skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Efficiency is everything. Give it a Google.

Also, why are you discounting the last 100 years of federal reserve policy? We obviously had greater than 10x inflation. Is 30% inflation in 8 months not considered hyperinflation?

My kids bank account is 30% less valuable now. I'm not going to fight over definitions that 30% inflation isn't enough to be considered hyperinflation.
A company whose name was an XSS injection attack
Embrace. Extend. Extinguish.

It's my theory that crypto is following the same arc that Microsoft used to dominate personal computers and office software.

Paypal recently announced crypto integration. Other payment processors will follow. Eventually merchants will want to save 3% and accept crypto directly. They might even pass the savings to the user.
> I'd say we could be better at remembering that some piece of information exists and where to find it instead of having to memorize it

This approach is called Transactive Memory, and you do it with Google, with your note-taking software, with your friends and colleagues. You do it with your pet.

One of our biggest employable strengths as hackers is that we know where to find information. We make a habit of learning where to find different kinds of knowledge, then do a deep dive into a particular subject. We are masters of transactive memory.

We as a species are rapidly shifting to a more transactive memory in general as it further compresses our knowledge into a small space by storing metadata instead of the knowledge itself, allowing for rapid acclimation to a given task based on the wealth of knowledge around you.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transactive_memory
How many times have people gotten away with something similar without every being discovered, though? It could be very many.
Receiving ballots that otherwise would have gone to people that don't vote.
Your aim is making money, but who are you trying to sell it to?

It seems to me people who care about js-lessness are probably savvy enough to build it themselves.
What seems to be the problem with CTRE?
Consulting can pay a lot more (for a typical engineer) but it really is a different job from either of those.
Isn't this just split-tunneling?
I've done it before.

I asked if I could pay with BTC and my bank passed it up until they got word back from Fanny Mae that it was okay so long as you can demonstrate X years of ownership. I think they made a public announcement about it. It was shortly after BTC hit its peak a couple years ago. Coinbase let me export something that satisfied the bank and government that I wasn't money laundering (I'd bought the BTC many years before for less than $10k with money for a bank account I still owned, so I could show the transactions there too).

For my taxes, Coinbase has a tool for exporting that calculates that sort of thing. You just select the time range and it gives you all the transactions and how much they appreciated from when you last bought that much.
I really enjoyed writing flutter code when I played with it. Google seems to be backing it strongly and they have lots of great learning videos.

If it ever gets a strong set of cross-platform libraries for doing things like file system access, it's going to be huge. But I'm not even sure that's possible with how locked down the mobile OSes are these days.
'now homeless' should be removed from HN title. TFA doesn't state that and it's not in the title either.
Have you seen Saga [0]? They're an app for making private podcasts with people in your life but, it's free - they help you choose questions and then everyone can hear each other's answers. There is an app [1] for the tech savvy, but also they have a dial-in option for older users where they can just call from a landline and record that way.

[0] http://trysaga.com/

[1] https://apps.apple.com/app/saga-private-family-podcast/id150...
Actually the functions are always shown in the user's language. The formulas are translated even for files created in other languages, which makes it a lot easier for beginners.
Phab has been great for my side projects.

- You can host Phabricator on a $5/mo VPS and have CPU to spare, whereas GitLab Ruby is a big hog that requires a $20/mo box minimum.

- Able to deploy + configure it within a few hours, even with fancy features like emails via mailgun, using pygmentize to highlight code, and observed + managed repos. Defaults are all reasonable and get you moving quickly. Haven't had to touch config since I set it up.

- The Kanban + stories + PR flow is wholly sufficient. Arcanist grows on you fast. It totally abstracts the PR workflow for most any VCS and can help enforce practices (e.g. reviews, sign-off, merging, etc). "Projects as tags" feels weird at first but ends up giving you fantastic cross-sectional views of your issues.
> You should be able to easily install anything you want on your computer.

This is the same as stating that you prefer many orders of magnitude more users to have unstable or insecure systems because they use products by a negligent vendor or are conned. That's hardly “anti-user” by any metric which covers mainstream users.

To me, this is an argument that code signing systems need to be tightly regulated to prevent abusing the system for reasons other than quality testing and accurate labeling.
How did you do that?

I am in the same boat, got into tech lead position for more money. As a tech lead, I have 0 power and a lot more responsibilities. Hate it.

I tried to go back to dev position but management kept blocking it. So I have been practicing leet code and hoping to go to one of FAANGs. But maybe freelancing is a better route for me. Only thing is that whenever I look up freelancing rates, they are quite low compared to my current average Texas SWE salary.
I see major difference in there: both systemd and pulseaudio do things differently but in fact do not break any existing usecases. For both these "modern" solutions all the super niche things that get broken are still possible. While Wayland outright does not provide solutions for things that are decidedly non-niche.
I think Phabricator is a really powerful tool for engineering teams, but when you try to do more cross-functional team collaboration, it's not as user-friendly as GitLab.

I used Phabricator at a previous company and miss some functionality, like Phabricator's ability to show issue dependencies in a more intuitive and granular way -- but at that company, we had a lot of trouble getting the Design team to use Phabricator, for example.

As OSS communities continue to onboard newcomers, they're faced with a generation that expects modern interfaces that are user-friendly. Having user-friendly tooling also helps promote diversity of OSS communities since it's easier to onboard people with all sorts of backgrounds, since the technical adoption barrier is lowered.

I think GitLab is a clear winner here since it's user friendly and designed for cross-functional team collaboration (GitLab dog foods their own product in all departments of the team, so you have HR, Marketing, Finance, etc all using it, in addition to the full product teams).

Full disclosure: I work at GitLab as the OSS Program Manager. Part of the reason I joined was because I feel really strongly about GitLab's ability to lower the contribution barrier and get more people involved in OSS.
Probably to convince people to keep their crypto-I-want-to-spend-as-fiat in coinbase instead of PayPal.
>I used to participate in a city-wide water pistol assassination tournament

TIL that that's a thing!
But that definitely describes hyper individualism in America.
It has been downloaded hundreds of millions of times.

Due to heavy criticism, they published a version of the app on Github, but the play store listings and the Github source code do not match at all.

Indian govt has completely exploited covid for financial gains. They set up a fund where people can donate to, heavily advertised it, gave it an official government domain, then later said that it was not a public fund and spending/expenditure from the fund will not be disclosed under the Right to Information Act.
One of those other things is nitric oxide, which is important in regulating blood pressure.
"Based on prototypes I [spent a limited amount of time on and didn't research better methods], I'm confident..."
In some cases you can run things under WINE, and they work or mostly work. Unfortunately, in plenty more cases, you can't. That goes for games, creative software, business admin tools, and just about anything else.

And while LibreOffice isn't bad as an office suite in its own right, MS Office is the still de facto standard in many lines of work, and being 95% compatible when you export as an Excel spreadsheet or Word document just doesn't cut it for professional use.

Until not just Windows but also the major software packages that run on it are no longer the dominant standards, it's always going to be an uphill battle moving normal people onto an alternative platform like Linux, and one that often can't be won today.
How do you do that, if all the big platforms you use are beginning to censor political information that would threaten their power.
I have a 5800 XT and I've just given up on ROCm support for it at this point.

Why would I get a Radeon VII when used nvidia cards for machine learning are extremely cheap, and then I don't have to worry about experimental stuff breaking one day before deadline lol
> The taxable event occurs because the IRS sees crypto as property rather than a currency.

The IRS doesn't make the tax law. How cryptocurrency transactions get taxed is a matter for legislatures and the courts.

Obviously, not everyone has the resources to fight the IRS, and your life will go much easier if your interpretation of the tax code matches that of the IRS. But the way you explain it here puts the cart before the horse.
PulseAudio certanly broke a lot of existing use-cases. But it also brought some very clear advantages.

Same with Wayland - it's a way to drag Linux desktop into a world where mixed DPI displays exist and where HW acceleration of desktop is a norm. That seems to be signifiantly more useful in 2020 where most displays need some kind of scaling.
> we need some sort of poll test to make sure people are educated on issues before voting

In principle, that's a great idea. I mean, we do have to take driving tests before we are allowed to operate dangerous machinery. We should be required to take tests before we are allowed to affect the lives of millions of people.

You can have a similar argument for parenthood. Require classes before people are allowed to bring another human into their care. Nurses have to, why not parents?

The problem with that is that these tests/lectures are defined by other humans. This shifts an enormous amount of power into the hands of a few. Next thing you know, you now have a handpicked elite eligible to vote. The US has historically used this mechanism for segregation.

Having universal suffrage (which is not yet very universal in a few countries, US included) at least allows the average to smooth out outliers. It does create perverse incentives towards not allowing the population to get TOO literate, otherwise they will be educated enough to see through all the BS.

Collectively, we need to focus on improving education for everyone and fighting disinformation. World War 3 has already begun - except it's using words, not weapons.
There was also this project of Mediengruppe Bitnik
(check the video with some online bookstores):

http://p-dpa.net/work/script-alert-mediengruppe-bitnik/
I will absolutely denigrate vendors who lag behind on driver quality and support, particularly vendors who sell expensive equipment tied to ancient and shitty drivers who can't be bothered to update them support new Windows versions.

Outside of a small set of drivers that WHQL/HLK testing may not work for, an unsigned driver means (1) the vendor doesn't care (i.e. "sold you expensive equipment and have you by the balls") and/or (2) the driver is a horrible buggy stability and security nightmare.

> A lot of us really care about the quality of our drivers and our customer's experience.

And for almost everyone, that means WHQL compliance.
this is such a gimmick.

the earth can heal itself if we stop polluting it. removal isn't the answer we have to stop producing it.
I agree that packaging and dependency resolution can be a total nightmare at times. Anaconda helps to an extent, but it's far from ideal especially compared to the default options for other languages.

The main problem I have with Python is its maintainability, especially when you have multiple developers working in the same code base. I would never choose a dynamically typed language again to build something that is going to be more than several thousand lines of code, especially because of how it cripples your IDE which is essential for helping junior developers understand the existing codebase. Type hints help to an extent, but they're just a small bandaid over an oozing sore. Languages like Go are significantly better if you're going to build large codebases that need to survive for a long period of time.
I so glad to see there are still people practicing sound engineering in this world.

The driving force behind Wayland appears to be commercial interests that have no interest in the desktop use-case per-se.

The linux-only outcome is purely an unintended side-effect.
Interesting to read all these concerned comments about possible risks. The biggest risk to this planet is our species and everything else is being dwarfed by it. Just saying (I will probably be down voted or so...never mind).
Coinbase made all those concessions years ago; they're basically as "evil" as a bank.
In college there was a beer delivery service that would even deliver directly to the dorm if you gave that as your address. If you paid with your debit card over the phone, they wouldn't even card you since the beer was already bought and paid for.

One time they did check, and my friend lied and said he didn't have his ID with him. Then the delivery guy who was probably only a couple years older than us just asked to see his actual underage ID to prove he wasn't a cop and handed us the beer anyway.
>By routing all traffic through one destination, VPNs not only add latency to your internet experience, they also transmit all of your non-work traffic through your corporate servers as well.

No properly set up corp vpn would push a default route.
That wasn’t a hypothetical, and yes, I looked for simple kernel cmdline parameters before hacking away at the VGA and UEFI framebuffer drivers in the kernel.

I’m not talking about KMS, that’s another ballgame altogether. You ship a fixed image starting up on unknown hardware that could have any card from 1999 to 2020 in it. You can’t load all drivers at startup because a) that’s crazy talk, b) many can’t be loaded simultaneously anyway. You can manually identify the VID and PID and create a database but it’s a monumental task, and you’re bound to miss some (and what about new releases?). You don’t want to ship with every driver under the sun anyway, because that’s huge, there are licensing issues, and many are buggy or error prone on recent kernel releases. All you want is a basic driver to give you a software-accelerated framebuffer and use the generic VGA/SVGA/XVGA/whatever standards to init the hardware, give you a workable resolution for GUI mode applications, query the monitor and use the EDID database to select a resolution and refresh rate supported by both the hardware and the attached display device, use the correct aspect ratio, avoid overscan or unnecessary scaling, etc. and give you an abstraction supported by your desktop environment including the window manager and your applications, without needing to hack away at every program you ship with to get them to support the sw framebuffer.

Xfree86 was such an effort but a) it’s long dead, and b) never really got there.
How does this relate to Qt? I see that both founders worked for Trolltech and your other reply says SixtyFPS uses Qt styles on desktop (all Qt styles or just the ones shipped with Qt?) so clearly there's a close connection there. Does it build on top of Qt or is it a replacement, and if it is a replacement is it source / binary compatible?
It's not that straightforward. The rules are anything but obvious. It's one big echo chamber.
Bootstrap Knative in 60s: Create Your Own Kubernetes Serverless Playground
> The person who replied to this assertion noted some examples of such alternative platforms being interfered with

Those are alternative platforms to twitter in the same way that a strip club is an alternative entertainment venue to your local movie theater.

The alternatives to twitter for people who are not of ill repute are places like Parler and Mastodon, and they're doing just fine and the tyrannical hand of the free market has not crushed them. They're relative failures in the marketplace, but the market doesn't owe them success simply because they have different/lower moderation standards.
Except it isn't the best.

AMD performance is on par or slightly higher. Power efficiency is much higher.

And costs $500 less.

A slower card that uses way more power and costs $500 more is really hard to sell, even with NVIDIA marketing team being as strong as it is. At those prices, few people are going to automatically buy the product without exploring their options.
I'm sure Cruz understands the absurdity of what he's saying. He's not stupid or ignorant (he clerked for Rehnquist, just to give an example) and would probably agree that viewpoint-based liability shelter is unconstitutional. But at some point the Republication party decided it was a good strategy to play the victim and he's toeing the line.
> Apple pretty famously goes out of it's way to not collect that sort of privacy busting user data in the first place.

It also enables Apple Ad tracking by default on iOS / iPadOS so please don't mix Apples' marketing with actual state of things in the world :/
There's a great club in Berlin called "://about blank"

So if you're gonna Google it, don't use the URL bar.
And it's gonna be more open than it is now: :)

https://github.com/bouffalolab/bl_iot_sdk/issues/1#issuecomm...
> we spent four out of the six months of Robotron’s development PLAYING the thing

Wait, what? You didn't create epics and attach story points to all of your JIRA tickets and estimate your development time down to the nearest 15-minute increment before you wrote a single line of code? Preposterous, you could never develop functioning software without pre-planning each and every single hour in a spreadsheet and reporting your status to a project manager in one hour daily standup meetings every morning.
Ah, Apple ecosystem! Then alas, you don't actually have any viable choice. Desktops are Mac Mini or iMac, first is crippled, last is overpriced, both are almost non-upgradeble (
Not so simple as just saying "plants" and calling it a day.

Yes, plants remove carbon from the air. But plants die, and rot, and some amount of that carbon (all, at the limit) ends up right back in the atmosphere.

I happen to think that planting poplar, making it into charcoal on an industrial scale, and using the biochar as a soil amendment to mitigate topsoil depletion, is severely underutilized as a carbon capture strategy. We should be doing enormous amounts of this, instead of... basically none.

But it isn't "just plant trees". There's more to the job than that. But nothing which requires technology which was unknown to the Romans.
I think Julia is strictly better than Python, both for data oriented applications and for web development.
Have you thought of the option of disabling links? That would make SEO spam impossible
Health and Fitness 101
I wish Startpage worked without JS and I also find the background + text color combo to hurt readability.

Otherwise, it's a great alternative and thanks for the shout out!
I read this as Python V2 and thinking why would they make V2 faster than V3 :D
It’s a Carol business decision that letting Alices & Bobs view content for free isn’t cost effective if Carol isn’t allowed to track Alice and Bob without their permission and make money by letting Eve, who is unknown Alice and Bob, to build up a detailed profile of Alice and Bob.

Project Guttenberg in Germany (and The Pirate Bay in the USA, I think) would be 451.
They should take action.
> Your inability to judge of the value of a manager, even a bad manager, doesn't make someone else delusional.

Doubling down on the arrogance! Funny stuff.

Do you make all these assumptions about things you know nothing about in your actual job as well?

> that doesn't really matter if someone else gains enough value from that communication

It would matter if the managers cared about all the employee time they were wasting with these meetings. Managers could present to only the people who care and not demand the attendance of those for whom the material is uninformative.
This is available on archive.org to play in the browser.

It's the most like riding a bike of any video game I've ever played. One hand chooses shooting direction, other hand independently moves the character in a direction. Even by the 4th level there are too many enemies to track.

I basically got crushed until my independent hand coordination "clicked in," then started progressing to much further levels without any clear strategy.

Maybe that's how most people play video games, but I usually have some mental model of the game, techniques to try to improve, etc. Here it's just getting creamed for awhile, then a sudden change to "aaaaaaaaaaah," for longer and longer periods of time. :)

Edit: clarification
Oh dear... this seems like a move in the exact opposite direction of what one would hope for. It's basically shoving in structured data into what is at best semi-structured log data, storing all of it, and then using that for things that a tracing system would be better suited to.

I can't help but feel they've learned the wrong lessons from their challenges with tracing.
why do you assume i don't know what i'm talking about?
Of course top comment in HN is essentially anti-crypto. More and more I think this site is run by COINTELPRO.

But, for until this comment get removed. Yes, if you own property, then sell it for more than you paid for it, you owe capital gains. It is not a problem or confusing.
Legislation is less of a factor than the presence of overhead utility lines near most public streets.
So the US was exposed for doing what it accused China of doing.
First it's important to note that `n` is unsigned; if it's signed the value of `-n % n` is 0, intuitively.

For unsigned n, the value is: MAX - n + 1 (where max is the maximum representable value in the type of n, e.g., UINT_MAX). The article explains this nicely. (I thought of 2's complement when reasoning through this, but you don't actually need to assume 2's complement to follow the reasoning).

So, `-n % n` computes `(MAX - n + 1) % n` efficiently, without needing to worry about corner cases.

I suspect this is useful when you want to generate random numbers with a limited range, where the range doesn't cleanly divide UINT_MAX. You need to cut a bit off the top from your underlying random number generator.
Chennai Mathematical Institute.
That's somewhat reassuring :)
Even for a truly local news org, it might make more sense to just block Europeans then allow them, because Article 3(2) of the GDPR, which gives the EU extraterritorial powers to prosecute.

While it's never been tested, there is a good chance the USA would cooperate with an extraterritorial prosecution, and so it's easier to just avoid it altogether by blocking Europeans.
You seem to be suggesting that 1918 influenza occurred spontaneously and independently of other influenza? No.
In other words, if juries deliberated in front of cameras, every jury would be hung.
Not to mention that if a user really wants to, they can install unsigned drivers.