skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>>Nor is it clear that wildcat banks are the summation of all historical experience of privately issued money. George Selgin of the Cato Institute, a libertarian think-tank, has likened the use of wildcat banking by critics of private-money issuance to the use of Germany’s interwar hyperinflation by critics of central-bank money issuance: both are extreme and negative examples, rather than representative. Scotland’s free-banking system between 1716 and 1844, for instance, is often cited as a period of stability. Three large banks and several smaller lenders all issued currency and redeemed each other’s notes at their full value.

>>Furthermore, at least some of the problems with American free banking may have reflected poor regulation rather than a total absence of it. Banks were often not allowed to have networks of branches and interstate banking was near-impossible, which limited the expansion of successful and trusted institutions. Many were also made to hold volatile state bonds as collateral. Slumps in the value of these could—and did—spark local banking crises.

In addition to the fact that it was the lack of freedom in banking that caused most wild banks in the so-called free banking era of the US, Selgin provides statistics showing that wildcat banks were actually very rare, with the pervasiveness of the phenomenon greatly exaggerated by the popular narrative that individuals in the regulatory sector, who are advocating for more centralization, promulgate, and use to justify their agenda.
the dutch tulip bubble lasted one winter before collapsing, it also coincided with a growth in the supply of money during that period.

today dutch tulips are still a major tourist attraction, see the flower markets of Amsterdam busy each day. culture persists.
Slightly tangential to the author's intent, but is there any way in modern web front ends to discover accurate DPI info of the screen you're on, and therefore at least attempt to create correct physical sizes for UI elements?
It's an antidepressant. I don't think it has any effect on COVID, either proven or rumoured.
The claim was about ATM withdrawals and credit card swipes. Ie, without a GPS clock there would be a "clock sync" error in the ATM machine, and no cash could be drawn.

I continue to remain EXTREMELY skeptical of this claim. It makes almost no sense.

Please note that GPS is not the source of time, NIST is, and you can get NIST time in a variety of ways including over the internet if needed. And as I have been describing, many of these described errors are around systems with one source of truth (ie, not google spanner type globally distributed databases). So they make even less sense.

Note I'm familiar with clock skew issues and errors in authentication and other systems. These issues show up when errors are in minutes and seconds not microseconds.
Tempera’s pleasing properties is how egg yolk interacts with pigment
Microsoft is shooting themselves in the foot here. Who will take real security warnings seriously after that?
While simplifications of complex ideas are often necessary to begin an essay, this level of simplification does violence to the historical reality. Having read a lot of economic history, to read this essay's simplifications, I feel a bit like John Derbyshire, when he asked, at the end of "Unknown Quantity: A Real and Imaginary History of Algebra," was it possible to get useful work done with Category Theory? Is there any level of abstraction that goes too far? Likewise, here I would ask, if you have to simplify reality this much to start your essay, then maybe you should rethink your whole thesis?

"For centuries, work has been incredibly inefficient. In the “barter era”, one person would do work in exchange for someone else’s work. E.g. I’ll make you a silver fork in exchange for salt and spices. There were many things challenging about this type of economy. 1) There was no common currency to transact and understand value, and 2) on a macro level, it was hard to know whether your good or service was really needed and whether it was going up or down in value. E.g. Is there a surplus of spices? Should I be spending time in spices or something else this year?"

I have a dozen criticisms of this essay, but maybe the most obvious is that I still ask myself these questions several times a year, and I'm definitely not living in a barter economy. Indeed, these questions seem more likely to be asked in a monetary economy that's already seen considerable specialization of labor -- one person is making a silver fork, and another person is harvesting spices. This is the world of, say for instance, Britain in 1800 AD, not 1800 BC.
Probably Charlatan here, AMA

Our $company lacked of automation of some process and after months of wasting hours doing it manually I decided to automate that.

I had no exp with real ci/cd tools and thought our process was already crazy enough (using annoying source control tool, heavy dependency between compilation and external soft's specific versions) that we need to build our tool to manage it.

I built MVP as CLI and it worked. As time passed everybody wanted to add tons of stuff to it - like Web GUI, history, logs, managing software versions when creating binaries and even performing code analysis (because we were heavily dependent on 3rd software we needed to detect some colissions)

Overall, it saved us from doing hundreds manual, sometimes error-prone tasks per year. It allowed us to add customizations like that code analysis using compiler's API

But the other hand maybe we could just use some Jenkins or some shit and achieve similar stuff without having to invest time into it and maintain - it's combo of Visual Studio + MS Build + Team Foundation Version Control + .NET Framework, so stuff tends to make problems from time to time

I feel that despite all good things that this project brought, then we could just use existing tool and maybe achieve similar results, but I don't know for sure.

I feel like sometimes I used this project to escape boring CRUDing and used it as a learning opportunity - maybe I abused it too much?

Or maybe should I treat it as "Google's 20%"?
World's most popular way to download Firefox!
no? Press the button and innocent until proven guilty
Was it written by Little Bobby Tables?
No, press the button and innocent until reviewed and found to continue to be innocent. Similar to those 'in case of emergency, break glass (abuse will be prosecuted)' emergency brakes on trains and other similar constructs. This is a solved problem, I don't see why you would attach any special significance to it.
On first read I just saw "...nearly dead Rust implementation" and didn't notice the previous fragment saying there was another very active one. Just a reading comprehension fail but maybe the sentence structure tripped up others like it did to me.
Video evidence and the sworn testimony of two seems like a pretty strong case here.
Thanks for listening! Spread the word :)
Ogre had its golden period at the time when game engines were becoming so complex that writing a complete engine from scratch was definitely becoming too expensive for small teams to take on and the major engines at that time still had very high price tags attached (e.g. something between 500k $ and 1M $ for UE2 or UE3 for a single title). Turn-key engines were only slowly establishing themselves (Torque had a pretty bad reputation, Unity was still in its infancy...).

In this situation, the a reasonable thing for many small studios was to cobble something together from parts that were available: bullet, Ogre, OIS etc. There was barely any out of the box tooling for these libraries and I doubt that many teams invested a lot of time to write custom editors that were better than barely workable for their immediate project.

This situation ended when Unity took over. Compared to all the half baked in house solutions, its all in one package with all the painstaking integration work was pretty attractive.
israel isn't the only country to have conscription but it has exceptionally high profile espionage companies
This is actually a good observation. Yes, the Windows results are full of what I would call useless crap (e.g. "make sure you did not mute the speaker!"), but for real newbies that is likely to be useful advice, and much more likely to solve their problem than say digging into alsa.cfg internals (which is highly unlikely to be the source of the problem).
the world is not manichean, the superpowers are thorns in the side to "deal" with day in, day out, for smaller nations.

What's the point of view of the African nations where only China invests vs what the Uighurs think of the same government?

What's the point of view of a NATO nation vs the point of view of the Afghans on the US? It's the same country that blocked the westward moving of the USSR and gave an entire country to the Talibans after having upset them.

Or even worse, think of Irak, where nothing good came of the invasion, and nothing good was really foreseeable without the invasion anyways, no clear good vs bad here. Maybe a dictature kills less people and is more predictable than an open war, but that's hardly a manichean difference.
That ship sailed years ago. Windows has trained people that all system dialogue boxes are a choice between "Use my computer" and "Don't use my computer."
I have a theory that America's bizarre process is a result of their "checks and balances".

The US system has the senate, congress, presidency, and a bunch of committees - all of which can impede the others' work, and all of which can be under the control of a different party.

And every person who can block your bill is someone who can extract a concession. You want your bill to pass, and for a mere extra 0.3% pork you'll have my enthusiastic support....

With the result they get thousand-page bills, and a country dotted with more dams and bridges than they can afford to maintain.
I dislike the Sunny Bono and Disney laws and I dislike modern IPR life extension. But, I do sometimes think this is an overstated problem. Taking the long view, what's coming into the public domain now is good, and more will follow in due course. If not in my lifetime, the white album will ultimately be legally freely available. Of course we have to fight to maintain that inevitability, it's not like corporates won't fight back.

I also think this is a junk website for something so interesting. Bad design for a simple list.
I wonder how well one can modify the framework laptop to use the 13 inch e-ink monitor. Even if a small hdmi cable needs to run outside the case, as long as the lid can close (no need auto sleep) I'd be happy. I don't know anything about 3D printing, but it will likely be necessary (perhaps not sufficient though).
It's not always reasonable, because in the general case you don't know until later right? You discover the issues at some point when already working. Also you're implying that there is no economic dependence which is not always the case.
Why point out that you loathe someone before linking their work? What an odd, pompous thing to say.
Fast for eink, but also absolutely terrible ghosting, which makes the speed considerably less impressive considering how straining it looks. What's the point of a fairly quick response to screen updates when you have to press the manual refresh button in order to read what's on it?
Is that why so many websites suck on high resolution 4k screens? Because developers are looking at these websites on their tiny screens, lol makes so much sense
These stats do not show the difference between taking a shot but still being infected within two weeks after it, and not taking any shots at all and being infected. If you're going to blame the second group for filling up ICUs, you cannot lump them together.
Well... Yes, Vivaldi is a skin of Chromium, that doesn't mean there isn't a lot of effort going into that skin.

The point is that Firefox and Chrome on iOS are not the same browser as Firefox and Chrome on any other platform.

For example, if I get a bug report from someone saying they're using Chrome on mobile, if they then say they're using iOS, that's a whole different kettle of fish from any other Chrome bug report I might get. It's going to be much closer to a Safari-related bug than a Chrome one, in a conventional sense.
That example is a little misleading though, since it's using a shade of blue for comments and strings.

But in general, I'd agree, I've been using a monochrome color scheme for a few weeks (although mostly for the novelty) and it's definitely usable. When given the choice, I will use a full-color one though.
What does even the "search with bing" do from Notepad? Like... open "default browser with bing to let you search?" by a hotkey and menu entry? That's just... silly.
> So what you're saying is that companies should never employ people [in more than one country]

No, that's not what I'm saying, besides that could be easily covered through employment law, but we already have the concept of internationally operating free-lancers.

> or do anything else across borders that requires a legal entity that can be locally regulated, taxed and held accountable.

Not if that legal entity is going to have a company as its shareholders. But there would be no reason why it could not exist and have natural persons as its shareholders, they could even be the same shareholders as in some other company abroad.

You are still arguing about this from the perspective of everything that it can't do, which is pretty easy to deal with because most of those things it can do. What it can't do is to hide the UBOs, which is really the only big change. Everything else can easily be worked around.
12m Cactus

I thought this was a mistake but it checks out.

https://www.dimensions.com/collection/cactus-cacti
Show HN: Keypad Layout, keyboard-driven window manager for macOS
The last time i had Linux break after an update was around 2015 with Arch, but that is a rolling distro and during a time when rolling distros weren't as stable as nowadays. Before that it was with Ubuntu in the late 2000s but that was with a full system upgrade that you have to explicitly do manually.

I wouldn't expect a "fixed" version distro to break nowadays because of updates.

Also FWIW openSUSE does provide recovery support[0] as it uses Btrfs snapshots before and after package installations and upgrades (as well as during some other events, including taking a snapshot periodically - these are deleted after a while or if they start taking too much space) and you can roll them back either manually or even boot from a snapshot in case something goes wrong.

I haven't really had a need for it so i can't exactly tell you how useful that would be (or to compare it with Windows since i never used Windows' system restore either), but it does sound like it'd provide the same or at least very similar functionality.

[0] https://doc.opensuse.org/documentation/leap/reference/html/b...
> we can't achieve R < 1 without them.

So then what happened summer 2020?
> The strenuously long hours that “salarymen” (the term used for workers) put in led to deaths by overwork. It's so commonplace that Japan has a term for it—karōshi. “The government is really very keen for this change in attitude to take root at Japanese companies,” said Martin Schultz, the chief policy economist at Fujitsu’s global market intelligence unit.

Gotta love it when gaijin pretend knowing Japan by sharing over and over again the same myths. Yeah, Japan has words for many things, it does not mean that it's a phenomenon that's so commonplace that the word exists. The existence of a word and its frequency are very different things.

Also, for an article so insisting on sharing data, no graphs? Do your homework, Forbes.
This is a really nice write-up of the highs and lows of launching an indie game. It resonates with me as I often dream of locking myself away for 6-12 months to crack out an indie title. I dream of fame and fortune, but the sad truth is thatost do not break even. One day when I can "retire", I'll just publish games for fun...
Well yeah, but i wouldn't expect a "normal user" to (re)install Windows either, so if they end up with Linux it would be because they either bought a computer with it preinstalled or someone else installed it for them.
In that case it's more a question of why that heck a chat UI inside a game cares about HTML and JS in the first place. Someone clearly overdesigned something here.
out of curiosity, if the blog post itself an org-mode output?
if yes then :
1. What tools did you use for the images?
2. That's a neat sidebar. custom ya-snippets?
3. Would love to take a leaf out of your dotfiles/.emacsd

Totally love the aesthetics of the page.
You can do worse than that. You can take the Linux's name in vain.
Initial searches are very promising. Is there a good way to add this as my default search engine in Firefox?
You think there’s an overwhelming consensus that bodily autonomy ends when a vaccine is concerned?
I was like "This cannot be the top comment on HN". It is. Sigh.
I have been using Safari and Firefox for years. Never have I got a pop-up in Safari when I visited the Chrome website to tell me that I should stay on Safari. Strange, because you say that Apple has been doing this for years yet it has completely escaped me!

Also, never have I seen a pop-up in iOS to tell me to use Apple Maps when I opened or downloaded Google Maps. Again, very strange, because you are claiming that Apple is doing the same disgusting tactics as Microsoft, yet I have never felt as an iOS or macOS user to be bullied into using Apple Maps.
Why don't we have newer chip companies?

If barrier of entry is the issue isn't that what people should be striving for?
Why? It looks like an open contract for me, because price is an essential part of the contract. A contract with 0 price for all future labor is just slavery. Slavery is forbidden by law. Thus, you can make a game and then ask for reasonable compensation for your labor, e.g. $1000 per line of code.
Sauna is great, no phone and temperature shocks are great for me to calm down the brain.
I never understood the dominance of CUDA. I did GPGPU more than half a decade ago, and I feel like stuff has hardly changed. There are thread groups, group shared variables, global, and group shared atomics etc. Underneath, all GPUs run the same-ish wide SIMD architecture, so I'm pretty sure most stuff is semi-performance portable.
DirectCompute, OpenCL and CUDA and probably all the others expose this same programming model. Why is CUDA so dominant?
It basically is the same line of thought. Oppressor vs. oppressed. they might seem to hate white people because they are synonymous with oppressors (which already certifies an extremely reductive understanding of sociology and history). But for these proponents minorities that don't mirror these opinions are even worse.

Communism created two conflicting parties. The have and the have-nots and put them into classes. It is a reductive view of the world that lead to much death because people started to blame any form of failure on the respective other group.

Not saying the analysis of Marx aren't correct on a lot of things as are aligned authors. But any implementation has proved that the ideas have problems with dissent. Forced equality will become totalitarian every time.

Not "education" tries the same with white people and the others. Two completely reductive groups. I believe if you are decently intelligent and know the basics about group dynamics, you are just an asshole and certainly nobody that anyone should listen to.
Oh that's hilarious. He could have done four in that time.
Those are probably the reasons why they target industrial users.
This is a completely different scenario and, also, a not so subtle humble brag.

You're duct taping process onto an existing product cycle.

I've experienced the 'X' factor the author is talking about and it's something like "we're moving everything to Linux because that's what I do" and then you go 18 months without a release and the release you do make is a bugfix release to the old infrastructure, your customers leave and you get bought for debt.
Top Kubernetes Tool to Reach the Cloud Native Nirvana
We manually collected the best open source tools based on their Github rating (stars). All of these tools are used with K8s to build, deploy, monitor and secure workloads. You can check our work here:

https://thechief.io/c/editorial/top-51-kubernetes-tool-to-reach-the-cloud-native-nirvana/
> Its worth reminding ourselves about Stuxnet, they still havent caught those people, but lots of assumptions exist. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fqk_VUMzY_M https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DDH4m6M-ZIU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CS01Hmjv1pQ

I thought it was widely known that stuxnet is very likely if not certainly a join NSA and Israel operation.
Key points:

- Purpose of the trial: study how well Covid booster jabs work

- 3000 participants enrolled in a blinded, multicentre, randomised, controlled, phase 2 trial

- 7 seven different vaccines tested

- The Pfizer and Moderna vaccines being used in the UK as boosters give the best overall boost response, according to the trial

- To make vaccine supplies go further, even a half dose of Pfizer could be used to boost populations

- Related UK Government press release states boosters give over 90% protection against symptomatic COVID-19 in adults over 50

- The trial results are thought to have prompted the UK government to order an extra 114 million doses of Pfizer and Moderna vaccines to be rolled out over the next two years.

Related Links

The Lancet: Safety and immunogenicity of seven COVID-19 vaccines as a third dose (booster) in the UK:

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6...

GOV.UK: Boosters give over 90% protection against symptomatic COVID-19 in adults over 50

https://www.gov.uk/government/news/boosters-give-over-90-pro...

FT journalist: Impact of booster jabs on Covid cases on elderly people (60+ age) in November - a dramatic drop from October:

https://twitter.com/jburnmurdoch/status/1463452535247806464
Very enjoyable article, but I do wonder if the conceptual entrepreneurship displayed in the section "De-escalating bullshit" is ironic by intent or merely by circumstance.
And yet the vaccination rate within the medical community is consistently higher than the general population (90% vs 70% in the UK).

(Edit: although it is plausible that this is due to some bias in the statistics - e.g. medical workers are expected to be working age adults (who are statistically more likely to be vaccinated anyway), and the general population is obviously a wider range)

So does this suggest that those in the know are more likely to be vaccinated? Or that those in the know are taking a wait-and-see approach?
Yeah I already looked at the public data and did the calculations, and I am sharing the results as I've said in other comments, and I challenge anyone to disprove me with another opinion that holds up to normal basic statistical scrutiny, and not some misleading clickbait bullshit
> To hack one would have to convince you to try connecting to a malicious server.

Anecdotally, every machine I've RDP'ed to has prompted me with this [0] warning on first connection. Instructions from IT were to just click through the warning. How the hell am I supposed to vet that I'm actually connecting to the right server in that case?

[0] https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/image/serverpage/imag...
I understand all the hook rules and all the gotchas around stale closures. But I don't want to have to deal with those as part of my everyday, regular programming, it's just stupid. React is no longer productive and hooks are way out of control. Did you know hooks are even more stupid with concurrent mode on?