skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How is this different from what we have today with payment for order flow and HFT? I’m no crypto bull, but I kinda prefer a natural and transparent system to a tightly regulated one steeped in corruption.
I keep forgetting how awful most Dilbert strips are.
One of the first things I bought for my Pi was a battery HAT and with VNC on, I use my iPad as its screen, and a BT keyboard from an old Mac. It’s the best of both worlds. I can take the Pi anywhere and work on some Python projects. I went out in nature and it is quite cool to have your tools of the trade with you. Perhaps this fits in that kind of -maybe niche- use case.
Ads, basically. But I doubt web makes any impact here. Let's say every web user spends 2 hours every day waiting for ads to finish loading. 2 hr x 100 watt x 360 days x 5 billion users = 1 TWh. The US alone produces 4000 TWh per year.
> insider trading activity on the dark web peaked a few years ago, and fizzled out after 2018... Perpetrators have likely migrated to more secure encrypted channels instead.

Does this mean they are no longer using TOR, or they are just operating a more low-key onion site?

Are there even indexes of tor sites?
No, this would be likely positive for Linux. The centralization of decision power about the linux ecosystem via Redhat lead to net negative developments like systemd adoption, X11 being left to rot under Redhat leadership in favour of a Wayland solution that still does not work properly, and Gnome 3 being pushed as the mainstream linux solution. If Redhat really would implode the natural, likely more decentralized development efforts would gain weight and prevent errors like those. The article even mentions that with the abstraction as sale argument remarks.
I'd been using 'tab suspender (memory saver)' with firefox for a long time - I'm not sure if this is the exact one that was bought by a spyware company? So I have been considering a new one - CodesInChaos mentions one-tab, I will look at that one today.

I recently discovered I can click one tab - then hold shift and select a group - and then move those to a new browser window - then ctrl-shift-D to save all into a bookmarks folder name.

I love doing that and sorting by subject and by date then hunting in that group makes it easier for me to re-get info later, which I love.

I 'm kind of shocked there is not some sort of extension or standalone software that will take my history and group chunks together like - bunch of tabs from yahoo news, a bunch from HN, a bunch from EntertainHub - and then also give the option to sort by date/time - all automatically with a few rules that are modifiable - would be great.

I think if some groups were able to be all saved local copy for archive would also make me feel better about just closing a bunch of tabs and not keeping them all open.

and also a todo-list of get-back to these tabs.. checkboxes - these pages to blog about - these to send to a friend.

some automation and UX changes would make a big impact.

If I could import these lists into other firefox profiles I could have one of those blog-this-press-this buttons for wordpresses that I used to use - haven't done that in a long time - need to look into that again.
Not sure I really believe anything in this article. Especially given this site's reputation for Fox News style "reporting"(meaning made up BS).
This is simply not true. They offer both stock options and (private) rsu.
Why would you store value in something as unstable as an NFT? NFTs are 100% speculation so the price is basically arbitrary.
Thank you very much for this clarification.
If you have real unit tests then refactoring code also means refactoring unit tests, as they just test small units like functions in isolation. When refactoring you will need to replace units or delete them to be able to change units that are higher up in the abstraction. You may end up testing a lot of implementation details and keep them from changing.

If you only write tests of the higher abstracted units while also using the lower abstraction ones, you are not really doing unit testing anymore but what some people call integration testing.

In my opinion they both have their place. Most of the code we write is relatively throw-away code that will be used in one project/occasion and is prone to be changed because of changing requirements. You should test your requirements and functionality with integration tests, unit tests will cost too much time and will stand in your way.
In rare cases we write code that is really reusable in a bigger scope and acts like a foundation set in stone that rarely changes and is widely reused. In general you should put way more effort in those and also use unit tests there.
RedHat has good enterprise relations, but it doesn't seem to be a no-brainer brand the way old school IBM was or the way Microsoft more recently has been.

If they can get some decent enterprise sales, support, and profesional services folks as well as developers, they’ll do fine.
What a bunch of crap.
You'll be happy to know that what you describe exists and it has a name: pyrolysis. Pyrolysis is the thermal anaerobic decomposition of biomass. Basically, you heat up organic material without oxygen at temperatures attainable from a relatively small fire. During this process, volatiles such as hydrogen and oxygen separate from the carbon in the biomass feedstock (dry untreated wood, bones, old cotton tshirts, whatever) and get released as syngas, leaving more or less pure fixed carbon that is very stable, safely sequestered in soil for thousands of years.

The resulting carbon, called biochar, can be co-composted to prepare it for use in soil, where it protects the soil from drought and flood alike. Plants grown in soil with higher carbon content are bigger and healthier, and these soils can produce more of whatever you're growing.

I make biochar at home but there are companies that do it on an industrial scale.

Humanity has been pumping CO2 into the atmosphere at an epic scale for decades. In addition to going carbon neutral with more wind, solar and nuclear, we need to draw CO2 back out of the atmosphere on an epic scale. And biochar resulting from pyrolysis is one of the major tools since it has synergistic effects with other tools, like mass tree plantings. Biochar production can also offset other energy uses, for example by either directly burning the syngas on-site for heating purposes, or for capturing it and using it later as a fuel in an application that would otherwise use fossil fuel.
Ask HN: How does Stripe Press make their books?
All of their books are beautiful, in terms of the typography, cover, coloring, and paper quality. Does Stripe produce the books themselves, or do they use some external vendor who prints for them? If one wanted to print a book of similar quality, how would one go about it?
I'd guess the commenter means, that from a Marxist perspective, most workers are not 'capitalists,' i.e., they don't make their living from owning capital. These 'non-capitalist' workers get wages primarily from capitalists. Perhaps the author is moderately successful and does live off of investments now. That could technically make him a 'capitalist' - again, from a certain perspective.

I'll readily admit this is mostly a semantic difference, but to me it serves as a good reminder that, for example, calling even the most ardent free market supporter minimum wage WalMart worker a 'capitalist' is about as sick of a joke as pretending that the majority of jobs offers workers a chance of building 'capital' in the first place - as the author points out.
Initial type checking with mypy is slow, but if you use mypy-daemon each check after that becomes pretty much instantaneous, even on 10M+ line code bases.
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Finding concurrency bugs in .NET services using Coyote
I think you might have missed my point, it’s not a binary good/bad - both approaches have a useful place.
I have no idea what IBM is up to, honestly. It doesn't impact me. It's not something I would be in any position to talk about even if I did, though.
It used to be common to reply to this sort of fear mongering with "anecdotes aren't data." Cool anecdote, bro.

Sorry for that person you, a random internet person I have no reason to trust, allegedly know, who is very, very unlucky.

The people in power want us to stay afraid and easy to control. Fauci says vaccines work but doesn't trust them enough to stop going into public with TWO masks! Despite being vaccinated!

Why would I get a vaccine that doesn't quell the fears of "the nation's top doctor" enough for him to stop wearing the masks? Or are the masks just for show?

We may still be in a pandemic but it's time to stop panicking, face the danger, and get on with society and our lives before we cause bigger problems like famine societal breakdown!

Some people may die of COVID in the process, but someone is going to die no matter what choice we make, from deprivation, from isolation, from side effects, from economic distress

COVID might suck but there are far worse things, I think it's safe to say, after a year, this thing isn't Ebola.

Now commence downvoting to show you disagree! Surely it will change my mind this time!
How would you characterize rejected energy, if not wasted? What is your take on Seetee?
>>using hsqldb or something else lightweight were golden for local development or integration tests. So abstracting the DB was the default, and absolutely needed.

This also improves efficiency in operations, not necessarily development. If you used a library/framework for database access anyway, it's not an extra expense. There's ultimately a portability concern even if "vendoring", it only imposes a cut-out to permit control of necessary change).

After a few unpleasant experiences I endlessly advocated we should always use an interface to access populated data objects and not interact with the database directly, not even running queries directly but always using at least lightweight IOC. I also advocated for testing where known result sets were fed through mock objects. After all, saved result sets could also be used to test/diagnose the database independently after schema/data changes. My experience predates a lot of ORM and framework responses.

Unfortunately later frameworks (intended to abstract these concerns) became ends in themselves, rather than a means to an end. These were used to satiate "enterprise-y" concerns (sacrifices to the enterprise gods). If you could afford to deploy operational Oracle, you would't necessarily flinch at the cost of the extra (often pointless) layers of abstraction.
Fraud in the startup world is a lot more prevalent than might be well known. NS8, Communiclique, Lordstown Motors, Trustify, and so many have come to light in the last year.

Investors don't do enough due diligence and trust their own gut too much.

[0] https://www.sec.gov/news/press-release/2020-162

[1] https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidjeans/2020/10/29/fraud-sof...

[2] https://www.justice.gov/usao-edva/pr/california-business-man...

[3] https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/lordstown-motors-a...

[4] https://www.justice.gov/usao-mdal/pr/founder-lee-county-base...

[5] https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/sentencing-set-alabama-m...
It's all bullshit.
(Disclaimer: I work for Red Hat)

Please pay attention to the previous submission about RH from this platform. The author seems to have an agenda and likes to stir controversy.

Nothing in his post matches my experience.
Big Techs Started as US Government Projects and Today Threaten Democracy
What’s the difference between you and firstbase?
Deep Dive: Bitcoin and the Environment
I'm impressed! I've been working in this space but it's the first time I hear about nzyme.

Our project is a security centric router/firewall/wifi AP with cloud management.

We do have a rogue wifi monitoring feature, but your approach and execution seems so miles ahead from what we're doing that I'm highly tempted to scrap it and integrate nzyme instead.

I am thinking that we could remotely configure/dedicate some radios to an nzyme process embedded in our firmware.

We just had the go ahead from our main sponsor to fully open-source our project so I'll be in touch!
This is probably one of the reasons why Elon Musk makes a great CEO. He has the 30,000ft to 3mm view in his head. He can simulate the entire company and different pieces of product in his head, run Monte Carlo simulations with different future variants and gauge their tradeoffs.

There are many folks who like to be hard and harsh leaders but don’t have those mental simulators. The other side is soft and nice leaders who also don’t have the mental simulators. Seems there is a fine line of assertiveness which leads to good bets.
I left Red Hat less than a month ago. No relation at all with IBM, in my experience they have been welcoming and pretty aligned with the goals my team had. Great company.

Sorry if I gave them ammo by leaving and inflating the numbers, but it was only a coincidence, I swear.
Before they were private, once enough tolls were collected to offset the cost of construction, the tool booths were removed. Those roads are now free to drive, ex: I-30 through DFW. The current roads under NTTA will never be free to drive, ex: George Bush Turn Pike, N.Dallas Tollway, Sam Rayburn Tollway,etc
Are you still salty about systemd? Let it go, let it go.
They may hang on for years, or decades. You can still trade Beanie Babies and Cabbage Patch dolls on eBay. Three Stooges collectable plates from the Franklin Mint[1] don't seem to be selling well, though.

Lack of liquidity is implicit in non-fungible tokens. You have to find a buyer who wants the exact item you have. That may be hard. It may require paying for advertising, which means the return can go negative.

With a uniform commodity, there's a market with prices. Non-fungible markets don't crash, they stall. You can't sell, but that's not visible on marketplaces,
especially if they're designed to hide listings that are not moving. (This is common in real estate; un-saleable property is taken off the market, then re-listed, so it doesn't show as "for sale for 72 weeks".)
What we're probably going to see are markets with huge numbers of items that are not selling, but have high asking prices. This will create the illusion of value, because someone will add up the asking prices and claim that's a "market cap".
The illusion of volume and liquidity can be created with wash trades.

There are getting to be a quite a number of blockchain based virtual worlds, where you can pay way too much for virtual land. Few people actually log into those virtual worlds and spend time there; they just trade land. "The metagame is the game", some analyst wrote of Decentraland. (Which, despite its name, is totally centralized. You can't run a Decentraland server yourself.)

I used to go to art openings in SF, and sometimes we'd look at some bad piece and ask "will this be around in 10 years or will it have been tossed out?" Years later, I suspect most of it went to a Dumpster long ago.

[1] https://www.ebay.com/itm/Franklin-Mint-The-Three-Stooges-Dec...
I am curious why you'd say that. As in, legitimately curious, it's unclear to me why.

But maybe it's possible you're using the general word "analytic" and not the specific way it's being used here, to describe a particular tradition and approach?
Hi!

Re incorporation alone: I 100% agree with you, incorporating alone is relatively easy! Sure it might be a bit of a headache to do the paper work but its but it's the ongoing compliance/filings that can be the true headache. We hope to offer everything that an SMB needs in-house through StartPack so that it's hassle free to have a solution right away. But even if we can't provide the solution, we'll partner / find someone who can help! For example, we get asked all the time about "trademarks" which is something we can't do but we then go out and do research on who can so we can help people find a solution for this!

Re Delaware C Corps: If we don't believe we can offer the best long-term value then again, although we could help people "form C Corps" easily, we wouldn't be the best long-term partner. For example, someone forming a C Corp might be doing so to raise US venture capital! And if this is the case, at some point in the future (or right away) they will likely need legal counsel to help them finalize their round, update fundraising documents, review legal templates etc! Examples of some of these documents might be board consents, SAFE templates, offer letters, advisor or consulting agreements, restricted stock issuances, NDAs and more. And examples of maintenance that might need to be done could be adding or removing directors, making changes to your number of authorized shares etc.

If you are forming a Delaware C Corp some options are Clerky, Gust Launch, Stripe Atlas and of course, if you are going to need US legal counsel, then your legal counsel can also help you form your C Corp too!
New Houses Are Costing More as Prices Jump for Wood, Bricks
Sandboxing does not mean no interaction. It means supervised interaction between apps where the user is in control of what to allow and what not. I'm not sure how well Flatpack does it (never used it) or Snap does it (used quite a bit but never tested how well it sandboxes) but there are other platforms that handle sandboxing pretty well and then provide APIs on top to allow interaction with the system and other apps (iOS, Android, Meego for example).
You’re totally right. It’s strange to see random self-righteous, presumably highly-educated, safety-minded people suggest that the US should just be New Zealand. There’s been some really wildly unworkable things offered as though it’s just obviously correct.
Is physical art any different?

If anything this is a democratization of the wealthy auction scene. A new tier of field to play.

Alternative assets come in all shapes in sizes. I can store wealth in gold, comics, wine. Why not my name on a ledger listed as owner of nothing in particular other than the price I paid for it? The amount of hate they get on HN should be a clue that everyone is being over analytical and logical, and missing out on analyzing them through human behavior. They arent a robotic math problem, they are behavioral economics.

I can't wait to see an investable etf of sorts that lets people invest in a collection of NFTs like they would bonds. Youll have "curators"/"fund managers" assembling and storing a vast array of art, allowing people to diversify and own fractional shares of a bunch of art.

Does it sound stupid? Absolutely? Which is why it's just crazy enough to work.
House-Flipping Lenders Are Throwing Cash at a Red-Hot U.S. Market
it remembers me the italian classic scene of the "selling of the Trevi fountain" from "Tototruffa '62" [1]

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MlQNPg5-hgk
Then you might also be interested in the history of chicagos sewer system. The tldr is they raised the city so they could build a drainage system that flowed in the right direction.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raising_of_Chicago
All the more reason to stop all strains as soon as possible. If more contagious strains can be knocked below the sustainability threshold then they'll die out too.
An interesting one!
Former IBMer here. It would be impossible for IBM to release an affordable Power system for many reasons including culture and margins. If you want Blackbird go ahead and buy it.
Hey, I didn't see your reply, sorry! But yes, Binance does have a USDT/USD trading pair. Then you just withdraw to your bank account (the mechanics of this vary by country).
Ask HN: Coderbyte for Math?
I enjoy doing Coderbyte's coding challenges (I try to do one a day).

They're (mostly) easy enough to not take too long and hard enough to enjoy the dopamine release once you solve the challenge.

I wonder if anyone here knows of a good "Coderbyte for Math challenges"?

I briefly searched for it, and the closest thing I found is this horror: https://www.mathopolis.com/questions/day.php

Also it would be great if it had an iOS app (not a necessity, but would be a nice bonus)
Does systemd still have binary logs? There is your answer.
The obvious follow-up is to mint an NFT of the promo announcement/performance and sell that too. Obviously that would require its own performative announcement post...
IBM doesn't make workstations or PCs anymore. They gave that business (along with expertise) to Lenovo.
> I don’t generally cite my own credentials because I’d prefer you were persuaded by my arguments than by my resume, but for the record in grad school I actually peer reviewed academic papers about load balancing the electrical grid. I’m not talking out of my ass when I say that most energy is wasted. If Bitcoin used only wasted energy it would consume >2/3rds of the energy of the planet.

The wasted energy he is talking about here is mostly waste heat and other losses, it is not energy that is actually available for use. That makes the argument pretty silly, since increasing power consumption incurs the exact same losses.
straight out of csl!
Hey! Touched on how we view StartPack in terms of existing options out there today in another comment below but can re-paste below :)

Here's how we think about StartPack in terms of existing options out there today: - We actually only support LLCs. Certain options out there actually don't support LLCs for non-US residents. - We're different than "one-time formation offerings" because we fundamentally believe 1) the incentives are not aligned for one-time offerings. We've heard directly from the creators and online SMBs who choose use that they don't want a checklist of things to do after forming a company, they want someone (StartPack :) ) who can handle the ongoing work for them 2) we handle all the annoying administrative work creators and online SMBs don't want to deal with + we help them set up and manage software/accounts they need as well to launch, maintain and grow their business.
At the end of the day, our goal is to help entrepreneurs not have to deal with anything else other than focusing on what they do best: growing their business
>There's a similar push underway to do away with unit tests.

I agree with that push, as long as there's some other way of validating requirements. In my team, that's done with integration tests and our core principle is: code that is integration tested does not require unit testing. That principle surprisingly covers a good 70-75% of the codebase, leaving us with a few core unit tests for the secret sauce of our product.
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| at risk daily to keep the supply chains functioning

That sounds like crocodile tears to me. I don't see how going to bars and flying commercial would have made the people working in grocery delivery and amazon safer.

And it would absolutely have put the people in my life who are at the highest risk at an even greater risk if I had done so.
As far as zoonosis (animal-transmitted human diseases) go...

Rabies infects a lot of animals, but many places of the world are now effectively rabies-free thanks to smart inoculation of foxes etc. with baits.

We had last proven rabies case in the wild in 2002. (The Czech Republic, a landlocked continental country, not an isolated island.)

You can still fall to rabies contracted from bats if extremely unlucky, but compared to countries like India where the disease still runs rampant, rabies is a solved problem in most of Europe.

Maybe there will be a similar way to inoculate the wild mustelids against Covid one day. To be honest, human antivaxxers strike me as a bigger problem than random mink. I don't meet many mink on a regular day, but people with their masks halfway down are all too common.