skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Even a very large amount of data pasted should not blow up a text box in 2021. I mean, on Windows you can paste an object referring to a data blob pretty sure, macOS surely has something similar and on X/Wayland you could sniff and size of data pasted in advance and do something useful.

You can do so for sure. But can you do all these platform specific optimisations in Electron?

And even if you could, the reason companies go for electron is that they don't want to bother with platform specific stuff so they're really likely not to bother.

A agree a mere few megabytes of text should not bother any computer made this decade by the way and that teams is a pig of an app.

But the problem is not what's possible, it's them prioritising new features over performance and with that all the technology decisions they made.
A Journey Between Worlds (2019)
No, that's irrelevant here.

PNGSource embeds code in ancillary chunks. That's it. No code execution. No steganography (yet).
>"It'll mean going after the owners, suppliers and employees/contractors with naming/shaming, coordinated sanctions, criminal charges, designated persons lists etc. until their reputations are trash."

What a brave approach. Especially in regards to employees. This would close down every other major US company.
Dang doesn't represent YC's accelerator/investments arm (i.e., he's an employee engaged to run HN, not a YC partner who makes investment decisions or official YC announcements).

But here's an article from 2016 about what LendUp was trying to do back then: https://techcrunch.com/2016/01/22/the-loan-dolphin/#.4sfbucn...

I don't know much about LendUp at all, but I do remember the surprise - and feeling it myself - when it was announced that YC was funding a payday lending company. Then I remember the thinking behind it being explained (perhaps on HN, perhaps elsewhere) and seeing that the founders seemed to be making a sincere effort to offer something that was at least just less-terrible than the existing payday lending options around (many of which involve dealing with crime gangs), which made me think "OK, I guess it's worth a try". I presume YC thought the same thing when they invested almost ten years ago.

If it turns out that there's no possible way of making a sustainable business in this space that's less-terrible than that was there before, I still don't think it's reprehensible that YC thought it was worth backing founders that seemed to be making a sincere effort to try.
Yes. Do you not?
They are already not reproducible.
But build time is not included, it's the commit time of the commit the build comes from, from what I gather.
Fast fashion is a root cause of a huge amount of fabric waste, plastic waste, and cost shifting of waste streams to developing nations.

Not to say Shein isn't responding well to an economic niche. Just, that it has an externalised cost: disposal of clothes on a fashion whim is not a good thing.
The most important thing a con artist must convince the mark of is this: everyone else is on the take. Once this is believed, the mark will follow the con down any corrupt rabbit hole.

Ask yourself this: who wants you to believe that everything is astroturfing? Who does that serve?
Real-time motion planner and autonomous car simulator, built with WebGL+Three.js
> It is astounding to me that a state as paranoid as Israel [...] would actively sell some of that highly sensitive tech to other states that not that long ago had a death wish for Israel

You should google up the story of the Swiss company Crypto AG Tl;dr; bought by the CIA and the BND (German counterpart) in 1970 and sold security software to governments all around the world. With built in backdoors for the CIA and BND. It was the main source of foreign intel for decades for the CIA.
A more confident America and Europe.

Keep in mind that Russia has a history of corrupting Western politicians, on a strategic and multi-decade basis, for example Gerhard Shroder, ex-Chancellor of Germany. He initiated the nuclear shutdown, and now serves as Chairman of Rosneft:

https://www.irishtimes.com/news/world/europe/gerhard-schr%C3...

The message to Europe is presumably: intervene in Ukraine this time, and we'll completely shut off your Winter gas.
Covid Patients Require Unusual High Levels of Sedation
Conducting crime using crypto is quite stupid these days, because there’s a large cottage industry of companies dedicated to de-anonymizing every single transaction that occurs on the major blockchains.

You know how people criticize these blockchains for having slow transaction rates? Yeah, well, combine that with the fact that all of the transactions are public and that they tend to be interconnected (it’s a network after all) and it isn’t hard to see why chain analysis isn’t particularly difficult.

My point is, even if this guy didn’t use Coinbase and went way off into the wilderness, they’d find him. I think the FBI et al let a lot of the lesser crimes go “unsolved” so criminals don’t get too smart about this too easily.
> This project would not have been possible without itchyny's jq implementation gojq.

Another approach is to take the convert binary to object part of your code, output that as JSON on stdout and feed that into jq.

Basically, a binary front end + jq = fq
You can buy 5:4/4:3 and 1:1 ratio monitors still the issue is that these are often found in various medical imaging categories and so are priced accordingly.

The “cheapest” of these is probably the EV2730Q-BK which is a 1920x1920 monitor and it’s priced around £700/€800 in Europe, it does come with a 10bit LUT and high grade IPS panel but it’s still 1920x1920 and 60hz only at a pretty steep price.
It might be worth reading the actual post to see how we're fixing slow joins.

In terms of the language: it's not Python's fault at all. Instead, Synapse baked in a bunch of naive assumptions (being originally a prototype) which we have been steadily fixing... while also adding features, which pulls in the opposite direction. Given a choice between a featureful server that's resource-heavy (which we can then make go faster later) versus one which lacks the features to compete with centralised alternatives, we chose the former.
Hint: disable or minimize overcommit and you're good to go.
Ideally we'll stop using fossil fuels long before they run out. But we don't have time for the good old Germany auto elite to drag their feet like they used to. I have very little tolerance for that and I wouldn't cry a single tear if they went under because they missed the boat.
I know! We are from Uruguay and we are considering to visit the US and talk about our project. This yeas we colected a million butts, and we developed 3 recycling patents. Basically the process recover the cellulose acetate of cigarette butts, which is plastic and we turn them into high end products. The organics such as paper are compostable.
They're teaching the kids that slavery, discrimination, and oppression are wrong.

The curriculum is set by the school board, which consists of elected officials.
I know how you feel buddy. I have really strict rules for myself around drug and alcohol consumption. For example, if a bottle of Scotch lasts less than 1 week, I am drinking too much and need to cut back etc. I've not broken that rule since I made it, except for this winter and last winter.

I was always not a fan of gloomy winters, but this on top of it has made it terrible. I am so over all of the panic and fear.

Hang in there!
>conflates the X protocol and Xlib which nobody was using to write new software even back then.

They are mostly synonymous, there is a large amount of software using Xlib that will likely not ever be rewritten to use XCB. And Xlib is still a better option than XCB if you want to use any client libraries because those all require Xlib.

>He gets called out for this by one of the attendees but brushes it away with "but it's really hard to do". It's actually not.

With GTK applications like gedit, it actually is because those are in the category of "won't ever be updated to use XCB". IIRC somebody even tried to port GTK to XCB once and the patches were never merged because it broke everything. XCB is nice for some things but comes with its own set of issues. Please also keep in mind that if you're suggesting the only reasonable solution is to rewrite every client to use a new library, that comes with about the same difficulty as porting to Wayland.
From the video -

> With analog computers, the quantities of interest are actually represented by something physical, like the amount a wheel has turned. Whereas digital computers work on symbols like zeros and ones. If the answer is, say, two, there is nothing in the computer that is 'twice as much' as a one. In analog computers, there is.
This problem is really intriguing to me. It seems to be a problem that has somewhat of a significant impact on a global scale. Yet, I have never been part of a discussion about what to do with cigarette butts in my professional or my private life. I've been part of general recycling training in both. Smoking in general seems to be pushed out of view and out of any people's minds. I also expect this to be a very small problem for your average company and the average company's employee pool to be a minor contributor. My office is in an old-school office park. The only ash tray and is in the designated smoking area that's shared by multiple offices/companies. While I am a large stake holder for things like office layout, remodel etc. this has never come up. Maybe the property management company would be interested? Another avenue to get to interested business might be to reach out to businesses where customers typically smoke. Bars immediately come to mind.
> I'm not convinced that payday loans should be able to produce a profit?

So who in their right mind would provide such a service if there was no path to a profit? /headscratch
Nope. 1998 - it was Clinton [1].

[1] https://thehill.com/blogs/congress-blog/economy-budget/28362...
This is the way to go. Stairs counting And Steps counting are awesome way to make them fall in love with numbers. Also, while on a walk, tell them what is what like these are stairs, that is a donkey etc. despite they can utter it or not.
One more comes to my mind, tell the spelling while looking at the things like if there is ice cream written somewhere, say it like I C E C R E A M.
> The situation was not caused by overstressed people going "you know, I really want to be fat".

I tend to think adults are capable of being responsible for their own decisions, including how much to eat.
Could you describe your most common use case(s) please?
Totally agreed. Our goal is to support self-hosting on an RPi on modest broadband... or just to self-host P2P on the app itself. We are categorically not optimising (in the medium/long term, at least) for requiring massive hardware in order to self-host.
I wonder who would be actually interested in the decentralization part if there was no Bitcoin/NFT bubble? My guess is "not many".

I mean, those people exist, but it's probably the same number of people who are into Mastodon, etc. They are not the mainstream. The majority of people seem happy with the current model.

So, while the concept of Web3 looks interesting, after this initial frenzy dies down, I bet there will be a long winter coming to Web3 town.
Hong Kong university removes Tiananmen massacre statue
Somebody commented in another thread, but basing it on the Military Lending Act seems like the most straightforward thing to give federal jurisdiction, as most usury laws are at the state level.

Tax evasion wasn't Al Capone's primary crime either.
For severely immunocompromised individuals (I'm a transplant recipient, so can speak to that), the CFR for COVID is anywhere between 20-35%. There's also a lot more attention paid to avoiding viruses even when there's not a global pandemic, so they are far more likely to be careful, and their IFR is probably much, much closer to their CFR due to being routinely monitored probably more than any other group (I have biweekly blood work and my blood is screened for some viruses every month, I take my vitals literally every day).

"Immunocompromised" as a category includes a very wide range of people, and someone who's on a small temporary prednisone prescription is far less immunocompromised than a chemotherapy patient, solid organ transplant recipient, or HIV+ individual.
> one benchmark would be the relative severity profile versus the outgoing Delta variant, right?

Agreed, and that’s what this SA study is doing. They compare to delta cases from this summer, and also non-omicron (presumably mostly delta? I can’t tell) cases from this November.

They find that cases are less severe than in the summer, but not enough data to conclude any difference compared to November non-omicron.

More data will tell us if it’s intrinsically milder with different symptom profile, or if the other strains in November were not delta, or if it actually only seemed milder because of undercounting prior infections, or something else
Why can't you just seize the degree? If I go to college and default on my loan, the elegant solution is to just strip me of my degree. If I want it back, I would have to go to college for another five years.
Acid-neutralizing life-forms could make habitable pockets in Venus' clouds
Related story:

https://twitter.com/Galschiot/status/1473730166136446981

Hong Kong university dismantles and removes Tiananmen statue from campus (https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/hong-kong-univers...)
It sounds like the bank accounts were owned by the guy's employer and he was perceived to be authorized to transact on the employer's behalf.
> Student loans are going to be cancelled in 2022-2023

Any evidence to support that?
Habeas corpus is not a thing in Japan, they basically hold you until you confess. There's also no bail.

I like how the lawyer in this interview doesn't seem impressed by the system he has to work in.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r1ZLGqL1FMo
Advanced techniques to implement fast hash tables (2018)
"Amplitudes" here refers to the thing that QM uses instead of probabilities, not any other sort of amplitude.
It's because the debt is owed directly to the US Treasury, just like debts to the IRS. You can't discharge any debt you owe to the federal government, to my knowledge.

Same reason they can collect the debt using wage garnishments and property liens, methods that aren't available to most creditors.

This is only explained to some students (it was to me). But no one plans on not having money in the far future, regardless of what warnings they receive
It looks very basic. It's almost entirely (except for one tiny bit of JS powering a gallery of 4 images about halfway through the article) just html, CSS, text, and images (PNG and SVG)
Have you ever checked out FileMaker[0]? It's a database-centric app builder, and I have fond memories of building cool stuff with it back in the 1990s. (FileMaker is 36 years old!)

[0] https://www.claris.com/filemaker/
It actually is the job of teachers to raise kids though.

Just because a teacher is teaching a specific subject doesn't mean they're unable to also help the kid with growing up?

Recognizing and providing direction is specifically what a teacher is supposed to do.

One major part of school is to give children the ability to have more trusted alerts to help them understand the world and not keep them isolated into a single world view of their parents.
A good German language video about Shein https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Go4Npf1hYU
tldr: huge amount of waste, bad working conditions, copyright infringement
Let's just tax carbon extraction and not worry about who's doing what with it.

Although I suppose there's a separate externality to creating friable material. The issue of discarding too much should be addressed with higher prices at the dump.
Congrats Zach! - Kelvin
The idea that financial predators are by design, is indeed bizarre.

However the idea that they are one of the kinds of threat that a democracy needs to be vigilant against doesn’t seem bizarre in the least.
This supply is assuming we exclusively use terrestrially mines uranium, as well as no reprocessing. Seawater extraction can provide an effectively unlimited supply: https://www.forbes.com/sites/jamesconca/2016/07/01/uranium-s...
Robert Graves in the Great War (2018)
would be truly amazing if Fabien can pull it off.

there is so much secrecy surrounding video game development in japan. especially the 8 and 16-bit era. i was very interested in how they did pixel art back then. they supposedly drew them using special keyboards and CRT monitors.

there is one page on the whole internet that briefly mentioned the process.
The join over {IPR theft, AI, censorship and "think of the children"} is a strong reinforcing superset of all of the motivations here.

CSAM opened the door to a conversation but we're a long way down the road to cloud backed storage being a gatekeeper not just a storage space. In my cloud or on my device, it's being looked at.

What's missing is arbitration via neutral mediator. The contracts are written to favour the provider. Automated reasoning of your breach and the abysmal restitution process is bad, but we're also a lot further down that road than people think. The "help by public shaming" here is not a solution at scale.

I pay for Google "one" and my hope is that excluding frank breach of the terms, paying them gives me one small extra edge in the "why did that happen and how do we fix it" space. I have found with ad spend, being a customer changes the relationship compared to free service. So.. there's hope. Probably misplaced.
Yah, I read the same Wikipedia article, but if you dig into the details the actual evidence for this is so flimsy as to be almost non-existent.

There's not a lot of independent records from back then, so archeologists try to create stories from whatever they have, starting from the assumption that the religious text is wrong, and then creating a narrative from there.

If you don't use "religious text inaccurate" as your initial assumption then there's basically no evidence for this theory.

It doesn't help that they conflate Canaanites and Israelites so what one does is attributed to the other. However if you assume the Bible is correct and they are different people, with the Israelites railing against the practices of the Canaanites then the entire pantheism argument evaporates.
Extraordinarily, the effects of the Spanish Inquisition linger to this day
The coinbase account was also 'owned' by the guy's employer.

He opened up the account in the employer's name, submitted notarized documents, etc.
I appreciate all this feedback. I been working in this project for the last 2 years and we have learn a lot. For example, one of the main reason why people throw the cigarette butt in the floor or not even care about polution, it's because they believe cigarette butts are made of cotton, which is not, because it's plastic. And in the other hand, because most countries in the world consider this "garbage" seems like lost wor. But we want to prove is not! That can change that. First step is awareness, then colecting system and finally recycling in high end products such us paint. Our services provide OEM ashtray rental, monthly colecting and recycling, and a social program with schools.
I'm aware of its existence but have never really used it unfortunately.
Tesla test drivers believe they’re on a mission to make driving safer for all
How do you plan on prosecuting random people on the other side of the world that are sending garbage from a bot net? I can't even fathom the amount of money this would take to do reliably. Even if you did manage to find the person, you need the other government to actually _do_ something about it. It seems pretty intractable to me, given the scale.
If they're using content ID then they're also flagging legitimate fair use without providing a counternotice procedure.
Just would like add a +1 for Working in Public. It's a really excellent look into a number of different community dynamics, including but frankly not limited to open source projects exclusively.
I’m pretty sure software ruins things that should occur naturally or by chance. Allowing people to over analyze anything while making money at the same time, through hope, is an evil business model.

For every happy story used for supporting said model, there are literally billions that did it the old fashioned way.
Just running low-write software on a Pi isn’t that bad from my experience.

But OP is talking about adding peripherals.

Don’t get me started on trying to switch to SSDs because you kept killing your SD cards.
Very informative article.

It's rather disturbing to read about so much undercutting and unethical practices to satisfy consumer demands. Makes me wish more people might become mindful of the impact of their purchases, so they make a conscious decision of whether or not to feed an industry that does business like this.
Participants are informed about and agree to the chance of a placebo.
> It's because the debt is owed directly to the US Treasury,

No, it's not; it predates direct loans existing, much less being the only form of federal student loan, and applies to private, non-government-guaranteed student loans, as well.

> Same reason they can collect the debt using wage garnishments and property liens, methods that aren't available to most creditors.

Property liens and garnishment are available to most creditors after securing a judgement against a debtor.

> This is only explained to some students (it was to me).

It’s good that only some students are subject to that complete fabrication, though it would be better if none were.
Ask HN: How do I spend my 15 days break?
I currently work as a software dev. I am on a 2 week break.

I am going to a remote hilly area, reason because I want to be away from my home, city for a while, to "reset" and dont wanna look at my screen.

Some advices I got as to what to do:
1. Don't do anything tech. Don't code (for fun), or read tech (blogs, etc.)
2. Also dont seclude yourself in your remote home, just get out. (i love exploring anyway, so I'll be out)

I'm not planning to read any (tech or non-tech) books but personally I'd love to read Data Intensive book.

So during this time, what do you suggest I do? I can't reveal my location, so you don't have to suggest any location-specific advices, just any general ones you feel like.

How would you or how did you spend a break like this? What should I (or not) do?

Thanks for your time :)
Medical debt, consumer credit card debt, and student loans, are three radically different beasts, on every meaningful axis.
Some friends of mine declared bankruptcy a few years after the financial crisis due to their business failing. They eventually lost their home, but were able to save up some money by not paying their mortgage while their case was in processing). They rented a place for a few years, but after some time, like 2 or 3 years they were able to qualify for a new mortgage with apparently a decent enough rate and bought a house. They were also somehow able to decide which loans to declare bankruptcy on, so they kept their car loan for example.

I mean, I don't know that it is perfect, but I think the bankruptcy laws in the US are pretty decent at least.
That assumes that the FBI didn't give Sony the original amount back in USD or JPY and kept the exchange rate profit for themselves.
https://archive.md/mDcJo
Student loans have been pushed back consistently and routinely during the pandemic. The aim of kicking the payment down the road is that the economy needs the monthly payment as stimulus — and to boot we’re already writing multi trillions in stimulus to get us conditioned for the big release.

The only thing that thwarts this is sky high inflation, which is not foreseeable… this is because they have the biggest inflation enhancement on full bore (these literal monthly rent payments or better in student loan deference) and it’s only caused 7% cpi or whatever… that’s anemic