skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Age is a funny thing, it makes people have different perspective on recent history.

1962 wasn't even 60 years ago. The president of the USA was already an adult at that time.
Sequoia Heritage, Stripe, and Sam Altman Invest $200M in African Fintech Wave
Not really. Even an unorganized small group of armed people can create enough damage to the Police/Government forces that it's not worth the fight.
They looked at it and thought: "They cut 90% of the costs. We can do one better and cut 100%!"
P 1. A policy is a set of procedures a state employs to get a desired reaction from a population.

P 2. An empire is a state that employs some policies across its entire territory.

P 3. Multi-ethnic empires with strong cohesion have existed.

So if you take 1, and 3, you see that for both to be true, people have to have very standardized reactions to policies across ethnic 'lines'. I state it with certainty because it's obvious.
I would welcome you to move to VT, which has had fully state based funding since 1996 or so. The outcome has been decidedly mixed.

One clear thing that has happened is every student is getting a lot of money spent on them! (~$19k). Spending has increased substantially. There is a lot of waste. Despite losing 30% of students since that time period due to demographics, the number of teachers has actually increased. Staff to student ratio is 1:4.

But performance has not changed, and has actually gone down a bit if you squint at the numbers.
How “Consensus” Works on Wikipedia
Interesting, personally I view talent as being more about the effectiveness of practice than a specific higher limit. Though if the effectiveness of practice is low then that obviously places some practical limits on the maximum amount of 'mastery'.
All of your freedoms and rights? I imagine someone will be along to arrest you for sedition shortly then?

That sounds horrendous but honestly little different to what we went through in the UK at various points in the last year and a half, and the death rates are very low in comparison.

I’m sorry for your loss.
Samsung Galaxy Watch 4 review: Google smartwatch raises bar
This is an investment. "To invest is to allocate money with the expectation of a positive benefit/return in the future."

If I put money in your bank-like-thing, expecting to get more back at the end, it's an investment.

> I'm guessing the concept is more like stock lending fees

Those are investments too. Their technical name is "repos", short for "repurchase agreements".
well for one, superman trope.

Neo is a 'god' in the matrix and yet movie avoids 'I'll just punch everyone, so why bother doing something clever'.

The scenes with key-maker escaping are really tense, and neo was cleverly outsmarted to be removed from the chase.
McCarthyism was over by the mid-50s. The Cold War was only gathering steam at that point.
I wouldn't even trust a watermark. It'd have to be a cryptographic signiture on the file itself.
The benefit of using signed integers these days is that compilers can utilize signed integer overflow to trap, which is helpful in debugging, since it's undefined behavior whereas unsigned overflow is well defined.
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You’re mixing up what would be asked to the in house lawyers.

It’s not a binary: Is this legal?

It’s: Can we get away with this?
For a counterexample, look at Uber, Lyft, or AirBNB, whose whole business models have consisted of flouting the law and quickly adjusting when caught.
Curious – I run my own pleroma instance for myself on a tiny VPS and I'm seeing no problems at all, with remote follows or any other interactions.
That's of limited help.

It doesn't apply to anyone who's not eligible for that edition, isn't aware of it's existence, is just using the version that came with their device, or needs some specific feature in the 'Pro' variants (or whatever it's called now).

I remember having to bump up an edition from Home to get Bitlocker support for full-disk-encryption and something else.

e: While I've now migrated off Windows for a few years now, I still occasionally have to help family members who're wondering why X or Y no longer works, because MS decided to reset preferences.
I will tell you who and why?

During the start of Covid, a lot of people in our country lost their jobs. It includes, IT professionals to even bankers. The governments and charity organizations all over the world even give free groceries and supplies too during those times.

I was one of the hard hit at those time. Being an affiliate marketer myself, I thought, why not, add the online affiliate marketing to the local grocery stores, so we can get the required groceries for our families for a low price or even free.

I talked this with around 34 local grocers, and all of them told the same way as you said.

They told it's not possible to give up to 100% discounts.
That's true!
Being a low margin business, grocers won't be able to give the discounts.

But with a connected system, they can provide discounts and increase their sales. That's what we are trying to do.

Please let me know your feedback.
Exactly. Capital lent is always at risk; effectively risk-free interest is an abstraction created by deposit insurance. (Which, too, could fail)

I don’t understand where DeFi yields come from, but I can tell you they’re not risk-free, for the same reason a physicist can tell you your perpetual motion machine doesn’t work without studying the blueprints.
Exactly. But no one does this. Why?
I'm pretty sure it's also against the TOS from the image hosting sites and they'll nuke the account if they realize it's the case
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Identifying Drivers’ Mobile Phone Abuse with Polarizing Filters
American here. It appears to me to be poor incentives reinforcing themselves in the political sphere. If you make a single metric the measure of success, most will go to extremes to game that metric. Australian politicians seem to have made the low number of COVID infections the sole measure of their success. The result is somewhat predictable.
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Two questions:

- are they talking about prediction? I assume yes because they talk about time series but it's not explicitly stated

- how does it compare quality wise to Amazon forecast (and the other cloud vendors services)?

By the way: here's the spiel for Forecast:

"Amazon Forecast
Accurate time-series forecasting service, based on the same technology used at Amazon.com, no machine learning experience required"

That makes sense and is not ambiguous.
Which works until it doesn't. When it does they look at it as having improved what already exists (The toyota model) when it doesn't they blame the original one instead of their mangled implementation ("agile" anyone?)
Ask HN: Important parameters for evaluating low-code app development tools?
With many no-code /low-code tools out in market. (Tools like @Appsmith, @Retool, @DronaHQ, @jetadmin @bubble etc ) I am building an evaluation tool which will help user to evaluate the platform and identify the right one for his/her needs. I have broken down the parameters according to following categories (And given weightage to each categories & parameter within)
- Basic
- Frontend Development
- Actionflows/ Event handlers
- Branding
- Developer Productivity & Tooling
- BPM Workflows
- Automation Capabilities
- Built-in Database
- Integration Capabilities
- Deployment
- Sharing
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- App Lifecycle Support
- Analytics
- Pricing Flexibility

How do you evaluate the platforms/tools? Which parameters are of most importance to you? Any thoughts or other evaluation tools that you would like me to refer to?

P.S. Once built I will share the tool with the community here.
Not from Australia, but as a citizen the precaution I would take is not to get tested while such a quarantine policy is in effect.

Don't know, my country does some checks like calling people on the phone, the rest relies on trust. Seems to work just as well.

So I see a lot of room to criticise "the least intrusive" option as well. This is security done wrong. Not slightly wrong, detrimental towards the goal of security. If people get uncompliant, no such measures will be efficient.
> I use Vivaldi because it makes easy to have JS off by default and enable for each website that really needs it.

So you fill in this entire form, hit submit, and then find out that you really needed JS and now you have to fill in the form all over again. How is that easy?
Yeah, typical referral marketing integrated into the local stores. So when you buy through us, you can get discounts from your favorite local stores. And we deliver those faster.
Only good time to buy one is used when the battery is almost at the point it'll be replaced.
> If Coinbase is _guaranteeing_ you a 4% return, then there is no variability

Yes, there is.

There is just a cause of action if the variation happens. But, a big point of securities regulation is to protect before money is lost on illegal offerings.

> Coinbase could spend all of the money on JPEGs of my cat and they would still have to pay a 4% return to the people they borrowed the money from.

Well, they would still owe it. They’d also potentially be bankrupt and not have to pay it. Counterparty risk is real risk.

Corporate bonds can be fixed interest. Corporate bonds are definitely regulated securities, even when fixed interest. Therefore, being fixed interest does not suffice to make an investment offer a non-security.
Not sure how temporary the safety gained by those tens of thousands is, nor how essential the liberty to enter a country without two weeks of quarantine is.

In fact, having just a few minutes ago come out of two weeks confined to a hotel room, into a place where there is effectively no coronavirus, I’d say not very essential at all.
This is one of those ideas that causes you to kick yourself for not thinking of it earlier. Simple, and with the power to be transformative. Well done and good luck!
Is there larger resolution than 1080p ?
Right, that makes sense. Also, that sucks. Capital "P" politics really is a grubby business.
> difficult to criticise China.

Given that currently it is a career-ending move in big enterprise or government to criticise the US right now, that's not unreasonable to think. Especially given that the US is (and has been) in decline.
It’s a consensual decision on behalf of the individual - when you travel from a high risk region to another it’s understood by all parties you will need to quarantine for a period to prevent unknowingly spreading the virus on untold others. Which to me just seems you know, ethical and responsible?
Srsly, NFW.
Well, this is a crock of shit. These guys want to discredit the regulator so that future money grabbers such as these will find it easier. I hope they get roasted over coals by the SEC.
Ideation of an IDE: The .NET and ReactJS Love Affair
> You have, and are probably using right now, a voice controlled computer that can convert anything to anything else, by just asking.

There should be a browser plugin that automatically converts units behind the scenes.
Kazakhstan banks on nuclear energy for transition to low-carbon future
> I'm not aware of

Yes, but to be fair that can just as easily be because as soon as you earn enough reputation as a dissident you are buried (metaphorically! Western Europe is very velvet glove when it comes to murder).
I think you're overestimating Miami's budget... sure, there are a lot of wealthy people living there, but that doesn't mean the city itself is that wealthy.

BTW, if sea levels rise, property values in Miami are liable to go down the drain anyway, hurricanes or no hurricanes...
Everything is a Remix Part 1 (2021)
You could basically do similar stuff like that across all home computers up to the 16 bit days.

You can still do that in PCs by booting into real mode, OSDev has plenty examples.
Yes, my original statement was too direct - I said "they are not using lightning wallets" in response to someone saying "they are using lightning wallets".

The non-hyperbolic statement would have been "they will (99.99% certainly) not be using even lightning wallets".

Still, while this is a forward-looking statement, it is more than idle speculation - the government is encouraging the population to install one specific app, even offering money to anyone that does. In contrast, running your own lightning channels is known to be very difficult to do, so it is a priori extremely unlikely for a large proportion of the population to run their own.
> I never understood why they didn't take this approach -- converting under-the-hood "automatically" to their ECS paradigm

I completely agree. I've done compile-time code transformation/generation in C# using Reflection in the past, and while it's not really trivial, it's entirely feasible. I knew some people who did this independently because of things like INotifyPropertyChanged in WPF. They're already doing things that are way more advanced than that with the usage of the [BurstCompile] attribute.

If anything, they could just restrict the usage of fields that don't work with it.

> At this point there's so, so, so much of the Unity ecosystem that just flat out fails to work beyond some very, very, very small scale that it's just mind-blowing.

Someone in here said that everything in Unity is either unmaintained or unfinished. I share this sentiment. :(
> But all contracts have some element of counterparty risk. Contractual guarantees are just contractual, nobody can give absolute guarantees of anything.

Yes...and? Are you trying to explain why, when other Howey-test factors are present, a fixed-return guarantee does not alter the determination that an offer is a security, or argue against it? Because it seems like you are trying to do the latter while actually doing the former.
No, because technical measures don't have historic precedence. They're uniquely modern.
Yes, we do it :)
I think using a 'lib' prefix to mean 'libre' is potentially misleading when 'lib' is normally used to denote that the project is a library.
To be fair to the Russians: he was also a Russian citizen and the US has long established the right to wipe their own citizens on foreign soil without a peep from the UK. [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anwar_al-Awlaki
Linus seems to disagree with you.

Albeit old http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MShbP3OpASA&t=20m45s

It remains true.

Rust uses references all over the place and reuses the same memory addresses within stack that once belonged to another object because the compiler can guarantee it, but that makes it much less reasonable to write.

If you can reason with -O0 you can take it that your code will remain correct in later levels.
> If Coinbase is _guaranteeing_ you a 4% return,

No, they are _promising_ you a 4% return - hardly the same thing.

There is a non-zero risk that they'll go out of business. Companies go out of business all the time, sometimes with no warning at all. I worked for a company that was for a short time the largest private company in the world. Within two years, the SEC showed up one morning, and told all the traders to perform an orderly liquidation, because the company was insolvent.

If they go out of business, you might even lose some or all of your principal.

Ask yourself this: when savings rates are around 1%, why do they have to offer 4% if this is riskless?

Surely the efficient market hypothesis means that that extra 3% or so is what they perceive people will want for bearing this extra risk?
It's one thing when your hustling is primarily to your own benefit. It's another thing when your hustling is primarily benefiting someone else. It's the latter that's arguably the source of hustle culture's toxicity.
People are forever saying they want this*, and bemoaning that modern computers are so wrapped in layers of abstraction, but the fact is you absolutely don't want this on the same machine you use to browse the web and run untrusted javascript.

Meanwhile there's Raspberry Pi and a whole host of retro-clones out there for cheap, and emulators out there for free. We live in a golden age where all the old stuff is still there if you want it, but you can also download incredibly sophisticated enterprise level development tools at zero cost, and hundreds of pages of tutorials and guides just a Google search away. It's never been easier for kids to get into programming.

* Example from here yesterday
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28441563
In a mere 20-ish years. Crazy.
Technically you already allow remote code execution via XSLT.
As We May Think: “Consider a future device in which an individual ...” (1945)
Things like CD/CI or data processing pipelines are also annoying to develop for similar reasons. Lets ditch the YAML and have an environment we can attach debuggers and properly develop. So webcode is a building block to easier to develop future cloud services. Thanks to Observablehq its also very easy to document, fork, and code share. So this is just one aspect of a improved development workflow.
egregious, to say the least
How does it perform with live data?
Can I feed a continuous stream of data and it recommends the next action?
Can I limit the dataset that is taken into account (look-back amount)?
>I often see people speak about requiring users to have JS enabled as a problem. But is that really an issue?

With how prevalent tracking on the internet is, despite GDPR's attempts. Yes, it is an issue.
> much of the population will react strongly at being judged for the sins of their grandparents.

This happens today in every western country, there's nothing unusual about it.
Why are you wasting the investment that your community made in you, by spending time trolling on hackernews? You’re not helping further anything for society with these comments.
You were looking at the wrong Wikipedia

https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9F%D1%91%D1%82%D1%80_%D0%9...
What Is Photography?
Photography is the art of capturing light with a camera, usually via a digital sensor or film, to create an image. With the right camera equipment, you can even photograph wavelengths of light invisible to the human eye, including UV, infrared, and radio.

The first permanent photograph was captured in 1826 (some sources say 1827) by Joseph Nicéphore Niépce in France. It shows the roof of a building lit by the sun. You can see it reproduced below:

What Is the Bare Minimum Gear Needed for Photography?
Camera. If you buy a dedicated camera (rather than a phone), pick one with interchangeable lenses so that you can try out different types of photography more easily. Read reviews, but don’t obsess over them, because everything available today is pretty much equally good as its competition. Find a nice deal and move on.

Lenses. This is where it counts. For everyday photography, start with a standard zoom lens like a 24-70mm or 18-55mm. For portrait photography, pick a prime lens (one that doesn’t zoom) at 35mm, 50mm, or 85mm. For sports, go with a telephoto lens. For macro photography, get a dedicated macro lens. And so on. Lenses matter more than any other piece of equipment because they determine what photos you can take in the first place.

Post-processing software. One way or another, you need to edit your photos. It’s ok to start with software already on your computer, or software that comes with your camera. But in the long run, a dedicated program will do a better job. Adobe sells Lightroom and Photoshop as a bundle for $10/month, or you can buy standalone software from another company if you prefer; there are tons of options. Whatever you pick, stick with it for a while, and you’ll learn it quite well.

https://photographylife.com/what-is-photography?ref=land-boo...
The quarantine policy is for people travelling inter-state or internationally.

I have no idea what the requirements are for people who test positive, but here in WA that’s not even relevant because there are no known cases.

So it all looks like it’s working pretty well.
I disagree 100%.

>as long as you agree that ‘Long Covid’ is an undefined condition so it has no place in any scientific discussion.

'Long covid' being the effects on a human subsequent to having covid. You are saying that there is no place in scientific discussion for 'the effects, be they some or none of X'. So PTSD - no place in a scientific discussion? Secondary cancer - no place in a scientific discussion? Effects of release of radiaion at Chernobyl - no place in scientific discussion? Effects of hobbling around after stubbing my toe on a bedpost - no place in a scientifci discussion?

> specifically some debilitating form of lung damage, does not occur in the large majority of cases.

So you mean, the results from the scientific discussion, which you believe is illegitamte, because 'it has no place in any scientific discussion' support this statement? Which one is it, its science or it cant possibly be science? If I am not allowed to explore a hypotheseis, then I can not say it does or does not occur.
That is mostly for access to the European market. Tax evasion on the domestic market works too, but differently.
Like the UK, where compliance has been estimated at around 40%?
Firefox 92 on Windows also not.
If Matrix Online had an important part of the plot then Matrix 4 would include that story to catch everyone up.
Can’t wait to pirate extra horsepower.
Democracy fails if the majority is some combination of apathetic, uneducated, or incapable of critical thought. I don’t know about Australia, but the US is in serious trouble if that statement holds. We are a Republic, which probably buys us time. I’m amazed by how many voters I know personally who have never even read the US constitution or the bill of rights. It’s a real shame, and my guess is it won’t end well.
This is a slash piece my a media outlet owned by an explicit political adversary. There are no doubt things in China some folks would find difficult to swallow, but a US news outlet is not the place to find them.
You misunderstood the question. He is asking why are they honoring his title as Knight in Switzerland, when noble titles are usually abolished in republics.

A good example of this can be seen in the Constitution of the US.
"No Title of Nobility shall be granted by the United States: And no Person holding any Office of Profit or Trust under them, shall, without the Consent of the Congress, accept of any present, Emolument, Office, or Title, of any kind whatever, from any King, Prince, or foreign State."
I have a friend who is involved with a group that provides ~£100 business startup financing to street entrepreneurs in Kenya. These are people who sleep 10 to a room and can live on a dollar a day, or was it a week? Not sure what I’m implying, just marveling at the efficiencies (and by that I mean “inefficiencies”) of the glorious free market.
Show HN: Turn Pocketbook e-ink reader into computer monitor
Hi, I'm the author of remoteink. Recently, the idea of using an e-ink device for programming/writing texts/showing dashboards/etc turned out to be popular among HN users [1, 2, 3], so I've decided to share my tool for this that works on the Pocketbook e-ink readers. I hope someone will find it useful.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28432921

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28426741

[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25939042