skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, you can't do it better in Python or bash (challenge)
Doing DevOps today? 99% either abuse bash or abuse a general purpose programming language.

bash does not meet any modern expectations from a programming language: syntax, error handling, data structures

General purpose languages such as Python, Ruby, etc are not domain specific enough to have the desired facilities.

Here is small example of straightforward solution to a small problem: list all CloudFormation stacks that are managed by the given CodePipeline.

https://github.com/ngs-lang/nsd/blob/02d66abb844b7dd6077b9976e3a03659cf4b3660/aws/codepipeline/pipeline-stacks.ngs
How a large a "cut" they take from every transaction is the question here.

As for cash,there's no cut taken by any middle man.

And when the central government or bank is involved in pushing a legal currency -- there shouldn't be any cut.
This is amazing development taking in consideration how devastating classic lithium mining can be for surrounding nature.
https://www.wired.co.uk/article/lithium-batteries-environmen...

At the same time by this method lithium it can become available almost for all countries on the planet (minus 45 that do not have sea).
Measuring the Open and Sustainable Technology World
Dolphin Emulator - Dolphin MEGA Progress Report: April and May 2021
I remember reading a story like this a few years ago. I think, in that case, it was about rare earth minerals.

Don’t get me wrong; I really want this to work, but until the extraction plant gets built and is producing at scale, I won’t hold my breath.
Yeah the mediocre webcam on my macbook pro combined with the noise from the fans spinning up to 100% when teams or similar is run surely puts me ahead of the pack.
A charlatan in what sense? He’s an actual professor
>2. I’ve always treated it as a rule to look the interviewer in the eye.//

Eye-contact is extremely nuanced. The difference between 'gives and maintains eye-contact', which is usually a sub-conscious positive in conversations, and 'is freaking me out with the staring' is tiny in person. Over webcam it's quite different, you can stare down the camera but you're not looking anyone in the eye.

This leads me to wonder if those with ASD have more success in interviews if the interviewer is appraised of their ASD ahead of time, or if they keep it private (I'd assume the former).

Also, eye-tracking comparisons between in-person and video chat might be interesting.
Why a cashier’s check? Shouldn’t you send in $1 coins (after baking them) and pray that they arrive?
English medical records are about to be given away. As GPs, we’re fighting back
> Don't cherry pick, read the rest of my comment. It wasn't at all about any individual password complexity, it was about password managers that work with browsers in context of the blog post.

That's fair, but the aim of my response was to have a short discussion about the idea behind passwords and the fact that they're sent over the network, maybe someone has any input on that and why that's still such a popular approach.

As for the exact topic of the post, password managers within browsers feel too limiting as opposed to standalone software like KeePass, which can be used for desktop applications, servers (including certificate storage) and anything else, really. But talking about that wasn't my goal.

> Out of curiosity, what does haveibeenpwned.com say about your most used email?

"Good news — no pwnage found!"

Mostly due to using about 10 different e-mails for different purposes and throwaways for questionable sites.
Transfer pricing is an accounting practice that is required by regulations to be computed/stated in many circumstances. Transfer pricing is not on its own an illegal practice as suggested above.
The clipboard itself is part of the attack surface.
> we tend to talk about cities in heirarchical, enclosed terms, as having "limits",

Which is funny in a way, because people involved in the city-making business (for lack of a better term) have tried to do just that (i.e. imposing city limits) for centuries (at least).

The medieval city walls are a prime example of that, with anything that stood behind the walls treated as being part of the city and everything that was outside the walls seen as non-city, with non-city dwellers many times being required not to spend the night inside the city walls.

More recently, just the other day I was reading a transcript from a Romanian Communist party meeting from the late 1980s where the Romanian dictator Ceausescu (I'm Romanian and live in Romania myself) was complaining that cities have been let to grow indefinitely and with impunity, without respecting the city limits that had been set in law.

So you've got a late 20th communist dictator and Middle-Age burghers all trying to delay what I personally see as inevitable, i.e. the extension of the city by all means possible.

A little OT, but imo slightly related to this, there was a urban theory that was regarding as "proper" cities only those places with clear limits, for example the European Middle-Age towns, while the places with no clear limits set (many of those places located in the present Middle-Eastern Countries or in Northern Africa) were most of the times seen as "bigger villages", not as proper cities/towns. That was kind of a orientalistic/colonizing way of looking at things which I think stood behind the late 19th-most of the 20th century effort to make those Middle-Eastern cities look like their Western counter-parts, i.e. with clear limits set and with a clearer and more easily readable road structure.
Structural vulnerability of today’s supply chains
Is there a written order from the President saying this. Is it public somewhere? If not, it's just PR.
Same question to you: is there a written order from the President saying this? Is it public somewhere? If not, it's just PR.
my fav quote:

> evolve systems over time so no one notices. (22'5")
Note that in the case, it's a dollarized country that made an announcement.

(And it would indeed be a lot more suprising if that was a country that's more in countrol of its monetary policy that made a similar announcement).
Messages: The Communication Skills Book
Di Matthew McKay, Martha Davis, Patrick Fanning

Basics, without any controversial ideas. This book helped me a lot.
Are you hiring programmers or IT tech support personnel?

It’s like naming someone that doesn’t know anything about cars who hears some strange noises coming from the car as “unresourceful” because they don’t magically know what to Google to figure out their problem. Even that person makes $500k/year does not magically give them all the background knowledge needed to start troubleshooting.
lightning network is a broken mess. It baffles me that so many people still pump resources into after all these years.
Auto-fill is disable by default and you should not turn it on.
You only get that far with JavaScript on. At that point, tor is like a hot pink tank. In theory safer than nothing, but standing out a lot.
Whether this is a gimmick or not I cannot tell you.

https://www.inov-8.com/g-series
> ... whole internet as a sort of "Pandora for Books"

Rings so true. Deciding on what to read is not an easy problem. Here's some digital bookshelves for inspiration: https://tomcritchlow.com/wiki/books/bookshelves/
https://if50.substack.com/p/1990-lambdamoo

Playing LambdaMOO in 1997. Reignited my childhood interest in programming. soon after discovering it I started learning HTML and Java, gradually developed a good freelance career as a web developer, transitioned to became a Flash game developer, and now specialise in web-based educational games (using Pixi and Phaser). It would not have happened without the Vic20 my parents gave me for Christmas as a child, and LambdaMOO.
My comment was of a general nature, obviously.
$5 a kilogram from seawater seems almost magical, I look forwards to the actual proof.
What are the benefits of decentralization for HN?
Hunters and foragers didn't sit at a desk or in a car all day when they went out either. They also got to head back whenever they hunted/gathered enough food, instead of stick around until they put their 8 hours in.

"A study back in the 1960s found the Bushmen have figured out a way to work only about 15 hours each week acquiring food and then another 15 to 20 hours on domestic chores. The rest of the time they could relax and focus on family, friends and hobbies."

https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2017/10/01/5510187...
Really beautiful output! I think I saw a similar site that had monetized the idea by selling prints and/or engravings.
Mostly to see the usage patterns in your particular site.

Wikipedia or other sources might tell you that "approximately X% of the devices that use e-commerce sites are mobile phones" which would be useful in figuring out that you should have a responsive site, but analytics could tell you "this one element doesn't display properly on mobile devices and therefore 95% of the users on mobile devices don't use this particular functionality".
As people and as society we evolve towards metarationality. The reality is too complex to handle within a single theory, we need to develop metarationality (wisdom) to pragamaticaly make use between contradictory theories. Any other aproach is doomed because the complexity will be always too much for any "single rationality" approach.
Gorgeous clean renders. Now I want to print and hang these all around my house!
Well, that $5 per kg is highly dependent on purity.

If they get chemical grade lithium without extra steps, it might well be cheaper than "mining"
BSD kqueue is a mountain of technical debt
As if wasting energy on speculation and get-rich-quick schemes wasn't enough, now an entire country is made dependent on crypto? That's a terrible precedent.

I understand that countries want to get away from foreign influences on their monetary system, but decentralised currency isn't going to solve that problem. One tweet by Elon Musk can send the price of their "currency" flying high or plummet to the ground.

If crypto currency has any real value that isn't based on schemes and speculation, at least pick something less wasteful for the environment as a currency. A proof of stake currency would work just as well in a system where the government decides on the coin.

I'm sure the guys that convinced the government to use their system made a boatload of crypto cash by buying in early and riding the price as this system is unleashed upon the country.
The matter of your insufficient education for the job has been reported to HR; they will get back to you.
As people and societies we evolve towards metarationality. The reality is too complex to be handled within a single theory. We have to develop metarationality (wisdom) and pragamaticaly make jumps between contradictory theories. Any other aproach is doomed because the complexity will be always too much for any "single rationality" approach.
Composing by computer: Concerts may soon feature music written by AI
The real currency we all have is time
The decision might seem strange, but I think the rationale behind it is sound:

"Covid-19 variants to be given Greek alphabet names to avoid stigma"
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jun/01/covid-19-varia...
It's not like MNCs in Ireland actually pay any tax anyway (various loopholes and agreements provided by the Irish government). To quote from [1] "the revelations shone a fresh spotlight on Irish tax policy that “has been designed precisely to facilitate this kind of avoidance”."

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jun/03/microsoft-iris...
Probably the NIH study that Nmn or NAD+ does improve glucose regulation in humans. (From memory, details might be wrong)

David Sinclair's lifespan book goes into a lot of details.

Ancedata, I'm taking 300mg of niagen daily just incase it works, and have felt great for a year. But it could also be due to lockdown etc
Learn linear algebra properly and this will ring true. If you know the math, it's trivial to pick up control, computer vision, back propagation, optimization, I'm sure many others.
Ubisoft confirms Far Cry 6 will be released on October 7
Even at the 'good' example you state when engineering was separate from other departments, I would still find that there could be 4-6 different conversations being held within a few feet of me at various times in the day (every day) at a recent job I had. And usually there was at least 1 or 2 conversations within earshot for most of the day.

I had no choice but to where headphones in order to drown out the conversations to focus. A year and a half ago I developed a constant Tinnitus in my left ear, and I suspect that job contributed to it.

So that's fun, and something I get to deal with for the rest of my life. Thanks open office.
Typically the non browser based passwords are one-time entries anyway - how many times have you had to enter a steam password? And most browser based managers provide an app as well.
Another good introduction: https://drossbucket.com/2017/09/30/metarationality-a-messy-i...
> US soldiers stationed on European bases that host nuclear weapons have exposed a multitude of sensitive security details -- including where weapons are stored & secret duress words -- by using flashcard learning apps that appear publicly in online searches

I'm wondering what's the name(s) of these flashcard apps ?
Blitz: A Fullstack React Framework, Built on Next.js
Minsky Moment
Sounds like one is exhibiting features of a currency and the other isn't.

I don't think you're supposed to store your wealth in cash if you want to preserve it (diversified equity holding are a popular investment too in case you find cryptocurrencies too volatile).
Answer this: Should a infertile parent of an adopted child call themselves parents?
To put the amount of lithium in seawater in perspective:

Just 2% of that would be enough to create storage capable of holding a year's worth of the world's electricity consumption.
A friend of mine is building a framework for Unity that allows for easy multiplayer. I haven’t tried it because I don’t work on games but it seems like a cool idea.

https://gameplumbers.com/
Subtitle got promoted to title?
Despite admitting verbally that a map is not the territory, rationalists hope that if they take one map, and keep updating it long enough, this map will asymptotically approach the territory. In other words, that in every moment, using one map is the right strategy. Meta-rationalists don’t believe in the ability to update one map sufficiently (or perhaps just sufficiently quickly), and intentionally use different maps for different contexts. (Which of course does not prevent them from updating the individual maps.) As a side effect of this strategy, the meta-rationalist is always aware that the currently used map is just a map; one of many possible maps. The rationalist, having invested too much time and energy into updating one map, may find it emotionally too difficult to admit that the map does not fit the territory, when they encounter a new part of territory where the existing map fits poorly. Which means that on the emotional level, rationalists treat their one map as the territory.

Furthermore, meta-rationalists don’t really believe that if you take one map and keep updating it long enough, you will necessarily asymptotically approach the territory. First, the incoming information is already interpreted by the map in use; second, the instructions for updating are themselves contained in the map. So it is quite possible that different maps, even after updating on tons of data from the territory, would still converge towards different attractors. And even if, hypothetically, given infinite computing power, they would converge towards the same place, it is still possible that they will not come sufficiently close during one human life, or that a sufficiently advanced map would fit into a human brain. Therefore, using multiple maps may be the optimal approach for a human. (Even if you choose “the current scientific knowledge” as one of your starting maps.)
Maybe in the 56k days, but my DOCSIS ISP rarely re-assigns IPs.
Unfortunately, oweing to the fierce competition in the Bitcoin space, it’s long since become difficult for onlookers to distinguish between an argument of the form “PoW bad, PoS good, insert weakly anti-PoS sentiment as controlled opposition here to end up with a pro-PoS post”, and furtive PoS astroturfing — which has proliferated as of late.

As someone who has long been all too familiar with the various sophistry tactics commonly employed by Bitcoin’s competition, frankly that was my impression of your post. I apologize if I misread your intent.

> This is inherent to the PoW consensus. Satoshi Nakamoto himself even said Bitcoin would end up in data centers because of this property

Bitcoin wouldn’t have ever warranted industrial scale mining operations if not for BTC’s significant price appreciation. But PoW systems were never guaranteed to be commercially successful. It’s perfectly possible for Bitcoin to once again become CPU mineable on ordinary Windows PCs — assuming its market price collapses.
isn't that just VirusTotal only without the convenience of having the files virus checked?
Forcing oneself to read uninteresting half or third of the book is the stupidest thing one could do, it's shows that you don't value your time. I'm shocked when otherwise intelligent people want to inflict their brain with that.
I honestly just want UI configurability. The start menu is so utterly useless that I wish I could disable it and replace it with something like Alfred from MacOS.
Have you used XP recently? Its aged terribly!
I have two inexpensive desk lamps with daylight bulbs, which I normally use for hobby work, but for video meetings I point them at the white wall behind my monitor, and tweak the white balance a bit in the webcam settings.

It gives a pleasant soft lighting that doesn't blow out.
My understanding is that you start by doing an actual BTC transaction of, say X USD, for which you pay the fee, and then you can "spend" up to X-fee USD in the lightning network. People who receive payment from you can opt for getting a BTC transaction from your stash or use it to do other payments.

The base idea is that it uses the BTC network as a dispute settlement fallback. "It works but is expensive, let's just exchange through the lightning network".

You can see Lightning as being a network that exchanges "BTC IOU". If the network decides for some reasons to be hostile to you and refuses to broadcast the transactions where you receive money, you still have a signed token that proves you have the BTC IOU and that are acceptable by the BTC network (for the cost of a fee)
Many SAS expander cards can be chained to support up to 255 devices.
This sort of cynicism really grinds my gears. Graphene was first isolated and charaterized in 2004, using Scotch tape to pull samples off bulk graphite. If you were surprised in 2011 that graphene was not already a household staple, that's 100% on you. It takes time to figure out applications, it takes time to mature them, and it takes time to figure out affordable, high quality, bulk production methods, and if the latter was easy it wouldn't be a material we first characterized in 2004.
Zerohedge.com , take it with a pinch of salt, but it is ahead of the curve time and time again.
Yes.. metarationality is basicaly a sort of belief system about how and what we can undestand. If we dont undestand our limits and we do not use rationalities as tools we end in scientism or very wrong belief systems built on "fakery" and self delusions..
> Spinning disks have 2 motors ... head driver

Wrong. One motor. The head moves with something called a voice coil. It's completely solid state. Open up a hard drive and watch it move back and forth while it's working. Of course this isn't good for the hard drive, but it looks basically instant to the naked eye. Very cool.
Open Source Clojure-Datalog Databases Comparison Matrix
>the initial order had a gag requirement

I can never wrap my mind around how this construct can even be lawful in a country supposedly governed by the rule of law.

It's like, "Hey, we know we are doing really shady stuff, so we better prevent you from taking legal recourse".
RISC vs. CISC is the Wrong Lens for Comparing Modern x86, ARM CPUs
Ireland is part of the EU, so how it taxes corporations is something it has to negotiate with the rest of the EU. That is its problem, not something the G7 care about. Ireland has attracted investment and revenue by undercutting other nations, while providing access to the EU. Not surprisingly, the rest of the EU is not happy about that.

No one is denying nations the right to set their own tax rates for corporations. What has happened here is that a number of nations have come together, negotiated, and agreed that they will each set their lowest rate at 15%.

The reason for that is deliberately to stop countries undercutting each other. They have all agreed that undercutting each other has lead to consequences that have affected them all equally in a "race to the bottom" and of corporate tax avoidance.

> If they are economically harmed by someone else having a 10% rate...

The G7 nations have agreed that they don't want to be economically harmed. Their agreement is to pass laws in each of their environments to stop that. They've also agreed that each of them can tax the profits made locally to them. They agreed to limit that to a maximum of 20% of the corporate's global profits.

As for the 2/3rds rule for US treaties, that's because the Senate, representing the States (not the people), is given a "check" over the President unilaterally making treaties, as far as the United States is concerned, because treaties made in this way are considered equal in power to the Constitution. Each treaty is effectively an amendment to the US Constitution.

So it's not about 51 vs 49%, it's about 2/3rds of the US states, as represented in the Senate, agreeing with a treaty.
Maybe he genuinely believed it wouldn’t work. At this point, it’s important to engage and figure out why they don’t think it would work.
Sounds like they subpoenaed dozens of websites. While USA Today fought it, the rest fell right over without mentioning it/fighting it.

I’ve seen this before where a user got an email from Google legal about a subpoena against them, spent $7k successfully fighting it, but it didn’t matter because several other $BigCos didn’t even let the user know.
Yes. Windows 10 version numbering is a mess. What features are in 1908 version, or in 21H04 ?
It is more or less the old Service pack system with a more obscure naming.
And if there is a windows version which deserves to die, this is Windows 10. Is ugly, unusable, unconfigurable (white background with white icon text, fonts too small or too large, etc ), slow and insecure by default.
2% of what? All the lithium in the world's oceans?
I'm not aiming for precision with this answer, but RetroShare[1] comes to mind.

What is RetroShare? It's a communications and file sharing software (and protocol) similar to DC++, Bittorrent with peering based on public key cryptography. On top of the network and security stack, services such as IRC and MSN-like messaging is available. A message board for sharing posts and subscribing to "channels" used a rating system by votes (IIRC).

Today I'd describe it as similar to Keybase or Matrix, but peer to peer, instead of federated or centralised. It was much a developer-and cypherpunk-community.

Several years ago I spent a lot of time in the network because the social aspects were interesting. Reputation management went deep. Not accepting someone's public key (blocking) would render their data useless so you don't had to engage with it.

This got longer than I expected, but I felt nostalgic.

Edit: Thoroughly evaluate any software if security is important. RS isn't audited, and should be regarded as experimental.

[1]: https://retroshare.cc/