skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wow, that's interesting. Never knew it. Fortunately, I've never actually violated such principles -- I'm a much better employee than I let on. ;-)
Retool also had a great post in the past demystifying what SAP is: https://retool.com/blog/erp-for-engineers/

It’s amazing content in an otherwise opaque category of enterprise software and services, which are so strongly embedded in part because no one knows what they do and how they’re used in practice.
I think I came across something similar related to TILs and that motivated me to start my own TIL and that has really helped

If you are interested here’s the link: https://til-mraza007.vercel.app/
why do you care about premining?
I feel some Snow Crash vibe in there.
In fact, one of the conclusions was off: https://news.ncsu.edu/2015/07/beasley-acid-2015/

If anything, high acidity shows humans as scavengers rather than hunters.
Would it be more if we consider the radio boot time to send a tx, and the amount of bytes sent to apples server? Also what happens if I'm at the air port with 100 air tags in range? I know they try to piggy back the data transmissions but now we are counting on apple's software having no bugs.
And the article starts by mentioning that you can download the entire file if it's not too large. And then goes on to present a solution for larger files. What more answer to "Why not just download the entire database" do you expect?
One example would be basic apps and games like flashlights, editors, sudoku, minesweeper, note taking apps etc, of which 95% on the play store are ad/tracking infested. I just skip those and install f-droid's "reccomendation", problem solved. Also: Fennec is great (a rebuild of Mozilla Firefox mobile) and they also offer older versions in parallel (also via their archive). Their Firefox "fennec" build while not being a fork nevertheless has some tweaks, optimizations and brought back addons (via collections, you need to read the whole thread, it's long though), much appreciated:

https://forum.f-droid.org/t/welcome-a-new-fennec-f-droid/111...

I have just submitted 882 a Fennec update to 81.1.1. Should be available soon™. This version brings a lot of changes, like a new UI and modular codebase. The bad news:

Mozilla now tracks you even more actively using proprietary 3rd party services. I removed all tracking I found. (Firebase, Adjust and Leanplum libraries were replaced with stubs, so some analyzers can erroneously report their presence in the APK.)
The new UI may break your habits and disappoint you. (IMHO it’s not that bad as one can conclude from reading r/Firefox.)
Android 5.0 or later is now required. Mozilla decided so.
x86 devices are not supported anymore. I stumbled upon linkage errors and gave up. Help is welcome.

The good news is that Fennec F-Droid is alive and continues to be truly free software."
Yup, I've been fooled into going paperless on my utility bills a number of times. No idea how I did it, AND they often get "confused" when you want to restore paper service. I've had to call PG&E a number of times recently and they still are failing to send paper bills.
Effects of intermittent fasting on wake-promoting neurotransmitter orexin-A (2018)
It’ll also help mitigate the loss of top soil for agriculture. It’s estimated that we’ve lost about 33% over the years in the US
> Over a couple years we went from a raucous, rough-and-tumble culture of open debate on the technical merits to a "polite" "respectful" org where nobody dared pop their head over the trench and bad decisions were allowed to continue unchallenged until they were nigh-irreversible.

I don't think polite and respectful are in opposition to open debate. If someone can't make a point in a debate without being polite and respectful, I really don't want to work with them.
>Your $10k got you the hardware needed to self-drive to some degree

Don't all new Teslas come with the hardware and the self-driving is a software upgrade? My impression was that the purchase basically locked in a price. I could be wrong on this.

I'll be all-in on self-driving when I can use it to go to the bar and come home, until then it's mostly just an interesting technological exercise.
MacOS keeps asking me to update software every night.
dark pattern. lawsuit incoming...
I think a more effective route forward here is for places like YC to set standards for their portfolio companies. Only the strongest investors can do this, but once they do, it will setup a new playing field and the YC brand could mean 'no dark patterns here' in the way that buying an Apple product signifies quality hardware and privacy. It could act as an 'integrity' label that companies purchasing software would use when evaluating new products. YC companies are better than most at this, but I've seen a few bad actors lately that have caused me to question whether its true across the board.
Classic example is emergency services.

Having the ability to turn your location into three words that will easily survive communication over a phone with dodge signal is very useful.

You could argue that that lat/lon or a street address should be fine. But memorising a two sequences of numbers, then repeating them accurately over a poor phone line is hard.

Street addresses are also hard, there’s frequently not a nearby road sign, or worse, the road name is ambiguous (your city may have multiple streets with the same name). Hell there’s no guarantee that the emergency services even have your street name in their database if it’s a new street, or it’s name was changed recently.

So basically any scenario where you need to transmit a location accurately between two parties who are operating two different mapping systems, and communicating over an unreliable comms link (phone, radio etc), is a good use case for W3W. W3W is like the phonetic alphabet for locations.

Personally I hate the fact the W3W are extracting rents from this services. But I can’t deny the utility of their service.
VERY certain

$ find /{,usr/}{,s}bin/ -maxdepth 1 -type f \
| wc -l
5616

$ du -h --total --no-dereference \
$(find /{,usr/}{,s}bin/ -maxdepth 1 -type f) \
| tail -n 1
1.3G total

That's with shared libraries and debug symbols stripped. If I upgrade libc, why would I want to also waste a massive amount of time rebuilding all 5616 binaries?

Of course, even if we ignore the insane buld time, I don't have the source for some of those binaries, and in a few cases the source no longer exists. In those cases, should I be forced to only use those programs with the (buggy) versions of the libraries they were originally built with?
I think a lot of people saw it like a very, very, very expensive Kickstarter. They paid $10k to help make it happen. As is often the case with Kickstarters, it didn't match the hype.
https://www.picturethisai.com

I should qualify this by saying I have a small yard on Long Island, NY. The weeds and plants are fairly distinct and well-known.

Depending on where you are, YMMV.
For anyone curious, it seems he now has a full-time job as a journalist at the Santa Rosa Press Democrat. Happy he's being paid for his words again.

https://twitter.com/ausmurph88/status/1096838031804227584
I can offer them some comments about dark patterns in government regulation.
Have you tried Seek (https://www.inaturalist.org/pages/seek_app)? It's from iNaturalist, which might be the community-based one you found, but you can easily ignore the community stuff and use it without an account. Works pretty well, I recommend it.
Good info.

But are their points fair or not fair?

I read them and feel like okay fair, but I can't quantify each one, so it's impossible to tell whether this is a great, good, okay, bad, or the worst recommendation.
> not allow employees to submit invoices for meat

Companies that make you submit receipts for food are negative in my view and affect whether I want to work there. Simply set a per diem for food and leave it there. Trying to examine receipts for meat or not meat (or alcohol or salt or whatever) reflects a non-flexible mentality and likely makes other aspects of a company unpleasant and ineffective.

WeWork seemed batshit crazy this seems like one of the many signs of a dumb leadership style.
> Any iOS, iPadOS or macOS device with “offline finding” enabled in Find My settings can act as a “finder device”.

https://support.apple.com/en-nz/guide/security/sec6cbc80fd0/...

Open the Settings app and search for "Find My". You'll find the setting.
Or follow this:
Settings->Apple ID->Find My->Find My iPhone->Find My network

There's some explanation as to what it does and you'll be able to opt out if you don't like it. (Though you won't even see the "Find My network" setting if you had "Find My" disabled anyway)
Ah, the answer is to just use less regex :)

I do sometimes build regexes by concatenating strings, or using the "verbose" mode in Python which lets you add free whitespace and comments.

Maybe my mind has just been poisoned by too much regex, but I didn't think the example was that bad...
I know of one rescue that didn't go smoothly because there was confusion between degrees, minutes, seconds and decimal degrees.
See PiTubeDirect:

https://github.com/hoglet67/PiTubeDirect/wiki

https://magpi.raspberrypi.org/articles/pitubedirect
This system of paying for the amount of trash you produce is not used in all of the Netherlands. Currently roughly 50% of all municipalities do this, with a trend towards broader adoption. The rest have a flat annual taxation based on the number of people in a household (trash is limited to whatever you can fit into the bin).

Separate collection for organic matter, paper, and plastic also differs from municipality to municipality. In mine organic matter and paper has its own bin, but we have no separate plastic bin, and glass goes in public glass recycling containers.
Also, false advertising.
It can be hard to move the capacitors without having to redesign the entire power supply, as increasing the distance will increase the inductance. Increased inductance will make most power supplies less stable. One thing I have done in the past when I haven't seen any ceramic capacitors on the output side, on switching power supplies, is to solder a surface mount ceramic capacitor under the electrolytic output capacitor to reduce the ripple it sees, which will reduce the amount of heat generated internally.

An easier thing to do is remove the heat better. This can be done by making sure that the intake air first cools the capacitors (outside air->caps->transistors). Since most power supplies these days are shoved into a plastic box with no venting, it can be easy to add a few vent holes and a small fan. If you do this, make sure that all of the capacitors are discharged before handling as not all power supplies have bleeder resistors to make sure the capacitors self-discharge in a reasonable time period.
So, I guess they're now offering full self-claim-back-walking cars then?

(rimshot)
While some of it was almost certainly hucksterism, I think it's also true that a lot of people saw the rapid pace of advance (mostly because of ML computer vision) and just couldn't imagine that the remaining kinks wouldn't be worked out sooner rather than later.

And young urbanites in particular so wanted to believe in a world where they wouldn't need to own a car and would effectively have a personal driver to whisk them around and run errands for them.

Go back a few years and many here were incredulous if anyone suggested we might be looking at decades to have full door-to-door self-driving.
> An eagle-eyed user flopp pointed out the value at 0xa1 is calculated as Washes left XOR 0x50, thanks! Not sure why they did it like this, but anyway!

Hilarious. Sounds like somebody's manager overheard a conversation about one-time pads on the subway
Snake oil. /s.

Many have been warning that FSD will not happen in the lifetime of these tesla's but people want to believe and they believe everything Elon promises.

In a way selling FSD using FOMO that when it becomes available it will cost x times more is a brilliant yet devious tactic.
Although not software, gym memberships are notorious for using all manner of slimy tactics to keep you paying. Online reps can't do anything, your local gym somehow never has a "manager" around who can do anything. You can "freeze" your account but then they can just arbitrarily unfreeze and start charging you again. Very close to having my CC company issue a charge-back to our local gym for fraud. Very shady and hopefully these can be made illegal.
The Mythical Man-Month, Hen-Day, and Cat-Minute (Fred Brooks Turned 90)
omg this is so bonkers. also TIL there is web-USB.
Ransomware masks file encryption as user actions
how much money in cure HIV? largest endemic area is probably subsaharan Africa, not much in money there. In western nation it mostly is disease for gays or ocasional unlucky blood transfusion receive person [0]. i am not say that cure for it is bad - it is in obvious good - why did Moderna make choice for to research this cure in specific over other?

https://www.cdc.gov/nchhstp/newsroom/docs/factsheets/cdc-msm...
A corporate bond with an extremely low likelihood of paying off with little or no consequences for the issuer.
FYI, this idea got implemented a few times in various forms, the most known commercial implementation is by Dan Armstrong.

Ampeg Dan Amrstrong guitar and bass are just cool, look them up.
Distributed Engineering Management Best Practices with CTO of Docker
Reporting this data home also costs power.

It's rather pathetic how Apple restricts user's right to use full capabilities of their devices (like restricting running apps in the background) to 'increase their battery life' while simultaneously be perfectly fine to use that power for their own benefit.

I wonder can a user disable this airtag reporting feature if he doesn't own a single airtag and doesn't want to participate in this surveillance network?
Somnium Guitars [0] also makes guitars with easily hot swappable pickups. They have a mounting system where you can put most pickups into their mounting module and click it into place from the back of the body. It’s still a bit pricey, but starts at a less expensive $2,495 MSRP vs $4,500 from Relish.

Here’s a video from Know Your Gear on their product: https://youtu.be/Vj2uJBeSHt4

[0] https://somniumguitars.com
> You don't need to be a behemoth to embrace a crappy business model.

It's also the almost cliche case study in undergraduate business school. Known as the "Kodak" model or the "Gillette" model: "Give away the camera, sell the film" or "Give away the shaver, sell the blades" and while it's not an exact fit (I doubt they're selling the washer at cost) it's in the same vein.
"Anti-optimization" advocates doesn't say "optimized code is bad." It means "other things are more important than optimization."

One of those things is the amount of work required. For example, if it takes 30 minutes to get a "good-enough" solution, and 2 days to get a "very optimized" solution, most of the time you should go with the good-enough solution, because most of the code you're writing isn't performance-critical.
Yup, I already threw my email in on their site for open positions. Sounds like it’s about to be an amazing place to work.
An NFT can contain a secret that the buyer can unlock. Presumably a pgp key or similar token. True owner transfers it to a seller upon sale. This could establish and verify provenance.
What is adobe though? I have a tough time explaining it to people.

I mean is google still just a search engine?
Machine Unlearning (2020)
Are there any sane solutions for managing lots of MIBs? In my experience the largest pain with SNMP comes from the fact that vendors usually provide their MIBs as a single huge pile of junk containing some random version of all the dependencies as well, with completely random file naming conventions.

This means that trying to use two vendors' MIBs together with eg. snmptrapd basically leads to undefined behaviour when translating traps. I don't know if there any way to actually tell which definitions will take precedence or whether the definition is correct.

It also doesn't help that often the trap's translation is just as cryptic as the bare OID.
Yeah, multiple MRT members have contacted me to say this is a real struggle. If someone is on the move, it's virtually impossible to work out what direction they are going.
Warren Buffett says inflation is substantial
These are awesome, thanks for sharing
Reminds me of the HomeBrew creator not being hired by Apple.
When I was living in Russia, back in early nineties, the family could've only eaten meat once in 1-2 weeks. For us, it wasn't much special to have a week without meat.

Later, I though we were well off to have it 1-2 times a week. It was just not part of the culture in the part of Russia we were, and it was, and I think still, considered simply wasteful, and irrational.

When I moved to Canada in 2009, the whole idea of eating mean not only every day, but multiple times a day was hard to digest.

In the end, I got used to this. I became rather fat.
> trolling

Does the author mean ‘trawling’?
I don’t think that’s directionally wrong. I bought my first Tesla and all subsequent Tesla’s in part to support the global move to electric vehicles.

I buy the FSD to help move us in that direction. I’m actually happy with their progress so far and I recognize they have a loooooong way to go.

They are making great progress as is the industry as a whole both in electrics and driving Capabilities.
I installed the Docker Desktop I wanted. Then you reached into my machine, deleted it, and replaced it with something else I didn’t want. I don’t understand how anyone could think they have the right to do that. A desktop application is not a SaaS website. Docker Desktop is the thing it was when I downloaded it, not a piece of real estate on my machine for you to manage remotely as you see fit.
If public opinion and attitudes about privacy and security have really evolved significantly since Mark Zuckerberg launched the Ivy League-only TheFacebook.com, they would be moving to Signal in droves. They aren't. Most people don't care.

I convince friends occasionally but the privacy argument does next to nothing. The gif search, reactions, and MMS handling are all better selling points.
B-Tree indexes are designed to work like this, to require a low number of IO operations. The index contains pointers to other places in the index.
Fun fun fun!

Well-written and informative.
>Filecoin(IPFS) is already a threat, it already has a capacity of 4.81 EiB of data, 4810 PetiBytes! (Is that how you spell it? In contrast to Petabytes)

4.81EiB is ~5.54EB. Filecoin has been around for ~81.5 months. That's an average growth rate of only ~68PB/month, but we can of course assume that the current growth rate is higher. For example, last year there was a period where it grew 250PB in a month.

Chiacoin has supposedly added ~200PB to its mainnet in the past 24 hours. That growth rate is also still climbing.

Seagate has been quoted as having an current HDD manufacturing capacity of ~350EB per year. The general assumption is that between Seagate, Western Digital and Toshiba there's likely a total manufacturing capacity of close to 1000EB a year.

Of that 1000EB, a large percentage goes to OEMs and SIs, another large percentage goes to direct customers (Alibaba, Amazon, Apple, Facebook, Google, Microsoft, etc.), and the remainder goes into the sales channel (retail, VARs, etc.). OEMs, SIs and direct customers have contracted supply and pricing, whereas the sales channels do not. Channel is likely 30-40% of current production volume. So that's 300-400EB a year of capacity across all manufacturers going into the sales channel where end users can buy from.

-- ----- ----- -----

At 0.2EB/day of growth, that is 18-24% of all channel volume being consumed just by new Chia farm plots. At that rate, that'll cause channel supply issues very, very soon for certain. Once channel supply becomes exhausted, prices will rise since the demand is there.

The issue is... what ends up happening to the sustained growth rate? If it were to reach something like 1.0EB/day in growth, that is basically all of the normal channel capacity being spoken for just by Chia farm plots. That's an actual disaster for end users.

Manufacturers can't respond to those demand spikes instantly. They can respond some, for certain, but if some component hits maximum manufacturing capacity, you need to expand or build new factories (whether the manufacturers, or contract manufacturers within the supply chain for certain components). Building new factories is not quick. Not just construction, but ensuring that the demand will be sustained so you don't end up with these huge capital expenditure factories going idle when demand wanes.
“It’s not that hard.”

You hear that, single-mother-of-three? Stop eating unsustainably and just go pay a 20 percent markup for whatever food is available down at the local farmer’s market. It’s not that hard! Just make more money.

What about those who find such markets price-prohibitive? Those who live in food deserts?
What it means to paint "well" is completely in the eye of the beholder.

Some people value technical proficiency, others emotional impact, yet others conceptual cleverness or originality, etc, etc, etc.

Trained artists often value different things in art than the general public, and critics value different things still (and often disagree with other critics).

Ultimately it just comes down to personal preference and taste.
It does feel like an overwhelming task, but individuals can come together and our own actions do matter. We ended slavery: we can create huge positive change.
Or just buy it at the store?
OK, don't take it from me, then:

When we look at this year’s report, we see that we are living longer, but with an increasing burden of preventable chronic illness. In particular, our nation’s health is persistently compromised by risk factors such as sedentary behavior, obesity, and diabetes.

http://cdnfiles.americashealthrankings.org/SiteFiles/Reports...

So again: how do you define "healthier then average in 1960"?
I am 100% sure they suffered all kinds of malnutrition.
All companies in this space start out fast and user friendly, but to gain additional customers in this space they need to add more features. See my first item. Then they either fail or end up an uber-platform. Again, this has nothing to do with your company, it is just the nature of the market, and it's funny when someone gets an idea to start a "lean", "fast" product as if no one else had thought of that before.

Really if you think you can do better than X, whether X is oracle forms or SAP or whatnot, it's important to understand where X went wrong. Hint: it's very rarely because they were "old-fashioned" or didn't realize that customers liked fast software that was easy to use. The founders of X were just as smart/capable as you are, but they faced a market challenge and made some choices with trade offs. If you limit your analysis to "they didn't know software should be fast", then you are not going to end up any better than they are once you reach their scale. I am not trying to say that every incumbent always made the right choices. But an understanding of where they went wrong needs to go beyond "they went wrong because they are old fashioned" or "they went wrong because they didn't realize software shouldn't be filled with bugs". There are real hard problems here that need to be understood before you are in a position to improve on what the incumbents are doing.
ROOT TTrees will "split" class members to effectively transform them into AoS although this is mostly for IO efficiency.
To attach an AirTag (or my micro Yubikey) to a keyring, you generally just use a string. It’s flexible, strong, very thin and it’s a good link to any keyring. With Yubikey the lanyard is $1.

Anyway, I was wondering whether another fun idea would have been to drill the hole in the absolute center of the Airtag, and create a new market for batteries with a hole in the middle.