skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Turkish mercenaries

Not mercenaries, but a standing Turkish army unit, which by the way completely stomped them.
Still Unsure About Getting the Covid-19 Vaccine? Start Here
I tried all my cars and the values are really high.

A 2003 Toyota Sienna with 200,000 miles isn't worth $5,500 in Good condition. I mean I wish but no. Maybe $3,000 under crazy current market environments but probably more like $2,000-2,500.

Likewise a 2006 Toyota Corolla with 180,000 miles isn't worth $7,000.

But great job OP at trying this. It's a service that's really needed.

I would suggest figuring out a way to clean up the options for the trim levels. Some are just random garbage that describe part of the car - I had one trim option that was literally "1.8L" which refers to the engine. Along with 30 other options, many of which were repeats of each other.
Exactly the same as regular finance
They care because someone spent $$$$$$$ in real state or is locked in real state sitting idle.

Then you have Investment funds that $invest nearby these locations (BlackRock) and ahem they want their profit.

Then the local govt wants to secure $vote$ because Tech workers tend to vote X.
(check Austin vs Texas).

We can't have these pesky "recall" actions.
Pakistan has followed this philosophy in India's Kashmir region for decades. They also used the same tactics against the Soviets in Afghanistan in the 80s (with generous US funding, of course). For example, the 2008 attack on Mumbai[1] was planned in Karachi, Pakistan and carried out by Pakistani-trained and controlled operatives. More reading [2].

[1] https://www.cnbc.com/2014/12/21/in-2008-mumbai-attacks-piles...

[2] https://abc7chicago.com/rare-extradition-in-works-for-chicag...
One problem in these discussions is the curve of value delivered by an individual developer in a particular situation is short-and-wide and while I agree the senior developers are on a curve shifted to the right, there’s a massive amount of overlap.

Most company’s best 5% 25 year-old developers are probably creating more value than their median 50 year-old developer, even though that median senior dev is creating more value than the median 25 year-old.
It looks like the source for their FBOSS agent that runs on switches will enable PTP in two kinds of supported switches:

https://github.com/facebook/fboss/blob/master/fboss/agent/hw...

They have O(thousands) of switches (source: https://engineering.fb.com/2016/10/18/data-center-engineerin...) so IIRC they get the per-switch cost down by doing a custom design to reduce BOM. I believe the specs and designs are available under the Open Compute project here (search for "Facebook"): https://www.opencompute.org/wiki/Networking/SpecsAndDesigns
A universe where tons of old storage gets thrown out. Why not reuse it?
> One mental shift is to remember that if something is said that I need to remember I need to write it down in a different place

I write it down in the same place. I have a pinned conversation with myself that I drop notes (typed/audio). Also useful for recording audio messages which you can play back to yourself before forwarding to a Signal contact (I hate that there’s no preview before sending audio).
I agree. I see HN as a kind of "peer review" of submitted links and information.
Looking for NFT loving fullstack devs who want to build the next gen marketplace
We're making an NFT marketplace for the 95% of people without a crypto wallet. It's called Neon, and we're currently testing our beta (https://neonapp.com). We're looking for devs who are passionate about the NFT space and want to bring it to the mass market. We're backed by top investors, including General Catalyst.

Here's the job listing: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1DaptcT0fTr3Lnq3ls5HNrtot3V083bg8HAl1Nvl0L3g/edit?usp=sharing

Feel free to email me at kyle@neonapp.com if you're interested -- excited to hear from you :)
There's a lot of low-carbon climate control solutions ranging from relatively cheap and simple (though some require design from the get-go), to elaborate, but still easy compared to the overall task of home construction, that we just...don't use regularly and it baffles me.

I just stayed at a beach house in Florida for a bit and the walls are single-layer with zero insulation anywhere. The a/c runs basically 24/7. And this is apparently really common in the south. Like, do people think "insulation = makes inside warm" and not make the connection that it keeps warm out in the same way? It's a 1000sqft duplex bungalo that sold for like $800k at the trough of the housing bubble pop so like, materials/construction cost is a fraction of the value. Just like short-sighted decisions like this, everywhere.

Overall, the best solution is to design buildings in ways that facilitate passive temperature regulation, such as eaves over sun-facing windows that block high-angle direct sun, orienting and windowing the building so it's easy to get a cross-breeze in the prevailing wind (around here they love to put windows on the front/back and nothing on the sides, ugh) and locating such that deciduous trees are on the south side to block sun in summer but allow it in winter.

One of the easiest "retrofits" simply requires a programmable thermostat, even a manual one. Simply cool the building more overnight to build up a "store of cold".
But it does?

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-54547304
> The narrative must shift from one of individual responsibility -- if I turn off this lightbulb, I'm saving the planet -- to one of governmental and corporate accountability.

The narrative doesn't need to change from one just to blame someone else.

AFAIK, government is elected by people. Companies don't exist just selling things among themselves, their end goal is to sell things to people and earn money (and distribute dividends to people).

No one is solely responsible for climate changes, and "stop blaming yourself" is an assured way to just wash your hands and pretend that someone else will take iniciatives to solve everything.
It doesn't require any special "engineering" to make a ride hailing app. I guarantee you could get an Uber clone out of a high school coding bootcamp weekend. It's really that simple.

"Dispatching" a message to a phone based on its location. Why would that need special software engineering? That's all open source stuff that's readily available. Certainly everything else Uber does (collecting money, ratings, etc) is all off-the-shelf stuff.
Printing Ideas to Help Boost Your Business
The part that stuck out to me was the thick border with _corner sections_ on each window. On all 3 operating systems (although less so on Windows) I have struggled to find the 1-3 pixel tiny window that allows me to manually resize a window so many times it's unbelievably frustrating. Having that massive target to grab makes me very wistful. I would happily give up 10ish pixels of screen real-estate on each side of my windows to never have to deal with that struggle again.
With the latest changes to those laws that's not true anymore.

Now even minors can get prosecuted for CP. I should have mentioned this explicitly in addition.

https://www.heise.de/news/Kinderpornografie-Immer-mehr-Ermit...

https://www.heise.de/news/Kinderpornografie-Kinder-und-Jugen...
I'm new to Twitter, always have been a Luddite when it comes to it but I'm curious to try, any advice on how to find quality accounts to follow?
What about just nationalizing the entire energy industry and everything related, instead of trying to work within the parameters of a free market for something with so many externalities?
> requires you to DYOR

How do you do this when the parties involved are not transparent about their holdings and have a history of misleading investors? Go off of rumours? Given their history, why would I believe that USDC is actually holding short term commercial paper and not higher risk, higher return equities?
His number is based on a naive death count year over year. When the death rate is normalized for population age distribution his "excess" shrinks to near 0.
What a dream though. Having a sun in a pocket, the power of a star, to drag carbon howling and screaming from the atmo and press it into diamond, if we made it, our ancestors could make buildings from our sins.
That's appallingly ango-centric.
My solution to this (it's been done before), is to use the existing browser engine (not the system webview) installed. So far I only utilize Chrome, but as the way I connect to it is over the Chrome DevTools protocol which is somewhat fluent with the Remote Debugging Protocol[0] that Firefox is doing, this is a reasonable approach.

So far my "tool" to do this is simply a template repository with some conveniences, providing in essence a skeleton for these types of apps. I hope to flesh this out a little more, and expose a much richer API, as well as convert some of my existing popular apps (like 22120[1]) to the "framework".

The benefit of this is Graderjs has a built in 'app builder' that can create a cross-platform binary (excluding or ignoring the necessity (on MacOS) and near-necessity (on Windows) to sign your executable somehow, that lets you display your UI in JS/HTML/CSS using the already installed browser engine, as well as run code in NodeJS and using the rich APIs[2] of the browser engine itself. I'm really happy with this project and think that, even tho it's small now, it will in time become my most popular and powerful one: even bigger than my remote browser and popular web archiver.

Just give it time! :)

[0]: https://firefox-source-docs.mozilla.org/remote/index.html

[1]: https://github.com/i5ik/22120

[2]: https://chromedevtools.github.io/devtools-protocol/tot/Brows...

The GraderJS: https://github.com/i5ik/graderjs
The horror i felt imagining how the people who work in such an environment might feel, if they haven't checked out allready.

(Edit) So it isn't actually that dramatic.
> Geneva convention does not help

That's not true, the example of gitmo is an issue of the way that the treaty is worded not covering some situations. There are tons of horrifying things outlawed by the Geneva convention which have not happened since. See for instance the lack of massive battlefield use of chemical weapons in world war 2. The Ottawa treaty has had a similar effect on the use of landmines since.

We've made a lot of progress, don't despair because it's not perfect yet.
For what it's worth, KDE's Okular starts instantly and can preview a wide range of documents.
Ultraprocessed Foods Now Comprise 2/3 of Calories in Children and Teen Diets
So weird, why would a yiddishism have a negative speech score?

Edit: realizing this comes across as sarcastically anti-Semitic. This is a genuine question, I don't understand why a yiddishism would carry such connotations in the automated hate speech system.
a) I hand my friend a $1 coin/note.

b) I socialise the transaction and have everyone try be the first to crack an algorithm that proves I've given my friend a cryptocoin worth $1

There's a community out there claiming one solves a bunch of problems the other had. You tell me...
My Krusty anti social tech worker shtick finally caught up to me last year, and I was layed off even though I'm pretty sure I got fired
Wish me luck in my job search!
They're all scams.
Congrats to everyone who made this project possible. It’s certainly a great accomplishment and it solves a real world problem.

Now, does it require a Facebook account with my real name in order to use? /s
Searching for a bubble that reinforces your existing views is probably not the best way to learn more about any given topic.
>We really can't have centralized entities issuing stable coins, can we.

You can. It's called a 'bank' and they're heavily regulated.

Instead, what crypto has are wildcat banks. You've never heard that term because when they existed, 150 years ago, "[b]ank closures and outright scams regularly occurred, leaving people with worthless money."[1] Sound familiar?

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wildcat_banking
Curiosity has a shelf life. It looks better on the young. Also, a lot of ground is covered as time passes, and tech at 40 isn't as interesting and exciting as tech at 30; curiosity is a limited fuel.
Can anyone recommend resources on understanding the inner workings and abstractions of reactive/declarative application models, such as Flutter and Vue?

It seems to be the latest rage (see Google adopting it for native Android development with Jetpack Compose) and I've been thinking about this lately, but all resources I can find explain how to use it, but not the building blocks of the system underneath.
I also assume they are ultra low risk, but I also assume they are higher risk than USD or US Treasury bonds. For example, USDT is backed significantly by "commercial paper".

Commercial paper does have a default risk, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commercial_paper#Defaults
How many people do you think it would take to meaningfully apply manual moderation at the scale of Blizzard, Facebook, or Instagram? How many more people in support staff? How much do you think this would cost?

How well do you think that cost would stack up against spending millions on half-hearted automated moderation?
Yes, when that militia is in every town. In the end, you need boots on the ground.

A government is a parasitic organism. Quashing resistance only makes sense if it's cost-effective. E.g. nuking your own country is insane; at some point, it's just cheaper to compromise.
+1 "Two-And-Done" rule. But there are factors that stretch the rule; 1) your certainty of failure if you go the wrong way, 2) the harm to the business/team given a failure, 3) your role in execution of the task.

You can be put in a situation where you've got an approach that works but you have been overruled to use an approach that doesn't (assuming of course genuine best efforts to make it work, otherwise you're the problem). If you are the person on the spot in a critical business situation, you've got a choice, do you risk your job for doing what works despite being explicitly told not to, or do you risk your job anyway and the security of your team and company by executing a destructive sequence because you've been told. I keep reading lots of examples of these situations, especially in military non-fiction, where people go either way. In these rare situations, if it's your finger pulling the trigger so to speak, I think you have to do the only thing you know is right. And maybe dust off your resume when you get back home.
Why Does the Steam Deck Run Linux? Blame Windows
We haven't seen a true market crash in >10 years and everyone has forgotten why commercial paper is not the same as cash.
Ah yes those 280 character tweets lend themselves extremely well to deep thought.
Why exactly would you think BUSD is safe? Buy USD. Financial advice.
I've seen more people with Down Syndrome and facial disfigurements on TikTok than any other platform.
I think Elastic caused some self inflicted wounds here but, anyone that is hoping to build a business with their product open sourced should fear Amazon. If your product is useful and popular Amazon will take it and build their own... Which I guess is fair play but feels gross at the same time?
Fully auditable high performance microprocessors
Ask HN: Good Postgres Book(s)?
Hi HN,

As I've matured as a software engineer, I've focused more and more on taking full advantage of the database to alleviate burdens at the application layer, which has paid massive dividends thus far. The features available in Postgres continue to astonish me, especially when paired with PostgREST [1] (which I can highly recommend). Constraints, triggers, stored procedures, permissions, materialized views [2], and other features have saved my team and I thousands of lines of application code (and the inevitable bugs therein), and even allowed us to forgo standing up and managing entire services (cache, queue, timeseries db [3] etc.). SQL (and especially PLSQL [4]) can be annoying/obtuse (and need much better tooling, IMO), but so far the benefits have far outweighed the costs.

In that spirit, what books or other resources would you folks recommend to level up my team's knowledge of Postgres features and administration? Or any cool tips/tricks you have put into place that you want to share? There was some discussion in a thread [5] on the front page a few days ago, but I wanted to take the opportunity to resurface this part of conversation directly.

Thanks!

— Brian

1. https://postgrest.org/

2. https://spin.atomicobject.com/2018/04/09/postgres-materialized-views/

3. https://www.timescale.com/

4. https://www.postgresql.org/docs/12/plpgsql-overview.html

5. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28077434
Such nonsense as AI moderation will force everyone to be good but good only in terms of some very narrow cultural norms with no respect to other cultures.

And since practices like these only growing it will become norm in near future.
Okay how do I find some good old threads?
Not an endorsement, but you might want to take a look at the scale that human moderation is currently applied at in China.
In 5,000 years from now the medicine will be so far ahead it would probably not matter.
Ask HN: How to follow Mozilla's software release notes (i.e. changelogs)?
Mozilla offers no changelog RSS feed(s) I'm aware of and I don't know if there's a fitting mailing list. On desktop I update Firefox via my distro's package manager and don't see any obvious "what's new" notification (a forced new tab opened in the official Mozilla builds?), on Android the message appears to only reside under the hamburger menu after updates (not necessarily consistently).

Is the only option to generate or create your own RSS feed or email notification setup (preferably separating Windows, OS X and Linux)?

---

redirecting links for reference:

* https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/notes/
* https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/android/notes/
* https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/beta/notes/
* https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/nightly/notes/
A solution looking for a problem, basically.
Or you could return the money to the poor by reducing the income tax in lower tax brackets.

This still maintains the incentives, but removes, on average, the financial hit.
Please note there are different meaning of the "law". And for blockchain it's "law of nature", i.e., just how it works, the principles you have to accept, not legal laws.

So at least for the Ethereum Classic thing, the code was written in the way that just allowed such action and therefore you should not reverse the transaction. Note that the hack was still illegal, that's the fact, so you can (and should) go to the law enforcement to do something with it. But there was no bug in the code of the blockchain itself, it was working exactly as it was supposed to. There was a bug in the smart contract though, but it's not a part of the blockchain, so it's not a violation of principles/nature of blockchain ("code is law") but a 3rd party mistake.

Same here, no principles of the blockchain was broken. So the "code is law" stands. But the transaction is still illicit, and is a hack.
Skepticism does not mean inaction. It's about using the energy, time and resources you have to build useful things. While cryptocurrency has defiantly inspired the masses to forfeit their money, it still hasn't proven to be much more than an elaborate wealth consolidation device.
The way you phrase that it sounds like these social media companies black mail you with dirty secrets they learn about you. I understand why people don't want to be packaged and sold, but a realistic view is that you're getting a service subsidized by all of this.
https://www.balena.io/etcher/pro
> You can even ship a custom Javascript engine on iOS

Yes but you can't run code downloaded from the internet or supplied by the user. So you are prohibited from building your own browser, even without JIT.

Unless you are Roblox for some reason, then you can run all the downloaded code you want! Sucks to be a Roblox competitor, sorry no running downloaded code for you.
https://www.omnicalculator.com/physics/wet-bulb
I'm sure USDC would like me to think of it as a benign synthetic derivative, but it doesn't feel that way to me. They've moved the goalposts from "dollar backed" to "asset back", which puts the downside risk of those (unknown?) assets on USDC holders, whilst keeping any upside for themselves. A synthetic derivative should have agreed-upon terms, which does not appear to be the case here.
I mean DRY BULB temperature. Reducing dry bulb temperature == removing heat. Reducing wet bulb temperature == removing humidity.

But it doesn't matter a lot, because at 100% humidity (required to spontaneously dew humidity out of air) dry bulb temperature equals wet bulb temperature.

Dry bulb changes indpendently of wet bulb temperature but cannot be lower than wet bulb temperature.

Because when air temperature (dry bulb) reaches wet bulb temperature you are at dew point and when you cool down further all that moisture is going to either cause mist or dew or snow or rime.

In fact, lowering DRY BULB temperature under dew point (WET BULB temperature) is the leading way to remove humidity in nature -- the water precipitates in the form of mist high up in the atmosphere, the mist coalesces into droplets and falls down on air as rain. Alternatively, if the temperature is below zero, it causes snow by sublimation (both wet and dry bulb temperatures are equal.
The article covers the following concerns and situations:

* Vaccine maturity and safety,

* Break-through infections,

* Infectiousness after contracting Covid while vaccinated,

* FDA approval, emergency use authorization,

* having already come through a Covid infection

and

* rumours about side effects.

I recommend to at least skim the article.
>In the case of a true direct democracy, many fear the ignorance and apathy of the average voter, and wonder if the majority rule would lead to tribalism and repression of minorities.

I'm more concerned about power vacuums created by value extraction. We were swindled without realising it, in fact some of us enjoyed it - but only because we don't know what we lost. There can be very weird dynamics at play. Unfortunately the descendants of those are eventually left holding the bag and find out what they lost.

I would amend things such that if the Peasants were happy and everyone else was busy then Confucius is happy (because he's not being disturbed). I actually hope for more happy than that, but I'll take what I can get.

The main part of the problem with achieving the perfect system is that it has to also resolve all of the already imperfect systems in play. And you need to work out 'who' gets to define perfection.
That’s a great link thank you.
In a footnote on that page:

> FDIC insurance applies only to the USD reserve funds. GUSD exist as ERC-20 tokens on the Ethereum blockchain; tokens are under the user’s self-custody, and are not insured through Gemini.
As a Russian I actually don't want to comment on such posts at all.
As I see here and in other similar topics, the main result is a "Russian paid bot/troll account" label, and it's widely accepted as a normal response.
So much for "freedom of speech". At least the "correct" point of view doesn't get muc arguments against it, right?
Another assumption is that people can go to Coinbase and reclaim their USD fast enough to cause a run on the bank.

While anybody with a Coinbase account can do USDC->USD conversion on the fly, Coinbase ultimately controls the speed of withdrawals and conversions.
Stone money is where (a) looks like (b). It has been used successfully in the past, spanning multiple human generations of transactions:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rai_stones