skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The biggest problem is that developers of programming tools love to add things and hate to take things away. So things get harder and harder and more and more complex because there are more and more ways to do the same thing

Kind of, but not exactly.

As a given software platform evolves rarely do the defining foundations significantly change. This means there becomes many ways to solve a problem down the line, but the original few solutions typically still work and apply just the same as they did in the early days.

I cannot emphasize enough just how important that is.

The implications of grasping this allow a developer to solve almost any problem like magic. The mythical 10x developer sprinkling their pixie dust like dropping blow at a night club. That is because the developer knows the durable solutions to most problems already and optionally may consider newer approaches when beneficial. They know what works and have the freedom to deviate at their convenience.

The implications of missing this produces infantile developers dependent upon the flavor of the moment. The developer reliant upon a late stage convention or supplemental tool has less flexibility than the developer more experienced with the foundational concepts of the given platform. This is vaguely related to the Law of Leaky Abstractions[1], but that law just describes reactive scenarios.

https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2002/11/11/the-law-of-leaky-a...
Except that we know now Sars-Cov-2 transmission is airborne. As the aerosol caught in your mask evaporates, the virus sheds into the surrounding air, where it is later contracted by someone else.

I think you'll be a little disappointed at the level of "acceptance" of mask wearing & efficacy going forward.
https://archive.is/CHqkM

https://web.archive.org/web/20210602191646/https://bytecodea...
Why are we cheering so much for normalizing deviance? What's the next step after cannabis is considered normal and teenagers need to rebel?
I believe the water should be just below boiling. I tested it with a thermometer and it seems to settle at the right temperature in a few seconds after boiling, if I open the electric kettle and let it vent.
This sounds like a tautological argument. Can you provide your definition and/or evidence of "a bigger cultural trend of degeneracy" that does not simply point back to the decriminalization of drugs? I am reading the merriam-webster definition of "degenerate" to try and make sense of what you are saying, is it that there is some kind of society-wide or worldwide phenomenon of mass brain failure that "manifests" itself in the use of psychedelic drugs which have themselves been known to humans throughout our recorded history?

Referring back up to the earlier comments, what I read here strikes me as similar to the opinions the earlier commenter was describing, the idea that the success of society relies on some inherent concepts of self-control and personal sovereignty that are somehow threatened by use of psychedelic drugs. You are completely entitled to your own opinion, but throwing the d-word around isn't doing anything to clarify why you hold that opinion for me. It reads like an argument based on emotion.
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No one wants this. (the people who understand it don't want it and the people who don't care don't care.)
Police officers claiming your car smells like weed almost is the #1 abuse of power by law enforcement.
The cloud is everywhere. It’s critical to computing. And it’s under attack
> Conde Nast managed not to destroy Reddit after buying it.

Reddit is simply dying a slow death. I wouldn't touch the place now.
I think Twitter is mostly about momentum, everybody is there and people dont want to start over again. A competitor will have the critical problem of having zero users. I am not sure the connections between users matter that much.
Not all brands is about status. How can cereal be about status for instance? A lot of the crap we buy and services we use is just habit and acquired behavior. Sometimes status signaling is part of it and sometimes it isnt. Is capncrunch about status lol?
I'm not sure misogyny is the only possible explanation here, and I am almost certain it doesn't account for the entire gap.
I brew without equipment: leave the grounds in the mug. This is the easiest possible method to travel with :-)
Off topic I guess, but the font that article uses is throwing my eyes for a loop. The lower-case 't' in particular, but I am also not fond of the number '3' either.
A clear example of the dangers of astrology.
There's actually wealth of resources on this topic today, see https://plaintextaccounting.org/ for a starting point.

> it seems nobody have tried

Probably because it's too obvious of an idea? And you wouldn't just find people's repos on github with their ledger databases for another obvious reason.
I think under normal circumstances this would be true. But VCs seem increasingly bad at picking winners vs. obvious scams (see latest failing SoftBank startup). In this environment, SPACs can be used as a way to dump garbage companies onto the public markets. Consider that WeWork would have probably been considered a great SPAC acquisition target (lots of hype, huge private valuation), while it failed to IPO using normal means because of dodgy financials.
Bizarrely, the "blogs" are still preserved on the current website but have been transformed into press releases(?) under the News section[1] with each post titled "Statement by Donald J. Trump, 45th President of the United States of America".

[1]https://www.donaldjtrump.com/news
Q&A with Guido van Rossum
That's interesting as I figured Kofax would be an operation that would really nail RPA and then move on to providing a very robust API middleware solution, given Kofax's bread-and-butter is literally addressing use-cases that take data from outside the system (document processing) to inside the system (process and data management).
The followup controversy will be government agencies and massive companies getting "too big to fail" exemptions.
This is one of those revealed preferences things.
> realized it'd take like a month of dicking around to get a new account up to the point that I could post a response in the thread

If you made a whole video just post it as an answer. That takes 1 rep (the lowest it can possibly be). If you wanted to post it in a comment ...well you needed 15 rep which is also pretty easy to get.

I don't understand this criticism of SO as if it is some walled garden and it's so hard to participate you may as well not.
Came here to share this! What a weird and innocent time that was.
I've found DuckDuckGo better for searching for specific terms or functions like this. OTOH, google seems better for more vague concepts (like "python add attribute").
Hi! Not sponsored or anything, but if you want a separate search bar, Vivaldi (vivaldi.com) has that. Just thought it might help.
I've settled into using a 2 or 4 cup kitchen measuring cup, and pouring it through a fine tea filter into cups (one of these, because its mesh is finer than any french press I've seen: https://www.finum.com/portfolio/brewing-basket-m/ they last for decades). Cheaper, more durable, and easier to clean than french press carafes / their filter-structure with its many crevices. Plus I can scale up by just using a larger container.
He probably wouldn't be able to blog from prison anyway
>HOWEVER this is yet another indicator that our world runs through monopolies.

It indicates nothing of the sort. His site was on the public web, freely accessible to anyone with a browser. It was being shared on social media. There were no "monopolies" holding him back, rather, he's no longer politically relevant, so his garbage content isn't worth covering, and his base has all but lost interest in him.
It looks to me like it is suggested that all Disney Star Wars movies are mediocre.
>You must create a new Microsoft 365 hotlive account to reply to this message.
Didn't they have some way to transfer your account over from OpenID? Pretty sure I used it at the start as well, but now my account is a normal SO account.
Good security practices are mainly checklists.

Do you use https?

Do you store password hashes instead of passwords?

Is the DB storing passwords in a firewalled network?

Is access to the DB restricted to only "need to know individuals"?

Does the DB send password hashes to other services?

Have you had a penetration test of your authentication system?

Do you sanitize the SQL you send to your DB?

etc.

Unfortunately the majority of security incidents occur due to someone forgetting something pretty basic or assuming "no one will ever find that".
Unreal then,

https://docs.unrealengine.com/4.26/en-US/ProgrammingAndScrip...

Or you prefer anything written in DirectX or Metal?

Chapter 5 from The Garbage Collection Handbook.

https://gchandbook.org/contents.html
Google Diversity Chief Kamau Bobb: ‘Jews Have Insatiable Appetite for War and
This thread seems like an appropriate place to link a simple JS battle game I made a while back, as an experiment in embedding VS Code's editor (with full code completion support via TypeScript definitions):

Game: https://jaredkrinke.itch.io/cyber-coliseum

Source: https://github.com/jaredkrinke/cyber-coliseum
My bet would be that he's done non-Tor stuff with his account, and that's why it's been shut.
I like being valued at work. I disagree with this.
Zeal (if on Linux) or Dash (if on Mac) are a lifesaver for that stuff.

It's ironic that I use Zeal so much but it really does just give me the answers quite often with less hassle than figuring out the search term to tell the search engine to get out the way!.
Why do you have a researcher?
China jails blogger who 'slandered' dead in India border clash
The SEC does have rules pertaining to privately traded investment. They are normally more lax than for publicly traded companies, and therefor normally require the investors be accredited. The investor is expected to preform more due diligence. https://www.investopedia.com/terms/a/accreditedinvestor.asp

If you are confused about how SPACs work, and the OP article didn't help, the investopedia is good https://www.investopedia.com/terms/s/spac.asp
some negative comments here. i believe when Jeff introduced Stack Overflow is because ExpertSExchange suck. this seem to be a perfect opportunity for people to build a Stack Overflow replacement.

this 1.8B deal just validated the StackOverflow business is profitable and attractive.
There's no real reason except for basic incompetence and lack of resources. I expect that over the next few years most small and medium enterprises will essentially be forced to outsource their IT infrastructure to a few huge cloud vendors with the scale to build and maintain secure systems.
These benchmarks don’t threaten other ecosystems and show a strong value proposition for others who own the older, hot and noisy MacBooks. Especially in its form factor. Especially with its battery life. What’s wrong with that?
Why is the space force the first thing off the table and not say the endless wars in the middle east?
> and a few servers

The problem I see with NixOS on a typical personal server is that you have to setup all these things using nix expressions, from which the actual configuration files are generated.

That means if you e.g. want to install postfix, instead of learning about main.cf you have to learn the syntax of the nix configuration wrapper for postfix, and postfix having hundreds if not thousands of options, many referring to external files/databases, you have to hope that whoever did this configuration wrapper, supported all the features of postfix that you want to use.

I am using nixpkgs on macOS, and I run a personal server with mail (for a bunch of people), web (for a bunch of sites), DNS (for a bunch of domains), etc. and while I would love to switch to declarative configuration, I fear I would run into shortcomings with the configuration wrappers for the various software packages I use.

I am curious if anyone have experience to share?
Those are very interesting empirical results. This lecture explains the deeper vs shallow tradeoff theoretically: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qpuLxXrHQB4. He's an amazing lecturer; wish I didn't need subtitles!

(If you're too lazy to watch, it turns out that there exist functions that a shallow network can never approximate)
We agree on the corpus-size not being a moat, and maybe SO does themselves.

More directly, I question StackOverflow's network effect. Compare it to Craigslist, IMO the best example of network effects ever. It is their sheer size that has entrenched them. They're also not vulnerable to groups moving to another platform (rise and fall of everything from AIM to Snapchat).

I don't actually search StackOverflow. I end up there through Google. If Google starts pointing me somewhere else, or the search previews start looking better for somewhere else, I'm going there. It's not like if I try to sell a single bag of concrete on anywhere but craigslist, which would end in failure.

I'm sure in the M&A docs there was some disclosure like "75% of our traffic comes through Google. If Google started directing people to other sites, that would have a material impact on our business."
> No different than any creditor

There is a difference: you can incur a debt to the HOA under a much wider variety of circumstances than you can incur an ordinary debt. An ordinary debt is incurred as a result of a one-off transaction, usually in exchange for a specific good or service, and requires your specific consent. An HOA can impose a fine on you at any time for a wide variety of reasons, some of which may not have even been in place when you bought your house.

> Any creditor can do that. I fail to see why you think the HOA is special in that regard.

It isn't special in that regard. That's the whole point. There is no distinction between something being "illegal" and something being "against HOA policy". That's the whole point.

The difference between an HOA and a regular creditor is not the enforcement mechanisms, it's the circumstances under which the debt is incurred in the first place.

> > Joining an HOA is exactly the same as becoming a legal resident or naturalized citizen of a country.

> Or signing a contract.

Yes, but again, the salient difference is not the contract, it's the terms of the contract. What distinguishes HOA "contracts" and the "contracts" that govern legal residency and citizenship from ordinary run-of-the-mill contracts is that the terms of HOA/goernment "contracts" are specifically open-ended. You don't know what your actual obligations are under the terms of this "contract" because they can (and often do) change after the contract is signed. But the power to change the rules is asymmetric. The HOA and the government can change the rules. You can't.

> criminal offences are processed differently to civil suits

So what? What does that have to do with the fact that both HOAs and governments can change the rules mid-game?

> HOA are not anywhere close to being some sort of government.

I guess we'll just have to agree to disagree about that.
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Use CDK and Lambda Layers to create a serverless screenshot service
That's it, the VC money is strictly for a limited time - when the fund time ends, there must an "exit" - either IPO or sale.

(In case of success, of course; failures are just written off, the losses hopefully paid by the successful exits.)
The issue OP is bringing up is how their market cap is so small. 18% of $775B is more than $100B. It also means everything else they own is worth negative technically.
"You've read 3 of your 5 free answers this month"
I wish it were just a matter of software. It would be nice if my iPad could magically have a GPU as good as my gaming PC or my gaming PC could become a 12" tablet with a 10 hour battery life.
“We purchased security consulting services who were able to decrypt our ransomware-infected files. We’re not sure of the exact method they used but it worked.”
There are many government organizations which are still using XMPP and the Clients they usw are most likely based on libpurle the vasic library for pidgin and similar clients (Adamantium on MacOS).
If we don't either in this case, there's always a second option of doing the same thing Israel did to those who decided not to face a trial and ran away..
Cheap, easy, work on everything.

Some huge proportion of payments in China are already done with QR codes (WeChat/AliPay).

From the consumer side basically any phone that can (1) run apps (2) communicate with the internet and (3) has a camera supports payments this way. You may recognize that as "every single smartphone". A $100 little 2" Unihertz Jelly Pro supprots it. A $30 old used phone off of Aliexpress supports it.

From the merchant end, there's no extra hardware requirements. Literally just print a QR code and stick it on the counter and you're ready to accept payments. (E.g., https://sampi.co/wechat-pay/) Some of the smaller shops just have you show them your screen showing the payment being sent. Others will keep a phone or other device on hand to confirm the payment was received on their end.

Half of the value of a payment system is in it being ubiquitous. The onboarding experience with QR codes is so hilariously simple and accessible that it's much easier to get that market penetration.
The Blender dev team never ceases to amaze me with their incredible iteration speed. It's crazy how much you can get done when you assemble a team of highly skilled, organized, and passionate people to all work on what they love full time.

Blender is hands-down my favorite piece of software I've ever used. I use it for professional purposes semi-regularly, and with each new update just keeps on getting better and better.

Excited for the 3.0 releases!
With enough VC firms, and enough small bets, that's not guaranteed to be true.
Fauci is a Fucking Fascist that gave money to the CCP for this.

He needs to be arrested yesterday!

All of you who are defending him or who have been defending the governors stay-at-home are enemies of the Republic as well. Your time is coming.

Nuremberg 2.0
Warning: Off-topic rabbit-hole follows.

I've seen "silence is violence" a number of times, and regarded it (justifiably, I think) as manipulative BS. Then I saw one sign that said "silence = additional deaths". That one I found a bit harder to dismiss.

If (if) you think the statistics indicate that blacks are getting killed at disproportional rates, and if you think that you can put enough political pressure on to change things, then silence is not direct violence, but it is letting things continue to happen the way they've been happening.

It at least made me think, which "silence is violence" didn't.
And his account can be taken over by someone else, or his behaviour could change. Account age shouldn't be a huge determining factor.
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You listed a whole bunch of healthcare laws that restrict what you can do to other people. It's perfectly reasonable to be for each of them:

- I don't want an untrained barber spreading disease.

- I don't want a fake optometrist selling incorrect glasses.

- I don't want someone buying penicillin off Amazon to treat their flu, or taking it for 2 days and then stopping so that they incubate a PCN-resistant strain of whatever.

...while still thinking grown adults should be able to decide which recreational chemicals they want to use.

My drugs of choice are coffee and a monthly beer or nice whiskey. I don't have a moral high ground over someone who wants to occasionally use some weed to relax. Similarly, why do I care if someone (not me!) wants to take mushrooms? They don't get to tell me I can't sip a glass of whiskey, after all.
Sure, my surprise is more that the demand exists at $100k, not that the supply isn't cheaper.
Sure you can, e.g.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/security/informatio...

https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterp...

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Dm-crypt/Specialties#Remote...

etc
This sort of crime is only possible because the criminals act from within regions where they're not going to be punished (beyond being asked for the house's vig).

The countries protecting these criminals are behaving like the taliban when they controlled Afghanistan.

Poisoning dissidents, hijacking airplanes, crashing hospitals and pipelines, we'd better be careful because eventually someone's going to get hurt.
That makes sense. Upon reading your initial post again more carefully, I realized that I misinterpreted what you were trying to say. Thank you for clarifying.
Each cortical area has six layers, but most behaviors require interactions between many cortical areas, so "input" passes through many more than six layers before it produces an output.

Felleman and Van Essen is a classic paper on the organization of the visual system. Figure 2 (p. 4) might give you good sense for how much of the brain it occupies and Figure 4 (p. 30) is the well-known "wiring diagram.

In the 30 years since that paper was written, we've found a few more boxes and a lot more wires! We've also come to appreciate that there are lots of recurrent loops. V1 -> V2 is one of the biggest connections in the brain, V2 -> V1 is a near runner up.

https://cogsci.ucsd.edu/~sereno/201/readings/04.03-MacaqueAr...
Long-time Tor supporters are model citizens. How does PayPal not get this?
That's wrong. The google-chrome packages in nixpkgs are "built" by downloading the official releases (in .deb format I think) and massaging them a little. It takes a few seconds.

When the zero-days came out, I just updated the upstream-info.json file in my local nixpkgs checkout (look at previous chrome version bump commits for how to do it) and rebuilt my system. I didn't have to wait for any PRs or merges or CI/hydra. Granted, it requires a little nix knowledge, but if you've been running nixos you can probably figure out how to do it in a few minutes.
I think just trying to buy back public goodwill, since its all been pretty negative lately; drivers peeing in bottles, unionbusting, etc. By 'connecting' with the hip youth it'll save their reputation long term. And pot has strong support now, so they are really just jumping on the bandwagon at the last minute for looks
I don't miss that. I'd rather watch the first 5 minutes of a movie and see if it's for me. If I see 3 stars I will automatically not want to watch it but I may enjoy such a movie or TV show.
Me too! My user id is 26 :P
It's also very much about timing. If you happen to write a popular answer at the time when interest in some particular tech is high for whatever reason, that gets a lot of views and upvotes early on. And once it has those upvotes, people looking for related answers later are more likely to stumble onto it.

I still get a steady rep trickle from a generic answer about WinRT back when Win8 was the hot new thing (or mess, depending on your outlook): https://stackoverflow.com/questions/7416826/how-does-windows... - but most upvotes there are from back when it was posted, and I doubt it would get anywhere as many if that answer was written today.

And sometimes, it's the tongue-in-cheek answers that score massive upvotes, like the famous one about using regex to parse HTML.