skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's also another illustration of how backwards US payments infra is. In the EU, SEPA instant payments are just that: by law it can take a maximum of 10 seconds for the recipient to get paid, including across countries. And, of course, they're free.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single_Euro_Payments_Area
I know here in Ontario, Canada we do have regulations for ebikes. They are not allowed to exceed 32km/h (or ~20 mph). This seems like a somewhat reasonable limit. They also impose other requirements like minimum wheel widths, having two independent braking systems with stopping distance requirements. You can't even ride them if you got a criminal conviction that prohibits driving (such as a DUI).

Reference: http://www.mto.gov.on.ca/english/driver/electric-bicycles-fa...

I think the only problem here is that some of these things can be hard to regulate with making random enforcement stops. And people typically aren't much of a fan of random stops which is understandable, I'm not either. So I guess you'd have to happen to catch them by LIDAR, but I don't even know how accurate such a reading would be against a small bike. Not sure it would be admissible in a court.
Interesting. I worked for a company doing some classified defense contracting (as an intern). I didn't need any clearance and the only limitation was that anyone without clearance needed an escort to enter the lab. Although really it just boiled down to "see if someone has opened it for the day yet, if not go ask one to"

(And in reality I didn't even need that because several people kept their lab key in plain sight on their desk in their open office 24/7...)
Mobile H2O generator pulls drinking water from air for off-grid nomads
I demand to be shown the vouch link!
> “doing a service for the community”

Go on then... what was their argument?
What is your reaction time to start with?
The Coinbase card ties up your assets (you have to hold USD or crypto on their platform). Whereas the credit card is an interest free loan for the statement period. I'd take the latter any day of the week.
When you claim it speeds up learning, you need to tell us how much faster it made you learn X.
> Lots of kids aren't going to be professional athletes, but they still manage to have fun kicking a ball around. The same is not true in mathematics, for instance.

Kids in my classes who are probably not going to be engineers are still having a lot of fun tinkering with engineering problems. Kids in my classes who are probably not going to be computer scientists are having a lot of fun tinkering with ARM-Thumb machine language. Kids in my classes who are not going to be number theorists or statisticians are still going to have a lot of fun playing with elements of number theory and frequencies of elements in English text in my elementary cryptography class.

Some will be superstars and decide they want to do things close to this in the future. Others will decide they want to do something completely different, but understand more of these different paths. And everyone can come away knowing that maybe they won't be at the top but they can still do hard things.

The key is: A) not having a preconceived idea of who's going to be good at something, and B) creating many axes students can differentiate themselves in the classroom, so that someone who is not at the top still has areas to strive and can be a valued member of the classroom community.
Open Encyclopedia of Haptic Sensations by Category (emotion, duration, usage, etc.)

http://hastiseifi.com/VibViz/
Corona is a general-purpose beer, perhaps more than any other due to its ubiquitous option of having it with or without lime. Its use in terrible events is a red herring, like when the stealth bombers started using Kubernetes and some wondered if it took away from the individual developers' efforts. (I think it probably does, but is the same with any foundational open source project.)
> the industry generally estimates approximately $350 a year in costs to maintain a checking account, of which approximately $120 is direct marginal cost

Does this not seem ridiculously high to anyone else?
I feel that I'm usually pretty cautious with my "bets". I would not have bet Microsoft would be implementing Linux in any capacity in 2021, even though I would consider myself a Linux fanboy since ~2002.

I have zero doubt. It's like debating if the sky is neon pink or blue. They're way ahead of everyone else.

Take just fees. https://cryptofees.info/history/2021-11-11. Ethereum is doing 77x Bitcoin, and that's excluding three other Ethereum projects ahead of Bitcoin.

I can express doubt about the success of something doing 2x of a market leader. I can't justify tempering my certainty when it's slaughtering its market peers.
That seems like yet another PR piece that revolves around a, “look, finance didn’t need regulatory action to fix itself, it just needed ‘innovation!’” narrative. No, sorry, these markets were created by regulatory action, and they still need regulatory action to fix the flaws in their design.

I found patio11 to be more informative before all of his writing suffered from a Stripe bias. And I found Stripe more interesting when it wasn’t trying to be the Microsoft of finance.

Edit: And so people understand how these two things — abusive banks and Stripe — are connected: revenue-envy among large corporations trying to move up the ranks and attract bigger valuations almost inevitably leads to “innovations” that are bad for the customer / community / whatever. All roads lead to Rome.
Please name some that pays well and doesn’t burn me out of sanity. Genuinely interested in knowing.

And I’m not even interested in intergalactic salaries but yes very good pay.
No more odd than, say, the Ministry of Silly Walks or what have you.
(2013). The whole ordeal lead to a quite legendary presentation by David at CCC (german, no captions, live translation available but pretty bad): https://youtu.be/7FeqF1-Z1g0

If you speak german and haven’t seen this yet, watch it, this is a classic. His talks are all entertaining and interesting.
Some of the people involved were believed to be sources of inspiration for some of the writings of Oscar Wilde and -- according to the article -- Vicious Circle claims that the 1908 Sherlock Holmes story “The Adventure of the Bruce-Partington Plans” was a thinly veiled riff on the theft of the Irish Crown Jewels.
Security through obscurity isn't.
so red candle, top of acceleration - sell.
green candle, bottom of acceleration - buy.

anything for other combinations, say, green at top of acceleration?
Why I'm skeptical of “Tools For Thought”
When I realized this is when I swore off of Fintech. Permanently.
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Thanks for reminding me about reordering. There were (are?) just so many dirty tricks. It’s been a couple years since I’ve lived in the US, so I am not aware of what things look like now — hopefully others can comment.
This is why, every year, I take a week off in July and camp out in a remote location where I can relax, detox, and enjoy the forests and streams, bugs and all. Not too many bugs anymore, though. Thanks for that you effing monkeys.
Gitlab CVE-2021-22205: RCE by unauthenticated curl -F
Yet another reason is all the references in LHS expressions are resolved before the inner expression is executed. Thus

a['k'] = a = {}

won't still work.
Higher Math for Beginners (1987)
Yep, Cardano can't get things running after years being flush with cash.
Anhydrous ammonia makes a better fuel for ships. They can use the existing engines, and just replace tankage and plumbing. ("Safer" is hard to quantify. Less explosive, but overwhelmingly more toxic if vented.)

Tankers may carry ammonia synthesized in the tropics to northern ports where local solar is impractical, to burn in existing gas plants in competition with long-distance transmission lines. Or, synthetic CH4 from captured CO2 might win. Either way will need massive H2 production.
Oh my gosh these are incredible, and commissioned by NASA no less. Ive run across one or two of these Don Davis renderings randomly, its so nice to finally know the artist and the original context!
There is Congressional testimony somewhere on this topic that provides their talking points. They were scolded without being actually punished, if I remember correctly.
Good luck on your journey!
There seem to be blog posts on "why we chose language X" nearly every week on HN and most often X tends to be a language that is not widely used.

How do people manage to get any real work done using languages that do not have large and thriving communities that can build and maintain various libraries?

For example, I mainly do applied ML work in bioinformatics. There really are no ecosystems that come close to those of Python and R in terms of their completeness for data science and machine learning libraries and infrastructure. I've looked at other libraries in other languages, hoping to switch, but since there are massive gaps, it's often a choice between building supporting libraries OR actually getting my work done.

I'm truly surprised anyone can build much of anything complex in languages with few libraries.
Ruby's “for … in” is syntax sugar in the sense that is just another way to spell an identical piece of code. This would be like if Python let you write “foreach” instead of “for” if you wanted to. Another example in Ruby is how you can say “unless” instead of “if not”.

Python's “for … in” is syntax sugar in the sense that is an abstraction over constantly writing out the iterator protocol.
What are some companies that pay well (not ridiculously well), offer job security and have kinda longer release plans which can foster learning, stable products, and can ensure a san work culture that respects the personal time boundaries as the default?
Hypoallergenic Sanitary Pads – An Anticipatory Solution
Unfortunately, no. People can be really good at covering up for massive inadequacies, and it can take weeks or months to really start figuring them out.

It’s a long tail problem.

Two things you can do that will help is to make your hiring process much more data driven, and to put your people who would be working with them on the team of people that will be doing the interviews, and give them extensive training on how to properly perform those interview panels.

You could also follow that up with take-home example work, for some cases.

But the real trial is those first few weeks and months, where they have to know that they are being carefully evaluated, and where if things don’t work out then you can make sure that you can easily let them go.

I recently joined a new employer in October, so I am acutely aware of this situation.
Ha, all their YouTube videos get the Covid 19 warning
Name and address, yes. Kinda needed to send a card anyway.
I searched for “shooting ratio” for documentaries… Google says 60:1, which means that if you were shooting a 1-hour documentary, you would shoot 60 hours of footage. So this is not an unusual amount of footage by today’s standards.

It is unusual to have this much previously unreleased footage, from so long ago.
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power is never given only taken
Right right right. I'll let my CTO know.
It's a little complicated. My credit score has been consistently higher than my wife's score, and but she has never carried a credit card balance in her life. You get high credit score marks for making banks money, but not borrowing so much that they get nervous.
You're hitting upon something here. Woke culture is intolerant precisely because it's made of immature young people, who take in certain concepts and world views, strip them of all nuance and context and simplify them into set of hard rules to be imposed on everyone everywhere.

That and plus everything in woke culture that touches on sex reeks of juvenile prudishness.
Yup.

If you have a better anagram for FAANG -> MAANG, I’d love to see it.
I think they're both relatively straightfoward, with the biggest difference being active mode. (I'll use "Elixir", but it all applies to Erlang as well).

Elixir sockets can be safely shared between processes, which might not be obvious to an Elixir programmer.

To the best of my knowledge, Elixir will use writev where possible, so it's iolist friendly and can be extremely efficient.

Binary pattern is a productivity boost when it comes to networking work.

Every Elixir socket is associated with a "controlling_process". This creates a link between the socket and the process. The linked article uses it. You generally don't want this to be the acceptor loop, since if the acceptor loop crashed, it would close every socket. Fun fact, I believe earlier versions had bugs / race conditions with respect to changing the controlling_process while data was incoming. This has since been fixed, and things "just work" like you expect, but I can only imagine that it involved some coding gymnastics to fix.

Since the Elixir sockets are more abstracted, there's more knobs you can turn and tweak, e.g., you can tweak the buffers that Erlang is using to read/write. Or it has built-in parsers for common formats, including simple things like automatically being able to send/receive 1, 2, or 4 byte length-prefixed messages.

Elixir has two socket APIs. The traditional gen_tcp, and a new one, socket, which is meant to be "as close as possible to the OS level socket interface." I haven't tried the new one yet.
I sympathize. Software/hardware is littered with one person's edge cases being another person's entire world. But in the grand scheme, yes, subnormals are exceedingly rare. Clearly Intel microarchitecture designers think that, as they seem perfectly willing to continue punishing some applications with a massive performance cliff. Their mitigation should never have been "we'll add a cheat switch for speed" but rather "we'll work as hard as our competitors do to make these cases fast." Standards are supposed to do that, but cheaters abound (and yes I am being a bit perjorative--cheaters don't think of themselves as cheating, they merely have important use cases that demand special dispensation).

GPU hardware is a different, but similar story, from what I can see. It saves transistors to do FTZ, and the originally niche usage of FP to put pixels on the screen didn't really care so much about niggling details. But GPUs became general purpose and important, and they've been dragged into full compliance by application demands. It's the only sane outcome in the end. Instead, all this FTZ stuff has just made a mess at layers above. It would all be unnecessary if subnormals were as fast as AMD, ARM, IBM, and other chip manufacturers have managed to make them.
Fun to think about this sort of thing when people fear the AI singularity coming from our tech giants.
Overdrafts were the second thing that came to mind, a decade into clawing my way out of poverty and just plain being broke.

The first was the scam of debit cards and secured credit cards being treated fundamentally differently. They both operate basically the same way for customers (you’re only spending your own money, it’s not credit in the lending sense), but debit cards are a profit center with no credit reporting for the customer and secured credit cards can be recommended or not in any discriminatory way anyone wants (which they are).
Essential Linux Commands – Part 2
To me it is retrocomputing and "Web 2.5", or whatever you may call it -- people building fast, compatible websites that really work in "any browser"
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+1 for same current setup. Although, as much as I'd like to use a single app for Notes/Tasks, the scheduling+ quick notes capturing in Todoist is unmatched for.
>But no, you can’t live there.

What do you think gives you the right to make that call?
I had a secret clearance in the Army 25 years ago, and the sexiest secret I ever learned was a number...which was the obvious product (like literally x*y) of two unclassified numbers.
In Vietnam, even the 'credit cards' are 'debt cards'. There is no concept of a credit score there (or a legal way to really make people pay up a debt), so they came up with this work around. To get a credit card, you have to carry the total amount of 'credit' as a time deposit in your account that you can't touch.
True, but most Mac apps were virtually inaccessible by keyboard, and with the slow cursor rate made them a nightmare for the wrist.
I think people can make the context switch. Was visiting a buddy of mine a few weeks ago and picked some up. Didn't think twice or even joke about it.
What do you mean by secured credit cards can be recommended is any discriminatory way? I definitely think the nation should prioritize financial literacy in the education system, but I'm not sure you should be trusting any information you get from a bank regarding what to do with your money.
Cemetery Stories
Direct quote from my console:

$ xinput --disable
Segmentation fault (core dumped)
That's gorgeous!! I haven't played with scenery software for so long... but this reminded me of becoming obsessed with VistaPro[1] in the early 90s, even buying a FPU coprocessor to speed up rendering fly-throughs of landscapes. I just thought it was the coolest thing ever. This would have been a dream toy for me back then.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/VistaPro
The very first thing I did on getting my recumbent tricycle was to swap my cleat pedals in (rather than the ones it came with, with a plastic foot cage), and I shudder to imagine the result of feet falling to the road at 30km/h.

Of velomobiles, remember that they normally have foot wells; if uncovered, the harm of feet falling will still be reduced, but not absent.
I didn't see this as an issue about climate change, but as providing a place for innovation and experience which can later be applied to larger aircraft. If absolutely nothing else, it helps spark more interest in the technology by making it more accessible, and will help with general confidence in electric aircraft ("they've been flying electric ultralights for years now").
> HTTP server should serve user-specified website files from /srv

I’ve never seen that in my life, but I’m sure someone does that. This is one of those cases where the people who follow the standard are increasing fragmentation
> The government’s current target is 40% of the payments mix, about double the current amount, which would put it on parity with the present state of play in the U.S. (and behind Asian peer nations, at around 50%)

It’s shocking that still about 50% is cash based.(if I am reading that right)
Why would you ever not want to put something on a cc? It's quite literally free money (rewards/points + you can delay payments for a month and pay no interest)
What's transaction reordering?

1. have $10 in your checking

2. pay $9 for steak

3. fill account with $500

4. buy sausage for $2

bank reorders it as

1. have $10 in your checking

2. pay $9 for steak

3. buy sausage for $2

4. charge overdraft

5. count $500 deposit

Is that what banks would do? I faintly remember that really old accounts I had in Germany had overdraft capability, but for all newer(last decade or so) accounts, I had to explicitly request overdraft. I guess it was inherently more user hostile in the US. Although in German its not because of good service, but rather because banks don't trust the consumer.
Please delete my post
I can’t

Apologize for it
What comes to mind when I see ISIS is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISIS_(operating_system)
I was a student at UC Berkeley in 1980s. We woke-rolled one another mercilessly on a daily basis.

Also there was Naked Man:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Martinez
at least they got rid of those $35 overdraft fees on a 50 cent negative balance, that was BS. So, maybe there is a brighter financial future
Secured credit cards also exist in America :-)
You can earn higher interest than the APR on your cc by yield farming stablecoin pools
Yes! In college & for years after, my friends and I used to buy 100ft spools of film stock and can it ourselves for stills. Each 100ft spool got us about 18 rolls of 36exp which was good for a semester.

Used for cine, that same 100ft was good for about 1 minute of footage..
It's an interesting theory. I read about it previously here on a different post, "ROS Theory of Obesity" and "The Croissant Diet".

I'm not sure if it will lead to results though (I tried only consuming saturated and mono-unsaturated fats instead of poly-unsaturated for a week and didn't lose any weight").

Also, hasn't China been using soybean oil for centuries?

Would love to see some more research on this but it doesn't seem like the solution yet.
> If I do my own research (and I have) and it disagrees with your beliefs, you'll still tell me I'm wrong.

My beliefs aren't beliefs. They are based on widely-reproduced and reproducible scientific research. If all of that research is wrong, it would fundamentally overturn human understanding (such as it is) of the immune system and also require a massive global conspiracy including thousands of scientists.

What in your research has told you that the vaccine is more dangerous than Covid? You also don't know the long-term effects of Covid exposure, right?

> Incidentally...

I'm not sure how to respond to this, but the link I provided was to MIT, not the White House, media, or big tech. I don't know who "you people" is, but I'm not part of any organized group, and "media" and "big tech" are not homogeneous either. Even "White House" isn't, because there are many conservative Republicans encouraging vaccination in conjunction with Democrats.

To you rpoint about censorsip: vaccine discussion (including profit-motivated disinformation) is not very well-censored, apparently[1]. And you are welcome to have open, uncensorable vaccine discussions with anyone you want, including any doctor who will give you an appointment. You just can't do it through some private companies' servers. Some of the major "Big Tech" platforms (WhatsApp, Telegram, private Facebook groups, Messenger, Instagram DMs, etc.) are also fully open to any vaccine discussion.

1. https://apnews.com/article/the-facebook-papers-covid-vaccine...
j.p. morgan existed before regulatory bodies did
I'd love how many times you can regressively run this process until the first generation source no longer looks (subjectively) like the nth generation refined image.

e.g.

[woah] -> [wooah] displacement: 1
[wooah] -> [woowah] displacement: 3
[woowah] -> [oowaha] displacement: 6
> This is just another way the financial system (including fintech startups) prey on the poor.

This is the way a government preys on the poor by not making electronic transfer of money a utility.

The businesses are just doing business, no one sets out and says I want to screw the poor. The prices simply reflect the risks to the business. If society wants to subsidize those risks for the poor, then it should by creating a utility that allows quick and free transfers of money, and for all people to have free accounts.
I have money and I will take as much debt as I possibly can get.
Well they work like debit cards in a way, you can't overdraft and you build credit with it. It's what's recommended for newcomers to the US. But I'm not sure they're really the same given that your credit limit will be as high as the spare amount of money you can keep as security in your bank.
Graeme Edge, Drummer and Co-Founder of the Moody Blues, Dies at 80
https://archive.ph/QNrS0
> Complaining about the comment being "off topic" is somewhat funny given Rusters' penchant for inserting their language into discussions about other programming languages (especially C, C++ and Go).

The childlike “well they do it too” argument is almost the perfect example of how the anti-rust crowd is becoming even more obnoxious than the infamous Rust evangelism strike squad.

For the record , I’ve never written a line of rust in my life and am not particularly invented in its success or failure. And no, I didn’t flag GP.