skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's a bit of a stretch, isn't it? Being underwater on a loan doesn't instantly bankrupt you.

As long as Mr. Bob is actually living in his house and not just speculating on the market, he's still quite likely to come out ahead in the long run, despite the unfortunate setback.
In a free market where remote jobs are more desirable than in-office jobs, then eventually, the in-office jobs have to start paying a premium in salary to attract those who would rather want a remote job instead. It isn't "how much is your labor worth?" but rather "how much more do we have to pay someone to come into the office everyday?"

Of course, given your preferences, it doesn't sound like they would have to pay you more to come in the office vs. working at home as long as they pay you what you think you are worth. That is, whether the job is remote or not doesn't affect your pay requirements. If enough people feel the same, then there won't be a pay discrepancy between remote and in-office jobs.
My personal interpretation/variation of this is to use two different backup formats, even if everything ultimately ends up on hard drives (whether my own or a cloud service provider's). I usually will do 1 file backup via Duplicacy (but Restic/Borg/Duplicity/Time Machine work just as well) and 1 system image backup via Macrium Reflect/Carbon Copy Cloner. The file backup gets copied to Backblaze B2, the image backup stays local.
But how is that data useful?

Dev A writes a lot of small commits and then re-orders them before pushing. Dev B has hours where his environment seems idle and then has a typing spree in between 9PM and 2AM. Dev C knows a lot more than A and B about the debugger.
This morning I went outside and my city smelled like shit because of pig farms that are over a hundred miles away.
The transport is secure, but if an attacker has already found their way into the device, they can intercept notifications/iMessages and remove it automatically anyway, so yes it's a bit or concern. But at that point, anything will be concerning, not only iMessage.
Works for me (Firefox, Windows).

Try this URL: https://samiam.org/software/parchment/desert-smartphone.html

(The version of Parchment I use is somewhat unusual because I had to be 100% GPL compliant)
Should religious texts which contain such things or related topics be removed as well?
It is like polish Watergate: the prosecutor has been criticizing minister Ziobro and already lost her job (not only her, this problem is now on EU table and European trials say polish gov is breaking the law doing this) and now she learned minister Ziobro was spying her (and probably is still doing this)
GraalVM support IOS
Zimbabwe required taxes and tariffs in the form of Zimbabwean dollars... You need a little more than just taxes and tariffs for a fiat currency to have value... You need a hard money that is not going to be devalued also. This is where all fiat falls short and has done since the demise of the gold standard.
Good to see a fellow (former) Samsung employee. What company did you move to? As I've also primarily worked on in-house software only, I'm finding myself less and less competitive in the era of venture capitals and IT services. Did you find a solution?
I was going to comment that it has both means, i. e. partial as well as full mit.. aehm, let's say "reduction (in harmful effects of)".

But the dictionary is somewhat disappointing in only mentioning the gradual/partial reduction in harms. Here are the examples:

• make (something bad) less severe, serious, or painful: drainage schemes have helped to mitigate this problem.
• lessen the gravity of (an offence or mistake): there had been a provocation that mitigated the offence to a degree.

What's interesting is that both examples seem to use the term in a way that suggests that it does mean full-and-complete mitigation, otherwise the specifications "to a degree" and "have helped to" would not be needed.
How does hardware/software security solve this? Is this not just a certification issue? If Atari had officially blessed games and told retailers which games were good, would that not have solved the issue? I guess securing the device to not load unauthorised games is a solution, but isn’t just certifying games and publishing information about the good ones enough? I guess distributing information widely was a lot harder back then.

If the reason for people buying shovelware is that they need to go home and try it to see if it’s bad, wouldn’t a simple blank CD packaged as a game achieve the same thing?
> Facebook does for instance, even going as far as tracking your IP to make sure you're being honest. If you choose to move to a lower cost city, they'll adjust your wage.

That's the official HR policy.

In real life... key contributors are magically exempted. If you aren't making SV rates no matter where, that's a career red-flag.
I agreed with the 'plant timer' mindset up until recently, when I bought some smart lights to hack for a demo at work. Now the idea that someone likes 'actually doing things' where things == 'getting up from the couch to flick a light switch in the other room' seems ridiculous.

If you make smart stuff a purely additive layer over your home rather than replacing existing tech with it, keep it out of the cloud, and have everything responding to predictable rules rather than apps/AI assistants, home automation is really wonderful.
Planting Trees and shrubs is not a substitute for phasing out fossil fuel emissions in case you were confused by this and many other similar headlines.
> "A fraction?" How much less do you think they can pay?

Half of Bay Area FAANG salaries is still more than a huge swathe of localities in the country - let alone the continent, where you'd likely plumb a quarter or an eighth and still be above local averages.
Make it a clearly selectable option, explaining both downsides. Be vocal about it being selected if you want to.

But the thought that not immediately reacting to an e-mail can cost me a month's salary or more is terrifying. Maybe it'll get waived. Maybe it'll be waived in the form of credit that I can only spend on the product (i.e. for my purposes, not waived). Maybe I'll be stuck with it. The "maybe" is the danger here.

Let's say I put some obscure 50 MB dataset into a public S3 bucket, and pay my <1 cent per month to host it and like a dollar for each 200 downloads. Rarely does a month exceed a dollar or two, all is good.

Then someone builds a poorly made colab that downloads the entire dataset each time it is run, and the colab hits the front page of HN while I'm traveling, and makes it to social media the next day because it shows something funny. And people don't run it just once, they play with the parameters, running it multiple times.

By the time I'm back and see the e-mail, a 10000 USD bill may be waiting for me.

To obscure? How about this one:

The operator of a semi-popular website has decided to hate me. Each page load now contains an <img src=[my image]?t=[timestamp] width=1 height=1> in the header, pointing to the biggest image I'm hosting for my small static website.

Edit: Even better example

I've accidentally left an API key in a git repo that I pushed online. My carefully set up billing alert was deleted, then my account started spun up as many of the most expensive GPU instances as quota would allow and started mining Monero. In this scenario, I think a $10000 bill would be "getting off easy".

(Just to be clear, these are hypothetical scenarios. If anyone knows how various cloud providers would react to those in practice, or if you know that there are countermeasures that would reliably stop them, please do tell!)
Property being rented is being used.
Go through a staffing agency. They will manage background checks and can introduce you to many people across a variety of skill sets.
> Mine is much more primitive. My indoor temperature monitor is an ESP8266 that uploads the temperature to a simple PHP page that saves it in an sqlite DB.

Nothing wrong with 'simple'. Although you are kinda reimplementing the wheel in some of the setup.

If you don't have an use for the whole Prometheus shebang (it's a great piece of software, but might be overkill, and you probably don't need Cortex), you can upload stuff to Graphite. Installation is simple. Sending data is just a netcat away, can't really get simpler than that. Bonus points is that you don't have to maintain (or create) the PHP page. Or maintain a database schema for any new metrics you come up with.

Send what amounts to a string with your metrics to Graphite, and then you can connect Grafana to it and quickly build all sorts of graphs, even alerts.

Now that you have built it, it makes no sense to replace. If you ever find you need different metrics, different graphs, queries, alerting, a dashboard or what have you, take a look at that. It's the simplest solution I've found.

Like their examples show:

echo "foo.bar 1 `date +%s`" | nc localhost 2003

Essentially, the format is: <metric name> <metric> <timestamp>

Send that to the listening port and you are done.
>The different media types is probably the hardest issue

That's probably overrated and you shouldn't feel bad about not implementing it. The justification for it is:

>you may lose them due to the same hardware issues

buying different hard drive models/manufacturers/batches achieves the same thing without the risk of having data stored on dinosaur media.
Nov 23, 2020
"Sounds like you're being deliberately picky"
I hired one early this year through a "virtual assistant" company in the UK (Virtalent), as I don't need enough help for a full time person to be sensible, and they did a nice job of matchmaking. I had an initial call with one of their folks who spent some time going through with me what I'd want done, and then they set me up with someone pre-screened who I had an intro call with and liked. I'd previously tried FancyHands, and that required way too much micromanaging on my part.

paulcole's comment "Are you really ready to stop doing the things you're hiring this person to do?" is a bit on the nose. Learning to let go and delegate is key.

The biggest value I'd say I get is outsourcing decisions that aren't really important but are likely to cause my to spiral into "analysis paralysis". For example, hiring movers - if I tried to do it myself I'd end up spending hours fussing over reviews.

Another major thing is figuring out things I hate doing (phoning people, filling out expense reports, etc) and let my PA handle them.

It's also nice for me that she's British (I'm an American expat living in the UK) and is fairly experienced as an PA/EA and generally knows lots of things that I don't know I don't know. For example, when my partner and I wanted to have a special celebratory meal, she arranged a completely custom menu with a high-end restaurant, which didn't occur to me as something that I could ask for.
It was originally written for the Jai compiler.
You get what you pay for. A bargain EA is more of a burden than a blessing.
There are a lot of better-than-JPEG and better-than-PNG solutions out there.

Speed: If the benchmarks are correct, then this is exceptional, especially considering that the file size is only slightly larger than PNG.

I can think of a couple of ways they could reduce the file size by probably around 10%-20% without sacrificing speed, but this is good enough to get attention.

The biggest speed loss for PNG comes from zlib.
PNG without zlib is very fast -- probably comparable to QOI.
If QOI use bz2 or even zlib on top of the current encoding scheme, then it would be slower, but I bet it would also be smaller than PNG.

The biggest issue isn't making a better/faster picture format.
Rather, the biggest issues are adoption, metadata, and variable color support.

Until web browsers and smartphones natively support the format, it's only good for a proof-of-concept or for niche applications. (Don't get me wrong -- online games could benefit from something like this.)

Wide-spread consumer adoption will also need support for metadata. EXIF, IPTC, XMP, ICC Profiles, etc.
This is easy enough to add. I hope the author choose something simple, like a tag-length-data. The tag just identifies it as a meta block. The data should begin with a text string and "\n" that defines the type of data, followed by the binary data. The "length" includes the size of the data + string + 1 for "\n". Also, be aware that some metadata is larger than 65535 bytes, so the length should support large data blocks.

The algorithm as currently defined only supports 8-bits per channel and 3 or 4 channels (RGB or RGBA).
For widespread adoption, it should support:
- 8-bit Grayscale (1 byte per pixel)
- 16-bit Grayscale (2 bytes per pixel)
- 8-bit Grayscale + Alpha (2 byte per pixel)
- 16-bit Grayscale + Alpha (4 bytes per pixel)
- 8-bit and 16-bit RGB (24 and 48 bytes per pixel)
- 8-bit and 16-bit RGBA (32 and 64 bytes per pixel)
- 8-bit and 16-bit CMYK (for the printing industry)
- 8-bit YUV (for cameras; most also support 16-bit YUV, but it's rarely ever seen)
I don't think the algorithm will change for these, but the file format will need a header that defines the color space and color depth.

The source code is also problematic. For example, the .h (header) file contains functions. Not function definitions, but actual functions. E.g.: https://github.com/phoboslab/qoi/blob/master/qoi.h
All functions (qoi_encode, qoi_decode, etc.) are completely included in this header file. It should be in a .c file (not .h) and compiled into a library (libqoi). Although C does permit you to put functions in header files, it is REALLY REALLY REALLY bad form and strongly discouraged. (This is a really bad programming practice. When I was in school, doing this sort of thing would be an immediate homework failure even if the code works.)
There is only one solution to this, and it’s mandatory paid parental leave for both parents. We already have a system in place for this for jury duty and this is more important. Far more important.
> 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)

Do you have some examples of this?
> Per API call seems more predictable, but still not as clear as the "at a glance, MAU number" Do product managers know how many API calls your average user would use? Yes, auth is most often implemented by devs, but are they always the buyer?

I’ve done some research into Hydra: https://gruchalski.com/posts/2021-05-23-do-you-really-need-a....
Ah, memories. :-) I used to work on the ATAPI CD-ROM drives produced by Singapore's Creative Technologies.
Isn't the US military just another social security scheme? Except the main recipients are arms companies instead of the poor. Although the US military recruitment tactics of focussing on poor communities could also be seen as a social security scheme.
As also mentioned in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29287720 :-)
People often confuse the Different Media, and this blog post makes it murky as well

>> The thing is, while keeping data on the same storage media, you may lose them due to the same hardware issues. In other words, you may lose two copies in the same accident. That’s why you should always combine media.

For "same media" the key part of this is storing the data on two DIFFERENT DEVICES of different types, they both could be hard drives, but they need to be in isolated systems of different types (say a Windows System and a Synology NAS, or a FreeNAS Storage Appliance and a Linux Server, etc)

The rule came about because people would use the same tape library, or have multiple copies on the same SAN (often times they would have a SAN Cluster of 2 or more devices that act as 1, and because they had 2 "devices" they felt they were protected.

Disparate media type (HDD, Tape, DVD, etc) may have some advantaged but as long as you are putting 2 copies on say your Home Desktop, and a NAS you have satisfied 2 media's even if both are using Hard drives

That said today the most common way for a person fill offsite and separate media is to use a Cloud Backup of some kind.
Do you count "laptop hard drive", "external hard drive", and "cloud hard drive" as different media types? What if the laptop happens to be SSD but the external drive is magnetic? What if the cloud drive is SSD or magnetic? That "2" in 3-2-1 just doesn't make sense in today's world.
Are you delusional on the actual value of targets? Clearly so.

Companies all over the WORLD conquer resources for their benefit, If I have to explain this to you then, [CAPS INTENTIONAL] - GO FUCKING LEARN ABOUT HISTORY YOU FUCKING MORON.

(3 months old account talking to an elder...)
Off topic, but Oracle cloud's free tier never charges unless you upgrade your account. You can have 5 VMs, 200 GB block storage, etc.
Wrote a python script to extract data and produce spreadsheets/reports from the database of an ancient, custom, closed source FoxPro-based ERP software. By being able to create custom reports, I easily reduced the workload during tax time by a factor of 10. This replaced a process that involved manual review of hundreds of sheets of dot-matrix printouts for certain edge cases.
Lol, people were just assuming you were using the correct browser for this day and age. Don't be so obtuse.
Wonder if that works for USA targeting terrorists and how well that’ll play in court if a terrorist attacks was helped in that way.

Edit : silly me, US doesn’t need that, they can simply ask for the data..
Banks do something useful.

You (and many others) have some money, but you don't need it now.

The bank lends it out and puts it to work. They keep enough to pay people back, assuming there isn't a bank run.

If you banned fractional banking, people would find a new way to invent it.
> The golden solution (for me) is RF

The devices that I'd be interested in using RF with (for instance, power sockets) generally accept commands over RF but don't report status back. This makes some scenarios unreliable as automation doesn't know the status of the switch.
This seems very whataboutist. Is your serious claim that Bitcoin, et al, aren't increasing bribery? They're helping out other sorts of financial crime quite handily, so this is a claim that would require a lot of evidence.

And as to your second paragraph, [citation needed]. As long as we're imagining central authorities mandating the sort of transparency that would make it harder for corruption, we could just use the existing financial system, which is already reasonably well tied to real-world identity. Cryptocurrency in no way helps here.
Every couple of weeks, I or a colleague wander into our bijou data centre. We turn the power off. The UPSs beep for 10 seconds and the genny fires up. A couple of SMSs land on several mobiles and a Teams channel gets notified. Icinga2 notes the power is up but provided by the genny.

I particularly like to do this when showing someone around. You whitter on about power and then you swiftly turn the key on the distribution panel and it makes a satisfying clunk. The status lights switch around and the UPSs start beeping. Then they stop. There is a barely perceptible hum from the genny in the boiler room, three walls (one of them a firewall in the traditional sense) away. It is extremely satisfying to do and customers appreciate it - they have all jumped a bit when they first see it. The UPSs obviously (monitored and fortnightly tested) have enough runtime to switch back if something fails on the genny.

At a second location there is just enough IT gear to run my company for a while. Replication via Veeam - 'nuff said.

Every couple of weeks, Veeam fires up a small part of my company's IT from backups/replicas at the second location. It runs some scripts which tests some functionality and sends out some status reports via email.

I still worry about business continuity. There is way more to it than just backups. However, get backups sorted out first. Nine months back a customer had a fire on the production floor. They are still running out of our place, 50 miles away. We set up offsite backups to our place only the week before: "There but for the Grace of God, go I" etc etc. I had them up and running inside three hours from a standing start. Rather lucky there really - they have a functioning business and I have a success story rather than a potential lawsuit from an ex-customer's liquidators trying to claw back some loot.
At least with Amazon you can get refunds easily, and even if they're out of their return windows.

I've managed to get a set of mis-sold harddrives refunded with a delayed return so I could transfer the files off them.

I very much doubt that wish would facilitate that!
Rand's novels contain realistic villains and unrealistic heroes.
This is utter madness. How is this not illegal for running afoul of discrimination law? While we’re at it, affirmative action should also be banned for instituting discrimination.

Even leaving that aside, it is plainly illogical to create this kind of system. Where does it stop? Why not also allocate some weighting for the urban versus rural origin gap? Or for religious representation? Or for those who are overweight and those who aren’t? It is arbitrary to focus just on certain characteristics like race in this way.
You have been banned from r/science.
any mismatch between price and externality is relentlessly exploited and arbitraged

If the carbon tax is more expensive than it needs to be, how would you exploit or arbitrage that?
I do not have a dog in this fight.

I do have an extensive economics education, and deep and wide IT experience.

I do not understand how crypto is any use for anything that is not illegal and/or immoral.

My conclusion is that it is largely for illegal transactions and scams.
Yep, we're living in the future.
Pros: your own rhythm
Cons: you are limited by what you know & how fast you can learn/ejecute
> It’s not the house that’s worth more. It’s the land.

They are both worth more over time.

To build a new house just like the old one will cost more since labor went up and materials went up.
The union workers went on strike and won. John Deere also raised non union wages after agreeing to the new union contract.

https://www.cnn.com/2021/11/17/business/john-deere-uaw-strik...

https://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/money/business/2021/...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2021_John_Deere_strike
You don’t have to declare bankruptcy to default on a house. Many people did it 2008.
Feds send 2 medical teams to support Michigan hospitals during Covid surge
I don't see anything which would serve as a base for this assumption.

Barely anyone outside the youth bubble cares about this topic atm and I don't see it changing anytime soon. Nothing is being clouded by it and it won't be. I'd be surprised if it generates more than one BILD headline when they come up with an actual law. It surely won't be the headline of tomorrow.

> I personally have never had a worse outlook on Germanys political future. This will show any politician that they don't have to worry about anything and keep enriching themselves with no recourse to speak of.

I guess this is the actual source of your assumption. Your perception is being clouded by something which seems to radiate a vision of Germany where the past years of standing still is something which you consider having been better than the program we just got today.

Meanwhile, in reality we're finally moving. Important topics will be actually grabbed and moved. There are more good ideas in this program than within the combined time of Merkel together and all you are talking about is: "Scholz bad" & "something something cannabis".
Asinine, ignorant comment. Let people decide what's best for them and stop armchair quarterbacking.
Mike was my cryptography professor and an advisor on an independent cryptography course I took a an undergraduate at OSU. We used an early copy of this book and it was wonderful. This is a great, free, resource for anybody interested in crypto maths.
area check https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon_rainforest

the amazing, Amazon Basin, is far, far larger than any previous human terraculture eh?