skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Same here. It didn't help that his T-shirt was similar in colour to the stereotypical orange prison jump-suit :)
Ask HN: How does your company manage access to production?
Do you use a bastion server? Is there auditing? Who can connect to production? MPA/MFA required?
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Nobody would like to be locked at home. No restaurants and no travel… for what? 2 weeks aren't enough to slow down the warming.
As long as the profit from operating the mining during high prices is higher than the cost of electricity at high demand times, it is economically rational to continue mining and grow demand to use the "excess" capacity that is provided in the grid.

In China it in particular it is seen as an easy way to convert coal to money, as one of the other commenters already linked [1] (which is also economically responsible, given the looming deadlines due to international agreements, but also disastrous to the climate at large).

Also, not to put too fine a point at it, neither Chinese nor US bitcoin miner server farms (mines?) have been found to be using particularly clean energy sources [0].

[0] https://digiconomist.net/bitcoin-energy-consumption/
[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25881601
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True! For those who might be wondering how it's even possible to enjoy working with a language that required manual memory management, I submit to you 'autorelease' and auto-release pools.
Move to Berlin from Dubai? Now?
I've received an interesting job offer from a good company in Germany. I'm a software engineer.

For all the people who live in Germany under this strict lockdown, is it a good time to move to Berlin?

And, if anyone moved to Berlin from Dubai, I would really appreciate learning about your experience.

Thank you.

Edit:

- I already have the visa. I can move whenever I want.

- I'm more concerned about the day-to-day life, safety, Covid situation.
Show HN: Supercharge.dev – Accelerated Development in React/Next.js
My setup for using Twitter without hating it
Java 1.0 Turns 25
I've written up a more detailed piece at InfoQ:

https://www.infoq.com/news/2021/01/java-turns-25/
Yep, Cox's company was Stepstone.
For me, any child below 15 years has no business with social media...social media is highly distractive, even to adult ...the shud be a regulation restricting children from social media
London transition should focus on running a good, reliable system at low cost. London isn't the worst in the world, but they seem to be trying to be the most expensive.
Wear shoes that fit and maintain a high enough cadence (steps / minute). If you watch your cadence, you automatically avoid taking long strides and thus landing heel first, which could damage your knees when running 10km / day.
Listening Helps During Fundraising
Other than the growth (in terms of length across the surface in question) of a crack/fracture, tape is a pretty valid solution as long as it can hold the pressure. In fact on the “inside” that’s even more strait forward since the pressure pushes the tapes bonding surface interface into the opening, so depending on how malleable the “tape” is, it might not even need “glue” to do the job of sealing a hole sufficiently to hold in the ISS’ internal atmosphere.

Effectively the major issue is “larger”width/diameter cracks/holes create greater pressures that eventually exceed the ability of simple “tape” to suffice for a workable patch. This is all ignoring any NASA engineering manuals and limits, I’m talking entirely theoretical “how long can my duct tape keep me from suffocating” type of engineering, just to be clear.

What needs emphasis in the long term for more permanent structures in space is on the poorly explored topic of welded joint fatigue, with respect to joints that were welded in low earth orbit.

We have welded with several techniques in space before (the Soviets did it) but it basically stopped there and not much has gone into studies of the long term fatigue of the resulting welded joints. If we want permanent space stations we need to be able to “patch them
up” in a way that we can rely on and at least have some idea what the lifespan will be. It’s ok if we have to re-weld pressure hull segments every decade or two but not if the large scale structural welds on a space station hull assembled in space only hold for a few years before they start leaking.
What's even more interesting is that C++ and Objective-C started around the same time, and while one is known about widely, the other is still used heavily in the macOS and iOS ecosystems today. Indeed, the creator of Java acknowledged that Objective-C inspired the Java runtime, in particular its late-binding and message sending capabilities, which is what Java has used to this day to allow applications to still run unchanged, even after all these years.
That was rather good and highlights in 3 minutes the significant problems with his stylish yet incoherent films.

They’re convincing on an emotional level in the way that a speech from a politician or a well crafted advert is - by appealing to secret desires, fears and aspirations rather than persuading with the truth.
Let's discuss what Waymo CEO believes about Tesla and Self driving tech
Or it’s the smallish act that reveals FBs true pro-far right bias.
https://spectrum.im/ seems to have references to the various attempts to maintain XMPP transports for other protocols.
> Things happen for no reason at all.

Correction, some things happen for no reason at all. Some things do happen for a reason. Deductive and inductive logic helps us decide which is which. I greatly dislike this "all conspiracies are false" approach to understanding the world, as it feels like a "logical safe space" that is intellectually bankrupt, but especially given the state of public discourse and other events, there is such a stigma for being associated with any sort of belief in "conspiracy" that there seems to be a huge knee-jerk avoidance that just doesn't stand up to the test of history.

Conspiracies are real, and are the breadstuffs of history. Failure to acknowledge this will leave one always a few feet off the mark when trying to understand the past, which means failure to understand the present and hence, is an obstacle in helping one to guide the future.
Yeah, keep children isolated for ten months and then blame Tiktok for their alienation; akin to blaming death on a fever instead of the disease that caused it.
I just want my pc to look like windows 2000. Don't really care about night mode and other nonsense. Win2000 is when UI/UX design peaked. And you had full control! I could change each UI element's font/color separately. Absolutely legendary. And it was fast and fluid af.
What I think would be a nice approach would be someone creating a new Dataframe class that merely inherits from a Pandas dataframe but just implementing .filter(), .summarise(), .select() etc. as methods, using the dplyr syntax. If they return their own dataframes then chaining follows naturally.

I know that isn't how dplyr works, but it feels more Pythonic, and this solution isn't entirely analogous to dplyr anyway.

This approach seems a little complicated, though I'm sure with some use I could learn to enjoy it.
Italy orders TikTok to stop using children’s data
Windows 98, when most apps still used normal widgets.

As an example these days the Windows OS includes Microsoft apps that are built using the QT toolkit (OneDrive). That’s the example developers follow.
The International Tempest over the World’s Most Famous Teapot
Did they made a mistake? It looks to me that they took advantage of Splunk being proprietary. Not many people would use closed Splunk alternative. So they have made an open alternative and everyone loved it and this is what created the community and made them popular. Then they started using their position to force people into their proprietary Basic package because there was no security in the OSS version. That caused many data leaks from unsecured Elastic clusters. Can you imagine MariaDB not having any security by default? Or nginx without ACL? I never cared about Machine Learning, APM, SIEM and their other "products". Then they released "basic security" which was not open and was still pretty limited (e.g. not supporting OpenID). Elastic is big now, listed on the stock exchange so I understand they have to listen to their shareholders. While I don't like Amazon business and I am not their customer, I actually welcome this attempt to finally make a basic usable Elastic really open!
Is it really worth posting? I mean it's like "PC as a photo editing machine" and then describe how you install the Photoshop. Come on HN you can do better!
It's true people don't trust new user guidance things, but if your product is useful you can build trust over time or not?
What would be your goal in "refuting" these arguments? Is it not just another form of taking the bait (albeit making it slightly harder for the other side)?

As the article states:

> Alice, for her part, didn’t bother bringing up that she never accused Beth of being careless, or that Beth had no stake in the matter. She saw no point in pretending that boxing in Beth and the other careful self- diagnosers in with the careless ones wasn’t her strategy all along.

The whole conversation is opened with the thinly-veiled intention of discrediting (all) self-diagnosed autists in an uncharitable bad-faith argument. Do you think you'd be somehow able to steer it away from this very specific intention of the original author?

I will admit that this opens the door for other readers to not be swayed by the original "argument" (at least not to the same degree). But overall the question remains how you avoid fighting a losing battle.
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While Tesla's autonomous technology collects millions of miles every day in a secured environment since drivers can correct them, Waymo CEO believes that this is not the way to go and Tesla's system is just a driver's assistance tool! What do you forsee about Waymo?
The pressure difference is one bar, so duct tape is more than enough to hold that. Aging is different story all together, so.
Colchicine reduces the risk of Covid-19-related complications
Restored now:

>The UK’s Socialist Workers Party was temporarily booted from Facebook, restored hours later with no explanation given for what the left-wing org deemed a “silencing of political activists.” Dozens of related pages remain banned https://www.rt.com/uk/513407-facebook-ban-socialist-party/
Abstraction and Reasoning in AI Systems: Modern Perspectives
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I've treated Facebook like that for years now, reinforced by the occasional observation that it's a bad idea not to. Even discussing the academic evidence for face mask efficacy was a bit of a minefield back in March of last year. I was actually excluded from a massive national FB group over it. Wasn't even a heated discussion, just a single post with a reasoned argument and some referenced papers.

Any debate or discussion of importance I do either either pseudonymously, or in private forums with only people I know are capable of discussing, disagreeing and having an open mind to surprising viewpoints.

Honestly, this stuff drives wealth disparity. I can't even discuss investment strategies in these public forums without risking personal attacks.
Yes - I think it's generally agreed that this is the case, especially as we move to effectively infinite bandwidth for home/office use (literally no one uses more than 100mbs for more than 60s a day). Unfortunately in computing we have two more layers of utility; the ones that own the clients (Microsoft, Apple) and the ones that own the services (Facebook, Twitter, Microsoft, Apple). We really need to get this fixed.
Do you have a 100kW Tesla?
Foundations Built for a General Theory of Neural Networks (2019)
In science fiction novels...
Serendipity, seeing bridges where others see gaps, taking actions to create luck
Nice article, I just posted the link on my Mastodon [1] account, which seems appropriate.

I understand that HN people who work for Internet platform companies like Facebook and Google push back on using open protocols and open distributed systems - never blame people for doing things in their self interest.

For the rest of us, for social, tech, and political reasons, I hope that we can push back at least a little against abuse of platform companies - that is in our self interest.

[1] https://mastodon.social/web/accounts/1150176
I just finished watching B5 for the first time last week. Only knew her from LOST prior to this. Outstanding actor - and from the various interviews/cons on YT she seen seemed like a very warm & genuine person as well. Sad.
It was helpful, thank you :)

I never really tried mixing things up before. In hindsight, I really should have because routine does bore me a lot.

Getting out of my comfort zone is what I have been doing this semester, and it's going well, I'd say.. haven't really made any friends (like you, I prefer fewer, closer and deeper friendships), but I have been having fun and gained some valuable experiences, so I guess it balances out.
I think this lisp part was in this talk, but I'm not 100% sure what he did say
> If communism produces goods and services cheaper than the free market, we'd be awash in Soviet goods.

Which we aren't, because they're undercut by Chinese goods...
Building a gas station for peak capacity would mean building so many pumps that you never have to queue. Even when people leave their car by the pump while going to the bathroom or grab a slushie and some snacks.
Really, that's interesting, I've always thought about his work the opposite way. As if he's saying 'this is a story about the way the world works, you can take it or leave it'.
The ruthless attention economy on the networks. It's not inherently dangerous, many participants get by perfectly fine competing for attention with other things than outdoing each other in dangerous stupidity, but some don't know a better way. And the participatory nature of the "challenge" pattern spreads it to the less desperate. Remember "planking"?
> way too serious bunch of ideological zombies ranting into microphones at the Student's Union about the latest crimes against humanity perpetrated by 'Thatcher'

Just to inform you. Reagan and Thatcher have literally f* up the world by allowing banks to devaluate currency and forming a situation where my bank will charge me for having money deposited with them (instead of paying interests) while giving credits with money they dont have or in another words - they print the money instead of the state. Yes, you might think that they are bunch of weird people but the history proven fact is that the weird people was everyone else.

Bottom line, they were right. And be very sorry they weren't laud enough as R&T brought the world in neverending crysis cycle that directly impacts you and me. And it has nothing to do with socialism but rather with pure greed, while the only issue is people not having enough of sane thought to figure it out on their own.

> To all down-voting me, please DO CHECK what the R&T reforms are about. And no, it has nothing to do with gold backing up currency. It is just crazy how little are people aware of history that directly impacts them. R&T literally gave "carte blanche" to the banks.
A shame that the price of Java was the death of Strongtalk then, really.
It took collaboration to integrate the containers but not necessarily to create it. Creating requires risking resources which is incentivized by the potential monetary gain. Without that potential, it's hard to imagine competitors risking their resources. Another point about collaboration in this case is that it only happened because all parties benefited more. If you don't adopt new things that optimize operations then you'll be left behind by your competitors who are operating more efficiently and have wider support for the customers everyone is competing for.
Hilarious.

That is like banning the Mum's Against Sweets At Checkouts group.

Really, Facebook?
I had to pay a large (too large) an amount to purchase an extra parking space when I bought my condo. I personally didn't need the space all the time, but guests to the condo didn't have to hunt for parking on the street in an area with busy nightlife. I figured that when I sold the condo the parking space would raise the value of the condo, maybe not enough to make up for the cost but enough to be worth having the parking spot and it's convenience.

It turned out that in the building there were owners of units with two cars but only one space that wanted to rent unused parking spots. I didn't do this but there were posting where condo owners could find people to pay for the right to use otherwise unused parking.

All this seems a bit off topic, but couldn't electric chargers be handled the same way. Pay for the cost of a charger to be installed in one's designated parking spot and "resell" the improvement to the next condo owner. One could even allow others to use the charger while being reimbursed for the electricity. Of course being the owner of a unit in a condo building isn't the same as leasing an apartment and dealing with a large company that owns the apartment building.
That isn't specifically targeting conservatives though - causation vs. correlation.
> End free parking and build more car share schemes.

This isn't free parking, it's heavily subsidised (residents permits for my area are £100-£300 p/a depending on car emissions). If you go maybe half a mile farther out of the city it is free, but there's even less of these car share scheme spaces available.
Citations needed. Strong statement with zero points argued to back it up.

Edit to add: downvotes don't count as argument points.
Lol this might be a common thing in MS language projects. I heard the Typescript compiler is also a single notoriously large file
"We live in a world where the powerful deceive us.
We know they lie.
They know, we know they lie.
They don’t care.
We say we care, but we do nothing.
And nothing ever changes.
It’s normal.
Welcome to the post-truth world."

HyperNormalisation; https://thoughtmaybe.com/hypernormalisation/
Not really. You could interpret it as older transactions are massively more expensive than newer ones and every transaction we make will have perpetual upkeep costs for as long as we keep running Bitcoin, but the overall result isn't changed by that, the average cost per transaction is the same
Why wouldn't rabbits be native? It's not so long ago that Great Britain was connected to mainland Europe, so I'd think that most of the same animals would be present both sides of the North Sea.
Feeling worthwhile as a manager when my people are doing all the implementing?
This is already the case in most cities in the UK, and where I (GP) live. A residents permit is £1-300/year, and hourly parking is ~3-4GBP/hour 9-6Mon to Sat. The parking spots are still full all day, every day.

> I won't be forced to share my car
This is a selfish way of looking at it, and exactly why these schemes aren't growing. I'm more than happy to share my vehicle with others, but the companies managing these schemes need to actually make sure they keep up with the demand.
How long until he is de-platformed?
Or we did it to ourselves with a media that gave Trump 2 billion dollars in free air time because he was the best thing to happen to ratings, 40 years of falling living standards only buoyed up by more work, mortgages and credit cards, of politicians lies that left 80% of the country sinking while making life at the top better than it ever was.

It is easy to blame someone outside for our problem, much less so to admit that there wasn't an evil master mind smart enough to play 20 dimensional chess yet foolish enough to be brought down by a few plucky reporters with a mac book.

No, Russia is an excuse and if the next Trump is what people lied this Trump was we would be indeed doomed.
Great demo!
Get out of here with this bullshit. Do you know it is bitcoins resistance to change that makes it appealing?

Layer 2 is where the scaling happens. END OF STORY.
> Increase your sense of control

Please note this says "your sense of" not "your actual control". This step so often fails for me because I realise I have no actual control over anything relevant, so I get screwed right out of the starting blocks. How are you supposed to develop a sense of control when the idea of any actual control in your life is false?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Volcker#Chairman_of_the_F...
I find that not using Twitter [or Facebook, or Instagram, or any social media] at all works best for me. And is even easier to set up.
Author here. You guess sounds about right :)

I actually also keep wearing many of the clothes until they are really worn out. The exception is work clothes, mainly button down shirts. In this context, I consider something divested when I no longer can wear it in its original intended context (e.g. work). I might continue use at my summer home or digging in the garden. And likewise, eventually if not donated they also end up in a rag pile for cleaning, or into the cotton recycling that fashion stores have to provide.
Site posted every face from Parler’s Capitol Hill insurrection videos
I wouldnt class Adam Curtis's work as documentaries. More like... interesting stories and moods crafted from a collage of archive footage. They're just an interesting take, not necessarily claiming to be the capital-T 'Truth'...
Before internet they had a satellite connection, or a dedicated phone line.
Another view is that they're banning it to show that banning organisations according to some policy isn't effective and therefore they shouldn't be policing it 'because, how could they?'.
r/wsb is not mostly retail. I can tell there are people from shady hedge funds doing pumps there. And they’re all breaking securities law by doing that without disclosures.
I'm constantly amazed by what GPT-3 can do, so good job.

Running a very small company, I'm not frequently hiring. So I'm wondering, are there specific sectors or situations in which this would be more useful than others? (e.g. specifically for recruiters) If so, I might recommend to try to focus the product (and marketing texts) a bit more on that niche — I think that would help in acquiring your first customers.
A Swedish Municipality bans facemasks in schools
GameStop Record Run Gives Win to Reddit Army in Clash with Short Sellers
France has passed a law protecting the sounds and smells of the countryside
.NET GC is nothing to write home about, pretty standard with long stop the world phase. It's not super interesting so nobody raves about it.

Java's new collectors ZGC and Shenandoah are state of the art, perhaps the best GC's in the world. There's collectors with lower latency and higher throughput but nothing out there that achieves both like Java's new collectors do.

It's a large part of why you hear that Java "performs better in production" than Go and C# even though those languages are faster in micro benchmarks. Java doesn't have value types and generates a ton of garbage but the collectors are good enough that it's still competitive with these faster languages.

Some will tell you that Go's GC is state of the art but I disagree. Last time it came up I started a huge flamewar in the comments so I'll avoid comparing them :).