skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For me there's one that's still carried over from Big Sur, the file transfer dialog stays pixelated in Mission Control if you have multiple transfers & only one remains. I think it tries to stretch the last image/thumbnail to the older window size, ends up looking blurry/distorted

Along with some Safari bugs in compact view where opening the same website like HN(but for another post) would take me back to an existing tab instead of reliably opening it in the background
Ah I figured I’d forget one.
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So. Do you think Texas should winterize or not?
>This is why you can go out to a public restaurant and get chicken sashimi if you want.[1]

You actually can't do that, with very few exceptions.
Yes, this is me :)

There have certainly been times where I was SMH, thinking "that could have been simpler" maybe that's the beginning of a new phase.
Agreed. This post comes from DC. I live there now. The obesity level, at least those in my public view, are much better than the other parts of America I have seen.
Is that actually a real statistic about horses? That's fascinating. I wouldn't build a currency on it though ;)

Step right up to Horsecoin, fastest horse gets the block!
As a self taught programmer, I struggled to get a job. So I decided to build [name redacted], which has now turned into my full time job.

[name redacted] comparison website for mobile phone contracts and SIM contracts.

[link redacted]

Being my first project with no prior experience behind me, I made a lot of mistakes along the way. It's been a great learning experience and I've learnt more than I thought possible.

However, I really struggle with imposter syndrome. I'd be embarrassed to ever show my code to anyone else. I'm never happy with what I build and I can't shake the feeling that all of my code is a complete mess. I think I could learn a lot if I actually got a programming job working with others in a team.
The (seemingly) hard scarcity limit on users is where Ghost loses me.

By capping your tiers at number of users you are losing a lot of people who might otherwise use your platform, imo.

Here's my reasoning:

You need to get lots of users to market to so that you can convert those users to paying subscribers. Getting people to sign up for notifications is one thing, getting them to pay money is a whole other proposition. The former is pretty easy and the latter is not. Forcing people to try and do it all in one fell swoop for fear of reaching an arbitrary "user limit" is not reasonable.

The hardest part anyone trying to do this from scratch is going to go through is getting off the ground from a handful of users to a few thousand users. Once they've gotten to that point, and can convert a few hundred of their few thousand users into paying subs, they're getting closer to seeing light at the end of the tunnel. The most feasible way for them to do so is market to their free subscribers / free followers with premium content, engagement with paying subs that they're missing out on, etc.

Ghost chops the legs out from under them when they get to the first hurdle with the 10,000 user limit.

I understand that database costs and email / SMS sending are the expensive part of hosting and have built content distribution backends before, so I get it. I understand the reasoning of putting the limit on pricing tiers there, but it would seem that a more flexible way is in order in Ghost's case. If we presume that you can convert 1% of free accounts to paying accounts, Ghost's pricing page tells its prospective users that they are going to be stuck in a $500.00 / month hobbyist income tier forever.
Seattle is no where near that bad. Also the liberalness of a city is a red herring and doesn't have to be related to crime (most big cities are liberal, its part of being a big city). Being a big city means that unless you have enough officers, you just can't handle every case.

Seattle is a city with very little crime like homicide or theft or drug trafficking, but lots of homelessness and many people see that and assume there is lots of crime. Homelessness may or may not be a crime, but its not the same sort of crime, its pretty victimless.
If from the Coinbase IPO, you just got out of lockout and you're new to that amount of money. You're probably still near 100% invested in Coinbase and need to divest into something more diversified and less volatile than Coinbase before you can sit on your hands and look at the number in your brokerage account as if it was real retirement grade money. Plus you'll need to pay a ton of taxes on the capital gain.

So don't chill out too much. Divest out of Coinbase, continue life as before and get used to the money. Take your time before changing everything and increasing your spending levels. In a year or so, hopefully you'll have diversified and your head will have cooled from the new money, and you'll be more leveled and realistic about what this money enables you to do, and how to handle your life going forward.

As far as I can tell, it seems like a large (20-50) percentage of people who have a large windfall... end up losing it all because they don't take the time to learn how to handle it.

Good luck and happy birthday!
This is an important factor in the ADA (Americans with Disabilities Act, which requires accommodation when buildings are renovated, accessible govt web sites etc): everybody benefits.

Everybody has a (often slightly) different set of faculties and they can often change transiently (e.g. even a skilled athlete can injure a limb).

Making things “accessible” can be useful in unanticipated ways.
This was the complaint I'm curious to dig in to the most.. I suspect it will be divisive. Business goals and life goals don't necessarily align and having to learn a lot and often in order to remain "current" probably runs counter to some goals of businesses/teams where it simply becomes an additional cost.
My hypotheses is that experts are like fast food chains. They give a reliable, mediocre experience. Whereas non experts are like local restaurants - you get much higher variance. You could find something unique and special, or you could have food poisoning.

When the risks are low and upside high, experts working in isolation can indeed lead to groupthink and suboptimal problem solving. You might get gradual, incremental, boring progress. Exactly the opposite of what’s wanted!

However when the downside risk is high (ER doctor, hungry kids in the back seat, legal troubles, evolving your company’s cash cow product) you will prefer the boring, consistent experience over the one that dramatically upends everything. I know I wouldn’t want someone just winging it on shift when I go in for an ER visit.

The problem to me is less about expert vs non expert, but rather how we navigate our own expertise. When do you recognize the downside risk as high, so you should double down on what’s known? Or when do you realize there’s tremendous upside if we lose our attachment to prior art on a topic?
You’re misguided if you think it consumes more power, unless you’re referring to legacy proof of work?

> has no insurance

What do you mean by that? Insurances are services not protocols

> no safeguard against volatility

That’s a weird thing to say in a thread about stablecoins
It is not my business, but were it my kid, I would not necessarily mind.

Personally I would rather have the friend over and do the homework together that way instead of using a messaging app. I am old school like that. :)
I agree, with one caveat. There's always a chance that the organizations issuing these "stablecoins" pull off something analogous to what Nixon did when he ended the convertibility of the US Dollar into gold, making it impossible, in fact illegal, for anyone to call up the US Treasury and request that they exchange a bunch of dollars with gold from Fort Knox.[a]

Many so-called "gold bugs" and "Austrian School economists" predicted the transition to a non-convertible dollar would surely lead to monetary and economic disaster... but so far, they've been wrong: Things have actually worked remarkably well for half a century.

Could Bitfinex pull off something like that? I'm not sure, but I wouldn't rule it out 100%.

[a] https://www.federalreservehistory.org/essays/gold-convertibi...
Not exactly, you transmit on a “normal” VHF frequency (which you must be a licensed amateur to broadcast on) and the data gets picked up by a “digipeter” (radio to internet repeater) which then gets picked up and relayed to SMS by a gateway (a server looking for messages to send). This infrastructure exists and only requires a license, radio, and APRS interface (probably your iPhone/ Android device).
The key question for me would be whether this or any other Mongo alternatives are compatible with mongodb's indexing capabilities. They are complex, powerful, and can be somewhat finicky to understand and deploy.

As a longtime Mongo user who was disappointed to see their licensing restrictions, I would probably go back to the release before the license change and maintain a fork rather than try to plug in postgres under the hood.
https://archive.md/lTue0
You're not wrong with respect to the difficulty and stigma you mention, but we can't just let it be OK to steal from others. To address those legit concerns, we need to focus our efforts on our prison systems and local governments.
If you look closely at the profile photo that the post is "Posted by", the distorted background makes it clear that it's a deepfake
I would expand on this to say that they propose to use an innovative cavity shape. Normal-conducting cavities can reach higher accelerating fields than superconducting cavities, but at much lower duty factors and with high voltage breakdown events. This new design would allow for lower power dissipation than typical normal-conducting structures, ultimately allowing higher RF duty factors.

There are still some downsides/tradeoffs compared to superconducting structures, including a much smaller beam aperture (5 mm diameter vs. ~100 mm for superconducting cavities), which disrupts the quality of the beam. Superconducting machines can also be run in continuous wave mode (100% duty factor), and state-of-the-art niobium cavities have been driven at ~50 MV/m in CW.
Are you equally appalled that so much other government paperwork goes through the mail? If we can't trust voting by mail, then we certainly can't trust mailing passports, visas, IRS forms, car records, etc.

It's weird to me to single out voting as the one thing that can't be trusted to the postal service, especially when there's things like voting lock boxes that are kept under camera you could put your vote in.
Probably two of those demographics are barely seen in Tokyo?
Reinforcement learning frustrates humans in teamplay
China Gas Stations Ration Diesel Adding to Supply Chain Squeeze
There was a time when "Lasers are a solution looking for a problem." Now they are everywhere. Be patient.
I’m pretty sure GP meant that whoever in the USA started the push to eliminate Huawei equipment wasn’t thinking in terms of American party politics- as in, this didn’t arise during the Trump administration because Trump wanted to look tough on China, it arose because some American government researcher discovered some backdoors when Trump happened to be president. The whistle was blown not to give one party an edge out talking point, but because the researcher wanted to help their country. So political in the USA vs. China sense, but not political in the commonly used Republicans vs Democrats sense.
Because its more tax-efficient to reinvest the gains back into the company in most cases.

But if the stock ever crashed to say: the value of the expected dividend... it would make more sense to pay out the dividend rather than invest.

Lets say a company's stock price is $40, and they make $2 per stock of profit one year. They can give out the dividend... or... they can reinvest the money into the company (and theoretically: if the stock market reacts correctly, it would raise the price of the stock to $42).

In contrast: if the stock market fails to react like this, eventually the company will be say: $2 per share. They'll still be making $2 in profits each year however (assuming the fundamentals haven't changed). At this point, it makes sense to pay out a dividend of $2, if their stock price doesn't react.

After all: might as well double your money each year at that point. (Take those $2 dividend, then double your number of shares in the company, then receive double the money next year).
A fair question. The school is using a BYOD model and mandating a latest device. As a result kids have a dedicated iPad that comes home with them every evening. Not only that but their entire peer group had the same device. So friendship groups are naturally moving to span school and online life.

As a parent I'm now faced with the situation where I either need to block my kids from 50% of the interactions their friendship groups have and miss out on the media that their friends consume, of find a way that they can do that safely. Which is the crux of my complaint.

If kids are using iMessage I can't say it's OK for my child to communicate with an allowed list of contacts, or it is OK at certain times, or ensure they don't take selfies or send photos they shouldn't.

As it is we have set screen time each weekend, and do our best to educate them on responsible use of messaging but in my opinion apps should have far more fine grained control, especially when targetted at children.
I doubt that the solution is based on proof of work. Most modern cryptocurrencies are proof of stake.
> On the other hand, a project that rarely updates information, such as an analytics application where data doesn't change after it has been collected, will benefit more from a nonrelational database.

SQL data warehouses are relational but have far better analytic query performance than databases like MongoDB. They generally use column rather than row storage. The difference is (a) column stores don't read unreferenced columns and (b) columns compress extremely well. On large datasets databases like ClickHouse tend to process analytic queries orders of magnitude faster than MongoDB given the same machine resources.
I am a CS student graduating May 2024. I am looking for internships which have impactful work.
Location: New Jersey
Remote: Yes
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How much trust should we place in crypto analysis from someone who cannot spell "Ethereum"?
Mastering Atari Games with Limited Data (EfficientZero)
The 152 documented killings (and doubtless more undocumented) of African Americans between 1945-1951 are very sad, but you do realize that China carried out millions of political slayings about a decade later during the Cultural Revolution, right?

As for crimes abroad during the period you selected, China actually annexed an entire country (Tibet).

None of this is to excuse US failures to defend human rights and civil liberties, but China is in a whole different ballpark.
> Smoothed recession probabilities for the United States are obtained from a dynamic-factor markov-switching model applied to four monthly coincident variables: non-farm payroll employment, the index of industrial production, real personal income excluding transfer payments, and real manufacturing and trade sales.

Manufacturing and trade and industrial production? The supply chain's a disaster area right now. And real personal income is going to be down because inflation is up (the transfer payments we've been making are of course excluded). Employment numbers are steady, at least.
Judge Wipes Out $2.8M Copyright Verdict Against Katy Perry, Capitol Records (2020)
Anticipating the "why submit this now?" question:

1. I'd just read of the reversal in comments whilst re-watching Adam Neely's excellent video on the case: https://youtube.com/watch?v=0ytoUuO-qvg

2. AFAICT it's not yet been posted to HN.

Court's opinion here: https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/6811983-Darkhorse.ht...
The writing and directing are at times very sloppy. To the point that you lose the illusion that you are in a movie and you can clearly see the actors acting. Cannot exactly pinpoint why though.
good for you. how are the financials for your site?
Yes. We speak Spanish and we call them "semáforos"; my translation to English just wasn't very good :)
> The Trustless nature of BTC involves a seeming waste of energy, but you get a lot in return (like ownership of your money).

You get that too with proof of stake. Bitcoin really only has the branding of being the first mover, and as such as a strong chance of remaining the digital gold (not a digital currency that’s fast and easy to transact)
This brought back a lot of nostalgia. (I was Indian grad student in a state university in the North East in ‘01)

For me the killer is the “master of the universe” feeling you get in the United States coming from India. Everything is in order and under control from the lawns in suburban homes, to supermarkets and libraries to traffic and restaurants. You see a lot more straight lines and perfect Bézier curves. This is a completely different texture in extreme contrast to India where “chaos” reigns and the spices and smells are a lot sharper.

After coming back to India. I somehow feel more “free” and “alive” in the chaos. Giving up control feels like a more natural, intuitive way of living and dying.
Trying to collect on your Soros bucks today are you citizen?
That’s not what the OP means.

The OP means stores that are within walking distance.

That’s why he mentions having to drive to buy groceries.

In India, as in most cities in Asia and Europe (and NYC, NYC satellites), you walk around the corner to buy the vast majority of your daily needs.
I’m using a Baofeng UV-5R (radio) and the APRS-K1 cable. I’ve linked Amazon pages but you can get them for slightly cheaper off eBay or AliExpress.

Radio: https://www.amazon.com/Baofeng-UV-5R-136-174-400-480Mhz-1800...
Cable: https://www.amazon.com/BTECH-APRS-K1-Interface-APRSDroid-Com...
> Bitcoin is definitely experiencing baseless manias, but it's very clearly not a MLM or pyramid scheme.

I'd love to see you address any of jstolfi's points directly!

> Agree this is bad but that's an artifact of what people are doing with Bitcoin, not an inescapable fundamental quality of Bitcoin. Bitcoin can and for a long, long time used to run just fine on comparatively little energy and transaction costs measured in cents.

It really can't. Its security is proportional to its wastefulness. It must always waste more than its opponents are willing to spend to destroy it meaning its waste must grow with its valuation. It's a proof of waste algorithm.

> I'm not making claims about whether Bitcoin (or any other crypto) is a currency, or a good currency.

I am making the claim its so utterly bad at being a currency pretending it's a currency is pointless and harmful to the discourse.

> This just isn't true. It's not difficult to imagine how a distributed tamper proof ledger could be useful, or find actual practical uses of blockchains.

It's been 14 years. There isn't a single use that isn't crime or regulatory arbitrage - or solving a problem crypto created for itself. The proof is in the pudding, and there's simply no pudding.

> ... but the legitimate uses cases do exist.

If you find one, and productize it, you will be the single wealthiest person alive. Elon better step aside.
"Be not the first by whom the new are tried, nor yet the last to lay the old aside." - Alexander Pope
Only because government loves to find reasons to bail out big business
I feel like I'm the only person still just using their ancient Excel sheet from years and years ago. I'm not even using it "correctly". This is all people need, I don't know why people pay for whatever ynab is today. I keep a new file for every year and I keep a blank one. I roll the previous year into a simple income on the first of the year. Everything just works. Sometimes I take all the register entries and just make a big long meta sheet to see if stuff "makes sense". Yeah, that's the YNAB I tell people about, not this one, whatever the heck it is now lol.
That’s because the current system is not centralized, the current system is heavily decentralized. It basically is based on a lot of different banks trying to partner with one another. Blockchains are distributed databases, and as such they emulate a centralized server. That’s why it’s faster.
If it makes sense for you, do it. The average bank balance is ~$10k, so a 100 bp gain is $100 dollars. A 100 bps gain would triple the current yield for online savings accounts. I’m skeptical that would be enough motivation. Most people just want to pay their bills on time. They’re not building optimal financial portfolios.
Yes this is what I wanted to add.

$() is obviously inspired by jquery itself, but it has a slightly different semantics than jquery, so ironically jquery can override it.

I am not sure what x$ is.

However, what was not in the article, you can also you $x("/something") for xpath. That can be useful, because for some queries, xpath is easier than CSS selectors, and it is actually far more powerful (except that nobody really knows xpath nowadays).

The $x thing is actually script around `document.evaluate(xpath, document.evaluate, null, XPathResult.ANY_TYPE, null)`, but good luck remembering how to use that stuff... I can never write doc.evaluate on the first try
What does that have to do with ballot harvesting?

I don’t think democrats are “the party of voter fraud.” I do think they overvalue activist rhetoric about voter access while undervaluing the importance of overt displays of trustworthiness in building trust in elections. The whole point of elections is so people who don’t trust each other can agree on the result, and ballot harvesting pretty much screams untrustworthiness.

Voting isn’t rocket science. Plenty of advanced democracies do it well. My point of reference is basically: is this practice common in the EU, or Japan/Taiwan/Australia/Canada? As far as I can tell, ballot harvesting isn’t.
You got it right. Blockchains emulate a centralized server, whereas the current financial system is heavily decentralized and hence slow.
This is so inspiring. I am a professor and an engineer. But still I think about physics and still hope to be a physicist.
The other commenter has misplaced ideas. It's conservatism (meant as a compliment, not an insult) which shames men for going around shirtless as most men who do so in the West do so out of vanity and a need to show off.

Indian culture really doesn't vibe with that at all, it's really offensive to be garish in that way (it's okay to be garish in terms of showing wealth though, like fancy car, etc.)

I'm not judging just saying the differences here.

It's the same with women's clothes. The way women dress in the West would be very unacceptable to the vast majority in India.