skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why do you say that? In my comment I'm rooting for you. I did say that you should have mentioned this is a counter-suit to your own suit, and I stand by that. Why omit that information? Or is that a misunderstanding?
I'm not arguing that it's moral for foxes to kill rabbits. I'm arguing that the presence of immoral actors does not negate the arguments in favor of morality. Foxes aren't immoral, they're amoral. It's wrong for me to kill people even if natural disasters do. I can't have a moral discussion with a fox.
I think you've completely missed the fact that this program is taking something they already do and expanding access to end users.
> HTTPS is automatic

> Have you seen the little green locks on your browser? That means the site is safe and secure using HTTPS.

It's gray.

Not to be nitpicky - maybe it's just my OS theme (KDE Breeze Dark), but the HTTPS padlock is gray or dark-white in all three browsers I tested: Edge, Chrome, Firefox. Can anyone confirm?
It seems like federal taxes should be deducted from your earnings used to calculate state taxes. This "other way around" seems really strange to me.
Eh. I'm still not storing passwords, keys, documents, photos, et all, plain text in some RDS database.
“The observer is the observed.”

—Jiddu Krishnamurti
The site has a total deposited and a "goal" number. When the total deposited passed $25 million, the goal jumped from $25 million to $30 million. When does it stop?
Fuzzbuzz (YC W19) Is Hiring a Security Dev Advocate, Full Stack/Back End Eng
Even if you could make Olm/OMEMO interoperate otherwise, the Signal protocol supporting client requires access to a server to pick up pre-keys. So you need to have access to the pre-key server of your correspondent or your correspondent needs access to the pre-key server you are on. The Signal Protocol is not generally suitable for this sort of thing mostly due to its complexity.

If you did something stateless like OpenPGP then you could do E2EE over bridges with no problem. The cost would be that each and every message would be complete in itself. So sending a single emoji would take several hundred bytes. That might be less important these days...
http://web.archive.org/web/20211117075722/https://restofworl...
I, too, am approaching 40, and I am still shocked by how many people, how very many high-functioning/high-status/high-contribution-to-society people are fueled by drugs.

Doctors, nurses, lawyers, managers, psychologists, developers…bring on the modafinil, Adderall, cocaine, MDMA, mushrooms, and weed.

(Not that I would ever do such things, no sir, this current design I’m about to ship doesn’t taste like Provigil at all.)
Edwin from Stripe here—sorry for the confusion. The emails were a mistake (and were also sent to the wrong group). This was meant to be a small test for a relative handful of businesses. The contribution box would've been optional for both the customer and the business. The box would be unchecked by default, and businesses can turn it off entirely.

We will not be turning this feature on without the business opting-in.
Stanley Sobottka: A Course in Consciousness
Foreword begins as follows:
"From 1992 through 1995, I taught several seminars on reality and consciousness according to quantum theory for humanities undergraduates at the University of Virginia. These seminars attempted to outline in an understandable way to the nonscientist the reasons why consciousness is a necessary part of the most widely accepted interpretations of quantum theory. For these seminars, I wrote concise but complete notes which I handed out to my students, and which summarized the salient points in order to make as clear as possible the scientific basis for the seminar. A revised and refined version of these notes comprises Part 1 of this work.

From 1995 through spring 2008, again for the undergraduate nonscientist, I taught many seminars on nonduality, or Advaita, beginning with the above described scientific information as Part 1, following with several speculative chapters on the metaphysics of nonduality as Part 2, and concluding with the teachings of several contemporary jnanis, or enlightened sages, as Part 3. Sages are not usually interested in teaching the principles of nonduality in such a systematic, logical way since such a conceptual system can be a prison for the mind, leading it to think that it can transcend itself (escape from its self-imposed prison) merely by mastering the system. Nevertheless, for teaching purposes, I wrote a set of notes for these seminars also. Beginning with fall 2007, I began to teach the same course to senior citizens and other college graduates also."
So this is very specific, but I've been trying to automate clearing my linked in messages for a while and I just tried browserfow to no success. I tried using the selector and also grabbing css paths off random elements.

Any idea how to debug?
> 2. Sensor Dust Protector Curtain

> Currently Found On: Sony A9 II and A1; Nikon Z9; Canon full-frame mirrorless cameras other than the EOS RP

That's not really accurate - the Sony and Canon are just using one of the shutter curtains for this, while the Z9 doesn't have a shutter so gets a dedicated mechanism not nearly as fragile as a shutter.

> 6. Bulb Mode Preview

Not sure how this is supposed to work without having a non-destructive readout sensor, unless it's just an approximation based on a quicker exposure before starting the bulb exposure.

> 8. Native Image Averaging

idk all of those guys are shooting raw anyway, so just stack them which you were probably going to anyway?

> 14. Raw Histograms

Yeah.

> 15. 16-Bit Raw

Probably in the next generation of landscape cameras like the Z7III

> 18. Base ISO Below 100

Mostly a fight with physics.
It is hard to remember, or for younger developers to believe, but there was a time in the mid 90s when:

1. Most programing languages sucked

2. Java was fresh and new

Java had a lot going for it. It was free, with a functioning IDE that had a working graphical debugger! MS had just about finished killing Delphi (which also cost $$) and over in *nix land the GUI libraries were fighting amongst themselves and Linux wasn't something even an average developer was going to install.

So you had Perl, raw C, the horrors that were DSLs and frameworks written in the c++ of the time, then Java came along.

Applets failed, sure. And back then everyone wanted their GUIs to look like the platform native UI (how times have changed!) but Swing was super easy to write UIs in.

I'd wager the majority of programmers, outside of ex-LISP folks, didn't know what closures were, and functions as first class objects wasn't on anyone's mind.

So all of Java's shortcomings didn't seem like a big deal. It "compiled" fast, had actual packages you could distribute and import easily, and the compiler errors made sense.

So yeah Java was a fresh breath when it came out.

Then c# came out a bit later and was basically better in a million small ways from day 1, except it wasn't open source so a community never built up around it in the same way.

Now days we are spoiled for languages to choose from.
They're fundraising for a Sotheby's auction, so I think they basically want to raise as much as they can to be able to win the auction. Apparently they were told that it would likely sell for ~$40m, with bidding starting at $20m.
Agile/Scrum <==== Cause of Burnout lol... How would you like to be put in a place everyday where you estimate a vague tasks and then be held responsible for your rough 30s estimate. Why can't we hire people?
Brain Computer Confusion
It'll work, though it's not optimized for that use case.

Wrote more about it in this comment here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29256076
I had a similar experience, but after picking up and telling them never to call me again, they stopped calling.
Why would I need to signup if I only ever want to run local flows?
Yeah, that would be a kind of weird thing to say. Like, that specific phrasing. If you wanted to say that, you would not phrase it like that.
Also, it's done for laptops and phones by a huge number of shops in China, which clearly has no shortage of skilled labour. Many years ago I went there with a friend to get his laptop fixed and the customer experience was incredible. The young lady doing it (in a shop of about a dozen others) actually left the stall and went with us to the other shops in the building to buy the necessary parts, and we got to see them being installed and tested. It was surprisingly cheap too, I only learned afterwards that haggling is the norm but we paid the asking price (which was already quite low from a foreigner's perspective!)
Another great post in the series.

I've been trying to bootstrap my own deep learning framework in Rust for a while now. I'm still stuck at implementing the stuff on the CPU.

But I've always wanted something running on GPU as well. I've poked at OpenCL, and webgpu. But Piet-gpu(more probably piet-hal) seems to be the best starting point in the Rust land.

Once I get to the GPU compute part, I'll start with Piet GPU. Not looking forward to debugging GPU compute kernels, but maybe it will be fun.

PS. It's a bit disheartening to see such buggy Vulkan implementations, since one of the main Vulkan selling points was less bugs in the drivers. I'm not sure what I'll see on Linux.

Also, I hoped that between Vulkan and Metal one could cover all the the major desktop OSes with GPU accelerated software. It's sad to see apple dropping the ball in this regard.

There is also the concern of code reuse and code quality. Doing something complex in one pass would mean a huge kernel. It would be interesting to investigate if something like openai's Triton can be implemented in top of Piet-gpu(HAL). A dsl embedded in Rust that could do kernel fusion, and generate one shader when composed together. I'll poke around at this when I get to Piet-gpu.
The LLVM code will only call into the runtime for allocation or dynamic dispatch, both of which are avoidable. Lots of real Julia code will never touch it.
Can you afford to be sued and still be right?

It's difficult to come up with an average number for how much suing someone costs, but you should expect to pay somewhere around $10,000 for a simple lawsuit. If your lawsuit is complicated and requires a lot of expert witnesses, the cost will be much, much higher.

I would just hint with out naming names or trademarks, etc.
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It’s going to be a disaster. I hope Sotheby’s doesn’t let them bid.

Either they do whatever the random people who hold tokens tell them to do—including, if you read their Discord, destroy it—or you don’t. In the latter case, everyone gets all upset that governance tokens are not real things and blockchain is, once again, not in fact “code is law”.
We talk about UI dark patterns but the people who try to retain you are trained in conversational dark patterns.

If anything these are deadlier in retention then in the first sale. I'm awful at sales but I like to drink with salespeople in hotel bars and otherwise pick their brains and I have had news paper ad and radio commercial salespeople share their retention playbooks with me. (e.g. "Don't you know your customers will think you went out of business if you stop running ads?")
The reference to the `push.default` config key clarified a lot of things for me. Thank you very much! :)
Obsidian, simple markdown files in a beautiful application.
XMMP was and is very commonly used in finance for various trading systems. Pretty much any exchange or a large trading firm with a white label product has a chat function in the desktop client and they all almost always used XMMP because amongst other things you needed federation.

It’s not falling out of fashion a bit with many of the trading clients moving to web based interfaces but it have a sense it will still stick around for a long time.
More Distributed Woo Hoo: https://www.stephendiehl.com/blog/decentralized-woo.html
I dont get this. Is the constitution an NFT?!?!?!

owning the constitution does not need to be a financial transaction, this seems like a scam. we need less money in politics, not more.
Not being able to automatically renew certificates seems like a rather minor point in the bigger picture.

I get QWAC goes against the trend of phasing out EV certs. But isn’t the real issue that the browsers don’t trust TSP audits carried out for EU member states?
Best Linux desktops for beginners 2021: You can do this
Render is great. I'm using it for my current project. No complaints. Simple, and effective.
I though about using Nim as a host language for the DSL for a while, but then decided to rely on Python simply because it is more mature (and I had already partially figured out how to manipulate Python ASTs to generate C code).
Like this?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pepsi_Challenge
I don't mind the illustration style, but it's annoying about how overplayed it is among tech companies. If I was a founder I would ask my designers to not have the exact same art style as all the other companies explicitly, so people can tell the difference between our brands beyond color schemes and the size of our sans serif helvetica derivative word logos.
Airbnb Rental Income in 2021: The 100 Best US Cities
I had to stop payment via Amex to cancel WSJ. I have copies (and a receipt) of me informing WSJ that I was cancelling my subscription. Now I’m intrigued though. I’d love to see them try to claim there’s documented debt and collect on it.
I find the promotional interruptions annoying, but fwiw, for the full price version, it's only a pre-roll ad. Once the show starts it is uninterrupted.
>(At facebook people regularly stack over 10).

Meaning branch 1 depends on branch 2 which depends branch 3... all the way to 10?

That just seems crazy to me. What happens if branch 4 changes their implementation and borks everything depending on it?
You can get this I’m with GitHub’s built in search. And you can even bookmark the results which is nice.
They probably saw a sense of freedom and rebellion in him that was exciting. Gave them hope they wouldn’t just be house wives or whatever their prior destiny told them.
That’s a sure way of ending up with several old men yielding yagis like swords descend upon your house.
Randomized weight updates?
Read Fournier's The Manager's Path and Linda Hill's Becoming a Manager, which is about sales people 30 years ago but nails the emotional challenges.
The idea to regularly update "Active Hours", so that Windows can never update, implemented as a simple script https://github.com/marcosbozzani/Win10ActiveHours still works for me to this day.
"In another promising medical development, the biotechnology company Moderna has announced its COVID-19 vaccine could be up to 94.5% effective. The news comes a week after Pfizer announced its vaccine could be up to 90% effective based on a similar, early analysis from its Phase 3 trial." (https://abcnews.go.com/Health/moderna-announces-initial-phas...)

"And then there were three. U.K. pharmaceutical giant AstraZeneca, along with its partners at Oxford University, became on Monday the third team to announce positive late stage trial results for a COVID-19 vaccine. The "AZD1222" vaccine was "highly effective'' in preventing disease, with up to 90% efficacy in patients receiving one of the dose regimens used in trials, AstraZeneca announced." (https://www.cbsnews.com/news/covid-vaccine-oxford-astrazenca...)

PFIZER: COVID VACCINE OVER 90% EFFECTIVE IN EARLY DATA [video] (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CG8U3OWSV4o)

ABC, CBS, NBC.
Germany's Energiewende, 20 Years Later
Have you thought of upwork or some other kind of freelance platform to get money coming in and expand your portfolio or work?
Some of these seem like they are workarounds that aren't going to be required in future camera designs.

Others fall well into the amateur photography traps of "I must have this techno gadget in the camera to get better", whereas Pros have been getting that shot for decades without said gadget.

I have a pretty fancy system (but have been gradually losing interest the last 5 years or so) but I feel like it's all becoming irrelevant over time and the camera companies are going to be left with a very small pro market (that's much more pragmatic about upgrades) and the hard core amateur market that just buys everything to show off.

The biggest things that would keep camera systems relevant would be much better connectivity options to your phone or other device. Make it really easy and seamless, and wireless. Or put LTE right in the camera.
Don't forget data-exfiltration, malware hosting, and C&C!
Does everyone like these illustrations? I find them almost repulsive somehow
> I have more faith in VSCode sticking around for the next 10 years than I do Emacs.

I mean, almost everyone is confident about that too. And rightfully so because, VSCode actually has real corporate backing. People are being actually paid to develop it and sometimes plugins for it, so it would be a surprise if it didn't pan out. Nobody is getting paid to work on Emacs, or third party elisp libraries. It has always been individual hackers doing the bits that interests them. I don't want to come across like anybody owes Emacs anything. But I think in forums people sometimes take the reverse for granted, like Emacs owes anyone anything. Or that the people who actually bother to do voluntary work share the same vision of modernity as them, so it's a failure of some sort when that isn't exactly delivered.

> You see every few years a project to modernize emacs and get wider mindshare among developer community, and they always fail due to some stubborn choices due to stalwarts not admitting when they are wrong.

I think this is a mischaracterisation. Because, firstly you don't actually need the approval of the "stalwarts" to modernise it. Doom Emacs is making a name of its own just fine. The other thing is, Emacs is old. Most of the old vanguards aren't actively involved in Emacs development any more. Most of the "stalwarts" now weren't even around for most of the mistakes, why would you attribute things to vanity when it was not current stalwarts personally who were responsible for most of the design goals?

Browsing emacs-devel, it's clear that the real problem is acute lack of manpower. Only a fraction of Emacs users do bug reports, and then only a tiny fraction of them do actually get involved in fixing things. Which means the maintainers are always facing an uphill battle, who by the way don't have domain expertise or historical understanding of why things are the way they are, any more than you or I do, in many of the situations. Compared to that, VSCode is only a few years old, there are probably engineers who are familiar with the entire codebase, from conception to now.

That said, it has always been more or less like this. Emacs will be fine in its own way, because it will always attract certain sort of hackers. So sure, in terms of "mindshare" and "percentage of users", Emacs will keep free falling, specially now that software development itself has become way more pervasive. It might continue to get more out of touch with "modernity". However, as someone who has been in Emacs community for 7 years now, I believe the ecosystem is only getting more and more vibrant each year than the one before, in absolute terms (more mailing list or other forum activities, more landmark features, more new and high quality third party libraries etc.).
Yes. "COVID lesson: trust the public with hard truths"

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-02758-2
Yes. But no worries, Emacs got you covered, too:

http://web.mit.edu/Emacs/source/emacs/lisp/emulation/ws-mode...
First they destroy you financially then they destroy you physically.The Holocaust stretched 16 years and started by restricting jobs Jews could hold just like is happening now with unvaccinated.
The hardware is already there. You don’t need to move much to counteract the movement of the stars. Many cameras have in body stabilization, which can move the sensor around.

Pentax had had this for a while (as early as 2011).

https://www.ricoh-imaging.co.jp/english/explore/astro/
I completely agree. Can you imagine have smartphone-level ability to add new functionality to high-end cameras? The things you could do would be amazing. Although I suspect and IO and processing power may be limiting factors, given that even a full-on PC can take a while to perform many operations.
Are the TSP audit requirements less strict than what the browsers’ root programs require?
They have the option to not include it, it’s called the API.

I, for one, am happy such an influential company understands the urgency of this issue and is taking a “default on” stand.

If the US government ever gets rational again, they will likely legislate all companies pay for their own emissions anyway. Hopefully Stripe will push for that.
You are basically asking: is it easier to have two servers just talk to each other, or ping each other back and forth on Slack.
> but if a team member isn't performing

But also have a conversation with your team member. This is where I see most first-time managers fail, is in difficult conversations where you don't feel "qualified" to be commenting on another persons performance. I'm sure we've all been through that scenario where we got important feedback way to late for it to be useful, or your manager's manager had to have an all-hands to talk about getting to work on time "but that it's not about a specific person" (but we all know it is).

Don't be that manager that waits to give critical feedback. As a manager once told me, "if you're doing a good job, no one should be surprised if they're fired."
Ignoring the questionable end-goal here, the 'crypto' aspect of this is apparently completely orthogonal to the fund-raising effort[1]. What's the point?

[1]https://davidgerard.co.uk/blockchain/2021/11/16/constitution...
1) leetcode grinds
2) interview
3) profit!
You are making up claims about what people say and then get angry/tickled/mirthful about those made up claims. All throughout this thread people working in the field explicitly say that you can not use this device for simulating chemistry or factoring numbers and admit that you need at least about a million physical qubits (about a thousand logical qubits) to start doing these things reliably. How can you then claim that we are trying to hide it because it is "inconvenient"? This is the big thing to solve in our field, mentioned in every single research proposal, not some hidden secret we are ashamed of. And your refusal to distinguish physical and logical qubits is just silly and leading to your confusion.
It's also not biodegradable; it's chemically identical to the polyethylene used before. It's only the process and materials sourcing that changed.
> would struggle to recognize whether dfs or dp is the best approach to some problem within ten minutes.

But they can write a solution even if it's not the most optimal one? And they know and can tell you multiple ways of solving a problem and discuss the tradeoffs? That's good enough for me.

> the hardest problems actual engineers face are nailing down requirements and figuring out who/what to consult to unblock themselves. by the time you sit down to code a solution to a well-defined problem, most of the work is already done. to put it in joel spolsky terms, lc tests for "smart", but doesn't provide any signal for "gets stuff done".

It's hard to evaluate that in an hour, and I'm not certain there's a correct way of doing it. A college degree from a good school where students are assigned non-trivial capstone projects would probably be a good predictor.
On photos/documents, you are in a tiniest of minorities: ~99% of all smartphone users store photos in unencrypted cloud services like Google Photos and use Google Docs and MS Office 365.

(But but chats are surely the holy cow and must be encrypted - strictly demand those same users, paradoxically)

And no modern server stores passwords in plain text, and keys are not stored on servers at all.
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