skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is also something you can kind of simulate through software, right? I haven't used it myself, but it seems along the lines of what software like YNAB is - setting future targets for budget categories, and then funding them as chunks of money come in, such that for any particular day per time period, you can see if you are ahead of or behind schedule.

Zooming out, there's a lot of tech theory on buffers and streams that apply. A "JIT" stream is something that doesn't need a buffer if it's perfect and reliable and consistent enough. The YNAB approach is more about using that buffer.
In 20ish years of using the mobile internet, going back to WAP days, I've never visited a site that was blocked by a mobile carrier content filter.
I spent a few years doing under the table construction and also picked up the skills to work on mechanical things around the same time. Then I went to college, got a career and spent some money picking up the skills required to work in metal. Electrical and plumbing (not just for water) are things you kind of have to pick up along the way. I'm no means a professional at any of these skills because I don't get 40hr of practice a week. Nor am I unique. A lot of successful people from blue collar backgrounds wind up with similar skills. Even though I have software money now I couldn't afford to pay people to build the things I can build myself.
Wages constantly increase due to economic prosperity (on average, I realize they have dwindled in the past 50 odd years), and every single year the majority of people have nothing in their savings accounts.

It's been that way since the dawn of time. [0]

This is a human economy problem, not a technological one imho.

If you give a programmer a cookie, she is going to ask for a glass of milk.

[0] https://www.ancient.eu/article/1012/ancient-egyptian-taxes--...
This is probably true.
Actually, my method is very simple.
Every 10 minutes I log the Total LBAs Written attribute from the SSD to a log file alongside a long time stamp.

Periodically I graph the data with GNUPlot. There's a slight slope most of the time. In some regions there are jumps. These are generally when I seriously work with my software, generating logs and other output.

System is on another SSD and swap is on a high performance HDD so, they do not affect the graphs I'm getting.

That jumps helped me to catch two KDE bugs. One was an isolated case with akonadi. Other one was reported and possibly KRunner's bookmarks extension will see some more revisions to eliminate disk trashing.

Addendum: When I have spare time, I'd write a small HTML/JS file to get the data from log file and graph it interactively. A both fun and useful project.
It does include support for AVX-512, it's just still a work in progress. AVX-512 is enormous (IIRC ~ 4k functions), so it will be a while before it is fully supported.

If you're targeting AVX-512 but don't have hardware that supports AVX-512 (like all AMD CPUs), SIMDe can be quite nice. The result is much faster than Intel's SDE and it's just native code that you can use your normal debugger on.
Stop using venmo & probably paypal. They uniquely block transactions based on stupid keyword basis. Also happens with 'persian food'.

On top of that, venmo really wants to make your transactions public, while ones like square cash do not. I also don't think they do the stupid keyword thing too.
Thanks. Today I learned that window ACs and wall ACs are different things even though they look extremely similar.

For anyone reading this, presumably because windows are thin and walls are thick, window ACs are expected to stick out and thus have vents on the sides, whereas wall ACs have vents only on the back surface.

So as long as you figure out drainage (so condensation doesn't just land on the windowsill), you can install a wall AC in a window and have it not protrude.
We're not quite the best solution for that as we're inherently not a marketplace, but I'm certain a player will emerge in that space shortly.
Kinda like building a web app. Think, estimate, write, compile, deploy, repeat.

On a serious note, there's so many similarities between building a house and a web app.

Without a proper plan and a blueprint, preferably by an architect and not the contractor - forget about it. Client never knows what they want. Small changes (KILL ME NOW) can take huge amount of time and impact things that don't seem connected, which the client never understands. The last 10% is rarely completed or done badly. It always takes much longer than expected. Everyone's excited in the beginning and considers euthanasia toward the end.

It's hilarious really.
Pixel phones are now preventing sim swapping, IIRC, and maybe a few others.
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Our cable box has three decoders. My gf can watch one channel and record two others at the same time.

Yet does it use any of those extra decoders when not recording to proactively decode the previous and next channel, or something smart like that? No, of course not...
Every time I see a headline like this one I have to think about two things - Jevons paradox and climate change.
He wouldn't have to "deal with the potential antitrust firestorm" anyway. Apple has perfectly capable legal and government relations departments for that.
Which companies allow 2FA without a phone number?
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You can tell these folk work as writers, truly excellent read!
So, I've been pretty aggressive in all the Windows 10 settings, and I have a PiHole set up for my DNS. What I've noticed is that my PiHole barely lights up for Windows 10, especially compared to how loud it lit up for Windows 8, after all of those privacy violating features from Windows 10 were shoved into Windows 8.

It seems, at least from my experimentation, that Windows 10 is actually quieter when you put all the privacy stuff up - either that, or the other ones are so inactive that they don't show up in my PiHole.

Current statistics show least popular top permitted domain on my computer to be hit 258 times a day and nothing above it is Microsoft.

Top Blocked Domains from Microsoft include:
settings-win.data.microsoft.com ( > 100 )
v10.events.data.microsoft.com ( > 80 )

It's pretty darn quiet. I think Windows 8, after the telemetry updates, was was many times that.

edit: small disclosure: I did work for Microsoft around 7 years ago. I did work in the Windows org, though. These thoughts are my own and I very much hate the tracking that Microsoft does, even at the bare minimum without a toggle switch to turn it all of.
> If I'm making more money than everyone else and the consequences of sharing salaries is equity than it is in my rational self-interest to keep my salary hidden because I'm unlikely to get any kind of raise until equity is achieved whereas I may continue to get raises otherwise.

That's exactly what your boss wants you to believe. What if you somehow, without sharing yourself, found out that you actually were nowhere near a top earner? Would that affect your conclusions?
Getting my house remodeled I realized that the contractors do probably 50x as much math as I do on a daily basis, and I'm the one with a math degree. Go figure.
username checks out :-)

seriously though, i’m glad they were able to tie their profession in by sharing their story, i really enjoyed it. if i were to embark on this kind of thing i’d probably end up writing some software to help with the effort.
I don't think it's the nature of progress. There's no question we have the _capacity_ to engineer our way out of these problems. They aren't unsolvable. But a lot would have to change before the necessary resources are mobilized against these kind of problems instead of churning out yet more bloat, which, let's face it, is what most of us are doing with our time every day.

Related: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kZRE7HIO3vk

I'm not expert enough to say if his technical solutions are correct, but it's a pretty good explication of the problem.
The only constraint of price is that must be greater than cost. After that price is determined by what the customer is willing to pay based on the value they receive.
Maybe even Google feels this way, since they seem to have deindexed so much old content?
I’m currently building a dining table. I am building up experience building a workbench. I just discovered the legs do not stand vertical, after I just spent the whole day planing and milling the top to be flat.

But I made it myself, and that counts for a lot.
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Apologies for the double reply, but I was curious as to what was going on, so I fired up a VM. It's running Windows 10 Enterprise 1809, because that's what I happened to have lying around.

Downloading the latest version of unc0ver (v5.3.1) does indeed not receive any trouble from Windows Defender.

Then I decided to try an older version of unc0ver, specifically v3.6.3, because it was released around the time I remembered running into this. Sure enough, Windows Defender deleted it for being a "Jailbreak".

(It wasn't even quarantined, just deleted outright, leaving me with no way to restore the file!)

https://i.ibb.co/DMCNHCs/Screen-Shot-2020-08-04-at-2-41-22-P...

So, the problem was fixed, but not on Microsoft's end. And it was not a false positive, because Windows 10 labeled the "threat" accurately.
No no it's all very easy, as is brain surgery: Think. Cut. Repeat. Nothing to it. Fine motor skills are irrelevant. Eyesight and depth perception play no role. Knowledge of the field can be learned immediately, in fact all you need to know is right in my three step directions!
if(IsEUCitizen()) {
...
I like everything going through Apple personally. In fact it's part of the reason I have an iPhone.
Jack Dorsey's Interop Plan
I'm not aware of anything in the works for Intel, but RISC-V seems to be going in that direction.

I'm hoping to start using SVE to implement AVX-512 and AVX in SIMDe soon.
When I engage in a DIY project, there is a 90% chance that my only accomplishment is gaining respect for professionals. Which is not to say it's a wasteful endeavor.

Also, shoutout to the Methow! The North Cascades is such a beautiful area in general.
> "Are you denying ..."

No.

It is hard to understand what you are arguing. Are you criticizing the comparison because it is not apt, or because it is?

In the mid-20th century, there really were communist moles in governments; just not as many as were claimed, and mostly not the ones accused. The craze to root them out mainly swept up, and blighted the lives and careers, of innocents.

There really were individuals who would supply poisons, but the overwhelming majority of those hung for witchcraft were women who owned property the Church wanted.

The people who take advantage of Q will not be rooting out actual offenders, and any of those who are in positions of authority can use Q to divert attention from themselves.

I suspect, but cannot support, that obsession with witchcraft arose only after, and largely because, the supply of heretics dried up.
> I only work on MacOS. I have a Windows desktop for games but despite the hardware being high quality, I can’t ever be productive on a Windows environment.

I have that same feeling.

At Uni we had to alternate between coding in SSH on Redhat machines for one class, and writing .NET programs in other classes.

While both are workable, something just felt foreign about development or DB management on Windows (even with great tools like Visual Studio).

I attribute this to knowing more about the inner workings of *nix compared to Windows, where things such as registry, services, etc. felt more like black-box magic compared to having config files, cron jobs, daemons, etc.
i have also encountered this problem. i learned the nature of rotation from first principles in order to solve these problems without documentation... which has turned out to be a massive boon.

tutorials are the devil. they do not teach so much as demonstrate a lot of the time.

its a sad place to be
Building a cabin is more like programming a game of tic-tac-toe. They weren't trying to build the Burj Khalifa on an as-you-go basis.
I work in a predominantly Scrum division with rigidly set iteration lengths (technically not scrum as this should be decided by each team, I know). It is horrible, so much wasted time trying to play by the book on this.

Every once and a while we have to break out special teams for a cross group project, a special POC, or something super important with a tight deadline. In those cases the team becomes much more engineer led than management led and in most cases we revert immediately to Kanban style. Not surprisingly for me, we always get more done in a faster manner with Kanban.

Things get done when they're done, not when an arbitrary sprint end day has occurred. Kanban allows you to move work along as needed and instead of focusing on meeting that arbitrary end day, we all get to focus on continuously getting stories closed out. All we needed for this was a kanban board in whatever tracking system we were using at that time along with a reliable form of communication between team members.
Ha ha! I bet you spend less time warching than you would spend playing so that is another big win(for me at least).
Is this related to the explosion in Lebanon?
Ye but I would just want the possibility for the simpler syntax like the GCC extension for C where you can do:

typedef void fp_t();
void foo(fp_t fp)
{
fp();
}

int square(int num) {

void square_nested()
{
num = num * num;
}

foo(square_nested);

return num;
}

That would work as long as you don't need copy capture.
Maybe it leads to less impulsive tv watching and aimless surfing and ends up being a benefit.
many people did not learn about them from a linear algebra course
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Don't know where you are in the Methow but my parents lived there for many years near Winthrop. The neighbor at their first place was building a do-it-yourself cabin with massive logs. He was killed in an accident when one of them rolled over him.

There's bad outcomes and then really bad.
I've looked into Q a fair bit and tried to tease out what's correct and incorrect, because it's actually quite fascinating. Of course I remain highly skeptical that what Q is talking about will happen, but here's what I've put together.

Q validates their posts with what's called a trip code. Urban Dictionary actually explains it pretty well:

"A trip code is a code used in anonymous threads like 4chan to determine whether or not the anonymous poster is authentic or not. It assigns a code to the end of your name. When you add the pound (#) symbol to the end of your name followed by a word, like a password that only you know, it scrambles the word into a code. That way it's undetectable and can be used over and over again." [1]

As long as you keep your password secret, trip codes are quite reliable.

Now, Q has apparently changed tripcodes over time. A good resource for looking at Q posts is qmap.pub. I just did some searching to find out how Q does these changes.

https://qmap.pub/read/1311

https://qmap.pub/read/1312

This is just one example, but the poster claiming to be Q (1) says a change is coming and (2) announces the change. It's clearly imperfect, but the old trip code isn't used again. I would have to look at all other trip code changes to be certain. However, there's no reason to automatically assume other trip code changes would be different than this.

Here's a big weakness: Q didn't use trip codes at first. Ultimately, you have to believe that the Q today is the same as the one from 2017. However, the chain of trip codes does demonstrate at least some continuity for the last two years or so.

Sources:

[1] https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Trip%20Code
I have tried linux on a laptop and the battery life was abysmal (it was an older Thinkpad X1). With macos (which I don't particularly like) I get a solid dev experience and reliable battery life. Plus, their hardware is untouchable IMO.

I have a linux desktop that works well, but I can't always work on it unfortunately.
I've heard the same about craft brewing. Personal microbrewing is fun: you can use whatever small scale apparatus you've hacked up and recipes are whatever whimsy strikes you. Actually trying to scale up and sell to people means legit industrial tools, annoying consistency and reproducibility, and spending 90%+ of your day cleaning everything like a maniac.
My family owns multiple cabins, mostly built by family members with the occasional framing and finishing work by friends of the family and/or a local contractor. The one my father owns was framed and roofed by contractors, but the closing, finishing, deck and float construction, and 30 years of repairs and renovations were done by himself and us kids. It sits on a steep hill, so putting a 60x20ft deck on 15ft stilts was no little effort for him with only the help of a bunch of actual children.

The major caveat: prior to my generation, the entire family was involved at some level in construction; from owning and operating to general labour.

It's _not_ a simple task, and the level of skill and intelligence required is something I think is often misunderstood or wholly overlooked by my peers in the tech industry. There's a kind of snobbish belief expressed by _some_ that because they can grok a complex software system they should be able to build a house; but that's a bit like believing that because you are able to write you should be able to easily be a sculptor. There may be shared core concepts, like the story being told and the ideas being conveyed, but the skills and knowledge involved and shared are few.
This is the reason I went Mac Mini + LG 5k display.

It's much more expensive but I needed to be able to hook in my work laptop to a 5k display while working and switch easily to my home setup with a single cable when I want to.

Ended up being perfect! It's paying off big time with COVID and WFH.
The musicaly people were already veterans in Silicon Valley tech scene (not young under silicon valley standard & with years of working experience).

They raised money to build education product with short videos in it.

The education product was not doing well. So they cut everything and kept the short video part.

Sounds familiar?

YouTube was initially a dating website with videos. Then they cut the dating part and kept videos.

Instagram was initially a checkin app with photos. Then they cut the checkin part and kept photos.
I planned to park my house in a trailer park, and purposefully built my house to have the same kind of hookups as an RV or manufactured home.

For power, I installed a 50amp RV-style power inlet to my house. I ran a 50-amp cable from from the power pole to my house.

For water, I was able to connect a standard drinking-water hose from the water line to the inlet into my house.

For natural gas, I ran copper flex tubing from the gas meter to the gas inlet in my house. I ensured that all of my gas appliances had the correct orifices.

For sewer, I drained all of my water fixtures (two sinks, shower, and toilet) through the floor, connected them to a common drain line, and through a sewer hookup below the house.
I've seen several of these lists being shared around the internet, and I'm curious if anyone actually finds it valuable to read through a laundry list of mental models. I generally find these abstract descriptions useless unless I've already seen the principle in action in several concrete real life examples--in which case the idea is not a new one to me.
I recommend “The Money Book for freelancers”
True.

My only point was that "people still buy" is not much of an argument.

In hindsight, I didn't contribute anything of value to the discourse by that...
For me, it is being off-grid. No $300 bi-monthly water/sewer bills (that's base charge w/o using any water). $7k - 10k in property taxes yearly. Huge heating and cooling costs for large living spaces.

I do not especially like tiny houses on wheels, but I think I could live comfortably in an 800sf small house on a rural piece of land.
Related: language rankings over time (Sept 2012 to June 2020):

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> I think both of those gameplay mechanics illustrate (or at least point to) the author(s) idea about the world.

For good games, I don't think so. The #1 concern of any video game is "is it fun??".

Case in point: Factorio oil is infinite and a renewable resource (pumpjacks never run out). This isn't there because of some preconceived notion of infinite oil. This mechanic exists because planting new pumpjacks is far more annoying than planting iron mines / coal mines. In fact, pumpjacks are basically the only endgame mine that cannot be automated with blueprints.

As such, its best to have pumpjacks pump infinite oil for the rest of time. Because it'd be too an annoying of a game if oil ran out.

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In the case of Factorio solar vs nuclear vs coal: the game developer made them different enough to make the difference fun to think about and fun to play with. But I don't believe it necessarily reflects upon the political opinion of the creator.
Read past the break, asshole.
I doubt there's a good reason. That's why I'm considering bad reasons like "it fell through bureaucratic floor-cracks."
DMG Networks Emerges as a Top Music Distribution Company
DMG Networks, owned by Universal Music Group, has emerged as one of the top music distribution firm. They have several marketing and promotional tools.
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The company has been doing great work and they are extremely happy at the response they have been getting. They work closely with their clients and build their bands equity both brand integration and band presence The company also offers a hundred percent on the earned revenues and one can also retain their rights. DMG Networks offers several services and these include in-store placement radio placement and even playlist placement.
One of the key spokesmen for the company was quoted as saying, “We have been in this industry for quite some time now and have made the right contacts and channels. This has helped us set the right base and we can help several musicians better their career and get a good shot at becoming successful dmg is proposition ever-growing music landscape https://dmgnetworks684.wixsite.com/website
Same. Video game development is some of the hardest, most thankless, woefully unstable software job there is. It's not worth it.