material which is expensive as well. Any rapture in pipes can cause big damage because the people effected are on bug count
This is more of a beginners guide than master class. This method will not extract most content on modern websites because of the way javascript behaves on them. It is also vertically not horizontally scalable. There are many other reasons that this a step one when web scraping.
The dialogues between Elon and his engineers are mindblowing! It's great to see them making rapid progress.
It's pretty clear that the argument is that the government is hypocritical and unequal in treatment of establishment players vs cryptocurrency.
He doesn't want to sacrifice anything or changes that will affect him personally.
Fewer particles admitted means reduced chance of infection, no?

The thing to keep in mind is that blocking 50% of the particles does not mean a 50% reduction in infection. It may mean a 50% reduction in infection -- or it may mean a basically zero percent reduction. It depends on the exposure.

Say that in a particular covid-filled room you have a 50% chance of being infected after 5 minutes and a 99.9% chance of being infected after an hour. Under a simple model, if you wear a mask that blocks half the particles, your chance of getting coronavirus in 5 minutes would be reduced to 25%, but your chance of getting it after an hour would be 97%. So if cloth mask is your primary defense against covid, you are eventually going to get covid if you are trying to live anything close to a normal life. Blocking 50% of particles is like wearing an condom that only blocks 50% of the sperm or an umbrella that blocks only 50% of the rain.
Have the word with me. That's what cost of living adjustments (social security or other systems) & prudently investing a lifetime of retirement savings (in a safe mix of investments to support both growth and safety) and improved underwriting and funding for those folks (respectively) is for. It's not an issue with the currency, that's not what currencies are for.

If you're expecting the value of a currency to never change, you are asking a fish to climb a tree.
>>A currency is a socioeconomic compact between capital and labor, intermediated by subject matter experts (ie the central bank) and government.

Currency is an asset with a particular use-case. Its consumers do not enter into some elaborate agreement (compact) in order to use it. They use it because it's useful.

Currency predates the government:

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2021/05/210506174103.h...

It arose as an emergent property of market interaction, i.e. distributed processes, not centralized authorities.

EDIT, responding to below:

No, the distributed processes of the market are a collective intelligence that vastly outperforms any single entity at the task of effectively managing the money supply.

See Selgin's articles on free banking:

https://www.alt-m.org/2015/07/29/there-was-no-place-like-can...
Youtube most definitely has the right to determine what they're going to show on their platform. You may not agree with their choices, but it's their right.

It is easy and cheap to host videos online that can be easily linked to and viewed by anyone.
Kind of not-really-news. FTA:

- pay stays the same if WFH is from same city

- several employers other than Google have policies to adjust pay based on location

- the calculator they developed is to help make employees make data-based decisions (this is in contrast to other companies where no such calculator exists and one is left to guess and/or initiate talks with their boss that may or may not end awkwardly)

Another unspoken thing: there's such thing as salary negotiations and exceptions. "If I take a 10% cut, I'm leaving" is a perfectly reasonable thing to say in such a negotiation, and maintaining current salaries is something these types of employers are not culturally against (the way some middle management thinks of performance notwithstanding).

The general goal of the policy is to make things "fair" in the sense that they already have employees in lower-pay locations and it's unfair/potentially problematic to have two people in that same location doing similar work but being paid vastly different amounts. The "why don't they just pay everyone SV salaries everywhere" argument is obviously from people who never ran businesses and are just disguisedly wishing they made more money: saving money on salaries is done for the same reason companies do tax-related shenanigans. In Google's case, even the employees are kinda in on the scheme, as bottom line affects quarterly reports, and thus their equity compensation...
Crypto, right now, is to finance as fantasy football is to football

Paypal and Square aren't banks... but they are regulated under securities law and the things they do are not nearly as crazy as the things that the "real" banks do with money behind the scenes.

I think that's cool; the regulations are there for a reason. The regulations are there because they underpin the promises made by society. Like, you put stuff in your 401k and you get to retire one day. That's a big promise and the paperwork is justified.

Regulation is a sort of "guard labour" which society puts in place to ensure the system is legible, or comprehensible on some level. It doesn't work too well, but it's the best we've got.

I'd be OK with a world where there is "regulated" crypto and "unregulated" crypto, and on the unregulated sort you can lose all your money and that's fine and maybe nobody goes to jail. But the regulated money can't cross over into that place (e.g. GME can't make huge bets on it, you know your retirement funds won't end up there by stealth).
> next to nothing.

Not true.

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/science/science-br...
As an American, we always look up to Europe for many but not all things.

There are bits and pieces that I like about Asian countries as well. For instance, I would love USA to have a larger repair and hacker culture like Shenzhen. A ritualistic and respectful culture as Japan. A more socially cohesive culture as India.

I also think USA has some aspects that I don’t want to give up - philosophically, the constitutional rights and materialistically, the cost of living, job market, access to natural beauty and availability of land.
No, this is wrong.
And the reverse is also wrong. A user can chose by principle too and scarifies cost if he has to overpay to attract miners to that chain. Does that mean its "not really a choice"? No, its exactly what choice means.
Also even at zero user if the token has value mining can be profitable.

But anyway these edge-cases are irrelevant. There is and will never be a situation where all miners and all user chose a different chain. Just the fact that some miners are users at the same time makes it impossible. The only thing important is that power is shared between the 2 groups and its a constant fight because of different interests. Even without miners when its fully PoS there will still be misaligned interests between the parties (users, hardware operators, stakes etc.)

Its an inherent flaw in the system because it relies on incentives which one party wants to maximize.
Not directly fire science related but it’s not the old growth that fuels fires. I just googled for this, there’s plenty more if you look. https://www.fs.usda.gov/treesearch/pubs/55436
Once you're making Google money, I would think the overriding concern would be where you actually would like to live. What environment do you find stimulating? Where are you likely to meet people that share your values? Do you want to be close to family?
>Wearing masks is usually only a minor inconvenience

Maybe it is minor inconvenience for you but for me its a huge inconvenience.
> Commercial paper is exceedingly liquid

If it is not complete junk. Which there is good reason to believe Tether's is, and zero willingness from their side to show it isn't.
Your comment was dead, I vouched for it. I think you are correct. It was correct a while ago anyway.

A year ago or two, I wanted to build Signal for Android without the proprietary library that talks with google play services. It was possible by modifying the source code a bit, because the code checks for the presence of the handles the absence of the Google play Services and enables some sort of fallback.

I would not know if it is still the case today, I don't currently own an Android device.
It's easy to forget that every right comes with obligation.

Say you have the right to own property. That comes with the obligation to respect other people's property. And so on.

When a right comes obligations it isn't a right. It's a privilege. That's the stuff kings used to have (and still have, in some places).
Air is an insulator, 35 degree weather will cause extreme internal temparatures but 35 degree water allows you to transport all your excess energy to the water. 38 or 40 degree water would be deadly, but I wonder what the air temparature is when it gets that far.
Well, since you asked... :-)

I've been working on something in this space for a little while. It's called Circles. Originally, I just wanted a safer and easier way to share baby photos with my extended family. Safer than posting pictures of my kid publicly on Facebook. Easier / more convenient than pinging the crap out of everyone's phone on Signal.

It's kind of like a bare-bones version of Facebook. Only you can have multiple social circles (like in G+), each with your own "wall" for posting stuff and timeline of posts from the friends that you're following there.

All posts are E2E encrypted, using the same crypto as in Element/Matrix, and the back end is just a standard Matrix server. The E2EE prevents the server from seeing what you post, or from injecting crap into your timeline. You can use your own Matrix server, or you can sign up to create an account on mine.

It's open source: https://github.com/KombuchaPrivacy/circles-ios

You're welcome to try out the beta if you want: https://testflight.apple.com/join/cwsJZed9

If all goes well, it should go live in the App Store later this month.

Unfortunately it's iOS only for now. I'm working as fast as I can to get started on an Android version.

If you try it out, please let me know what you think! Thanks!!!
If any of the FAANG companies decide not to collude with the others on this, here's their opportunity to poach talent. Outside of FAANG (and the few others who pay FAANG salaries), companies that do this are going to find retention is a big problem. It's unlikely anyone is going to leave Google for AFLAC and turn a 10% work from home decrease into a 60% change of employer decrease but certainly there could be movement between other companies as some will see WFH as an opportunity to staff up instead of trying to find a path back to where we're never going to be again.
I had no idea what this was about because I visited on mobile. On mobile, this site is extremely confusing.
The problem is the promise, bitcoin and other "nonstable" crypto don't promise a fixed dollar value, similar to gold if you will.

But if a crypto claims that it has a fixed currency value, then like banks (which they also say they have a fixed dollar reserve) it has to be regulated by the issuer of that currency.

I don't see any problem in regulating stable coin.