skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Consume less in general and develop cooperatives that utilize local resources as efficiently as possible. This is going to become a necessity in the coming decades and the communities that start now will have a head start on the changes that will be required to survive in a much harsher world. This is why I said it's a social instead of technical problem. The neighborhood I live in is extremely affluent but other than churches has no other collective organizations. Places like that might weather the first few waves of instability but will eventually have to develop cooperatives just like everyone else. Resources are going to become more and more scarce so the communities that develop the skills to properly ration whatever is left to maximize the well being of their members will thrive, those that don't, well, just look at SF or other metropolitan areas, it ain't pretty.
Are you aware that an estimated 1/4 of all registered sex offenders were themselves minors when they committed their offense? And age 14 is the single year that you're most likely to become a registered sex offender?

I fully understand and appreciate the purpose of our laws. The practice, however, is a different story. And unless we stop including as crimes things that I'm not willing to consider crimes, I can't support the way that "registered sex offender" is routinely used to destroy lives over childhood mistakes.
A microbial compound in the gut leads to anxious behaviors in mice
> First off, they say that in order to get out of the requirement that everyone give Apple 30% of income, they say that those using an alternative payment method still must give Apple 27% of income.

That's not exactly the trade here – Apple is letting people use alternative payment providers, which does carry a lot of benefits besides not paying the fee, including better customer management and support
Many sites seem designed for two kinds of devices: huge 29" screens, or small 5" screens. If you use a "normal" laptop things often look less than great. It's not uncommon for some fixed header or whatnot to take up a quarter or even a third of the total screen, especially if you like to zoom text a wee bit.
Who is barred? I’ve travelled to Canada to visit family a number of times last year and once so far this year. I have another trip planned for late spring.

Canadian citizens enter by right.
Namecheap acquires controlling interest in Namebase.io
It's true about content creation. Tiktok, Youtube, Instagram, etc. are done using mainly smartphones. There's a ton of content created on smartphones than he realize. Heck, there are movies shot on the iPhone: https://www.cashify.in/12-movies-which-you-never-knew-were-s...
Hey, me too! I've been building something like this for awhile, but it's a side project, and thus regularly de-prioritized beneath work projects.

Also, really a lot of effort to maintain, as each platform tends to frequently push breaking changes :(
They have an NGO, some directors and a lawsuit they are working on for constitutional challenge against the mandate by one of the Constitution drafters.
Apple's position here is correct.

I as a non-Netherlands user don't want my apps pushing their own payment methods, so app providers should only be making separate apps with their own payment methods available to Netherlands-based users.
I have a vested interest in this domain now that I'm starting up in this space so am closely following these and related products.

A whole bunch of these startups have sprung up; which take up real money (USDT or even USD, INR etc.,) promising very attractive guaranteed returns without locking up customers' fund. Look at these[1] for examples. Anyone who knows anything about banking in the traditional world knows how ridiculous it is. And indeed some of these are beginning to unravel[2]. In Anchor's case there are way more lenders than borrowers so Anchor is resorting to pay those high yields from their reserves. It's cutting close to being a Ponzi scheme at the moment.

In a traditional banking world businesses take a loan either to cover for a short-term cashflow crunch (example an invoice that's delayed by their client) or for longer term investment. That money usually goes into economic activities which are expected (hoped?) to bear fruit to repay the loan.

In the crypto world however such loans are taken only to be put back into the crypto world; to be swapped into some hot new coin to be staked and what not. The music has got to stop at some point.

I'm really glad SEC has been proactive. I hope regulators in other countries do so. Because 99% of the money flowing into these are totally guidable and clueless people; they need to be protected for their own sake.

[1] https://www.pillow.fund
[1] https://www.flint.money

[2] https://au.finance.yahoo.com/news/anchor-protocol-reserves-s...
No really meaningful search results. Probably data wasn't taken very well at the time.
Your comment evoked the current Ukraine crisis. What do the midterm or general elections in the United States have to do with American citizens sympathizing with and donating money to causes in other countries? That is not an issue that is on the ballot. At least foreign policy is something that is germane to those elections. This is a complete non sequitur.
Phones used to have tactile buttons you could dial without even looking. They also worked in extreme cold. Touchscreen? Below a certain temperature, the 'buttons' cease to exist.
With the history of red light camera abuses, I don't find it very surprising that the public is leery of automated enforcement.
Kind of, I think. I don't think it is directly related to the WSJ article, but it has to do with the general issue around the perception of texting on an iOS device as a superior experience to texting on an Android device. Google has been trying to get the phone networks to standardize on RCS for years, as a replacement protocol for SMS, and to add some similar features familiar to users of iMessage like typing indicators.
Why do we need the responsive mobile web design anymore? Honestly i think it s an unnecessary complication that keeps most of the website content out of view, nullifies zooming, and slows the development of any site . Most phones have great screens , the user can zoom in and out, landscape mode is as big as a laptop screen , it's probably a better experience. Scrolling vertically only is so ... unidimensional
Has Graphviz been re-implemented in JavaScript or compiled to WASM?
Reminds me of this hilarious account from somebody who made a MySpace worm in the day

https://samy.pl/myspace/
Bitcoin, specifically, has the following advantages:

1. "store of value" - no single entity (US Fed, Chinese dictators, De Beers etc) controls its issuance. Supply is fixed and cannot be monkeyed around.

2. ease of transfer - we can transfer $10 or $1B worth of Bitcoin easily in 10min for a relatively little cost. While Gold also satisfies #1, it is not easy to transfer.

3. programmability - bitcoin can be wrapped and opens up a lot of possibilities (lending, collateral etc) on other chains like Ethereum.

4. other people believe in it too - I can trivially fork and create my own ShitCoin. But a harder step is getting other people to adopt it. Bitcoin adoptees, on the other hand, range from gen-Z WSB-ers to staid institutions. The later bucket - US senators, S&P500 companies (MSTR), countries (El Salvador), hedge funds, HNWI's - in particular is providing critical momentum.
We used to buy Precision laptops for 3D designers due to the need for a beefy graphics card, and I got the impression they were just heavier versions of Dell's regular crap. IBM was my preference before Lenovo, but now I have no idea if there's any premium Intel laptops left.
Are you arguing people can’t easily switch between ios and android?

Unless you’re exclusively using first party apps, the vast majority are on both platforms.

And speaking of Microsoft- Microsoft had a 80%+ market share and Apple obliterated them. Create a better experience and people will move

Which technologies from Europe have been objectively superior and were killed off by Apple or Google due to abusing their position?
>Unfortunately, smartphones, due to their form factor, don't actually allow precise editing or manipulation of content

The precision of editing they do allow is "good enough" for the average Joe.
I was contemplating buying a Dell to replace my 10-year old MBP, but after reading your comment, I will stay as far away from Dell as I can.

Thanks for the warning, friend!
I work in the industry too and the things that people mislabel as "front running" is really aggravating. At worst, you could call it "order anticipating": using publicly available knowledge to figure out that if someone hit Exchange A and B, they're probably headed to Exchange C next. But they have no inside knowledge that the same party will in fact send an order to Exchange C next. They're taking a risk by anticipating that.

"Front running" as defined by the SEC has a more narrow definition. It basically means that you have a customer that has placed an order for XYZ and you aware of the order, but you placed your own order to be executed in front them, thus forcing them to buy it from you at a higher price than if their order was executed first. HFTs are not "front running" anybody.
Related story from a few weeks ago: "My first three months with a Nokia dumb phone as a daily driver"; https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30007742
Bitcoin or other crypto would just be the payment mechanism, alongside any other option like CC, paypal, bank transfer, etc. The donation platform could still collect any other data as part of the user profile.

Sure, they could choose not to collect or retain that data for crypto, but they could do the same with other payment mechanisms as well. Crypto wouldn't confer much more in the way of anonymity benefits above and beyond what a donation platform could provide right now if they wanted to.
HSBC got fined $84M for laundering mexican drug cartel money. The proportions don't add up.

https://www.complianceweek.com/regulatory-enforcement/hsbc-h...
Unlikely unless you’re over 70, 80 years old and these are childhood memories.
It's like if Microsoft had decreed in the 2000s that Mozilla can only make their browser as an IE6 toolbar, with IE6 still rendering the pages and enforcing weird rules.
TCP Performance Problems Related to Nagle's Algorithm and Delayed ACK (2005)
> It's still very easy to go with an Android variant

It's still not very common knowledge. Most people wouldn't even know this is happening; keep in mind that Apple's rules also prohibit you from mentioning that alternate payment options exist (even if those are on other platforms).

Also, most people don't have the disposable cash to just throw away their iPhone and go buy an Android when encountering this issue. Frankly, it's still probably more rational to just pay the 30% tax than forego a significant chunk of value off the phone by buying a new Android replacement.

Android also has its own problems (including with privacy, etc) which hopefully will be addressed at some point, but for now it's not a silver bullet, simply a different set of tradeoffs.

I believe the role of a competition watchdog is to prevent anticompetitive practices that hurt consumers as a whole. I don't think it's far-fetched to strike down stupid rules that don't provide any value beyond allowing assholes to seek rent.

> Personally I believe it's because Europe is way too stifling in its rules and regulations. In comparison the United States is just a far superior environment for innovation and starting tech companies in general.

IMO, the US model allows a minority to legally screw the rest of the population and get rich off it, offloading the negative externalities onto society. This Apple rule is an example, albeit very small in the grand scheme of things when you consider what is possible and routinely done in the US.

> Help foster strong competitive companies

To a certain extent that's what the EU is doing here. Keep in mind that in the last couple decades a lot of business ideas & markets have been monopolized by US-based companies who are now using anti-competitive practices to prevent viable competition from emerging. The problem with the EU isn't primarily regulation (though it makes a lot of user-hostile business models impossible - a good thing in my book), it's the lack thereof that allowed US-based companies to monopolize many markets even in Europe.
Ask HN: Does anyone have a good explainer on miner selection in PoS blockchains?
I was talking crypto with my friend yesterday, and I mentioned that in a Proof of Stake system, it's much more energy efficient because only a small randomly selected subset of miners verifies each transaction, so they aren't all solving crypto problems to participate.

He then asked me what the random selection algorithm is that maintains security with possible bad actors, and I didn't know.

I tried looking it up but I'm failing to find the details, everything just says "they are randomly selected with a secure algorithm". Can anyone tell me what the algorithm is? I know (think?) that it's a variation on Byzantine fault tolerance, but I can't find the details.

Thanks!
Yeah, though the Netherlands started before they had gone _too_ far down the sprawling hellscape path. Even with better infra, it's a rotten situation where you need to go 2 miles from home to buy milk. Hopefully we can let nature reclaim the suburbs and increase density in the cities.

Jason Slaughter of NotJustBikes also pointed out that in NL they at least had an entire generation or two of people who remembered a different way of living, without being car dependent. All those people have died out in the US now, and even people in their mid-80's came of age when the US was going whole hog on car dependency.

I want better for the US but I'm not optimistic. A new city built of whole cloth (maybe culdesac.com can do it?) might have a chance.
This sort of critique has been around for a while. This is from 2001:

https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc3117#section-4.5
> on blatant price manipulation on an OTC stock

Which stock?

There are a lot of cult-ish communities around certain stocks that "know just enough to be dangerous" and end up misinterpreting a lot of signals as naked shorting and such. The narratives sound good to people who are holding the stock, but they're almost always completely flawed.

If the complaints are basically coming in bulk with the same reports that can be traced back to a Reddit post or something, they're probably going straight to the trash.
... you could reasonably expect to see some money back.

Maybe, maybe not. USDC is not legal tender. Coinbase could easily argue it is nothing but monopoly money with a value of $0USD.
Thank you for providing context and some background. There are so many legitimate uses for wrmsr I still think this move from kernel devs is quite openly user hostile.
They are talking about Chronic Visible Homeless... a very different group than the majority of homeless population who don't; live on the street, talk to themselves, or murder complete strangers.
> As one of the donors included in this hack, I am not entirely sure what they're out to accomplish.

> as my neighborhood in Austin had police helicopters

Well, they certainly accomplished one goal: Out foreign donations.
Conservatives are tabling a motion for a vote on removal of restrictions today.

They’ve just performatively asked truckers to leave, so that they can always point to that later in their election campaign. Why would they want them to leave?they don’t.
Have a look at Linux Deploy, it is essentially an installation wizard and launcher.

I no longer use it, and instead use Magisk startup scripts to start the Linux userspace, but it remains useful as an installer.
How so? The American system protects megacorps like Apple instead of giving consumers choice, like the EU is doing.

How is forcing users to pay 30% for nothing helping them?
That might give you better ballistics but would probably come at a cost to reliability and complexity. You'd still need to accelerate the sled to at least the same velocities they're doing now for the slug. Then you'd need to stop the sled in a very short distance which would put forces on the components that aren't there now. Finally, you'd need to reliably return the sled to it's starting position for the next shot. In conventional firearms you can move the bolt backward using either a gas return tube or blowback but those aren't an option for this type of weapon.
Reddit has to have some kind of moderation other than the volunteer sub moderators, otherwise people could just illegal content in a private subreddit
Open a company and offer webinars and get security contracts. Make millions.
> Despite the fact that Reagan passed the "Lanterman-Petris-Short Act"

Reagan was governor. Governors sign bills. Legislatures pass them. This was a bipartisan effort and was viewed as a civil rights issue, to not hold people in confinement against their will. Lanterman was a Republican, Petris and Short were Democrats. Reagan could have vetoed it, so he shares in the responsibility, but it was a bipartisan, popular bill.

> removed all funding for Mental Health at the State and Federal level.

Do you really believe that all funding was removed? What is your basis for this shocking claim? It's very hard to cut government spending, and Reagan wasn't known for doing that (spending in almost every area increased under Reagan). Reagan was known for tax cuts, and since spending went up, Reagan was also known for big budget deficits (not like today, where Reagan would be viewed as a model of restraint, but compared to his predecessors the peacetime deficits were shocking). What you are saying is just wildly false.

From 1983-1992, Government spending on mental health grew an average of 6.5% annually in real terms.[1] "Cost-cutting" -- really a slowing down of spending increases, happened in the 2000s, where spending on mental health grew only by 4.7% annually in real terms. This was the slowest spending growth in history for mental health. The U.S. spends an enormous amount on mental health, with dubious results.

Here are two good rules of thumb when thinking about these issues if you are honestly trying to understand our history, rather than trying to score a political point and blame things on your enemies. These two should be your null hypothesis:

1. social spending always goes up. It never goes down. It does not matter who is President. Presidents don't cut social spending in any area.

2. Nothing in America happens because of one person. We have separation of powers and divided government. Everything is always a compromise reached by those in power at the time. This is a good explanation for 1, since the best way to get agreement is to buy people off with more spending.

[1] https://www.cms.gov/Research-Statistics-Data-and-Systems/Sta...
Today, Lenovo Support also confirmed on the phone that there is a throttling issue affecting the Thinkpad X1 Extreme Generation 3. They currently don‘t seem to have a clue what is going on…
How I research any topic
Unvaccinated Canadians older than five who have to quarantine for fourteen days.

A 14 day quarantine for an endemic virus just as present in Canada as anywhere else is a de facto prohibition.
This is a really disappointing article in that it basically says nothing. It essentially just says “Cyclic Big Bang - Big Crunch fell out of favor, now someone says it’s possible again”.

Okay, but what actually made it fall out of favor? “Background radiation” is meaninglessly hand wavey. And what was established that makes it look plausible now? Again, nothing explained.
After I posted I was thinking and came up with “Black Hole Exhaust (Can) Breathe Life Into New Star Formation,” but I also like yours
Angus is far more reputable.

Abacus never fails to find support for government approved narratives.
> It’s not like Google and Apple are #1 in every area where they compete.

Google and Apple control the platform so they can kick you out or make your business unprofitable with shenanigans such as these.
That sounds like perjury... did they really just lie to the court? Or were they just not competent enough to realize loss of transactionality can affect this? In the latter case it sure sounds like maybe courts should ask for the actual data (e.g. bug tickets) and have an independent expert assess them?
If you are always concerned about the pitfalls of your stupidest user, you will make a product that is only suitable for stupid users.

When you stop worrying about that, and can actually start to deploy advanced technology for your advanced users.

You can weight your argument however you want, all technology will fail some class of user. Me, I’ve been playing with this and various tech for a decade now and the sky is the limit for where this can go.
> GPS and live traffic data are, essentially, the same service in that they fill the same need

What?

> Restaurant reviews? Who actually needs those except maybe on a road trip?

Anyone who likes to visit new restaurants.
Show HN: Create charming wobbling GIFs with ASCII
I get where you're coming from, but if a friend asks me to look over an important email that they're planning on sending to their boss, I don't think of it as "wasting my time" if the email has a bunch of grammatical errors in it. Instead, I'm happy that I'm able to help them by applying a fresh pair of eyes to the problem, since they've probably spent a really long time working on the actual content of the email and haven't had the opportunity to step back and consider . It's just an efficient division of labor. In the same way, code review is a great opportunity to let someone who wasn't involved in the actual writing of the code approach the problem & solution space with fresh eyes, now that you've done the hard work of translating the solution into something that actually works.

And code reviews are even more collaborative then that. When I'm looking over my friend's email, it's still ultimately their email and there are types of feedback that it would be inappropriate to give. But when you're contributing to a shared codebase, it's more like a novel that's been co-written by multiple different authors—obviously you want everybody on the team to be able to have input and feedback into what the "collective style" of the project is going to be.
Isn’t this a known issue that it can’t hibernate properly?
Marvel at the Size of Giga Texas as Drone Takes 360-Degree Flight
I think preference that just comes from familiarly. In practice you don't set your temperature in half increments in places with Celsius, it's just 20, 21, etc. Most HVACs do not set temperature that accurately enough in a room anyway for 0.5C adjustments to actually be useful.

If you come from a Celsius place and then move to the USA, you find it actually fairly annoying, because a bunch of useful numbers to remember is arbitrary as fuck. What is the freezing point again? 35, 37, 33? In Celsius it's 0 and very easy to remember. The freezing point is very useful, since you'll know if the rain will become snow if it's just under 0, or if ice will start forming on the road or not. Similarly what is the boiling point? 200, 205, 210, 212? vs. a nice round easy to understand 100. You can also think about how hot your water can be as a 'percentage of boiling', so 75 becomes 'hotness that is %75 the way to boiling'.

Vast majority of the world also knows that -17 (OF) is cold as fuck, and there is nothing special about that specific number too! You would also know that -16 and -18 are cold as fuck. Same with 38C (100F). 40C and 39C are also hot! And there are no unique properties about 0F and 100F, unlike 0C and 100C.
NFTs offer new method to control personal health information