skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ask HN: Why aren't you using an entirely free distribution of GNU/Linux?
https://www.gnu.org/distros/free-distros.html
Honestly, looks like a handy pocket for just about anything.
It's much simpler than most of this thread makes it out to be, and I think this is what Judge Judy would ask:

1) Does the freelancer have the ability to verify the client's credit card? For example, can it tell Upwork "assume all responsibility for fraud from this point forward" if that is not the normal default?

2) If no, but Upwork does have that ability, then Upwork is responsible for fraud.

3) If Upwork still insists on its current arrangement, does it disclose this scenario's possibility to the freelancer? I don't mean "implied by the fine print, but upfront, in a way that can't be missed"?

4) If no, then again, Upwork is responsible for the fraud.
I’d be most curious about the reverse path part of this new SSH sub-channel protocol.

Any new sub channel should get a major SSH version bump.
New York fire: At least 19 killed in apartment block blaze
If they wanted to publish it for themselves, wouldn't they make a private repo?

I'm (honestly) trying to understand why GitHub can't just go ahead and remove any account as they see fit.

Edit: Am I being downvoted for asking a question?
7g of wine at 15% would be ~1.15g of alcohol. This does fall in the range but we should pay attention to the specificity of being alcohol and not alcoholic beverage
Because it's not one tweet. Or at least, it's one tweet from you, but a popular author like cstross probably gets hundreds a day from randoms.
Let me guess, this is one of those articles that cherry picks to show women are better then men, like with programming awhile ago ( https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/feb/12/women-con... ).
If you'd like to play around with a 3D implementation of Logo, check out https://turtlespaces.org -- there's a webassembly build that runs in the browser with a Javascript IDE, and compiled application versions for Windows, macOS and Linux
Fortunately we had the opposite. We had pascal and C classes until my senior year, when she started offering Visual Basic (which she was learning as she went). At the time QB then VB was my thing (I was working on multiplayer games using winsock controls), so she would ask me questions if someone went beyond her knowledge.
It's possible that they didn't have anyone who knew the "advanced" commands, and didn't want precocious kids asking questions they couldn't answer.
I agree so much. The recent Cowboy Bebop TV show had decent casting and high production value but the worst writing I've seen in a very long time. It was like watching The Room for TV shows. It's no surprise it got canceled. I really wish their writers could be better.
> Modern airliners have zero single points of failure.

The have zero points of failures that are classified as single-point-of-failure.

Once in a while, the classification turns out to be incorrect, as seen in the 737 MAX crashes, especially the first one.
I don't think you understand how contracting works or what it is in the global market
CalyxOS now supports Pixel 6 and Pixel 6 Pro
This brings back memories from like, 15 years ago... I had this friend, we're still friends actually, I used to go to his place to play Starcraft and sometimes his little sister, probably 13 years old or so, used to challenge me to a chess match, and oh boy... she was damn good, I got my sh*t handed to me so many times I cant even remember. It was dehumanizing hahaha Turns out she had true talent, went on to win many tournaments and leagues back then... Good times.
Well, I agree that it makes a lot of sense as a pedagogic tool. But I thought the claim was more expansive than that.
I’m working on re-publishing the city council meeting minutes from my city into a more readable and searchable format that will use RSS.

Right now there is no way to know how my city council member votes on anything without manually looking through PDFs.

I think there is a lot of room for innovation in this area.
More people should block on Twitter. Blocking is far preferable, in an environment like Twitter, to pointless hostile misunderstanding. It's a bad look to dunk on someone for blocking you; just let them block and get on with your life. Pay it forward when someone pokes you on Twitter with a question you can tell is going to pull you into a time-wasting cortisol spike.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/nice-try

In all seriousness, I create a new profile whenever I get a new job and would not be sharing any details here.
Well, governments quickness to full shutdowns, lockdowns, and travel bans across the world has made international travel much more less likely for myself, which sucks because I would've liked to see the world.

So maybe that's happening more regardless.
"If you want to gain weight you will just have to eat more food?"

That is not correct. Food either gets digested or you just poop more. When I was younger I could eat as or train as much I wanted but I had a pretty hard weight limit I couldn't get above. Thank god I realized that gaining weight for its own sake is a stupid goal so I focused on general fitness.
I agree with this so much. You're not likely going to get a God of War, Zelda, Uncharted, Last of US, or even GTA, Red Dead Redemption experience with a randomly generated world.

On the other hand some games the game play itself is enough that randomly generated worlds are good enough? Rogue, Minecraft, Valheim, are a few that I've played.
Sure, I use a Coway Airmega AP-1512HH set to low permanently. It doesn't move a ton of air on the low setting, but it is very quiet and the size fits pretty well next to the robot. I think getting something quiet is key as to not spook your cats, as one of mine hates the sound of loud white-noise-ish sounds.

I will say I think this one works well, but you could likely find something cheaper because you don't need to much air circulation for a litter box. I just happened to already have this one.
Agreed. I highly recommend the 1940 edition. There's an online version from the Internet Archive here: https://archive.org/details/howtoreadabook1940edition/page/n...
For anyone else who went hunting for the feed[0]

[0] http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/atom.xml
https://www.aopa.org/news-and-media/all-news/2018/may/16/nts...

Not as small of a risk as you’d expect (though not anything to seriously worry about). This metal fatigue grounded a large chunk of the US training fleet and similar cracks were frequently found in other Piper Arrows (including ours).
Ask HN: Dropping out of graduate (Msc) program to pursue career opportunity?
Hi HN.

I'm currently enrolled in a graduate CS program in Europe (started half a year ago, another one and a half years to go). I've recently gotten an exciting opportunity (via some contacts from a previous internship) to work on a new project for a fairly prestigious company and I'm tempted to go for it. I've been somewhat unhappy with how interesting/challenging the degree is and covid isn't making it any more fun either. If I go for the opportunity I would quit pursuing my master degree, which of course leaves me to wonder what I'd lose. I've got some fairly active open source contributions/projects and some professional/extracurricular experience going for me, and I'm wondering whether in a couple years that'll way up against a master degree.

Is there anyone here with similar experience? Anyone who can comment on whether in their experience the lack of a master degree is a problem?

I'm in CS/robotics and the job is in that field, also I'm located in Europe and am expecting to stay there.

Thanks.
As I understand it, the usual design of systems that use UV light to kill viruses do not simply shine it into the room like a ceiling light; rather there's a box with a UV light in it, and a fan to draw air through that box.
I’m not sure if this is related or not, but another explanation may simply be convenience. If you’re an immigrant, you might want to live in a place where you can easily buy ingredients to make your native cuisine, which implies a mild clustering force. It doesn’t mean you prefer to be around people of your own ethnicity per se. Probably more powerfully, you might want to be in a place that shares your values, irrespective of ethnicity; however, values probably correlate a bit with ethnicity, and thus you end up segregating.

With respect to wealth, you probably prefer to live in a place that maximizes value/money, which probably means living among other people in a similar socioeconomic context (economies of scale come into play when you have a lot of people with similar socioeconomic statuses in a small area).

So as always, we need to think critically rather than concluding “prejudice” at the first sign of disparity.
Nice to see PeerTube out in the wild.

PeerTube is a software application that implements the interoperable social networking standard, ActivityPub:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PeerTube

What this means is if you have an account anywhere on this network, say a Mastodon account, you can interact with the video directly. It's a system that works a lot like how email addresses work (that is, a federated social web).

last note: The Fediverse, as a whole, doesn't want to be associated with the web3 space. Pretty much because it is a system that works, and web3 is just a space for schmucks.
Agreed, I can't see anything stopping it mutating further if the opportunity arises.

I believe the understanding is that the omicron variant may have evolved further in an immuno-compromised person (e.g. with AIDS, or undergoing chemotherapy), since it got to stay in the host longer without being killed by the immune system, it racked up more mutations until it got to its current virulent form and started infecting other people.

And there's absolutely nothing stopping that from happening again I guess.
Sounds like an upwork problem.
All art is a mixture of craft and marketing. There's just a lot more marketing to modern art than classical art.
>We're not "getting through the situation".

We are, just not in the way you'd prefer. Plagues much worse than this one happen regularly, and humanity gets through it.

> It is a dramatically higher cost

A dramatically higher cost than what we're currently doing to our youth? That's an opinion. So some teachers die, and the profession becomes temporarily younger and more male than before due to self-selected risk profiles. Sounds like how any "dangerous" job already works. This doesn't constitute a crisis worth sequestering our children, to me.
I dunno, how about the Holocaust?

Black humor aside, you can use Vim, Emacs, SublimeText, VS Code, and more, to code in all major languages. Like with Eclipse, just add the required plugins and/or language servers (and for many, support comes out of the box).

Not sure what you think makes Eclipse special in that regard.
I'm not a twitter user, but this is the equivalent of "I'm not interested in being notified if this person contacts me again" right?

Like me putting a Gmail rule in place to move messages from a specific source, say a specific mailing list thread that I'm not interested in out of my inbox.

Is this considered taboo on Twitter?
for sure. we’re all adults, and that’s how we should treat each other by default.
I don't think it's quite accurate to say the existing mRNA vaccines are not effective, because the rate of hospitalization and rate of ICU admissions per capita for double-vaccinated people, vs unvaccinated people is really clear.

The data is showing that the likelihood of severe illness in a delta or omicron-infected person who previously had both doses of vaccine is significantly less.

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2786039
It's clear you should have blocked each other just from this conversation on HN. You weren't messaging him to have a conversation; you were looking for some kind of gratifying acknowledgement of your disagreement. I'm not saying you were wrong (I can't imagine spending the energy to even figure out what it is you disagree with him about); I'm saying it doesn't matter, shouldn't matter, and the block was a favor to both of you.

That you'd be wound up about it five years later speaks volumes to how unhealthy the exchange between the two of you was.
Helping Sustain Open Maps on the Web (2021)
I guess it depends on what you mean by "explain". Any small tendency is enough to cause segregation. Want to live near relatives. Want to live near grocery store that caries your ancestors cuisine's ingredients. etc...
Bill what you need for the life you want. If your total compensation is 100,000 and you want to keep earning that but working half as much, bill 2x your hourly rate.

In reality you will spend your free time lining up the next job, so maybe work a third as much for 3x the money.

If you don't feel comfortable charging that, why bother. Keep the desk job
Fwiw, gadfly was the only term i hadn't come across and didn't know what it meant as a non native speaker that occasionally reads english novels.
IntelliJ family IDEs improve quality of life for software developers.

I grant that the Eclipse IDE works for Java if you are careful not to install too many plugins. I have not seen it work better than 50% for other languages (open source people don’t seem to get excited if the debugger doesn’t work, for instance) and if you install plugins or download the wrong version from the Eclipse site all bets are off.
It is both a primary, first-class feature of Twitter and something a lot of people feel should be a taboo.
It also uses probably more resources than all the electron apps on my computer...
I don't like to get to the part where they say it says that the study was based on 10 matches that happened in Iraq.
>Can there be a worse tragedy than the death of this amazing software?

Too many to mention, both in the past and currently happening.
I don't think I was dunking. Griping at the most (and I've made the block vs mute point). I agree that it's time wasting and I've tried to pull out of this thread so as to not waste more time of other people.
Ironically given the benefits that the cryptocurrency ecosystem supposedly brings to artists, this promotional material contains stolen IP from at least one independent artist [1]. Cryptoland's response was to block the victim [2].

[1]: https://twitter.com/kamilabianchi/status/1478764832967086083

[2]: https://twitter.com/kamilabianchi/status/1479852849932734477
The design you're referring to includes the block button.
Then you should not use UNIX then. There is another mainstream OS besides UNIX. Some people like to be able to know what their system does and like to use tools on which they can rely on even when things go wrong.
I've come accross many posts from this subreddit that hit the front page. Let's just say I hope reddit is keeping an eye on foreign and domestic troll farms as many of the most popular posts seem suspiciously like fiction to me...
My bank allows me to deposit a check just by photographing it with their smartphone app. No more visits to ATMs needed.
Zerocash and Zexe and Zerocoin are all strict supersets of ecash. If you instantiate them underlying ledger with a single server, you recover ecash. If you instantiate with a permissioned distributed ledger (eg via PBFT), you get a distributed but permissioned ecash system. If you use a permissionless ledger, you get a permissionless system with no central authority. The entire point of the ledger abstraction in those works is to enable a composition-based security analysis. That’s literally the way 99% of cryptography proofs are structured. Saying that “Zerocash doesn’t specify details of the ledger” is like saying that “Schnorr signatures don’t specify details of the underlying DL-hard group”; the point is to abstract away those concerns.

Re: MPC deployments, the point about deploying general-purpose MPC is that it’s a much more complex task than specialized protocols. That’s why I specified general-purpose zkps; we already have ubiquitous deployments of specialized zkps (I.e. digital signatures). And maybe your project indeed has a large scale MPC deployment, that’s awesome. Doesn’t take away from the fact that cryptocurrencies are pushing zkp innovation at unprecedented rates.
One farmer's seaweed discovery could help slow methane emissions
Just a guess, many want to silo themselves into TechX Developer instead of embracing polyglot stacks.

You see that often, when instead of rewriting the parts that may have performance issues into a library and keep everything else working as usual, we get those rewrote X in Y posts.
Muting saves you from the annoyance, but still subjects your followers.
> low-lying coastal nations like Bangladesh

And lots of other places. About 1 billion people live along coastlines at 20 meters or less above sea level, and 200 million at 5 meters or less. I live in a wealthy country but well within the 5 meters range and am already having to think about whether it wouldn't be more prudent to sell my house today, now that it's still worth something, and emigrate to somewhere with a more future-proof elevation.

Worst case if Greenland's ice sheet melts, that adds 7 meters to sea level, and Antarctica's another 60 meters. I won't see that in my lifetime but my children might.
IRC has quite a few active users which is not what I'd call "dead". It's true that it's not as ubiquitous as it used to be, but it certainly still fills a certain niche.
Why would you want to live in a theme-park on a remote jungle island in a volatile jurisdiction with a bunch of assholes?
I am married since 30 years. I have no respect for my wife /s
I wanted to focus on a ‘first introduction to programming’ which on average means windows. Obviously installing and running python can be easier on Linux but you still have problems with anything not-just-text.
I use Oak Backup (https://www.oakbackup.com) and backup to S3.
Just be mindful sometime adding frosting to a terrible cake doesn't make it taste good. And the failure to pivot looks really bad to you. So your $300 hourly rate is not really deeply utilized. Consider project billing and also think about internal barriers (including humans that might be resentful or threatened) and how you might clear them.

If you're doing strategic work it still needs to get implemented. And you're not doing that work. But the result is what the CEO will convey as your reputation to your next client referral reference check.

Just some thoughts.
Poe's law really applies here. I cannot believe this is not a parody.
That's mute.

Block prevents the blocked user from seeing your tweets from logged in contexts and ability to reply to any of your tweets and so on. That it sort of curates a feed by limiting replies can go in both directions of course.
Some posts in that subreddit are genuine and I support them, but some others and mainly the comments, man, that is basically an edgy teen's communist era playground. One of the mods even said, that the subreddit is for socialists and communists and everybody else is just conservative.
Which is fine if your chat UI doesn’t totally suck for 99.9% of the other use cases. I’d readily take the additional pain of switching applications if it means I don’t have to deal with Teams for chat.

Also all video conferencing and chat applications support sharing files. This isn’t some unheard of feature that Microsoft have pioneered. It’s been possible since the BBS days. It’s possible in XMPP and IRC. It’s possible in every other commercial service I’ve used. And I happen to think Teams does it the worst out of everyone of them because of the weird UI decisions and Sharepoint integration. Compare Slack to Teams and you see what I mean. Files are in lined in Slack and it’s easy to preview and work with them. It’s a pain in the arse in Teams. Slack also has all the other features of Teams that you’re boasting about. And Slack isn’t even perfect itself yet it still runs circulars around Teams in terms of usability.

Literally the only thing Teams gets right is the way of marking the confidentiality of shared content. But that doesn’t justify the mess Microsoft have made of Teams UI.

I’m not one of these FOSS evangelists who throws their toys out of the pram if we don’t use IRC. But Teams UI is really just a clusterfuck of bad design decisions. It’s easily the worst designed solution out there. Except maybe WebEx - which is a pretty fucking low bar, scraping the barrel really.

Microsoft know they automatically win the enterprise because of AD and Office integration. So they don’t need to compete on quality. They just need to be present.
> I’m a bit surprised financial regulators aren’t cracking down on it just yet

Financial regulators are government agencies supervised the government i.e. the lawmakers.

As Tesla, and big banks have thrown millions and billions into crypto, don't you think that they will do everything in their power to keep this hype alive?
No, it shouldn't! It's all about the dose. Drink too much water and you're dead!
The real question is: What sex quits the most when they feel dominated by an opponent regardless gender.

It was interesting to see the amount of athletes that pulled out of the Olympics for mental illnesses soon as they were being dominated.
Good. You should block everyone who replies to you on Twitter. It's the best way to use it.

(This includes compliments. They're bad for you.)
This is a classic:

https://web.stanford.edu/class/ee384m/Handouts/HowtoReadPape...
Beyond.

Or farther away from the sun than the Earth and Moon.

Behind implies in the shadows of Earth.
Personally, I stopped reading after this:

> If the SARS family of coronaviruses had emerged just a decade earlier it's quite likely we'd be on the brink of civilizational, if not species-level, extinction by now—SARS1 has 20% mortality among patients, MERS (aka SARS2) is up around 35-40% fatal, SARS-NCoV19, aka SARS3, is down around the 1-4% fatality level. I

It felt sensational to me to the point the I could no longer take the author's view seriously as something worth reading. We survived the bubonic plague and the author himself quotes these diseases as having far lower mortality rates than that, yet then extrapolates it to the extinction of humanity. Huh.
the immediate personal need to not live in a flooded zone is one thing to consider

another thing to think about is the global geopolitical/civil war/economic possible disruptions and consequences of something like potentially half to 3/4 of bangladesh's population becoming international refugees. imagine what happened with syrians around 2012-2015 and people trying to get into europe multiplied by a factor of 50.

and in a theoretical scenario like that happening with bangladesh, simultaneously other groups of aggregate hundreds of millions of low-income coastal residents from around the world also trying to move to safety at the same time.
You actually have to buy your way out of these contracts—-according to Upwork’s TOS.

You can still move it offline without saying anything but if you have a lot of credibility on either side you are doing what you can to avoid getting on the wrong side of Upwork.

So sometimes it is easier to leave it be. Also past $10k it is a 5% take which isn’t that bad if you’re rate is set to handle it and things are just cruising.
I mean documented features are observable too; I wanted to narrow the scope.
It is very much a lie.

Items drop in price as more manufacturers pop up- only now they lie to us and tell us the price has stayed the same for over 15 years now, but magically they need to shove ads at us to offset the price? GTFO.

Most tvs are dirt cheap to make. In fact it's probably the OS they all design for every tv now that makes the price go up.

Companies screw us all from every possible angle and people defend this shit.

Companies used to care about customer satisfaction because they needed us, but thanks to regulatory capture they obviously couldn't care less about any of us, they just want as much money as they can squeeze out of us.