skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think you're confusing me with another poster in this thread.

I'm mildy "not a fan of systemd" in that my minimalist sense of what a "good" system is is bothered by it and it doesn't pass my "gut-feeling" but I run way more systems with systemd than without so...

The way this whole thing is divisive fascinates me though. Systemd seems to work, and work fairly well, but also attract phenomenally loud detractors. I can't think of any other piece of software that does that. Not even PHP triggers as much back and forth. This whole udev and libsystemd thing is one of the only arguments that seems technical to me.
Its a low traffic website. Simple non distributed systems usually outperform complex distributed systems when the scale is small. Right tool for the right job and all.
> Of course, this only works when the smart contracts perfectly meet a correctly defined spec and have no bugs.

In other words, it doesn't work.
The article left me with the impression that he was acquiring companies in order to acquire qualified engineers (and, likely, clients) while finding efficiencies by reducing the number of managers. Presumably there will be room for growth as long as there are companies to acquire, but it will suffer from diminishing returns.

Replicating his approach would be difficult since it is based upon the premise that engineers are actually creating value for the company and acknowledges that management is a cost centre. That seems to be diametrically opposed to the culture of many businesses. (That's not to dismiss the value of managers since they are necessary for the operation of a business. It's simply a recognition that clients pay for the engineer's product, rather than the management's labour.)
The biggest advantage we have is that we might identify the responsible bad signaler, and then target it for removal somehow. I wouldn't want to mess with it more than that...for now.
Nobody said the culture and objectives were good!
Yeah, this feels like a very modern day exposé- lots of talking about a thing, some buried lede action, and eventually no payoff. Was this video created by a procedural SEO algorithm with a novel neural net approach? There's basically none of the promised content here.
I've been pondering these reports as well, and my hunch is that the US is recognizing an increasing occurrence of drone or otherwise long distance, stealth aircraft that are regularly penetrating US airspace... and they want to know more. A regular feature of such articles is a well respected aviator stating, "if I'd seen it while alone, I might not have reported it."
Even if it just gets US mil personnel to feel more comfortable reporting unidentified aerial things, ie by distancing that experience from UFO kookery, then it's a PR campaign success.

edit: what's in the videos? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Looks similar to Sqitch (https://sqitch.org).
I recommend "Developer Hegemony: The Future of Labor" by Erik Dietrich. It put into words a lot of what I was feeling but couldn't articulate. Hopefully that will do the same for you. If you understand what you're feeling, you'll know how to handle it going forward.
Java has come a long way. It's pretty easy to program in a functional style in Java these days. Go seems to go out of its way to make that hard. Maybe generics will help.
This is pretty interesting! I hope it's at least some new and exciting drone capabilities that someone has developed. Do we know if any other nations have observed anything similar? Are there other nations with similar pilots/activity to our navy pilots who might have seen similar activity over the ocean that we could ask?
Wow and wow. This post was half in jest but thanks for the update, I had zero idea and am a bit sad by my off color joke :/
Because contracts can call other contracts in the same transaction if they are on the same chain. This is what is known as "composition", and it's very handy for building powerful apps on existing proven primitives (such as aggregators, decentralized exchanges, lending protocols). Also, once you launch a contract on Ethereum, it's accessible to millions who already have an Ethereum wallet with ETH loaded. On-boarding to a new chain would be more of an uphill battle.

If you're worried about tx fees, there are already plenty of L2 solutions available and more coming online soon!
I just started creating content and also sampling ways in which to put it up. The content I am creating is a book teaching technical topics in English and other languages.

I will use formulas occasionally. I expect there will be a lot of diagrams (made via Inkscape and exported as JPG).

What is the easy way to format this material out as a book with chapters? You mentioned Markdown in vim. Could you give some pointers on how I can get started that way
Also, Masters of Doom reads like it was written by a 14-year-old. It's so bad that I couldn't finish it.
What a haking haking
Employee #1 at Firebase (YC S11) to Co-Founder of Gold Fig (YC S19)
As a further example:

In my last full-on japanese company it was basically impossible to find any developer with more than 3 years experience by accidental design because:

1: No applicants studied computer science in university so they started learning when they joined the company and were assigned a development role.

2: After 3 years they they got promoted to a "manager" level role and stopped doing development. There was no concept of junior developer -> developer -> senior developer progression. If you wanted promotion you went from developer -> manager; it was the same for sysadmins. Their IT and development suffered heavily for it.

A team of 10 "western" style trained senior developers and sysadmins would have been able to do the work of 50 current employees at least for a large overall cost saving even with higher salaries.

Just the way things worked. Japan is indeed very different when it comes to how the workplace works in relation to tech in traditional companies.
A Former CIA Chief of Disguise TALKS About a Five-Second Mask
More stars wouldn't decrease the number of issues though.
Just let me know when they sue.
It's Brownian time!
Except it's not at all. You can take synthetic TSLA shares and deposit those as collateral to mint stablecoins as a loan. Where else can you do that from your web browser at 10am on a Sunday and confirmed in 30 seconds?
But is the easiest metric to guage test quality. What I’m saying is this code is probably not well tested
Doing it just long enough in people with a severe infection so they don't die of the infection seems like a reasonable trade off.

Nobody's suggesting we use this as a daily supplement in healthy people.
I’m curious... what would you say is the difference between San Francisco’s and NY’s cultures?...
> If you were calling a reference for a potential new hire, would you consider this a glowing review?

Ships code on time, on spec, performance exceeding expectations. Sure.
Yet decades old dynamically typed language like scheme and lisp are all self-hosted, even their own compilers. I can bet you that quite a few scheme implementations will beat python in performance.
What is go’s competitive edge over c# ?
The Heart of the Matter: George Orwell and Fatherhood (2020)
The article's about a method they hope will be safe in the body.

Maybe they're right maybe they are wrong, but hardly seems redundant.
Helping people interpret data and providing context is good.

You seem to be taking it a step further to create a messaging strategy around these numbers that will cause the reaction you think is best for everyone. While the intent is noble and may work in practice to some extent, I don't think that's a good thing. That leads to a lot of distrust of experts because people can sense it.
Interesting. I remember Alan Cooper. He wore a beret type hat.
The most interesting thing about this article for me was the update on the infamous "crash into the tree" from recently - NTSB says they can't get autopilot to engage on that section of road, and there's separate evidence that the occupants were in the front seats. On the off chance you've been living under a rock for the past 50 years, NTSB is 100000% more trustworthy than random state cops with an agenda.
OpenMapChest is shutting down
it would decrease the ratio
Usually I just interrupt a reload, but sometimes it keeps loading the popup after a while. uBlock's disable JS button helps, but I never remind myself to use it. I found out that I could only recently.
I built a tool https://github.com/simmsb/container-per-ip that manages spinning up containers such that each source IP gets it's own container, and automates shutting down containers after a period of inactivity.

It's main purpose is for running challenges of jeopardy style ctfs.
Are Microplastics a Health Risk?
Right, but my point is that it's hard to separate those things if your idea is just "excess deaths tell us the cost". So if lockdowns slow COVID but increase suicides... ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Fif and Sixf are heard enough here in America; enough that both fif and fifth sound fine to me.
Sounds like its important to you what other people are doing and thinking. You mention your parents, your social circle etc.

In some people its a deep psychological NEED to please others/fit into a particular group etc. If it is indeed a default setting in your brain then you have to meet that need to stay happy.

If you cant meet that need for whatever reasons, dont sit around blaming yourself, change the people around you. Easier said than done for people who have a need to fit in with the group around them but its the main route out of what can become a big trap.
> Disclosing benchmark results is forbidden by the licensing

How on earth is this enforceable? Talk about anti-competitive!
Four CPUs were involved, so multiply that figure by four.
Tweetbot has moved to a subscription model as well in the latest version.
The BBC pronounces 'sixth' as though it was spelled 'sikth'
That was one weird word when I learned it in Korea, because Asian eggplants look nothing like eggs. They look more like zucchinis.

At least the US variant looks like giant purple eggs, if you squint a bit.
The canonical solution in train/subway/metro systems seems to be full-length antennas that span the tunnel corridor.

The cool solution would be base stations built into train carriages that then uplink through some kind of backhaul.

I think (but need to properly evaluate) that some Australian trains use something like this. EDIT: Nooope nope nope, horribly misread. https://goughlui.com/2014/03/23/random-post-railcorp-gsm-r-r...
Equally important, when I work at Arby's the quality of some of the workers was questionable at best, but because of the pay rate the better workers soon found work elsewhere and most who were left clearly did not as good or fast of a job as they could.

I only stayed since I only had to work in the early morning and the work was less than a block from my house. Also the other worker "Dave" was studying robotics at the local college, it was amazing how much the other worker tried to put him down because he did not spend the night after work going out for drinks with them (neither did I).

Looking back, if the store had more workers like myself and Dave, I bet we could have increased the sales 20-50%.
Israel and Palestine are both monoracial dinosaurs. They should just let their citizens start dating and the problem would go away.
It doesn’t seem like it’s worse for anyone in the industry. It’s readily apparent to see how underfunded cyber security departments are. Doesn’t take a genius to figure out that a single man hired for the entire department isn’t going to do an adequate job.
If you’re the type of engineer who prides themselves on the raw amount of code you write, then Go is for you. If you’d rather focus on solving problems creatively and expressively, Go is not your tool.

I don't mean this as slight against those people that really enjoy writing lots of (Go) code. It’s just my observation after being in a few different contexts where Go was the language of choice. Personally Go is too verbose for me and this is especially painful/apparent when you get to writing the multitude of tests required to ensure your code works since Go’s type system/compiler doesn't lend you much in the way of helping ensure code correctness.

Go is essentially the new Java.
> How on earth is this enforceable?

It might not be, but few people care enough about publishing numbers to go through the trouble of finding out (and potentially betting wrong). Although comparisons to "leading proprietary industry database" winkwink nudgenudge might happen, at least in academic circles.
Some languages are more regular than others.

Phonetically, English is irregular AF.
Some context on the japanese job market from what I've seen:

- The entire japanese job market's wages are depressed[0]

- In 2019, pressure had to come from the PM (not the local unions) to raise the minimum wage to 1000 yen/hour (~$9/hour)[1]

- Engineers are underpaid here, possibly more so than the EU in relation to the US. This is amplified for japanese companies (whether "black"[1] or not)

- With nationalized healthcare and generally low cost of living (even in Tokyo, a "world city"), most workers do not feel the pain of being underpaid sharply. Cultural differences and a propensity to save (more ant than grasshopper, let's say) generally feels like the backstop behind the economy (other than the BOJ's enormous purse and very active involvement).

- There is a sort of inbuilt trust in the society that expresses itself in economic transactions (loan companies can be very trusting, risk is considered low with Japanese applicants, etc) and greases the wheels of commerce most of the time, if all participants are local. There are other factors (sometimes the same ones) that make it difficult/slow down japan but those are well discussed generally.

- "Super Salaryman" is a colloquial term here (I can't find it on wiki or elsewhere) for a salaryman[3] that makes 10 million yen (~$90k) per year

- Japanese companies often provide "free" company housing to new grads to enable them to save while being paid relatively little. Many live with for a bit after graduating (women more so than men) as well without much stigma.

- Company standing/appearances mean alot -- $60k at [large conglomerate] is far and away more prestigious than $80k at [unknown startup] in the eyes of many.

[EDIT] Added some more from a different comment that might be useful.

[EDIT2] - fix the super salaryman yen estimation, confused with 10 million

[0]: https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/03/17/business/lowest...

[1]: https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/06/07/national/japan-...

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_company_(Japanese_term)

[3]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salaryman
Alternatively, the phrase (as said by the NRO) "Doing God's work with other people's money" is quite apt.
Covid’s silver lining: The race to cloud-based cybersecurity quickens
"lower-level cross-platform abstraction" needs some clarfication.

For example Sciter exposes Graphics API https://github.com/c-smile/sciter-js-sdk/blob/main/include/s..., is this close to what you mean? It allows to render stuff a la ImGUI - immediate mode painting.

And what's in principle wrong with DOM?

DOM is tree of lightweight nodes and elements. In Sciter each DOM element may have native controllers, known as behaviors. Examples of those: https://github.com/c-smile/sciter-js-sdk/tree/main/include/b... . So you can create single DOM node - document and attach your native behavior to it. It will receive all events and will do drawing if you want.

Some applications are using mixed model: DOM where it makes sense, and custom native behavior where high performant handling is required.

In fact DOM and ImGraphics have their strong points but in different situations. Sciter allows to have best of two worlds by combining them.

In any case when you say "I don't need DOM", it means that you will implement it on your side. Been there, seen that many times.
Not just Egypt. The rest of the world too.
In the "crypto" world nobody really knows what affects the value (correlation does not imply causation). If someone claims to know, let's just check his predictions' accuracy.

For a centralized power confiscation and devaluation are more difficult to apply in the "crypto" world.

Value stems from opinions, and in the "crypto" world everyone is free to form his own opinion and act accordingly. Doing so is more difficult under some governments/centralized powers.

Many celebrities publish various claims about "cryptos", and even a major disagreement isn't innocuous. Major disagreement between central powers about important matters, for example money, may lead to war.
Humans don’t react on those timescales. These systems where operators are doing things remotely have low latency things for any automation. It’s the “management” interface we’re talking about here.
Fair point, I supposed I was thinking of compiled languages like Go.
> 1. If I ever stop paying, I get nothing, no matter how much I've spent on the software over the years.

The Zune music service actually had a great fix for this: every month they allowed you to download a couple DRM-free tracks that you could keep forever. So if you ever cancelled, at least you had those tracks.

That was nice, but at the same time I disagree that when you stop the service you are left with nothing. In fact, what you got was access to the service. If I ever stop paying for Spotify, I'm left with nothing... except for all the hours I spent listening to and enjoying music on Spotify without ads. Isn't that something?
Doesn't Japanese have different words for numbers depending on the shape of the object (e.g., "one" for flat things, "one" for cylindrical things, etc...)? Some languages (Hindi, Japanese, Chinese) I can't even figure out where words begin/end (or sentences), even with a dictionary. (I'm looking at you, Japanese particle).
Yes, that naked contempt to customization is what I find more macOS-y than any exact copy of the visuals. KDE in this regard is pretty safe: you can bend and shape it to taste pretty thoroughly.

Interestingly, classic MacOS, at the times of 6.5 or 7, was somehow more customizable, and seemed to have more power-user features. Just like, well, Gnome back in the day %)

So, my daily driver is Xfce.
The problem with not having generics is the systems you build instead. They either throw away type safety and use reflection, which causes hard to debug issues, or they lean on code generation, which is slow and hard to debug.

I agree that the lack of generics only shows up once in a while and doesn't hamper productivity as much as might be expected, but I'm still very excited to see them added to the language.
I've been using the minimalist ssg [1], a ~187 sloc sh script to generate my site [2], so that I can avoid dealing with more complicated, messy solutions and to make it easier to switch to a custom site generator if I decide to write one in the future. I'd say I'm pretty happy with it so far.

[1]: https://www.rgz.ee/ssg.html

[2]: https://culhane.top, source: https://sr.ht/~learax/culhane.top
As a 195cm tall, 120kg, non-Japanese, senior developer who has never been to Japan, I kind of want to get a job at a Japanese company and just see what happens.
In one sense the solution is PoS. But Bitcoin will never ever ever adopt PoS, so we need to somehow convince hodlers and traders to switch to another cryptocurrency in a way that doesn't look like discrimination (e.g. outright banning PoW). A global carbon tax is an obvious yet oh so difficult possibility. Some kind of memetic warfare might be more feasible.
Not sure disclosing all this helps their image, if people now understand they're capable of faking any sort of public appearance of anyone they need to.
Korea to create largest chip manufacturing complex: $450B
I don't buy it.

Bitcoin introduced a number of changes like SegWit that are way more complex than adjusting a constant on layer 1, plus a huge amount of complexity on layer 2 that makes using layer 2 just as complicated as (or more complicated than) using a different cryptocurrency.

Whether it leads to "more decentralization" when everyone can run their own (L1) node but a single L1 transaction costs as much as the node hardware is quite debatable IMO. By making L1 transactions unaffordable, it encourages _centralized_ solutions where IOUs are shuffled around entirely off-chain.
> A lot of products you buy (especially ones that are huge recurring purchases, like lots of baby stuff) include coupons that direct you to the website to buy more via direct subscription.

is there a 15/30% fee for physical goods such as DoorDash, Amazon, etc? thought it was just for digital goods, subscriptions, etc.
You actually get a second challenge if you win your first one.
It's incredibly difficult to migrate even engaged users to the new, different app. Apple should really provide a better route for major version upgrades, especially on the Mac App Store.
I have a personal website, once that has been online since 1997. The reason I have it is because I have written a lot of content over the years, and because having it on my own static HTML page website is because why should I write a bunch of content for free to benefit a social media website or commercial blog service? More sense to have it on my own website.

Shameless plug: https://samiam.org/
No offense, but a manual tester generally doesnt have much credibility in a conversation about coding matters.
This article nails it. While Python is such an elegant language for scientific research, it falls on its face when it comes to packaged applications (and as stated in my other posts, it's awkward async support compared to Node). I realllly hope scientific computing moves into NodeJS, or, Python gets better at asyncio and cross-platform packaging.
Yeah I also live in a big city (Barcelona) and I really love life without owning a car. Everything is nearby and gone is all the time wasted commuting, the stress of driving in traffic and the many expenses that car ownership incur. I don't miss my car at all, on the contrary.
this could easily be combined with legislation providing tools to make it harder and harder to participate in mining off-fork.

US financial laws have been very useful for the gov't to be able to de facto give it worldwide jurisdiction in some areas, I think there would be relatively few qualms about continuing down this path. Especially if (for example) Robinhood and Coinbase were forced to follow along. At one point the "blessed" thing will become the only place you can really operate.
>Frameshifting almost never happens in our cells. It would lead to dysfunctional cellular proteins; however, certain viruses, such as coronaviruses and HIV, depend on a frameshifting event to regulate levels of viral proteins. For example, SARS- CoV-2 - the virus that causes COVID- 19 - is critically dependent on frameshifting promoted by an unusual and intricate fold in the viral RNA.

God is a hacker.
AT&T in advanced talks to merge WarnerMedia with Discovery, deal tomorrow
This is a good thing and I support it. Zoning decisions though tend to be more at the local level than the federal level, and I don't think there was much of any federal policy on it until now.

Anecdata: my local area leans heavily Democratic, and exclusively single family zoning is the norm almost everywhere around here. (Though thankfully the city I actually live in is mostly an exception.)
https://algorand.foundation/faq

Who manages the list of relay nodes? What about decentralization?

> Currently, the Algorand Foundation manages the official list of relay nodes...

> We are working on a model where the decisions on relay nodes will be done in a more decentralized way.

As for the centralized domain, you can look it up in the source code but essentially it gets the list of relays from a SRV record on the algorand.network domain:

_algobootstrap._tcp.mainnet.algorand.network
How are they practically going to find the defendant? On a public blockchain, you can't always put a name or face to an address. The tokens in question can change hands many times and make it hard to trace identity.