skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I like to visualize networks as a series of tubes in my head. Maybe I'm misunderstanding something but I'm imagining a kernel driver that acts as a separate network interface proxying to localhost as a klein bottle[0] esque object

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klein_bottle
Bitcoin already is regulated - piling on as much regulation as possible isn't what's going to make it more main stream. This bill allows the request to treat miners as brokers, which is absurd considering that not all miners operate in the U.S. Any miner that does operate in the U.S. will hash locally and send verified blocks from international nodes, so it won't work anyways.

Upstarts are able to enter quickly based on technical merit alone RIGHT NOW. How does adding regulation simplify that for them? It doesn't - it makes it far more restrictive. You must be on crack to believe these provisions "help" crypto assets. This bill goes against the design philosophy of peer-to-peer transactions.
Tried to make text size larger at https://sysprog21.github.io/lkmpg/ and could not, it stays fixed. It would be great to fix this problem.
> Re-form the Police

Triple their pay, but also enforce strict no-tolerance rules on misbehaviour and select candidates more carefully.
All 'waste' we produce we either consume in our process or we're able to sell as a commercial product!

Not bad tackling ocean acidifcation to boot
I've worked on a project that was fully event-driven realized as Microservices. (I think a few of the externally connected Microservices were event-driven as well but not all.) That was all roll-your-own without framework. So things could break. But the philosophy was more like: everything is written in a very lightweight and simple way. So if it breaks, it can be fixed swiftly. I've also seen a similar approach at another place. FWIW both places had unusually high availability requirements. ("Fail fast"...)
Does your router show its MAC address, and can you block it?
Some "controversial" blog posts they deleted.

How men and women perceive attractiveness
https://archive.is/489UV#selection-282.0-282.1

We finally answer the age-old question: should men keep their shirts on?
https://archive.is/9fJQh#selection-282.0-282.1

We Experiment On Human Beings!
https://archive.is/QNCbf#selection-278.0-278.1

How Your Race Affects The Messages You Get
https://archive.is/kMP32#selection-278.0-278.1

Don’t Be Ugly By Accident!
https://www.gwern.net/docs/psychology/okcupid/dontbeuglybyac...

More can be found here:

https://www.gwern.net/docs/psychology/okcupid/index
I assume you are in US. I am in UK but many of the same principles apply. I know many small businesses who are not limited companies without issue. I setup a limited company to receive government funding. I also pay for professional indemnity insurance but I note prices have increased a lot with more cyber attacks.

If you have no customers or employees I think the answer to your question is no. You will end up incurring costs, paperwork and probably require an accountant. I imagine your pressing issues are terms of service and copyright.
If you want to call yourself CEO the answer is yes. Here in the UK we can look up any companies finances. I imagine it's the same in the US. You can declare yourself King or Queen over a whole load of nothing :-)
Yes, please ruin functionality without javascript for the sake of gmail's nosiness.

Comment about a form and PUT/POST is good - it will work by standards in any browser, even when gmail starts executing javascript. Add auto-submit on top javascript if preferred.
Link/source to your first claim?
What we did in the VFX world is just use hardware VDI.

Shove in a https://www.teradici.com/ card, and bam, low latency, high colour accuracy, high resolution remote video.

This allowed us to use the huge machines that drove realtime VFX (your flames, baselite and editing rigs) in utter silence.
Oldschool Internet and the Blockchain
Not only is it absurd it seems to be a core part of how these bill get negotiated cross party
Essentially, yes. Not for just living, but also for having free access to all the services provided by the government/municipality.
We make CaCO3, I mention CaO here because that's what cement producers ultimately need. They heat up limestone (CaCO3) to make CaO
In what ways?
Are they going to implement federation or E2EE?
The downsides listed are just cryptocurrency lobbyist talking points.

“Require new surveillance of everyday users of cryptocurrency;”

What everyday users? There’s nothing you can do with this stuff except speculate, gamble and build obfuscated Ponzis.

”Force software creators and others who do not custody cryptocurrency for their users to implement cumbersome surveillance systems or stop offering services in the United States;”

Not offering these services seems like a positive outcome.

”Create more honeypots of private information about cryptocurrency users that could attract malicious actors;”

Losing your money to malicious actors is a standard part of the crypto experience already. Endless scams and ransomware don’t seem to worry the author.

”Create more legal complexity to developing blockchain projects or verifying transactions in the United States—likely leading to more innovation moving overseas.”

Ah, blockchain innovation, which is somehow so vital to the shining future of mankind, yet has utterly failed to produce anything of technological or economic value with the billions already invested. Overseas sounds like a fine place to continue this pseudoinnovation charade.
Yep, by far that was the biggest PiA because I was hosting a lot of things at home.
The World’s Biggest Private Tax Havens
Trump didn't win because some huge cohort of people thought he was the great white hope. He won because he was seen as a giant middle finger to the establishment. Trump didn't win, Clinton lost through complacency and arrogance. She and her team pissed off enough people to push them into voting against her and what she represented.

Trump had a tiny base and made the Republicans go through 4 years of a schizoid identity crisis, where they had to pretend everything was normal. Trump's election was as much a disaster for them as for the democratic establishment, as it showed how absolutely superficial the politicians are. They are all as morally and ethically bankrupt as Trump, as compromised and corrupt. They're just better at playacting and presenting a palatable public facade.

Trump didn't represent freedom, or draining the swamp, or anything else idealistic or abstract. Those are stories bolted on post-hoc as damage control. Trump was a giant "fuck you" to the political class from about 55 million Americans.

The conditions that allowed him to gain office have gotten worse and more polarized, and it looks like all the wrong lessons were learned.
Promising Budapest-based startups to watch in 2021
It's much more likely that your TV either has some ads preloaded or it just joining an open WiFi network. While Ethernet is part of the HDMI standard, no products were ever released that support it.
I never thought I'd ever be defending Microsoft, but 2nd screenshot
1. tells you why
2. tells you that once Teams fully supports Safari, this workaround will not be necessary.
This is how you deal with an existential threat to USD.
> This bill goes against the design philosophy of peer-to-peer transactions.

Yes: because that design philosophy is counter to that of consumer friendly, regulated markets. What will make bitcoin mass market is the ability of regular investors to get involved with the kind of safety net regulations require. The alternative being that bitcoin maintains its already shady reputation as something for money laundering and buying drugs (crack, perhaps?) online. Cleaning up that reputation and its causes is the job of regulation, and it will work.
Reorganization of work so that there are not many bullshit jobs => 15 hour work weeks for any knowledge work. The other time the people can work on something else and/or read about science and philosophy. A truly efficient society does not have people wasting time copy pasting stuff between Excel sheets. Eventually all work will become knowledge work through automation and robotic development brought by the new generation of critical-thinkers.

Removal of free (costless) social media. Everyone who uses social media must pay for the employee and hardware costs by the minute. End of ads and end of engagement. End of push notifications. If people gain time by working 15 hours a week but lose the gained time on social media then no good is created. There is some value in Social Media but it must be consumed a little otherwise it is poison. Similar for Netflix and TV.

Once people are free of bullshit work and of bullshit free time (facebook and instagram feeds) and all boring physical work is automated, we should look to the stars. The final frontier.

That is my hopefully doable utopia. Actually this is John Maynard Keynes year 2000 utopia expanded a bit. Society failed as we are 2021 now and 996 is the norm instead of 15 hour work weeks. Working more is not the solution. Working smart is. Also not everyone needs to have a job.
Maybe his cat died. Or his girlfriend left him. Or he has been depressed all his life. Or he was diagnosed with a terminal disease.
Good for you. Someone dear to me finds it extremely hurtful, which is why I commented.

Also, I think the Kevin meme originally came from a comedy. The connotations aren't quite as nasty and serious as the Karen ones.

But there are definitely other very negative name memes. I don't like any of it, but I fully accept that people can feel differently about it.
Not "go back to" some era, but roll back the militarization of the police for the present/future era.

A ban on guns wouldn't change anything. There are many countries that are much more violent with much more violent police and bans on guns. Other countries have high gun ownership and low crime and low police violence.
Zurich-based startups worth following in 2021 and beyond
Not the person you're replying to, but I'd be interested in suggestions - I've in the past had some horrendous support experiences.

Also my feeling on reading the grandparent comment is that they don't care about improving the support structure of the company, but rather find that bothering a C-level is the fastest way to get somebody important to send a "just get this sorted so this person stops bothering me" e-mail & have their support issue resolved - which I have to say I'm sympathetic to... whatever works for a customer to get their issue resolved, they have no interest in helping or hurting the support team.
Its designed to be in the office, so having a default sound level of 75dB isn't going to be a winner.

Plus I suspect that having watercooling for that machine allows it to fit in a much smaller space. We had a machine that contained 4 RTX 2080s (or maybe the generation before) and it took up a huge amount of space, and never went at full speed, because of the cooling (those consumer cards are not designed for density.)
Same situation here, was actually talking about it on reddit yesterday too:

> I care but I have a quest because there's no alternative, if there is one day I'll jump ship without looking back.
Not if I am buying. I'd rather eat less meat, and when I do, it's organic, naturally fed and free range.
One lives and one learns my friend :)
GitHub Copilot is ‘unacceptable and unjust,’ says Free Software Foundation
You're right - at the single element level it's not that different.

But the overall effect is very different. For instance, simple ergonomic things that help programmers read code, like the word "else" in an if statement/expression are elided because its AST is implicit in its position in Lisp. Similarly, you can't quickly scan a page of code for something like "=" to see what's getting assigned - you have to look for let pairs.

And even then, making local variables seems to be considered wasteful in Lisp if there's a way to structure it so that the value can be placed somehow directly into the AST as the evaluation of an expression. The result is that most Lisp code I've seen has a rigidity to it of deep expressions within expressions. Deep expressions are certainly possible to implement in other languages, but it's rare to see it done so thoroughly as Lisp developers seem to enjoy doing.

The result is "hard to read" in the sense that it's harder to scan syntactically (lisp having essentially no syntax) and harder to modify due to the carefully constructed expression nesting. These may both be seen as my own shortcomings wrt the language, but I think many others share them.
I've always been annoyed with JIRA's limitation of 1 task = 1 assignee, but IMHO assigning 2+ people to every task by default is overdoing it. Depending on the product and the team, many tasks can be pretty straightforward if the backlog grooming is done often and the tasks are prepared well.

Also, many developers chose to become a developer because they have a more introverted personality and they like working on their own for long stretches of time. If you force them to always work together or sync up with each other more often than is necessary, it will lead to more burn-out.
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React Admin is a very good generic tool that works with multiple data sources. You need to build your panels with a set of prebuilt components or use your custom ones in React.
FireCMS approach is a bit different since it is streamlined to be compatible with Firestore. It builds a UI optimised for it out of the box.
In the simplest case, you just need to define your collection and entity schemas as props in the main CMS component, no need to do component composition. Anyhow, there is a lot of room of customisation to replace or extend the different parts with your own components.
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Perl? Well you need a time machine just to reach the present... :) Anyway, that setup sounds too complex...Perl generated macros further expanded by the preprocessor... A bug in that tool path can be the most hard to detect...
Good luck!!!
All code is text. There is no pure "code" representation, text inside attributes being parsed as JS is no different than parsing text inside some <script> tags.

Also modern component-based JS frameworks all work the same way. The UI definition is a template that's compiled into a render function which produces the final output during runtime. Each framework uses different syntax: React uses JSX which is a domain specific language (DSL) that mixes HTMl-like tags into Javascript. Vue uses HTML with directives on top. Angular, Svelte, etc all use their own formats.

You can even mix and match (use JSX with Vue) or write your own render function if you want, but it's the same text->parsing->lexing->compilation cycle that every language goes through before turning into actual CPU instructions.
Any suggestions for FOSS communities?

I run a fairly big instance with hundreds of users. We wanted to support/promote a more free/libre alternative to Slack, but you are basically saying we should not use Mattermost?

(I think that channel deletion was a concern at some point, but archiving mitigates it, we are happy users in general)
Not using memory that's lying empty isn't a win. There's nothing better about "I didn't use a reusable resource that was lying about unused."
yes that kilning is what bothers me, not for the co2 that is captured at sea, released in the kiln. that is then recaptured when curing, isn't it?

what bothers me is the 1400°C needed in the kiln. to my understanding the ratio of limestone-to-lime co2 to fuel-for-the-process co2 is 2:3. you need lots of co2 intensive energy for that kiln.
What problems do you work on in isolation without teamwork? No talks about design, no code reviews, no functionality review, no one updating the documentation etc?
They were blackmailed to testify the script and then suicided.
That is a first step, but what you really want to do (and what most commercial VPN solutions are doing) is tunneling the VPN via https. Preferably with a real-looking web server at one end, so that "firewall solutions" have something to look at and scan for evil keywords. Oh, and you might have to disguise the traffic pattern as something that looks like http, so frequent reconnects. And the payload has to be web-like so that a MitM-proxy sees something like http, so an one direction is a POST, the other is the respective response, and if you cannot do persistent connections because the proxy kills them you'll have to poll at least in one direction.

Yes, this is supremely ugly, but unfortunately entrenched and expected by now. I've been to customers with intrusive filtering/scanning setups like that who then recommended their favourite commercial VPN vendor to get around that filtering...
I don't think "from The Lancet" has the same weight as it used to.
Yeah absolutely, the CO2 balance comes from re-equilibration with the atmosphere. The rivers replenish calcium content on a longer time scale. But as you point out we're in no danger of running out of calcium in the oceans
> So, it seems gpsd is like the tz database, a few volunteers maintaining an essential part of our software infrastructure.

More than that. Software is now running the economy, controlling safety and security of the physical world.

gpsd, like Tz database, cURL, SQLite and the Linux Kernel, should be seen as critical planetary infrastructure, period. Safety of our economy and our physical well-being increasingly depends on them being operational.

And yes, it's worrying that we ended up in a situation, where the building blocks of our technological society are maintained by underpaid volunteers.
Location: Berlin, Germany
Remote: No preference
Willing to relocate: No, not generally. Don't mind coming for an onboarding period somewhere else.
Technologies: Clojure, ClojureScript, Datomic, Reagent, re-frame, Docker, Linux
Résumé/CV: On request, an outdated version at https://www.linkedin.com/in/finn-v%C3%B6lkel-21ba2150/
Email: finn [dot] volkel [at] gmail [dot] com
Website: https://finnvolkel.com/

Currently most comfortable with the Clojure stack, but also willing to consider other options. More of a backend person, but I find my way around in a re-frame Frontend. Particular interested in search infrastructure (crawling, scraping, indexing etc..)
Spotify Engineering Culture (by Henrik Kniberg)- Part 1 (2014)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4GK1NDTWbkY

Spotify Engineering Culture (by Henrik Kniberg)- Part 2 (2014)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rzoyryY2STQ
> None of that would have happened without Werner von Braun and his crew

One cannot ignore that they did their later work here. Not there. As did many others whose own societies collapsed or otherwise failed them.

In any case, I’m arguing a narrow argument: that a company like SpaceX could only have been founded, when it was founded, in America. Because of its certain characteristics that are an exception in the set of the world’s cultures. (One among many: its unique ability to assimilate and positively appropriate from immigrants.) That doesn’t mean it’s faultless; that’s a straw man.
Canada also has a monitoring system, the government offers weekly summaries at

health-infobase.canada.ca/covid-19/vaccine-safety/

Again, the system seems to be bottom-up patient-active in reporting, not top-down practitioner-active in monitoring. So, the magnitude is still roughly 1:10000 but may not be representative of all actual cases. Plus, I am not sure how these numbers can represent long-duration side effects (assumed as the main concern), though one quarter of the reports (2.7k/10.8k) were considered serious.
Or it leads to people consciously avoiding subconscious bias and actually focusing on capabilities, not what your lizard brain thinks.
Honestly, I don't think they've cared about users for a long-long time. And I think their lack of user support will be their downfall. It may take a while but someone will figure out a way to get tractions on their markets and when they do, Google and Facebook are screwed.

Amazon, on the other hand have amazing customer support so much so that even if you think the company is terrible on a moral level you probably still suggest it to friends.
typical micropenissoft being kikes and shit
>>You don't see a lot of natural hot air balloons floating around do you?

Not balloons perhaps, but spiders float on strands of silk using very similar principles.

Pollen and seeds frequently use some kind of floating device to spread as far as possible - again, you probably wouldn't call it flying as such, but they can move through the air for the purposes of reproduction without having wings.
Our process produces calcium carbonate, CaCO3, which cement producers can then burn to make quicklime, CaO. This does release CO2 but that CO2 has been captured from the atmosphere in the process of making that calcium carbonate. We only address process emissions (ie. splitting CO2 from CaCO3), but we do also produce hydrogen on-site, which can be used to replace fossil fuels in generating the requisite heat
Militarization of the Police happened, strangely enough, primarily during the Clinton Administration in the mid-1990s. Clinton shut down a lot of military bases, and shrunk the military overall as part of wrapping up the cold war with Russia/ex-Soviet Union.

Shrinking the military meant shrinking buying military equipment, which meant fewer dollars going into defense manufacturing, and furthermore, possibly fewer jobs. As part of a compromise of shrinking the military, congress unlocked both military surplus, and new defense equipment sales to local police departments. Prior to this, police were very limited in what they could buy. The photos of rural vermont police owning armored personnel carriers, etc didn't occur before this time.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Base_Realignment_and_Closure
I have no idea, but that's the rationale in the Yarn docs.

Probably any package that ships assets (static files) and uses file I/O to read instead of require()
>has utterly failed to produce anything of technological or economic value with the billions already invested. Overseas sounds like a fine place to continue this pseudoinnovation charade.

One quiet place where blockchain makes sense is shared ledgers between large financial institutions, JPMorgan for example is working a lot on this. It's not about privacy or usurping the social order or whatever imaginative solution to all of society's problems that gets attached to so many other things... it's just a better API between institutions for transferring ownership between themselves, which is a frequent and often awkward (and ancient) tech.

With blockchain you don't need a third party, with big institutions "theft" doesn't make sense. If there is an error and a transaction needs to be reversed it's in everybody's interest to do so and expected to happen from time to time and likely a built in feature.

Simplifying way back end transactions between banks is pretty nice... for banks, but pretty uninteresting to most people because it's just about settling daily balances between institutions and the like which is really boring.
What do you use to encode the messages? Avro, Proto or maybe just JSON? Most of the books and articles encourage the use of Avro, but I feel like the support in python isn't nearly as good as in other languages. Almost every solution operates on dictionaries instead of classes with annotations which doesn't seem like something you would want to use for a Py project in 2021...
Enums with Associated Values
A vague, extraordinarily broad, and difficult to interpret statement is absolutely a disaster.

You might not like cryptocurrency, but this is akin to the infrastructure bill having a provision classifying anyone "responsible for and regularly providing any service effectuating encryption of information" as a munitions-dealer -- with wide downstream implications on (1) open source software, and libraries like OpenSSL, etc, and (2) vague enough to cover pretty much every webmaster who uses TLS certificates.