skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I found an interesting solution from caltech: https://github.com/caltechlibrary/handprint

Also it seems the keyword to find models and apis for this is “handwritten text recognition.”
Agreed, but SUVs do cause additional risk to smaller vehicles. For example, at busy intersections drivers in smaller cars have a lot less visibility due to the walls of SUVs around them.

I can't count the amount of times I've had to delay turning at a stop sign to wait for a larger vehicle that has pulled up next to me to leave so I can regain visibility and make the turn. That or it becomes a game of edging out past the big vehicle.
The diversity of the virus species causing the common cold is actually much higher. There are rhinoviruses, adenoviruses, enteroviruses, and coronaviruses, among many others. It seems this symptom and transmission pattern is just very evolutionally successful.
If you can't get enterprise, maybe you can get pro for education, which seems a little less pushy.

Personally, I like Windows to run Firefox and maybe some games or spreadsheets, and putty to connect to a unixy computer. VcXsvr seems like a decent X server these days for the ocassional things that need a GUI from Unix. All caveats about remote X still apply, of course. Some people like WSL, too.
MindsDB (YC W20) Is Hiring for an Executive Assistant/Chief of Staff
I used my fathers Rancillio Silvia for 10ish years after he used it for about that long. It’s still good but I have upgraded. It had a US$70 service after about 15k coffees and was still fine at 20k. It’s got a little surface rust on the drip tray. Fantastic machine.

This pales compared to some machines though - I was recently reading about someone has a ‘60s Faema e61 that has made nearly 5 million coffees.

https://www.home-barista.com/advice/faema-e61-original-vinta...
I wonder if there is something like this to teach computer graphics too.
I wouldn't say Google is search, per se. I haven't used Google for search in a few years.
That did not happen to me. Windows installs some promoted apps when I installed it, I removed those and since then Windows did not install a single app.
> If not for natural gas, the blackouts would have been even worse, because at least they were able to be ramped up

Natural Gas, Coal, and Nuclear accounted for over 80% of the lost generation. Most of that was gas.

See page 16 here: https://www.ercot.com/files/docs/2021/04/28/ERCOT_Winter_Sto...

Same thing happened in both 2011 and 1989… NatGas was not there when the state needed it most.
I bought something here in Australia last week with a bank transfer, and I've paid plenty of business using e-transfer in Canada - especially when covid kicked in.
1.) You can disable location access to iOS System Services (Settings -> Location Services -> System Services.)

2.) Haven't tried it in a while, but not long ago it was still possible to setup iPhone without logging in to Apple ID.

However, yes, you cannot install apps outside of App Store, which means contacting Apple servers.
> I think of PL/I as a systems programming language, and COBOL as an application programming language, much in the same way you'd look at C/C++ and Java in the Unix world, I think

PL/I is a general purpose applications programming language. Its primary design goal was to unify COBOL, FORTRAN and ALGOL into a single language, and as such was intended to meet the needs of both business and scientific application programmers. IBM invested heavily in trying to convince business software developers to move from COBOL to PL/I - see for example [0] - but, while there was a decent amount of business software development done using PL/I in the 1970s, it never had the success in that market which IBM had hoped for, PL/I ended up being an also-ran to COBOL instead of what it was meant to be, the successor.

PL/I proper was generally not used as a systems programming language. On the one hand, it had a number of features (decimal arithmetic, formatted and record IO and multithreading support built-in to the language syntax) which while useful in applications programming were unavailable or unsupportable or not useful in systems programming. On the other hand, a lot of features which are valuable in systems programming - such as inline assembly, the ability to manually control the allocation of variables to machine registers - are not in PL/I proper.

Given this, it was common to create systems programming dialects of PL/I which removed those application-centric features and added systems programming specific features. But those dialects were not properly speaking PL/I and were often called by other names - IBM’s was called BSL, later renamed to PL/S, which spawned a bunch of descendants with similar names (PL/AS, PL/X, PL/DS, PL/MI, PL/MP, PL.8). Honeywell had PL/6 which was used as the systems programming language for its CP-6 operating system (a backward compatible rewrite of Xerox CP-V). Prime Computer had PL/P as the systems programming language for PRIMOS. Gary Kildall developed PL/M in which he wrote the first versions of CP/M (later versions were rewritten in assembly to get better performance, but even in later versions PL/M was still used to implement some of the utilities.)

However, none of these systems programming languages were in the strictest sense PL/I; the original unmodified PL/I (without subsetting or supersetting) was an applications programming language not a systems programming language.

[0] http://bitsavers.org/pdf/ibm/360/pli/SC20-1651-1_A_Guide_to_...
Yeah it had GUIs, painful as hell to program for. Only masochists can enjoy Xlib and Athena Widgets.

And CDE? No thanks.

Compared with Amiga, Windows 3.x and OS/2, UNIX has nothing to be proud about on the GUI chapter, other than outliers like NeXTSTEP or Irix, which in spite of CDE had other GUI capabilities on top.

It was designed for and remains a CLI focused OS, with a graphics buffer on top without a coherent stack.

As for Linux caughting up, until 2005 I only used Aix, HP-UX and Solaris in production.

While at CERN Linux was being adopted as transition away from Solaris to run on the clusters (2003), everyone was either using Windows 2000 or the newly released OS X on their desktop/laptops.

On my group I was one of the Scientific Linux early adopters, and yes in the context of running CMT, displaying Latex produced documents, Java based GUIs for the accelerators dashboards, or the same POSIX stuff as any other UNIX it was ok for the research workflows being done there.

Ironically even in such contexts the large majority was either using Word or Framemaker for their papers.
The GP's point isn't about RBI being a central authority, but about NPCI being granted a quasi-monopoly on retail payments despite being a non-government body. One of the important recommendations from the Watal Committee report[x] was to restructure the NPCI-relationship:

1. Change ownership structure. It was 75% owned by 10 banks in India, with no seats for other players in the industry.

2. Allow competition to NPCI. This got envisioned in the recent push for a NUE[0], but with a lot of caveats. RBI ended up deferring the plan[1]

3. NPCI also is pushing heavily to move from a non-profit to a for-profit model: https://www.livemint.com/news/india/npci-turning-for-profit-.... This will significantly change the current incentives it holds.

As an example of this conflict, RBI runs NEFT and RTGS for free as near-realtime transaction platforms for free, and now 24x7 (The 24x7 was a recommendation in the report). RBI does not charge banks for interchange on NEFT, but NPCI does charge for IMPS.

[0]: https://www.bloombergquint.com/business/npci-its-nue-competi...

[1]: https://inc42.com/buzz/rbi-defers-its-plans-to-distribute-li...

[x]: https://dea.gov.in/sites/default/files/watal_report271216.pd...
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So you found your evidence for 1000x more viral load?

It does not mean that it is 1000x more infectious and I did not say that. It "only" 50-100% more but this 1000x higher viral load also means that contacting it will bring you in contact with higher viral load and you need higher concentration of neutralizing antibodies to clear the virus to avoid infection.

There are simple means to increase those antibody levels - booster shots.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29279146
> The issue with UPNP is not that it's misunderstood. The issue is that somebody implementing it has to pay hundreds of bucks to read the ISO.

I think you can get the specs here: https://openconnectivity.org/developer/specifications/upnp-r...

> On the other hand printers are working on your smartphones but not on your Linux desktop.

I don't think this has anything to do with upnp? Most printers nowadays also support IPP (thanks to apple's cups push?), so ..
But it's going to be an overlapping mesh of 1-to-1 agreements. Singapore is also negotiating with Malaysia to allow cross-border payments, but it's unlikely a Malaysian user would be able to chain these together to pay someone in India.
Oh yeah, forgot about this! NETC is also linked closly with UPI now. netc.vehiclenumber@bankupihandle
Hey, if you’re interested in a switch, we’re hiring for technical sales. Always up for a chat if you want: zohaib [at] resemble dot ai
Wise fees are still too high for international transfers. They are doing currency arbitrage to sweeten the deal they get.
There's a spectrum between crackpottery and solidly evidence-backed consensus treatments. The middle of that spectrum:

- The existing evidence, although positive, may be low quality, or preliminary.

- The treatment is advanced by some otherwise legitimate practitioners, even if it isn't consensus mainstream.

- The treatment has been used safely in traditional medicine for a long time, and simply hasn't been studied yet in a scientific framework.

- The promoters aren't transparent crackpots, and don't use empty buzzwords like "quantum".

- Any proposed mechanisms at least make some basic sense and don't break the basic principles of physics and biology, and aren't clear woo.

What I am saying is that if a treatment ticks some of the above boxes and is safe, then give it a go. They're less likely to work, but the expected value is high because the costs are low.

Crystal healing ticks none of these boxes and therefore can be discarded with more confidence, since the expected value is low, even though it's true we can't be absolutely certain that it doesn't work.
Indeed, UPI is a culmination of several years of ground work laid before it (IMPS, Adhaar etc.,)

Let me add one thing here though.

> Low cost of payment infrastructure to the banks

The cost is low primarily because it's is borne by tax payers [1] and the issuing banks. Issuing banks aren't too happy with forgoing a good chunk of their profits that they earn through issuing charges and also having to maintain the infrastructure free of cost.

A new for-profit payment consortium [2] has been proposed to compete with NPCI. Will be interesting to see how this plays out.

[1] https://www.business-standard.com/article/economy-policy/mdr...

[2] https://m.rbi.org.in/scripts/bs_viewcontent.aspx?Id=3832
> Customer UX: This really isn't as straightforward as you put it. The main issue for customers is that if they loose their wallet, they loose everything. This has to be accounted as part of UX, even making transactions is simple and straightforward.

At scale people will want to use custodians for large amounts of money. So basically banks will always be a thing. Only the backbone is changing.
I can so relate to the bi-directional relationship between low morale (anxiety, depression) and pain. Feeling down makes me feel pain in my teeth, and vice versa.

On a side note, I had a lot of back problems till I lost 30 pounds and didn't have any anymore. I gained another 10 since then and it's coming back
I’ve spent hours fixing, debugging and upgrading LE clients this year. “I’m doing it wrong” I’m sure
> People are incredibly reluctant to believe that ailments might actually be partly or mainly psychological.

There are two simple reasons why people don't want their ailments to be psychological.

First, there are no real tests for determining if something is psychological or physical. Doctors just test for some stuff, and if the tests come back negative or inconclusive, they just explain it away as "psychological." You can never be sure whether you have a physical problem or whether your doctor is just lazy.

Second, the medical system just gives up on you if the issue is psychosomatic. There are no treatment protocols that work, so agreeing that something is psychological is just having your case tossed on the trash heap to be ignored.

Modern medicine does have a light side and a dark side. On the light side are known ailments with known tests and treatments. On the dark side is everything fuzzy and uncertain. Doctors HATE being faced with ambiguity, and patients know that if their case falls into the dark side that treatment and recovery are hopeless.
I feel this is almost entirely the wrong way to go about this.

"Balancing the scale", e.g. applying targeted discrimination as an attempt to offset other perceived discrimination, is how we got into this mess!!

Pick the best person for the role, regardless of race/color/creed/sex/... and advocate your peers do the same. This is the only correct answer here.
In practice, rollups can offer better finality than ethereum's base layer by using a bonding scheme. Basically, a rollup provider can sign a message that says "I promise that this transaction will become finalized, otherwise I forfeit my bond." Depending on the implementation, the receipt of that message can give the payment recipient pretty good confidence that the transaction will be finalized. I believe some rollup providers are either doing this already or currently researching it.
Because I pushed petabytes of data over it for the past 15 years and it never failed me, not once. Simple as that.
Write a metric shit ton of unmaintainable, underperforming pandas code and call it an effective solution
1. India is a single country, cryptocurrencies are global

2. Nobody uses proof of work anymore (besides bitcoin)
How Entrepreneurs Should Choose the Right Investors
This is dead
Why not a stablecoin with lower fees?
What if a second variant occured in the same country? We shouldn't be afraid of existing names that are taken from persons or placenames, but it's worth switching to better naming systems where they make sense.
You can have a cryptocurrency wallet with money denominated in USD or Euros, too (asset-backed stablecoins).
First off - fasting, like 10 days water fast kinda thing. Generates new stem cells that can fix neurological problems, massively reduces inflammation.

Lifespan book by Dr. Sinclair does a deep dive on that.

Next swimming/yoga/qigong - make your muscles be able to better support your spine. Standing desks also help a lot in that regard if you can handle them.

It’s surprising how much crude tools like that can help inflammation/pain problems. It’s usually not just the movements themselves, it is the whole culture of mindfulness around it. You get to spend more time being at peace with yourself, as well as meeting a lot of people who do it too and encourage you. And that helps a ton as well.

I’ve seen several people embark on those paths with “untreatable” problems with good results, but it might be important that this is not treated as panacea - we don’t want to end up like Steve Jobs.

I personally think fasting is incredibly powerful medical short and longterm tool. And the rest is more psychological one, still very powerful too.

I went to wing chun mostly because of the martial arts training, but did qigong too because it was expected in the peer group. I’ve found that even if the explanations of “why” it worked were clearly bogus (blocked energy pathways - earth/fire/air kinda things) the motions themselves and the culture around them was incredibly soothing. Now I myself didn’t suffer from illnesses but I did meet several people there who mentioned turning to it as a last resort, with positive results. Maybe it’s survivorship bias but I’d recon its still effective.
SEPA goes both ways, as opposed to what the article says

It goes in the "direct debt" way as described, so your electricity or broadband supplier can charge you every month automatically

But you can also "push" a payment to someone else (or yourself, of course)

Not sure about fraud, from what I know, everyone that does a direct debt has an identifier that can be revoked in case of fraud. So it can happen, but there are ways to block fraudulent chargers.
Their ad revenue is marginal and mostly limited to bing. if they use the data that's to tailor the product and sell more of it. On the other hand Google sells your profile to advertisers. Albeit, not you in particular, still leveraging what they know about you to put someone's commercial in front of you.

Ms sells to you, google sells you. I get a difference.
Let me tell you another way in which the app is dangerously horrible. When you add a stocks widget to the home screen, the ticker value of the stock actually takes some time to update. Sometimes you gotta click it to see the updated value and then when you come back to the home screen, the widget has the same value. There were instances where I wondered how the price stayed the same for so many hours - turns out the value in the widget was not getting refreshed.

This was my only source of truth doing intraday trading (when i was not near a computer) until i figured out the bug
The first iPhone had a slower SoC, yet it felt way faster.
I think there is room for improvement on the software side to make things faster.
I’ve used Zelle for years to pay my rent and it’s a real pain because you’re limited to 2k a day. So I have to spread payments on multiple days (I live in SF).

I miss Monzo.
Meh. Not so much. First time I opened it show half screen banner to download mobile app.

And the website wasn't designed for mobile at all.
There has been a few if you monitor the news, mostly unsuccessful (e.g. Iraqi PM a couple of weeks ago)
Covid is very effective at merging, so branching is not an issue at all. Low accuracy just means more bugs^H^H^H^H features!
Bank-to-bank money transfers in South Africa is a mostly solved problem. (Electronic funds transfer/known as EFT locally)

- payments above coffee-shop prices often happen by EFT.
- it arrives within 2 days, bank sends proof of payment instantly and sellers accept that as sufficient proof.
- can opt to send instantaneously which reflects within seconds to minutes (for a small fee, like ~$1).
- non reversible
- need bank account number and bank name

That’s for push, for pull, debit orders exist, but they are luckily easily reversible. Unfortunately fraud on this is super high.

Always strange when in the US and the landlord asks me to pay by cheque. Something we havent seen in SA in ~15 years.
Just announcing that you think something you disagree with is wrong isn't an argument at all. I know you think my arguments are wrong since you are disagreeing. The only reason you have given for thinking they are wrong is that you don't think they are convincing. This may be because you have a secret reason you don't want to share, but I believe it is more likely you are more interested in being disagreeable than in understanding.
One is Chrome, one is Webkit, and the third is completely custom. I do agree with your point below that unless the rendering engine is built from scratch, then the cost of the browser is still being subsidized, just higher up the chain.

Needless to say, it's that third browser I'm trying that interests me most.
This is a fantastic comment. Thank you for breaking it down.
You've explained the parent's joke ;)
MK64 was the first MK game I played. Having played titles proceeding it, I feel that MK Wii and MK8 are more balanced. MK64 has horrible rubber banding. It’s to the point where your level of skill can mean nothing if you make one costly error.

MK64 character driving attributes also vary, but the character select screen doesn’t inform players of this http://tasvideos.org/GameResources/N64/MarioKart64.html#Driv...
Approximately the same story here. I'd had debilitating upper back pain for 4..5 years, gotten MRI's and a plethora of scans and nothing seemed off. Every time I got physical therapy it'd last for a few hours and then the pain would be back.

I tried accepting that it was more of a mental than a physical ailment, and although it was difficult and took multiple tries, I'm now finally pretty much pain-free for a few years after having tried everything for years on end.
Who wouldn't want to watch construction? It's the same drive that has me watch hours of machine shop videos, or other how it's made stuff. If it wasn't dangerous, and there were a machine shop with a picture window, I bet those same men would go watch the machinists when the weather was poor.

Or the baker, candlestick maker, etc.
It’s an insightful article, but I can’t get around the fact that almost every paragraph contains subtle typos. Makes me wonder, whether the author bothered to do a final pass on the text, or just dumped everything out of his mind, and hit Publish.
Tell that to my computer, with a bunch of stripped out threads.
There are anonymous types for intermediate results in the linq stream. And since they are anonymous types you need the c
var keyword when working with the outcome.
There used to be a coffee shop opposite my office that had a pull handle on the push side of the double doors. The right hand side doors were also often locked. I once sat at the nearest table to the doors and watched a dozen people pull then push on the right door, then pull and finally push on the left door, and often end up visibly aggravated by the time they got in and joined the morning queue!

The next day my debugging instinct kicked in, I bought some PUSH stickers and did some covert guerrilla ergonomic stickering. Problem solved and it made me smile every time I went past that cafe!
What data do you base your claims on?

Studies like this one, https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal..., do not support what you are saying. Experts predicted 30,000 people would die from covid in the UK by the end of 2020, compared with yearly deaths from influenza which is usually quoted at about 25,000-30,000.
The very first sentence cites Haidt and his terrible book. Let’s not be naive about this. Haidt’s position is that racial stereotypes are correct and that whiny college students just can’t handle the truth.
"However, common therapies such as surgery and steroid injections intended to address physical origins of back pain have not been clearly proven to work in randomized clinical trials"

vs.

"To assess whether PSRT can reduce symptoms and pain-related anxiety in patients with non-specific chronic back pain, Donnino and colleagues enrolled 35 participants"

35 participants …
For reference: https://xkcd.com/927/
After the CSAM scanning debacle came out this year, it pushed me towards being far less reliant on any cloud servers and I set up a home NAS, transferred my photos to it, deleted everything off of my iCloud, and discontinued my subscription to iCloud for higher storage, going down to the free 5gb tier.

Ever since then, I've been getting notifications on the settings app about how my iCloud storage is almost out of space because somehow my iPhone backup takes nearly 4.8gb, even though I have disabled the vast majority of app backup permissions.

If you dismiss the almost out of storage notification and the accompanying ad for subscription to iCloud, it comes back a month later.

I feel this author's pain.

Another fishy thing that Apple does is that when I bought this phone, they gave a free year of Apple TV+. Most of my paid subscriptions I keep a close eye on and cancel right after I sign up, so that I won't have to remember at the end of the subscription period. It works fine with any app on the app store, I get the service for the desired period. With Apple TV +, if you cancel your subscription to avoid autorenew, it immediately cancels your access to the service.

Rules for thee, not for me.