skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'll preface this by saying that I haven't even looked at Firebase in 5 years, so apologies if I'm completely off base.

Why can't you just use a "live" development environment in Firebase?

Obviously this isn't practical for some cloud services due to cost (AWS Redshift is the first example that comes to mind), but I don't see this being an issue with Firebase. If a company is paying six figure salaries to their developers, surely they can afford to give them dev environments on whatever cloud provider they use.

Requiring an internet connection doesn't seem like it would be an issue either. Who in 2021 is building web apps with no internet access? I can tether to my phone practically anywhere, and even when I'm on a flight I have Wifi access.

The product I work on uses a few live AWS services in dev, and for the past 5 or so years everything I've worked on has needed some kind of internet access to run. I can count on one hand the number of times this has been an issue. Dev/Prod parity is a good thing in my books. It's been more common for me to run into issues on prod due to slight differences in how things work between running things on my MacBook and on AWS, not just due to services emulators being different to the real thing, but due to intrinsic differences between running things on a MacBook and on remote Linux servers (even with docker).
I would say the difference is mostly rich. I suspect the poor people in China would prefer the large car too, but that isn't a practice option. The article makes it clear that the customers include a lot of people who can't get a drivers license, and given that China isn't exactly a rich country (they are improving and have a lot of rich, but overall they have a lot of poor people)
Back in the 80s, I was a very famous video game pioneer ...
I'm Ban Tran, Ban Tran the geek
don't act like you don't know
The once-classified tale of Juanita Moody
I followed this girl on youtube that built a tiny house in the mountains. She carries her own water, makes bread from wheat she mills, makes her own hummus and cabbage and eats copious amounts of each and vegetables. Hardly has phone/internet service because she lives in a mountain valley. Plays music with friends, reads and does yoga for entertainment.
Surprise, surprise. You are your habits! She looks very fit and healthy. I'm not advocating for traditionalism, but more like, optimizing your habits.

The simple basic, inexpensive things she does, and eats are pretty optimized for health and personal growth.

Isabel's Channel
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G4cght8xNnI
I've spent half a decade sitter ng around with some 4-node 2u's wanting to build a simulation/virtual city that I heat with in the winter. haven't made much progress on this side-quest though. too much other lifting to do.
Though big subreddits are too big for their own good, it has its unique value. It's serves as a battleground for people with agendas and a bellwether to what topics are hot right now in. The big subs as a collective are similar to what Digg was, but on a larger scale. It's more about influencing people than engaging them. I remember when almost 90% of Digg's frontage was submitted by MrBabyMan and there were complaints about that. The one-man show is impossible now on reddit, but groups with the similar agendas where it's at now on reddit.
The comment you're responding to isn't implying they are. It's implying a larger issue: that claims are often made by cryptocurrency proponents without any evidence to back them.
You're thinking about it wrong.

1. People have short attention spans

2. Aggregators provide easy access to summaries of news

3. People read the summary on the aggregator and never visit publisher site, let alone subscribe to the publisher.

4. High quality news will cease to exist because no one pays or even looks at it's ads

5. Australian people have good reason to want high quality news to exist without the current tragedy of the commons

6. Therefore news needs to be subsidized by the government

7. What better way to subsidize than by forcing the aggregators that have sucked all the value up to pay publishers?
I have trouble getting excited about tools to prettify JSON as long as the guy controlling the standard has a stubborn attitude about allowing comments or decent storage for long/multiline strings.

At this point I honestly take XML over JSON where I have a choice because of CDATA and comments.
You're maybe stretching the analogy way beyond what was intended.

The intended analogy, I'm guessing, is that both lottery tickets and BTC seem to be uncorrelated with USD. A good hedge is something that is inversely correlated with the thing you're trying to hedge against.
> JSON can be made prettier by sorting the JSON object members by element keys.

This seems to be a bad idea. The JSON language spec has ORDERED object members. But the order is arbitrary (precisely the one given in the JSON string) and does not have to be the lexicographic.

Sorting the object members by default would introduce problems whenever the order matters to the consumer of the JSON.
or just quit beekeeping, like i did, once i realized how horrible the mites and their treatments are.
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I wouldn’t give Galloway’s predictions much thought - he’s wrong almost all the time.

https://twitter.com/profgalloway/status/1180197139101696013

If he had to make bets on his predictions he’d be bankrupt.
Cryptocurrency "in general" obviously isn't deflationary, given that one can create a new cryptocurrency with a simple code fork. But Bitcoin is, no?
The spec does call out that some parsers deal with this. And since it is javascript based, leniency is the norm.

That is, you could rely on this and but be aware of it, is my point. Firefox, for example, will happily take an object with duplicates and report only the last one.
You don't actually need 51% of the mining power to perform a double-spend attack. Just by pure chance, even with 10% of the mining power, you will find 5 blocks in a row sometimes.

With a "wasteful" PoW, miners would not attempt this as they would hemorrhage money doing that.

Withe a "useful" PoW, miners could have an outside funding source like some institute that pays for protein folding. The would not lose money in their attempt to produce a minority chain (in proportion to the "usefulness" of their PoW)
I'll disagree with this. A very rough fact of life is not everyone will be able to go to a top school. For example the language requirement most top schools have excludes many people who didn't grow up with a second language, and lack the extra money to afford language tutoring.( Or a stable home life in highschool as most college language classes work much better if you took it in high school).

I literally couldn't pass French in community college and ended up going to a lesser school because of it. It's just not something I can do, at least in an academic environment.

That's said my life is much better for having attended college. However there's absolutely a max amount of money you should spend on this. Anything more than $40,000 for the full four years is too much. So if you do two years at community college, that's roughly $2,000 a year, 4000. Which leaves a budget of $36,000 for your last two years of college, of course this is just tuition.

That's very much doable, and even if you have to borrow the whole 40 it's not that bad. The real problems start when people spend $100,000 or so attending lowly ranked schools, AKA these for-profit institutions.
There's a reason that we term things like power and water "public" utilities, and that decent, well run governments regulate them. One, it's to ensure safe, reliable supplies. And two, to make sure that they're fairly priced. What happened in Texas shows the complete and utter failure in this regard. Sure the citizens of Texas voted for this complete clusterfsck, but not everyone, and those who end up with the short end of the stick shouldn't be blamed because the majority were a bunch of idiots fed lies for decades.
No-Code Voice AI on Microcontrollers
The bottom up order is the right one.
The classic paper: An Incremental Approach to Compiler Construction (Abdulaziz Ghuloum)

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&c...
The com-lihaoyi GitHub Organization
The subversive marketing and political astroturfing really annoy me as a long time reddit user.

Nowadays there are companies which sport hundreds or thousands of alt accounts to drive marketing or political agendas. Posts like the Enchroma (scam) advertising on r/pics last week are just the obvious tip of the ice berg.

Companies share post templates to just fill and spread in targeted subreddits. Many mods are paid for channeling the "right" content just like Instagram/YT influencers are paid for product placements.

It's not some hobbyist forum for the more popular subs. It's a marketing engine.
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> I would also prefer to trust that source, however it is written as a press release. So they write it to make them look as positive as they can and stress the Bitfinex bad points.

Whereas theblockcrypto is quoting Bitfinex's counsel who is weasel wording over people's understanding of what a "finding" is at law?

> The blockcrypto article seems to indicate that the accounts were now balanced

Given that in 2019, Tether's lifetime holdings were $2.1B and even that was not fully backed, and they're now printing $3.5B a week, I'm intensely curious how they are comfortable drawing that conclusion.
And, worse, many office jobs that were satisfied with high school diplomas or 2-year degrees in 1980 were requiring a bachelors by 2000. Even when the degree was irrelevant. Seriously, data entry does not require a history degree. At one place I worked nearly every one in the data entry positions had a history degree, and all had 4-year degrees of some kind.

(NB: Talking about in the US)
If you really want to have your mind blown, consider that one locomotive can move the equivalent of 400 trucks, and can be run in tandem to move more.

Trains are similar to solar panels... they are operationally super efficient but require a large capital investment. Where they work, they are magic.

Electric infrastructure is even more capital intensive, i would guess that if using was even marginally more efficient, it would have been implemented as railroads benefit from that efficiency. Equipment exists to accept grid power in diesel (Amtrak trains pulling into Penn station in NYC switch).
Ask HN: Are you skeptical about the vaccine?
My background is computer science, I believe in medical science and vaccines. BUT, thinking about the vaccines coming up, I'm reminded of the well known expression we use in tech: "When the product is free, you are the product."

Given this vaccine is being given out for free, what is the sentiment around someone giving you something for free while still having the best interest in mind, considering that in the US, healthcare usually costs a lot? This is a country that would likely profit from you being or remaining sick, so this move feels counterintuitive
All of this makes sense except for the bit about democracy. That's unrelated; this happens to be a process that's in use here, but it would work just as well in a monarchy.
This approach has the added benefit of teaching "mechanical sympathy". We're often told "Let the complier do the work" without really understanding what "work" the compiler is doing.

Learning concepts like branch prediction, out-of-order execution, pipelining, register planning, caches, memory management is far far more important than Lexing/Parsing/Intermediate Representations and SSA.
I had a founder promise me millions upon millions with my equity... but even generous valuations - at a “unicorn” - with minimal dilution would leave me with <100K. Quit not long after.
“You wasted $150,000 on an education you coulda got for $1.50 in late fees at the public library.” - Good Will Hunting
Last summer our neighbors here in in Cambridge moved to Portland ME for the summer, then sold their house and decided to make it permanent. But it took them literally a day to sell. The universities and the biotech labs aren't going anywhere.

But the trend of having an ever-increasing percentage of the population living in increasingly crowded coastal cities was unsustainable; some redistribution is good. It means exporting our gentrification issues to other places, and it's funny that the pandemic exodus has benefited states with the highest covid infection rates, but I guess nothing comes for free, right?
I feel embarrassed saying this but I feel both Clubhouse and TikTok are pretty amazing.

Both of them lower the barrier of entry on content creation and make distribution easier when one is starting out.
The price is so high that even if you’re not paying full price, it’s often still extremely expensive.
Honey appears to have some other beneficial properties. There is no real evidence that moderate honey consumption causes worse health outcomes.
Quite a variety of meanings. Some pretty funny.
> I went through my entire list of cookies once, 400 at least and started perma blocking all those I didn’t recognize. It was beautiful. I can’t do the same in Firefox.

If I understand your description correctly, you can definitely do this in Firefox also. Preferences/Privacy & Security/Cookies and Site Data.
Apple M1 Macs appear to be chewing through their SSDs
"Partially backed by something" was indeed one of the conclusions of the AG in this limited scope investigation.

Meanwhile, Tether is, was, claiming "Fully backed by USD!". And yet you are acting like the AG was supportive of Tether's claims, "Oh, yes, even the AG says so!"
CenturyLink Advertises Fiber in Seattle neighborhoods that don't have it
There seem to be two beneficiaries from such class action cases: Lawyers who get paid, and prosecutors who get publicity.

The deterrent effect on the guilty party is negligible, and the benefit to the public is nil.
I found code generation to be useful in Ruby with protobuf. This:

https://github.com/lloeki/ruby-skyjam/blob/master/defs/skyja...

gives that:

https://github.com/lloeki/ruby-skyjam/blob/master/lib/skyjam...

I would certainly enjoy having a DSL to write descriptive code to validate using JSON schema, but it would be even better if the Ruby definitions could be generated and persisted in Ruby files using that DSL.

Also, storing things in basic hash/array types works, but having dedicated types is useful, so that one can ensure not shoving one kind of hash in place of another unrelated kind of hash.

As for types themselves in general, there's RBS and Sorbet. One could have type definition generation as well for even deeper static and runtime checks.
Which demonstrates that JSON is pointless.

It's too ugly for humans (too many quotes, too many escape characters, and no comments) and too texty for machines.
Eh, BlockCypher are based in CA. Court order could force them to sinkhole any API requests to that wallet.
I always prefer VPS.

Just one-click to setup the stack of your choice with sensible defaults.
Thank you, that was interesting reading. Not sure why you were downvoted.
The poor get swindled most by retailers. Small and large retailers bribe too, but with cartels, vote bank politics and threats of violence.

Should the end customer eternally pay for these middle men because they bribe politicians and use emotional language to hide their willful incompetence ?

Retail sells 10x Amazon yet refuse to organize or make use of efficiencies of scale.

India is a poor country yet pay more than many developed countries for the same products because of dumb short term policies and protectionism. Creative destruction is important.
I just call our OVH services "the could" to placate people.
I've read this all over the internet but my parents had a bird live very well past the expected bird lifespan and modified nothing about their normal habits (using teflon pans, cleaning the oven, etc) the entire time. The bird's cage was like 15 feet from the oven. Just a single anecdotal data point but I think the risk is extremely overblown.
Current internet model for products like that is ads revenue. Reddit ads are very irrelevant and most of the time straight out bad.

Getting ads to work isn’t easy. It’s very competitive space, and barrier to entry is really high (you won’t get serious money spent with you, if you don’t deliver ROI).

While Reddit does provide a lot of unique utility, as a business its is still questionable.
The most common ones in food and the most common ones in the air.
Our idea was to track how people react, compile a log and have it processed so that we can tell them - yup you have this one allergy because of this pattern of what you ate, did, the air you breath etc. based on the evidence submitted.
It was a very long "LOG" but if people were serious about compiling it and didn't l eave things blank, the folks on our med team were certain we could have given them a "cure" that worked for their allergy.

Ofc, this wouldn't work with super extreme cases where you're allergic to a very specific uncommon thing. but this is a 80/20 solution.
There is a middleground, imo. The way apps are designed massively impacts the general requirements of system administration.

What we're seeing is largely centralized applications and the work it takes to manage them. Ignore UX for a second, and imagine you wrote a database on top of a distributed system - ala IPFS - and all modifications were effectively pushed into IPFS. This suddenly boils the system administration tasks down to:

1. make sure my IPFS node is up to date

2. make sure my computer is online

And even those can be heavily mitigated with peers who follow each other.

Now we're not there yet, i'm not advertising a better solution. I'm simply saying that part of the administration is a heavy lift simply because of how these apps were written. I think we can do better for the home user.

Secure Scuttlebutt is a lot easier to maintain, for example. The most important thing with that is that you simply connect to the internet and publish your posts/fetch other posts. In doing so, other people make backups for you and you of them. Backing up your key seems like the highest priority.. and even that could be eliminated i imagine, in the P2P model at least. Very low maintenance.
I have found Community Colleges to be the perfect place for this actually.

Community College classes are MUCH cheaper, and are even more so if you don't take the class for credit (where I went, tuition was $20 for a 1 credit class for non-degree seekers. No that was not a typo, it was Twenty USD for the entire class).

Community College professors don't do research, so they are usually focused much more on teaching classes. I have actually known quite a few professors who are in actual industry and teach a class or two.

I took a Jazz Combo class every semester with a well known local musician. He enjoyed teaching the class because everyone wanted to be there (we were all adult non-degree seekers), and since it was on a weeknight, he wasn't gigging anyways so it was a nice bonus to his freelance work.
Yes. I think it will always be useful to have a method of precise, non-verbal communication produced by the rapid trigger of physical switches in a particular order. The physicality of the switches is actually quite important to this behavior. So as long as we need to type, I would expect hardware keyboards to be desirable.

We may not need to type, however. We might dictate or think our words; however when absolute precision is required, I'm pretty sure a text-level voice interface is always going to be pretty tough to do well.
I tried using a json pretty printer in the lisp pp family of pretty printers (but it didn’t have miser mode.) Maybe we were just formatting things wrong and should have put brackets or breaking rules in different places, but changing that sort of code is hard and the results weren’t particularly great and people preferred the standard JSON.print(_,null,2) method. We switched to this and it was simpler and better. This format is also easier to process with something like grep or sed or awk or editor macros when needed.
But is lucid dreaming restorative? In my experience it's kind of fun but it doesn't really help me feel more rested.
Wait, she is now Diane?
Did you have ublock origin installed on Firefox?

I feel that most people complaining about slow browsers have no blocker installed.
If no one reply you on that old machine I can answer for ibm machine which still use card reader concept in its jcl card deck.

The cards you put up with has two //
These are you control cards
One of these will be program card
The next card with dd * you will be your program
...

An example is on p.88 of this manual http://www.computinghistory.org.uk/downloads/9041 , in fact follow up you have many details.
> Don't use [third-party login providers], it's a trap.

Pretty hard to avoid in many cases. Logging in to your Microsoft account for Office (Teams, Outlook, et al.) uses a login service, as does Google, and practically all services that span across multiple domains. Which includes all of the major ones, at this point.

Good that Firefox gives us this option, given how the web has evolved!
The point is not just making money. The point is solving real world problems. AI ethics focus on esoteric problems that don't solve any real world problems. AI ethics research has very little impact if at all on real issues.
Silver Sparrow Malware Hatched on 30k Macs
Yeah I have the same question. lld can list the dependencies right?
Yeah, this article is badly written. It doesn't even explicitly says that Ban Tran worked on Wabbit, unless I missed it.

And that's the gist of it: someone making a documentary on female video game protagonists went looking for a developer of Wabbit, which can be considered (one of) the first of that category.
Inflation can happen to assets, and PragmaticPulp is analyzing Bitcoin as an asset, not a currency. Given that even when you buy stuff with BTC, you're buying a product or service denominated in USD, their analysis is generally more correct than arguing that Bitcoin should be analyzed as a currency.
Thousands of Doctors in America Can’t Get a Job
Bad boys can still point out when others are behaving poorly, right?
One way to speed up IO-bound code is to have multiple threads-of-execution (threads or async-io) in order to have multiple requests in the air. Specifically SSDs benefit a lot from multiple requests in parallel as that utilizes their internal parallelism. HDDs would benefit only a little bit but RAIDed HDDs can also benefit from parallelism.
NY AG’s $850M Probe of Bitfinex, Tether Ends in an $18.5M Settlement
Reddit is a good example of "tyranny by majority" in my opinion. You can see it in action with downvoting opinions people simply don't agree with. It doesn't matter if you have a dozen sources if the 51% simply downvote it for disagreeing.

And Reddit's UI design is truly terrible. I know it's for fitting in more ads, but going from seeing 20 posts per page, and an ad mixed in, to see 2 (sometimes even 1) post that may be an ad is insane.
Where is all the unpaid innovation happening, where are people creating for the joy of creating? 8 bit micro controllers and little SoCs.
https://birdtraps.com.ng/
How multi-monitor support will work on Gnome 40
Solid bait. It would have helped to mention AI. 4/5 stars.
It acts like a social proof and gives more credibility for the product.
What the world needs is fewer, smaller and slower cars. In that order. This is even more important than the fuel they run on. Better public transport would go a long way towards making that more viable, of course ...
I think we'll still be using physical buttons/switches 73 years from now, and qwerty keyboards will still exist. The qwerty layout will definitely be around. Hardware keyboards will be a niche compared to all the other kinds of input types we'll have in the future. I'd like to say that hardware keyboards will be the domain of knowledge work but 73 years is a long time.
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