skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Per https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27203568, there is a a normal MySQL schema. This is about how PlanetScale solves the schema management friction, so as to enable developers working with schemas: safe branching, online schema changes, deployment queues, protected branches, conflict resolution.
(I'm an engineer at PlanetScale)
Would it be bad if you were the prisoner?
As a beef farmer my natural inclination would be to hold off on sending animals to be killed until the ban is lifted and China is back buying beef.

This of course will lower three amount of beef being killed... And probably drive up domestic prices.

Unintended consequences
C is small language designed and used for efficiency.
Straightforward C will let you manipulate data easily and will be maintainable.

Its not bloated with feature creep like C++ is.
Some modern C++ code looks like an Egyptian hieroglyphics.

So please don't write code in C++ /s
Headphones with a proper HRTF preserve that perfectly fine better than any actual speaker setup ever can. The typical demo for this functionality is https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IUDTlvagjJA
Give it a year or 2 and the iPad Pro will have this as a standard feature in Facetime.

> Project Starline is currently available in just a few of our offices and it relies on custom-built hardware and highly specialized equipment. We believe this is where person-to-person communication technology can and should go, and in time, our goal is to make this technology more affordable and accessible, including bringing some of these technical advancements into our suite of communication products.
"But considering that the payoff will be the single greatest discovery in the history of humanity"

Oh, my goodness. Hyperbole much?

Detecting signs of life is all very well; but most (all?) such signals will have come from so far away that either we'll have evolved, or they'll have evolved. The chances that we'll ever meet such beings is minute.

I would expect the greatest discovery ever to actually make practical difference to something.

The tiny bandwidth and enormous turnaround time for any electromagnetic signal over (say) 20LY will stymie any attempt to transfer useful amounts of information. Probes are more promising; but note that Voyager 1 has travelled just over 1/1,000 of a light-year so far. To travel 20LY, it would need to survive in deep space for 40,000 years. Humans have never built a machine that could survive in working order for more than about 200 years.

For such a probe to tell us anything interesting, we'd be faced again with the bandwidth problem; or the probe would have to come back. By the time we got information back, it would be 40,000 years in the future. We know barely anything about human culture 40,000 years ago; if we had launched an interstellar probe 40,000 years ago, we'd have zero cultural memory of that fact by now.

So this "greatest discovery" is most likely to fall into the "gosh, that's quite interesting" category, rather than the "most important ever" category.
Note that 70k for one person in SF is considered low income/needs assistance/basically not a living wage by hud.gov. The bare minimum is somewhere around 90k.

At about ~140k for one person, you will still have difficulty renting a single housing unit because you will not be able to meet % of income = rent calculations. I have experience with this (and unrelenting corporate managed rentals charging several hundred in nonrefundable application fees just to reject for low income at 6 digits..).
Is that insane? I'm not willing to put in more than 1-2 months of work for that price. Can you really make an interesting app in less time than that?
Yes, I didn't want it to veer off topic, but I think it is extremely obvious that such standards involved implicit or explicit biases, as well as real recognition of individual customers' actual past behavior (like if a gas station has taken advantage of them in the past).
Assuming it’s Carr’s, IIRC it’s a rather odd style of work, it’s a summary of the state of basic mathematics rather than a textbook per se, with pages of theorems with little explanation.

So a modern version would at most be a different idea of what the core theorems should be.
>> Now, you can reasonably argue that fewer than 150 million people would take LSD but that’s hardly making it safer for those who would.

Of course it is. Wow.

LSD is not habit forming. That's the point. This is so frustrating and you keep ignoring it. LSD does not present the same danger to the individual as alcohol because people are not drawn to keep using it in the same way. This in itself reduces the dangers of chronic problems, because lifetime exposure is reduced. It also reduces the liklihood of acute problems, because the frequency of use is reduced. This includes both physical and mental health issues, and consequences of intoxication like car crashes.

>> It’s just arguing Alcohol is popular not that it’s inherently more dangerous.

No, it isn't.

Alcohol is addictive. More so than most other drugs.

That is an inherent danger of alcohol.

You are in denial.
Could also serve as a reminder to people that despite the risks of crime, a banal job is basically just a punishment.

I think if I wasn't a programmer and only had the skills to work a minimum wage job, crime would absolutely seem more rational.
How come the quite thoughtful comment you’re replying to is downvoted while your snotty little reply isn’t?
That culture goes both ways, and more on the companies in my opinion. Why would anyone stay more than a couple years when there's no path for advancement and raises don't remotely keep up with the market?
escrow.com is a licensed escrow operator.

This is how it works, they don't get to just decide the outcome or they'll get shutdown during their audits.

This is a good thing in transacting on the internet.
I agree, it is quite ironic that I can beat HDFS with a SAN + NFS mounts.
> The answer to the first question, it turned out, may have been the Colorado prison system, where incarcerated people working for the state’s correctional industries earn an average of $4.50 per day

I served a 1-year sentence in Federal prison and my _monthly_ salary was $0.59 - that's for the entire 30 day period. My job was to take cakes that were made daily and wrap them in plastic. In the area of the prison I was designated this meant my group of 4 people wrapped about 500 cakes per day. Some of the other people assigned to the group were elderly or disabled, so that meant that 2 of us usually wrapped all of the cakes.

Before you attempt to give me any sympathy it's worth noting that I eventually did not have to do this job. I became friends with inmate clerk that coordinated all the ins-and-outs of the kitchen and he eventually said he had a way to avoid the cakes needing to be wrapped to begin with and that my job wasn't even really worth existing. Strangely enough, through paperwork, this actually caused me to begin making $5.20/mo for a job that I no longer had to do.

For my last month there my wage was increased to $30/mo for my fake labor and the reason given was "because it would piss of person X".

TL;DR - Prison job systems are arbitrary and stupid ways that most inmates use to entertain themselves. None of it matters.
> I wish there were better options for inking on mobile

Mobile beta is pretty similar to the desktop app. Like even most of the plugins I use work fine on my phone. The only real complaint I have is that it's kinda slow to start on a phone. Not as slow as Notion, but still takes a few seconds.

> and I don’t like the separation between edit and view modes.

That's next on the roadmap after apps become polished enough to exit the beta. Public roadmap: https://trello.com/b/Psqfqp7I/obsidian-roadmap
I’ll buy at 10k
True, although I assume that also applies to footballers...
The best part of these books were the exercises. I have very fond memories of spending hours trying to solve every single problem at the end of each chapter. You get more from solving those last two difficult problems you couldn't solve than solving hundreds of easy problems mechanically.
I wonder how close you could come to this experience with some "standard" hardware like a standard 100-500mbit connection, a normal 4K TV and a Kinect. That is: given 10% of the cost, how many % of the experience could you deliver?
Uhhh every single one. Here's the Nvidia 3070 for example: https://www.techpowerup.com/review/nvidia-geforce-rtx-3070-f...
It was fine when the prisoners themselves were the only ones using the things they produced. The problem comes when the fruits of this labor are sold on the market. Then all of the perverse incentives rear their ugly heads.

Whenever you have a captive consumer or producer of marketable materials, you have a perverse incentive to exploit, because the other party has no choice in the matter and must take whatever you offer (if anything). Every dystopian movie makes heavy use of these kinds of story elements.

In the case of prison labor, you essentially have slaves, and can therefore leverage that slave labor to undercut your competitors in the open market. The slaves, meanwhile, suffer the indignity of their forced labor and exploitation for someone else's benefit, which is why we outlawed slavery in the civilised parts of the world.

In the case of captive markets (food, commissary, communications systems, etc), price gouging is commonplace. Food quality is so low that malnutrition is common. Quality is shit but it doesn't matter because the consumers of these products are not empowered to decide, while everyone else involved benefits from their exploitation and therefore has no incentive to fix it.

This is then further exacerbated by trade groups that influence laws to increase incarceration durations and incidence in order to preserve and even expand their supply of captives for further exploitation and profit.

I suggest you look into how Western European countries handle their prison populations for comparison.
When someone says we have daily sightings of UAPs they cannot explain you have to remind yourself that one possibility is that they're simply lying.
I mean as a JS developer I am already kind of desensitized to taking my life in my hands when I do pretty much anything.
Re: availability - a victim of own success. ;) And chip shortage too, unfortunately.

Re: affordable: I come rather from 8-bit Atari and - in my opinion - it is not a cheap hobby. Modern extensions like Sophia2 or VBXL aren't cheap, memory extensions also require some bucks. Not mention about SD-card interfaces, although they are cheaper.
And re-implementations like already assembled EclaireXL or Atari 1088 XEL are even more expensive.
You can do any kind of work and once paid convert it to ETH so getting paid in it is no difference (I’d say it is more inconvenient as you need to convert some to fiat and then deal with taxes)
Smartcards cost less than a dollar, and are omnipresent.

I think you can already integrate PCSC with openssh.

A good thing about smartcards is that ones compatible with CSP are driverless, and PnP in Windows. This means they can enjoy at least some semblance of keylogger protection for key password/pin with WinCAPI.
Wouldn't we have much (!) better weather monitoring and prediction capabilities today, so that one could avoid bad weather (or land in time, preemptively)?
They have ~2500 emails, no socials and seemingly only a few backlinks to startup listing websites.

That does not seem worth 10k to me. What do you think?
Synchronous vs. Asynchronous Communication: Complete Guide for Remote Teams
I'm assuming this has been posted in response to the recently published fact that 1/3 of all criminal convictions for women in the UK are due to unpaid TV licenses. Yes, it's a CRIMINAL offense not to pay the licence, it's insane.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/tv-licence-f...

I'd really like to see someone take them to court over this. Not for "TV licences should be illegal", but rather the bullying, coercive and manipulative methods they use to "enforce" it. High pressure sales are illegal in the UK AFAIK, so how is this different? You have a private entity masquerading as an "authority", trying to hand out criminal convictions to unsuspecting people unless they pay large sums of money. How is that not predatory and illegal?
Embedded systems in IoT product design
Some experts tell that asynchronous communication is the future of the work. Other leaders say that we can’t refuse synchronous communication. Who’s right?

In this article, you will find a complete guide on different ways of team communication and practical examples
Hadoop natively supports S. Azure Blob storage is compatible with S3.

https://doc.dataiku.com/dss/latest/hadoop/hadoop-fs-connecti...

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/cse/2016/05/22/access-azure-b...
ICO takes action against contact tracing QR code provider
Like clockwork, the same old China fud is loaded. What’s amazing is that it continues having an effect the hundredth time.
> I don’t know what’s going on here either with masks.
And multiple times a day you see people driving alone in cars wearing masks.

I drove car with mask, because I did not bothered to put it down when I entered. That was all there was to it. I always assumed other people are like that too. There is a lot of judgement and reading on people who leave their masks on.

> This was in response to a fully vaccinated adult walking in a state park alone, in broad daylight, 3-4x father away than social distancing guidelines require.

Out of curiosity, how do you know woman was fully vaccinated?

I mean, inconsiderate is quite mild qualification? I dont know why mom thought it is inconsiderate, but it is not like she would go on full on bashing vent or something. Like, I dont find the whole discussion horrifying and I pretty often dont wear mask when I am alone.
On wanting – The consequences of more, more, more
I didn't encourage or discourage gaming. Also, mining means stressing the GPU 24-7, gaming is occasional. ... if you're gaming 24-7, then please stop doing that to, it's not good for your physical and emotional well-being :-(
> Nazism is fundamentally evil.

Be careful with such statements.

Describing something/someone as "fundamentally" evil obscures the fact that things (like extremist politics) happen for reasons. It is these reasons that if addressed, can put a stop to such unpleasantness occurring.
I'm not sure how looking at large scale trends and scenarios experienced by thousands/millions is anything but holistic, especially when talking about individual patients with individual specialists dealing with individual .

> Holism (from Greek ὅλος holos "all, whole, entire") is the idea that various systems (e.g. physical, biological, social) should be viewed as wholes, not merely as a collection of parts.

Of course it would be best if there was a universal language which everyone was proficient in, every patient had unlimited healthcare resources, had a strong understanding of medicine and every doctor was an excellent communicator, was under no personal/professional pressure to deliver specific outcomes, always took all the time a patient needed to understand every aspect of their case and care in the present and into the future and personally consulted with every possible specialist that may be involved with the potential outcomes.

Putting aside the strawman, there are significant compromises with the highly personalised approach you suggest (some of which I tried to outline, but have not been responded to), just as there are with national level approaches (which are self evident). I feel that there are applications for both.
Last time we had a big rain it didn't work at all for a few days (Sydney here), apparently a lot of people had that problem.
I actually know people that had some business inside prison in EU country and the experience was that there were more prisoners asking to be working than it was possible to use. Main driving force was that time passes faster when you are busy, with another advantage that earned money could be used to buy some extra goods. Also, some of the former prisoners continued to work in that company once their prison time was over, so it was really good help in transition to freedom.
Since prison work is voluntary, there is not much space for exploitation.
I think Google and Facebook does that for some interns.
Yes, but, it's very unlikely that these reasons outweigh the benefits for you from having a Security Key.

* Cheaper devices may not support cool new features. For example FIDO 2 allows resident credentials †. The cheapest behaviour for SSH is that your laptop (or whatever) stores some data, and you need that data plus the Security Key to authenticate to GitHub but with resident credentials that extra data can live on the USB Security Key and so that's a huge benefit if you git push from random PCs. There are several features like this - for example one way to replace that boot-up password on encrypted disks uses another optional feature of Security Keys - and there may be more in the future, the cheapest devices only have the core feature. But hey, if you discover you want those features you can always buy a fancier device later.

* The cryptographic Quality of Implementation can matter. What we see today is some corner cutting maybe, some lack of polish, but nothing that seems like a plausible avenue of attack. But I haven't purchased every supposed different brand of Security Key, maybe some of them are quite awful. It seems likely that unless they're intentionally made to weaken your security they will always be much better than stuff like SMS 2FA.

Here's a rather old post by Adam Langley about the crypto problems he found in various Security Keys:

https://www.imperialviolet.org/2017/10/08/securitykeytest.ht...

* The physical QoI can really vary. If you're buying the cheapest you can find, maybe the touch sensor or button wears out much faster than expected, or the USB connector is a tighter fit than you'd like. Or maybe not. Your mileage may vary a lot. I own a device with a ludicrously bright LED when its powered up, not just when authenticating, always if it has power. Doesn't bother me, but a lot of people would hate that.

† Essentially without resident credentials the device has no "memory" of who you are. On web sites the natural back-and-forth makes this feel normal. You tell the site your email address or username, it finds one or more IDs in its database and asks your Security Key to authenticate with one of those IDs, the Security Key recognises an ID and does so. But a cheap Security Key can't remember that ID, it just knows (because of Authenticated Encryption if you care about the technical details) when it sees one it can authenticate. With SSH the protocol is designed differently, the remote site doesn't get an opportunity to store an ID and then ask your Security Key to authenticate, so that ID needs to live in a local disk file, unless you have resident credentials.
Facebook shuts a malicious pro Israel page has millions of followers
On Software Performance
I used to work for Amazon. The code quality at places like Google and Amazon tend to be good.

S3 has a really good architecture and a great implementation.

HDFS has a meh architecture with a bad implementation.

There were obvious signs. I remember when Twitter decided to investigate why HDFS was slow and they figured out some details about how Hadoop guys decided to implement their own dictionary for configuration that had a much worse time complexity than the default dictionary in Java. There might be a video about this somewhere.

And there are more things like that. I used to have 5-10 years old HDFS Jira tickets open. I just gave up.

Here is a video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jupArYWxoq0

Hadoop is full of these things.

One more thing:

https://lamport.azurewebsites.net/tla/formal-methods-amazon....

I would love to see similar approach to Hadoop.
I think there is a lot of implicit knowledge and skill in even “basic” cooking that people tend to massively undervalue. Anyone who tells a beginner cook to “experiment” is falling for this. Beginners should copy, as fastidiously as they can!
I think the lack of USB, as irritating as it is to implement, relegates this to the "curiousity" bin--not for keyboards, per se, but for storage and other connectivity. Still a cool project, though.
Scalpers only exist in markets where somebody is selling products below value.

Without scalpers, the product is distributed by sheer luck like a lottery, or being well-connected and knowing somebody who has early access to the product.

You can argue that a lottery mechanism or being well-connected is more fair that having the necessary money. There are a lot of people in planned economies where everything from food to housing to transportation works that way, and they would probably disagree.
I thought that as well watching the video, but have you used a PSVR?

I've got one and the first minute is always noticing how low res the eye screens are, then as soon as the game starts, I've forgotten and I'm _there_. The 3D part makes up for the low quality
I recently reported the malicious actions that ended up forcing millions of people to like such page without their consent https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27141222, today facebook recognized that and shut it down
I wish they would look at the bloat in some of their own services. Analytics would be a good place to start.

The team(s) attempting to incentivize page speed in the SERPS often seem to be working at cross purposes to other Google projects.
Non-alcoholic beer is still a psychoactive drug due to all the psychoactive flavonoids and especially the heterocyclic aromatic amines present in all boiled mash beverages.
>> That's less and less true with more recent chess engines.

Search is still the basis of AI chess playing. It's either alpha-beta minimax or Monte Carlo Tree Search (used by Stockfish and Leela Chess, respectively).

Game-tree search algorithms like minimax and MCTS need an evaluation function to select the move that leads to the best board position and some modern engines train neural networks to estimate these evaluation functions. For example Leela Cheess is based on AlphaZero (I think) that popularised this approach and Stockfish has recently adopted it. But chess engines still use a good old game-tree search algorithm.

>> The optimal solutions are the same.

We don't know that. We have programs that can beat humans at chess, but whether they play optimally, or what constitutes "optimal" play in chess, that's difficult to say.
I'd say science is itself an ideal, like the law, but with application of rigour. The moment you stop seeking trutg, it's no longer science but akin to alchemy or astrology.

But then we get to the slippery slope of lying outright vs "cooking the math" to suit your hypothesis. It's still not clear where the line is drawn.
Institutions don't loose money, people do and most of the time not the managers but the customers.
Interesting that microacquire was used.

I struggle to take seriously a site that lists "Our team" as characters from Silicon Valley.
> It’s also a way for frustrated people who want to control others and be outraged to be able to vent their frustration at other people, in a socially acceptable way.

You could say the same about people who get offended over others wearing masks in situations where it dont affect them at all.

Like, someone wearing it in car or when exercising alone outside. It does not affect you in any way. Those people dont jump out of their cars to complain about what you wear. They are silently driving somewhere, ignoring you. I cant really think of situation where other people wearing masks affect me.