skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, but it's on a distributed blockchain. An immutable record of ownership and held in a wallet protected by a private key. So what does "shut it down" mean in that sense? They can go after the owner of the NFT, and the people who minted the Olive Gardens in the first place, but are they going to take down all the ETH nodes? Perhaps all the NFTs will have to be transferred to the ownership of Olive Garden, but that isn't shutting it down.
Perhaps that’s where quantum uncertainty reaches a threshold where you can’t make time based distinctions anymore.
You have two choices:

1 - Get a new job (at higher pay) in this hot market

2 - Wait for your remaining equity to vest / meet the acquisition's earn out milestone, then execute option 1.

It's simply a "two cultures" question (look up the book if you care). If you're a startup person, you'll hate big companies. (And good, effective big company people frequently flail when they join a startup). I'm not claiming one is better than they other (there are things one can do that the other cannot, and vice versa).

My gf is a big company person and she tried to get me to switch, but through interviewing it was clear to me that I wouldn't enjoy it, and often clear to the interviewers that I probably wouldn't work out, even when I'd previously done precisely what they were hiring for.
We all know that they charged the pc manufacturers and forced them to pay a license on computers regardless of what’s preinstalled
"locked in" suggests "locked in at original price"
A million 1k-wide rows is still just 1GB. You can go double that width and triple the rows, and you still comfortably fit in memory on a raspberry pi.

I don’t know about “big” or “small”, but the threshold for “done properly” has to be really low for that to become a bottleneck.
I run X actually, there is an Emacs package called EXWM that let's you treat any application window as an Emacs buffer. I need X for applications like Firefox, mpv, Wine, Inkscape, LibreOffice, QEMU, mupdf and RetroArch, and I need font rendering.
The blockchain acts as a central, trustless, clearing house for making sure you have not sold your same breadstick to 2 different people.

signed chains only work if they go through a trusted authority that reconciles them and provides it's own (authoritative) proof that the trade happened and you own it.
MYLR, just a few months back the wait wasn't as long as it is now
If a quantum computer gets good enough to crack common encryption algorithms, what are the consequences for decentralized storage? Could some hostile nation state just collect and store the data until such time they can decrypt it?
The meaningless exercise, by-and-large correctly identified by people who are not involved in NFT excusemaking, was the desperate clutch at the thing on the first blockchain. It is the attempt at relevance for a deeply compromised thing itself, not its content. So yeah. People might be talking past one another, and it's not the fault of folks who Just Don't Understand Crypto, Man that it's the case.

But at any rate, it isn't the "NFT culture," no matter how odious it is (and it is!), that I have a problem with. It is the thing itself and the desperate excusemaking so attached. It's "emotionally charged" because it is a scam whose externalities burn the planet on which we live. That should carry emotional charge. It is good to be revolted by nasty and selfish things.
Define "go over well."
You can get a lot of cheap, used SFP+ stuff on eBay and the likes. For short range (up to ~3m) you can go with DACs, which are 5-10€ a piece; for longer ranges, you can go to fiber, where you'll pay 20-30€ per cable. Ethernet cables are a bit cheaper, but you need high quality ones (cat6 shielded and up) and the receivers are a lot more expensive, plus they get hotter and use more power. Unless you get a really great deal on ethernet hardware or need backwards compatibility to 2.5/1 gbit, SFP+ will be a lot cheaper.
Omicron dominant in Denmark as daily infections reach new record
These are anonymous times. I suspect many auto manufacturers are having parts shortages.
Could be! I think mine is a V2. My guess is an overheating component somewhere.
Nope - The line can be quite faint and it leaves a decent amount of room for interpretation
Missing caps on the first letter of a sentence feels kinda odd also.
Here is the important part:

"Denmark logged a record 13,558 infections in the last 24 hours, but saw the number of COVID-19 patients in hospitals drop by 27 to 554. Daily hospital admissions and deaths are still below levels seen in December last year."
I agree with this as well, I hate how comedians perpetuate this invalidation when someone is trying to tell you their background and the comedian is like “so white, white and white, you mean ‘white’”

In my experience you can learn a lot about someone’s likely customs, dating expectations, traditions, religious upbringing just by knowing what kind of european they have in them.

The 1880s German immigrants to the US completely missed slavery and the Nazis so its tragic for some kid of that heritage to be grouped into the generic white guilt idea if they accidentally walked into a segregated space at Berkeley, for example. Its just not nuanced enough.
signalling doesn't even have to be expensive and so status focused as with luxury goods. If I get a freebie baseball cap from an event I went to and wear it, that's signalling, even if the cap is economically worthless. Also, it's not all about signalling: I might buy a tshirt from a concert I went to, even though it's pretty overpriced, and I could have a copy printed for less if I wanted to, and it would have the same signalling value. Likewise I could get all my TV and music and books and software from torrenting, but I don't. Finally, I could play magic the gathering or yu gi oh or pokemon with printouts of cards, but I don't...
Why use chains at all? Use Postgres. Digital ownership and potential for profit are the value propositions. Most users probably don't care about the security and decentralization.
Harvard professor found guilty of lying abt financial ties to Chinese university
Not sure how you'd get to objectivity, but there are tradeoffs. The M3 and MY have higher rear which provides more trunk and rear passenger space. I drive an M3 and usually keep the rear seats folded down to add a little more visibility out the back. Cameras and visualization compensate sufficiently in my view.

It's to me a minor negative in a long list of positives, and not a reason to avoid Tesla.
We'll have much bigger fish to fry than worrying about decentralized storage.
Kinda the same thing from 10.000 meters.
The Y's overall visibility is objectively better than my old sedan. It's also really hard to have that really aerodynamic shape and good rear visibility. The Y's visibility reminds me of a Prius in a lot of ways.

I've never thought once that the rear visibility was a problem on the freeway.
So is this a joke or a scam? There's no way to tell these days.
Exactly. When you're a $1T+ company, nothing "just takes two weeks" to implement. What if your tiny change has an unforeseen side effect that takes down a critical auth system resulting in a revenue loss of $10M/minute. Are you going to take responsibility? What are you going to write in that postmortem? What if your change infringes on someone's patent or causes some other regulatory compliance related issue and the company gets sued? Your $BIG_COMPANY is not putting this change request through ultra-scrutiny just to frustrate you.

First, the team needing to do the work has about 10X as much work waiting in their queue than they can possibly do given their staffing. So your request either has to be more important than the existing work, you need to get a VP to expedite it, or you need to wait. It's not like there's an engineer just sitting there picking his nose browsing Facebook waiting for work. And even if you just yeet them a patch, they will need to set aside engineering time to review that patch, so back of the queue it goes, too.

Second, that work needs to go through (sometimes multiple) code reviews, have unit and integration tests written, and be able to show those test passing more than once, it needs to get reviewed by legal so it doesn't expose us to legal liability, it needs to get reviewed by security so my 9 year old can't use it to get a root shell, it needs to get reviewed by privacy/data protection so we know it's not leaking some user's personal information, it needs to get a systems review so we know it won't disrupt other critical revenue-generating services. I mean, what are you expecting, just type the code in, run a few tests, any yolo it into production?? No way.
In retrospect, definitely. But a huge part of why Wi-Fi is so successful is the wide compatibility, so we're stuck with a design that is 20+ years old. Beacons also serve to do power saving wake-ups and various other things these days, and there's room to optimize them if the Wi-Fi alliance were stricter - some vendors are broadcasting their manufacturer and model (and sometimes serial number!) every 100ms as well as lots of other unnecessary information elements.
AWS injected bad code into customer run Java apps
AWS decided it was a good idea to push out a
"security" patch late on a Friday (Dec 17) without advance warning that monkey patched running customer owned Java code.

The patch is auto applied on Amazon Linux AMIs at boot time since it's marked as a critical update causing Java web apps to fail. This caused all our auto scaling processes to fail. Note that the code is injected even in customer re-bundled AMIs of Amazon Linux because it attaches itself as a hard dependency of the JDK and gets applied as a JDK upgrade if you opted into "critical" OS security updates.

In their recklessness to rush out this change thinking they know all the ways Java apps have been built over the last 30 years they've likely caused users to now opt out of their automatic security updates (https://aws.amazon.com/amazon-linux-ami/faqs/#:~:text=Q%3A%2...).

Their first and only announcement of this kind was done via https://alas.aws.amazon.com/announcements/2021-001.html (no email or anything) and fails to mention the critical fact that it gets applied to previously baked AMIs.

AWS has long left the customer to manage their own environment within AWS and this approach to security patching in a non standard way (monkey patching user written code) is a betrayal of that trust and policy.
Lol my favorite case of this was where an org could by regulation be paid no less than 30 days apart, but could not take more than 1 payment per month, and could not take a payment on Sundays or banking holidays. Solve for X.
I'm always amazed about how modern web sites will render different direction quotes, will render apostrophes as something other than ', yet they can't seem to get a carat (^) to work. What's the problem here? Is ieee.org unfamiliar with the carat? Or do they really refer to a "quadrillionth (10-15)" as negative five?

Sorry - I'm picking nits. But consider how many sites have examples of shell commands where the apostrophes and backticks are converted to something else, to where two dashes are converted to an emdash, and all I can think is how completely disconnected writers are from what appears on web sites.

Apologies for the tangent.
> There are real questions about what makes people want to change sex

But they aren't what drive either side of the trans rights debate...

> about the effects of immigration

...or the immigration debate...

> and about the effects of social spending.

...or most social spending debate.

In all of those cases, the differences are primarily over values, and the factual views often are overlapping between the sides and quite diverse within each side.

And where there are important fact disputes, often one (or both) sides rejects (often explicitly) empricism in favor of some other source of understanding on the issue, making fact debate fruitless. (It doesn't help you reach consensus that your opponent's position is grounded in a falsifiable fact claim if they view the fact belief as justified by divine revelation and not subject to empirical inquiry.)

Empirical inquiry into facts is good for resolving policy disputes between people who agree on the relevant value criteria and agree on empiricism as the correct epistemic framework for the fact inquiry, but, as it turns out, most important policy disputes are not between sides where that is the case. (Policy disputes within certain factions sometimes have this quality, but those between political—usually ideological—factions tend not to.)
Why use databases at all? Use a txt file. Digital ownership and potential for profit are the value propositions. Most users probably don't care about the security, decentralization or databases at all.
Consider Electron: grotesquely inefficient in terms of CPU usage, because it's optimized for minimizing developer time instead.

We aren't solving the same problems our forebears did. People weren't designing native apps with pencil and paper when somebody figured out how to bundle up the Chromium Embedded Framework, but they were burning tons of time duplicating effort on multiple native apps because OS platform vendors are manically determined to lock us in and stop us from writing portable code.
My two cousins, born 10 months apart, would disagree.
As much as I loved BeOS, it was no NeXT…it was a single user OS without the underpinnings Mach brought to the table.
beowolf cluster
Can you tell me more about what kind of road (in)consistency you’re describing? It’s fun for me to think of how to improve this strategy.

I am similarly opposed/nervous around machine learning, seems impossible to debug weird decisions the black box makes, I would prefer a traditional, deterministic computer vision approach.

Basically I want to segment incoming images into a grid and do a cosine similarity score between each cell and its neighbors one frame ago, to detect which direction and how quickly all the textures are moving. So I think it should be robust to whatever the road texture is, provided its not pitch black like wet asphalt.
I think that with sufficiently advanced technology, there would be immense understanding of nature resulting in elimination of any need to be in conflict with the nature because one would simply solve their needs by enveloping or integrating with nature instead of going against it.
What if a bunch of us fork the original blockchain and stop caring about the original blockchain? What stops it?

My point is eventually blockchains, if they are going to succeed, will find their success in the barrel of a gun, and at that point will be no different than any other centralized government system?

The reason I can't mint my own currency is because, ultimately, men with guns would make me stop. Few would care about my currency at first, but market forces are not enough to stop it.

Decentralized social pressure doesn't make a stable currency and it won't make a stable blockchain until there's a powerful central entity backing it. At that point, what is the point?
Hate to break it to ya, but anyone with any mechanical aptitude has what it takes to do whatever may need doing with software.

Heck, Before I received any formal instruction in programming I was tracing things via symbols and strings just like I did hardware connections.
> These are used pretty often when doing data analysis.

In my experience you almost always want to count intervals for analysis and not interval boundaries. For example when calculating someone’s age in years.

The use cases for interval boundaries seem to mostly be businesses rules based on contract dates.
The one on the prior blockchain will have an earlier timestamp from thousands of nodes. Did you really think this through? Yes, you can scam people on other chains, but of course if you are writing this you consider the earlier timestamp version to be a scam as well. You can still acknowledge the difference.
You can choose to accelerate the world's transition to sustainable energy or to blow shit up. Finland chose badly.
Arsenal fan token posts broke advertising rules, says watchdog
While I agree with you that the rear visibility seems really bad, you eventually get used to it. Don't get me wrong -- that's not a valid excuse but in my experience I've never felt like I couldn't see what's behind me. Suggesting that's what the cameras are for is, imo, a worse excuse.

As for the head "rest", technically it's a head _restraint_ not a head _rest_. Your head shouldn't be resting against it while driving.
Thanks!

FWIW We went with the VW ID.4. $20k cheaper with federal rebate, and absolutely love it. Doesn't feel cheap. No issues with visibility or headrest size, prefer mechanical door locks, and appreciate not having a single offset screen. Wish CarPlay was a little more integrated with the rest of the car, and I miss physical buttons for things like setting temperature (which is even worse on a Tesla Y as there are no buttons, but it seems at least their touch screen has more things visible at once than the VW does). Having to touch a touchscreen while driving is difficult, even as a passenger, because unless you're on the most perfect road ever the shaking will make it hard to tap your target.
If the fake Rolex was a bit-for-bit, atom-for-atom copy of the original, then it would have the same value as a real Rolex. At that point, there would be no difference that would matter in the slightest.

If what I get by right-clicking is the same as what you get by purchasing an NFT, then there's no difference that matters. Well, there's one difference: I got this image for free and you paid for it.
You are 100% right. I had to look up when Apple became $1 trillion company and yet somehow I typed the wrong number.

The iPhone 3GS took off quite well, but I’m not sure it was really clear to people just how big of a juggernaut it was until the iPhone 4, especially when it came to Verizon.
yep precisely. doing this in our app. and then let the people who do care export to blockchain if they want to.
I too am a bit confused about that $2/GB for perpetuity. I'm assuming that's a loaded cost representing maintenance, backups, power. A TCO kind of number. Maybe that's a bad assumption?
For what it’s worth, I ordered my Y in August and it shipped in late November. During that time, the estimated delivery date bounced around a lot, going as far back as February and then it abruptly jumped back to late November (the jump happened in mid November).

It’s a great car; my only qualm is that they didn’t have enough parts so they delivered mine without a USB hub or wireless phone charging function—all well and good, better than delaying the delivery; however, the fact that this was either not caught by Tesla’s inspection team or not reported is fairly disappointing.
> Can you share a Go program that uses the Go stdlib functions and cannot be trivially ported to use the Zig stdlib functions

Heres an easy one:

https://go.dev/play/p/JFIvQYTF3R8
+1 on the same question. I actually saw some posts about x86_64 based router the other day (didn't mention how to build it though), wondered if that's a viable solution.
googled that and no definite matches!
>It is one thing not to hold them complicit in the crime, and another to judge the DA for holding the position that murderers should not be imprisoned.

Let's say someone says "gee, that's just too far out to believe". A DA who doesn't believe in putting murderers in prison.

What do you support your statement with? Is it purely "he thinks his parents, who are murderers, should be free"?
What are your thoughts on Baseball cards that sell for absurd prices? Or real life painting auctions that sit in a warehouse acting as a unique object. It’s all very absurd.

Theoretically, I think NFTs are similar to real life unique items (there are many threads on HN going back and forth) with a caveat - NFTs can’t contain actual data of the JPEGs, but only a URL of the server serving it. That seems like a huge gaping hole in NFTs.

Fundamentally though, atoms or bits, pick your unique-arrangement medium. Try to sell it to people that are willing to pay for it.

Edit: I can’t comment anymore (limits) so I’m answering here. You switched the argument now. We were discussing uniqueness in the world of atoms vs bits. But now you’re arguing about energy usage. We can discuss that but it’s no longer the central argument.
>In other words, cutting your beams to +/- 1/2” may work for each individual beam in a building but that does not imply that your building as a whole can tolerate an average beam length being +.499” above nominal.

The stronger version of the argument is that the length of a steel beam cannot be more precise(-ish) than the radius of an iron atom, so only 10-12 decimal places (in meters) are required to fully describe a steel beam's length. Likewise an actual circle's area isn't a function of Pi, but is rather a 'really large number' regular polyhedron. Which could then be approximated by a fairly pedestrian number of decimal points of pi to atomic precision.

That said e.g. orbits are rather smooth, and could probably be considered to be fairly exact w.r.t. an arbitrary reference.
> Well, future bidders won’t consider X on Z.

I'll consider X on Z, it sounds like a bargain. Sure, it's only X on a small blockchain, but I like X and some apps I use support Z.
Normal subtraction works there so that's not a compelling example at all.
Yes, that's the point -- it's often used that way, but not "correctly."
Having worked at startups for last half a decade this would be my dream place.

> Is this how it's like at all large companies?

No.

> What should I do?

Find another (startup?) job.

Because it doesn’t look like that place will change and I’m pretty sure they have good reasons.
I’m still floored when I use the MacBook calculator to calculate something like 873*523 and it takes 3 seconds to get an answer. Not sure why. There’s no animation that I can see and the it has the foreground.
Can you elaborate on why you think Go's string handling is broken?
New submarine cable to link Japan, Europe, through famed Northwest Passage
This experiment basically just points out that whether value storage is primarily a social concept or a technical/resource distribution one is still an open question. It seems like as we are seeing so many forked coins we are seeing an entropic diffusion of value throughout the crypto ecosystem where before it would have just accumulated to BTC, but its not clear if the whole thing will keep expanding or shrink.
What? Where did you read that? The worker's union won, with full concessions from management, and with nearly all of the employees hired back.

The new employees Kellogg tried to hire to replace the striking workers failed miserably. They didn't have enough workers with domain knowledge to run the plants; the new workers caused the company more money than they saved:

> Small fire at Kellogg’s Plant in Lancaster, striking continues in week 11

https://www.abc27.com/news/local/small-fire-at-kelloggs-plan...

> UPDATE: Efforts to replace striking Kellogg's workers has been disastrous, workers tell us. Scabs wreaked havoc on the factory, most cereals are not being produced, and a delivery train went off the track yesterday.

https://twitter.com/MorePerfectUS/status/1469417376231866375...

Management yields 100% to workers, all demands met:

> Highlights of the new five-year collective bargaining agreement:

• No take aways; No concessions

• No permanent two-tier system

• A clear path to regular full-time employment

• Plant closing moratorium: No plant shut downs through
October 2026
• A significant increase in the pension multiplier

• Maintenance of cost of living raises

> https://bctgm.org/2021/12/21/kelloggs-strike-ends-bctgm-memb...

Please post your source that said the Union gave up. There's no way to misinterpret this outcome at all; they clearly won.