skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
After much searching around for a decent webcam, I went for a Sony ZV-1. Cheaper and smaller than a DSLR setup, has Clean HDMI and good eye autofocus.

There's also the new ZV-E10 which adds interchangeable lenses and USB-C but it looks like they've moved the cable ports round so they obscure the screen when it's flipped out, which would be a pain.
It's pretty iconic of the modern far-left movement. They really do earn the term "regressive".
> Why does another company not come in to steal 9% to 24% of the GDP of the whole country?

It's less than that.

$ 400 million commissions / $ 24 640 million GDP x 100 = 1.66% of GDP.

I am not familiar with how revenue is shared between the remitting companies, but part of those commissions are set to offset the costs of operating the remittance network in El Salvador. Operating offices, armored trucks, complaiace, bank staff wages and security expenses.

2019 GDP https://tradingeconomics.com/el-salvador/gdp
Legitimate IPs, at that. These are networks that are not hostile 99% of the time.
Who said secret? The point is that it just needs to be untraceable back to Russia.
Prime Exponent Object Module
How do you send money from the US to El Salvador without Bitcoin or WU? That's the whole point of remittance; I'm not sure how a network of ATMs local to El Salvador will help people send money internationally to the country.
The "Russian counterparts", if I understand correctly, are something like two different entities. One is the Russian government itself, which is mostly interested in PR. E.g., I read a rumour somewhere that part of the reason that Nauka module was so out of control was that they rushed it so that some tourists get to film something in it when they go up this autumn. I'm not sure how true it is that it was rushed.

But the other entity is Roscosmos, which is partially subservient to the government (like any government agency), but partially consists of scientist types that would care more about space than PR. Quite similar to Nasa, really. So Nasa would have to deal with the State Department, the Russian government, and the Russian scientists all at once, it's not like they literally have a single counterpart to deal with. What I read about the Nauka failures was mostly sourced to Roscosmos and people working there, while Nasa was relatively quiet.
Google's Commitment to Water Stewardship
Just fyi, this was completely intentional[1]. There was a big concern about increasing plastic use in the 1990s. So, the plastics producers started producing ads and adding the recycling symbol to plastics. The consumer assumed they were doing "good" and left it for the municipalities and recyclers to figure out or to just dump in the landfill. A lot of plastics can be shredded up and reused to some degree but not recycled in the truest sense. I honestly think we need to be recycling only aluminum and cardboard (from the curb). We also need to start taxing all the excessive plastic packaging and single use mindset. As long as convenience is so cheap, we'll never consider alternativess.

[1] https://www.npr.org/2020/09/11/897692090/how-big-oil-misled-...
Yes and to mitigate your puny attack I need to block a few dozen IPs.

A botnet is probably coming from hundreds, if not thousands of IPs, sprinkled in with normal user requests and often with similar frequency.
I'm not sure this is true. I've previously heard the exact same thing referring about "100% beef" in the US, but mcdonalds explicitly says on their website that it isn't true [0], which I assume they wouldn't do if it actually were true. I can't find anything about "100% irish beef" , but I kind of doubt it's true unless you can find some source talking about it.

[0]: https://www.mcdonalds.com/gb/en-gb/help/faq/18916-is-beef-a-...
I keep a couple in every bag I use regularly (gym bag, work bag, briefcase, etc) so I'm never without if I decide to stop by the store on the way home. That way you don't have to proactively remember to bring it!
Even if you believe in crypto - why Bitcoin and not a stablecoin? I'm also not sure why people are comparing Bitcoin to Western Union. Western Union is way more than just sending money.
I think this is a pretty standard case of a person with a criminal conviction being denied entry to a foreign country.

It happens tens of thousands of times per year to other people.
The state Chivos app gets 1984 microphone permissions for some reason too.
It is yes, but it shows deeper issues where the way they're designing the OS allows things that don't matter at all to break core systems.
First, look things up to be safe! I cannot stress this enough.

In general, 125mg for the first dose, then an option of 65mg about 1,5 hours later. My memory is fuzzy since I'm not generally the one weighing it out and it has been a while. I would rather 100-110 for the first dose personally.

They have tested different doses, but this is a good general guideline.

And again, look things up to be safe!
Well, it does portray a very PC acceptance (fighting for Stan/Loretta's right to have babies even if he/she can't actually have them) even if it is a joke.

So I think it's at least difficult to object to? Yes that behaviour is correct but it's not allowed in a comedy? Stop laughing (so it can still be in the script, it's just not a joke?)?

I think the whole film is far more thoughtful than it is unkind, to any group. The main contemporary objection was from religious groups of course, but just watch https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CeKWVuye1YE.
What Makes NFTs Valuable?
It is not clear to us which information is not clear to you.
Modern Python Environments – dependency and workspace management
>I work in IoT and industrial computing and the specifications can be for 25+ years however, so it's not unheard of.

25+ years isn't unheard of, but "in any capacity" absolutely is. There's no foundry on this planet that is continuing to produce you CPUs 25 years from now if your batch size is an order of 50 units.
With the move to subscription services like Office 365, and the startling number of incompetents that think VDI terminals are acceptable workstations for users, I could definitely see Windows desktop disappearing in the next decade or so, the OS merely being a bootloader for a browser.

Everything will be either a Chromebook or EdgeBook, basically.
AMD has been doing custom x86 SoCs for a long time, mostly for game consoles. It hasn't had any real impact on the laptop/desktop/server market so far.
Beer bottles are typically only reused if you say, bring them to The Beer Store or something similar.

If you toss them in your municipal bin like me, my understanding is they basically just smash them and use the glass bits in other products like asphalt as it's just not worth the energy cost to actually recycle it.

Aluminum cans are probably a better bet for recycling if you're just using the municipal bins. They're profitable enough that people routinely come steal the cans from my bins.
This looks neat, but I've never had a good use-case for cloudflare workers. Are any of you doing fun things with workers?
"Chivo" is not a platform, it's a wallet like any other wallet, using the same technology as any other wallet. If you don't like Chivo, you can transfer your Bitcoins to any other wallet that supports Bitcoin.
Great music - although the rest of the trailer didn't fill me with the excitement I would have hoped (I was a massive Matrix fan back in the day). I think it's a movie that simply doesn't need to be made?
The actual take on remittances has been falling for 20 years.

Western Union struggles to maintain a "premium" price now due to competition.

The actual take on an average transaction from USA to El Salvador is way lower because El Salvador uses USD. So the only way to make money is on the Fee. (no foreign exchange revenue)

If you send $50, yes the take is high because there is a bottom to the price. But the average sender sends $200..$300 and cost, as a percentage, drops rapidly with the amount sent.

Many people thought bitcoin would destroy the remittance industry 10 years ago. It did not. People need money they can spend not bits in an exchange. Solve that last mile like Kenya did and maybe...

I don't think bitcoin can handle the transaction volume for the global remittance industry on the person to person scale for "money in minutes" service. It's a better fit for bulk transfers to pay the agents in foreign countries.
I suspected as much, as is usually the case when someone posits a grand conspiracy.
There are tests you can buy cheaply and legally. You should always sacrifice a pill or capsule from a batch to test it.
You do exactly what Chivo does, except without using Bitcoin for clearing and settlement. You instead use a bank, or, because this is an entire country we’re talking about, use the national bank or carve out a special rule for financial remittance for your app.
The hassle / reward for most people is much higher for those many other infectious diseases than covid.

By all means, now that the government paid for it with our tax money I'll take it and skip the mild covid side effects for my age range.
If I had to pay, unless I was 40+, I wouldn't have bothered for something with such a low mortality rate.
BTC volatility will presumably fall as the market cap grows. One would expect Institutional traders who make money on volatility will continue to move in as it becomes easier to bank on some long-term average price of BTC relative to other currencies.

Something I suspect we often forget about in the world of stable reserve currencies is that the majority of the world can't run floating exchange rates without encountering major volatility. Standard Fiat/Gold backed currencies generally require some large institution to control the currency price either via money supply, foreign currency supply, gold, or government decreed exchange rates. When these institutions fail currencies tend to have rather extreme swings.
It's astonishing that this symbol is allowed to used on non-recyclable products in the first place.
Yes, this is the key point that people are missing when they wonder why there isn't an uproar. Most Aussies don't have a clue what the government is really up to. The media here is complicit and extremely consolidated - essentially all commercial media companies are sympathetic towards a single (conservative) party, Murdoch's media is openly partisan and has a dominant market share, the public broadcaster has been gutted and the board stacked with LNP stooges. The end result is all media narratives in lock-step pushing a pro-LNP message.

The media boardrooms are a popular revolving door for politicians to get the post-politics payday, and the media has been known to give politicians favourable treatment when they want legislation in their interests to be passed. [0]

The whole time, the media is telling the public not to worry, everything is ok - unless a Labor government is in power, in which case the messaging is that the sky is falling, tax and debt is skyrocketing, and they want to steal pensioner's benefits.

[0] https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/28/business/dealbook/austral...
Well, they don't have to cash out any more. Chivo can be used to pay directly in stores, either with dollars or with bitcoin.
The board had probably developed a short somewhere because one of those tiny ceramic SMD capacitors had failed which is very hard to tell just by looking at it. Or the PCB substrate may have degraded, allowing two traces to come into contact but this is less likely.

The tech probably figured out that this was happening but was unable or unwilling to isolate the issue.
I've seen a fair bit of this with Firebase apps, where devs don't write enough rules, or have collections that mix non-sensitive and sensitive fields. It's tricky, because the whole query-the-database-from-JavaScript model causes your app to fail open. I wrote a tool that acts as a generic Firebase datastore client to help find these sorts of flaws.[1]

[1]: https://github.com/iosiro/baserunner
I figured, I just thought I might ask for a source to lend credence to any conspiracy theory.
Not sure if there is a receiving end fee, I don’t think so, but again my fee for iban/BIC (formerly swift) is $0 within EU/SEPA and $5 otherwise. So I expect to be able to transfer to El Salvador for $5 if I read the prices table correctly.
They're unfortunately not the only ones who've in recent years have expanded on these types of behavior. Australia has been doing similar things too. COVID was a huge help in furthering totalitarianism ideals all across the globe, with many countries pushing to see how much they could get away with, in spying their own people, agglomerating power for themselves to stay in power longer, silencing the opposition, the press and the people, utilizing social media to gather data on their own people...
Hey, thanks for kind words!

At the moment databases in Appliku are best fit for non-production environments. So while you can enjoy easy and great deployments of your apps, I am not ready yet to compete on the production databases front. So no, we don't offer fail over or even backups at the moment. Backups are in plans, but more advanced features for databases is not even in backlog.
BitTorrent was used for the blizzard updater as well as internal tech for moving around files needed on many machines at various companies.

But none of that matters because it was created and was/is well used
For the Love of Go (2022 edition)
Was this another close call major issue indicating a new pattern, or was this one of tens of minor incidents that typically happened in Suez and didn't get reported on until Ever Given?

Not that the two are necessarily mutually exclusive but it's likely leaning hard towards one of the two.
The Supreme Court also upheld mandatory sterilization of the mentally unfit (Buck v. Bell, 1927). That doesn't make it a good idea.
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Going to gym is barely an inconvenience. Mortality would have been minimal if fat people would jump on a treadmill occasionally and keep the cheeseburgers out of their face.

"What is inconvenient" is subjective and that's the ultimate slippery slope argument.

Your argument and thinking is so so bad, I feel like I'm being trolled.
Exclusivity agreements https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_Union#Anti-competitive...
The non-mRNA alternatives are also pretty experimental, still take the new approach of having your own cells manufacture the protein for your immune system to train against, and have been subjected to numerous safety pauses. I'm staunchly opposed to taking either kind of vaccine but if I had a gun to my head (and hey, given the rate things are going maybe I soon will!) I would probably pick mRNA, and specifically Pfizer since its dose is less than half of Moderna's.

Why don't we have an inactivated virus or subunit (i.e. Novavax) vaccine as an option?
Yeah I'm not disputing the general point that some people would do something like that. But the specific claim about a company called "100% Irish Beef" sounded a bit outlandish, so I googled it.
there are some biodegradable packing peanuts that someone like me thought was styrofoam - a way to tell is to take one and see if it "melts" in warm water...

I THINK those can go in compost, but I'd check your local regulations
Not true anymore. Moneygram and Ria Envia have been growing very fast to Latin America and there are numerous smaller firms stealing market share in the digital send space.
Reminds me of those late 19th century predictions according to which in 50 years London would be neck-deep in horse poop
> Its often confused with the symbol that indicates recyclabililty.

Are people actually getting confused by this? It looks very very different from the recycling symbol. It's a different shape both inside and out, a different color, has a different number of arrows, and the arrows abut. It doesn't look anything the same to me.
Rust does not free you from having to track memory, for large classes of important data structures. And, if you want to implement smart pointers for your app in zig, it is easy.

Yes, your examples are two proprietary, nonstandard techniques. Or alternatively using a third-class toolset (jemalloc toolkit e.g ).

Sanity is having a single, anointed way to do it in the stdlib.
> Because WU has a monopoly on remittance payments in multiple countries.

Not in El Salvador. A quick Google search shows that:

A mid sized bank supports about 9 remittance companies. And a credit union supporting about 15.
El Salvador’s Bitcoin experiment is already going wrong
Such a waste of time.

Now we will spend a decade arguing which plastic is really recyclable, and if you can recycle it once is it enough, or should be 2 times? or does it degrade on its own? bio plastic (which turns out sometimes is worse than current common plastic) and etc.

Coca Cola's 'Please Recycle' on the caps makes me boil with rage, how about 'Please Don't Make it'?

There must be supply chain changes, probably 95% of my plastic is from the supermarket, it is increasingly more difficult to buy without plastic.

This must be banned, it will take decades until the free market regulates itself.
Dark has exactly that, https://www.darklang.com
I host static content with them (with no fallback server) using their keyval stores.

All GETs result in a KV lookup. A PUT uses a signed payload and a set of public keys in another KV store to check that the caller is allowed to store the new page contents.

I can re-deploy a site in a matter of milliseconds and it is only loosely cached (updates are reflected within a minute or so), free for up to 100k requests a month, and serves content in a matter of milliseconds.
Pax by Ploom, threadwinner.
Impressive. These remind me of the "Land Train" from the game _In Cold Blood_.

https://youtu.be/cXK8xK1KdmI
I’ve read through the spec, and there’s not really much here that you can’t accommodate with protobuf Service definitions. I do like the provider abstraction on top of push-based messaging services, but that’s just an isomorphism for a protobuf server streaming call. Given the rock solid implementation and wide acceptance, I don’t see any reason to use this over gRPC.
Yep I've got a Sony ZV-1 and it sits on a small tripod behind my monitor just fine.
Ask HN: Any library like glib, but lighter, suitable for embedded development?
Because Tether and USDT are censorable by their parent companies (ie, these tokens can be blacklisted by the Ethereum Virtual Machine), and they are also tied to the monetary policy of the United States.

It definitely makes sense for them to use Tether/USDT for sure, I agree there. But making Bitcoin a legal currency is also a political and economic statement that goes far beyond simply facilitating digital payments.
Most banks here support between 5 and 15 remittance companies. I wouldn't call it a monopoly.
I can't respond to your response to my response (!). but clearly I misread parent's post. d'oh.

As you were!
As a regular guy who sometimes decides to put things in the recycling or the trash, I absolutely am confusing them. I had no idea, until reading this comment, that those are separate things. Now I don't understand anything.
Google got this right w project focused permissions- accounts work aws side but
I think you're missing a big part... getting it hosted on the internet, stable, and scalable. Can't do that from your laptop no matter what the language environment comes with.
It is recyclable here in Santa Barbara, but you have to take it to the recycling center yourself.
there are more things in this world, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy

technology-wise, we humans are just fancy cavemen with fire

(also, we don't know that this is portable)
I've definitely always assumed it means "recyclable."
‘For the Love of Go’ is a book introducing the Go programming language, suitable for complete beginners, as well as those with experience programming in other languages.

This completely revised and updated edition includes the four mini-books previously released as ‘Fundamentals’, ‘Data’, ‘Behaviour’, and ‘Control’, plus for the first time complete solutions (with tests) to all the coding challenges in the book.

Throughout the book we'll be working together to develop a fun and useful project in Go: an online bookstore called Happy Fun Books!

Each chapter introduces a new feature or concept, and sets you some goals to achieve, with complete, step-by-step explanations of how to solve them, and full code listings with accompanying tests.

There are 24 chapters, and 215 pages (depending on the screen size of your ebook reader).

By reading this book and working through all the challenges and exercises, you'll learn:

How to write tests in Go and how to develop projects test-first

How to manage data in Go using built-in types, user-defined struct types, and collections such as maps and slices

How to use objects to model problems in Go, and how to add behaviour to objects using methods

How to use pointers to write methods for objects, and how to use types and validation to make your Go packages a delight to use

How to build powerful, flexible programs using control structures like loops and functions

Even more importantly, you’ll learn a simple, fun, and effective way to approach software engineering projects in Go. Even though the material is beginner-friendly, you’ll be mastering intermediate and advanced techniques such as test-driven development (TDD) and learning to design modules, packages, and APIs. These are essential skills in any modern software engineering role.
I would correct the last part. Appliku is an automated devops as a service. Heroku is selling you a very much overpriced complete service. And that's where Appliku comes in as a way to fight insane costs.

But yes, setting up a server is not super hard. Doing it often and with convenience that's where improvement is needed compared to doing it manually.
Most recyclable plastic that's collected isn't even recycled anymore.

We might be better off burying it as a carbon sink.
Climate: Majority of fossil fuels need to stay underground, study says
[0] https://earthsky.org/earth/anticipating-future-sea-level-pro...

[1] https://www.climate.gov/news-features/featured-images/ocean-...

[2]https://www.noaa.gov/education/resource-collections/ocean-co...

[3] http://www.lteconomy.it/en/articles-en/articoli/the-power-of...
Yes, I've come to the conclusion that it's better to bury most plastic waste.

Most plastic comes from oil, which means 'biodegradable' plastic is essentially the same as burning the oil. Actual recycling can work in some cases, but even after all the expense and energy of recycling, the recycled product is usually much lower grade plastic, so it's not sustainable. Better just to bury it (in leak-proof pits), where it will turn back into oil eventually.

The real problem with plastic waste is COLLECTING it, making sure it doesn't wash into the oceans, etc.

At least the recycle logo might help with that, even a fake one.
> For years, the United States also shipped much of its plastic waste overseas, choking local rivers and streams. A global convention now bans most trade in plastic waste

Most of this article is fine, but I can't believe this specific misinformation continues to be printed.

Exported plastic waste virtually entirely goes into landfills overseas, or is incinerated.

Whereas the waste choking local rivers and streams e.g. in Asia is virtually entirely local waste -- people littering, etc.

I'm 100% on the side of the environment -- which is why I want us to make policy based on actual fact, so efforts go towards what actually matters.
The other astrologer one:

> An astrologer cast a sick boy's horoscope. After promising the mother that the child had many years ahead of him, he demanded payment. When she said, "Come tomorrow and I’ll pay you," he objected: "But what if the boy dies during the night and I lose my fee?"

So if they look down on astrologers as being opportunistic charlatans (at least the bad ones), they are mocking that they will say one thing and when confronted about how wrong they are slide right into their next statement.