skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, it's like fractal levels of complexity. This box is a small part of the system to test a small part of a subsystem that's a small part of the Moon landing, but even this one piece is complicated, and had pages and pages of specifications.
Posted correctly a few seconds later https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27532327
A lot of this is complexity. The underlying systems are so complex that it is not really practical to try to explain them to the end user. But another part of this is political. Some parts are hidden on purpose to support features like DRM or to preserve a vendor's trade secrets.
"Heals"? Can somebody tell me when economy got "sick"? Look at the indices - it's all been rosy!
This would be true if the penalty were only reputation damage.

Instead, the penalty is censorship.
I think the most attractive and memorable short books that spring to mind are:

1. Fear, Thich Nhat Hanh, helps you cope with anything

2. The Stranger, Camus, Nihilism/Stoicism

3. The old man and the sea, Hemmingway
Wayfinder was just released by Matt DesLauriers, more about his project can be found on his Twitter: https://twitter.com/mattdesl/status/1405231431970963457
There can only be 1 Linus. Copy cats need not apply.
This is probably the most viable take. It doesn’t exactly make our government leaders look too bright, though...

Thanks for the comment.
Yes, with a Remarkable you get a several different "tools" (Pen, Pencil, Mechanical Pencil, Marker, Paint Brush etc).

However I think each of these is much less expressive than actually having the Pencil, Marker, Paint brush etc..

These don't provide nearly the versatility, such as levels of shading, that the real tools do, but the convenience of having some form of all of them in one small "pencil" is extremely nice.

If your end goal is to produce good art on paper, I would probably not start here, but for having fun and developing an interest it's been fantastic.

Now that I think about it, maybe it is the "Undo" feature that sells me =)
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What's next for Lululemon's tech ambitions?
I thought inflation was a bad thing? From this article it seems everyone is avoiding the dangers of inflation, and instead opining that everything will just....work itself out. The Fed has become too politicized, so I'm deeply suspect. I have the impression, perhaps not entirely correct, that this is the same fed that has missed and bungled many of our recent financial crisis.
I looked into this recently, and views cover like 98% of the functionality that the client app needs from Postgres. One issue I ran into was that Postgres forgets that the primary key is a primary key when pulling from a view, which breaks some queries that rely on grouping by the primary key.

https://dba.stackexchange.com/questions/195104/postgres-grou... has some more info on this
Encryption in cellular systems is to protect over-the-air signals. It's irrelevant when it comes to 99% of legal interception because for that law enforcement simply asks the network operator to share the plaintext traffic from within the network.

If you want that no-one be able to evesdrop then yes you have to have your own encryption on top. These days a lot of data already goes through TLS but for instance standard voice calls are obviously transparent to operators.
Are you aware of any studies that find a CoC to improve or change the behavior in a community? I'm probably overly skeptical, but a CoC to me always seems useless since it's not legally binding in any sense and no open source community can afford to formally judge accusations to begin with. I had a sudden urge to read up and see what all evidence exists, so I figured I'd ask you - no worries if nothing comes to mind.
They will only thrive if their cohort agrees to do nothing or encourages them in response to the bullying
> why nothing has been done

Probably because without Felleisen there is no Racket. He's obviously not the only team member, but he's been working on it for decades. If you censure him, the whole thing might fall apart.

And, of course, confronting people is uncomfortable. The article's author even arranged himself with it: "The rest, I ignore. For me so far, that compro­mise has sufficed."
> Both times have been very healing experiences and have completely changed my outlook on life and made [me] less anxious about life changes.

That's definitely what I'm aiming for :D

How about the career aspect? You were able to get a new job easily after the sabbatical? What type of work do you do?
"Consumers" as an opaque crowd wouldn't be able to judge anything this involved. The discussion partners we're talking about are mostly politicians, who are primarily educated in the field of convincing despite having no background at all, referring to higher authority et al. Our typical, maybe even scientifically educated consumer wouldn't be able in the least of realistically forming an opposing opinion, and even if she/he did, it would be a very hard sell against battle-hardened politicians.

This field is too complex even for quite a few if not most IT-centric professions.

From my point of view, we have to put the blame on us. We should treat anyone supporting invasive technologies (in the sense of subverting privacy and basic human rights) as an outcast.

The impression I get (maybe not primarily from HN) is the opposite. We'd not take that job (pay...), but still we appear to honor their efforts. Or we _do_ take that job because of pay on the opposite spectrum.
I really don’t like how discussions on issues like this always seem to devolve into an argument over the underlying “culture war” issues, and I’d like to try and disambiguate this issue and others like it as I see them.

I’m a trans woman. Two things can be true here:

1. Adichie is transphobic.

2. Whatever the harms of her transphobia, the other person referenced in this post behaved egregiously outside of professional and personal norms in attacking Adichie, and this behavior is not appropriate in any circumstance.

Too often I think people complain about how they are treated on social media, or about “ideological orthodoxy,” as a proxy for defending opinions that they understand to be offensive. But it’s perfectly reasonable to think both that Adichie’s opinions on trans people are offensive, and that the offense does not justify the aggression she received here.
Sure some people might know about bugs before others, and may seek to abuse that knowledge, but I don't think that is limited to intelligence agencies, and I don't think that has anything to do with the size of the project either. If you have some studies and data that goes over all the risk factors here, I'd love to see it.

>If you don't want North Koreans hacking your server you would do better to opt for non-systemd.

This seems to be fear-mongering and doesn't seem to follow at all from what you said either. There are a lot of other large projects used by the various Linux distributions, systemd is not out of the ordinary here. For an example of what you're looking at here, debian bullseye has 1.17 billion lines of code in total: https://sources.debian.org/stats/

Of course you would have to do a deeper dive to see just how much of that is expected to run as root or with CAP_SYS_ADMIN, or in kernelspace.
We're paying them to hoard zero-days.

(And sometimes share them with our Israeli friends for hunting down Saudi journalists.)
Independent replication needs to be incentivized, either as part of tenure process or have grad students do it as part of getting a PhD or something. Then the results are published in a journal of replication studies.
We've been migrating to prettier, & (alas) switching from tabs to spaces across our many microservice projects.

The one saving grace is that git 2.23 (august 2019) added an --ignore-rev and --ignore-rev-file in to git blame[1]. There's no standard file, unlike .gitignore, alas, so we have .gitignorerev as our own personal standard in our migration guide.

This isn't perfect. Github for example doesn't know anything about this. We have a lot of vscode users but I don't think anyone in that world has gone & figured it out. I wish there were a standard file, a lot. But it's still a huge help, a good start.

[1] https://git-scm.com/docs/git-blame/2.31.0#Documentation/git-...
> we believe you and support you!

Not that I think he's lying, but... why?

I don't know who any of these people are but I don't like the idea of hearing one person's account and automatically assuming it's true. At least not in the case of assertions that are potentially career-ruining.
There was something that was a super pain in the ass about their cold storage solution, but I haven’t ever seen a vault compression. I wonder if it’s new or I just missed it.
It's usually called "missing stair": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Missing_stair
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Maybe God put chicken eggs on the Earth.
> It seems you would need a trusted party/oracle of some kind, which creates the same problem as centralized stablecoins anew.

If it is multicollateral, then yes, it somewhat involves trust, but you are dependent on a lot of various people betraying trusts along with ethereum price dipping, whereas a traditional stablecoin is entirely dependent on one entity.
Interesting because my co-workers always ask me to change __bold__ to *bold* even though both are correct. I tend to switch between * and __ depending upon how my writing is structured.

Anyone else feel strongly one way of the other?
> [0] tab complete works on cmdlets, switches, and variables.

Isn't this how modern tab complete works everywhere? bash 5.1 (the shell I happen to be running right now, and which I mention because I think of its out-of-box tab completion as pretty basic) tab completes variables.
Exactly, this is for third party access or at least I've assumed for a long time all communications using standard tools have always been open for scrutinity.

It's nothing new either - for as long as there is postal service your mail could be open by order of this or that government oficial. Not even the Pony Express was immune to that ;-)

If you want greater secrecy do like the paranoid intel community has been doing since at least the cold war and exchange messages on seemingly disconnected channels - say 2 different newspaper columns, wordpress blogs or even websites made to look like robot-generated SEO spam, using code that was previously agreed in person, with everyone keeping hardcopies if necessary.
For the record, I believe the author.

But asking what the author would gain from fabricating it is a terrible reason to believe something. Pathological liars exist and they prey on people with such low bars for belief.
My doctor actually prescribes a regime of holidays from the stimulants. It is becoming a fairly common practice.
I been around Matthias a long time and don't really see it. Perhaps Matthew can identify some examples that prove he's not the fragile flower he says he isn't?
Their "commercial paper" is most likely loans to exchanges and "whales" which is against crypto as collateral. It is a "shadow market" for loans against crypto that they're calling "commercial paper" to sound all official and grown up.

Which makes Tether effectively backed by crypto.

As the price of crypto/bitcoin rises that collateral is worth more and those loanees can come back and borrow more Tether.

Tether then gets used as fuel for arbitrage bots which pumps up the price of crypto (which is literally just monetary inflation, you have more and more Tether chasing after roughly the same amount of crypto so you wind up with inflation).

This also explains how the peg is maintained since if the loan is dollar-denominated then nobody who has borrowed $250,000 in Tether wants to see Tether drop to $.90 USD and have to pay back 250,000 Tether plus $25,000 in actual USD (while on the other side everyone wants to buy Tether once it goes over $1.00 since you can flip it and arbitrage it).

I'll let you do the math though on what happens if crypto were to say drop by 90% or so...
Dai is not collateralized by tether.
To be clear housing went up 18% per year for 9 years which is materially different than a housing development causing your house to go up 200%. Teasing out the effect would involve looking at similar areas with different development profiles and would be complicated by the fact that the luxury development is more likely to be built in areas that have themselves recently become more desirable..

Whatever you discovered assigning all growth in your property value to that singular event is clearly erronious. As you mentioned all houses in urban areas have gone up substantially. If we assign 10% of that effect to adjacent luxury development we would conclude they had added 15k to your property value. Of course tax calculations vary by state but lets go with WA for a for instance.

It costs you about $12 a month if you save monthly towards your annual property tax. If we assign 20% to the presence of the luxury development which is almost certainly too much it cost you closer to $25 a month.

The truth is certainly underwhelming.
This seems likely; the boxing equivalent is well-known.
I think we need to kill the fantasy of having testing environments for most software. For stuff like Airplane control, pacemakers etc. it’s absolutely worth it. For most organizations serving APIs with an acceptable nonzero failure rate, using canary deployments and other techniques provide almost all the value you would need.
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> $1.7m can't even buy a house.

I really dislike when people make such obviously inane statements like this...
There is something very important that forces me to use a single shell: Habit.
Also just general breakdown of people knowing each other in the community. When I grew up, I was a "latchkey kid" with a single parent, yet I was allowed to freely roam the neighborhood on bicycle. The idea was (or at least the perception was): If I ran into a problem, I could knock on any random neighbor's door, and 1. wouldn't get kidnapped or murdered and 2. the neighbor would know my dad and either watch over me or call him. Today, nobody knows the people who live in their neighborhood. Some people don't even know their next door neighbor. Nobody answers their door anymore either, so if you're a kid your only island of familiarity is at home.
(without expressing my own opinion on it:) most policy folks seem to want a few percent of inflation. it motivates you to spend or invest your money instead of just stuffing cash into a mattress.
I think it has been politicized but rather in favor of whatever the ruling party says.

The federal reserve benefits from a long ledger so they are more than happy to let inflation run rampant.
Inflation isn’t a bad thing.
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Perhaps you can use language that doesn’t belittle others to make your point?
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> The lines of code relevant to only the init are in src/core, so your comparison would probably only make sense if you compared that folder

$ wc `find src/core \( -name \*.c -o -name \*.h \) -print`
[...]
81604 249802 3001043 total

So 81,604 lines for src/core vs 17,263 for OpenRC. So why does systemd need 677,446 lines of C code in its entire tree if src/core is 81,604 lines?

I suppose the answer is that IBM/Red Hat make money shipping systems that they and they alone have the expertise to support and fix. Making systemd's tree over 600k lines so that Red Hat employee Lennart is pretty much the only human being alive who understands it all is conducive to that goal.
About 80% of my university professors (CS and otherwise) were similar to this. I don't know what's wrong with this profession.
Yes: https://www.fraunhofer.de/de/institute/kooperationen/fraunho...

> IBM Q System One mit 27 supraleitenden Qubits
That is fine, of course, but be careful not to believe the conclusions you draw from Gladwell alone and be very careful about asserting those conclusions as guides to future behavior without going to the effort of finding out where he is simply wrong.
> The assumption of good faith is dead. What matters is not goodness but the appearance of goodness.

Hallelujah!! Can't say enough about how much I agree with this, and given that the author is well-known I hope it gets a lot of press. One of the most bizarre effects of this in the past ~5 years is there are now certain words (and actually not even certain words, certain phonemes) that are simply deemed un-utterable. Never mind the context, never mind if your sentence is actually "<word> is incredibly offensive and should never be directed at another person", never mind if you're actually quoting from a legal document [1], the actual meaning doesn't matter, intent doesn't matter, all that matters is if the sound coming out of your mouth matches the list of forbidden sounds. 10 years ago I would have laughed it off if someone had suggested we would have gone this collectively nuts.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/03/nyregion/Rutgers-law-scho...
Indeed. The question is where the malice lies. If I make a product for US use and export use, am I malicious by telling export customers that I'll only support a weaker key by US law? Or it the malice in the US requiring that? Can we expect companies, especially international conglomerates, to give up on potential markets because to protest a law?
At this point, it's sad that people would need a CoC just to follow the most elementary of courtesies.

Everyone can have a bad day and jump at the throat of someone for no reason at all; but basic politeness would require them to flatly apologize later on.

I wonder if it's linked to the current social trend of "being the greater person" and "not escalating the argument", but it's regrettable in any case.
You get to play with things you'd never have been able to dream of even touching or even seeing when they were in their heyday.
How does signal fail to protect against MITM attacks? Given that it's end-to-end encrypted, wouldn't an attacker have to force a change of keys to MITM you? In which case you should be notified by signal that the keys were recently changed.
The employees in that scenario are sharing insider information, and are all committing a crime.

Whatever you hear from them and is probably non-public info is also illegal to trade on.

I mean, what exactly do you expect to happen if this is allowed? Put everyone who works on finance and the executives under 24/7 surveillance? Pay them ransom for not sharing their employer’s data? It would simply be an institutionalized racket.
It depends on a lot of things, but let's say (for concreteness) you are using Java or something similar. I'd write classes to represent the request and response models, call them A and B. Then I'd write a interface/class with a method from A to Future<B>. That method would be mocked everywhere, and most of your code doesn't deal with the API nonsense. (B is the data you want not the link to get the data.)

I may or may not actually test the implementation of that method.

In short: wrap up your external dependency.
Yeah, this. It lets them qualify to claim "Made in the USA", except it wasn't, not really. It was made in (China/India/Japan/Malasya/Mexico/Canada/…) and partially assembled in the US.
Both of these are great questions, I wish situations like these were resolved with a recorded conversation between at least the accuser and someone who attempts to be unbiased that was involved.

I recently had an acquaintance get cancelled who held pretty troubling religious opinions, but outwardly the way he treated everyone was better than the vast majority of people treated others in that community. I feel like a conversation would've resolved that issue without him losing 3 positions, one of which being his job.
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Same. The video shows a typed letter in the machine too, leading me to believe it actually worked. But further digging reveals this is not the case. A ton of people are going to actually buy this thinking it works, and it won't and they will be pissed.
In addition to some obscure offices, 3 of the 4 pages were taken up with various bond issues, like this:

An Act enabling the County to borrow money and issue bonds in an amount not exceeding $38,134,000 to finance the design, construction, reconstruction, extension, acquisition, improvement, enlargement, alteration, renovation, relocation, rehabilitation or repair of Public Safety Facilities (including Fire Department Facilities), as defined therein.

I think very few people actually bother to research such questions. They just either reflexively tick Yes or No.

Researching a better answer requires a lot of questions. Does the county actually need to repair its Public Safety Facilities? What new construction do they plan? Have they been spending their money well in the past?

Answering all that would take a fair bit of time. And there were a dozen items like that.
In many community forums I have seen this dynamics: New member says something rude but factual or just misrepresents what another member had said; Moderator says something along the lines of "please be more polite or restrict bikesheding/flamewars to the appropriate subforum"; The new member starts litigating how come the moderator can demand that if it is not in the "official rules".

Codes of conduct deal with these self-absorbed members (they are not trolls necessarily). CoC probably help with many other things, but taking care of this low hanging fruit is already an incredible improvement.

It is sad that we need to make rules like "do not be a jerk", but sometime ago I was disillusioned from the idea that such rules are self-evident. They mean very different things to different people, so defining them ends up being useful.
Nobody is going to drink less Coca-Cola because Cristiano Ronaldo doesn't drink it. So how can something like this move the stock price? Do stockholders watch TV and then run to their brokers shouting "sell sell sell"? I don't understand this, it seems completely meaningless. I can see the stock drop should Coca-Cola publish a document "how to be less white in workplace" for example, but someone moving a bottle away from cameras... I don't get it. Can someone who works in the financial industry explain this?
That's some ultrasmall fish right there. Just weeks ago Pelosi's husband made a few millions off timely bought MSFT call options, right before Pelosi gave MS a gov contract. In their case is very legal because high rank gov figures are exempt from the insider trading law.
Jonathan Haidt wrote a book called The Coddling of the American Mind [0]. He'd agree that adults need to give children their freedom back.

He talks about what the consequences for not doing so have been for Zoomers and it is quite worrying: escalating rates of depression and anxiety, increased rates of suicide, fewer friends, even fewer close friends, reduced social trust, more on-campus violence, increased favorability to authoritarian policies.

[0] - He starts the book with a discussion of the title. He initially resisted it because people usually use the word coddled to blame the coddlees but this book very much blames the coddlers.
This is one of the funniest replies I've seen so far in a crypto discussion.