skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
LOL, the current political heads for the state of Texas (and county of Taylor) will happily trade future liability of their constituents for investment now (and kickbacks later). Honestly, I think Samsung's management is more comfortable in this sort of "political" environment than many others.

If you watch local news reporting, it's hilarious that they (politicians) have no idea what the "factory" does. I'm personally highly doubtful that a fab which hasn't broken ground will be producing viable 5nm at the 2H of 2024 as claimed (or cyber trucks for that matter).
Godaddy raising prices made me switch. Namecheap offered 30$ for hosting for a year so I transferred over a year ago. It was very annoying to transfer the domains, but I don't like feeing gouged. Anyway godaddy's hosting was bad and hacked at least twice in three months years ago, back in 2010 or something. Namecheap has softalicious or whatever it is called. Godaddy can't compare.
Agreed, aggregated reviews are not helpful when you can't trust the source. For example, I just looked at the NordVPN page and all three of the highlighted YouTube reviews are pushing the NordVPN affiliate link in their description. Can I really trust these YouTube reviews when the creators are getting paid for each referral?

The way I see this going is that a bunch of people are writing VPN reviews because these companies pay high commissions. This site is going to aggregate these untrustworthy reviews, and also try to earn a commission in the future. As the end user, I don't see the value here, because I don't trust anyone in the process.
Domain-Specific Languages (DSLs) are a logical fit for browser-based and cloud-hosted IDEs.

Most recently I've been really impressed with the Remix IDE for Ethereum smart contracts. https://remix-project.org/

When working in cloud IDEs, I just need the safety net of backup/versioning via git commits.
Data point.

The most reproduced photo of the 20th century is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V-J_Day_in_Times_Square. It raises multiple issues of consent. The photographer didn't know who was being photographed. The woman didn't consent to the kiss, and didn't realized she had been photographed until many years later. Under current law, it was a sexual assault. Indeed in another frame on the same camera, she was fighting back.

But it gets better. A man who claimed to have been the kisser later sued for a share of the proceeds. (George Mendonsa dropped the suit later citing costs.)

And there we have it. One of the most iconic photos of all time has lack of consent written all over it. And yet, I'm very glad that the photographer took the picture.
The author of this article makes specious claims that can each be refuted.

>Any application that could be done on a blockchain could be better done on a centralized database. Except crime.

That's simply not true. First he doesn't define "better" which is incredibly important when making such a claim. I would agree that centralized databases can do things "more quickly" and "with less overhead" but you'd lose the most important quality of what make cryptocurrencies important: "without permission, consent, or control of anyone else."

Centralized systems can make changes to your data without your knowledge or consent. They can freeze/edit/delete your records without your say. Decentralized systems that use blockchains are immune to this, and for people who prioritize privacy or use of a system without consent from some over-arching 3rd party, they would definitely say blockchain-based systems are "better"

>crypto assets have no claim to be currencies because their deflationary properties and volatility don’t fulfill the theoretical or even practical function of money

This is untrue. There are government-issued currencies that are far more volatile than cryptocurrencies are. There are 3 functions of money: store of value, unit of account, and medium of exchange. Cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin fulfill all 3.

>They aren’t commodities because they have no non-circular economic use case.

Again untrue. ENS and Handshake allow registration of domains without a centralized DNS registrar. Helium tokens allow access to a global decentralized sensor/relay network without relying on centralized telecoms. ETH and AKT allow you to code and deploy a program that does not rely on any centralized servers in two different formats. Sentinel (DVPN) lets you pay for and access a decentralized VPN without relying on a centralized party.
Each of these projects - and many many others - have economic use cases that are not circular.

The author has twisted facts to conform to his own predetermined reality.
Sounds like you would probably like the EdgeSwitch line of products better than Unifi. Cheaper, faster, and easier to manage if you are trying to do something specific.
How would crypto force gaming companies to keep servers for old games online?
I was referring to this part:

> stablecoins subvert the ability of the Federal Reserve to print money and give it to their friends at Goldman Sachs et al
Beyond specific companies, Texas has more favorable business climate and tax rates.

Housing alone is such a huge knock against CA for new companies. Even paying somebody 500k there leaves them feeling middle class when trying to raise a family.

Perhaps a bit of an exaggeration, but in Texas they build like crazy to support population inflows. If you drive through Austin you'll see every third or fourth house is getting torn down to be rebuilt into 2-3 houses on the same plot.

Fundamentally this just gives you a lot more runway to grow.

I don't know why anybody would start a company in SF these days, aside from VC being local and sometimes requiring it.

I have no doubt Texas will overtake CA in terms of economic output, but will take decades just due to previous inertia. Also remote work may be the true winner in the end.

I do think CA is still the place you want to be if money is no object though. Unfortunately that doesn't apply for most people. There may actually be a change in political winds that blow things back the other way though, just viewing this from today's lens.
Supply Side vs. Demand Side very different though.

Poor people buying stuff they 'need' is different than coaxing businesses to invest more broadly with slightly cheaper loans but with the demographic decline still on their daily charts.
Up to a point, more money printing is good for me: dollars become devalued, my employer has to pay me more of them to keep up with the cost of living, but my mortgage is still valued in 2009 dollars. I can pay it off faster, or just have more purchasing power left over every month after paying it on schedule.
Critical Race Theory is not being taught in any high school, nor is Marxist thinking. When put to task on this, all these pearl clutching busy bodies on the PTAs can’t even define what CRT is, much less how their school curricula aligns with it.

This all reeks of the same old moral panic that engulfs schools every once in a while when parents realize the world has changed and they’re too fucking stupid to understand it.
Par for the course. Windows also claims it's an "operating system".
Could be - it's a decade away, lots can change. Hopeful for improvements but we've needed all this stuff like 2 decades ago.

Better late then never I guess.
> Because think about progressivism. Progress is fundamentally just change.

No. "Regress" is also change, but it's in the opposite direction of "progress". Progress is a change for the better, not just a change.

And "progressives", just by claiming that label, are selling us that they're going to bring "progress", not just change driven by a random number generator.
Remember how on sparc machines if you turned off your laptop with the console cable connected it powers the servers down too?

That was a fun lesson…
They've already explained their reasoning, I don't have to assume anything. Their reasoning is bad:

* They've fixed long-known bugs in the JVM

* They've added sub-pixel anti-aliasing and other visual rendering enhancements.

Both of these are clear improvements on the JVM, and very likely to be accepted upstream, but instead of upstreaming them, they decided to create a long-running fork and package it as their own runtime. And like all long-running forks, they're struggling to keep up.

So we are left with two choices: abandon the hope of a functional IDE that only works well on a customized runtime, or abandon the litany of performance, capability, security, and stability improvements in the JVM standard and reference JVM implementation.
CNN airs live footage of its reporting on tennis star being censored in China
I'm not sure if that's a paradox. I think the goal of gender equality is not to have 50/50 men/women everywhere. It's to have no one that is blocked from doing something because of their gender, either by others or by themselves. This is usually referred as "equality of opportunities, not equality of outcomes". This is also hard to measure, and could be influenced by society.

Some people say that this would naturally lead to having 50/50 men/women everywhere. I'm not sure that's true. If societal pressure disappears, biology will be one of the remaining influences. And since societal pressure will be gone, biology will play a stronger role in the overall distribution. But that's just my opinion/theory about this.

I feel like a world where women are blocked from or forced into STEM to maintain a 50/50 parity would be not great, but again, maybe some people disagree for reasons I hadn't considered, or we disagree on fundamental points.
> That's how inflation works.

May I recommend https://www.lynalden.com/quantitative-easing-mmt-inflation/
Not sure. I moved to VS Code + Eclipse LS and it's such a more pleasurable experience. However, it doesn't support SBT which is the build tool my company uses.
No, those are a bad idea as well.
Why is controls over memmory layout important for Games?

If you work on Android games for example would you get any kind of control over mem layout, irrespective of the stack you will be using?
It takes about 3 kWh per square centimeter to make a high-quality silicon wafer. 90 nm node silicon wafer might cost about three dollars per square centimeter. So it isn’t a rounding error for actual wafer production. The unsubsidized electricity cost in Taiwan is on the order of 30¢/kWh for natural gas vs about 7-8¢/kWh in Texas. So the difference isn’t zero.

Purifying and growing high quality wafers is very, very energy intensive. This becomes more important as Moore’s Law slows and more of chip costs become just the wafer costs.
Public photography (at least in the U.S.) isn't just constitutionally protected because it is a form of expression (art), but also because it is an exercise in free press. In the U.S., anyone can be free press, and as such can document any goings on in public, including photography.
I respectively disagree. I think people are attractive, in general, and in particular I like looking at people. For me, seeing a photo that captures a memorable or unusual moment in sports, in a performance, or even in a park or on the sidewalk is worth viewing. I agree with the original article that there is a creepiness to voyeuristic photos, and in the case of the woman on the bus photo I would be more comfortable with it if she had agreed to its use, but I do think it's a "good" photo.

When at a museum we frequently look at pictures or sculptures of people. Our viewing of these works of art are totally outside the context of the original subject's goal for the artwork. Is it inappropriate to look at these works of art?

I agree that there are too many black and white photos of the old, sad, and homeless. These don't usually speak to me as art. If I was a photographer that wanted to do street photography, I would take advantage of the capabilities that new cameras have and show the resulting photos to the subjects and ask for their permission to use the photos. One could even offer to send them a copy of the photos by giving them business card with an annotation of the frame numbers so that they could request them via email.
Plus Oracle's egress last time i checked was 10x cheaper.
Quick story:

On the day we were closing on our 1920s house here in Massachusetts, we noticed that the oven wouldn't turn on. Then we noticed that it was shut off at the breaker.

We asked the owner why, and he said "oh, the mainboard in the oven (a Thermidor) has some issue where it beeps incessantly in the middle of the night and wakes us all up – but not a big deal: you can just turn it off and on at the breaker and it works just fine!" He'd apparently sent the mainboard in multiple times to have it serviced, but the problem persisted.

That wasn't a really satisfying answer at the closing table, so we pressed to get compensated for the oven we were rather sure we'd have to replace.

A few weeks later, as we were pricing out $2000-3000 replacement units, I had an idea to look for a smart relay to control the oven's dedicated circuit. I managed to find a 40-amp smart switch for $90 that I could control with SmartThings.

Now we can use the app or say "Alexa, turn on the oven," the switch is activated in the basement, and the oven turns on. At midnight, SmartThings turns it off if we haven't already, preventing the beeping.

$90 got us where we needed to be, and it's been working great for almost five years now.
Those are server processors, I was thinking more along the lines of laptop/desktop performance. Other examples of Arm server CPU's are from Ampere and AMD's discontinued Opteron A series.
There are many types of games. For 2D games Java is more than performant enough, without question.

Java can be ridiculously fast when only primitives are used so I wouldn’t put a quite performant game engine past it, but yeah, it would perhaps not be my first choice for a new AAA game engine.
Very cool - I hope browsers support this soon!

Funny meta comment: when I read "offering a 20x-50x speedup in compression and 3x-4x speedup in decompression" I caught myself reacting with disappointment to the "only" 3x-4x speed up. This is funny because 3x improvement is enormous; it's just small compared to 30x. There's a lesson somewhere in there about sharing stats together to achieve an emotional effect.
Home Assistant is much better than the big alternatives.

But, yeah, it does suck as a consumer product.
We're working on improving the site and the data quality. Keep in mind that it's still an MVP.
Shhh the vcs might hear ya haha
Cats do not run optimal algorithms:

http://www.threepanelsoul.com/comic/on-a
Yeah, e.g. file sandboxing approaches that work along the lines of "don't let the program access any files outside of its private directory except for those explicitly and lovingly hand-picked by the user" commonly ignore the existence of multi-file file formats.
Sweden′s first female prime minister resigns hours after appointment
I think you misread their comment. They said that not being pegged to state-controlled currency is a dealbreaker, whereas you seem to be thinking they said it was something they wanted.
Current PoW chains, yes. Some other consensus schemes have higher threshold requirements to pull off a similar sort of attack, in particular you can look at Casper FFG and other byzantine fault tolerant PoS schemes.

There are some with lower threshold tolerance of these attacks based on the idea that they're unlikely and the added threshold doesn't actually add security. I don't know about that but some people seem to think so.
Actually they often knew they're exceptional.

This is a bit later than the first few years, but all of Microsoft, Facebook, Google, Apple were very highly profitable (on gaap, not some xxx-adjusted ebidta bullshit) at their IPO, and for a while before, with hockey stick revenue growth. And the IPOs happened much earlier in the company lifecycle back then. Look up old S-1s.
Actually, maybe here's a (custom) solution:

Run mains wires to an enclosure with one of these:

https://www.olimex.com/Products/AVR/Development/AVR-IO-M16/

And controlled & powered (the mcu, not the relays) via this:

https://www.olimex.com/Products/IoT/ESP32/ESP32-POE-ISO/open...

Hence avoiding a separate esp board/mcu for every switch/device, and just using a single relay board for 4 at a time.

Still a bit of a pain to drag mains to one location, might be better if this was individual relay boards with equipment wire running to each..
> You don't have to force people to collaborate towards the greater good if you can just incentivize them to build the thing you need.

Wouldn't it be just as possible then to incentivise them to build things to the detriment of society (but that are to my benefit, of course)? We do that today with regular old money and regular old contracts.
> Crypto is libertarianism-as-code:

It was supposed to be, but that whole code-is-law thing lasted all of five minutes before the first major hack (Ethereum DAO exploit).
Not just a good policy -- my wife is a former EMT & firefighter in MN, and at least there, apparently it's the law that fire trucks blast their horns at every intersection. Whether this is required when they leave the fire hall and turn onto the first road, I don't know.
Ok, so you're not pointing to an implementation of the feature that I asked about. Instead, you're asking me to implement it as a special case. That's backwards.

You're effectively confirming that there needs to be feature-specific integration code for each and every navigation/refactoring/... feature in the editor. Once you have that, you again have tight coupling.
they are also not hostile to kids in public schools (CA dumbs down math, requires masks, requires CRT, etc.)
People who objects to being photographed in public object to those photos being put on internet or journals.

Generally, the security camera pictures won't be published. Where they are published, they are still so boring that no one looks at them.
There's peer reviewed studies that validate that range. One example: https://psycnet.apa.org/record/2001-01742-002

I find it really amusing that the hate I'm getting on this seems to be coming from older men.
It did…
There is a guarantee that this path is stable:

https://github.com/Microsoft/vswhere/wiki/Installing

> This is a fixed location that will be maintained.
Russia used to have a “Joke department” it was a serious matter if you crossed them the wrong way.

Mentioned it in jest to an older Russian and his face went white. Said the Joke department was nothing to joke about.
Now you need to trust developers who wrote the client code, trust large mining(/staking whatever) pools not to collude and 51% you, and uhhhh trust yourself to not lose the fucking keys, or to be an expert in all the various "protection" schemes like multi-signature wallets (until they explode because there's a bug in them)… You also have to 100% trust yourself to not get scammed — there's no chargeback if you do.
If anything, all of the smart home business I read suggests that the products on the market are the triumph of project managers and "visioneers" over actual engineers. The designs seem especially flaking and almost all of the features product an instinctive cringe in me.
This headline doesn’t seem all that surprising (nor does the article drop any particularly deeper revelations).

As soon as “indoors” was invented, humans preferred to live that way, even though it was expensive as compared to outdoors. I don’t see a reason to think that would change and, especially with people spending more time in their home and less money on services and experiences, would expect that more money would flow into improving the at-home experience, bidding up housing.
There is a pretty good set of maintainers/packagers that compile Python libs for Alpine, but if you stumble across one that doesn't have a binary built, you're going to have to install the whole build toolchain and get all the headers yourself. The pre-compiled manylinux* binary packages on PyPI aren't compatible with Alpine.
Jesus, no kidding. Only a two year warranty, too? For $3,000 USD you might think you'd get a little more for your money...
Is it so unbelievable? You listed hidden cameras. When you don't see a camera, and don't know you're being recorded, you don't object to it as strenuously as when a stranger points a camera at you. Even if you remember reading somewhere that cameras are in the store, you can easily forget that because you don't see them. Instead, imagine if grocery stores had employees follow customers around recording with cameras while they were in the store, and on the way back to their cars: would you expect more complaints, or the same amount?
> When there's stablecoin, you just put your dollar in stablecoin before they print the money, the dollar inflates, stablecoin goes up proportionately, you spend the stablecoin and things remain fair.

This makes absolutely no sense whatsoever.
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A conversation may yield better too. If they know they are waking a day sleeper, for example.

I know I would attempt one. Try nice and some charm and see what comes of it. May end up popular with neighbors.
What shady practices do NordVPN engage in?
Pandemic Privacy Explained – The Citizen Lab
I can't answer this well and don't know of any resources, but I have seen it before in the parser for sixten:

https://github.com/ollef/sixten/blob/60d46eee20abd62599badea85774a9365c81af45/src/Frontend/Parse.hs#L458

In that case, they're parsing a haskell-like language and can use indentation as a guide for how far to skip ahead.

In a C-like language, I'd imagine you'd use braces or semicolons to see how far to skip ahead - the error bubbles up to a parser that knows how to recover, like say a statement or function body, it scans ahead to where it thinks its node ends and returns an error node, allowing the parent to continue.
Instead of hitting the publisher's endpoints, they'd hit a web3 endpoint to get the list of digital assets owned by the player
Jpeg is not losses though
Hong Kong is a prime example of the success of capitalism.
I'm still not convinced it's boolean. How about pictures taken from a public space like the street or sidewalk into your house or yard, how about pictures like this: https://www.itsnicethat.com/articles/arne-svenson-the-neighb...

What about if a neighbor decided to take pics of your daughter walking to school every day? What if that neighbor starts a blog?
That's the "give up on container and process security" approach. It's a fine approach from any given user's standpoint. From an infra/tool provider standpoint, it ignores the intense demand that exists for establishing least privilege and defense-in-depth for containerized workloads. Fargate might be a good solution too.
I haven't said a single word about making anything illegal. I simply point out that people have every right to feel uncomfortable with being photographed by strangers. And all "I don't mind" won't change that many people do mind.
If you really care, almost everyone's IPv6 implementation includes prefix delegation. Jump around your prefix instead. A lot of countries already require ISPs that do CGNAT to keep a connection log so your individual connection can still be traced back to you
If they were giving it out unevenly it would be unjust.

If they were giving it bout evenly, there’d be no difference. Nominally, the price of goods would increase but so would your reserve. So there’be no added incentive to buy.
Well (IANAL) but if you want to get into contract law, my understanding is that a contract requires acknowledgement from both parties. It's not really fair to say "the functioning of the software is acknowledgement" when the company granting that permission has no record of it. Ask a CEO on the stand if his company has any binding agreements with the judge.
Maybe they're not using a GUI ssh client, and wanted to return to their local shell.