skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There was an RFD for Hubris; it laid out the basic concepts and design goals, as well as non-goals. But after that, it's largely just iterating. When I joined there were four or five people working on Hubris regularly; we have weekly meetings where we sync up, talking about what we're working on, and discuss things.
"Right to work" has absolutely nothing to do with noncompetes.

Edited for precision in response to whimsicalism's reply:

The extent of right to work laws is that union contracts (or I guess any contract) cannot require all employees to pay union fees as part of the union contract. That's it. There's no further restrictions on employers, only this particular restriction on employer-union contracts.
Why did ancient Egyptian pharaohs stop building pyramids?
I've always found people tend to mention "Chicago" as a sort of dog whistle.

There are so many other cities with more crime and violence but Chicago is the preferred choice when you want to agitate and alarm.
Yeah Twitter acted first out of belief that it's possible for the right to go too far. Any relevant business or publications fell all over themselves to sweep Jan 6 under the rug. Companies went back on their vow not to fund Republicans.

Zuck and Jack were alone but only Zuck is untouchable.
> Imagine if someone were to suggest that all web infrastructure should share the same database. That would rightly be seen as an absurd idea — but that’s what Web3 advocates are essentially suggesting.

I think BGP routing tables, ARIN, ICANN, whois records, and DNS root servers are equally as centralized as a blockchain would be - in that they form top level federations, sort of how "the internet" is centralized when you call it one thing. Cloudflare, Akamai, AWS etc are more centralized as single companies. Blockchains are essentially nested application/data layer federation protocols.

It's hard to respond with more charity than he ventured, so I'd ask if there is a smarter form of his argument I should consider. It may be worth hearing what the concern is rooted in.
Perfect time to double-down, go union, and strike for jugular instead of relying on a rising tide to lift all boats.
Super Follows work well, Twitter Blue just doesn't have much pull to it since it doesn't allow editing tweets. People won't drop Patreon immediately, but over time we'll see Super Follows more since Twitter can provide more chances of discovery over Patreon.
There is a plugin for Obsidian that helps with WYSIWYG!

Also isn't Bear WYSIWYG?
Would it be bad if we made advertising... illegal? In small part because it would reduce the principal-agent disparity between what you want to do and what Google wants you to do, but more importantly because it would remove the incentive to create blogspam and game the results.

Advertising serves a positive purpose by informing people about products that they will like and otherwise would not find. It also serves a negative purpose by attempting to cause people to make decisions which are not in their best interests.

I am genuinely curious what proportion of ads seen serve each of those two purposes.
So extrapolating here, web3 is a new kind of anti-censorship system with blockchain that ensures the original information isn't corrupted and replaced with misinformation? It's an interesting topic, but it seems in relation to finances, we're talking about a system that enables financial crime.

Telex (anti-censorship system)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telex_(anti-censorship_system)

Internet censorship circumvention
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_censorship_circumvent...
That’s exactly how it is on my 2021 Corolla Hybrid. We bought a wireless CarPlay adapter and the whole experience is amazing. The touchscreen is useful, I have up to date information on it, podcasts, music, audiobooks… it all just works. And everything but that is still controlled via physical buttons, so I can stay in CarPlay the whole time.

Imho this is an absolutely killer feature of the car and I would deeply miss it if it were gone.
Aah, yeah, I remember now, Sun did make a lot of stuff Open Source, but they used a slightly controversial license (the CDDL[1]) for a lot of it. As I recall, it caused a lot of grief for people who wanted to pick up their stuff and do anything downstream with it.

I do remember the name ForgeRock now, but I never used any of their stuff. By the time all that happened, I wasn't doing much in the IdM space anymore.

The whole episode is kind sad, really. Schwartz did some good things at Sun, and while their embrace of Open Source wasn't perfect, they released a lot of code and put a lot of weight behind F/OSS. If they had been able to continue as an independent company a bit longer, and not get borg'd by Oracle, it would have been interesting to see what might have happened.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Development_and_Distrib...
The foundries aren't nearly the lifeline people think it is. If China uses sneak attacks to destroy all the foundries, then what? Do you suppose US won't intervene? If US will still intervene then it was never the critical piece to begin with.
Wow, lot of pessimism in this thread about a problem that has been solved pretty well more than once. Here's how I see it:

Computer keyboards have one major problem: they cause carpal tunnel because your fingers have to fly all around the keyboard, especially to hit the modifier keys. Changing the order of the keys is a bit like rearranging the deck chairs on the titanic. Any solution solution has to move the modifier keys onto the thumbs and palm, and move the keys closer to the fingers in 3 dimensions so that finger travel is reduced. This is a solved problem now. You have to pay 300 bucks to get the keyboard and it's limited release, but you know how economies of scale work; if enough nerds want it, poor nerds will be able to get it eventually. I use this perfect keyboard, and it gives me instant wrist relief even if my fingers are screaming already from laptop keyboard use.

This is my second of its type actually, the first was stolen :( and I had to deal with wrist pain until I could afford another one.

That said, there is probably no way to fix the laptop keyboard, due to it lying in a plane (so the laptop is flat) and being tiny (must be smaller than the screen). So that sucks.

it's a keyboardio if anyone is curious. They're doing another run soon if you want to back it. Just realized if you google the words I used in this post you get the kinesis keyboard, which is the same price and has several fewer features.
Also if you are not doing it yet, demonstrate and announce every new feature in Slack to your team in a dedicated channel. With gifs.
> Web3 is inclusive in the fullest sense of the term.

Only to those that hold the tokens. Web1 and Web2 seem to be more inclusive.

> Nothing. Anyone and everyone on planet Earth can use it. This is not true of traditional banking and other web2 services.

How is web2 more inaccessible than web3? Also banking is accessible to more people than the internet. The vast majority of unbanked aren't unbanked because they don't have access to banks but because they are so poor that they have no need for banks. How will crypto/web3 help those people?

> Furthermore, all activity is transparent.

Fuck no!
Of the 672 pages of Book 1, at least 200 of the pages are about introductory Math subjects (if we include the dozens of pages of exercises in the back of the book associated with the math sections, and probably a good chunk of the Index/Bibliography too).

And as I stated earlier: this is elementary stuff. Like "What is a number", and "Summations". Yes, its difficult to _truly understand_ summations, and you may have to spend days or weeks relearning the material.

But that's just what math is. If you want to understand all the ins-and-outs of how numbers add together, you just gotta study it for longer than a day or two.

But Knuth provides something like 80+ exercises (and all of them worked out completely in the back of the book) to get you started on this subject.

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Summations are really useful for understanding for-loops and inductive reasoning anyway. A deep study into summations / loops / in general probably benefits the typical programmer, despite being a theoretical math subject.

> This is asking a lot for people who don't have much time to spare.

It takes far less time to read through a Knuth section than technical documentation for CPUs or GPUs, or spec-sheets on protocols, or any of the other stuff our field has to regularly deal with.

Reading and learning takes time. You have to be patient with yourself. You aren't going to be an expert on HTML, CSS, OpenCL, CUDA, x86 processors, ARM processors, or anything unless you spend days, weeks, or months reading, studying, and exercising (aka: writing simple programs or even advanced programs) on the subject.

That's the nature of our field. In the case of Knuth's approach on Algorithms, its Math heavy because you must understand the inductive reasoning that underlies it all.

Its one thing to say "Quicksort is fast". But what Knuth says is "This implementation of Quicksort executes in 3n * log(n) + X time" (or something like that, I forget exactly. But Knuth calculates it out exactly).

And furthermore, Knuth offers a mathematical proof, showing the student how to evaluate unknown algorithms.

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Knuth's book isn't about "Quicksort", even though it discusses it. Its about how to use Math to calculate how fast some algorithms are vs others. That's a lot of math to learn, go over, and become an expert in. Permutations, Random variables, summations (over the loop), induction and proofs.

This is all stuff a high-school student can learn, but whether you're 15 or 55, it will take weeks to learn and go through.
Propaganda and hyperbole aside, it must be clear to even the most obtuse among us that the earth is a finite system sphere with finite system resources. Even if it isn't as bad as we're being led to believe, the steps we could be taking to mitigate a positive feedback spiraling collapse in the system loop are things we should be doing anyway. I don't see how anyone here can argue that generating millions of one-time-use plastic receptacles is a good idea in any system or in any way sustainable long term, so what is the harm in making the changes we should be making now, as if it were as bad as we're being led to believe?
Yup arm64e in general has pointer authentication, iOS and MacOS already implement it.
I think that's the only way for a gif hosting/copyright infringing platform to succeed.

https://medium.com/@pasql/giphy-is-stealing-from-artists-689...

Other companies that exchange money for goods and services might have better luck.
Containerships emit very little carbon due to the variety of fuel they use. In fact, because the major sink of methane in the atmosphere is by reaction with OH radicals, research has shown that the NOx emissions from ship travel leads to a net global cooling effect!

The main threat of containership emissions from bunker fuel is the sulfur content which isn't very nice for the respiratory tract of humans and other mammals. That's why there are bans on burning that type of fuel within so many miles of port.
I ran into these issues myself.

I've been typing in dvorak at home and qwerty at work for about 20 years now. I was having pain in my fingers typing all day on qwerty, and sought out another way of typing hoping it would help. Switching to dvorak + qwerty permanently solved the pain problem for me.

I was unaware at the time how difficult it would be. There is no incremental approach to switching keyboard layouts, at least for me. As soon as I started learning dvorak, my performance in qwerty dropped drastically. I'd blank on what key to type or I'd spend more time correcting dvorak keys in qwerty or qwerty keys in dvorak errors than I was actually typing. I was at a severely degraded typing ability on any keyboard layout for a week or two and it was a couple of months before I felt comfortable in either again. It was several months after that before I could easily context switch between them without errors. Occasionally now I'll start typing gibberish and realize that I need to switch my brain over because I'm at work now and need to type in qwerty, but once I've made that context switch I only have normal typos for the layout I'm in instead of the cross-layout problems I used to have.

I don't know if I'm just terrible at learning keyboard layouts or if this is something everyone will encounter, but I wouldn't recommend switching over to anyone that doesn't have a good couple of weeks to effectively be at the hunt-and-peck typing level again and a long while until they can expect to type long documents without multiple errors.

I don't use a hardware dvorak keyboard, I still use the qwerty layout keyboards with a different keyboard layout in software. This may have been part of the problem I had learning dvorak. I learned to touch type without looking at the keys in high school on IBM Selectric typewriters, so that helped a lot.
Do Amazon next thanks
The English turned Barbados into a slave society. After 396 years, we’re free
> Maybe you're referring to the underlying concept rather than the implementation, but wasn't row-level security added to Postgres in 2016?

Yes you are correct my statement was too vague, I was referring to Postgres' role based security in general at that point. RLS specifically was added in 9.5. Before that permission checking was table/column based, so you could still protect data on a per-role basis, just not as fine a grain.

Another subtle difference is that RLS hides rows you can't see, where as a REVOKE on a table or column would cause an error if you tried to access it. In either case unauthorized users cannot see protected data.
The Genesis of Netflix Conductor
ah yes, the anti-union astroturfer has entered the chat. Just so you know, this was an article about Amazon, not Boeing. Is your algorithm working correctly?
> This sounds like an odd negotiating tactic in business (or anything): 'I'll take whatever you say, just please don't leave!'

Remember the Amazon HQ2 race to the bottom?
The Planning Machine
Jack had his hands in so many pies. Cash App, Square, and also evangelizes cryptocurrency every chance he gets. His Twitter Bio just has one word in it: `Bitcoin`. I think he was spreading himself thinly being involved with Twitter too. Focus.
Doesn't have the margins to make it attractive. An M2M/IoT MVNO though? That'd be cool to see, more competition in the space drives down prices.
Bold move for a declining country like the UK to pull a business-hostile move like this. Meta could probably just pull out of the UK entirely without any serious bottom line impact.

You'd think the UK would be pulling an Ireland and throwing around tax shelter bargains and generally offering sweetheart deals like there's no tomorrow. Trying to bully businesses they desperately need is...brave.
I guess I was talking about both. My real point is that humans are much more forgiving about music than we are about human faces, so the whole idea of the uncanny valley doesn't really apply. Though as I say that I think it may apply if autotune were used on the speaking voices in a film or tv show.
Alas, it is doomed to stay unknown hidden behind this link.
I know these review pages are usually affiliate links, but the problem is, when the subject is something like this (commercial interest), it is extremely hard to find anything that is objective.

Emergency prep guy seems like at least owns or knows about the products he lists, however he also discloses his site is owned by a company which is a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program.

So maybe Google should stop feeding this affiliate spam loop and try to create algorithms that try to actually understand which information is based on personal experiences and not created by financial interest. This is a very hard task to do and also prone to manipulation as well. In the end maybe Google needs some real competition for this to happen.
Exactly. She’d have had a better time looking for a product manager job in a food/restaurant related company due to her experience.
Is that time already here? Fridges, washing machines, dishwashers, TVs etc.
IIgs was a lovely machine that was kludged and handicapped because they didn't want to take resources away from the Mac. They could easily have clocked it up 4mhz or higher and had a much more capable machine. But my understanding is they didn't want to eat into Macintosh market share.

But schools here in Canada at least were highly invested in the Apple II, and my school acquired a whole fleet of IIgs machines. They were pretty nice actually. If they'd clocked it higher it would have been a very worth competitor for Amiga and Atari ST. But they didn't.

They also priced it too high for what it was.
There is a restriction on employers - they are prohibited from entering into such a contract.
Sorry, no, not at the moment. It wasn't a big deal to write.
Looks awesome. It almost seems arcane now to write a program that is only is designed to make a person's everyday life simpler and easier. I love the idea of programs like this, but then I find myself nit-picking over whether I want it to be console, graphical, web... There's no such thing as a UI framework that works for all three, right?
I'm tempted but I think I'll pass.

Recently my son was enthusiastic about anaglyph images viewed with red-cyan glasses. These are much better than what they had when I was a kid because the cyan filter passes both the green and blue channels. You can use whatever color you like as long as it isn't red or cyan.

I got enthusiastic too.

We found out that you can't (in general) make a good anaglyph image with a 2-d image and a height map because the left eye and the right eye can see around objects so the 2-d image usually is missing pixels that the left and right eye would see.

You could reproject an anime image if you had the cels; you could reproject the image for the left and right eyes by simulating the multiplane camera.

I am just starting to take 3-d photographs by moving my camera and that way I get all the pixels for the left and right eye. That lens might be better for taking portraits at very close range but I don't know if it would beat my current lenses. Certainly I could get a really good telephoto lens for that price today whereas I don't even know if I'll be taking 3-d photos a year from now when that lens would arrive.
Meta’s David Marcus, Creator of Embattled Diem Project, to Leave Company
All anyone talks about in crypto is how to make money from crypto - this is the number one use case for it.

Sure, it's used on the dark Web, but when was the last time you heard someone talk about how great it was to buy something with crypto?

I can't get over the fact that crypto seems kinda useless - in the sense that it doesn't actually get used for anything other than on crypto exchanges.

Talk of Web3 is also equally confusing to me. It seems to me that people want to spend less time with tech these days, not more. If anything it seems that web3 is going to be more about interaction with the real world, especially after pandemic lockdowns.

People talking about social networks paying its users and smart contracts etc... I also just don't understand - these things are already possible but have not been done with existing tech, so why would anything change just because we have NFTs or whatever?

It all smells of greed and feels like people peddling some new MLM system.

You can talk about gov and how the man has us all entrapped in the system or whatever, but we don't typically store lumps of gold in our homes, so why would you do the same with crypto (which is arguably easier to steal)?
> First of all, you usually don't put your business logic in your frontend. This makes your entire argument fall flat on its face.

the comment makes sense if one interprets "frontend" as "all the shit in front of the database". which is a reasonable interpretation in the context of something like postgrest, if not perhaps satisfying to you.

> pl/pgsql is absolutely awful

who cares

> Writing actual, complicated business logic using this and maybe some mix of JS(because why not pull that into the databse?? great idea)

there are a number of other languages available for writing postgresql procedures, and you can add new ones
I really don't get what people are talking about, first three results for best exercise bikes:

https://www.tomsguide.com/best-picks/best-exercise-bikes
https://www.cyclingweekly.com/news/best-exercise-bikes-40742...
https://www.menshealth.com/fitness/g23064646/best-exercise-b...

Not sure if they are amazing results but it's decent for such a generic query.
Personally Obsidian has my heart. Not only does it support HTML and CSS snippets but the community behind it is insane. They're lovely people and the shit they do with Obsidian is absolutely incredible. The plugins are absolutely amazing as well. They basically make Obsidian what it is.

I don't mean to derail the thread, it's just that when I see "Markdown" I think "hhhhh obsidian my beloved"
This isn’t really true. Before the declaration of independence the people of the American colonies couldn’t vote in British general elections, yet the Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain (as it was known then) had full legal rights to legislate for the colonies. This is due to the way the British constitution works, where Parliament has supreme power over everything, including the the Monarch, the Monarch’s government and any territories outside of the United Kingdom. This remains the same for all existing British overseas territories such as Bermuda and the Cayman Islands where there is no representation in Parliament.

The individual American colonies had legislatures for their own territory, with limited powers as defined in their charters. One example is the legislature of Virginia which has had elected members since its inception 150 years before American Independence and still continues to hold elections to this day.
Classical double bass bowing technique - I'm looking to diversify from primarily being a jazz player due to scarcity of jazz gigs. I'm now actively looking for a teacher to start asap in the New Year.
They do, but having tried it, I wouldn't recommend it. If the cars don't get you, the stray dogs probably will. But don't worry, your bike will probably get stolen before either becomes a problem :-P

Okay, that experience (dogs, theft and dead cyclists) was actually in Sicily, not north Italy, which is very different in many ways, except for the driving.
It's not ironic at all, nor is it very persuasive.

It's pretty well established truism by now that start-ups are a business model where the founders and angel investors become wealthy once the business sells. It would be interesting to see the breakdown of how many start-ups sellout, continue as an independent entity, or completely fail. Regardless, just because Facebook recognizes the business culture in the SF Bay area is not a persuasive argument for why they should be broken up.
I had a similar experience in IBEW Local 58 before I left the trade to pursue a career in tech. I'm not sure why the negative experiences of those who've seen the dark side of union orgs, aren't welcome.
It's a database-backed app, so it's just a marker in the database.

I understand the cold-start thing about the "diary" feature, but I think it'd be nice to have a list you could look back on of everything you've made, with notes on how you liked it, what you'd change, etc. That's been a big win for me.
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Well—you can @ their social media manager, anyway. Not much different than "calling your Senator" and getting some secretary in their office.

Though I'm sure some do actually use it themselves (Musk seems to, for instance)
Machine Learning for Arts