skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
therefore I've said this before:

The full control of devices you own is absolutely essential. It requires a complete transparency of basic components like cpu micro-code, firmware and hardware otherwise it can and will be abused.[0]

.. unless everything is absolutely transparent including microcode and hardware it is not acceptable as freedom respecting solution.[1]

then I've got unexpected opposition from the one who is making linux for M1 ( marcan_42). If even him fail to understand the consequences of accepting such hostage situation with Apple devices and claim "Freedom isn't the answer." [2]. If even he is ready to downgrade discussion to the personal disrespect toward people like me [3] who merely trying to point out the the danger of the hostage situation while go 'easy' on Apple and ready to justify all of their current mistakes then we have a serious problem. I do not wish to use the term "doomed" but probably we observe limited ability of highly technical minds to resist to the primitive brainwashing and manipulation the big companies provide by presenting it as a norm to trade 'freedom' for the 'safety' . Some people can't even think a few steps forward and understand that by helping companies to promote such agenda we'll end up with loosing both 'safety' and 'freedom'.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29658817

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29675597

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29676524

[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29691816
Well, to start with, you're exaggerating. His life will meaningfully change (perhaps for the worse, by his standards), but his life won't be "destroyed" -- at least not by any reasonable standard. There are plenty of well-known billionaires who are perfectly happy.

To put this another way: is the search for knowledge immoral, if discovering that knowledge will inadvertently harm a person? That's sort of a deep question -- one which doesn't have a definitive answer, but your comment preaches as though it did.
How does one deal with fault tolerance ?
I think Nassim Taleb's nay-saying does have a useful purpose. He's effectively saying that the dominant ideology of the Bitcoiners (e.g. the "libertarianism" of the Chicago school) is not itself adequate to explain or justify Bitcoin.

Where he seems to go wrong is in the wholesale rejection of Bitcoin and "crypto-currency" as a genuine historical/economic phenomenon. It may be true that the value of Bitcoin is zero in the context of rational expectations theory, but all that says is that rational expectations theory doesn't really explain Bitcoin. A die-hard adherent is forced to maintain that it's a mass delusion and everyone else is really just wrong.

The hint that Taleb's theoretical framework isn't really adequate to the phenomenon is in his discussion of gold. Part of what Taleb misses regarding gold is that it never perfectly fit all the conditions for functioning as the "universal equivalent in exchange" or the "numeraire". It was simply good enough. He accepts that the reason for moving off the gold standard was that there simply was not enough gold to match the value of all commodities (not enough gold to accomodate the expanding money supply). This may be true but it suggests gold failed as a numeraire not for inherent reasons but more accidental reasons (we couldn't dig it up fast enough).

In the same way, while it's pretty clear Bitcoin will never be a functional numeraire, its staying-power still needs to be explained.

As a historical phenomenon, Bitcoin seems to have revealed another condition or desirable property of being the numeraire could be the ability to hold and move money privately, especially in large amounts. In other words, it could be said that the concept and existence of a vault was really a symptom of an inadequacy in gold. Another way to put it is that Bitcoin outperforms gold in that it lessens the need for extensive custodial services.

Lastly, his demand that the historical horizon be on par with gold is displaced. In fact, what Bitcoin seems to show is that gold's historical horizon is really overkill. But perhaps fiat money had already demonstrated this.
Tidal power is definitely a thing, and there are large commercial operations running today. The largest produces 552 GWh / year.

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tidal_power
Does it? I've met a ton of self-described centrists that think people being unreasonable is unreasonable.
In theory I suppose you could improve the braking ability quite a bit by having a flywheel spinning about an axis perpendicular to the axis the main wheel rotates at, to act a gyroscope and prevent the "gerbiling" problem the article mentions.
You can run it on AWS Lambda and store the SQLite file(s) on EBS [1].

[1] https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/compute/using-amazon-efs-for-aw...
Maybe but I feel the term is currently so much in the public that it's unlikely to change its definition.

What I think is more likely, that the buzzword web3 will evolve into something that has nothing to do with blockchains or even tokens.
Kubernetes Jobs are stable as of 1.21 or so
"what does the engineers salary have to do with anything"

The engineers salary (actually total compensation, not salary) was quoted in the article.

"An engineer with a reported total compensation, or TC, of $400,000 a year griped about the responsibility of having to do a once-a-month delivery. “What the actual f—k?” the engineer wrote on the platform. “I didn’t sign up for this, there was nothing in the offer letter/job description about this.”"

I am suggesting that if you make $400,000 a year, one minor inconvenience a month by actually using the product you are working on really isn't something you should complain about.
> Legislators need to use tax incentives to ensure their base continues supporting them, and to win over new supporters.

If it's legislators serving the interests of their constituents directly and thus get re-elected, that is one thing. However often legislators make these decisions to serve corporate lobbyists (such as Intuit's) and are working against the interests of their constituents so they can raise money from corporate doners to get reelected. This is why the IRS has been prevented from offering any sane method of filing personal taxes and wastes unmeasured amounts of tax payer time, effort and money every year.

> it’s not as simple as “this is all BS and those who make the rules are dumb.”

I didn't say that at all. Optimal taxation strategies are hard, but we haven't really tried to fix taxation in decades, meanwhile the length of the tax code has ballooned to several times what it used to be.
The first thing I thought of in this context was that GCC meant "Gulf Cooperation Council"
This hits hard for me. The part about being in control especially.
> Here in Germany, we have an entire bureaucratic apparatus (the Ministries of Education) to hold school staff accountable. For me, the US system is simply incomprehensible because it is plainly visible that the system can be commandeered by tiny minority action groups that have a lot of free time (i.e. conservative pensioners).

At least in my experience, most of the people who bother to research candidates and vote in school board elections are parents with kids in the public system. Turnout is typically low because those people are the only ones with skin in the game. Pensioners typically don't care as long as their taxes don't go up.

The plus side to this system is that you get much more direct accountability. In the German system, if your Ministry of Education is performing poorly, how would you effect change? Vote for a national party and hope that they have the will and political capital to fight an entrenched bureaucracy that will delay and fillibuster any attempt at reform?

From the US side of things, it's incomprehensible that you'd have so much faith in a bureaucratic entity that makes competition (homeschooling) illegal, and would want less direct democracy by voters.

https://m.dw.com/en/us-judge-grants-german-homeschooling-fam...
yes he can, just email him [HN@ycombinator.com] and when you both figure it out he can edit and mopup the offtopic were in now. it may be just fine as it is.
Many CTFs keep their exercises available after the competition itself. Many of them also have Dockerfiles in the downloadable part too so you can run it on your own box.
given that knowledge is practically infinite (bounded only by the expanse of the universe), you'd actually expect the correctness of scientific consensus to asymptotically approach 0. that is, we're waaaaaay more wrong than right, and waaaaay more often, before we get it right, especially as knowledge gets more fractally intricate and expansive.
Elon Musk reveals who Bitcoin's mysterious creator Satoshi Nakamoto might be
The librarians I know generally want ALL THE BOOKS, especially the good and or "important" ones.

The trick is generally what defines "Good" and "Important". Just because a book presents a counter-perspective, it doesn't mean the book is worth stocking because the book isn't "good" (filled with inaccuracies, lies, whatever). But sometimes, even a "bad" book is "important". But sometimes it's not. So edge cases abound.

But, just as a check, the Chicago (super liberal city run by super liberal everything) public library system does have "Woke Racism" available.

As does the Austin system.

High School libraries are more limited, so they're obviously not going to have every book, and I'm sure gaps exist for any ideological/partisan view.
2 - I get itchy when I go more than 5... if I'm digging into something, I save them all in a Bookmark folder.

I don't understand why people store email in their deleted folders, or why they keep hundreds of tabs open. There are better ways to store data.
Yes, that would work too.
The definition of art is somewhat hard to find, but to me an artist excels in his/her field. The trick here is to see value, a painting or song has only consumption value, it produces nothing except feelings that in turn can materialize.

Programming is the weave of everything digital, like the matrix glyphs it can describe all, be all, modify all. It rules all crafts by an infinite amount. As a single programmer in a 3D multiplayer system, you become god.

The truly amazing game makers like Pixel f.ex (Cave Story) are not incredible because they can make graphics, music and code. But because they actually manage to release code that works while being good at graphics and music. The rare skill is programming, not drawing or music.

99% of programmers don't take resposibility for their creations long term, including John Carmack and Tim Sweeney!

So it's a trifecta: Be creative (discover things nobody did before), manage to release live products that work, take responsibility = work on your own.

The most underrated skill in human history is this kind of programming, eventually it will become the only skill worth having until all energy has depleted. Then we're back to sticks, stones and cave drawings! :D
For Vanilla Forums we have a file based configuration interface with a bunch of utility methods for writing/reading too it. This is the default and what you really want in a single environment either hosted or in development.

In our cloud infrastructure though we have 10k+ distributed sites so the interface reads/writes to an API backed by a database.

A major benefit to the confit file is that you can just open it in a text editor and muck around during development.
Same thing here in the Greater Boston Area.
Paparazzi don't care about Satoshi. Neither does the public, which is why the paparazzi doesn't.

He might have a person or two recognize him in a month. Most of them would never approach him.
Correct - We are using the typical SQLite build which serializes all writes by default and we have made no effort to undo this behavior. We actually rely on this to ensure things happen in the right order and take advantage for performance reasons.

Because SQLite is effectively serializing all the writes for us, we have zero locking in our code. We used to have to lock when inserting new items (to get the LastInsertRowId), but the newer version of SQLite supports the RETURNING keyword, so we don't even have to lock on inserts now.

Also, the fact that we have the databases divided across function helps free up some of the lock contention in the provider. We don't really have any mixed workload databases - its either "slow" gigantic operations (JSON blob access), or super quick tiny things (updating session timestamps). So, there is some minor isolation of contention issues on a subsystem basis.
Wow. So much tech - sqlite this time, and so many opinions to discuss with words / characters. Maybe i could create my own alphabet to have some peace of mind in the end? I don't think so - somebody would make a story of it - wait ... happened!

Read the creator of sqlite for more information on all running topics that make you go 'Uh' up to this point of time: https://corecursive.com/066-sqlite-with-richard-hipp/
It follows system settings, but I'm going to add app-specific localization soon! https://github.com/maxkrieger/voiceliner/issues/17
There are a couple of threads here that argue Marissa Mayer was the problem. I don't think that can be true.

Mayer took the reins at Yahoo in 2012.

Facebook had crushed Flickr in desktop-shared photos by 2009 or so, and over 2010-2012 or so, Instagram had created a whole new photo experience for mobile that Flickr missed. Instagram was acquired by Facebook for a billion dollars in 2012.

Mayer may or may not have exacerbated problems with Flickr. I don't actually know. But there's no way she was the precipitating factor.

Some of the posters blaming her are linking to articles that don't even mention her. The article just happens to use a photo of Mayer because she was the CEO at the time Flickr was sold to SmugMug.
HA is generally needed because users of a SaaS can crash the instance especially in products that offer customisation abilities.
> and yet modern web applications tend to demand a dramatic distributed architecture

The dirty secret is: Most of them don't really need that architecture. Most, and I mean +95% of websites would run just fine on a single box, running the websrv, db and whatever script-interpreter the backend runs on.

Sure, it may be a bit slower if its not hooked up to a global CDN, and if the box goes down the user gets 404. But its also alot easier for an admin to simply give the one box a good wallop and put it back online, since it so simple.

https://idlewords.com/talks/website_obesity.htm#heavyclouds
Yes. They also introduced infinite scrolling which meant that you could no longer jump to see the early part (or first photo) of a photostream (your own or anyone else's)

That and the attempt to introduce social media aspects: you got notifications that said 'here are some people you might know'. Which I never did. If they said 'here are some photographers whose work you might like' it would have been closer to the original intent.

Lots of annoyances like these drove me away from the site, and I never went back (or renewed my pro membership). Over time, they gradually undid the worst changes, but it was too late by then.

One thing that I did take away, though, was my Flickr username [0], which got repurposed for HN :-)

[0] https://flickr.com/photos/kinetic-lensman/
> Frankly, it is all too much for me.

Same. I've been actively unfollowing people on Twitter every day to clean my feeds of it. I'm not anti-web3 or anti-crypto, but I definitely don't need to read the same rhetoric from 100 people a day.

Decentralized trust could be great, but I wonder how much time actually needs to be spent talking about it vs. actually building it...
the term is 'liberating'
As a author of a library that got rewritten by another team in go with a similar rationale, I must say that the Go ecosystem's unwillingness (or inability) to interface seamlessly with other languages seems like its greatest drawback.
My point is that only large content producers would even entertain such a thing to begin with, and among those the largest will just spin-off and do their own thing.

If you're a YouTuber why would you even deal with any of that vs. just continuing to upload on YouTube?
> Look at the other things that are Veblen goods. They are status symbols. Handbags, rare cars, etc. Kidnapped children are clearly not a member of this category.

Captives and slaves, which kidnapped children are the first and often also the second, can be either tools or status symbols (or both simultaneously).

Obviously, flagrantly illegal (and not wink-wink-nudge-nudge tolerated in public) goods tend to only be status symbols in particular criminal subcultures, but those subcultures very much exist.
I get so bored, I write software to auto-generate that stuff.
FAANG has many other benefits (standardised hiring, promotion, performance expectations and compensation increases, profitable business with more stable stock price). Meta is the only one of the FAANG trying to break into a new area that is perceived as complex. Ie Google is trying to grow Cloud but the strategy is mostly “copy AWS and sell it well”, likewise with Microsoft. So they know they don’t need to pay top of market for these roles.
Electronic warfare history of the Battle of the Bulge
Usually most customers, even government, have different thresholds, where something under, say, $25k takes very few levels of management approval.
I still remember their ads: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nCgQDjiotG0

But Chrome had a clear advantage those days compared to other solutions

Microsoft's value proposition? PDF users and memory consumption?
Crypto seems to attract a lot of high minded hot air as far as social media goes.
That is even better then. This will filter out the complainers and drama queens, leaving the employees who actually want to make a better product.
Thank you for addressing the problem.
This is a situation where a single process owns all of its SQLite databases and handles everything out of 1 machine.
The issue with edge is the underlying browser engine is still chromium. The only reason I use Firefox over something like brave or edge is because I’m trying to advocate against a monopoly chromium browser engine.
That seems to be correct:

> About half of undocumented immigrants also file income tax returns, often using an Individual Taxpayer Identification Number (ITIN) in lieu of a Social Security Number.

https://fiscalpolicy.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/Pathway-...

Searched ddg using: pathway toward citizenship income taxes history undocumented

You could also try calling the IRS and tell them what you’re trying to do to help somebody and ask what the their preferred methods are.

I’ve had occasionally good experiences calling major government offices and asking questions.
FAA investigating controversial crash video
> We must at present do our best to form ... a class of persons, Indian in blood and colour, but English in taste, in opinions, in morals, and in intellect. - Thomas Babington Macaulay

I would hesitate to call Gandhi a racist, but he definitely was prejudiced against black Africans (in the beginning) as a result of what would today be called brainwashing / indoctrination (of Macaulayism) by the colonial British. Due to this policy of Macaulayism (to tolerate certain indians educated in the British system as equals), Gandhi was largely insulated from British racism in India and UK. So he had not only inculcated the idea that western culture was superior but was also a strong and vocal advocate for the British way.

What changed his worldview was the racism he experienced in Africa. In general, indians were treated differently in Africa. But he also personally experienced racism when he was once asked to get out of a first class compartment, despite having the train ticket for it, because a white man had demanded that he be removed.

The other major thing that changed his opinion of the British completely was when he saw the brutality of colonialism and war. A naive Gandhi believed it was his duty to assist the British empire and so he volunteered as a non-combatant with other indians, to assist the British effort in the Anglo-Boer War.

What he saw horrified and scarred him for life. He then swung to opposite spectrum and believed the British to be the devil's incarnation.

He was in Africa for 21 years and his life experiences, and African culture and politics, greatly influenced his political philosophy. As his political philosophy evolved, he found the right balance between blind admiration to blind hatred of the British empire, their culture and indian culture too.
I'm sure it would be long. The point was more that pretty much every (productive) development environment is complex.
> However you have no scientific basis for claiming that they are right 99% of the time. You just made up that number. In fact the actual accuracy rate is unknown, and indeed unknowable.

> My subjective impression is that expert accuracy rates vary widely by scientific field. High energy particle physicists might actually be hitting 99.99%. Psychologists and nutritionists might not even be at 50%. Epidemiologists are somewhere in the middle.

All fair points that I don't really disagree with.

> Experts lose credibility when they make sweeping recommendations based on flawed or limited research rather than remaining silent as they should. Once trust is lost it takes a generation to regain.

I don't think it's quiet as binary. I agree, they should limit recommendations based on the data and be very open when "the data is limited and more information could change our recommendation".

But I don't think that means they need to be silent when data is limited, just careful with communication.

Health experts are in the worst position for this sort of thing. In a pandemic situation, data will simply be limited and action required to prevent lose of life. You can't just sit back and do nothing.

But, I'd agree that you need to be very open and frank about why you are taking actions and how confident you are that the actions you are taking will be effective. COVID hasn't been handled perfectly in that regard, but it could be worse.

As for trust and credibility, I think a major social issue we have is that we are quick to distrust experts over being wrong or mistepping on any given issue but for some reason we are extremely forgiving of religious leaders and politicians that repeat platitudes we agree with. I'm not advocating for blind trust in experts, but I wish it wasn't so reactionary, where any wrong statement causes people to lose all trust in expert credibility. That's not something I could control anyways.
> 1. I'm not sure my original comment was "encouraging mass migration"

You literally said "We do need people to come to texas to flip it blue."
Not everyone living in first world countries. For me, arduino is cheap(clone), required much less power than any SBC. Power outage is common in my area. Memory card of any SBC can't survive frequent power outage .
EDIT: If you feel strongly about this and think it's possible please send in PRs. Thanks!

Unfortunately you then lose ability to play back the original audio https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2319735/voice-recognitio.... This is a major usability tradeoff IMO, though I'm willing to be swayed to add an option.

I suspect Google's limiting this because they don't want devices "freeloading" their cloud transcription service, since most phones can't do it on-device.
A language like R (https://www.r-project.org/) helps more for CSV data-science. https://www.tutorialspoint.com/r/r_csv_files.htm