skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're not disagreeing. I didn't think I needed to connect the dots that you're paying the click farm to go viral.

> And also, imagine what you can do with $1000 in ad spend and a deepfake.

Way less. A deepfake detracts from your mission. If you deepfake Joe Biden saying "I'm going to destroy this country as instructed by my masters" and you actually gain traction, suddenly you've thrust your subversion into the spotlight and start reaching people adversarial to your goal.

News sources are going to start digging to find where the clip came from, the White House is going to respond, the video is going to start getting analyzed to death.

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If instead you register a dime a dozen domain like "america4evernews.com" and write a crackpot article about how Joe Biden is actually working for our enemies and you have it on good authority that he's being controlled by puppet masters who want him to destroy America, you'll find an army of people who want to believe.

They don't need sources, they'll avoid sharing it with the "sheeple who believe MSM" and stick to their echo chambers. It's a strictly better outcome.

People don't seem to understand that modern misinformation is not about fooling everyone, it's about fooling the right people. You're goal isn't to reach every set of eyeballs, it's to reach the eyeballs that are easily fooled so that they come in conflict with those who are not, thus entrenching both sides against each other.

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In some ways it's like a virus: if it's too strong it draws attention to itself early and can't spread easily. If instead it causes subtle symptoms that compound, it can spread very widely before it's even noticed, and use that infected base to expand even further.
This has nothing to do with nord stream and germany

https://www.baltic-pipe.eu/the-project/

The US is a better candidate since shutting down completely Russia is in-line with their mission to create a long-term war in Ukraine, they want to split Europe and make sure Russia stay isolated

They see the EU/Russia alliance as a competition against their hegemony

Similar with the Kazak region to block the Silk Road project, preventing EU/China alliance

You can't ignore what Biden and its administration said about nord stream, and what they and the previous presidents said about Russia
You’re expanding way beyond what’s necessary to track significant amount of cash transactions; also, not claiming 100% of transactions are able to be tracked, just that significant percentage of cash transactions are not anonymous and average person assumes they are.

My assumptions include:

- Knowing how cash is flowing is extremely valuable to governments for a number of reasons; economic, investigations, counterfeits, etc.

- Cash management businesses scan 100% of their cash received or distributed, voluntarily provide that data and meta data to governments, and majority of cash transactions are non recirculated, but withdrawn, used, deposited.

- Governments have a wide-spectrum of resources to trace cash on a bill by bill basis; likely key methods include face scans, serial numbers, and location data via apps/cell.

- Assumption that if you combined all the prior assumptions and fact that many governments have millions to research topic, often leverage their authority, etc — and it is not a stretch to believe governments are able to identify significant percentage cash transactions if prior assumptions are true.
I had this same idea when I was in university and built one in my embedded systems class. It was pretty cool to use when I was on my motorcycle.

In addition to a north facing mode, I also added a location mode which would always point to a specified lat/lon location. This was cool for just randomly exploring while always knowing where home is.
But can I reprogram it to sense sunshrooms?
The experience in Africa and Asia does seem to suggest that, like it or not, many people who are clearly poor appear able to deal with cashless transactions just fine. Of course, arguably it's become more the norm in some places (and maybe cash is more problematic) so people just deal with it.
Everything that was bad about Corporate Scrip, is bad about cashless.
It was deleted because it was posted here.
As I and others have previously pointed out [1] foone uses they/them pronouns and feels particularly frustrated when their posts get featured on HN, because users here seem unable to honor this simple preference of theirs. It looks like they deleted their tweet out of frustration with todays latest round of misgendering.

I hope people on HN will learn to respect all members of our community. Yes that involves not assuming every person online is a man!

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32978438
I'm assuming* they all bounced as soon as they could because with their newly acquired skills they could go get vastly more money. I'm also assuming the employer refused to up their pay to "market rates" because, hey they invested in them, they should stick around (for below market rate) because we're all a big family and we invest in our family.

* Assumption based on the exact scenario happening every fucking time
This is some serious technology. It's not trying to sell you some junk, its just pure hardware to affect a biological response. I wonder how long the effects last? How often do you need to be wearing this thing? What about your local environment, is it more difficult to maintain a sense of north in places without a uniform, cardinal direction based street grid, or some nearly constantly visible landmarks on the horizon for example? The sun alone can't be relied upon beyond just a general sense of vague north, since it changes its course throughout the year.
Their mission is now to spy on everyone as much as possible and leverage that data to make a profit.
Humans beat DeepMind AI in creating algorithm to multiply numbers
> all of it was replaced by renewables

An equal quantity of renewable generation was brought online. That isn’t the same as replacing it with renewables. Had the nukes stayed, Germany would be more secure and a better global citizen in terms of emissions.
JEP Draft: Lazy Static Final Fields
Cool idea. I wonder if you really need all 8 buzzers. This article has a version that just buzzes when you face north.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/jan/06/first-hum...
I think there is a huge shadow economy with cash money only. If I look to some people running businesses. It's quite common to occasionally do something in cash without paying taxes on it. Used to buy things like gasoline for boats, car restoration, art and more. I think when this shadow economy is gone, some people will have a harder time living a luxury life. Maybe in the end it will be better to have this shadow world.
I've heard this story repeated many times now and I'm glad to hear people are able to get back into it after having the joy sucked out. I think next time I play I will refuse to use a "main bus" until much later in the game if at all. That was the one of the biggest joy-killers, trying to plan for a mega-base essentially from the very start. It's not fun to plan out your bus and leave lots of room for red/blue circuits or more science packs while you are still building MK1-level things. That or trying to setup production lines with room for MK2-MK3+ versions of things from the start. It's complete overkill especially since there is no advantage to having a bus next to where you start. Better to situate it further away where minerals are more dense/plentiful and later in the game when it actually makes sense. Looking back I can't believe how stupid it was for me to setup 4 lanes of iron, 2 of copper, and a handful for each circuit type from the very start of the game, it sucked all the fun out but I didn't notice the reason.

The game largely felt like I was stuck in the same cookie-cutter, always trying to never have to tear up lines or rebuild elsewhere (trying to do it perfectly from the start). That was easily half the fun of my initial runs, realizing I needed to expand or rebuild instead of trying to perfect the build order.
I am reading that, and I like it too so far.
Whether one is pro nuclear or not, I think it makes sense to look at the specific situation at hand. Was it a mistake to shut down all nuclear reactors while not pushing for more renewables and replacing all gas and coal plants first? I think so. Should the last three remaining nuclear plants be kept online? I don't think so.

Germany's main source of heating is gas and yes, gas is used to generate electricity, so nuclear can reduce gas consumption. However, only about 10% of gas (see edit) is used for electricity and Germany has enough electricity. In a worst-case scenario, those nuclear power plants can help stabilize the grid, but they are not needed in general.

The downside is, that they were already in the process of being shut down. They now need to undergo new safety checks, the fuel rods are nearly spend and this will cost 100 millions. Money which can be spent better.

This winter also isn't predicted to be particularly cold, so the full gas storages in combination with the soon opening LNG-terminals will suffice.

EDIT: I made a mistake, 10% of electricity is gas.
That would make sense for that context, though, since they're likely providing additional info regarding flight information and, according to the policy, only for flights that are saved to the user's account. That would imply that things like flight numbers are stored in the user's account which makes complete sense and wouldn't necessarily be anything other than public information.
I'm in agreement that a simple macro can be just as readable as any other code.
I'm pretty sure repealing section 230 would mean companies would be liable for everything posted on their platforms. I would expect censorship/moderation to reach broadcast TV levels in that case.

> At its core, Section 230(c)(1) provides immunity from liability for providers and users of an "interactive computer service" who publish information provided by third-party users:

>> No provider or user of an interactive computer service shall be treated as the publisher or speaker of any information provided by another information content provider.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Section_230
I agree. The problem with that position is that pretty much everyone ever believed that their actions would make things better, even if they were very wrong and just made everything worse.

Nevertheless, I don't think the anti-nuclear movement is evil. They're guided by extreme fear, not malice. I don't know how you can bring them around though, unless your offering some form of therapy. But even with that, would they accept it? Would you accept therapy to change some of your deeply held beliefs that you don't view as 'wrong'?
I usually do refrain. This time, I just couldn't. In all honesty, replying with "lol." was at least the safe for work version of what was actually in my head.
Do you change the name every time there is a change in the maintainers' team?

If you have `ripgrep-team/ripgrep` rather than `ripgrep`, it doesn't help at all with people typing the wrong thing, like `rg-team/rg`. I fail to see how it helps.

It's even worse with packages that are (currently) authored by a single person, how many people know the name of ripgrep's author? Or rand? Or bevy?
It seems like it would be trivial to write an app that would vibrate the watch every once in a while, with the frequency of vibration inversely proportional to how far you were from magnetic north, but this would no doubt be a pretty big battery drain.
I think the most common use-cases is to sell your crypto and get an almost-dollar without triggering a taxable event, since you're changing from one security for another.
Hudson River Trading, HFT has a lot more status games around intelligence. An interviewer from HRT was playing those kind of games w/ me which really turned me off.
Reverse Apply Era is coming when Recruiters will apply to you instead of You apply to jobs that they post.
> after Fukushima

And can we talk about how stupid and actively malicious it is to use the Fukushima accident as a reason for shutting down nuclear plants in Germany?

Fukushima: nuclear plant in a seismically very active region in very close proximity to the ocean where tsunamis are not really a rarity

vs.

German nuclear plants: not very seismically active (if at all), no tsunamis i've ever heard of, not counting floods as those are

1. easier to foresee and manage and

2. very much less intense than a sudden wall of water razing everything in its path.

Also in Japan you kinda have to build near the coast since its surrounded by ocean on all sides while being stretched out long and not that wide with mountains as a backbone in the middle. Germany on the other hand only has the North and Baltic Sea at its northern end then progressively gets higher above sea level the more south you go, ultimately ending at the northern end of the Alps.

This decision and especially this reasoning didn't make sense then and still doesn't nowadays. It was just a kneejerk reaction to retain voter support by exploiting the fear of the uneducated and the anti-nuclear crowd.
This relates to "Rule of 3 Before Abstracting": One concrete instance of a proposed abstraction is YAGNI (adding an abstraction blurs the concrete code and makes it harder to understand), two concrete instances are coincidence (it's maybe a sign that you need an abstraction between the two, but you don't have enough scientific data to consider), at least three concrete instances is (finally) a pattern (abstracting a known pattern is right and good and because it becomes a document of the high level pattern itself and the differences and distinctions between the concrete implementations become more distinct and obvious).

That "Rule of 3" is sometimes a good reminder itself not to build for some possible future of the codebase, but to build for the patterns in your code base as they exist today.
"Autobots, wash up!"
Ask HN: Have you ever heard of users demonstrating against software?
Today in Trondheim, Norway, around 100 health doctors & nurses demostrated by walking with torches trough the city against the implementation of a new software in the hospital. The Helseplatform is an adaptation of Epic to the Norwegian Health system. Have this ever happen in history before? How bad can something be that users go out in the street to demostrate?
The boards are prepared with solder paste on the pads that the components will be placed on. Solder paste is a sticky substance made of solder beads and flux that will later turn into solid solder connections after being melted. It's also sticky enough to keep the components from flying away during the process. These machines are called "pick and place" machines.
I made a belt that did this while I was in college. Some pics: https://imgur.com/a/FNbtdEO
3000 users? You can save the data on disk and not worry about it. Get a vultr 5 dollar micro instance. I don't know why all these engineer driven businesses focus on the wrong things. You don't need fly.io. Of course they will tell you you need them, I don't blame them. But fly.io or kubernetes should always be done by a migration team which you can hire once you have insane profits. Yes profits, the other tiny detail most businesses are missing these days.
> Funny thing with people's expectations for consistency across totally different forms of media and target demographic.

I am Jack's consistent disappointment that my coworkers don't live up to the discourse standard that HN accustomed me to.
"besides maybe a security/privacy issue"

Right - that's enough of a reason for me to include a kill switch!
IMHO totally unnecessary. Nuclear energy is superfluous, at least in Germany.

https://www.app.electricitymaps.com
I wonder what else you can trigger like this to get a sense of something? Like having it buzz when you are near a taco stand, maybe that would give you a sense for finding nearby tacos over time through some latent factors that are common between taco stands? Probably a more useful case than the taco stands would be having it buzz some time before it rains. Then you can really develop that sense of feeling weather come "through your bones."
Quite literally equating time & money...
It is smart, in multiple ways.
For some guys who don’t know why, it prevents supply chain attacks.
I use ripgrep and "everything" all the time on windows to find files and where I put stuff :) . My filing system leaves something to be desired, as does my many idea test folders.
Yeah, it's condos now:( very interesting building though - built around 1650 and was expanded/modified every 50 years or so for the past 450 years. Absolute maze to navigate, especially because "perpendicular" hallways might actually be at 80 degrees or so.
Again, irrelevant. Neither the comment I'm responding to nor my response mentions MS.

If you want to talk about MS, go start your own thread about that.

Do you not understand that concepts may exist independent of implementation details?

You might be entirely correct in being skeptical of MS's motives and actions, but it's as irrelevant as if you said something entirely correct about aquariums.
Another HFT firm, Hudson River Trading - https://www.hudsonrivertrading.com/
Nah KISS
Mozzies (and mozs [sp?], pronounced "moz-is") is common in UK too, IME.

Never heard of it as Australian influenced. We used to call an unspecified wasp-or-bee a wobby/wo-bee (eg "look out there are a bunch of wobbies about today"). Which I mention for having a similar pattern.
This will make complex upserts so much more simple, fantastic addition.

I really hope `RETURNING` support gets added to `MERGE` asap though (I believe it's been noted as a fairly trivial addition to come in future), then it'll be super powerful for doing bulk upserts that require post-processing.
I'm actually running KUbuntu 20.04 on one of my machines right now and it's honestly really good (outside some occasional annoying shit that'll be ironed out eventually I hope), but I'm running it from an SSD with fairly decent hardware so it's hard to say anything about performance.
That statistic is only about deaths. You still have to deal with nuclear accidents leading to evacuation of huge areas happening once around every 30 years (unknown unknowns and what not).

Germany has a high population density. Such a catastrophe happening in Germany would lead to millions getting evacuated.

Another issue is the safe disposal of nuclear waste. It might seem like a low risk, but over the huge timespan nuclear waste needs to be safeguarded that risk adds up. Of course there's also other sources of nuclear waste, but it's best to keep the amounts low.

Last, nuclear currently in the west runs into economic problems. New reactors are plagued by enormous cost overruns and struggle to compete with renewables. But also old reactors are starting to become prohibitively expensive to keep running.
I was thinking the same thing (as in this resembles a GPS ankle-bracelet).

It sounds like the original research used a belt, which to me sounds like a more subtle device to wear:

> The original idea for North Paw comes from research done at University of Osnabrück in Germany. In this study, rather than an anklet, the researchers used a belt. They wore the belt non-stop for six weeks, and reported successive stages of integration.
Cash is just nation state scrip.

And the nation state is just the corporation with the local monopoly on violence.
I'm pretty sure Lepht Anonym at one point was working on an implantable version of this.
My thought process: if spreading disinformation without evidence is so successful right now, imagine how much worse things could be in the future when people are spreading disinformation with “evidence”.
“Communication that can be censored is good”.

You should be able to choose what you see, not what other people say.
I did a quick search on the comments page for "he"+"him" and found nothing referring to foone, and was about to congratulate HN for getting it right, and then thought to scroll to the bottom of the page and found a dozen dead/autocollapsed comments, most including the wrong pronouns. At least they're where they belong.
> I don't say, "time to turn on the local ad network" when I watch the evening news.

I do and I really hope more people realize what's going on there. I really can't stand more than a few moments of modern TV. Heck with cable you pay for the chance to get advertised to and the ads are just getting louder and more garish with time.

Increasingly at least my peers and I are just refusing add supported services. QoL is horrible and manipulating you is the only purpose they have. Boomers will take "modern" news networks with them when they die off.
Mark Zuckerberg discusses the Quest Pro, Meta’s mixed reality headset
Disregarding the general reality that socioeconomics broadly has an impact on academic performance as a result of the resources people have throughout their development, there are only so many scholarships an Ivy League school will offer. So regardless of your hard work you are potentially or primarily limited by your ability to pay to begin with.

Being able to afford an Ivy League education is a position of privilege. Both for tuition and also everything else someone needs to live.
Well, not something I use a lot but Uber/Lyft. I don't need to use my banking app but otherwise I'd have to drive to an ATM to deposit a check. Again, not essential, but there would be a lot more friction when traveling than otherwise.

(And certainly there are a lot of things on the web that are hard to go without and I assume the typical case where someone doesn't have a smartphone doesn't have easy access to a computer either.)
I also worked at a top quant firm, and as others have mentioned no one is a sociopath lol, but they are really smart.

Also quant interviews are harder than FAANG, but not because they require math. Maybe that is the case for QR or Trading interviews, but I've interviewed for SWE positions at multiple places (Citadel, JS, HRT, Optiver, IMC, etc.) and none of them asked me complex math theory.

SWE interviews (at some places) ime are harder since they focus not only on algorithmic thinking, but deep knowledge on how your program and language work. Questions like: "How does malloc work at a OS level", "implement this STD object/data structure", "how does python garbage collection work", and OS questions are typical things to be asked.

If the interviews are algorthmic focused, the questions are usually harder than FAANG leetcode and require a clean and correct solution with minimal hand holding.
I appreciate each and every download.
What difference does it make if my username sounds Chinese?

"Policed around" doesn't sound like a pleasant feeling but I can at least assure you it's nothing personal. We moderate HN when people break the site guidelines.
Trading from one security to another is a taxable event in the US.
Strictly speaking nothing matters cuz we're all just rando's typing on the internet. But since we were having a discussion I thought I'd chime in with some vaguely relevant points...

Btw I think it would've been quite dangerous indeed to call someone a communist during mccarthy era, and indeed one should've been wary of that back then.
> only about 10% of gas is used for electricity and Germany has enough electricity

German household electricity is double the price of America’s and considerably higher than France or Italy [1]. Were this not the case, more houses could be heated with electricity instead of gas and the coming recession made less painful.

[1] https://www.statista.com/statistics/263492/electricity-price...
Modest changes in magnetic field along fault lines preceded major earthquakes
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33238680
Being able to call an Uber or Lyft when I need it has made it much easier to live without a vehicle. I have tried to call a cab company using the phone before, but even they have transitioned to using apps for dispatch now.
just use --hidden, people shouldn't be afraid of typing an additional word. I prefer the defaults to keep things clean.