skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What I think about that is that solving the problems of a cashless society can be solved with a single law - any store accepting electronic payments must also accept cash payments.

Obviously the law would probably be more involved than that - but no matter what a law mandating the acceptance of cash would be simple and straightforwards because all the technology and processes for handling cash exist right now and would not need to be defined.

Other laws to protect people's rights in a cashless society seem like they would not be simple, but I am willing to be convinced otherwise, hence (and here I do not think you are really engaging with what I wrote) I suggested that if they had an idea of what these protections would be they should list them - why? Because it is not enough to say oh there should be some system to handle edge cases when there is already a system to handle edge cases but not at all delineate what the features of the proposed replacement system would be!

The cashless proponents, as opposed to mainly credit and small remaining cash usage, are like people who have a large enterprise system written in Fortran that works with very few problems for billions of transactions a year, handles down time and performance problems impeccably, but would like to rewrite the system because one type of transaction that the system handles is becoming less used (even though that type of transaction is the by default secure fallback should other transactions experience processing problems) and this seems like a really great time to modernize our architecture and infrastructure!
I just use a list of mining pool domains. Works well.
Pg-osc: Zero downtime schema changes in PostgreSQL
1) That's true and it shows that the difference between vaccinated and non-vaccinated is not dramatic. If everybody was vaccinated the decrease of hospitalization would be 50% which is not that significant compared to what we have gone through.

2) That's true as well and the UK had no vaccine mandates and had the same vaccination rates for elderly. And many countries with very strict vaccine mandates had terrible rates for elderly vaccinations, for example, in Latvia it is less than 75% while vaccination uptake among younger people is higher than that.

The numbers do not show that the mandates considerably improved vaccination uptake among elderly neither in Canada, nor in other countries. I am questioning the motivation of people who try to push vaccine mandates by intentionally obscuring this point and by mixing true statements and projecting them onto elderly which is not confirmed by data.
Beautiful set of maxims. I love these outtakes from another time. Many of these rules also seem applicable while discussing issues and being considerate.
Docker is a tool where one reads the documentation and be able to use it. ML, much like math, is a discipline. Sure you can read textbooks and the latest papers. But deep understanding and experience are what make it useful. Sadly these will take much longer.
Finding a Kita spot in Germany, especially in Berlin, can be hard because Kita is free, but the alternative is that one person sacrifices their career in Switzerland because the childcare costs are so high. You can make your own decision.
Not super complicated with fintech providing multi currency accounts.

You can also get e-residency in many countries like estonia, lithuania, etc and avail their government services digitally. You will be able to open a bank account and sign stuff.

There are many options available.
Sweden might be an interesting alternative. The language is quite a bit easier to learn than German, social security works rather well and the cost of living is not that much higher than in Germany if you don’t move to Stockholm (I’m a German living and working in Sweden, but will go back to Germany later this year). Of course, you have to like winters…
I don't think the news has changed all that much, there still used to be a heavy focus on the same types of negative topics. What has obviously changed is the large amount of commentary that has sprung up around traditional newsreading.
Ode: A poetry editor that shows you metre and helps you rhyme
a) awesome. b) please increase the default font size of that doc. c) please consider moving the exposition to the end and just jump into the good stuff about how it works and what's different. Perhaps a short intro like "Texti is modern markup. Think Markdown and Wikimedia markup had a baby. Here's how to do all the things..."
Working at Wave is an effective way to improve the world
That's the point of making coins out of pure silver
Second Session of Hormozgan Free Software Group
Both, primarily the first. Low latency is definitely a requirement, but no issues with Opus on that account.

> I haven't looked into how expensive it is to encode in terms of CPU time, so I assume maybe you're taking about a bottleneck in terms of the number of simultaneous streams you can support on a single CPU?

Yup! I work on https://vircadia.com/ -- we have to compress audio in real time and every user gets their own mix since it depends on their location in 3D space. It turns out to add up pretty fast, and you can't fit that many people into a cheap VPS.

That's why I'm working on FLAC support for it. If bandwidth is plentiful but CPU resources are lacking it's a good alternative to have.

This code originally came from the High Fidelity company, which made their own codec. It's some piece of black magic that cuts down audio by exactly 1/4th and is amazingly fast. But it's closed source.
I'm not sure it does "champion privatisation". I've read some pretty damning reports on bad privatisation, for example about the problems from rail privatisation, as well as on monopolistic practice by big companies. I would say it's rather more nuanced than private good, public bad.
> nobody actually cares enough to bust money laundering if it's not causing publicly visible problems.

That's the harsh truth.

Where I live, THC is illegal, and its distribution usually ends with time served.

Interestingly, CBD (more accurately THC-less) stores are everywhere, taking prime locations in city centers, blaring thousands of positive reviews on Google Maps. Their top product is CBD oil (or rather, THC-less cannabis oil). Prices of their products are suspiciously similar to that of their illegal counterparts.

Yet when you pass in front of such stores, there's usually just a single person tending, sometimes with a friend because it gets boring as there's virtually no customer.

It's basically the caffeine pills + decaffeinated coffee product split, where caffeine is illegal.

Following the supply chain would not only find the laundering, but also the distribution and production of a substance considered illegal.

But cops stick to chasing dealers, and the fisc doesn't really chase businesses that seem to pay their taxes.
How are you going to boycott the entire internet? Most websites I visit show this pop up and it’s more convenient to just click ok than to move to 5 different screens and waste another 30 seconds. This is what happens when you don’t address every aspect of side effects when making the law.

People get accustomed to it just like those California cancer warning labels that are basically useless and nothing but a waste.
How do you moderate what is uploaded and check for copyright for example. I am always confused how solo developers make sure that nothing malicious is uploaded.
Surely you don't have time to moderate everything yourself.
Not pre-baked. I work on https://vircadia.com/ -- it has to give every user their own audio mix to account for their 3D position.

This means codec costs add up fast. You can't just encode once and stream the same thing to a dozen people.
Great information.
I've been building a monorepo of my own for a system that consists of RESTful and event-driven microservices. They are defined via Open API and Async API respectively.
Does anyone know a tool to generate documentations for each type of service and put them together into one cohesive documentation?
I use the uBlock Origin filters for "annoyances" on Firefox, both desktop and mobile, and I don't ever see them. The filter is not enabled by default.
I can only aspire to this level of beautiful whimsy - it's unfortunate that it triggered a codepath that could be measured, because that is by far the easiest excuse to remove something beautiful and rarely seen. The closest I've managed is:

$ grep -o --text U+1F4A9 vmlinux

U+1F4A9

and while there may be an argument that this is whimsical, I don't think there's an argument that it's beautiful.

(U+1F4A9 should be the literal Unicode PILE OF POO glyph, but HN strips it, so)
Well such a job board would be usable in many cases and for many people but not all.
Because of my location, I am more interested in jobs which are remote because there is no non remote job in my pretty small city(comparing to mega cities in my country)
Thank you! Any way to be notified when that happens?
Why not Rmarkdown [0], in which you can also write LaTeX code, and if you want presentation with beamer, you just have to change a single line, so you could generate beamer presentation, html, pdf and doc from the same file. I don't even use RStudio, I just have a keybind in vim [1].

[0] https://bookdown.org/yihui/rmarkdown/
[1] https://github.com/TudorAndrei/dotfiles/blob/1b118830315cdcc...
A remote Ugandan village became a hub of progress
Isn't that the actual bug? That balances are kept at two places?
What actually happens in SetBalance() if rcfg.UsingOVM ==true?

So... I guess what it boils down to is 'How does Optimism manage it's state trie'?
I'd really enjoy a more in-depth explanation for this.
Preferably on your chest at 5 am. At least that's what mine like to do, because they feel a little bit hungry or have seen a bird and want to get out on the balcony for further inspection.
First, nobody cares that much unless they know you’re guilty.

Second, just obviously spend a little money and time on those things? It’s a minor cost to run shitty ad campaigns.

The business doesn’t need to be good, it just has to look real. Do things a real business would do, except unlike a real business you will have a 100% chance of success.
How to Create a DIY Family Cookbook (2021)
You made a lot of hidden assumptions in both of your replies so it’s a bit hard to response. But let me try one: if I claim that they can’t use physical force because they (the government) didn’t have the popular support and risk facing overwhelming violence escalation, what is your response to that? (I’m not saying that it is the case, more to question some of your assumptions in this situation)

> if you still continue with civil disobedience, well it is normal for the government to then follow up with threats of consequences, like tear gas, handcuffs, jail time, fines, account freezes, etc.

More to the point, the government are free to follow up the threat in a court case in front of a judge, and the fact that they didn’t is the problem
People trying to make themselves happy isn't something new or dystopian. A better description if you don't mind being slightly rude is that it's a bit pathetic.
The issue you mention with Flowdock, in my experience, only happened for newcomers to the product, they added a button to add an unthreaded comment to a thread in later versions.

I prefer Flowdocks threading model, it's too bad what happened to the product after being bought/sold, but I think it was a superior product.
Bigger inertia of a head and bigger hitbox, that's why there are lots of videos called "i love helmets" with braking helmet shown, despite the crash was not any serious. If using glasses, they always limit and distort your peripheral sight. Also it is wrong to recommend _anything_ to a man you do not know nothing about. Maybe I want to train only maneuverability, not riding fast and not riding where fast riders may be happen. Maybe I love falling-prone disciplines and have some ability to fall down correctly. Maybe my wear has kind of head-protecting options like several hoodies and a tough knot of hair. Also do not forget that head damage is not the main issue in snowboarding - if someone has not been taught to fall down correctly, snowboard is not an easy way to start that learning because of bounded legs and skill-demanding brake (if some speed has been got and slowing is needed).

> I'd rather not be one of those "he died doing what he loved" guys when it is entirely preventable.

I do know such a guy, it was my schoolmate who rode a motorcycle and somehow he has rammed a car with his head. Good helmet might have saved his scull from a crack. Not being drunk on that moment might have save him IMO more likely.
Ask HN: German CamelCase?
German speakers, the way you create new words by concatenation is fantastic but hard to read.

Lebensversicherungsgesellschaft

could be faster for the brain to separate as :

LebensVersicherungsGesellschaft

Is it used / permitted ?
No more transistors: The end of Moore’s Law
Literally do not follow a single piece of advice this person is giving regarding tubes and tires.

Nobody in their right mind bonds tubes to tires (in two decades of cycling I've never heard of this nonsense.) Nobody wastes their time or energy mixing up custom goo for whatever this person is doing it with it.

Do not use sealant in tubes, only tubeless. All you will do is make for a big mess. Buy tires with the right level of flat protection you need, don't ride in debris, ride with suitable tire pressure, and when you get a flat, figure out why you got the flat, and address it if relevant.

Do not use latex tubes (you can't even buy them in most stores because they're vastly inferior to artificial rubber tubes in every way imaginable.)
> It's a preprocessor to lossless codecs shaping noise...

So it's a lossy compression? Why use FLAC then?
Are we moving toward a cashless economy? (2018)
The Linux thing is just politics. Rust has all the features Linus insisted he hated most about C++.
ARC has been there for almost a decade now. Also if you wish to do heavy string concatenation, please use a NSMutableString and you can simply do:
[string1 appendString:string2];

It is amazing that people forget to simply use the right tool for the right job and blame the PL instead.
Might be related to the use of SQLite which doesn't really support data types to begin with and allows to store anything in a column regardless of the declared data type (e.g. you can store 'fourty two' in a column declared as integer).

Apparently it's a deliberate decision because they don't really want to be a "database" just something better then "a file".
As someone who cycles every day, has done so for the last 20 years and rides a variety of different bikes (I’ve got 6), I can probably help on this one...

Basically people with this problem are often trying to sit on the wrong part of their body and/or have the wrong length saddle for their riding position.

I’ll start with the first problem of sitting on the wrong part.

What people often try to do is treat a saddle like a chair and attempt to sit on the fleshy parts of their bum — on the glutes (arse muscles). Instead what you want to do is sit on your “sit bones”. The sit bones are part of your pelvis and can be found on either side of your balls or vulva (depending on your biological sex, naturally). It can take a little time to get used to having pressure on your sit bones. Using padded cycling shorts can help with making the transition to regular cycling, and can be necessary if you do more than an hour per day in the saddle even for experienced riders. The temptation is often to get a bigger, softer saddle but this will have the effect of putting pressure on your squishy bits, so even if it feels more comfy when you first sit on it, within 5 minutes you’ll be hurting. You want a saddle that is only slightly wider than your sit bones.

The 2nd part of the equation is saddle length. The long and short of it is that you need a shorter saddle for more upright bikes and a longer one for bikes with a lower front stack. This is because if you are more upright your kegs would rub on a longer saddle. Your local bike shop can tell you what saddle length is appropriate.

There is one more thing to think about and this applies especially to women, and that’s the gutter in the middle of the saddle. Many women find a deep gutter can help take pressure off their vulva and keep the weight on the sit bones.

In conclusion, no their isn’t a giant conspiracy by the cycling industry and local bike shops to hurt you. Instead you just need to update your technique so that you are on your sit bones instead of the fleshy bits. A smaller, harder saddle is going to be infinitely more comfortable than a big squishy one.

Trust your local bike shop, and if you are having difficulty adjusting get some padded cycling shorts.

Good saddles I have experience of using include Brooks (various leather saddles depending on the bike) Sella Italia Turbo (I use this on my single speed) and Fiz:ik Areone (SP OK?). None of these are cheap but cheaper, good saddles are numerous.

Trust your local bike shop and lean in to it. It might take a few weeks to adjust, but you’ll get there.

Happy riding!
If this is a joke, it's pretty solid. If it's not, though, why not use a textframe to show them:D
There should be a big warning on the top:

Monorepo is a way to morph dependency management problem into source control problem within your organization. Currently, FOSS tools solve none of them.
Cynical view: a great way to sell consultancy services / their Plus product?
When I talk about monorepos in our company, I always try to make the distinction between JS monorepo tooling (say nx, turbo or more low-level pnpm/npm/yarn workspaces) and real (?) monorepo tooling (say Bazel). Whereas the latter has more focus on dealing with a wide variety of source code types and artifacts the former is exclusively dealing with NPM packages (which may include other stuff like Go/Rust sometimes). Does this distinction even make sense?
Rest of world enters the chat, and furrows its brow at 'butter stick' entirely!

It's more of a pain than cups (which have numerous standards but they're basically close enough not to matter - especially if you assume it's one of the US sizes) when '1 stick butter' pops up in a recipe.
These people care way too much about specifics. Just get any old bike and drive it. Carbon vs aluminium vs steel? You're not fucking racing with it, you're driving it through a city. Also: in the falls and crashes I did have over the decades: never once did any part of my frame as much as dent. It doesn't matter.

Just get a 40 euro clonker and drive it. Fix it up when it needs fixing. Unless you're doing 15 or more clicks of commuting with it, that'll be perfectly fine and anything more luxurious than that is a waste.
Yeah. When I'm in peak physical shape, 15lb of bicycle is more than 10% of my body weight. It 100% matters even on relatively gentle inclines.
Yes, the price goes up quite a bit but I think it pays off in the long term. I think those bikes are especially interesting for people who just want to go from A to B and don't consider themselves "cyclists" (aka use it for sport). Add some puncture-proof tyres and you have a bicycle that will most likely just regular maintenance once a year.

That said, when something does go wrong with the belt/drivetrain/hub it becomes a pain in the arse.
I may be completely wrong but, after playing 3 or 4 times, I got the feeling that this game is very easy and involves more luck than skill or strategy. It looks and feels like a puzzle so you get the feeling of having solved something but have you, really? If you find the word in 3 tries 90% of the time, does it mean you're actually better at the game than someone who usually needs 4 or 5 attempts? Or are you just a little luckier?
imho, we as a society have been rushing/forced to embrace new technology without really understanding the downsides. I use nowadays cash as much as possible. The notion that every single mundane payment of mine is being monitor, tied to some profile and bid in realtime terrifies me. And no, no payment provider has ever promised me that they won't do this. We had also cash cards in the past in Germany, to my understanding they would provide digital payment without tracking and central control, but they are deprecated.
Your last link doesn't work due to the domain being for sale.
Is this different from Snapchat/SparkAR 3D effects?
Although the fact that I've since encoded the "UUID" that this is contained within into other codebases such that Linux can't remove it without breaking some deployed u-boot builds is definitely something I'm proud of.
It must be pumped to a higher pressure to be roll as well as the wider tire. So it gets a smaller contact area, transfers more vibrations to the rider and rolls the same.

You've just reinforced my point ;)
Oh my!

What can I, as a long time Win32 user do to help drive this forward?
The lowest gear on a 6-speed Brompton is 33.1 gear inches and with a 44T chainring it can go to 29.1. Considering how light the bike itself is, that's very reasonable!

For reference to those who are unfamiliar with gear inches... My touring bike bottoms out at 26.5 gear inches and I've ridden it thousands of km, loaded across a lot of hilly/off-road terrain. A typical road bike might have 25-30 as its lowest, and a new touring bike might get closer to 20.
Validator.js – String Validation
> How cheap does storage have to get before people stop bothering to use FLAC?

Having cheap storage is not a valid reason to not to use that space efficiently.

With today's, even last decade's processors, encoding FLAC at ripping speed is not even a CPU saturating task, and decoding is merely a blip on processor's queue. If I can store the same bitstream on a smaller space, why shouldn't I?

If we're not compressing anything, why not forego lossless compression completely? Let's not GZ/XZ our log files. These 20MB files will become 30-40GB, but heck, a 4TB drive is just $65.

Similarly, let's not compress gigabytes, even terabytes of genomic data, scientific outputs and other stuff. They're just ASCII or Unicode strings, a high-schooler can figure these out. Why invest time in lossless compression tools like XZ and ZStd? They just use CPU cycles needlessly.
interesting, although I expect this is not the case in all Western countries, and perhaps even less in some parts of the third world, I'm pretty sure Sweden and Denmark have less currency in circulation.
ID.me is a nightmare.
I've spend over a month trying to get verified.
Their technology is fundamentally broken.
I've never seen such an incompetent company in my life.

It's absolutely shameful that this singular incompetent company has been handed THE EXCLUSIVE contract for the IRS 2021 tax season...

What kind of corruption led to such an monumentally monopolistic mistake?

ID.me presence on HN, as a brief search turns out, is full of astroturf nonsense the sort of which HN would never consciously stomach: dreck like this https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13831921

How does such an obviously corrupt edifice stand???

(I would like to add that the CA DMV appears to ALSO have adopted forcing this fundamentally broken company down all citizens throats?)

I would normally not use such a tone, but I am positively IRATE at being unable to login with the IRS and pay my taxes on time due to the insertion of this unwanted non-functioning "service"

Get rid of ID.me ASAP!!!!
Maybe recruiters should take a page from PMs and UX researchers and so forth and ask the candidates themselves what they feel they're missing out on.