skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> But it's hard to overstate the dangers of over-centralisation like this, and I say it as a person who uses Slack professionally.

I think you're overstating the importance of a chat based application. It's not mission critical to operate a software business or any business for that matter so why is this so "dangerous"?

> Maybe running your own Zulip instance isn't as sexy or has the same integrations, but at least you can have a person responsible for fixing it and get status updates, and ultimately: as much as Ops is a dirty word; being able to plan your downtimes can help a _lot_.

Let's play the devil's advocate and say it IS mission critical. Now you need to pay full time staff (read -> not cheap) and computing resources and integration development (depending on solution) for it to be useful AND guarantee uptime.

I don't understand what the big fuss is about Slack vs IRC. Pretending as if every business in the world has access to competent sys admin folks is not only foolish, but it's dangerous to assume.
The only reason it comes across as hyperbole is because of the US history of antebellum slavery. Sure, we aren't all being held against our will, subject to extreme violence at any time, but the prison system does something pretty close. Many slaves throughout history lived relatively comfortably, and even Frederick Douglass described wage slavery in the US. It's a scary, controversial word, I guess, but the article depicts a pretty scary world for grandma to end up in too, if you ask me.
The US is a large county, it has states that are larger than France.

Driving from San Diego to San Francisco (never leaving the state of California) takes about 8 hours, even longer in traffic.

Many people have these long commutes due to work.
>A single defect can impact the entire field

Just ask Boeing.
> It never was meant to be, and it never advertised itself as such.

Totally untrue. Read Satoshi's emails--it was in the title of his first email about Bitcoin, and the first sentence in the whitepaper! The current bitcoin core devs took over from Gavin who also shared the "cash" vision. They booted everyone with plans for making it cash, and censored or blocked everyone in the bitcoin subreddit who said anything about cash or large block sizes.

https://www.metzdowd.com/pipermail/cryptography/2008-October...
There actually is a fair amount of truly undefined behavior for CPUs, but it's always at system/kernel mode rather than userspace for security reasons. You can search an ARM ISA for "UNPREDICTABLE" to see examples.
One notable, and very underreported exception, is Pennsylvania's filial responsibility law[1]. In Pennsylvania, if a resident of a nursing home is indigent, the liability falls statutorily on their family, who the home is free to sue and secure a judgement. This may not have gotten much attention due to uncommon use, but it's very real, and it's been upheld by the PA State Supreme Court. A handful of children of seniors have been bankrupted by filial responsibility judgements.

[1]: https://www.paelderlaw.net/pennsylvanias-filial-support-law-...
Is it really better than a small cafetière/French press?
This reminds me of when I was taking an advanced circuit design class. The analog circuit in question had many moving parts, and I just didn't have the intuition. The teaching fellow at the time thought it would help to visualize a mechanical analog (ha!) of the circuit and drew for me a complex mechanical diagram. It was so complex that I found it more intuitive to just study the electrical circuit directly.

After years of working with electrical circuits, I now often find it easier to translate a mechanical system in question to an analogous electrical system and analyze it. In fact this is where the phrase "analog electronics" comes from: It is an analogue of a real world (often mechanical) system. At the end of the day, these are all (mostly second order) differential equations.
The Guix package list is paginated, you need to navigate to the second page:

https://guix.gnu.org/en/packages/nyxt-2.0.0/

If "guix search nyxt" does not work, perhaps you need to 'guix pull'?
Slavery was not employment tho. So even as it was worst, it does not count.

Industrial revolution and aftermath might be better example.
I have the 425s, which is the model below, but only the insides are different, so I can answer your question.

Sound isolation is very good, but it depends on the tips being the right size for your ear canal. Some only swear by the silicone ones, others by the foams. Note that it's a lot like wearing earplugs, so you'll hear your steps if you have harder soles, etc.

Personally, I've always used the foams, I found them more comfortable and good enough for my needs. The silicone ones wouldn't hold well or were too uncomfortable.

However, when it was time to change them, I bought a set of Comply tips and isolation was much better. They're a bit longer, so you shouldn't buy too many at first before you check whether they bother you. They're also somewhat more rigid, so you have to hold them in a bit longer while they expand, so they're not very practical if you need to put take them out and put them back in often.
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The industry gets a bad rap, because it's full of ego maniacs, but the reality is that there are tons of interesting opportunities that fall outside conventional compliance/pen-testing roles. Research is actually a huge sector, because you can apply security research to so many emerging and existing industries. You can specialize is specific things as well. Take for example blockchain. !0 years ago there were no cryptocurrencies, today it's a multi-billion (trillion?) dollar industry. People with skills to audit smart contracts are in huge demand. What about all of the other emerging technologies? Criminals are always quick to exploit and abuse emerging tech and emerging markets, so there are always opportunities presenting themselves for technical & security minded folks. The world of cybersecurity goes beyond just pen testing or sitting in a SOC as an analyst.
Used to be a dream of mine, except now the gym is one of the few places to socialize (100% wfh)
I bought my wife a Liv electric mtb (front suspension only since it was cheapest). She never rode mtb before this and now 6mo later she's an almost daily rider. We live at the base of a large mountain range with lots of trails and the electric assist has allowed her to gradually build up the endurance to ride the mountains. Soon she'll be transitioning to a non-electric full suspension and we'll probably sell the electric.
Ah damn :) I guess there is no easy way to make money from this difference.

Thanks for pointing this out.
It's standard-ish to be able to request a 10-year NDA for anything that your not part of / on your way out, e.g. I know people that have them for severance / mutual non-disparagement packages.
Hmmm, let me explain a little more. I'm from New England and we're generally pretty grim faced and direct in public. It's not good, I wish we were a happier society and I actually like going to places where people are honestly friendly and warm.

But when there is an issue of some kind, or I'm getting frustrated, that's when grins can make the situation worse. Sometimes there is a language barrier and the other party is not sure why there is frustration, and the default smile reaction (because they are nervous or to defuse the situation with a smile) is counterproductive.
GDPR is only tractable because 90% of companies don't implement it. In Germany thousands of companies illegally use Mailchimp for example.
Biden administration targets crypto transfers in tax crackdown plan
the article actually says that it is a great tool for brave traders. Especially with the crazy up and down waves.

the article does not say bitcoin will disappear.

the article just claims that bitcoin is not the future of money, and makes some reasonable observations regarding this. especially that it is so easily manipulated by billionaires.

so I think your point is m00t.
From the website: 26.3 degree diagonal field of view (stereo). Display brightness up to 2,000 nits.
I worked on these but am not allowed to say anything other than citing public sources.
Heh, and the last time the podcast published an episode about an Auth0 outage, Auth0 had another outage the next day. Now Slack follows shortly after an episode. How eerie!
There are definitely still "well known names" in the indie scene. They may not hit mainstream success, but there's for example there's some pretty well known members of the Factorio team in the Factorio community (kovarex & Klonan come to mind). There's people like Maddy Thorson of Towerfall & Celeste fame. If they decide to embrace it I imagine one of the very few people on the team behind Valheim would also fit this, but it doesn't seem like they are interested in that.

There are still small indie groups that make breakout or successful games that hit mainstream awareness (Untitled Goose Game anyone?), but it seems like many prefer to use a company branded twitter than make their own name(s) public or just let the game stand on its own.
It's not hard at all, any reasonable group of people will say, "what was the price on coinbase (or equivalent) when you sold?"
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Not counting a home: my favorite purchase has been a good stereo for my home office. Nothing that broke the bank, either - I picked up an older Technics receiver and a pair of Advent Legacy floor-standing speakers for under $200.

Now that I stay in the same room 12-16 hours per day, they've been extremely helpful in making things feel less boring and monotonous.
We teach children how to use their voices all the time (ex: "indoor voice"), rules of social interaction and so on. Beyond a certain point, you need social rules for social creatures.
Why did you need to grind the Lodge?
Dear weeweww32,

During a routine audit of registered exchanges we discovered that you transferred/received $30k of the crypto token Montero.

Under penalty of perjury provide us with documentation as to the destination/source of this funds within 7 business day.

Failing to do so is a felony under the Crypto act of 2022.

Cheerio

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I think it is important to raise awareness about Filial Responsibility Laws which hold children accountable for the debts of parents. More than half of US state have laws on the books which enable debt holders to go after assets outside of the deceased's estate.

It is becoming increasingly common for nursing homes to bring suits against adult children of their residents.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filial_responsibility_laws#Sta...
> Both POS and POW depend on some level of subjectivity/trust, even while the latter relies on it less than the former.

No one is arguing that you don't have a trusted computing base.

What is being argued is, why make the TCB bigger when it doesn't need to be? Why trust someone to tell me what the current validator set or fork tip when I boot up my node, when there exists protocols whereby the node figures this out automatically?

Some people say that the energy cost of PoS justifies this, but that's not really true in the long run. This is the point Paul Sztorc was making in his article about MC = MR -- competing PoS forks will still spend the same amount of trying to convince you that their preferred fork is the canonical fork. PoW does this as well, but it gains you an in-band way to discover this, thereby making the TCB lower than it would be in PoS.
And if I'm moving between two wallets that I control (be it directly via some software/hardware wallet or indirectly via some exchange)? Does it work the same as it would if I was moving that much USD between two bank accounts under my name? What are the tax implications there?

This is arguably a problem I've been far from rich enough to encounter, so it's a genuine question should that someday change :)
> The Tesla Model 3 is an amazing car that completely ruins all other cars for me. I can't imagine driving anything else right now.

I bought a Model 3 Performance back in November 2019 and I have recalibrated what "normal" acceleration feels like.

It's not that I'm flooring it at every red light, but without an engine making noise and giving me audible feedback on how much fuel I'm using, I do find I give it a little more punch than most other drivers.

So then when I sit in my wife's Honda CRV, it feels so slow unless I'm giving it a lot of gas.
I think you're reading this wrong. They're not going after coins that have values of over $10,000 (eg bitcoin), they're going after any crypto transactions that have value over $10,000. So it doesn't matter whether you're trading 0.25 BTC or 25000 DOGE, they both have USD value of over $10,000 and have to be reported.
Mind that this doesn't mean that they are not commercialized - modern console emulators make a lot of money on patreon(in some cases up to $80k a month) for "private builds" that can run certain games, especially newer ones, better, and online features in some cases.
Chinas reeducation camps are the greatest blessing on earth. Unfortunately, it seems several professors and celebrities remain intransigent inspite of years of reeducation. They fail to properly absorb Xi Jinping thought, like so many CEOs have done. They must not be allowed to graduate from the camp unless they are properly reeducated.

>How much the whole Xinjiang incident is propaganda, and how much reality, I don't know.

Such a shame.
What's the magnitude of improvement over the standard option (bose quietcomfort)?
Well, they stopped doing it, so perhaps not.
Actually, I dont think PA is an exception here. Most states have similar laws on the books.
One of the hardest problems, a few years back, to solve was getting data to determine which traffic lane you were in. It was to provide targeted ads on billboards, that through reflection, could show different ads to people in different lanes based on "external" searches such as browsing patterns. To my knowledge the problem was not solvable using wireless telco data.
There are relationships that arise when you change the order, e.g. nylon blue sounds as if it's a shade of blue, but not a nylon that is some shade of blue.

However, I don't believe it is opague to a non-native speaker who has sufficient experience with the language.
No one offers swapping x shares for y shares, you have to sell and buy.
You can swap currency and some people believe crypto is currency, so it is different.
It's completely reasonable to tax investment earnings. That said, these regulations are concerning to me as a developer interested in actually building on blockchain technology.

At least from what I understand, just doing what's rapidly becoming run of the mill Web3 development is becoming extremely fraught territory for US citizens who want to comply with accounting and tax rules. It's an even bigger deterrent for students with limited ability to hire an accountant.

It wouldn't have been good for the US to stifle the web 25 years ago and I don't think regulating blockchain tech worldwide will work any better than trying to restrict the export of PGP did. Talent will just leave.
The race to understand the exhilarating, dangerous world of language AI
What happens if one of four roommates doesn't pay their portion of the rent? Do you still make the payment?

I ask because the City of Berkeley for example tells their landlords to never accept multiple rent checks because it makes things complicated if only part of the rent is paid.
> I think you're overstating the importance of a chat based application. It's not mission critical to operate a software business or any business for that matter so why is this so "dangerous"?

I feel like the truth is somewhere in the middle here. In an increasingly remote world and with the many ways slack integrates into businesses I think it is incredibly important to some businesses and maybe even mission critical.

But I totally agree with your second point that just because chat is important doesn't make running your own IRC instance a good decision or resource investment.
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> You really need to be your own first customer.

This is very good advice.
Ha ha :) That video is priceless. And I experienced this first hand. If you get 5 or more kms outside Dublin, people start sounding gibberish.
with enough computational power you can forecast and implement very nice lifestyle for everyone, the ability to measure and compute nearly everything to a very good degree is something that only recently we achieved and we are not taking full advantage of.

This isn't correct. Friedrich Hayek showed (and won a Nobel Prize for it) that this kind of thing is fundamentally uncalculatable. It's not just a matter of scale, it's that important information like how different inputs can be substituted for each other and at what cost are spread across a huge distributed emergent machine. No one entity knows this stuff, or even knows what questions to ask. Heck, even the individuals that are cods in that distributed machine don't even know what logic they're applying.

So throw as much computational power at it as you like, you're still going to wind up with shortages and quality problems if you try to have any centralized agency make these calls.
> but I would bet that money will continue to look more like Bitcoin than it does like today's dollar.

so not Bitcoin. Thats the authors point.

> Like it or not, and I know a lot of you don't, cryptocurrencies aren't censorable (governments can't stop you from sending or receiving them), are hard to seize, and can't just be inflated away from storing value. These are attractive properties to a lot of people.

I agree. It is however getting harder and harder to get BTC without disclosing the full identity. Here in the Netherlands at least its super hard. This does indeed make certain use cases much more harder. It's not outright banning but I bet that more and more restrictions will come around it that only some smart asses will be able to bypass through (semi-)illegal moves.
Unobtainium. Probably literally.
Ahh man, you are indeed right. But I seriously haven't seen a paper stock certificate in person this century.
We'll be open sourcing core parts of WebContainer as we move towards GA. We have some additional technical info in our core WG repo: https://github.com/stackblitz/webcontainer-core

We also did an hour long podcast a few months back that goes into pretty deep detail: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5F9qH-ea5Qk
I've been working with Photon a bit in UE4. They are very responsive to issues posted in the forums, so if you aren't finding something or something isn't working, let them know. Have you looked at their Javascript SDK? https://www.photonengine.com/en-US/sdks#html5-webgl-sdkrealt...
Fwiw at least this way if your idea gets approved you don't have to pay for the glasses -- much more fair to people entering SW development from impoverished backgrounds. To apply there's a form at the bottom of the page.
> You first have to be aware of all the footguns,

Knowing your tools is part of being a professional. C is not for amateurs.
Plot twist. What if wealthy humans are infected with these?
Great questions- we have some additional technical info in our core WG repo: https://github.com/stackblitz/webcontainer-core

We also did an hour long podcast a few months back that goes into pretty deep detail: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5F9qH-ea5Qk
Edmunds has a "Cost to Own" calculator here: https://www.edmunds.com/tco.html

Sadly it does not go back 8 years. You could check the numbers on a 6-year-old Panamera vs a new Camry though:
https://www.edmunds.com/porsche/panamera/2015/cost-to-own/?s...
https://www.edmunds.com/toyota/camry/2021/cost-to-own/?style...
> Bad people will do bad things and just make you think they are stupid instead of actively perpetrating evil acts.

As shown when the phrase "it is easier to ask for forgiveness than for permission" is used to excuse the act.
Fail a bunch of times.
Ask HN: Best resources for learning data structures and algorithms
I've been working as a programmer for 8 years and after reading https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27193415 I realized I know very little about algorithms and data structures. I want to learn about data structures and how they are implemented and algorithms and how they are programmed. Anything that I can read at my own pace would be best, like books and online resources, instead of courses.
"fair value" is just a financial term meaning "price traded on the open market"[1]. It makes no qualitative judgement about if that price is "fair" in the colloquial sense.

[1] This is trivial to do with equities (top-of-book bid/ask prices are the fair). Currencies are a little trickier because your relationship with the exchange determines the quotes you see. Certainly, currency swaps do have a fair, but defining it is a little trickier.
Here's a video with a better example of it. Doesn't look like a pond. Its more like alien flowers or something.

https://twitter.com/i/status/1395439601590833156
Yes, in fact the details vary some depending on which state you're in and how you're related to the deceased. In general, though, I'd treat unsolicited calls attempting to get you, personally, to pay for a dead relative's debts, as bullshit until you're 100% sure they're not. Most (all?) state governments have FAQs for this sort of thing online, and the federal government also offers guidance (all trivially Googleable).
Linguists don't distinguish between "proper" and "improper" English, or "right" or "wrong", although they are very interested what native speakers think of "grammatical" or "ungrammatical" sentences.

In (modern) linguistics, you try to be descriptive rather than prescriptive, watching language artifacts through the looking glass. English exists in many so-called varieties, geographical varieties, different varieties used in different social strata of one and the same society.
I recently took up running, unfortunately all I have for footwear is an old pair of Vans, just about the worst thing to run in. All the disadvantages of both minimalist and maximalist shoes, wrapped up in a flat, hard sole with holes in both heels.

After some online research, I have a pair of minimalist (barefoot) running sandals coming in the mail. I'll have to let you know if it was worth it or if I was just punked by the marketers ;)
Japanese takes the Chinese writing system and makes it even worse.[1]

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bcdYKxHT8kY
I find it hard to believe one could go through the nationalization procedure and not speak English. It's a very in-person kind of thing, no way to con your way through it really.
Yes, there is very consistent correspondence between areas in the primary sensory and motor cortex and body parts.

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

As a someone interested in AI this research is quite interesting to me. It gives us a benchmark that we can compare with machine learning algorithms. How much better can human brain handle novel sensomotory tasks?

> The neural activity that controls finger movement is the finger itself, as far as the brain is concerned; it's not "representing" anything.

I don't understand what you are trying to say.