skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Put under pressure, Apple is coming back. Funny
Either Zuckberg has a geeky naive understanding of financial institutions to think this will go easily, or he is ready to use blackmail material.

Libra is something I wish we fight to the death.
Agree with this. Where people gravitate to in terms of career choices is very much driven by compensation patterns, and somehow, in (Western) Europe, being on the technical side of tech/IT just does not pay.

Large companies (those that are not tech-centric, e.g. financial services, etc) still tend to see it as a back office function and often outsources majority of operations to India (or fly and settle temporary employees locally). Companies that places tech at the center of their business recruit and hire a lot of tech talent from outside of Western Europe. There are also local developers, but their pay, compared to jobs in, say, marketing, sales, and other rather fluffy business functions, is low, low, low. Someone mentioned Bookings before. Their pay is on-par with the market average here, which is 50-80K. And that is very low compared to how a similar position is valued in SV.

Startups here in general also underpay their tech workers compared to counterparts in the US, since they point to the large companies locally (which already underpay tech roles), and say, "well, we can't afford corporate pay, we are just a startup". So you are kind of double-underpaid, even though the job descriptions are usually copy and pasted SV-speak with rainbows and unicorns.
I think this is the case because in the US only extreme cyclists dare use the road at all. When cycling becomes sufficiently safe that normal people do it, the median cyclist becomes much friendlier to other people on the road.
I think the point is less about repositories and more about how desktop operating systems let you install any software you want, be it via package managers, Makefiles, or random binaries you get via torrent.
Well, they would have to do what PayPal did, which is build
1. A system that is acceptable by the regulations of any possible country they want to operate in.
2. Implemented by as many merchants as PayPal is.

This is feasible but not trivial.

Now, if you add in the "defy governments" part, it's clear that most merchants would not use it, which means users have a negative incentive to use libra over PayPal or whatever.

Even Amazon and Google failed to "just build a PayPal", and I don't see why Facebook would succeed easily.
No I get it but the sum total of transactions, real and fake determine the exchange rate between real money and crypto. If the fake volume had no impact at all, why on earth do you think they’re doing it? For their health? Fun? Cmon now.
You mean like opioid manufacturing and distribution or American food industry (disgusting, sorry)?
VAR has certainly not created more confusion in the Italian Serie A (that’s how their first-level football/soccer league is named). Yeah, it isn’t perfect but it certainly highly improved things compared to pre-VAR times, and I say that as an Juventus fan (i.e. a team that has won the title a few years ago based on a blatant referee error, just search for “Muntari goal” on YT). I personally stopped reading the article right at that second sentence where that sweeping and false generalization was made.
The NKVD was more than present at the front. The 'V' part of their name points to their military mission.
There’s a semi-wellknown trick on the raspberry pi for performing high-bandwidth and high-precision (in time) operations on GPIO pins from userland, using the DMA engine. You keep an in-memory buffer of the next few milliseconds of bit patterns you want to write to the memory-mapped GPIOs and then just leave the DMA engine endlessly copying data from this (circular) buffer into the GPIOs. But crucially, you “pace” the DMA transfer by configuring it to alternate between copying a word to the GPIOs and copying a word to some other peripheral that you’ve clocked at a specific rate (e.g. the audio DAC, which won’t acknowledge each write until it’s converted the previous one). This lets you define the state of the GPIOs as an arbitrary waveform sampled at some frequency of your choosing, which is a crazy powerful tool for e.g. motor control (that’s what the Printipi 3D printer does) or bitbanging communication protocols, etc.

You can also flip it around and sample GPIOs at close to 1 MHz. Piscope is an example of that. Once you start pushing 1 MHz, jitter starts to become nontrivial as you’re saturating the bus or competing with other memory transfers.

So yes: a capable DMA controller can do some pretty mind-blowing things!
A friend of mine is a farmer. He supplies all kinds of meat to butchers in the local area, except pig.

I wondered why, and he told me that after he had kids he decided pigs are about as intelligent as a 3 year old, and he simply couldn't bring himself to kill them anymore.
> Just waiting for “Expedia for coworking spaces” to come and commoditize them :)

I've been waiting for this too, but the more I think about it, the less likely I think it'll actually happen. People spend at least 5 days and 40 hours a week in their work environment, often across many years. In contrast, when traveling, you spend just a handful of hours in a flight or a few days in a hotel. When you're spending a short time on something, you're less likely to see details, and commodification is easier. When you spend days, weeks, years in a place, tiny minutea jump out and no two spaces are exactly the same.

As a comparison, think about residential real-estate. There still has been very little commodification of residential real-estate, because neighborhoods, amenities, schools, safety, light, and even the color of the grass play a factor.

Work-spaces are less extreme, but similar dynamics play out. Even if thousands of WeWork copy-cats pop-up around the world (as is currently happening), I wouldn't expect serious commodification.
I'm talking about an earlier time https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wootz_steel
Totally agree - Theranos went on for something like a decade without any evidence they had made any sort of process breakthrough or innovation. The whole company was built on lies and bullshit. The co-founder dude who put up the initial money made that money by speculating on the dot com boom of 1999/2000 and getting out before it bust.
What it does mean is that the community can fix it, and you don’t have to divert time from a product approved sprint to fix sec bugs.
And customers...
The biggest reason why I use amazon over eBay is because I buy things I actually need, and I like knowing when I click the button I will have it tomorrow vs maybe not getting it ever.
> no natural predators in Texas

estimated texan pig population 2-2.5 million vs estimated texan human population 28-39 million. let's estimate 5% of texan humans don't eat pork.

texan pigs are still outnumbered 10 to 1 by a predator that will kill and eat them. if i were a texan pig, i'd be pretty anxious about that.
To the Stars Academy is for profit business that produces entertainment and pseudoscientific programming for History Channel and others. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/To_the_Stars_(company)

They have reached a point where they are selling their BS trough Tucker Carlson, Tyler Rogoway and others.
I wish that Netflix was the sole dominant market player in this space such that for all intents and purposes it was the place to get streaming content so that I didn’t have a hodgepodge of services to subscribe to with different interfaces and user experiences and content. As the silos of content increase piracy will as well.

I’m tired of my favorite shows being kicked off of Netflix for seemingly arbitrary reasons so I keep local copies around or buy shows on iTunes but as costs rise to own instead of stream I think piracy will increase instead of decrease as it has in the heyday of Netflix.
About books, I'd say it is all or nothing. Small libraries books won't be of any use. But when I was in Lyon, the main library is an old institution that contains archives of 100 years of newspapers and scientific publications.

I once had to look for the media impact of a 1987 trial, and behold, they had the microfilm.

Let's take a moment to remember that we could digitize all this but that stupid copyright laws makes it forbidden.

I hope we manage to reform these before these libraries stop getting funded.
SQLite is the most stable small DB there is, maybe even the most stable one at all.

Our CTO made a cluster wide distributed configuration filesystem[0], started about 9 years ago. For that a local backing store was required, and a a small DB seemed to fit the bill as it should allow to worry less about data safety, when it's really written out, and it could be a general interface which could be swapped out rather easily if required one day.

He checked out lots of the then available options, sorry I only remember BerkleyDB and SQLite but there were more.
Anyway, only SQLite never crashed, had corrupt data when doing weird things with it and was still very fast, just great.

Almost 10 years later we still use it, never a single issue with SQLite as the cause - really impressive IMO.

[0]: https://git.proxmox.com/?p=pve-cluster.git;a=tree;f=data/src...
This is not true. XEP-0357 is very well supported by any modern XMPP server, and setting it up is easy. There are many issues with XMPP but push notifications is not one of them.

Source: we are releasing an XMPP client for iOS soon.
Yeah, what's the problem with the UI? You use it 3 minutes to convert/upload a book that will keep you busy for hours. I really don't think they need a redesign or anything.
Many of them do, but I'm sure most just think they do.
The author discusses 3 concepts of vagueness but none of them really seem helpful. To use his example of baldness, if you survey people with images of heads with varying amounts of hair and forced bald/not bald choice, there will be a clear pattern of bald - random - not bald. For a hair amount in the middle, supervaluationism says it's borderline true that it's bald, epistemic reasoning fails because people disagree on whether it's bald, and ontic vagueness seems to be some thought experiment type thing about how even if everybody did agree on whether it's bald they wouldn't necessarily be right.

Fuzzy logic seems much more useful, there you can use the graph and say something like it's 50% true that they're bald.

But it doesn't really help football games, since they still have to make a play and go on. Audience voting on plays seems a little cheesy but probably could work. The rules are arbitrary in the first place, it's a game after all...
And they are usually LAN connected thus Stuxnet-like worm infected laptop can still cause a damage. Security is always important.
What was shocking about this? Seems like something you could always solve by hand, even if you couldn't quite enumerate the steps you need to take to do it. I guess that's sort of my baseline for whether I expect an algorithm to exist.
That's great though. Everything should be a commodity, easily available and with profit margins nearing zero.
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This is called sharding[0] in the database world and can be done in many ways. It is particularly easy to achieve in sqlite because of the literally tiny overhead in terms of storing, shifting, duplicating and moving around sqlite databases relative to fully-fledged RDBS. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharding
> I know for sure that both MirageOS and Erlang-on-Xen (unikernels) can be easily deployed as AWS AMIs.

I’m not familiar with this particular deployment process, so don’t want to speak out of line... but this being the internet, why not.

I’m a bit skeptical that Amazon would let you run anything in pure kernel mode, it’s likely a VM/ sandbox wrapping an OS that’s operating in Kernel mode, likely negating much of the performance benefits.

Second, you mentioned two specific images, and I’ll assume they work fine on AWS, but they are just two, and if your working with them, you probably have very specific needs, not suitable for general development.

Third, who knows if these images will work on other cloud providers. Once you get your kernel mode app working on one, your locked in.

Fourth, what are you doing that requires this level of local machine performance operating in the cloud? It’s probably almost always better to invest your optimization time/dollers elsewhere.

Fifth, if this was a good / easy idea, many people would be doing it, but they aren’t. Either you’ve stumbled upon some secret enlightened approach, or your probably wron.
That certainly covers operations in AWS, but take a look at the azure docs for cloud design patterns: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/architecture/patterns...

For example, read Bulkhead, Circuit-Breaker, Queue-based load leveling, sharding. The level of detail around why you might want to do it this way is fantastic. AWS whitepapers and best practices never really get into the why, they just focus on the what.
This is awesome, hilarious and fun. Thanks for posting it!
2,500 prosecutions as a result of “the work we did with Facebook in the last year”, according to UK government (Brandon Lewis, a minister on Radio 4, October 4th.)
This has to be in cases of rapid decompression. People can live in permanent settlements at 16700 ft (La Rinconada) [0].

[0] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Rinconada,_Peru
I have a small blog (using Ghost) that uses sqlite as the main database and it's incredibly easy to maintain. It's just a single file. For example if you want to back up, you just copy the file or add it to git. If you want to do a diff you just do sqldiff on two files. It is as easy as working with json or csv files, except with atomic writes and better querying.

From their site: https://www.sqlite.org/whentouse.html

>SQLite does not compete with client/server databases. SQLite competes with fopen().
Scientists will chase chemical soups as long as it is the most probable theory, it is that simple. The thing with chemical soups is that some of them form very complex structures, so it is pretty easy to imagine that the right kinds of soups was the origin of life. Everything else people have suggested are either much less probable (not sure how it could happen without chemical soup) or they are nonsense (intelligent design, ie "life was created by life that was already there, just don't ask me how that other life appeared").
Yeah. Maybe if you didn't need to move around as much and you were looking at a fixed point in space I could see how it could feel more immersive. It's interesting to note that AR feels more natural the less you move around.
In both of these cases the recruiter has incentives that the recruitee gets a high wage and has insider info from past recruitments. Why don't the recruiters help in salary negotiations?
V for Vnutrennih (Interior)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NKVD
I wonder how much impact would uninstalling social apps from smartphones have. Getting rid of FB, TW, WA clients pooling made my phone run for 2 days without charging vs 1 previously. Now at 1 billion users scale...
Federation won’t solve tha.

Heck, the best way for your house is to use multicast, with a unique IP for each endpoint type, and a unique port for each distinct endpoint within the type.

The endpoint IDs could even be self assigned, with the idea that you’d only really need a gateway for use outside the home. Standard but extendable protocols can be developed too, so everything can interop but still include custom stuff beyond the standard.
> If you haven't given it a look/aren't interested in it since it seems to be a "toy" database

As you mentioned, it ships in every major browser, most OSes, and a number of extremely popular instances of consumer software. If that's still a "toy" I don't know what isn't…
Hm interesting. There are a few options:
1) a browser extension that automagically replaces all wikipedia urls with 0wikipedia
2) a local http proxy for all requests where wikipedia is redirected to 0wikipedia
3) a local http server and a local record for wikipedia localhost and a permanent redirect to 0wikipedia
The U.S. government will be very pleased that Facebook have circumvented all their anti-money laundering safeguards. So will entire nation states. Nothing could possibly go wrong.
> couldn't actually convince any Silicon Valley VC firms to invest in it

There were three in fact.

Tim Draper invested the first money into Theranos due to a family connection to Holmes. His firm, Draper Fisher Jurvetson, put early money into them. ATA Ventures and Tako Ventures (Larry Ellison) also invested into them.
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>A better machine is just a tool

For now.
Organ rather than piano, but the repertoire for a month of cathedral services (assuming daily Evensong plus Sunday morning Eucharist) is vast, especially considering all the registrations (stop selections). Playing all that from memory is unrealistic.

Here’s a typical month at Worcester, and bear in mind it doesn’t include the voluntaries at the start and end of each service (though the start will sometimes be improvised, at least in part): http://www.worcestercathedral.co.uk/media/October_Scheme_201...
Altitude sickness is a thing, so it's not quite that black and white.

People who live at altitude go through physiological changes. My ribcage permanently increased in circumference after living 3000 feet above sea level for over 2.5 years.

See also:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-altitude_adaptation_in_...
That makes no sense, cryptocurrencies are already being used for illegal purposes.
In-browser emulation:
https://parkertomatoes.github.io/v86/?type=com&content=FBO6M...
There’ll usually be a thumb piston for the sequencer as well as a foot piston, too.
Well.... I don't think I've ever used Expose. I don't use it now, that's for sure.

Win10 has all I need. Alt+tab shows me Windows, not apps. Win+arrow keys will maximize, minimize, etc. Win+alt+arrow keys moves windows between displays.
That doesn't seem to contradict what I said? Sure, PayPal wanted a stake in this assuming it would become a success that they couldn't stop... but they may still be better off if Libra doesn't become a success in the first place.
Maybe they ll go with the chinese one instead
If someone would only be so kind to lend me a million dollars, I'd love to hold the "P=NP will never be solved" conference ;)
You can change your hosts file so that 0wikipedia.org points to the same IP as Wikipedia.org.
Aside from its merits as a database, SQLite is also a great example of good documentation[0], thorough testing[1], and focused development. It's something that all library maintainers should study and try to learn from.

[0] https://www.sqlite.org/whentouse.html

[1] https://www.sqlite.org/testing.html
> then there's not enough money to make all those shows anymore

But now that you have a more complete picture of the lifetime value of a show you know which top 50% (or top XX%) of shows to keep producing in which to cancel.
Wait, so this is a novel design of an age-old siege weapon? That sounds crazy inventive!
Boldly going where no palate has gone before: A Star Trek wine tasting
Dreamboard
If that happens, facebook will be attacked from all sides (including states) and loose.
Watch Anduril’s Anvil take down an off-the-shelf drone in midflight
Eye surgeon here.

Good job and interesting story!

As a side note: for optical reasons, the spherical equivalent of the lens (which will determine if you are overcorrecting or not) is calculated by adding the sphere value + half the cylinder value (whatever the axis value).

You ended with a correct prescription as far as I can tell by looking at the different measurements , however you did not totally grasped the optical subtleties of the accomodation process : astigmatism is important (a small overcorrection is not a big deal anyway)

It is usual to undercorrect the cylinder values given by the autoref and your ophthalmologist would have given you the right prescription I think.

I'm just saying that to underline that as I doctor myself, I'm usually very wary at thinking that I can fully understand, in a few days, what my colleagues do. I'm totally into the hacking spirit but let's stay careful, especially for more dangerous things than glasses.
Never participated in LD myself but I always try to follow up and check some projects and read their code.

Ludum Dare is an unusual combination of talent, efficiency and humbleness. In some sense the direct opposite of a typical IT workplace :)
> businesses looking to offer their employees a silicon valley low formality work environment is that such businesses can probably do it themselves with a traditional lease for less than the premium charged by WeWork.

Over the long term, you may be right. But at least for the next ten years, I don’t think so. Many businesses don’t even realize this is something desirable, but even those that do, don’t know how to achieve it. Assuming young talented new hires keep demanding it (no sign of that slowing), and while many companies remain in the dark (a very slow gradual process), WeWork will remain an attractive solution.

Regarding law, accounting, finance requiring greater security, that’s hardly a serious blocker. Locked doors, frosted glass office windows, and locked down WiFi solve those problems pretty easily.
And not written in C, as some of these CVEs are the typical issues C has plagued the industry with.
I don't mean blind trust of course, and you state everyday occurrences of which we should all be ready for.
What I mean is a more drastic change, completely leaving their lane and entering yours with no warning. In the case of a serious and immediate mechanical fault with wheels, steering or brakes on a bend, neither party can predict or prepare for this.
You can create a web site in Microsoft Word. But it will never be the go-to product for that. Other products do it better.
Startups help laid off employees start afresh
What kind of app is your mom needing that wouldn’t be App Store approved?
My flow is pretty much the same. But oled != eink, even though I really like orange text on black with oled.
You also need an iOS device too. Crazy.
India Inc scrambles to weed out biases at workplace
Some references:

"Expensive and inexpensive wines taste the same, research shows" https://phys.org/news/2011-04-expensive-inexpensive-wines.ht...

"The Color of Odors" (add red food coloring to a white wine and tasters think it is a red wine) https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11712849

"Expensive wine and cheap plonk taste the same to most people" https://www.theguardian.com/science/2011/apr/14/expensive-wi...

For those interested there is an actual "Journal of Wine Economics" https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-wine-econ...
How did you find the motivation to spend 100's of hours for prepping for 5 years? This is really great!

In my case I find prepping really dry and like to work on personal projects and veer off to different technical things that I am curious in.

When I try to solve problems I hate to look at answers and I spend a lot of time sometimes days trying to solve it. What is your approach to solve problems?

Could you please elaborate on how you prepared to a person like me who is aspiring to take a FAANG interview?
What makes you believe this is a more likely explanation than imitation of what they saw their peers doing?