skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Be more cynical.
It can be morally and legally wrong to persecute the researchers all it wants to be, but historically might makes right and the state has an ever growing monopoly on force; which I have no opinion on as to whether it is good or bad - but it needs to in order to facilitate it's survival in an ever more connected and delicate yet growlingly chaotic world.

You live in a world of laws prescribed to you at their discretion.
They can and will justify it infinitely and such legal actions are ramping up exceedingly since 2020 when it comes to the researchers.

I always wondered when they would come for the researchers, many of whom I find derivative projects of during incident reports. Many of the nation state actor and cybercriminal economy is fueled by the intellectualism of FOSS and university projects. It is only logical to assume Microsoft, Universities and the like don't take much of an approach in hosting such things like write-ups or FOSS cybersec tooling because they can offer the information of the authors on a silver platter to the feds when the time is right.

All those inclined to or capable of writing such things could thus be swept up in a targeted persecution from three letter agencies across NATO, forcing them either into labour or giving them fabricated charges at a show trial. You can consider the implications of a "Streisand" but the psychological value of such an event would outweigh any negative implications for such an operation.

Most of the security apparatus in the west are dull, but you have to understand how Machiavellian the people who give them the orders are.
I'd wager someone with the title computer programmer nowaday is close to or in their middle age at least, so perhaps it is the larger gender disparity in coding work among that generation.
To each their own politics and belief systems. Wealth is a form of power, government and democracy are checks and balances on power. Unchecked power corrupts. Ergo, my position. I appreciate that others might not agree, that’s what voting is for.
It's pretty darn heavy. The solution of course is to cut it into manageable pieces before freezing.
Moderna and Pfizer tested variant-specific (B1.351) boosters and found they weren't significantly more-effective than a third dose of the original vaccine.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-021-01527-y

This may of course change with new variants.
There is one actually. https://shop.boox.com/products/maxlumi2
LPG stands for liquified petroleum gas, which is sometimes just propane: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liquefied_petroleum_gas
This is my (maybe unpopular) take. I’m not sure many HR people can adequately assess the skills for a position, particularly technical ones. So they use education credentials as a lazy proxy. I’m not sure outlawing education requirements fixes this and may just result in some other lazy proxy like nepotism.
Sony adds a 1“ stacked CMOS sensor to Xperia Pro-I
Don't forget to include the cost in forgone wages. That's got to be at least $20k a year.
I apologize - I truly don't mean to bash GIMP and I appreciate all the work the volunteers have done. It has come a long way and appears to be getting better with every release.

My reliance on adjustment layers and non-destructive workflows probably doesn't represents the majority of GIMP's user base, and that's ok. I can't really use it seriously for photographic retouching until it does have that, but I'm glad other people get a lot of use out of it, and the other features that have taken higher priority surely make sense for a great number of those people that do use it regularly. I hope that drives more usage, donations, and development.
Guide for Perplexed Philosophers: Jesse Singal and the Rationalist Subculture
If you want the experience again, the best way, as others have pointed out, is to search via sites and not crawlers - specifically community forums or non-crawled aggregators.

If you truly want to experience the frustration of the original, pre dominating search engine web, then I highly recommend tor sites. Many are not advertised in directories and the only way to find them is to find other interesting tor sites. Kind of a chicken and egg problem, but thankfully some basic search engines and dread exist to get the ball rolling.
Seems pretty off

Fiat currency encourages growth and stability
Except many couples meet in school, where they'd be exposed to a disproportionate number of potential spouses within their own field of study, and maybe to a lesser extent others in related programs within the same college.

Which would also be skewed by things like length of study and personality types attracted to particular interests.

Eg, Doctors and lawyers often don't want to get married until after school, at which point they've primarily been around other doctors and lawyers for the previous 3-7 years.
Lack of Sleep Affects Your Walk, New Study Finds
Try south of St Louis, MO on 55 (specifically south of Cape Girardeau, MO) in the summer. That might be where all the bugs have gone. \s
100% agree.. If the services/jobs are focused, then even massive projects can be held in your head.
And these can be built out if they're not there, so they can be the road to recovery
This reminds me of RDF recipe ontologies (as they can be used with RDFa: e.g., schema.org's Recipe[1] and the food ontology[2], and there are/were dedicated spiders to search those, such as openrecipes[3]), but with a custom syntax; might be nice to define mappings to/from those, for compatibility. Though unfortunately the larger open recipe databases I saw online tend to use custom (sometimes XML-based, at least) formats/structures, so there's nothing quite readily usable (that I'm aware of) as a result.

[1] https://schema.org/Recipe

[2] https://www.bbc.co.uk/ontologies/fo

[3] https://github.com/fictivekin/openrecipes
> humans projecting something into its output or filtering the small number of bits

I think this has value and is an interesting form of machine assisted creation.

There is something similar, but more simplistic (no AI, just old-school RNGs), going on in generative music. For modular synthesizers, some of the more popular modules are random sequence generators [0]. These allow the musician to generate random elements of the music, say melody or drum pattern, but curate it. You might generate dozens of elements, carefully tweaking parameters, before you hear "the right one" – which you then actually use in the music.

I guess my point is, curation of generated material is a form of creation! The generator is perhaps not the creator, but it is useful to develop better generators.

[0] : such as “Turing Machine” from Modular Thing and “Marbles” from Mutable Instruments.
You can use pgaudit, it's an extension that let's you audit DDL/DML statements. It's a great auditing mechanism. I use it on all our prod postgres instances, but have only "DDL" enabled, because of the potential performance overhead

https://github.com/pgaudit/pgaudit
You mean the discontinued 2 year old CPU in you link beat the M1 Max? So what you're saying is the M1 Max is a little slower than a 2 year old Intel. Which makes sense. Thank you.
Have you used functional test coverage tools
Looking to hear about using code coverage tools to evaluate large functional/integration automation suites that use tools like selenium. How did it work for you, did you use an off the shelf tool or did you purchase one? Trying to evaluate if this is worth doing and if it should be off the shelf.
I'm posting this here as this topic deserves to be thought through from a logistical point of view.

Putting all politics aside... what happens when 25% to 40% of SysAdmins, Devs, etc. are all fired or furloughed between now and December?

What impact does that have on products, companies, and the industry as a whole?
They apparently value users at around $1,500/year.
If they weren't able to train 70 million people to get outraged about that sort of thing then there wouldn't be a Republican party.

The trouble though with taxing unrealized capital gains is in the implementation.

For instance, somebody might own a huge amount of shares in a private company that is valued at a certain price. That might be almost all of the wealth.

If they are taxed on the capital gain they are going to have to (1) find some price the government believes is the real price of the asset, (2) sell some of the asset to get the money to pay the tax.

Since it is a private company, (2) might be very hard to do, particularly if you want to get the price (1).
Would love to read it!
Please consider selling epub and/or pdf.
Happy to pay for the non-DRM premium.
Show HN: Want – Discover Premium Products
I've had a grid tied solar system for 15+ years. With the enormous tax subsidies back then, it's broken even. There's about a 1.5% decrease per year in production. I'll have to replace the whole thing sometime in the next 5 years.

This article paints a very rosy picture of what to expect. In a non-grid-tied system, you have to deal with batteries and a bunch of other issues. This is not cheap. And it is a recurring maintenance cost. Are you going to do that maintenance every few months yourself, or pay someone to do it?
I’m Chris, and I built WANT to help you discover, share, and research premium products. Looking forward to hearing your feedback! =)

Everybody’s got a friend they go to for shopping advice; the friend that can’t stop talking about their new self-cleaning water bottle, ceramic grill, or wireless mechanical keyboard. You know the type.

For me, this “friend” is actually a group of friends. During the pandemic, I started doing more online shopping. :sweat_smile: My friends and I had a text thread going to keep us sane. The thread became a place to talk about our new purchases (among other things), and to get purchase advice. We shared the cool new home gym equipment we got, discussed standing desks, and posted the new chef’s knife that we ordered.

I built WANT as an extension of that text thread.

## No Amazon Here

My friends and I noticed that less and less of the cool stuff we found was coming through Amazon. Many of the products we purchased were coming directly from the manufacturer’s website–usually fronted by Shopify.

Recognizing this, I’ve decided to block Amazon links on WANT. My hope is that this will encourage us to buy more (and higher quality) goods outside of Amazon. I also hope blocking Amazon emphasizes that WANT is not a deal site–it’s a place for finding high quality products and supporting the brands that create them.

## This is Just...

WANT is a lot like Reddit, Pinterest, Product Hunt, Instagram, and others. The app borrows heavily from each of these sites. WANT’s product discovery is similar to Product Hunt, its commenting system is like Reddit’s, and its shelf system will be like Pinterest’s boards. Visually, WANT is somwhere between Instagram and Twitter.

I like to think that, by combining different aspects of each of these sites, I’ve ended up with something useful and unique. =)

## Tech

I built WANT entirely myself, as a side project. The site is built with Ruby on Rails and Postgres. It's hosted on Heroku. I use Mailgun for email and Zenscraper to scrape submitted product URLs.

The iOS app is built in Swift, but it's mostly a WkWebView wrapper around the website; I built the app to provide a share extension, so users could submit products as they surf on their phone.

One annoying thing I dealt with was OAuth on iOS via a WkWebView. I've written more about that at https://cnr.sh/essays/google-oauth-wkwebview.

Anyhow, looking forward to your thoughts!
https://l.thisworddoesnotexist.com/ZpPr

noun.
yotang:
a member of the Y chromosome
"an orange yotang"

https://l.thisworddoesnotexist.com/Pe86

noun.
gigafag:
a book of official records, especially one for President Lincoln
"a great gigafag of official statistics"
As sibling says, for embedded toolchains Windows is often the best supported platform.
Seems like there should be a legal organization whose only statutory purpose is that they have a process to authorize someone to sue for GPL violations. Then everyone doing GPL code could just assign their copyright to this organization, and it would be impossible for that license to be revoked, because the "owner" would be structurally incapable of taking that legal action? Ie. only the General Public Licensor organization could revoke the license, and the GPLor is prevented by charter from doing so. (But you could still go after copyright violations.)
Colorless green ideas sleep furiously.
They don't include the data in the paper, but they do have that data in the supplemental charts under "Convalescent". Looks like a similar dropoff as scene in people vaccinated with BNT162b2.

It should be noted that this convalescent plasma was taken from ICU patients, not people that were asymptomatic or had minor symptoms.
Panasonic unveils prototype battery to help Tesla lower production costs
You had me at entrails lasso.
Overhead distribution is somewhere on the order of $100k/mile to install. Maintenance varies depending on how much tree trimming is needed.
Sorry, the jobs I run don't care about your feelings.
In Finland, speeding fines are linked to your income
Shameless plug: https://vite-plugin-ssr.com a do-one-thing-do-it-well alternative to Next.js which is feature-complete & stable (no breaking changes in the foreseeable future).
> should not be able to shoot through walls or speed hack. These types of cheats are easy to prevent server-side, but developers don't because ....

"easy" so you think veterant c++ dev that invented those concepts are dumb or lazy and it's a solved problem?

It's not easy and not solved because those are very complicated issues.
Alphabet Third Quarter 2021 Results [pdf]
That seems like another way of saying that a gold standard is inflexible and impractical and can't represent the actual economy particularly well
I’ve had a similar experience with my RM1 that had a broken screen when I started it for the first time. It literally took months before I could get a replacement. Their TrustPilot page is a stream of horror stories.
What is the point. Just let the company burn. All it’s smart engineers should just leave. The world would be so much better without FB.
> It makes my flesh crawl to see college reduced purely to ROI, but at least they're honest that that's what they're doing.

When going to college means taking on tens of thousands of dollars in debt, it makes sense to start looking at ROI, especially when there's a certain group of people that will tell you "If you want to make a living wage, then you need to go to college and make something of yourself!", then will ostracize them for making bad financial decisions when they take on massive student loan debt to pay for the college.

EDIT: To add a point of anecdata, when I finished my BS in CS in 2014, I came out with ~$45,000 in student loan debt. And this is on the LOWER end of debt, and I was only able to have it so low because I had already been living in the city my university was in. I still worked ~30 hours/week while going to school full time. If I had to stay in dorms or something, I probably would have had $100K+ in debt. It's absolutely ridiculous.
I'd be more interested in residential heat pumps if there were also heat engines that were feasible at that scale. Seems like it needs to scale up by at least an order of magnitude though, before electricity can be generated efficiently.
Same Sequoia. The article doesn't really make it clear (well, the green color scheme does) but Sequoia Fund is a part of Sequoia. The author is a VC for Sequoia

https://www.sequoiacap.com/people/roelof-botha/

Maybe this is clearer.

https://www.axios.com/sequoia-capital-fund-venture-capital-m...
Facebook's metaverse spending will top $10B this year
I was starting to write a response, and realised how patterned the debate is.

We've been discussing the topic of machine intelligence since the start of CS and points of contention tend to show up in the same places.

Anyway, it occured to me that if given 10 tries, GPT-3 probably produces my comment adequately. I have an uneasy suspicion that it might take fewer tries than that... especially if prompted with "netcan, please respond."

Anyway, the upshot is that for someone like me, on the "if you can't tell the difference" side of the cliche... your side's insistence that machine's can't be creative makes me doubt my own creativity, to the extent that the argument is convincing.
Let's just say it was "on par" with a vaccine for the sake of argument, even if it is suggested it might be better/work more broadly. Is there a scientific reason, as opposed to political, why this would not exempt one from a mandated vaccine?
So condescending. That's because Bitcoin is not widely used as money yet. Those things don't all happen at the same time, they happen sequentially.

- collectable -> It's cool, I want some.

- store of value -> it holds value better than any other money. (Bitcoin is here)

- medium of exchange -> People request it in exchange for goods and services because it holds its value over time.

- unit of account -> People denominate prices in it because it's a widely used medium of exchange.

Edit: My initial point was Bitcoin has properties that make it suitable for use as money: divisible, portable, easy to verify, doesn't degrade over time, etc.
https://www.wedesoft.de/software/2020/07/07/mealmaster/
$100/year or else I "won’t unlock the full potential of (my) paper tablet" that I just paid $400 for? $60/year for cloud storage? What happened to connecting to the Dropbox/OneDrive/iCloud storage I already have and calling it day? Oh, right, recurring revenue. (EDIT: OIC, 3rd-party cloud storage is in the $100/year tier. But then WTF would I need your unlimited cloud...oh, never mind.)

I've recently been trying to talk myself into a remarkable. Now I don't have to. Thanks, Remarkable.
The invitation type can change at any time.
> In a way, Germany was incentivized for hyperinflation. The importance of that cannot be overstated.

If you look at the major examples of hyperinflation, the majority fall into three buckets:

* Losing a war that results in money printing to fund the effort.

* Large foreign denominated debts that require domestic money printing.

* Regime changes generally coinciding with civil war or social upheaval.

See Roche (2011):

* https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1799102
Cognitive Science
Page references are an interesting case because they’re very print-dependent. A I've been working on finl, I've thought about the fact that page references don't work well for documents which might be presented electronically.¹ A reference like “on page 32” doesn’t translate to say HTML or ePub. At one point, while I was reading the Rust book, I was excited to see how a page reference was translated into the online version. I quickly went there and they rewrote that sentence to eliminate the page ref.

The other challenge with page references is that they’re at least in theory, a potential source for a loop condition in rendering. We can have a reference to “on page xcix” which will cause the referred to element to move to page c, but then when the output is changed to “on page c” the element moves back to page xcix.²

⸻⸻⸻

1. PDF in a way doesn't count as electronic presentation in that it’s inherently an electronic representation of a print product, things like PDF reflowing notwithstanding.

2. I suspect, but can’t prove, that in LaTeX, this could even happen if a page reference becomes longer, thanks to how LaTeX’s line breaking algorithm works on a paragraph at a whole. When I get to that part of finl, I guess I’ll know for sure whether this is possible, and if so, will work out how to avoid it.
If you look for a ready-to-use open-source implementation of CDC for Postgres (and other databases), take a look at Debezium [1].

On audit logs in particular, we have a post on our blog, which discusses how to use CDC for that, focusing in particular on enriching change events with additional metadata like business user performing a given change by means of stream processing [2].

One advantage of log-based CDC over trigger-based approaches is that it doesn't impact latency of transactions, as it runs fully asynchronously from writing transactions, reading changes from the WAL of the database.

Disclaimer: I work on Debezium

[1] debezium.io
[2] https://debezium.io/blog/2019/10/01/audit-logs-with-change-d...
Also inflammable and flammable.

English is strange.
I also want utmost security for my money, which is why I put it in a bank rather than holding the cash myself.
Agreed. The fact that Kindles still don't read epubs is aggravating.
Might be that they care about open computers.
I went ahead and bought a boox air within a week of the original connect service announcement (yet to arrive). I originally wanted a RM after trying a coworker's RM1 but the connect announcement pushed me away.

With supernote currently giving a roadmap that improves handwriting recognition and boox allegedly having the ability to convert and search handwritten notes already, the remarkable connect plan is very unattractive.
Only if you manage to avoid the often catastrophic downside risks, which are very apparent and very frequent in many industries. It's quite straightforward and convenient (in that there is an entire industry in family law serving it) to completely destroy decades of earnings and often times decades of future earnings for one or both parties.

Have seen it happen, and literally half of the couples in the 'good part of town' where I used to live which was populated almost exclusively by well educated white collar professionals were either going through it/at some stage of it, or were in a clearly abusive situation that might even have benefited from doing it - as long as they didn't wait for the other party to really screw them over by pulling the trigger first and alleging abuse or whatever.

A friends neighbor had been on the receiving end (along with their daughter) of literally years of verbal and emotional abuse from the wife for no apparent reason. She would go after neighbors too, if they dared to exist in her presence.

Both of them were lawyers. Last time I was over there a month ago, after an hour of it, he just begged her to stop screaming in the most pitiful voice I've heard a man ever use. So she yelled at him more for being so pitiful.

It's hard to really understand how terrible a prior trusted loved one can be until you've been on the other end of it. It's easy to assume it's because the other party did something wrong to deserve it too - but that is not usually the case in my experience. It's often lack of emotional regulation/healthy outlets for stress or life problems, usually reinforced by denial from the abuser.

The abusee often can't figure out how to escape or feels held hostage, sometimes also by denial at their own problems or inability to cope that lead them to that state of insecurity.

While marriage (the legal process) can magnify the upside, it can also dramatically magnify the downsides too, and make it MUCH MUCH harder to escape a bad situation for everyone.

It's quite a shit sandwich. Always has been near as I can tell.
I think the real question is whether college fulfills those different needs and, if so, if it does it at a reasonable price.

At many orgs I’ve worked at, I felt like there were a lot of people who could have done the same work from a two year apprenticeship. Even though many had engineering degrees, I don’t think most brought an engineering mindset/education to the problems they faced on a daily basis, with the exception of some PIs
At least it's better than getting zero-clicked.
That’s a nice pitch, and certainly catched my curiosity! Going to check out CRDB.
Yes they have always been doing this and it is bad. I thought this one example of bad behavior was worth mentioning in this thread.
Dune 2 is officially happening
Thanks for the correction. I find it strange to believe that 12 months are sufficient to assess the lifelong effects of an immunity system intervention.
Highly recommend Glen Fiedler's articles for this topic.

https://gafferongames.com/