skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Agreed. I'm guessing is the "we can be trusted" service that comes only with longevity and size, and a track record that shows ability to protect data and manage things in the customer's interest, which not many organizations have been able to maintain. Trust is earned by behavior over time, and easily lost.

More rambling:
I am far from an expert on the current details, but I think that when it comes to taking care of one's savings, and the data closely tied to it, that can be used for identity theft, where we might perceive a worsening track record in institutions in general), trust is a big deal. Trust is given subconsciously sometimes, and ideally earned by things like: behavior over time (not promotions), and institutional size and inertia (why Wells Fargo still has customers, I guess), and/or observed behavior patterns relative to current events, proper staffing (competence, honesty, Golden Rule), and other indicators that suggest it is likely to remain so, to the extent of being a mental shorthand for "It's probably stupid (or not) to put my money there and let them take care of things that are really important to me".

Will Rogers I think said, and to varying degrees many have thought similarly, something like: "I'm more interested in the return of my money, than the return on my money." And data, now?

maybe there have always been more of people willing to manage others' money, than there is of confidence in trying someone new like a revolving door of trust without track record. And data closely tied to money -- same thing?

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> asset-owning bloc is falling below 50% of the electorate
> - vue and preact are designed to be used without build tools. An app deployed as a static site can use hash routing to need no builds and no server-side router.

So is React. JSX and React are 2 different things. But honestly, React without JSX is a pain to write.

Minification and hashing for secure script embedding are still needed, but it could provided directly by a server middleware, depending on the language one uses.

IMHO Typescript is still something useful.
"(they're standard zip files with boring XML files within)"

that's the container format. But the actual document data is still a big mess. Although that's probably unavoidable if you keep a file format for a long time. PDF and Photoshop files are also a mess.
Infinities.
... I’m finding it very difficult to phrase this argument about actually understanding in a way that wouldn’t also entail that chairs made of atoms (and—overwhelmingly—empty space) don’t actually exist, they are mere simulacra of real chairs (which don’t exist anywhere). Which might be a consistent position, but I’d instead say that it is simply a largely useless interpretation of the word actually and as good philosophers we should search for a better one. (See also Anderson’s “More is different”.)

Or is there such a phrasing?
I rarely see this spelled out, but in the more modern thinking, the working class are "creatures of flows", and the capitalist class are "creatures of stocks": i.e. the latter has meaningful assets, but the former subsists on wages.

Obviously this is just an approximation, but "class is calculus" is a very useful mental model.

By that ones, yes, the vast majority of people have negligible liquid savings. So the interest rate doesn't directly matter. Yet, the rich also "own the means of production" --- i.e. real assets, which also doesn't get inflated away. So it doesn't obviously matter for them. So what does it effect?

The essential original Keynesian insight (what most of the factions since might agree on), is that since the point of owning things in Capitalism as money, even if you aren't holding cash, the interest rate effects how easy it is to invest, but also what investments are productive w.r.t doing nothing. This spooky shit is what is supposed to give monetary policy it's power.

The differences in opinion in those factions come down to whether there is always enough to invest in, and access to credit is the limiting factor, or not. The Post-Keysnians would say relying on monetary policy alone is stupid, because (to distill in a parable) if no one can buy your stuff, it doesn't matter how cheap the factor is it's not worth it. That's when directly employing people (jobs guarantee) or handing out helicopter money can make a difference --- it's "root" demand, not some spooky shit effecting supply.

Back to the calculus stuff, an interesting idea is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demurrage. This is "inflation for stocks not flows". In short, we want money at rest to go bad, so rich people and instutions are forced to spend and we don't grind to a halt via the paradox of thrift. But we don't want people's wages to inflate away, because they certainly cannot bargain hard enough to get enough raise to keep up. Demurrage is wonderfully hamfisted in trying to do the former but not the latter --- money at rest becomes less money, money flows retain their purchasing power.
To my mind, that crosses some invisible line, that unpublishing a module does not.
This is fantastic -- I love WSL and it's so much more performant than running a Linux VM on VirtualBox on my Windows, but I've been missing the Linux window managers (GNOME / KDE etc). Looking forward to using this along with WSL on my Windows desktop in the near future.
> [Co-founders who sold] can have opinions, but those opinions are no more important than those actually in charge

Many HN readers think the visionaries who actually create billion dollar businesses have more valuable opinions/insights than the visionless corporate bureaucrats who ultimately end up in charge.
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So far as I can tell, unpkg sources directly from npm so you don't so much dig around as 'construct the URL you want'.

I may simply have got lucky so far with that but it's worked really nicely for me for quick things where I don't care about bundling.
You haven't been flooded with comment advising to use firefox instead yet ? Must be a slow day on HN.

But, joke aside, firefox is great and we do need people to use more to preserve rendering engine diversity.
What's New in C# 10
Until next month, when person A has $0 compounding at 25%, and person B has $1 249 000 compounding at 25% (a.k.a. cost of living).
PCW, but yeah... they were few graphical games for the PCW.
It's effectively become a Canadian version of Port Roberts.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Point_Roberts,_Washington
Ahhh, I remember it being possible on one of the Baofeng’s that can do almost anything.

Transmitting may require licensing, but listening should be fine.
QE has been a topic of mainstream news for a good decade now. Just sayin'.
Worker cooperative would be nice; it'd be good to see more democratic org structures on the radar for the tech industry.
I'm going to take this as further evidence for my crackpot theory that it should have never been possible for websites to define their own styling. Websites should serve semantic content and the browser should enable the user to apply their own preferred styling.
Complex password rules haven’t been shown to improve security in any way. They have been proven to torpedo security, e.g. they make people forget so they do blatantly-insecure things like writing passwords down or relying more frequently on things that reduce account security like having to reset the password entirely through simple E-mails or codes, etc.

And speaking of banks, I am livid that so many of my financial accounts essentially require absolutely terrible passwords. A lot of them don’t support E-mail for log-in either.

Meanwhile, your basic “correct horse battery staple” [1] works pretty well.

[1] https://xkcd.com/936/
"correct horse battery staple" is 28 characters. And it really should be two words longer than that these days.
According to their documentation [1], Databricks does not have this capability even for their own engines, and definitely not for "without piping data".

This is what I've personally seen few times - Databricks claiming they can do something and then it turns out they can't. Buyer beware lying salespeople and HN shills.

[1]: https://docs.databricks.com/administration-guide/access-cont...
> Outside of light, nitrogen (N), phosphorus (P), and potassium (K), or NPK for short

Ehm. Check out this Nature article on the importance of Carbon:

https://www.nature.com/scitable/knowledge/library/effects-of...

Very readable and worth reading in full. Especially the effects of elevated CO₂ on the C₃/C₄ photosynthetic pathway and crop yields.
It does prove that you own the specific matrix id you are logging in with to the website. It can for example be used as an alternative everywhere where "Sign in with Google" is used, so I don't understand why it should be useless for applications.
> shuck the drive into an external enclosure and get everything that way

Disk encryption (ie, BitLocker) is supposed to prevent that from working.
The Brave Wallet, a Browser-Native Crypto Wallet
My bad, should've known better than to use NFT on HN.

For those wondering, it stands for "Nutrient Film Technique" and it's basically running a small stream of nutrient solution in PVC tubes with your plants' roots being somewhat submerged.

It's a pretty water-efficient technique, this link explains it well: https://www.trees.com/gardening-and-landscaping/nutrient-fil...
Nice to hear that someone is still producing these tubes! What is the life expectancy of such a tube if switched on constantly?
Oh, of course. I meant that in case of a server going down in an app where downtime is a crucial requirement might be useful to have some sort of structured report so that the most useful stuff is transmitted in a reliable manner
uBO has this filter list available by default: https://github.com/gwarser/filter-lists/blob/master/lan-bloc...
Just wait and all will be revealed...
Did Dribbble.com Get Hacked?
Going to their site <https://dribbble.com> on mobile, and clicking on the upper-left hamburger menu, shows a search bar with a pre-filled value in Chinese, which roughly translates to "nuns finding Asian porn sites".
I see that you support some integrations. We are interested on that (http://stack55.com), do you provide or plan to build some custom API?
Ad-hoc, this is correct.

But at the time of the password change, no, assuming password changing requires you to enter your current password as well.
https://outage.bingo/?month=1&seed=39919 is similar. Either reddit+dns or apple by itself would be enough
I'm missing something, why would they charge you monthly for that?
When the middle class disappeared. When the professions in the middle tier went by by everyone flocked to that as a career now the great winnowing occurrs.
I read this comment earlier and just now had to come back and use it so I could paste an account number during a signup process.

You just improved my day.

Thanks!
It’s not just Kelowna, it’s the entire Okanagan valley. My mother-in-law lives in Summerland and she swears by Castanet as the one true news source.
It would be cool if we could use alphanumerical seeds, so we can use our username instead of picking a seed "randomly" (or strategically)
Great post! This reminds me a lot of making dog food for people (aka Soylent) with the best profile, requirements, and because plants don’t complain about taste, you’ll have no problem with ratios!

The only issue is about the effects of these elements and what they can do to the water or your home. Would they need a special environment to prevent fungi, algae, bacteria or mold that would also feast upon these nutrients? You said bacteria didn’t always appear but what if some will grow on hydro? What optimizations would you do for preventing infections?
> Back then, did it look as if big endian would become prevalent?

Yes. Big endian was "natural" and x86 was weird and awkward, and a niche low end design that woud never be connected to networks.
I haven't checked this myself, but Edge might not be that private:

- https://www.zdnet.com/article/a-professor-says-edge-is-the-w...

- https://www.scss.tcd.ie/Doug.Leith/pubs/browser_privacy.pdf
Depends on how you count.

Vancouver is on the mouth of Fraser River on basically a combination of glacial scouring and sandy infill. The coast immediately adjacent to Vancouver (and indeed, even somewhat inland) is basically your typical fjord system. Thus, Vancouver is surrounded by the west by the Salish Sea, and mountains on all other sides, asides from the sandy coast that stretches south towards Seattle.

Crossing from Vancouver to the Canadian plains requires crossing two main mountain ranges--the Pacific range and the Rocky Mountains. The main river systems here are oriented primarily in a north-south direction, which means they aren't a great help in finding water gaps in the mountains. However, the next major cities to the east in Canada are Edmonton and Calgary, which means any natural highway route is going to want to generally veer north out of Vancouver anyways.

There are basically three crossings of the Continental Divide worth mentioning in lower British Columbia: Highway 16 (the road to Edmonton), Highway 1 (the road to Calgary), and Highway 3 (which hugs the border). In the Pacific Range, these dwindle down to three highways leaving Vancouver itself, Highway 7 and Highway 1 that leave on the north and south banks of the Fraser respectively, and Highway 99 that jumps over to the next fjord north before making its way inland. Somewhat upstream of Vancouver, at Hope, Highway 1 crosses the river and meets up with Highway 7 to continue following the Fraser River due north, while Highway 5 heads vaguely northeast along the Coquihalla, and Highway 3 splits off from Highway 5 shortly thereafter to continue primarily east near the border. Between the two mountain ranges, the connections of roads is rather more complicated, but either way, you're going to filter down to the same bottlenecks when crossing one of the mountains.

And all of those roads I described crossing the Pacific Range? Every single one of them spend substantial portions of its time in a narrow river valley and is currently severed in several places because of washouts. However many roads you want to count it--they are all cut right now.
Cute, but

Comcast was 5 days ago

GCP was 4 days ago

Facebook was 13 days ago

Robinhood was 7 days ago (and seriously strains "a major cryptocurrency service." it's a retail stock trading platform that happens to trade crypto.)
Group of Crypto Investors on Discord Plans to Buy Copy of US Constitution
Yes, but it shouldn't be surprising. This trust is not based on belief in human decency, it's based on belief that people want to make money. You can never go wrong with that.

That's one of the hidden advantages of B2B, and recurring business models in general.
They can use a third party ftp client and it will register as a protocol handler. You can just view it as "ftp support with a different program"

It's pretty seamless. There's lots of ftp supporting clients. Give it a go
I agree that most likely inflation will reduce the real cost of debt. However, this is a decision that will be made by political policymakers and they are sometimes unpredictable. The downside of going underwater is much worse to me personally than the upside of having some debt disappear.
Dire for Merritt (evacuated), Princeton (under water), Hope (all highways closed or curtailed), Abbotsford (under water), Chilliwack (under water), Fernie (no highway access) and a host of other places on the mainland and on the Island that are vital transport, agricultural, forestry, tourism, and mining centres. You mentioned prices, so scale it up to international economics level.
Nah, that won't happen. International affairs are handled by Ottawa, which is 4000 km away and completely unaffected by this crisis.
On Monessen in the Morning
Today, at 5:30am, I was at the gates of Cliff’s Monessen, PA Coke Plant. I’m happily drumming up votes for a candidate for the USW District Ten (Pennsylvania) Directorship. Our union has direct membership elections for all its Officers. I began thinking of when I first walked through the gates of the Bethlehem Steel, Steelton Plant, back on November 16, 1972. Realizing I’m heading in to my fiftyith year of union membership and activism. A lot of water over the dam. A hugely rewarding way to spend a working life.

For some, that Coke Plant is an environmental blemish and its industrial visage is an ugly scar on the landscape. To me, this is home. I know it, I know its history, I understand its importance, I get its pluses and its downside. But most of all, I know the working people that bring it alive and keep it productive. To a steelworker, it is a thing of beauty, of danger, of consequence. A place and a people, to be respected.

The United Steelworkers, was formed in 1943. As I think about my longevity in this awesome human organization, I realize it’s only eleven years older than I am. I have been a member for some 63% of its existence. I have borne witness to much of what the USW has done for people who work, and know its impact goes far beyond its membership. It has truly been a force for human progress.

On this cold autumn morning, as I greet today’s workforce, I wonder how long a run our union will have. We are challenged by big changes in the global economy and an environmental reckoning. Politics has harmed our unions solidarity. A new generation of steelworkers is becoming a majority of the workforce. Many of them don’t have those prior generations to teach them about the power of solidarity and the value of their union. They are detached from the history and struggles of those who came before them.

Yet their struggle is the same. Their needs are the same. Their hopes and dreams the same. As I ask them to elect a new generation of union leadership, I have hope. That they will recognize what they have and shape the USW to effectively assure their futures. That they will use its power, their power, to surmount the tidal waves of change that threaten to wash away nearly 80 years of progress. The need for workers to use their collective power has never been greater. The need for young and energetic leadership never more evident. The challenges and difficulties, never more pressing. The ability to find common ground and mutual goals, never more daunting. The requirement that they align their goals within the direction of our immense nation, a seemingly impossible task.

As the sun rises above this old Plant…above an old steel town on the Mon, I hand my sisters and brothers information and talk to them about securing their future. One thing I know. The course of that future, can be in their hands…

Ihg – 11-16-2021

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They'll be maxed out capacity wise almost immediately, compared to a working four lane road ferries have extremely small capacity. But better something than nothing.
Somebody once described configuring fvwm2 (which is still my WM of choice, and indeed was theirs at the time of writing) as "like training a brain damaged hyena."

The thing is, as the same somebody noted, that then it stays trained.

To quote from upthread, "the same insane for 30 years" is in and of itself a huge feature that makes up for quite a lot of insane.
> IBM Quantum System Two is designed to work with IBM's future 433-qubit and 1,121 qubit processors.

what's the smallest useful (as in, 'non-toy', or maybe 'worth buying time on') quantum computer?
If you wrote a novel and wanted your friend to write the final chapter, then would you need to train them in your novel beforehand? Not that much different from programming.
The card is for all of November '21
After 15y of Linux I have pretty good understanding of the kernel subsystems. If I hit an issue I have pretty good first hunch on where to look.

But the graphical stack, it's just so opaque. DRM, mesa, X and all its extensions and userspace drivers, Wayland and its compositors, DRI, RADV. Is there any good read or a video which ties all these concepts together?
> we get heaps of produce from California

Are the prices in line with what those products would cost in the US (e.g. WA state)? I was under the impression that the prices in BC were lower, so now I'm wondering if the price adjustment to account for local markets is significant or not, or if I misremembered completely.
It's open source! I'm open to PRs ^^ https://github.com/queer/outage.bingo
> My code traded the ability to change requirements for reduced duplication, and it was not a good trade. For example, we later needed many special cases and behaviors for different handles on different shapes. My abstraction would have to become several times more convoluted to afford that, whereas with the original “messy” version such changes stayed easy as cake

Yeah code duplication is fine when the commonality of code is incidental. The thing that bothers me is starting from the assumption that the requirements for each shapes are going to diverge. It looks like the wrong kind of premature optimization to me. In this case the refactoring seemed sensible, and unless they already _knew_ that this would happen soon, I think it was safe to assume that it wouldn't and that factorizing made sense. _Then_ duplicate the code in the future if it's necessary - seeing that the abstractions were not working properly.

There are tons of codebases in the wild with large portions of duplicated logic, from experience they seem the rule rather than the exception for any sizeable project. "DRY" as itself is not a rule, but I think it makes sense to be doubtful of duplication as a default stance.
I believe it takes most of the material for air, not water.
That saved me from clicking another few hundred times, thanks.
Yes, but that's OT, the topic here is GitHub, not git.
Idk so much, but basically i've heard that Solana validation isn't easily available like ETH (run on any GPU). It needs like 16 core cpu with 256gb RAM and fast SSD.

Then there's only 1000 validators right now, and 130 of them are losing money.

So it seems like their validation is very oligarchal. Which kinda defeats the purpose right?

Venmo or Visa can have superfast and supercheap transactions... but who cares.
Yup! Cards are monthly (and created manually so we can adjusted based on previous months of outages/breaches)
If AWS goes down, taking Slack out then I get a bingo. There's gotta be an Amazon employee who can help me out. :)

https://outage.bingo/?month=1&seed=34828
Depends on the tube and if you account for cathode poisoning. My clock is still going strong after 3 years, coming on automatically at sunset and goes off at midnight.
Fair enough. My responses might be slightly shaped by the fact I was going to drive to Vancouver next week to visit a friend and am flying to Europe in 2 weeks.

> that no one really gives a fuck about how inconvenient travel has become for non-essential activities

Plenty of people do. Hence why so many countries (literally the whole EU) are trying to facilitate travel.
Any idea where one can find qubit lifetimes and gate fidelities? The classical RF engineering behind controlling that many qubits is certainly great, but it is hard to get excited about the "quantumness" without these figures of merit.