skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Defense spending has never been a majority of US GDP, at most representing just over 40% at the high of WW2, reaching at most 12% of GDP again during the Korean war, but remained below 6% over the past 40 years.

So how exactly are you proposing that less than 6% of the economy is directing the other 94%. Because that doesn't make any sense. For that matter, if war is so profitable and defense such a good market, why have so many companies which used to have major defense business exited that business? In WW2 just about every big business was partaking in the war effort. Companies like Ford Motors was producing aircraft and tanks. Ford has long left defense, and what remaining companies are in the sector have been consolidating or dying. Not exactly the sign of a booming industry.
Look how neat that handwriting is. None of that nonsense scrawl they introduce in KS2 now (I believe Americans call it cursive)
Disappointed to see no mention of Costa Rica.

At my last company, about half of our dev team was from CR and they kicked ass. They got rid of the army in 1948 and redirected the funds into education, transforming it into a high tech hub.
Jumping on the bandwagon of the guy that jumped on the bandwagon, because you mentioned potentially re-doing your own code at some point so might be interested: my personal site [0] looks very much like this (and is also written in Rust), but uses the comrak [1] crate to convert blog posts from Markdown to HTML on the fly before formatting with the header/footer theme. Using comrak lets you write in-line HTML (so you're not stuck with only Markdown syntax if you want to do something fancier like code blocks or <math></math>), and the whole site ends up <150 LoC, including route definitions.

It handled the one potential HN hug-of-death event I've had without issues while running on the smallest DO droplet offered, and has basically been issue-free since I got it up and running.

[0] https://github.com/quietlychris/site

[1] https://github.com/kivikakk/comrak
In decentralised finance the legal system, which in conventional finance has the power to seize the borrower's assets in the event of default, is replaced with "dumb contracts", but dumb contracts don't have such a power. Financing is basically impossible with decentralised finance.
You are right, my tube page also doesn't list a fitting tube for that size right now.
Totally agree with this. There is no shortage of ideas/ideals, practical ways of achieving said goals are few and far between. The problem is that many of these problems are very complex and empirical solutions don’t win elections.
Such studies are either correlational, and therefore cannot establish causation, or experimental in settings that are so abstracted and scaled-down from real world experience that they have no relevance to societal questions.
In fact, all possible keys are derivable from a single seed.
The BIP32 algorithm run for all inputs will produce all possible 256-bit ints. Of course, finding the path derivation is equivalent to brute forcing the key space anyway.
Apple removes Grindr from the Chinese app store
Thank you for that. Really.

Is there a way to decide which tube to use, having the measurements of the frame? (the round metal part on which the tyre goes on sorry if this is not the correct expression, I am no a native speaker of English)).
> I pay $2,400 per year for my family plan. My total out of pocket after that is $750 per year.

Your company also pays at least as much directly, and it's part of your compensation.

I'm not sure how relevant the healthcare of wealthy people is, though. Wealthy people have good healthcare everywhere.
“This Videogame Programmer Used the STL and You Will Never Guess What Happened Next” - CppCon 2019

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6hC9IxqdDDw

Ergo, not everyone agrees with that opinion.
The Defense budget today is at a historic low [1], unmatched by just about any time other than before WW2.

[1]: https://foreignpolicy.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/dod_cha...
Also, deleting your watching history doesn't reset your recommendations like it used to.
What is interesting is that one could in fact do this with a single wire. You might eventually see something like this for micro-LED display solutions.

The key is to drive a current and control the voltage at both ends of a string such that each LED detects modulation and bypasses (itself) or consumes power (in-line). That might be relevant where the strength of a single (e.g. steel) wire was used to support a long string. By driving relatively low (max RGB) current at higher voltages and time (e.g. PWM) sequencing the light modulation.

In a simple case, imaging there are 100 RGB lights, half of them excited on each polarity and bypassed with a 0.2V Schottky stacking to +/-10V minimum (for digital data) at <100mA. You might synchronize and send data to the smart lights each "zero crossing" and get away +/-50Vpp for the string by only having 10 (12.5%) stacked (inline) on at any one time (a controller for the LED FETs can stay awake on a capacitor). As long as you run at a few kHz you won't have noticeable flicker, capacitive and you can update with a few bits per light each cycle.

More complex designs could use FETs to improve data link efficiency of the minimum voltage and higher current (lower PWM times) could substantially reduce peak voltage to +/-5V or so.
Yeah AMM liquidity pools suck at repricing, this got me thinking… maybe liquidity providers can just disable their particular liquidity pool share in such an event. The goal is to see what price people will buy and sell at, which is what market makers do all day every day in other systems.

(I’m sure people will try to abuse that to warp liquidity, but they already can by unwinding and removing their share.)
It looks like D'Nealian[1], which is designed as an introduction to handwriting that facilitates learning cursive.

1 = https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D%27Nealian
This author doesn't even seem to know C properly so it's hard to accept their reasoning.

This in Rust:

let mut role: Role = mem::zeroed();

Is not the same as this in C:

struct role r;

C does not zero initialize.
I don’t think it’s reasonable to assume a study is correct just because a contradictory study or replication failure has not yet been published.

This particular study seems to be a case of extraordinary claims requiring extraordinary evidence. If true, the implications are enormous: medical justification for a wealth cap! Something which has never been attempted anywhere in the world in all of history.
IMO I really want tech companies to start hiring in latin america more just for time zone reasons. If India & China was in south america a lot of the pain of having offices from those regions would go away.

I've even done several hiring intensives for people from there 3 or 4 years ago.
I don't understand your comment. Midnight Commander is not a new tool. It is based on Norton Commander, which precedes the tools you mention by years.
People in the US are obsessed with like 5 wedge issues and conspiracy fantasies. They will gladly give up healthcare as long as their enemies have to give it up, too.
> Have economists model how these things will actually effect the markets with the goal of turning residential housing into a bad investment and dropping prices.

I imagine the costs would still get passed down to the tenants.

Ignoring that for a second, rental housing isn’t “an evil thing that needs to go away.” Rental housing is very much a fundamental need for a lot of people. Military members who move every 3 years, college students, city residents who don’t plan on buying in the city but want to live there for some years while in the workforce, separated spouses need 2 places to live, the list goes on.

This snap judgment of “down with landlords, let’s destroy the rental market” doesn’t seem like a great idea.
do you think Finder is better than mc/nc?
The various racial “quotas”, etc exist to offset the impact of the other racist policies and biases in the university’s enrollment system.

It would be nice if they weren’t needed, but history shows that they are.
Sources for your 2nd point since I was intrested:

https://www.quora.com/World-War-Z-2013-movie/World-War-Z-201...

https://jel.jewish-languages.org/words/1719
It’s a misguided question because as we know BIP32/39 are circa 2013, well after the satoshi period.
Are they not interlinked? It seems to me that inequality often begets tribalism, as people defensively form bands. Which then reinforces the spiral downwards.
One past thread:

24/192 Music Downloads and why they make no sense (2012) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19318898 - March 2019 (314 comments)
Many studies show chemical markers of these things, it's not just psychological behavioral studies (which are often quite dubious) but easily measurable outcomes. If you're thinking quite narrowly, your point seems reasonable, it's probably below significance to say your neighbor with the bigger house and nicer car is "healthier", but this is a lot different than them vs the family that sometimes skips meals because they can't afford to put food on the table with the knowledge that a lost job will mean homelessness.

Good arguments are resources by Robert Sapolsky https://www.amazon.com/Stress-and-Your-Body-audiobook/dp/B00... or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NNnIGh9g6fA&list=PL848F2368C... or any of the books he has published (many have significantly overlapping content)
I've been with Google for just over 2 years now, and I've seen that Google seems to consider Data Engineers equally skilled as software engineers. Algorithms and data structures, systems design, memory management, designing distributed systems, etc. Other companies like Meta/Amazon seem to believe that data engineering involves using no-code/low-code tools to build data pipelines.
Do you think Data Engineering is going to align closer to software engineering, or closer to specialized BIEs? Will Analytics Engineer become more popular?
My experience at Google is such that it's actually more difficult to find roles at other companies, and I thought Google would be a great resume builder.
Networks are not packet based, protocols are.

The rail network, as my comment, is not a good fit for packet switching protocols.

The automotive network generally is.

The airline network certainly is.
Who cares about competitors when you barely have any market share for yourself? You can be the greatest IDE in the world, but if barely anybody is using you how great are you really?

The fact that their lowest pricing tier ties the apps to the account is bonkers too. If that account lapses in payment, any apps built by the account cease functioning. Not even Apple is that brazen if your developer account lapses.
there is a difference between speaking out against technology and speaking out against how it's used
Arguably the opposite where the EU may have in effect outlawed may free services be requiring human review of many activities.
Has it really changed? Or do we just not keep up with it outside of/after leaving school any more? I'm a bit younger than her and was certainly taught properly (in KS1, not 2, if my quick search is correct that KS2 starts at form/year/grade 3) - I just quite quickly stopped using it and now my writing is an only-half-joined-up 'nonsense scrawl'.
A small thread at the time:

Writing an Efficient Vulkan Renderer - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24368353 - Sept 2020 (2 comments)
I learned how to use Hypercard for Windows at school in the late 90s! (My school's computers all ran MS-DOS or Windows.)
Is diversity and inclusion addressing this?

For example Eastern Europe is getting a lot of outsourcing. Yet there’s zero d&i initiatives targeting that region.

Same goes for Africa. I’ve seen zero d&i initiatives To better integrate those living in Africa.
There’s SuperCard, but I’ve not tried it https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SuperCard
Traffic inside or outside EU is marginal. It's just illegal from the start. You need prior informed consent and it must be optional.

If it is not technically necessary. And a CDN rarely is. I can show you some sites that do without.
"Each version of Playwright needs specific versions of browser binaries to operate." [0]

They patch and compile browser binaries so they have the functionality Playwright needs.

Their build of Chromium is one release ahead of what's out but it looks like one could maintain a library of older Playwright browser binaries to test with. They probably have an older Firefox 91 binary that's feature-equivalent to the current Firefox ESR. Their WebKit builds won't ever be exactly the same as Apple Safari.

[0] https://playwright.dev/docs/browsers
Elon Musk Cryptocurrency Gimmicks Recap: What Can Investors Learn?
Bravo! But, I picked a stack at random from archive.org, probably one that was too complex, and it just threw an error when I tried to import it. What are some limitations to be aware of?
You either believe in science or you don’t. A lot of scientific findings don’t make intuitive sense (like relativity). So we rely on the scientific methods to guide us to the truth rather than our primitive ape minds.

Skepticism is part of the scientific method; but just saying “hmm it doesn’t feel right to me” isn’t really useful.
Binning/exclusivity/stratification is as big or bigger part of that than the quality of the school's education.

What percentage of kids are served by schools of that caliber? 5%? 1%? That's not "access" to better education, it's selection bias.

>constantly challenged by her high school teachers who set rigorous standards. You absolutely will not get that in a rural area,

Rural life precludes having or setting high standards?

>you don't generally have to pay for it in areas where the houses themselves aren't close to free.

You're paying for it, whether you have kids or not. You just don't have the freedom of picking your child's educators without having to buy a new house and move to change school districts.

And that's presuming the rural school isn't sufficient, which is a loaded assumption all on its own.
FWIW, Microsoft is hiring in Costa Rica. More specifically the M365 Core team. I work with a few of Costa Ricans.
I would love if more people would see it this way. If the discrimination is so strong they should found a company, hire all the discriminated people and profit.
as I mentioned, they can observe purchase patterns and derive that a given individual is making those purchases if its unique enough.

gently, my take on privacy is that, we will never be able to turn the clock back to 1970; we have to instead reconceptualize privacy in the age of pervasive sousviellance & surveillance.
Yeah, the idea of Oumuamua as space junk is faintly plausible simply because not enough data is present to determine what it really was. And if somewhat-above-human level technological societies existed, they'd send out probes that would spend 99.9999% of their time as space junk so this might well the only evidence of alien life humans will ever see.[1]

But jumping from there to earth-based UFO is a serious mistake, since virtually all of these have been debunked and their claimed existence generally violates most basic laws of physics.

[1] This is just assuming nothing more than somewhat-above-our-level tech exists. And everyone assuming dramatic aliens essentially has assume things absolute impossible for our present tech. And maybe these things are just absolutely impossible.
I guess I don't see literally anything in OP's text to indicate that whatsoever, plus the fact that it seems to leave it open as a real possibility.

If the question was about magically coming into control of a wallet.dat, or how would a whale sell-off, or you know, anything more substantive, then I'd agree, but...
Mistakes I've Made Building a Music Reactive LED Matrix
I think the chances that a judge would accept that argument is potentially a lot lower than you might expect.
I assume you don't know who Robert Sapolsky is in the parent comment.

"how X having more than Y caused Y to suffer" is the observation of someone who is above you in the hierarchy of A (A is whatever measure you want, usually its financial wealth or social status). This involuntary comparison allows you to derive your relative position, and this is a biologically stressful activity when you are toward the bottom of the hierarchy. This constant reflexive update is not great for people in a highly unequal society because its a constant stress inducer and has direct physical and mental health implications that bleed over into things like the political sphere.

Both "pointy" hierarchies and flattened hierarchies are bad. Flattened hierarchies are when we are all equal, and thus society stagnates. Pointy hierarchies are the traditional kings at the top, serfs at the bottom. These inevitably collapse at some point for multitudes of reasons. There is probably a happy, more stable medium. Societies that are becoming unequal have a gradient trending toward the pointy hierarchy state.

Poverty is a specific threshold of material wealth, and is related, but ultimately orthogonal to the discussion.
My ledger file has over $20K entries. Although I'm cheating: I actually input transactions into another SW and simply convert its format to Ledger.
> Any function a DAO can perform a notary can perform cheaper, including running votes.

However the DAO can the notary's job more transparently and without corruption (real oversight of their activities is cheaper... heck, it's possible)
You are not arguing the question. An unsafe, polluted, food desert neighbourhood is less healthy not because there are safe, clean, well supplied neighbourhoods. It is less healthy because the lack of safety, pollution and lack of healthy food makes people unhealthy.

If you can make the whole country polluted, food deserty and unsafe you made everyone more equal, but nobody will get healthier.

If a multi-billonaire buys a palace at the edge of a safe, clean neighbourhood that increases the inequality tremendously but won't make the people in the neighbourhood sicker.
We have been trying for years actually, there just isn't that many to hire as the article said :( There is a reason why all tech worker offices seem to be from east/west europe, china, india, USA and canada. Oracle has had offices in mexico for quite a while for example.
I've worked with partners in Colomba, Costa Rica, Argentina. There's a lot of talent for sure. My last place had a bid back office in Colombia, but it seemed like we were already running up against market capacity even a few years ago and competition for talent was heating up. The pay scales are already much higher than Asia.
“No, You Can’t Have My Pronouns” (2019)
I definitely think there would be a market for this, either on your own space (substack etc.) or maybe for blogs that do care about privacy and security.

If you do post some, I for one would be keen to read.
Most Ivy leagues discriminate against everyone who isn’t white, but they do it through legacy enrollments rather than explicitly saying it’s about race. The various racial “quotas” are a very hamfisted attempt to compensate that and other racist policies and biases.

It’s important to remember that you can easily make intentionally biased policies without ever mentioning the target of the bias.
I'm sure that envious people can impose suffering on themselves by obsessing over those who have more than them. But I don't see another causal pathway. I'd like to see the causal pathway. Otherwise it's on a scientific level with ESP.
Do not forget that Mexico was itself a colonialist entity, and Spanish is a colonialist language. That is often overlooked.
I have to admit that I found Hugo easier to work with from scratch. I am not used to working with Ruby, so I found setting up Jekyll to be quite an adventure... (now, truth be told, using GitHub to build my pages is definitely easier than having to use my own server with Hugo, but the _initial_ configuration of Jekyll appeared to be more complex for me)
https://archive.fo/tNDGX

BTW if you don't have the full conjugation chart for the more common non-binary pronouns (ze, sie, co, xe, ve, kit, etc) memorized yet, there's a helpful guide on page 2 of this doc: https://www.brynmawr.edu/sites/default/files/asking-for-name...
They also made cameras. Ever hear of the wildly popular Brownie? Anyway their film expertise does not take away their involvement in cameras for spy satellites in the 1960s.
Not officially but you can buy an arcade machine! I own a vewlix blue diamond that I bought last year for $2300 (tax + shipping included).

If you are interested, here is a link to the guy I bought my machine from: https://www.arcade-projects.com/threads/k-c-game-sale.10993/...
Ask HN: Spotify vs Apple Music?
I thought I'd give Apple Music a try after the recent Spotify-Rogan-Young debacle. Overall, I'm finding the experience to be pretty good, however these small things are really quite annoying when coming from Spotify:

* Mac Music app & iPhone App don't sync up what's currently playing. So, I can't control it from my phone while playing from my laptop.

* No Liked/Loved Songs playlist that automatically adds songs I've "loved".

* Loving songs should be an icon on desktop app, not a 2-click thru a drop-down.

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On the flipside, things I like:

* Easily access recently played history

* Seemingly better sound quality

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What are your pro / cons?
My kids are in year 2 and 5. Year 5 had perfectly legible handwriting (not quite as good as the stuff in the image, but pretty good) until they forced the joined up shit starting in year 3.

Looking at other words on the wall confirms this is normal - writing goes back severely in KS2 because of this 1960s view that you have to be able to write large amounts of prose at speed.
>we haven’t uploaded a single Channel 5 video directly to Vimeo, we've only uploaded through Patreon’s built-in video feature, so I was confused.

>n addition to that, we actually purchased a ‘Vimeo Pro’ plan in advance, which costs $250/year and supposedly allows us 1 Terabyte of annual storage.

Somethings not adding up here. Why would they purchase a Vimeo Pro plan if they were confused about where their videos were hosted?
Past related threads:

If It Were My Home - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13709405 - Feb 2017 (1 comment)

IfItWereMyHome.com: Your Life in a Different Country - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10806405 - Dec 2015 (2 comments)

Compare your country to any other place - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9472001 - May 2015 (2 comments)

Living conditions in other countries compared to your own - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2726967 - July 2011 (3 comments)

Website calculates how your life might be like in another country - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2119220 - Jan 2011 (106 comments)
> You can also run repeated tests and conclude an intervention is not successful - as you put it, no better than the null hypothesis.

I don't disagree. You test to reject the null hypothesis. If you do not reject, you must accept. Eventually, hopefully, you give up on the failed alternative hypothesis and move on.

> Or, finally, you can have just not run tests at all. There is a difference between the second and third states, and health authorities implied the second state when the third state was far more accurate.

We agree completely here.
In the platonic ideal of technical debut it should have zero direct impact on users. Indirect impacts are a slowdown in the release of new features, and or bug fixes etc.
> But the one I wound up in is really special, and it's not the only one.

Of course! And there are oases in areas that are otherwise mostly cultural deserts (i.e. Iowa City). I'm glad you don't actually think of city folks as "generally worse". I'm thankful to have spent time in both big cities and small rural communities, and I think it'd be good for our collective empathy if more people could.
I agree with this statement, people downvoting parent are almost certainly living in not-very corrupt countries.
Looks awesome, definitely giving it a try. Thanks!