skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Kind of look Pixar-y to me

More like Dreamworks...
I still always do CTRL-ALT-DEL and enter, enter, like the op. Might be age related; I guess we really need to do a poll.

This may be because I've always hated the windows key, and would sometimes seek out keyboards that didn't have one.
Forgive me for being blunt :

> leaves no room for honest positive and meaningful work, and at risk of pointing out the obvious, there's a lot of meaningful work to be done.

There's plenty of meaningful work to be done, but most of it doesn't generate profit, so it doesn't get done. That which does get done, often pays poverty wages. Raising good citizens, caring for the elderly, educating our children, producing high quality nutritious food, cleaning our streets of litter - all meaningful and vital, all pay buttons.
Many more jobs pay so little, we dont even bother doing in the West anymore and give those jobs to other countries.

> Where does that leave people like doctors who earnestly help their patients?

What percentage of the workers Doctors ? Bonus : why isn't everyone a doctor ?

> Adopting this philosophy is dooming oneself to a neverending feeling of being exploited and the argument that this is what is actually happening in totality is all philosophical opinion so why would I adopt a philosophy that is so personally ruinous, demoralizing, and demotivating?

Pretending you are happy and contributing to society while you are required to piss in a bottle is to concede all human dignity. To pretend that giving up 70 hours a week crunching numbers so a Corporation pays less tax that is to sell your soul and work to the detriment of society. To think anything else, means it's already too late for you.

tldr : meaningful jobs exist, but are rare as rocking horse shit and great swathes of us never get to experience meaningful jobs, because our culture needs obedient workers to make profits ahead of anything else.
See:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apache_ZooKeeper

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/8/81/Apache_...
The labor market has monopsony power. Unions are the only way for labor to negotiate on even grounds, fixing the market failure.
Isn't Oracle notorious for doing this?
You can temporarily install your apps on your own device. They expire after 7 days, and you can't have more than 10 such apps installed simultaneously.
Regarding my early to mid 20s, I remember the crazy amount of information, which I was constantly attempting to ingest "to catch up", that left my mind scrambled for many years after. It was so pleasant to observe later (in my mid 30s) how gradually I got my clear mind back and my focus improved. If I really had a higher mental ability in my 20s, I surely overdid it.
The Visa news was not relevant to Bitcoin, as the news is about Visa settling payments using USDC on Ethereum.
Nats
I know someone who hates pictures of herself, never took a selfie in her life, but switched to a picture of herself and used her real name simply because it's less likely she'll say something stupid/inflammatory in the middle of an argument. If you're using some random name like chickenslippers1981 and have a pic of a cat, you might feel less like being thoughtful. You can always walk away from chickenslippers1981/cat, but you can't walk away from yourself.
This is super useful if you are in the game of building images, or highly tweeking init systems and/or the kernel.

For general consumers, not much value IMHO.
I think even the old ARM11 in the first Raspberry Pi supported some SIMD-in-GPR features, though I'm not sure if software took advantage of them.
> That doesn't sound as nefarious as the headline suggests.

Why rule against it if it isn't a big deal? When is "too much security" a bad thing?
No you can't. Literally the only situation when you don't have to sign your app with an Apple-issued certificate is when the device is jailbroken and has signature enforcement disabled.

You're probably referring to one of these things:

- You can install any app on your own device. This requires an Apple ID (but no $99 membership) and a certificate that Xcode automatically gets from Apple. The certificate is valid for 7 days, after which the app no longer launches. The bundle ID of the app also has to be globally unique.

- There's "enterprise" distribution that requires a developer ID and a certificate. Subject to terms of use. Apple can revoke it at any time. Sometimes Apple turns a blind eye to the misuse of this, but, again, it can and does revoke these certificates remotely disabling any apps signed with them.
Second-Order NFT: NFT Pointing to an NFT
Well it can make calls, transfer data over cellular networks, and access a web browser. For some people, that's all they need. For maps, I use Nextcloud Maps through Firefox. You can also use Google Maps that way or whatever OSM provider. It comes with a Telegram client and Matrix client.

>no powerful browser beyond the clunky Desktop-Firefox-for-Postmarket-OS hack, etc.

I don't really know what you mean by this. It's the exact same Firefox that's in desktop Linux. You can install all the add-ons and such. Do note that Manjaro is not PostmarketOS.

The biggest problems are the weak CPU as you've mentioned, and the fact that the entire OS is in a very alpha (or even pre-alpha) state right now.
He wrote that they were well on track for <$1 M for V1.0.

Find me a tweet where he actually states that Raptor is at V1.0.
As long as we're idly speculating...

Vessel has a schedule. Has to arrive at a certain berth at a certain time and is expected to only stay there for a certain maximum number of hours because another vessel will be arriving to take its place. Especially if they're already running late, there will be a lot of pressure to keep that schedule and that can lead to doing things that are usually safe, right up until they aren't.

The history of transportation, hell, the history of Mankind, is full of examples.
We use C# 9 in our WebForms monolith and it works fine. Just add `<LangVersion>latest</LangVersion>` to your .csproj file. (This assumes you're using recent Visual Studio version and use a recent version of MSBuild as well)
Leads to a lot of potential if the support structure is also the battery. Even as you said, if you have to still have more of it, you don't add weight to store a charge, and if you already need a lot of structure, you're fine.

Having said that, the car chasis is not juuuust about holding up a roof and the humans inside. You also have to handle impact stresses, you don't want it discharging on the poor inhabitants as the car is being hit, etc.

This sounds like a step, out of many, the the direction of lighter cars or aircraft that are electrically powered. It also doesn't have to be the only tech. If we can eliminate say 20% of the battery weight by making the frunk/trunk casings out of this material, some other inner parts of the car, we can use it as part of the solution.
Unionization is by far more than "workers banding together to make demands".

Unions have things like the ability to force someone to join a union and pay dues. From the point of view of the union, you ofcourse want that in order to stop the union from loosing power to non union members.

And also, if you think that unions are market forces because they represent the interest of workesrs, so are anti union measures because they represet the interests of companies, so by definition you should be ok with what Amazon is doing.
That's what I was thinking... I mean, this is cool and all, but the only reason I'd ever muck around at this level is if I was actually responsible for the physical hardware and there was a cost associated with replacing it. The whole point of moving to the cloud is to pay somebody else to have to worry about anything I can comprehend needing this for.
Not everyone wants a purpose, many people who have purposes imposed on them by parents or other authority figures later reject them, and not everybody who does want a purpose thinks of it as a search.

Purposes are tools humans use to give their own lives meaning, if they desire. Purposes should serve humans, not the other way around.
Intelligence can better be described as finding the right middle, rather than adhere to either of your hyperbolic extremes.

"questioning everything" is to forego basic levels of knowledge upon which higher levels of understanding must be built.
Is my understanding correct that loan words are usually pronounced according to the donor language? (e.g. "das Handy") I seem to remember V is special somehow too, for historical reasons.

If I am reading Duden right, Version is directly a French loanword:

https://www.duden.de/rechtschreibung/Version

while Variation is "influenced" by French:

https://www.duden.de/rechtschreibung/Variation
So, while scanning some of this earlier today I caught at least once the word 'deed.' A deed, traditionally, includes a clear statement of the rights being transferred. Do NFTs not include any contract-like statements?
As a former enthusiast in this area, I need the time for other more pressing interests and have reverted my home network to Eeros pinned to an IQrouter. All of them require some central service to operate, and I rarely if ever have to pay any attention to them. They also provide better coverage and less radio interference than the prior gold standard, Apple Airport devices. The IQ runs some sort of ssh *nix variant and the only time I’ve ever had to call Eero support was to turn off 5GHz for a minute^ to pair a smarthome device.

Still, it’s nice to have a hobby, and if you’re looking for one, run your own, sure! No shame in that. But it’s no longer necessary, and that’s pretty swell to me.

^ I agree with why they don’t make that accessible to end users: because people will uselessly fiddle with settings knobs to feel empowered, knobs like “separate 2.4 and 5 networks” (which breaks roaming and makes users incorrectly blame their WiFi routers when PEBCAK is at fault) that semi-expert users feel qualified to mess with, and lazy technicians will use to create “guest” networks that don’t offer protection and perform miserably due to being locked to 5GHz.
The King needed a varying amount of support from lords, one church or another and a developing parliament depending on when in time it was.

And at every step along that journey, it was proclaimed as the best possible way of doing things, ordained by god, etc etc. Not just politics, we actually have the ideal system here.
I think I'm going to get diabetes from all the syntax sugar...

On the more substantive changes, it feels a little like the language designers have been looting F#.

Combined with how fast Dotnet Core is moving and how many breaking changes there are there, it does feel like things are getting very fragmented.

Stasis isn't good either; just witness the decade or so of stagnation after Java 1.6 as the Sun -> Oracle transition happened. But you can go too far in the other direction.
It even polluted into other markets, like Wolt.com taking a 30% (!!) cut of food delivered using their platform. On top of the actual delivery charges.

I remember thinking that Just-Eat.com were criminals for taking 10%.

Hungry.dk takes 1-2%.
would that not just be `%`?
I don't like the name but it begs the question...

Is April fools the 'marketing dept' version of 'Staging' in a CI/CD pipeline? (or maybe blue/green deployment is better analogy !)

Like, if the tests fail (the public is enraged at your tweak ex. 'volt'swagen) , rollback the change under the guise of 'April fools'
Nothing would happen. Hawaii sent out an alert to every single cellphone in the state that an ICBM was imminently approaching Honolulu a few years back, and no one outside of Hawaii remembers that anymore today.
I feel in this case they feel that they'd soon become irrelevant if they don't handle crypto. But as a customer I'd rather use fiat for day to day bills and replenish that fiat account whenever I want from crypto - with low fees, security and ease of access.
Numpy is definitely not as powerful (read: concise) as APL, and you really can’t write “APL” in most modern languages. The operators are rank-polymorphic, for one.
So, it is to signify the use-mention distinction. BBC doesn't use it, but mentions it.
Heading there doesn't mean the engines they're currently using are already at that point.
But you need dollars on the other side. For this to work without PayPal hosting the BTC you need the following:

1. You send BTC to PayPal
2. PayPal sends equivalent dollars to the merchant.

But what is "equivalent"? What is the price of BTC at any given moment? It fluctuates a lot and you can't "lock-in" a price without waiting minutes (as opposed to milliseconds in other financial systems). So between the time that you sent dollars to the merchant and when you sold the coins you are exposed to risk of holding BTC.

Lightning does not help with this.
Why does copying awfulness instead of coming up with it absolve him of blame?
> Regularly trade laptops and phones with like-minded individuals

That puts you into a group of people then. Groups are easier to infiltrate.

In opsec, people are vulnerabilities.
We could look at one of the cases cited there:

>A National Labor Review Board (NLRB) investigation has now found that Amazon illegally interrogated and threatened Jonathan Bailey, a lead organizer of the Queens Amazon walkouts, and has issued a federal complaint against Amazon, according to official NLRB documents...

>The case was settled before it went to trial, but the issuing of the complaint means that an NLRB investigation found Amazon broke the law.[1]

Perhaps we could look at another:

>Last month, the National Labor Relations Board issued a complaint in Bowden’s case, meaning the agency found merit in her allegations that Amazon threatened, suspended, and ultimately terminated her because she had been talking with coworkers at an Amazon warehouse in King of Prussia, Pennsylvania, about pay and other workplace issues, which is a legally protected activity.[2]

Then of course, there is the article that is the subject of this post. Call it speculation, but a corporate astroturfing campaign is not a convincing indication Amazon is on the right side of morality, law, or the facts here.

[1] https://www.vice.com/en/article/dy8ngk/amazon-interrogated-w...

[2] https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/carolineodonovan/amazon...
Meh, if it were up to me webpages wouldn't have any say at all over fonts or colors. When I was 14 I would browse the web with no images, and with the colors and fonts overwritten, and it was so nice. Then image maps became a thing and it was a pain, then javascript, then menus made of small images, then flash, and it's just gotten worse and worse every time around.

Now there are webpages that don't work right on a 3ghz single core processor with 2 gig of ram, because of some reason that has nothing to do with what is best for the user.
I keep seeing this being described as a “lie” when it’s really just an April Fools joke. I mean, I get that it’s not super funny, but man... when did we get so grumpy?
From dating to job prospects, names have remarkable power over the your life
Of the things I've seen reportedly happening at Ubiquiti, that one makes more sense than some.

Businesses put projects out to tender all the time, and other businesses that can provide what is wanted invest sometimes very considerable resources into putting in a bid, knowing that if they don't make the winning bid then those resources will mostly likely be completely wasted. Evidently it is still worth operating a business on that basis because the benefits when you do win outweigh the costs of the failed bids, and those costs might include reducing morale in a team who worked on a failed bid.

If that is the case across industries as a whole then economically it might make sense for a business to operate on the same basis internally for their Next Big Thing. Run multiple independent teams at the start, give them all the same brief, then see which team comes up with the most promising starting point. I don't see much of an argument for continuing the internal competition beyond the concept to prototype stage, though, unless perhaps it turned out that more than one team could produce a product that was viable in its own right without competing for the same market.
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It is certainly a difficult problem and as such, like most difficult problems, it will likely not be fixed in any meaningful manner. We will likely be talking about this exact issue in 5 years, 10 years, and 20 years from now.

Cyberspace Solarium Commission [1] created a robust and well documented roadmap for the Biden transition team to address some of these fundamental problems. IMHO, it is one of the better policy documents and has a number of really good recommendations that I believe would be extremely helpful. The #1 thing I think we could do is address accountability, who is responsible for the security of devices/software and what legal recourse should people have if the vendor doesn't adequately secure or support their products.

I think that there are a bunch of issues and one of the biggest ones is that what we say vs what we do are 2 different things. We also have issues where many of the core business practices that are commonly accepted are incompatible with building a secure and resilient infrastructure.

[1] https://www.solarium.gov/public-communications/transition-bo...
The problem I have presented in the grandparent comment could be solved either with:

- let me specify the button size in real world dimensions

- let me specify that my button should be the same size as Safari/Chrome buttons in the toolbar.

Then my users can't complain that on their device the buttons are too big or too small. The page was something like a map with a toolbox on bottom, if you make the buttons too big the map area is reduced, if the buttons are too small then are hard to use.

With native toolkits like Qt you have a toolbox widgets, you don't define any dimension or colors and the user theme will handle everything.
As a software engineer I disagree. You are saying that you want to collect my personal information so you can fix your bugs. I don't see it being a valuable trade. I'll just find someone who can fix their bugs without tracking me.
This has nothing to do with the extortion scheme discussed in the article.
What is the use case for font-only zooming?

I just tried it on a few sites and it either doesn't change much/anything or breaks stuff -- either by overlapping text, or not increase the width of text zones so you end up with few words per line in the middle of the screen which was particularly bad on a newspaper site (along the ridiculously undersized article photo).

I thought it could save some space in headers and such if they don't zoom those, but if they used ems everywhere as might be best practice then there's no win to have.

So it's either the same or worse than full-page zooming in every test so far. This is not only a now-obscure feature, it should be considered deprecated imo -- zooming (or changing default) font size feels like hijacking a responsive web page source and hoping for the best.
ARM was founded as an Apple joint venture. Their relationship is probably special.
Are editors actually vital?
Is there some backstory on this? It looks like it's modelled after a real person. Perhaps one of its creators?
Same here. Not sure why I should avoid paypal, it seems that it's a middleman but their cut is unnoticeable. I also use paypal to pay for things on ebay as well as venmo for other expenses.
Correct; but I've seen many uses of Kafka that NATS could totally be used for. For example, load balancing across subscribers (use a NATS queue instead of a Kafka consumer group).

NATS doesn't ever store messages persistently; but this might be fine for your application, and then you don't have to worry about setting 5 different config options to make sure Kafka actually frees up disk space like you expect it to ;)

NATS also enables some unique patterns like request/reply via a "reply to" message header.

Anyway, it's been a joy to use!
Alas, your cell carrier can and probably is still tracking everywhere you go, as well as who you call / text / calls you / texts you, and sniffing your packets unless you VPN
What It’s Like to Care for the Mighty ‘Corpse Flower’ (2020)
Heroku has Edge CDN option no?
Agreed that `var` isn't going anywhere, but this feature's best use case is with complex generics/enumerables and things like anonymous tuple types. For example:

// old:
var x = new List<KeyValuePair<string, int>>
{
new KeyValuePair<string, int>("a", 1),
new KeyValuePair<string, int>("b", 2)
};

// new
var x = new List<KeyValuePair<string, int>>
{
new("a", 1),
new("b", 2)
};
I thought it plausible since a lot of people pronounce the k as a t (I used to when I was a kid) and this would just formalize it.
It would take at least several years of development to create one vaguely effective venomous human assassin, with probably over a decade of development until the human developed vaguely enough dexterity to actually assassinate people. Unless we figure out a way to make humans grow faster at scale? I’ve always felt that enhancing human genetics to make them into weapons strikes me as more expensive and less scalable than inventing machinery that humans can use as weapons.

What would be more scalable- a human born venomous or the ability to install a venom gland in a human sinus, replacing at least one tooth?
I'm saying that violent media is fine for general consumption because the typical consumer is not prone to acts of violence, and the fantasy they are engaging in is temporary. The same is not true of child sexual abuse, where the typical consumer does have a mental illness that compels them to sexualize children.
https://vectorized.io/redpanda/ is a more useful link, since the main domain appears to have some JS errors right now.
What would be the difference exactly? The console of a Linux VM is either the emulated serial port or the emulated VGA device + emulated keyboard.

I once implemented a tool called virt-dmesg which read out the log_buf from a running Linux kernel (surprisingly useful for those tricky crashes, but difficult from a maintenance point view so the tool is now abandoned). I suppose that's the closest you could get to a "real" console at the hypervisor level.
On Ethereum you can break the chain by using Tornado Cash which uses zero knowledge proofs with a secret, anonymity sets and time to make it impossible to trace a link.
You can tune Kafka down fairly well if you know what you're doing, but it's not optimised for that OOTB. Or just use Confluent Cloud, which is fully managed and scales down as low as you want (costs cents per Gb). Disclosure: work for Confluent.
Telemetry allows people to make better decisions. It's not a bad practice. Information deserves to be free.
Many users care more about their privacy than your product.
I mean, giving customers the finger is one strategy. Bending over backwards for the ones that pay out the ass for a good support contract is another.

"Your business might not exist if our engineers didn't dedicate themselves to your problem even though we didn't need to according to our SLA" goes a real long way at reup negotiation time with the right sized business (not too big, not too small).
> in short, make markets fair (not just 'free').

I'm all for it. What's your concrete proposal to change in the current law for digital store distribution "tax"?
It's for compliance mostly. So whichever regulator sees that you have a code review checkpoint. I look for obvious things like tests with missing edge cases, copy pasta violations, and embarrassing things they missed.

If you have static code analysis, automated pipelines, and tests you shouldn't be stressed out about code reviews and they should be fast.

If I am on good terms with the dev and we have time (LOL) I might try to help them refactor something for clarity.
Surely 802.11r has a purpose, yes?