skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This doesn't contradict what I've said, and doesn't imply financial instability: it's not particularly surprising that banks weren't receiving as many cash deliveries during the first year of the pandemic, or that demand for cash withdrawals was higher than normal.
Wow, I had no idea that there's currently a nuclear powered cargo ship in service: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sevmorput

I'd love to see it, but I'm a bit pessimistic about the political viability of a significant revival of civilian nuclear ships.
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Well, she’s never actually hit anyone. Just walls when she’s backing out of a spot.
Got to love all the commenters who implicitly or explicitly assume that the bond is one that Yale issued, as opposed to possesses.
> UBI would bankrupt the nation, so would a large scale job guarantee program as described.
> When asked to put a dollar value on a program the overeducated go on bleeting about higher order non-sense.

Being overeducated, I'll take a shot: 6 million US unemployed x $15/hour x 2000 hours/year x 2 to cover benefits, SSI, Medicare, etc works out to 360 Billion. Which is about 1/4 of the defense department budget. A lot of money but not disproportionate to what we spend on other things.
I think it's because Alzheimer's essentially ends in people you know, turning into a person that you don't know. They basically turn into someone else.

Because that has a more direct emotional affect on those around them, it gives people a stronger desire to want to eradicate it.
Regarding excel and rfc4180…

I avoided CSV for quite a while because I had excel-vs-CSV compatibility concerns like this.

However, when I tested this for myself a few years back, Excel output to my surprise was rfc4180 or darn near it (it might use CRLF rather than LF?) It emitted commas and quotes the same way as the rfc for all the test cases I checked.

That said, I agree with you Excel is problematic as an input source. Usually the problems are the humans who touch the data in excel, but what I’ve found is the automation problems tend to be with Excel parsing and interpreting incoming data (before it goes to CSV.) Exponents, trimming leading zeros, etc. as you say. But if the data is confirmed good in excel before being emitted, the CSV it emits is decent.

Counterexamples welcome.
The impression I got from the article is that these SEAL washouts aren’t upset that they are swabbing decks occasionally. They’re upset that they’re doing nothing but swabbing decks, and with virtually no chance for advancement for their four+ year contract.
> maybe I’m missing something obvious

A common tactic of centralized control is to "boil the frog," so to speak. Start with a control that seems to most people to be lax enough to be "not that big a deal," and then later -- maybe years -- tighten the control once enough people are acclimated to the existence of the control in the first place.

If the government were to come along and say, "If you are female and are purchasing travel tickets between a state where abortion is illegal to a state where abortion is legal, we want to know about it, so we're requiring that you use a traceable method of payment," then the problem may become more obvious to you.

If instead the government says, "We're requiring that you use a traceable method of payment," but doesn't disclose a specific reason why, and later decides to use it to determine when females travel to states where abortion is legal, that's not as obvious a problem. At first.

In this case, it could be, "We're requiring that you use a form of payment that we can easily monitor when engaging in transactions over $X." After about 5 years or so of people getting used to that, they can move the threshold to something like $(X/2). Then after a few more years, make it mandatory for anything over $50 or $20.

So we may want to not tolerate the activity at all, on principle. RMS' The Right to Read* is in orbit around the general theme, I think. https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/right-to-read.en.html

* hysterically, Bing prominently provides results about locking down documents when I search it for "rms right to read"
Eh, that was from Zip2 for $22 million, right? That's something but it's not PayPal money. I think he just had "average Stanford student" levels of privilege to do that.
I really wish anarchists (even the of the late Graeber's estimable intellect) would differentiate between 'economics' and macroeconomics.

Macro is deficient in many ways. The problem is that microeconomics is a much simpler, reproducible, and widely useful set of tools, but many activist-minded people dismiss it out of hand because they associate the whole discipline of economics with ideology. Pointing out that microeconomics can be useful without involving money at all often provokes glazed looks of incomprehension.
> As the cheap easy-to-extract oil is mostly gone at this point, however, these costs are approaching parity.

KSA can 10M bbl per day for 40 more years at $20...
I spent around a decade as a dedicated professional in the area of second-language acquisition of adults.

I haven't read through this in its entirety yet (I'm cooking dinner). I'll go ahead a post this to keep the thread warm.

At first glance it seems to be very comprehensive. In my experience having relied on many of these approaches and observations has been the primary fulcrum of successful acquisition. although some specific conclusions i must reject outright, for now; that SLA is slowed by speaking the target language rings of absolute blasphemy.
In Denmark they usually charge you extra if you use a credit card.
Okay, then. That was always allowed.
Covid it's a red herring. As is the attention given to long ambulance queues, overrun A&Es. This isn't a front door admissions problem.

What we're seeing is a long and accelerating dissolution of social care in the community, mostly elderly nursing but also mental health.

Most hospitals are at least 40% occupied by patients awaiting discharge but who can't be discharged because there isn't a nursing home space, or enough community nursing to support them at home. They stay in hospital.

This blocks admissions. Which blocks ambulance transfer. Hospitals give surgical beds over to ease waits but this only makes things worse. Now people aren't getting surgical treatment, and it's more likely they'll end up coming in for the symptoms.

Covid made things worse, mainly by treating nursing staff horribly, but this was already a trend. We urgently need to pay nurses more, and desperately train a hundred thousand more. Neither look likely under this government.
A major reason military naval systems are efficient is that they don't need to be refueled very often - but that's because their fuel is highly-enriched uranium, bomb-grade HEU which 'burns' much cleaner (and can be diverted to an actual gun-type nuclear weapon, Hiroshima-type). That's just not going to happen with commercial shipping.

A commercial nuclear-powered cargo ship would have to be refueled on the same time scale as a commercial MOX or LEU reactor, likely raising costs quite a bit over any other fuel. Plus, what harbor would allow commercial nuclear reactors, given the costs of catastrophic failure, without ridiculously expensive levels of security and safeguards?
Still, I think it could be a powerful tool for people who struggle to word correspondence like this.
Authorization is a pain in the ass, you have to fully buy into Postgres RLS system. On the authentication side, it helps to be familiar with OAuth and JWTs. Old school cookie based solutions (or any unorthodox 3rd party delegate auth schemes like those used in enterprise spaces) will require custom code to integrate (or to call an external authentication function).

If you are comfortable with JWTs and SPA ("jamstack") authentication then it is a breeze. I have had good experience with Supabase (PostgREST) using Prisma to manage the migrations. Hasura's out-of-the-box migration support is weaker, so you need to pay attention to make sure production and development don't drift apart.
That's common for auctions. It allows time for hype to build, the link to be sent around, interested parties to accumulate.
Yes, same east eu countries that gave up duty fees and sold their industries to countries such as austria, so that people can then cite tired stats. A bit like austria having built a lot of castles with money stolen from its former empire subjects and then pointing out that said subjects are poor and dont own castles.
It's not a check you write.

It's a cashier's check.

They're not used frequently -- really only for things like closing a bank account, buying a used car, putting down an apartment deposit and first month's rent, that kind of thing.

I haven't written a personal check in close to 20 years either, but I've certainly needed to use a cashier's check a handful of times!
We have a test harness, and some of the tests want test files. Committing a bunch of large binaries to git doesn't seem like the right way to go, and the files are only needed if the tests are going to be run.

Now I could build the download into the test itself, but that's extra stuff that's not part of the test proper.
Entire transaction took place in bank - and cash was immediately deposited into bank and never even left bank building. Not entirely sure why it would be a problem or enable anything?

(and obviously, seller wanted cash)
(and it is possible that I misunderstood something)

And I would do the same - just to avoid worrying that maybe transfer is not going to arrive or get reverted or something (that is 100% hypothetical, I do own any housing).

So I am mildly unhappy that it gets outlawed.
Yes but why do you think they are not working to prevent that at the same time?
I wonder if it's feasible to 3d-print a decent open source printer. Doesn't have to be perfect quality, the old deskjet 500s quality was fine for me.

But I think making a simple inkjet printhead is still beyond a hobbyists effort. Laser printer or dot matrix likewise.
What’s meta-incredible is that a couple of years ago this would have been incredible.
Just use vanilla js. Re-use helpers on utils.js files. Refactor big utils into libraries.
Nonsense. 'Man who cracked knuckles on only one hand receives Ig Nobel prize' retains all the significant information.
I prefer the model of event triggers writing to a DDL audit table and calling NOTIFY. Then your script can just LISTEN for changes after you run your idempotent scripts. Then you're capturing all changes to the DB, not just the ones you're expecting.

Because it's always that guy making manual DDL updates that screws everything up, isn't it Mr. Hosick. ;)
This is a single study with a limited sample. A meta-analysis puts it at about 30-40%.
The thing I most value chatGPT so far is that it is pretty good at answering fairly basic programming questions I have throughout the day. I've asked to to generate more advanced code / ideas with some pretty weird results.
Restoring a Convergent Technologies NGEN PC/Workstation (Burroughs B25 / Unisys)
We have to fight corruption at every level.
Biopiracy: Fight for fairness in scientific exploitation of natural resources
It's becoming a standard, and yes, I personally like it. There's plenty of other great choices if you don't like it.

And even some of the up and coming libs, like SolidJS, feel stable compared to the 2010's - they add incremental improvements but keep things that some people really like, like JSX. In the early to mid 2010's everyone was reinventing the wheel constantly.
Why is Google just knowing you have an account on that site a privacy issue?
We are tearing holes in the fabric of life on Earth
The Research Is In: Facebook Mom Groups Do Stress Women Out
That's how I interpret it too, it feels like they're intentionally avoiding saying it is illegal to be able to push for making the device itself illegal.
Yup, that's the same idea. Only real difference here in the US is that a cashier's check is drawn on a bank, while a money order you get at the post office.
There have been 50k alleged war crimes in Ukraine. We worked to solve one
Throwaway for anonymity.

I work at a place that is mostly like this, I can tell you that using html/css/javascript raw, with a bit of bootstrap is a nightmare with a SPA.

Menus are constantly broken, back button is a game of roulette, caching is constantly a problem showing stale data, xss and other vulnerabilities are ubiquitous.

There are modern affordances in many of these frameworks others take for granted.
Largely depends on which banks are talking between each other.
For many banks and large transfers you need to wait an hour or so for it to go through.

You notice it most when buying a house and you sit awkwardly in a room with the seller waiting for the money to be transferred so you can leave with the keys.
Better yet, don't buy a modern HP or support any company that does this in their product lines.
It is. I just implemented a system using Unpoly this year.
> All of my regular bills in the UK (mortgage, energy, water, internet, insurance, debt, probably some others I'm forgetting) are deducted automatically from my bank account every month. I don't have to think about it all - and there's zero possibility of nuking my credit score by accidentally missing a payment.

Sometimes, vendors may support doing a recurring ACH transfer out of your account for the total of the month. In terms of mechanism, this is exactly the same as a check which is also just an ACH transfer out of your account. Not all vendors support this.

There is increased risk, however. By giving them blanket authorization to deduct whatever they want out of your bank account you now have the risk that they might get it wrong and deduct too much.

If you have enough money in the account to absorb the difference it'll eventually get sorted out. But what if you don't? Your balance may go to zero and all those other recurring payments get rejected and you'll get hit with tons of late payment fees and you'll be stuck with those. So you might nuke your credit score with all those late payments that weren't even your fault.

My absolute preferred approach is to do auto-pay to a credit card. That way I'm insulated from risk (at least in the US, credit card laws strongly favor the consumer; perhaps the only laws in the US that favor the consumer so well). Any mistakes in the system are not my problem and can't impact my balance.

But for vendors who can't bill to a credit card or charge too many fees to do so, the safest approach is still a check.
Well, There's Your Problem
I was excitedly watching its journey down to Antarctica a few years ago. Sadly it had a propeller maintenance issue and had to turn around. :'(
I have had issues with Brother printers, but I gather those issues were just normal inkjet issues.

(Jets clog, hard to unclog)
everyone should upvote this comment.
The original paper is at https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S03010... - unlike the headline, it says there is an association rather than a causal relationship.
To clarify for non-divers, the 62ft depth where this is located isn't considerably deep. Recreational divers regularly reach that. For comparison, the Navy's original SEALAB[1] habitats from the 60's were deployed at around 200ft and today's commercial saturation divers can work at depths of up to ~1000ft [2].

The fact they're staying there for long periods is significant, as well of course is the type of research and training they're doing.

Saturation diving is common in the oil and gas industry. Sometimes they bring workers up in a sealed, submersible hyperbaric chamber and keep them at pressure in between dives to avoid wasting time decompressing after each work shift. Accidents can be gruesome[3], and accordingly the pay is considered good (e.g. US$1400/day).

Here are other submerged habitats you can read about; there are even underwater hotels, restaurants etc. at shallower depths that you can visit: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Underwater_habitat#Historical_...

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[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SEALAB

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saturation_diving#Depth_record...

[3] https://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2021/08/the-most-gr...
What’s new is being able to use the same templating on the front and back ends with the same code, libraries, languages, and concepts.
The thing won't print without internet access at all, I've dealt with a few of these at work. We've had to tell people to take them back since they're basically unworkable.
While I understand that this may be referencing a few different sources, I choose to read the title as a Fallout Boy reference and this makes me happy.
Can I ask what's debatable about the group membership issue? That it exists, or that it's as important as people like me say it is?
To clarify, Brother is deploying toxic firmware to their MFC-3750s. I don't think this is widespread (yet). I did see requests to roll back firmware on a MFC-L3770CDW so other 37xx models may be at immediate risk.

I did see posts about HL-L3290CDW and MFC-L8900CDW with the same No Toner symptom but it wasn't clear they ever had firmware updates.

From what I can tell from your link, the OP there had a HL3070CN. It doesn't appear that he updated the firmware or ran into any No Toner errors. He was sharing reports about the 3750. My similar HL3040CW takes 3rd party cartridges (orig firmware).

My vibe is Brother is test-fouling the water to see how it goes. For my part, I'll research how block firmware updates (not all models have an auto update to disable, IP & url blocking might block driver downloads. We shall see).
Ahh yes the good ol “harder to launder dirty money argument.

But,
> money laundering doesn’t work like that. You don’t have large cash payments, you have a ton of smaller cash payments.

> big banks launder money, have better oversight there instead of restricting cash
This is warped, average Stanford grad is well off but not supercar level finances.
Additionally, you as the developer have full control over the backend environment which isn't true of the front end.

That reason alone is why I prefer having the server doing the bulk of the heavy lifting. It reduces variables in the most functional parts of the app and reduces my need to try to herd users into using particular browsers.
I agree with the dependency commentary. Tech should value supply chain. Development is slower but Power comes from ownership. I'm also anti-JavaScript, at least in abundance.

I noticed this in gaming as well as software... engineers always build for the best hardware. Despite everyone knowing that extremes (in the wild) are a minority.

I believe tech needs to focus on building better 4-cylinders rather than expanding cubic inches.
This is an issue in biomedical research as well. Sometimes I've reached out to researchers who've done similar studies and ask them missing details in their methods.
> Mo' stuff, mo' problems as they say.

This is basically not true, is my point. There is no meaningful "problem" with throwing up a Redis instance in AWS, this just doesn't mesh with my experienced reality.
Most of us aren't using toys in the year we are born, at least not the big sellers.
That reference is from Wikipedia but without a citation. It's as good as garbage.

But the main point here is that Diet Coke is not a "completely different drink" from Coke. You can go refer to your taste buds on that one. Especially since you seem to find Tab so wretched.
> Setting aside the almost impossible feat that every business could collude to arbitrarily double their profit margins,

1. It doesn’t have to be collusion. They could even raise margins ahead of expected downturns to prep for savings. There could even be a global pandemic that reduces supply, leading businesses to raise prices in relation to demand and shortages, but those same companies not reducing prices when supply increased.

2. The article actually states that many businesses have recorded record profits recently while costs stayed the same. It’s literally happening in front of us, don’t deny it is a possibility while witnessing it as a reality.

> In the case of 2, investing it, either by starting new businesses or loaning it, means that they are effectively redistributing that money to others in the form of wages.

Why does that have to go to wages? They could distribute it to executives and shareholders as dividends or stock buybacks, or use it to invest into many schemes like private equity that don’t help average people eg. buying twitter and layoff half the employees… which is the opposite of increasing distribution.
> I do think that Plan9's de facto requirement for graphics-capable hardware is a bit weird in retrospect.

Graphical workstations were always the desired end result for decades since the mother of all demos. In the 90's GUI's were all the rage: Windows 95 removed the need for DOS and MacOS was already leading in this space. So it makes sense that plan 9 was designed to be graphics first.
> CSAM scanning on device never happened. The plan was abandoned.

Barely, and only after massive backlash. The code was actually pushed to everyones' phones, and Apple's last-minute decision to disclose its existence before turning it on is the only thing that stopped it.

Maybe the "lesson" Apple learned was to not disclose that sort of thing.

Apple abandoned CSAM scanning on phones because people were vociferously against Apple reporting them to the government when an image on the citizen's phone matched something in the government's own "bad images" database. Whether the scanning was on the phone or in the Cloud was largely immaterial to most people. Some of the more hardcore privacy advocates weren't happy with the on-device scanning, but that wasn't really the thing the majority of people didn't like.

What we learned from all that is that Apple can and will push whatever suits their agenda down onto the phones themselves. If the majority of users are acclimated to being tracked and profiled for the purpose of targeted ads, we won't hear the same outrage that we did for CSAM. Especially if Apple decides we simply don't need to be informed about it.
I came here to say the same. Thought I was misreading it for a second.
Oh for the days when you could just pack a splitter cable.

Or, if you had more then one friend you could be king of the hill with this bad boy: https://www.letstalktps.com/product/6-way-multi-headphone-sp...

At least packing a mains splitter still gets you to be a rockstar at under-socketed airports and train stations now and again.
"Virii" means "men": https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/vir#Latin
It's mind boggling that there are still some people who don't think Plan 9 was a text book case of second system syndrome.
I mean, if you accept the assumption that consciousness is biological (so there is no soul or other spiritual or metaphysical entity), then there is some algorithm or processing model that produces genuine consciousness: The one that takes place in our brains.

The question remains if this processing model would be in any way similar to the processing model that LLMs use - and yes, we can probably rule that out pretty confidently.

Another question might be though if there are other processing models than the one our brains use that also produce consciousness. But that's of course a very hard question to answer if we don't even know what consciousness is exactly.
Please look over there while I run a crazy theocracy and steal "my" people's oil wealth to squander on booze and fast cars while they live like it's the 1400s.
It is about speed. If someone offers 10k in cash and someone talk about wire transfer blahblah, sellers will always prefer the buyer just paying in cash.
What sort of cheats did you find? The only one I could find in the Finnish course was that the correct first word from the word bank would have its first letter capitalized, and that was almost never be the word that was difficult.