skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wdym useless over time? You don't need to think about structuring a wiki.
> To name just one of Graeber's essential lies: he makes the claim that Federal Reserve issuing American debt is privately controlled

From a short piece of writing from the St. Louis Fed itself, linked to in another comment below:

>The Federal Reserve Banks are not a part of the federal government, but they exist because of an act of Congress.

Now, we could quote the next few lines too, for a bit more context:

> So is the Fed private or public? The answer is both. While the Board of Governors is an independent government agency, the Federal Reserve Banks are set up like private corporations.

Clearly, it's a rather unique institution that makes arguments that it is privately controlled or not rather harder to resolve.

But that also means that this is not "an essential lie" by Graeber. He has elided some of the complexity in favor of what he sees as a more important truth, without saying something that it categorically false.
Disney plan for “our own Metaverse” means an IP bloodbath in competing platforms
In the case of Vercel, I'd imagine that improving svelte's reach positively affects them commercially seeing as they're a major player in the relatively small market of svelte hosting.
Im younger than most of the crowd on here but I find them in my social media circles mostly from independent artists/bands/fashion mutuals. Next time I run across an interesting one if I remember I'll link it.
PEEK and POKE could break the HIMEM.
Every general no code platform I've worked with has had an order of magnitude (sometimes, multiple) worse maintainability story than code alternatives.

And admittedly, maybe I've worked with a series of terrible ones, but I've also worked with a lot of popular ones that big enterprises are adopting.

As for open source, I'd say zero percent chance that happens, because no code solves problems developers don't have: (1) I want to write code, but I don't know how to code & (2) I need to integrate a lot of really boring, legacy, usually-Windows apps.

It's the "Why are there no polished open source desktop environments?" problem from the 90s, multiplied by ten.

Which I think is why you see what open source no-code tools do exist focus on web, because that's closer to what their developers are curious about.
So? The industrial Revolution was the end of civilization as people knew it and it turned out okay
You're right that there were other factors at play. I'm just trying to point out that the two are not as incomparable to one another as they were being made out to be.
Ask HN: How to be around people smarter than myself while working remotely
I have recently joined a team that had invested in Svelte. I had previous experience in Angular and React. I was happy with React, but I decided to drink the koolaid and go all-in and do my best with Svelte.

6 months later, we're moving to React. It is partly because our Svelte code was messy enough to warrant a rewrite, and partly because we wanted to leverage the React ecosystem in that rewrite. It was also partly because I just don't like Svelte very much.

I think Svelte is clever, and interesting, and I'm glad it exists. But I found a few points insurmountable:

- Too much magic. The abstraction leaks and when it does, it requires a good mental model of Svelte's magic. I noticed this threw our juniors off.

- Special syntax for reactivity is not javascript

- I find the javascript-native flexibility of JSX far more expressive than any custom templating

- There are major tradeoffs made by doing things at compile time. Things that are easy in React at runtime turn out to be surprisingly difficult in Svelte

- Two-way data binding is a constant source of bugs

- Svelte practically requires let-style variable rebinding, often at a file wide scope, which again caused our juniors in particular to write bad code

- The style system is too opinionated for me. I also find it necessary to break into the global scope for any minor restyling of a subcomponent (or worse, pass in the style as a prop)

- Built in reactive store is cool, but our developers all ended up using it for tight coupling and global variables

- The strict one component per file approach can be cumbersome. It's not possible to write a one-line function component or similar

- Much smaller ecosystem than React, requiring much more to be done in house (exacerbated by all of the above).

- The faster runtime speed in no way made up for any of the above. Bad Svelte code is still slow compared to good React code.
It is very weird as someone who studied British economic history and privatization to see this view so commonly. I am not sure where it has come from (although tbf, the media does not report accurately on this subject).

The main benefit from privatization was a significant reduction in fares combined with massive growth in availability (people take for granted things today that were huge problems then: punctuality, safety, etc.). The rail network in the UK is publicly-owned, what is private is the franchise to operate on a certain route. The lack of investment, if any exists, has come from the govt...and I am not sure there is a lack of investment either...HS2 is going to cost £100bn...£100bn is a large number (as ever, I think people mean...London and the area around me isn't getting enough, this is also false, London receives obscene amounts of investment relative to the rest of the UK).

Also, trains in Europe aren't really cheaper. Tickets are subsidised in Europe, in the UK passengers pay. The main constituency for subsidising the travel costs of wealthy commuters is...wealthy commuters. I am not sure why that idea is inherently attractive (and again, it is worth mentioning...our safety record is best in Europe, there is no real difference in punctuality, our fares are marginally higher but the ecosystem we have is far more robust).

TfL is a great example: sucks down tens of billions in public money to subsidise the wealthiest people in the country...the North-East is still missing motorways and we are spending £20bn on the Elizabeth line...okay. The cost of a fiber roll-out for the whole of the UK is less than the Elizabeth line. The problem is that this has no end because the more infrastructure you build, the more agglomeration, the more infrastructure...London had this problem in the late 19th century with slums, the solution wasn't more density (also, we had to bailout TfL twice I believe, they are not an example of the system working, tbf there isn't a lot management can do with the workforce).
272 comments and nobody mentioned a lollipop yet?
Nope, they're having trouble too. I was on the phone with an embedded cellular modem module manufacturer earlier this year. The part we spec'd was unavailable because the underlying modem device was on allocation for so long that the module manufacturer decided to just discontinue the device rather than say it would be out of stock for two years.
From a legal perspective, internal counsel may not be able to shield certain things as attorney work product. If an outside counsel is representing the firm the attorney work product privilege is almost impenetrable (in US law). And the privilege can be asserted across all dealings around the investigation and the results. Any firm relying solely on internal counsel needs new counsel. Retainers are a thing.
I think the missing things for most people revisiting notes is they record the what but rarely the why. The why makes the what easy to back into but we tend to focus on the destination what too much. ymmv
Note: M1 is not heavily followed or analyzed in the economics or finance world. It's frequently called narrow money and is basically cash and cash equivalents. Whereas most of the meaningful forms of liquidity in the economy exist as credit which doesn't get counted here but does get counted in M2(broad money)

So I'd recommend to check out M2 as a more meaningful way to think about USD money supply. M2 has also skyrocketed over the same period

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/M2SL

Another interesting USD metric to track is the DXY, frequently referred to as the dollar index which comparatively tracks USD strength to a selected basket of currencies.

Counterintuitive, although M2 growth is through the roof along with inflation the dollar is very strong right now from the DXY perspective, which I would interpret as USD is less bad then a lot of others right now

https://www.marketwatch.com/investing/index/dxy
Belarus is doing exactly that as a retaliation for EU criticism. It remains to be seen how impactful their state sponsored migrant program will be though.
It's funny... pretty much the only time/place I ever want to listen to Coast to Coast AM is when I'm in my car, driving somewhere overnight, and it's 2:00 in the morning and I'm on the Interstate halfway between Bumfuck and Nowhereville. In that setting, there is something magical about it.
Challenger Learning Center's Veterans Day Family Event–The Apollo 13 Challenge
List diffing is done even in svelte at runtime. Keys are used the same way as any other frameworks or frontend libraries, virtual DOM or reactive.
The only case I have seen like this is the Eurostar, but that is because of customs checks, border controls, etc, which don’t exist within the Schengen area. This is a very specific case and is not representative of how most people travel by train in Europe. You don’t have to come particularly early for the Thalys in Paris, for example.
>While taking train for me was more comfortable, most of the times it is not feasible and definitely a lot longer than taking an airplane.

well personal experience is not always representative - but anyway isn't one of the ways how trains could replace planes by increasing number of connections and speeding them up so that it does become feasible?
my favorite is often being the only developer on linux and giving two files with different casing and watching their systems crash and burn.
This is handy for burying bad news.
This is false. Pedestrian safety regulations exist in the US as well.
> But of course UK is gonna be an outlier in European train value discussions. It’s an island on the periphery with a single rail connection. The mainland capitals are more competitive.

While UK train prices are an outlier, London and the South East are very much part of the high density economic core of Europe. A box drawn around London/Paris/Amsterdam/Cologne contains roughly a quarter of the pre-Brexit EU population (and a substantially higher proportion of economic activity.)

Rail is already very competitive between these cities - it's only 2 hours on the train from London to Paris or Brussels and since the tunnel was built Eurostar has captured the vast bulk of travel between the cities it connects. The bigger challenge would seem to be making rail competitive to more dispersed cities like Berlin/Vienna/Barcelona/Madrid.
https://xkcd.com/927/ Always topical
The Rust compiler has gotten faster again
I’m sorry? The tech crash of 2001 was worse than World War 2? Do I understand you correctly?
You gave away your comment text of your own will, you are owed nothing

And what damages will you seek? There are no ads here
For the purposes of the court, simple mathematical interpolation is enough (IMO) to say that the algorithm is "creating pixels" and the resulting image is not of the same evidentiary quality and veracity as the original.
Completely unrealistic. Older lines are built to older standards, with shorter-radius curves, and steeper inclines. It is more practical to just build high-speed lines separately.
> Docker relies on LXC, so it's Linux-only.

Docker hasn't supported LXC since 2016, and stopped relying on it in 2014

https://www.docker.com/blog/docker-0-9-introducing-execution...
> Are we at the theoretical limit of energy density in current batteries?

Yes and no.

Using air for the "ox" part of the redox reaction makes it possible to dramatically increase energy density (gravimetric and volumetric both).

The tricky part of that is making the battery rechargeable. Lots of research attention is focused on it.

If you want your battery totally enclosed (e.g. for use in vacuum or corrosive environments), than we are closer to the limits. Probably within a factor of 5, maybe within a factor of 2.

> Could it be that in 20 years we find drastically better materials for batteries?

No, the periodic table is fixed.[1] Maybe, if you are prepared to consider using nuclear "batteries".

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reduction_potential
Just some feedback:
The links appear to be some sort of magic that doesn't work with cmd-click (open in the tab)
This means I have to click and the browser navigates to the recipe webpage.
When I click the back button my filters are reset and the order of everything is different.
Please consider opening recipes in new tabs.
It's wireheading by proxy - the benefits all go to a nonhuman entity (corporation) instead of a hedonistic personal train wreck.

It's somehow more dark and evil than any cyberpunk dystopia while being boring and beige at the same time.
It could, but like another user pointed out the last file modification time isn't necessarily going to stay chronological forever, so something that understands the order in which documents are put in is immutable unless I explicitly rearrange them would be good. Easy text searching through multiple file types to help narrow down a search faster, automated encryption and cloud storage backup, syncing between multiple devices. All the usual nice stuff you would expect for an app like this.

It could watch certain directories on your computer or in cloud storage and create a queue to suggest adding new documents that appear there in the same order of their appearance, that way you never forget to add an important document and they still get put in chronologically even if you haven't checked the queue in months. It could make different "vaults" you could use to separate documents by person, or separate work and personal life. Vaults could have long-term upkeep rules to keep them from getting bloated, like maybe you delete everything that's 10 years or older.

Basically if it can help me even if I have sloppy organization and take a ton of the pain out of it for me, I'd definitely be willing to pay a bit to try an app like that. Can't say for sure that I would stick with it, but it's a reoccurring problem for me as I have documents across multiple devices, cloud services, emails accounts, and thumb drives that I just can't make myself organize or create and maintain a system to do it for me.
Raspberry Pis, as are most consumer sbcs, are extremely unsuitable for an embedded, high reliability consumer device. For a whole bunch of reasons, from reliability, to form factor, to pricing, to technical concerns (such as IO).
Yes. It's the epitome of "eff you, got mine" thinking.
yes, but it'd require a redesign or very special tooling.

that spacing between each mirror 'pedestal' is fairly deep, it'd require a very long end-mill or a five axis machine to be able to get into those crevices.

it'd be trivial to carve the needed angle into each 'mirror pedestal' , but the current design doesn't support the premise very well.. still, doable.
Oh dear FSM no, please say it ain't so. "Reality" TV is a disease, a cancer of this planet.
Or some parts of Jewish scripture and the New Testament.
This is AWESOME.

I have my dads guitars, and he was a guitar Savant (well, a musical savant who could play anything on both piano and guitar just by hearing it once.)

I keep meaning to learn to play - but hadnt known where to start.... as books just didnt make too much sense to me.

I've been having the need for this floating about in the back of my conscious for DECADES.

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One of my best friends is really close with Gary Brawer, and I missed an opportunity to get to know Gary better...

His guitar shop is the one in that magnolia movie (I cant recall the exact name of the movie...

Anyway - I am happy to have found this.

The first lesson is how to tune the guitar... which I definitely need to know how to do given that the guitars have been with me for years untouched.
So if wage increases cause inflation, and inflation causes wage increases, how is it more likely that wage increases cause inflation?
I'm not dissing Rust, I think it's great. I was just snarking about the rabid enthusiasm to emphasize that tool authors who switch to Rust might get so into the scene that they stop caring about JavaScript.
> Which is part of the reason for their compensation.

Right, those without capital are always compensated poorly relative to the value they produce. They don’t have a better option, which is part of the problem. One of the people with access to capital but possibly far less skill will end up being their boss and also receive the vast majority of rewards for their combined efforts.

> Did the first few factory workers and car design people at Ford become millionaires

True, but not necessarily optimal.
This feature is a slippery slope to the NFT people demanding we block right click.
Of course! People are free to dislike languages as much as they want. But is that something that is worthwhile discussing on HN?

I don't dislike any language in that sense, every language has pros and cons. Different tools for different jobs, some I enjoy more than others. But that wasn't the point.
I'm a messy writer. Just out of curiosity how does it handle this. If I scribble out text or turn it into a rectangle does it skip the text while scanning it? Does it support text that is deliberately struck through?

Neat project by the way!
Perhaps a shift in mindset about how to approach using Svelte would help. Svelte is not React, and using React for an extended period really changes how you think about frontend code (structure-wise etc).

As a quick example, the Svelte 'ecosystem' is simply the Javascript ecosystem, which existed well before React. You can import any npm module to a Svelte app. Outside of the React-specific packages (which I argue are overkill), such as Redux or Redux-enabled form libraries, what are you missing? Pre-styled components like calendars, modals, popups, are available in a range of vanilla-JS packages. Anything more than that and it's possible that React thinking has over-complicated your approach.
A charitable interpretation of that decision would account for the fact that they have more information than you do about the situation.
> And those are on twinned, dedicated passenger tracks where you never have to wait on a siding for a freight train to go by in the other direction

In Europe passengers trains have priority over freight trains of which there are very little anyway. Freight mostly goes by road while trains are mostly used to transport passengers. It is very different from how the network is used in North America.
Analyzing a watering hole campaign using macOS exploits
The real problem is text-based protocols, which are naturally quite flexible (and rather inefficient to parse). If HTTP headers were simply a single-byte identifier[1], then e.g. 03 is Content-Length and there's no way to interpret that as anything else. I've made similar comments about such before: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23582056

[1] A single byte is sufficient --- there have been far less than 255 headers defined since the beginnings of HTTP; maybe custom ones can be defined in an additional space, but a byte is actually already more than sufficient to convey the same information that would take dozens of bytes in the current text-based protocol.
How do you guys handle backups?

I signed up for a demo account and tried asking in the chat support feature but didn't get a substantial answer.

What measures do you take to ensure users' data (the websites they build with you) are safe from data loss?

From what I found for Webflow it looks like they maintain a second S3 bucket in a different region and also dump to cold storage periodically (https://discourse.webflow.com/t/will-webflow-ever-crash-or-l...).

This is in addition to a managed database offering (mlab) for availability purposes, to reduce customer site downtime in the event of a hardware failure (keeps multiple follower copies replicated).

How does Typedream approach this?
laughs in dvorak
I'd also like to see some sort of fallout simulator resembling a layer on windy.com, to see where nuclear materials might land.
There's hope: https://github.com/cheatcode/joystick.
Stalin's trains ran on time. It was still an authoritarian dystopia. The thing about dystopian qualities is that they tend to nullify the meaning of any potentially otherwise good things.
Also if you do commute to work every day by train, it probably makes sense to buy a GA (a yearly ticket that gives you unlimited travel on all swiss public transport for that year) for 3800chf. Almost anyone I know commuting some distance does this.

Of course if you work in Geneva that's a different matter. There aren't any trains in Geneva as it just isn't big enough, but unireso's tram network is widely used.

This is particularly timely because right now there's a hole in the line between Lausanne and Geneva. Consequently you can't currently take a train either way and have to use a replacement bus. The autoroute is seeing stupid levels of traffic right now as a result as all the people who usually take the train get in cars instead.

Chamonix is almost certainly slower by train unless there are traffic issues. This is also likely true of the Swiss resorts too because personal motorised transport avoids the inconveniences of waiting and changing that trains inevitably have. But the article is about eliminating short haul flights in Europe, not this.
A players have a deep understanding of the topics so that very little or no memorization of solutions and techniques is necessary. (Practice, in this case, is a form of memorization.)
Times have changed. My high school science class took a field trip to the local Civil Defense office where we received training as radiological monitors. A monitor's job was to advise the shelter manager what the radiation levels were and when it'd be safe to leave.

We had CD V-717 high-range meters for this, as they had a detachable ion chamber you could place outside. People inside the shelter would wear dosimeters (they looked like yellow cigar tubes) and we would record doses the wearer had been exposed to.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_defense_Geiger_counters
AMP scrolling was broken on iOS because of an iframe scrolling bug in Safari that, like any Safari bug, wasn't fixed for ages. I never experienced any issues on Firefox or Chrome on Android. https://medium.com/@dvoytenko/amp-ios-scrolling-redo-2-the-s...
Dang’s mind is not the deciding factor here. The law is.
I love Melbourne, but I'm struggling to think of any buildings in the city from the last few decades that evoke beauty or originality. Docklands, La Trobe St, everything I can think of in recent years is fairly generic and risk adverse.
The EU is great when you need a technical solution to a very complex problem. The people at the commission just love that stuff.
This is spot on. My experience volunteering at shelters is very similar.

The worst one was also the largest. They had a waitlist (effectively). You had to sign up in the beginning of winter, arrive between 7pm and 8pm, and mandatory breathalyzer. If they suspected you of using, urinalysis was also mandatory. There was a 3 strike policy but generally they would give you the boot after 1 infraction.

The majority of the people I interacted with there were chronic homeless, owing to the bureaucracy around being at that particular shelter.

That, and the egos associated with most directors of homeless shelters and soup kitchens.
I thought only fans was shutting down the sex work portion of their platform? Was that just a PR stunt?