skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Growing up I would read NASA's Astronomy Picture of the Day (APOD) which is still running! https://apod.nasa.gov/
Wow. This is fantastic. I had no idea Virtualization.framework was a thing. I've installed and tested vmctl/vmcli out on my M1 MacBook Air. Your instructions worked like a charm.

Edit: I don't see the option to list running VMs though. I was hoping to check that powering off the VM worked. The inability to ping the VM tells me it is off, but if I didn't have the IP, I don't know how I would check this.
To argue to the extreme for a moment, one can have privilege, such as by way of relative wealth and power in society, and still hold views that powerful groups in society believe are contemptible. Holding certain views does not cancel out privileges one has, nor transform one from privileged to victim. This is especially true in privileges that one has less control over, such as physical and intellectual attributes, place of birth, wealth and opportunities like education and socialization, etc.

One may also act on those views believing they are helping society, while consensus in society views those actions as detrimental. A recent example of this is the rioters and insurrectionists at the Capitol believed they were doing something to help society, whereas society judged their actions otherwise.

A possible solution to this conundrum is to focus one's participation on areas that are broadly agreed upon to be beneficial to society, so as to avoid accidentally becoming part of the problem, or simply minimize blowback from a disapproving environment.

This is a solution that is intentionally sidestepping any particular ethical framework, which may guide one's actions toward different tradeoffs.

Another thing worth considering is not all participation in society need be political at all, nor attached to your real name, nor known to your employer. Those are conditions you've attached to your response that were not part of mine.
Just look at the cost-benefit. Typically internal code has a defect rate of around 1/1000 lines, so 10-15 lines is about 0.01 bugs. 86.1Kb of an established, widely used library is a cost that I can't meaningfully distinguish from zero.
WBTC is essentially custodial. A couple partners hold some multisig keys on all Bitcoin that is deposited to be minted on Ethereum as WBTC. It is mainly BitGo, Kyber Network and Republic Protocol (Ren, the same people behind renBTC). WBTC requires KYC with BitGo to mint and redeem. Centralized, custodial, a few distributed key holders. Feature complete, so its not changing. Institutions like that actually, so it is pretty popular.

renBTC is by Republic Protocol, through their main product RenVM. RenVM allows holders of the REN token to stake 100,000 REN to create a "Darknode", which process all the minting, burning and storage of assets that go between chains. renBTC is Bitcoin to erc20 Ethereum. There are various other assets the Darknode holders process and earn. The amount Darknode holders earn in dollars has been increasing around 20% per month. The issues with RenVM and renBTC is that is actually hasn't reached that state. The darknodes do earn, but the current state does not use the darknodes for the decentralized storage of assets, instead, the Ren team has 12 keys stored around the world and requires collusion between the people on the Ren team to compromise. Now, some people call this is criticism, but this is still better than exchange cold storage which people already trust with billions of dollars of assets. For example, Gemini Exchange (Winklevoss Twins) brag about how their cold storage is 3 keys stored around the globe. lol, only three. People's concern is that while in this current state, the Ren protocol's geographically distributed team can be compromised by a government. Doubtful because nobody in one country has all the keys, and they are quickly speeding towards upgrading away to putting all processing on the darknodes. Anyway, for earning fees as a darknode its current state is quite unique, for users it is a stopgap solution (and not unique enough for BTC on Ethereum) as their bridge simply has more assets and doesn't require KYC or impose any limitations. Both the current and future iteration is using MPC cryptography for security. And again, their team is part of the mastermind behind WBTC. Darknode holders evangelize renAssets and get them into various other DeFi projects, which causes more people to want to mint and burn RenAssets, mostly renBTC so they can earn interest on their bitcoin. As you can see by this thread, many times renBTC is not mentioned at all. But it is the second largest Bitcoin on Ethereum. RenVM is not limited to minting assets onto Ethereum, they have or will be rolling out bridges to other chains as well, to Darknode holders delight.

there are competitors to renBTC such as tBTC, which aims to chisel at just the trustless BTC hegemony and not much else. Its growing decently.
You burn about 100-150 calories just by existing for 1h-1.5h, so walking for an hour or so only gets you an additional 400 calories. Versus eating, you can consume a 400 calorie cookie in one minute.

When I lost 70lbs, I did so by deciding it was easier just to not consume the calories in the first place rather than trying to burn them off.
For non midi keyboards complemented with a webcam, hand tracking could do the trick, maybe paired with basic audio analysis to get the timing right. Some off the shelf tools are available [1] and pretty decent. It does go against your plan to start small though, but if you're interested feel free to shoot me an email (in profile)

[1] https://google.github.io/mediapipe/solutions/hands.html
I agree that portions are ridiculous, but do Keep in mind that in most lower-end restaurants the customer expectation is to have enough for a doggy bag
This is correct. The reason is more or less that humans are really, really good at staying in sync, but, even with only 2 parts to listen to, it starts to get almost impossible levels of effort to keep proper time. In person, without any network lag, musicians can make adjustments in real time (e.g. always, always, always follow the soloist, even if the soloist is off tempo or off pitch). The conductor is listening to the soloist, too, so you don't need to worry about conflicting directions.

Here are a couple of examples I know of on YouTube where a single musician plays multiple parts, which are then edited together:

Now professional cellist, graduating senior at time of recording, Sarah Chaffee playing an original transcription of Alice Cooper's Poison with 5 cello parts (with a short guest appearance by Shostakovich at about 2:42, then showing up again in the outro to play us out at 3:33): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PjYwQHFsld0

Professional cellist Wells Cunningham playing the Handel- Halvorsen Passacaglia: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NseBdxfHk5k

This guy has a really, uhm, interesting violin technique. ;) Just for the fact that he chose to play the instrument the way he did tells me he does not actually know how to play violin. What he's doing is playing it like a teeny tiny cello. Since the notes are so much closer together on the respective fingerboards on a violin than on the cello, I'm betting he needed an extra take or 2 on that. His performance is passable, but nothing when put up against the performance of an actual, professional violinist.
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An average 10km run burns 600cal. Sure just living burns 2000cal, but its a noticeable change.
In Addition, for most people its much easier to track their exercise, than pedantic tracking calories.
Good advice, thanks! Don’t think we’d do Patreon but it probably should have a web site, I hadn’t thought of that!
Perhaps I’m pessimistic but Silicon Valley seems to view government as an unnecessary annoyance.
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Maybe its a US thing? Grew up in the Soviet Block Countries, and fighting was very looked down on.

I did encounter some, but it was more like we as kids watched a lot of US media and thought this was how we needed to behave but were more “playing at it” than actually being vindictive.

My one fight in school was with the “toughest” kid in my age group (I was the nerdy outsider they were bonding over to defeat), we duked it out in the yard with half of the school watching, and didn’t get a clear winner. We both got tired and called it quits.

Both got reprimanded of course. Weirdly enough that was the most violence I’ve encountered in my life, period.

I blame video games. Aggressive teens got an outlet where they can establish rankings, troll, be dicks, or defend others, with zero parent supervision.

In my case, since it was done in computer cafes, it had its strong social aspect, with crowds cheering, gangs and clans. Counter Strike was more of a religion to us than anything. And it was so much fun that we didn’t really need “the real thing”.
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Ideological flamewar and personal attacks will get you banned here. Please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and stick to the rules.
And whether stevecalifornia had his attitude or didn't wouldn't have changed that.
We have a sister company with many data scientists, and very few (actually I don't think that they ever hired any with the specific title) data engineers.

And, their production alleged "machine learning" (it's pretty much standard linear regression, but calling it ML is sexy) systems are slow motion train-wrecks. If the string and duct tape holds, then it works, but it's unfortunately continually breaking.

Hell, in Slack, I watch their data scientists continuously wrestle with how to actually make their Jupyter notebooks work in production.

Whereas my company has far more data engineers than data scientists. The plan from higher up the corporate food chain was always that we'd give them our data to do their data science voodoo on, but we ended up getting a few data scientists of our own for specific projects.

So, we focused on ensuring our data stream was reliable, consistent and sufficiently timely, for them to work on. But as soon as it hits their systems, it's a forest fire of hacks upon hacks, which inevitably break.

In the end, we had to send in our data engineers to stabilise their flagship "real time reporting" product that corporate was so amped about.

So yeah, I think that there's probably a happy ratio of data scientists to data engineers, of about, say, 1:5 or 1:10, because the maths generally scales O(1), it's the beauty of maths, but the actual engineering to get clean data delivered timely without breaking anything scales very differently indeed.
I'm realizing now they probably had this same idea and are hiring "Independent Consultants" to pen test their bunkers.

If they haven't...
Eh, you'd think. It depends who's doing the funding and whether they care about being found out. Or, you know, the terrorists can just steal the crypto.

North Korea's collected over $2 billion dollars thanks to cryptocurrencies so far [1].

[1] https://www.coindesk.com/north-korea-stole-2-billion-in-cryp...
I tried this as a Chrome extension a long time ago - github.com/captn3m0/sympathy

The idea was to make file-editing possible and simple in your browser. The extension let you edit file:/// URLs in your browser using the (now unavailable) NPAPI. The results were fun - especially for web development, where I could edit the CSS in one tab, and have it reflect in the second. Chrome added a "workspace" editor a while later, which was similar.

A blog post on why I really wanted to make it: https://github.com/captn3m0/captn3m0.github.com/blob/master/...
This article doesn't really make it clear but the merge sort discussion is specifically about glibc's implementation of qsort(). glibc's qsort() and Wine's qsort() are the only ones I know of that use merge sort to implement qsort(). Most implementations use quick sort.

I recently did my own benchmarking on various qsort()s since I was trying to implement a faster one. The various BSDs and macOS qsort() are all faster than glibc at sorting integers and they don't allocate memory:

https://github.com/ludocode/pottery/tree/master/examples/pot...

Of course sorting is much faster if you can inline the comparator so a templated sort algorithm is always going to be faster than a function that takes a function pointer. But this does not require C++; it can be done in plain C. The templated intro_sort from Pottery (linked above) is competitive with std::sort, as are the excellent swensort/sort templates:

https://github.com/swenson/sort
If you don't have a conductor, always, always, always follow the soloist or concert master, which ever one you have.
People tried to gain influence over the Bitcoin network in the past and they never succeded. Its much like the power of the Queen in United Kingdom. Theoretically she could overthrown the government, but in practice that will never happen.

Several Bitcoin mining pools tried to attack the network in the past, but the majority of their hashpower vanished and new hashpower appeared to protect the network.

The fact that Bitcoin was able to sustain security for 12 years makes it so valuable (especially because the incentive to take over is worth so much (market cap of $0.7T).

Ethereum's new PoS might be better in the future, however we are still many years away from properly verifing that. However I don't think it is possible to theoretically design a system that is secure and cheap to sustain at the same time. I believe security comes from expensivness (miners energy waste and slow transactions).
The entire story of MLK and the civil rights movement is the story of people without power (quite literally, without equal rights under the law) driving change. Same for Ghandi and indian independence, to take one contemporary example out of many.

Perhaps there is a moral obligation for people with privilege to engage; but it's clearly not a practical necessity for change to happen. Given the lack of progress in Black civil rights ever since the 60's; as this discourse around "we all must participate!" has strengthened, it is far from clear that it is helpful.

I propose that the other way is best. Live your life, respond with genuine outrage when injustice crosses your path, and don't feel like media consumption fixes anything.
Reminds me of people putting BLM on their profiles.

Also, did anyone else notice that typing the letters BLM on an iPhone shows a black fist ?
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In the original French, because for some reason I was motivated to find it:

Tout ceci nous vise au cerveau. Il faudra bientôt construire des cloîtres rigoureusement isolés, où ni les ondes, ni les feuilles n’entreront ; dans lesquels l’ignorance de toute politique sera préservée et cultivée. On y méprisera la vitesse, le nombre, les effets de masse, de surprise, de contraste, de répétitions, de nouveauté et de crédulité. C’est là qu’à certains jours on ira, à travers les grilles, considérer quelques spécimens d’hommes libres.
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Mirage - simple, rules-light, novice-friendly, lighthearted, low-combat, improv/storytelling focused roleplaying game. Designed to facilitate what's basically a long-form improv game, freeform roleplay. Think DnD but without the tedious number crunching and hundreds of pages of intricate rules, for people who like storytelling but don't care all that much about the wargaming-side of DnD.

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This failed society continues to prune symptoms instead of fixing core illnesses. Poor opportunities across board complimented by a callous politicians who represent ruling class. Saving grace is the highly suggestible slaves and mind control techniques of the plutocrats.

Elementary.

Muh social app caused this.
> thus may not be as reliant on databases in the same way as a newer company.

I think my perspective on this is a tad different. The world is changing and has changed because of computing. At this point, on some level, every big business needs to effectively leverage technology to compete. The difference, I think, between the infrastructure needs of digital information companies which operate on those massive data scales vs other business has a lot to do with the timescales of notable events that need to be processed. If you want to track every keystroke or page load of every user where users number in the hundreds of millions, sure, that's the sort of problem where getting the data layout finely tuned is valuable. If your problem is tracking sensors on thousands of trains or, even surprisingly, every credit card transaction or retail banking operation, the scales are a lot smaller. How many times a day do you use your bank account vs send a slack message or receive a notification? My guess is that it's a few orders of magnitude off. For what it's worth, there's a reason companies like Oracle and IBM have been making a boat load of money for a very long time. Those databases don't scale horizontally, but most businesses aren't growing in the rate of data creation that they are doing in a way that needs it. The advent of the cloud is slowly gaining traction in industries which have long had large IT budgets going to products people on this forum tend not to talk about because, in part, they aren't easy technologies to access if you aren't in an enterprise setting.

All this being said, there are "new" companies doing real things that are global and mission critical but are building services where the request rate is on the order of human action rather than computer action.
The problem with Amazon and Open Source isn’t Amazon (2019)
Everything2.com. Yes, it's still around, yet I've always found that the really interesting, amusing posts are from circa 2000, so that would appear to be its golden age.

I've never found anything quite like Everything2's formula, which I think remains inspired. The trick is that the 'softlinks' at the bottom of each page is a list of the most common pages people visit after visiting that page in descending order; this includes if you use the search box to go to another page. What this means is that if you read a page and it randomly reminds you of something else on E2, and you go and visit it, an association is created. Then others can click on the new softlink at the bottom of the page - it will rise or fall by the popularity of the link.

What this leads to is some very weird serendipity and randomness in browsing. Combine this with the informal, personal atmosphere in which E2 nodes tend to be written - many articles are random personal anecdotes, strange takes or pieces of weird fiction - and it makes for something really unique.

The engine the site is built in is also interesting; it's an "everything is a node" design written in Perl. As I understand it the engine is very flexible and much of the logic of E2.com itself is written in Perl scripts stored inside a database, though I may be mistaken; I never looked into the details.
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From the home page of sound jack site (https://www.ianhowellcountertenor.com/soundjack-real-time-on...):

> In practice, musicians ignore sound and watch a conductor when separated by such distances [of 100 feet].

It had never occurred to me that a conductor was a kind of clock at an approximately uniform distance from the performers.
Bloodninja made me smile with their absurdity:

http://bash.org/?search=Bloodninja&sort=0&show=25
China and the Politburo have permeated all segments of American life. From NASA to MIT, and the placement has not been shown to be beneficial to America. Quite the contrary.
Six years ago, I took a job making gears, instead of jumping back into programming, when my long time sysadmin job got outsourced. The last major programming I did was in Turbo Pascal and Delphi for Windows, in the early 1990s. So, I know how to code, but not in anything current... I regret that.

I also regret not embracing networked applications, and multi-threaded programming back in Windows 3.1 days.

[Reconsideration / Update]
My biggest regret is not actually building the idea's I've had bouncing around in my head for decades. Even a little bit of work, once a week, on each of them, and they would have been done before Y2K.

I've started doing it... the hard part is not talking about it before you've got a minimum viable product to show a friend, so you don't have to hand-wave.. but can just show something rough that works.

Things I'm proud of
Once I figured out how to dual boot Unix/MS-DOS... because I was told it was impossible.
I wrote Forth/2, in assembler, for OS/2, because I was told it wasn't possible to write for OS/2 in assembler.
I wrote code that did cooperative multitasking inside of a Turbo Pascal program, in MS-DOS... and used the heck out of it.
I built a machine that levitated light bulb filaments while they were annealed, using the Lorenz force, that got used in Production.
It's healthy for all citizens to have the option of such discourse, and to exercise it regularly. I'm not sure it's healthy to feel unable to leave it for a moment, lest $_scary_opponent seize the day.

It is a representative democracy after all. Citizens should feel like they've done their duty after choose a representative. Not (poorly) running a thousand mini-parliaments online.
I thought the convo was: OP made an otherwise valid, neutral point, then bundled in a defense of a hotly contested phrase, purporting to tell us what it "really" means. jbboehr responded that this was a motte-and-bailey. UncleMeat was like, no it's not, so I tried clarifying what I thought jbboehr was getting at.