skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Add to that NATO and US anti-missile systems.

Russia still acts rationally, but with poor assumptions (see Ukraine). If they were to actually launch a nuke at the West, for any reason, they would have to weight almost certain annihilation. One side of MAD still holds.
As a web developer, I'm curious - what kind of projects are you talking about and what kind of solutions did you witness being implemented as a result of the creator having knowledge in this area?
It seems like the problem that makes it common is that Linux self-selects for people who want to tinker (that's why they're installing a non-default OS). The difference is that it also accommodates people who reach a point where they just want the computer to work and get out of their way. So you end up hearing both voices.

> If you pick a distro and then never change anything about it, then maybe it will work out for you out of the box.

Yes, exactly. Use a stable distro, don't touch things, and they won't change. It will continue to run exactly the same for years and years. This is in contrast to OSX and Windows. Windows is completely unrecognizable to me since stopped using it 7-8 years ago (the last version I used being Windows 7). My Linux desktop works exactly the same (with Firefox as an outlier that randomly removes/hides functionality). Apple is notorious for not caring about backwards compatibility, and just expecting everyone to accommodate whatever changes they want to make.

> unless you want to stick entirely to X11

Right, don't change things, and it will keep working. Wayland sounds like its benefits are all nerd stuff that I don't care about (a "better" architecture or whatever). Meanwhile, X works just fine. At some point, if people stop complaining about Wayland, and if it has some benefit to me, maybe I'll try it. Currently it seems that neither of those criteria are met. When I do try it, if it doesn't work, I'll just roll it back.
'Go back': Indian students face anger in Ukraine as war drags on
Those UK limits are for what is considered legal tender—that is, if someone has offered you 20 pennies to settle a 20p debt, you can't sue them for non-payment, but if they offered you 200 pennies to settle a £2 debt then you could.
No one told me that we’re reading the article now. That sets a terrible precedent!
Self-taught dev here, and I remember feeling similar things at a similar age. During a gap between jobs I wound up taking three online courses: Algos 1 and 2, and Andrew Ng's introduction to ML course (all at Coursera). This was just out of curiosity, I didn't have any particular goal or expectation for them.

At the time I didn't feel like I learned any One Big Thing, but in retrospect the courses demystified a lot of things, and I've never really felt out of my depth with development since. The other big thing I did was to tackle a much larger, more complex project than I'd tried before (a game engine). That also forced me to grow as a developer, but I don't know if I'd have managed it (or tried) without the footing I got from the courses.
Yes, I think it's unusual to not care about photographs/videos. I used to think that they were important and that I would want to revisit them some day. However, now when I'm old enough that I should it simply hasn't happened. They are just some files that I will never open.
And it’s also not a mandatory 100EUR coin acceptance limit - it is left to the discretion of the trader.
Hopefully they can leave behind a camera to film the next arrivals.
Undoubtedly so but I have yet to see one that doesn't make mistakes a human would be unlikely to. It is not an easy capability to reproduce and wouldn't have been my first choice if I wanted to talk about things it can do better than people.
Obligatory reference:

Daniel Ellsberg's The Doomsday Machine: Confessions of a Nuclear War Planner

https://www.ellsberg.net/doomsday/
Just taking a guess, but maybe translucent skin doesn't do as well for survival in the sun.
f" something { my_dict['key'] } something else "

This works in Python already, allowing for nesting is a big QoL improvement
> Purchasing a business, a vehicle, a property

These purchases are already so bound up with red tape that making the actual payment via bank transfer is hardly an inconvenience.

> hush money

Extortion is a crime. You are listing a person’s attempt to placate a criminal as a reason the state shouldn’t get involved?

> avoiding a lawsuit

Few places are so litigious as the USA, and such concerns hardly register for the people living in the subject of this HN post.
I have heard of someone (on a talk show) crossing over with a large amount of gold coins. Since the coins (the Gold Loonie) has a nominal face value of something like 200 CAD - he just told the customs that he was bringing over the nominal face value of the coins. This only works with coins not rounds, as rounds are not legal tender and maybe that is why rounds trade at a discount to coins?
Grist Is the Evolution of Spreadsheets
I really wish to see a lander mission to Venus. Doesn't look like anybody other than Russia has done it - that too nearly 40 years ago. The environment is so extreme that the technology - especially electronics - would have to be radically different. The data is also likely to be extremely interesting.
Yes because they don’t trust the wealthy’s institutions. For good reason; they’re irretrievably corrupt and self serving tribal bubbles.
I've been using Organic Maps lately and I really appreciate how it has separate "zoom in" and "zoom out" buttons. And regular-sized buttons, not tiny ones that I can't hit.

When biking, I can easily tap on either of these while holding the phone with one hand.

OTOH, Apple Maps and Google Maps require pinch-to-zoom... which is incredible hard to do with the hand that you're holding the phone. And using a phone with both hands while biking is pretty darn risky.

It would seem that nobody at either the Apple Maps and Google Maps teams use their product while biking.
> But why not the simpler approach...

Now try that example again, but make the string include 4 different keys from that dict. That's why it's useful.

This kind of interpolation has been available in many other languages for years. Sure, you can abuse it if you want to, but I've rarely seen it happen in real code.
Build stuff with your hands!
Ironic, because people in the US don't usually use $1 coins because they take up too much space.
Survivorship bias. The current set of people who elect to work on web frameworks don’t want simplicity.

Everyone else does, including the people who never entered the field because it is now incomprehensible.
I think that the crypto end game, in their eyes, is to never have to cash them in.
IMO this gimmick is dishonest and not far from outright fabrication of results.
>Any source for this?

Generally, should be trivial search info: e.g. "cash payment amount greece" produces multiple decent results
> I cannot remember the last time I had some long number and thought to myself, "You know what will be helpful, convert this number into scientific notation!"...

Okay, so set formats appropriate to what is useful for your data.

Defaults don't cover all cases, otherwise there would be no non-default options.

> It's asinine Excel has this behavior with any large number. Try to work with a list of EAN/UPC codes...

Codes aren’t numbers they are strings, even if the code is a sequence of digits. They should be formatted as text. For actual numbers that shouldn't be displayed in scientific missions, the appropriate numeric format does that.

> it'll wreck every single one every single time

If its any code that can be safely stored as a number, it won't wreck it. It’ll just look bad until its fixed. If it, say, has significant leading zerores, yes, it’ll wreck it, because excel defaults to dealing with numbers, not text, and there is a difference between text made up of digits and actual numbers.

> unless you take significant care to guard against it via formatting, special characters that trick it into using a string, etc

Knowing the shape of data you are entering and selecting a column and applying an appropriate format (including “text” as an option) before you enter any data (usually, to a whole column) isn’t that arduous.
You can easily figure that out for yourself without relying on others to Google it for you. But your understanding is incomplete at best.
It's funny, because cash transactions are definitely more common among poorer people. Also, using (even more) imaginary money benefits banks, ultra wealthy, and governments not regular people. Even among the criminals laundering money, the influential and wealthy ones (i.e, the ones these laws should stop) will have little problem adapting. The influence
these types of laws stop is that of regular citizens.
> If you want to throw away GR by using a "Static Universe" theory, you have to re-derive a hundred different solutions to problems you bring back into physics by doing so.

GR will be a special case in a new theory, which will explain laws of Universe better, which may join together GR and QM. If a formula does a good job, then it will be used anyway. We are not throwing away Newton physics just because GR does a better job in some cases.

> In terms of "what drives the expansion", to us, within the universe, it's just what we see.

Are you talking about a "light sail" effect? Yes, EM radiation creates pressure on dust particles, which pushes them away, but gravitation doesn't let it go. The same effect happens at size of galaxy. I'm not sure about superclusters, but it looks like we are falling into Great Attractor then into Shapley Attractor with all that dust.

So yes, this is possible, but EM radiation must be stronger than gravitation.

> It just makes the best predictions so far, and in science, all that matters is who makes the best predictions.

Predictions are very important, because they allow to prove or falsify a theory, but this is a game for theoretical physicists only. There is only one reality, which can be describer in many ways. Many different formulas can fit the same data. Many different techniques can be used to achieve the same result.

Moreover, every formula works in a range, then it doesn't work. Pi is an irrational number, which cannot be reproduced correctly in reality, thus every formula or path, which contains the irrational number, can be reproduced by physical reality with limited precision only. Multiply the error by many iterations, and new physics will emerge in the same place.

The only way to prove a theory, as I see it, is to make physical demonstrations at human scale, an analog, and then study it.

Hydrodynamic quantum analogs allows us to see pilot wave at work, so no mysteries in double slit experiment anymore: it just self-interference of the pilot wave. The same can be done for space effects.

It's easier to make computer model, to make predictions, but to make a correct model, we need to understand physics first. Egg and chicken. In case of a physical demonstration, nature performs all these calculations for free, automatically. Even when they are partially correct, they are still helpful.
Show HN: I made a site that fixes lazy eye in pictures
I can't disagree, but there's also reasons I don't use it.
What do you base this information on really? Neither Denmark or Sweden are part of the eurozone. Their currencies are Danish krone (DKK) and Swedish krona (SEK). My Sweden experience is that practically only exchange offices (and banks maybe) will touch cash euros.

Edit: Sure, large players of the underground market might accept euros, especially in inter-European trade. But good luck "banning" them from using such and such notes among themselves.
Yup. The capital class that participates in this carp is also bad at managing. I wish I could locate it again, but a study some decades ago concluded that remote work makes good managers better and bad managers worse. Seems to be the difference between managing for results (where you DGAF about spurious indicia of work) vs managing for spurious indicia of work that are more like indicia of minute-to-minute control (e.g., seeing someone's butt in a seat, tracking keystrokes, calling ad-hoc meetings, etc.).

Any serious manager has projects and tasks for the workers, and a realistic idea of what can be accomplished. If they are handing out those tasks and resources, and work of sufficient quality is getting accomplished on time, they recognize that it does not matter if the person is in the office across the hall, in their home office, or on the beach in Bermuda.

(And if the manager is giving so little work that the worker can take two jobs, but quality work is getting done at a sufficiently profitable rate to justify that job, so what if the worker is 'moonlighting'?; the manager is getting what they need at a market rate, and has a happier employee)

Good managers also have the advantage of being able to hire from a global talent pool instead of a ~1-hour-commute radius from each office, and drastically reduced office real estate costs. Those are REAL competitive advantages that of which the smart CEOs will take advantage.

Sadly, most are not that smart, and the RTO movement is proof.
Yeah, the fed money printer made a lot of really wealthy people even more wealthy, while the ruling class mocked the idea of it being inflationary (bald faced lying).

And yet here we are with food and housing out of control, and the only people suffering are the poor and middle class. That song speaks to a lot of people.
When I was starting out I was then working in a different career. A lot of the work was analytical (Excel, GIS, etc.) and so I moved my work from those tools into Python.

I started small but eventually learned enough, alongside doing some online courses and personal projects, to get a job as a data scientist in a similar field.
And there's your problem right there.

Intellectual property rights (copyright, trademark, patent) should NOT dilute or devalue or remove inherent ownership from property rights.

And "license" presented after the purchase fact should make that the equivalent of toilet paper. It's a "license" after they have your money and over a barrel. There's no agreeing to that. At at least the Europeans with the GDPR realize that farcical situation and illegalized it appropriately.

"Agree or turn your $X000 device you paid for into a paperweight" is no agreement.
In Ireland, for example, it is possible (and popular) to receive state pensions in cash.
Here's the oldest photograph that includes the image of a human, taken in 1837 or 1838:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boulevard_du_Temple_(photograp...
Why would that be a problem? I can just deposit them like I normally do and use VISA or PayPal while international.
Because the decision as to whether to engage in a transaction with any particular customer is generally (short certain types of outright bigotry like "no Blacks or Irish") entirely up to the seller, it generally doesn't matter.

Suppose I try to pay for this £12 crate of Coke cans with twenty four 50 pence pieces. The rule you quoted says that won't work, but it totally will in most cases especially at larger stores or if it's obvious I don't have any other money.

On the other hand suppose I try to buy five £1 packs of Harribo bear candy with a hundred five pence pieces from the grumpy corner store guy who knows perfectly well I have a credit card. He's going to tell me to fuck off, and perhaps rightly so.
The problem with gold deposit certificates is centralization.

There was one called Liberty Reserve that was catching on, but predictably they were raided and shut down.
The point is that there won't be enough cash in circulation to run the economy for even a day.
This part makes me smile :

I am not a tab hoarder, I almost never have more than **15** of them open at the same time.
> the Ukraine … the Ukraine.

And you are seriously suggesting that it is other people who are uninformed about these matters?
Point taken. Wouldn't that make elderly people an easier target for assaults?
It's not required by capitalism, but capitalism does incentivise this type of behaviour.
I agree, though any unlawful business will become much harder with all transactions being visible to law enforcement.

Which is fine as long as desirable business remains lawful... Until the government decides they don't like something that we do actually want.
Paypal, bank transfer, tikkie (in NL), nonmonetary transaction?
I can't believe in a lot of these countries this is enforced or obeyed to any degree. The closer the empire is to collapse the stupider the laws.
Why would you never cash in stablecoins? They are used for payments
The generals tips I have apply equally for self-taught developers and traditionally trained, yet are interestingly enough more often easier to accept for self-taught developers. Perhaps due to a willingness to acknowledge a _potential_ gap.

1. Be curious; allow yourself to say "I don't know" and go deeper

2. It's OK to be wrong; be humble and use step 1 to correct

3. Be aware of and try to discover and shed light on the things in your field that are your unknown-unknowns [1]); and then follow step 1

Links:

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/There_are_unknown_unknowns
The very worth watching Milton Friedman PBS series about the merits of free markets was called “Freedom to Choose” for a good reason. For such markets to function you must be free to choose what you do to earn money and free to choose on what goods and services you wish to spend it on. Much of the series is arguing about what happens when governments attempt to control this dynamic leading to the exact opposite of the stated objectives.

But really who wants to live in a system where you are so clearly funnelled from what it is you do every day to what it is you consume?
And it seems he was innocent.

https://www.cracked.com/article_34310_connecticut-put-a-prob...
My guess is that it's like the eyes surviving to detect light after the parts of the brain that can interpret the light hitting the rods and cones has died.
Nah. Escaped nazis.
In what why? undeclared work?
I have found when I use cash I don't overspend as often. So I looked it up and this is a known expectation of the banking industry. So I converted to cash as much as I can and my finances are much better.

The internal argument is that it is not convenient for me to need to work only with cash. That is true it is less convenient but when I sacrifice due diligence for convenience then it turns out long term cash is more convenient.
Absolutely, especially homeless people. It's hard (impossible?) to have a bank account if you don't have an address.
Oh please - have you been to Holland in the last 10 years?

It's paradise.

Yes, people with big cars and serial killers are frowned upon. What's not to like though?
I was so annoyed when Firefox got rid of the Proton tab style. Glad to see I can turn it back on!
They can't control the black market in drugs, what makes them think controlling a black market in cash, which is a million times more desirable, will be any more successful? There's the small matter of millions of undocumented migrants entering Europe who will be trapped in this now-illegal-cash underclass, and these financial oppression laws just incentivise and create criminal networks to facilitate basic economy. This is financial oppression that totally demoralizes their society as a means to dissolve it.

It's not a lot of money, and given inflation, diminishingly so. This is targeted at law abiding smallholding farmers where roadside transactions are often done in cash and farmers everywhere have a lot of tax relief precisely because they provide food security for nations - and it's to the benefit of criminal networks to top it off. The architects of this policy are disgusting.
The programming language itself is also a complexity on top of the problem's essential complexity and the complexity of the algorithm solving the problem.
Yeah, the fudge round lyric is one of those typical conservative talking point comments, but the rest of his message is about class struggle and I think many people can appreciate the frustration found in them. The guy seems like a good bean but with a conservative upbringing. Most people should be focused on how washington fails them.

I'm partial to this one.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xB9n0XA8dks

Full disclosure: I grew up in Appalachia so this is my type of music and I'm sure many/most people don't feel this way but I feel for the plight of my people even if they are idiots sometime. Christopher doesn't consider himself appalachian though. He's from piedmont.
Why do I get the feeling that you hope for this outcome, from this comment? And maybe you never visited the Netherlands?

By the way, the boiling frog thing has been debunked many times: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boiling_frog
> This is the US version of the events.

By far the most common method of receiving income from an employer in the US is direct deposit. For people who refuse, the fallback position is typically a card (essentially a refillable gift card).

Checks still do exist, but primarily for one-off payments where the payer and payee don't have much of a relationship.
Somewhat sad to see this isn't open source. I hope that Bitwarden isn't regretting their decision to open source their password manager. I self host Vaultwarden, but intentionally purchase a full license from Bitwarden every year, as do a couple other folks I know.
As someone else mentioned, it's a thing all over Europe.

https://www.europe-consommateurs.eu/en/shopping-internet/cas...
All knowledge, by definition, had to be first learned by someone. That person didn’t have an exams or someone testing their knowledge.

As a child I looked to exams and grades to validate my knowledge. However I got A’s on exams and felt like I still knew nothing. As I got older I care less about external validation and more about my internal “self grader”.

A few ways you can test yourself is building something. Take your knowledge and apply it.

Or try to teach someone. If you can’t explain the concepts clearly then maybe you don’t understand it as well as you think you do.

Or pretend your the teacher, write your own exams and take them. Ask yourself, “what questions would I ask students to tell if they know something?”

Lastly, and this one I like the least, find some tests or exams online, books that have questions at the end, etc.
All travelers entering the US must complete the customs declaration forms.
Amazing, congratulations to all involved. Great day for the nation.
YMMV. I can slip a few bills in with my credit cards. If I can't really just ignore coins like I generally do in the US (not that I use much cash in the US at this point), I need some separate pouch to carry them. I dislike ~$1+ coins because you pretty much have to use them if you're paying and getting change in cash.

$1 coins have flopped whenever they've been tried in more or less living memory in the US.
My friend, no one really carries cash anymore.
Technically we have 10€ coins that you can pay with (but usually nobody does).
> These purchases are already so bound up with red tape that making the actual payment via bank transfer is hardly an inconvenience.

That's a separate problem that allowing overeager regulation of currency utilization enables.

> Extortion is a crime. You are listing a person’s attempt to placate a criminal as a reason the state shouldn’t get involved?

Correct, extortion is a crime in some locales. Note, I said hush money, not extortion.

> Few places are so litigious as the USA, and such concerns hardly register for the people living in the subject of this HN post.

Few as litigious as the USA _so far_.

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A better set of questions here: who benefits, and by how much, with regulating currency so tightly?