skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The commenter already says that there’s a black market for converting pesos to USD, which is forbidden . I’m guessing a lot of that happens in person with cash? I can’t imagine the government could enforce a ban on cryptocurrencies any more effectively than it currently can with cash.
Ironcially backed by an ungodly amount of violence and emissions
That's the real use case here, get your comments out faster on hacker news than everyone else!
Not a huge fan, to be honest with you. It looks like a toy car, practically. Although perhaps this is intended, to keep people's mind off the fact that the thing is basically a killer robot.
Netflix each year raises prices but the actual offer (ignoring Netflix Originals) is shrinking (at least in my smaller European market). I just reduced from the UHD to just HD subscription and am back to the price of 2-3 years ago. I end up just watching less, if not for the kids it would long be canceled. Disney is an evil corp that I can't support while keeping my soul. On the plus side: one more reason not to watch.
I have these $5 end tables that are going on 10 years of use. They are just basic 4 post tables with square tops, but they are light enough that I can pick them up by edge with one hand while laying on the couch, but are still like 20"x20". They've all been relegated to shop use anymore, yet they are still perfect.

All of my previous ikea desks are also spending their sunset years toiling away in the shop. The oldest one is 20 years old and I use it for assembling heaving parts because nothing sticks to whatever plastic coating they use on their desktops.

Also, the obligatory note that Ikea does sell solid wood furniture. It's made of softwoods, like pine or fir, but if you put it together with wood glue, it will absolutely outlive you. I have a dresser that's survived six moves where I never bothered to unload it.
Which is what "standard compensation based on titles" would solve. If you come in for a senior position but you get your hypothetical star college grad you say, "we don't think you're ready for the senior position but we'd hire you as a mid."
Have you met the non asset owning poor? They have debt. LOTS of debt.
not a biologist, but my current understanding:

immunologically naive means that your body has no prior exposure to a virus (or its variants). basically it means it has NFC how to deal with it. so it basically has to brute force its way to a defense against the strain.

This is why you saw people with early covid cases having their immune system go haywire and a lot of the treatments for covid focused on dampening the immune system to prevent it from killing the patient.

once you've seen a virus and its variants a few times your body has 'remembers' strategies on how to fight the virus. and launches those strategies against it. sometimes depending on the mutations those strategies are less effective (omicron) and your body has to create new strategies.

B-cells and T-cells are how the body store and deploy these strategies.
Even if you're not wrong, this is a disappointing attitude. There are so many reasons to want to improve user interfaces - reducing RSI, reducing error rates, increasing speed, etc. I love seeing new designs where people are trying to improve the state of the art even if I don't plan to use this immediately .
Mesh networks do sound like a real solution, but we need a substrate that can do long-distance hops. Otherwise, it'd just a bunch of population-center islands of communication. Perhaps this is better than nothing, but with that being the best case, it seems to be the hurdle preventing progress.

Otherwise, seems all we've really got is Ham Radio.

Suggestions as to what I'm missing here?
All the no till people I follow don’t use chemical fertilizer(eg JM Fortier). They do add compost to their soil but that’s not fertilizer.
I don’t understand your point. The government already forbids buying USD and there is already a black market for that.
The Ethereum PoS beacon chain is already active, and you can participate in staking. The full transition will happen soon™.
This varies widely between countries in the EU:

> Viewers in Germany have access to 43.1% of the films available online in the EU, while in Slovenia, for example, only 0.3% are available.

From recently published https://www.fuen.org/en/article/Borderless-Media-Consumption...
There is no way they can get actual paystub data from employer or tax return data from irs.

Most likely they use field Annual Income that you voluntarily provide to banks/cc companies when applying for a loan and that number is reported to Equifax. That number is verified by a lender by inspecting your W-2/paystubs when underwriting car/mortgage/other loan.

So you should never voluntarily provide income info to lenders, because every bit of that info will be sold to other companies and can be used against yiu in the future
Agreed, and appropriately timed! I just finished using one-hot encoding for a predictor on student practice. The results were better than traditional methods, but only marginal better. When discussing the results I specifically mentioned how the N didn't understand meaning or levels of difficulty between exercises. This helps add more context to my own understanding and will definitely guide my next study.
I wouldn't be surprised if they did. The post-Stalin Soviet Union would be a much freer place than North Korea. Here's a couple of quotes from Andrei Lankov's* book "Essays on Daily Life in North Korea" on how Soviets viewed North Korea:

"When I arrived in North Korea for the first time on a sunny day in September 1984, I felt perplexed. I came to study at the Kim 11 Sung University, as a participant in an exchange program between the then-USSR and North Korea. It was the first overseas trip of my life, and I was thrilled, but I also had some preconceived ideas - and in the first hours and days it became clear that the situation did not feel like I thought it should.

At that time I was fully aware that I was in what in 1984 was arguably the world's most brutal dictatorship. The Soviet Union was not exactly a democracy itself, but even for us, the people from Moscow and Leningrad, North Korea stood for the embodiment of inefficiency, brutality and, above all, repressive dictatorship. Even the official Soviet media sometimes allowed some subtle hints at what was going on there."

--

"Quite often the inflated tributes to the Great Leader and to the Dear Leader, delivered in a badly edited foreign version, produce the opposite of the intended effect on the audience, making the North into a laughingstock. I still remember how in the 1970s, when I was a teenager in the then Soviet Union in my native Leningrad, many barbershops stocked copies of Korea magazine, a lavishly illustrated North Korean propaganda monthly. What was such a publication doing in the barbershops? The answer, I suspect, would be quite embarrassing for its editors: it was subscribed to in order to amuse the patrons who were waiting for a haircut. The North Korean propaganda appeared very weird to the Russians - not least because it looked like a grossly exaggerated version of their own official propaganda. The grotesquely bad Russian translation of the texts also provided unintended comical effects."

* - Andrei Lankov is a Russian born in the Soviet Union and now lives in Seoul. His books and articles on North Korea are very interesting and worthwhile.
For 2022, they should not have permitted attendees and broadcast the exhibition instead. They clearly did it this way to profit off the attendees. Sure, they will kill some, but they do that all the time in the casinos. CTA is bogus.

https://www.ktnv.com/13-investigates/13-investigates-how-ces...
This metric basically just tells you how liquid the currency market is. Look at forex markets for traditional currencies.

USD/EUR trading is over $3B daily. Does that tell you anything about USD as a currency, beside there being liquid markets?
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/357428572_Combined_...
I'm wondering what percentage of papers at these conferences don't have a student as the primary author. My guess is primarily, only the ones that come from industry?
>Internet Traffic in Kazakhstan (Last 7 Days)

https://radar.cloudflare.com/kz?date_filter=last_7_days
I don't think the US is free at all, and would be interested in seeing facts that back it up. I see a country run like a corporation, where media, tech and science are carrying out very specific instructions from their handful of billionaire owners to steer the ship where they want it to go.

You can think what you want in the US but you cannot express it publicly if you have a significant following. You will get blocked, censored, ridiculed etc.

Maybe you mean something else with freedom? Freedom to carry out work and get payed for it? Sure.
You described quite well a few things here.
Firefox 95 vs. Chrome 97 Browser Performance on Linux
So what you're saying is that Biden's plan was essentially the same as Trump's plan, which also focused on using federal funds and manpower to produce and distribute vaccines as widely and rapidly as possible.
Packet sniffing is absolutely a thing that cryptocurrency is susceptible to, and can be automated. https://exploitbyte.com/sniffing-cryptocurrency-traffic/
Same way as any industry/business that consumes energy can become carbon negative.
Immigrants can vote in their home countries, so they do have input. A nation is not obligated to give you democratic power over itself, just because they let* you visit. You may as well complain you don't have democratic input if you're a US citizen and can't vote in Mexican elections.

*Or, increasingly, they did not let you visit, but your co-ethnics in border states are impeding immigration enforcement so that you can stay regardless.
Maybe it isn't obvious, but even the most egregious excesses in our current economy produce material and economically advantageous (if far from optimal) outcomes: a jet flying from NYC to London physically moves a human being and their possessions between two continents.

It's not clear what bitcoin is providing, other that a self-sustaining speculative market. As such, even 0.1% of global emissions is particularly egregious.
It's not just the mindset of leaders.

Tech companies don't have a choice but to grow fast all the time. As soon as the growth stops even a little, they lose investor interest and their stock will crash unless they find the way to keep going.
It works without steno, too.

Like you can take a look at their quick reference guide shown in the "coder" section of their website.

I don't know how well it will work but it looks viable.

The think I'm mostly worried about is that most human fingers (not thumbs) aren't really designed (or trained) for sideways movement. Does anyone has the necessary anatomy knowledge to know if this has a increased risk to cause health issues if used long term as the main keyboard?
> I feel that these types of rules tend to place companies in a negative light - like their primary goal is to focus on company profits and screw over anyone that might be getting in their way

Assuming that "screw over" includes staying within the bounds of the law, isn't this approximately correct? Companies try to maximize profits and not get in any legal trouble.
When I worked out the numbers, it was about 75% of US corn production going to ethanol and animal feed.

A lot of the other 25% is probably corn syrup.

Burning natural gas to make fertilizer to grow corn (a 2% efficient solar panel) to eventually blend with gasoline is uhhhhh, dumb.
A shield would work, do companies create custom ones on demand ?
Thanks again and of course for Truffleruby!
>effort that went into a fork of Firefox, I'd be all on board with it.

Chrome was designed to be "forkable" and put in different wrapper UI. Firefox was at that time battling to get rid of XUL and add a basic sandbox. Then pwn2own decided not to include Firefox in another year hacks because Firefox made no improvements at all in previous 2 years. This hurt me to hear as a long time Firefox user, had to be hurtful to Firefox management and developers too, but that was the fact. Mozilla lost their way in 2010-2017 and can't recover from that, the gap was too wide. Mozilla thought that after defeating IE and Safari they can't lose the market.

Mozilla had an opportunity to make Firefox modular but burnt it with Servo.

https://www.eweek.com/security/pwn2own-hacking-contest-retur...
House Fire Temperature: How Hot Does It Get?
> I switched to using copy and paste with the mouse with it since Cmd+c and Cmd+v are so hard to reach.

I don't use it myself - but on macOS there is a separate layout called "Dvorak - QWERTY Command" that shifts the layout to QWERTY when the command key is held to alleviate this issue.
curious how it will work out. you'll have to learn new chords for the standard alphanumeric characters and then a chunking/chording scheme where the space of chunking schemes and associated chords for computing and coding is vast.

my understanding is that classic stenography is actually phonetic. so the chords match up to phonemes or phoneme like chunks which are then postprocessed to reconstruct english text.

a new approach using english language could be more data driven. a simple mapping could be one chord to one word with words sorted by frequency and easier chords assigned first. more complicated approaches involve chunking up the words into frequently used chunks and then doing the same.

code is harder, there are frequently reused strings, but they change from technology to technology. overall there is far more entropy in computing than english on a character by character level, so designing a chording scheme that is more efficient and isn't tied too much to a specific domain is actually a really hard problem, especially once you consider that the effectiveness of a given scheme is not only a function of how well it fits the problem (how often the user is actually entering things the scheme was designed for) but also how well users are able to learn the vocabulary of chords and the dexterity to execute them quickly.
I mean it's also a lot of client-side JavaScript, but yeah, I thought this line was the most prescient.

As I've moved back and forth between Windows and Linux over the past 15 years, I've found it increasingly easy to do everything on Linux, and that's mostly because more and more of what I do is just in the browser. At this point, it's Linux on my personal laptop with a Windows virtual machine for only two or three Windows-only desktop applications that I still occasionally require.

As long as Firefox and Chrome are cross-platform, the OS matters less and less.
That's right. The natural way to do this is to do long-haul point to point wireless using commodity hardware. Such backhaul links will be limited to a few Gbps each but that's better than nothing.

Building this out further, you could create a network like this:

https://arxiv.org/abs/1809.10897
>Why don’t I just use Google’s thing?

>-You think that’s going to be around in 6 months?

bahaha.
Physically, yes, as long as the medium doesn't get damaged or deteriorated.

Digitally, the "forever" part doesn't actually work that great in practice [1]. Unless you can download the movie and store or yourself.

[1] https://www.slashfilm.com/560987/you-still-own-movies-on-app...
Found Mojo Jojo
I admire nerds' ability to imagine that every political problem has a purely technical solution. It's a wonderful dream world where the answer to climate change is a hackathon.
Alternate consensus algorithms have been invented, implemented, and proven in practice for almost a decade.

Proof of Stake (PoS) is the most popular, but there are others.
About 3-5% of the time, copilot poops out an unexpectedly clever code block that makes it worth it to me, if nothing else but for the surprise factor.

For the remaining 95%… I’ve configured it to delay doing anything until 10000ms passes so it doesn’t get in the way
While Kazakh people are generally tolerant to Borat jokes, the timing of this one is most inappropriate. In case you do knot know, there is a civil unrest in Kazakhstan, many people are killed, and many more are missing. I urge users of this website to be civil and stay away from any demeaning jokes, at least for now.

https://www.cnn.com/2022/01/06/asia/kazakhstan-fuel-protests...

https://www.nytimes.com/live/2022/01/06/world/kazakhstan-pro...
This is not a new trend. I no longer even remember who started it ( was it India ?), but these days whenever government in power is seriously challenged, internet communication is the first to go. This just happened to also hit a crypto network.
Is there a less interesting place to discuss crypto than HN?
you could only drive it into the underground where it sprouted from in the first place, it would inevitably return. the only way to stop this form of crypto is to invent a better one
That is, empirically, where forms of government commonly labelled as "left" ends up when taken to extremes. North Korea is just the most extreme example.
In most of the conversations with GPT-3 that you see online what people do is that they take the output from the first prompt and include it in the next prompt. That is how GPT-3 can keep the thread of the conversation going without changing subject constantly. This is also why those conversations are relatively short, because as you can imagine, if you keep feeding the output to the language model as input, you run out of input size very quickly.

So, yes, that's the done thing already.
I think what's important primarily is the inter-island communication first -- the power of the people in communication well exceeds any governmental force.

But I agree, to be connected to the world at large, we need to make sure there are satellites, long haul ptp microwave wifi, and other methods connecting the islands.

My heart weeps for Kazakhstan, I pray that no more will be harmed.
Can they actually do it ? I would like to buy a new GPU at a decent price before I die.
In my country they closed a bank account of a dude that was critical to a politician. And the bank acc of his wife. Central EU, "developed world". They can't do this wit your private crypto wallet.
Really? Is this a NYC thing? Any hospital I’ve ever been in has considered the ER an outpatient service, and you are only admitted to the hospital if they transfer you from the ER to inpatient care. Do they consider other outpatient services, like, say, yearly physicals, an admission as well?
I spent a decade working with ANSI X12. Writing software to generate it, streaming parsers for mutli-gigabyte batches, tools to display it, consume it, validate it, etc. Really interesting world to deal with. Every trading partner had their own interpretation of certain things. In my experience (healthcare) things slowly improved over time. Supposedly, FHIR will will take over in that space, but I have my doubts.
Not mine, but see https://foldr.moe/hello-wordl/
You yourself provide this info voluntarily to a bank when applying for a loan. The same bank verifies it by asking your paystubs before giving you a loan.

As a rule of thunb - anything you provide to a bank for credit will be reported to credit bureau and they will sell all your personal info to the highest bidder. Or get it stolen by hackers in yet another data breach
If you want an open-source solution, would recommend HBase or Cassandra -- those have been battle-tested and used in a variety of small and large companies.

They allow you to store huge amounts of data, and as long as you design the primary key properly, allow you to make really fast queries to find the needle in the haystack (milliseconds) as well.

There are some tradeoffs of course: most engineers I've worked with who come from RDBMS to these tools find the lack of first-class support for secondary indices and SQL or SQL-like queries to be a bummer.
> How much CO2 pollution is each transaction responsible for, and how much would it cost to offset that CO2?

369.49 kgCO2eq. https://www.forbes.com/sites/philippsandner/2021/11/19/bitco...

> An average Bitcoin transaction has a size of 670 bytes on the Bitcoin blockchain, representing an estimated carbon footprint of 369.49 kgCO2eq. Given a price of USD 50 per metric tonne of CO2eq, the compensation of one average Bitcoin transaction costs USD 18.47.
> If you treat people and the history of their social relations like so many petri dishes, and nothing more can be believed or assured than inputting variables and observing the output, I can see how you would have your conceits. It is just, to me, a lonely and empty way to think about humanity. Want to believe we can do better, or really just believe anything at all, which it doesn't seem your worldview would allow. But that's just me.

First, you did not build a valid criticism about Hayek, just labeled him as Darwinist. Second, your reasonings are as if you see 1000 people jumping from a 5th floor and smashing themselves against the ground every time and still saying: there must be another possibility. No, man, it is in front of you, do some analysis, please!
First edition of the Chevy Silverado EV sold out in 12 minutes
Ah good point, I assume you’re talking about the table at the bottom. Technically that approach is still the most optimal because it gives you the option to choose your trade-offs at usage time instead of definition time, but I can see how the table is misleading on that bit. I’ll clarify it when I have the chance.
not whataboutism, as US dollars would be the obvious alternative to accepting crypto
I have a 10% rule. ~10-20% of any group is gonna be a little nutty about something. 10-20% of the population doesn't believe in the moon landing. Similar with the flat earth.

They've always existed, just have microphones now.
> Instead of typing h e l l o, a chorded typer mashes h, e, l, and o to produce the word. With practice, it’s much faster

If this works like swipe typing on phones, you'll type blazingly fast, but you have to retype each word several times until the AI finally guesses the right one.
I can't imagine disliking a technology so much I put it as my username and spend my free time writing about how much I hate it on tech forums
Argentinians who want to avoid their own currency would be 10x better served by USD than BTC.
I summarize:

+ You don‘t want to see or understand another viewpoint,

+ You did not even read the piece before flipping into hating it,

+ You hold a quite irrational emotional view on other people’s private health decisions (how come?),

+ You don’t dare to post under your real account,

+ You still believe „others“ to be antisocial.

I wish people like you would finally go back to Reddit, which seems to align more with your emotional frequencies and your intellect. You might find the aggressive narrow-minded echo chamber you seek there.

This community, in contrast, has always existed for intellectually curious people.
Maintaining such typing speeds look like a recipe for burnout to me. I think I could even see the CEO's hands trembling in the TikTok when he lifted them from the device after demonstrating 500 WPM. It certainly incurs a massive cognitive load, perhaps similar to what professional classical musicians can pull off—and they don't have invent the score at the same time as they are performing.

Someone capable of decent touch typing on QWERTY will hardly benefit from the additional typing speed IMHO; at least not when factoring in the time spent learning, and the inevitable decrease of typing speed on QWERTY keyboards which will be very hard to avoid when working in a team or multiple locations.