skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hopefully this works out well (the P.O. could use the income) and puts an end to the careers of the check-cashing sharks.

This piece from 2013 [https://ellenbrown.com/2013/09/23/what-we-could-do-with-a-po...] showed up on HN just over a year ago. [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23911696]

Edit: quote from Brown:

"Postal banking systems are also ubiquitous in other countries, where their long record of safe and profitable public banking has proved the viability of the model.... The leader today is Japan Post Bank (JPB), now the largest depository bank in the world.... Rather than using its deposits to back commercial loans as most banks do, Japan Post invests them in government securities."
I agree there was plenty of silliness in certain parts of the UK press, though there was also a more reasonable point made that the people advocating change from within had had decades to make progress and had not successfully addressed the criticisms being made so their arguments looked unconvincing. Once Cameron came back with what most people seemed to consider token concessions at best despite being in possibly the strongest negotiating position a UK PM would ever have, the reform from within advocates had little wind left in their sails.

I agree that political amnesia is a strange phenomenon. On this kind of issue, that can shift the balance of popular opinion either way over time.
I'm sure by "dazzler" you mean something causing temporary blindness rather than intentionally afflicting a permanent life-altering injury, but sadly that's not how lasers work.
A parallel between NFTs and the “International Star Registry”
Caveat Emptor: it feels _insanely_ slow.

I have a sway/linux laptop from 2017 and a 2020 intel macbook pro. The hardware in the mac is nearly double the real world performance but the way the windows move with yabai feels incredibly slow and janky.

And the hotkeys are a pain in the arse compared to sway, I resorted to skhd and karabiner elements working cooperatively.

Notes:

yabai needs a scripting addition, and new versions of it seem to need you to manually reload it.

skhd and yabai both need "accessability" access in settings, new versions seem to need to be re-added (and the old entry that you approved before gets a "No icon" icon which makes it feel jank and confusing, like, you think you enabled accessibility but it complains)

yabai also needs you to disable system integrity protections.

And added to that: most macOS windows can't be resized, so they fall off the screen or leave half a screen empty.

Honestly it was not a pleasant experience and was one of the main reasons I went back to linux, despite the subpar software support of things like zoom (which doesn't allow screensharing on wayland)
I just got a cheap Radeon for sway and use my 2080ti with qemu and gpu passthrough, playing games on virtualized windows. Good enough for me.
The problem, and one of the reason those permissions were together, is that BLE by itself is enough to get your coarse location, like WiFi is. If you are offline but can detect the bluetooth device A and B, and another internet device can see the devices A and C, then it's ease to conclude that you, the internet device, as well as the devices A, B and C are all in vicinity of each other. It's good that the precise location permissions are separate from Bluetooth permissions, but people need to understand this.
Oh, ha. (Also I realised re-reading my comment that I typod/errored in saying 300ml, I meant 330ml. At least for the cans, same as Coke et al., here anyway.)
How does the "step up" of the cost basis happen with paying any taxes at the same time?
>> having the server and image renderer run on different non-synchronized clocks

Would you mind please helping me understand what this means, in detail?

I'm pretty sure there's no clock synchronisation anywhere.
Questions for any chemistry geeks present.

Seeing this, my immediate thoughs are:

- Any "salt water" solution we experience is likely not actually salt crystals in water, but ionic Na+ and Cl-. And when we produce salt through evaporation, that's actually the process shown in this video occurring, with fresh crystals of salt forming from the brine.

- What we taste as "salt" isn't actually the taste of salt, but of an Na+ + Cl- ionic solution, dissolved in our saliva. I'm not even sure we could physiologically taste salt itself, but it would likely not be the same.

Any validity to either of these thoughts?
Right but his point is that Teslas are more likely to crash in the first place because people are using Autopilot, which isn't as good as human drivers. So automatic braking gets used more.
The guy responsible for pushing it through is married to the daughter of one of the biggest outsourcing companies.
>Implying you become more informed by visiting a news site
> What on earth did Brexiteers think was going to happen

I'd wager some wanted this to happen, it makes buying up public infrastructure and companies very cheap. The sale of ARM just after the referrendum is just one example.
Even Javascript has quite a bit of autocompletion nowadays, with all the annotations coming from typescript. Much less typescript itself. Frameworks on the JS side also massively improved.

Same thing with Python. Not that it really needed annotation much, the productivity always was quite high, whatever people not using Python said. Now there is static type checking and the IDEs got even smarter. In my experience even statically typed software still needs automated and manual testing so much of the benefits are limited.
Addendum since I can't edit my post anymore: we already accept traditional payment methods (credit cards and bank transfers). We want to accept cryptocurrency /in addition/ to those methods.

We are a registered business (not US-based).
I'm keen on an ARM workstation. I do all my dev work on Linux and deploy everything to Linux hosts. AWS offers ARM hosts at half the cost of amd64 ones, you can cross compile but I would be happier if my build box was the same processor.

What might work is some kind of local headless cloud machine running a pile of VMs until somebody builds something I can hang two big monitors off. Laptops are too constraining.
What investors can learn from “Squid Game”
A Microsoft employee pushed the move of Python to GitHub when it wasn't MS owned. Some time later Microsoft bought GitHub.
I like the Factorio comparison. It's great to show the complexity of manufacturing simple products and how transport delays in one area can affect the whole economy.
Well to me that's a different question from 'how is it going' ('going badly say Brits') - I'm not saying it's not a useful question, just different.

The full question is:

> The EU transition period ended on Dec 31st 2020. Since then, do you think Brexit has gone well or badly?

but as I commented elsewhere in this thread, compared to what? If your baseline is (as it likely is) that it is a good or not good idea at all. An answer (that the poll couldn't get) might be 'I think a better job's being done and it's going better than I thought possible, but we're in a worse place than if we'd never left'. Another might be 'we were right to leave and I stand by that but this execution is terrible'.

I just noticed there as at least a break down by leave/remain vote in the 'politics' tab: https://yougov.co.uk/topics/politics/survey-results/daily/20... - I suppose I just think that should be front and centre as the main result, it makes more sense to me (not parties so much, just the referendum vote) than 'all adults'. I think it's much more interesting. It shows exactly the bias from that that you'd expect, but also weighted towards the 'bad' end from 'leave' vote more than 'remain' is toward 'good' - which makes the same point as overall of course, I just find it more convincing.
Agreed on Wayland future.
Just out of the curiosity, which hardware you choose for your linux daily macine?
Ah, someone finally implemented this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wSIWpFPkYrk

How does it do against other 'annoying elements in your surroundings'? ;-)
I managed to avoid it by (begrudgingly) accepting a permanent position.

However, I pay less tax to HMRC overall now than when I was a contractor, around £13k annually. It's completely bonkers.

I'm struggling to find any logical reason for extending the off payroll rules to IT contractors/Lorry drivers etc. I can only assume Rishi pushed it through to benefit his FIL.
Metal is written in a mix of Objective-C and C++, the only thing Swifty about it are language bindings, so it isn't going anywhere.
Caught by IR35 implies having to pay the same tax as everyone else? How unfortunate.
Tesla: Elon Musk says company headquarters will move to Texas
On the list of most expensive tweets of all time, the one by Lorena Gonzales must be in the top ten.
It would be embarrassing (or should be) if the number stayed the same if Covid didn't exist. Meaning the correlation isn't there.
to be fair, there is a ton of complexity offloaded to `xmonad-contrib`. I don't think very many people use `xmonad` without `xmonad-contrib`.
Since various people are asking about xmonad-like tiling in wayland:

I wrote Vivarium[0] specifically to be a wayland compositor that behaves exactly like my (fairly simple) xmonad config, but it's a relatively new/unstable compositor and nothing like xmonad internally.

River[1] has a fantastic tiling model via user-provided executables, which makes it very flexible and probably a good fit for many people wanting something xmonad-like.

Waymonad[2] exists as a direct xmonad-like compositor, but I think development has been basically stalled for a long time. Sometimes there's discussion about reviving it though (edit: see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28796909 for more up to date detail).

Japokwm[3] is another compositor with xmonad user roots, but again its own tiling model.

[0] https://github.com/inclement/vivarium

[1] https://github.com/ifreund/river

[2] https://github.com/waymonad/waymonad

[3] https://github.com/werererer/japokwm
Story time.

My mates went to Stewart Lee one year. I turned it down. Lee did a bit about animal rescue and called the audience for baby animals, partly so he could scorn the shitty audience suggestions.

My mate called back to an earlier bit about Benedictine monks.

So Stewart Lee was doing the animal rescue shelter routine about nursing a sickly baby Benedictine monk back to health. Obviously my mate was super proud, and reprised the entire scene for my benefit later.

The next year, we all went again to Stewart Lee. All the material was new except, to my utter delight, he repeated the animal rescue sketch. And asked the audience for a baby animal.

After the expected unfunny offerings ("badger!", "giraffe!"), I shouted "premier league footballer". Which was, again, a callback to a bit earlier in that night's show.

So the animal shelter routine was Stewart nursing a little orphan baby premier league footballer.

That's a one-year callback. Also the start and end of my career in comedy.
Everyone knows Tether is a scam but everyone knows that the fiat system is also a scam... Buying Tether using fiat is just exchanging one phony financial instrument for another phony financial instrument.

The elites are working hard to promote scam projects in the crypto space. Only allowing unscalable projects to gain traction... But it doesn't matter, they work just well enough to do what they were intended to do.

The fiat system is making a mockery out of itself faster than it's making a mockery out of crypto.
> and a whole bunch of trade deals with others (oh wait, we don't)

I’m all for bashing brexit but let’s stick to facts here (otherwise you’re no better than they are), I’m pretty sure the UK has done trade deals.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-47213842
Problem is still that they might not fly for more than 20 minutes, especially if you add a lot of sensory and processing power.

I have an older gen drone and they are amazing dust cleaners when you launch them in your appartment. Only slightly irratates they eyes.

But honestly I think power is still the technical barrier and the reason we don't yet have drones for package delivery. They won't fail because of sensory or software.
Quite the exaggeration if I may say so. How were you born then? Did your parents meet on the internet? All of the mentioned tasks were not casual in nature. Most books are far better and more in depth than tutorials found online, so for true expertise you will most likely seek long form information found in books.

Sure, some online information may be “more accessible” but is it necessarily better information?
Getting downvoted by people who weren't there, didn't understand the original community or how it worked, that or they just don't believe you. The community was small, I sold you a laptop at one point in it.

It really was all a game in the early days, then it blew up.
Alternative headline: Google makes climate denial content on YouTube much more appealing.
That's us
Cool project, made me very thirsty and in the mood for eating an apple. Or three.

Stupid question from a non-native speaker: what is the difference between apple juice and apple cider? In my mind, you ferment juice to make cider, but the article calls the initial raw liquid coming straight out of the press "cider".
We set up an offshore company in a tax haven
Or good old lime plaster.
> I have reservations, specifically that I have really poor eyesight so I honestly don't know how many windows I could usefully put on a screen anyway.
Although I have a very good eyesight, my eyes tire fast when I look at small things.

I browse HN with 240% Zoom on 23" 1920x1080; vscode: font "Iosevka SS16", font size 33px.

So because of that I use i3 WM (...I have never used other tiling WMs):

On every virtual desktop I press Win+w (or sometimes Win+e if the monitor is rotated) to enable "Tabbed container layout"

and then I can switch between windows immediately by Win+Left and Win+Right.

With Win+w all windows use 100% of the display width and 99-100% of the display height (I also set border width 0px and disabled taskbar/statusbar), i.e. they are maximized.

Windows have no their own title bar, but you can see the window titles on the very top of the screen.

Since a window can use more space, I can use bigger fonts without being shown almost nothing.

Well, KDE probably too has an option to launch windows maximized by default, but probably not the other features.

> 1. It's usually a whole new set of keybinds I have to learn.

I use the i3's defaults:

1) Win+1..9

2) Win(+Shift)+Up/Down/Left/Right

3) Win+D (similar to Gnome's ALT+F2)

4) rarely Win+Shift+Space (disables tiling for a window)

5) rarely Win+Space (enables tiling back for a window)

That's all (also Win+Shift+j to reload the i3 config but I didn't remember this hotkey for years).

But if I had a 46" 4K monitor, I would use i3 as most others do (i.e. multiple windows are shown at the same time).
If you don't need to share any data between processes, sure. Otherwise, you will find yourself forced into a pattern that is:

* extremely costly

* hard to make portable cross-platform

* hard to make secure (since data external to the process can't be trusted like shared-memory data can).

* requires constantly validating, serializing, and deserializing data, wasting developer time on something irrelevant to their problem domain

* adds a bunch of new failure modes due to the aforementioned plus having to worry about independent processes crashing

* fails to integrate into the type system of your language (relevant for something like Rust that can track things like uniqueness / immutability for you)

* cannot handle proper sharing of non-memory resources, except on a finicky case-by-case basis that is even more limited and hard to make cross-platform than the original communication (so now you need to stream events to specific "main" processes etc., which is a giant headache).

* Can cause significant additional performance problems due to things like extra context switching, scheduler stupidity, etc.

* Can result in huge memory bloat due to needing redundant copies of data structures and resources, even if they're not actually supposed to be different per thread.

Make no mistake here, when you're not just running multiple copies of something that don't communicate with each other, "just use processes" is a massive pain in the ass and performance and productivity loss for the developers using it, as well as hurting user experience with things like memory bloat. The only reason to go multiprocess when you have threads is in order to create a security boundary for defense in depth, like the Chromium does--and even they are starting to reach the limits of how far you can push the multiprocess model before things become unusably slow / unworkable for the developers.
I have not. I am not a foundation project maintainer or have had any direct interactions with the foundation. My understanding mostly comes from following the community.

But this is what Rodney Littles is quoted as having said in his interview with The Register

> From Littles' perspective, though, the .NET Foundation is insufficiently independent from Microsoft, does too little to help its member projects, and lacks a strong sense of mission or purpose.
I thought the same thing. It seems like marketers really hate it though.

> To combat this lack of transparency, websites can include more attractive ways to share links than simply copy-pasting into another application; ...

I guess one man's privacy is another man's "lack of transparency".
I also really dislike the fact that code of conducts usually present a very american-centric view, sometimes even a silicon valley-centric view, for projects that are supposed to be open to people all over the world.
Well if one of the above-linked articles on how mosquitos target humans is correct
https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2019/03/28/7068387...

"genetically altered mosquitoes to block the activity of a specific olfactory receptor called Ir8a. The result was that female mosquitoes — which are the ones that suck blood — were no longer attracted to lactic acid, an important component of human sweat."

So if we could refine this just a little bit more, we could engineer mosquitos which don't bite humans. And put that into a gene drive.

Still scary as fuck to mess this deeply with nature (note: post-doc work on viral evolution), but this is a less severe change than sterility.
dwl is a dwm port to Wayland. Haven't used it myself but I do use dwm and find it quite enjoyable, although with a bit of a learning curve if you want to get into configuring it or adding functionality yourself.
Maybe same method could be applied to solving leetcode puzzles for job interview...
But it's not really, Russia is part of the continent, and not a member of the union. [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Europe
An awful lot of jobs are about being available to do that 2 days fo work as and when it has to be done, and that work is split up into random chunks of a few minutes to a few hours throughout the week and aren't compactable. Any job that provides an available service to others is like that.

There may be some jobs that are slugging away at a big block of work and you could do it any time during the week. Part of some of my jobs have been like that, in fact that was software development which was part of the role, but not all of the job.
It might as well be when you are considering markets.
XMonad has tags:
https://hackage.haskell.org/package/xmonad-contrib-0.16/docs...
Understood, and cheers.
There : https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=6BhV-o77RqQ&feature=youtu.be
When I searched to verify, I see that, by sheer coincidence, Scott Adams today apparently posted a video covering this very subject: https://www.youtube.com/embed/n45D_zi3O5g?start=853&end=1450
Mozilla has to make money somehow. From reading the article, this seems like a reasonable way to do it.
One reason the there are no good TTS programs for Hebrew is the overwhelming prevalence of acronyms in modern Hebrew speech. (Another reason is that the potential market is relatively tiny.)

I remember feeling that in English, acronyms are barely used..
I am going to eventually support the devs behind XMonad aswell, it is such an amazing project...
Sleep Duration Associated with Mortality from All Causes, CVD, and Cancer
There’s also the issue of half-assed murder boards qualifying people before they’re actually qualified.
Exactly, the entire fiat financial system is rigged and yet we are forced to participate in it... Tether is probably rigged too but at least we are not forced to participate. So at least it's a more robust asset than fiat in this 1 critical way.

The entire system is a fraud and the only things holding it together are people's ignorance and hypocrisy. They cannot bring down Tether without revealing the lies and hypocrisy of the entire financial system since the same arguments could be applied to either side.

I would not want to be a judge or lawyer on this case. There is no logic involved, the only way to debate this are extortion threats and threats of physical violence.
Many of the platforms have dedicated features for retargeting if that's your goal, rather than using pacing and hoping it happens organically
You confuse geographic location with bureaucratic convention
I have something similar with cows. I can't read their intentions. If I am walking in a field with them it just seems like they are always 'mildly annoyed by my presence' and yet they will amble straight at you. And they are big and heavy enough to do damage if they need to.

Horses on the other hand, are a lot more nervous, but I can read them and I can 'manipulate' them. They are probably more dangerous, but they are less scary to me.
> poisoned by 'black' bitcoin.

Can you expand further on this? Is there a public list of blacklisted addresses we can download/query? How far does the association extend for an address to be blacklisted by other entities?
I think it's ActBlue that does that, after interacting with them in any way it's a constant deluge of spam from Democratic Candidates.
i3 has manual tiling by choice and it isn't necessary to port automatic tiling to i3 itself. You can make a service that utilizes i3's IPC that does that. And of course people have done so[1-3].

[1]: https://github.com/olemartinorg/i3-alternating-layout
[2]: https://github.com/chmln/i3-auto-layout
[3]: https://github.com/nwg-piotr/autotiling
I have a weird feeling the Yankees won't be there long.

I feel it's just a matter of time before Musk moves the factory to Mexico along with everything else except the white collar jobs.

Right now--a move just doesn't feel right, but I bet he is itching to move the manual labor south. He has a bunch of competition comming up real quick, and Elon is not planning on running for office, so why not sell out to cheap labor? (I don't agree with that last sentance, but so many wealthy Americans do.)

He will stay two years at most. (I don't know if he got any tax payer incentives. That might play a part?)

I wouldn't be surprised if Tesla hasen't bought up large chunks of Mexican land already.
Exactly because of this kind of experience, and my own at the time, I deeply believe if Microsoft had been half as serious with Windows NT POSIX compatilitly as they are now with WSL, Linux would never had taken off.

I got into Slackware Linux, as means to do university work at home, and when I started working it was Windows NT, Aix, HP-UX and Solaris. We had a couple of Linux based servers but they were used as toys, like smuggling a couple of networked games into the office.
Revolutionary? By what measure? The pace of true core innovation has slowed by many measures. The largest and most valued businesses today are largely marketing organizations masquerading as “tech” companies.

Finally, I would argue that more, easily accessible information is not necessarily better information.