skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Enforceable where? How? An agreement with an exchange of value is not always enforceable either. So, although I too hope exchange of value would add more legitimacy to an agreement, it is not always the case.
So I think it boils down to, “My general theory about life is that “things usually work out.””

A foolhardy view that conveniently removes the denomination that are dead.
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The policy was called "Wandel durch Handel" ie Change trough Trade.
Well we can ask the reverse question. Would most French people expect politics to be healthier, less elitist and less insider-obsessed if politicans were allowed to spend infinite money on campaigns, if politicals ads were allowed, etc? I certainly wouldn't expect that.

> Is that really tangibly better than overt, measurable money influence from many competing sources?

You're implying that any overt influence from political donations is fungibly replaced by an equivalent amount of hidden undue influence. That's not at all obvious.

It's not like hidden influence doesn't exist in a system with political donations. Having the support of media corporations is important in France, but it's important in the US too.

And to bring it back to the original subject, if crypto regulations were proposed in France, we wouldn't be worried that the MPs had been pre-bribed by crypto exchanges before the vote even began.
1. Higher density = less driving = less Less pollution

2. Overcrowding doesn't even make sense. Thats just a subjective opinion.

3. Cities aren't loud cars are loud[0]

[0]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CTV-wwszGw8
Anyone writing for publishers outside the top 10 (tbh, big 5) and KDP, isn't writing to make money - at least initially. They are writing because they like writing books. The vast majority of authors really just want people to read the book they often spent an enormous amount of time creating.
That’s how I make friends for the past 30 years everywhere as solopreneur and nomad. Just sit in a bar and talk to people; it is surprising how many people stream through that turn out to be long term friends. One of my best clients I met in a bar, my best friend I met in a bar, another client and friend who also is a programmer as long as I am, I met in a bar; I even convinced some people I met who were just on vacation to move country and closer to me. South eu or asian or US bars work better than north eu bars in my experience; more open to talking with strangers. Sometimes it clicks fast, sometimes it takes longer.
Sorry I can't fix that;-) I'm in Germany and it works here, so not everyone outside the US is blocked. It's sad that some people are excluded though.
Waifu2x GUI – upscale anime-styled images, GIFs, and videos with waifu2x
An app that upscales anime-styled images, gifs, and videos with waifu2x.
Fiscal policy usually is a euphemism for deficit spending in this context (contrasted or complementary to monetary policy- primarily the setting of interest rates)
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I want some advice from people over 40 who started their higher education after they reached that age. I'm mostly looking at people who decided to do PhD or Masters post 40. How was your whole journey? What advice do you have to share?
Is it really so few? Snapdragon got support for dual frequency in Snapdragon 855 released in 2018. Use the GPSTest app to see if your phone supports it.

https://github.com/barbeau/gpstest
It makes it easier in the sense of "better accessible", not simpler. The docker network setup and namespace management are actually quite complex.
There's a reason contracts start out by defining terms.
Thanks for this post, my imposter syndrome has been getting to me lately, with my own lack of knowing things are there to be used. So that your journey is years in the making gives me some comfort that my own searching in the dark for hours or days is not that big of a deal.
Ok, so every radio station in the UK has a special light. The light is turned on whenever a royal dies. And then there is a prepared message pre-recorded by the UK military that the radio station broadcasts? How does the station know which royal died? Is the light different colors? Blink different patterns? The station calls the military?
Germany is a very bad example to follow. In many areas and especially in work culture and innovation.

If someone changing jobs frequently is considered a red flag, that’s a failure of imagination on the part of the prospective employer. You look and see a “reliable employee” I look and see a no-nonsense individual who knows his worth and interests and is not afraid to pursue that.

In my experience hire fast fire fast works best. Because the really good ones don’t get fired.
I mean most of Latin American is populated by descendent Spanish, and they have no issues with Spain being the “west” so I don’t think it’s race at all.
France is close to Germany but far from Canada.

Kefir is similar to yogurt but different from it.

You must conform to the law and not deviate from it.
We’re so far into internet and email being a necessary utility, that I wonder at what point you’ll get some sort of state-given (but not -controlled) FQDN/email mailbox assigned to your legal name. (EDIT: I don’t mean handing off people’s data to a private corp — instead: there would be proper access control, encryption, etc. in place to prevent spying by the state giving it, or the company hosting it) Some countries have smart card IDs with well-defined PKI & personal certificates, you could build a whole E2EE citizen mailbox with that.

So: the same way you have a state-registered mailing address for official mail etc., you would have a state-registered email address, potentially @city-or-state.country-tld.

Of course you could use whatever email you want but rolling it out in the same process of legal ID means changing the default “paper mail” delivery to email, without having to just manually say “yes I want to receive emails instead” to everything.
This is accompanying material to this paper: https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~kmcrane/Projects/MonteCarloGeometryP...

Maybe this is the standard for the computer graphics community, but I love how the paper is accompanied by this great webpage and videos. Very inspiring, this is how publications should be done in this day and age: Alongside with material making it easier to understand it.
Some years back I wrote myself a small SublimeText extension to to pick & insert my favorite math characters but nowadays I prefer using rofimoji[0] because it is application-independent.

[0]: https://github.com/fdw/rofimoji
A lot of websites went down under the extreme load of everyone clicking “refresh” over and over.

I was at the office and people would call out when they got a news site to load. I clearly recall that cnn.com went to being text-only.
Tumbbad is highly underrated. PS it is set in the city where I'm from,Pune.
I joined Virtual Coffee (https://www.virtualcoffee.io)! It's a free, volunteer-run community.

It's helped fill the need in my workday for social interaction, through twice weekly facilitated chats (Tuesday 9 a.m., Thursday noon EST), lunch and learns, and other events. There's a few entrepreneurs kicking around the group, too, who have now become friends.
Do let me know if you like any of them :)
I've been working on https://ayahbyayah.com alone for the last ten years and would have it no other way.

Something which you have complete ownership of from conception to completion.
That’s not the whole story. They didn’t reinstate his account because of another, medically unnecessary, photo of the kid in bed with his nude wife.
Well the US is currently in a recession, despite the White House spin/redefinitions
My problem with working alone is that to build something really great you almost always end up at a point where the amount of work remaining explodes beyond what one person could reasonably do. That and you almost always run into some domain (for me it's usually UI/UX/graphic design) that you are not a specialist in.

The early days are glorious though. After working 10 years at a BigCorp... when I started doing some personal projects in earnest during my time off it was pure liberation. I wrote more code in a month than I had cumulatively in several years prior. Building consensus with yourself is... easy.
Yah, that was my reaction that morning, that the US would bomb the crap out of some random country. (In between trying to figure out what was happing to the inlaws, who were flying in from Ireland at the time)
This hit me while wandering around Wells Cathedral (Somerset, UK). There are marble memorials up on the walls with people's names on them.

To be able to afford this after your death, you'd have to be rich and famous (or highly connected to the clergy, I guess). The cathedral has been there for a few hundred years, and there are a few hundred names, so roughly speaking about 25 people in each generation got their names up there. From a population of somewhere between 250K-500K (at a rough guess - there's ~500 churches in the diocese), so 1 in 10,000 people at best, maybe.

I had no idea who any of them were. Still don't. The tiny fraction of wildly successful people who could afford to have their names immortalised in marble are still forgotten.

I will be forgotten. Nothing matters.
The prices will go up due to scarcity.

The $3 are an early warning signal. You can start upgrading slowly on the cheap when you have all the time in the world, or you can do it for much more money and higher risks come crunch time, when you "see a business reason."

I don't have an axe to grind with IPv6 in particular, but I wish managers who consistently make short-sighted management decisions when the writing is so obviously on the wall, would face unemployment.
Trolley buses with small batteries are great too. They mostly use the grid, but are able to go a few km without in case of disruption.
I'll guess that it's a very upscale residential tower (the rich don't want to hear the upstairs neighbor stomp across the floor), and/or a local fire code requirement for anything tall and residential.
That is correct. My ISP in Ohio gives me both IPv6 and global V4.
Indeed. It's actually happening in Vietnam right now. The official exchange rate is ~23,000 VND per USD, but you can get up to 24,000 VND per USD on the unofficial market.

It's interesting, because Vietnam does have currency controls, but has so much USD flowing in through exports (and remittence) that it has the foreign currency reserves to keep the VND in a very narrow band (similar to what Singapore does).

It hasn't always done a great job in the past, but for the past decade or so it's keep it's currency pegged quite closely to the USD.

But over the past few months with the USD strengthening considerably, you start to see a much bigger gap in the official vs. unofficial exchange rates.
Does anyone have a good curated list of Docker howtos and best practices?

I'm currently struggling with issues introduced by the Apple CPUs in the newer macbook pros (mbp): Some of our local amd64 dev/test images crash on M1 and M2 based laptops. I only have an Intel-based mbp and I'm trying to figure out the best tooling/process to create images that support both types of CPU.

Currently I'm able to build OK with Docker Desktop creating amd64 and arm64 images in buildx, then using manifest to create the multi-arch image combining the 2. So I feel pretty good about using that in our AWS CodePipeline builds.

But of course it's not that simple: We're supposed to move away from that towards Podman or equivalent. That part is currently puzzling me, because the commands that work with docker buildx aren't working in Podman.

I guess I'm not looking for specific help on that issue, but more of a general overview of how people are tackling similar workflows.
Containers of course add some overhead, however it is negligible in modern world.

I honestly don't know what you have to do to get 20 gigs of overhead with containers, dozens of full ubuntu containers with dev packages and stuff?
it's crazy to think that until the 2nd plane hit, everyone was thinking about _just_ a bad tragedy, and then came the 2nd explosion and the world changed completely.
I don’t get it. Why do weirdos always accuse people of being a chatbot when they disagree with them?
You should read about scheduled drugs before asserting "Just because some medicines have kind of happy or fun or hallucinating effects don't make them more or less controlled." Specially, the list I, one of its conditions is "The drug or other substance has no currently accepted medical use in treatment in the United States."

Turns out MDMA is on list I, despite being used medically for a decade without problems. Currently there's no MDMA available, at least in the USA, under subscription nor prescription. It seems that is being researched, with extreme difficulties for being in list I, as a remedy for PTSD.

I'm done with this thread.
> They had underlying conceptual models

This is so important for every STEM subject. Ideally, having working mental models of [computers, processes, the nature] should be the goal of education.

Besides that, i observed really good natural language skills in people, who are good at programming. I guess, this ability (to write good code), complements conceptual understanding. In some papers you can observe, that the authors master the concepts, but their code looks like written by a novice.
This is my weekly reminder to not use Google for anything essential.
I am still surprised about the results. I am hosting on a German provider netcup.de once a year they have special offers for de-domains, on average 1,66€/year. My cheapest is for 1,44€/year (plus 2€ setup once), and price is fixed. So it's not a 10 year comittement, but auto-renewal every year, so last ten years I paid overall 16,40€ (so ~16.60 USD) for a de-TLD without any limitations.
Thanks for pointing out the lazy typo. Have edited my post.
Meanwhile in the US I recently bought a brand new Netgear Nighthawk router and V6 was disabled. To enable it you have to go into “advanced.”

Apparently this is now common. It’ll hold back adoption even more since most people do not change defaults.
Was that in EU? At least in Germany if those employees work on the same thing/branch/team, this would be quite difficult (from a legal perspective) for the employer to do.
To avoid confusion: ”This site has no relation with the European Union, despite its name.”[1]

> do not expire

The current expiration date for all eu.org domains is 2026-08-08[2].

[1] https://nic.eu.org/

[2] https://who.is/whois/eu.org
But grey water is different, yes? Couldn't it be held in holding tanks and then allowed to flow out during off hours?

Toilets are obviously a different story. But as long as no one is shitting in their kitchen or bathroom sink the water flow post-usage can in theory be managed.
I think we're only seeing the tip of the iceberg of this. Imagine how many startups and great, growing ideas have been squashed because Google, Microsoft, Apple, Cloudflare etc. cut them away them in the early stages, and the news of it simply never reaches HN or whatever little corner of the internet we sit in.
The only site I remember checking at the time was cnn.com, and it was in some kind of super-low bandwidth mode and was minimal static content.
Public transportation alone cannot solve the problem in the US. It can't even make a large enough dent to really make a difference. Most of those other countries are like a small US state, but the US is much, much larger. Even a medium sized US state is larger than most of those countries. There is a massive scale difference that needs to be taken into account. Because of that scale difference, it is hard for public transportation in the US to appeal to our innate desire for convenience. That's why public transportation works so well in small countries, that transportation can take most people to most places cost effectively. In other words, it is convenient for them.
Electric vehicles will have to wait for the solid-state battery ‘game-changer’
https://archive.ph/QJD6X
No. That’s not the case. His company is based in Tamil Nadu, where the cancer of Hindu nationalism has not yet spread. He certainly has to work with the state government, but the no ruling party in TN has ever grabbed votes based on hatred of and violence towards non-Hindu people.

For a Tamil person to go out of their way to endorse Hindu nationalism isn’t pragmatism, it’s hatred.
https://www.shadertoy.com/view/XlfBRH
https://www.shadertoy.com/view/MtlGD8
> that even US citizens can't pull out USD

Did I miss some weird constitutional amendment that American citizens have super-duper special status at overseas ATMs?

The fact of US citizenship is entirely irrelevant to what notes come out of an ATM.
There is the bit where the story of Pham’s youth is told. He was third son of a King on a medieval–tech world (one with ancient stories of flying machines and long–distance communication devices) when some traders from a distant world landed. To everyone’s surprise they were human, and had expected this world to have a much higher technology level when they arrived. Pham’s dad did some kind of deal where his son Pham was given to the traders as an apprentice; even Pham didn’t know the details. Pham spent the next 20 years or so living on the ship because he refused to use the suspended–animation system (too coffin–like). He learned use use the many layers of emulation to use older and older programs, and eventually learned even trivial details. For example, he learned that the epoch of the time system used by the traders wasn’t actually the date of the first moon landing, but was a couple of years after that. He even hypothesized that over the millennia, many ship’s captains would have installed back doors in the system that might now never be rediscovered (which turns out to be foreshadowing :).

One funny detail I remember is a throw–away line where someone rapidly keys in “a column of text”. If you’re paying attention you can combine that with names like Pham, Vinh, Nau, and Qung Ho, the rarity of the red–headed gene, and the descriptions of some traders from the far end of human space you can reconstruct how things went after Humanity reached the stars.
I have a US Fi account and a US number. Can they just deplatform my account and take the number? I will loose banking and exchanges access
People here on HN have compared the evolution of large and old code base to the evolution of DNA before and I think it makes perfect sense: E.g., in both cases, complexity has grown organically over the years/millennia and logic tends to be spread out over dozens of files/genes; change one line of code/gene and suddenly it will impact lots of other things; et cetera.
ReScript is used by Bloomberg (the creator was hired there) so it's pretty stable, although for library support I'd still use TypeScript.
With some extreme exceptions, making personal decisions based on wide trends doesn't make much sense. Your influence over you own life always tends to be much stronger than the influence of trends at the margins.

If in a recession 20% of people lose their job (exhagurating for the sake of the argument), you have a lot of agency in making sure that you are in the 80% who don't. And even if you're so unlucky you end up in a company that goes bankrupt or has to cut 80% of jobs or anyone hired in the last year or something like that, you are still likely to be able to find another job just as easily as you found this one.

On the other hand, never taking any (reasonable, calculated) risk is the surest way to erode, over time, whatever advantage you have previously earned and let your career converge towards the average and below it.
"The best recession proofing is your own cash cushion."

This cannot be stressed enough. Even if it only was for the psychological effect it has on your negotiations with potential employers.
I subscribed to the free trial for the Play store app, tried it a bit, and now I'd like to cancel my subscription.

I found a "Manage subscriptions" link in the app, and it points to the Play Store app. I can't find an "unsubscribe" button there.
If I try o uninstall the app I'm explicitly told "Your active subscriptions will not be canceled". I spent ten minutes looking for this, and I'm a web developer. How on earth will regular Joe be able to unsubscribe this?

Also, can anyone point me in the right direction?
I don't think it's standard except for some big conferences (e.g. SIGGraph), and Keenan Crane is particularly good at it.
Slashdot was notable for being able to stay up - with people posting live updates and info on finding missing people.

ISTR usenet coming into its own, too
Same. Been using it for soooo long. It's fun that the UI has been the same the whole time.
If your choice is "pay no taxes", and it's a frequent choice, then take a wild guess why the government is taxing 75% of income it knows about.
In Myanmar it’s best to change currency at the airport and not at any currency exchange place.

When in the country currency exchange places will exchange based on the quality of the notes you give them.

If your note has a little crease, fold, discolouration. Expect it to be devalued. A lot.
they’re extreme as in the conspiracy theories they cook up are EXTREMELY nonsensical.

It doesn’t matter how far left they are or what that even means
Maybe your left foot produces slightly more agressive sweat than the right one.
6 months is a very long time, at least in Germany and Austria it’s a lot shorter (unless you’ve been there for a very, very long time maybe).
So they made Swift and slapped a new name to it
Did you try the Google Wallet and Google Pay apps? Could be in either of those.

Edit: for me it's Play Store, round profile button/account switcher in top right, Payments and Subscriptions.
Gosh, I got kind of shocked when I saw myself in there (my own comment is the second one in the original thread). I already forgot about the whole affair.

Also, [2019]
This is a natural development as the field matures. I've worked in codebases that had roots in the 1980s, and large chunks of code survived virtually unmodified from the 90s. I'm sure some here could tell stories of even older codebases.

Living codebases that have such old roots but have seen gradual maintenance and refactoring such that the whole thing didn't degenerate into spaghetti deserve a lot of respect in my opinion.
I regularly describe my day job (which consists in reading a 10-year old, arcane & barely readable Spring code base) as me working as a software archeologist. :)
Short of having some contract in the US, any company can get rid of you with little notice. LIFO is also only one type of layoff, typically where every team is tasked with cutting someone. IME, it also seems less common b/c layoffs are typically not that surgical. IME (again), most common are shutting down teams and/or divisions which have very little to do with skill or seniority.

If you're worried about possible future layoffs, I would look at both roles in relation to their link to revenue.
simply google both H/W's MacOS comparison

if little/no difference or downward compatible, it'll simply work

workable app. in a OS was already guaranteed by and in electron's cross compile / build time
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I'd probably say Sri Lanka is a far more relevant poster child, given, you know, what's been going down.
What is 'modern for you, exactly?
oh.. that seems bad.

first, it seems unfair.

second, I just got a .cx and plan to use it for email, I hope I don't have issues with it.