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- Ops::atan2 etc have default swap param

- fix Transform::Cartography::t_carree spelling (compat alias created)

- add Transform::Cartography::t_raster2{fits,float}

- Transform::inverse on transform without an inverse now fatal error

- fix Transform::t_fits bug which ignored ignore_rgb for making inverse

- TriD::GL now more resilient and exceptions don't leave GL broken

- add Transform::Cartography::earth_shape

- back-port Text::Balanced fixes to improve NiceSlice (#383)

- fix long-standing "harmful" scaling of output with dim 1 (#392)

- fix segfault bug for Ufunc::{odd,}{pct,med}over with empty

- thanks @nerdstrike for report

- struct pdl add "value" field for data that fits there, avoiding separate memory-management (#358)

- copy over the sensible method-name aliases for PDL::Complex from PDL::LinearAlgebra
I mostly use the SQLite commandline client, but when I want a GUI I use DB Browser for SQLite.
It does make the problem go away. You no longer need to traverse NAT which is what things like Bore and STUN/TURN/ICE do. With IPv6 every device has a public address you don’t really get a choice. Even for IPv4 NAT was an accident and it doesn't protect you from anything, the firewall via contrack does and the firewall still exists in IPv6. If Bore was just “firewall configuration for lazy people” then there are ways that don’t involve a remote server. You can just speak UPnP for instance.
This sounds like playing monopoly with taxpayer dollars.
We don't just have a system of legalized bribery, we have a system of mandatory bribery. Campaign finance says: haven't collected your bribe quota from well-heeled causes? No public office for you.

Nice.
That applies to article content, not stuff like this RFC.

Maybe an example would be clearer:

OK: The community doesn't like cryptocurrency, so decides not to accept it for donations.

NOT OK: The community doesn't like cryptocurrency, so turns the Bitcoin article into a hit-piece that only covers criticisms.
Are you sure you’re not mixing up the Netherlands with Ireland?
It's shocking to read, and reminds me of the British Post Office scandal.

A €3.7 million + €2.75 million fines are a slap-on-the wrist for what happened. Even €30,000/case seems a pittance compared to its effects on people.

It mentions there were "secret blacklists of people for two decades" and that "authorities [were] hiding information or misleading the parliament about the facts".

I don't see how regulating algorithms and AI could affect those institutional injustices.
As a German the cultural differences around bread are really interesting. Already the cartoon picture of the half loaf of bread is so fundamentally different to what I am expecting it to look like. Also people in the comments saying they rarely not finish a loaf of bread.

This [1] is how it looks like here and when bought at a bakery it's usually so big that we buy it in quarters and even that lasts a couple of days. It also tastes very different from what the rest of the world considers bread. It's much stronger in flavor.

[1] https://www.sonachgefuehl.de/rustikales-bauernbrot/
I think many of them were, yes. Not in the sense that the company founders we're trying to scam investors but in the sense that VCs and the banks involved in their IPOs hyped them up and dumped them on the public market despite knowing how little of substance was going on.

Basically the people that should have known better were happy to promote garbage to those who don't know better.

The same thing happened again in 2008 with mortgage derivatives and now I think we're headed for round 3 with crypto.
I have mine on my personal, private Gitlab.
>Can someone come up with a use case for this?

My first thought was stock images for news sites and blogs
Im sorry to be a party pooper but though Linking Sigil is also mentioned in the article but that's not what the article is refering/asking about.
Freezing bread alters it. I can't recall off hand what it does but I don't much like the taste. I'm not particularly a fan of bread at the best of times though, so I might be more susceptible to the change taste of frozen bread than most. In fact it's pretty much only freshly baked bread that I enjoy.
Bluetooth Speakers don't directly use the compressed format, but another format (in the worst case SBC) recompressed by the player. I've never seen one that supported MP3 compression.

Or did you mean native playback from sd cards/usb sticks?
To be fair though: cycling in NL without a helmet is probably safer than cycling with a helmet in many other countries. Even so there are plenty of accidents.
Really nice combination of digital and analogue. I wish more websites were more 'hand-drawn'
All cryptography is vulnerable to a technique canonically called "rubber hose cryptography," which is where you beat someone with a rubber hose until they give you the key. It's so effective it can even break post-quantum algorithms without a quantum computer!

Governments have plenty of rubber hoses, and guns.

The idea that non-technical people with no infosec / netsec / tradecraft knowledge could use any form of crypto within a regime that banned it aggressively without placing themselves in massive jeopardy is the height of looney tunes techno-utopianism. Keep in mind that these are usually nations that lack little things like habeas corpus, due process of law, or in some cases any rule of law whatsoever. If the government doesn't like what you are doing they disappear or kill you.
https://indieweb.xyz is a reddit-like link aggregator and https://www.indieforums.net/ is a forum for independent blogs. Neither is curated since theyre user submitted content, but still might be of interest to you. I think the "indie" in both of these is less directly about being IndieWeb and more about being small, independent blogs, so hopefully more likely to be "No news or tweets or blurbs, just good high quality writings"
The past 2 months are evidence that both Russian kinectic and cyber warriors are not 12 feet tall. The next few months will prove they are not 4 feet tall either.

Russian troll farms did play a role, but my hypothesis is they are neither insignificant nor decisive in 2016 election result.
My flatmate, who is a baker by trade, violently disagrees with putting bread in the fridge. He argues that the condensation in the bag/box you store it in increases the chance of mold and interferes with the bread's structural integrity.
He recommends to store bread in a paper bag in a bread bin somewhere on your counter top, but a clay baker or something similiar will also do the trick.
I'll add, that it's perfectly legit to store bread in the fridge if it would go bad otherwise. Just one of the usual nitpicks tradespeople have regarding their line of work.
It's only a win for the store if they would sell out of the product if you purchased two, as they would only make the profit off of selling one item to you rather than two. That's why those food bank donations annoy me, they supermarket effectively takes a cut of all the donations.
C# ranks 5th in the list of the most popular and best programming languages. Let’s explore how C# came to be, figure out how it works with web applications and programs, and what are the benefits if you choose to build your website.
Ask HN: What happened to “Ferdi” – the “multi-messenger”?
The website (https://getferdi.com/), as well as the GitHub repo (https://github.com/getferdi/ferdi) and the Twitter account (https://twitter.com/getferdi), is gone. Log in to the service is not working as well, of course.

Does anyone know why this well-used open-source tool is gone?
> Unicode defines characters, their semantics

Unicode specifically states that it doesn't define the semantics of characters. That would seriously interfere with its purpose of defining characters.

There are some notable exceptions, and they are acknowledged to be mistakes.
I am looking at the profile of the poster here, and it has nothing to do with birds, and everything to do with seeking and exploring political conflict!
Personally I think it’s a great idea to have lots of energy storage options each with slightly different tradeoffs for use in slightly different niches.
Reminds me of a few years ago, when I accidentally exposed my Domoticz install to the internet without authentication. I've had missed something in my Nginx config with X-Forwarded-For headers. After about a week or something apparently a foreign visitor came by my install and decided to have some good fun. Turning my lights on/off at random times. It took me about 3 days to realize what have happened, but in the mean time he didn't just destroy my install and only mess with me. Which was really sweet, because nuking the system would be far easier than opening the webpage every night.

That was a good and fun security lesson though and now I always check outside security with a mobile hotspot.
1 I didnt call any1 "idiot"

2 it s not like other people cant go to those places, thus it is kinda irresponsible
Very nice find, thank you for posting it, some of the items have immediate applicability to my work and I had not realized them that concretely.
IPFS has nothing to do with crypto though. That’s one of the problems of the current “web3” rhetoric: they’re trying to swallow every project on Earth into their argument that I should rush out and buy their token right now.

Anyway, good luck. I hope your roadmap to profitability is something else than “We’ll dump our tokens to retail” or “We’ll do enterprise consulting and sell proof-of-concept projects to hapless corporate middle managers who are very excited about capital-B Blockchain”
I like Agadmator's channel, but a similar option that mixes in more live play and self commentary is Eric Rosen's channel:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCXy10-NEFGxQ3b4NVrzHw1Q

https://www.twitch.tv/imrosen

Also Levi Rozman/Gothamchess has some excellent analysis and commentary of other matches, and is very approachable for beginners:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCQHX6ViZmPsWiYSFAyS0a3Q

https://www.twitch.tv/gothamchess
> We don't know that. The situation right now is a great example that Russia likes to adjust its "goals" in retrospect, to say this was what they wanted all along.

Russia hasn't stated anything on the subject. The goals are evident in the actions.

> By constructing a timeline of the IRA messages, they found left-leaning IRA trolls posted large volumes of entertainment content in their artificial liberal community and shifted away from political content late in the campaign. Simultaneously, conservative trolls were targeting their community with increases in political content. The effort would have encouraged the right to vote and the left to ignore politics.

> And "money wouldn't have been spent unless it was deemed necessary"? You have an awfully high opinion of Russian institutions' fiscal responsibility!

I'm not claiming it was worth it, I'm saying someone there did think it was, evidently.
Both are tax havens.
Pretty neat idea! My first concern is that iron is pretty heavy for a fuel. It looks like you get about 4.8kJ/g from burning iron, and somewhere around 10x that for most hydrocarbons.

In other words, I wonder if iron is so heavy that you pretty much have to do this burn/reduce cycle in close proximity of eachother. Useful for a battery maybe but not as much for a transportable fuel, except maybe for boats and trains
On the other hand one of the main triggers for this whole operation was the mass fraud by people from Bulgaria who netted a lot of benefits by gaming the system. They traveled to the Netherlands, applied for benefits and then went back to Bulgaria and used Dutch bank accounts and debit cards to get the cash. The tax office never wanted that to happen again and started this program to find fraudsters but ended up classifying a lot of people wrongly. To make it it even more Kafkaesque some of the Bulgarian fraudsters ALSO received the 30k compensation!

One of the recommendations is to stop pumping around so much money. If you let less money circulate the system trough taxes and benefits less can go wrong. Why do people need to receive hundreds of thousands of Euros for children daycare? It makes no sense whatsoever. Let the people keep the money, pay less taxes and pay the daycare centers from the government directly for each child. The bureaucracy is the real problem here.

When parents requested their paperwork they received hundreds of papers with all the real information blacked out. Imagine completely black papers. It was absolutely disgusting and the Dutch government even stepped down because of the whole affair. Amazingly the same political parties got elected again and are now in office in the same coalition as before...
While true, it is important to know that they DID signal boost it, and that at least for those couple days, news about Ukraine was more buried than it otherwise would have been.

Don't think in binary terms. Russian influence campaigns excel by exaggerating valid newsworthy events.
Astrophysicists are incredibly knowledgable about distant galaxies and black holes, but no man-made object has been close to even the nearest exoplanet.
The Boneyard Principle: Why the Next Big Thing Will Emerge from a Failed Idea
Ditto an IPO (especially a SPAC).

So what?
Samsung technology is used mainly for memories. Why? No idea. In any case, people would have to migrate their workflows which would take time, and then manufacture there. This would cause huge delays / price spikes

There are other chip manufactures in the world too if people are willing to buy outdated technology (like 10 years in the past)

Also intel is investing a lot in manufacturing technology, it plans to be better than TSMC by 2025 iirc. Will it happen? No idea, but they are working toward this. I wouldn’t be surprised if the US government were financing this in some way
I’ve been thinking of creating and advertising my own certification paths. Maybe a certification for weeding through certifications. When there’s a gold rush, sell pickaxes.
https://thedefiant.io/web3-soaring-salaries/

https://twitter.com/levelsio/status/1495449902968885248
Also posted here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31014222

Website went offline about 30 mins ago, repo and twitter are also gone. Looks like it's been hacked or pulled?
> Chermaine Leysner’s life changed in 2012, when she received a letter from the Dutch tax authority demanding she pay back her child care allowance going back to 2008. Leysner, then a student studying social work, had three children under the age of 6. The tax bill was over €100,000.

A student can get €100,000 for child care?

That is amazing.

For me, that is the most surprising thing in the entire article.
Returning EINTR from close() (2013)
Why is that the responsibility of middle class taxpayers in the US though?
I almost always have <5 such cells in a sheet, typically just 2-3, so I don't think it would be that tedious given you only have to set that once.

In comparison, I often have formulas with over 20 cell references and/or multiple formulas referencing the "constants", so getting asked for each would indeed be tedious.
What would make that 'fair'?
South Korea is pretty close to North Korea which although much more unlikely could happen too
No, I’m not. Most of these companies also have incorporated in Ireland alongside the Netherlands to exploit this loophole:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch_Sandwich

> Ireland has the BEPS tools to enable US IP-heavy multinationals to reroute global profits into Ireland, tax-free. The Netherlands then enables these Irish profits to get to a classical tax haven (e.g. the Cayman Islands or Jersey) without incurring EU withholding tax.

I empathise with your the confusion - corruption has enabled these companies to construct confusing and elaborate ways of avoiding their fair share of taxes.
Reminds me of this: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-56718036
700 Post office franchisees made criminals by faulty accounting software.
Decarbonizing Our Toughest Sectors – Profitably
Bartholomew's 'climbing the rating ladder' content is at a similar level if you've finished with Naroditsky but I think Chessbrah's 'Building Chess Habits' speedrun is even better for most people. In that one GM Aman sets very simple ways to play and doesn't deviate from them even if it loses him some games while climbing or if there are obvious tactics he can use for a quick win. Naroditsky while great will often go into lines that a lower rated player is very unlikely to see or pull of and is very often winning out of the opening by knowing all the moves to punish suboptimal moves which lower rated players won't know.

0. https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLl9uuRYQ-6MCBnhtCk_bT...

1. https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL8N8j2e7RpPnpqbISqi1S...
I know it's HN, but please don't bring Rust into this. Every... single.. thread...
The Teaching Tool That Makes LoFi Beats to Study To
NFTs with expiration dates! Thanks for making me a billionaire.
This has been trotted out many times before in defense of the tax office's behavior but it doesn't hold water: far more people were affected than Bulgarian fraudsters and besides that compared to the fraud committed by the well-off portion of NL the fraud committed by the poorer part is negligible. But guess who is better at defending themselves against unfair behavior by the authorities.
Block lattice tech is not Bozo the clown, but I won't stop you believing whatever you like.
Yup, that or remove readonly="readonly" from the password input.

Created this bookmark:

javascript:(function(){document.querySelector(".pwordinput").removeAttribute("readonly")})();
Love this!

I should add that my Nix endeavors begun way back when I started doing Haskell because of the binary caching for Haskell libs. Nix has then gradually taken over pretty much everything I do related to software. So the OS switch was inevitable.
One of those odd movies where the sequel is better than the original.
Solutions Survey Results
Sorry, I must have written my post while you submitted.

However, some people are answering on my Twitter thread as well: https://twitter.com/FabianBeiner/status/1514231334977388548
Good to see your comment. I have been having this issue and worth trying your solution.
This was not a case of corruption. Incompetence, discrimination, and lack of accountability, but not corruption. Most civil servants involved believed they were doing the right thing (despite ruining many lives in reality), and none profited personally, provided favours, or pocketed money.
... is that really going to fly the way Epic vs Apple / Google (over a 30% tariff) has been going?
Look around on the page, couldn't find the info. Does it use React Native underneath?
These would typically be short, time-boxed engagements (like one or two hours or less).

For example, some years ago I was trying to setup a Stellar (cryptocurrency) node, but I was having some problems with configuration. I asked on the Stellar slack or discord group and found someone who was willing to help. We negotiated $100/hr, and then we arranged a time to meet online. In the end, I paid for 1.5 hours of time, and it was well worth it. If he had solved my problem in 5 minutes, I would have still paid for a minimum 1 hour; win-win.

It seems like there could be a matchmaking service to facilitate exchanges like this. It's a bit like how you can go to stackoverflow, and if you happen to see a question you know the answer to but which has no answers, you may choose to take 5 minutes (for free!) and answer it.

In this case, however, requests would expire after a specified time. Solution providers could setup notifications for certain topics so they know when there's a need for their expertise.
Yes, and besides it is the one government institution fining another, so there is really no consequence for any of this.
Once upon a time I made the mistake of incorporating a startup in the Netherlands. Never. Again.
Not to poo-poo this, but that video sure made it sound "perfect".

I think we need a number of different solutions. Solar takes up vast real estate and isn't very efficient, wind - we bury how many thousands of 747 size blades in the ground each year that won't break down? Surely, that's not sustainable. Nuclear needs to be on the table, too.
Do you think cobie is mad here? Or implying he wants more regulation?
These Solar Cells Produce Electricity at Night
It's an idiom.
On top of it, the US military and law enforcement agencies use sockpuppet accounts.

Don't get me wrong, I don't agree with any state actors manipulating public perception out of their own interests. Just agreeing that yeah the US pulls quite some bs too

https://www.techdirt.com/2011/03/18/us-military-kicks-off-pl...

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2019/04/facebook-must-take-the...
One of my first ethernet adapters plugged into the parallel port

(Back in the days of thin ethernet)
Graph Layout Algorithms in Pure Go
Aren't these examples of centralization of a decentralized technology? If so, what's the point of starting an expensive-to-run distributed platform only to end up at the same point we're at now where in practice most activity goes through a few centralized gatekeepers? After all, you can still run your own web or SMTP server. The web is still permission-less in the trivial sense - just like crypto. But Google can blacklist your site or blackhole your emails making your permission-less services useless in practice. What stops a curated web3 from ending up in the same place we're at now?
> Would this be in a scenario where homes are producing more electricity than they need, and using the extra to reduce iron oxide?

There's no need for this to be done at a home, since the home is on the grid.
Not really, in your example theres no way any1 appears and even if he does, then your friends protect ur stuff

Meanwhile internet aint remote village
> Yet the whole thing just does not make sense imo. It's one thing to be against crypto, but refusing it when you are a charity for the most asinine moral purity tests is absurd.

Charities generally have the luxury of having core values superior to delivering a return to investors. To not accept crypto for moral reasons makes much more sense to a not for profit that a for profit business.
An engineer is someone who can do with $1 what anyone else can do with $10. That’s very much Let’s Encrypt versus a regulatory or corporate attempt.
>“You might think you’re clicking on a cat meme, but really you’re potentially putting a troll network into your feed that could later start posting divisive content, or monetize their following.”

The problem is that you can explain this to people in depth, and they just don't care. People are completely incapable of comprehending what a powerful mind control device that glowing rectangle in their pocket is. I think long term this will be a new arena of warfare. The will of the social media content consuming zombies is up for grabs to anyone capable of manipulating them.
Maybe this is how Russia goes green-ish, assuming Magnetigorsk isnt tapped out.
Have you tried toasting it when you take it out of the freezer?
That may well have been including punitive components. They're really good at that.
Hand-made is kind of a meaningless term these days because it has been abused over and over again. I've seen things that were clearly designed with the help of a computer graphics program, and then cut with a laser cutter described as "handmade". It is supposed to mean something that is made without the use of any machines, yet Etsy sellers seem to think it means "something produced in small batches".

As the previous poster said though, why would I care about the distinction? Are handmade goods supposed to be better? Seems like a ludicrous proposition. Machines are more precise and faster, and so they make things cheaper. The quality depends on the processes used, and materials, not on whether machines are used.
I remember having a hoodie with that on it. Always loved the Element and Etnies logos too.
I'm so excited for Hikaru in the candidates. It was his stream actually that got me back into chess during the lockdown.