skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I did that with Leisure Suit Larry....never worked very well :(

But this game (War of mine) is fantastic!!!

EDIT: Well one time it worked, but that was in florida, so i don't count that.
All providers had their infamy moment at some point, leaving a backdoor behind.

Maybe for spying, maybe because QA failed.

Huawei is on the US radar but somehow when Cisco left a backdoor on some routers it was "just a mistake".

Every country is guilty of stabbing in the back others (occasionally or all the time), it has been the case for centuries and is not likely to change.

I am French, we do not have our own tech so we get stuff from everyone around - we are probably in the worst spot from that perspective.
In my opinion the energy problem is a quantitative problem and most discussions are too superficial. I want to look at grand plans, rather than specific tech since one or even two won’t be enough. We need to look at whole energy portfolios and work towards that.

A good analysis should look like this:
https://www.withouthotair.com/
What ludicrous talk! You may as well suggest something equally as insane, like converting to metric units! /s
Good luck updating that pile of dinosaur bones!
Yes it is that bad.

Two months ago, my partner vacuumed up fox poop. No idea why he thought it was a good idea. We realised it wasn't when the soft, sticky debris coated the inside of the vacuum cleaner's flexible hose. :(

The smell only improved after I cleaned every internal crevice. Including submerging the crinkly part of the hose in a half-full bath and pulling through a sponge three or four times.

We still have to put deodorant beads inside the vacuum cleaner bag.
based on my understanding of your post, you WANT to go to leadership role in long term, but you got offer for non-leadership role. I would not accept this offer if both companies are in same caliber, because you don't know when you can adjust your ladder again to leadership position in upcoming years, you might end up being engineer for next 5 years.

If we are talking about different caliber companies, say jumping from medium sized business IT department to FAANG companies, then probably you might be okay, since after getting FAANG in your resume, your next journey might immediately start with Engineering manager, Team lead positions.
The US has nearly half of the worlds aircraft carriers (20 out if 43). It also has the 10 or 11 largest carriers in the world, and about two thirds of world aircraft carrier tonnage.

All of these carriers cost billions, the largest group over $10B each. It is speculated that modern anti-carrier missiles make them expensive sitting ducks in any serious shooting war.
Speak with your money, call in complaints to advertisers, communicate the importance of these actions to your friends.
Ya only Uncle Sam is allowed to spy on our kids.

This line of reasoning is getting old. All social media apps are data collection driven platforms
Class Action Lawsuit
Are you not also absorbed by your phone in other ways?

> I would argue it is one thing to be absorbed by reading in your phone HN or other productive sources. Laughing and dancing on the other hand, after a certain period of time not so much useful.
Can you explain the threat model you're using here to assess Facebook vs TikTok? This sounds like just emotional language as I could call most of the modern web spyware and not be too far off the mark
I wonder, has anyone written a formula-to-pseudocode translator? Seems like it should be possible if you have access to the formula markup language.
Since the copy/paste exploit was addressed (in ios) I'm not sure what useful information "chinese spyware" can gather from this app. As long as it's being used for goofy dance and lip sync videos, I don't see the harm.
There's no such thing as registering a common-law relationship in Quebec, unless you mean a civil union which is legally entirely different. By common-law partner I mean (as do the federal government statistics I cited) what the Quebec government and legislation often call de facto spouse, de facto partner, or sometimes shoehorn into the definition of spouse despite not being married.

And the taxes aren't always a bad thing. In my case, my partner makes much less income than me, so starting this year we can shift medical expenses to her tax return to save with the medical expenses tax credit. We'll also qualify to share health insurance plans despite not being married.
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For another light but slightly more in-depth introduction, you might enjoy Financial Statements by Thomas Ittelson. It uses running an applesauce factory as an ongoing example throughout the book. As a programmer with no accounting/finance background, I found it very easy to follow.
> The idea is to focus on solving the cause not the symptoms.

No. The idea it to shut up and put in actual work. Until you do that you have no clue what the causes or the symptoms are.
The German translation would need an alternate title.
Ask HN: Best Book for learning about Operating Systems, especially windows?
My wife is a physcist who works with .NET. We sometimes talk about operating system, and she wanted to learn more.

She's a .NET dev who would ideally like a book focused on Windows that she can learn from. I didn't paticularly like or hate my textbooks in school, but what would be best for her?
I feel the same way about a lot of social media personalities, YouTube ... there's all these youtube-isms that every youtuber eventually adopts. You follow someone, they get popular, then they do some reaction videos, or they decide to evolve into some sort of lifestyle / social media pundit / etc... I really don't care to watch folks react to things or any of that other stuff.

They all encourage a lot of nasty / outrageous content over time as that's what gets eyeballs.

I think much more positive, authentic, curated / focused content would be great. I'm done with filtering twitter, youtube, instagram ... endlessly as content eventually goes sour.
It says it can sleep 6 people. $1,666 per person per week sounds pretty reasonable compared to other popular vacation options like cruises etc...
materialize.io is literally timelydataflow/ differential dataflow... same product, developed by Frank McSherry. It's not "the other tool", it's the very same.
Poland has a good literary heritage, which was partly responsible for the coalescing of Poland as a nation. So I suppose many of books and authors from that tradition could be essential reading for Polish young people..

I am not from Poland myself. Perhaps Henrik Sienkiewicz is one of those authors..

Perhaps they should prescribe the Witcher novels too.
Are you suggesting that US companies should fear the US government may... steal their IP? I'm not being facetious, I just don't understand what the "realistic and regular worries" you cite are supposed to be.
If I had enough money I'd buy one.
They already do that in the United States as well, too. so there would be literally no change. Like you, I'm also not seeing how that could be an obstacle.
I am all for activism but does this work unless it reaches a sizeable mass, look at how FB brushed aside the impact of protests by their advertisers.
Instagram seems to be evolving into Home Shopping Network or QVC.
I recently deleted TikTok from my phone. I didn't have it for too long, and until the recent press I had no idea it was a Chinese app. Honestly, I understand companies will mine my data, but I have an issue with those companies being forced to submit my data to the Chinese government on a whim. And it was really all the same thing. People doing the same skits or dances. Most of which were just chicks doing it in bikinis to get more views and likes.
AirPods were only $149.

Mine have lasted nearly three years, the first time I’ve ever had earphones last over 6 months without breaking.
they could make the "create confidental VM" checkbox do absolutely nothing if they wanted!
This tiktok "war" is, ultimately, changing the way people politicians think about media tech.

With Twitter or Facebook, it's a lot easier to dismiss the magnitude of their influence. After all, they're not in business to influence politics. They just want to make tech & sell ads and make money. They don't care what becomes news, who wins elections etc. Benign commercial interests, that's all

With tiktok and the chinese government's explicit approach of combining public & commercial interest... That argument falls apart. That and the fact that it is a foreign entity potentially affecting american politics.

Ultimately, the argument will swing back to FB & such... hopefully.
Can't read the article, but if they recently switched payment processors for Europe for the dev program maybe they switched to Digital River?

They're famous for having extremely paranoid anti fraud checks to the point that I don't even attempt to pay for something through them any more. (e.g.: the card that i use for the app store, amazon, steam etc wasn't good enough for guild wars 2).
This is why a garage-type situation would probably be better. At least in my garage there's a not-great enough seal that any leaks would go outside before they'd go in the house.
This sounds a little bit like the politicians are not "we" but are imported from Mars or something.

The majority of people seems to like it this way, or rather doesn't care. There's even no vocal enough minority to demand the change (pun not intended).
Firebase provides causal consistency. By subscribing to streams (listen), the client opts into which data sources it was consistent snapshots of, then all distinct client streams are bundled up and delivered in order over the wire. It's a very elegant model which does not get in the way and has nice ergonomics.
couldn't they at least put an ssl certificate on the website? Besides that sometimes it just responds with 502
I remember a story from the early 1980's about Steve Jobs.

Steve asked, what is the most efficient animal in motion?

People would give many answers.

The correct answer was a condor in flight.

A common wrong answer was a human being.

Steve then pointed out that the human isn't even close. Not even in the running as far as efficiency of some other animals.

But . . . if you give the human a bicycle, then the human absolutely cleans up in terms of efficiency. Steve wanted personal computers to be "a bicycle for the mind".
As a student, I really started to grokk accounting when I started thinking of double-entry accounting as the business application of Newton's law "For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction." Whenever a change happens to one side of the financial statements, an exact and simultaneous change happens to the other side. Aggregated over a period of time, the financial statements both categorize and summarize these various changes.

The rule that Assets = Liabilities + Equity is important because Liabilities and Equity can be viewed as opposing forces. Notwithstanding the financial engineering and nuance around debt, liabilities in their purest sense are a balance of how much you've taken beyond what you've earned, while equity is a measurement of how much you've earned beyond what you've taken. The assets show what you have, but L&E show how everything was acquired.

As I get older, I've come to appreciate how accounting also serves as a prism through which to view the world, because the financial concepts that apply to billion dollar businesses also apply to small mom-and-pops and individuals. One can think of themselves as a company, of which they are the CEO and sole employee. They earn revenue (from a job), incur expenses, and may have physical assets (homes, cars, computers) or liabilities (student/car/home loans). Every decision that's made is financial in nature, and thinking about decisions as an exchange of money or time helps me prioritize what I do personally and professionally.

Accounting is a wonderfully beautiful system and I hope it becomes more common knowledge because it is absolutely fundamental to living in our modern time. The largest governments and businesses are bound by the same rules of accounting, and so are we -- whether we are aware of it or not.
Escargot deserves its own submission.
I am also deeply fascinated by TikTok. It is really next generation social media.

Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, Hacker News all look seriously dated in comparison.
> What wrong with people smiling, laughing and dancing?

There is nothing wrong in it, but there isn't much alluring there too. Its available from so many other platforms.
Having used tiktok for a total of 10 hours now, I get programmer humor, car videos and funny animal videos - exactly what I want

That's the whole point - the ability to curate content that you will like is phenomenal, especially given the non-obvious inputs to their model. Like a video? Sure you'll see more of that kind of stuff. You may not think about scrolling up/down to restart the video, watching it multiple times, sharing it, opening/closing the comments (and I'm sure 10,000 other inputs) all feed into it's ability to curate
How's that help? Podman sits in the same position as lxc or single-host docker, doesn't it?
Yes, a given Foreign Data Wrapper—that is, the module of functionality that describes the connection strategy for some remote resource, like an ORM "adapter" module—is a Postgres extension. To get PG to speak a new protocol, you need to write a new FDW extension.

But a Foreign Data Wrapper server is just an instance of that class. You don't need to write a Postgres extension, just to use an existing Foreign Data Wrapper.

And, crucially, many of these FDWs are written to be backed by standard (or at least well-documented) network protocols.

Which means that, a large percentage of the time, people thinking "I'll take this third-party thing and integrate its data into Postgres" these days, don't write a Foreign Data Wrapper, but rather choose one of the existing network protocols with an existing Foreign Data Wrapper that supports it, and make their third-party thing speak that protocol, so that they (and anyone else who likes) can mount it as a server using the existing FDW.

Specifically, many systems that want to be "Postgres-compatible" these days (CockroachDB, Materialize, etc.), speak the Postgres wire protocol as if they were Postgres itself. This is not (mainly) so that real clients can talk to them through a libpq binding (as they tend to have their own, more idiomatic client ABI); but rather so that actual Postgres instances can mount them using `postgres_fdw`, the FDW that assumes the other end is another Postgres server and uses libpq to talk to it.
i think if anything tiktok's rise will probably bolster US domestic support for big tech. who wants to be the senator that creates a power vacuum filled by chinese tech?
If it does get sold, hopefully it's not to an US company. The web is already far too dominated by US socal media companies.
Certainly no lack of strong opinions from engineers.
This is one of the most depressing comments I've read in a long time.
You're missing the obvious way to exploit this: all consumers stand to benefit a maximum of two cents from each purchase they make by carrying both cash AND card. Since rounding only happens when paying cash, simply pay cash if the purchase could be rounded down ($_._1 or $_._2), and pay card if it could rounded up ($_._3 and $_._4).

In practice, no one gives a shit because it's a penny and no one cares about the penny. QED
My thought was: No need to find a dump station. Just get to 10,000 feet and open the black tank valve. Hopefully over wilderness...
sensor tower is great for mobile app estimates but really falls flat on its face with streaming.

first, downloads do not mean payment or usage. you can download an app long before you use it.

second, as netflix confirmed years ago, 70%+ of sign-ups happen on TVs – probably even more during COVID – so app activity is not a meaningful lever of insights.

https://www.vox.com/2018/3/7/17094610/netflix-70-percent-tv-...
I don't think this is a useful response. The concept of accounting is deeply integrated with the rules of accounting. The implementation details are the concepts, really. I'd suggest making the examples conform to the actuality of how accounting will get used.
Where and when did you go to school such that you were given a Bible to read? I started school in the US in the 1970s and never saw or heard anything more religious than the Pledge of Allegiance or a Christmas decoration.
To people who haven't tried keeping track of their personal finances using double-entry bookkeeping, I strongly recommend it.

It's not just about reducing error (although it does that really well too.) It's also about increasing transparency, for two reasons: it makes many things explicit that would otherwise be easy to hide, perhaps by accident; it also provides very strong support for querying your finances in various ways.

Whenever I'm budgeting for something (a project among friends, the wedding with my wife, and so on) I always try to start out "simpler" but I also always end up doing something like double-entry bookkeeping because all other "simpler" solutions make it very hard to figure out where money is actually coming from and where it is going.

This is as good a place as any to start: https://plaintextaccounting.org/
But the whole premise of the post is that you don't really need to go to university to educate yourself about things. It's all out there already.
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Just another example of the failures of the Constitution in the modern era. The Federal government is the only one that can reasonably do Universal Healthcare, or any kind of economic stimulus in crisis, but it fails. States are powerless to try to fix it on their own.
The Atlantic Divide on Energy Codes (2013)
In what way exactly are you comparing tiktok to HN?
The issue I have is that we have had sub-solutions for decades. We've always lacked the overall strategy and will. More subsolutions is not useful because it won't create an overall strategy.

Were in "1000 spoons when all you need is a knife" and we're rapidly searching for more spoons and celebrating spoon production.

They're actually worse than useless. People mistake more options for action. And people spend more time arguing over which sub solutions to implimented while implimenting nothing.
> give it up in a heartbeat for a Western replacement.

It's important to recognized that it's not a coincidence that TikTok exists and is run by a Chinese company.

In the West that replacement would have been immediately purchased by FB or Twitter and then summarily destroyed. This is literally what happened to the closest Western equivalent: Vine.

The Chinese government has many faults, but unlike the US government, the Chinese government still enforces the idea that Chinese companies should operate in the interest of the nation.

Facebook did try to buy Musical.ly, the company that became TikTok, and would have likely destroyed it just like Twitter did Vine.

If the US government was remotely functional it would put a little effort into challenging the ability of near monopolies to simply destroy any competitor through acquisition. I agree that it's not ideal that the Chinese government is tightly connected with TikTok/ByteDance, but the reason there is no Western TikTok is because our governments (particularly the US) are so deeply aligned with the interests of larger corporations that a viable competitor to these cannot exist.
I would not count Ajivika or Charvaka as within the ambit of Hinduism, and neither did the Ancient Commentators. Both were considered heresies. Indeed, Ajivika is better understood as a distinct dharmic religion. In addition, Advaita is not a "non-sentient God", but that's a separate discussion.

For the sake of the parent question, it would make sense to restrict to the Astika schools. Basal to these schools was an acknowledgement of the supremacy of the Vedas (or at least tacit acceptance of their authority).
> don't like reading books and tend to skip even very important titles

That's because the list of mandatory [1] reading in Poland is 90% haphazardly thrown together nationalistic martyrdom bullshit with terrible state-mandated interpretation.

I used to _hate_ literary analysis, partly because of the works we were studying and how we were forced to interpret them. Then, years after leaving school I've discovered that this can actually be interesting and intellectually stimulating, especially if you care for the work, and doubly so if you're actually explained the point of this sort of analysis in the first place. Every single peer of around my age that has gone through the same system has had the exact same experience, regardless of school or district.

[1] - as I've experienced it 10 years ago
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They make kinda do it pretty easy to stream the major services on TVs now. I can't imagine its easier to just torrent the files. I kinda don't care if people torrent, but they've made it easy enough I don't bother.

The trouble is of course I'm paying for something that isn't as versatile (shows/movies come and go, I can't watch without a connection) but I think its easier and the tradeoff is worth it. I don't tend to watch shows over and over so that helps.

Although I agree typing with the onscreen keyboard and remote just sucks...

Of course I am old and remember the hassle of video rentals which involved physical media (where what you wanted often wasn't available), so my threshold for retrieving content might be higher.
I used to work on IT too (10+) and I was sysadmin in a bank (same?) and I was really puzzled when I saw SSH connections to the Sun servers from japan. I took me some time to realised that It was from our own systems.
This is something I’ve heard people complaining about for months, so it’s unlikely to be related to the recent issues with Wirecard.
In your example, you got a massage and I got my nails polished. We both did.

Apple pays app developers over $30B a year. It’s created hundreds of thousands of high paying jobs at third party developers.
Isn't the condor still much more efficient. How many calories does a cyclist need to travel 100 miles?
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Not at all. SEV has been broken many times and by more trivial means [1-3]

[1] https://arxiv.org/pdf/1805.09604.pdf

[2] https://regmedia.co.uk/2019/07/10/amd.pdf

[3] https://www.theregister.com/2019/06/26/amd_epyc_key_security...
I can see I have an unpopular opinion here. I really disagree that this should be a game changer for anybody, and I think it fits my original example quite well.

But please know, I don't mean this argumentatively. It's just a difference of perspective I suppose.
As an European I am happy that someone is finally breaking the American monopoly on social media.

It just feels wrong only being surveilled by the NSA.
If you know all of the quirks of the various databases, why aren't you hacking on their optimizers? Why write a compiler that knows what's slow and what's not when you can just fix what's slow?