skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My trust in Chrome dropped a lot when they started implementing things like Native Client allowlisted to only work on google.com subdomains (giving Google properties a competitive advantage that nobody else had) and Dartium (an internal-politics-focused attempt to kill JS), proposing WebBundles as an attempt to push AMP into the browser, using UA sniffing to roll out Google+ features only to Chrome even when Firefox worked on them, conveniently breaking Google properties in non-Chrome browsers, etc. Hanlon's razor applies to some of this, but regardless of intentions it's all very convenient for them.
What principle precludes voting for universal healthcare?
I can find various results where that number is negative (Faltings height of LMFDB elliptic curve 1688.c1; north east longitude of el Baix Segura) but not where the number is positive. It's part of a DOI string though, but that's not really a number.

Probably I'm being nerd sniped. https://xkcd.com/356/
Why do the most valuable NFTs look old-school and how will they look next?
The two younger authors had a webinar about this book at the Computer History Museum earlier this week. (I presume Henry at the ripe age of 98 cant easily participate in panels anymore. Though Henry showed up at Stanford Memorial Church in August to speak at successor George Schultz's memorial.) The CHM webinar might be archived online.

I am still waiting for a copy of the book. But I am under the impression Henry is providing the long view of history: how industrialization and tech shaped modern nations, with A.I. in particular. This theme has appeared in earlier Kissinger books.

P.S. Kissinger has yet another book coming out in 2022 on Leadership.
> It makes you the owner of the NFT.

Not sure if this is true. Some NFT's on resale money goes back to the original artist I thought? Which to me means you don't own it outright.
What jobs are you imagining have such difficult/steep tool requirements?

My experience was auto-mechanic, and that strikes me as exceptionally high in the required tools department. They were willing to put up with my being tool-less for like two years before replacing me when an old-timer showed up looking for work, with a freezer sized toolbox in the bed of his truck, and I was clearly not committed to the career having still not invested in even a toolbox.

Construction workers and framing carpenters can start out with very little. A lot of the work is just labor. Back when my dad owned a concrete construction company he would bring most of the durable larger tools in quantity.. stuff like sledge hammers, pickaxes, shovels, those were shared. But the individuals were expected to bring a hammer for nailing/disassembling the framing, and steel-toe boots for OSHA compliance b.s. If you started out without even a hammer you'd just be a grunt then buy a hammer a week later, though someone would probably loan you one if you were that destitute. I think there were more barriers in the area of the union and trade school requirements, but not for a laborer AFAIK.
The problem is we're all now dependent on stock market performance to make retirement feasible. Employer guaranteed defined-benefit pension schemes are dead.

My uncles pension scheme was structured to pay out 1.5% of his final salary, inflation adjusted for the rest of his life, for each year he'd worked. He worked at one company his whole career, from age 18 to age 55, when he retired. Factoring in his mortgage, which he paid off prior to retirement, his disposable income never even dropped when he retired.

Exact figures don't matter too much, but to achieve that with a defined-contribution pension you need to invest something in the range of 15%+ of your gross salary for 30 years and achieve a 7% above-inflation annualized investment return. And it won't be final salary but career average.

Most people aren't doing this so are fucked
Singular leetcode exam with large enough cohort repeated let's say twice a year and then graded on curve done in reasonably secure and controlled testing center would seem pretty reasonable alternative. Do it one time, get high enough grade and then use it for rest of your career.

It starts to sound pretty enticing. Essentially a certification that at least one time you performed at certain level. Ofc, verification is bit more complicated, but not impossible anymore.
They are certainly available outside the UK, there are plenty of them here in Norway. But I googled it now and surprisingly they don't seem too be available in the US at all.
Dropping a Memorandum of Understanding is almost for free. Putting a law out of commission (pun not intended) is a completely different story!
we did that when i was a kid. we had central heating where each radiator has some kind of device with material that evaporates depending on how hot the radiator is. the heating bill was based on how much evaporated. we didn't want to save money or the environment, we just liked it a bit cooler. that was decades ago and there was no temperature control on the thermostat. the only way to get to our desired temperature was to turn the heating off.

the result was that measurement devices didn't evaporate at all, and the company had us investigated for cheating. (apparently some people tried to prevent the evaporation by wrapping them in some isolating material.)
In Soviet Russia the computer checks you to see if you are on.
This feels like a subtle anti-remote work puff piece to test the waters with scare phrases like:

"When organisations talk about remote working reducing their costs, it’s worth considering which of those costs are just being passed onto to the employee, and if that is fair."

I don't know a many people who lament WFH, excepting educators and middle-managers.
Magic Eraser: Things You Should Know About Google Photo Editing Tool
In what sense are your actions here on HN supporting your rational self interest?
If the kernel can't load it without code changes and recompilation, due to the de-blobbing process, it doesn't make much sense to recommend to users that they load it.
Families of Covid Vaccine Victims Demand Answers for Dead Family Members
It's perspicuously clear to me that the professor was perpetrating serious academic and professional misconduct. It was entirely unethical.
Some implement it that way, some it returns and error message or throws an NMI; then ya got the cheap clones that use it to frob a toggle without regard to the state it was in (which there's no way to read)... Then ya got the weird ones (HP) where it only works right if you call it twice with a 40ms delay between while streaming a sample from "Swan Lake" over their NDA'd 1wire thingy.
Yeah, from what I could tell there wasn't much Remitly could have done to prevent this outside of like checking citizenship documents and contacting the bank. They seem legit enough.
Depends on the context. For example if it meant I was the only one able to spawn the bridge in Meta’s Horizon, maybe?

You just don’t know what’s happening.
Then on the other side you also have the lower efficiency of small home furnaces compared to large combined cycle commercial power generation. It's not guaranteed to be less -- if your power grid is 100% coal and you're heating with natural gas, it very well might not be -- but in many/most cases it is. The most obvious winning case being where your power grid is predominantly nuclear, hydro and renewables.

If you're in the US they have the breakdown by state here:

https://www.nei.org/resources/statistics/state-electricity-g...

Washington, Oregon and Vermont are predominantly hydro. Illinois, New Hampshire and South Carolina are majority nuclear. South Dakota is, surprisingly, >80% hydro and wind. Wyoming is, unsurprisingly, 80% coal.
Embedded controller, management engine, low-power core.
I think some will initially see this as an attempt at jury tampering.
It all depends on what these interest free payments are competing with. If it is credit cards, you could tell the story that consumers see through the ruse of credit cards and are looking for a better deal.
At least I would have a chance. I have a hard time believing pepper spray is anything more than a fell good amulet!
Next up, Gen-X programmers trying to use the card reader.
Yes. The current p/e ratio of the S&P 500 is 29.59. Prior to November 1998 it never hit that high in the prior century. So what has the S&P 500 history been since then?

It kept climbing from November 1998 until the dot-com crash started in spring 2000. By Jan 2003 it hit 29.59 on the way down and went down to 17.46 in April 2007.

Then the subprime boom started really going and it climbed to 27.58 by July 2008, hitting 122.39 in May 2009. By October 2009 it was back down to 20.33 and by September 2011 it was down to 13.01.

Then it started its climb again. It was at 22.04 October 2019, before they were talking about Covid even in Wuhan. It hit 39.26 in December 2020 and is now back down to 29.59.

As the poster says, in 1999 and 2000 and in 2007 and 2008 we were hearing about how we were in a new paradigm unmoored from the old reality and so forth. At the end of the day, the economy always came crashing back to earth. In October 1999, the book Dow 36,000 was published echoing a lot of this sentiment. The Dow was 10336 the day before the book came out, then it went down to 7591 by September 2002. In February 2009 it was at 7062. We just finally hit 36,000 DJIA this month (before going down again).
I'm not sure if it was intentional or not but 2-SAT is polynomial solvable [0] whereas 3-SAT is NP-Complete [1].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2-satisfiability#Algorithms

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boolean_satisfiability_problem...
I think you can get a pretty good idea by counting the bath houses.

In Toronto gay bath houses greatly outnumber the only one straight bath house, and there are zero lesbian bath houses. This seems to corroborate your theory.
So wait, now we're going back to relying on centralized authority to determine the validity of the token? Seems, say, self-defeating in a sense.
Good point. Especially since phone manufacturers are moving to get rid of the headphone jack as well...
> Can anyone recommend similar for removing ums etc. in videos?

For single camera floating head style videos where you're continuously talking about 1 topic it's going to be very jarring if you start cutting out filler words. You'll end up with a bunch of jump cuts where it looks like video frames are dropped.
Can we now acknowledge that Tesla is never going to have highly reliable, mission-critical software. Its just not in their culture.
NFTs are considered ownership in nascent online societies. There is no “at large” society. Even nation state recognized ownership in terms of copyright has its limits.
If going by the book, the pilot probably would have to ask for clearance (although maybe not if they're over international waters?), but it really is a button press (or two of them): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rEf35NtlBLg&t=705s
I agree on the implementation, but I'm pretty sure if the computer is off you aren't getting a 1.
No it’s not. It’s just a ticket to enter cryptovoxels.
I tried API Gateway -> Lambda but found it a bit too complex to even setup.

Instead, I've used ALB -> Lambda (1) to good effect; much simpler to setup and no maintenance issues so far.

(1) https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/networking-and-content-delivery...
This is an awesome resource https://transeurotrail.org/

Wonderful bike trail, has realistic information on where you can camp for each country.
> BTW: this is why EPA range is not representative. Their test is at 65 mph while my un-scientific observation of highway driving tells me people drive at least 75 mph.

Wait, is this really the speed of long-distance driving in the US? I've just did the conversion and when I'm taking kids to see their grandma, we set the cruise control to 110mph for the most part.
https://i.postimg.cc/YM9xW5B4/40qz3647fuq71.webp
I've used Berkeley DB for decades, in many projects, many time having to have a yelling match with other people who wanted to use one of the large spaghetti plate "database".. this was before the "noSQL" trend, and even after. How many projects /need/ network access etc, in a LOT of cases you just want a file backed, very quick library and that does the job.

For more complicated setups, sqlite also works wonder.
This is where I've been predicting the insurance side of cybersec going for a while.

You have some baseline required security for the premium that offers X coverage, and you can reduce the premium or increase the coverage if you can prove Y standards have been met. Get a list of approved 3rd party auditors/pentesting companies, have them certify what level your company is at, apply appropriate discount.

Insurance costs are a language that businesses speak fluently, so I think this has a higher chance of moving the needle on cybersecurity standards and have them actually be implemented across the board.
Huh. When remodeling my kitchen in 2016 the highest priced ovens all had crappy touchscreens. I had to "downgrade" from Miele to Bosch to get knobs.
>“Expertise is great, but it has a bad side effect. It tends to create an inability to accept new ideas.”

Doesn't being an expert already contain the idea of continuous learning? Is expertise something static?
Benefits of Empowering Teams
> It was good to experience that vulnerability and learn how to just get on with it.

Nothing bad happened to you; you might think different if you were missing a couple limbs due to a bear attack (yes I know it's probably not survivable).
I appreciate it! If you have any issues or need help, feel free to reach out. (You can use the chat in the app.)
Bari isn't going to bone you guys no matter how often you post Quilette links to HN.
>how do you make sure that admissions are balanced.

I have never understood why the admission should be balanced? In my mind it should be absolute pure meritocracy. If you don't score high enough, try again until you do or accept institution with lower requirements. Meritocracy is the fairest system overall.
Lagrange: A desktop GUI client for Gemini
The QR code does not get you everything an NFT gets you and more. It gets you significantly less.

NFTs are stored on blockchains, which are distributed databases, which anyone can read from. Those serve as public APIs, basically. That means anyone can incorporate NFTs into their apps in whatever creative and innovative ways they want to. And since these blockchains are digital, NFTs can easily be accessed, browsed, filtered, and searched. Again, not so with QR codes.

For example, let's say there's a sporting event and the league grants complementary NFTs to fans who buy a ticket. And let's say this particular event goes down in history as being a legendary game. Everyone will now have blockchain-based proof that they were a ticket holder, in NFT form. In fact, anybody can look and see who all the ticket holders were and take action based on that. For example, the league could throw a celebratory 10th anniversary party only original ticket holders are able to attend, or send a memento to everyone who attended, or those tickets could become collectors' items that holders display or sell.

This isn't going to happen with real-world tickets or QR codes, unless every organization that issues them feels like building their own database of people it distributes QR codes to, and making it a publicly-accessible via API. Even then, that would still be worse, because developers would have to find the proprietary API for every distributor of QE codes and then learn how to connect to it. One API > n APIs.

And even then, those databases would lack functionality, because the holders of the tickets wouldn't have control over the data. If the original maintainers disappear and the database is deleted, everyone loses their data. And they can't exactly sell or transfer their data, since they don't own the database row it lives in, unlike with the blockchain.
One reason was that it was really, really slow when accessing the file system.
I know that WoA works in Parallels Desktop, though I haven't tried it. That would at least give you access to x86-64 emulation in Windows. I am curious about playing around with Crossover which apparently implements WINE using Rosetta.

Maybe I'll use my free time this weekend to try and compile that.
They've never watched the 1957 courtroom drama film 12 Angry Men and it's 1997 remake.
is this in the US, europe or somewhere else, and may I ask how you found your gigs the past 15 years or so?
I intended to. I didn't. Life gets in the way. I think my larger point remains true.

There are a lot more people arguing that men suffer almost equally in discrimination or women have it better, then I had expected.

All of them by men.
Listen, I despise NFTs as much as the next guy but this is a pretty gross mischaracterization of what these people are buying into. You're not buying a raster graphic, you're buying a hash that points to your wallet on the blockchain. Yes, both are equally as asinine in the grand scheme of things, but conflating them is just outright wrong. Paintings are trivial to replicate, people don't buy them though because it's not "the original". With NFTs, that concept of having the "master copy" is what drives their entire economy.
Since I imagine there are a lot of interested people in this thread: is there a list or an index of companies that one could work at if one was interested to make a difference? Can't really find any on Linkedin.

Or maybe the opposite is needed - a list of companies one should be ashamed to work at due to their negative impact on the climate?
Concretely there are a variety of metaverse projects which only allow you to spawn the item if you own the (creator sanctioned) NFT.
That's a fascinating personality trait. Was it part of a larger pattern?
Fire sale
Finetuning MLP on Swiss Roll Data
This is not a good analogy. Civil engineers would be blamed if a force they were supposed to compensate for, like a storm, destroys a bridge they designed.
> Chris eventually went to Amazon and brought Berkeley DB with him there, so we became one of the first backing stores for Amazon's Dynamo key-value store.

BDB was impressive in that you’d file a bug with them & they would have a patch for you by the next day. If you did the same thing with Oracle, stars would have to align even to get an ack.

I think that’s because they kept BDB pretty simple. I happened to sit in a meeting with Margo Seltzer where the (later distinguished) engineer from Amazon was asking for new features. I think Margo must have said no to every feature request because it didn’t align with their roadmap. I’ve never seen anyone do that. It was impressive to watch.

Then again, Oracle acquired Sleepycat in the end.
The ongoing Holmes trial revealed all kinds of celebrity and private equity investors were snookered. Retired politicians are eager to jump onto the Silicon Valley gravy train as directors. George Bush Sr made a killing participating in the Global Crossing fiber cable venture.
Unedited Transcript Biden 2019 Intvw on the Weekly: “Creeps” in Silicon Valley (2020)
The scariest paragraph on that page:

> Wanna launch the next meme coin to reach billions in market cap?

> Have experience with ERC-20 tokens and the financial and legal regulations of an ICO?

> Drop me a line, because why not, I've seen weirder things happen.
Yikes. He must have been popular at happy hour. /s

If I worked with him I'd bring in the same paper every day and leave it in the common area near his desk.
Was his name Ebenezer by any chance?
there are only a limited number of hours per day. how can you network substantially but at the same time keep up with all the new programming language fads and whatever this industry throws at you and still have time to cook proper food, go to bed early and take care of your health and family?

i have thought about this many times. sometimes i think that "networking" needs to be built into the job, and this is not the case for engineering roles.
> Better?

Not really. The original document contained an outright lie which have now removed because it was exposed.

If you didn’t accept it was a lie, you wouldn’t have removed it.

This has nothing to do with imperfect accuracy. It has to do with you writing an outright falsehood.
"He also discussed the "creeps" in Silicon Valley, the mistakes of the 2016 Clinton campaign and his current opposition to the federal legalization of marijuana."

Excerpt:

"And you may recall, the criticism I got for meeting with the leaders in Silicon Valley, when I was trying to work out an agreement dealing with them protecting intellectual property for artists in the United States of America. And at one point, one of the little creeps sitting around that table, who was a multi- - close to a billionaire - who told me he was an artist because he was able to come up with games to teach you how to kill people, you know the --

CW: Like video games.

Yeah, video games. And I was lectured by one of the senior leaders there that by saying if I insisted on what Leahy'd put together and we were, I thought we were going to fully support, that they would blow up the network, figuratively speaking. Have everybody contact. They get out and go out and contact the switchboard, just blow it up.

And then one of these righteous people said to me that, you know, "We are the economic engine of America. We are the ones." And fortunately I had done a little homework before I went and I said, you know, I find it fascinating. As I added up the seven outfits, everyone's there but Microsoft. I said, you have fewer people on your payroll than all the losses that General Motors just faced in the last quarter, of employees. So don't lecture me about how you've created all this employment.

The point is, there's an arrogance about it, an overwhelming arrogance that we are, we are the ones. We can do what we want to do. I disagree."
and the video is titled "how to ... safely". oh my.
You would be neither the first nor the last with an idea how to DOS Microsoft. Being the receiving end of ideas like that is bread and butter for any of the tech megacorps.
Yeah but you never know whose computer the result applies to
I'll offer a contrary perspective that I haven't yet read here: Digital controls have the potential to be more accessible to people who can't turn a knob due to a mobility impairment.

Edit: See also ndarilek's explanation of how his mobility-impaired girlfriend benefits from Alexa: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20344613
Thank you for the kind thoughts. These kind of messages are what keep us going ;-)
Theres nagging to setup Apple Pay (which apple gets a cut of), and now they also push trials of Apple Music and Apple Arcade - https://postimg.cc/YM9xW5B4/
Shooting a charging bear is harder than it sounds. If you don't kill it, chances are you'll just really piss it off.
Asynchronous is definitely the way to go. I once tried synchronous code. Had to move it to a service worker so as to not bog down the UI, and you don't even want
to know what service workers do when the computer is off. Let's just say it's undocumented.
When Naomi Wu does a video review of it I will feel my life to be complete

https://youtube.com/c/SexyCyborg
IIRC, in the US, tree law is a lot more complicated (which itself is fascinating).

For example, where I lived, it was my responsibility to trim my neighbors branches that were growing into and falling into my yard. Further, if I chose to cut said branches, I had to make sure it wouldn't harm or kill the tree.
It is now the "nobody got fired for buying a Gartner report" era.