skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
i havent read the book yet, but i am surmising that the claim is that money originally arose in order to service debts, not because (at that time) it was more efficient?
I broadly agree with your last sentence, even though I would have worded it differently here. That is the reason I asked for proof: It was to highlight there isn't any, because it's not true.

Your broader point, that sometimes immigrants fall into criminal traps, is one that is relevant and interesting. It's important to figure out why this happens and how it can be mitigated, because immigration is forever. You want your social structure and systems to be such that no-one feels like the only way they have to have a reasonable life is to be a criminal.
Ask HN: What is your most appreciated daily route as senior/engineering manager?
In my experience it just isn't that simple. Early stage VC's like SOSV are happy to talk to anybody from anywhere. Later stage? Not so much. If you are doing something out of the general wheelhouse of the VC community (in my case AgTech) you're boned because the number of companies that invest in Ag are a much smaller set than all the VC firms, and explaining things like genetics to them is like trying to teach pigs how to write html.

In a lot of ways it is easier if you are doing something truly out there, like some kind of lab-based science that requires everybody to have a PhD, because it's easier to convince somebody that you know what you're doing if they are completely ignorant of the topic. In the middle ground of more practical applications of technology it isn't sexy enough and isn't esoteric enough to get anybodies attention regardless of the potential or the business model.
Encrypted Police Scanners Are Raising Big Questions in 2021
I think I don't even believe she's AI generated.
> If I were to make my own website, I’d lose a ton of discoverability.

This is why I still (occasionally) write on Medium.
Side questions: what's the state of the art in modelling as-real-as-possible human bodies, clothes ? I've seen tons of renderings but I don't know how much, for example, one can apply a virtual body on a motion capture. That is, how easy is the process of creation ?
Then they're searching wrong because that's not the name of the package. Plus, as I opened with, people should be including their language name as part of the search query by default regardless of the framework's name.

It seems absurd to me that developers are too lazy to add one extra keyword to their search to ensure they get specific results, yet are happy to moan about maintainers not putting enough effort in to avoid namespace collisions in a finite pool of usable project names (and particularly when the project names here are literally different). This strikes me as bad workmen blaming their tools; you have a bad search etiquette and are then passing the buck onto the maintainers to fix.

Sorry if that seams harsh but naming things is really hard but adding `nim` into your search query is really easy. To me it is pretty clear cut where this problem should be solved.
For Java, JVM was the "platform". I still remember learning Java in university - what left an impression on me was that my first ever university homework where I used Java (i.e. non-trivial project) ran perfectly on first successful compilation [+]. GC is huge help, especially if you don't use smart pointers (which were far less prevalent at the time).

[+] to clarify, I was a somewhat experienced programmer, this was one of the final year projects, for distributed systems or parallel computing I believe. A simple system without doubt, but still, a system not a "hello world". Something that I wouldn't have expected to work on first try, had it been written in C.
You joke, but maybe one way to fight this proactively is with fake activist honeypots. Apple, a company with the size and budget of a nation state could certainly pull off such an operation for the security of the devices they sell, but obviously, and maybe unfortunately, this would never happen.
The first time grokked what logarithms are good for is when I needed to make nice graph drawing code, which automatically snapped endpoints to nearest full value. Like when you have data in range 0:1.0, you want min and max of your graph to snap to 0 and 1. When your data is 3:360, graph will snap to 0 and 400.

Conclusion - best way is to show real-world examples of usage, which learner can identify with.
You're talking about whether this kind of account is a scam.

They're wondering whether this specific account is making money.

Those are very different questions. An account can be both, neither, or one or the other.
This is a great example of the "misdefine then vilify" approach.

Next: calories approach doesnt work on gout either! More evidence that calories don't work!
Do not be so quick to dismiss poultry. There are quite a few articles about chickens' intelligence, say this one from Scientific American (sorry, paywalled): https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-startling-int...
The issue is uniqueness. If you can replicate a building exactly as it was 100 years ago, then the original one has no particular value. To make sure to distinguish the original one from a copy, people add value to its uniqueness by saying it can't be replicated 100%.

When I visited Pompeii, I would have loved to see the city rebuilt as how it was originally. They have pictures here and there displaying how the city could have been but I think that the immersiveness would have been much greater if it looked as it was previously.
> added: I remember when Facebook switched from showing a chronological timeline to "the algorithm". That turned out to be a monumental paradigm shift.

So, assume that 10% of your friends are responsible for 90% of the content. Is it really a better experience to see all of their content in your feed rather than some of their content plus some other people?
Because C is still stuck in a PDP-11 mindset, without any proper strings or vector types, modules, namespaces,... there is very little help from POSIX there.
> https://www.lifespan.io/news/media-circus-surrounds-hyperbar...
You imply there's a political solution, while seemingly glossing over the fact that both major parties support gas-fired plants and building new gas-fired capacity to shore up energy supply.

Even the Greens oppose the only proven baseload power source that's also green -- nuclear. [1]

As recently as last year, the opposition party supported the construction of new gas plants. [2]

The entire Australian political establishment supports the construction of new non-renewable power generation capacity, on both sides.

[1] https://greens.org.au/policies/nuclear-and-uranium

[2] https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2020/oct/29/labor...
Yeah, but seeing how complex and involved the questions actually are would help with the "I understand this after one YouTube video better than people who've spent their lives studying it" problem. Not simplifying it would make for boring viewing, but it would ram home the point that this isn't as simple as it seems.
Most real world programs, not most programs in general.
It the first PC RTS to gain popularity that is more or less similar to modern RTSs (they all in 1 way or another been inspired by it or its successors). Westwood developed a bunch of titles before it (including some very popular RPGs) but their line of RTS are definitely what they're remembered for today!
What does tail latency for the Zig pool look like? It seems like any Task that ends up in one of the overflow queues will stay there until at some ring buffer is emptied.

Put another way, during a period of more push than pop some tasks may see a very long delay before being worked on?
> But personally, I prefer to write my crawlers in Go (custom code, not Colly).

This is my current setup as well, been scraping on and off for 20+ years now.
How accurate is this globe and mail article?
https://archive.vn/2017.01.16-035350/http://www.theglobeandm...

> Competition rising
Mike Lazaridis was at home on his treadmill and watching television when he first saw the Apple iPhone in early 2007. There were a few things he didn’t understand about the product. So, that summer, he pried one open to look inside and was shocked. It was like Apple had stuffed a Mac computer into a cellphone, he thought.
To Mr. Lazaridis, a life-long tinkerer who had built an oscilloscope and computer while in high school, the iPhone was a device that broke all the rules. The operating system alone took up 700 megabytes of memory, and the device used two processors. The entire BlackBerry ran on one processor and used 32 MB. Unlike the BlackBerry, the iPhone had a fully Internet-capable browser. That meant it would strain the networks of wireless companies like AT&T Inc., something those carriers hadn’t previously allowed. RIM by contrast used a rudimentary browser that limited data usage.
> Publicly, Mr. Lazaridis and Mr. Balsillie belittled the iPhone and its shortcomings, including its short battery life, weaker security and initial lack of e-mail. That earned them a reputation for being cocky and, eventually, out of touch. “That’s marketing,” Mr. Lazaridis explained. “You position your strengths against their weaknesses.”
Internally, he had a very different message. “If that thing catches on, we’re competing with a Mac, not a Nokia,” he recalled telling his staff.
At first glance I like it! I think it’s a useful tool thanks for sharing.
Coal replaces wind as most important energy source in Germany in H1
We regularly get excited stories about how wind is now the most important energy source in Germany, but it is important that people realize moments like that are exceptions to the rule. In general, most German energy comes from the worst polluting energy source we have: coal.
Python came with a platform of sorts, its motto was "batteries included", after all.
Not really, since they never found a proper business model. So far, how do they make money? How do they pay the developers? How do they plan to be sustainable? Is there any place where I can see who donated them? Which share of donations is given by large companies that are constantly breaking the values the Mozilla foundation stands for? Was the news that Google will pay $400M per year to be the default search engine confirmed? If so, which share of their budget does this represent?

A lot of questions are not answered, which makes the whole FF a bit shady. As a user, how much can I trust FF as a browser? Before answering, keep in mind that the browser is the single most important software we use every day since it carries most of our activities. Is it safe to use software made by someone who is not capable of sustaining themselves?
Right leaning sure! I’m right leaning… I mean at least I think I am since I’m a Republican [3].

For the most part, what makes people “lean right” is religious precepts [1] which are covered under Federal labor law protections so no one can actually discriminate against you if you voice them. The other thing that traditionally made people lean right is economic concepts (think Ron Paul), and at worst people think you’re boring for bringing that stuff up.

Thing is none of that stuff is really in vogue so we who lean right in that way basically don’t talk about it, and are totally overlooked by the media.

What you can’t be is…

1. A supporter of Trump and/or the insurgents

2. A ethonationalist of any kind

3. Someone who can’t help but speak out against a protected group (e.g. women, transgendered, people of foreign birth)

Now politics wise we who merely “lean right” would say that all of those three groups aren’t on our right… they’re on a totally different spectrum same as the one occupied by ecoterrorists, and authoritarian communists.

Now I come from Northern Virginia, the actual birthplace of that flag southerners love waving so frantically and I know many people who count themselves as conservative (religiously, economically, socially) who trashed their flags when they learned the story behind their creation[2].

So right vs left? It’s not really that simple.

[1] My screen name is from the sadly much diminished jeans company, but in their heyday that denim really deserved its cult following.

[2] William Porcher Miles designed the flag of the army of northern Virginia, which is now basically known as the confederate flag. You would be hard pressed to find a dude more supportive of slavery than this guy. He started his political career just to advocate for keeping people in chains, and said it was a “Divine institution” and the white in the flag was representative of … you guessed it white skin. Can’t get more white nationalist than that.

[3] Left and right are concepts of political parties in the US, not actual beliefs. I’m kinda hoping the Democrats will create space to capture all the people in the Republican Party who do not love the direction it’s gone down in the past 10 years.
Not all FPs have options, futures, either (lisp, Julia, erlang, elixir)
Scott also wrote “Domain Modeling Made Functional”[0], which demonstrates functional modeling of a business system like you’d find in the real world. I found it really helpful even though I don’t work much in F#.

[0] https://pragprog.com/titles/swdddf/domain-modeling-made-func...
Which is presumably taken from Yeats' "Second Coming" (Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold/Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world".

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/43290/the-second-comi...
I see it as constantly in evaluation and needs to consider the child's and parent's situation, so wouldn't presume a one size fits all approach. As they age and friend groups change so will our strategy. I am going to be tougher on social media as I see that as inherently flawed.

We have tried introducing some TV during the week and the negative effects were very noticeable. There's a lot of creative energy that needs to be used and screen time doesn't fulfil that, even Minecraft.

At school the group of children who play creatively is bigger than the group who play based on games, so it's not making them total pariahs. I also think it is teaching them to be able to cooperate and negotiate within an open and shared play environment, which I see as the foundation for how they'll interact when they are older.
My concerns about Effective Altruism are different. One is that by routing money to locations with corrupt governments or dictatorships, you are essentially funding these governments. A lot of NGO money just replaces the budget of the local government and thus is essentially equivalent to giving money to whoever is in political power there. The EA movement seems to completely ignore this issue. Everyone involved has an incentive to pretend like these charities in corrupt countries are effective - the EA donors get to feel good, and the local dictators get to invest more of their budget in whatever they want. (I thought the book Dancing In The Glory Of Monsters had a very convincing section about this, if people are curious to hear more of this line of reasoning.)

My second concern is doing an accurate marginal analysis. The most popular EA charities pretend like they constantly cannot get enough money to fully fund their expenditures. This isn't really true. If you look at the dollar amounts involved, the richest GiveWell donors could easily fund all of the need for, say, malaria nets. Instead, the most promising charities are kept "in need" in order to encourage other people to donate, and money that could go to the most popular causes is routed to more controversial things like US politics or AI safety. A marginal dollar given to malaria nets isn't really causing the funding of malaria nets to go up, it's enabling richer, more connected donors to change their allocations.

At the same time I do think that the principles behind EA make sense. Altruism should be effective. I just don't think the EA groups are executing on this promise. Unfortunately I don't have a great answer. The best strategy I can come with is to look for charitable opportunities of smaller scope, essentially cases where there is a "market failure". I'm not sure if this would be scalable though. If anyone has good ideas about how to do this whole thing better then I would be interested to chat because I do think it would be great to have an "EA that works".
Thanks for the perspective. The closest western way of thinking to be is, "It is not the about the destination but the journey". The whole concept also reminds me of Eckhart Tolle's "Life is the dancer and you are the dance?", which is a very different way of thinking about yourself as the changing and moving thing instead of a fixed person.
I think especially in DOS, installing a game was an Experience on its own; like "unboxing", it made you hyped for the game. I'm sure market research showed that nobody cares.

I don't believe installing a game is that much faster nowadays, but I'm sure people end up doing something else - something that was possible once windows came around.
Maybe we are talking about different things, but you can definitely pre-fill your tax form with employer and social security data in Germany. In that case, you only have to add information if you want to claim deductions higher than the "Werbungskostenpauschale".

Things usually only get difficult when you are self-employed or have difficult deductions.
Sure, as per the tax guidelines, tips are not tax free. I'm well aware of this. But business owners that may ask their customers for tips most definitely see this as a way to bargain with would-be employees that their miserably low wage will not be that bad as it's just a supplement to the mad stacks you will be making from tips. And they are not on the hook to pay this tax, the employees are. And if the tip is paid in cash, at least here in the UK, it's very hard for the tax authorities to actually determine that you are not paying the tax you should be paying. The materiality for anyone above the income tax threshold is way above what a normal tip would be and nobody's going to do multiple sting operations to test if a waiter is actually not paying tax.
> > Once the problem escalates to be a legal dispute, this is the only way communication can happen.

> But there hasn't been any other previous communication. Our first notice from them, as detailed in the post, was from their lawyers.

> So there has been no attempt on their side to come to even an amicable conversation. I offered that --but was denied.

The problem with not doing it through a lawyer is that you might inadvertently say something that could disadvantage you later on if things go to court. The value a lawyer offers here is that they're familiar with all the ins and outs of the relevant laws, and which words may or may not carry meaning if it goes to court.

In many ways it's a lose-lose situation: going through a lawyer can come off as cold, distant, and even threatening, but not doing so risks screwing yourself over. Since they don't really know you or your motivations, going through a lawyer is clearly the best option. Especially when dealing with a bad-faith actor who might do their best to twist words it can really cover yourself. You might say "of course I would never do that!" and I fully believe you're honest in that, but PostgreSQL people have no way of knowing that, not for sure anyway.

So my advice would be to not take that it went through a lawyer as "un-amicable conversation"; it's just how these things work. Maybe it shouldn't, but it is.

As for the actual meat of the matter: I read your reply on your website and some of your posts here, but I don't really understand what advantage to the wider PostgreSQL community if Fundación PostgreSQL has any trademarks, and only see potential risks. Who knows what will happen with those trademarks in five, ten, or twenty years? You could get hit by a bus tomorrow and whoever ends up in control of the foundation could be a Bad Guy™ or (possibly inadvertently) transfer the trademarks to such a person.

It seems to me that the most logical place to put the trademark is with the same people we trust with the code, and I don't see why we should trust them with the code but not the trademarks?
William Gibson predicted something like this 25 years ago in Idoru[1].

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idoru
They say in that blogpost that they do separate transactional and bulk email:

> Q: How will you maintain high deliverability for transactional email?

> A: Separating transactional traffic from other types of email using different sending IPs and From domains is a longstanding best practice for ensuring optimal deliverability.

...

> That means transactional and broadcast traffic never intersect in Postmark, including IP ranges.

https://postmarkapp.com/blog/api-bulk-the-final-frontier#how...
> Basically the government draws the line at where your beliefs affect others

Circumcision shows that this is not even the case.
How are mining oligopolies better than staking oligopolies?
The genius of the Mona Lisa is not the craft. It's not a photorealistic interpretation of the sitter. Everything about it is to be viewed through the lens of da Vinci. It's a window into the world at that time; even though it's completely different period it's almost achingly _human_. The value of the Mona Lisa is not in its materials or craft, it's in its influence over hundreds of years and the millions it has inspired.

edit: this is obviously my Western interpretation, informed by culture/upbringing/milieux etc. So it's interesting to hear a divergent view. Obviously I don't think my POV is objectively true but I do think it holds value.
> JavaScript became popular because of the browser

I would also say it is mainly due to Gmail and their G Maps extensive use of XMLHttpRequest, and Douglas Crockford insight on that JS has closure and function as first class citizen, it is just Scheme is C clothing. Check out his Little Javascripter. That and of course the intro of JSON.
5c. the shortcut for opening a private browsing window is different from every other browser and collide with the main shortcut (Ctrl+Shift+P) of the main IDE (VisualStudioCode)
Isn't that part of where the "high APM" thing comes from - players having to micromanage their army movement?
Why no one has tried making a keyboard accessory (like the P800 had built-in) for smartphones is a mystery.
Monero people may not like it but Particl v3 may be released next week or the week after. It's a privacy coin like monero but comes with a decentralised, anonymous marketplace like ebay. V3 will be the first production-ready, mainstream release ready for primetime. It seems to me one of the most undervalued crypto projects with an actual useful product.

https://particl.io
Linux 2.4 could fit in a floppy perfectly. Check NehaBodi, nethack 3.4.3 in a floppy disk.
It is almost forgotten now, but the platform which carried Java to critical mass was the browser. Java successfully pivoted to server-side, but initially it was considered a client-side language.

C++ was the preferred application development language on Windows.

Python is popular because of the numeric and ML ecosystem.