skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don’t think this is true. Every bank and exchange has a business continuity plan to allow processes to be completed manually during an outage and I’ve never seen a BCP that required any sort of GPS or celestial navigation access in order to correctly time stamp a transaction.

Think about how credit cards used to be “swiped”[1] it was a literal carbon copy of the card. These machines are still distributed and occasionally still used when a network is down. The exact time of the transaction isn’t necessary because the cardholder or account agreement contains language to address overdrafts in these situations.

[1]https://www.mobiletransaction.org/how-to-accept-credit-card-...
> Gaming on the other hand, is very much still mostly Windows only.

I game a lot, I haven't rebooted into Windows in well over a year. Luckily I don't really play games that require stupid DRM/anticheat (although, that is being worked on)

I would probably start playing Apex Legends again if they allowed EAC Linux support. Epic added support, the devs just need to support it -.-
there's some stuff here : https://github.com/gigablast/open-source-search-engine
What SendBird (YC W16) got right: selling solutions and building relationships
So with that in mind, his standing behind the loaded device, was akin to him muzzling himself.

I would think the four rules of firearm safety would apply to supersonic trebuchets.
Incidentally, Hetzner has recently expanded their cloud offering with a zone in the US: https://www.hetzner.com/news/11-21-usa-cloud/
Hm, so a vaccine that does not stop transmission does not create selective pressure on the virus? Wouldn’t that be unusual from an evolutionary biology standpoint?

Can we at least agree that if infected, as a vaccinated and asymptomatic carrier, there is a higher chance of transmission than if I were unvaccinated and symptomatic? This seems like common sense to me, but I recognize it goes against the Covid orthodoxy.

Also, when you say “inconvenient,” what do you mean exactly? To me, total restriction on movement and segregation from society based on medical status seems like more than an inconvenience. Maybe I’m just an anti-vaxxer, a victim of misinformation… if only I could think for myself.
> I hate saving money,’ said no one ever. Microsoft Edge is the best browser for online shopping.

I hate having Microsoft scan my online shopping carts so they can collect data and hijack affiliate commissions. Do they think we're dumb?
Algorithms for division: Using Newton's method
A possible answer to your question of what we could do if we do not want to force people to get vaccinated is the same as what we could do if people could not be vaccinated.

You said it was your ‘genuine question’. So I’m not sure why you need to see the argument. It’s an answer to your question, not an argument.
> providing no reflow occurs

CSS generally does not trigger reflow, including in this case. More: https://gist.github.com/paulirish/5d52fb081b3570c81e3a
Is not indexing certain things the same as moderating search results?

Is default but optional moderation a bad thing?
I don't know about Ubuntu but on Opensuse, Nvidia Optimus (Nvidia + integrated intel) works fine after installing the official Nvidia drivers and setting suse-prime to the desired mode.
I always thought one of the "features" of wxwidgets is that it looked worse than all the other widget sets out there, even Motif.
Can Are.na Make the Internet Calm Down?
Sleeping in until dawn sounds nice.
I fix that by maximizing whatever app I'm sharing and upping the zoom. It looks comically large on my screen, but normal to the rest of the folks on the call.
Why do people complain about wasted white space on the side of their windows? Who said you have to full-screen every application?

My slack window is about 1/3 of a screen, zoom a bit smaller, Firefox about 2/3 of a screen, Outlook about 2/3. I think the only window I regularly make full size is the terminal.
Likely because Lithuania opened up a diplomatic office for Taiwan. I hope they hold strong and don't fold.
This is an orthodox Marxist view that wasn't borne out by history. There was the objection that was foreseen: that socialism in one country was impossible because capitalism in other countries would just destroy it. There was also the one that wasn't: the ability of domestic capitalists to collaborate and collectively give concessions when society seemed as if it were about to upend, then to withdraw those concessions as the crisis died down and gradually replace them with violence.

There's no inevitable historical process that results in utopia. Nominal "socialisms" tend to combine the political outlook of Trotskyist Marxist-Leninism with the Whig history of liberalism, resulting in the worst of both worlds; the belief that 1) all answers have already been discovered, and 2) that they will inevitably be implemented as the people recognize these answers to be truths and decide that in the world of technologically provided abundance created by capitalism, there's no reason to wait.

They believed that the ultimate expression of history is democratic socialism, and that capitalism is a necessary step to get to there from feudalism. To believe that democratic socialism is the ultimate expression of capitalism itself is very strange - capitalism has no moral center that needs to be expressed. It's a physics metaphor that believes that the greater good can be emergent without a moral center.

Democratic Socialism, as seen in European countries, is a system granted and implemented by the US after the devastation of WWII, intended to keep them out of the Soviet orbit. It was funded by the intense military expenses of the US which allowed Europe to ignore military expenditure (for social expenditure), and regulated in the beginning through intense covert operations in Europe using the stick of assassinations to break up parties and eliminate influential people ambivalent about or friendly towards the Soviets, and the carrot of employing well-known socialist intellectuals through unprofitable foundations and public expenditures on their weirdest art and expressions as counter-programming to a Nazi-redolent (i.e. degenerate art) Socialist Realism and Stalin's hatred of modernism.

European democratic socialism was a strategy of capitalism to suppress change, not to encourage it.
I’ve often wished DVDs and Blu-ray has an audio track where sound was compressed. The wider ranges of volume are fine for cinemas but absolutely terrible for casual viewing (which is 99% of home viewing). It’s even worse when you have kids who are trying to sleep while you watch your movie.
https://odysee.com/@Odysee/Does-Google-Own-Odysee
The Lottery Factor
The only bang I use is !gvb since DDG doesn't support verbatim searches.
This historical cypher has finally been cracked!
> The jury's out on whether Rust code with unsafe around all of it is better than C.

The goal definitely isn't to keep it as is, the entire point of C2Rust is to provide a jumping point then not have to shuffle between the two as you perform the conversion.
I don't think crypto will replace the financial systems we have or that we should burn down what's already there. I think the way it will play out is that it will increasingly get used on the backend of the legacy financial system. So the front end will appear similar to the consumer with the same usability and protections they're used to, while the backend will be settling transaction using a variety of crypto networks. The consumer will then have the option of using the centralized front ends or communicating directly with the decentralized crypto protocols.
To play fair we need some rules to the game. You can’t punch in a face during the basketball game and once someone starts doing it all the time then most would stop playing at that point and go play another game.
SiFive Announces Availability of SiFive Performance P650 Processor
Apple has a feature that I heard about, someone wanted to connect to the WiFi but didn't have the password, his friend was on her Mac on that WiFi network and got a prompt if she wanted to share the WiFi password to him (my guess is because they have each other on their phone books).

So if you're working from home on the same WiFi, or if your phone with the Google account has been connected to the work WiFi, Google could be thinking "Ah, they're trying to login, let's offer them their account as auto-complete!".

It's at least one speculation, who knows if they've bothered with such a thing. An idea would be to totally remove Chrome from the work laptop, reinstall it, open Developer Tools, and monitor what data comes as you're trying to login.
The UI is written in React, and apparently runs as a sort of an extension to chromium[0] according to a Vivaldi dev. I expect that would be a large source of performance decreases with a JS powered UI. It's certainly an impressive UI though.

[0]: https://www.reddit.com/r/vivaldibrowser/comments/f9ui2b/is_t...
Finland warns of Flubot malware heavily targeting Android users
I'd agree if they still had 32-bit support. Nowadays though, even most creatives are getting frustrated by the vicious upgrade cycle and outright refusal to continue support for fairly modern tooling. If by "business" you mean word processing and web browsing, then... yeah. Chromebooks are also a competitor if we're bringing the bar that low.
For symmetric cryptography (ciphers & hashes), I agree. I'd say as far as to say they're stupidly easy to test.

Polynomial hashes, elliptic curves, and anything involving huge numbers however are more delicate. Depending on how you implement them, you could have subtle limb overflow issues, that occur so extremely rarely by chance that random test don't catch them. For those you're stuck with either proving that your code does not overflow, or reverting to simpler, slower, safer implementation techniques.
with regard to the art of cinema, purposefully and clearly communicating the story is an absolutely critical requirement. without coherent dialogue, you've released a million dollar screen saver.

for executives: this type of failure can crucify everything from box office earnings to streaming. every copy you send to an emmy voter will be shrugged off as dark-and-mumbly.
> That's just not borne out in looking at the many markets already functioning under various regulatory schemes for decades now.

If markets under all the regulatory schemes we have were actually "functioning", we would not have all the economic issues we have. For example, we would not have the supply chain issues that are currently making the news. We would not have had the crash of 2008, or the Great Depression for that matter. I could go on and on.

> there's no credible way to claim that there aren't any functioning markets these days.

I made no such claim. You're attacking a straw man.
Tenet was just unintelligible; we ended up just turning it off. It had nothing to do with masks (we couldn't understand the non-masked sections either). It was purely sound mixing and a bad call from Nolan.

I won't be seeing another Nolan film until he changes his mind on the importance of voice quality, as I like to enjoy movies and not strain to have any idea what is going on. His choices in sound quality and mixing completely breaks any sense of immersion for me...if they were outstanding plot-wise I would possibly struggle through. But without that sense of immersion, they're just not worth watching imho, as his films are all about the immersion factor.
Show HN: JavaScript correctness issue in Safari with if/else in the global scope
I encourage everyone eligible to get vaccinated, however COVID will never be gone.

https://www.medpagetoday.com/opinion/vinay-prasad/94646
While that's true, you or your company have to standardize on a base image to get benefit of shared image layers.

In my job, I rarely have an exact match on the base layer because I'll use images from Docker Hub. Although many of those images use the same small set of distros (Alpine, Debian, or Ubuntu), any given image is likely from a different base version of that distro, thus there is no common base image.

There may be differences in the base image even if you use the same tag since the same image may change over time. Thus if you pull debian:bullseye today, and then pull again tomorrow, you may have two different images.

Generally I don't bother trying to get a common base image and I'm happy enough just attempt to lower the overall size of my images.
Exactly what I was going to ask. They wrote the UI in javascript with obvious consequences. The day they rewrite it in a normal language they will see me again.
I like portrait mode, but a modern monitor is too tall when in portrait mode. I just want a couple 4:3 screens so I can rotate one (or both) into 3:4 ratio.
Sure dang, I apologize and will try to frame my comments in ideological-related threads in a more positive, lighthearted discussion-fostering light in the future. When things tend to appear one-sided I do tend to go harder in the other direction to compensate and that's on me so again I apologize, and thanks for bringing it to my attention rather than banning me. (I will say I think the only flaw in this site, besides the inherent flaws in an upvoting type system, is the heavy-handedness of those who have comment-flagging powers. I have seen far more inflammatory comments not be flagged in the past than a couple that I've had flagged in the recent past.)

When it comes to the upvote/reddit-style discussion sites, HN is definitely top-tier, and I've enjoyed coming here since around 2009 or so, so thank you for all you've done here to help foster that!
Last night, driving home through a not great part of Detroit at nearly 10:00pm, I saw a box truck with DDG advertising on all sides. I was amused by the dedication to offline advertising.
Time-Crystalline Published in Nature Observes a New Phase of Matter
I somehow knew, before even clicking the comment, that the only comment on this submission would be a political one.
The 24 hour minimum pricing model for these really sucks. My understanding is that this is a condition of Apple's license to Amazon to run macOS on these machines, and I can't work out why they'd do it.
> A massive shift happened when central banks started getting involved in direct purchases of various asset types and we started to see a major distortion happen in monetary policy that which has distorted the functioning of money itself.

Historically, Western democratic states owned a significant amount of assets as measured as a percent of national income - it was only in the period 1970-2008 that the value of total state-owned assets shrunk to near-zero (or even became negative in some cases). So the large increases in value of states' balance sheets (and corresponding impacts) is not at all unusual. That being said, you're correct to point out that Central Banks heading these trends is a little concerning, mostly because it basically represents democracy outsourcing these important decisions to unelected bureaucrats.
This strikes me as one of the pivotal responsibilities of a lead developer. It isn't just about pushing new features as fast as possible, but about ensuring the entire development stack is (as much as one can be) a pleasure to work on and in.

Your point about finding the right time to refactor is spot on. The answer isn't always "NO", but rather, there's something of an art and intuition to understanding if a huge refactor is really a net positive.

Lead developers should understand that failure to do this puts the business at risk, since hiring and maintaining competent developers is critical, and nobody is going to want to stick around to work on an outdated, unnecessarily complex system.
Naive question: are these literally closets full of Macs? Or giant m1 MP servers?
Dhall was inspired by Nix, and created by a longtime Nixer.

Also as someone who likes simple FP but is not some sophisticated typelevel programmer, Dhall looks really complicated and verbose. To me, the Nickel approach, where authors of libraries in the language (equivalent to things like nixpkgs.lib) can pepper their functions with type annotations, but users can use what looks and feels like a simple configuration language, seems like a better approach for the domain.

I can't imagine getting all of the PHP developers I support comfortable editing the equivalent of shell.nix in Dhall themselves. Nix files I can ask them to edit without taking up too much of their time or focus.
> Interesting question! When mankind will really need to calculate costs and try to get rid of such an entrenched "habits" as av-scanning (same as to crypto-mining nowadays), it could be too late to do something.

> Or take banks. I was amazed to see how much manual work is done in financial institutions. Skyscrapers with bank name on top of it filled with tens of thousands people. Everyone has computer, among other things burning electricity. Separately, datacenters. How does it compares to crypto? I doubt it's less, if sum up all banks.

You'd be likely wrong. Bitcoin now uses the same energy as the whole country of Argentina with 43 million people. For comparison Bank of America has 200 000 employees. Are there more than 200 banks of that size, maybe but I'm doubtful. Moreover Argentinas energy consumption includes vastly more energy intensive endeavours than banking (manufacturing, mining etc). from that estimate I would be very doubtful that the whole banking sector uses more energy than bitcoin mining. Moreover as others pointed out the banking sector serves many more people with many services that bitcoin can't provide.
Do they have access to the individual audio tracks for anything that they haven't produced themselves?
Thank you for the vote of confidence! Better than Google is our goal, glad you perceive it that way.
How does the number change when you kids?
Doesn't necessarily have to be that the domain is tied to specifically O365 like my work just that it is registered for non-personal use with Microsoft's cloud e.g. Azure AD. Or possibly still other factors unknown but yeah the main thing is it's blocked for a reason not because it was missing from a whitelist.
Looks great and I shall definitely try it.

I've always thought that Stitchfix were the most interesting ecommerce retail operation. It's a shame that none of their data science roles are available in London.
We outsourced to 5 countries and finally found the best location
> as fundamentally revolutionary as crypto.

This is a huge claim, and needs to have just as huge of a proof.

However, all cryptos can offer is poof (as in poof, and gone) than proof.
I don't understand how you came to that conclusion based on the articles you linked.

The first study finds that "The SAR [secondary attack rate] in household contacts exposed to the delta variant was 25% (95% CI 18–33) for fully vaccinated individuals compared with 38% (24–53) in unvaccinated individuals" and "Fully vaccinated individuals with delta variant infection had a faster (posterior probability >0·84) mean rate of viral load decline (0·95 log10 copies per mL per day) than did unvaccinated individuals with pre-alpha (0·69), alpha (0·82), or delta (0·79) variant infections." (The study did not determine a meaningful impact on peak viral load and on the SAR in households when the index case was vaccinated.)

The second link is a letter that reiterates the fact that vaccinated index cases are just as likely to infect other household members and concludes with "It appears to be grossly negligent to ignore the vaccinated population as a possible and relevant source of transmission when deciding about public health control measures", which makes sense, but does not mean spread

When you say "which is evident just by looking around what's going on everywhere", it's important to point out that we're now dealing with a variant that is significantly more transmissible than previous ones, so we can't compare the numbers like-for-like.
U-Shaped Deterrence
You might call this a search engine based on the principle of Information Neutrality.

“Information Neutrality is the principle to treat all information provided (by a service) equally. The information provided, after being processed by an information-neutral service, is the same for every user requesting it, independent of the user’s attributes, including, e.g., origin, history or personal preferences and independent of the financial or influential interest of the service provider, as well as independent of the timeliness of information."

I wrote about this in relation to search [0]. We need to be allowed more freedom to choose search engines and services. One (default or selected) choice for search is unhealthy. We shouldn't have to choose between Google or Bing; DuckDuckGo or Startpage; Brave or Ecosia; Mojeek or Gigablast ..... Personally I use all 8 of these and more, as also explained [0].

[0] https://blog.mojeek.com/2021/09/multiple-choice-in-search.ht...
I suppose another purpose is that they are a somewhat wasteful way to tip artists or (whoever).

Kind of like getting your name written on a list of sponsors. Maybe.
There’s a huge difference between “I need to reboot to fix some wonky thing” and “all my data gets deleted every time there’s a Windows update”. People would very much notice the latter as being a problem.
So basically lockdown for all, because restricting the rights of everybody is better than restricting the rights of some. Good luck convincing the courts that that's the minimal necessary restriction.
I got so used to subtitles (learning English + anime). That I can put them in the background when I focus on the movie and quickly check them in case I did not understand something. Kinda like when you blur out the surrounding controls when watching YouTube.
I don’t think Apple would make anything like that so I’d assume racks of Mac Minis.
I agree with parent, most non-technical people don't want to be system admin for their OS, so MS taking over is not really a bad deal. All my computers are IT managed and I have never had any update issues, so maybe there is some special sauce there via group policy. I have instructed them to section off my work PCs so they never update unless I tell them to, and it works. I get months and months of uptime till I take the reboot hit and do the updates.
> What are examples of good, helpful regulations

There's some fairly obvious ones: we had a problem where a chemical we were using in many products (CFCs) was destroying a critical part of our atmosphere – ozone. CFCs were cheap, so in free market competition, companies were optimizing for short term success with the unaccounted for externality of increasing skin cancer rates in humans and other animals. Regulation is brought in to patch that externality – successfully helping the world transition to alternative technologies

You can see regulations as part free market capitalism, you just have to zoom out from individual corporations and consider the system patching out local minima with regulations to help achieve global minima.

I mean there's a sliding scaling from sophisticated regulations like CFCs and basic ones like laws against theft (despite it being cheaper to simply steal products from other people). I'm not sure you'd call laws against theft a regulation but it's in the same spirit as the CFCs example

Of course, regulations without careful thought and planning don't lead to optimization either – but the point is, from experience we've learned systems with 0 global regulations tend to have issues and enter in to local minima – so the trick is working out the right level and quality of regulation
Sounds like something in EU to me.