skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Instead of pulling "obvious" reasons out of your ass, how about listening to the guy's explicitly given reason instead - specifically that he wanted a gaming rig and didn't want to pay the "Apple tax".

There is also PCI-Passthrough so you can in fact use a VM for gaming but it's rather cute that you're attempting to paint me as the one who is somehow failing to understand why a particular system might not fulfills their needs.

Also, which "other guy?" Handerous himself? I don't recall him ever expressing being "pissed off and sour" so either you just assumed guilt by association or your reading comprehension is way off.

Also, you literally painted a crash a year as if that's a real problem with MacOS or really any desktop OS. Don't pretend like you're being objective when you are clearly not.

It's great that purchasing multiple devices for each OS suits you. Not everyone is you or agree on what a "simple" scheme is.
(One of) the biggest pains with leap seconds is they are so infrequent and so I/O-bound, that they are almost impossible to test. What is less functional than relying on a random change in a radio signal below the noise floor coming through dedicated hardware, which is finicky and doesn't work well indoors (E-coated glass windows? Fuggetaboutit).

I think one thing that could have be easily done to help is emit leap-sub-seconds (100-500ms) more frequently, so we would have more chances to detect bugs per year. Alas, leap seconds are baked in as int8 so that's never gonna happen. That's also totally not the mindset when these systems were designed, which is kind of my point. The right kind of forethought could have avoid much of this pain.

Option 1: We have 2 time standards out of sync. Let's make an announcement yearly-ish and add 1 second of offset that everything has to obey.

Option 2: We have 2 time standards out of sync. Let's continuously track the offset to (whatever precision) and this offset is just always part of the correction (like we do time zones), rather than this value which you just assume is static 99% of the time.
It's nice to have a build machine that can complete a build when it's disconnected from the Internet
During a lecture on clickwrap contracts the prof asked for ideas for making customers actually read contracts. Having them type out the contract was considered too far, but having them READ ALOUD key parts was deemed acceptable by the class.
> Tokyo largely feels like it was frozen in time.

Economically, Japan has been in stagnation since the late 80s.
Nothing interesting in the article at all, I have no idea why it is on the front page of HN.

As usual with software estimation, unless you've read this paper:
http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.19.3...

and have a thoughtful response to it (of which I've read some solid ones), I've very little interest in hearing what you have to say about software estimation.
There's one coal seem fire in Australia that's been going on for 6000 years.
Can he simply convert it to cash via local Bitcoin?

Another thing I wonder, is having an ASIC a guarantee to mine something? I mean new coins/partial coins, not transaction processing.
New Leadership at Blizzard
> Non-fair trade is considered unethical based on ethics.

No, it is not. If it were, fair trade wouldn't be niche. It adds lots of other obligations on companies "based on their particular agenda". I think it is worthwhile goal and something I like to support, but won't pretend that it is somehow pure, self-evident goodness, just like non-fair trade is not pure evil.

Again, you might disagree or have different ideas what "free" is supposed to mean but you should be better than throwing around phrases like "agenda" or "nothing to do with ethics or morality".
inflation, negative nominal rates (to say nothing of real rates) and if the central banks so much as breath towards tightening the enormous asset bubble they have blown begins imploding...

a lovely job, and well done
What's missing for me here is the company's side of the responsibility. It's one-sided to depend on employees to give up opportunities for advancement in favor of a company that would not be as loyal to them.

There are two things I think companies should do:

1) Make sure people have sufficient opportunities for growth. Honestly look at each person and make sure they're getting what they want for their career and their life out of it. Hopefully, a company can find ways to make sure people are always advancing in knowledge, skill, and capability. When they can't, they should be open about that and either find another way to make it up to them or help them find something that's a better fit.

2) Always be planning for succession. An important job of managers is to make sure employees are growing according to their capabilities. They should know who the best fit is to replace them and be grooming that person to be able to step into their job.
Most modern how?

Is everything just recently built or actually designed with modern principles in mind that will still feel relevant a decade down the road?

I’m no researcher of any thing but the casual impression I’ve gotten from reading here and there over the years is that South Korea has plenty of problems, social and otherwise, and some of them pretty archaic and morbid (like idols collapsing on stage but nobody helping them)
Plus, no microdots, right?
Bloomberg Is Hiring a Sr Site Reliability Engr Enterprise Data Science Platform
This really goes back to the debate if Uber is a marketing platform for individual drivers (like Facebook marketplace), or is it a transportation company which employs a bunch of drivers.
But environmental destruction is way up.

A good example is river health. We can provide more meat with high density grazing. But the waste products have to go somewhere, so the farmers spread them across their fields. Now when it rains, these run into the rivers and we get algae bloom. Majority of rivers in UK are now dying, for example.

Have we discovered a sustainable way of producing more meat in less space? I hope so. But perhaps we are destroying natural systems whose benefit to us has not been properly quantified, in a way that will be extremely difficult to reverse.

Modern agriculture has enabled us to support a larger world population with less labour and less space, but can we continue as we are for another 50 years?
How does having a hot side of a piece of material and a cold side of a piece of material come under "cyclically operating"?
In this instance, they claim that they will not attack non-profits, which puts organizations like MSF out of harm's way.
Seems reasonable enough depending on your use case.

In our situation we store our own (private, commercial) artifacts as well as third party ones, so we already need to have a server, and we know our server is configured, maintained & monitored in a secure fashion whereas I have no guarantees with public servers.

Plus our build servers don’t have access out to the internet either, for security. Supply chain attacks like SolarWinds and Kaseya are too common these days.

Edit: Also, our local servers are faster at serving requests, allowing for faster builds, and ensures no issues with broken builds if a public repo went offline or was under attack.
I did. Nothing really notable, so I'll have to look through my pics at some point to see what else I could post. The furnace is extremely heavy and life happened it on it's terms, so that project got iceboxed for a while.
Oh please. You're a Tesla fanatic and apologist that can't help but spam post in every single topic even remotely associated with electric cars, and the only thing you're doing here is trying to deflect from obviously bad press about your favorite company in the whole entire world.
> Props to the Natick police for what seems like good, competent police work.

Agreed. But the fact that the paper trail was so easy to follow makes me think this wasn't a corporate conspiracy - you don't need to break the law like they did to intimidate people - look what Amazon did when the Alabama union vote was happening. Any large company can stay within the law and get away with murder.

If I was a CEO and really wanted to do this illegally, I'd hire an external 'security' company to do the dirty work. The payment to them would be legitimate for some security consultancy/background checks etc and the security company would use 3rd party contractors who know they'll get paid to keep their mouths shut. You don't use your own employees charging items to their company Amex.
> I understand he feels left out, so many job and gig postings now requiring in-depth knowledge of declarative frameworks such as React or Angular, something he has skipped over on purpose, on principle, and now feels more and more left out.

Ooh boy, is this it. And take a look at his other blog articles to see how deep he's digging his heels in to his rally cry against modernity.
On some level yes. This is basically shifting closed repos to a trade secret status.
If this passes, which I think it will in some form, I believe the main impact will be a long-ish period of doublespeak between policy language and ability to enforce, eventually resolving in the end of the policy. This sounds so similar to the crypto (encryption) wars in the 90's: a general sense, but not actual understanding of how <cryptocurrencies/consumer encryption> actually works, but a desire to regulate it because the new tech fundamentally upends current approaches to the privacy and freedom of access to <spending/communications> in a digital forum.

Overall, I've been cautiously optimistic on how a regulatory situation like this would go, once it actually launched, after hearing politicians like Sen Warner/Wyden talk about tech the last few years. However, I suppose the industry should have seen this coming after the recent Sen Warren "shadowy coders" comment about bitcoin core, and similar pushes from the UST across two admins.

The crux:

> “responsible for and regularly providing any service effectuating transfers of digital assets”

KYC for all these entities, which almost sounds like it could include home routers, is technically impossible. Similarly to banning exports of a math proof (the crypto wars). USBs also enable transfer of digital assets. So do printers, if you go full cold wallet. Will USBs, home routers, and printers that I buy on amazon require my KYC/AML?

I say that not to highlight how nonsensical this law is, but to highlight that this won't be enforceable. If they do try to enforce it, I bet it will be as an umbrella authorization to go after the miners, and.... we'll see what happens to crypto, as that's a dangerous threat to hashpower. If crypto survives a situation like that though in the short term, my sense is the regulation would drop away in the mid term, similar to the encryption regs in the 90s.
There is not chance to eradicate COVID any time soon. Or maybe ever. It's been pretty clear for 12+ month now that society will have to learn to live with covid, including a certain amount of COVID related death.

The lockdowns and measure are not sustainable on the long term, and aren't meant to be. The only way forward is to open, relax measures and see what happens. This can only work if we are ready to close back if things go south.

The approach you describe : open / close / open a little / close back a bit more according to the situation is exactly how we need to handle things. It's also how the next few month will be shaped until we are in a situation where there is virtually no measure in place and the number of cases is close to 0. No european country - including UK - were "overly optimistic" enough to reach a point were hospital were completely saturated and people died due to lack of care. We got close during the hardest waves, but nowhere near what India suffered.

Anti COVID measure are extremely deadly as well, something people tend to forget, governments have to walk a very fine line, and right now the number of hospital admissions really don't seem big enough to justify keeping hard measures in place.
August 2, 2021
Be careful to attribute what you read on Hacker News to the entire "hacker culture". There are so many strongly held opinions I've never heard hackers say out loud in real life, most famous example must be about unions. I've heard zero hackers arguing that unions are bad in real life, while when the discussion comes up on Hacker News, the discussions seems to lean 50/50 on if unions are actually good or bad.
If you could only choose to keep 3 apps on your phone, what would they be?
Excluding default apps, mine would be spotify, grab, and my authenticator app lmao
Uber tried to compensate this independent contractor when they had no legal reason to do so. The contractors assume all legal risk when they work as an independent contractor, which is why many contractors in other industries often form an LLC so their assets are shielded from liability.

On top of this, NDAs are common in arbitration. They were under no legal requirement to sign.

Plus, compensating drivers a ton for carjacking creates perverse incentives. It would be trivial for a driver's buddy to "carjack" them on camera and seek a payout from it.
Most people I know are not and left it a few years back during the first exodus. 1/3 of Americans are not on FB.
SK is committing demographic suicide though, so whatever you think of its success, it has a pretty fatal disease. It has the lowest birthrate in the world.

This is going to cause significant economic problems quite soon, or they will have to open up massive immigration which will completely change the country.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Low_birth_rate_in_South_Korea

How does the developed world pull out of this type of tailspin? Japan and other nations are also facing this exact same issue and we seem to be not paying attention to it.

The core issue is that in most of the developed world, people do not have enough children. And even immigrants in their second generation and beyond also do not have enough children, as such it appears to be a cultural/way of life/society norms problem. It is as if the developed modern world is currently designed as a population sink.

This is going to be one of the grand challenges of the 50 years.
Never been good at estimation. Software Estimation from Steve McConnell is in my reading list for a long time now. From the little I have seen from it, it look good (I already read Code Complete from him and recommend it). Do you guys have any tips for estimation?
The strength and weakness of event-driven apps is the low coupling. A little bit goes a long way, as you said. Retro-fitting event-driven pubsub in is a fantastic architecture evolution. Running everything that way? Not much fun to read/maintain.
Some of these types of films are available through Kanopy, which you might be able to use if you have a US library card. If your library participates, it’s free, but limited to 10 movies or episodes per month. It was a great day when I found it, owing to a comment here on HN. Far better catalog than Netflix.
CNN, the left, etc
Autosar
AUTOSAR or Automotive Open System Architecture is a systematized automotive software architecture, which keeps order in interfaces between application software and basic vehicular functions and it aids in creating common ECU software architecture for all the AUTOSAR members.
Oculus Rift 2, most likely. It was the newest hardware before Quest 2 and it has no physical hardware for eye adjustments.
Ok, but the Oculus store sucks anyway, so the question is: can I just use Steam with it?
If Uber gave tracking devices for drivers to hide in cars, then thieves and carjackers could easily be caught up with by authorities before they get a chance to disassemble the car and find the tracker.
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It gives rise to some interesting situations.

I'm an open source audio coder. I'm not any great shakes as a programmer but I make my living by regularly coming up with novel ideas, and my codebase is on Github and MIT licensed. Over the course of hundreds of DSP plugins, some key parts are very repetitive.

This means that there are audio processing algorithms I do which NOBODY ELSE is doing, because they're unusual and in some ways arbitrarily wrong. They're chosen to produce a particular sound rather than the textbook-correct algorithm output. Example: interleaved IIR filters, to make the audio interact differently in the midrange and produce a lower Q factor at the cost of producing some odd artifacts near the Nyquist frequency.

Nobody out there in the normal world or commercial DSP or academia would intend to do that, because there are significant reasons not to (which I work around, in context). But if that stuff appears in Copilot output, they are jacking my INTENT but violating the very lenient MIT license by stripping my credit. They'd also be misleading hapless audio programmers who didn't intend to adopt my techniques, but that's a side issue.

I'm interested in who else out there has a substantial codebase subject to Copilot reprocessing, who is demonstrating intent that isn't 'normal' and doesn't exist in the 'normal' world of whatever domain's being coded for.

The point is, can it be demonstrated that Microsoft is taking SPECIFIC things from specific open source developers that can be clearly traced back to one source of distinct intentions, and then stripping the licensing? I feel like said intentions cannot be 'normal and industry-standard and correct'. It's gotta be things like my IIR interleaving, where it's a quirky choice you wouldn't automatically do, very likely with costs and consequences in its own right. Something you could choose to adopt if you liked the trade-offs (or in my case, the sound).
Do you have any Windows systems in your network? I am looking to restrict RDP sessions to a closed Wireguard network.
I wonder if these researchers would help productize their findings into a kick starter prototype kit, would this advance faster due to the hive effect?Seems like every innovation stops "3 feet from gold"
What is their relationship? I've been thinking of event-sourcing as a special case of event-driven: all event-sourced systems are event-driven, but the reverse is not true. Is this the generally accepted view or do folks view these as more orthogonal?
I am curious if we're entering a period where western governments must run deficits and central banks must purchase said debt at sub zero interest rates to keep the economy running.

In principal this could occur if there were large capital “sinks” in the economy where paper money is being removed from circulation or it's velocity plummets. This could occur if for instance certain economic actors could acquire large cash flows that they then deposit into illiquid non productive assets.

E.g. Housing, universities, Large rent speaking corporations with offshore accounts, individuals with the same.
Even better. Keep it up!
Like I said, I'm not asking for anyone to be kicked out of their homes. I'm asking them to stop kicking other people out of theirs.

There are people who want to do the former, and I disagree with them, on both sides. Stop using them as an excuse for Israel's ongoing abuses.
Yep. In fact, I recently had to deal with this monstrosity https://pypi.org/project/awslambdaric whose setup.py invokes a shell script https://github.com/aws/aws-lambda-python-runtime-interface-c...

That shell script runs 'make && make install' on a couple of bundled dependencies, but in principle it could do anything https://github.com/aws/aws-lambda-python-runtime-interface-c...
>on March 1st, we don't start pretending that February 29th never happened.

Speak for yourself.
VSQL: A SQL Database written in pure V
I am sympathetic, I don't see much use for them. But...

Just because you or I don't see the use case doesn't mean something should be illegal or that we should go to war with it.

We've made this mistake before (prohibition, the war on drugs). If people want to waste their time/money on X, that's on them.
Slimv comes with a Paredit Mode: https://github.com/kovisoft/slimv Personally I leave it off, though, never been a fan of anything trying to 'help' me automatically while I'm typing apart from indentation. I do appreciate vim-sexp occasionally with these mappings: https://github.com/tpope/vim-sexp-mappings-for-regular-peopl...

https://susam.in/blog/lisp-in-vim-with-slimv-or-vlime/ is a good overview of the differences between slimv and vlime (the two vim plugins) and how to use them.
Seems like the person you are responding to understood your point and labeled it (quite correctly) whataboutism.
That's super cool, good for him. It's also an anecdotal example and relatively meaningless in the scheme of things.

I'm not even saying that black kids have any inherent disadvantages, but that people have become so sensitive to that perception as to seriously hinder actual education.

Seriously, people are worried about racial sensitivity in math. These two things do not go together, should not go together, and have almost zero reason to interact.
Exercising options is also a taxable event. If the difference between your strike price and fair market value at time of exercise is large enough you can find yourself in AMT land where you have to pay the tax on "profit" that you can't access because you've purchased an illiquid asset.
Or orders to let agents provocateurs push things up to a certain point.
I'm not sure what you mean by "blue" diet. Do you have a reference?

The closest thing I could find was the blue zones and the diet in these locations. A summary of which is at https://www.bluezones.com/recipes/food-guidelines/. Though, I don't think this is a consensus.

Were you pointing to something else?
Thanks for the comment, I also had to dust off some mental cobwebs for this analysis :)

You're pointing out the crux of the issue: "Ultimately making CaCO3 this way (and CaO) winds up substituting a 400$/tonne product in NaOH for an approx 40$/tonne product in CaCO3."

I calculated that Heimdal's process has 7x reality factor overhead, whereas chloralkali has 2x reality factor. This is seemingly in opposition to your statement. I think the diff comes from considering all the other energetics - precipitation of CaO from the hydroxide is thermodynamically quite favorable, reducing the overall theoretical cost by 65% relative to the chloralkali process. So to the extent that Heimdal can usefully harness that energy gradient, that's the difference.
I received a 1500€ quote for urinals and "bio boxes" (?) in Belgium just yesterday. Two weeks ago I received a boarding pass for the next day for a Spanish island. I think the worst is that since I share the same name, I imagine I could have used the boarding pass.
Out of the Newsroom
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Sorry, yea used that word incorrectly. I just mean to say one guy said something where it is impossible to know whether or not he is telling the truth.
Some online banks (don't know how widespread this is) allow you to create "virtual card" that expire either after 1 purchase or at a specific date (and with a set maximum of budget). I use them for every single purchase I make online, it's inconvenient but at least i've never entered my real card info anywhere.
I didn't see anything about guns drawn or anything like that. Presumably if they were police in the US, however, I assume they were "armed." That said, I frankly expect this would not be the reaction in most places. That would probably be more along the lines of "If you still haven't heard from him in 48 hours give us a call back." It seems weird that police would come to break down a house's interior door when there were no other indications of e.g. someone armed barricading themselves in a room or in distress in some other manner.
Shouldn’t an event like this be covered by insurance? I assume the driver did not have commercial insurance and wants Uber to be responsible, which goes back to the independent contractor vs employee debate?
Not if the company isn't public; the IRS doesn't take shares of stock, you need to be able to convert it into dollars.