skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Unfortunately energy deregulation seems to disproportionately attract hucksters. I had never heard of Griddy until recently but in NY we have our share of pushy firms with questionable sales.

Question for those in TX: was your perception of Griddy that they were sketchy, or just a get-what-you-pay-for sort of basic service? Did they aggressively sell door-to-door?
This is not false.

Presumably Shopify will do nothing to scan the software for malware, build a privacy framework, deal with incremental downloading of content, etc. etc.

The App Store is not just a bunch of urls with a paywall in front of it.
Here's a historical account that Michael Burry (The Big Short) posted recently about the beginning of German hyperinflation of the 1920's:

"The life of the inflation in its ripening stage was a paradox which had its own unmistakable characteristics. One was the great wealth, at least of those favored by the boom... Many great fortunes sprang up overnight... Prices in Germany were steady, and both business and the stock market were booming... Speculation alone, while adding nothing to Germany's wealth, became one of its largest activities. The fever to join in turning a quick mark infected nearly all classes... Everyone from the elevator operator up was playing the market..."
The advantage of algorithms like Argon2 is that they are way harder to implement scalably in hardware than SHA256 is. Or in other words, it's easy to build an ASIC that's 1000x as powerful to compute SHA256 hashes as a recent Intel CPU than to build something that's 1000x as powerful to compute Argon2 hashes. You might still be able to, but then power usage is hopefully closer to a 1000-fold of the Intel CPU than the SHA256-ASIC is.
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Sure, that's why I'm asking whether this is at all common. If the use case is programmatic, then just provide the ability to get an arbitrarily large set atomically (rather than forcing pagination size limits) and the problem goes away.

Another thing to consider when paginating via id cursors: if the deleted item is the one your cursor is sitting on, then you no longer have a frame of reference at all. For example, what happens to commit history pagination in github's implementation if I rewrite git history? Chibicc for example deliberately rewrites its history for didactic purposes.
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That might be nice, but it isn't a feature. Vanishingly few people consider "the product is collectively owned and open source" to be a feature that they are willing to prioritize over other things. As such, it is hard to support any very large endeavor just off this thing. There is a reason why Blender shows up over and over and over and over again on "lists of awesome FLOSS apps" and that is because it has damn good features. Decentralization is not itself a business strategy outside of niche cases.
Microsoft didn't compete with news media for ad money. Nor do telcos/ISPs where consumers in many places actually have no choice.
The model of hashing user plaintext passwords on server-side is itself a deeply flawed one. User password and master keys derived out of it should NEVER leave user-controlled computer. For authentication password-authenticated key agreement protocols [0] should be used, anything but it means that service does not treat user security as a high enough priority.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Password-authenticated_key_agr...
Check out this video for a quick demo: http://emacsrocks.com/e14.html

If you know a Lisp I recommend just giving paredit a spin for a few minutes, it's an interesting experience.
> If I recall correctly (from his podcast episodes), he has said he knows what is required to get to the top of his field, but he isn’t willing to pay the price.

Is this the academic version of " until I took an arrow to my knee"?
I'll conjecture that languages will invariably end up with a more neutral option, even when such options seem required. Sometimes it is useful to the speaker to be ambiguous, whether it is to understate something, imply something, or just take a mental load off.
Big government is better, eh?
I don't understand. Why would I need a loan for $X if I already have $X to put up as collateral?
Does this mean people with grid tie solar panels are going to get fat checks?
I use the word 'acquaintance' a lot more to label people I have a passing relationship online, and not 'friend'. I have four or five real friends; the rest are acquaintances. Growing up without a TV or phone until I was 13, and then getting a Commodore PET in 1977/78 was a jump. Then GEnie online BBS in the late 80s, and ECHO (East Coast Hang Out) in the early to late nineties were my golden years. I quit FB over 5 years ago, and deleted my LinkedIn account. I still have too many distractions from emails and texts outside of my friends and family. I miss the days of going home on a Friday from work, and not having a beep, vibrate, or flash of an LED interrupting my weekend.
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Particularly for someone coming from the software world
> Unfortunately, as with anything like this, the followers and fools soon showed up (reminiscent of $GME) and a good thing somehow suddenly became "a scam".

Haha, isn't this just the thing? It's the same thing as with Kickstarter, Bountysource, numerous Google betas, etc. The risks are just sitting there visible as all heck, and fools will jump in blind and then scream when the scary event happens.

It has been the best argument for paternalism I've ever seen: not to keep people safe from themselves, but to keep fools away from the rest of us so that we can make intelligent risky decisions.

In fact, I've shifted my view of the accredited investor thing. I am so glad a bunch of blind followers can't just do something dumb and then ruin everything for the rest of us.
I don't know why I'm surprised at the amount of footage and the quality, but I am. This is really setting a new bar for missions like this, similar to what SpaceX has done in recent years. Stuff like this has got to be huge for getting interest and excitement from the general public and especially kids.
The rules in Illinois are you net meter for the year. If you make more than you use in a year that is free power for the utility. If you want a different deal you need a contract with the utility (In general you need to be in the millions of dollars/year range to be of interest). In Texas it is more complex as each provider can give you a different deal for residential systems.

When the grid is down you can't sell power back. The whole system shuts down. Though if you have a whole house battery backup you can use that instead of the grid (if it is built for it - solar gets weird if you aren't using exactly as much power as you make so you need something to use or make up the difference).
I may get downvoted for this, but genuinely curious if there's vaccine tourism (not that I'm in a position to get on a jet to get a shot).

Eg, if the wait time is long for my group in the US/UK/Wherever, can I book a flight to UAE or Cuba to get a vaccine at the airport?
It's wise in these situations to consider the concept of plausible deniability, and how it can be used to obscure intent.

To my knowledge, nobody has been sentenced to slavery in a long, long time. On the other hand, the US has managed to lock up 2% of its population and force them to labor in circumstances and rates that would be illegal for free citizens in order to guarantee the profit of private corporations. That this system of arbitrary law enforcement[0] disproportionately hits the same sub-group that used to be literally enslaved really should send your eyebrows through the ceiling when the defense is that it's not literally slavery.

Of course, US prisoners are not chattel slaves; they're not literally property, and neither are their children. On the other hand the rate of recidivism in the US, and the strong correlation of outcomes between parent to child makes this kind of a cruel joke. If your father having been in prison makes you overwhelmingly likely to end up in prison yourself for similar reasons, it's hard to put on a straight face and pretend that nothing is wrong.

I'd argue that this structure represents something akin to stochastic terrorism, but for forced labor. Stochastic terrorism is a case where someone or some group attempts to radicalize and encourage terrorism from afar. Done correctly it produces a statistical probability of terror attacks without anyone (even the group) being able to predict the exact time and place. These types of systems are very hard to disrupt, which is why groups like ISIS leaned on them in order to attack the west, which had gotten very good at stopping more organized attacks.

Similarly, I'd argue that the US system represents a type of stochastic slavery. It's impossible to precisely predict who will or will not end up in the system providing free labor (unlike chattel slavery, where it's very easy to predict), but one can easily calculate the aggregate chance of someone ending up in prison. It's not literally slavery, but with the recidivism rate so high it ends up functioning like it for most people caught up in it. Oh, and it's run for a profit too, which is deeply concerning.

0 - Drug laws remain key to why America has so many people locked up, and drug law enforcement is incredibly arbitrary, both in terms of which drugs get which sentences, and who gets the hammer dropped on them when they get caught.
except if you try to sell t-shirts?

https://www.insider.com/instagrammer-arii-2-million-follower...
Also, the difference between C89 and C99 is not that big.
What a lot of people don't understand is the reason that Ada has so many string-types, and the answer is pretty simple: usage.

Fixed: The simple string-as-an-array approach.
Bounded: The maximum, but variable-size approach; analogous to many database string-field data-definitions.
Unbounded: The variable-at-runtime approach.

You can generally use the Fixed form for your operations, thanks to the String-array being unbounded, and having functions returning your perfectly-sized results.

My biggest issue with the Strings packages are the [[Wide_]Wide_]String hierarchy: I would have much rather had this be a set of instantiated generics with the appropriate parameters (eg passing in a CHARACTER type and UPPERCASE/LOWERCASE functions, etc)... but doing that would have required redesigning the STRINGS package back at the Ada95 era.
> The employees said they have been raising the issue internally for more than a year, but prison administrators have not acted to fix the software bug. The sources said Chief Information Officer Holly Greene and Deputy Director Joe Profiri have been aware of the problem since 2019.

So the prison administration know there are people being held that shouldn't be held, but they are still keeping them behind bars.

This is not a software problem.
is it true the GC problems in GO have been fixed since then?
It's the feature of the system, at least that's how I view OP's comment. And I agree with that. There's not much to do (unless you think regulations is a good idea or you want to overthrow the current system).
The marketing wasn't good and I think that was also an era where the relationship between Rare and Nintendo was in decline(they probably weren't that interested in a game that was going to compete with Tomorrow Never Dies).

There were definitely issues with Rare during the development of Perfect Dark. Nintendo probably wasn't that interested in a game that would compete with their IP(Tomorrow Never Dies). A bunch of key people left Rare out of dissatisfaction during the middle of development.

This wasn't entirely a bad thing. According to Mark Emmonds:

> Although the story and ideas for the game were kept intact, the new team contributed so much to the development that it was seen as a fresh start. The team worked in a very isolated and free environment and did not have a production manager, a schedule, meetings, commercial pressure, or any sort of deadlines. According to artist Brett Jones, "People would just do things they thought were cool and would work"

It sounds like half the original team were looking for a more organized process, but the new developers thrived. The problem, however, was that the Nintendo 64 could barely handle all the features they'd packed into the cartridge, which is why the game suffers a bad frame rate even with the Expansion Pack.

To summarize, I think a lack of top-down enthusiasm for this game from both Rare and Nintendo lead to a lack of marketing effort, and problems with development actually lead to more creativity, but that creativity caused the game's performance to suffer. Back in those days, I remember some kids not even wanting to play multiplayer because of the frame rate. Multiplayer was a big deal for Goldeneye, and Perfect Dark's multiplayer performance was objectively inferior.(despite being better from a feature standpoint)
Users with more than 2,000 reputation and/or at least one Gold badge can give higher-quality help. I would either restrict the site only to these users, or I would put them in a higher-quality section. They would also get paid more, at least $1 per minute. (It currently pays $0.75 per minute.)

I am an expert in Python and a deep Generalist with experience across many domains and types of software. https://stackoverflow.com/users/1459669/no%c9%a5%ca%87%ca%8e...
Babel 17 by Samuel Delaney is another classic in this genre: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babel-17
Even a non-profit utility would not agree to be the fixed rate provider in this scenario. It would be a guaranteed money loser, for the same reason that I can’t buy auto insurance just after I crash my car, or health coverage just after I’m diagnosed with cancer.
You can live without social media while still having a smartphone... its called discipline. Just don't use it, its that simple.

I don't have facebook, insta, etc on my phone. I use my phone for learning, studying, conversations, videos, and things like GPS.

Its just silly to give up a smartphone because you can't control yourself.
I built my house about 5 years ago in a subdivision. First year on the back deck at noon there were a handful of bees buzzing around and at dust I was getting eaten alive by mosquitos.

After 5 years of watching my neighbors spray for mosquitos in their lawn, and anti-grub stuff, synthetic fertilizer all spring and summer -> they're all basically gone.

When you think about all the forests getting knocked down to build new houses not just in the US - but even more so in rapidly growing 3rd world countries...it makes sense.
I think that's the problem here: Bitwarden hashes the passwords on the client side but it runs on various client devices, some more powerful than others, and others not able to run efficient Argon2 implementations.
>> I've always said we peaked at the technology level of the late 90s.

I like having Wi-fi and Bluetooth and these didn't become popular until sometime around 2004. In 99, most people would still use ethernet cables and floppy disks.

And corporate controlled, walled gardens have existed even before the commercial net. Online service providers (like Compuserve and AOL) were a huge market until the Dotcom bust.
How would you best describe the price rises in copper and copper miners? Just copper prices are going up right now?
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I've kicked around SPACs as a financing option, and was wondering if anyone else has been part of one. If you have, what's the experience been like?
Exactly. My usual hourly rate is a minimum of $70/hour. (I only recently became a freelancer, and am still learning to maximize my rates– I suspect my current rate is a small fraction of what I could earn.) The only thing this provides for me is a more liquid/elastic way to earn money.

I can and do regularly solve problems that save people hundreds of hours. I would gladly pay to have someone solve my technical challenges that cost me hundreds of hours.

(I am an expert in Python and a deep Generalist with experience across many domains and types of software.)
Despite having seen them live a few times, I only own one Ozric Tentacles as I figured there’s no need to buy any of the others. :)

I always figured that the members got their musical satisfaction from their side projects. Thought I haven’t listened to them in years, I actually preferred Eat Static which was formed by two of the Ozrics. Similarly, another band I listened to at the time, System 7 was formed by members of Gong.

This was around the time I was discovering what’s now called “electronic dance music”. As a music listener, EDM was much more exciting and interesting than much of the guitar-based music in the mid-nineties.
> In short, it doesn’t do anything. That’s not all that reassuring, given that tens of thousands of Macs could have potentially been infected, but based on the findings and investigations of multiple strains, the virus was “positioned to deliver a potentially impactful payload at a moment’s notice.”

Was the article changed after your comment?
PBKDF2 and SHA256 are fine for all use cases and have libraries available in all languages.

argon2 has nothing better to offer. Practically there are 3 argon variants to chose from and they all require careful configuration. It's pretty hard to start with, assuming you can find libraries for it in the first place, last I checked it wasn't commonly supported.

It's a perfect example of theory versus practice. Argon is a researcher's wet dream, ideal by some algorithmic definitions, yet it has no benefits in practice.
when someone says "rockstar programmer" i hear "doesn't play well with others".
> For smaller shops in an open market, they'll be a ton of vendors willing to do the 'full stack' checkout experience for a fraction of what Apple/Google charge.

I suppose they also provide the ecosystem of devices and the extremely valuable higher-income market segment Apple targets.
France's Linky has a built-in relay that the TSO can use to shed some power in the event of an emergency. I suppose that it could be used by a novel energy supplier to pay less in power reserve and they could shut off willing consumers in the event of a near blackout.
Kali is Kelsey and Rees's distributed Scheme implementation based on Scheme48
When you put it that way .NET Core runtime does seem to offer great performance at low cost.
So, I appreciate you might consider this separate, but I would for most purposes include the various iMessage exploits in that last category (so: rare, but not unheard of).
That's pretty debatable.
Reminds me of who reads British newspapers:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=DGscoaUWW2M
So it only works as long as people are willing to volunteer nodes right? For a stable business model, I assume some party will start hosting nodes and charging people to use it?
The briefing said they had downloaded ~20 GB of data over the last few days. I'm sure much of that was _not_ EDL data.
They did a stupid mistake and courses corrected within 24h (Froday-Saturday). And it was not a border closure but rather border checks/controls on vaccine exports. Very far from a border closure but of course the British papers blew it up. Shouldn't have happened but really not a big deal and was never a problem in practice.
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App or website showing cheap business class flights?
You're the sixth person to reply to me with this "advice". My own password is 30 characters and I self-host bitwarden_rs, patched to permit a higher KDF iteration count.

This has nothing to do with my usage.
The big advantage of using existing airframes is that you dramatically reduce certification costs and commercialization time. If you can "retrofit" an existing airframe with electric propulsion, then you can get to market a lot faster.

You're absolutely right though - changing the airframe design and moving to distributed propulsion can lead to improvements in aerodynamic efficiency, L/D, and fault tolerance.
Yep. One of a few times we pinned my Dad to the wall with Big questions, and he had to get very philosophical about the meaning of life, loss, and the collective realization of our mortality.
So glad they've realized the value in allowing everyone to experience how hard these things are. So impressive, I can't wait to watch this video over and over.

The inflation of the parachute is spectacular, and knowing how hard it is, and how hard it is to test on earth - its just incredible.

And the skycrane was flawless - just so impressive how well it works. Too bad it flies off to crash and can't land gently somewhere to maybe be able to use it for its own purpose.
If you truly care about that, the truly REST solution would be to define separate MediaTypes and use Accepts headers to specify which MediaType is desired.

So if you wanted comments you would send a request with a header like "Accept: application/resource_with_comments", and you'd send a Header like "Accept: application/resource_without_comments".

The thing is, few people want this level of control in practice. This would generally lead to a huge proliferation of types for very little practical benefit. Much simpler to have a set of well-defined types with optional fields than to define a new type for each combination of fields used today.
> The legislation would allow web developers to accept payments for their apps without going through Apple or Google’s app stores

Is the word "web" there instead of "app" just a mistake? Because web developers can accept payments for their apps without going through Apple or Google, even on mobile. It's one of the things I love most about the web.
The above referenced PoC service based on express uses https://github.com/apigee-127/swagger-tools which surfaces a web app by which front end devs navigate through the published API endpoints. They can use the web app to call the service via the endpoint or copy and paste sample code that calls the service. Most open api integrations support this kind of functionality.
I have mixed feelings about at home allergy testing. I know that various clinical labs may have their own reference ranges for IgE/*. Combined that with a low amount of blood collected and sampling exposure time, the data would seem very messy unless you have a high quantity of samples.

Are you recommending people to collect the blood sample right after exposure to the allergen? How is that used in your dosage recommendations?
> … shows you with no doubt that Apple is doing something better with regards to compression…

No it doesn’t. It shows their mastering/tuning techniques are different or they have access to different sources. Compression, wrt codecs, has nothing to do with the difference in sound you’re hearing.