skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
At the time I'm writing this, this hasn't been mentioned. How this interacts with state laws, I have no idea.

When it comes to businesses, the US government reserves the right to institute international boycotts. Companies may not, generally speaking, boycott a country (or people from that country, etc) unless that country (or person) is being boycotted by the US.

There are mandatory reporting requirements that surround this. If you work in finance and you have not received training on this topic...

For more info: The Office of Antiboycott Compliance -- https://www.bis.doc.gov/index.php/enforcement/oac. From their intro:

"The Office of Antiboycott Compliance (OAC) within BIS is charged with administering and enforcing the Anti-Boycott Act of 2018, Part II of the Export Control Reform Act of 2018 (ECRA), and the antiboycott provisions set forth in Part 760 of the Export Administration Regulations, 15 CFR parts 730-774 (EAR). These authorities discourage, and in some circumstances, prohibit U.S. companies from taking certain actions in furtherance or support of a boycott maintained by a foreign country against a country friendly to the United States (unsanctioned foreign boycott). U.S. companies must report to OAC their receipt of certain boycott-related requests for information designed to verify compliance with an unsanctioned foreign boycott. Prohibited activities include, inter alia, agreements by U.S. companies to refuse to do business with a boycotted country or with blacklisted persons for boycott-related reasons, furnishing information about any person’s business relationships with a boycotted country or with blacklisted persons, and implementation (by U.S. banking entities) of letters of credit that include prohibited boycott-related terms or conditions."
The Roots of Coding
Well they had a choice to make it less small and repairable. But ultimately, they chose small and disposable.

It may not be planned obsolescence, but it's still a choice made with a certain level of disregard for consumers.
Oh god, they are investing in the blockchain.
I don't think "lucky" dismisses answers, because excluding it entirely from an explanation assumes that the same work done by an individual will result in the same measurable output. Hard work drives the machinery of progress, but the efficiency of that machinery is up to luck. For me, I can look back and see a huge number of factors that contributed to that efficiency. None of them were under my control, and so I describe them as "luck".

* Stable home life, with active teaching from two educated parents. At no point growing up did I need to expend effort worrying about what I would eat, or where I would sleep. Instead, I could focus on education and hobbies.

* No financial need for a job during secondary education. My family's finances were stable enough that I didn't need to expend effort on a job. Instead, I could focus on advanced courses.

* Didn't need to take on college loans. One of my parents is a professor, and so I had free tuition at their university. As a result, I could focus more on coursework during the school year, and STEM research programs during the summer.

* Receiving a stipend while working on my terminal degree. This is typically only the case in STEM fields. I was lucky that my interest and talents led me to a more in-demand field.

* Reasonable health insurance at all points of my life. From being covered through my parents' insurance (thanks Obama), to being covered through graduate student insurance (thanks to the student union), to being covered through my employers (thanks to being in a field where this is typical). I haven't had any major medical expenses, but I've had the safety net of having reasonable periodic care.

* Interest in an industry that built desirable skills. My PhD ended up requiring me to build custom analysis software to perform large amounts of data analysis, which built skills that have been tremendously useful and in-demand. But I couldn't have predicted either the skills required or their broad applicability when I started on that path. Back in high school, I just knew which subjects I enjoyed more and focused on getting even better at them.
Thank you. Uninstalled everything else, let's see how it goes.
I was part of "Consumer Psychology Team" at Booking.com for years. That team was/is one way or another involved in pretty much every functionality you mentioned (among other things I did in particular latest version/implementation of "X other people looking at this") and TL;DR: All of it is real - and majority of people don't find it as annoying as you, many even find it helpful

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While I can't really give too many details (BTW I still work at Booking - just moved teams).

I did the real time (it's a stream so technically that's "near real time") processing back-end which collects all the "views events", uses anonymous unique user identifiers to make sure it's truly not counting duplicates, bots are also excluded ...etc. And result is a reverse index of sorts.

On the FE side (technically still BE so think backend for frontend) as part of producing message (or not) we literally do a real-time query on that reversed index to be sure that even if looking only at count it's "1" - we want to be sure that it's not you.

As of things like "Only X left" - that's literally how many rooms we've got left to offer to you for the dates you've entered.

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And speaking generally. Booking.com being 25+ years old global company, one can imagine that company is basically constantly under microscope of various regulators and consumer protection agencies. So even if there was someone that wanted to fake this type of stuff (and that would be going against what they've learned in various mandatory ethics, privacy, legal ... training). Well something like that would've been very short lived.

And with so much money on the line - companies (at least those that don't have walled garden ecosystems and such) actually do look into long term effect of things like Marketing/Sales/Persuasion - because they don't want to annoy potential customers so much that they never come back.
Read up on the actual sanctions to those countries. Here's Russia:

https://www.trade.gov/country-commercial-guides/russia-sanct...

You can do a lot more business with Russia than what BDS suggests you should do with Israel...
+1 for Keychron K2.

I really enjoy mine and it was one of the only ones (maybe the only?) that came with a default Mac layout, Bluetooth with USB-C, and the smaller form factor.

Fortunately having clear requirements made it easy to shop for, but unfortunately it’s hard to meet those requirements lol.

There is 0 way to measure productivity boost unless you’re just trying to see if it makes you type faster so I wouldn’t use that as a metric or decision factor.
Starship to stand on the shoulders of Saturn V and Shuttle at launch pad 39A
To gain a better understanding of why the one that's there is designed as it is. Sometimes there's legacy crap in the previous design thats no longer needed, or you have better materials, and can make the new one more elegant and functional. Sometimes it just gives you the opportunity to see all the failure modes that weren't obvious until you stuck your paper wheel in the place where a steel one had been.
Exempt from disclosing lobbying efforts:
https://www.opensecrets.org/news/2011/07/gods-lobbyists/
That’s the LNP for you.
Sure, it was a small fine (NIS 10 per incident per child) but keep in mind:

- Israel has the highest fertility rate in the developed world (3.1 children per mother on average)

- The average gross monthly salary at the time of the study was NIS 5,595

- If the average parent comes late 4 times a month, that's 4 * 3.1 * 10 = NIS 124 = 2.2% of their monthly salary, or the majority of an entire day's pay (!) - that's not nothing.

That said, there are two interesting conclusions from the paper. Firstly, the well known one:

> Parents may have interpreted the action of the teachers in the first period as a generous, nonmarket activity. They may have thought: "The contract with the day-care center only covers the period until four in the afternoon. After that time, the teacher is just a nice and generous person. I should not take advantage of her patience." The introduction of the fine changes the perception into the following: "The teacher is taking care of the child in much the same way as she did earlier in the day. In fact this activity has a price (which is called a ‘fine’). Therefore, I can buy this service as much as needed."

But there's also this:

> The behavior in the third period, however, is still difficult to explain. Now the first social norm would predict a low level of delay. We may think that a period of 4 weeks is not sufficient to bring the behavior back to the appropriate level. But considering that 2 or 3 weeks had been enough to double the level of delays after the introduction of the fine, we should estimate that the learning rate of the parents is too fast to justify so much inertia. Perhaps a third social norm is needed: "Once a commodity, always a commodity." This norm and second clause of the first norm explain the behavior in the final period: a commodity at zero price is bought in large quantities. Overall, three norms seem necessary to explain three facts.
"Mt. St. Helens was 7 megatons and 17 megatons of other thermal energy released..."

Well, at minimum, that's still between 400 and 700 times the energy released during the Hiroshima explosion. That's over two magnitudes more energy and I'm glad I wasn't anywhere near it at the time. ;-)

The Tsar Bomba (which I remember as a kid) had to be made to prove a point but as Kurchatov, Sakharov etc. seemed to realize at the time, making the 100 megaton bomb wouldn't add much to the argument (presumably other than additional cost). There was no point making a bigger bomb as the additional energy essentially would have been blown out into space thus not substantially increasing the blast area.

Anyway, that's not the point which is that even on piddling little earth nature has ways of producing huge amounts of destructive energy. As for supernovas, etc. except by way of mathematical calculations, I don't think the average human can actually contemplate or imagine energy on such a scale.
Ask HN: Is it okay to put an advertising banner in a mobile app in 2021?
ah yes, of course, the notorious evangelical christian lobby whose only goal is unquestionable bipartisan support for Israel.
Your repo comes up a lot in the reddit threads. Day 4/1 was particularly great!

When AOC 2021 is done I hope I will find the time to compile the different approaches for each day and compare them.

My current list of repos is this:

- https://gitlab.com/autra/adventofcode

- https://gitlab.com/feike/adventofcode

- https://github.com/dflss/advent-of-code-2021

- https://github.com/mitchellh/advent-2021-sql

- https://github.com/qwesda/AOC2021-postgresql

- https://github.com/WilliamLP/AdventOfCode

- https://github.com/xocolatl/advent-of-code

- https://github.com/zr40/adventofcode
Sometimes they cost you much more, if you chose the wrong one
I'm mostly certain social media groups were blocking pro Trump stuff throughout 2020, and they were doing it out of fear of pressure from Democrats.
> look at the data and relay any potential links/causes to the providers.

I’d imagine this will annoy doctors just as much as patient starting the consultation with “so I was Googling”
Fintech Wirex Looks to Metaverse with Whitepaper Launch
> This is clearly an exaggeration. There are many people in the finance industry who have put money into cryptocurrencies.

I suppose I should have said economists, and yes like the other examples, there's always the 10th dentist syndrome. However, the consensus is clear among economists. Folks in finance are just out to make money, for themselves, not you. See 2008.

> There are people who believe that digital asset ownership (including money) via the blockchain is superior to classical solutions of centralized custodians/governments controlling those assets (while still having chargebacks, recovery from lost private keys, and all the things people think you can’t have on blockchains even though you can).

There are people that believe the earth is flat and that the COVID vaccine improves your 5G reception and makes you magnetic. These are things we can measure.

An NFT does not constitute ownership, of anything. You have to trust the author of the NFT is who they say they are, that they have the 'right' to mint an NFT, and that they'll never mint another one. Because they at their sole discretion can. It's nonsense. No legal right is conveyed with an NFT. It's just a signed URL. I can `ln -s ssh-keygen nft-keygen` and do the same thing at home.

> Having different trust models is why people fundamentally disagree on whether blockchain is valuable.

100% of the value of an NFT is created, derived and enforced by the government, the judicial system and contract law. Pretending otherwise is a great way to overpay for jars of air.
Snapdragon G3x Gen 1: Qualcomm unveils first gaming chip and new Razer handheld
Have you ever seen one of those art pieces where when you look at it from the front it looks like a jumbled mess of shapes, but when you walk around it, your perspective shifts to reveal a meaningful message or image?

Imagine if rather than gaining its independence from the UK, the USA instead of becoming its own independent country, was still called the United States of America, but over time, in practice it had become totally servile, dependent on, psychologically submissive and subjugated to the British aristocracy that rules the UK and Americans worshipped them as demigods.
Could be great to display the favicon of websites you are visiting
Some states implement their own versions of this, but even if not, if the state agencies in question are funded federally, they may obligated to carry out the same federal contractor compliances.
Any change you make has to be atomic, or it is unable to detect the change, and you have to rely on manual migrations.
It's a strategic ally in the region. US strong support of Israel was the foundation of the Abraham accords that got several major players together and provide stability. The government also does this with domestic companies. There are contractor criteria that requires companies to meet political goals. I guess the question is, does a company have a right to a government contract? I would say the elected government of a state has the right to define the criteria for it's contractors. It doesn't stop those companies from operating, but they don't get public funds. If they don't like it, they can leave for a state that's ok with their boycott. Or the people can change the legislators out.
Am I understanding this correctly that this exploit uses edge OR simply having teams installed (which is default in windows)?

Are there any community patches for this since microsoft has failed to patch what appears to be a 0 day (especially for windows 10)?
The "stability" argument doesn't work when the value of bitcoin can fall against the dollar by 10-20% quite frequently. People love it because it's mostly been volatile in the "up" direction, but in terms of price stability of goods and services it's terrible.
> There is massive utility in a trustless, permissionless, censorship-resistant contract layer connecting disparate centralised entities.

No, there's no utility in that, if ultimately enforcement relies on an entity that needs to be trusted and can override the blockchain.

> A centrally managed registry would never be suitable for this task for a multitude of obvious reasons.

Centrally-managed registries are already in use and have been in use for a long time, they exist in every single country, and entire markets depends upon them, but somehow they "would never be suitable for obvious reasons"? They have already been shown to be suitable, what on earth are you talking about?
Pandas Tutor visualizes how your Python code transforms dataframes
By nature of being a whole lot of people, they do have a significant degree of power. That's how democracy is supposed to work.

I'm just pointing out that the Supreme Court is a ridiculous example of this, as they are arguably the most underrepresented group there.
Slightly different, but the federal government uses highway funding to entice/force states to introduce certain laws (e.g. the 21 year minimum drinking age):

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2014/07/four-ti...
I'm still waiting for the "Iranian government moves to crypto to get around OFAC" articles. If there's one group of people who'd benefit from sanctions-resistant money it's them.
Qualcomm 8cx Gen 3: Too dangerous to deploy – SemiAccurate
I do with PR, and by strongly recommending the sponsored classes (from testdriven.io in the ads on the doc : https://fastapi.tiangolo.com/) for my company, but you're right that I could push harder for official corporate sponsorship.
nowadays most people use Django to create REST API. I wish Django would merge DRF into its codebase.
> The blockchain facilities standardised transfer across a decentralised medium.

It hasn't. It standardised the transfer of otherwise meaningless numbers, that's true.

In order for your winde order to work, a centralised, trusted party has to verify and accept those numbers, and say that, yes, they represent something meaningful to them.

The same goes for every other example. "Want to trade something for an in-game weapon": This only works if that game a) provides means of trading in-game items, b) can verify that a number in the blockchain actually represents an in-game item etc.

Without countless external entities agreeing to and cooperating on the meaning of this data this "standardised transfer" is literally meaningless. And these agreements will go as well as they already do in reality. How does blockchain factor into this?

> if you're trading that weapon let's both sign up for a pre-agreed escrow service online and pay them a commission to arbitrage.

Now who's attacking straw men.
There was that one Ethereum(?) dude who got in trouble for talking to North Korea about cryptocurrency stuff.
> According to my Garmin watch, sex with my girlfriend only gets my
> heart rate into the mid 90s

You might want to try emrevarol's girlfriend. His Garmin watch reports she's good for the 160s.
Ansible didn't exist 20 years ago.
These are anti-BDS laws specifically and only banning boycotts of Israeli goods (yes, by name). This site indexes them happily: https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/anti-bds-legislation

Here’s the Texas info, for example:

Texas Governor Greg Abbott signed HB89, an act relating to state contracts with and investments in companies that boycott Israel, on May 2, 2017. The bill prohibits the State of Texas from contracting or entering into business with companies or entities involved in the BDS movement against Israel. The law ensures that public funds will not go to companies that participate in BDS.

In 2019, Texas started to divest $72 million worth of stock in the Norwegian financial services firm DNB ASA. Two state pension funds – the Employees Retirement System of Texas and Texas Permanent School Fund — own $68 million and $4 million, respectively, in stock in the company. This is the first action taken under the anti-boycott legislation.

In April 2019, a U.S. District Judge ruled in favor of Bahia Amawi, a former speech pathologist who sued the state over the law after she was fired from her job for supporting BDS. The court found “the statute to be a viewpoint-based restriction intended not to combat discrimination on the basis of national origin, but to silence speech with which Texas disagrees.”

In response, the legislature rewrote the language limiting the application of the law to companies with more than 10 full-time employees and contracts of more than $100,000 with the state. The governor signed the bill.
Not with federal funds you don't. This is the same reason that catholic hopsitals who won't perform abortions are at risk of losing funding.
I’m not questioning PoW per se, I was just surprised it worked out to that much per transaction.
Only roughly 2% of my portfolio is in crypto so I am far from an evangelist but I don’t feel that this is a very compelling argument. I don’t disagree with these points, but it is only half the story. A)doesn’t mention that ethereum is in the process of changing to proof of stake so that should largely decouple the energy correlation. B)most importantly, fails to note rising global inflation and central banks running wild printing money. Large, Non meme coins can act as a store of value similar to gold given their network effects. C)of late, the stock market has become every bit the casino that crypto is so I don’t see this as a purely crypto problem. Hell, the stock market has been rife with fraud and greed for decades.

Importantly, a criticism that he missed would be to the digital gold argument. If things ever do “hit the fan”, there is no guarantee of electricity or of governments not shutting down the internet. Poof, crypto all gone.
it needs edge or ie11 and teams. It doesn't appear to be a zero click without the use of edge or ie11 so just avoid both of those and you should be okay.
Most of these statements are the opposite of truth.

For example, creation of crypto has no or extremely little variability in obligations for many years. Statement about no obligations is false. There's at least an obligation to be able to transact.

Creation of fiat can be changed on a whim with a poorly formalized goals. Obligations change too.
It's even harder to track in Spanish, since in many of our words we mutated the "f" to a silent "h" (something that didn't happen in Portuguese).
He’s the CEO. He acknowledged it and is fixing it. There is no more responsibility left unclaimed.

We aren’t owed a historical explanation, and yet we’ll likely receive one with what I presume will be a TOS update blog post in a few weeks.

I feel like this is that moment where someone lays on the car horn because they want to be sure the other driver understands that they’re a bad person, and should feel bad about themselves. It’s not about making you right by their actions, it’s about making sure they know the depth of your anger at them.

That has little value here. It’s socially valuable in interpersonal interactions, but it’s a tire fire when left uncurbed at Internet scale, and becomes vitriolic and harmful to discourse.

I may have misunderstood your specific intentions and desires from the CEO, and if so, I apologize; but I stand by my point in the general sense for all of us.
There’s a group of people in the cryptoasset space who hold their own assets, understand how the system works, and know how to secure their own funds.

Then there are people who don’t care about decentralization and flood every discord server asking “wen token” and are just around to make free money and would happily do it on a centralized platform.

The second group has grown in size over the last few years and will put money into things that are clearly scams in hopes of a payout, and will click “sign transaction” anytime they’re prompted.

This is why the UX for blockchains needs to improve. There’s no reason that tooling can’t warn people when they’re authorizing funds to an unknown address. There is at least one hardware wallet that’s building out visualizations to help users understand what they’re doing.
Do you recommend any mountain cabins? I've used and will be trying more of these https://www.mountainbothies.org.uk/
but some of the cabins in the Swiss alps look good, paid and free.
Thanks, I will try that
How do you clean it?
These laws are specifically about Israel: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-BDS_laws
China threatens the US with retaliation over diplomatic boycott Winter Olympics