skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Stablecoins. I can get 3-4% interest on holding DAI, and with this, I get to spend it as well. What's nice about holding DAI is that if I ever want to exchange it for crypto, I just send it to Uniswap. Never have to leave the ecosystem, and I have easy access to decentralized services.
Ok you're right the Federal Reserve has already collapsed.
/s
100% my experience. Everything feels backwards. Dart is huge turn off, there are too many widgets, non native views, horrible native view support. Flutter devs brag about how fast their apps are but honestly I have yet to find Flutter app which isn't sluggish
You're using "Democratic" and "liberal" as synonymous terms when they're not; one is an ideology and one is a party. Just because a Democrat does something doesn't make it liberal -- and in fact, they've been moving away from liberalism for quite some time.

It's funny how in continental Europe, if you tell people you're a liberal they'll think you're a free-market, small-government, pro-civil-liberties type. That's because our definitions in America have changed as the parties have changed. We've entangled ideology (liberalism) with a party (Democratic) to the point where people will call anti-liberal positions liberal simply because the Democratic Party has espoused it. The same is true of "conservatism" and "Republican" of course.
You bring up a good point, it's something to think about.

I try to address this with completely transparent and public voting, and also non-numerical voting, meaning every vote has to also be a "tag", like on Slashdot: insightful, interesting, troll, flamebait, offtopic, etc.

But not only that, you also get to see who tagged you, and this tells you whether it's someone you know or just some random.
They really went to the monetization town
I like R, but there is nothing elegant or consistent about its standard library. I don’t think you’re making a good-faith argument.
Frankly I expect basically all computers are compromised at this point.
Maybe it is a type of binning. Maybe the machine learning specific hardware is more prone to errors so they just disable that on subpar chips and sell them for use in graphics cards?
> We only allow those of a certain age to vote because they are able to understand and weigh the issues fairly.

Yes, but we draw a simple, arbitrary rule at a fixed age because everyone grows older, so it isn't manipulable by anyone who is motivated to do so.

If the vote permission line is drawn by more complex means that gives a different answer for different people, it becomes a primary target for manipulation, abuse, and group selectivity.

For example if it was based on IQ tests or even general knowledge tests, it is already well understood that these are heavily biased tests which test for social background, culture and upbringing, rather than general intelligence.

If there's going to be a voter test, it needs to be extremely robust, something just about everyone has confidence in to be fair and appropriate.
Why does a service need a "VC case?"
couldn't be any worse than the band names "A" and "My Computer" !

https://acommunication.co.uk

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Computer_(band)
The IRS doesn't make the tax law, true, but they are behaving consistently with the relevant laws; putting "currency" in the name of something doesn't define it as a currency.

Legislative action could of course change this, but until then you are probably tilting at windmills.
I'm curious how they've manage to bypass copyright issues so far and how well they'll do long term. So much of the game relies on distributing copyrighted content in the workshop. I guess they do have paid official DLCs but does anyone use those?
>The more I learn about this, the more I start to think that there needs to be some kind of middleware library implementing all these missing features from Wayland that all Wayland compositors are going to to need anyway.

>Then the compositors could just use this library instead of every one of them duplicating effort and coming up with their own mutually incompatible ways of doing things.

That's what wlroots is, except for...

>In fact, this library could even be protocol-agnostic, and be able to talk to both Wayland and X.

... because that's outside its scope. The point of the middleware is to interface with the wayland protocol. It's not "protocol-agnostic".
> But it does sound like they have spent the last year complaining about the policy change rather than working to meet WHQL/HLK compliance

They seem to be a company doing many custom development and will have hundreds (thousands?) of separate projects. It seems reasonable they wouldn't try to pass HLK for everything just in case it needs work in the future.
> As the article explains, HLK testing isn't really designed for non-hardware drivers and the solutions are strange at best. You're not actually improving quality in this case, you're just making us do convoluted busywork.

There's a lot common to driver development that's separate from purely interacting with hardware (memory management, filesystem interaction, security, etc), some of which the HLK covers. Plenty of non-hardware drivers are capable of bringing down the system or breaking things if they do something bad in kernel mode.

To be clear, the article is complaining about their specific case in which they claim to have a driver that explicitly violates nominal filesystem invariants and "cannot" pass HLK testing, not that HLK compliance is inherently a bad fit. Whether or not a different set of tests or a negotiated "Contingency" test filter are possible is a different question.
It's common to push a default route in highly regulated industries to ensure all activity can be logged (since it's often required by law or contracts)
That kind of function would be tested with couple of correct files and several, wrong ones.

Splitting everything up and testing separately, make sense if you are building a library or general user program. For program where you control whole toolchain its overkill.

You need to be able to read correct image and hopefully not segfault on bad one. And this function does that.
Would the idea be that platforms cannot moderate at all? They must allow all legal content? So spam and porn would have to be allowed?
https://www.discogs.com/artist/35584-Various-Artists-3

In 1997 Torsten Pröfrock released a highly sought-after dub techno album on the legendary Chain Reaction label under the name "Various Artists". It's a quintessential record in the Basic Channel genre. You can listen it here: https://youtu.be/3165Sf-q8dY
One potential market this seems to corner is software engineers without much hardware background willing to dip their toes in product design or proving some concept for a startup (think of adding a touch of interactivity to museum exhibit or kickstarting another thermostat company).

With current PCB production prices I also sometimes just order a one-off PCB that wires together a few modules, as it's just more efficient use of time.

OT: my snarky side would present this news as: geez, JavaScript developers will get their way and be able to get a solution that has sensor X and LED on it without learning anything about hardware :)

But it's a good thing- tinkering with Arduino when it just came out did set the course for career change I wanted, and maybe this will do the same for someone else.
Web Share API
I agree with that, but it really highlights the fact that Amazon has willingly avoided solving this problem. In other words, it's not an oversight -- if it were, they would have thrown money at the problem to make it disappear already.

Amazon makes money off counterfeit products that sell on its platform.

The most profitable outcome for Amazon is for there to be a large assortment of products that are either (A) totally legitimate, (B) counterfeit/flawed but equal in quality to the genuine product, or (C) counterfeit/flawed but so inexpensive that the customer doesn't complain too much.

Clothing is the kind of product that is easy to counterfeit but draws complaints from users who discriminate between the quality/durability/appearance of the real product and the false one. A phone case, drill bit, pair of tweezers, or ball bearing is the kind of product that is easy to counterfeit but may not be noticeable.

Similarly, Benson Leung taught us that a USB-C cable is the kind of product where you can sell low-quality junk lookalikes and the average consumer will have no idea what makes it worse than a more expensive cable.
If this phenomenon isn't already a PKD short then it could be a SCP entry.
To clarify, is your GitLab-based job system done with configuration-as-code and does it share definitions of jobs across repos?

The solution we come up with in using Gerrit/Jenkins was to have a common test invocation (in our case `make test`) that glossed over all the details of a projects build process, and was expected to output test and coverage in specific formats Jenkins could consume (junit/xunit and cobertura). We have jobs that run `make test` no matter if the code is C, Go, Python, Javascript, etc.

This also had the beneficial side effect of lowering the barrier to entry for someone working on any random project - make papers over all those toolchain differences.
I don't know. "Our site is so hostile to user privacy that it's illegal in some places" isn't exactly something I'd be proud of. Nor is, "We might be in violation of GDPR and we might not--we have no idea so we're going to just block you."
How I used GPT-3 to hit Hacker News front page 5 times in 3 weeks
"It was based in Dresden and employed 68,000 people (1989)."

Wonder if more people think about Robotron-the game vs. Robotron-the company (and all their products).
Co-Founder of CoinTracker (https://www.cointracker.io) (YC W18) here. You're exactly right. We built software to specifically automate this crypto tracking and tax compliance process. We've partnered with Coinbase and TurboTax to specifically solve this pain point.

https://help.coinbase.com/en/coinbase/taxes-reports-and-fina...
They take the interpretation of tax laws and your personal situation that is most favorable to the IRS, though. This can amount to tens of thousands of dollars that you pay them needlessly.

I missed the back of a capital gains worksheet once when reporting my taxes. Got a bill for $11,000+, between the missing stock sales and an education credit my wife took that the IRS was suspicious of. After actually tracking down the stock sales in question, reporting their cost basis (the IRS had assumed $0, because they don't have it so why not assume the value most favorable to them?), and refiguring the taxes, the ~$7K in tax liability had declined to $60. Then because that was so low, I got the ~$2K penalty waived. Then I produced documentation to show my wife was eligible for the education tax credit, and there went another $2K. By the time I had a full amended 1040, the $11K was down to $60, so I sent them a check for $60 along with all my documentation and got back a nice letter saying the matter was closed and no further tax was due.

Also be very wary of the CA FTB. They don't send you notices if you owe money; instead, they just record it as a debt, charge interest and penalties on it, and then send you a bill for the full total when the statute of limitations is about to expire. If you're aware of any problems in your federal tax return and you owe anything to California (which may occur even if you're not a CA resident - they tax stock granted at a CA job even if you later move out of state), make sure to pro-actively get in touch with them with an amended return and any money owed.
Probably the people being interviewed can be more candid to a stranger compared to a family member/someone they know, and a professional interviewer would know better what to ask to get a good story out of them...

A bit like how people would tell taxi drivers their secrets, because they don't need to be afraid of the driver's judgement: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NgWVmi5P-D0
I learned C++ almost 20 years ago but haven’t used it since. Has it changed that much since then?
The codes used to signal submarines are demonstrably not the “nuclear launch codes”. The military hierarchy is established and chain of command is already established for contingencies like “who gives orders when the top brass are assassinated.”
> I don't get why people object to performance work on languages not intended for performance.

You're right, this objection is not relevant in general.

But in the situation we talk about, having 20 % more performance requires you to choose a fork that can came with it's own limitation. It's definitely not free.

This trade of makes the point about the language choice relevant.
A hen will lay eggs, which have a fairly direct monetary value. It doesn't mean the farmer treats their chickens like customers.

In a poor town, a shopkeeper may accept barter instead of cash. Their customers might pay them with eggs, and they would be treated like valued customers even if they're too poor to use trade with real money.

It's a matter of corporate culture on how the consumers are viewed. For largely advertising-driven companies their users are products, even if they pay. For largely product and sales-driven companies their users are customers, even if they're in a free tier or a trial account or whatever.
Aren't the optimizations also restricted to the 500 series motherboard chipsets?
It breaks multiple things for me and does nothing of note I care about. The things I want to work will either never be fixed or will be fixed in the distant future.

Since I have no desire to lose functionality or work around issues I will revisit the situation either when every major issue is resolved or within 1 year of major apps like Firefox not working on X even with a a user contributed build.

I would be shocked if this was before 2030.
Indeed. I think most people know of very many things they and their friends and family would've been ticketed or arrested for if an officer had been present and interested. Running red lights, speeding, media piracy, unreported income from side jobs, broken regulations, sharing prescription drugs, etc.
That is some serious mental grit. I'm getting woozy just thinking about photo. I don't have that big of a problem with blood or needles—I find it fascinating to watch when I get blood sample taken from my arm. (Did you know the vials are evacuated? That's why the blood spurts into them!)

But this… I swear, if I were born in an earlier century, I would have died long before now. I am soooo grateful for the medical technology we have in this age.
> unless you value honesty above all else.

.

> I am not always honest,

I work with regulated professionals. Honesty is a big deal. Dishonesty is seen as a fundamental personal flaw. Healthcare professionals who've been dishonest struggle to show remediation.

It's really weird to me that I need to explain that forging someone else's name on documents is a bad idea.
>The first is Minecraft, AMD has atrocious abandoned OpenGL drivers

Try that under Linux sometime. It's a different song there thanks to Mesa.

>opengl

Is not the most popular API, and AMD had, until recently, limited economic resources, which they mostly directed towards their CPU team and towards hardware. For their proprietary windows efforts, they needed laser focus on what's most important: The newest and most popular APIs.

There's money these days, and they multiplied the size of their driver team, but money spent on OpenGL would be indeed wasted, as there's a pretty compelling solution for this API from the Mesa guys, in the form of an opengl implementation that's on top of Vulkan: Zink.

I expect future GPUs and drivers (for all platforms) to absolutely not bother with opengl and simply ship Zink instead.
Trayvon Martin assaulted Zimmerman before Zimmerman shot him. This event is not germane to the discussion. No one thought Martin had a gun.
I did this with the Shift Card way back, which was the original card for Coinbase spending. It was a massive pain in the ass to explain the transaction history. I wouldn't be surprised if Coinbase has improved upon that experience, but to what degree I'd be curious about.

I don't particularly understand why everyone's happy to gloss over tax implications being undiscussed on things like this. Whether or not it's right (I don't believe it is), the fact remains that the average new user is not aware of this quirk of Crypto.
You might like this story:

https://telstarlogistics.typepad.com/telstarlogistics/2006/0...
I sold myself back into an IC position by focusing on my domain knowledge and architecture skills which was still part of my director role. I think the higher pay is an exceptional case where they are paying more for my domain knowledge than my programming skills.
Sorta. It's still pronounced "churches", but it's definitely a common joke to pronounce it chivurches.
How Selections Work
>Even Vancouver—Canada’s densest major city with 5,493 people per square kilometre—ranks 13th out of 30, and is significantly less dense than San Francisco (7,171 people per square kilometre), a comparable west coast city.

The transit systems in both cities operate across the entire metro area not just the "city" proper.

Vancouver Metro Area: 2,463,431 / 2,878km² = 856 persons per km²

San Francisco Metro Area: 4,729,484 / 9,128km² = 518 persons per km²

(Numbers from Wikipedia)

>Toronto’s population could triple and the city would still barely have the density of Brooklyn (14,541)

Brooklyn is not a city. It's a densely populated subsection of one.

>crucially, Toronto’s population density is less than many other American cities including Philadelphia (4,512), Chicago (4,594)

I'm not sure why you think Chicago and Philly are not comparable to Toronto despite being being only 1% and 3% more dense. They're effectively all the same density for the purpose of this discussion.
Now we just need a Python implementation re-written in Rust.

(only kinda joking)
> How would it have been detected if there were no loose ends like this out there or anyone who cared enough about the case to prompt a double-check?

> "Hold on, why'd this case drop off the docket", says the DA. "I didn't file this", says the lawyer. "My ruling is due next week", says the judge.

That's someone caring enough. The loose ends are entirely separable when discussing hypotheticals.
Slightly off-topic, but how are users of Grafana and other monitoring tools justifying the investment? And I'm not necessarily talking about monetary amount, its also people cost.

What features are you looking for and how do you rank them?
It operates anywhere that you can type in the name of the company and then have the web page make the mistake of actually treating that name as code. (There are various ways that a web page developer can screw that up.)

That downloads a script that then has access to all of the data on the web page. Which is a bad thing if that page contains secrets like passwords, PINS, or personal information. If not prevented from doing so, it could send that information out.

Browsers are supposed to prevent scripts you get from one site from sending information to another. That's the "cross site scripting" part. It's not 100% effective, and yet manages to be a pain in the butt in writing some web pages. So it ends up being disabled or worked around.

To exploit it you'd need both a web page that failed to properly sanitize its inputs and a mis-configured site. It happens more than you'd like, though these days it's usually easier to just socially engineer users into telling you their passwords. This company name is pretty much just a joke rather than a serious hack, but it's demonstrating things that have been used for serious hacking.
Gov.uk Design System
Why would the AdObserver plugin (completely independent piece of software installed by the user) need to follow facebook's Terms of Service?
What legal trade-offs? I imagine Visa is willing to offer similar terms to what they give everyone else. As long as they make their per transaction profit, what else would they be concerned about (other than guaranteeing Coinbase pays them, but that's just contracts too).
Interestingly, I get this from my US corporate VPN as well
The announcement briefly mentioned that they are working on a "super resolution" feature, but specifically what that is has so far been left as an exercise for the viewer. It sounds like it might be a competitor for DLSS, but only time will tell.
For IIRC about £80. They weren't all that expensive. I remember fondly that click as the relay switched over the connection to the 3dfx card.

Even by the time Nvidia got on the scene with the GeForce 256 we were still talking £180 for the SDR model and about £220 for the DDR high end model. The market has got massive as have the silicon dies and the price per generation just keeps climbing.
People have been shot for less
I was wondering how much it costs to open a company in the UK to do something like that, and it seems to be really cheap (and quick):

a) Incorporate directly via Companies House

The standard registration fee to set up a company is just £12 for the ‘standard’ Companies House web incorporation service, which takes up to 24 hours to turnaround. You can pay via credit card, debit card or PayPal.

Source: https://www.itcontracting.com/how-much-limited-company-cost/
Internal Google document reveals campaign against EU lawmakers
Right, though I don't think that's quite it -- I think that the "Mac-like" projects/philosophies are more visible because of spaces like Hacker News and Reddit et al, plus perhaps the greater level of PR that bigger projects like Gnome and KDE (and Ubuntu, Mint, PopOs, etc) get.

I have to remind myself to try to dig a bit deeper around to find out about the things I'm more into; what matters more to me than "the desktop" is "applications/programs" -- and that seems to be harder to seek out these days.
Your ignorance is ironically proving his point.
Why the downvotes? I generally try to run the latest stuff I can get away with on my laptop in solidarity of the devs who rather not be backporting fixes or putting up with technical debt.

But I'm not even sure what to do about Wayland, other than switch to Fedora and meet that people that use it. I'm in a complete we-all-wish-we-were-using-wayland-but-aren't bubble. It's unfortunate.
> Even by the 4th level there are too many enemies to track.

I love this game. The flashing colors are very stimulating, but the beauty of this game is that it's about judging tradeoffs in a constantly changing environment.

Yes, starting at the 4th wave there are too many enemies to track. The zen of the game is this: you will lose some lives every wave after a certain point. But the game is generous and you will earn bonus lives every X points.

The wandering humans in the game give you 5000 points each, but only after you save 5 in a row. You can rack up extra lives pretty quickly if you can waver through the robots and obstacles and hit 5+ in a row.

So you have always think - will this path through the changing morass enable me to save a large enough chain of
wandering humans to gain more lives than I'll lose? You have to constantly make "business decisions" to keep your profits (total lives) ahead of a fatal loss (your last life).

Not that I can get past wave 14 or 15 though.
Oh boy, are you gonna be mad when you find out that Tesla are allowing the general public to beta test their self driving software on public roads!
It's product segmentation. NVidia dominates the ML space, so they don't have to worry much about competitive pressures. Increasing the efficiency of ML engineers is definitely worth at least $1500 them and their employers, so why leave money on the table?
How many mistakes do Grandmaster chess players make?
Note that %i requires an int argument, not unsigned; you want %u.
Huawei B2368: A Word of Warning
TL;DR Huawei B2368 is worse than a mobile hotspot
He thinks (they think?) the project will need to be funded to the tune of $2M. That seems like a hefty sum to me, though maybe it's doable.