skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Both the more technical blog post as well as the MDN page are linked shortly after that paragraph.
Sending USDT is cheaper, faster and easier than sending actual USD.
It's not about privacy per se, but rather giving away your personal information for free so google can make profit out of it.
Presumably there could be another fork like there was with BTC vs Bitcoin Cash (BCH).
Why boundaries – not bubble baths – are at the heart of self-care
From the 2.0 version on, GNOME based many of their UI changes on research studies of what ordinary computer users want, chasing after the corporate desktop and tablet markets. The result was something that alienated many techies, but failed to see much mass-market adoption.

I don’t think the problem is UI. I think the problem nowadays is that many people are so used to an Android phone (with Google Play Services and all apps sourced through the Play store) or iPhone that they are increasingly forgetting that ordinary computers exist at all.
Great memories. My first programming experience, and my first computer.
Square pays $170m for $160m worth of Bitcoin
They have already won it is over. Op's post is 30 years too late. Please press F.

"First it came for my shopping habits, and I did nothing because I didn't care.
Then it came for my location data, and I did nothing because I didn't care.
Then it came for my thoughts, and I did nothing because I didn't care.
Then it came for my juices, and it knew exactly where I kept them."
Coinbase won't let you sell tainted coins but will let you withdraw them. No exchange will seize them.
Waste their investor's money.
Right, it's klunky, but doesn't seem much different from what you see around BIOS/UEFI/grub and so on.
No, only the signatures would be at risk, and the fix would be quite simple. Create a new address type that's quantum-secure, then have everyone move their coin over. After practical breaks start happening, disable the old signature type.
In [2]: scipy.stats.binom_test(89, 200, 0.5)
Out[2]: 0.13736665086863936

Unusual to be this lopsided (1-in-7), but not crazy.
I thought this was from Rally, the company that makes Scrum software (now owned by Broadcom it appears), instead of from Rally, the company that makes Scrum software. Can't believe you're not walking into a trademark war with a much larger company.
The ACLU's position on cancel culture is almost comical.
Are yoga practitioners usually liberal? Is that a thing? My perception has always been that yoga communities tend to attract those interested in "alternative medicine", a group which certainly has its own share of echo chambers. Given the apparent ideologically-insular nature of both groups, I'm not surprised that there would be overlap between the them.

Echo chambers are not a new phenomena, but they have certainly become more powerful with the rise of the internet. Never before have we been so easily able to surround ourselves with groups of like-minded individuals. But what I find even more concerning are algorithmically-driven content feeds which are tailored to suite the preferences of each individual user.

Algorithmically-driven, tailored content feeds basically automate the creation of echo chambers. It all sounds well and good to the user - after all, they get access to more of the type of content they prefer. However, those feeds almost inevitably learn to always provide the user exclusively with content that reinforces their preexisting ideas and opinions. They'll eagerly spread things like QAnon if it results in increased user engagement.

I don't think there's anything particularly special about QAnon compared to any other politically-charged conspiracy group. I think they just got lucky and once they passed a certain threshold of popularity, the algorithms did what they do best.
My guess they are rolling out btc payments and bought some amount to cover transaction delays or rollbacks.
> Why does a classics degree cost the same as a CS degree when the market value of a classics degree is basically zero

If that is true it probably says more about the short-sightedness of the job market rather than the practical benefits of a program in Classics.

A Classics education – like CS in fact – actually has wide applicability over a range of disciplines. There is a reason we call things "Humanities" after all. Greek and Latin classics, for example, have proven their value and relevance to humanity over centuries if not millennia! They are unlikely to become obsolete any time soon.

Classics graduates are likely to have superior reading and writing skills compared to a typical CS graduate. And the complexity of real languages like Latin or Greek puts computer "languages" to shame.

Moreover, it's a lot easier to learn CS on your own or on the job. ;-)
I agree that you should write tools to improve the workflows you actually have. But this post, as I read it, is not written from the point of view of narrow problems and solutions — or rather, it is, but it is trying to be something else. It is talking about The Evolution of the IDE. And from that point of view I think my criticism is appropriate.
I cant even get through a few sentences of this bullshit. They lost me on how Microsoft Apple and Google are blind followers of money
Isn't it a conflict of interest for Dorsey to make such a market moving purchase, as an agent of Square, in an asset that he is personally invested in? I guess we'll have to wait and see the rationale of the purchase. If it's to facilitate payments on their platform, then no biggie.
What say we bow to our overlords and hope they be benevolent?
In short, yes it's possible to secure, but it'd be a project. Like securing everything else against QC

https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Quantum_computing_and_Bitcoin
I'll look it up, thanks :)
Yes good point! Thought I’d guess there’s vastly more sugar in the soda.

Remember that couple in there two who went BLIND when they stopped drinking soda. Crazy.
It's a re-implementation of https://akkadia.org/drepper/SHA-crypt.txt in Go. Because Linux does not support shadow in bcrypt or scrypt. Also see https://access.redhat.com/articles/1519843.

Unfortunately, none of that is open source.
I don't think that irrational retail investors understand, or care to understand, Bitcoin or Monero implementation details. Bitcoin's valuation has little to do with its technical merits. It's all just internet money to most people.
> I don’t think most people going to 3rd-tier college to study humanities are doing it out of some abstract love of education.

Well, the fact that they are third-tier already tells you that they won’t get some cushy job from the education by itself.

Are they necessarily doing it for the love of education? Probably not. But I suspect that that motivation is more likely to be found in them than the students at the top-tier institutions that will be welcomed by the open embrace of six-figure salaries and social status once they graduate.
Just invert your guesses then!
Yep, there could be a lot of noise in there too from people guessing lazily.
Didn’t know that. They tested him before and after though right so would have been the difference they saw?
That type of attitude toward the millions of users that use discus just shows why Firefox is a dying browser with ever decreasing install base. Funding will keep decreasing as it is tied to search engine deals which is based in active users.
Just to be sure, you're not talking of those €20-50 electric heaters right? Because you say "most" and afaik those are pretty much the only ones people have unless they're in some fancy new building or have a fancy AC and paid extra for that option.
Block Party Aims to Be a 'Spam Folder' for Social Media Harassment
I'll bet that keyboard on the left machine was maddening :)
Second that, his first book was pretty great and easy to digest.
Yes, these auto lubricators are widespread and a competitor to our current product. That being said, these auto lubricator do have their downsides and our customers have been very open about these.
One of our customers is using GreaseBoss to replace auto lubricators as it gives much better control over the greasing.
Additionally, we do have a second product in development that works with auto lubricators to overcome some of the core issues that our customers are experiencing with them.
I think there’s a disconnect here. Does free speech have to include someone knowingly purposely spreading misinformation with the intent to deceive people? Or someone speaking with the explicit intent to harm another person?

Because I think nobody should be able to silence your thoughts, ideas or opinions but those things don’t encompass all speech.
Taking shareholders for a ride. Scamming people at two companies.
I disagree. Yes, fully replicating the production environment is not possible for big apps or apps with customer data, no discussion there. But when you want to debug components, test error conditions etc, a copy is extremely important. You can do "[DEBUG] added some logging" commits left, right and center, but it's not going to replace a debugger.

Additionally, you might want to create custom or corrupt datasets. Yes, you can theoretically add a flag, but then this flag needs to be checked everywhere and might come with its own bugs. Using the "customers_debug" table instead of "customers" table (for example) works as well, but then you replicated staging in your production environment - added complexity which is definitely _not_ needed.

Lastly, this misses the other points the article makes - a local copy allows you to freely play with the configuration, shut down related services etc. You can not do that in production.

But I'll give you that - resiliency in production is still very necessary and you usually won't be able to replicate everything locally. The ability to run local isn't everything - but that was not the point the article was making.
I'm fairly sure this pertains moreso to divisions between hostnames.
Four board members of Texas' power grid operator ERCOT resign
Machine Learning Can Predict Linear Algebra
Flim, an Intelligent Movie Screenshot Search Engine
Some companies fight on the side of users in this war: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24881988.
We've run out of the ability to measure easily.

As you indicated, the "human scale" things that we can experiment with to make predictions have been "plucked."

Now we have to make increasingly more complex tools (LHC etc...) for physical things we can't experience directly and our ethics prevents us from experimenting with those "soft" things.
Absolutely. We've been throwing ideas around for OilBoss, AirBoss, FuelBoss and ExplosiveBoss. Obviously we're going to to focus on getting GreaseBoss right first but there are some other very exciting problems out there to solve!
How we do it at work is every single commit message must have a ticket number in it. This is super easy to do and super useful. Even if the commit message is "fix exception #1823" you can go and look up #1823 and see what that issue was to make sure you don't reintroduce it with your change. You will always find more info and context in the ticket than in git commit messages.
If Bitcoin doesn't destroy itself somehow, quantum computing will be the destruction of the modern blockchain. Quantum Bitcoins might be possible, but developing a quantum blockchain before traditional Bitcoin can be exploited by the same tech is highly unlikely, so any Bitcoins today will almost certainly never become quantum Bitcoins.

I don't think there is any feasible way you could ever convert the Bitcoin blockchain into a quantum variant, even if you set a hard sunset date before any exploitation could occur. You would have to start from the ground up and completely reinvent the wheel.
It also fails to happen if you delete all the 'commercial search engines' that come preinstalled, suggest switching to duckduckgo or other privacy respecting search engine:

https://itsfoss.com/privacy-search-engines/
Really appreciate the feedback. Always good to know when something works as intended.
> But recently flat out knowingly lying with the specific intent of deceiving people has become normalised. It’s a serious threat.

It's literally propaganda. A Russian tactic called the firehose of falsehoods.

The trick is making the truth politically related, so the real truth doesn't matter anymore.

And people can just say it's a "x" opinion to dismiss it. It's unfortunately pretty effective as we've seen...
This problem is real and important. My uncle who is a lawyer knew how to use dBase IV in the 80s. Nowadays young people, even university graduates, struggle to use a mouse. Scrolling is the pinnacle of competence it seems.

We need people going back to buying PC. Thanks to corona, they do now. We should focus on those rich-capability apps and software
Without being too specific, the gateways I have in the codebases in front of me:

Data:

- Canonical data repositories for each of: order, transaction, customer, feedback, geography, privacy opt-in/out.

- Hadoop SQL facade.

- Support contact analytical service for a particular type of issue.

Business operations:

- Core order fulfillment service (orders populate into repository when complete).

- Support contact operational services: ingestion, routing, and auto-resolution.

Product infrastructure:

- Machine learning model serving engine.

- Map drawing service.

- Translations service.

- Dynamic configuration service.

- A/B test service.

- Server-Sent-Events hub service for our mobile apps.

- Facades for each of: voice, SMS, mobile native pushes, email.

- Marketing campaign service (dumber but more convenient facade to the previous).

Basic infrastructure:

- Column store.

- Secrets service.

- Cache service.

- Blob storage service.

- Workflow engine.

- Timer service (technically a subset of a workflow engine).

- Message queue.

Each one of these is backed by a team of 2-10 people. I have been inside 2 or 3 of them to fix bugs that affected me.
Does Google have any good product managers/executives? Or only engineers
I have trouble with google login (url must be copied into a google tab) and oracle cloud loses my tenancy home region every few minutes (https://i.imgur.com/ZCsepq3.png). Several other examples like LMS's that use O365 to log in must be manually logged in every time
FWIW if anyone's looking, the hosted DigitalOcean Kubernetes clusters are fantastic.

Despite being very early adopters, we've only had one issue and when we pointed the finger at them...the DO k8s team immediately diagnosed the issue, and it was our own fault. Woops.
Thanks Steve,
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Some of the "real" ones have absolutely atrocious comments. Two variables labelled with literally just the name of the variable like so:

bool hasdied // has died

and then a `// done` for seemingly no reason after initializing variables... where did this code come from?!
Perseverance’s First Sounds from Mars
Yes, that's what I was imagining must be going on, if it indeed doesn't work as SamBam said. I just can't see why else they'd support ten-year-old Macs but not a (presumably) much newer Chromebook.
Umm.. white nationalist tried to pull a coup a month ago.

It's just possible that maybe, just maybe some speech isn't compatible with democracy...
yes, you can fork the network to use a new hashing algorithm
Strangely they went pass Free5gc (1)(2), perhaps it's too close to China ?.

It's the more complete 5G stack imo. All functions are containerized and it's in Golang, which is way less error-prone e̶r̶r̶o̶r̶ ̶p̶r̶o̶o̶f̶ than openair (in c/c++). I used it at work to build a new private function that interact with the various api to build fast path breakout in the user data plane.

[1] https://www.free5gc.org/
[2] https://github.com/free5gc/free5gc
HN as a community does not have a high tolerance for short reddit-like replies that could be considered funny. The general opinion being that it lowers the overall quality of the discussion.
CEO's do this all the time with the US dollar and no one blinks an eye.
Have you seen Open AI's DALL•E? https://openai.com/blog/dall-e/ Kind of does something similar to what you describe, right?

This project blows my mind, by the way. I still think it's the coolest thing to come out of AI research so far.
> It's fair to say that Maddow has an opinion show, not a news show.

The general format (it is varied from occasionally) is a commentary/interview show that uses news stories, generally presented as straight news and to journalistic standards, to provide context for the interviews and commentary.

> these rules

Who has proposed rules?
I would be more interested how much systemd made from selling its users tracking data to Google and if they didn't it would be interesting which idiot passed up a chance to secure a possibly sizeable budget increase by handing Google all that data for free. Mozilla got millions from making Google the default search and you can't tell me Google doesn't value the data it gathers from this, they have a tendency to kill under performing projects.
There's a lot of comments in here about how it's bad that cookies haven't always worked this way, but a significant amount of web content to this day still requires third-party cookies to work. And I'm not talking about cookies that are designed for analytics purposes; the discussions here where concern is raised revolve around simple things like logins breaking.

For greenhorn web developers, you could say the same thing about TLS certificates. Why weren't they always free?

Well, another reason is because TLS (and formerly SSL) wasn't (weren't) just about encryption, but about a "web of trust." Encryption alone isn't trust.

Many things about web technologies have changed over time; and it's easy to say that any individual piece of functionality should have worked this or that way all along, but the original intent of many web features and how those features are used today can be very different.

One day industry standards may dictate that we don't even process HTTPS requests in a way where the client's IP address is fully exposed to the server. Someone along the way might decide that a trusted agent should serve pages back on behalf of a client, for all clients.

After all, why should a third-party pixel.png request expose me browsing another website?! How absurd. Don't you think? And yet, we do it every day.
So let's crack the fuck down on externalities of power generation and consumption. Ban fossil fuels on an aggressive timeframe. Make car-free cities everywhere. Stop all wars right now today.

But those things are orthogonal (and not even adjacent) to selecting an algorithm for PoW consensus.

I also want to caution against circlejerking over clean water and ozone restoration. Things on a global scale are still pretty dire; the solution is ahead of us, not behind, and it's not clear what it will be.
The update clearly shows that a “fact” was not reported and what was reported was a rumor that could not be verified because it was in no way ever true. I’d expect sober reporting to stick to assertions with real documentation or multiple unrelated attestations of direct knowledge. I’d also expect that a news outlet would treat assertions made by police or any organization as objectively often false and always self-interested. As it stands it is all click-bait manure and the retractions are just legal CYA.
Zen of Mac and Cheese
Also NTP points to Google’s servers
It's still not a reason to harrass a maintainer who already provided a convenient override to set it to whatever one wants. Maybe Ubuntu distro is a better place to get the "safe" configuration to the masses.

It's a pretty rare phobia to be honest, and I think people who consider 8.8.8.8 a reasonable default are totally justified to. For those who don't agree there are plenty of options, that's how open source is supposed to work.
Maybe the probability of GPT2 generating that sequence is nearly 0. Sometimes weird edge cases are more human.
If you really want to do it nice, you get to the end and then move all of the commited changes in to the uncommited state and then recommit them in to logical steps and commit them piece by piece with well written messages.

But at some point you are spending more time bookkeeping than the actual value you will get from it. If its a personal repo, don't bother. If you are sending a patch to Linus, tidy your commit messages.
Your second sentence is indicative of the toxic attitude to the world that appears to be rooted in or at least exacerbated by capitalism.

Isn't this a damning statement on the market that it purely incentivises doings that create monetary value, and puts theose that create other extremely important value in the world (the thirst for knowledge, the study of the arts and history, etc) are either "failing" due to not being profitable endeavours, or only in the grasp of the rich and the select few who get scholarships?
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> Devs, if you want a better world, start contributing to copyleft software.

Your version of "a better world" is one in which authors, musicians, movie producers, artists, and all other creative types are free to make money from their works, but not software developers. When they try to do it, it's immoral. No thanks.
It also fails to happen if you delete all the preinstalled search engines. Also try deleting the major search engines and switching to a privacy search engine:
https://itsfoss.com/privacy-search-engines/
What happens when banks break the consensus and what is needed to prevent that?
There's also free-as-in-facebook, where you are the product.
I would hate to be a scientist working on quantum computing when there is so much wealth to be threatened by their success. Sounds like a quick way to meet the mafia.
> so many of those traditional diners are sourcing all their ingredients from Sysco

The question is what level do you source from Sysco?

Source flour, shortening, sugar, etc. and make your own pie or cake. It will still be unique.

Source pie mix or cake mix from Sysco and, yes, you've lost your uniqueness.

The real question: do the eaters care? The continuing existence of places like Applebee's seems answer the question with "Apparently not."
Anything that shields me to some extent from the "grab money fast, before anyone notices we're fucking them over" companies out there is a champion, as far as I'm concerned.
> i think it'd be simpler to not fuss with these layers at all

You should check out some example code for react-three-fiber (e.g. https://codesandbox.io/embed/r3f-bones-3i7iu). If you have any experience with writing raw webgl, it will become abundantly clear that something is gained by going through three.js before returning to React's more declarative style.

Most of the savings in the example are coming from three.js itself (not r3f), which is maybe the key point: three.js offers much more than a scenegraph, which is why it's worthwhile (check out the official examples to get an idea: https://threejs.org/examples/). Webgl as an API doesn't even really talk about 3d objects for the most part; the language it provides is primarily about moving data around in buffers. The difference in possible time savings in three.js vs webgl is on the level of writing in C vs an assembly language.

And once you're building an application with a non-trivial amount of state mutation (on which the view depends)—you're faced with the same dilemma as traditional web dev and the DOM, hence the desirability of react-three-fiber.

That said, I think it would be super interesting to see a three.js alternative that was 'natively' reactive/declarative, because I'll readily admit the tower of abstractions involved in writing a react-three-fiber app has its downsides. (Then again, I consider three.js to be a rare gem, know of nothing comparable in terms of simplicity/quality for building 3d apps, and would be [pleasantly] surprised to see anything like the above anywhere in the near future.)