skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
mostly discussed [here](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32725137). I dunno why this is really an article anyway, given the misleading headline implying the NSA is hacking some university, rather than an institution conducting military research for the PLA. Given the context of the DOJ article, its just espionage tennis: a constant back and forth.
Not in the school of architecture to which Niemeyer belongs. The internal concrete structure and non-load-bearing walls was key to Le Corbusier's tower blocks. You can see this by the fact that the walls often don't extend to the ground, where the building is supported on open pillars, as in the building in TFA. Modern skyscrapers are just a development of the same principle.
Yeah, I'll certainly follow recomendation from someone who starts it with calling a well known successful FOSS project "shit". /s
Signing Git commits with your SSH key, and other pointless things you can waste your time on.
I am about 510 words of Russian in my 2rd attempt and I am finding it frustrating to not know why and when to use мамы маму etc even after completing nearly two checkpoints.

I decided to skip Duolingo in my third attempt. I found that the New Penguin Russian Course book for grammar is a good start. Could you please be kind and suggest if this is a good learning path? Many thanks.
Only because both North and South America lack rail links to other continents. Afro-Eurasia is interconnected by rail
Bonn was always a temporary capital, and East Berlin was the capital of East Germany.
Revolut also [1]

[1]. https://developer.revolut.com/
I had no conviction that 60k would be the top. But I have a conviction that it'll be surpassed eventually.
I have this one on paper. Back then I paid a whole lot more attention to the Amiga than to declarative languages.
Digital sculpture sounds really cool. Are the STL files so you can print it? I've looked for something like that a couple times (communities, etc). Can you provide any links?
Perhaps you are making the fallacy of comparing early 20th century communist regimes with today's capitalist society. If you compared them with early 20th century capitalism or colonialism they start to look much more benign.
I have a very young neighbor named "Kieran", which I mis-herd as Karen when he was very small; but I have never known a male Karen.
I'm now imagining some poor child's dumbfounded look as a HackerNews parent explains how to ride a bike by breaking down countersteering. lmaoo
Yes totally agree. One of the examples given of leaning a balanced broom is really intuitive.
That's not entirely accurate. A number of the Dominions were both de jure and de facto independent sovereign states by the mid-1930s as a result of the 1931 Statute of Westminster and enabling local laws. Some of the Commonwealth realms, notably Australia and New Zealand which only removed the right of appeal to the UK's Privy Council in 1986, only partially implemented the Statute and retained some aspect of UK involvement in their judicial, civil, and parliamentary systems for years longer.

The Statute of Westminster removed the ability of the British parliament to legislate for the Dominions unless at their request and with their consent. It also turned the Dominions into Commonwealth Realms where the monarch served as head of state separately in each, with their consent, and constrained by laws and rules unique to each.

That is, King George V ceased being the King of the 'United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and of the British Dominions beyond the Seas', and became separately the King of the United Kingdom, King of South Africa, King of Australia, King of New Zealand, etc. The Governor-General became the King's representative, but was constrained by local legislation and was usually someone appointed by each country.

It was still a bit messy in some cases, and Australia and New Zealand weren't sure right up until they adopted new legislation just after WWII whether they were truly independent in foreign policy. But some of the countries, like the Union of South Africa, became fully sovereign the moment the 1931 Statute was passed, and only needed to implement additional legislation in 1934 to clarify and localise it.

South Africa of course became a republic in 1961, but all that did was change the head of state from being the Queen to being a State President. It didn't change anything about the country's legal relationship to the United Kingdom.

So it's wrong to say Charles has no power in Commonwealth realms today, as he has as much power as each country assigns him (and by extension his representative Governor-General) in its own laws and he exercises it separately and distinctly from his powers as King of the UK.
https://www.openrailwaymap.org/ has everything, including colorization options by speed, electrification or gauge
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> In December 2018, Revolut secured a Challenger bank licence from the European Central Bank, facilitated by the Bank of Lithuania, authorising it to accept deposits and offer consumer credits, but not to provide investment services. At the same time, an Electronic Money Institution licence was also issued by the Bank of Lithuania.

What are you talking about? Revolut is a real bank, same as Monzo, N26, Aumax (part of a larger banking group so it hardly counts), Kard. Specifically regarding Revolut, they are a real bank in multiple countries now - UK, Lithuania, US and a bunch of other European countries.
Revenue, not profit. They have pretty huge costs of doing business, too.
> I don’t see how splitting to 1000 transactions and sending money to yourself helps with money laundering or undercover money sending

Banks rely on a fixed set of rules to trigger an investigation for money laundering. One of these rules is the value of the transaction. I worked in retail whilst at Uni in the UK and we often had people who had lot's of money in their accounts unable to make large purchases due to these checks. Their payment would be automatically blocked and you would get a phone number they had to call to be able to make the payment. It was for example when buying a £5000 kitchen (I worked in the equivalent of home depot in the UK). If they could have split that transaction down to say 10 payments of £500 it wouldn't have triggered anything on the bank side.

Overall these banks process a lot of transactions and so heavily rely on these rules to keep them within the law. They don't always work as can be seen here and the bank noticed that users were able to circumvent their crappy ruleset by split big transactions down to lots of small transactions.

Not sure about sending money to yourself I suspect they mean transferring money between two accounts you control which is different in the banking for from sending money to yourself. If you are in control of both accounts you are laundering the money by transferring it to another account when you secretly control both. It's a basic way people like the mafia and such have laundered money for decades. They will do it through facade companies or suchlike. So they have one of the gang be legit and "clean" setup a shop who deposits cash into their bank account from "sales". The shop is a real place that you could technically buy stuff from. They then transfer their profits to this other account that is the gangsters account. The gangsters is part owner and they are receiving money as they "own" the shop and the shop has made money from sales. The sales though are actually the gangster giving money to his own shop and them claiming that as sales to the bank. The bank doesn't know that the money is actually from selling drugs or robbing stores or w/e illegal stuff they have done. The result is that you have taken "dirty" money i.e. money that has came from some illegal activity and with this strange process you have made it into "clean" money that's come from some legal activity.

So basically all money laundering will be transferring money to "yourself" but it will be via a third party that probably takes a small cut for helping. It's worked like this for years and is super common.

The fixed set of rules they have in bank is because it used to be that making money movements was hard so the criminals would transfer say £250k in a single transaction as sales revenue. So banks could easily spot this and take action. Making money movements easier means they can bypass this check.
"First, let's start with some control theory..."
East African cycling team became the face of Meta's vision
And also Sheldon Brown:

https://www.sheldonbrown.com/brakturn.html

The writings of Sheldon Brown are somewhat a Wiki for cyclists teaching maintenance and riding a bicycle. I've learned riding a bicycle as child but the theory and maintenance guides are useful to know.

If you are German you may also appreciate Wikipedalia:

https://wikipedalia.com
Given you talked about "facilities" I would assume that you were talking about a professional environment, so assuming an adult seems fine to me.

Whether man has been correct and standard usage in the past is fairly irrelevant. People's attitudes towards gender have changed (for the better), and so our view of what is 'good' and 'bad' in written English have changed too. Particularly in a male dominated industry where women don't feel welcome, using phrasing that implies a job is only done by men is fairly unfriendly to half the population. It's not hard to use "person" or "they" or other gender neutral language and eliminate this particular problem.

Language is a tool to express our thoughts. As our thoughts change, so does language. If you don't give a shit about women in technology (or anywhere else) then fine, but don't be surprised if people who do then call you on it.
Have you seen the dollar’s buying power recently?

I went from living very comfortably to living paycheck-to-paycheck in about 6 months. Holding my value in USD has become a significant risk.
There's nothing shady about writing or publishing security tools.

Also, by that point he had long since sold out and largely left the scene behind.
Nero was dope, then it started being bundled with CD and DVD drives and it became a monstrosity of useless features.
Cool stuf! What are your main use cases today?
AI Text to Video Generators Are Coming, and They Are Impressive
Amazon has never paid any dividends.

Further, you are just plain wrong about both of your points. At least as general statements.

1. Of course there are some businesses that are created to be able to pay the owners of the capital dividends (or more common, to be able to sell the business later to someone who hopes to be able to collect dividends). But a lot of businesses are created to for people to just being able to do their job. Say a gardener who wants to work with tending gardens. Their main purpose of the business is not to collect dividends, and they may never do.

2. That a business sole purpose only is to pay the owners is a quite recent (popularised in the eighties) neoliberal idea and far from any universal truth. The purposes of any single business can be whatever the business owner wants, which range from the obvious, become rich, to serving the community with some particular goods or service, providing employment and security to the local workforce or creating opportunity for people work with some craft they love.

The stakeholders in a business are far from only the people that invested capital in it. They also include the local community, the employees and the family, and of course the customers.
Your assessment is at odds with their own statements.

Google can be assumed to know the hole they are in. The mistake is thinking everybody else is in it too.
>> Sure. But that's not in contradiction to individual parts of the system having individual (and different) purposes.

But those purposes are only allowed because they serve greater purpose. On their own they are meaningless.

>>Btw, not all companies have to make a profit. That's just a pretty common goal. (And if you want your business to stay afloat in the long run, you have to at least break even.)

Maybe if You mean non profits like charitable fundations that holds water, but those are mostly not real businesses.
I do not think is feasible to break event for normal companies. Its like with birthrate - if You naive You could believe that with birthrate equal to 2 (one children for each parent) to preserve status quo. But in real life minimal rate is around 2.1 to prevent population collapse. The same is with profits - You need some to account for future risks.

>> Duh, obviously you only get dividends from businesses you own.

It's only obvious if You ignore platform effects (amazon anyone?) and monopolies, but that's besides the point. The point is that owners collectively as a class are able to extract too much from the system. And by owners I do not mean the hatted guy from monopoly, or rather not only him, but also german pensioner with ever increasing life expectancy crashing his hundred thousand euro camper around Europe. Even here in Poland I personally know people that are retired for decades and their work life was mostly sitting around doing nothing (my own grandma was retired for almost 50 year and before that was a housewife and got pension from my grandpa work). Meanwhile most of younger generation will probably never be able to afford to buy own house (unless someone old dies and leaves them inheritance).
Why would you charge yourself labour for doing something you enjoy? If anything you should be paying yourself!
Do you have a source? I couldn't find it in English at least
In the Netherlands, countersteering is part of any motorbike practical exam. This is not standard in a lot of companies, but it is such an essential skill. It literally saves lives.
I looked at Bazel ~5 years ago for a C++, Scala, JS, Python codebase and it looked like the perfect solution, but there seemed to be a lot of breaking changes in Bazel at the time so I passed in the end.

Then I started a project this year that will be a Rust, Swift, Kotlin, JS codebase (maybe C# too if Rust for Windows isn’t stable enough) and I had a look at Bazel again, but already the official tutorial from last year didn’t work on the latest stable release so I gave up on it again. Anyone had similar experience and pushed through? Is it worth it?

I currently have a bunch of Python scripts and will most likely end up with Gradle which is ok but not great in my experience.
Honestly? I don't believe a word of it.

There is no way, we can do these things for pictures let alone video.
Looking nice and being a nice place to live are very different things.
Keep shooting themselves in the foot
N-nani??
It's insane that a game engine until 2021 had no occlusion culling. Really tells you that the engine is not made with "big" 3d worlds in mind.
None of the cDc people really have done anything "interesting" (actually in violation of the CFAA) in well over 20, maybe close to 30 years.

Its a whitehat larp gang that somehow retains the trappings of the scene, much like many other groups.
The proper response depends on the type of traction loss. What you describe is the appropriate response for understeering, but will amplify oversteering. Although to be fair, considering how common front wheel drive is these days, understeering is what us most likely to occur, and the proper response of following the failure is less intuitive than counter steering.

On a "proper" 4x4 sliding, increasing throttle will often straighten the path of the vehicle irrespective of current steering input - a fun quirk of locking differentials.
The 10-liner BASIC competition, for example, can show you an answer: its fun, its powerful, and .. we seem to have lost something in the rush for the next upgrade.

https://gkanold.wixsite.com/homeputerium/rules2021

The last two years' winners were both astonishing in completeness and functionality - in 10 lines, a LUNAR LANDER clone .. and then, a year later in another 10 lines of code, a DUNGEON CRAWLER.

When you go backwards and see how things were, you also see what we've lost.
If they've shipped, they can find more money people any time they want.

Quotation of the month. Devs should have this knitted into a pillow in their cubicles.
> make the Amiga the intellectual and technical heir to the Apple II

The hallmark of the Apple II was its simplicity. A person could understand all of it, from the hardware up, quite easily.

The Amiga, OTOH, is a very complicated machine. There is no denying it was an incredibly capable machine back then, but, ultimately, its complexity became an issue when VGA and PCM sound became a thing on PCs and the ISA bus made it trivial to add new capabilities to a PC while Commodore had to push out a new computer (or, at least, a new chipset) for the same capabilities.
It’s even more complex than that - motorcycle tyres have different curvature at the front and the rear, it’s pretty hard to get to the edge at the front even with moderate braking but I have routinely run to or off the edge of various rears on track days.

There’s also fun things like the bikes geometry gets longer or shorter under acceleration or braking to help with turning and grip. The physics is quite beautiful (and a lot of fun)
Yes, exactly. Glad to hear that! Thanks for the words of advice, it's helpful.

People always have different thresholds for what "solved" means. Today Conveyor gives you a Chrome-style update experience on Windows where the app updates in the background even if it's being used. The user isn't disrupted. Ditto on macOS if the user states they want silent background updates at first update (we'll probably tweak this so the user isn't asked and must opt-out explicitly). The user won't lose any unsaved work or be surprised by sudden changes.

So to make a DB change, you need to do it in a backwards compatible way until the clients have had a chance to fully update. Probably that means being compatible for a few days, if you have users who aren't always online. This is probably solved enough for the general case.

The developer experience in that mode is exactly the same as compiling Markdown to HTML using Jekyll or Hugo.

The next step is to go further, so code changes can take effect much faster than a background update cycle. It requires the client to have some notion of a page, screen, activity etc - some point between interactions where you can make changes without disrupting the user. And it requires the client to be informed by the server if code has changed, even whilst the user is running the app. This takes more work, but it's on the roadmap. Mostly we think the async model is OK. You have to change your schemas in backwards compatible ways even in the web case to avoid site outages or different web servers getting confused during a rolling upgrade.
How is that different for other crimes? If a murderer is a victim of burglary and the police find a dead body in their house when investigating the burglary, should they not do anything?
Ja that is crazy... one wonder if they pick a different time (read long term market-regime) if the results would be any different for better or worse.

The best alternative payment system I have seen myself is M-Pesa in Kenya [0]

It's THE payment system in Kenya everything runs of it in terms of commence for the "ordinary man". It has a somewhat unique starting point, since Kenya (Africa) (I'm from there myself), was not "modern enough" for the everyday man to make use of traditional banking services. But even the "low tech man" had a cellphone.

I hope to see more examples like this in the future, and I'm sure many a BigCorp is doing just that, I do wish the next-gen version of these services will be more community-driven and less bigcorp. Oh gosh I almost described the original vision of bitcoin :)

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M-Pesa
Windows also runs Ubuntu. That's really not a good reason to use it
"Europe gas storage reserves – by country, updated daily" - https://viborc.com/europe-gas-storage-reserves-capacities-by...
I doubt it's uncommon for people with long careers in management to gain the equivalent experience of a degree in a field so diverse and therefore generalized as "business."

22 year olds know this stuff when they leave school, right?
I didn’t see that in us driving ed but it’s a mandatory (and practical) part of the Swedish one
How we built our workflow engine
I'm not sure what you mean by "it literally saves lives". Anyone who rides a single-track vehicle will instinctively do it any time they turn. Do you mean that having a more conscious relationship with how you countersteer when turning can help keep control in particularly difficult turns?
Behold the rail link to Churchill, which no road leads to.
...or comparing communist regimes with the (capitalist-supported) German Nazi regime.
We don't get enough snow here, particularly in the south of England, for me to to be a particular expert in driving in the snow but I don't think turning into the turn makes any more sense. The main aim is to try to get the wheels back in the state where they are experiencing rolling friction rather than sliding friction. Usually by opening the steering.
The title here on HN does not match the contents of the linked paper in the slightest. All that the researchers have shown is that "some individuals" behave irrationally in the NFT markets for NBA collectibles, and that this behavior "can be explained using preference for payoffs with lottery features and sensation seeking behavior which are both observed in individual stock market investors".

I'll just say that it has long been known that individual stock market investors as a whole do not have the best reputation for economically rational behavior in the first place, always overreacting in the swings between fear and greed. NFT investors have an even stronger reputation for irrational behavior. You only need to visit reddit to see for yourself. This does not mean that all investors behave like that, retail investors are only a small proportion of the entire market.

Extrapolating the behavior of a specific group in a specific market to "lottery seeking is pretty much everywhere" is not backed by the research in the linked paper.
I might have not expressed myself well in the previous comment, but when I say that "New species are also continuously emerging", it is to prove that the background extinction rate is not zero, not that we don't have a problem.

The curve that he fitted is not the net extinction rate. It's simply the total number of extinctions.

The graph he plots shows the total number of extinctions at year 1000 being 0 or almost 0. This is an assumption. In the absence of humans the extinction rate could be 1,2,10 per year, whatever, it's some small number. The point is that when you are fitting an exponential curve to 3 data points, the resulting curve will be very sensitive to small changes in the value of that point at year 1000. In particular, choosing a value of 0 will force the model towards the steepest possible gradient that the model can allow. i.e. it's biased towards alarmism.

EDIT: Although, when I think about it a little more, a reasonable model would model the extinction rate as an exponential plus a constant value, which would change things. Though a reasonable model probably wouldn't assume an exponential model at all based on 2 data points
‘Unstoppable’ bird flu epidemic causes growing alarm among Dutch farmers
From the same competition: this game "Dante" appears to be 3D (or at least pseudo-3D), and has a first person mode too. In 13Kb... mind blowing. https://js13kgames.com/entries/dante