skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yup, and as a Canadian the worst part about this is it gives the government here an easy out to sell out our own national security, because we're just followng Britain's lead after all. They already broke up the Five Eyes.
Hi @idclip,

i don't understand.
You mean why do not support other browser?
That's a really common misconception. If there is a "hole" in the table, the result from the length operator is undefined. It doesn't always stop at the first instance of nil.
Tracking the table length manually and stashing it in a key (usually "n") is something you see pretty often.
It's at best extremely risky and no guarantee of your childrens' success, with poor failure modes.
Oh, I've seen something similar recently. Not sure which macbook it was, but apparently, at least in some cases, Apple appears to be subscribing to the great benefits of placebo ventilation.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iiCBYAP_Sgg
The adapter running BSD Unix, no less.
Really depends on what “rich” means. And whether you consider investing in public markets or real estate to be “owning the means of production”. Because many, many millionaires get rich by those methods, for some reasonable value of rich.
Huge fan of Little Snitch, and I agree: it's been really useful for discovering and shutting down all the telemetry and ad traffic. One thing people don't realize is that you can take many of the popular ad-blocking lists and subscribe to them in Little Snitch! Peter Lowe's Block List, for instance, produces a plain-text format (https://pgl.yoyo.org/adservers/serverlist.php?hostformat=lit...) that's perfect: you subscribe to it in Little Snitch, and it automatically blocks everything on the list everywhere, with updates pulled on the regular from the pgl.yoyo.org servers.

One frustration I've had lately—and it's not Little Snitch's fault!—is the number of unnamed micro-service endpoints in use. Office365, Dropbox, and others have started using random cloud IPs for their content distribution endpoints, so you get a popup for "OneDrive wants to connect to XXX.YYY.ZZZ.QQQ on port 25427. Allow?" You have no basis for knowing if that IP is legit or not, you can't use the port to judge it, and you know if you cut off too many of them the app will break. Super frustrating, and seems deliberately designed to break things like LS.
So it’s counterfeit because it’s not license. What do you think is going to happen when you buy cheap USB C cables?

On one one hand, everyone is arguing that Apple’s proprietary cables are cynical attempt to make money and they shouldn’t have that control and people should have the choice.

Now I am showing you they already have that choice.
Plugging in an underpowered and resource-starved raspberry pi doesn't give you the same user experience as plugging in a Ryzen7 with 32GB of RAM that you already paid for and have lying around and idling at 5%
Agree, I am actually aware of both services. Personally, I am not sold on functions yet mainly due to the high startup time. I cannot see myself building a project that leverages a functions framework specific to cloud provider X. I however could be wrong on functions and its adoption in the general Dev community.
That's quite the extrapolation.
You didn't restore from an old Time Machine backup onto your rMBP right?

If not, it sounds like a defective unit. I'd strongly recommend taking it to Apple Store.

I had no issues with laggy keyboard input, freezes and battery life was very solid for me. I've returned the laptop not because of these issues but because useless touch bar and large trackpad on top of Catalina issues.
Bribery happens when people have power with little accountability. Any kind of power, government or not, should go hand in hand with accountability. It's the only way to prevent corruption.
That feature is "not recommend for production".
I would recommend to anyone who has some basic musical education (like can play tunes or improvise a little on the piano/guitar) to try playing with tone rows. It's a brain expander on its own -- the discipline of tone rows makes evident the obscure role that tonality or even common chord progressions play even in something by e.g. Eric Dolphy or Sonic Youth (different brands of "experimental music")
i closed the page when it said “Don’t send your kids to college”
Truth. Living within your means and maxing out retirement accounts will get you to millionaire status in 20-30 years, faster if you’re more aggressive about it (buy a fixer upper to realize sweat equity, BRRR real estate investment method, build your own business). I’ve followed these principles and am financially independent in my late 30s.

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1002103360646823936.html

TLDR Own and build things that generate income and store wealth (real estate, equities, fixed income, shares in a business, etc). Optimize for wealth, not status.

This won’t get you to be a billionaire. That requires mostly luck, inheritance, knowing the “right” people, etc.
Did her perspective change or does she believe she got an expensive diamond?
No, that's not correct.

Sandstorm the company most definitely failed -- we ran out of money, couldn't raise more, and had negligible revenue, hence could no longer pay employees. We looked for an acquisition, but while we received multiple offers to hire the people, we received no offers to acquire the company along with them. (Well, some companies offered to buy Sandstorm for $0 and wind it down for us.)

Most of the team ended up taking offers from Cloudflare, but Cloudflare did not acquire Sandstorm. Sandstorm technically still exists as a company, but with no paid employees -- it's basically just me keeping things operating in my spare time. But the vast majority of my coding energy has gone into Cloudflare Workers.

OTOH in the last couple months a bunch of people in the community have started more actively contributing to Sandstorm as an open source project. So that's cool!
> if err != nil {
return nil, err
}

I still think this is bullshit.
Yes and no. On the one hand a gay tourist is considerably less likely to be on the receiving end of homophobic beatings in Singapore than many liberal European countries, and won't have any issue finding the gay scene. On the other hand its a country where only a fifth of the population think gay sex isn't wrong and the unenforced law against gay sex still has majority public support.
I have three of them serving 802.11n on 2.4 and 802.11ac on 5 gigs and all work fine.

Know some people who use them for a bridged setup over ac standard. No issues there as well.
No, but shunning new cars and lattes can give you the focus to do something that does get you rich.
Checkout out the financialindependence subreddit. You will find plenty of average folks with 7 figures in savings and investments: https://www.reddit.com/r/financialindependence/
This is true. I barely understand coordinate systems enough to get by and somehow I know them better than any other engineer I've talked to. Surveyors are 50/50 on whether they know all that stuff or not.

Really though, there's no excuse for errors caused by that stuff. Survey data should almost always only be used relative to itself.
You buy it for others, not for yourself. As long as you're playing status games at certain circles, these things are useful to signal your wealth to people who care
This actually looks pretty similar to the https://jointoucan.com extension.
That's what I was explaining. It's more profitable to keep up the illusion of value than actually creating value. This is normally seen as a market inefficiency, too, in economics lingo
I do remember the "hard core deregulation" party fighting to keep marriage regulated between one man and one woman.
Yes, that works too.
That music video got its visuals from the movie The Day of the Siege.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1899285/

Which, based on nl's description of the events, I think I need to watch.
If you want a fine take on this subject, and one that is much better than the comments so far, read The Millionaire Next Door. https://www.amazon.com/Millionaire-Next-Door-Surprising-Amer...
The US has been struggling with it since the very start. KKK, segregation, McCarthyism, the list goes on.
I've been thinking about and working on the same problem for a while. My conclusion is that this has to be done with a physical device of some kind over which the user has physical control. Otherwise whoever provides the personal cloud servers ends up being the centralized lock-in element in the system.
That would actually be great. Should the government also have gotten involved in the VhS/Betamax wars or the Blu-ray/HDDVD format wars.

The government cares most about their own power. It’s naive to think that the government “cares” about anything besides being re-elected.
how different is it for paper based records then? What advantage does paper even have.
No? Even nice public schools aren’t great (there are some extreme exceptions but most are mediocre.)

Send your kid to a good private school or homeschool co-op (essentially the same thing) and stop doing dumb things with real-estate. Be involved in their hobbies and try to communicate the important ideas you’ve learned, no school can replace that and it’s one of the most powerful ways you can improve your child’s future. (This is intuitively obvious, but I think there are also a number of moderately recent studies to back it up.)
Would you rather each of those use a custom port and none of those things be compatible at all?
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Here's my biggest question of the whole thing:

* Can governments not inspect the hardware themselves to see if there are physical backdoors?

* Could they not, as a precondition for any provider, demand to see the source code of the radios?

* If the ISPs tunnel the backbone traffic combined with more/most Internet traffic being secured anyway,
wouldn't that minimize data leaks?

* If you admit that the previous point isn't valid because of metadata concerns, doesn't that invalidate the US
national security establishment's position on metadata towards the public?
They have previously scoffed at such concerns ("It's only a phone number") but now it matters.

* Wouldn't rogue equipment exfiltrating data be rather obvious?
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Just curious but why? The 787 and 777 isn't too bad.
I had to get a background check for my job; the report is a 300 page pdf
You can get pretty comfortable (rich for most people's definition) just being average and capturing a small part of a market. I guess one could stretch the definition of "ownership of means of production" but I'm not sure that's what you meant by it. Specially in the internet age the bar is much lower to be able to participate in the market like this.
As a Lua proponent, I'll say that it's simple, small and easy to embed in an application. That's worth a lot, and I do think there are solutions that are much easier to express in Lua than in e.g. C. Compared to JavaScript, there are very few surprises, which I think is where people wishing for its replacement are coming from.

My gripes with the language are probably common: no arithmetic-assignment operators like "+=", no real arrays, few array-like operations built-in, array-like tables' first index is 1, no integer type...

Maybe some of your frustrations come from the characteristics of the PICO-8 API and its development environment. It leans on you to implement a lot of basic game logic in a single file, and if you're editing within PICO-8, you only have a basic text editor with a 128x128 pixel looking glass view into that file. I find that Lua works best when you offload a lot of the gritty logic to the host application and use Lua mostly as a glue language, but in PICO-8 the opposite mostly seems to work to its advantage because it's more approachable to newbies with its small, obvious API surface and all-in-one development environment.
Two things:

1. I embraced that Perfection is a mortal enemy of It Works. Our customers pay us for it to work now, not be perfect at some point in future.

This allowed us to save millions of dollars a month and made us a viable going concern.

2. "Mongodb is Webscale" - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2F-DItXtZs

We aren't Google. We don't have Google-level global problems that we need to solve. Anything below Google level can be solved using boring technologies that just work.

This allowed us to significantly and rapidly improve customer experience.
> It is all about living within your means,

No, it's about spending wisely. Ask not "can I afford it?", but "is it worth it?" (taking into account, yes, your financial situation). This article hasn't done much to convince me that a brand new car is worth the huge markup.
By absolute top echelon I think he's talking about billionaires, not millionaires. You can't bootstrap a used car dealership or dry cleaner into mega-yacht wealth territory, but you can still retire with a nice sailboat.
"Synthetic" diamonds are better in all objective criteria that "natural" diamonds. Before they were a thing they would even be considered top quality diamonds.

Once they were mass produced the criteria changed and now the "natural" with higher degree of impurities (a previously undesirable trait) are considered better.

It's not about the rock. The rock is a placeholder. It's about how much you spent on the rock (commitment) and the fact that it's not available to everyone (social proof).
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And IMO, being able to retire and live comfortably with your savings is rich; a good touch of frugality helps drive the very first point in the article, which is: spend less than you earn. This doesn't require tens of millions or more; a handful will do just fine, and not buying $40k cars is a great way to help get there. Most of the world doesn't have this kind of retirement. A good portion of the US doesn't have that.
But plenty of folks do save a lot by shunning new cars and lattes
Not really. TLS 1.3 at least does a certificate-free ECDH handshake, deriving symmetric encryption keys that are then used to transmit the certificate(s) and any further negotiation. You can deploy TLS 1.3 without leaking anything to a passive observer, and blowing up in the face of an active (MitM) observer.
There has been more noise around lab-grown diamonds as of late: https://qz.com/630512/would-you-propose-with-a-diamond-grown....
I was working on the Lightroom engineering team at the time and Adobe was heading towards killing the project in favor of a Bridge + Photoshop solution.

When Apple announced Aperture, it instantly galvanized the executive support in favor of Lightroom and Shantanu made the call for us to announce Lightroom and ship a public beta in 6 weeks.

Thankfully we ran the engineering team with an iterative and low technical debt threshold. We had been shipping iterations to a private beta group.

The Lightroom public beta beat Aperture to the market, ran on PowerPC and Intel (Aperture was only on Intel Macs), and was much much faster.
The website is a bit misleading since I haven't had the energy to really revamp it to reflect the current state of the project. A lot of the marketing material is still accurate in the details (e.g. features), but the overall presentation makes it look like a product for sale rather than an open source community...

The current state is that it's "just" an open source project, not a business. There are a few people working on it in our spare time. The paid hosting service has shut down.
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Do you have any interesting stories to share about your experience doing business with Huawei and/or the Chinese government? It's always refreshing to hear from someone with first-hand knowledge.

(Comment edited to (hopefully) clarify tone.)
Have you considered OCaml with BuckleScript or js_of_ocaml? The language that inspired Rust's nods to FP can be compiled to mostly-idiomatic Javascript.
For my use, it was fine at release, it got better through time. The unpacking of library and transition to iPhoto compatible library was rocky.

Definitely a tool where you wanted the x.x.2 before you’d update a major or minor version, because, well, it probably held 150,000 photos at a time where almost nothing else you did on your personal computer had that amount of data or irreplaceable value per file.

--- Aperture science ---

Many prolific shooters considered this the best photojournalism / travel / wedding / EDL bulk photo library and photo triage tool outside of the camera bag, bar none. Still is if you have kept a Mac tuned for it.

The key benefits for me, not found most other places at the time, were:

- auto photo sorting (“stacks” of burst photos you could expand and choose the best from then collapse again, like burst works on iphone now), along with press compliant metadata and tagging, GPS, TZ adjust, etc.

- ultra fast photo triage (rapid star ratings and ability to see photos above n stars for fast pruning of a 3000 photo shoot to the best 30 shots), and

- a (just okay) RAW engine with non-destructive photo editing, as well as masters and ‘versions’ per photo including automatic RAW+JPEG pairing for digital cameras

All this on a love-it-or-hate-it “managed” library, where you could go look at the originals in folders, but never needed to if you let go of folders and thought in metadata sets. (It could also oversee folders external to the library.)

I switched to it from Lightroom, occasionally tried to switch back, always felt like molasses compared to the ‘just right’ benefits of Aperture if you shot a lot of photos to get a small set of publishable shots, but also wanted to keep every shot forever.

--- Photos 2.0 ---

There’s been a dark few years here where the Photos library that was capable of Aperture sized content didn’t offer any of those key benefits in the Photos app, but at least remained accessible across all your devices. While Photos continued to do the RAW+JPEG pairing, it lost most other things.

Latest Photos finally puts back in some of the level of photo editing that was in the original Aperture.

That said, seems though when implemented through Photos on iCloud, there’s a soft performance limit in the 130K to 160K range that things start to act wonky, one photo out of 100K won’t sync, etc.

Be interesting to see what would happen if Apple threw some QA at the high volume uses cases again.
Hang on though, the point is that the market isn’t able to address this issue.

There aren’t two platforms with equal privacy available but differing power connectors.

I’m forced to prioritise privacy over proprietary connectivity.

If all things were equal then I could vote with my wallet and I’m sure the market would fix this... but all things aren’t equal so market isn’t going to solve this problem.

In that situation you need an external authority to set a standard.
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Affinity might have something in the works, no official news that I can find but it’s been rumored for years and seems like an obvious product for them.

Edit: most recent I can find is that a year ago they weren’t working on it https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/78025-when...
Choices 1 and 2 (and the "marrying in" option of the 3rd) have an implicit "you were born into a white, upper class family" built into them. To even have the opportunity to get to the top of your field or own means of production, you have to start from a base of financial surplus (not necessarily extreme wealth, though it helps).

If you're anything less than that, the best you can do is try to give your kids an upper class environment to grow up in. Or just opt out of the "money is happiness" game and find other things that fulfill you.
At my current employer I have done two things that I think have had a big impact. I didn't do them alone, and in some cases, I couldn't have done them alone.

The first was to root out a customer-blaming culture that had festered for far too long in the company. I recognized how toxic it was, and how bad it was for customer service, when I arrived. Not long after that I became a supervisor and my manager (also a new hire) and I agreed it was really bad. I worked at my end and he worked at his end, helping those who would change to change, and giving those who wouldn't the opportunity to find new work. It wasn't easy. Part of it was for me to write a couple of hours of customer service training material and deliver it to all new hires. That led to me becoming the company's trainer, and I get to weave it all together in a 2 week orientation and training for all new hires.

The second thing I've done is create documentation where it didn't exist and have cleaned up documentation that was messy. I took 25-30 disparate articles on one subject, weeded out the stuff that was irrelevant or deprecated, put it all into two clear documents, and called it a run book. It went over really well and helped the department who depended on it.

Lastly, I've also had the opportunity to write new tools for front line support staff and rewrite old ones, and create documentation and training regarding their use.

In the end, I write and talk for a living, all to the end of making it easier to provide great customer service in our sector (web hosting). I love it.
> And since I can verify signatures locally, any time I choose, it would be hard for that server to get away with modifying file contents only when served through the site, sooner or later someone would catch them out at it.

That's only true if they lie to large numbers of people. If they just lie to a handful of people, who will ever know? (And you're probably not connecting through Tor, so there's a good chance they could know exactly who you are.)

> the website is https, so I trust that the server I'm asking for the file is the same one that gives it to me.

Do you know if they use a CDN?
Have you looked at https://github.com/nanovms/nanos yet? What you are describing is fairly close and this is under active development.
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It's known as wet brain syndrome among excessive alcohol consumers. Even when sober, they are still drink.
Teach your 18 year old to pick 5 companies they think will be around in 15 years. Stick some money into each and don’t touch it. Taking money out of great stocks because I thought it was too expensive has been the greatest mistake I made
I wish there was more information about past-history drinking. When I was in my teens (about 40 years ago), I drank quite a lot. I completely stopped about 20 years ago.

I feel much better, don't miss the hangovers, etc. I know that the ill effects of smoking are supposed to decrease after the smoking stops-- I hope it's true of drinking, too.

Does anybody have any idea about this?
Not everyone has the same goals, but for some of us it definitely is.
In a previous life I was in the men’s middle tier luxury business. We would go to clothing shows (Javits) in Manhattan. Multiple shoe companies would present a shoe to us that had a “Gucci sole, leather, just no buckle” or a sweater “milled in the same factory that YSL uses” all at a fraction of the price.

Luxury typically today just means logo. Very rarely is a garment worth the 10x markup just because it has a LV or Gucci stamp.

I do think bespoke suits and certain fabrics are worth their ostentatious price points but to your average consumer they just want the brand.

To some extent it’s the same in all industries particularly the computer industry.
That doesn't make much sense. The ratio of the mining cost manufacturing cost is the same regardless of the demand.
A good size of the population should be able to get to $1m-$5m of net worth by retirement by being disciplined with a 0-based budget, avoiding debt (mortgage is an exception) and steadily investing in your retirement.

Keep it simple.
Telecom equipment should be free as in freedom if we’re going to give it exclusive use of portions of the spectrum. Proprietary wireless equipment is harmful surf-like enslavement of the people.
My last job drove me to therapy too. It get's better.