skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not familiar with Brazil's system, but moving a central bank to being democratically controlled is betterbthan leaving this in the hands of a private company. The US central bank isn't currently democratically controlled, but it could be. Then collectively we could decide how a Brazil type system should function. People are better served when their banks aren't run for-profit.
It is only polarised in the United States, doesn't seem that way everywhere else. Also, what recent events?
I guess I don’t quite see how your analogy fits. If we’re going for a job analogy it’s like being on a permanent “probation period.”
global landings of forage fish have trended downward (Extended Data Fig. 2), reflecting full to overexploitation, and harvest restrictions (for example, in Peru) to prevent fishing above maximum sustainable yield levels.

the annual catch of forage fish used to make fishmeal and fish oil decreased from 23 Mt to 16 Mt (refs. 47,48) (Extended Data Fig. 3). Global production of fishmeal from capture fisheries and trimmings decreased over the same period from 6.6 to 4.8 Mt (ref. 17). The production of fish oil declined from around 1.5 to 1.0 Mt and has been stable around 1.0 Mt during the past decade.

So fish meal is ~3/4 made up of non-edible fish (forage fisheries) and at most 1/4 trimmings (in 2017).

Figures do seem to show that most ocean fishing is for human consumption, but 16Mt of forage fishing is still more than a single digit percentage of total ocean fishing.

About 75% of fish meal is used for farm fisheries (aquaculture), the other 25% for animal farming on land.

Thank you - it is always good to be induced to double-check my assumptions! I don’t really know much about the topic except from some shallow googling (but that still makes me more knowledgeable than most).

I totally agree land farming is mostly very damaging, but it is visible and an individual can potentially control their impact on land. The damage by ocean fisheries and aquaculture is largely invisible, and it is very difficult to control an individual’s impact when eating fish: and unobviously the impact is very heavy.
The methodology for measuring highways built was changed in 2018 [1]. Read about it yourself.

[1] https://www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/now-new-concept-to...
What I asked is specific: if you know the money is for a hit job will you still accept the business and take your fee or is there a moral line you personally won't cross? Yes, it's the job of the police to investigate but do you want the freedom to not engage in business that you consider evil?
This is a good example of correlation not being causation. GDP is really just a measure of activity within a framework to measure it. It has nothing constructive to say about the real value of the activity, just that it is happening as measured in a currency.

Besides, the inventor of GDP warned against using it as a measure for policy making, but as with many things in human affairs, oversimplified things that give an impression that helps manipulative people is just run with, regardless of the insanity of it.

BMI is another good example of not only a useless, but even more damaging and dumb fake metric.
I am not suggesting that you should do that. As soon as we reach the sweet spot of transaction fees, between a thousandth of a cent, and a millionth of a cent, then every person will have a wallet with one dollar inside it, and send it to a site he visits and desires to not be considered a spammer.

In case you run out of proof_of_burn a friend of yours might send you just a cent, and you are good to go, for one hundred thousand http requests more. There is no need for a normal person, to hold more than a handful of dollars for every year's internet use.

That renders exchanges almost useless. Not totally useless, but much less relevant than they are today.

I personally wouldn't care less, if there is one bitcoin/blockchain which reaches that sweet spot, or if they are a hundred, including litecoin, ripple etc. PoW is meant to be used for practical reasons. Blockchain however constitutes an economic system, of suppliers-miners and consumers-users, it is more than just a software program. It will evolve in the future, and it requires some crucial time.

For the moment there no API which provides the kind of PoW service to be very useful, and some hacks might be required to mitigate side effects of relentless scraping. These are just hacks, useful today, but the real solution is coming soon. Web3 some people call it, or Cryptocosm is another name of it.
You can cap the effective margin with even a very generous limit — say, processing fees no more than 3x the cost of servicing chargebacks — and mostly eliminate the concern about "quietly banning" businesses via processing fees.

But the thing is that there isn't much incentive to do this kind of skulduggery, because the companies are only protecting themselves from lawsuits and protests when they ban businesses, but imposing high processing fees would probably not satisfy the would-be tyrants who were trying to force these "bans".
The very machine I had in mind was actually my sandy bridge setup, specifically my i5 unlocked (K-skew) which I had a GTX-660ti (with a reported 110 watt TDP, but at idle it’s quite a bit less). Throw in the two spinning rust HDDs and, at idle, it does exceed 100 watts.
you mind speaking more about the kind of size differences you're seeing? also, do you have a link to that article by chance?
Even better is installing an implantable cardiac defibrillator (ICD) in those at high risk.
As someone who is better at coding than pen & paper math, I definitely enjoyed seeing a lot more cases where the only practical solution was numerical.
This is available in much of Asia actually. It is common to pay in "cash" in many Asian countries and this service is available through 7/Eleven.
Yeah, I agree... that's what I'm saying, it's ineffective.
It's a little insane they don't have run length encoding for statically initialized data.
No abstractions turns to spaghetti
Too many abstractions turns to spaghetti

I don't think the answer is one or the other at all like the blog post is implying. I think his previous conclusion of a threshold makes more sense. Perhaps though they have chosen the wrong abstractions and hence the confusion
Nim works well in embedded contexts. It can compile to C89 or C++ and integrates easily with most any C compiler. I’ve used it with FreeRTOS, Zephyr, and bare metal. It’s a smallish community but there’s a few shipping products using it and the language is really easy to learn if you know C/C++/Python.

Executables from Nim also tend to stay pretty lightweight even when using generics / templates.
It's easy to come up with many examples of major Chinese cultural elements in the surrounding countries.

I'll give just one obvious example: Kanji. Kanji is obviously a major part of Japanese culture. It literally means "Chinese characters," because that's what it was adapted from.[0]

Or to give you just one more example, because it's incredibly striking: Japan's own name for itself, Nihon/Nippon, is borrowed from Chinese. The same is actually true of "Vietnam," which is also a loanword from Chinese.

0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kanji
After your cat command has run, type 'vim ' then hit the escape key plus the period/full stop key. That inserts the previous command's parameters/arguments at the cursor.

Obviously you don't have to use vim, any other editor or whatever can be used.
The Baltic Sea is cold and too low in salt for sea worms, so wooden wrecks survive much longer than anywhere else in the world.
No, most US electric cars are Teslas and they use the better NACS port. Which is an open standard now. Ford will use it in the future.
Read the other comments in the thread, and the last time this was posted.

"which is consistent with values calculated for post-glacial subsidence across much of the U.S. northeast coast"

Or in other words the entire east coast is moving, and the weight of the buildings in NY add nothing?
That’s correct, there will be an adapter & there already is
Who knows? Maybe the edit will stay, maybe it won't, but the very fact that the flag has been staying for years doesn't bode well for my effort. There are millions of Koreans who can write passable English: if it were that easy to remove the flag, someone would have done it.
I'm unsure if you've thought this through.

Unless you're a billionaire, then you're advocating against your own best interests because their way is to spend on themselves, take more from workers, and add more hoops to jump through like forcing disabled people who cannot work to do the impossible.

Firearms won't help you because the billionaires have the government, and the government has the monopoly on more violence than you can ever hope to bring. So unless you're planning another Jan 6 insurrection, 2a is only going to help hunt deer or with self-defense against an individual act of attempted criminal violence.
The healthiest option is peeing with one leg raised. Dogs know this, if we would listen.

Phrased differently: I don’t think your argument is very good.
Fires on the Plain: Both Ends Burning
k thanks, now I want to know what official flag breaks/broke the most of those rules and conventions :p
The same applies to most former continental Europeans colonies in latin america and africa. 0 based indexing, sometimes with Floor 0 (argentina comes to mind) or simply ground (Terreo in Brazil)
Don’t forget ‘what happens when the gov’t changes to someone who doesn’t like you’
Two-thirds of people who file for bankruptcy cite medical issues as a key contributor to their financial downfall.

What most people do not realize, according to one researcher, is that their health insurance may not be enough to protect them.

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/02/11/this-is-the-real-reason-most...
The usage of the Emergencies Act didn’t end any blockades — those had already ended through other means.

It was used to disperse people from protesting at the capitol, because the government wanted to crush people protesting without talking to them and not any imminent threat. People who were only parked in the street with signs, gathered together to demand a change in policy.
I wonder if outdoor outlets exist in places where there is rain?
Oh, I love that ratteling clicking sound of flip dot displays.
Well many (not sure if all) strip clubs are basically legal brothels that run on cash specifically because a) they are (usually) in with local organized crime and b) so when the girls get their "tips" they can't be scrutinized about what service they provided to acquire it.
But the relative impact has been pretty low, and its relevance to Japanese cultural development is also very low. Neo-Confucianism was mostly evident in South Korean culture, less in China, and basically down to very little in Japan.
The AED does not restart hearts, it can't do that, the shock disrupts an abnormal rhythm, allowing the restart to potentially take place automatically. But if your heart has actually just outright stopped, you are basically dead.

Clinicians report as little as zero success for patients in asystole (ie their heart has plain stopped). Some studies report a little higher, but it's also possible those rates are mistaken diagnosis, ie you see a flat-looking ECG, you treat anyway, maybe 1% of patients survive - but maybe that 1% were actually not really in asystole.

If you have a heart attack, both an AED and CPR are inappropriate, your heart is still working it's just that the blood isn't going where it's needed. You need immediate medical treatment. While an actual cardiac arrest (which would warrant an AED and CPR) is much more likely during a heart attack, it is not inevitable and these treatments are not prophylactic. Meanwhile your focus needs to be on alerting other people to your problem, so that they can get you medical treatment, and if you do go into cardiac arrest they can perform CPR or use an AED once that becomes appropriate.
And that's why my shitty memory is kind of a super power. Except for the way it makes everything else difficult.
> it apparently doesn't finish rendering at all

What's happening here is the browser did a first paint, and then the javascript started eating up all the CPU. You can scroll because of asynchronous pan/zoom, but when you get to the edge of the rendered region, it asks to render more and it never gets rendered because the page is stuck executing javascript. Recording: https://share.firefox.dev/3C2DE9C
In 10.4 A/B testing is just a list with several points and there is not warning about having a deep understanding. For example, the point of selecting a sample is not easy, if you take a sample of something on 1 july of 2020, you have to consider if the weather, the day of week, people on vacation or anyone of thousands of factor is going to make your sample not adequate to generalize the result to other circumstances. Using statistics correctly requires neutralizing many sources of errors. It is not easy to get a good representative sample.
I actually think that could be a good thing. EV chargers as bollards to protect pedestrian pathways.
Alternatively, the users are well aware and embrace the plausible deniability it lends their own traffic.
Until it’s politically uncool to be you, and the gov’t bans your ability to buy food. The Nazi’s got elected in their first time, democratically (ish).
Because you can’t arrest people that are out of the jurisdiction. It’s much easier to find the victims than the perpetrators.
India, under its current leadership of Modi's Hindutva government is a near-term threat to its minorities, opposition and dissenting voices. If it goes unchecked, it won't be long before a global threat emerges. Modi himself is one of the propagators of fake news and hate speech. He dog-whistles his social media army to systematically spread communal division and consolidate Hindu votes. Most of the mainstream media is already under his cronies like Adani. The most recent one to fall is NDTV, which used to be an independent voice. If there is one country to watch out for the misuse of AI for political gains, it would be India especially with elections happening in the next year.
Not sure how convincing I find assurances that an ex-girlfriend of yours and some other, unnamed people disagreed with it. Either way, it’s a seismically active area, there are volcanoes, there are landslides, and the PNW has not been untouched by wildfires.
A Link header would be more appropriate (maybe with rel="alternate"?)
This feels like the author jumped to the conclusion that Wikipedia was at fault because it's a common enough story and sounded good, but it doesn't add up. See addaon's comment for an explanation of why heraldry here isn't as cut-and-dry as we're used to for, say, the US flag.

But even aside from that, the author neglected to check the full edit history on the Wikipedia file: the very first version of the flag (25 Nov 2005) had the red tiara that the article decries, citing Open Clip Art as the source [0]. That suggests the "wrong" version was already highly circulated before Wikipedia got the image.

The caption on the main photo goes so far as to suggest that the Vatican itself is using Wikipedia as a source for printing its flags. Indeed, the UN has a photo of the flag of the Vatican shortly after it was raised there in 2015, and that flag has the red tiara [1]. It's hard to imagine the flag flown at the UN being done as a rush job from a Wikipedia article.

It's a cute story, but it looks like the simpler truth is that the Vatican doesn't particularly care about the coloring of the tiara.

EDIT: Kudos to zokier for finding a Twitter thread with more examples [2]. Apparently the flag taken to the moon and back by Apollo 11 had the red tiara.

[0] https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=File:Flag_of...

[1] https://dam.media.un.org/asset-management/2AM9LO46AB5A?FR_=1...

[2] zokier's comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36118232
If you look at the recent history of scandals that have had zero to negative reputational impact on politicians and public figures in Western democracies - we’re talking Access Hollywood, tax fraud, undeclared gifts, gross nepotism, punching journalists, flouting public health laws, sexual impropriety, lying about your career and life story, mishandling of classified information, and just plain incompetence - what on earth do you think the harm could be of someone getting hold of someone’s old credit card bills?
Obtuse reverse skepticism is not a good look.
There might not have been anything worth playing because Jeff Bezos might not have been a music person. According to "The Everything Store" by Brad Stone:

Bezos's colleagues and friends often attribute Amazon's tardiness in digital music to Bezos's lack of interest in music of any kind [...] Colleagues remember that on the solemn road trip from Target's offices in Minneapolis after 9/11, Bezos indiscriminately grabbed stacks of CDs from the bargain rack of a convenience store, as if they were all interchangeable.
But relative impact is low. Latin and Indian scripts are used throughout Asia as well, including Japan. i.e. to say that it is the "greece of asia" is a bit over-chauvinistic.
If there's no evidence or due process, then you don't know.
This was a couple months ago now, so not that long ago. For OCR I have found that it highly depends on the type of image you are looking at. In my case these were all scanned documents of good but not great scan quality, all in English. I expect if you were talking about random photos with text in them, you'd see the FOSS solutions do much worse, and much more variance in the Google vs Amazon vs Azure. I would be curious about the academic deep learning one you tried.
Why and How to live on Cryptocurrency [video]
> Gasoline and diesel in California was around $3 3 years ago

That's just an exercise in cherry-picking a starting date. 15 years ago the price of diesel fuel in California was $5. And California is hardly distinguished by its change in nominal fuel price from 2020 to 2023. Gulf coast states for example saw an increase from $2.18 to $3.58.

https://www.eia.gov/dnav/pet/hist/LeafHandler.ashx?n=PET&s=E...

It is loosely correct to say that on-road diesel prices have been about the same in inflation-adjusted dollars for the last 20 years.
Won't know what?
I recently started using the ChatGPT via OpenAI api. It seems to perform reasonably well on all tasks I needed it for so far. But bear in mind I use it for hobby projects so far.

I have not tried the open source LLMs so far as there's the additional hassle renting a server and deploying it there. Running it locally on a consumer GPU does not cut it yet as it is too slow. So to iterate faster, I prefer just using ChatGPT.
> Now I introduce abstractions only if I decide that the future reader could confidently modify the code without looking at the implementations

Going full no true scotsman, but is it really an abstraction if that property does not hold true? Isn't the author essentially arguing against leaky abstractions, which should self-evidently be a bad idea? The problem of course is that developers do not always have the prescience to predict if an abstraction will be leaky or not.
Wow, very nice surprise to find this on the HN frontpage, posted by someone else no less! I guess I'm not the only person who reads my blog after all ;)

Thanks chmaynard - and sharkdp!
If you are willing to spend money, there is no problem keeping content up with existing technology. Like always, blockchain solutions miss the problem entirely.
I've found GPT to be pretty good at cleaning up code. I've pasted in isolated blocks of code, asked it to tidy it up, and it often has nice suggestions.

There's a feature coming to Copilot where you can select code in-editor and prompt on it directly.
CC doesn’t, the grocery chain does. And they’d love to make money on it.
To me, the distinction here is not one of total emotional detachment vs full emotional investment. It's more: criticism of your work is criticism of something you've done, not criticism of who you are.
If you want to see a really sad example, check out the Royal Mail/Fujitsu postmaster scandal in the UK, where postmasters (franchisees) ended up being thrown in jail, losing everything they owned, families destroyed, suicides, etc. All because of bugs in Fujitsu accounting software (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-56718036)
> The legions of Harvard and MIT quants working on Wall Street are going to be better than you at figuring out what the stock price should be.

This is not completely true. Legions of Harvard quants most likely do not possess your circle of competence, whatever it may be.

E.g. as a customer of various cloud services I am much better positioned than any quant at understanding cloud vendor's product and business, because I'm a user and customer so I can understand how some offerings are just better than others and I can safely predict winners in long term. You could likely predict AWS meteoric rise as a sysadmin in 2010.

E.g.2 people following the semiconductor market in depth knew from years that Intel was on its way down since the blatant issue of the 10nm node appeared in 2015+ and had many years to act on it. As a MBP Pro user yourself you could quickly see that the boiling hot trackpad burning your fingers combined with Apple's declared intention of moving to in house socs, combined with the comeback of AMD in data center market combined with cloud vendors working on their own socs put Intel more and more in the corner. And what did quants do? Kept buying Intel because they looked at balance sheets, not products.

Everyone has its circle of competence and can combine it with learning balance sheets and do their math. Point is almost no one does and does not go through the analysis part to value and price a business.

Finance moreover changed. 30%+ of stocks out there are held by passive funds. Even investment managers which are consistently pressured to stay in a delta from the benchmarks.

Investment opportunities are out there, what is needed is to practice continuous due diligence, stay in own's circle of competence and be patient. You can't be right consistently for the reasons you listed, but you only need to get it right few times.
Most US credit cards return 1%, some return 2%. Another advantage of credit cards is that the bank acts as a mediator in case of disputes regarding the charged amount. Also, rental cars and hotel rooms are only available if you charge them to a credit card.
I've had the pleasure to work with an immensely talented developer who would spam unnecessary patterns all over the codebase, to the point where it required several coffees just to go through a single branch of domain logic. Even the IDs of his aggregates were classes.

At the same time, though, I feel very disheartening that at my current company devs ignore what even "aggregate" means, and don't have any kind of clue about patterns and higher concepts in general. I really miss smart and educated people in IT.
I don’t think “software is unreliable and you should never trust it” is the outcome we should be hoping for here. If I burn to death in a Ford Pinto, would you tell me I should have ridden a horse?
Congrats, I can assure you just by existing you ensure you're not necessarily the best at everything. You're already doing this every sec. Not being sarcastic or mean, fyi. But I think you already know this, right?
No worries, but now it's more professional. Congratulations on your release.
Liquidity is immaterial to power and influence. They're liquid enough to buy the politicians and laws they want.

Texas AG enters the chat. Top cop, but crooked as a $3 bill and will help steal an election for the right price.

Rudy Giuliani will sell you a presidential pardon for the low, low price of only $2m.
I’m curious: Has there been any research on optimization in the opposite direction? Start with the most naively implemented correct function—a giant switch/nested if covering all possible inputs—and transform it piecewise in a correctness-preserving manner?