skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> If someone is scared of catching something, they should stay home

Implicit in this description of your “rights” trumping public health authority is that you believe you have a right to infect anyone who is unfortunate enough to touch some surface you’ve previously contaminated, or breath air you’ve breathed while infectious.

What principle, moral, or ethic tells you this is your right?
I thought that said github at first.
OK so they built this great blockchain and you can't continue but where is the link to the source?

[0] https://test.ton.org/
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More recently, Dark Sky is in the process of being killed for Android
Well if I'm walking up to everyone's bay window taking nude pics of them, then saving the pics to a server that would eventually be linked up with their personal accounts....I certainly wouldn't claim it to be an "accident".
You could state a position, instead of just opaquely hinting. It would be a more useful conversation if you did.
All this may have a rather interesting impact on SF business real estate, and other trickle down effects.

Twitter will no longer need the large office building that it has.

It will no longer need to run the shuttles, both routes and frequency, that it does today.

Some employees may not want to live in SF anymore. Some may decide to move out of BA and even CA.

Now multiply with other companies that may do that...
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That isn't the only reason to support more than one engine. Sometimes you don't need to move data to change the engine.

If you sell a product that needs a database you probably want an abstraction so you can use the customer's database and schema.
I agree. I circulate it every quarter in my company's Slack channel to show the importance of publishing open data and reports, not just as a steward of technology, but because it is actually useful marketing.
I can't believe that I'm saying this but this is soooo needed. It's ridiculous to me how many organizations still require hand-signed copies as if that is somehow a deterrent to anything.
Google Play Music dies this year, YT Music library imports begin today
Thanks for the article! jhall is definitely closer to what is described there than it is to a language like dhall - it provides a convenience wrapper around basic language features to programmatically generate configuration.
There are some amazing vegetable terrines that are baked in a bain marie. Most use gelatin as a binder, but with some experimentation it should be easy to sub in agar. I bet that there are some vegetable combinations that will self-set sans gelling agents. I've been meaning to experiment by making smaller test batches and dialing in the temp and duration. Ideally, I would like to find a low and slow method that minimizes the breakdown of the flavors. A properly made veg terrine loaf is the ideal showcase for fresh vegetables as well as a gorgeous centerpiece for all those dinner parties we are having at the moment.
When I was looking for remote work I had hard time finding any offer beyond 60k.

Don't forget that there's a really high competition among applicants so someone will take those 60k offers. And when it's 8-10x their average salary in their home country, then you can't really blame them.
With COVID-19 it depends on your family situation though. People without kids are probably working more, but people with kids (and who don't have a live-in nanny) are really struggling to juggle their work with child care. I imagine many people in that situation are less productive.
'tachyonbeam didn't ask.

The most obvious one is AI. These things are incredibly parallel & entirely self-contained, and a consumer desktop PSU could power countless amounts of them without a second thought. At $2,000 for 100 chips ($20/chip), you can start to do some really interesting stuff for the cost of a consumer laptop.

It's natural that AI is a problem this chip excels at, given Moore studied under McCarthy and all.

If you feel morally okay with playing with proprietary software, I really recommend playing a little bit with the simulator of the chip. Given what's intuitive with one or two, you'll probably be able to see the possibilities much better after an hour or so of play.
Ugh, so obnoxious.
Microsoft uses Windows behind the scenes on a lot of their managed services, but specifically for VMs on Azure... I'm as clueless as you (and I say that as someone who work in the enterprise space for mostly Microsoft shops).
I kinda don't think after all this people want to move towards currency consolidation. Isn't the E.U. the only union and non-country to have a singular currency? And isn't that singular monetary policy something that causes a great deal of friction between member states (e.g. Greece and Germany back in '08)? I think if you took another vote among E.U. members to ratify the Maastricht treaty today, you might get a different result.

What us technologists might aspire to is pretty different from the ground truth.
Marissa Mayer is rolling in her pile of Yahoo! money.
Secondary market Forge acquires SharesPost in a $160M cash-and-stock deal
The UK government has made some mistakes, but to describe them as having “totally failed” is just needless hyperbole.

Edited to add: “total failure” would have been to just do nothing, allow the health service to be overrun, let hundreds of thousands die, let millions be hospitalised, and let the economy tank with no support for business or workers. None of which is true of the UK government response.

You may not like the UK government, but stating something that is so obviously wrong just undermines the rest of your legitimate criticism.
It's all based off of integrated information theory: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integrated_information_theory

I don't fully understand it myself, but based on the axioms in that theory, you can calculate the potential consciousness of a system.
I would consider a much longer commute to be acceptable once or twice a week compared to having to do it every day. You could still have the benefit of having a lower cost of living without increasing the number of hours you spend commuting per week.
I bought a trampoline for my 6yo. Just yesterday, it arrived. Set it up indoors, 2.44 meters, right in the middle of the apartment living room.

Best investment I have ever made.
I spent three months as a keyboard-only user. Here’s what I learned
All of the reasons other commentors gave, and also to show it has value. Think of it like getting a credit card while you can still technically get money from your parents (weak analogy).

If you can get money from someone else it shows that it has value in the marketplace generally.
I'm aware of three notebook programs: Jupyter, Iodide, and Observable.

Jupyter reigns supreme, at least in my opinion, because there is a kernel available for almost every language. Jupytext lets you strip out the input cells into a version control and text-editor friendly document.

Observable's spreadsheet-like cells solve "Answer #3", but you're limited to Javascript.

Iodide keeps the code and results separate, and has a clean single-document look. It has (some?) support for languages that can be run in webassembly.

This looks most similar to Iodide, but doesn't force you to use the included minimal text editor. I'd really like to use something like this.
I do have some difficulty with linting Jupytext documents, which these would have as well. I have not figured out how to get my text editor to ignore everything but the code cells.
Building a Telegram Bot Powered by Apache Kafka and KsqlDB
The article makes it pretty clear that the majority are due to covid.

> About three-quarters of this excess can be accounted for by deaths that mention Covid-19 on the death certificate - that total was just over 36,000.

The remaining 14,000 are up for debate, and even if they didn’t have covid it isn’t simple. If someone dies because they can’t get treated due to healthcare systems breaking due to covid, is covid the cause of death?
I can't tell if this is sarcasm or not!?
The most interesting response that I've seen to Lewis's trilemma came from a psychiatric nurse. His experience of working in an psychiatric hospital was that people with delusions, such as thinking they are Napoleon, didn't seem particularly off. They were pleasant, and easy to care for. Over the course of weeks, one would get to know them. It would gradually become apparent that the delusional thinking went very deep. They really did need residential care.

So Lewis's rhetoric depends on "lunatic" connoting "raving lunatic" and there are actually four branches to his tri-lemma: liar, God, raving lunatic, some-one with serious psychiatric issues who generally holds it together and seems normal much of the time.
my main reason for suggesting rust was to avoid the temptation to "solve the problem of the c++ build system ecosystem" which seems to be why catkin was created -- but i think this problem is basically intractable ...

Rust seems to me a reasonable language for developing the library of functionality that ROS offers -- with distribution and building and component development story all solved by the ecosystem default build mechanism ...
Impressed to see this is your first open source project! What a fantastic blend of simplicity, technology, and wit.

I love it.

Original (was PDF): https://i.imgur.com/v5nn1ql.png

Processed: https://www.scanyourpdf.com/media/Scan_2020512_wegb.pdf
I don't think that's necessarily true, because I don't think emotions are 'what consciousness is made of'. For example, I'm conscious of color. Imo consciousness is an ability to witness subjectively, in a very specific but non-transmissible way.
debt, the first 5000 years
Great new app for bringing your Release Notes into the Continuous Delivery age!
Can I buy stock of this company?
It's interesting that adding square footage is opex for businesses (leased commercial real estate) but often capex for individuals (purchased residential real estate). And then the capex is mortgage-financed back into a monthly payment that is effectively opex....

(Yes, there are larger apartments, but they are somewhat rare. Maybe this will change!)
What being a veterinarian really takes [video]
Not sure if love is an emotion, but sure, why not, these likely are just complex activation patterns in the brain.
I've hung out a bunch at Twitter's offices (in both SF and NYC). It's pretty eye-opening and a good lens into why Twitter the company is so fucked up.

The vibe that comes off is more of a social hangout club than a serious tech company. You meet your friend for lunch and there's professional chefs cooking gourmet meals, you hang out in the social area while the celebrity of the day comes into the office and everyone takes pictures with them. There's breakout rooms where people are filming marketing videos. The people that are hanging out talking to celebrities all day are making $200,000+ somehow. Anyone with right of center political views is casually censored from the platform with no recourse, because it's a "cool social hangout platform" not a serious technology product with mature guidelines of what acceptable speech is and formalized appeals processes. There won't be any productivity loss from everyone going remote because nobody is doing real work anyway.
Given how little labour goes into making food (~3% of the population feeds the other 97%), and how low the margins on farming and food distribution are, inflation or not, your food will not start costing 50% of your income.

What's actually going to happen is that food, air travel, and cars will remain cheap, while investments, like stocks, houses, etc, will rise in price. That's the direct consequence of QE.
I have yet to hear the phrase "making city money while living in the country", but we should see an uptick in personal utopias as the 21st century workforce matures in this new era.

In the age of logistics, it is not inconceivable that manufacturing labor will also have the opportunity to have autonomous vehicles deliver the inventory needed to support the livelihood of residents such as garment workers and others with WFH options.

"Work on Demand" has probably been accelerated by decades and would be a more viable option than many of the UBI proposals floating around to reverse mass unemployment in the long-term.

All it takes is one IKEA set to start a chain reaction. Send it to worker 1 to assemble, worker 2 to disassemble and worker 3 to refurb/repackage and send it out again.

I say that in jest, but they could have the white collar, blue collar and t-shirt (creatives) workers all on a positive financial trajectory at the same time if they manage the next wave of innovation and any real or manufactured crises well.
>I play in survival mode mostly to make the world feel more grounded, but I sleep every night and rarely explore caverns.

I feel like that's what makes it feel so satisfying, engaging, and "real". You sleep every night and do only the "peaceful" world-building kind of things. But even when you sleep, you know there is still a whole world of caverns and action out there happening, even as you are ignoring it, that you can glimpse into and participate in whenever you want. Which is what makes it really engaging and believable, as the world goes on even without your participation.

Imo this is the same effect that makes some movie or book universes feel more "real" (but is achieved in different ways than with videogames, due to the medium itself). Their universes are built in such a way, it makes you believe that the world out there is still going on, even after you turn the TV off or close the book.
As a technological toy, I think this sort of thing is cool. In fact, you can do it in LaTeX pretty easily: https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/94523/simulate-a-sca...

It's interesting that the problem they had was with the signature. You can very easily make a handwritten signature on an iPad. I don't see how there's any practical way to tell the difference between a high-quality, handwritten signature done on an iPad with either a finger or an Apple Pencil and a scanned signature done with a pen.

Are you sure that's not just some excuse they gave you?
I've found that it's fine as long as you have your laptop plugged in. Before COVID I worded every day on a Macbook Pro 16 with an iPad Pro w/ Luna as my second display. Everything stayed at full charge.

I'll also mention that for whatever reason Luna works far better than Duet. I always get black bars and lag on Duet, but Luna is generally flawless (except for the occasional crash or random switch from wired->wireless connection).
Windows came from the single-user domain. Unix came from server space. It is literally two different evolutionary paths. From day-1, Unix was built for shared file systems, multi-user accounts, and distributed computing.

Networking on Microsoft was an afterthought until the mid-90's. Sure there were token ring and banyan vines drivers in the late 80's early 90's, but that was to share a drive letter. The entire idea of multiple users didn't appear until Win3.1 for workgroups, decades after multiuser OSes. WinNT started to take protected mode seriously, but they re-invented networking from an MS perspective (e.g., POP/SNMP? nope: MSExchange).

It's not a surprise that Windows is such a mess under the hood compared to Linux/BSD/Unix/SystemV when you look at the history of Windows. I dunno, maybe that's not fair, but switching between *nux and Windows from a networking / distributed computing perspective is jarring. And that's just for simple things (interface config, tracing, configuration of multiple adapters and bridges...)
So you're considering Candidate A, who lives in SF, and B, who lives in a small town.

You decide that B has to compete with A on talent, but A doesn't have to compete with B on price.

Does that make strategic sense?
I concur - I used to work with a set of clusters totaling ~45k drives and it was always fun to compare failure rates (especially on a per model basis).
Conservatives: we're printing $5300 per capita, $1200 of which goes to working people and $4100 goes to the market/rich and the working people still want more?! Such entitlement!
Maybe I don't get it but the gov didn't ban TON. It banned the sale of said tokens. Nothing stops them from further developing the tech with VC money.
If I could have engineers for 1000$ who are able to build and operate infra better than AWS then Jeff Bezos fortune would look pale in comparison.
> It's much harder to make friends as an adult.

I think work and commuting adds to this. Like in the bay, imagine if people stopped commuting going from sf to oakland wouldn't be a nightmare. Now you can visit people.

Or if you have flexible lunch time and free time from commuting you can do local things, take classes, visit stuff, do social things. Instead we're stuck waking up early to get ready, commuting, eating lunch at work, commuting back, prepping dinner. The day is almost shot except for an hour or two in the evening.
If it gets even mildly popular, different companies with different meeting days could time-share an office.
But what I would like is to couch coop games, like switch.

Many games on ipad are not built with couch coops with controllers as first class citizens
That does not make sense at all. The files were probably cached in the Linux case.
This is definitely true, and might be a big reason why I'm 31 and haven't had kids.

There is an upper limit on the amount of suffering a human can endure before they just die, though. It can be a really high limit, but I could imagine a world where that limit is exponentially higher for an AI.
1. the priority order of popup hints is customizable in VSCode I believe. Unfortunately, I use sublime so I'm not sure of the exact fix in VS, maybe someone else can chime in with their experience here.

2. I haven't encountered this in SublimeText other than when I first open a large new project for about ~30sec, maybe it's trying to index a large project folder? I know you can set up restrictions on the folders it tries to index to make sure it's not going wild on your whole home folder by accident.

Check out https://www.tabnine.com/faq/#magic_strings and maybe try playing around with some of those config options?
That would be great and healthy for the whole country if things were more spread out.
Great job, love it. Do commercial solutions use simulations and stuff? Sounds like a great way to bootstrap is to use some of these more realistic games to get some initial work.

By the way, I found this part funny:

> ...if it doesn’t make sense to you think about it and try to understand it.

We had a teacher once who'd say "If you don't understand, try to understand". Haha!
Interesting. I have a World of Tanks twitch streamer's video playing on the side as I read this, and also thought tanks.
> in a way that their regular internet behavior does not.

Counterpoint: I think if most regular people understood the extent of Google's other surveillance behavior, they would also find it creepy.
The thing is, if more people are remote, the market includes people -outside- of SV.
Depends on how often they intend to make changes to that code. But in general I think you are right.
How the biggest consumer apps got their first 1k users
The Fed is not set up to execute this hence ETFs, Black Rock. The Fed also wants to eliminate the perception the government owns securities in these private companies. Use an etf and you don’t have the same control or voting rights.
Thanks! Glad you liked it. JWildfire is super cool, I would love to add a fractal flame category to Artbreeder.
Yev from Backblaze here -> Nice! Welcome aboard :)

Edit -> what are the feature's your missing most? We're collecting feedback at: b2feedback@backblaze.com if you want to send some notes over!
This is basically just a repost of the actual post Durov made: https://telegra.ph/What-Was-TON-And-Why-It-Is-Over-05-12 which has many more comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23156224
Slack and Trello.

I'd love to be able to have a '#trello' channel where I can see my full board without having to leave the Slack interface.
I agree. I'm never said that if enough people don't like it that it shouldn't be changed. I was talking "now". If what somebody is doing "now" is legal, then right "now" there isn't anything you can do about it. I can call the police, they'll either not come because it's legal, or they'll come, maybe talk to the guy, then say to me that he's not doing anything wrong.

I'm didn't say I had to like it, just that sometimes there's not much you can do at the moment. There's a distinction.
Your definition of bubble and the one I was replying to are fundamentally incompatible - I don’t really care which term one uses though
But this is only because you are now out of a sudden in such a situation. If you knew it was like this for ever and its up to you how much human contact you still get you can team up with some friends (or collegues that you especially like) instead of those collegues you got randomly assigned to. I have this that while my contract is running out right now and I am ready to work on something new, I kind of know that I will miss my old collegues and while I will certainly get to like new ones as well, there is something to it to keep up you old team for longer.

Or to put it short: Why do I have to switch my lunch group, just because I switch the employer. Remote does not mean you have to stay alone or with family all day.
Thanks. Will give it another go.
>I don't consider it a statement about the future

Okay, so what does one will receive mean, if it doesn't reference the future???
Probably worth including this link to the Ars collection of articles on products that Google has killed:

https://arstechnica.com/series/google-kills-product/

There's also Killed by Google:

https://killedbygoogle.com/
Does this require me to send unencrypted files to GDrive/Dropbox?
They sustainably provide goods & services.

Everything that we attribute to a modern way of life: our food options, the ability to freely communicate with anyone in the world, modern transportation, home appliances, clothing, and finally the global supply chains that enable all of the above — are all provided to society by so called "business champions".
I still have the model! I started working on the image -> vector conversion (which is more complicated than I expected) and then got distracted. I should finish that up, thanks for the reminder :)
So... does this mean Twitter is going to transition to a globally dispersed workforce? Or are they still going to hire mostly Bay Area folks?

The latter would seem insane if they are going to allow teams to be 100% remote. Why pay SF rates if you're getting a WFH employee?
What's your defence against an attacker with a few hours of physical access meddling with whatever comes before you typing the decryption key, such that you're actually typing your key into a program controlled by them, which then decrypts your filesystem image, inserts its own malicious code into some irrelevant kernel module, then boots the system as normal?
Learn what everybody should know and then tell everybody.

In larger organizations (multiple teams on the same product) this might already be enough. Once you have a broad knowledge people will start asking you stuff and then involve you in decision making.
Just so you're aware, it is possible in Microsoft to some extent, just not very publicly visible (the careers site doesn't help you find these jobs).

I started working in one team and switched to another team internally because they are pro-remote and I plan on moving back to Australia. Broadly across Microsoft there are also about ~30 other engineers already working from Australia for Redmond-based teams.
Take a look at panpsychism. It's interesting, but I've never been sold on it. Integrated information theory (like this article talks about) is more palatable for me. It allows for the possibility of consciousness of certain non biological systems, but doesn't just give a carte blanche "everything is conscious" like panpsychism.