skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Check south of Brazil (Santa Catarina and Rio Grande do Sul states)
Many cities have Germany roots from immigrants and you can handle, at the beginning, only using German/English.
They are very safe too (for Brazilian and Latam standards).

Check the city of Pomerode:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pomerode

That checks everything you want: cheap land/houses, low taxes, mild winters and hot summers. Amazing beaches at 1h driving.
Small city where you can connect with people in the neighbourhood.

Negative: very far from Germany. It will take you 1 day to travel (1h flying to São Paulo + 12hs to Europe, plus the waiting time and going to the airport)
You would be livid you got exactly what you paid for?
Hey perhaps Panasonic will finally get their webcam software for their high end cameras fixed and take it out of beta (where it has been since the pandemic). In my dreams, they would also create a version for Apple silicon...
Gut molecules may affect fattiness of the liver
Closed doesn't mean undiscoverable. The biggest closed group chat I'm in is the Telegram channel for a podcast I listen to, and it's plugged in every episode. Discord has issues, but group chats there are still mostly fed by public activity like subreddits or YouTube channels.

Closed just means you can't open a page and read the full history like a forum. It doesn't mean it's only knowable to people currently inside and people they invite.
Obviously, I only saw this after slinging obscure FFmpeg commands for half an hour to extract a DTS audio track from a mkv and converting it to a flac file.

Update: In case someone is curious, I wrote up the steps necessary to do that with an MKV and ffmpeg: https://blog.notmyhostna.me/posts/listening-to-a-movie-as-an...
What do you think an employer's responsibilities are exactly?
Shameless plug: if you’re looking to conduct Security Awareness training as well as distribute and get sign off on policies/SOPs, my startup Haekka.com is a good place to start. We have an extensive catalog of training and see a nearly 96% completion rate across customers thanks to our deep integration with Slack. Where Haekka really shines is with continuous and lightweight security/privacy engagements. These help employees keep security topics top of mind without requiring them to go through heavy training.
Interesting. It's easy to fall trap to the tech mindset - my big ideas to change the lives of your average person are often humbled whenever I have to explain the difference between a web browser and the internet, to my averagely tech literate mid 20s friends.
There are mods that fix significant performance problems, accessibility mods such as colorblindness improvements, etc.
I like dendron's dot.namespace.hierarchy, human browsable flat file system.

But even VSCode can be slow and buggy, loaded with plugins from being used for other things. It would crash on large notes.

So I implemented the file naming scheme in my own folder, and have it open in Atom. Shift-Ctrl-F can search through all notes. Done.

All this linking of notes, creating a "knowledge graph", having a schema... is extra. It requires more effort than benefit I've EVER practically received. It's a cool hobby, and I love to organize things. But I'm trying to spend less time fiddling with tools these days.
Several years ago I saw an ad on Tumblr (I know, I know), for a strange meme site. After seeing several hundred of these ads, I got curious about how it could be profitable to run such nonsense and clicked. Content that was just funny enough to keep me scrolling mixed with ads. It turned out, that was a site run by an Israeli ad-tech media company that used algorithms to find out how many ads they could could put in while maintaining attention, a sort of google ads style auction running on the page to determine if it should add an ad or a meme to the page next.

Linkedin has public research doing the same type of thing.
It's true— McDonald's will toss any leftover fries from the fry station after seven minutes. Burger King has a similar timeline.
One employee wouldn't have that much freedom to release patches like this. Or maybe he is an old guard that was annoyed by the time limitation and no one was able to say no to him
Believing that the data is recoverable seems to be as optimistic as believing that bitcoin will still have value by the time it's found. Did he recruit his financial backers at a TedTalk?
I'm down. Let's start by making the oil companies take "personal" responsibility for the externalities they create, including the amount of warming they have caused (and that they know they have caused). Perhaps with a carbon tax.
How can this kind of argument can be on HN ?
Go do your research, climate change is a proven science nowadays.
The app "Everyday Habit Tracker" (desktop and mobile) offers a nice version of the don't break the chain mechanic.

It's not bad for exercise and physio or other things. I haven't tried it for writing...

There is even a "half-done" marker which doesn't give you points but doesn't break the streak (e.g. when you were prevented to do something due to force majeure).
Here in the UK, in Financial sector, Tech roles most jobs are filled by recruiters. Recruiters have a lot of drawbacks, but one of the unsung upsides is that they generally do get feedback from employers and share it with clients.
Finally admitted to myself and others I no longer believed in the religion of my family. After that it was like a huge weight was lifted and I could more clearly rethink all my conclusions about the world and people.

No more need for magical thinking, confirmation bias, or hoop jumping to justify inconsistent rules made up by centuries of grifters.
Do two PhDs make twice the researcher?
> The basic take-away I gathered was they relied too heavily on donations, grants and sponsorships instead of revenue-generating endeavors, and once the "free money" dried up, they were left with few-to-no options.

Not sure if that take-away is true or not, but it's almost always a bad idea to run a business that relies on charity[1] to stay afloat.

There's some outliers, sure, but if you are planning a business, make sure the plan includes getting people to give you money in exchange for something they value more than that money[2].

[1] That includes investment for current operational expenses.

[2] I was, in 2009, on a panel once, distributing seed money to startups. I remember the one pitch we had from a pair of founders. They brought charts, graphs, all their numbers, current and projected. They had launched with a single investor and a runway of maybe 6 months. They were in month 3, IIRC. It was a labour intensive business (Tourism, so each customer just bought their ticket once, and may never want to go on that tour again.)

They needed more money to keep their operation going (mostly just paying themselves and a few staff members).

I asked about what happens after month 6. They replied that they were actively pursuing investment to make sure that they had another 6 month runway.

I looked at their income and mentally divided it by the number of customers. I asked about how they were planning to get to profitability after 12 months (after all, the purse holders wanted some possibility of return). They replied that at the 9 month mark they would pursue further investment.

I double-checked my figures; each customer was costing more to service than the customer was paying.

Okay, so at the 12 month mark? "We'll actively pursue further investment".

After 5 years? "We assure you, we'll be continuously getting new investment".

At which point do you raise your prices? "We can't do that, we're already so high that there aren't enough tourists willing to pay anything more".

How do we get a return on this? "It's an investment, you don't get it back. It's in everyone's interests to have more tourism. We will all benefit eventually".

The most surprising part of all of this is that both were extremely recent university graduates. I know this, because they proudly presented their humanities credentials at the start of the pitch.
Obviously we're from different tribes because clearly you're wrong, and I'm compelled to cut your throat and throw you in the Jordan river. I think. Been awhile since I've reviewed the source material.
I think when we talk about "unbounded lookahead," it means the lookahead can't be bounded by any constant. A common type of parser is called LR(1), meaning it can only lookahead by 1 character.[0]

The advantage of only looking ahead by a constant is that parsing can be done in linear time. For a backtracking parser, you have to look ahead by up to n characters each time, leading to a quadratic runtime in the worst case.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/LR_parser
This could become an evolutionary leap for our species!
I have always wished Netflix, maybe just for my favorite downloadable titles, allowed for an audio-only option so as not to drain my battery or when I'm out for a walk.
In my experience, the people doing self-promotion on FB are generally not trying to be famous, they are trying to drum up customers for their own or their friend's business.

So no one is really trying to get you to "follow" them, they just hang around neighborhood groups to see if they can find someone who needs a caterer or a contractor.
> inviting people to events

This is the single use case that kept me on Facebook for a while, I decided it wasn't worth it but just by their network effects so many people were on the site that it was very good for that.

I think we need some public alternative(s) - then you don't have to worry about funding it through advertising or the company trying to use the users for profit by selling data.
I just don't see what you're talking about.

The same link but with Australia and New Zealand in every chart [0] just blatantly disproves your narrative.

I'm just not that familiar with the mask mandates of NZ and AUS. AUS looks to have lifted their mask mandate on June 17th 2022? Looking at the link you sent, to my eyes, there's a clear upward trend of deaths in AUS nearly three weeks after June 17th (June 10th 2022).

The numbers for both are so low, relative to other countries like the US, so it's kind of hard to really read too much into them but NZ looks at worst to be 20% more per capita than AUS.

[0] https://ourworldindata.org/coronavirus/country/new-zealand?c...
Many modern horses have easily upset digestion; which can indeed be a serious medical issue.

A horse raised with or adapted to a more varied diet will be a bit more robust. I've known a horse that was fond of sausage and stripped fruit trees and blackberry bushes at every opportunity, her digestive distress after those episodes was never that serious for her. Bystanders may have suffered some.
> I'm not aware yet of any way of capturing facial expressions, like a video chat would.

I haven't personally used it but https://www.vive.com/us/accessory/facial-tracker/ is already available. Leaks also suggest that support for facial and eye tracking will likely be integrated in Meta's pro headset as well.
the baseline looks close to being a "sharp edge"...

really though, with the "New Book called "What if? 2" by the XKCD creator, can I get him to sign it? given the previous books suggestion: a cure for the common cold, "If everyone on the planet stayed away from each other for a couple of weeks, wouldn't the common cold be wiped out?"?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30139925
He also says this in the AMA:

> I am burned out. And you may have noticed that I tend to quit things soon after doing them, like TV series, animated movies, book writing, broadway plays. I do feel very strongly in stopping the second I feel like I'm not excited anymore, whatever I'm doing.
I don't know that that is a relevant rebuttal to the argument that "lots of money means more likely to survive (even thrive)".

More money means more degrees of freedom to experiment, the acquire others, etc.
I always thought it's "amper's and" for that reason, and "amper" must mean "Kaufmann".
If Visa/MC won, that means the other choices are vanquished, and consumers don't have a broad set of choices.

If cryptocurrency succeeds at becoming one of the options that is universally available, then financial intermediaries will no longer wield disproportionate influence on what people can spend their money on.
H. R. 4346: The CHIPS and Science Act of 2022
Satoshi Nakamoto and the origins of Bitcoin – the profile of a genius
This is where homoiconicity really shines.
I live in Japan and have to deal with Japanese customers on a daily base.
As they say here: "The customer is God".
Even one unsatisfied customer is going to destroy your reputation so companies are real careful here.
I'm not sure GP is arguing for a negotiated open relationship, since this whole comment tree is about affairs.

I figured the idea was more "having an affair can be OK if you really need it because your marriage sucks, divorce and a negotiated open relationship are not viable options, and provided no one finds out"
More people and more money, but also respect the quip if it was just a setup.
The fact that we popularly call it "9-11" and not "9-11-2001" supports the idea that nicknames help, or are at least natural.
I had a writing professor in college whose obsession with forcing us to write and speak "Queen's English" really soured me on hearing people correct someone else's grammar. Said professor went so far as to author his own style guide that we were forced to use for class because the existing ones were wrong for this reason or that.

This made me realize that the rules are arbitrary and what matters is if people can understand what you're saying.
As someone who is neurodivergent, reading is exhausting. I like audiobooks played at 2x speed.
MUON: Compact and simple binary format, uses gaps in Unicode encoding for markup
It certainly would explain the name "alphabet",aka alphabet agencies.

I always thought it was a weird as hell name.
“The Left Hand of Darkness” doesn’t exactly roll off the tongue though.
255 comments on horse meat from 11 days ago: <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32116413>
I'll take the named heatwaves if they would just stop doing APOCALYPSE TORNADO EMERGENCY BREAKING NEWS every time there's a mild thunderstorm here in Chicago
I do both, but I would argue that text has one major advantage over advantage over audio recordings: it's cheaper, which means that there are many works that don't make the jump from text to audio. Pragmatically, if you restrict what you consume to what you can get in audio, you limit what you can access. Worse still, it isn't even an equal distribution. Popular fiction tend to dominate most audiobook stores, which makes sense due to its broad appeal.

It does seem like this is slowly shifting and good TTS might even make it irrelevant in the future, but for most people consuming via audio only means leaving a lot of material unavailable.
Original title, "Satoshi Nakamoto and the origins of Bitcoin – the profile of a 1-in-a-Billion genius" was shortened due to 80-char limit.
You can!

https://gohugo.io/templates/output-formats/
Making physical stuff using modern techniques requires access to several machines that cost tens to hundreds of thousands of dollars each. It would sure be nice to rent & share.

How do companies do it? They either CAD up the work and contract it out to a machine shop (expensive and unfulfilling) or they are a machine shop (and understandably don't want to moonlight the same thing as their day job). Occasionally a university or corporate R&D lab will have decent machines on site. When this happens, it is magical. If you have access, you are a very happy person, and when you lose access you become a very sad person who wishes they could rent access again.
To respond to the dead comment below, the last two disjointed sentences are from Margaret Thatcher and an allusion to Francis Fukayama's "End of History".

I've given that guy a fair shake, I think he's a well spoken idiot. I wish I could come to some other conclusion.

There's an adage that (properly defined) economic liberalism warps the imaginary and closes off possibilities, he may be a victim of it. The guy is clearly sincere and passionate and I really like that, I just think he's really mistaken

There's healthier futures possible based on we and not on me, one that pulls from more human emotions than greed and fear and there's something that precludes the man from considering it possible or palatable.

I want so much for those that care to be better.
> Can you imagine if brick-and-mortar businesses tried to do this?

The difference is that, similarly to how social networks grow exponentially when things are going well, they lose users even faster when things are going bad. There are tons of academic papers explaining this.
Cool idea, looks very polished. I guess for this to work best, you need to be very consistent with putting out content to get a good baseline?

The Twitter maker community is exciting to be in right now. Lots of fun tools popping up (Saying this as a fellow bird-named tool creator: https://getbirdfeeder.com).
To play devil's advocate: there's a case to be made that reverse nesting is precisely the the _most reasaonable_ case for nesting, and that forward nesting is the one to be avoided.

The problem with nesting is that it is seductively easy to write, but encourages two coding issues that cause maintenance headaches later on. Firstly, it encourages high selector specificity, and that means potentially enjoying specificity battles later on. Secondly, it encourages tightly coupled DOM structure with CSS - and tight coupling makes later development more expensive.

Both of these issues are significantly less serious when using reverse nesting than forward nesting.

Forward nesting allows for expressing the concept of "parts of a component" by it's DOM structure, so when the component is tweaked, selectors that aren't explicitly tied to any part of a component suddenly break. But reverse nesting is more natural to use in the context of expressing a special case; i.e. my thingmabob is generally green, but in this specific context it's grey.

So on coupling, reverse nesting is less risky: whil it's not impossible to "compress" your css and thus introduce coupling between component structure and a reverse nested selector, it's not a very natural mistake to make.

And on specificity too, reverse nesting is less likely to cause surprises - after all, since you're expressing a more specific situation, you're almost always likely to want the nested selector to win that specificity battle.

So, I'd argue that reverse-nested selectors are actually one of the few general class of nested CSS selectors that are unlikely to cause maintenance headaches later on. Similarly harmless are nested media selectors (again, because nesting implies expressing an exception), and nested pseudo-elements (because there structure and CSS are intrinsically coupled an expressed within the CSS anyhow).

What you call "reverse nesting" is actually the only best good kind of nesting. QED?
In Russian, it's usually called `dog`. No idea why.
If they haven't already, it's only a matter of time before Discord spins up a way for companies to advertise on their platform.
In total, but is that still true when you adjust it for passenger miles traveled?
HN is mostly people trying to get rich selling themselves to VCs, so I'm not convinced that this is where the spirit of "hacker" is kept alive.
It’s pretty rare that a manager will help fighting stupid security restrictions even if they prevent you from doing your work. I currently have to look into Remote Desktop solutions for one of our devices. IT in their wisdom have decided to block access to this category of products (they are blocking VNC sites and TeamViewer, Zoom is ok for unknown reasons). From past experience it’s clear that I either have to do it on my personal equipment or not at all because IT won’t accept even reasonable requests for unblocking. Sometimes running a VM with a non-corporate image will help.
If my daughter was named Katrina or Zoe I would be very very upset. This is just not OK.
Where I'm coming from Amper is a river and Sand has the same meaning as in English. So without the context, Ampersand is the sand you find at Ampers river bank...
When I first read this name I took it for some mystic code name :)
How does the SCSS syntax differentiate between `& .childclass` and `&.additionalclass` without the ampersand?
>The distribution is as you might expect, lots of very small files, very few large files:

> - Half the files is less then 7 lines.
> - 90% is less than 163 lines.
> - Only 0.6% is longer than 500 lines.

This part jumped out at me. Those were the days...
> I got the sense that people became more anxious about what reached that "good enough" mark

Bo Burnham has some interesting comments in his "Inside" special about how social media makes us disassociate from ourselves and think about both living in the moment and how it will be perceived afterwards. I think that's a big part of what causes this - after you know that you're not just posting for fun then you have to think about why you're posting something and what it means. This has caused by to basically stop using them because it never seems "worth it" to post something
bad cursive?
According to this website [0], there are actually 1683 people in the US with that name.

[0]: http://howmanyofme.com/search/
Where have they "gone"?
I've mentioned this before on HN as a way for a "newbie" to look like a superhero in a job very quickly; nice to hear a story of it actually working!

There is so much code in the world that nobody has even so much as glanced at a profile of, and any non-trivial, unprofiled code base is virtually guaranteed to have some kind of massive performance problem that is also almost trivial to fix like this.

Put this one in your toolbelt, folks. It's also so fast that you can easily try it without having to "schedule" it, and if I'm wrong and there aren't any easy profiling wins, hey, nobody has to know you even looked. Although in that case, you just learned something about the quality of the code base; if there aren't any profiling quick wins, that means someone else claimed them. As the codebase grows the probability of a quick win being available quickly goes to 1.
Power Company Lobbying: I want you to make his life a living hell seriously
The “less” program understands the standard cursor keys just fine; there is no need to use vi-style keys.
That still doesn't explain why this seems to be tolerated with "free refills" but not with "unlimited bandwidth".

And even if you were right, even if it's just a case of false advertising and the provider wanting to get out, there is nothing wrong (neither morally nor legally) for them to unilaterally terminate the contract, which they could have well done instead of writing that notification letter. They explicitly state this in their TOS. Most companies can still (luckily) decide which customers they serve and which they don't
That's certainly an interesting approach :)
SpaceX Preps Expanding Starlink to Serve 'Mobile Users'
How so? Where is that?