skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Let's not give -too- much credit here. This only happened after massive public outcry and targeting trolling campaigns exploiting Github design flaws forced them to take a position, and a position of anything other than defense of youtubedl was going to be an expensive reputation hit given all the journalists covering it.

Meanwhile similar repos get DMCA banned daily, like when Google demanded they remove all repos using a public widevine decryption key: https://github.com/github/dmca/blob/master/2020/11/2020-11-0...

Microsoft is a member of the RIAA so don't expect to see real defense of any repos unless there is major bad press.
Simple: gave him too much money and shares.
Thanks for the update. Not surprised to see the governor making the "fake news" argument rather than trying to criminalize the reading of HTML code - in browsers only - across the state of Missouri.
Which, btw, was also thanks to the EFF. Their mission is occasionally murky these days, but their part in the subsequent restoration of youtube-dl in the face of a DMCA takedown is not to be ignored or forgotten.

https://github.com/github/dmca/blob/master/2020/11/2020-11-1...
I'm in Information Security at a large enterprise. We look for this kind certification, but it isn't required. Not having it though will lead to further scrutiny (lots more questions to answer). I would recommend getting it if you can, particularly if you are offering a service that is hosting the customer's data and/or is managing some part of their IT operations.

Bolstering the recommendation is the fact that the proliferation of supply chain attacks recently is adding pressure for companies to perform more thorough diligence on their vendors. The certification helps check all the boxes.
Crypto transactions cannot create or destroy fiat currency.

If you buy and hold cryptocurrency, at no time will it produce "dividends" in fiat currency, or physical objects like cell phones.

So if you make money by selling some cryptocoin, that is _entirely_ because someone else purchased it at a greater price than you did.

Their expectation is that someone else will later buy it at a greater price from them, and that person will be buying it on the hope that someone will pay yet more again.

No actual cashflows appear anywhere in this process.

What happens when there isn't a new Greater Fool?
Wondering how the 2021 MacBook Pro camera stacks up to the 2019 one. I did my first Zoom call with my 16” M1 Max yesterday and the quality seemed to be quite a lot better (although I coincidentally improved the lighting near my desk a bit, as well).
Marginal cost of production? If we take "energy consumption" to mean "cost", and "serving web requests" to mean "production", then your fixed cost is the idle energy load, and the marginal cost is how much more energy you would need to serve an additional request.
For those less familiar, Sirolimus is a trade name for rapamycin.
Blowing out of proportions a bit are we? This is still dna, just in another form elsewhere. And it doesn’t uproot anything, most of the important genes are still in the main chromosomes, we just don’t have the full picture and studies like this help us inch closer towards it.
A trucker spent $153 on his NJ election campaign to likely beat a kingpin
> wretched time and place to be a child

I grew up in the 70s and 80s, and can certainly complain about a lot of things about that time.

In your mind, what are the top few most wretched aspects of that time? I grew up in south central Los Angeles, and so gang and drug crime would be the top of my list.
> When did you decide that it's time to get it done?

There is a time management component to this. If you're still in a deal without a 27001 certification, the security questions don't go away. Instead, you get sent a security question set to answer. These question sets can be huge - our record is about 300 - 400 questions. And once you've answered those, you're not done - then you go into discussions with their cybersecurity about your answers.

Once you're in the loop with a number of large deals, this becomes a huge time sink.

And no, you can't give this to an intern, or just search-and-answer most questions, because every company formulates their questions and requirements differently and it takes some knowledge to figure out what they mean and want.

And at times the discussions afterwards are even worse. I've had InfoSec-guys tell me they're concerned because I cannot give them the specific details on the physical security of an AWS datacenter because these are not available.

As much work as getting and maintaining an ISO27001 certification is, there is a point after which it'll save you time and nerves.
All of Meta's messaging platforms are down.

This includes Facebook Business Suite. Many businesses cannot operate right now.
Neat. I did a similar project about ten years ago to learn Django... some time after Upcoming went away.

It's a great evergreen starter project, but probably not a sustainable business. A year or two later I watched an episode of Calacanis' TWIST where he gave feedback to another group attempting it and I think he articulated the main problem well. Something along the lines of "the beach is crowded, the water dirty…" In short, it's a never ending job, with lots of competitors and little return. Have to compete as well with places like reddit/facebook where the hard work is outsourced. Hard to get a community built just on that when most people don't look for things to do constantly.

That said if done right it would be valuable, maybe if publicly subsidized somehow.

(My old domain kpasa is probably available on the cheap, I liked the name. Don't know what airovic is or means. :-)
Simply looking solely at the deficit doesn't prove one was a spendthrift. If you cut or fail to raise taxes enough, a huge deficit can occur without actually spending more than the previous administration. In fact, it is possible to have a huge deficit while spending less than the previous administration.

In Jimmy Carter's four years, the Federal Government's spending increased by almost 48%. In Ronald Reagans eight years, Federal Government spending increased only 53%.

https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/statistics/data/federal-budg...
We have shit standups on my team. People show up 5 minutes late to standup so we don't actually start for like 5-10 min past start time.

I get it, not all are morning people. Please mute your mic, I really don't want to hear you yawn half a dozen times. It's obnoxious. If you're talking and you need to yawn, just mute for a second.

I know you're still working on this ticket (what's the point of JIRA otherwise?), just tell me if you need help on it or are blocked. That's more important to the team.

Standups over zoom or as a dedicated meeting are honestly a waste of time when people show up late or yawn just to go over mostly the same status every day. Just post your update in slack, let others know if you have any blockers.

I'm pretty much checked out these days, so I don't really care. What should be a 5 min exercise (90% of the time) turns into 20 minutes of pain. Others enjoy it as it is though, so I don't really care. Also every other meeting is similar nowadays too, way too lax and people seem to be okay being slow/lazy.
Dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29097692. Didn't see that one at the time I submitted this, unfortunately.
That's preposterous, Bitcoin incentivizes production of whatever energy is cheapest. That does not necessarily mean fossil fuels, though it is often that those are cheaper.

Hydro is a perfect example. A sizeable percentage of all Bitcoin mining is done with cheap hydro.

Bitcoin will do the same for nuclear, making it cheap and plentiful.
> You mean like the [insert ticketing system] board? Why do we have to waste time talking about stuff that's already being tracked?

This doesn't fully excuse it, but the more closely management is watching team-work-coordination tools like ticketing systems, and the higher the level of management that's looking at them, the more prone they are to drift from reflecting reality. That a standup is, by default, not transparent and recorded for anyone else to look at, is, in some organizations, and if they're run properly, most of their value. Granted, yes, that's a work around for a broader cultural problem and shouldn't be necessary, but the real world's a mess.
What's the motivation for changing the visually appealing C syntax "ptr->field" to the whack "ptr.*.field"?
You somehow managed to criticize Zig for being something that C isn't, lacking macros, preprocessor and whatnot, and yet praise Go and Python for being opinionated about their features, which don't have preprocessors or macros.
The pictures on that README are insane! So HELPFUL!

And, I already have that same Makita router so I am more tempted to try this... because of the pictures!
> Namely, a decentralized, private, anonymous, uncensorable, unsanctionable digital cash network.

In other words, the perfect ability to money launder, evade taxes and purchase contraband. Great.

But what would a law-abiding person do with this?
Or for anyone who does not like Apple or Google's 30% taxes. Meta and Microsoft are on the same side (and Microsoft still has a stake in Meta) when it comes to the app store policy issues and the metaverse can have multiple winners.

It will take multiple companies and interoperability deals to make the metaverse worth it for millions of users as the walled gardens and app store taxes will become unattractive and costly for many developers.

Why do you think that Meta is already taking advantage of bypassing the 30% taxes right now thanks to the in-app purchase settlement? Only for now though. [0]

I already said that companies like Microsoft, Meta, Netflix, Epic Games, Spotify and anyone else who dislikes the 30% taxes will join in to counter Apple and Google's walled gardens. [1]

[0 ]https://www.theverge.com/2021/11/3/22761620/facebook-apple-a...

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29092295
"Hey, look at this guy over here, claiming to be a 'one-person company', when he pays for a VPS instead of constructing a server from hardware, then self-hosting it himself. Pfft, I'll bet he doesn't even personally service the AC that is used to cool the building the server is in either! Probably pays an ISP too, instead of creating his own Internet from scratch."
That was just for show because it was a brand risk. Similar repos without journalists covering them are still banned without dispute.

https://github.com/github/dmca/blob/master/2020/11/2020-11-0...
C++ has user defined literals, so you could write 12_inch.
I fully agree, I was one of those until 5 minutes ago. I'm happy that GitHub managed to stay being what it used to be, and has the strong financial backing of Microsoft.

Stack Exchange, GitHub and Wikipedia, God bless them.
For ease, you might want a Shure MV7. It's a good directional cardiod with a built in USB interface.[1]

Get the mic close, disable auto mic level in zoom, and set the gain on the mic to be loud enough only while youre speaking.

[https://www.sweetwater.com/store/detail/MV7K--shure-mv7-usb-...]
I would also say that deployment pipelines have a place inside the portfolio of a public cloud. Not the issue tracking but repo and pipelines.

AWS has this as well
You can still say "Facebook". I still say "Google" instead of Alphabet.

But yea, was just about to message a friend and found this.
Oh yeah? Well I have Sprint planning, Sprint planning, Sprint review, retro (maybe), emergency epic planning cause management something something, and drumroll....vulnerability management. These are the regular meetings and I'm a contractor so my schedule is really clean compared to the FTEs.
Whether it be this or project Silica, I want my digital permanent storage. Write it in glass, treat it nicely, and yes, you may end up with digital bitrot or whatever, but I want media that stores digital data that cannot physically degrade for hundreds of years, kind of like paper does.

Paperbak being forked and made mainstream, I can accept that. Provided I can also do an automated book printing.

I will also accept holographic stick gum storage a la isolinear chips.

But there has to be more than just tape and blu rays.
Try approaching it from another scenario. What if his name had simply been misspelled? And they just nuked all of his wares in thirty minutes?
In 2020, we gave more foreign aid to Egypt + Jordan than we did to Israel[0], for the others that are going to bring up foreign aid.

[0]: https://foreignassistance.gov/cd
I agree. Public transportation in the US is great if we use 1950s standards. It’s falling behind because politicians don’t have a long enough cycle to see the fruits of their labor.
My most authentic self while browsing the web is when I can finally again start to use the full range of extensions on current Firefox for Android. That would really make me feel included in the experience.

It's really hard for me to grasp the many somewhat random new ideas Mozilla works on while some fundamental mechanics of the product are still broken.

edit: ... I don't want to sound as if this is in itself a bad addition. It's just that it feels as if the house is burning and they are painting the door.
Crypto currencies' need for GPUs inherently outpaces their availability. That is literally baked in to these systems.

You cannot sate the insatiable, even if Apple stopped eating.
That's not a way to get good power out of the PV panel, though. An MPPT tracker (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maximum_power_point_tracking) is needed to get the best results, and the room for improvement is indeed substantial. There are good and cheap chinese ones available, such as Epever brand.
The timescale example speaks of 110 mio rows, the blogpost here only has 11 mio rows. And thta is probably only a start…
> If that's all anybody ever says, then I'd agree.

If it gets said at all, you should also agree. If the goal if your standup is simply to hear people talk, talk about what you did on the weekend instead. That will actually provide value to the team in building a better relationship with teammates. "I did X yesterday, I will do X today" provides no information potential or bonding potential. It is flat out worthless.

More realistically, if all you have to say is "I did X yesterday, I will do X today" it is best to not say anything at all. The goal shouldn't be to hear someone speak, but rather to achieve a business objective. Sometimes people won't have anything to contribute towards that objective and that's okay. Other times they will. They can speak then.

Team meetings can be beneficial. Having the team meet so that they can utter practically-gibberish canned messages to each other is not beneficial. On the bright side, I see (from the parent comment and many others) that we have finally dropped the equally useless "no blockers" routine. We're making progress here!
Firefox gave me a confusing popup window on the first start after updating. It didn't explain what "colorways" are. I closed it.

This article is called "Introducing new Colorways for Firefox 94" but doesn't explain what the feature does, beyond being "a new feature that allows our users to express their most authentic selves and to bring them joy while browsing the web".

I went to mozilla.org and, in two clicks, reached the page for "Firefox for Desktop". It has a section with "Latest Firefox features", one of which is "Personalize your experience with new colorways"... But that text is not clickable, so I'm not getting more information there either.

I guess Mozilla doesn't want me to know what "Colorways" are.
The new formats have higher storage density than the old ones. First generation LTO (LTO-1) stored 100GB on a tape: how much would you pay for a drive like that today? Unsurprisingly, they don't make them any more. LTO drives are read-compatible with tapes from two generations earlier, so you can read LTO-1 tapes on LTO-3 drives, but LTO-3's capacity was 400GB, so no one buys those any more either. The current generation (LTO-8) has 12TB per tape, so you can see the upgrade treadmill chugging along.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linear_Tape-Open#Generations
Super-efficient linear compressor could vastly reduce air con power use
Faster, cheaper, safer, more reliable transport has always been a strong value proposition and likely always will be.

There are technical risks here, but there are not product/value proposition problems.
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From the article: "What inspired you to make the jump from fashion and retail into a tech company?", a question which might help explain the pivot to form over function.
Who needs yet another progra.... oh, it's a gradually typed fork of Lua in production use at Roblox eyes slowly widen.
It's probably easier to start w/ a SOC2 TypeII though. Once you get that down, you're at least 50% done with the 27001.
Man oh man, so many people here doing the worse version of standups, the status update meeting. I understand the bile in these threads. It is a shit format. Stop doing it.

Instead try this:

Standups are time for a team to plan their day and coordinate on how they will tackle the issues on the board. So, go from right to left on the board and discuss each issue and what needs to be done to finish it. Maybe some people can team up today. Maybe someone else has expertise regarding some problem. Maybe the team decides to drop an issue and give prio to another. etc etc.

That's all.

None of this "what I did yesterday, what I'm doing today" bullshit. No one cares. Stop it. Also, you don't need any managers to be present. The standup is for the benefit of the team. No managers need to be involved.

Try it. It is much much better.
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Hope they're trained to react to "I'm walkin' here!"
Quite the opposite, I'd argue that the rename makes talking about those issues easier.

Saying "Facebook's chats are down" has you thinking the chats of the website called Facebook are down.

While it's the entire parent company's services that are down. So Facebook by Meta, Instagram by Meta, etc. :)
75km corridor of dark green glass in Chilean desert formed in 3000F degree event
> If the object doesn’t mean anything, then there’s not much point in moving it from space to space.

Again, that's if you consider that the only value that exists is showing and signaling. That's, in my opinion, a really limited view of things. Objets are not just here to mean something, but also to do something. In fact, that's the main point of most objects. If your objects are only here because they mean something, they could very well just be a list of facts. Linking a list of facts to your identity, even if it's decentralized, is trivial. But it's not the everything you can do. I have a pickaxe in Minecraft. If I could use it to break rock in <cool metaverse stuff>, that would be great. If I can just show a pickaxe, what's the point of the pickaxe?
I'm not sure what point you're trying to make. Was this supposed to be a funny joke?
Too slow for a proxy cache of ATS's caliber/audience.
Anyone following the Climate Crisis logic closely are profiting by making steps toward shared goals and foreseeing eventualities. So 'They' could be just about anyone.

We are heading toward an eventual global socialist system under the banner of climate crisis. Nothing controls population numbers like crisis, science, and socialism.

It may have benefits but it will not go smoothly.
Whenever I hear about the end of the cold war, I think the Polish contribution to the fall of the USSR is mostly unknown, under appreciated and under valued.

One of the most fascinating theories that I've read on this is that this was the result of a secret alliance between Reagan's CIA and the Catholic Church. The basic outlines of the alliance was that the CIA supplied money and material on non-violent resistance (through deniable channels), the Catholic Church supplied the network and connections that could distribute them. Also the two aligned on other things, such as tying US foreign aid to abortion policies that the Catholic Church liked.

What does Poland have to do with all of this? Pope John Paul II was Polish, and so their test became the Solidarity movement in Poland. After that proved a success, they replicated it throughout the Eastern Block.

I first read this theory in a Mother Jones article back in the 1980s. And every so often I wish I could find it to read it again.
Haha yeah, I spent quite a lot of time to document everything. I sometime have trouble following tutorials because they leave out things that are obvious to them, but not to the reader. So I've really tried to include every step in detail, even though they might be "simple" and obvious.

What's stopping you? Go for it! :D
Because most likely he is already somewhere and this other company is not ready yet to share the change of CEO.

This case has more than 50% likelihood.
I forgot about OCaml (since I normally associate it with the more sophisticated typing stuff). I don't know if I'd completely count Go since interfaces only apply to methods, not fields
> But it was Jimmy Carter who appointed Volcker as the Fed chair, in 1979. Volcker was appointed specifically to do this job, as he was known as an inflation hawk, and Carter recognized inflation as America’s biggest economic problem. Volcer hiked interest rates all the way up to 17.61% under Carter, causing the first of the two Volcker Recessions in 1980.

The process that Volker's Fed set in motion is with us today. Have a gander at the historical constant-maturity 30-year bond:

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/DGS30

Zoom out to the multi-decade view and notice something: a peak in late-1981 and a relentless slide toward zero today. You won't find a multi-decade channel like this in many other places.

These ever-lower long-term yields have played a major role in the housing market bubble that ended in 2008 and the one still inflating today. It could also be argued that this trend toward ever-lower long-term yields has been responsible the increasingly outlandish stock market valuations and the never-ending quest for yield (i.e. risk) that we currently see by institutions, individuals, and foreign governments.
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As someone whose wife is continuously in danger of dying because of her almost complete lack of immunity to COVID - fuck you. Sincerely.

I understand that you are struggling but we are where we are with COVID.
Is there less Alzheimer's in cultures that don't eat bread (e.g. where rice or potatoes are a staple instead)?

Maybe in bread heavy cultures it's not a widespread issue because the majority of people have evolved some kind of resistance?
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I just carry spare batteries in my bag and swap them as needed. I'm hoping to be able to do the same with my next phone.
I think it's hardly surprising that the untruths spread by propagandists during election campaigns and by biased pundits don't always line up with observed facts or lived experiences. They don't call them spin doctors for nothing.

The solution is to dig in to statements of truth for yourself until you uncover verifiable facts. This is true as much for assertions in electoral campaign literature as much as claims of grand conspiracies to subvert privileges through widespread intramuscular injections of 5G microchips. Check the references provided, and if there are no references then check your gullibility.
Because cars are more general purpose and thus significantly bigger market. Google is a $2 trillion market cap business. Building a $100 bill business, for example, isn't going to move the needle. It sounds crazy, but they sort of have to go after things this large.
There are multiple C++ libraries for just that. Search "c++ units".