skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
An outcome of free movement is flattening of income distribution across geography. Nowhere stays cheap, as wage inflation hits, and nowhere stays expensive, as employers move to cheaper places.

Sure, cities will be wealthier than the regions, but ultimately a city in Romania and a city in sweden, infrastructure and education being also equalised through structural funds, should present equal opportunities.
To the bunch here that complains about their data being in there and them supposedly being leftists: You're not very much a leftist if you're doing business with a company owned by a person well-known to be a Neonazi.
This isn't particularly helpful advice at this point - but there was a heavy overlap between most people still having a landline and VOIP options. For a long time google let you dial a phone directly from the gmail web UI - it might still let you do that if you're on the legacy feature (they did recently drop incoming call support though).
They're not potential; do you know about Intel ME, cellphone baseband firmware, Apple's new on-phone CSAM scanning plans, and yellow printer dots?
Democratic Tax Proposal Takes Aim at ETFs
My chat with agent button was kind enough to work when I was canceling my crossword subscription. When they asked why I said that I suspected their unsubscribing process to be illegal under California law and their next message was that they had unsubscribed me.
The transaction is sent directly to the miner without going through mempool, or the miner itself makes the transaction.
So who got the tx fee?
I agree. Here's my pet peeve: say you want to require users to log into the AWS console using MFA. You look all over the place for the magic "[ ] Require MFA" checkbox. Nope! Instead, the official docs at https://docs.aws.amazon.com/IAM/latest/UserGuide/reference_p... show you how to create an IAM policy that will "deny all" except for some MFA-related stuff unless the use has logged in with MFA. Rather than add the checkbox, they require you to manually set a policy to do it. (Bonus points: the policy as-is doesn't let the user change their password unless they've logged in with MFA, but that's the first thing a brand new user account has to do. Then they can't change their password without MFA, and they can't configure MFA without changing their password. You can update the policy to allow password changes or you can not enforce "user much change password at first login" as a workaround.)

I generally like AWS a lot, but there are surely plenty of dark corners in the service. Wonk let us shine some light into a couple of them.
Coal is still the source of 20 to 30% of all energy used in Germany, I doubt they don't care.
If you have to de-solder the flash, reprogram the flash and re-solder it back in, is that bricked?

If yes to above, then what about using an in-circuit programmer?

If yes to above then what about having to move a jumper to get a ROM monitor?

If yes to above then what about having to enter some magic button combination at boot?

The line is fuzzy, no?
There are other requirements other than low-volume transactional data and CRUDs...
Fair enough but that doesn't explain why you chose to display all of them as "NA". As you say there are lots of different ones, hence it would be a bad idea to pick one as the 'default' to display. To me it's important whether something is missing, filled with "N/A", or "null", or "Not Applicable" etc.
In a way, yes. Cassandra's clustering is more flexible. But the "price" you pay is that every table has a partition key. This requires more data modeling and thought upfront than your typical "JSON in, JSON out" document store like MongoDB or firebase.
I wish there was a lightweight GUI editor that supported LSP plus a few other IDE functions
I did an undergrad in physics, and at one point I wanted to be a particle physicist. But I didn't want to go straight to grad school, so I spent a couple years teaching middle school math and science. I loved that, and spent 25 years teaching instead of going back to physics.

If you don't mind my asking, what are you doing now after spending years studying such a specific area of particle physics?
That does not contradict that theory. If they fulfilled their end the more reason to put pressure on Germany.
s/mass/rest mass/g

It's 511 keV at rest, and you are sensing a 4.73 GeV electron coming out of the decaying Upsilon. E=m and c=1 in the units you are using.
> whole thing is akin to theft/shrinkage of goods. It has to get factored into the price

I’d agree and in my mind it’s the risk factor I alluded to with this above quote. In my experience, increasing prices substantially automatically moves the bar for you since only people willing to pay the new price are actually highly qualified tenants.

FWIW, I had a $2700/month house that’s now at $4000/month. I did Essentially what you mentioned. In past, I’d list it and have it rented in a week or two. But had to sort through a bunch of under qualified applications. The new price only got a few applicants but they were all highly qualified. The tenant I accepted pre-paid for 12 months lease. The tight housing market and cash rich buys are the driving force though. My tenants probably would have bought a house but couldn’t find one and got pushed to renting until they do. This didn’t exist before, at least not to current levels, and without it I don’t think I’d be able to charge a premium.

I don’t know what I’d do if I was a landlord of low rent units. You cannot “go up market” like I did. I would certainly have to find a way to be more picky. Definitely not renting to someone who has a past due debt to their previous landlord. Being more diligent about checking landlord references, etc.
A lot of large companies in banking or insurance for example, don't understand or seem to realize they are going to have to execute as if they are tech companies.
You're saying effects are only instantaneous. No comment.
I'm not sure what you're after here, but between your comments in this thread, the trollish username, and the fact that your account has been using HN primarily for ideological battle (or close), I've banned the account. Would you please not create accounts to break HN's rules with?

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Having reviewed your comment history, one sees that you have been previously admonished for trolling. I believe your contributions in this thread are entirely dishonest. Good bye.
While I don't doubt it's a method used for money laundering, this particular instance probably isn't it. For one, if you're money laundering, you don't want the transaction to show up on the front page of HN.
Storing everything in plain text is better. But there's no reason source code needs to be edited as plain text.
it would have to sustain itself somehow
How is the Tesla Semi (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tesla_Semi) not what you're describing?
Trump’s Plans for a Coup Are Now Public
I'm curious how this works. As I understand it, Bitfinex would have do this by not broadcasting the transaction to the network and instead keeps it on a single miner and it gets included when the miner snags a block but how does that help launder money?

Is it some sort of deniability thing to say your hilariously unreasonable miner tip was mined by a random miner who may or may not be you? Surely regulators/prosecutors aren't this gullible.
Well said. One of the better companies I've ever worked from had a strong "pull culture" for this reason.

Aside from the very rare exception, IT (and IT leadership) was prohibited from pushing tools onto users.

They built tools or sourced and implemented products, and users either adopted them or didn't. This seemed to create a much healthier adoption and feedback loop.

It's ironic that companies praise free market capitalism... and then internally implement command economies (and are flabbergasted by the resultant inefficiencies and supply/demand mismatches).
There's a few more about 30 more hops beyond that, but I'm not getting a clean enough scan to post it here.

It was still tracerouting at 255, bouncing around IPv6 addresses, but I didn't see anymore past that. It was 13 hops for me to get to this stuff, so maybe someone closer can see if there's a grand finale.
Complexity Bias: Why We Prefer Complicated to Simple (2018)
> That’s what divesting from coal gets you, more expensive energy.

Only if you ignore its externalities and let someone else pay for them. Coal is wickedly expensive if you consider its costs beyond mining/transportation/storage/combustion.
They’re using the BTC lightning network. There are no practically no fees (sometimes a few sats).
Does anyone have experience with Logo environments still available today? And what results did you have with teaching kids to use them?
Perhaps. It is reasonable policy in the context. It is similar on other side also. Customers can't return stuff back in retail stores to get cash back in India.

Funny story: A couple of years back a relative of mine visited US on office trip. Staying in a mid-level hotel they were surprised to know that they can just walk-in hotel's breakfast buffet, eat as much they want and even carry fruits, baked item etc while leaving. Back in India, hotel would do 2 level of ID/ security check before being ushered to buffet area and carrying any food item outside is prohibited.

So customer and service provider both have high chance to be defrauded by party at other end of transaction.
BTW, there is a word play here:

seastar -> sea star -> C* -> Cassandra ;)
Developed 30 years ago and in Sweden, judging by the code comments :)

https://github.com/historicalsource/pinballfantasies/blob/ma...
That's pretty warm! That's similar weather to Atlanta, I would have imagined it's much colder in Shanghai. Average January low in New York City is 26F.
It is in part the push to reduce CO2 that has caused these prices to rise. The obvious solution is to increase CO2 production (ie burn more coal and oil) to get the price back down. That's the opposite of it making "economical sense to reduce CO2 output."
Column stores are particularly good for handling large analytics workloads.

As the name suggests, the defining feature of a column store is that instead of storing each row of data sequentially, they store the _column_ sequentially, so it’s very very fast to grab a column of data, and quite slow to get a row (the opposite of a typical RDBMS).
Literally Dead by Eryn Scott Book Review
Let me guess,

You work from home and/or you make much more than an average person your age. Maybe you're a programmer.

Ok let's make energy more expensive. I think it's only fair that the pain is distributed equitably, so let's put a $0.1/Gb tax on bandwidth [1], the cloud being one of the largest growing emitters of CO2.

Frankly, I liked the 90s low bandwidth internet more than today's, everything valuable we can do today the 90s had enough bandwidth for. Everything that is unhealthy about the internet today typically takes bandwidth. So, I think $0.1/Gb is not enough.

Do you agree?

[1] $0.1/Gb for data flowing to the end user and $0.2/Gb for data crossing country borders. So the cloud folks don't syphon off all the personal data of my citizens.

[EDIT] I think only unethical_ban understood the point of this post. That's it's easy to propose a tax for the poor for their poor behavior. Tax yourself first! I disagree with unethical_ban that it's a bad example - its purposely a glib and capricious indirect carbon tax.
To add to this, it's an open protocol. You can use it to create your own network and then do whatever you want with the coins.
This is especially true for many programmers. The mandate to be in the office just doesn’t make sense for people who do more work with computers than people. In fact, offices are mostly bullshit for the leaches^H^H^H^H managers and hr types who get paid to chit chat all day instead of produce. Just my two cents; don’t hate.
Hi blitzar, I'd like to clarify a few points here. First, meet.jit.si is a free development/experimental version of the Jitsi software that powers the paid 8x8 Meet product. From our discussions with the 8x8 team this is where they pilot new and potentially unstable features over weeks or months before they deploy it on their paid infrastructure. Per the privacy policy here https://jitsi.org/meet-jit-si-privacy/, they mention: "To provide the meet.jit.si service, 8×8 processes network and usage information.." That data is of course used to improve the service before deploying to the more stable versions.

Brave Talk, both free and premium, is powered by the stable/production 8x8 infrastructure, that has been vetted, usually for weeks before. Brave intends to run this as a fully reliable service that our users can count on.
Last time I tried Matrix the message delivery was unreliable and E2E was a second class citizen with some big compromises. Has it gotten any better?
Well put, though one nitpick: the three body problem is solved. It illustrates another case: even if a solution is known, it might not be practical.

https://www.math.uvic.ca/faculty/diacu/diacuNbody.pdf
I wonder how that Euro-scepticism among the young breaks across the UK's internal borders? Scotland (62% remain) and NI (56% remain) didn't want Brexit. Will that sentiment hold over the next 5-10 years, or will they slowly follow England and Wales in being anti-EU (both ~53% leave)?

I always thought the Brexit vote should have required a supermajority.
In terms of the trucker shortage: the govt said today that the fuel driver shortage is small (150-300, tanker drivers make more than HGV drivers so probably true). BP said they were having no problems hiring but experiencing high levels of attrition (likely due to competitors offering pay increases)

BP met with the govt on Thursday, they said that supply levels were roughly at the level they had been since the start of the summer, low but manageable. Allegedly, they said they were only closing 10 or their 1,200 locations. They also said stock was low below normal levels.

Someone leaked this information to the media for the Thursday night news (it is very unlikely that it was anyone but the RHA). The person who did this left out several important details, in particular the fact that BP planned to close almost no locations. BP briefed the media later they were closing 20 (it was assumed initially that they were behind the leaks as the initial report was that the meeting was lobbying to lift visa rules, it seems not to have been the case). Other retailers briefed they had no issues with stock at all. Too late.

And the reason why people suspect the RHA is because they have been lobbying aggressively for most of this year to change visa rules. Visa rules were changed for them a few hours after this all kicked off (they also did poultry workers, this group have been working closely with RHA on lobbying)...this alone should suggest who is responsible.

RHA are, however, not backing down. This is not surprising as they are traditionally one of the most combative lobbying groups (the BMA is the other, SMMT has quietened down, NFU is combative but prefers to operate in the shadows when they are in govt). But, given that their lobbying has been successful, it is notable that they are continuing to push hard for further concessions (their line has modified ever so slightly though, they are talking about improving conditions...although they still sound quite angry that some HGV drivers are being offered £50k packages).

Unfortunately, lobbyists have worked out they have the media and the public in the palm of their hands. The outrage cycle in the UK has become rapid. After May folded to Nissan/SMMT (another lobbying group), lobbyists have realised there is a lot of money in briefing aggressively against the govt with a very pliant media (the RHA has been most aggressive by far, and has aligned itself with the big food lobbyists too). Brexit is inevitably part of this: 95% of journalists voted Remain, and there is a subset of the population who read a lot of news and talk about nothing but Brexit (if you are from the US, it is basically: what Trump did to Dems, what Obama did to Reps...it is non-stop).

EDIT: I made an error. The actual date of the govt meeting is not clear. Shapps may have said it was ten days ago, I am sure I read somewhere else it was on Thursday...I don't know. If it was ten days ago, that is obviously...unusual because the leak, most likely, wasn't accidental but premeditated. BP have completely washed their hands of it and claimed they weren't operating in the media on Friday morning...I don't quite believe that.
I wonder what Bill Hicks' take on "Instagram for Kids" would have been.
> opening the door provides new information, but that information applies equally to both remaining doors.

This is intuitively obvious, but where it goes wrong.

You've chosen door A. Doors B and C remain, at least one hides a goat, and the host knows where everything is.

They can always open one of B and C, so the fact that they do so tells you nothing about A.

But if they open B it tells you they didn't open C, and vice versa. So when they open a door they are telling you nothing about the door you chose, and something about the other unopened door.

> ...what am I supposed to do?

You can try writing a simulation and watch it work, but another way to think about it is this.

Suppose you choose one door, put your hand on it, then close your eyes. Now you're given the choice of sticking, or switching to both the other doors. Clearly it's to your advantage to switch. Now with your eyes still closed the host opens one of the other doors. You can still stick, or switch. In effect, switching lets you choose both of the other doors, but you can ignore the one the host opened.

Does that help?
A Quick search found this: https://github.com/akio-tomiya/LatticeQCD.jl

Not my field of expertise though, I am in experimental gamma-ray astronomy
> I'm happy it finally makes economical sense to reduce CO2 output.

I'd be happy with this too. What concerns me is that some people will look at this and say "It makes economical sense to burn more coal".
I'm not the OP, but I absolutely love my RM2.

Use case: I work in a publicly funded institution where the contents of my notes are often required for lawsuits, settlements, and general FOIA inquiries on occasion. Being able to carry around 50 different notebooks for various uses, cordon them off from each other, and reproduce them in either original form, or converted to text is a remarkable time saver.

The only thing it doesn't have that I desperately wish it did is to be able to tag pages and search via tag. That would make my life so much better.

It's fun to draw on, but I'm a garbage artist. So it's pleasant to be able to doodle while I'm thinking in meetings and then immediately erase the doodle, but I don't use it for more than that.

Marking up pdf or other files is pretty great, too.
Belarus gets gas quite cheap. The cost is independence, that brings RF standards of living under autocratic regime which "fights" against entire world (while its leaders gets enormous wealth).
I know this is a stupid objection, but I suspect one of the main impedances to takeup is going to be its stupid name. It's trivial I know, bikeshedding I know, but come on, "RELAX NG"?

Like, how do you pronounce that? I want to say 'Relax-ung', but it sounds odd, like you're trying to say "relaxing" but failing; or maybe 'Relax Nig', but that sounds like something you'd see in an HN thread on Timnit Gebru's firing. It doesn't feel like the naming was considered from a normal human point of view, as opposed to from the golden mountain of abstraction.
I'm not in the US, we have a far smaller culture of homeschooling here from what i read, but due to my pre-dev activities and social engagements (i was young and full of hope :) ), i met a bit more than two dozen homeschooled children.

They all did pretty heavy extracurricular activities. Keep in mind that i met them in a particular time, either as a youth camp counselor or as a "street educator" (not really, basically i animated open physics classes with experiments/construction for kids, think Kiwico but free and with social settings).

They also were quite late in STEM, even those with engineers parents (definitely not the majority), but at least bilingual (i saw a 10 year old girl speaking 4 languages and playing violin better than i did). The most "advanced" i saw (at least in mathematics principles and understanding) where those with a formal musical education. Most of them could play at least one instrument, but those who understood underlying music principle were definitely more likely to "get" physics and engineering for some reasons. I think pattern recognition is definitely important for people to understand STEM work, and that can explain my limited, anecdotal data.

Another common point is that each of their familly were fairly religious (or spiritual rather), but not close-minded. I think around half were christian (not really defined), and the other half were more new-age. No Chomsky day for any of the famillies.

[edit] It's quite unfair from me, putting them in boxes like christian and new-age. Let say around half of them believed in a single entity we could call god creating the universe and guiding humanity, and the other half believing that the universe himself (or Nature, or the soul) guide them. I'm pretty sure one couple were active dualist proponents
One of the practical issues here is, if your code fails to compile in CI with an error like

/home/ci/src/foo.c:123:45: error: use of undeclared identifier 'a'

or

/home/ci/src/bar.py:50: syntax error in type comment

or crashes in production with an error like

java.lang.NullPointerException
at com.example.Baz.doThings(Baz.java:1337)

you really want to be able to find line 123 column 45, line 50, or line 1337 in your editor, and have that be the same line as what your CI compiled and deployed.

On its own, tabs vs. spaces only affects columns, and you can probably figure things out without columns (although it's a shame to lose it). But different tab sizes affect how long your lines are, and line wrapping is a thing that people care about at least as much as tabs vs. spaces (people with different size monitor or fonts will easily see too-long or too-short lines on their display; if your spaces are equivalent to the tab stop, the distinction is literally invisible). And once you start rewrapping lines, everyone's line numbers are different.

I think it's possible to solve this by using some sort of AST-based index into the file and teaching IDEs to let you seek based on that, but it's suddenly a more complex problem.
This is a great law that I had never heard of.
Given that NYT and others don't actually follow this though, how can California residents enforce this?
My main gripe is lack of direct bookmarking of pages in ebooks or even listing jump links to highlighted areas. I like writing on it but also want to use for reading large ebooks, highlighting important info, and keeping notes in context. Not realistic to do that if have to scroll through all pages.
Over? Was it over when Facebook bombed Pearl Harbor?
Can you give me some pointers? Give my github a view if you can.
The block: https://etherscan.io/block/13307440

Miner: https://etherscan.io/address/0xb7e390864a90b7b923c9f9310c6f9...

Has 3% of miner power in the network it seems, fairly big. Seems to only been running since 2021-07-12.
> It's ironic that companies praise free market capitalism...

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

Note that in "theory of the firm" language, there is a distinction between "markets" and "free market". The "free market" is broader, and subsumes the firm because you have a choice to participate/not participate in any given firm; but it is generally true that within firms you do not operate under market dynamics, and "theory of the firm" seeks to answer both descriptivist and prescriptivist questions about when firms do/should use markets.