skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you shift the coordinate system to within the virtual system nothing is fake any more. I left the context that I used for the words "virtual" and "fake" outside and with their actual real life at the center. My reddit or HN or SO points don't have any influence there. That it means something right on those sites - does that have to be said?

You get to keep everything that you achieve in your own head, like "having fun" or whatever satisfaction you derive from what you do on those sites. You don't get to take out anything you manage to "create" their though, like your level and points. So except for what you manage to do in your own head it's much-input-no-output, a black hole box that swallows all your efforts and keeps them without giving back. Again, speaking about the "game", not about your own satisfaction e.g. for helping others.

The game is used to pretend to you the rewards are higher, but in order realize that promise you have to stay in the game world because the rewards you earn cannot be taken out.

So yes, within the context of those sites it is "real".
I'm not sure why you're being downvoted. I agree that many penalties in the system are overly harsh. Even very minor offenses can ruin people's lives. I also agree that laws tend to lag behind society's views.
I know somebody that spent a few days setting up a bunch of these things to handle contact forms on landing pages and that kind of sloggy boring projects. They work fine when they work, but things wig out with them often enough, or they decide that they haven't been run in X days, and are going to be reclaimed, that it's become a hassle that keeps somebody busy about half the time. Job security, if you introduce these low-code solutions, I suppose...
I love this one but prefer the ending "Are we here to drink, or talk?"
Then you get an ounce of plant matter sprayed with AB-PINACA from a third party seller
> Will they start paying attention if Chinese made planes start showing up on their tickets?

I don't know; the western population currently has no qualms about getting into a chinese made car, talking on a chinese made phone, etc.

When it comes to planes, people only take notice when some start crashing. If the chinese made planes don't crash enough, people won't care.
So it's a "stock market" bypassing public-trading so it doesn't have to abide by SEC, SOX, etc.?
Oh yeah racism played a major role in making it illegal and enforcing it to begin with. And it certainly still plays a role.
> Funny, I strongly believe its the reason the EU will not just survive but strive. Finally, the excuse of "all the money we have to give to the EU" is gone. Soon, the EU will have some taxes that only make sense on the EU level (financial transactions, or a tax on digital goods) and we're good. Besides, no national government would get the low interest rates when taking up debt that the EU combined will get, right?

We paid in 6 billion into the relief fund and are projected to get less than 3 out of it wrapped in some pre-determined financial instruments. It's like paying 10€ for a gift card that's worth 4€ and only works for some specific shops. People would call that a rubbish deal but what do I know.

In addition, our politicians lied very intentionally to us that this is a one-time fund, just for COVID purposes. Less than 2 weeks later after passing the vote in parliament, Governor of the Bank of Italy Ignazia Visco is already marketing the fund as permanent and the future of a joint monetary EU strategy.

Excuse me if I don't share your optimism on this swindle, but then again unlike us, Germany is a very likely benefactor from all of this. Because let's call it what it is - it's a redistribution of wealth into the power centers of EU obscured by lies and insane amounts of bureaucracy.
If you're reading me as saying the two enterprises are morally equivalent, you're taking something I'm not saying from that comment.
And also, the homelessness issue is partly due to economics and culture around property.

Some guy owns 7 apartments and rents them out for $1500 each. That same guy lives in a different neighborhood, different city or even different state (or even different country). That that person does not SEE what the neighborhood looks like, nor does he care. All that he cares about is his $1500 that he is "owed". He ignores all other variables and only focus on the spreadsheet and his income growth projections. Not a care in the world about his fellow citizens/people. Greed is prioritized and rewarded in your system. The owners are completely detached from the reality of how people live.

What you rather need is a cap on ownership. Two residential properties per person and no more. Or levy or non-linear tax on each addition property above the second one. The whole buy to let model is a rip off. I own my own place but I would never buy another place to rent out to make profit, I would legit feel bad about it. Maybe it's a cultural thing. I'm not sure, but I don't think living space should be a for-profit system at all.

And if you feel repulsed about what I said above, please go introspect on why you feel that way.
Companies should be lobbying the federal government for protection. Otherwise the government is as complicit as they would be for "looking the other way" while the mafia extorts local businesses. And in this case, that mafia may even be an arm of foreign adversaries, making this ever more urgent and damaging.
High speed chase ends on RA Dent Blvd in Augusta; one man in custody
The grow route, the friend route and the onion route.
It's been awhile since I did it but I thought it was just connect it to a computer and transfer it with iTunes, the same way I load music. (Because I still listen to music stored locally, like the cavemen did.)
The error here is the assumption that only foreign entities are hostile. A "foreign hostile entity" may have lots of information and malicious intent, but they lack legal jurisdiction and the ability to take open, direct action where I live. The most worrisome threat is that they manage to uncover a common interest with some domestic entity and share what they learned—and from that perspective domestic snooping just cuts out the middleman. I'd rather keep the entities doing the snooping and the ones with influence over me as widely separated as possible.
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Recent discussion about their tech stack:
https://stackoverflow.blog/2021/03/30/roberta-arcoverde-stac...

Summary: simple as possible, maintainable, no micro-service hell - just a bunch of boxes serving with the cache and highly optimized SQL queries. Know your storage engine.

This is yet another example that not getting bogged down in cargo cults, micro-services, and instead solving problems you have will result in a smaller, more agile team, leaner infrastructure bill and burn rate, and a higher chance of a successful exit.
I'm surpised there is almost no mention of low-code and the excellent product that Microsoft killed off, in Visual Foxpro https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/previous-versions/visualstu...
It is easier to abstract (at least nively). First, you abstract moving a single file, then you create abstraction for "all files" basically by repeating same operation for all files. You could do this for a subset of files and so on.

As to slow operations... that is more likely because of synchronous implementation.

The popular, naive implementation is, as above, to repeat same simple operation over and over again: read from source, write to destination, read from source, write to destination.

A better implementation (what I would do) would be to pipeline operations. Basic pipeline would have three components, each streaming data to and/or from buffer

1: Read from source to pipeline buffer

2: Read from pipeline buffer to write to destination, write information about files to delete to another pipeline buffer

3: Read files to delete from pipeline buffer and execute deletions.

Using *nix shell you could do something like that in single line

1: tar -c files to output

2: pipe output to tar -xv, write files to destination producing list of written files, pipe written files to output

3: read piped list of written files and remove them from input dir

Now, this is not perfect because we are wasting performance on creating tar file when we immediately discard it, but you get the picture.
> Looking at money supply is pretty meaningless without also looking at velocity. M2 has been going up but the velocity has been going down [1].

Are you not aware of the GDP component of velocity?... The purpose being to incorporate economic activity/effects of growing population into M2. It seems like you're just googling as you go (mostly effectively).

You're clearly an intelligent person, and I learned some things about the BLS's process that I haven't found in previous googles. Hopefully you learned something in this thread, too. However, the slew of logical fallacies (character assassination, twice, and appeal to authority) and overall negativity are serious hindrances to intellectual discussion. Positivity and skeptical open-mindedness will go a long way if you ever want to make progress on a controversial topic.
I'm not impressed by this article. The author talks a lot about what he says is a desirable way to think, but fails to actually think that way.

For example:

"My Why You’re Christian essay demonstrates the process I use to interrogate my ideas."

So I go look at that essay, which can be summed up quite simply by quoting its last line:

"Ultimately, there are two ways to justify a belief in human rights: you can either construct a bottom-up, rational argument, or you can surrender to the supreme word of God."

And the whole essay is spent agonizing about the second option, without ever even discussing the first. Not only is the author apparently unaware of all the literature on constructing bottom-up, rational arguments for human rights (not to mention many other common values), he hasn't even tried to come up with one himself. Has it never even occurred to him that one obvious argument for human rights is that societies that respect them are better places to live?
by that logic hn is worthless too, yet I bet it created a lot of $ for yc
How does that address those who voted for many of those men and women, knowing their policies and completely agreeing with them?

I am acquainted with people who firmly believe the Devil's Plant is terrible and shouldn't be legal anywhere — what then?
This is a government agency.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steamship_Authority
I don't have the need for a FHD display driven by a MCU, but 'racing-the-beam' seems feasible with a RP2040.

(which would allow using the screen at high resolution for, say, game graphics -- actual video is a different story)
Nicely put.

I have always felt RPA was the ' poor mans' option for automation.
Career Centers consistently fail to democratize access to career mobility
What Pidgin user(s) could possibly be worth that much?

Are there some activist or terrorist monitored by a 3 letter agency that is computer literate enough to use Linux + pidgin to try and keep away from prying eyes (or just plain ethical reasons)? Or would the exploit end up being targeted at some foreign government that has standardized on Pidgin?
this is getting a little out of hand
Software is not the selling point of those devices. As long as it works and everyone in the shop knows how to use it well, then it's fine.

I'm pretty sure they haven't updated the software on the elevator in my building in over 20 years but I'm fine with that.
MIUI 12.5 Chinese Builds Are Now Available to Download for Eligible Phones
And this is complicated even more by all the "soft" topic sites, each of which has its own culture.
Weed is popular with middle/upper-middle class millennial techies, especially in liberal states like Amazon's home state of Washington. I doubt Amazon cares all that much about unskilled workers, they're hoping this will make them a more attractive home for tech talent.
Conservation of energy. I'd love to suggest that we just do everything all of the time, but that's unsustainable and fodder for another dissenting comment, so instead I suggest reallocation instead of creation.
I got to know the first during previous full time employment, and met the other ones during freelance gigs. Had a general good vibe with them and went to 1 on 1 lunch dates while we were on-site, so not exactly going out of my way to "do networking".

I realize that I might have been pretty lucky there, but overall the setup seems very attainable, especially if you put some effort into it, and reduces the need to "track down clients" in the long run.
For those using Aeropress, are you using boiling water? I use 165 degree water...just curious.
Please read the HN Guidelines. In particular:

> "Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. Videos of pratfalls or disasters, or cute animal pictures. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
In 2020, total energy consumption was significantly below 2010, which was my original claim. In 2020, total energy consumption was far below 2000 as well. Total energy consumption declined. Continually saying "where are your sources" when they're the canonical sources of a simple Google search doesn't make my statement untrue.

"But again, I would like to see manufacturing outsourcing taken into account."

Groan. This is going down that incredibly boring path where someone must "win" however strained and nonsensical their argument becomes.

Every developed nation has effectively capped energy usage and started to reduce it (despite continuing population growth). Every developing nation is starting with a much better foundation where they have extremely competitive options that aren't the catastrophe that prior ones were.
Sorry, I did not mean to imply that. I was just noting an important difference between bug bounty-style exploits funded by companies and what Zerodium does.
Omg, this article is so long, useless and boring that I can't manage to read it to the end!

The subject in itself is interesting, and there could probably have been a story of around 50 lines to describe the case and its resolution.

But, here, the author is professionally trying to waste your time with hundreds of useless paragraph of blabla that might have been generated automatically by an AI.

For exemple who cares that the stolen art division of the Belgian police changed its name 3 times for obvious non original names? Or that the lead investigator has a wine yard and like to offer wine to his friends and colleagues...
I'm not sure what skip connections are, but I think I have a good guess as to what they are.

I've wanted to try a neural network where the output of every layer goes into every subsequent layer. Each layer would thus provide a different perspective to subsequent layers.

Anyone know if this has been tried?
It’s been several years now but they had a long (1 year?) window where you could migrate to a supported login method.
Great example of short-term thinking! Your enemies distract you and make you fight the current fight to make you miss the next war.
SO being SO has increased it's value year over year. There's no need to change anything, just ride those coat tails to profit.
I'm trying to figure out how to do this with an aeropress.
The physical ferries still exist, right? Transfer them to a new agency.
CodeIgnitor. What a blast from the past. I was able to read the entire code base and then again and grok all of it fairly quickly. That gave me a lot of confidence then and helped with imposter syndrome
The old Code of Conduct seems to have moved to https://docs.fosshost.org/en/home/mutual-respect-policy. Doesn't seem to be linked from the new CoC, though.
So he's been promoting several SPACs for a while now and now he thinks they need more regulation. Quite the shift.
https://mobile.twitter.com/chamath/status/139791065787435828...
Ask HN: What are some good data synchronization implementation references?
I am interested in mastering the concepts and best practices needed to implement data synchronization well, in apps that require this functionality. Are there specialized books that cover this, or other helpful resources? How about generalized synchronization libraries that can do the heavy lifting (though I'd still like to know the important concepts myself as well)?

I'm sure there's some overlap with version control system design, but maybe synchronization is a broader field than I imagine.
But that's the same argument, right? The "motive not to commit an act like this" which the article provides is fear of prosecution; so if this argument went through it would just as well be an argument against any crime ever occurring.

Why would anyone ever rob a bank when you can earn money legally?
I wonder if this will mean an increase in cyber security related postings in industries that have otherwise not had to worry about cyber security before (I.E the Steamship Authority, Meat industry etc)
> because he may be ripping people off or people may file claims for a refund

This is a reasonable argument in general, but it falls apart here because there was a human in the loop who knows why the account was disabled, and knows that it wasn’t for suspicion of scammy behavior, nor for suspicion of insufficient funds.
Drugs like LSD and Mescaline are not, primarily, intoxicants. Technically they get you intoxicated, but that misses the point by a wide margin.

These drugs should be important in our society, the experience is indescribable and not necessarily fun - but mostly.

If it were not for the culture wars of the 1960s, and corrupt lecherous idiots like Timothy Leary and Ken Keasy scaring the bejesus out of the establishment
, many lives would not have been ruined by these outrageous laws.

The same cannot be said for hairdressing
Came to say this - the more niche usenet groups were full of helpful people that didn't mind answering questions, and discussing fuzzy issues.

I don't think of the developer eras as pre-SO vs post-SO, more pre-Google vs post-Google, though SO has definitely been a net positive.
I've been burned by Paypal a number of times. But until recently I hadn't yet been held hostage. Now I have. I wish I'd listened to people on the internet. DO NOT USE PAYPAL.
Ah I didn't know about boot.kernelPatches. This is so much easier than my complicated nixpkgs kernel override.
> Think of all we could do if our best and brightest weren't so damn distracted with status and money

Working at university does not bring you much money nor all that much status. And who is the best depends on your definition of the "best".

In any case "serving humanity" and "being in charge of public education, social system and economy" are massively different tasks. And the latter is currently settled through political system and activism, not through science or universities.
Source on the statistics? I'm curious.
We need both a space force and a "cyber security" force.

We have to protect our satellites, see what other nations are up to (perhaps even intercepting their sat comms), and make sure our hypersonic game is on point.

It's worth noting that "cyber warfare" is what the NSA already does.
Yea, it's BS, but the reasoning behind it is the accepted medical uses of cocaine, and none for LSD
I saw a badly written headline yesterday that combined the meat industry hack with something about colonial pipeline, and it briefly brought to mind a mental image of a liquefied meat slurry/pink goo pipeline.
If you don't like cryptocurrency stop making it necessary.
It really depends on why your company is using multiple clusters. Are there any size constraints? Any organization rules for which application should go where?

Overall no it doesn't miss the point because once you select a cluster to deploy to Kubernetes will still handle the rest for the lifetime of the application. And I imagine the selection part can be easily automated down the line as well.
Did we have one post-Prohibition?
"Yet, I get the impression that many software engineers are rather suspicious about philosophy."

I did my degree in philosophy, and was hired immediately by a seven-dwarfs mainframe company. No CS - a degree was enough in those days. I eventually graduated into "software enineering".
After months of drama, Minecraft speedrunner Dream admits he used mods
WTF, has Hacker News turned into Reddit now?
The "bear" ("jackal" would be more appropriate zoomorphism for putin's/chekist's russia) always has been as angry/vile as you can imagine. Poking it would result in change of rhetoric for sure but barely anything else.
In your edit, you probably mean Assange, not Snowden.
Crypto is realistically the only way to accept a payment for high-profile ransomware attack.

Imagine encypting whole Maersk network and then asking ransom in cash? Wherever you decide to do the exchange there will be couple Apache/Eurocopters/Mis hovering around and watching you.
With crypto just send them your XMR address, then wait couple years for heat to come down before mixing/cashing out.
Merging the Space Force back into the Air Force wouldn't conserve any energy. It's still the same people doing the same things with the same equipment.
s/to nix/of flakes/, to be clear
My last role had A LOT of VFP in the estate and it was still added to on a regular basis and all the main VFP devs kind of loved it.
> Though I think that's mostly on Google "optimizing" my queries by dumbing them down.

I'd say it's become a lot worse than it was just a couple years ago when you could massage the queries to get you exactly what you want. Now google seems to think it's more clever than you and turns every question into an entry level one.
> How is this benefiting Amazon?

Larger candidate pools is probably the biggest thing. But they might also realize that drug tests for weed aren't really that great because it stays in our bodies for so long compared to other drugs that could be used on a Friday night, and not show up in a drug test taken on the following Monday.

> Is it a competitive/recruiting move to have unskilled workers prefer working for Amazon over Walmart/Target?

Having people prefer to work at Amazon is a plus, this goes back to the larger candidate pool.

> Do they believe it will increase employee retention?

I can't speak on their behalf, but it could if an employee prefers to work for a company that does not drug test them for cannabis. If their other potential employers are drug testing for cannabis, it's an incentive for the employee to stay.
This but unironically. (They'd probably be interested in getting their workers CBD since it's good for muscle pain.)
So sad that A Cloud Guru directors preferred personal enrichment over growing a great company
I tried this and landed in a field of debris from the jet.
The first most obvious state actor would actually be the USA itself. Some sort of red team test to demonstrate our own vulnerabilities and to secure that funding.

It probably wouldn't be necessary for someone like China to actually stage a demonstration, since its easier for China to just have some high up diplomat get themselves drunk and boast to or around a known CIA operative that they have hundreds of drones ready to strike facilities in the USA that can be activated on a moments notice. Then leave just enough of a paper trail lying around in other places to validate it (although probably a dozen or less, not a hundred), without compromising anything. Maybe even go so far to have a private military briefing (that a CIA operative was invited to) which displayed a particular model of drone built using off-the-shelf parts that could be acquired in the US ("we built this on our soil, we could be building another one very much like it on your soil").
"Uhh... Houston, we still don't have control of the ship's navigation, will someone send those Russians the damn BTC so we can continue to fight this space war!"

... Right.