skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A direct shot across the bow of Microsoft. Also against Epic Games and Unity if Valve wants to prevent them from growing into distribution platforms of their own.

This won't deter Amazon, Google, and Nvidia, who are all attempting to run game engines in the cloud. Their strategy is to remove consoles and PCs entirely and have you subscribe to streamed content forever. Latency and partnerships are still the biggest issues for them.

This is shaping up to be the next major battle of the tech wars.
Unfortunately, the U.S. gov has gone in the direction of using a shady private company ID.me [0] to provide this service. Starting 2022, the IRS is using ID.me to authenticate login to the irs.gov website. Same with California DMV. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ID.me.

Millions of American citizen will be forced to provide their info to this private company.
Authentication involves you providing your cell phone number, then uploading a photograph of your drivers license or passport with that phone and then allowing ID.me to scan your face using the same phone camera.

You may think if the IRS and DMV are using this company it must be a serious identity service vetted by homeland security and what not. I did some digging around.

ID.me has a shopping site where you can shop for deals on sunglasses, sneakers and food kits [1] https://shop.id.me/. They use .me which is the top-level domain for Montenegro.

There is one hackernews thread about this company filled with clearly fake reviews made by accounts created the day the post appeared [2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13831921

What could go wrong ?
It already came and half went.

It was represented by Donald Trump, the rise of the right in Europe and the alignment of Russia and China for short term push back on the west.

DT would never have been elected if _any_ of the architects of the GFC had gone to jail. Imho that was Obama’s biggest mistake. Bailouts could be justifiable and understood by the population, no one going to jail was a betrayal.

It caused a tipping point in the erosion of trust in the established political class and in the American democracy.

The vitriol directed against Hilary was a symptom of that distrust
And not a minute too soon. Even though the concept of "memes" existed in the 90s, the internet hadn't hit the mainstream as a way for dumb kids to take their dumb little in-jokes online. The meme of the '00s and since is just the same as what teenagers used to do in the '90s, pre-internet: Take some stupid joke or play on words, repeat it forever and make it a wink-wink thing. Like, "got a wilson" for having a woody. Or "Orobljew" if you turn a marlboro pack upside down. The age of meme culture online brought this extremely infantile 7th grade humor from junior high locker rooms into the mainstream. That's literally all it still is. Anyone who'd had a healthy childhood before the internet would recognize it as such.
In which case the visualisation will adjust and show this fact.

E.g. passing an unbounded range will jus show some info about the past iterations.
Does anybody here know dataframe systems that are able to handle file sizes bigger than the available RAM? Is polars able to handle this? I am only aware of disk.frame (diskframe.com), but don't know how well it performs.
I agree the report was a quick and dirty one that didn't have anything close to a real studies data to jump to any conclusion but the headline feels misleading too because it implies mask do not work, which is also not the case.

What we should be doing is providing school age kids with good fitting N95 grade masks. That's where the real shame lies in our response to this. Especially two years into it.
Show HN: Coast – Photo streams for design & engineering teams
Not to under-report German atrocities during the war, but Katyn was a Soviet atrocity [1]. As a side note, at the 70th anniversary in 2010, large parts of the polish political establishment died on their way to the ceremony at the site of the massacre [2].

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

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smolensk_air_disaster
Salary increase rate with matching that of inflation is not a good practice, for anyone. Companies should discuss raises on a case by case basis once a year. That gives more realistic edge to both part of the equation.
I, for one, could care less about 2-3% increase (kinda sweet spot for the inflation rate) in my salary. If I think I’m worth more I’m probably thinking about 25-30%more at the minimum.
Quantum physics requires imaginary numbers to explain reality
Just start to feel bad all the time to compensate for this bias, easy!
Unfortunately this issue made them not have a demo ready by the anticipated date, so the good feeling didn't really prevail.
What's important is not Ukraine itself but that global monetary system is restructuring and action in Ukraine only serves the purpose of emergency to renounce someones obligations. Russia doesn't want that. Russia doesn't need another Afghanistan war which was the last nail in the USSR's coffin.

NATO is over as US is leaving it. I assure you Biden has far more serious issues at home like ~25% PPI (not the end product official number, but for the whole chain) which has to be somehow solved before May for him to look good during the elections in November. Also, he has to do something with military forces at home.

I mean he doesn't give a single shit about Ukraine. The US don't need Ukraine anymore as a weapon against Russia and what will happen has already been more or less settled among the parties presented by Putin, Biden, Modi and Xi.

Now Ukraine absolutely can't exist as an independent state even purely economically. They used to have really great start conditions 30 years ago but they fucked it up really badly. But even if they still had that they'd simply not have enough markets to sell their stuff. EU will obviously not support them. Also there are actually very different parts of Ukraine. Russia doesn't need in any way toxic Galicia where anti-Russian movement has been growing for ages (literally). Having such people for Russia would be a great PITA. On the other hand LNR and DNR are Russian, for instance.

Now taking all that into account just stop talking about Ukraine and find something that really matters.
That was a very cool interactive article!
Safari still defaults to something other than utf8.
> Taking screenshots of desktops at random intervals? Could be a huge liability if you capture some confidential information and the screenshots go into an unmanaged data dump.

I'd just have a fully naked picture of myself in the corner of my screen at all times :D
AKA "I am growing up and getting more out of touch with what's in". Happens to all of us buddy.
How does your local hosted setup move value/money in a way that others trust it?
In fact health care is an example where the majority favors a government (or primarily government) paid solution [1], but it does seem unlikely to ever be implemented.

Climate change is another issue which actually has majority support in the US, but action is very little [2,3].

In fact I believe the perception of it being contentious issues is largely due to a relatively small minority which has a disproportionate influence on policy (and likely corporate lobbying will have influence as well). This is actually on e of the issues that alternative voting schemes want to address, diminishing the influence of a minority which has very strong/extreme views.

[1] https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2020/09/29/increasing-...
[2] https://www.pewresearch.org/science/2020/06/23/two-thirds-of...
[3] https://www.pewresearch.org/science/2019/11/25/u-s-public-vi...
Foursquare still exists amazingly and is pretty good.
Good stuff, thank you!
I think what was taken from these generations compares to humanities darkest chapters. Fact remains that government cannot really control how people conceive children and it should not. Education can support people making individual choices.
Tax brackets in the US are indexed to inflation. They weren't always, but that was changed in the 80's I think?
Abraham Lincoln's Axe
Why do you assume people posting there have any agenda? Heck why should everything on the internet have an agenda or end goal? That subreddit is a large-scale collection of "I told you so" Facebook posts, as you said, and that's it. It isn't some vaccination campaign. People can take whatever they want out of it. Darwin awards have been a thing for a long time and are part of internet culture.

The material there isn't what's wrong with the internet, rather all the calls for "xyz should be shut down" for anything slightly offensive to someone's sensibilities are the problem. If you don't like it, close the browser window and move on with your life.
I second this. Create a VM for work or a VM per client. It makes it much easier to say “I don’t have any of your intellectual property” at the end of your contract when you can delete the whole VM.
> software developers who have traditionally always relied on microsoft tech stack will have to look around at alternatives.

Not necessarily. There will be Windows Subsystem for Linux, and Xamarin/MAUI proves that multiple targets with a .net codebase are very possible (desktop win/mac, ios, android). Xamarin/Maui and .net are all OSS.

A MS supported target for linux via Maui is being discussed; and one of the MAUI developers already has a repo to support linux as a target that may possibly become an official branch. https://github.com/jsuarezruiz/maui-linux

There is also the .net Community. Uno Platform (FOSS) & Avalonia (FOSS) are both .net based and target Linux and much more. The code is similar to programming for Xamarin/Maui, you can share most of the core code of your app between these targets.

For Gaming: Unity and Monogame are OSS, Unity and Unity's editor is on Linux. MonoGame (OSS) (stardew valley) targets linux. Stride (3rd party engine) is also .net and targets Linux. Cryengine is also usable from .net.

And last but not least: Godot can officially be programmed using .net.

I am not worried as a "windows software developer" that I would be needing to switch stacks to target Linux. I can already make games or software target Linux from .net.

- edited, clarity
Why choose? Windows 11 with WSL2 will get you both, giving you enough time to migrate any pitfalls.
"the latest iOS update introduced a bug that causes the input box to disappear completely on an iMessage thread"

That defect has been around for years.
The irony is that the US electoral system is anything but a "one person, one vote" system. A vote in California is very different to a vote in Utah for example.
Hardly ever. If I start a project I don’t end up having time to finish or maintain it which isn’t fair to the team.

If I write something it’s for my own use. And I like to write things that test Cloudflare. Доверяй, но проверяй.
Declassified documents showed that Katyn was perpetrated by the NKVD and blamed on the Germans. The Russian government even passed a resolution condemning Stalin for Katyn.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-11845315

http://www.katyn-books.ru/library/katinskiy-sindrom.html
I am not a traditional software developer, which means there is a ton of other stuff I have to do during my work hours (too much acrually), so I cannot observe that in myself.

However the nature of programming is bursty for me. That means I cannot program well all the time, but when there is such a phase I can get a lot done in short periods.
Show HN: Engula – A serverless storage engine in Rust for building databases
Creating the same app in 4 different frameworks
Yes, and this threw us off because we thought we weren't communicating the encoding correctly with Safari. A day later we finally realized that's not the issue.
A proxy that serves traffic. No, it was way more complicated than “buggy rollout”.
Fortification, Part IV: French Guns and Italian Lines
This would be the perfect project for a simple Arduino board connected to USB pretending to be a mouse and/or keyboard. Add an on/off switch and you can step away any time you want.

The best choice would be to have it open Notepad and type "All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy" over and over again.
You may already be a listener, but I've found great joy in listening to Mike Duncan's Revolutions[1]. It makes it easier to pick out what structures, people, and events today might make their way into history books(or podcasts of the future) one hundred years from now should things go pear-shaped.

There are many points to be made, but one that tends to go less appreciated is that in the period leading up to the dramatic revolutionary events there isn't a constant increase in tension. There are flare ups of course, but they punctuate years of relative peace. Just because tensions die down for a bit does not mean things are getting fixed. Quite the opposite, it lulls people into complacency. That is, until the systemic deficiencies paired with personalities unable to address them collide and everything falls apart.

1. https://thehistoryofrome.typepad.com/revolutions_podcast/
Miners don't host the front ends. Miners run whatever contract code is called by anyone who sends a signed transaction.
Hacker news, Reddit, blind, chat with my friend, cook, etc
> This is also a very rare side effect of the J&J vaccine

Not just J&J [1]

>SINGAPORE - There are 10 suspected cases of cerebral venous thrombosis (CVT), or blood clot in the brain, among those who have received the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines for Covid-19 in Singapore.

[1] https://www.straitstimes.com/singapore/10-suspected-cases-of...
From my perspective, memes got pretty self-deprecating and ironic from around 2017. As the author states, this means that such memes are only funny when one gets the context, but this is almost okay when one creates memes for an in-group. Thus the context dependence of memeing is not unlike other forms of in-jokes; but I don't know if other sorts of in-jokes become as ironic on a similar timescale.
I feel you. I'm on the same boat except in a situation that just spending more time doesn't increase my productivity.

I'm working to maintain a huge system that is kept working and the company I am employed depends on it.

It's a mess. You know, it's written in an obscure language not much people knows about so we have no hope of hiring a person who know the language beforehand, almost all original developers were left the company, documents are scarce, and mostly outdated, nobody understand the entire picture of the system as a whole.

I am maintaining it by fixing bugs. Most times, we don't know how to reproduce the bugs and there's nobody in the company who understand the portion of the code responsible for the bugs. Because of the obscure programming language, debugging environment is horrible. The best method is essentially equivalent of printf debug.

So I ended up spending months on futile attempts to find out the cause of bugs. It's a bullshit job. Spending more time doesn't help finding the cause of bugs. Well, I'm constantly thinking about bugs and the way to reproduce it I haven't tried yet so I'm still working on it, but this type of thinking cannot be measured and evaluate.
Late last century inflation and then wages keeping up with that inflation enabled a generation of folks to pay off their first mortgages quite quickly.
The informal writing and casual use of “techbro” to describe a marketing account twitter post are huge red flags, seems like garbage content to me. A long way to say “another company on the blockchain bandwagon”.
You either stream them, or use bigger VMs.
Steve Jobs had an opinion on this with which I agree:

> The greatest people are self-managing -- they don't need to be managed. Once they know what to do, they'll go figure out how to do it. What they need is a common vision. And that's what leadership is: having a vision; being able to articulate that so the people around you can understand it; and getting a consensus on a common vision.
A work stoppage is more realistic than direct combat. What are they going to do? Force us to work?

For example, with the way supply chains are right now, how much leverage do transportation/logistics workers have to force a change?
Ask them to provide a temp laptop for you.
Besides that episode, he made two others about the Opioid Crisis / Purdue Pharma / Sacklers, 3 in total since 2016:

2016: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5pdPrQFjo2o

2019: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-qCKR6wy94U

2021: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uaCaIhfETsM

In addition there's some sites made by them as well (referred to in the video):

https://sacklergallery.com/ (with Bryan Cranston, Michael Keaton, Richard Kind, Michael K Williams)

https://judgeforyourselves.com/
The IBM PC was outdated the day it was released. It merely rode on the IBM name, and we've all been saddled with a shitty platform for decades as a result.
> It seems that Amazon somehow would not even allow me to delete my old and expired credit card from my account.

Strange. Amazon India allows deleting the stored card details.
The guy panhandling two streets away from me is not far from 'the top 20% of earners across the Earth'.

I can't say his situation is entirely enviable, and I would not suggest using that statistic to tell him that he ought to be happy with his lot in life.
There's not much central planning going on. For example, the smart contract standards for NFTs came out of existing smart contracts; they standardized a lot of already-existing practices like creating a `transferFrom` function. Emergent standards like that exist to tamp down on contracts creating functions with slightly different function names, behaviors, etc.
Good. One of those times when self serving is good for everyone. Ensuring we don't need MS is always a good thing
I designed and launched the Official Scrabble Keyboard (2018)
'The shark still looks fake.'
Yes, UPI needs a phone number linked to your bank account.
I know, thanks.

My point is precisely that: if you have to handle large quantity of state (e.g.: travel agency handling diverse item bookings to sell as a complete holiday packages - note that this includes having conflicts on inventory, like "cruise cabin categories" or "hotel rooms") microservices add latency by "replacing function calls with RPC", and gain you... an unspecified advantage in terms of... deployment? The possibility to have hundreds of developers working on the system in parallel?

I have always worked on medium-size monoliths during most of my career, and "ah, if we had 137 developers all working on this everything would be magically solved, but alas, we have a monolith" was a sentence I uttered (or heard) exactly 0 times so far.
If an audiophile-oriented network switch makes that much of a difference in the context of an audiophile network player, it can be suspected that the design of the player itself suffers from some significant shortcomings on its own, whether from a buffering perspective, immunity to transmitted or radiated noise, etc.
The answer to "Am I getting older?" is always yes.

The answer to "Am I just getting older?" is not always yes. The "just" often implies complete or nearly complete explanatory causality in English.
Why are you still using Internet Explorer® 6 and Safari?
Great, I'd also like if the merchants were forced to not message via WhatsApp; From couriers to securities every business in India expects that you have WhatsApp and are willing to communicate with them through it.
Paywall and tons of ads? Thanks no
It's not normal. Ask them if they and Drata are willing to be on the hook for all your potential bank breach in the future, as they are key-logging your online banking access. Ask them if they can put up a surety bond or insurance for any of your financial loss due to breach of privacy.
> Also anarchists never claimed ownership was theft, they claimed that owning something you're not using is theft.

I did a literal translation of the German "Eigentum ist Diebstahl" which literally translates to "ownership is theft". Of course anarchists meant that the theft is that you deprive others of the chance to make use of tools, objects etc. that could be put to use better collectively as you mentioned.
Just get the laptop, use it for work only. This is the best way forward.

They are looking for their interests (minimize security breaches) and that's a perfectly understandable position and solution to the problem. In this day and age the risk from a breach is much larger than in the past.

Since they are willing to provide the necessary equipment for that then there is no issue from your end.
nah this are just precursors of the real thing, whatever it will be.

People are sick of status quo. That's why more and more are willing to try anything that will shake things up.
This is, unfortunately, for a lot of OSs not true. Windows and Android for example combine security patches with normal updates which introduce new bugs.
Except when you're viewing on underpowered device and everything becomes choppy. I hope HTMX gets wider adoption, it seems to be reasonable compromise between SPA and backend rendering.
I don't think accepting that someone is going to leave unless I match an offer is the same as me firing them.
It's really the other way around, our current systems (to different degrees) give extreme positions disproportionate influence. Just look at the republican party in the US, which has moved considerably to the extreme right over the last 20 years due to the influence of extreme single issue minorities (tea party/fundamentalist christian).
Surely a naive question, but is there a reason it isn’t standard practice to index salaries on inflation? That would make sense to me. But I know very little about the topic.
Given that you can deploy smart contracts as binaries (without source) and you can design the contracts to be upgradeable if needed, I don’t see any advantages of this system. Sure, the contract can be immutable but the only advantage is for the archivist who now has a permanent record of the software history. Other than a public change log, this doesn’t have much utility.
Somewhat tangentially: I note that most managers seem to equate hours at the keyboard with productivity. I have heard of some employees being monitored via the notebook's video camera.

Is it so difficult to define deliverables and pay for completed and tested work?
The business value of any given function point is the same whether it took 100 hours to develop or 10 hours. Of course, more productive programmers would benefit under such an arrangement.

Oh wait ... the problem is that requirements specifications are never clear nor complete enough and there aren't any tests to confirm correctness of the implementation.
> Sequelize is a multi generational mess. It's a huge time waster.

Could you elaborate on that ?

I personally like the functional aspect of sequelize.
Google HR answered this question in a company-wide forum.

It is mostly the market (e.g. the other company pay high, so we do too). The living cost doesn't really matter.

I appreciate the honesty though.
>For example AMD and NVDA revenue up 50%+, income 100%+
Eventually these high margins will attract competitors and bring down the margins

For those examples that is false hope. You can't just spring up a new competitor in the GPU filed out of thin air and expect it to work; Nvidia and AMD duopolies are so far ahead into the game experience wise that no startup could ever catch up no matter how much money you throw at it (even AMD is having a hard time keeping up with Nvidia and they've been at it for 30 years).

Not to mention the insane patent minefield that protects them from competition. Even Intel, a trilion dollar company with experience, patents and fabs can't catch up with the other two.