skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Imagine if the JWST gets delayed for another year because it won't find safe passage amid the new debris field.
The source article that the OP is based on doesn't provide the numbers that the OP claims it does.
You're correct, I am opposed to crytocurrencies as implemented today. I'm horrified that we spend tons of resources and energy doing effectively useless work. Maybe a Folding at Home coin would be more palatable.

I'd also argue that bitrefill is, yet again, centralization being needed to make it useful. Once defi is accepted everywhere, suddenly people will want the law and central authorities to perform chargebacks, and end up reinventing our exact same system.
My passwords are long because I don't actually use a password manager. I generate my passwords with a help of my algorithm that makes them easier to type in wherever I might need them (resemble real words) like in a terminal.
And you can’t drive without a driving test.
It’s not that easy in practice because

1. It’s not just smart devices that are a risk. Eg some ISP routers are insecure.

2. Smart devices aren’t always so easy to spot. An IoT light bulb is pretty obvious. But what about a TV? These days it’s almost impossible to buy dumb TVs and most computer monitors don’t have speakers built in. So in some instances it takes extra effort to avoid smart devices.

3. Some people actually like the convenience of smart devices. I have some IoT bulbs at the bottom of my garden and they were actually the best solution to the problem I had (which I won’t bore you with here but the other options like solar lights weren’t suitable). What if someone wants to watch Netflix or Disney+, should they be denied that because they are told to avoid anything “smart”?

Saying “we shouldn’t have nice things” isn’t a good enough answer to the “how do we secure bad things” argument. It’s throwing the baby out with the bath water. And even if I agreed with you, “smart” is already in our lives, there is no way to put that genie back in the bottle even if we wanted too.
> I can only afford crap.

"Crap" to me would be low-tech non-smart light bulbs.

That's what I buy. IMO, "smart" bulbs are dumb and unnecessary. The only time I ever need to turn a light on or off is when I'm entering or leaving a room, in which case I'm passing the light switch anyways. I have no need to be able to turn my lights on and off from my phone, and don't understand the use case.
ansi-red, making the world a better place!
You don’t need an extension. There are software wallets and hardware wallets that are not extensions.
eBPF also does more than just tracing: it allows one to implement custom network and security policies and various other things. I don’t think LTTng does anything but tracing.
I smell an opportunity for someone to create gesture-based HTML forms.

Seriously though, this brings up an important point. People don't like excessive paperwork, so this pattern should be used very sparingly.

Users' time and attention is a scarce resource. You can't magically create more of this scarce resource by applying a UX pattern. People will respond by putting themselves on "click no, no, no, no, no, no, and no" autopilot.
I signed up on coinmarkercap and used bitwarden to set a 16 words passphrase as my password. Every time I log in I'm asked to change it because it's unsafe.
"In total, we find for our sample of 56 tech companies a gap between reported and harmonized emissions of 391 megatons (Mt) carbon dioxide equivalents (CO2e), of which 202 MtCO2e originate from omitted upstream and 189 MtCO2e from omitted downstream emissions. Accounting for these omitted emissions more than doubles self-reported emissions of 360 MtCO2e to harmonized emissions of 751 MtCO2e."
I'd like to see more discussion about the nuts-and-bolts infrastructure of web3: the servers, file hosting and streaming, the caching layers. All of these slick websites are probably running on the same old cloud platforms and using the blockchain as an (admittedly powerful) identity or transactions layer.

I know it's early days, but the rhetoric about freedom from FAANG is outpacing the reality. I worry about a new generation of services that lure in and capture users with a thin veneer of decentralization ("oh, your identity is on ENS, but uh we actually host your videos") or those services suddenly finding they have huge cloud infrastructure bills to pay, leading to governance catastrophes, broken promises, and rug pulls/shutdowns.

A potential small step in the right direction: it would be super cool to see a blogging platform like mirror.xyz host its user-uploaded image assets on IPFS. It would be super super cool to see a DAO engineered to put money in trust to keep these assets pinned past the lifetime of the service itself, with as little human intervention as possible.
I have played around with this product a few times over the last few months! It's getting better with every release. I used it for an internal work tool last week and was able to be up and running in less than an hour, where normally I'd have spent a day at it. Using the blocks lets me forget about the design as well.

Would recommend everyone have play with it!
The failures you speak to are a behavioral divide. XML, and its descendants, were largely the work of elite hobbyists. These are people who, more often than not, really cared about the technologies and applied the curation, details, and precision such care requires like much of open source. This speaks to incredible initiative and great refinement to build an epic palace.

In the rest of the world nobody cares. It works or it doesn't. The end. Most software developers want to believe that they are really smart people, and they just might be, but that doesn't equate to effort. Learning and extending the world of XML takes effort.

My experience sitting on both sides of that fence tells me that unless you have a domineering personal investment the only thing that matters in software is employability and the semantic web did not crack that code. Employability is a primitive binary equation often reduced to a few lines on a resume.
As long as they do the keyboard support right (and they do) this is the same number of keypresses. A lot of people get distracted or confused by giant forms. This is even an accessibility issue.
Erratum: "assignment operator" is not the best choice of words there, other than in the sense of "assign meaning" (to a hitherto unbound symbol).
In Grade 12, I had a revelation when a good friend explained to me in 5 minutes that trigonometry was largely just ratios. I guess either it hadn't been explained to me before properly or I didn't understand it at a DEEP level, but when he laid it all out for me on the board, it was suddenly all so simple.

I had three reactions:

1) I was elated to finally understand sin and cosin.

2) I was thankful for him and also amazed at how simple it was in 5 minutes to explain something that seemed to have eluded me for 5 years of highschool. It made me wonder alot what other difficult subjects could be easily taught by just a good explanation.

3) I wondered why math class had failed so specifically to give me that knowledge, or at least test me to see if I understood it and if I didn't to ensure that I did understand it. The answer I think was math class just encouraged me to use a calculator, thus short circuiting any real understanding.

Anyways he went on to be a physics professor at Cambridge.

I always appreciated that moment.
This, sir, is 100% true. This was never a software company, but a food delivery company that happened to run on software.

The customers and the delivery guys willing to jump on right away were the true assets and no, you can't build those relationships on a single weekend.
As a songwriter I really suffer from analysis paralysis, and what kinda helped me was to write a song a day for a month. I'm still not a prolific song writer by any means, but it helped me learn that perfect is the enemy of good enough, and that iteration is a lot easier than trying to perfect something the first time.
There's a comparison chart halfway down the page.

Personally, I'm excited for the mobile launch.
You know how sometimes you think about something and it appears out of nowhere the very next day? That's what this article is for me. I have been growing mint, basil, purple basil and rosemary in a custom NFT system for the last 5 months and I am starting to run low on my General Hydroponics nutrients which are somewhat expensive at ~100$ for the 3 solutions.

This is very useful and I want to say a big thank you to the author for doing so much of the work I was planning to do!
The other day, I was in Whistler and tried to use Google Maps to route back to Vancouver. It wanted me to take logging roads through the back country.. roads that are actually deactivated and impossible to traverse unless you have a trail bike perhaps. That’s Canada for you…
Got to say a big thanks to the team for what they've built so far, always enjoy using Budibase and find myself recommending plenty of other people to give it a try!

Btw I love seeing the monthly updates Budibase showcase on your YouTube channel, keep them coming! Makes me excited seeing more and more features added each and every month on top of everything that is already there.
Very good paper, was thinking about similar steganography technique, but using Markov chain instead of GPT. GPT output is obviously more realistic, hence better covering the presence of hidden communication.

In the colab, I can encode a message, but I don’t see an easy way to decode a message, e.g.:
The technical challenges of embedding oulogramming messages in real world communication settings is discussed. Its application to centralized powers of censorship is defined

=> ppl: 44.14, kl: 0.012, words/bit: 0.26, bits/word: 3.90, entropy: 8.65
Back to the historical norm! Until the Trans-Canada Highway, automobiles from BC had to enter the US to travel to eastern Canada. (<https://np.reddit.com/r/canada/comments/3rsv0k/til_that_unti...>)
My son is very into tabletop warfare and he loves it! He's a big Punic War fan.
Yes, through `EXPLAIN`.
That’s the same as saying there are animals that have more biological fitness (mice) than others (pandas). Carbon and nitrogen come from the air, water will hydrate them, but most plants have expectations.

Orchids for instance can be artificially bloomed with phosphorus but if it was dormant people would just think it’s dying, as if natural cycles of less bloom was a failure of the plant’s growth!
See, but that's exactly what I'm saying does not work.

It's tempting to think that for e.g. a CRUD situation, pre- and post-hooks are all you need.

And it may be that way at the beginning, although hardly so, except for the simplest applications. But very soon, you start to run into things like (not an exhaustive list, but all are things I actually encountered while trying to do precisely what you're saying, many years ago):

* Transactions, when multiple things have to happen atomically. Your pre-hook must start a transaction, and your post-hook must commit it. But what if there's an error somewhere? Python and JS don't have RAII, so you need some kind of catch block to abort the transaction. Where does that happen?

* Tricky validation, e.g. needing to do queries against the data store to check the request is well-formed. So if you're using an event-based language, your pre-hook also needs to be asynchronous.

* Data transformations (what the user sends will hardly be what needs to end up in your data store), so your pre-hook needs to be able to return a new object.

* Tracing across service calls, so you need to pass some kind of request ID as well to your hooks.

* An "update" request needs to return something (e.g. an ID) to avoid another round trip. But sometimes it needs to return more stuff, so your post hook must be able to return data. Oh, but your ORM or DB usually returns the created object, so you'd like to use that instead of re-fetching in your post-hook, so now your post-hook must accept that as well.

These just keep coming up. The first three in particular are usually guaranteed to happen before the first release of the product, since requirements always change. Soon you have an unmaintainable monstrosity. A little copy-paste is tame in comparison.
I just entirely paid off my home mortgage as I believe that is never worth the risk of going underwater.

I like the peace of mind of knowing that I owe nothing to anyone.
Let's take music as an example. On web2 music artists only get 18% of the revenue. Spotify gets 33%. The music industry takes 49%. Web3 flips the script. Artists get 95%, the rest are fees. So yes, I do think web3-style ownership is desirable.
GDBFrontend v0.9.0-beta is released and needs testing
There aren't any deaths of celebrity footballers in 2021.

From the list the article uses, only 2 players who died in 2021 have wiki pages, and neither played for a significant club.

In previous years the number of death of players with their own wiki pages is similar.
Thats where Databricks comes in though, you can implement row/column based security on your data on cloud object storage and use it for all your downstream use cases (Not just BI/SQL but AI/ML without piping data over JDBC/ODBC).
As a fun trivia: Today I learned Hackerrank, HackerEarth & CodeChef all started as Indian startups. They probably account for more than half of traffic by coders taking competitive programming as hobby. SPOJ, Codeforces, UVA are probably more algorithm focused (read: harder/complex)
I would eagerly wait his PRs and annotations though
> All of these slick websites are probably running on the same old cloud platforms and using the blockchain as an (admittedly powerful) identity or transactions layer.

I'd like to second your sentiment. I've written about this topic too [1]. I think we should accept "web3" as a demonstration of what's possible and move into systems engineering now.

- 1: https://timdaub.github.io/2020/09/08/web3/
https://jaycarlson.net/ - His two in-depth articles on embedded linux and the $1 MCU are both excellent.
Metamask is begging to be disrupted. It's not like the UX is even close to being as good as it could be.
For websites, you're just making your own life harder for no real gain. Even with purely alphanumeric 10 chars, it's not like anyone can exhaust the 36^10 password space over a network with no one noticing. Yet whenever you run into issues with the website or the password manager (or some other non-routine thing... like you're on your phone and need to enter this on a different computer) and have to enter it manually, it'll be much more painful than it has to be.
Sounds like we have similar roles. I've never gotten them on paper, but multiple times a month I get emails along the lines of "My account doesn't work. My password is Banana1. Please fix". Every time I reset every single password they have (at least 4 hours of work for them) and inform them not to share passwords. Still, I've had users do it multiple times.

I finally got all of our admin/root passwords into a password manager with sharing among job functions and our CTO as backup to ensure some level of continuity. After losing passwords to multiple production systems after someone leaving the company it was still a battle.
The committee didn't think him of a serious enough researcher.
That’s correct, I don’t think they do correlate with “fat and lazy” stereotypes. I think they correlate with “similar to the general population”
Castanet is gloriously imperfect. I hope they never change and never fade away.

It's exactly what it looks like: a hodge-podged effort by some local folks with little experience and ability among them, besides an earnest desire to report local news with a local perspective, that has stood the test of time (it launched in 2000!).
I think CMake is a real pain and Autotools is an older pain. But I can figure them out and things I learned two blue moons ago are still basically true. The churn in JS makes it really hard for me to accumulate knowledge and solutions.
This has all just turned into a remarkable amount of paranoid compliance idiocy. So, mandated vaccines but then the same shit as before requiring tests, masks and so forth despite a person having coverage with vaccines so supposedly wonderful that they are now being mandated through draconian methods and with zero liability for their makers. If the vaccines (as evidence seems to show) reduce the risk of COVID harm to something comparable to the seasonal flu, then why so much nonsense? Or will be soon all be forced to vaccinate for numerous other infectious illnesses that we somehow managed to live with for decades without absurd problems.

What we see here is in many ways a biohazard version of the post 9/11 paranoia security theater that persists to this day.
... Or even against MD5, IIRC, which is why you are still kind of able to use HMAC-MD5. You probably still shouldn’t, but I don’t know of any other symmetric authenticator that is as short and requires neither vast tables of constants nor 64-bit operations for an implementation. (For all the recent lightweight crypto work, the only cipher I can reasonably see myself implementing on an oldish ATMega without disgust is the NSA’s Speck, with all the accompanying caveats, and there isn’t a single hash of a comparable complexity at all.)
I was going to downvote you, but then you made me think - everyone pushing to a shared branch is the most continuous form of continuous integration I suppose.

I worked this way for years before we moved into full branched code review. I would never go back however.

That said, you should still have at least some review and automated testing before your code gets in everyone else's way.
If you read the Baroque Cycle and came away with that as it's main theme, I'm shocked. If anything it's more of a pseudo-history for science in general.

And to dismiss it and his other works as "take some idea and run with it" is to dismiss not only his work, but other well-written sci-fi.

Would you call Ringworld "dudes built a ring around a sun but entropy kicked in? Ender's Game, "just another Campbellian archetype?"
I'd guess they do. Another commenter mentioned that when you leave feedback or ask for support they log whether you have JavaScript enabled or not.
Cheers for the support. The videos are a little basic and rough around the edges, but hopefully they get the point across.
I admire the sense of geography and humour shown here. Yet people prattle on about politics. Hackers smiled when I was young.
That's a tricky one that I think would depend on use case. Yes, of course NaN isn't a number, but it's still kind of a number, depending on context.
Both directions are reopened as of about 9am PST.
2D Strategy Game (4): Mouse Handling – Design Patterns and Video Games
That only explains the particular query plan chosen for the query at that time. This might vary depending on the table statistics, query parameter or moon phase if you're unlucky. It is a very important tool, but doesn't solve the problem here that in the end the database is in control and decides how many rows to read, not you.
Ingenuity – Flight 16 – Short Hop to the North
As someone whose childlike wonder piques at the technology I grew up with, I've always tried to delve into any parts of knowledge I could get my head around; I read textbooks/papers/articles until I come across something I don't get, then drill down into that until I get it.

However, because my education/training has not been part of an institution, I do feel like I am on the outside of understanding when it comes to wrangling the lightning inside the rocks we work on day in/day out. I've been both DevOps (helpdesk jockey to admin) and dabbled in frontend work, but mostly fell into those positions and grew into them.

Couldn't tell you how to work with Kubernetes or Docker, but have been following discourse on here enough to understand how they are useful for big stuff. I used PuTTY back in HS to work on a backend internship, but have no clue why it works. I have made at least 2 programs still running internally at a big real estate tech company, but cannot deploy my own apps on my own computer.

Is this disconnect with deeper Computer Science theory just my issue as a visual and kinetic learner? Is the understanding of modern technology only suitably captured in a classroom setting that I do not have access or time for?
People really overestimate how resilient infrastructure is to natural disasters, and such disasters will become more common as the earth warms.
> But this is not an open standard, it's just a hack, and it is under the control of a vendor.

It's under a permissive license (MIT). What makes you say it is "just a hack"? What makes it a hack?

> Worse, it is nothing but a thin layer above an even more proprietary layer.

The same is true for OpenCL (layer above a proprietary layer) and pretty much any API interfacing with proprietary hardware/drivers.

Also it's not even proprietary software in the first place, even if you're trying to make it sound that way.
> But webpacker isn't just insane, it is what it is for a reason, involving solving specific problems that were in existence in previous ways of doing things. If you had those problems personally... it's a lot easier to make sense of it.

I think this a big issue for non-js / frontend people, particularly in the python webdev community.

People don't know the story of front end and the user demand for refined interfaces. The demand has been high even though browsers just recently offered consistent support for modern js / css features.

I suspect this will come back to bite backend people, to some extent because the dust is settling on frontend. So the anti-everything on frontend attitude might blind people to the rapid advance of JS and node.
Love those stats but it's always better to provide a source for the numbers.

Are you referring to Audius or some other web3 platform for music?
lol, salty
Imagine if Gosling had gone with Oak, there are so many more trees to work with.

Of course Indonesian islands were the other possibility...
Terrible analogy. You're not required to take a road test every 48 hours to continue driving.

Edit - might be 72 hours. Regardless... I've done a road test once in my life...
None of these are what I would call "societal problems".

2 and 4 are problems with individuals, not a society.

That 1 and 3 are, in your words, "dumb", really does affect their validity. These are things you can live with. Unaffordable rent, not as much.

The problem isn't "My rent is too high", the problem is "The rent is too high everywhere I'd want to live". It's affecting a whole population; that's what makes it societal.
https://adequacy-org.vercel.app/public/stories/2001.12.2.420...
That user account has only made two comments on all of HN, and they're both in this thread. Not worth wasting your time.
That's literally true of every regular city block, so it woukd seem a strange headline.

I don't know what timezone you're in, but maybe you need a cup of coffee?