skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Debts and units of account are arguably a foundational part of civilization. In David Graeber's 'Debt the first 5000 years' he argues that debit and credit appeared before money and barter. Regardless of which came first writing seems to have emerged out of a need to keep a ledger - so and so owes 5 loaves of bread and is owed 2 clay pots.[1]

The downside to such a system is that it either requires a central authority to manage the contracts, and have some sort of stick it can hit you with, or it can physically be changed. With a clay tablet contract for example I could destroy the tablet, or it could be held by the third Mesopotamian government and enforced by them to throw me in debtors prison or something if I refused to pay. This necessitates a central authority with something like "legitimate state monopoly over the means of violence" in a best case scenario to keep bad actors from violating their agreements. In a less than best case scenario, such a monopoly allows for exploitation of it's power.

A decentralized ledger allows for agreements to be made without the risk of the agreement being broken by the other person or the central authority. Precious metals fulfilled the same role previously, as an ounce of silver is an ounce of silver, regardless of what may happen in the future.

Frankly I have no idea if anything will come of it in favor of existing systems. Perhaps on the whole the existing system is more effect. But personally it's pretty exciting from a historical/economic perspective.

[1]https://www.bbc.com/news/business-39870485
I miss that a lot. it was one of my contacts with programming language, close to C. #pairc ftw
Quantum Material’s Unconventional Spin Behavior Proves Theoretical Predictions
Completely agree on the kids part.

I also agree with the author on work though: it's just a way to pay the bills and I don't value that kind of self actualisation.
Most jobs are not about changing the world in a meaningful way (and that's ok). I do more creative and research work for my toy projects than I ever did for all my professional career.
I love that this supports tablet pen pressure (Firefox, Wayland, Linux). It makes it feel very nice to scribble around.
> It was far from a guarantee that the Soviets would moderate after Stalin's death

That is the same of saying that there was no reason to suspect that the US would moderate after FDR's death.

Getting involved in a conflict on the other side of the world is not exactly something a moderate would do.

Germany had a spirit of revenge after WW1. What did the US have to do on the other side of the world...once again?

No matter the other side of the world argument, countries which decided to be moderate were never involved even as they were right there where the disaster went down: Spain, Portugal, Switzerland, Greece, Norway...

If you adjust for education, quality of life and also hunger, then the US didn't look so moderate after all.
A simple sniff test thats tried and true still holds. ANY programming language that requires you to use a framework to actually be productive fails the test.

PHP is doing very poorly in this realm. How many PHP websites out there are actually using a few libraries and the stdlib only? Not many.

Its frameworks, frameworks frameworks. In the PHP case its actually even worse, as there are a multitude of CMS sysytems that some people use. So its not even programming, but point and click and copypaste.

Thats not a tool i eant to use in 2021.
Title is bad.

The article says palmitic acid, formally hexadecanoic acid, which is one of the most common — if not the most common — saturated fatty acids. It's named for palm oil, where it is predominant, but it is also found in coconut oil, lard, butter, cacao, and in smaller amounts in practically all liquid oils, with higher concentrations generally in solid fats.

Better to say "Palmitic acid favors tumor expansion" or even just "Common saturated fat favors tumor expansion".
Coding interview platform Pramp joins Exponent
> One of the things that makes F/OSS great is user freedom.

I don't think you are talking about the same kind of freedom. FLOSS freedom is the ability to view and edit the source code. Just because the source code does not do what you want does not mean you are not free to fork the project and change the behavior for yourself...
The next project would be creating another device to detect these spy camera detectors
I think if the IVM proponents were operating in good faith, their message would have been something like "There's some evidence that IVM can mitigate severe COVID infections, but it's relatively weak so you shouldn't rely on it to the exclusion of other ways of protecting yourself."

But that's not what happened. IVM (like HCQ before it) is a prop, a cudgel, a red herring in the ongoing and well-funded political project to undermine faith in government and polarize the electorate
10+ is not that long time ago. There was already Zend Framework. And for some basic API using framework may be overkill anyway.
When it comes to a bank (especially one mostly centered on the UK; Monzo still has very little international capabilities), I don't think state-sponsored attackers are a major problem. Those rarely need the money, and as I mentioned previously Monzo doesn't routinely do international/SWIFT transfers (if they can at all) so getting the money out would be tricky.
Sure, but to my knowledge they weren't employed to combat currency counterfeiting.
The title of the link is: "Cold War spy satellites were calibrated with marks in the Arizona desert."

And it's technically true. They were calibrated with marks in the Arizona desert. Just not those big crosses.

> While a few sites are listed inside Arizona—near Fort Huachuca and Luke Air Force Base—they are comprised of the tri-bar optical test pattern used by the US government since the early 1950s, not 60-foot-wide concrete crosses.
What happened in 1921? Or is this one of those baseless "before we had cancer" comments?
per project, as in "fixed price"? you say you will do the job for 50K, then hope you can actually pull it off. seems very risky unless there is a provision in the contract to renegotiate without any consequences when it turns out it will take longer?

I don't even understand why they involve HR since it's none of their business. After all, you are a professional service provider. How would you counter?
Awesome! I have some questions about the way usage works. I'm wondering if there's a point where efficient, short lived executions are more cost effective as Unbound rather than the bundled Workers now. The docs [1] say:

> Cloudflare will bill for duration charges based on the higher of your wall time or CPU time, with a multiple applied to the CPU time to account for the processing power allotted to your script.

Does anyone know how the CPU time is calculated? What's the "multiple"?

Are there any minimums in terms of execution time? I remember when Workers Unbound was announced I didn't see any mention of minimums anywhere, but other provides have them. For example, Azure [2]:

> The minimum execution time and memory for a single function execution is 100 ms and 128 mb respectively.

I remember thinking the examples in the original announcement assumed no minimums. Even if there's a 100ms minimum, are short lived executions that don't do any waiting on I/O cheaper as Unbound Workers now?

# Bundled Cost
$0.50 / 1000000 = 0.0000005 per execution

# Unbound Per GB-s Cost
$0.15 / 1000000 = $0.00000015 fixed cost per execution
$12.50 / 1000000GB-s = $0.0000125 per GB-s (duration cost)

# 100ms Unbound Cost
.1s * .125GB = 0.0125 GB-s per execution
$0.00000015 fixed cost
$0.0000125 per GB-s * 0.0125 GB-s = $0.00000015625 duration cost
$0.00000015 fixed + $0.00000015625 duration = $0.00000030625 total cost

Assuming I calculated that right, it's $0.30 per million for 100ms of execution vs $0.50 per million for a normal Worker. There's wall time vs CPU time, but that's a pretty huge discount for short lived executions, right? Am I way off on something? It seems too good to be true. Lol.

1. https://developers.cloudflare.com/workers/platform/pricing#w...

2. https://azure.microsoft.com/en-ca/pricing/details/functions/
Sure, I agree with you that even in a low cost, rural part of Italy (or the US) nobody is living like a tv rich guy on 25k-35k (probably what it would be safe to count on if you're young when you stop working). You're not flying private jets (or first class), not consuming the most expensive things, and you don't have an army of personal servants.

But... the real, foundational difference between being rich and not is not any particular consumption choice but the way one relates to wage labour. The difference in the daily, weekly, and annual rhythms of my life and that of someone making 2-3x as much but with a similar ratio of housing costs to income, savings, etc. are broadly the same. Similarly, someone making half what I do, probably also with a house they're ok with in a ok-ish area which is paid for with a mortgage, has basically the same life I do. Certainly within the broad spectrum of global and historical experience our lives are almost identical and it takes people who are highly attuned to differences in consumption markers (which all humans are within their own societies) to spot them.

The very poor and the very rich have different rhythms of life that put them outside of this mainstream but 75% of the population lives broadly similar lives.

We all get up at some point in the morning five-ish days a week, timed to meet a regular or externally constrained schedule (even freelancers have to be available within certain hours). We have clients or bosses who we have to please in some way or another. Some of us have very good relationships with these people, maybe we run our own businesses and have substantial independence from clients or shareholders. Some of us on the end have a rigid relationship with a boss who sets an hourly schedule.

We go on a thing called a "holiday" (or a "vacation" which is what I believe Americans call the thing they're not allowed to take). If we are lucky, this is to a warm/culturally interesting/snowy place and we do it two or three times a year. If we are less lucky we go on one a year.

Our continued ability to live in our homes and eat is dependent on this way of living.

The little labels on our possessions and how big they are vary, but imagine explaining the real differences to someone from 1,000 year ago. "This man wears wool clothes and goes to a place where he makes phone calls and does things on a glowing screen. This other man wears other similar looking clothes and he goes to a place where he makes phone calls and does other things on a glowing screen. Banker or call centre worker? The one that is high status can expect their boss to require them to work at a moment's notice in the middle of the night."

Compare that to someone who has a potentially substantially lower level of consumption and no longer engages in wage labour for their sustenance needs. Whether they spend their day reading, staring at the clouds, swimming, or flying their private plane is less important than the difference between them and someone who has to work.
While I like the idea of moving to a proper self-managed system, my Synology NAS is the least proprietary of all the proprietary systems I've used.

That is to say that yes, it does have a bunch of proprietary stuff on top, but it also:

1. Runs Linux

2. Uses Linux systems, like BTRFS and LVM, to pool data

3. Provides SSH access

4. Has tons of packages that you might want to use (Squid, Node, Plex, etc.) available

5. Supports Docker, among other things, so you can run what you like.

So yeah, they have a lot of proprietary offerings on top of a generic Linux storage solution, but if you change your mind you can take that generic Linux storage solution somewhere else without being locked in to anything Synology provides. The only caveat is if you choose to use their all-the-way proprietary systems, like their Google Docs equivalent or their cloud music/drive/etc. stuff, all of which is still stored on the same accessible drives. You might lose your "music library" or "photo library" or "video library", but your music and photo and video files will still be accessible.
Totally agree with you. I noticed that trend as well.

Maybe millennials will retain their friendship and they will be doing stupid tik-toks as 60 years old.
You can search `known_hosts` for a fingerprint using `ssh-keygen -l -f ~/.ssh/known_hosts` and `grep`. If you disable `HashKnownHosts` in your ssh config, the command will also tell you the name of the host(s) for that fingerprint, rather than its hash.

I use this all the time, because my AWS/Azure/GCP ips change constantly, but their pubkey fingerprints do not.

[1] https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2005/05/the_potential...
I find it sort of ironic how the operating system they use, COEN[1], instructs people to turn off SELinux to build the image correctly...

[1] https://github.com/iana-org/coen
To be clear, even without `--locked`, cargo will use the dependencies from the lockfile, as long as the lockfile is not out of date compared to Cargo.toml.

However, for development, you normally want cargo to update the lockfile after you change something in `Cargo.toml` (like adding a new dependency).

The `--locked` option is particularly useful in CI though, where you want it to fail if the lockfile is out of date, rather than update the lockfile and continue.
As an Arizonan, it was only until 2 years ago in my Appraisal practice that I came across these crosses in Arizona City (south of Casa Grande). Really cool to see in person!

While the article does not really state anything, just positing more questions about its actual use, it seems like it is anyone’s guess due to the nature of the primary sources that knew the program being retirees or that the government gave this article writer all they felt comfortable with.

This makes me wonder: How many of these types of programs existed through the Cold War?
The article says investors were defrauded put out $2b, so this is barely a dent.
How about only the stuff that stays around after culture and language collapses?
The government of Vietnam could be considered Marxist–Leninist/Socialist, so it's on the list of forever enemies of the US government and many businesses.
Likesplanet.com social media marketing scam or legit?
I don't know man, cleaning up legacy PHP can be kinda fun, but when I work with some batshit insane piece of JS I feel like I'm going psychotic.
You will be lucky to earn US$1000/day fresh out of college.
Just chiming in to agree. I started working in embedded QA in 2008 and have made a couple of hops in those first years into more and more programming-heavy roles. Time-wise, I think the amount of time it took me to get into a full time programming role from QA was about the same as or a little less than the time it'd have taken to get a degree. So not necessarily a time saver, but that wasn't really my focus anyway.
> Scarlett wouldn’t provide details about the settlement, but her lawyer said she is requesting a withdrawal of a complaint she filed with the National Labor Relations Board.

Why would she withdraw her complaint? Has she been convinced that it's not valid? Or was the settlement offer too good to refuse?
Suggested Book on Higher Math
Wondered how in the world that might make sense, now it does. Thanks.
In the case of cURL, there's a much greater amount of network exposure. It would be extremely irresponsible for Apple to simply ship an older version missing security patches.
UPDATE: These got a fair amount of traction, and I removed them out of an abundance of caution around deployment regulations that OpenAI enforces. Also cost considerations. I don't want to hijack the thread away from OpenAI, but you can also build stuff with Cohere and AI21 on Mantium, AI21's J1-Jumbo has pretty good performance, and Cohere just put out some significant updates for their models.

UPDATE 2: I couldn't help myself. I think this stuff is pretty fun. So here's a biology blog post generator using 2 chained Cohere prompts :) https://11292388-8f03-42d2-8a68-7039b24fcc2e-i.share.mantium...
That is very interesting but I hard time believing that includes many elementary school teachers who didn't switch careers at some point. It would be interesting to see some details on it.
Are there 486 remakes/clones available? Why not?
It's a cheap oil in Asia due to a bunch of countries trying to develop their agriculture by planting palm (Indonesia etc.)

Makes me think twice about having yan yan snacks and pocky's.
> barely be growing and have no chance of mainstream adoption
I guess someone could have said that about ARPANET in 1970s... ;)
That's my guess. The prompt "He took of her clothes and" triggered a story about rape for me.
Not the worst place to start, but considering palm oil has been used in cooking for thousands of years it's not clear what that principle has to do with this story.
AMP made some technical sense to speed up page load but it’s proprietary nature and the available http3 and quic protocols mean that It’s high time to say goodbye to amp pages.
On the other hand, Taiwan and Korea were dictatorships or semi-dictatorships after the war, and for a long time (until the 80s or so). Even today elections there are charade-ish...
> OpenSSL developers appear to want to focus on developing new features rather than cleaning up the mess of regressions they have created with OpenSSL 3.

There is so much truth contained in this one line... and it's been that way with every OpenSSL release.

Being funded by Red Hat comes with a price that users sometimes end up paying. LibreSSL has zero corporate involvement but remains in very active development, with arguably much better coding practices and a very consistent release schedule that follows OpenBSD. You won't find every new or obscure feature rushed into the codebase, but (perhaps as a result of that) I have a lot more confidence in it personally.

Most of the compatibility issues they had with LibreSSL before have been solved with the integration of the OpenSSL 1.1 API, which is in the newest stable version.
Putting the onus on the people while the government continues with these ridiculous trillion dollar packages that no one wants...

It's the South Park episode all over again, no we're not going to play with squirrels, and no the inflation doesn't just involve Chinese crap. Food and heating prices are inflated as well (banning drilling and pipe lines doesn't help gas prices either)

- edit -

> it would be nice if the US government didn't spend trillions

I agree. Military and otherwise. I'm against endless wars and funneling money through defense contractors as well as universal programs and funneling money through administrators.
AI helps scientists spy on chimp behavior in the wild
being alive gives you cancer
So fine, US$40k/yr isn't comfortable living in some places. But it's very comfortable living (given the lack of any need to do paid work) in many others. Context is everything. If you really must live in an expensive part of the USA, then $1M in the bank is not going to cut it.
How Scholars Cracked Medieval Alchemist’s Encryption
You do realise palm oil is older than 100 years, right? Used literally for thousands of years.

"Humans used oil palms as far back as 5,000 years. In the late 1800s, archaeologists discovered a substance that they concluded was originally palm oil in a tomb at Abydos dating back to 3,000 BCE.[4] It is believed that traders brought oil palm to Egypt"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palm_oil
Cancer wasn't invented then.

In all seriousness, things like pasteurization and refrigeration make our food supply a lot safer than it used to be.
Dish soap and other applications remain important.
And "don't have kids". Children are a huge time & money suck. Not saying they don't have their rewards too, because they do, but they are also a huge cost.
thanks. when I was thinking of higher rates, I meant 400-500/hr, sustained, basically working full time for a client or half time for 2 clients each. your full refund clause sounds interesting. has that helped win clients over who would otherwise not have brought you in?
Who sponsored this study?
Take one look at the modern production process for vegetable oil and this sort of effect is starting you right in the face.

Palm, Canola, Rapeseed, Soybean, etc, they're all terrible. I avoid this shit like the plague.
Doesn't tesla put cameras watching the inside of its cars now?
Yeah, in my experience, with big orgs, it's like:

Windows has bugs that don't get fixed: haha, computers, what can you do, eh, haha

Linus has bugs which can get fixed: see, nobody can use this thing!

I kinda get it though, people prefer to have the "industry-standard bugs", it means it's not their fault, they can explain it easily to anyone they have to work with ...
$40k/yr on $1M is a 4% rate of return. Where are you seeing a guaranteed rate of 4% at this time?
With every cell division, we are not only closer to death, but roll for a "cell transformation"[0].

A transformed cell is most likely to occur in a "cancerised field" of cells. Those fields might be induced to be transformed in-turn by the original transformed cell(s).

It's in this way that the snowball turns from a pea to a boulder, but all along the way there are trees ready to stop its momentum. Be it DNA repair systems, the immune system, the extra-cellular matrix, etc...

An oncologist once told me (and its not hard for me to conceive), that we're all likely die with a number of tumours in us... just not likely from them.

All this to say, yes everything causes cancer. When you consider the molecular biology behind it all, it's a wonder we're anything but giant, spherical, innervated tumours.

Just like everything else, you make your own risk assessments in life, but the advice boils down to: avoid undue risks of cancer if you can. What "undue" and "if you can" here mean is deeply personal.

[0] A fun euphemism for a cell that is cancer-like.
You have symptoms of burnout (speaking from personal experience). Usually taking an extended vacation tends to help people reflect and refocus on things that matter.
It seems to be a very common theme in Western journalism to describe Asian countries as dystopias or dystopias in the making. Often this is based on the idea of a dystopia floating around in Western pop culture, influenced by books like Big Brother or Brave New World.

This comes with a habit of putting these societies in contrast with the western societies, and claiming the obvious superiority of the latter. This sentiment could be paraphrased as "these people are surely living in hell, and that's because they don't know how to preserve their freedom".

It's also phrased as a warning to their own people: "be careful about all those new political ideas, or we'll end up like those Asians (or Africans)".

This to me seems very much like a mixture of arrogance and ignorance which leads Westerners to believe that things are the best where they live, and it's so because they're just so smart that they could set things up this way, and they have the best culture.

It's bizarre if you take a step back and think about it, as if they're collectively patting themselves on the back, and at the same time are trying to convince themselves that the issues that they're having are nothing in comparison to the issues that others have.