skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In the article the author said that his “cleaner” version had less duplicate code, but was harder to adapt to new usecases. His point is that clean looking code is sometimes harder to change, because while cleaning people introduce abstractions or assumptions that hinder new usecases rather than facilitating them. The right way to keep code maintainable is not always self evident, and not necessarily always clean (which I interpret as SOLID, deduplicated).
There was an X initiative, also called Broadway, to remote X applications over relatively slow internet links. I seem to recall a browser plugin X server as part of this.
FED (in all caps) is a common way to refer to the Federal Reserve, as is the Fed. Don't ask me why.
Another half billion or more in Africa have been happily using mobile payment systems such as M-Pesa for years now as well, sending more money than the Bitcoin "market cap" each year.
Was there ever a time where a savings account of $1M both provided a livable income over many decades and didn’t lose value to inflation?

What were inflation rates while savings rates were 6-7%?
Citibank is particularly egregious. 8 character MAXIMUM length, lots of special characters not permitted while requiring numbers and letters, forced password changing every few months, I absolutely hate it.
What do you think banks do with your money, exactly?
I have strategically picked my card and all I need is a major DNS provider and reddit to go down. Hopefully I get a real prize and not just my data being leaked.

https://outage.bingo/?month=1&seed=69420
Bitwarden is on the way to support it.

https://github.com/bitwarden/browser/pull/2047
The point of FF or Brave is to not have Google collecting telemetry info about my browser usage. I am even less inclined to let Microsoft get such info and their info gathering in Edge is supposed to be worse (probably because they don't have a clue what they need so they are over-collecting in the hopes they can query out what for whatever their needs are).
1. If you get higher interest rate returns, how do you think that is being paid for if poor people aren't getting higher rates?

2. Unexpectedly lower interest rates increase employer competition in the labor market, raising wages. This is well studied.

3. The quality of life of a poor person in the US is unimaginably better than that of someone ranked relatively the same 100 years ago. That is due to investment.

Denying those massive quality life improvements is absurd, although increasingly popular in our out-of-touch political climate.
I'd expect this to be a bigger problem for Edmonton and Calgary than for Vancouver. The former cities now have no road access to the port of Vancouver.
Mmm, this article is all you need to understand the current state of modern js: https://peterxjang.com/blog/modern-javascript-explained-for-...
He has great taste! It said that Hannibal's father made him swear that he would "never be a friend of Rome" (Polybius). It led to the Second Punic War. So, you know, perhaps go easy on your son regarding that whole "taking oaths" thing, okey?
Kind of a big deal. I have to throw an obscene amount of resources at a Prom server that does nothing but remote write now. This will vastly improve the situation.

The whole Prometheus Grafana stack is difficult to really get a grasp on.
It's essentially a peninsula, it still has road and rail links to Washington State.
ansi-red is not a difficiency of JS. It's just stupid. It the equivalent of a package called add2 and another called add3. No language I know of has that built in and if it did it would arguably be a bad sign
Then you are simply wrong.
Consumers buying is what drives production. Not investment.

> better [...] prices, and generally overall welfare.

How does investment do that? Plenty examples of the opposite can be found. I find those claims baseless.
If wages also go up by 7% then the absolute gap definitely is uncoverable by wage income.

Sure, they often don't but the reason they don't has little to do with QE. After all, the entire point of QE and monetary stimulus in general is central banks are concerned that not enough jobs are being created and real wage cuts and layoffs will result. And in that scenario where credit is expensive and businesses are looking at layoffs, our wealthy investor is still getting 7% returns, just from offering expensive short term credit to struggling businesses rather than seeing the long term shareholder value of thriving businesses rise. But the worker is even further from catching them up, because they're struggling to find a job.
You'll need a special VHF radio for that kind of traffic tracking on Forest Service Roads in BC, and there are specific usage patterns you must follow:

https://www2.gov.bc.ca/gov/content/industry/natural-resource...

A CB radio doesn't help much with that, but it is just another means of possibly getting contact with others.
I think they're warranted. I don't believe they're that warranted because I believe energy abundance will become more efficient over time. I don't believe it's a permanent problem, although obviously if the Bitcoin people can figure out a way to make it less power-hungry while still being secure, that's a win for everybody.

So just to be clear. It's a criticism that I agree with, but I don't think it's as debilitating as a problem as most people believe.
Show HN: Finage.co.uk – real time stock, forex and cryptocurrency APIs
Hi, thanks for the feedback, sorry to hear you had some problems.

The Mongo connector in general could probably do with some love - there's a few features in mongo such as projections that budibase does not support. We'd love to know more about what you were trying to build and how we could help you achieve it.

We move quickly, however, and the platform has come a long way in even a few months. We hope you try the platform again soon and continue to provide feedback as to where it could be improved.

Docs are a big focus for us over the coming months and they will see significant improvement in short order.

Thanks again!
Loan it out? What is your real question? I would rather not play Plato to your Socrates in a comment thread.
IME its common in two groups of people:

1. American anti-Fed conspiracy theorists, and

2. Non-Americans who see the #1 without understanding the nature and assume its a standard US usage.
The developer tooling was pay gated until VS2019 or something. You needed this tooling to make use of the APIs in a reasonable way, or alternative tooling.

Most people just responded by not using those APIs or recreating them.
When telling my friends about XMPP I always recommend them a client (one of Conversations, Siskin IM, Gajim or Dino) and a public server to register. At least for servers there is a compliance suite: https://compliance.conversations.im/
`npm ls <package_name>` or `yarn why <package_name>` is a good start for figuring out how a package ended up in your node_modules
Since you're so familiar with the space - how optimistic are you that we'll handle or manage climate change without it causing a major civilizational disruption?
Compared to when? It's not like hiking is some new fad.
And use it to participate in the economy to obtain little things such as housing and food. Not to mention a computer and an internet connection.
Yes, I'm sure they all wish they were still in the largest recessionary/depressionary period in modern history. Things are much better now, objectively.
I'm totally unfamiliar with the geography there; are peripheral cities and towns around Vancouver as unaffected as Vancouver itself? I can imagine it happening in some places I've lived, where the central city is humming along just fine and everyone inside the city is blind to the 50% of the population around the city that just got stranded and cut off from supplies.
Yes, things definitely became much better economically in Eastern Europe, but I don't think OP was talking about that.
Except in this case USA-193 was already losing altitude quite fast and was expected to re-enter in the following year no matter what.

Now, the satellite Russia shot, Kosmos 1408 [0] had an altitude of 679 km. It will take decades for all the debris to re-enter the atmosphere.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kosmos_1408
What could the central bank of zimbabwe have done to stop inflation? I agree that central banks can almost always stop inflation...as long as they are controlling a reserve currency that actually has international value. Otherwise there is actually very little a central bank can do when your currency isn't used for imports, exports, international trade etc and foreign dollars/euros/RNB are needed to do almost any economical meaningful transaction.
You can drive through the US without a test.
My personal exposure is a python method from a quant library called get_FED()
"Exporting PB from Snowflake" is only ever relevant if you want to move from Snowflake to something else. In that case, all other migration costs (recoding, redocumenting and especially revalidating everything, if in regulated environment) are going to make any cost of data movement irrelevant.

This is just FUD.
+/- Infinity, better to use Number.isFinite.
The problem is right now governments and enterprise is mostly focused on fixing supply side of the climate change and sustainability problem. Not enough is being done or discussed to reduce demand. Focusing on consumption changes is just as important as focusing on supply issue IMO.
Modm: A C++20 library generator for AVR and ARM Cortex-M devices
> those risky investments on net will generate excess economic growth.

Economic growth comes from increased consumer spending. Not from investment. We will all learn that lesson very soon.
A system where anyone can make a new flag, which is a new dimension of voting, at least initially.... then a user could weight the flags for their which of their roles they're acting out at the moment

For me, recreational reading would add more weight to funny, offbeat, etc.

If I was at work, more weight to Free Pascal, Security, Networking, Security Disclosures, and negative weight to politics
Interestingly, there is a railroad line that goes north from Vancouver, through Whistler and Pemberton, but takes a different route than Highway 99 to get to Lillooet[1]. The highway (aka The Duffey, as it passes Duffey Lake) gains and then loses something like 1000m of elevation, whereas the railroad line is much flatter and travels along Gates Lake, Anderson Lake, and Seton Lake. There are dirt/gravel roads there too, but I'm not sure if they are used in the winter.

The railroad route is not used much these days, partly because of all the trains that fell into the lake due to how windy (edit: that's windy as in lots of turns, not windy as in lots of air blowing over it) the track is (e.g. [2]).

1: https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=10/50.5405/-122.6157

2: https://www.trailtimes.ca/news/cn-freight-train-derails-alon...
This reminds me.

In my layman's mind, having agriculture right next to roads is bad because vehicles are dirty.

Recently, someone told that's not the case because "plants need this stuff". Any truth to that claim? I'm yet to read the article
I got a bingo after checking 5 seeds: https://outage.bingo/?month=1&seed=47392
Firefox has turned anti-privacy, and aside from any technical issues, it seems it is being driven entirely by Google's agenda.

It just seems to be wandering around and doesn't lead in any appreciable way anymore.
1. A novice follows the rules because he is told to.

2. A master follows the rules because he understands the point of the rules.

3. A guru breaks the rules because he knows they don't apply.
Not my choice to make anymore: literally cannot run Brave anymore -- it's blocked at the binary executable level (via CarbonBlack).
But how do you even distinguish appearance of thought from actual thought, objectively? Of course you can always argue that actual thought is something that is subjectively experienced, but that leads to solipsism, doesn't it?
You must pay taxes with fiat currency.
Yeah the Auten-Splinter research is the most contemporary critique, relative to the 2014 IMF paper, and is the one that's most widely accepted now. Piketty, Saez, et al have yet to really address anything there.
Russia Conducts ASAT Test Against Soviet Satellite
If they blocked a browser because it has tor built in, I assume they would also block those binaries:

"IMPORTANT: These binaries are provided by anyone who are willing to build and submit them. Because these binaries are not necessarily reproducible, authenticity cannot be guaranteed. For your consideration, each download page lists the GitHub user that submitted those binaries."
> If they would bake in that expression within NullReferenceException, well that would be so good...

CallerArgumentExpression doesn't do that, though.

I think you could maybe use it to do something explicit, like...

someexpr.CheckNotNull().DoSomethingWithSomeExpr()

where CheckNotNull() somehow uses CallerArgumentExpression to capture "someexpr" so that if someexpr was null, the exception could include the actual expression in the exception message. But that means decorating code with CheckNotNull() all over the place, which really limits this.

What you really want here is a good call stack -- maybe with expressions, source lines, local variable values, etc.
Have you tried a Bluetooth 5 LE headphone? It's a completely different radio and protocol from previous generation Bluetooth headphones. I don't know if there are any in the market yet. There certainly isn't any based on nRF5340 yet.

I don't know if the range will be better, but latency and pairing process should be much better.
Brawndo has what plants crave. It’s got electrolytes

Idiocracy
TLDR; AppSmith and Budibase are quite different platforms, but with significant overlap.

Budibase is meant to be used by IT Professionals (sysadmins, dbas, IT managers, PMs, developers). AppSmith is more targeted at developers. Because of this, Budibase has much less of a reliance on code - we like to say “code optional”.

Also, you will see us talk more about “Business apps”, rather than “Internal Tools”. A Budibase app is a real, single-page application - which you would happily give out to external users and folks in other departments who do not need to know your team’s internal processes. The apps are also responsive by default.

Another differentiator is that Budibase comes packaged with a database (runs on CouchDB). This makes creating new applications easy - without having to spin up another DB. We also offer 1st class support for SQL Databases - Budibase will automatically fetch your tables and automate the basic INSERT, UPDATE, SELECT and DELETE statements (like an ORM).

If you want to place us in the overall low-code landscape, we are more like an open-source Powerapps/Mendix/OutSystems. I sometimes say (half-jokingly) that Budibase is what would happen if Retool and Stacker had an open-source baby.
Talk about throwing the baby out with the bathwater.
...Why?

A matrix bot could send the user a short-lived token they can paste to the site to authenticate. Optional QR for mobile.

No need for homeserver changes, changing protocols or touching any user credentials.

Since you’d rely on an existing matrix session, the bot could send the token e2ee, meaning after TOFU you could even protect against malicious homeserver operators.

You could also do the inverse, having the user send the token to the bot.
MFA can't require me to run your specific app is a good guideline, though. It still leaves TOTP as fine, as long as I can choose my implementation.
Yeah, I noticed that a bit, too. I originally meant the megathread post itself. I try not to read too many comments in such threads on Reddit; regardless of the topic ;)
There are quite a few single-points-of-failure on the road from Halifax to Vancouver, each of which would cause at least a few 100 to maybe even more than 1000 km detours through country that really isn't ready to deal with any kind of extra traffic. Especially North of Sault ste. Marie all the way to Thunder bay and between Vancouver and Calgary.

Any problem there and you're going to be driving 100's of km on logging roads, unpaved, no facilities (gas, food).
This goes back to the distinction between web pages/documents (deliver immutable server-side content once, up front) and web apps (lots of back and forth with mutable data on the server). A news website should never be anything except pages, even with interactive content, but it seems almost nobody can resist the urge to treat everything like an app.
sCala
CO2 is combined with sunlight by plants to produce wood (carbon) and O2. We take in the O2, combine it with carbon, and produce CO2. Its a cycle

https://oceanservice.noaa.gov/facts/carbon-cycle.html

https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.energyfuels.8b02803

which is CO2 to calcium carbonate. This happens in nature and is used by coral.

So, all that CO2 in the atmosphere can become trees and coral.
I don't see why ads won't work on a decentralised web.
> I do not understand how you can lowball or downlevel people at scale

A common tactics is to enforce YoE requirements aggressively --- basically the jokes along the lines of "10 YoE w/ k8s". These days they do it less blatantly (i.e. the specifics are not written in the JD) but the spirit remains.

> The only hard thing is frankly balancing salary vs interest

I can only say from my recent experience that this is a simplified model. Not saying this is wrong, but some circumstances call for analysis of other factors, such as those involving career path planning. Wouldn't go too deep here but the trick is a lowball'd and/or downlevel'd offer at BigTech/FAANG might actually remain desirable. This unfortunately reinforces their (predatory) behavior, but such is the force of the market after all...
I have see this argument a lot (from people who are against vaccination) that vaccinated are less responsible. My personal experience shows the opposite.
Heh, I think they meant everywhere between Vancouver and Toronto
surprisingly not a word about quantum supremacy
Pre-COVID many outdoor recreational activities as measured by stats like national park visits were up. (Some others like skiing I believe were down.) But without digging up a lot numbers, the parent's basic point squares with my understanding.
Treating security questions like passwords and saving them in your password manager is correct, but make sure that your fake answers aren't autogenerated nonsense like ":s^Twd.J;3hzg=Q~". Many password reset flows involve communicating a security question over the phone, and it's easy enough for an attacker to guess "oh, it's just a bunch of random characters lol" and for the phone rep to just laugh and shrug their shoulders and let the person in. Make sure it's a sentence that makes sense (I would even avoid non-sequitur passphrases such as those generated by diceware), while also making sure that it has no relationship whatsoever to the question.
The implementation is very simple, it just uses the Matrix SDK to create a direct chat and send a message.
Don't forget too that npm by default allows minor version upgrades with the ^ prefix for version numbers, which means that unless you properly lock your dependencies, you can reintroduce changes over time, just by running npm install.
> I wonder what options there are for running an X11 server in a browser..

Xpra can do something like that, or you can run a headless X server with x11vnc, or just Xvnc, and then front it with Apache Guacamole or such.
Yep.

In fairness, I should mention that I haven't written much javascript myself over the years, so using CRA to quickly get a simple SPA off the ground has been rather nice of late.

It's opinionated and has worts, but ~3 commands and you're 'off the the races' is hard to argue against.
> The central banks of Austria, Bolivia, Brazil, China, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Peru, Poland, Venezuela, and Zimbabwe have all failed to stop hyperinflation.

Which of those were central banks of nations where debts including both private and public debt were denominated principally in fiat whose monetary policy was controlled by the central bank?

Some of them were pre-fiat (gold standard), and some were dealing with situations were obligations were largely in externally-controlled fiat (e.g., USD.)
Well... the people who have a job and lose it in a recession (and many do) really don't care whether overall wealth inequality is going down. They're being destroyed financially; they don't care that the rich are also taking damage.
Open Collective is venture funded? That's kind of grim; I thought it would be a clear case for a non-profit.
Somebody need to write busybox of node_modules and alias all the single-liners out to subdirectory of it, i.e. dependencies: { isArray: "busybox/isArray" }
Investment and low rates drives wages which drives consumption.

Investment also shifts aggregate supply to the right, which causes more output.
The original article is not about these things. It is about the difficulty of the rigor increasing. From some sort of easy encoding of computation into integer math to doing Fourier analysis over booleans. From maths you can grok in a few hours to the horrendously complex stuff in number theory that takes days and you aren’t really sure you get it.

In neither case is it a matter of theory vs practice. It is that the mechanics used by theorists is a lot more difficult than a few decades ago.

Actual software development becoming like engineering, which seems counter to my experience, is a different issue.

In my experience software veers away from engineering because as soon as something is standardized enough to not be novel, it’s completely captured by a library or service or something and is a solved problem. The new software is always doing something new. And there are no lessons learned, except, ironically, at the deep theory level.
Why not just write @(x(), y(), z(“items”))? Named cells was a feature.

My immediate thought is excel is 3d — through worksheets - it’s just the calling syntax is horrible.

It would be hard to displace excel at this stage. But if there was a) a good gui and b) a translator that allowed you to save a Teapot spreadsheet as excel for sharing… I’d consider switching.
Sure, they'll always be ahead, but 1000x as wealth sounds pretty impossible compared to 'a lifetime or so of compound returns'.

Most people only need to build a $2-3M pot to be financially independent, be able to stop working, and still live better than most working Americans, which is the biggest quality of life improvement there is in acquiring wealth.

The utility of wealth falls off a cliff pretty quickly. Replacing a $200K/yr salary from passive income in perpetuity with a good level of certainty would require a pot of $6-7M

At 7% (above inflation), most people still need to spend 30 years saving 30% of their salary before they can reach a level (30x) that can replace it. 15% over 40 years also works.
What about tap water from countries where the water is soft, like Scotland, Ireland or Norway? Or is that still too "hard" for plants?
Credit and hard crypto currencies are not incompatible. The main difference is crypto sets hard limits on underlying denominator of value and distinguishes it from credit.

There are potential liquidity problems and endless debates about whether having everything backed by crypto like bitcoin would be a net positive. I don’t have the background to get into all the economic implications and I’m not entirely sold on this alternative crypto based future I’m presenting being a good thing, even if possible. Rather than dismiss these types of arguments, though, I’d like to see more central bank advocates explain why creditors which accumulate bitcoin would not be able to act similarly to current issuers of credit, but more checked and decentralized because none would have control over the production of the underlying value representation that’s borrowed against.
Northbound I5 is flooded in Washington, however, so still not a great route for the next day or so: https://twitter.com/wspd7pio/status/1460623860944932864