skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’ve tried reaching for a book /kindle when I needed to be entertained without success, or taking so much effort to start it that the habit hasn’t stayed.

Was there something that helped you on that? Some type of book/etc.?
It is based on observing (and needing to measure) plots of land.

The abstraction came later.

Didn't Hume already prove we cannot invent anything not related to our prior experience (which ultimate goes to the universe's natural laws we experience).
The risk that they're concerned with is if every bank is using AWS, then AWS goes down, the entire UK economy crashes until it's back up.

Even if AWS itself is more reliable than every bank's on-prem solution, that's no good if it goes down for everyone simultaneously and I can't just use a backup credit card.
Axiomatic set theory can't very well be considered foundational for logic, as its axioms are formulas of first-order predicate logic.
Thank you!

I dislike pushing "buy" too, but I like being able to find it, or at least knowing it's for sale. Most people coming in will have no idea.

Two more proposed changes:

1) "Getting started" presumes I have a device. I don't. That's obnoxious. The first step in getting started is buying a device (or, for other projects, ordering a PCB and a BoM, or otherwise). The first thing I want to know is:

- Is it for sale, or do I build it myself?

- What should I buy? Nano? Normal? Do I want any accessories?

- Where should I buy it?

2) In your github repos, you link to a store. It'd be nice if you said what you were selling in the lik "Or by buying the TinyPCIO or one of our other products on tindie or our own shop." This clearly contrasts with e.g. selling t-shirts and swag, build kits, or otherwise. And yes, many open source projects support themselves in part by selling unrelated swag.
It doesn’t just “fall off” the NAT table. Some process in the firewall chose that entry in the NAT table to drop at that moment. It could use the entries from that NAT table to construct RST packets to both sides of the connection. This should be easy and obvious.
Is there something similar for Google Sheets? Perhaps as a browser extension?
This was a complicated operation that had many difficult steps. If any of these steps would not have worked, the entire project would have failed. Just pointing at one of these step as the most important does not show much appreciation of the other steps.
Think about it more abstractly from the perspective of trust and # of actors involved.

If you run 100% of your IT workload on-prem, the ability to control the flow of data can be boiled down into a physical exercise of following fiber channel cables in your own datacenter. Having a unified set of firewall rules that define your entire public interface also helps a lot.

You can actually make deterministic guarantees to your customers that not only your own systems are secure, but also that the systems of your vendors and other 3rd parties are as well. The moment you start configuring site-to-site VPNs with 3rd parties across which you intend to transact sensitive business knowledge, you are surrendering an entire mountain of security constraints.

If we are being honest with ourselves, a lot of shops that are 100% on-prem probably have worse security practices than AWS, et. al. Perhaps the biggest hazard is really the hybrid model. If some fintech went 100% into the cloud without even an HSM on-prem to worry about, then you could probably have a solid argument on the other side of the spectrum. Also, remember that multi-cloud might seem like a resiliency measure, but it also adds another target to your back.

The middle ground is where all the pain seems to be. Hybrid cloud usually means more required trust than most organizations ever wanted to enter into. I frequently find myself as the harbinger of bad news when I get into deep-dive technical calls with some of our customers. Turns out a lot of the other vendors we work with like to bend the truth in order to make a quick buck. Many perverse incentives are pulling these massive organizations into hilariously-contorted IT stances, and some of us are starting to see a consulting opportunity.
I don’t understand what is difficult with WebRTC videos. It seems they should push the service to everyone, unauthenticated, until Zoom is dead, if Zoom is a threat.

Whereby does it…
Your point seemed to be about "music" before veering into an example with music videos, in which I have no experience.

> For things like music and tv series, there's more hassle when acquiring the product via "official" channels.

> I can't fathom why anybody would feel like buying music is less of a hassle than downloading music without buying it.
It's not clear from the message whether the software is setting up their own email system, if so it will need to be audited and certified, which is a major hassle.

Either way, the auditors and the infrastructure might not want to handle an order of magnitude more traffic (API usage is really in a different league than occasional human email). Expect all emails to have to be stored for around a decade.
Best practices for building a successful MVP
Maybe it is needed to create a simple payment system
that connects your credit card with crypto so you can
buy NFT just like you buy any other stuff on Amazon.

Good luck drowning in fraud and chargebacks. You'd either need to do so much KYC that nobody would want to use the service, or you'd basically be building a Money-Laundering-as-a-Service platform.
> Apple has never have had a consistent release cycle with their machines, with redesigns clearly slowing down the release cycle.

The history here might not be representative because many of those delays were caused by Motorola/IBM and Intel struggling to deliver chips in the expected volume or thermal budget. Since that was one of the motivations for Apple to make their own designs it should be less pronounced going forward, especially without Johnny Ives pushing the limits so hard.
What part of this is "really bothering"?

We can make a simulation today, and have it obey such natural laws (of course programmed behavior) + logic (ditto), so that we could encode whatever we want inside a physical or geometrical constant as it appears inside the simulation.
Showing my age and ignorance: Top Of The Pops?
“Shutdown internal political activism”. You obviously haven’t read Orwell if you don’t think that’s equally or more Orwellian.
reminding all: inflation is large and great tax on each person. wealth tax by other name. but worse for the poorer, the persons who have no money manager and investing wisdom for the avoidance of inflation effects. inflation from monetary policy like the fed currently is a bad thing.
This is horrible but I think it's worse than people realize. Because this is the type of thing used to motivate world wars. Where hundreds of millions work hard to murder each other. Maybe try to find another way to stop it.
> It then goes on and actually takes apart the libertarian politics bullshit on top of that, by going through all the history of people and “businesses” connected to Bitcoin, Ethereum and the likes. It is full of stories how they failed, were busted, or simply neglected basic necessities.

> The book nicely separates out the useful tech part from the political propaganda, and deflates the entire hype around it (Hint: Most people want Merkle trees and a trusted institution, but think they need a Blockchain - they will end up with a blockchain, a centralized institution and a large energy bill).

The amazon reviews seem pretty mixed about it though

https://www.amazon.com/Attack-50-Foot-Blockchain-Contracts-e...
How to Decide When to Sell Your Startup
Autopilot-style driver aids can mess with these data points to some extent. Still very interesting that diversity in destination is considered an indicator.
Good point about sawtooth and strings. I've forgotten a lot. And also thanks for mentioning Karplus-Strong--one of the most amazing algorithms ever. With like 8 assembler instructions you can build a very good facsimile of a plucked string instrument [0]. I implemented the heck out of that thing back in the 80s. It would work quite well today on an Arduino. (I'd expect many people have done so.)

As to Silver Apples, I just could never get into that style of music. When I was studying this stuff in college our instructor was very enamored with the Subotnick/Stockhausen "bleeps and bloops" style. We had a giant E-mu modular in the lab and he wanted us to avoid using its keyboard. But whenever I was on my own I of course used the keyboard. Then one day a truck rolled up to the lab and dropped off a crate labeled "Fairlight" and I fell in love hard but that's another story.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karplus%E2%80%93Strong_strin...
I wonder if leadership has intentionally made the decision that losing users to mobile frustration and third party apps is worth it to increase first party app conversion or if they're just ignorant.
I had started down the path of trying to buy replacement keys, ideally blank but with some sort of a clear spot so the keyboard lights can shine through. That was rare enough, and I guess maybe in the end I might just want clear keycaps for the lights. But there's a whole set of lingo in the keycaps that I felt like I had to understand to stand a chance of getting the correct set of keycaps. There wasn't just a "Here's a ErgoDox EZ caps set..."
Thanks a lot. I wish they did a better job with the social, particularly the feed.
Will programming ever be free from the opinions of elitist hacks like Edsger Dijkstra ?

People with obsessive compulsive disorder, asperger and autism are unhirable in every profession on the planet. Every single profession - without exception. They are worthless as friends, worthless as parents, worthless as teachers. Yet in our field we promote these intellectual midgets.

Edsger Dijkstra is an intellectual midget. The summary of 13000 pages of his work ? Mathematicians are above average, programmers are below average. The whole greatness of "mutual exclusion" is something 2 year olds can come up with. His obssessive compulsive disorder meant that he did not even use computers his entire life, but some fountain pen, everyday. How cool and normal! Edsger Dijkstra did not write 1 usable program in his entire life. 0 operating systems. 0 games. 0 apps. 0 batch processing systems worth a damn. Much like the fake and dysfunctional programmers here in this and in every other forum he hated people who did. If chemists, electronic engineers, mechanical engineers, civil engineers, architects don't need permission from mathematicians and Dijkstra, then programmers don't need it either.

Algol, Dijkstra's brainchild was largely a total and complete failure. 0 usable programs written in algol. ABAP / Cobol is a better language than haskell, lisp, smalltalk and java. Bite me. Don't like it ? Compete in the marketplace. Fund 1000 smalltalk, haskell and lisp startups than ruby startups to make your money, hypocrites. Even after receiving education from the most elitist schools and having VCs who share your grand views on programming, if you still can't run a business with haskell (algol++) and lisp stop wasting everyone else's time, alright ? We are happy with matlab and php.

"GOTO Considered Harmful" Considered Harmful - https://web.archive.org/web/20090320002214/http://www.ecn.pu...
So, Google should stop dumping and raise prices or remove features sure as calls lasting for more than one hour from the free version...?
What’s it mean?
EU unveils sweeping climate change plan
> Your point seemed to be about "music" before veering into an example with music videos

True. Note that the text you quoted referred to "acquiring the product". Streaming audio from Spotify temporarily is different from "acquiring" the audio file. Do you think acquiring audio files via official channels is somehow less of a hassle than acquiring them via unofficial channels, like youtube-dl?
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> I'll agree with them that it was awful and that my country has done evil things that I am ashamed of

I think what a lot of the non-West feels is that the West has done horrible things, benefited from it, and continues to commit modern colonialism and direct/indirect exploitation of developing countries to continually benefit from them.

The dissonance is in thinking that the West is no longer doing these things and only the Enemy (China/Russia/whoever) is.

Thus, taking an (invalid) higher moral ground is what probably turns your friends away.
I have read this book. David Gerard & Amy Castor who has commented on this thread are both what I would I consider to be targeting the niche of Bitcoin doubters or "no-coiners".

I like to get a balanced view of crypto but I have grown to find these so-called no-coiners really insufferable.

I might get heavily downvoted but I would rather criticize Bitcoin from the perspective of how can we make this better, rather than oh this is a useless ponzi scam rhetoric, which their audience loves.

It's not nice to say but I honestly believe many of these people just dont want to see something they missed out on succeed, this is coming from someone who has lurked in their communities for a long time.

FWIW Bitcoin is not perfect. And many of it's biggest promoters are self serving scammers but I don't appreciate, or lets say grew tired of people who just like to bash something without offering a solution.
Try our free demo (uncapped for the near future) with collaborative plugins at demo.dyte.io (YC W21)
AI will take over the world sooner than we expected. I imagine the G7 with realistic avatars.
It's not capitalism. Everything needs funding. Capitalism just means it's voluntary funding instead of mandatory funding.
Yes - but this isn't an either/or situation...
Say "McDonald's!" to end commercial.

https://old.reddit.com/r/ABoringDystopia/comments/7k6v05/son...
This. Reading about 0 gravity setup immediately reminded me of the suspensors used by Vladimir Harkonnen in the Dune.

I have been using standing desk for a year, trying to switch sitting and standing frequently, in my case at least every hour. Why ? Firstly, my physiotherapist said her stance on the long term standing is negative since it can lead to imbalances - humans tend to put more weight on one feet, for instance. Secondly, there was a long article in local weekly magazine about sitting and standing, basically saying that the human body will adapt to whatever condition there is. For sitting, this means the muscles etc. will eventually "freeze"; the only way how to fight that is constantly subject the body to change in posture.
'Forcing people' should have been 'having people force themselves', too late to edit now.
Outside ham bands such rules are rare.
Inflation also decreases the value of debts, doesn’t it?
The unimagined complexity of a newsletter service mesh
What complexity? Just sign up at Mailchimp, write your email and done! So we thought ... then we realized, there is more. Plenty.
Depending on the particular PCB designs, there may be piezoelectric capacitors and magnetostrictive inductors that produce noises that ordinary, non-super, humans can easily hear. Of course the spectrum of these vibrations extends up into the GHz, but it generally also extends down to near DC, until the physical size of the components is too small to efficiently couple the vibrations into the air. (And PCBs, in particular, lower that high-pass frequency a lot, by providing a large, fairly rigid area that's soldered to a lot of surface-mount components.)

Typically DC-DC converters are the easiest thing to hear, because of the sheer amount of energy involved. Normally these are operated at PWM (pulse) frequencies well outside hearing range—40–300 kHz—but often enough the feedback scheme for controlling those pulses oscillates in a way that generates audible subharmonics whose frequency depends on the power draw at any given moment. Modern computers are full of DC-DC converters.

Also, though, it's common for computers to contain sensitive low-noise audio-frequency amplifiers connected to a periodic sample-and-hold circuit which can alias high frequencies down into the audio range, with the output hooked up to loudspeakers; these are called "sound cards" and it's not at all unusual for them to produce clearly audible sounds that depend on the computation happening, at least if you turn the volume up all the way.

Finally, regular, non-super, humans can directly perceive radio frequency emissions as sounds: "The human auditory response to pulses of radiofrequency (RF) energy, commonly called RF hearing, is a well established phenomenon. RF induced sounds can be characterized as low intensity sounds because, in general, a quiet environment is required for the auditory response... Effective radiofrequencies range from 2.4 to 10000 MHz." https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/14628312/

So "hearing data movement" because of "noise signatures that change" is not at all unusual. You can probably do it yourself if you have a quiet room to listen in. It's plausible that Ethernet-over-powerline equipment could produce audible sounds from the power supplies in the same house or nearby houses, but I haven't observed that myself and this is the first time I've heard of that happening.
What you actually do in your job matters a lot. If you're actually good, you get picked up by better firms... Also, for grad school, the top 10 don't matter as much

This depends on the industry. I have plenty of tech friends who quit school, went to a local state school, etc. and ended up at a FAANG or launched a startup well-funded by VC. However, at the top management consulting, law, investment banking, private equity, hedge fund firms, etc., it is unlikely you'll get hired without a top 10 undergrad or grad degree, family connections, or something unique like you have a documented 150% return in the market over a decade.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/29/health/coronavirus-testin...
I'd like to see at least a small demo video showing the controls. Hopefully they'll make one.

Another WebGL based web animation tool I saw was Spline [0]. It's in beta but there are a fair number of videos online showing its capabilities. When I downloaded it, it ran a bit sluggish on my 2014 MBP w/ 8GB RAM.

[0] https://spline.design/
If Twitter censors based on gov't guidelines, suggestions, or threats, is it really 'self-censoring'?

[1]https://taibbi.substack.com/p/a-case-of-intellectual-capture...
> I can have a supplier hired to hand the electric installations on 300 buildings at a hospital, who go bankrupt half way through, and then I can painless hire a new contractor to finish up.

You can hire different people to work on code too. There's no one person per repo rule.
Into the App Store we go
Alternative title: "Rich Asshole Gloats About How Laws Are Optional If You're Like Him"
What might that Principal (or Staff) level Developer role entail?
Yes yes. But you can ask that question, and we can answer it, regardless of whether our space is curved or flat. PI is the same in a flat space in any universe where you ask the question, because we're doing a mental exercise, not measuring it locally.
Or: publicity stunt
It's undeniable that the Atlantic has become overly polarizing (like every other American outlet). But for every Pulitzer winner, they have 5 other writers writing overly-partisan clickbait. Right now under their "Most Popular" column, the top article has "Trump" in it. Trump has been out of office for over 6 months, and people are still fucking writing about him, still giving him coverage.

If Trump wins again in 2024, he'll have won mostly because left-leaning rags learned nothing from 2016 by constantly giving him free press.
Isn't statistical discrimination the basis of fair cohort definition in insurance underwriting?

What do you think insurance, as a financial product, is? An entity looking to hedge against financial uncertainty relies on being placed in a cohort that represents equivalent risk profile to their own.
I've had good luck with switching the mouse between the left and right hands. It takes a few weeks to get used to, but helps a lot with spreading the strain a bit more evenly between the two hands.
>And it's bi-directional. But it's not "cool" technology or "web-based" so developers won't consider it.

I might be missing a point or two here, but I don't see how SMTP can work for this case at all. You would require every API consumer to setup a SMTP server (which is another piece of infrastructure to maintain), and then somehow have a layer of authentication so the recipient can control who post messages on that server (overhead for the publisher per new customer). Then we still haven't resolved the issues on the customer side (a bad code that could pop all messages and now we might require the publisher to replay them again).

I haven't even started to think about security and network hardening challenges yet. Again, I might be missing the point but this is not a case of cool tech overuse to me.
I made an open source split ortho keyboard for me (that I should really write about) and gave the thumb keys some thought and measurement. Maybe you'd like to try it out, it's quite easy to build:

https://gitlab.com/stavros/george

It resembles the Ergodox EZ, but with a more convenient thumb cluster.
I'm pretty sure not all HN readers are programmers...
https://archive.is/QNrmy
On desktop there is an example animation of a slowly spinning turbine attached to an old-fashioned mill. Had I not noticed the angle of the blades changing, I'd have said it was a 2D animation using PNG sprites.
Low Countries have this problem since centuries back, yes? Dikes, pumping, other options have mitigated issues. It is the developing country needing to worry, those with out money for these.
> Specifically, those with preclinical Alzheimer's tended to drive more slowly, make abrupt changes, travel less at night, and logged fewer miles overall, for example. They also visited a smaller variety of destinations when driving, sticking to slightly more confined routes.

I wonder what the direction of the causality is. Maybe there is something else that triggers the slow driving. Visiting the same destinations regularly instead of varying ones might also just point to a very routine lifestyle. Maybe that contributes to Alzheimer’s a lot? It feels a stretch to use these attributes as casuals for attribution of Alzheimer’s.
Big, 100+ key keyboards have fallen out of favor with the keyboard crowd and I can't understand why. I have a desktop, I'm not carrying my keyboard with me, and I have plenty of room. Why on earth would I want to start removing keys?
The problem is that any utility that cryptocurrency may have is obscured by the incredible amount of fraud and grift used to keep the bubble intact.
Connect GraphQL to any popular DBs (NReco.GraphQL)
Component that allows you set up GraphQL schema via json-configuration file and connect to DB very easy. Supporting aggregation fields that you can set up without developing.
You've mostly described physics i.e. nature, not logic.
maybe stop financing them? We are voluntarily paying them to manufacture most of our stuff.
They’re letting inflation run hot so workers in sectors hit hardest by the lockdown can recover. These are generally blue collar / service jobs more likely to be held by women and POC.
I take it that you have never been to Alaska. Or BC. Or Washington. Or anywhere else with more trees than people. Without bushplanes the entire resource extraction industry would grind to a halt. The conversion of a Beaver to electric follows on the past turbo-beaver conversion. It matters and is being watched by the industry.
Don’t worry, I’m sure they are only referring to the approved ones. No need to get excited.
Job-Hopping Toward Equity
Debts always have greater interest rates than the inflation.
Thanks for the response, yeah that resonates. I think the sheer volume of logs has been what necessitates expensive solutions.

I've found that my current team really relies on those and an event store for observability, and it's just clunky and awful. Logging for, well, logging purposes instead would be a dramatic improvement.