skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Judging by the article, it sounds like they are reaching for technological parity with other governments around the world:

>In fact, among the many countries that have either developed or are in the process of developing instant payment capabilities, the vast majority have done so with the direct operational involvement of their central banks. This progress means that the U.S. retail payment system lags behind systems in other countries.

Furthermore, they don't have confidence in the private sector to achieve this sort of thing:

>Based on its assessment, the Board concluded that private-sector real-time gross settlement services for instant payments alone were unlikely to provide an infrastructure for instant payments with reasonable effectiveness, scope, and equity. In particular, private-sector services are likely to face significant challenges in extending equitable access to the more than 10,000 diverse depository institutions across the country.
Funny enough, the pot shops really embraced BTC in their infancy because anything to reduce cash was good (banks will not touch them due to the federal gov‘t), but they‘ve all since dropped it due to volatility being too expensive to deal with.
Thanks for bringing this up. Now you can use cmake find_package with it.
Original journal ref: http://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-022-04998-2
Yes! For the longest time I could swear my display blinked every time a colleague stood up.... people looked at me like I was crazy....
> This does not claim to be an "ergonomic" keyboard.

I'm arguing the market already has a number of minimalist standard layout keyboards (the Nuphy lineup, even major brands like Logitech). Making something ergonomic and portable would be an interesting differentiator. The Atreus ( https://shop.keyboard.io/products/keyboardio-atreus ) is a nice example but gets a bit too minimal whatwith not having a number row.
The Google Wallet fiasco was such an own goal that the top leadership of Google should have resigned.
I hear this a lot, but Visa/MC do the exact same thing (though it has died down now that Westerners see universal NFC pay as rightly superior to QR codes)

And before you tell me they charge for it, I agree they do, but I also get fraud protection that's 1000x better than anything in SEA or on Venmo/Cash app.
There is also Microsoft’s Singularity OS.
Yes but there is a difference between possibility and probability: it is technically possible to hit these vulnerabilities, but the chances are practically zero, especially in the context here where someone might try it once like mentioned in the article. It isn't like there are many malware authors out there trying to infect people running 20 year old software (outside of targeted attacks).

I think you are more likely to be affected by a vulnerability bug in some random modern macOS application with its own autoupdater than a vulnerability in a 20 year old Windows program.

Remember that these issues existed when that software was actually mainstream and yet the overwhelming majority of people wasn't affected by them during the peak of their popularity.
The fabrics section is super interesting. https://learnmyog.com/fabrics.html

The DWR coatings are something I'd like to be more informed about. Does anyone have good links to discussions of options with pros and cons, environmental impacts, etc?
It's not a vote if there is practically only one option.
Yes. None of those are a thing here in Canada in my experience. We have Interac E-Transfers which is allow you to send money to anyone just by knowing their email address or phone number.

Either the person gets an email/text with instruction to deposit the money, or they can register their email in a central database which allows for automatic deposit and nearly instant transfer.
All of that could be done more elegantly with a row of LEDs like on the side of an old unibody MacBook.
I've been looking a lot at keyboards but have spent $0 on keyboards so far. This is the first keyboard I may actually consider buying. For a change, it looks like it has been designed by a person who actually digs typing.

I don't care about clickyness, or what switches does it have. This keyboard is the first I've seen that has a design that will actually allow finding keys by touching and feeling them, not by looking at them. The difference in the shapes of the different key groups is huge for me.

The only thing that I miss is the space around the reverse-T of the arrows. The space that Macbooks have around the arrows is not a "wasted space," it has a purpose: it allows me to position my fingers on the arrows just by touching and feeling. Maybe consider adopting the half-size of the arrows and leaving the left-shift where it should be.

Another note: I don't use Windows much, but when I do, the key in the lower left corner is hard-wired in my muscle memory to Ctrl. Ctrl is the key that is used the most in Windows, so I often need to find it quick, in that corner. Maybe consider a Mac/Win switch (fn-control-option-command for Mac, Ctrl-Fn-Windows-Alt for Windows).
Natural amplification (especially through materials, which is what I would guess happened here) is resonance. It’s wild how pervasive it is.
>>that one where you had to compile everything

Gentoo.
Yes, the cause of all human on human suffering since the dawn of time is greed. Its almost a tautology so maybe it didn't need to be said.

For the record, I'm a Canadian who went to school with countless Lebanese people in Ottawa. I'm a big fan!
Maybe start by not having banks that are so bad at actually doing what a bank should do that visa and mastercard can just move in and fill the gaping holes with credit cards. Until I moved to North America from Europe I had zero reason to even own a single one because banks just... you know... did banking. It's both possible and easy to send and receive money, without caring which banks are involved, instantly, for free.
That's not really what happened. The Shah was the ultimate authority in Iran, and he asked the Prime Minister to step down, which was his legal right. The Prime Minister said "No thanks, I'm the boss now", at which point the US/UK helped the Shah assert his actual legal right under their existing rule of law.

Can you tell me - if Queen Elizabeth asked that Boris Johnson step down from role as PM(which is her right), and Boris Johnson instead refused and said that he was now the leader of the UK, whose side would you throw your support behind?
Wow, I had no idea!

I work with a lot of unbanked individuals in low-income areas of NYC, so I am familiar with some of their struggles. I can't say I agree with this law, though. There was a store near me robbed at gunpoint not too long ago, and I felt so bad for the worker who had to go through that, not to mention how scary it is to feel like armed robbers are casing my neighborhood. So I feel glad for people like the coffee lady I mentioned, who have chosen to avoid that risk entirely.

I understand the good intentions behind the law, but I think there are other ways to help unbanked individuals that would still allow business owners to chose how they accept payment.
Yes, we are - but no ETA yet (sorry, we've been focused on the infrastructure).

There are some community-developed libraries here: https://github.com/supabase-community. We sponsor developers to maintain these - at some point we'll hire someone to work full-time on these (and we'll start with iOS/Android)
I feel totally comforted knowing Oracle is on the case. /s

https://theintercept.com/2021/02/18/oracle-china-police-surv...
I once tried to write something using a pure TDD approach. It was enlightening.

Pluses were refactoring was easy and I had confidence that the system would work well at the end.

Minuses were it took a lot longer to write and I had to throw away a lot of code and tests as my understanding increased. It slowed down exploration immensely. Also, factoring the code to be completely testable led to some dubious design decisions that I wouldn't make if I wasn't following a pure TDD approach.

On balance I decided it wasn't a generally good way to write code, although I guess there may be some circumstances it works well for.
How do online services solve link rot?
There are so few choices for low profile standard layout keyboards with nice keycaps, and you ortholinear fans insist on having yet another? Come on.
A few states in India force revenue and annual growth quota on the alcohol sellers because they are dependent on the tax revenue.
I don't know what they (or others) want, it's just how I interpret it.
Plenty of places with high ethnic/religious diversity have thrived: Singapore, Istanbul, New York City, (increasingly) the capitals of Western Europe. Teotihuacan, the largest pyramid complex outside of Egypt, was a multi-cultural city where different religions, languages and ethnicities lived side by side for 1000 years. It can be done.
You're still missing the point.

This discussion is _not about the United States._ This discussion is about _China._

Let me give you a helpful link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whataboutism
Well the main reason I made Allsearch wasn't for the looks: I was just having fun there. The main reason was for the features that Gnod doesn't have, like the ability to add your your own engines or to define macros.
Evolutionary Design Specification
Fat goes rancid. Sugar is shelf stable and preservative.

Nutrition is not guided by fads, but by food manufacturer and retailer profit margins.
An interesting review of your enlightening book: https://www.lse.ac.uk/granthaminstitute/news/a-closer-examin....

He's a political scientist, not a climate scientist but he seems to be working backwards from the agenda of "climate change is a liberal hoax" vs "we have a serious problem and need serious solutions to it".

I'd read it if I felt like there's valid knowledge to glean (i.e., ok, so what are the best thing to do) but not to put money in a denier's pocket.
So then the question becomes "why do many democracies not develop strong and independent, judicial, law making and executive branches, whereas others do?"
This doesn't replace Venmo for P2P since it requires $25/month fee if you want to receive credits. It can certainly replace paypal &c. for payments though
I still like a wired mouse. This would be nice.
It's the same in the United States. You have to accept cash to settle a debt but if you haven't received anything, the concept of "legal tender" doesn't really exist yet. That's why laws that require accepting cash are generally done at a municipality level.
Thanks, this is a great explanation. It seems like these "nm" indicators are much like measuring a car's power in "horsepower". It is certainly measuring something real but its connection to actual horses has long since atrophied.
A few years ago here in Argentina, the "free" keyboard with your desktop computer was usually a Spanish-LatinoAmerica 101-keyboard. You have the "Ñ" key, but the "><" key was missing. One solution was to install a special unofficial device driver downloaded from a page I can't find now. Perhaps this keyboard need some special configuration.
The Affair Rekindled: Dreyfus and the effect it had on a young Marcel Proust
No, there absolutely was not obvious voter fraud in 2020. That's the Big Lie.
The ceiling on density imposed by cars needs to be compared to the ceiling on density imposed by people wanting peace and quiet, solitude or space for kids to play or have a BBQ in their own garden space, space for hobbies/sports, and other constraints on density.

If you took away the constraints imposed by cars, I'm not sure that people would be happier cramming together into dramatically denser communities.
I have been using fbsd almost exclusively, professionally, for 25 years - and built somewhat high profile projects (Johncompanies, rsync.net) on top of it and … there is plenty of hate in my love/hate relationship with it.

It doesn’t seem odd to me at all that this individual would continue to use freebsd while maintaining such strongly held critiques of it.
When I read "fast way to end up dead", I naively though as a company, meaning that you have no chance of getting traction and breaking into the market...

I am still actually wondering if this would get you killed or you would face simply an uphill battle in the market and never get traction.

In a sense it is similar to the two party system in the US. I wonder if there isn't a viable third party still today because people are so used to voting Republican or Democrat, and because all the institutions (including media) are set up in a way that makes it very hard to start a third party or because third parties that actually want to change the game are infiltrated and threatened behind the scenes.
That's kind of "too bad" it's Windows only. I would try it on Linux and/or macos.
> What I do miss is a way to back them up from the command line.

I've written a Perl script that print bookmarks from Safari/Firefox/Chrome/Edge as <title><url><description>, but maybe it's too raw.

https://github.com/kal247/App-bookmarks

I might add other formatting options (HTML or Template Toolkit) if there's enough interest.
Blockchain is a perfect fit for this. People buy ownership rights to the property in fiat money and receive tokens as a percentage of the property, people pay their monthly rent in fiat money and the ‘owners’ receive their share of the rent in tokens.

Solves the whole bank run problem as they only grant ownership rights as tokens and they aren’t really devaluing everyone’s ownership share on a monthly basis while they keep all the fiat money for themselves — minus, of course, the money they spend on real estate and property maintenance to keep the whole scheme going.
> eating plants (i.e. vegetables)…in a nod to the idea that it should be largely simply prepared and as close to its natural formation as possible

Plenty of cultures heavily process their plants, and for good reason: the raw form is less nutritious. Plants != vegetables. Vegetables exclude fruits and uncultivated plants; wildflowers are delicious and definitively plants but debatably veggies [1].

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vegetable
I frequently ask people "If all major American banks got together and implemented a system where you could send money from one bank account to another in a payment system much faster than ACH, would it be big news?"

And yet they did, but it was not big news. There is currently an instant payment system integrated with all major American banks for person-to-person transactions, and yet they somehow fumbled it so Venmo takes all the publicity.

Zelle https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zelle_(payment_service)
It’s all about transistor density and newer nodes deliver that. Nobody cares about gate size.
multiplayer.dev character limit is client-side fyi. Chat messages are encoded into HTML Entities so thankfully XSS doesn't seem possible
The "point out flaws but not strengths" thing is something that has always bugged me for one simple reason: If you only tell me what you don't like, I don't know what I need to try to maintain while fixing the flaws to keep what IS good/useful/etc.
>...TDD is great for some types of code, where the code is mostly self-contained with few external dependencies and the expected inputs and outputs are well defined and known ahead of time.

I find that TDD is very well fit to fix the expectations from the external dependencies.

Of course, when such dependency is extensive, like an API wrapper, then writing equally extensive tests would be redundant. Even then, the core aspects of the external dependencies should be fixed testably.

Testing is a balance game, even with TDD. The goal is to increase certainty under dynamic changes and increasing complexity.
If you have Yubikey, then this is fine https://xeiaso.net/blog/yubikey-ssh-key-storage. I have Google Titan NFC which is basically Feitian K9 NFC, so it doesn't support -O resident.

Back in 2016 I was using https://github.com/philipWendland/IsoApplet which uses https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PKCS_11 standard, but modern way is much smoother as long as your OpenSSH server is up to date.
So, reading this is intimidating.

Can you ELI5 what risk these pose to humans or species in close proximity to us?
Do not spend personal money on company projects. That's the same as you taking a cut in pay. Seriously. Don't do this.

If the company cannot afford it the equipment you need to perform your job then you should be out looking for a job. If they can afford it, they should pay for it without issue.

Also, it's worth saying 'No' to things you're asked to do if the request is not realistic given the limitations they have placed on your resources.

Boss: Can you make a skit video about our new product?

You: Not without additional funds to hire talent.

Boss: Use people in the office to save money.

You: No, that doesn't work. It's more expensive when you consider they have to stop doing the job they are getting paid to do and perform a job they are untrained for.
One of the most important questions (IMHO) is what the cost is going to be. Some googling says it's going to be ~$0.05 which would be insane and amazing. I know that middlemen will probably be required to build on top of this and take their cut but I'd love nothing more than Visa and Mastercard to lose their near-duopoly.
Pretty sure everybody understood that trump won in 2016. There were questions about what happened during the campaign though .
Comparison of Foods by Food Compass Score Within Categories
Title should be "Every Dollar Spent on Carbon Capture Is a Waste".
You are projecting.

The current state of affairs in the US is that, in most towns, detached single-family housing is the only thing you are legally allowed to build. When you buy land the local zoning board tells you what can be built on that land, and these zones are extremely fine-grained. Thus, the people who want detached houses are the ones who are dictating how others should live.

There is a huge demand for denser urban arrangements, because people would like to live closer to where they work and don't want to drive cars. This is why smaller houses in urban centers go for more money than larger houses in suburbs. This is an arbitrage opportunity for anyone with the capital to buy houses at the periphery of those urban centers and demolish or renovate them to house more people. Except that's illegal, so instead the market is stuck pricing by convenience, and you get a society that demands it's working class spend two or more unpaid hours of their lives each day driving from the suburbs into the city.

Historically, the transition to suburban home ownership as the default mode of living was also something dictated by elites rather than organically decided upon. To explain this we need to talk about cars, because suburbs and cars are basically a package deal. It is extremely inconvenient to live in the suburbs without owning a car, and cars do not work in cities where they have to compete for limited road space against pedestrians and public transit.

So the car companies demanded that the laws and cities change to make their business work. We invented the """crime""" of jaywalking[0] just to make cities more convenient to access in a large vehicle. Car companies even bought up and destroyed public transit, turning efficient streetcar and rail systems into buses that had to compete for road space with individual riders, and often lost. This meant more people having to buy back their freedom[1] by moving to the suburbs and buying cars to get to the job they used to walk to.

Had this decision not been made through top-down power and social engineering[2], the suburbanization of America would have been far more limited. We can see this in much of Europe and Asia, where attempts to level and rebuild cities in Henry Ford's divine image were resisted at every turn.

[0] "jay" is old-timey derogatory slang for rural farmers, roughly equivalent to today's "hick".

[1] I should point out that this freedom was an illusion because road capacity is far more limited for cars than it is for people. Suburbs will inevitably jam their streets and highways in ways that dense urban spaces cannot.

[2] As in, engineering society to work a certain way, not defrauding someone out of their login password
Yes. KDE however suffered for many years from what I like to call "programmer art." Including bad fonts and padding. It also had a bewildering amount of control panels and tweak-ability.

Better than a lack of them, but Win2k had it just about right. A reasonable amount of configurability, mostly good defaults, and just about anything possible via a setting hidden underneath.

Gnome and KDE seem to have chosen opposite sides of that happy medium.

Looking at recent screen shots KDE seems to have fixed the first problem. I'll have to try it again.
I love everything about it. I’d buy today except I’ll committed to split keyboards. They let me keep my shoulders back. If you ever make a versions that’s fully split (two halves that can be well-separated) and still non-ortho, even better if you can figure out how to wirelessly split…

My only other feature request would be a USB port for a yubikey.
I don’t follow tbh. If you need a top 30 school or a year of prep then you’re doing it wrong or are not good enough sorry. But that’s okay there is a sliding scale of employers out there.

If you think I’m a 22 yo or in SV then you need to update your heuristics, cuz you’re incorrect.
Zelle is owned and controlled by seven of the largest banks in the US. It was basically created the fill the gap and create a standard for consumer bank to bank transfers.
We built a lot of this in-house though, as we didn't find suitable existing tooling for that
Zelle has significant limitations for gross settlement and relies on a security model that leaves much to be desired.

Zelle also is a product of TCH, hence why "major banks" carries a lot of water. You can't leave behind rural and low income Americans.
MOD Devices files for insolvency, while still being transparent with userbase
MOD Devices has filed for insolvency in Germany and instead of playing games it opens up the door giving full transparency about what's happening and the possible outcomes.
That's a very distorted view of what happened. The Soviet Union (and its colonies like East Germany) never came anywhere close to providing anywhere near the quality of life that the West provided. That's why the Berlin Wall and other militarized borders were created -- in theory to prevent invasion from the West (the Berlin Wall was officially the "anti-fascist defensive barrier" even though the border guards were looking East, not West), but in reality to prevent their populace (especially their educated populace with marketable skills) from fleeing to the West, often shooting them if they managed to get across the barriers. The fact is the Soviet system didn't work and couldn't provide for its citizens.

The Western leftist movement did provide many benefits such as weekends off and paid vacations that conservatives often ignore as coming from them, but this movement had little to do with the Soviets, but with the labor movement dating back to the 19th century.
The Hacker News comments was so accurate! I'm having so much fun going through Seinfeld shorts.
Ask HN: How can I develop the frontend for my startup?
Hello HN,

I work as an SRE, and I spend most of my time studying and developing the backend. I am really good at what I do, but do you know something I am horrible at? The frontend.

In the last few days, I've finally decided to start my first startup. The problem is that I'm a noob when it comes to frontend, even though I've had professional experience with React and Vue a few years ago. I don't think I even know how to HTML and CSS correctly.

How do you develop simple and complex frontends? I think React and Vue are great, but sometimes I need something quite simple. Also, speed matters because I don't want to waste six months only coding frontend.
There's likely a toggle switch to configure command/option vs. window/alt - I've seen that on other high-end keyboards. With linux you can use either depending on how you like to keybind.