skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Can we please stop banging on with this trope that BTC is somehow the magic savior of poor people in oppressive regimes?

I never said it would be a magic savior. I said its a good option for people that aren't legally allowed to hold a currency outside of their own country's depreciating currency.

> Please try to look out of your western high-earner bubble and see that the majority of poor people in countries like Argentina, Afganistan, Zimbabwe, Venezuela, Cuba, etc. that suffer from that rampant inflation have not enough money and assets to buy into the bitcoin ecosystem and make it work on a daily basis.

No one is forcing them to use crypto. I would like it to remain an option, even if they have to buy locally. You're the one that's in a high-earner bubble thinking they can just go down the street and open up a US denominated free checking account.

> Again, in those countries, only the corrupt rich benefit form this new digital money laundering, tax evasion feature of BTC, as the average Joe there can't afford the $26(??) transaction fee every step of the way when that's the cost of their family groceries for a month.

There are cheaper ways to acquire crypto and there are also stable coins. But it doesn't sound like you're interested in that. If it really costs $26 then obviously that might be too expensive, or maybe not considering sending money through Western Union is often times more expensive.

> Everyone in those countries with failed currencies use stable fiat like USD or EUR to fend off inflation, not BTC.

In Zimbabwe and Argentina and many other countries with capital controls, it's illegal to hold USD or other foreign currencies.

> But do YOU live in an authoritarian regime? Or are you blowing smoke based on how you imagine life is in those countries from your cushy western perspective and stuff you read on reddit? Because I spent my childhood in a broke totalitarian regime.

No I don't. But I'm not the one that wants to restrict what people in poor countries can or can't do with their money. That's you.

[0] https://www.aljazeera.com/economy/2019/6/25/zimbabwe-outlaws...
Political ads/campaigns do this all the time - especially the negative ones
Have you checked ? I have the opposite expectation...
What are the properties of the cameras that don't get detected? Wouldn't bad actors just use the same app to check if their cameras are detectable at installation time?
> Even as a kid I instinctively understood that as a white dude I have it easier in America

I think Barack Obama got it right, when he recognised that talk of "white privilege", bred resentment especially amongst the working class, despite some, usually of the left leaning middle-class, willing to adopt the label to describe themselves.

> In fact, a similar anger exists within segments of the white community. Most working- and middle-class white Americans don't feel that they have been particularly privileged by their race. Their experience is the immigrant experience — as far as they're concerned, no one handed them anything. They built it from scratch. They've worked hard all their lives, many times only to see their jobs shipped overseas or their pensions dumped after a lifetime of labor. They are anxious about their futures, and they feel their dreams slipping away. And in an era of stagnant wages and global competition, opportunity comes to be seen as a zero sum game, in which your dreams come at my expense. So when they are told to bus their children to a school across town; when they hear an African-American is getting an advantage in landing a good job or a spot in a good college because of an injustice that they themselves never committed; when they're told that their fears about crime in urban neighborhoods are somehow prejudiced, resentment builds over time.

https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=884784...
I started Brazilian Jiu Jitsu classes and it did wonders for me. 1. Great social atmosphere, I get out of the basement now. 2. Great for me physically and really helps mitigate the loss of flexibility and overall "rot" from sitting in front of a computer.

I rarely feel like going to the classes but I always feel much better when I get home.
I can't quite express why, but this line "profit over people" creeps me out. Maybe it's this idea that there are just "people", a homogenous group that facebook can choose, or not, when really what facebook is blamed for is siding with one group of people over another - either censoring some people, or not censoring some people that other people think should be censored.
Subspace's dedicated high-performance backbone includes a global IP traffic proxy, utilizing advanced networking to accept network traffic from any client anywhere, and send it to any server anywhere with the lowest latency, packet loss, and jitter; dedicated servers utilizing the latest high-speed optical transceivers to offer high bandwidth dedicated links; custom GPS-locked hardware clocks in Subspace PoPs, generating real-time telemetry accurate down to the microsecond; and dynamic internal networking, able to evaluate the most optimal path between PoPs on a sub-second basis.
Outside of an electron microscope not really, they are in the femtometer range.
That probably says a lot more about the optics of being sued over the GPL than legal defendability.
When DeBoer calls it a lie, he is doing what he complains about - does not care about motivation or context in which that statement was given.
> Free trials should not require a credit card. Collecting your payment information is an obvious red flag that you will be billed as soon as the free trial period ends.

I remember many people on HN defending this pattern saying that they are not interested in people who don't want to provide their CC details, that they are bad customers, they just want a free ride, and they are not sorry for setting it up like this. Oh well. I guess with time more people get burned and will finally learn the hard way this is just one of many grey patterns.
Cosmic ray 'barrier' at the center of the Milky Way
I think it's more like asking "Should Mr Y have been ticketed for reckless driving" if it's on a backcountry road without cops or speed limit signs. Not getting audited doesn't mean it was ethical.

I'm comfortable saying a tax loophole should be banned without saying it's users are criminals or either unethical. Asking if someone should be able to deduct their private jet is a political question to me, not a legal one.

But there are other instance where people are taking advantage of lack of enforcement. For instance conservation easements. There's an example of a mining developer who gave 6000 acres to a charitable trust in CA. An issue is the mining company didn't own the subsurface gas and mineral rights to the land. They weren't explicitly clear about that when donating, so the donation was probably overvalued.

https://www.kassounilaw.com/publications/the-uses-and-abuses...
Austria: Epidemic reporting system before collapse
I don't know, perhaps they could actually create some value, rather than profiting off speculation. That would be a good start.
You should submit something so that people can discuss that and keep the discussion here on-topic.
I was thinking of a breakdown tax. Variable tax based on breakdown rates or product longevity.
Are there medications you can take to make you drastically less likely to try to con people?
"Aliens" is so poorly defined that the question is meaningless.
Ask HN: Which companies use a monorepo (2021)?
Hi, I'm curious to learn which companies use big multi-language monorepos these days? (not javascript "project monorepos", Bazel like things)

If you work in such a company and can share any of the following it's even more interesting:
- Roughly how many engineers share the repo?
- What languages and tooling do you use? (Bazel? Pants? git? GitHub? Jenkins?)
- Do you personally feel like the setup works well for the company? (and is this the general sentiment among engineers in the company?)

Thanks!
Interesting, I've noticed that the strong typing in Go does really help with getting that compile to work.

I've worked in a medium Go codebase (one might call it big, it's on the edge). I sometimes had a really hard time getting a particular value from a variable. The problem was that the way the code was structured, I couldn't know the type, but in the debugger I did see that the value was there in memory. The senior Go software engineer told me to make the type global, but I don't know what to think of that to make any type global the moment multiple very far away source files need that particular form of type information.

Another thing that I've seen that helps with Go productivity is the relentless focus of only one way to do things.

Edit: I also think what is amazing about Go is the whole "everything sensible is baked in" type of thing. You may disagree if it's sensible. But I like being able to immediately write tests, or write HTML templates, etc.
We're using rust on STM32F1 chips as part of the electronics for a liquid rocket engine that my university's SEDS chapter is developing. Rust makes this all so much easier and quicker to write.
Freddie doesn't have to be a public figure. He could become a web developer and go by his middle name and quietly cruise out the rest of his years like the drummer for Flock of Seagulls or something.
Really? WherE? I thought it was exclusively US thing, with UK having some fixed mortgages that were otherwise too expensive to justify choosing them.
Neither dark matter nor dark energy are new physics. We don't know exactly what particle or combination of particles is responsible for dark matter, but there's not yet evidence that dark matter actually is composed of something outside the standard model. Dark energy is, despite the name, well explained by general relativity. When people talk about new physics, they're referring to things that change our understanding of how the universe works on a fundamental level. By comparison to biology, these are like newly discovered species - of course they're interesting but our understanding of nature is unchallenged.
I just like having my own piece of the internet. It's like digital land ownership. A space I control, an experience I curate, it's satisfying whether anyone else appreciates it or not.
You are right. The issue with the Hindenberg was not the hydrogen. It was the coating.

The main concern for hydrogen as a fuel now is the high pressures. If the pressure vessel is damaged it explodes due to mechanical forces. This is not impossible to work around. Consider, for example, that gas tanks can already be punctured and lead to fires; it takes a fair accounting of the risks to really rule out hydrogen as a fuel.
You're overprovisioning at the wrong time with solar, though. What good is 2-3x the power output during the day when you're at 0 during the night? You'd still need 12h of storage or more realistically a mixed energy production setup.
All I hear from these threads is "more supply more supply increase the supply". What is the target here? Should everyone have a vacation home in every US city? Should everyone be allowed unlimited houses to rent out in addition to the one they own?

We already have enough housing to house everyone in the US (including the homeless) with ease. Where are we going to draw the line in the name of investment and speculation?
He's entitled to share his mitigating context. It may well be persuasively exculpatory for a lot of reasonable people. He goes far beyond that in this argument, suggesting that he would find dishonest any description of his misconduct that doesn't capture his full state of mind; for instance, any claim that he attempted to "cancel" Malcolm Harris.
I suspect the difference in outlook is in defining "income". Earlier, a goal of "living off the gains" was states, implying to me either dividends or profitable sale of securities when you rebalance a portfolio.

The fiscally conservative mindset is that in a downturn, dividends shrink. At the same time, being forced to sell securities to cover living expenses means "losing" money from your nest egg, not living off of gains. Someone with this view would be balancing their portfolio to have enough cash and/or bonds to support them through some unknown future, and only expect to sell stocks when the market is doing well, to realize gains. Then, one needs to consider the rate of return of such a safe portfolio...
Oh dear.

Looks like media reporters like NBC and MSNBC have become more desperate in trying to distort, and continuing to interfere with the process of this trial and would even follow the jurors home, possibly exposing them if the outcome of the trial is not the result they have wanted.
Talking about efficiency with solar seems purely academic to me. Considering it's just there, it doesn't really matter what percentage of the potential energy you're capturing, just the absolute cost per watt of extraction.
Autotranslate:

> In order to prevent a collapse of the EMS, the ministry "instructed federal states and laboratories to register only people with a positive test result in the EMS from now on".

Sounds like the registry struggles to handle a few million records?
competence/incompetence is not a compliment or slur.

I am an incompetent welder, for example.

My point is that if you are removing the hard disk to prevent state storage, that is ineffective, and if you think that it is effective (which you stated), you are objectively factually incorrect.
https://bookshop.org/

A collective of independent bookshops all across the US. They split the proceeds and it seems rather equitable. That or Powells books because they are awesome and local to me.
+1 for Docusaurus. We're using it at Warrant (https://docs.warrant.dev/). In addition to what folks have already mentioned, it has good blogging support as well (markdown, post tags, SEO/social tags etc). Makes it much easier to manage both docs + blog from the same system.
why not just plain channels and select?
Storage like all the cars we're planning to build anyway? Sorry, but there's something arbitrary about "summer to winter" that you're quoting to fit your narrative here. First of all, Li-ion battery wasn't made to storage energy that long. Second, there are flow batteries for that which will be far better than Hydrogen.
I don't know much about this, but "Democracy has never been a safe space" seems to be the key: that healthy disagreement, debate and compromises are not easy, not comfortable, and well... not the ideal (in the literal sense), but is necessary, because we should respect the other side, continue to assume they're not evil, and find some damn compromises.
(at the time of the creation of the US's declaration of independence, there were big ideological differences between the north and south of the US, but folks like John Adams understood that compromising was better than being divided, so the north said: ok for slavery and other stuff, but you gotta sign to be in this together, and we'll work on it. I would recommend John Adams' biography by David McCullough for a good account of how politics back then was basically the same garbage fire as today, except the early presidents were educated and smart, and recognized that partisanship was a bad idea).

It might be that we've all become a bit tired from shouting the same things without seeing much progress. As if the left burned out from trying to convince people of the values of science, of socialism, or helping the less fortunate and so, as a result, is now playing the game of forcing the hand, almost apathetically.

The article is free on his website by the way: https://www.kasparov.com/woke-is-a-bad-word-for-a-real-threa...
The main reason for kTLS is support for dedicated tls hardware? Is that still relevant today?
'AI, blockchain, security' to me this doesn't sound like a 'futurist', it sounds like someone who is easily convinced by buzzwords and marketing :)
To expand on this, Google introduced an artificial delay when loading ads on non-AMP pages: https://mobile.twitter.com/tmcw/status/1451938637982142467
As someone who just sold a house in Halifax last year, and with friends who weren't as lucky to have bought a home in the 2000s, I think you can safely remove that city from your list.

We moved to a town a couple hours away from Toronto, and the prices were shockingly comparable to Halifax, while Halifax household incomes are lower.
The Rise of Climate Anxiety
I’m not sure it qualifies as a dark pattern, but I was really frustrated by the Logmein pricing. I was paying a relatively expensive amount for my 100 computers package. Once I went over that threshold I had to convert to the 500 computers package which cost 4x was I was paying. That was true even if I had 101 computers and not 499. I ended up upgrading with a negotiated price but still don’t understand why it’s not a price per computer.
Subscription-based software is already a dark pattern.
That was the 80’s and 90’s ‘wake up in a cold sweat’ nightmare, when one wasn’t having it about nukes, the Cold War, and MAD anyway.

One can hope that anyone with the resources and intelligence to pull that off, would 1) have something better and more useful to do with their lives, and 2) would have someone they care about somewhere and realize it would almost certainly blow back on them too.

Definitely not guaranteed, but so far seems to be panning out. Let’s hope it stays that way.
Apple initially tried to integrate LLVM with GCC under the GPL, but the community didn't want it.

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTU4MzE
This is exactly right. For years it was conventional business wisdom and best practice to focus on getting the CC. We could probably find some pretty embarrassing (for the web industry) threads if we wanted to look.
Congress on Drugs
Thanks for pointing this out, those links to main are definitely an oversight!
This has been true of all governments of all kinds thoughout all of time.

Once again, it’s something America can only be criticized for because the goal is for it to be something different.

It’s fair to criticize America for not living up to its ideals.

It’s intellectually dishonest to imply that the ideals don’t exist.
Penguin is great: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/

The sci-fi section: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/science-fiction-fan...
Easier bookkeeping on their part.
Download the Al-Rajhi application, how to download the Al-Rajhi application
Thanks, that was a great explanation.
What are the best ways of doing this without a smartphone?
Luckily you rarely pour oil or vinegar directly into your mouth. Usually you pour it onto something else, and you'd discover that it contains the wrong liquid.
Go, by a mile. From day 1 all I wanted to do was write programs that compile down to a single binary, and code that could run on just about any machine I had. That was a far fetched dream for the longest time, and I'd groan about writing things in C++. Now I'm somewhat close to that being a reality and I'm just comfy enough to not look back. It's fast, the stdlib is amazing (in fact I challenged myself to only use stdlib this year and it was pretty awesome), and I don't feel like I'm re-tooling all the time to keep up with the new guys from the last round of hiring, or chasing bugs in abandoned dependencies.

I'd say that the one shortcoming is that making GUI apps is no walk through the park like it was in the VB days, or the tcl/tk days, but it is making significant strides in the form of Fyne, which is a great project with a charismatic team who is working toward making it pretty damn easy to make GUI apps in Go.

One of my latest interests has been using Go's web side to use the browser as my GUI, meaning you can write web apps with it and sweet jesus it's fast.

Just my 2 cents, hope you find your way with the new job.
I've been really amused at the news reports stating "highest rate of inflation in the US in 30 years!"

Because 1991 is well remembered for...inflation.
Some people didn't like that you could combine bog-standard 20% efficient photovoltaic panels with bog-standard 75% efficient electrolyzers to reach 15% efficiency of conversion of sunlight to hydrogen, and came up with a specialized single-step device...that is only 14% efficient. ;)
Hmm, okay, I see what you're saying. There should have been affordable medication available, but not necessarily his particular choice.
ProductHunt launch link: https://www.producthunt.com/posts/subspace-network-as-a-serv...

Also Reddit AMA: https://old.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/qws3p9/i_am_william_k...
Who wants to be a drowned plague rat tho
Requiring a credit card for a trial is fine, as long as you don’t convert automatically to a paying membership. And if you do, please send me a reminder a week before at least.
I've been buying books primarily from bookshop.org. Every now and then I'll buy something from Barnes and Noble if I can't find it elsewhere. I also tend to buy directly from these publishers:

https://www.nottinghilleditions.com

https://press.uchicago.edu

http://gaspereau.com (specialty titles, letterpress)

But one thing that annoys me across the board, and especially with bookshop.org, is the constant display of social justice reading lists. I was checking out recently and the whole page was plastered with Robin DiAngelo, X Kendi, Hannah Jones, and a bunch of other "celebrating blackness" titles. As if I am going to add these garbage books to my cart.

I wish bookstores would stop cramming the "reading guides for white people" down our throats. There are so many books out there, so many authors, so many topics you could promote! Let's talk about writers, not just "black writers." Show me some new literature, not just "black literature."

Point me to the book shop that doesn't constantly promote this nonsense and they'll have my money.
> I'm not sure comparing things to close-to-wartime tech from 90 years ago is a valid approach.

You might be surprised how good WW2-era scientists were at chemistry and science.

The earlier poster has a point. Gasoline, Diesel, and Kerosene have all been studied extensively (especially in the 1930s and 1940s BECAUSE of preparations for WW2). The safety of soldiers was paramount even to the Nazis.

War machines: be they airplanes, tanks, or battleships, were all going to be exposed to enemy fire and explosions. These fuels (Kerosene and Diesel in particular) were chosen because they're extremely safe: high flash points and even higher auto-ignition points.

That means that kerosene __literally__ can't catch on fire at room temperature. You need to warm up kerosene before its appropriate to burn (Of course, once its burning it will warm up the rest of the kerosene and keep burning. But this isn't some super-explosive volatile chemical we're talking about here)

Gasoline is still safe, but not as safe as the other two (-40C Flash Point). Gasoline was safer than a lot of the other petroleum products that were investigated back then, and was still chosen as a fuel for war machines.

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The same is not necessarily true for H2. H2 will explode at any temperature (even near absolute zero).
Well, thank you -- I shall endeavor to better contain my enthusiasm in the future, and also to correctly attribute the invention of windsurfing to Polynesian tribes.
Grad student I know says he could do it in a week
For more context, this post has some cool interactive features to explain the voting types: https://ncase.me/ballot/

Another problem with RCV is that it’s difficult to understand, at least when you get into the runoffs. That makes it harder for people to understand and trust the election system, which is also very important.
This database has a record of about 500 attempted or successful deplatforming on college campuses: https://www.thefire.org/how-to-use-the-disinvitation-databas...

Deplatforming speakers is largely the left's MO.