skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
DAI is backed by vaults of various crypto assets. Because there already was a crunch of DAI a few years ago, the USDC was added to the mix. A fiat collaterized stablecoin.
Sorry to hear that. That sounds very tough. One thing that I did not anticipate is that people bring all sorts of misconceptions of grad schools onto me as a grad student. I take three classes in a semester and people think that is easy (because undergrads take five, of course). I have a flexible schedule, and somehow that makes people think I am less busy (flexible != have time). I look at people working 996 jobs and sometimes I envy them (not having to cook, at least having 1 or 2 hours truly free after 9pm etc.), even though I really should not for many reasons. Partially it is my fault (who does not love a bit of self-destructive tendencies...), but also I just wish people can relate to me just a bit more.
If your shell scripts are complex enough for you to be limited by POSIX then they probably shouldn't be shell scripts in the first place.
OneFlow: Redesign the Distributed Deep Learning Framework from Scratch
I'm with you...although it definitely feels like it's months away.
I spent a few months in Indonesia, and I swear, the culture shock coming back to North America was more of a culture shock than arriving in Indonesia.

Life was simple and means we're limited for the people of Indonesia, but everything they did followed a logical progression from the first principles of basic human needs, So nothing about it felt terribly strange.

In north America society has warped itself into some strange abstraction that doesn't make any sense.
Tesla is making a virtue out of cutting costs, using cheaper parts, and running a public beta.

I guess one real test will be what the resale value of Teslas ends up being. Because they have been growing so fast, most Teslas are very new. What will they be like at 10? 15? Will they stay in shape, or will they drag the company valuation down? Also right now they have the cool car premium, but that’s bound to be shared once other catch up.

Ford T was a similar bet I guess, attention to detail must have been lower with mass production, and it clearly paid off. Hard to know this time.
I'm working on privacy-friendly analytics [0] and also try to get into some consultancy work. Preferably in Golang. I have one project in the pipeline where I'm building a prototype for a very niche checkout like system, but for contracted work instead of products. In the long run I would like to work on my projects exclusively.

[0] https://pirsch.io
Beef is not just literally grass. That's just unhelpful reductionism, and ignores that the properties are changed dramatically through energy inputs and chemical reactions. Grass is just dirt and CO2 and water after all. Dirt is just a bunch of atoms...
Great news!

EV infrastructure in EU is incredibly fragmented. Nice that Tesla chargers are becoming accessible, but we still have fragmentation of apps and charging subscriptions/accounts (Tesla app/account is another one you need to have):
https://svedic.org/tech/daddy-did-you-really-need-electric-c...
Ask HN: How do you security-audit external software using NPM packages?
Hi,

At my current client I've been doing more and more security related tasks such as audits on external software. Currently the type of software I audit are WordPress plugins. I have more than 15yrs of experience with WordPress and in the past I could fairly easily assess a WordPress plugin's potential security impact(s). Nowadays not so much due to the seemingly increased usage of npm packages included with these plugins.

Often these plugins do not include a package.json, package-lock.json nor are the javascript files readable (bundled & minified). This makes using npm audit near impossible. Good for production, less for audits.

Sometimes I can grab development files such as package.json, package-lock.json from a public repo, but in the case of so-called 'premium' plugins a public repo is usually absent.

So my question is: How do you (security) audit external software depending on npm packages?
Because it severely reduces the quality of service received by the user.

If I have a subscription to Walmart which gives me half price food in return for $50/month, you can bet I'll always be shopping there.

That means I'll usually drive further for food, have less selection, and will be far less likely to switch to another grocery store.

When many stores have a subscription model, they can start to creep prices up for non-subscribers, and before long grocery shopping starts to look like cable internet or phone plans.

I can't 'just switch to AT&T for a few minutes to see if it's faster'!

Endgame:. "36 month Walmart Grocery Plus for $50/month. Early termination charge: $1800. For just $25/month extra, you can also shop at other Walmart locations."
Surprised it took so long. As a big player in the EV market, the expansion of that market generally benefits them and this will help that.
You're right, this also causes tradeoffs between good compiler errors and ease of composition when considering pipe first and pipe last. A good article on that: https://www.javierchavarri.com/data-first-and-data-last-a-co...
I think we should co-opt an existing word and use it wrongly so it loses it's meaning and becomes the word for the phenomenon you described.
https://tsf.telegram.org/manuals/e2ee-simple#2-why-are-there...
Thoughts on UST? Is it related to Luna?
Obviously lots of radiation measuring and management technology, but I doubt you would think that is worthwhile until you get proton therapy.
A 2019 article had examples of more EULA "Easter Eggs" and the AWS acceptable use exemption for a zombie apocalypse was mentioned:

https://www.makeuseof.com/tag/10-ridiculous-eula-clauses-agr...
Security and freedom are both active pursuits. Anything unattended will be repurposed and recycled by law of nature, in one way or another.

We humans can and do try to fight against nature. But that's exactly what it is, a fight! And I doubt the Art of War said "Pay no attention to your enemies. They will leave you be."
Brutalism produced disasters and masterpieces like any other artistic trend. Let's do what we've been doing for thousands of years and keep the masterpieces and a few of the disasters to show the range of the style and move on. Badly designed, built, or photographed buildings exists regardless of their style. You don't have to go too far (in the US at least) to find examples of awful neoclassicism for instance.
In a way PHP is one of the tools which helped to move away from iframes.

With "static" web pages people used iframes, so they didn't have to update navigation on all pages. With PHP you cod simply do <?php include ('menu.php');?> and had a single source of truth.

This makes about 90% of early PHP scripts :)
Gas stations (which are way more complex & expensive to operate than unattended electric charging points) manage just fine without subscriptions though.
Well can't software do that automatically? I would love a piece of software that could reserve a couple of cores for games, another couple of cores for firefox, etc. dynamically based upon some settings.
I have travelled a fair bit in the US. I don’t think anywhere in the US gives a realistic representation of the US. It’s all different, you need to visit a few different states and types of city and think about the whole. It’s Vegas and NYC and Portland and Salt Lake City and Austin and Mountain View and a whole bunch of other places mashed together. I don’t get this as much with other countries. If someone on here thinks one single place in the US captures the whole country then I would love to go and visit.
Yeah I've been thinking about the two taps thing with shower taps. For my shower tap, you turn it counterclockwise to get water running. Where it goes from slow flow rate and cold, to high flow rate and hot. I thought that it would make sense to have two knobs so that one controls flow rate and the other controls temperature. As it stands, one knob ambiguously controls both the temperature and flow rate of the water.

Two taps - one for cold and one for hot makes sense. Since they each control the flow rate of hot/cold respectively. And from what I understand, this matches with the internals as you have one pipe for cold water and one pipe for hot water. Of course, rich people probably have more complicated setups that allow for even more precision...
Its sometimes 200%+ of profits. First National Bank of Texas (doing business as First Convenience Bank) made over $100 million in overdraft fees yet posted an annual profit of just $36 million in 2020

Giving people money when they dont have any and charging them for the pleasure of not having their rent cheque bounce or be unable to buy any food for a week is hardly a dark pattern.

Personally I would do away with overdrafts all together and solve the problem. But that isnt going to be a popular opinion and people would compain that people are unable to buy groceries or pay their rent.
Here's how to make a SPA that isn't shit.

https://instant.page/
https://github.com/turbolinks/turbolinks or turbo/hotwire/stimulus.

They are bloated as fuck. Go to an interview for any react job and they'll ask you about what to do when react fucks up the DOM with all its bullshit. Try making an HTML page that is just HTML and see how many millions of elements you have to have on the page until it starts acting like react. React/Angular/etc are just bloat.

It's like seeing a "modern" iOS app with Dependency injection and asking yourself how often this team swaps out the database on its iOS to make DI necessary. Like what do they have in the back, a Wheel O' Database and spin it every week to find out what DB they should use until next week?
> I'm interested in the apparent intolerance of shirtless men,

Not sure about India but in a lot of European countries walking shirtless on the street might be a fineable offence. A larger discussion on the subject can be found on this recent /r/europe thread. [1]

[1] https://old.reddit.com/r/europe/comments/qixnsa/filling_up_a...
Elon Musk goes viral on Chinese social media with ancient poem post
My curiosity here: Facebook has a problem with keeping users. There are likely many reasons for this such as the toxic environment, privacy issues and even the feed being difficult to find content with.

This seems like something they should be working on if they’re going to bet big on what would be an even more immersive environment.

A real world example: people hate toxic work environments, but they’re often stuck with the job for long periods of time after identifying the problem.
Such is the reality of needing to eat and not be homeless.

But spending my free time in the 3D version of facebook? I don’t care how big the gimmick or how appealing the concept art, that sound like hell to me.
Is there really a white collar job that does not allow at least something like 7-15 schedule? Or one that couldn't be easily found. That is giving exactly the extra hour in evenings that people want.
Lol how does this sort of shit even happen in 2021. It's meant to be "the future".
That's cheap.

We really underestimate the costs of running in the cloud.
False news.
Lots of submissions. Discussion seems to be here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29069602
Tipu is respected by a lot of people, but the genocide of Coorgis who opposed him is well known history.

There are a lot of movements against historically whitewashing his rule.
Reminds me a bit of when apple opened mobile apps to outside developers ... and thus an industry was born.
IIRC that only requires an nfc capable credit card reader so still "waving a card in front of the machine".
AVIF is still in process of adoption [1], while WebP is virtually everywhere and you can even ignore fallbacks if you don't support MSIE [2].

Also while AVIF supports lossless images, its lossless compression is known to be weak and can be even inferior to PNG, while the WebP lossless mode is a dedicated algorithm and almost guaranteed to be better than PNG. This is a reason why JPEG XL can be better than AVIF in the long term, where AVIF is just another intra-frame format extracted from video codecs while JPEG XL is explicitly built to support both use cases.

[1] https://caniuse.com/avif

[2] https://caniuse.com/webp
I'm a diehard omnivore, and the beyond meat sausage is honestly tastier than a lot of meat sausages I've eaten. I was seriously impressed.
Seems also like a perfect usecase for ipfs. Imagine solar powered ipfs nodes, each serving some website and also pinning for other nodes. but its probably hard to get an ipfs node to 2 watt...
My father earned a PhD in Political science (in France) when he was 70; his thesis was 500+ pages long. He retired early and spent all his time on it. It made him pretty happy.

He's now 89 and while he hasn't done any new research, he's still intellectually and physically very active.

Retirement is not the time to do nothing, it's the time to do what you really like. I can't wait.
What gas station requires a subscription to buy aside from Costco or Sam's club?

Until these EVs can match the convenience of gas, there isn't a point to get one. Especially since batteries are a huge tax on resources as it is.
What are vendetta developers?

Is it professional for the management to run a project in such a way that it happens to be a slow-motion train wreck?
I see. That's not "EU telling them they have to".

That's a minister of an EU member state allegedly telling them he would like to force them to do it.
Hiring managers, agree. Sourcing recruiters, not so sure. For the conveyor belt directly from college into FAANG internship and onwards, I expect you'll have an easier time at a big name.
Invisible iframes are fantastic for sandboxing third-party code, or perhaps modularising work from another team.

Avoiding cookies in iframes is important because browsers are getting more restrictive, so security for iframes is difficult to manage. We passed a unique session token to the iframes from the owning page using postMessage(), and the two servers (we controlled both) communicated directly for authentication (avoid putting authentication into the browser since your enemy controls it completely).

I have always found trying to use iframes as a visible section of your UI is really crappy. Troubles with keyboard focus, resizing, modal dialogs, scrolling, Mobile Safari quirks, detecting loading or other failures, yada yada yada.
It can be so damn annoying on android, When you mail client opens its own browser instead of the default. You close the screen to do something else comeback and have to login again.
It sounds similar to the current "standing charge" you get on UK household energy bills (don't know about the rest of Europe).

Even if you don't use any electricity you still pay a day rate (on most tariffs).

What I'd hate to see long term is if the subscription remains tied to a single supplier (i.e. I pay my subscription to Tesla, but use Ionic to charge, so pay the subscription charge and the higher rate). That will mean the decision to use a different charge point still has repercussions, and prevents the openness of the infrastructure we (society at large if we're moving full electric) really need.
Nah, I still think it's more likely to be a cranberry than the republicans.
People who invested in the insane attempt to trademark-troll the term "magic link," which drove this person out of business:

* Tiger Global

* Northzone

* Lightspeed Ventures

* SV Angel

* Social Capital

* Balaji Srinivasan

* Ryan Hoover

* Alexis Ohanian

* Naval Ravikant

Just remember, these are supposed to be sophisticated investors who have technical skills and do due diligence... And you're supposed to see their names on a deal and go, "oh, well, if they invested, there must be something of value here!" Yeah, no. They are literally shareholders in an attempt to trademark-troll into taking ownership over a very basic form of user authentication. So pathetic.
Previous release according to previous release list at bottom of the page

https://aws.amazon.com/service-terms/historical/2020-03-23/
“macOS Monterrey completely bricked my new work MacBook”
And what does your company do, if I may ask?
thanks, added it to the channel description and probably will add it to the individual video descriptions too once I publish them
I posted this earlier about John Steinhart's XTool (here it is with updated links):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17056516

Hasn't somebody reimplemented X11 in JavaScript/canvas/websockets yet?

There was an X11 server for Lisp Machines! Not sure who wrote it, but it was probably written inside or at least nearby the X Consortium, and I remember Robert Scheifler used it regularly.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6864364

"For example the TI Explorer Lisp Machine came with an X11 server written in Lisp. On my Symbolics Lisp Machine I used the usual MIT X11 server written in C - this was possible because the Symbolics Lisp machine had a C compiler." -lispm

John Steinhart wrote XTool, a nice snappy reimplementation of X11 on top of SunView! ;)

https://web.archive.org/web/20171105150953/https://minnie.tu...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15325226

>XTool was very small and fast compared to the X sample server because I wrote the server from scratch. I think that I'm the only person to write an X server outside of the X Consortium. One of the things that I learned by doing it was that the X Consortium folks were wrong when they said that the documentation was the standard, not the sample server. There were significant differences between the two.

>The only really worthwhile thing about X was the distributed extension registration mechanism. All of the input, graphics and other crap should be moved to extension #1. That way, it won't be mandatory in conforming implementations once that stuff was obsolete. As you probably know, that's where we are today; nobody uses that stuff but it's like the corner of an Intel chip that implements the original instruction set. As an aside, I upset many when working on OpenDoc for Apple and saying the same thing there.

>The atom/property mechanism allows clients to allocate memory in the server that can never be freed. Some way to free memory needs to be added.

>The bit encodings should be part of a separate language binding, not part of the functional description.

>Had he done some real design work and looked at what others were doing he might have realized that at its core, X was a distributed database system in which operations on some of the databases have visual side-effects. I forget the exact number, but X includes around 20 different databases: atoms, properties, contexts, selections, keymaps, etc. each with their own set of API calls. As a result, the X API is wide and shallow like the Mac, and full of interesting race conditions to boot. The whole thing could have been done with less than a dozen API calls.
> We were told that the Internet would “dematerialise” society and decrease energy use. Contrary to this projection, it has become a large and rapidly growing consumer of energy itself.

The writer lost my trust with that logical error.
Wow it's beautiful. Do you have more information on this rendering style?
While I absolutely agree these inconsistencies are completely against the Mac OS philosophy, it's hard to not acknowledge how old the codebase must be starting to be, 20 years down the road.

Windows has the same issues, where you'll see stuff dating back to the NT days in the Control Panel.

I can't even begin to imagine how many different internal UI frameworks the Mac OS developers need to juggle now, compared to when Aqua looked as fresh as iOS 7 did at launch.

Apparently, Apple had planned to completely scrap their computers before the 180° decision to move to M1 and cater to pro users again, so one isn't left wondering as to why Mac OS is this way when iOS is much more consistent. It's likely we won't ever see a new computer OS ever again, similarly to why the web seems to have settled on being a Blink/WebKit platform.

Is it a shame? Absolutely. But it's going to be impossible to convince an entire sales team to get their developers to fix UI inconsistencies and rewrite every nook and cranny in the system to use AppKit, instead of working on marketable features that move parts of Mac OS to parity with iOS.
Global online inventory of PV systems exceeding 10 kW in size
And I've seen people calling that typical backwards German internet policy. Not sure why closed-wall, obscure subscription solutions to pay for commodity services would be preferable to a robust, proven and easily accessible payment solution like credit/debit cards. It works at scale for fuel, why not for electricity? Heck, if you want it fancy throw in Google, Apple Pay or whatever contactless solution there is.

As far as payment for charging is concerned, EVs seem to be really backwards compared to to the existing fuel station networks.

Also intriguing how Tesla is able to sell a legal requirement as a great initiative on their behalf.
macOS Monterey update bricked my 2019 MacBook Pro with touchbar
MongoDB is much less trash nowadays than it used to be. If by "serverless" you mean Atlas, you could do worse. Atlas is supposedly quite expensive though.
Other examples:

https://twitter.com/nj10_Akhil/status/1454286887233802240?re...

https://www.reddit.com/r/macbook/comments/qjbzqn/macos_monte...
I'm guessing he had a fraudulent bank account opened in the owners name with the address as the house and then stole the bank mail as the bank mail would have apparently worked as verification as the original person for the sale according to this [0]. This story is scant though and needs more details.

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29074464
No, Dell was never part of VMware. VMware was owned by EMC, which was in turn bought by Dell, making VMware a Dell subsidiary.
From Finland I see that Seattle is around Switzerland. Which I consider central Europe or even being very much in south.

Noticed that standard time was actually useful this time of year. Where there was no light before it, but now there is at least some for while. And I see it much more important for morning than evening.
Would "phenomenon" do?!
They don't, OP was simply proud of typing "n → ∞".
> the lowest-end devices lack positional tracking for both the headset and the controllers

That is the reason I am excited about ZapBox and AR4E headsets. Both promise support for interaction using controllers.

> So as far as I can tell the category seems like a dead-end at this point, it doesn't seem to be receiving substantial software or hardware investment and will likely disappear altogether as positional tracking gets cheaper.

If that happens, then it will be a shame. We need lot of low-cost headsets for XR to proliferate. Otherwise it will remain a niche market.

> In contrast FB is launching a $150M fund specifically for VR educational content

One of the things I am trying to avoid is vendor-lockin.

> So I guess it depends on what your time horizon is - I'd just be aware that any investments into designing software for 3DOF systems are likely to depreciate pretty quickly.

Hence planning to use open source software and standard APIs as much as possible e.g. Godot engine, Vulkan Scene Graph, Monado, OpenXR complaint API etc.

> there's a video there (and a sign up to get a free copy when the beta launches!).

I am not able to see video. I am using Firefox 93 x86_64 on Ubuntu 20.04.3 LTS.

Are you a designer or a software engineer?
That has absolutely nothing to do with what we were discussing above and I suggest you read it again slowly.
Trojan Source – Invisible Source Code Vulnerabilities
Just tried all the big major cloud drive apps, and OneDrive was surprisingly much better than both Google Drive, Dropbox and even iCloud Drive on MacOS and iOS. Thoroughly impressed - thanks, I had not considered Microsoft.