skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So you can

- Trade blockchain tokens for other blockchain tokens. Or trade blockchain tokens for tokens that claim (with dubious, temporary and totally non-cryptographic evidence) to be backed by something else.

- Lend and borrow blockchain tokens.

- Try to launder your blockchain tokens. They have to be really dirty for it to be worth it, since obscuring how you got hold of something valuable is already a crime in itself.

- Give your blockchain tokens to blockchain casino owners.
> Reason 2: AWS doesn't sell based on Dev Ex

Hard disagree here. The reason why AWS can get away with shoddy tooling is that the competition is orders of magnitude worse. Azure's web UI is an unmitigated desaster, and while I never used GCE I can say I won't ever use it for the simple fear of some "AI" running amok and killing off my Google account - too many horror stories here on HN for my taste.
I assume you assume you know better?
I really hope this is based on a per-page user-given permission, same as access to audio/video capturing...

Because if it isn't, any piece of adware code that loads onto the phone, would be able to run the tiny rotational-unbalance based mechanism within the phone for however long and in whatever fashion it sees fit.

As if phone batteries didn't run down fast enough already...
B&H - general electronics, tax-free

Headphones.com - headphones, tax-free

Drop.com - general hobbyist goods

DigiKey/Mouser - miscellaneous parts

Your local bougie salon - high-quality body products (bodywash, hairspray, etc)

Bed Bath and Beyond - bedding and bath products

Design within Reach - furniture

Ubiquiti - wireless APs, PoE switches, and the nicest Ethernet cables I've ever used

ProtectLi - firewalls

Crowdsupply - miscellaneous gadgets for supernerds

--

Best way to find a good quality product is to go to the hobbyist subreddit/community for said product and see what vendor people use. Also, r/BuyItForLife.
The C rewrite was released in libtree 3.0.0
Introduction to WebAssembly Components
It is when it scales well enough. Most voting system get around it by ensuring you need to bribe an impractical number of voters.
I work as an employee for a small company that wanted to get ISO-whatever certified, but as the only one in the company I had a BYOD agreement (reasonable fee for bringing my own laptop). The people that helped with the certification process came with some virus scanning plus remote access for maintenance plus login protection solution that everyone must install, or else our precious data would be at risk (in terms of precious metal, the data would be lead). Anyway, they got me a new MacBook Pro.

Then they came with the same shit for our phones, but since everyone plainly refused, they found another solution for that. Because there always is one. But this was nipped in the bud at the start. Had people accepted it, there would be no going back, because there never is going back.
> Either we embrace inflation and wages rise

But then, probably, so would assets (stocks and real estate). I don't see an easy way out of this mess...
> How about the ability to drive around with GPS?

Maps, and the ability to read them.

> Or stay easily in touch with family living far away?

Phones, you know good old land lines

> Taking photos of your baby and having it stored on the cloud for free?

Why do I need physical photos stored in the cloud?

> The ability to learn almost anything for free?

Have ya heard of libraries?

Does technology make these more convenient? Absolutely. Does it make them materially better? Not in my opinion.
There are lots of illnesses that cause pain for which we have no fix, just palliative care. Not everybody is a fat guy with sore knees.
Do what you want to do, rather than what you "need" to do, and you won't think about this stuff.

I'm not the world #1 badminton champion. So?
I've been building synths lately and the hardest part is getting them in tune, and to have multi-octave tracking. It's still hard these days, amazing that they were able to get it working without all the tooling and collective knowledge we have now.
Languages Speedrun #26: Raku
I would recognize it and LOVE it. But I'm 46 so there is that. :)
We have 60 apps on the AppStore. They go through the same rules that the 1.7M do
The fact that there are a lot of standard behaviours (GenServer, Supervisor, Agent, e.t.c) and conventions followed makes this not such a big issue for me. Dialyzer is also a great tool which catches a lot of errors for me.
Why would anyone ban VMs? What difference does it make?
If you can afford to drop that client, drop them.

If you don’t want to, make the pain to them apparent as a line item. Tell them complying with this is increasing your costs (by the need to protect other clients’ information) and that your rate will increase by <whatever amount makes this still appealing>.

Make them see the costs of their decisions. We had timesheets instituted for a prior company. I had all my devs add an explicit time for entering timesheet data under a dedicated project code. 15 minutes a week for every dev plus 30 minutes for every lead all billed to one project adds up pretty quickly. "Why are we spending 1% of our time on filling out timesheets?!" "That is an excellent question."
I think this is the correct advice, but keep in mind that procuring the laptop might be a difficult thing for them to do bureaucratically. On the other hand, you renting a laptop and charging them for it, would be pretty simple, presumably your contract covers expenses and all you'd need is an OK from the manager.

I worked for a big company that had various spyware thingies installed on all the company laptops, but they let you use your personal mobile devices for work (including iPad which was pretty nice) -- and wanted you to install their preferred spyware on it. I didn't do that but I expected they would eventually tell me to do it or stop using my personal iPad.

It seems like now that it's technically feasible, big corporate IT managers want their spyware of choice running everywhere. Someday you will have an arm full of Apple Watches, one for each client. You should embrace this future and price it in.
If they had disjoint interest in the issues, they would do the same without collusion.
Announcing Engula 0.2
via Hainbach, some arguments for why it might be fake: https://twitter.com/Hainbach101/status/1471798144698658821 (mentioned domain doesnt exist, knobs look 3d-printed, ...)
OK.. You might as well be a solipsist.

Why do we even have the discussion, then? If you don't want to participate in society, just don't. It's not clear to me why I would support you being an individualist (and adopt any of your political positions), when (according to your philosophy) I get nothing back in turn.
Key excerpt regarding chip making in Germany:

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The region has been burnt by politicians’ fading interest before. While Taiwan was shoring up the semiconductor sector with nine-figure subsidies at the turn of the century, European support for the capital intensive industry remained modest.

As recently as 2009, Dresden-based memory chipmaker Qimonda — one of the world’s largest — filed for bankruptcy after struggling to compete with Asian rivals despite appeals to the European Commission for support.

“Qimonda wasn’t saved, [carmaker] Opel was saved,” said Frank Bösenberg, managing director of Silicon Saxony’s representative body, which lobbies on behalf of 370 institutions. “Whose belts are standing still right now due to the lack of semiconductors?” he said, referring to Opel’s production lines.
That sucks to hear as a white male but I still put the responsibility on myself. I should be so good at my job that they don't care that I'm a white male.
And why oh why does the Microsoft Xbox Elite 2 controller (which is not cheap!) can't keep a bluetooth connection open with a Windows computer to save its life, but connects flawlessly to the "Xbox wireless connector" usb dongle?

Here's an idea: take that wireless controller thingy, the logitech thingy that talks to the keyboard and mouse, and the jabra one that moves audio between a headset and base, put them all inside the computer instead of in dongles, call it "greentooth" and charge people whatever you want for it.
The Hyperbolic Geometry of DMT Experiences (2016)
Remembering the Remarkable Queens Who Ruled Ancient Nubia
It's really cost plus a chance they'll get away with it (or the team/mgr hiring will have moved on by the time it's found out).

If it were cost but they were guaranteed to get caught they wouldn't do it.
The story is still alive on The Register:

https://search.theregister.com/?q=bofh
I suspect "middle ground" had a race to the bottom on price. I'm thinking for example of Sears "Craftsman" brand. Now that there are all these other big-box stores like Blowe's, Home Despot, they each have to have their own "house brand" that should have been the "middle ground" as well but, as I see it, have moved to lower and lower priced Chinese products.

I think what we're seeing is a nice metaphor for manufacturing in the 1st world in general.
Under EU law that would potentially make you an employee rather then a contractor, as a major part of the destruction is control and time management and the more the Company wants to manage your equipment and time the more the balance swings towards employee status.

This is also part of the reason why BYOD is going nowhere as the second the company wants to audit/control setting it's no longer "Your Own Device".
I think instead of used or unused blocks, something to indicate how much per block were used would help.
I have the same idea. It’s easy to join all these efforts spanning years together in your mind after reading some of the internet. You’re then overwhelmed how much is there to achieve to get better than this brilliant-average. The fact is, it is still many years of hard work of many independent or parallel roles. It’s not an instant average, it’s a sum over time. If you’re a wide pro, it would be hell of a job getting “up there”. If you’re a sharp pro, it would be very hard to widen. You don’t have to be below average to feel this pressure, we in tech are just like these girls scrolling instagram, in a sense.
Religion helps to trust and have faith and live a meaningful live.
great execution all around.
also love the intro video ;-)
BOFH is probably the best comical criticism of corporate "culture", with "Dilbert" as a close second.
> rational voters

That's a rather ridiculous assumption, isn't it? I still remember the 3rd year psychology university student, who asked: "What's a square root?"
Apache Spark.
For most categories and products, if they just disallowed the seller from changing the GTIN, and showed the GTIN descriptive wording in the listing, this would be solved.
I'm caught in a (philosophical?) dillemna though: I don't want the right to rise to power because I fear for the future of freedom, but I would be repressing freedom by ostracising/excluding the right from electoral eligibility. Is technocracy the answer? Have some kind of determinable objective truth rule? How do we mitigate for failure to identify the objective truth in that case?

.. and on continues the shower thought.

Overall I'm worried, though. There are many hallmarks about the current political climate that have been present in the not-that-long-before any major conflict in history. I really, honestly, am worried there will be some large conflict in our lifetime.
I think I'd be too scared to approach you :-)
That'll also legit lead to customers leaving Windows. Just last week I had to assign multiple IP addresses to a same interface, which is totally legit operation, and I firmly believe it will be too much to ask highly skilled UX designers to also be aware of every such minute details as that an interface can have multiple IPs or that PostScript is an Adobe trademark across the whole scope of Windows Control Panel.
Despite constantly reading on this website that R is bad or wrong, I somehow manage to get all of my data work done quicker and with fewer headaches than excel, sas, or Python.
Thanks to the magic of modus tollens, absence of evidence can indeed be evidence of absence. "A 100kt nuclear bomb just went off in your front yard!" Me, looking out the window, nope. It depends, of course, on the argument being made. It could be true in some cases.

As cliches go this one is better than "you can't prove a negative"--not true. At least the "evidence of absence" one makes you think about causality and the nature of evidence.
Plus he is a multi-millionaire.
Sure, you spend as long as you like figuring out how best to achieve the slight advantage, meanwhile I shoot you in the head.

Analysis paralysis, figuring out what to do costs time and time is expensive so you should avoid this unless you've got a good reason to expect it actually matters and you believe you can actually do it correctly.
Houses are supply constrained not because they're expensive to build (there technology helped) but because it's incredibly difficult to be allowed to build, due to... you guessed it - the countless rules and regulations.

There is a deficit of qualified nurses not only because it takes time and money to train one but also because you are not legally allowed to hire one even if you find it, without the necessary papers and certifications. More regulations!

So even if I agree with you - the human labor cost has increased and things dependent on it have become more expensive, the supply is artificially constrained by regulations as well.

Imagine if it was illegal to hire programmers without a certification from a government approved body. Would we still enjoy this explosion of incredibly cheap software in everything?
This video presents a good explanation of how they work: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zzGnNkOxdpI
> not mainstream everywhere

FR: Front national
IT: lega Nord
DL: AFD
ES: Vox

They're taking over Europe because neoliberals are full of shit, and the left wing has their hands tied.

Normal people have nowhere else to go.
> If you can automate the observation, you can automate your observance of the observation. The symmetry is great.

Nice quote.
Rather than charging per hour start charging per day. Your client will get the output of a day's worth of work that will include your necessary breaks. That should make it easier for you.
One possibility: the non-programmer is more open to designing a language that is more than just text.

Programming in plain text (in a monospace font) hasn't changed for decades. It doesn't look like it will change for the foreseeable future either. This isn't because plain text is inherently superior. We're still relying on clumsy, cryptic syntax determined by the limited characters available on a keyboard.

The simplicity of text is very appealing to developers. But arguably, it's modern IDEs that make dealing with plain text tolerable - without them, the simplicity of text would rapidly lose its shine. And modern IDEs are enormous in their complexity and millions of lines of code.

So new programming ideas may come from unexpected quarters. And maybe less likely from developers conditioned by existing languages and tools.
The title's a little misleading; this is all the old stuff, but anything after '03 is available on The Register: https://www.theregister.com/offbeat/bofh/
My guess: most potential targets believe that iPhones are most secure and Apple won't hand over their data. So being non-tech-savvy, "latest Apple hardware + latest iOS" is their best defense.
The issue is often that:

1. The vendor is not aware that this is a problem
2. As a result of point 1, the vendor does not have budget planned for this.
3. The reward for the investment does not make sense for most of the vendors.

About point 3: For the vendor, there is no tangible improvement in sales (in fact, some security measures raise the barrier for their customers to place an order). So why should they do it? In their experience, the budget is better spent on improving the customer experience, marketing, increasing stock, lowering prices, etc.

Point 3 is really tricky, especially in some cultures and countries. If there is no legal consequence for leaking customer data, why should they be spending money on preventing something that may or may not happen in the future?
Same here, I do that even when coding, helps me with processing stuff in real time.
There is likely a difference depending on the tool. My track saw is going to be Makita or similar, but my abrasive cutoff saw can be a Harbor Freight special.
Pfizer allocated doses for those countries (and more) at non-profit prices. Argentina pays $12 per dose[0]. The EU, who haggled a lot, and bought a lot more, is paying $15, and the US pays almost $20.

If Pfizer agreed to be held liable at any level, they'd be literally be agreeing to losing money.

These countries are free to pay the regular price other countries are, with the usual emergency levels of indemnity. I'm sure Pfizer won't mind.

What Argentina and Braz^H^H^H^H the other country want is to have the cake and eat it too: "you manufacture it, you bring it, you earn nothing, yet you're held accountable if things go wrong". Personally I wouldn't go in, not sure about you. This is actuarial 101.

[0] https://www.batimes.com.ar/news/argentina/argentina-has-paid...
As someone learning programming, should I try nim for my first compiled language, instead of C++? I know it's likely harder to find answers in the Internet, but at the same time it looks easier, coming from Python and JS.

If nim picks up pace in a few years and I already have a sense of it, it may be a good for prospects too.
From the python docs:

> No Index
> They are not needed. Not having them makes things easier. Convince me otherwise

Agree completely. first class indices in pandas just complicate everything by having a specially blessed column that can't be manipulated consistently. Secondary indices should be "just" an optimization, while primary indices are a constraint on the whole table (not a single column).

The library in general seem interesting. I'm not 100% sold on the syntax (as usual project is called select...), but it is not pandas which is already a huge plus.
You seem to have made up the example of obese knees with no prior knowledge of what actually causes opioid prescription as evidence that it “might” not have good foundations. You realize that’s backwards right? Throwing out a made up example with no idea if it’s representative is just distracting. This entire post would be better reduced to “what are the most common reasons for legitimate opioid prescription”
> too many young people feel they should get to start at the top.

I wouldn't call a dual income couple in their mid 30s paying >40% of take-home pay for a 2 bedroom flat "the top", but ok.

I guess my parents who started with a 3 bed family home on a single blue-collar income started at the fucking apex.
> Think of the metaverse as a more advanced slack+zoom, not as a Minecraft/Roblox alternative.

The next question is why? Followed by the heath issues problems. You’re supposed to look away from a screen every 10 mins for 10 seconds. How can I do that with the screen strapped to my face? And why we’re here, why would I go to my private space inside the metaverse to get away from people? Why not take the damn headset off? The whole idea is forced.
Very similar to GitHub Flow is trunk based development:

https://trunkbaseddevelopment.com/
Hi pid, thank you for the kind words. Agreed that's not our intention. You can signup self-serve at the moment and get access to the entire platform + free developer tier with our infrastructure. On your cloud is currently a manual on-boarding with our engineers, in the new year it will be also self-service.
Good.

For those that haven't watched them yet, there are 3 John Oliver segments on the subject that will back up the "Good." statement:

Opioids
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5pdPrQFjo2o

Opioids II
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-qCKR6wy94U

Opioids III (this one focuses 100% on the Sacklers)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uaCaIhfETsM
"Look if all companies are bad then everyone in the salaried class is living a miserable existence, which isn't true"

That's not how it works. I'd say 60-80% of the people at my company think it's a great place to work. In fact, we rate very highly on the Computer World survey every year. This is because the majority of the workers are given a good rating. If you are not given a good rating for political reasons, or you are held back from promotions for political reasons, that's where you will find the problem - in 10-20% of the people because that's who it has affected. There are people at work who I have shared my history with and they can't believe the company would do such things. The secrecy of performance management means the majority of people are happy because they don't see the negative side. Who cares if the company violates policies as long as they don't do it to you?

I have AWS certs. We don't get to use that knowledge on the job really. I won't get anything better due to the geographic restraints placed by my wife and the stiff competition for fully remote (I'm slow in code screens due to my language bouncing).
Eventually everything will disappear, so this is. It quite a valid counter argument. On the other hand, there is a real chance that these protocols have a shot on enabling preservation of data for a significant amount of time - literally hundreds of years, sensorship-free, which is kind of cool.
LaTeX

I love the output it gives, but the language is quite horrible.
> Reason 2: AWS doesn't sell based on Dev Ex

AWS's core is developer experience.

AWS is an API. Anybody who does not realize or can not exploit this fact this pays massive premiums for using it (probably a lot of businesses which should have no business using AWS directly).

The application tooling is extra. And as far as I can tell, AWS is the only major public cloud that has decent coverage by tools of any flavour against their API, and they have the most decent set of language SDKs available. I am not familiar with GCP but anything Azure puts on the table is a catastrophe when compared to the ease of using boto3 to get a certain flow working.

Admittedly, their console has some defects it ought not to have, but with some systems and software development knowledge, you can grok all of the tooling AWS releases pretty easily.

The biggest of my problems with AWS that besides their API, some of their managed services are just not on the quality level as their core services (ec2, s3, ...).
> Another approach you can try is to conform to their requirements on one machine, but do all your actual work on another.

That would create a layer of cynicism between me and my work. I don't have that today, and I would rather avoid it.
When I was an undergrad student in 2010 I worked part time as a contractor for the state of NY and my official title was “computer operator”. For the most my job was IT support
Devs still have control over where they work.
For an outsider it is difficult to imagine how big task it is to rebuild the control panel experience. It's not just the things Microsoft has created. There's plenty of 3rd party stuff that integrates to the control panel applets and brings its own UI elements there.
> that would pull the 2FA code from an Android emulator running on another machine running the 2FA app

Brilliant. Curious what software do you use to run Android emulator(qemu, bluestack)?
A man who accidentally started an assassin hiring website
That's focused on the problems of the first-past-the-post system, isn't it?
Do you really think Donald Knuth [1] and Leslie Lamport [2] are non-programmers?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Knuth

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leslie_Lamport