skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>the 'Internet' becoming more and more 'real life' in general

>Facebook is absolutely one of the best-positioned companies to be able to become a long-term market leader in these areas

I think the reason for the negativity is possibly because maybe a company that's managed to create a massive platform where reality is massively distorted and manipulated algorithmically to maximize ad revenue and engangement, whatever the quality or lack thereof, should not be a leader in trying to make the internet 'real life' or whatever you want to call having ar/vr avatars that will allow you to participate in the new virtual corporate consumer world.
There are a lot of good points in there
These costs are not only on egress traffic to the internet, but also on other ways to get data out of AWS. For example, the snowball appliance that is basically a pile of hard drives that can be shipped to AWS has free ingress, but costs a few cents per GB for egress [0].

[0] https://aws.amazon.com/snowball/pricing/
Laptop CPU is onboard for the same reasons RAM is. This is not about the amount of pins, it's about power requirements for signal clarity.
Templated C is totally possible. It’s just a little verbose, but you get used to it. For instance, an alternative to void pointers while maintaining compile time type safety and gaining speed and maintainability looks something like this:

github.com/glouw/ctl

Check CTL/vec.h, for instance
I wouldn't characterize people as being dishonest when they talk about the societal-scale issues posed by platforms like Facebook. It's tough to separate those emotions from a purely analytical discussion of their technology.
"I've... seen things you people wouldn't believe.
Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion.
I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhäuser Gate.
All those... moments will be lost... in time... like... tears... in rain.
Time... to die."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JdUq2opPY-Q&t=48s
There is an interesting point in there about reverse engineering stuff, like you sometimes see in evolutionary biology and such.
I use the app PhotoSync with great success. I was about to setup my old MacBook like you described, but now I don’t have to anymore.
Released from a gag order regarding a federal investigation into a silly comment
SRI/hashing works for static content. Though it's worth mentioning it's a SUB-resource feature (images, scripts, etc.). It doesn't work for hyperlinks to other pages. Even if it did, it's a different use case.

Say I link to an article by Author A that has comments in it (or even a footer, relative timestamp, sidebar, etc.). Hashing won't work as the page is always changing. I want the link to always go to Author A but I don't care if the content changes. That's the sort of use case signed webpages and hyperlinks with enforced authorship covers. It's less about what's on the page and more about who created it.
Pizzagate was a crafted phenomenon. Whoever prepared this, they managed to collate pieces of genuine information with fake ones, inaccuracies, planted images and so on. It could be 4chan, but it could be Russians as well. And while the Internet was buzzing about it, mainstream media felt it's too ridiculous to discuss, so the debunking arrived too late.
Welcome to the power grid CCP!
https://xkcd.com/927/

Can you.... not?
The quest is a console. If you want to use mods without too many issues, you need to use a PC for VR.
Plan to Save ND Coal Plant Faces Backlash from MNs Who Would Help Pay for It
Learning to write 6809 Assembly language programs set me up quite nicely for the wave 32-bit 68000 machines.

But yes, I think microcomputers had to get more complicated to move forward. The original Macintosh team worked like mad to keep the hardware design as simple as possible, but virtually no computer manufacturer could afford a project like that.

(The first Mac hardware prototype was a 6809 board. Not a CoCo :-)
We did something similar to this at an org I worked at. We'd pull users from specific groups from our identity provider (Okta) and use that to provision corporate accounts to a Github Enterprise instance.

One big downside to this approach is Github teams often don't line up 1-to-1 with an organization's reporting structure, so you don't really ever get away from needing to manually manage user-team memberships, but it does remove the need to onboard/offboard users manually.
Israel Proves the Desalination Era Is Here (2016)
Senate panel votes to make women register for draft
weird flex, but I needed to get over a threshold to 'earn' a credit card promo for spending enough, and a donation here will do it!

(It's too bad the tax deduction isn't eligible in Canada :( )
He plays for the right team, too.
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/12/24/ben-sasse-crit...
BD seems like it's mostly interesting in creating dogs. This new thing seems like it's a generic robot for making objects.
Homophobia in Ghana is largely the product of US-based Christian imperialists.

https://www.africaproactive.com/blog/releasethe21-the-lgbtq-...
Perl might be weird, but it's logic and it makes sense. References are not automagical, but explicit, so you don't get an inconsistent function calling model. If you call a sub like `something(%h)`, it will get a copy of the hash. If you use `something(\%h)` the sub will receive a reference to access the hash instead. This is way better than Python or Java where everything is "pass-by-reference" until it isn't, and the fact a function won't modify the arguments you passed to it is basically a gentleman's agreement.

Perl is complex, but it is also rewarding when you use it for those tasks it's good at (like gluing code together and text processing).
I can at most pay for 10 years in advance. Is this a limit of my registrar?
It's very important to maintain the illusion that the block size can't be changed.

Or the mining reward.
Turn of javascript when loading the economist website and you can read all the article with no subscription. You miss out on the audio version though, which is excellent.
If you are in Brazil, AWS Egress is so expensive (and the BRL is so undervalued against the USD right now) that hosting in a bare metal with generous free bandwidth tiers (like 20TB you can find pretty much anywhere) is a huge competitive advantage against those that are hosting on AWS.
Unions can help implement democratic processes for deciding how to work and what to work on.

For example, Kickstarter unionized in 2020. One of things that initiated unionization was this lack of democratic decision making at Kickstarter[1]:

> One of the changes that most angered employees was the decision to end Drip, announced in late 2018. Drip was a tool that had been developed to let creators of projects on the site start subscriptions, similar to Patreon, allowing them to build sustainable revenue streams. Eliminating the tool “came out of the blue,” Zhang says, with “no consultation” with employees who were affected. “It seemed to be at the whim of one person to just make a blanket decision,” she adds.

If employees are working on projects that go against their users' interests, democratic decision making can give them a voice that they otherwise wouldn't have.

[1] https://www.wired.com/story/how-kickstarter-employees-formed...
Growth-oriented states of being naturally lead to induced demand.
The real problem with that question isn't that it's stupid. Everyone knows it's stupid, it's testing your ability to come up with an estimate in a domain you're not too familiar with using "napkin math". That's a legitimate skill and asset in software engineering.

The real problem is that the ability to come up with a good napkin math estimate for a technical problem doesn't correlate with the ability to actually do the job to solve the problem.

Ability to estimate doesn't imply engineering/programming skill. You still have to evaluate that part somehow (coding, take home test, github contributions, etc).

It also tells you nothing about the candidate's ability to work with others, under pressure, collaborate in a team, and all sorts of other "behavioural" interview questions.

Once you spent enough time to evaluate someone's behavioural skills, and also their technical skills, you don't have any time left in an hour interview to evaluate their napkin math skills.
Stonehenge may be next UK site to lose world heritage status
That's alarmingly common. It only takes one idiotic or corrupt planning team to flip decades of sensible flood planning. All this land set aside gets built on and everyone acts surprised when it's foot-deep in raw sewage.

Happens frequently in the UK. Too many fingers at every level of government happy to take a "donation" from a developer.
edit: Sorry, I missed that. Thanks.
I thought horizon is still in beta?
The social life of data points: Antecedents of digital technologies
Shocking that this didn't get more upvotes. One of the best articles I've read this year.
Characteristics of Useful Code Reviews:An Empirical Study at Microsoft(2015)pdf
Damn. I'm stupid today. I don't think I can edit anymore either :-(
This is where Kubernetes I think helps a ton. I work with bare metal customers all the time that stand up OpenShift on their BM and can migrate k8s apps very easily. Depending on the apps you may need to throw an object storage solution in there too (such as OpenShift Container Storage). It does require a certain scale before this makes sense, but it's not nearly as high of a scale as most people think.
It was possible for a TV channel to encode a small amount of data in the vertical blanking period between video frames - this is how subtitles were transmitted, for example. Teletext exploited this feature by encoding entire pages of text into that interval, each with a three digit page number. When the user requested a particular page number through the remote control, the TV set would wait a few seconds until the corresponding page was transmitted, then render it. More expensive TVs would have enough RAM to cache the pages ahead of time, so page access would be instant.
That and Facebook container. I could not get slack to work until I allowed slack access to Facebook because I had to re-authenticate. Even though I don’t use Facebook I have to allow slack to access it at least to be able to authenticate to a different authentication source.
The new term should be "games", now that "video" isn't the novelty it was in 1977.
Luck got nothing to do with it. He is just that good and he has just those goods.
The phrase "vote with your wallets" should just be eliminated because it's completely meaningless. You're asking to "just" coordinate millions of people to do some collective action or to change their behavior.

Do you know what the tool for doing that is called? Government. Vote with your actual votes.
Any discussion beyond "lol damn" is unnecessary.
Published on April Fool's, caveat lector.
Agile at 20: The Failed Rebellion
That's a good tip! I will definitely try that.
I've read that (can't find the citation) "Death to X!" is basically like a "God damnit!" curse, e.g. they'd say "Death to this traffic jam!" if stuck in traffic, but western news reports fail to bring the context. Again, maybe not true.

I wonder if they should just change the phrase to something like "I wish kittens for Khamenei!", but letting everyone know off-channel that this sentence means wishing him ill. How you gonna deal with that, Zuck?
Saying things that might damage the (apparently quite fragile) self-image of the wealthy and powerful is the real outrage, not workers attempting suicide on shift, pissing in bottles or being forced to take welfare and 2nd jobs while already working full-time. Questioning gross inequalities and imbalances of power is seen as a personal attack for the Bezos of the world.

I'm curious: does being showered with more wealth and power than humans have ever known automatically make you a narcissist, or is it more of a prerequisite to obtaining all that stuff?
I don't disagree with any of your description of the negatives about what the USSR did. I regret that the way I worded this definitely appears that I was somehow giving the USSR a pass on all this.

The question is whether or not those aspects of the USSR's "development" were critical/integral to their industrialization and modernization or not.

If they were, then I think that makes the price of those changes in the USSR clearly too high.

If they were not, then they are terrible, terrible things, happening alongside something quite remarkable.

I don't know enough about the details of the USSR during that time period to know how integral they may have been.

I also don't know enough about the history of South Korea to know if their development is comparable to what happened in the USSR or not. My vague impression is that they were starting from a much better (non-Tsarist) place, but I could have that wrong.
As long as they buy it before it gets big, then the government probably won't protest too much
I honestly was a little scared because it was so odd. I though it was just gonna be another flu. But of everything, the fatigue was the absolute worst. My spine, neck, and legs just felt like mush for a full week. Existing was effort. Could barely keep food down.

When my fever broke, I went about my life like normal. Still I'd hate to imagine what it would've been like in a not so vaccinated era like the early 1900s. I probably would've died.
Really? I find the laptop still better for that stuff. For the ipad you have to use some clunky folding stand thing. Its awkward to sit there with it on your lap waiting for a flight, or have to hold it up in front of you with one hand and do something with the other. Laptop on the other hand is pretty comfortable on a lap, and macbooks these days don't weigh very much at all.
If I remember correctly, from reading the original story that broke this news, location data at the rectory he was living in correlated with location data at various conferences he attended. That was sufficient to identify the anonymized data as his phone.
On mine, I can pay for up to 10 years, but I think I can just pay twice and get 20.

Edit: It seems to vary. Some places cite an ICANN limit of 10 years.
>They were never fast enough or reliable enough to be competitive with the minimum wage labour that they would have displaced

This probably sums up well. Human are extremely adaptable. To point if we are measured as 100 then no Robot is even 1.

There is a whole reason why even Foxconn gave up using Foxconn Robot, some task are just insanely easier and cheaper for a human to do it. They’re not easily automatable and even if we could the cost benefits doesn't make any sense.

So instead of having human plugging in DIMM RAM or M.2 SSD, now they are all soldered on the logic board using machines with automation.
Sound like it filters out all types of weaknesses, which makes it a good thing when you have a large pool of candidates to filter through.
I love Hyperreality, and I can't wait for it to come true. I think my world would be much better. Look at how cool it is!

I get that it's not for everyone, but sign me up.
Eh, your mileage may vary, but I've normally found too completely open ended questions impossible to ever really get a good signal from. I've done enough interviews to feel like questions with a pretty binary "you either get it or you don't", evaluation make it pretty hard to judge someone. I'd rather ask questions where there are multiple levels of evaluation, rather than a single trick.
A rudimentary version of this already exists within Oculus.
Securing private keys with an efficient threshold signature-based protocol
I've worked with dozens of different companies, and it's pretty rare to truly have such crazy variance in load.
That's the point though, inflation depends a great deal on the velocity of money, as much or even more so than the total amount printed.

Money in a vault has zero velocity, money being spent dozens of times a day has a very high velocity, most situations lie between, we need a meaningful way of discussing this that "monetary supply" does not capture.
Not quite, it's not permanently locked, I have just decided not to spend it. Ditto money people squirrel away in mattresses or vaults. It is an analogy for a change in behavior of market participants over time which must by necessity be included in any complete model of an economic and monetary system. Broadly speaking, "velocity."

This system remains at equilibrium because supply went up, and velocity went down leading to neutral price action.

It analogizes this graph: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/PSAVERT
Windows is not mandatory at all? You can literally combine whatever you want in the laptop, including the preinstalled windows or not. Look under the DIY section
1kg of a commodity in earth orbit should be worth more than 1kg of the same commodity on earth because it's stuck in earth's gravity well. The orbital commodity has significantly more potential energy.

Now, there's not yet much of a market for commodities outside of earth, but as soon as there is, producing a commodity on the moon and shipping it to earth orbit will likely be cheaper than shipping it from earth - at least once scales are large enough.
Nodes don't relay non standard transactions to be mined, but blocks with non standard transactions are relayed and accepted by all nodes. These rules together make soft forks possible.
No one has ever tried to take a ledger from the unit of account representing no value to representing value on a global scale. Every historical money has come from a cultural context where the token was valuable, beautiful, or frequently both.

When people point out Bitcoin's volatility, I wonder how else this could be accomplished on a decentralized and voluntary basis.

Which isn't to say that BTC will achieve that, of course. But unless it does, how could it possibly have a stable value in between? It's either worth $0 or ~$1-10mm per Bitcoin, and the market is having a vigorous argument about which.
"Simplicity" is also not well defined, and seems to be very very different for a novice or more advanced coder. Many seem to think fewer lines of code means simpler, or chaining 20 lines/calls is clearer than temporary variables, or use lambdas everywhere is better since function definitions are harder to grok. From my experience, elegance is often something very clever, and elegant by definition, but also nearly impossible to understand.

So, I guess "simplicity in understanding".
We closed ~$7m deal. the first of many more to come. Partner decides to steal the product, try to sell it himself, thought nobody would find out. He ruined many millions in profits but lost only ~$500k in court. No justice.
This is probably off tangent but who shops for a home like this? My wife and I are looking right now and we told our agent what we want and then proceeded to spend time on Redfin trying to find a house. We find something we want and then ask our agent to get us inside of it.

Our agent has suggested a couple of places but she's also had us point out 4 or 5 that we were specifically interested in and - she works in the area that we're looking in.

I can understand that the beginning with an inexperienced buyer being told "how it is" by the experienced agent might be a hook but instead it makes me think the buyer is a bit of a flake. Sorry if that's mean but honestly that's what I thought.
It's emotionally hard for one to accept their own identified group's wrongdoings. For this, I always start with the history of China and then followed by pointers to US histories, if the conversation flow allows.

There is also a persistent danger that this flow eventually leads to political nihilism where there is no meaning in trying to dissecting the historical facts, and everyone is as bad as everyone else. That effectively moves the discussion back to the starting point, i.e., one has to look for something else to settle the original discussion anyway.
Sure. But MS-DOS didn't define "computing" in 1989. I think it's fine to say something like "pkzip was developed on a platform with a lot of limitations, and you can see some of them in both the program and file format designs". It's quite different to claim that the design of pkzip somehow reflected the general state of computing in 1989 - it just isn't true.
>historically this was done with attractiveness specifically

And money. Mostly money, at some times and places. Many examples of ostentatious displays of wealth being discouraged or forbidden. Lots of good reasons for that, social and individual.

e.g. 1 Timothy 2:9.
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> From the article, it sounds like the response is "it wasn't gain-of-function research, it was just research that involved gains of function."

Not really. The article states quite clearly that the research paid by the NIH was not deemed to be gain-of- function.

From the article:

> One of the US scientists who collaborated on the 2015 research on bat viruses with the Wuhan institute, Dr Ralph Baric from the University of North Carolina, gave a detailed statement to the Washington Post.

> He said the work they did was reviewed by both the NIH and the university's own biosafety committee "for potential of gain-of-function research and were deemed not to be gain-of-function".

At most the article considers the theoretical possibility of non-gain-of-function research to accidentally involve viruses that mutate, which is the case for all researches that involve a living entity that reproduces.

From the article:

> This could imply that research on viruses may not intend to produce "gain-of-function", although that could be the end result of it.

The main sticking point of this controversy is that patently false accusations and innuendo is being abused and repeated ad nauseum to try to attack public servants whose success in stopping a pandemic became politically inconvenient. Therefore, trying to blame said public servant for the pandemic is the only card they can play.
it's hilarious how they find loopholes in their own rules when it fits their agenda
> I'd think it was stupid to fill a 747 with ping pong balls and think about something else

This is fine as long as you understand that it's equivalent to walking out of the interview right then and there.
This is really cool! I like it.
Is the data exportable?
My solution is to not run either; Having to take extra steps to block that is completely unacceptable.
https://developers.cloudflare.com/workers/platform/pricing

Edit: I was quoting a 100MB per request limit but that's actually ingress, egress is 512MB/unlimited so if you calculate that out it would be an even smaller fraction of a penny per terabyte for bundled workers.
A permanent war among plebs - well, I do not want any part of it. I might as well hang-out with Tony and collect some Fentanyl money.
Aren't most domains limited to 10 years max?
This is fine if the question relates to something that the candidate is familiar with. But I have personally never set foot in a 747, much less be able to come up with any estimate of the dimensions in order to estimate volume. Then there is the formula to determine the packing volume of ping pong balls.

Just like the question of how much water dumps out of the Amazon river per day. Yes, I can write down a formula with a bunch of variables, but there is no way I could justify my guess of what the values of those variables are without some research ahead of time. And in reality, who wants a developer that just starts banging out code without researching the problem domain space first?

In Fermi's case he already knew the inputs such as air resistance, weight of the paper, and of course knew all the relevant math formulas because that was part of his education and job.
True, I was just trying to explain this to my partner who didn’t want to throw out still functional CFLs. In this case the value of the estimated remaining life of the CFL + cost of new LED is less than the expected power savings of the LED.