skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From https://www.nytimes.com/live/2022/02/15/world/canada-protest...

> While the government has yet to present detailed orders, Chrystia Freeland, the deputy prime minister and finance minister, said on Monday that all online fund-raising services operating in Canada, regardless of where they are based, will have to register with Canada’s financial intelligence agency, which analyzes transactions for signs of money laundering or terrorist related activity.

> Not all of them, however, are likely to comply. After the protesters were cut off by GoFundMe, they moved their appeal to GiveSendGo. When an Ontario judge last week ordered the seizure of several million dollars raised through that platform, the online service defiantly posted on Twitter that “Canada has absolutely ZERO jurisdiction over how we manage our funds.”

> But Vanessa Iafolla, a criminologist and financial crime consultant in Halifax, Nova Scotia, who studies money laundering, said that the government has a way around that. There is a long chain of companies that process the payments for all fund-raising sites. That chain, she said, eventually leads to banks and other financial institutions in Canada that are, since the emergency declaration, now required to cut off any payments to and from crowdfunding sites that choose not to follow the new emergency regulations.
It'd definitely be an interesting read, could you pastebin it for us?
C'mon the hate is understandable. In the past anti-vaxxers have harassed everyone from nurses to restaurant workers. People who have been vaccinated and have followed the mandates have had enough of the anti-vaxxers which is what the convoy represents. And the convoy has been terribly inconveniencing everyone beyond what a normal protest is like. 18 days blockage at one border crossing? Unbelievable.
Linux distros like Xubuntu and Linux Mint have been doing this for years. Simple install process, simple GUI, excellent performance, malware almost non-existent, and it doesn't lock you into running everything in a browser.
Just out curiosity: do you have this same natural aversion to hard disk drives and NAND flash? Both of these, and many others, are utterly dependent on math to overcome their naturally terrifying basic error rates.
> last value, and I am not making this up: "Meta, metamates, me"

I can't get the "Is this good for the company?" scene out of my head[↓]. Maybe Zuckerberg is trying to set up the perfect environment for Office Space 2?

https://youtu.be/dA5rB63Mzc8
The other way is more fun too.
I like this post, because in many ways it highlights the importance of how Airflow has helped shape the modern data stack.

Like mentioned in this thread, managing Airflow can quickly become complicated. Its flexibility means that you can stretch Airflow in pretty interesting ways. Especially when trying to pair container orchestrators like k8s with it.

To combat that complexity and reduce the operational burden of letting a data team create & deploy batch processing pipelines we created https://github.com/orchest/orchest

We suspect that many standardized use cases (like reverse ETL) will start disappearing from custom batch pipelines. But there’s a long tail of data processing tasks for which having freedom to invoke your language of choice has significant advantages. Not to mention stimulating innovative ideas (why not use Julia for one of your processing steps?).
It's perhaps a little bit early in its creation to be sharing this but I am working on a new search that should help to fix the problems mentioned in the article, https://namusearch.com/
Join Telegram for some dedicated channels and private plex servers served with torrents. Cheaper and better in the long term. Subscription economy has gone for the worse
Remove tax deductions for more than two kids per couple. Tax the suburbs more highly. Encourage couples to only have two kids just like we encourage people not to litter. Trade less with countries with high birth rates and raise fees on those countries’ environmental impact. All that could be done democratically, no?
The first example does refer to people. That's the point of using the word "disingenuous" there. "Sending a disingenuous message" means a message you don't really believe. The second one is hard to make sense of without more context.

Words are sort of statistical meaning clouds—people have different associations and use them differently. Regional variations play a large role. I'm pretty sure the word disingenuous does imply intent to deceive, though, and it's a significant moderation issue because it's extremely popular in internet arguments: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que....
Part of this might just be account switching issues though. If I’m watching for myself I can usually find what I want quickly. The problem comes when I’m trying to browse with my wife to find something we can both live with. At best it gives the my preferences and the Union of me + wife’s preferences (and vice versa on her account.) But what we’d really want is a separate recommendation feed that shows the intercept of me + wife’s preferences.

But most people are lazy and won’t account switch for different contexts like that anyway, so there’s just no way they can keep the profile data as clean as it needs to be for a television.
> They're hemorrhaging users fast.

This isn't obvious to me. How do you know this?
I've done the Glasgow Haskell course. It's hard. Some of the hardness was being 10hrs out of sync with the rest of the class who were in the UK and I wasn't but it's also hard because changing from 30+ years of imperative thinking to functional thinking is hard. Some people say it takes 6 weeks to break a habit, well the course lasted about 8 weeks and I didn't break the habit.

Of course you can code in the imperative mode in an FP and in fact, some people do teach this for the benefit of having strongly typed, and functional language inside the model. If you learn the type model and the REPL then the rest can follow naturally.

My employer had one or two webapps written in elm and they worked well. The stakeholder hated the L&F so as usual, they died on issues tangential to the coding language but there was a valid point made by other coders: If you go this far off the common path, you make support burdens for other people. I think this is part of why FP for web is so thin on the ground: it requires substantial cross group participation to succeed at scale, a lone-wolf won't get you a good outcome
Don’t Let Shop Safe Prevent You from Buying and Selling Online
> I eventually co-founded a company with two others and it went well,

Success!!!

> but after exiting I am still not plugged into VC.

Isn’t this moving the goal posts ?
I wonder what is the best calculus textbook that can be found in Project Gutemberg today. The essence of the subject surely didn't change much in the last 100 years, and publishers today care mostly about sabotaging second hand market by constantly changing exercises and order of subject from one edition to another. Why just not break the museum piece and learn from old books?
What a coincidence that Cloudflare today announced their switch from rCaptcha to hCaptcha. Now that I can assure people accessing my service that they won't get Googled, I have a good reason to switch from Linode VPN VPS to CF Argo tunnel.
Report about a case of hydrocephalus mistaken for 'mental illness'
bc is still my favorite calculator, 30 years after I first learned *nix (SunOS for me back then).
Thank you whtrbt for linking my steam page. It's a pretty out of date I regret to say. I'm doing it from the woods and have to go a town over to the library to upload HD video.

For some reason it's easier to upload to twitter via tether, so it's where I've got the latest.
https://twitter.com/LeapJosh
The largest email providers already show ads to the free tier. They don't earn that much per user and it's just not worth supporting custom domains at that scale.

If they cant make it work, why would anyone else have more success by offering even more features for free?

And if you're already buying a domain name then why not just pay for the email account too?
Is this helpful? I mean, we’ve already passed the point of too much natural habitat lost and too much industrial ag needed, so I think a number less then our current population is reasonable.
> For developers, it doesn't make much sense, but for the rest of the world, it is perfect

Developer chiming in - ChromeOS makes a lot of sense since the launch of Linux VMs (aka Crostini)[0]. I get full access to Linux tools & VSCode on a light & cheap[1] Chromebook I can take everywhere without worrying about it being damaged or stolen; I take it to places I wouldn't dare bring a Macbook Pro. Very few workloads require remoting to my heavy-hitter desktop/cloud VM instance via ssh (or Jupyter notebooks) - far fewer than I initially thought. It's perfectly capable of handling Javascript/CSS/HTML and Go/Python projects

0. Sadly, Crostini only runs on Intel Chromebooks

1. I'm talking about than $200-$250 new, full HD screen, Intel Atom that can eke out 8+ hours on battery. I also bought a 2nd hand backup Chromebook for $53 on Goodwill
4 levels down a comment threat is probably deep enough it doesn't cause problems. The list archive is actually fully publicly visible:

https://minnie.tuhs.org/pipermail/tuhs/2022-February/025390.html
I have tried using DuckDuckGo as my default search engine, but Firefox changed it back to Google with every update, so eventually I just gave up on that endeavor.
Yes, I'm expecting support for as long as the hardware runs. Disposing hardware that is perfectly functional is ludicrous and insane.

Further, if your hardware product requires never-ending software updates just to keep it working, perhaps you should invest in writing less crappy software to begin with.
> Why? Economics. The Falcon 9 can get ~22t to LEO. Starship is planned for ~100t. If the net cost of a Falcon 9 launch (factoring in reuse) is $20m then that puts an effective cap of $100m on the cost of a Starship launch.

By this logic the cost of mail should be much lower given I can get a package 200x larger delivered to my house for 10x the price.
I vaguely remember knowing that we had a mortgage rate of ... 16% when I was a kid (we moved in 1982). But ... it was a direct note with the previous owner, and when rates fell, they wouldn't refinance at a lower rate. And it was hard to get a bank to lend because we were relatively close to the edge already, financially (it's been.. 35+ years - I'm getting some second hand stories through family). When I first bought a home in the late 90s with a mortgage, I think it was around 8% which - didn't really feel high or low, as it was my first. I just refinance last fall at 2.75%. Insane.
pretty much that's what my friends in mexico think, that americans (or people from the united states) are making everything more expensive.
Wouldn’t the search be like the old days of google before they personalised everything?
150km of firehose

> Field camp with autonomous livelihood to accommodate 250-300 people,in vehicles for transportation: 55 units

> Individual dosimeters: 31,000 units

... someone has some specific plans?
Perhaps the proprieter - who is doing all the work themself, for free, giving it all away - is trying to cover expenses?

All books on this site are free.

... a one-woman operation that has been running for over eight years. I format every single ebook myself, as well as maintaining the website. This is a passion project that was born from a love for reading and a commitment to make free ebooks that look good and feel enjoyable to read.
One thing I don't quite understand about this is why these cultivated meat companies don't start at the high end. Sure, it's true that commodity beef might be $4/lb, but a high end Wagyu steak is an order of magnitude or more higher than that.

I would think that producing high end meats using cultivation shouldn't be much more expensive (if at all) than producing low end meats, given the primary difference is the marbling, which is a fairly arbitrary parameter biologically.

There must be some good reason why this is hard, but i'd just like to understand why that is.
How do you find place to rent?
This article is a profile, not an obituary (I'd expect an obituary to state that she died, and give a date). What's the source that reported her death? I searched the web, but couldn't find any. At the moment, her Wikipedia article refers to her in the past tense, but doesn't cite a source for her death either.

(In case the title changes, this comment refers to the original HN title: "Lorinda Cherry, author of dc, bc, eqn has died".)
100k Banned Books Have Been Formed into a 'Parthenon of Books'
Tl;dr 2nd to last paragraph says that Airflow's unbundling is better than writing a better Airflow. Final paragraph says that DBT Cloud will become the better Airflow.
Why would you launch a business where people can't pay you?
Here she is demoing Unix, pipelines, etc. (1982)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XvDZLjaCJuw&t=828s
iFixit Steam Deck Teardown: Everything Valve Said Not to Do
Please watch these documentaries:

Terminator, Terminator 2
My own anecdote. Even though I'm not actively using reddit myself and mostly I just read-only participants on few subs that are interested to myself.

Anyway when I need to decide what to buy, or find an advice on something about certain country I'm gonna visit for the first time, or just want to learn near-scientific knowledge I do append said "site:reddit.com" more often than not.

I literally only use Google itself for some programming documentation or to find a picture of something. In all other cases it's results are awfully bad.
Yea. Reddit is a super useful content island. The idea that folks prefer certain such content island was one of the many reasons we started you.com (other than privacy, time saving, developer focus, etc)

We are the only search engine that allows you to set that Reddit preference once and then whenever relevant - the reddit search app will come up. Same goes for Stackoverflow and other apps.

It's changed the way I search.

Full disclosure: I'm a co-founder of you.com
electron volts is a unit of energy. Using E = mc^2, one expresses masses in the equivalent energy quantity. It turns out that electron-volts is a convenient scale for the (energy equivalent) mass for elementary particles -- much better than trying to express the mass in kilograms.
And do you think if approach users they'd think we're not ready?
If you don't have Chrome, you need to install it first. You need to install a web browser to flash a USB drive. That's wonky.
Buy the Nvidia dips
There isn't a single Samsung Device on the supported devices list. That seems odd to me, given how many Samsung devices I believe are out there.
Related: iFixit will sell Steam Deck parts
The original title of this link is “She was headed to a locked psych ward. Then an ER doctor made a startling discovery”, which doesn’t describe the article very well. My substitute title attempts to capture the essence of the piece.

I noticed this link on https://www.madinamerica.com/2022/02/headed-locked-psych-war...

The important part of the article:

But something indefinable — [emergency physician Elizabeth]
Mitchell characterized it as “maybe gut instinct” honed by nearly
two decades of practice — prompted her to order a CT scan of
Chloe’s head to better assess her mental status. […]

Chloe had a life-threatening condition that Mitchell characterized
as “the most severe case of hydrocephalus I’ve ever seen.” She
needed brain surgery as soon as it could be scheduled and was
being sent to the neuro-ICU at Cedars-Sinai.

Hydrocephalus, popularly known as “water on the brain,” is
caused by the accumulation of cerebrospinal fluid in cavities
known as ventricles. Spinal fluid, which cushions the brain, is
critically important to a wide variety of brain functions. Excess
fluid was compressing the brain’s frontal lobes — responsible
for memory, decision-making and emotion — against the inside
of Chloe’s skull because it could not be reabsorbed. Without
treatment, hydrocephalus, which can be present at birth or occur
later in life, can cause brain damage, coma or death.

Alison had never heard of hydrocephalus. And Chloe, she told
Mitchell, had never undergone brain imaging.

Mitchell mentioned the diagnostic mnemonic she had learned in
medical school; “wet, wobbly and wacky.” She was incredulous
as Alison ticked off telltale symptoms of hydrocephalus, many of
which dated back years: poor balance, gait problems, personality
changes, confusion, fainting, memory lapses and involuntary
urination.

“I cannot believe that no one ever ordered a CT scan,” Mitchell
said. “That’s what I thought was very weird.”

I’m posting something on Mad In America on Thursday where I say that there are always causes behind supposed cases of “mental illness”, and psychiatrists should work harder to figure out what’s going on in their patients.

Chloe’s case of hydrocephalus probably started when she was a child. It wasn’t caught, not even when overt symptoms started to develop. If she’d been sent to the psych hospital, she never would have recovered.
Web3.js – Ethereum JavaScript API
I don't know what the issue is. Let's assume for simplicity that the sensitivity is exactly 0.2 eV. Then if you measure something slightly above, like 0.201 eV, you can conclude it has a mass. If you measure something slightly below, 0.199 eV, you don't know.
Well, maybe for early adopters? I think I've got something wrong...
I currently have most of my stuff split between Digital Ocean and Linode. So if I had to move quickly, it'd be Digital Ocean.

I'm going to be kicking the tires on Hetzner and Vultr soon, because DO is not a super satisfying backup plan for me.

I've used Azure enough to get spun up quickly there, but that would be an unhappy upward adjustment on my budget or an unhappy downward adjustment on the performance I expect.
I think part of it is Pokemon and MTG are franchises with fan bases that exist outside of the desire to speculate on them as investments. So there will always be some fans who want to collect them just to have them, and not in the hope of selling to a greater fool. There is enduring demand.

Beanie Babies, on the other hand, only existed for the purpose of get-rich-quick speculative bullshit. Ok, some kids played with them but I remember adults admonishing kids not to damage them and ruin their value. Is anyone actually nostalgic for these? I was 7-10 during the craze and I don't care about them, or know any peers who do. I mean, many of us weren't allowed to play with them.

Another factor is scarcity. Many old cards were played with and damaged, so to have a first edition mint is actually rare. Whereas I'm sure there are (still) 100,000s mint condition Beanies in plastic storage bins in attics across the US.

Finally, some of them were actually special and deservingly command a high price. Black Lotus was a really powerful card in addition to not being printed anymore, so there is another reason why it's sought after. It's so overpowered and game-breaking it won't be reintroduced. Patti the Platypus is not manufactured anymore, but there is nothing special about it anyway. And even if Beanie Babies were to become popular again, who is to say they won't just make another platypus.
A lot of the salt brine being spread around on the roads to fight ice is radioactive fracking waste.

https://www.ehn.org/fracking-wastewater-spread-on-roads-2573...
A few years ago at an AI conference (might've been NeurIPS), there was a paper on considering environmental impact as an important facet in AI safety/responsibility. I've been thinking about it for a long time, and this only makes me think more. At what point do we consider carbon emissions relative to compute as a valid concern?
Flat Earth Theory: Inside Mike Hughes' Doomed Search for Answers
> Starship is incredibly ambitious but if it doesn't reach orbit before 2025 I won't be surprised.

Can someone elucidate what are the major technical challenges related to Starship that can cause such a delay? Powered descent and landing I assume is a largely solved problem from Falcon rockets.

Re-entry would require heat shielding tech but isn't that a fairly mature technology? Also the fact that SpaceX isn't trying to maximize payload per launch and compensate with launch frequency argues they can use more robust tech than NASA used.

The engines are completely new and the only one of it's kind that's ever flown but I've not heard that they are a problem now.

Re-launch so quickly may not happen initially but that's ok and SpaceX does have experience with the other rocket.

So I'm wondering what's the big unknown left?
Can you give a TL;DW (did not watch) for those of us who want to know, but don't want it bad enough to fire up a Youtube video of unknown length?
> Businesses otherwise simply have members, managers, employees, contractors or vendors, or volunteers.

Clubs have members; businesses have employees.

I think I'll take my lessons on business terminology from someone else, if it's all the same to you.
I find that significantly less clear.

In fact, I find it so unintuitive that I didn't even notice the units changed and thought you'd made a mistake in magnitude before I finished your sentence and I went back.

Comparisons should always be done in like units.
The story that GamersNexus shares here of dealing with Newegg's support is so painfully realistic. Support reps have no idea what's going on. There is little to no escalation process. The support folks probably receive no training about the RMA process, how damaged hardware is assessed, or even what 'thermal pate' is. For companies like Newegg, there is no value anymore in quality support reps with expertise... companies only focus on quantity and trimming the budget: hiring the smallest team possible at the lowest price. This transcends so much of the tech industry.

I used to work in IT support, started at $65k which was amazing for where I was living at the time. Everyone on the support team took pride in our work, and we shared a culture of expertise and owning the issue; of quality over quantity. Everyone suffers- the customer, the company, the support staff- when the goal is sheer throughput and 'cost efficiency'.
In real life this is SuperFund, and much of the state of West Virginia.
It's perhaps a little bit early in its creation to be sharing this but I am working on a new search that should help to fix the problems mentioned in the article, https://namusearch.com/. It allows you to build (and share with others) a curated list of websites that you want to use for searches
I'm thinking maybe Chrome on iOS has its own flavor of implementation and possibly it needs the filename to be "opensearch.xml" rather than looking at the <link> tag. I'm renaming the file to see if that makes a difference. If you had an example of another site where it worked, that would be awesome. At least one more platform where OpenSearch works for setting the default site search would be nice.
I imagine making A5 graded meat in a bioreactor is beyond the state of the art. It might also have trouble in the marketplace. And from what I know those cattle live pretty nice lives until they’re slaughtered. Which, if done properly, is painless because the brain is instantaneously destroyed.

Edit: I find factory farming gross and I’m omnivorous. I’m opposed to unnecessary suffering, but I don’t think that’s really a problem for high grade meat.
As funny as that video is, it really made me feel bad for Zuck.

He really has no idea what acting natural is, his whole life really is just tied up in "They just give it to me, the dumb f----". Regardless of how much power/money he has, that feels sad.
These claims should really come with proof. Trans erasure, where? The most I've seen is people complaining about the latest fad of requiring everyone to state "what is your personal pronoun" and to sign with their personal pronouns. I'm sure that slacktivists like that sort of thing, but I doubt it addresses actual needs of trans folks.
Creating an autonomous system for fun and profit