skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They're not easy to find. I got a notice last month from my credit union that I need to plan move my stuff out of my deposit box.

The Credit Union "relies on a vendor for the software that is used to open, close, and maintain Safe Deposit Boxes. Over time, the vendor stopped consistently upgrading this software and we have now learned that it is being phased out altogether. Replacing this type of system would mean a significant cost to our membership."

A few years ago they replaced the double key system (bank employee has a key, you have a key) with a handprint system to let one customer at a time into the vault. They removed the bank key.

I always have to remember which set is where my box is: they have 3 or 4 boxes labeled 131 because they acquired them from other banks or credit unions who got out of the business.

I had to settle my aunt's estate in Huntington Beach a few years ago. The Chase branch there limited people to one box per branch because they are relatively popular. But safe deposit boxes definitely skew towards grey hair.

I opened an account with my credit union because they were one of the few options for safe deposit boxes but the branch with the boxes is miles away from my local branch so I don't use it often. I would have liked to store backups there but in the end I use BackBlaze.
Nah, it's more of a "I wonder what folks have to say about this rarely-mentioned project" HN submission.

For the repo, I found that the Development page has a tab (at top left, doesn't really look like a tab, so easy to miss) named "GIT". That page has links to what looks like a self-hosted GitLab, as well as a GitHub mirror.
If I worked in an office 9-5 making 5 paper spreadsheets for $100 a day and with Microsoft Excel I sit in the same office 9-5 making 50 spreadsheets at $100 a day, then no it did not make my life better. Excel may have allowed me to churn out more spreadsheets, but my paycheck hasn't increased and I'm still working the same hours. The only one reaping the benefits of my extra productivity are the fat cats.
> you can't learn leetcode without learning to program

A lot of people learn the jargon and sound like they know how to program, but don't. Failure to filter these out can be very expensive for a company. They have a strong incentive to ask for a programming demonstration to filter them out.
“ archaeologists in southeastern Turkey are, at this moment, digging up a wild, grand, artistically coherent, implausibly strange, hitherto-unknown-to-us religious civilisation, which has been buried in Mesopotamia for ten thousand years. And it was all buried deliberately.”
Nuts, you are correct that it isn't optimal.

It's not quite as simple as just 2 bits per digit, because the last digit can only be large if the earlier digits are small.

This makes the worst case is (1,2,6) which encodes as 48, for 5.58 bits.
this is incredible. thanks.

1. do you have a patreon or something where people can support you?

2. do you know how to obtain the nucleotide sequences of c-MYC?

3. have you seen machine learning applications that can predict protein function? specifically, the goal is to predict if protein X could participate in cleaving of DNA similar to CRISPR Cas9? false positives are okay, provided the negatives are accurate (i.e., guarantees protein cannot cleave DNA like Cas9).
Just to be clear I'm not saying that an advantage of watching on YouTube is that you can read the YouTube comments.

The Space Time staff read the YouTube comments, pick a few of the best, and then at the end of a later video (usually the next one or the one after that) they present those comments and respond. These comment responses often answer questions that I had when watching the earlier episode.

The videos on the PBS website or in the PBS apps just have the episode.
> Slavery was at best an afterthought. Markets and tariffs were the reason the south seceded. Tarrifs were the reason for the civil war.

This is so wrong it's a wonder how anyone could think this.

Put it like this: the reason the South wanted low tarrifs was because they were a low cost producer.

And they were a low cost producer because of slave labor.
In a “simple” case of a road that causes crashes? Probably. Theoretically, they can held liable, but this is a pretty “small” issue to bring a suit.

In this sense the term “engineer” is someone that requires a license and training (like MDs or lawyers). States require engineers to “stamp” designs that they are taking responsibility for. Sometimes “city planners” LARP as (unlicensed) civil engineers and make designs that get built, which is somewhat problematic but happens.

Stamping and signing off on a design means legally accepting liability. How often they get prosecuted is rare. One famous example is Boston’s Big Dig fatal tunnel collapse. Of course politics and money had a big role in that case.
Or opening links in new tab, and paste if you use X11/Wayland.
Off topic from the post but something I find fascinating. I live in Maine and recently became aware of the Vail Site in northwest Maine, which purports to be around 13000 years old [1]. The beringian migration predates that by a few thousand years I believe but the actual dispersal of Paleo-Indians to the broader Americas hinges on the melting of the ice sheets that covered North America up until only a thousand years or so prior to the Vail site proper. I know we are talking about a scale of thousands of years but it blows my mind that people (without work animals) found their way across the continent and set up shop here when there was probably little actual reason to come here at all since, presumably, game and fish were as robust in all the lands they traveled to arrive here and fellow human pressure was non-existent.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vail_Site
Would you rather own the IETF or AWS?

Bluesky could become profitable only by issuing a scamcoin, but putting that aside... Bluesky only has value if Twitter adopts it but as long as Twitter is publicly traded they won't have the courage to decentralize. So Elon can buy Twitter for the purpose of forcing them to adopt Bluesky.
Years ago I wrote a Space Invaders clone in Motorola 68000 assembly on the Commodore Amiga. That was a fun project! I recently found a printout of the assembly source code and I was surprised how easy it was to read and understand. I felt ready to jump in and continue working on it. It was much easier to read and understand than most “higher level language” code I have seen in my career. I suspect that the lack of higher level language features kinda forces you to write simple clear code.
Blind person here; I'm not on SSDI myself, but I have friends who are. All this policy seems to encourage is financial crimes, bordering on money laundering. It seems like everybody is doing it, or at least everybody who I've talked to. I've seen everything, from very careful financial planning, including buying things and paying bills a lot earlier than needed in anticipation of large influxes of money, to withdrawing money in cash, which is easy to hide and easy to justify to a government official, to putting money in weird accounts which the IRS is unlikely to audit. I'm sure people who actually live in the US have seen a lot more examples of this than I have.
Yes, albeit not recently.

There were many times when conductors were not observing me. Has that changed?
> Roads and hospitals are paid for by taxes, usually paid by the people using them.

Hospitals will treat people in the emergency room and ICU, whether or not they can pay. That ends up being way more expensive, to the precious taxpayer, than keeping folks out of the hospital in the first place. Penny wise, pound foolish.
I think this would make a nice secondary machine for those interested in an accessible Linux distro. Pop!_OS is intuitive and recognizable from a functionality standpoint for newbies and pros alike. I will keep my eye on it, and see where it goes. The price point seems to be at a good place.
Ephesus, an ancient city in Western Turkey, was a coastal city. Now it is 6 km inland.
How about a linear function?

Say you take the poorest country. Make it free there. So make the price something like P=aG-b, where P is the price, G is the country's per-capita GDP, and b is chosen so that P=0 in the poorest country. Choose a such that it gives you a price you think is reasonable in the richest country, and there you go.
Things rarely depend on any single form of evidence.

The article deals at length with those other forms of evidence. In particular, the site does not fit (architecturally, the author's specialty) with what was happening around it at the alleged time of building.

> Also, [2] seems to be a self-published article written by someone with no background, publication record, or known collaborations in archaeology or related fields.

Perhaps true, but irrelevant. Einstein was a patent clerk, a standing that prevented a great many people from even bothering to read the work.

The article is packed with citations that can be followed up on. It methodically takes apart Schmidt's original work. If you doubt the credibility of the analysis, perhaps start there. If he's being unfair to Schmidt's evidence, then that's a different matter.
What makes the cut of a "social service"? Wouldn't it be anything people really need? Basic food staples, for example?

China tried socializing food production, and it worked terribly. Production tripled when they re-privatized it and let farmers grow for themselves. People do a better job when they get to keep the rewards.

US health care isn't capitalist in this sense of rewarding a good job. It's the worst of both worlds: a system whose regulations are superbly adapted to optimize profit for the administrative class at the expense of both doctors and patients.
It is interesting that the emancipation proclamation did not free the slaves of the northern and northern occupied states, despite that being there "main concern"
Any game could incorporate wagers into its rounds. You could bet on plays in a football game. You could bet on matches in Chess. However, the competitive foundation isn't predicated on these wagers. This allows for more dimensions of skill variation because game participants can take risks that won't kill them.

In Poker, especially in tournaments but over time in cash games as well, there will necessarily be more losers than winners. That's a fine outcome for a competitive environment, and a terrible outcome for an economic one. And because placement is based on willingness to play at certain stakes instead of skill rating, the entire system is designed to mismatch the skill of the participants over the long term.

Betting on probabilities is an entertaining way to adjust levels of confidence to reality. I just don't really like the idea of promoting gambling to children.
But, like, I’m a human? Morals are a human thing (or a mammalian thing maybe), heck written WORDS are definitely a human centric thing. How could I not be human centric?
Yes, Firefox does this for example. To stop other people building their own products (which could be malicious or just crap) and calling them Firefox. You can do what you like with the Firefox source code, but you can't call it Firefox unless you abide by certain restrictions.
Because it's not true - by 1939 discussions that led to Ribbentropp-Molotov were pretty advanced
Patrick refused because other people were offering worse odds...
This uses DisplayLink which is garbage.
> I’ve spent the last year or so reinventing the hiring process at my tech company to expressly avoid algorithmic puzzles and leetcode nonsense, and I was able to do this because I patently refused to accept the status quo.

I think companies that break out of the leetcode habit are going to do well. There's a lot of great talent out there that's being passed over by these tests.

If the job is to solve leetcode problems, by all means, test the candidates for that. If the job is to solve real life problems, there's almost certainly a better measure.

I will never judge someone based on that kind of problem. I believe the data that results is just bad.

Edit: I should add that leetcode is useful for developing programming and problem-solving skill. I've done tons of problems, myself, and have fun solving them... and learn from them. So I do recommend it for a challenge. But not for interviews.
Excellent summary and explanation. Just to add; imagine you know the start of a message is the weather forecast for the day, or the date, or fixed greeting (or for something more modern - a known file header).

The "known plaintext" might be something you can observe/predict.

Ed: see also http://www.jfbouch.fr/crypto/enigma/break/crib.html
Scientists discover an ancient forest inside a giant sinkhole in China
This is my biggest fear that I have to study for the foreseeable future. Nothing you did matter if you can't solve a puzzle or give cut out answer.
I was reacting to "Which might be good for Americans eventually as the tech will come across one way or another."
Define "tiny". Is 0.1% tiny? 0.01%? 0.001%?

USDT maintains its peg by allowing certain entities to redeem USDT 1 to 1. How much USDT's price fluctuates depends on how well that mechanism works, and market conditions.
There are quite a lot of kinds of case that don't fall neatly into one or the other. Another one (at least in England and Wales) is contempt of court hearings arising from civil proceedings. Judges have powers against, for example, litigants ignoring their orders. They're clearly coercive, and can carry prison sentences, but they aren't clearly criminal: the original judge can handle it summarily (even if they don't sit in criminal cases) and in any case the rules are those of the Civil Procedure Code (not the Criminal one). On the other hand, the contemnor is expressly given access to a lawyer, and a finding of contempt is on the criminal standard ('beyond reasonable doubt') rather than the civil ('the balance of probabilities').

An interesting instance of this happened recently, when an appellant in a civil case to our Supreme Court (who also happened to be a lawyer) deliberately leaked the court's draft opinion to the press while it was under embargo. The court wasn't sure what to do, as contempt findings carry an automatic right of appeal and yet there's no-one to appeal to from the supreme court.

(As we have more than one benchful of Supreme Court justices, they decided to assemble one panel for the 'first instance' hearing, which was itself distinct from that who had heard the original case, and a completely fresh panel for the appeal[0]. He was fined £5000 and the appeal was dismissed on all grounds.)

Allegations of fraud in a civil case have also historically been treated differently, because losing could have a similar effect on a litigant's reputation (and ability to carry out a business) as a criminal conviction. It's sometimes possible to get a civil jury trial under these circumstances, for example, which have been effectively abolished in this jurisdiction.

[0]: https://www.supremecourt.uk/cases/uksc-2021-0160.html
One doesn’t storm Harper’s Ferry over Mercantilism.
Yeah, it did.

https://web.archive.org/web/20100204062426/http://pike.ida.l...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LPMud
Show HN: VSCode Extension to jump between local git repositories
Hi HN,

I've a lot of repositories on my local machine and previously I was using Project Manager extension, but I had some issues with it -

- It was kind of slow.

- It showed ignored repositories.

- It was not completely open source.

- There was no automated grouping for repositories.

So, I ended up creating my own that does everything above.
It's still in early stage but I use it on daily basis.
While it's does not have all features of project manager,
It takes around 50 ms to detect all repositories inside my home directory.
It is powered by a bundled rust binary that does the all the heavy lifting.

For those looking for source code -

extension - https://github.com/mohitsinghs/vscode-repo

bundled binary - https://github.com/mohitsinghs/repo

I hope it helps someone else as well.
Sure. Someday. Same thing has been said since the 90s
>"Expanding welfare programs = more control" is some tinfoil hat thinking.

It takes a special kind of mental gymnastics to call that a tinfoil hat theory when we're literally in a comment section discussion all the stupid things people on .gov aid have to do/avoid in order to ensure continued income. If that's not control what is?
You folks managing Privately Run for Profit/Non Profit Section 8 housing units management firms are just derelict in your Duty as the US Government/FCC has billions of dollars of Funding Made available for High Speed Internet assistance for the poor but the Privately Run Section 8 housing entities(For Profit or Non Profit) are not even applying for the funds because they are too cheap to hire Grant Writers to apply for the funding.

I'm currently living in a Section 8 unit that's changed ownership and is getting renovated, apartment by apartment, with residents moved to temporary units in the complex until their renovated units are ready. And the Management Company that's running things really is clueless and does not even care to even Apply for any federal programs that may be available to get proper broadband speeds to low income households.

There needs to be some Federal Requirement for Section-8 housing Management companies to be forced to apply for any Federal Programs available to them in order for the low income Residents to receive the aid set aside in these programs to help poor and low income individuals/Families get better Internet Access. And this is in a time where the Government wants every service application done online, even in the time before the pandemic. There are Jobs where folks can work from Home via online jobs/services but that requires higher speed internet capabilities than is provided/accessible to low income individuals.
"The last intrusions in the big enclosures can be dated by a charcoal sample taken from under a fallen pillar fragment in Enclosure A to the middle of the 9th millennium."

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/258182967_Radiocarb...
Now we consider a more robust set of platforms, devices and users.

What a bunch of doublespeak BS for "now we want to keep the users stupid and unknowing."
People have no idea. I've done Darpa internships in IT and full stack developer internships in DC, and could have a lucrative career someday, but I'm stuck in this strange pocket of SSDI where I can't afford to return to work for less than $70k and I'm not yet worth that much.

I'm literally better off doing unpaid or minimum wage internships for the indefinite future until I can hit that benchmark.

My programs pay for everything. My food, my power bill, the interest on my student debt. And if I save one cent over $7200, I lose my medical subsidy so I'm constantly having to find inventive ways to spend money. It's a weird problem to have.
> Reducing expenses is not direct financial benefit.

You've created a seven word sentence which contradicts itself in every conceivable way. Expenses are financial. Reducing them is beneficial.
You typically need ~3 months of rent on hand to get a new apartment. That can be a really large amount of money for people on assistance
A more concrete (and possibly apocryphal) example is if the message ends like so:

"XXXX XXXXXX"

Fair odds that's "Heil Hitler"
Virtualization is one that I frequently do. Running a VM to test out programs (especially to test out Windows compat, or macOS if you're feeling up to the challenge). 16GB can barely run an additional VM, and if you have 30-40 FF tabs open, an IDE, and so on, then running with just 16GB of memory becomes very restrictive. Allocating 8GB to the (one) VM would leave you with 8 for the host OS, of which 2GB is going to be used by the kernel/WM, and leaves only 6GB to develop with.
Also his name is Pike ;)
> A lot of people, including myself, don’t believe that central health authorities have the right to make that call.

That’s absolutely fine. You’re free to spend your money on preventative healthcare that’s been determined to fail a cost benefit test. Organizations that have to save as many lives as possible or prolong healthspan as long as possible within a limited budget must make decisions somehow.
Strong agree with all of this.

Ideally, interview questions should be directly related to the domain of the position. Show the candidate what they will actually be doing if they accept an offer.

The whole process should be a two way conversation.
When other known and nearby civilizations are around at the same time, you also date by the foreign goods you find -- Greek coins, or pieces of Bronze-age armor, for instance. In this case, I'm not sure whether that stuff exists or is easily dated.
Database is heavily designed system, not a kind of data structure as blockchain does, so database is the one that's overkilled in this case.
Centralization and decentralization is not black and white, there's a spectrum between them. Permissioned blockchain can have enormous nodes, such as 10000 nodes, involved to achive consensus.
How do you make database permanent and achieve consensus between enormous users? You may end up with a data structure called blockchain and consensus protocol in that database with extra layers and barriers.
View their cached version.
Maybe. Maybe not. The C compilers back then were not as good at optimising machine code as modern C compilers are.
Many of the doctors I have interacted with at Kaiser refuse to use the computer and ask someone else to come enter the notes and data while they examine me or my wife.

My mom had a job like this at a big bank.

The first thing she would do each morning is print out the e-mails for one of the V.P.'s.

The last thing she would do in the afternoon is take the dictation of his replies, and then send them as e-mails.

It's one of the reasons I roll my eyes when I see people on TV and the internet pretending to be "rich" with their multi-thousand dollar cell phones and gadgets.

Really rich people, and I mean really rich people, barely use electronics. They have people to do those things for them.
Or if you a €2000 laptop where the battery will stop working after a year and a half, only to find out that Dell no longer sells them and DRM-locked the thing so you can't even get a third-party one.
didn't they also find skulls and bones and stuff? anyway, I'm sure they will figure it all out eventually.
If the grinding is not going to translate into a business advantage, then it is pointless.
i was thinking about the same algorithm when i saw the 4 and 14 multiplications
It's not impossible to handle the ambiguity, it's just that you may have to look arbitrarily far ahead to resolve it. Perhaps C# simply does this. Or perhaps it limits expressions to 2^(large-ish number) bytes.
I think you might’ve misread this table. If you count up the number of bear markets in the table and then look at which of those periods also had a recession, the number of bear markets that coincided with a recession is actually ~50%. Further, the table says they count a S&P500 decline of 19% as a bear market, which by our arbitrary standards, isn’t. So if you take those 19% drops out a recession actually coincides with a “true” bear market about ~65% of the time according to this table. I fail to see how you got 20%. Maybe you were looking at the length of recovery which it says on average is 20 months?
Most of the anthropological evidence sides with Hobbes. The rates of violence in hunter gatherer societies is massive, with 10-15% of people dying at the hands of other humans. For the 20th century, despite two world wars, this figure was about 2%
> This isn't, like, per se a vulnerability; they're not saying it is.

"Defeating" is a really poor choice of verb in the title for a post that isn't claiming a vulnerability.
Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DJ1HwuYBuss&list=PLnw98JPyOb...
I can definitely see myself using this machine. 16GB is enough for me as I don’t use electron. 8 core Ryzen is decent too.