skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>see reporting requirements for paying more than 10000€ in cash

Why is that a problem? The bank is doing the reporting, not you and it's not like the government is stopping you from transferring over 10000€, electronically or in cash. You are free to do that. I transferred over 50k without any issues. And you can still use cash to buy weed if anonymity is what you wish, or use cash to pay some handyman to fix stuff around your house or piano lessons for your kids, without paying taxes.

The issue is with large cash sums, as believe it or not, money laundering and tax fraud is a real thing, and large cash transactions make this a breeze.

So, knowing how much tax money the taxpayers are loosing every year thanks to cash driven tax fraud, I'm all in favor of more scrutiny on large cash transactions and moving to more transparent wire transitions.
> The one thing that is clear to see is the ever-expanding headcount: from less than a dozen paid staff in 2007 to 550 or so today.

Exactly. What, are they all working sales and marketing? What marketing and sales does wikipedia need to do?

The engineering headcount at companies utterly baffles me sometimes.

Mozilla laid off ~350 developers in the last year or two. That's probably well under half their total dev staff. What are all these developers doing? Mozilla is almost entirely Firefox and Thunderbird, so they had hundreds of people working full time Firefox and Thunderbird? Sure, there's some platform-specific stuff so you've got iOS, Android, MacOS, and Windows specific people...but the number still seems wildly high.

How about Twitter? What are all the engineers doing at twitter? We're talking about a company whose product hasn't significantly changed in a decade.

Instagram was ~40 people when they got bought up. What do you suppose the engineering headcount is now?

I recently read that Wayfair has over 2,000 programmers. Two. Thousand. Programmers.

What the fluff are they doing? Maintaining an online furniture store, or developing sentient furniture?
There is a huge amount of truth to this. I've been thinking of these as Microliths large monolithic codebases surrounded by service workers (lambda style or queue style).

The biggest problem I've seen is that early applications are not built in a modular fashion. More as a maze of twisty little functions calling each other, where you quickly end up with circular dependancies and other "challenges". If your base monolithic architecture mimics the world of microservices, modular single purpose functions and event busses to pass around information.

Good design is good design.
Brakes? Iceland's economy is heavily tourism-dependent. Measures were implemented for COVID but tourism is necessary.

Sectors like tech are growing (as is the case everywhere else), but without tourism Iceland's economy is not far from that of the Faroe Islands: fish, fish, and more fish.

(P.S. I live in Iceland)

EDIT: There are movements towards more sustainable tourism, however.
And not forgetting "A Note On Distributed Computing" https://www.cc.gatech.edu/classes/AY2010/cs4210_fall/papers/...
You could make a rice array located at various locations around a room and reconstruct an image through post processing.
Even with blockchain data can be trivially copied. Ownership of data is an illusion.
Several million dollars disappeared at one point ... only to resurface months later in a Tides Advocacy fund for spending on worthy causes _outside_ the Wikimedia movement.

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Knowledge_Equity_Fund
In Their Footsteps or Shadow? Gender Differences in Choosing a STEM Major
None of my certifications I got were required, I was hired into the enterprise IT field with no formal training. But I will say the process of studying for and taking certifications was wildly beneficial to my job. In my case, I took community college courses aligned to these programs (mostly to keep me on track) and often was able to apply things I was getting from class directly to work. I would say the certifications fill in a lot of gaps, and do give you a good baseline.

It's definitely going to be a "you get out what you put in" thing though. Folks trying to rote-memorize dumps aren't going to get anything out of it. Personally, I used practice tests to evaluate and tell me where I needed to go back and study more, and then jumped back into the material in those places.
Was the French Revolution as close to “pure evil” as any thing/event could be? And a cause, for all time, for red faced shame on the part of French speaking persons the world over?
Cultural exchange isn't what the parent post suggested though. More that a lot of modern American culture has emerged as the result of the war with Germany and Japan - popular comic book heroes being one of them. Capitan American beating up Nazis wouldn't be a thing if well, you weren't at war with the Nazis.
Why does everyone act like this is some massive cultural shift or new phenomenon instead of the latest representation of one of humanity’s favorite pastimes.

It’s gambling. People have done it for millennia. You invent some system and some arbitrary rules about what’s valuable (the right domino, an ace of hearts, a jpeg of a monkey, a beanie baby) and then some people win some money and some people lose.

It’s happened before and it’ll happen again it’s the least surprising thing our culture has ever done. It’s just the superficial details that change every generation or two.
I read many examples of why this is acceptable, but they are all based on the concept that lowering the bar is the way, that because there some (many?) bad guys then all must accept what for me are incredible life limitations, it seems being imprisoned is not enough. USA prison system is designed to perpetually preserve it self.
Well let’s see I spent the last five months in Lisbon, Barcelona, Paris, London, and Zagreb. Now I’m in Bangkok. So your assumption that I’ve never been overseas is drastically incorrect. In fact, I’d wager I’ve been to more countries than you have and I always use the subway when available.

If you read my comment, I mentioned that while the US is poor at public transit in general, the NYC subway stands out for several reasons including being 24 hours, being able to perform track maintenance without shutting down due to having two tracks (something I believe no other system has), and it also has 472 stations! Prague has 61 stations and even Tokyo only has 280.

So you ignored the fact that I said America isn’t good at public transit, ignored the reasons I cited that make the NYC system better in some ways than the systems you’re talking about, and instead responded with some misplaced condescension about “American exceptionalism”

Stop making assumptions about strangers on the Internet instead of reading what they wrote.
This is awful advice for this specific situation.

OP apparently managed to clear up the mistake without much bother by speaking to them (although they were understandably shaken up by the experience). This presumably wouldn't have happened if they'd done what you suggest.
Link for part 2: https://blog.quarkslab.com/digging-into-linux-namespaces-par...
What competition is there for Wikipedia at the moment that could outcompete or make it obsolete?

But generally, there are many businesses and projects around the world which stay at their size and run successful for a long time. I mean isn't Hacker News itself an example for this? Small forum, running year after year and barely changing, nor aiming for growth.
I don't really care about the 5g phones. The difference is that I can choose not to buy them, and it won't affect my life at all.
Managed. Past tense. The old stuff was quality.
> But, also, there probably are ways for the blockchain to help with some quality-of-life improvements for various online communities. At the very least, it could help make online communities more self-sustainable.

I buy crypto art several days a week.

I typically spend 1 or 2 tez (so $5 or $10) for a "digital print" that offers 10 or 25 editions and a significant number of the artists that I collect from are in Indonesia, Brazil, etc.

I'm a collector and a fan and I am enjoying this so much more than Patreon and I imagine the creators are too. It's obviously so much better than giving your work away to Instagram and Twitter for likes or engagement or whatever and then struggling to make money from it by asking for tips or patreon or physical merch that nobody really wants.

I think about it like I do my indie vinyl records, art prints, and things like that.

I like supporting artists and I like collecting and I really like collecting digital things that are not locked into one person's platform. In fact, the platform I've been using since May (hicetnunc.xyz) disappeared last month when the main developer left and it only took hours for everyone to regroup. As the backend is all on-chain data and the frontend was open source, we hardly missed a beat.
The video is a great parody of the iPhone launch hype videos. Well done.
This Month with Nim: November 2021
I do too. I have no clue how to find out. (On Win10, using Firefox)
> I wish I was more of a hacker/programmer because I'd like to do some protocol sniffing and create a connector for Node-Red so that I could link the appliance to my home automation system without becoming a personal data asset for the manufacturer.

You may find this post (https://ptx2.net/posts/unbricking-a-bike-with-a-raspberry-pi...) inspirational.
In that it's not just a snapshot of current "how much people pay to buy/sell" but also "how much is this item proven historically/able to maintain price/a good idea"...

Like the proverbial tulips, NFTs don't fare well on the latter.

Doesn't have to be a distinction between god-given naturally-occuring-intristic value vs worthless junk.

There are also BS market fads.
Microservices are not a solution, they're a capability. It's powerful for a team to be able to deploy a tiny service with the absolute minimum amount of explicit plumbing to meet operational requirements. Whether they should break their system up this way is a case by case judgment.

Every place I've been, the costs of microservices get overlooked in favor of the illusion of decoupling. Microservices will absolutely make simple features fully contained within a service easier, but as soon as a feature spans services or even impacts the contract of a service, you're in for more pain than in a monolithic architecture. Microservices sieze local simplicity at the cost of integration complexity.

Microservices, as a philosophy, is encoding your org design at the networking layer. I hope you get it the factoring right the first time, because it's going to be painful to change.

I'm all for small services where they make sense. But just like the advice that "all functions should be small" microservices has been myopically adopted as a design principle, rather than a debatable decision.
How long until we get functions running? Absolutely love the product btw, can't make the switch until we have functions tho :)
OlympusDAO – A Decentralized Reserve Currency
This seems really like a browser problem, and I'd love to know a fix. Geogebra.org hijacks CMD-` in Safari and it is absolutely infuriating.
In my swing club in grad school we once had a Balboa lesson. The instructor used me to demonstrate, and the way she taught it, the dancers basically mash their hips together and bounce rapidly -- like 3 times a second. It felt designed by rabbits. I was embarrassed but everyone seemed to think we looked cool.
Whatever wikipedia is doing with the money, it's working. For me, it's the most valuable site on the internet. I think it's a great example that you can provide quality content and services and not have to be "ad supported". Open source too. Win, Win, Win.
I think the implication was that you're misled or riding hype more than reality, more than criminal.

(I say this only to clarify; I endorse neither side)
Topic Modeling applied to COVID: what is the news talking about?
I also would like to know about the user experience of non-technical users.
Ghost Kitchens Are Proving to Be a Messy Business, as Reef Global Shows
Akregator: https://apps.kde.org/akregator/
Microservices means just that: tiny, single purpose services that deploy and scale on their own.

I often see appeals to Conway's Law when discussing microservices, but teams don't organize themselves this way. Instead, teams work on a macro services: the email delivery team, or the monitoring team, or whatever. In most cases these macroservices would be best implemented and deployed as a monolith, and then presented to the outside world over a reasonable API.
Anecdotally, I was taught much more about the Industrial Revolution than the French Revolution; and plenty of the musical names from 200-300 years ago — Bethoven, Schubert, Bach, Mozart — were ones I listened to on Classic FM in my school years[0].

Certainly most culture will be forgotten (the Wikipedia list of 18th and 19th C. classical composers are 676 and 1620 long respectively)… but I can say much the same of their timeline of the 18th century[1], including a famine that killed 10%-20% of Ireland[2], and the 7 years war[3].

[0] I blame the “Mozart effect” getting in the news at the time, but still.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_the_18th_century

[2] I’m embarrassed but not surprised this wasn’t part of my British education

[3] If anything, I’m confused this wasn’t part of my British education
The fact that you're expecting prepared candidates is a red flag on its own. As an experienced professional I shouldn't have to prepare for your interview except for maybe reading up on the company.
When Multilevel Marketing Met Gen Z
I agree it's bad at math.

I don't believe it knew my exam questions because I translated them from Czech printed books. I tried computer science and literature questions - it got 100% on the literature section (5 questions) and 4/5 on the CS section.

I'll try again later and post the log too, but I'm on the go now.
Using Nim for Web Development in 2021
Significant whitespace in python is annoying indeed. Altough, specifically in python (because the mixture of statement based, not strongly enforced type system and the whitespace).

In f# I actually really like the significant whitespace.
There’s a bit of difference. Terrence Fletcher probably wouldn’t accept a comeback containing language just as harsh. And this is the important bit.

I’m all for throwing many kinds of words around when working with peers. Once there’s a significant power difference, ouch. Unless you know each other so well you can safely assume you’re both above it.
It's a great idea to include Bluetooth in a child's toy, so as to better prepare them for the crushing frustration and disappointment of adult life.
The Internet's Casino Boats
From the wikipedia policy page:

> Consider reverting only when necessary. BRD does not encourage reverting

It's bizarre that you think it "puts reverting at the center of the recommended approach to editing" when the policy specifically says it doesn't even encourage reverting.
this was an airbnb project!
the successor to airpal
Tesla and Elon Musk mock 'silly Apple Cloth' with new $50 Cyberwhistle
You don’t buy a restaurant meal and expect to be able to resell it later, let alone expecting it to go up in value. You consume it. NFT is a different sort of market.
Consider what a passport is: an official document issued by a government, certifying the holder's identity and citizenship and entitling them to travel under its protection to and from foreign countries.

>> Would it make sense to have passports issued by an entity that is not a country?

Not really. What would it even mean?

If I have a digitally signed document that says "FIRST_NAME LAST_NAME is a citizen of the Internet" or "FIRST_NAME LAST_NAME is a certified member of Blockchain Buddies" would it be officially recognized by other governments?

Passports are legal documents which show that a person belongs to a certain nation and that that nation "has their back" or at a minimum where to send the person if you want to deport them.

>> How about virtual passports? Blockchain?

Nations could issue fully digital passports or identity certificates, but it does not need blockchain-based technology to work. Existing cryptography tech like digitally-signed certificates and public key cryptography are sufficient.
I'm actually using Google's original algorithm, with a modification suggested in the original PageRank paper called Personalized PageRank that allows using a specific segment of the internet as a tastemaker in creating the ranking.

It's a bit funny because the authors of the paper suggest this modification and explicitly states it makes the algorithm extremely resilient to manipulation from commercial interests.
Postgrest does not stream rows, it waits for the db with the full response then forwards it to the browser/client
Study links high cholesterol, cardiovascular disease to plastics
Is it fair to call out Wikipedia for something like this and educate people for how their donations might get used? Most certainly!

But will i still be likely to throw a small amount of money Wikipedia's way, given how much utility i've gotten out of it for free otherwise? Probably.

Why? Because there isn't anything better out there, similarly to how we're stuck tolerating Mozilla not being excellent recently, about which i wrote in another comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29395206 (with which i'd like to draw parallels)

That said, having a local and searchable copy of all of the English Wikipedia can be pretty nice as well.

For example, the data is already accessible: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Database_download#En...

And then there are local browsers, for example XOWA: http://xowa.org/ or Kiwix: https://wiki.kiwix.org/wiki/Main_Page

Now, the UI could probably use a few improvements, but it's overall not too hard to get up and running, here's an example guide: https://www.howtogeek.com/260023/how-to-download-wikipedia-f...

The space requirements also shouldn't be too much for a modern HDD to handle either, so it's entirely feasible. That way you can benefit from Wikipedia's data, without having to rely on consuming their other content, much like you can use Firefox without opting in to their other initiatives.

That said, i still occasionally throw a little bit of money their way.
Trio – a friendly Python library for async concurrency and I/O
Sixth member of notorious SIM-swapping cybercrime gang sentenced
In France and probably most of western Europe too, business being closed between 12 and 2 is very much standard. Those people gotta eat too.
Five to ten seconds!

From a game theoretic perspective, hugging too briefly could be optimal. Even if the majority of people prefer a hug longer than 5 seconds, you might view the slight gain from having hugged them perfectly as not worth the risk that you creep them out.

On the other hand, one might consciously want to weed out people uncomfortable with a hug of that duration.
Awesome!

For those of us a little out of the loop, is this implementation being developed with guidance from the core Django devs with a view to adopting into core?

(I tried to find any references in the Django forums but may have missed them)

I believe they intend to have native support for async with the ORM, but it’s a monumental feature to add with lots of edge cases. I believe about 50% of Django is it’s ORM.
The Bay Area is a dense region with earthquakes and it’s share of NIMBYs which complicates planning but they’re still opening four new stations next year as part of the Central Subway.

I’d certainly like to see a lot more infrastructure projects but building more lanes on highways is not actually the solution according to the vast majority of urban planners. Try visiting cities that went all in on highways. For example, here in Bangkok they’ve been investing a ton into the metro systems (MRT and BTS) because even after covering the city in highways the traffic doesn’t move in many areas.

I see you deleted your other comment where you said I’d clearly never left the United States. It’s a bizarre thing to assume about someone you’ve never met who has spent six months in European and Asian cities this year. Next time read the content of what is written instead of inventing things.
I didn't forget him, as I don't expect him to direct any films. But I agree that his music is very important for Ghiblis success.
Connecting to PostgreSQL Using GORM
> To counter that, he modified his resume and added 2 fake experiences from top companies as Network Engineer. Within a week with new resume, he gathered 3 top offers in Ontario, negotiated and signed $70K per year with XYZ company as Lead Operations Specialist.

That sounds like a failure of the companies to do a proper background check and follow up for proof of employment.
I love how he drops an offhand comment about inflation, as if to say “clearly anyone with half a brain knows that nominal box office records are essentially guaranteed to be broken, I can’t believe we actually need to say that out loud”
What happens if Europe runs out of gas?
The IPFS on LBRY also means that the videos themselves don't have a "home" on one particular server. It's more like torrenting files.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I assume that if you take down a server holding a peertube video, it's not as though clients who have seen the video (or even federated servers?) would continue serving that video. The P2P aspect is merely a bandwidth saving scheme when clients are playing the video?
I've been wondering how much they automate that kind of search. Does the team of seconds now have some programmers taking Stockfish and altering it to search for lines where you always have multiple options but your opponent is on a tight path for example? That kind of work may be easier to hide than the grandmaster seconds which are drawn from a very small pool of possibilities.
Entirely possible that while it’s involved in angiogenesis, it’s not a critical component of that process, and angiogenesis can continue just fine without it.

The statement “not important for normal cells” doesn’t mean it serves zero purpose outside of cancer, all it means is that it’s not critical for body functions.
ᚼᛒ: Harald Bluetooth
Welcome, SyncSketch
Obviously, because they can. As long as people are giving them money, they will take the money and ask for more money. The business flows, so it continues.

The question is whether they invest the money according to their mission, or waste it in corruption. And in that regard one should remember that Wikipedia is not just Wikipedia anymore, it's wikimedia for a long time now, which aims for much more than just maintaining a collection of text. Though, whether this is good or bad, and whether they use the money according to their money, I don't know. It seems more information should be spreaded about this.
Isn't the buffer then the TCP one, which has its own backpressure system?
Caffeine improves dynamic visual acuity
He probably right-clicked it from somewhere else.
Artbreeder (https://www.artbreeder.com/), though it's limited in what it can do.
Very cool! The keyboard warrior routine looks a lot like my yoga handstand warmup routine, will be interesting to apply to keyboard as well.
Given that you can find allegations of bias going both ways just in this thread, by reading the comments I became convinced Wikipedia is in fact more neutral than I thought.

And to you I say Wikipedia is open source, you can edit in stuff yourself. Sure there is some inertia and moderation and some users will engage in edit wars but as long as you add information (e.g. the scandals you mention) there is usually a low resistance to do so. Editing or removing stuff requires more justification but it is feasible too, as long as you have an encyclopedic reason to do so.