skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you're not the operating system or the network owner software is a really precipitous place to be in the mid-to-long term. Microsoft, Apple, or their developer tools and networks will be constantly attempting to eat your lunch and winning with network effects.
That document is incredibly ironic, if you know anything about actual debate. The common move of the experienced debater is to re-define terms to confuse the issue, then boldly advance a claim based on those bizarro-world definitions. That's exactly what is happening here...but, hilariously, being used to disparage debate.

Someone defines "debate" to mean a bunch of things that aren't actually true, then proceeds to make a document where the tenet is that there's something "better" than debate.

> Debate assumes that there is a right answer and that someone has it

This isn't true at all. It's a socratic game to gain a better understanding of the truth.

> Debate calls for investing wholeheartedly in one’s beliefs.

Any good debater can take either side of an issue with equal facility.

> Debate defends one’s own positions as the best solution and excludes other solutions.

Not a requirement of a debate. A good debater, in fact, often expands the playing field to win the debate.

> Debate defends assumptions as truth

No, and in fact, if you do this in a debate and are caught, you lose the debate.
Microsoft Edge GA on Linux
Escaping the Cult of Mac: A Guide from a Cult Survivor 2020
The actual supply coming into the market remains the same while the mining difficulty shifts according to network hashrate(determined by the time between new blocks), hence assuming demand for Bitcoin is static, there is an equilibration mechanism creating a break-even price floor. Bitcoin's price appreciation has demonstrated that demand can be sustained through multiple market cycles, and nothing in particular has changed that assessment.

Bigger worries for Bitcoiners stem from centralization of hash power, and whether transaction fees alone will sustain the network as it exits the inflationary period.
Parts of the story probably are missing. His Iliad translation leaves out Book 10 with the Night Raid, entirely. A wonderful takedown of Mitchell is Homer, Inc.

https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v34/n04/edward-luttwak/homer...

Mitchell as a 'translator' is poetry in, garbage out. He bowdlerizes. Read Lattimore or Fagles or Mandelbaum or Fitzgerald.
It exists on any UNIX, basically. It was added 40 years ago: https://github.com/dspinellis/unix-history-repo/commit/8e0a2...
What exactly are these "peer bonuses"? Is it real? Is it what I think it is? Do people actually use them as bargain chips?
We just added the feature to add alt text on images, and we do adopt the markup syntax such that bigger texts are available using headings 1, 2, and 3. But there's definitely a lot more for us to learn and implement on this.
"Got away with it" in the sense that it went under the radar of most media and average people. I only found about it recently, and it was quite a bit of surprise, especially in the context of "science" being thrown away so liberally during this pandemic.
Awesome story, interesting dev tool
Unlike Facebook's facial recognition, other people can't enroll you into Apple's Face ID without your consent or knowledge.
It absolutely is meat.

Catholic rules say it's the only meat that one can consume on Fridays during lent. Why? Cause that's the rules. Religious rules are usually fairly arbitrary.
> Trying to figure out their real angle here.

Maybe that most phone cameras are now good enough to enable iris scanning, which is orders of magnitude more accurate.
The Scientists Are Terrified
"the social network will delete the face scan data of more than one billion users."

I believe it because facebook has nothing much to gain by lying about this small thing(after all they still have all the tracking data) and hell lot to loose by lying this straight face among employees.
In Fedora and with standard desktop spins, it should work out of the box by default, in Firefox.

For Chrome, you need to enable chrome://flags/#enable-webrtc-pipewire-capturer

For more details, what packages need to be installed and what setup done (for sway, for example) see
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/PipeWire#WebRTC_screen_shar... (yes, arch wiki, the principles are same for all distros).
So what would your advice be? Delay having children? Not have children? Only have children if the mother is prepared to do most of the work raising them? Something else?

It seems like having children is something you may enjoy in 30-40 years - or rather will potentially prevent feeling miserable and alone in 30-40 years. But in the short term - at least 2-3 years, but likely much longer - it can be quite miserable.

Now, given that we don't know how long we get to live and what sort of health we will be in, time when you are younger seems more valuable than time when you are older. That would suggest that having children is often a bad idea, unless you strongly believe that you will enjoy the whole experience. But then, imagining what my own parents' and grandparents' life would be like today had they not had children, it seems like it would be far worse. But their circumstances were very different, too.
I doubt Facebook won't offer some unsupervised face clustering for albums, they will just remove tagging from images. Google Photos offers me pictures of distinctive people found in my gallery without giving me their names.
As long as that person is being tactful, there's no reason the rest of the team should feel stressed. Work should be an environment where people can learn from each other, a meritocracy where people get rewarded for results and being the best they can be.

But this is sadly not the case for most workplaces, so why bother working hard? Just do the bare minimum and play politics.
You're welcome <3

Here's hoping Google doesn't get mad about it - though after 12(ish) years there's really nothing secret in that video.
One person's "bug" is another person's feature.

In my usage, and opinion of mosh, the remote terminal emulation is at least half the point. It lets you be functional with minuscule amounts of bandwidth, and makes your sessions more responsive when you have plenty of it. It's efficient (enlightened even...) to solve an engineering problem using the appropriate distribution of resources (bandwidth, cpu, memory).

A remote terminal that wasted resources sending things that would be invisible anyway strikes me as not just less useful, but really mediocre/lazy design.

(IMHO, of course!)
How is it different than letting the “experts” mostly comprised of DC establishment “fact check” like they do those here?
Not backing up regularly is eventual (potentially massive) data loss even with a machine that doesn't have the limitations mentioned in the linked page. It may not be as common but SSD controllers for example can and do fail sometimes, and in that situation no amount of flexibility on the host computer's part is going to save you.
Thanks!

Next JS has a starter kit for a few different platforms called nextjs commerce - https://nextjs.org/commerce

Getting to PWA would probably be pretty simple since you just need a service worker to qualify if I remember right -- https://developers.google.com/web/ilt/pwa/introduction-to-se...

Making PWA valuable and doing things like prefetching pages would probably be a much bigger task but is really incredible to see live from a performance perspective. Here's a headless commerce-enabled PWA with prefetching to see what I mean. https://discountelectronics.com/
Even the standard libraries of most programming languages don't have defined behaviour in out-of-memory conditions.

Instead just use paging, pushing out cache, or memory compression to have a soft limit to ensure you never need to handle out of memory.

In today's world of delayed page allocation, you'll probably just get killed with SIGBUS anyway.
I've seen that so many times in my current office, it's not even funny at this point.

And I couldn't agree with you more. As long as a set level of competency is there, I'd rather work with friendly people than a bunch of know-it-mosts that don't know tact.
> 30k

This is the pay at top tier universities with extremely exclusive entry criteria.

I was a former PhD student in CS. Washed out due to costs because I was self-funding. It was a local university and an R1 so not "bad" but also not ivy. I had absolutely no problem keeping up with class + research work while also working in industry as I have a lot of time on my hands and no family. I'm still a little sour about the whole thing because I had an incredible and flexible advisor. But costs are costs.

The average STEM PhD student at my university made 13k, up to 20k if you took on summer teaching duties. You did get classes covered, but health insurance came out of your stipend and you still had to cover ancillary fees (gym, technology, etc). So you walked, after taxes, with anywhere between 10 and 12k. They offered me an RA position with my PhD admission that paid approximately 20k. Obviously I could not take it and afford rent. Perhaps if they offered a free dorm and healthcare I could consider choking down 12-15k for 3-4 years to get the pay off in the end.

American PhD programs generally pay below poverty wages. Several PhD student colleagues of mine were on food stamps and lived with 1-3 other PhD students in the run down apartments adjacent to the university. It's abject suffering for the most part and direct-to-phd students often leave in their mid 30s burned out and 10 years behind other students in the workplace. I inquired with several universities about associate professor positions and even those have pretty insane post-doc requirements before being considered. You'll be 15+ years behind your cohort if you, god forbid, decide to go another 3 or so years in a slighty-above-poverty post doc position. At my university these paid around 40-45k, up to 60k for fairly exclusive positions. For what it's worth I make as much as the average industry CS PhD in a software engineering capacity after 10 years of service. I was pursuing it for pleasure and credentialing.

It is not practical, unfortunately, to pursue a PhD as an American unless you are incredibly wealthy or on a visa program. It is not surprising many PhD students are foreign born. No one intends to get rich with a PhD, but it seems even comfort is a far flung dream.
The specifics of your aside aren't especially interesting here, but they are quite important to you before making such a large investment. My time machine's just as good as yours, and anyone that claims their's is any better is trying to sell you something. Risks is inherent in everything. If I were trying to sell anything "rock solid" in Feb 2020; it's possible time would have proven that to be a total lie.

If you have a great mistrust of the future, then there's never going to be a good time to buy a house. If you think politicians are going to mess things up yet again, buying a house is foolish. Hanging off every word the next three or four presidents make is going to make your heart sink and your blood pressure rise on bad news, and curse the name of whomever convinced you to buy an millstone of a house to hang around your neck.

If, however, you're convinced that buying a house (for you to live in, not as part of a basically-liquid REIT) is your path to financial freedom, then when the refrigerator or other large appliance breaks, that's just part of owning a home, and you'll relish in picking the one you want.

How do you want to live for the next few years? (One thing to keep in mind is that houses can be sold before the full 15-30 years is up, which may be advantageous, depending on your finances.)
Start up idea: on demand cleaning service but paid for by your employer
Start up idea: on demand cleaning service but paid for by your employer (as a company benefit like commuter/health benefits)

win: solves the off-market problem as cleaners aren't incentivized to cut out the middle man.

problem: cleaners aren't incentivized to perform because a 3rd party is paying them and not the dude who own's the house.

Think this could work?
Ah, 2010 - when web scale and its secret sauce – sharding was all the rage.
This is the way. I wish this were taught in computer science class, development bootcamps, operations team onboarding, anywhere there is a procedure that is even slightly complicated to automate. It is the absolute best solution there is.

* Documentation of the entire procedure is contained in one place. No need to go sifting through 20 different sources of documentation. This lowers the human emotional barrier to "just get it done", as people will always avoid things they aren't comfortable/familiar with, or don't have all the steps to. This central point of documentation also enables rapidly improving the process by letting people see all the steps in one place, which makes it easier to fix/collapse/remove steps.

* Automation in small pieces over time avoids the trap of "a project" where one or more engineers have to be dedicated to this one task for a long period of time. Most things shouldn't be automated unless there is demonstrably greater value in the cost of automating them than the cost of not doing so. Automating only the most valuable/costly pieces first gives immediate gains without sinking too much into the entire thing.

* One unified "method" to encapsulate any kind of process means your organization can ramp up on processes easier, reducing overall organizational cost.

* In the absence of any other similar process, you are guaranteed to save time and money.

I would say that the only potential downside is if someone decides to "engineer" this method, making it more and more and more complicated, until it loses its value. KISS is a requirement for it to be sustainable.
Are we not going after both?

Let's marshall the energy. I'm sure we can find it. Wanna lead the charge?
NIST unveils draft criteria for ‘seal of approval’ scheme on consumer software
If it's for archiving, how long such storage can live?
Lol first pass I was like, it’s Spark not Sparks, and it’s Jupyter not Jupiter, and then wondered what these other cool sounding things were.
To me FB is the embodiment of that old joke about politicians: You know they're lying because their mouth is moving.
Are you investing or looking to move? If it's the later, none of the issues mentioned matter as much because it's all paper money once you buy. You haven't lost or gained anything unless you anticipate the need to resell the home in the near future (in which case, yes, be a little more careful). That said, my advice is not "buy now". I don't know your specifics, those of your area, etc. Home ownership & maintaining a home is also very different than renting. So, what follows are response to your individual points, not justifications for why you should buy now:

1) This will impact rentals much more than home sales, and evicted renters aren't going to increase demand in the home sales market. It's also a positive factor if you're buying: Don't be in a hurry, wait 2-3 months to see how the end of the moratorium impacts supply. If supply increases, sticker price should go down-- you win.

2) This seems too vague of a threat to factor in. Neither side wants an all out trade war (though idiot meaningless wars have been waged before) If you mean military? Well, anything significant enough to trickle into the housing market may not spare you as a renter either. Outcomes in that scenario are beyond the event horizon. If you really think that's a significant enough threat to factor into home buying decisions then you should be buying a home way outside of urban circle-- one with solar power, well water & purification, and two levels of basement for all of your prepper material.

3) Easy enough: factor that possibility in to what you're willing to spend. Let's say a worst case is a 10% increase to your marginal rate. Unless you're over $400k/year that is very unlikely anyway from the (still too few) details I've seen out of congress.

4) Okay, just don't crash the market on purpose. The rest of us have to live here too

5) From areas (NYC) that have implemented these mandates, non-compliance has been very small. And I'm willing to bet that extremely few hold outs are from people who would lose their home & suffer economic ruin over a refusal. Anyway, there's a simple solution here too: wait 2-3 months to see how they shake out.
If you don't like that, you're going to hate this.

https://youtu.be/KT18KJouHWg

Basically they can find you from your DNA, even if only a couple very distant relatives ever gave theirs.
Isn't it possible to tag people even if they don't have a FB account?
It still provides limited credibility to the idea that the Bible can be used as a historic document. Their teacher seemed to be using it to say the Bible is literally true, which is a ridiculous argument as Gilgamesh has examples of people unrelated to Noah surviving.
They only implement ctap1/u2f .

CTAP2/FIDO2 part is completely unimplemented. And that's why e.g. TouchID doesn't work. Or newer devices that don't support the old u2f standard.

CTAP2 gives fancy features like enforcing a pin (which Firefox doesn't implement) or fingerprint (which Firefox doesn't implement).
Something like "Checklist Script", as that's what they really provide?
Knowing that someone I don't know uploaded a photo of me seems like a good feature, yes.
> I would love to have smart glasses that show the name of someone I've met before but don't quite remember.

Or you could just tell them you don't remember. It's rarely rude. It's better to be human. We all forget stuff all the time. If we stopped imagining that everyone else is holding everyone else to impossible levels of "quality" we'd all be much better off. Just admit you don't remember their name. If you feel really bad about it, work in a little story about what you do remember about them. If you don't remember anything, then the meeting wasn't important to you so just let it go. If it was somehow important to them, there'll be a way to resolve this. Or there won't and you'll have a lost a friend but all of that is better than hiding your humanity behind a robot.

Perhaps we need to issue a new "Turning Test". Can a human tell the difference between a human and a human with machine assistance? And does it matter?
I am for this decision, but I don't understand their justification for it. What was the actual reason they pulled back on this? The US government is assuredly for maximum surveillance, so long as the publicly visible part is done by private companies that can be subpoenaed for their data. FB needs to stay in the good graces of the military-industrial-political complex to avoid anti-trust action.

FB doesn't do anything out of the good of their heart, so what are they getting out of this? I really doubt that winning the hearts of civil libertarians is at all important to them.

(I also noticed how the NYT managed to get a dig into the discredited China story when discussing a company that was surveilling billions of people worldwide using facial recognition technology.)
Well, honestly, you shouldn't be giving other peoples' likenesses to big corporations under worldwide non-exclusive license agreements without a signed model release consent form. However, enforcing this is almost impossible.

But really, morally, you should never give anyone else's face to a corporation without their explicitly requesting you to upload the photo to a site.
It makes more sense when you stop and think that there are no single group of "internet police" and that in reality it's millions of people with their ethics, personal views and natural inability to rank risk.
Things I learned from building a production database
I get what you're saying but that's unguided learning though.

Facebook doesn't have any way of linking that face fingerprint to you to even check your consent - but a part of me doubts that when they do make the link they remove the fingerprint bc you didn't opt in.
Demand is hard. You’re at the whim of irrational human consumers (and all that that entails). Supply is easy. You’re at the whim of violently rational economic actors with control of assets.

Assume a distressed fossil asset is for sale, and you want to acquire it to retire it permanently. You’re engaged with someone who isn’t emotional; it’s just business. You negotiate on the value of the asset(s), and once an agreement is reached, transfer of ownership occurs and it’s a done deal. It’s not like consumers when you’re at the whim of their identity and self in some cases, trying to sell them on clean power or mobility.

Bonus points if you can use leverage (policy, relationships, whatever) to drive down the value of the distressed asset before acquiring it for forced retirement. That’s just being capital efficient.
Maybe "Gradual Scripting" could work
My main hobby is taking my car to the race track and driving fast. Learning the line, finding a pace buddy and following each other, critiquing each others' lines. Trying out different tires, brake pads, alignment, etc. It's a great hobby because it will literally consume any and every resource I have (time and money, basically) so I have to limit it. I am very mechanically inclined so I do all the work myself.

I cannot state enough how much I love it. It's both an art and a science. It involves danger. It's exciting. The community is absolutely insanely great. It allows me to progress both through ladders set up by organizations, and by my own recording of lap times. I can compete as hard as I want or I can just go out there and turn laps at 7/10 and no one cares.
Researcher blows the whistle on data integrity issues in Pfizer’s vaccine trial
Could you be more specific ?
I am a developer and I couldn't care less about what language $TOY is written in, or if it is open source or not.

In this case, though, what is really advertised is the project itself, not the product, which doesn't exist and likely to not exist for a while. In this context, the language choise is probably as relevant as the design goals.
AWS acknowledging the issues is such a rarity I didn't even check it until well after we started seeing issues.
The same thing happened to me when I upgraded vim ! I thought why the heck would postgres requires an upgrade if I was upgrading vim's minor version ! It took ages...

EDIT: for me this is a minor issue. i'll continue using `brew` as it does the job quite well
Current battery technology is adequate for 4-hour peak shaving and it's being deployed. Here's a project approved this year:

"Approval for 100MW / 400MWh battery storage project at site of New York fossil fuel plant"

https://www.energy-storage.news/approval-for-100mw-400mwh-ba...

The project is expected to reach commercial operation by the beginning of 2023. Enabling the storage of electricity to be used when it is most needed will help increase the amount of variable renewable energy that can be put onto New York’s grid. It will also, as with some recent high profile projects in California, help reduce the state’s reliance on peaker plants; which are only called into action several times a year when electricity demand is at its highest.
That's what this is about, getting rid of my cash. As I mentioned to someone else, before inflation kicks in bigtime, and timed around these risk factors. I've hoarded cash up until this point almost accidentally, I've just been too busy working to spend. I do like a cushion, but not the cushion I have now.

On the mandate job losses, I think a lot remains to be seen. We have the airline issue going on right now, and I think that's directly related. Not sure there's any in-person "nice safe job" honestly. This is so far from being over in regards to variants, there's just no sense in all this. The only mandate people need is a mandate on employers that any job that can be done at home, shall be done at home. Then mandating hazard pay for those that must do their jobs in-person. Those are the only mandates that make sense to me, and I would hope that by Jove, even our most brainwashed vaccine-loving brethren could get onboard with.