skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
https://www.biofuelwatch.org.uk/axedrax-campaign/

(biased source, but nobody seems to disagree with their wood source claims)
Well if you are worried either don't sign in with your Apple ID, or just enable a root user.

It's exactly the same on Windows if you sign in with a Microsoft Account, what's different about Apple here?

And I'm locked out of the account, but not my hardware.
I trust semver about as far as I could throw it. It's obviously prone to human error and more. Yes, the library maintainers have done something irresponsible, but the onus is ultimately on you as the consumer to test updates. At least give the change logs a good thorough read and make sure nothing that sounds dangerous jumps out at you. Reading the semver string difference is not good enough and this breaking change was actually documented.

I would almost expect there to be problems jumping up 3 minor versions even.
> Ultra-reliable nuclear power, like in France where a couple of reactors had to be shut down due to safety issues detected?

A perfectly fine plant, Fessenheim, was shut down recently due to antinuke luddites.
Calling relational databases (HN’s preferred storage system) naive probably sounds like trolling to most people. There are also plenty of distributed relational databases. People downvote comments that sounds like trolling or flamebait.

I use UUIDs but I don’t know why they would magically make my Postgres a distributed system. I like them because the client can generate them offline.
Thank you for making me imagine sunburn in some really uncomfortable areas.
If they cut teacher pay whenever they are "sick" or told children they would have to make up missed days during summer or after the normal graduation date, I'm sure the Covid cases would mysteriously drop, and fast.

There is a definite "Cartman" component to this whole thing, and if I was 11 I damn well know I'd have the same BS attitude.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=379oevm2fho
Thank you. I don't understand the hysteria.
This is an interesting idea, but why don't they just use the outside service as a queue, because it works as one, and when it doesn't, this complete direction doesn't work either.

easier when doing eg serverless because it’s hard to keep that long lived connection for indefinite amounts of time versus simply exposing a stateless HTTP API

You mean "functions" or a similar thing? It may be the reason I think. I didn't know that serverless discourages using idle persistent connections.
I wrote a test page [1] to compare results from the various ip geolocation apis, including ipinfo and maxmind and 20 others.

This is a great article showing how ipinfo gathers their data. It would be fascinating to see how it compares to the other providers.

I would really like to see the results of some of the ip addresses that he says are being spoofed as US-based.

[1] https://resolve.rs/ip/geolocation.html
I would say Fortran is a pretty great language for teaching beginners in numerical analysis courses. The only issue I have with it is that, similar to using C+MPI (which is what I first learned with, well after a bit of Java), the students don't tend to learn how to go "higher level". You teach them how to write a three loop matrix-matrix multiplication, but the next thing you should teach is how to use higher level BLAS tools and why that will outperform the 3-loop form. But Fortran then becomes very cumbersome (`dgemm` etc.) so students continue to write simple loops and simple algorithms where they shouldn't. A first numerical analysis course should teach simple algorithms AND why the simple algorithms are not good, but a lot of instructors and tools fail to emphasize the second part of that statement.

On the other hand, the performance + high level nature of Julia makes it a rather excellent tool for this. In the MIT graduate course 18.337 Parallel Computing and Scientific Machine Learning (https://github.com/mitmath/18337) we do precisely that, starting with direct optimization of loops, then moving to linear algebra, ODE solving, and implementing automatic differentiation. I don't think anyone would want to give a homework assignment to implement AD in Fortran, but in Julia you can do that as something shortly after looking at loop performance and SIMD, and that's really something special. Steven Johnson's 18.335 graduate course in Numerical Analysis (https://github.com/mitmath/18335) showcases some similar niceties. I really like this demonstration where it starts from scratch with the 3 loops and shows how SIMD and cache-oblivious algorithms build towards BLAS performance, and why most users should ultimately not be writing such loops (https://nbviewer.org/github/mitmath/18335/blob/master/notes/...) and should instead use the built-in `mul!` in most scenarios. Students should leave the course knowing generally how BLAS is implemented but also how to use it most effectively. There's very few languages where such "start to finish" demonstrations can really be showcased in a nice clear fashion.
Huh… hasn’t been terrible in my experience, but I’ve never been forced to give Tim Apple a cut of my streaming subscriptions.
I use Lulu and find it great. It’s more dumbed down than Little Snitch without hiding too much. And it’s free to the extent that the author deserves a donation.
Imagine you are a safety officer, and you see a worker committing huge safety violation, and thereby putting in danger his coworker's lives.

Which of the following ways has better chance of teaching him the gravity of the situation, and preventing this error repeated in the future:

a) kindly point his error to him in a nice and friendly way.

b) give him a verbal beatdown with insults and head-shaking
>Parents who are rejoining the workforce can't take 4-6 weeks of with no notice to babysit their kids again...

Why do you need a babysitter for a school-aged child? OK, maybe if the kid is below 7, but 7 and up should be more than capable of being alone at home. Entire nations do exactly that. In Estonia 7 year olds are expected to go to school on their own and come back home. At home they will likely be alone (or with their siblings) until their parents get home from work.
This may be a leak of the pet theory of /r/zen that Dogen, the founder of Soto Zen, was a fraud and that Zen is somehow not Buddhism. I haven't seen this theory taken seriously anywhere else.
Matt Taibbi: A Tale of Two Authoritarians
Corporate operated gas stations such as Wawa and Quickchek and Costco did not. Franchised gas stations, Exxons/Delta/Shell/etc, always asked for zip code.

Maybe it changed in previous years, I have not been there in a while.
GFA Basic on the Atari ST was great in all respects you mentioned.
visualize it
The original article by Moxie explains this.

My understanding is, some centralization doesn’t defeat the purpose of the blockchain. e.g. if a centralized server stores and modifies the blockchain but it’s public, then clients can verify the blockchain, and fork it if they don’t agree with the server.

But too much centralization, which seems to be the case now, basically does defeat the purpose. Because if everyone is using the same client and server or if people are interacting with these services insecurely exposing their wallets and data, then these companies could switch their backend to not use a blockchain or just steal coins. Most people probably wouldn’t even notice, and even if they did there’s nothing they could do.
From Poland to Ireland.
Can you show me these better laptops ?
Same. I clicked the link and thought I must’ve opened a wrong window.
No, we need stronger customer protection. Other companies have similar fuck-ups and we shouldn’t be okay with it depending on whether we like the company that did it. And yes, I know Linux exists, but I’ll be in an even greater world of pain if my parents will need support for their Linux machines.
There are some interesting start-ups betting on just that, that carbon capture to general hydrocarbons in a neutral way will outcompete electrifying certain sectors, e.g. https://caseyhandmer.wordpress.com/2021/11/01/scaling-carbon...
I mean, that would be Lisp, and in that context I wouldn't really have a problem with it.
To save other readers a lookup, 30 miles = 48.28km
https://ddg.gg/awesome+lists
The first thing I notice is that this post shows the obvious[1] advantage of treating interns well and trying to give them a good experience. The thought of working for Goldman can inspire a negative gut reaction in many people (though for a range of reasons from their reputation in the media, being old and big, crazy hours, management practices, or other reasons) and this post shows that working to give interns a good experience not only increases the chance that they will accept offers but also that they will tell their friends about their positive experiences or write blog posts about it.

I think I tend to automatically think of Goldman as being relatively small and full of bankers coming up with crazy ideas for weird trades or products, but I think that description wouldn’t have been accurate 20 year’s ago (they were then and are now a big company) and certainly isn’t now the company has been public for a while and has business ranging from traditional IB and trading to retail/private banking. This post shows some ‘big corporate’ things like the two weeks of zoom sessions or satellite offices and it seems to me that it is an impressive achievement to be a large company where people seem to take responsibility and get things done.

Certainly the author of this post seemed to get a lot done (even if they seemed a bit overworked). When I compare this to my own employer where we give interns two short projects with different teams, it seems our system may get a better read (two independent opinions instead of one) which can be good for evaluation, but it is hard to come up with good projects that will result in good, reasonably complete things running in production by the time the time is up. And everyone like getting things done and complete.

I didn’t see much written about mentorship but maybe that was left unsaid or maybe it is hard for an intern to write about.

[1] It’s obvious in the sense that most people will agree with the statement (at least in tech) but actions don’t always line up with the statement (e.g. when all Google internships became remote, they decided to pay interns based on where they were rather than where they were going to intern, which was pretty bad for European interns headed for mountain view and led to some silly situations like a bunch of interns travelling across Europe in the middle of 2020 lockdown to make it to Switzerland). And if you look at IB internships, there seems to be a culture of proving oneself by surviving gruelling and unpleasant working conditions.
No, I remember clearly people in my environment claiming that the web was just to fool people for their money, spending it on things that are worth nothing in real life, like domains for example. Many claimed only criminals would use the internet, or "weird" people, because the rest of us are "normal" hard-working people that can use paper and documents just fine already.
Nope, the guy said that "yes, the appleid is banned, you know why, you breached our T&Cs, no you can't restore it".
He rejected to specify what rule exactly was breached.
The best thing about people talking about Covid is how civil and understanding everyone is about everyone else’s perspective. It restores my faith in our society (USA) when I see or overhear a conversation about Covid and our nation’s response to it. I think all people have very high emotional intelligence and have willingness to understand, and not fight. I’m glad that 99% of conversations don’t devolve into tribal affiliation signaling and wishes for bad outcomes for anyone not in their tribe.

When my local social networks (friends, family, coworkers) talk about COVID I internally jump for joy because I know I will hear everyone’s heavily considered thoughts and opinions on the subject, and not ones assigned to them by their own curated bubble of influencers. Yay.
I should say I meant I found sexism outside of Google in the c++ community at large. Within Google everyone is very respectful
> But it still doesn't compare to the Mona Lisa which if I possessed it I would know that only those physical brush strokes came from Leonardo's hand.

I think the idea of NFTs is that you know that the original artist (Beeple or whoever) issued the NFT, they clicked the buttons and saw the same hash you see on your screen.

Like if Leonardo da Vinci sent you a cryptographically signed email with something in it indicating that you specifically owned it, you'd probably find that valuable even though it's "just pixels" and the email can be copied - the ownership is embedded in the signed email (your name or public key, let's say) and can't be copied.

I think that's the point, anyway, I still don't think I really get it...
No, Kudos is not a real currency. It was an example for the explanation. Basically it seems the goal here is a sender-agnostic (or currency-agnostic I cant really tell which comes first)
payment system which is pretty awesome
I thought it was an exclusively German thing to double-up titles like these people are - but this page makes it seem like people are doing it world-wide.
I forget the name but there was an NFT set that was dropped straight to wallets. It was various pixilated dicks. Kinda funny and cute I suppose. They had rarity traits etc.
Green washing.

this:

https://archive.fo/VwYJQ

from this:

https://www.independent.co.uk/climate-change/news/drax-green...
This kind of shit is so hilariously anti-consumer... and I don't think there's a consumer brand of photo printers that doesn't try to swindle its users.

Thankfully there are many cheap online photo printing services with rapid turnaround where I live. I just use those instead, and accept that getting a photo printed isn't instant.
I would not be so certain that this would reduce the number of ships, rather lower costs for shipping further as they try and find new cargo.
I used HammerDB to run a simple benchmark of PostgreSQL and MariaDB. The methodology used, results, and some pontification are in the article.

Questions and constructive comments very welcome. This is my first time using HammerDB, so any tips on future benchmarks would be great.
Remember just a couple of years ago when you could get root access on a locked device without any kind of password [1]

Honestly I’m not that convinced iOS is that much better. It’s reputation is so much better than it should be. The number of emergency patches I’ve seen out of them the past few years for many many trivial bugs is amazing.

Just this morning I was reading a post from a Chrome engineer talking about how the fundamental architecture of their security is built around a decision that nobody else has thought of as a good time for many years. [2] It’s only going to get worse over time.

Then to make matters worse they have managed to get an absolutely horrible relationship with the security community [3] who now seem to have zero interest in helping them meaning that the main external groups left looking at their security are those who are going to put them on the black market.

Prior to that researchers were finding so many bugs that the legit market rate for 0days fell well below Android. [4]

I ditched my Mac in 2020 and I’m currently waiting for my current iPhone to no longer be up to the task and I’m officially done with Apple after 10 years of nothing but.

[1] https://www.google.com/amp/s/arstechnica.com/information-tec...

[2] https://infrequently.org/2021/04/progress-delayed/

[3] https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2021/09/09/apple-b...

[4] https://www.google.com/amp/s/arstechnica.com/information-tec...
It is common tonall languages that have the same syntax for definitions and mutation.

In Scheme, for example, this is not an issue.
Performance is really bad, if you save them as strings and use those strings as keys. If you take them as 128 bit integers, it’s kind of fine.

Often 32 bit integers are anyway not long enough as a primary key, so you need at least 64 bit keys. UUID is just double the size then.
COVID is not dangerous to students. Look up the number of deaths of people under the age of 18 due to COVID. It's basically nothing.
How does a mandate address natural immunity? There is a lot of apologizing for the vaccines inability to prevent infection and reminders about how good it is against severe illness. Formerly vaccines were claimed to have been better against transmission than natural immunity and that was the epidemiological claim towards a mandate. What is it today? Natural immunity had no problem clearing South Africa of Omicron. Why would it not be an acceptable alternative to vaccination for those who have already recovered? The good doctor in your films claims vaccine immunity is seen to "mature" against serious illness as its effectiveness against transmission wanes. Wouldn't natural infection also lead to a maturation of the immune system over longer time periods? I don't see you address where you think Mr Epstein gets it wrong.
What I get paid is nobody’s business but mine. I am forced to pay tax but the least privilege rules means that info should be used for just that and no more. Yet all sorts of parasite can suck my info against my will. No, unacceptable as I can’t opt out of such BS.
One such alternative is from objective-see [1] and it's great.

[1] https://objective-see.com/products/lulu.html
This does not apply to Monero
The point is that when the proxy is a monopoly, it basically becomes the new, centralized source of truth rather than the actual decentralized source of truth.

If 90% of wallets utilize the OpenSea API what the blockchain says doesn't really matter anymore. OpenSea is effectively the new source of truth.
Americans, password management and mobile security – Pew Research Center(2017)
> This is a lie. Most NFTs which sell for millions use IPFS, Arweave, Filecoin or others for decentralised storage of data

Nope - do your research better before you use the word "lie". BAYC did it until very very recently for instance. Definitely as of 27th September they were using cloud functions as you can clearly see in my gist here: https://gist.github.com/JofArnold/bf2c4a094fcdd4aee2f52983c7... I know there is/was plenty of others too because I looked deeply into this around the time.
And a supplementary question: Is this what the people making the decisions actually think, or is this being projected on them by II2II?
As explained downthread it's not misspelling, they're using a chord.
I’m sort of on board with your argument, but might it have been different if Netflix owned Marvel instead of having a license to make a few shows?

Probably not and that is why they didn’t bid, and the Netflix execs are in a better position to know than us… but I think the comparison is a little tilted against Netflix at least.
I hope most engineers would be able to empathise with Marak. He's built some very useful and now very popular software, and has made it open source, which perhaps we can debate the merits of, but that I would strongly suggest is a public good (and can have personal career benefits).

What he's running up against is an all-too-apparent piece-does-not-fit-problem between the business model and goals of revenue-focused tech companies and the individual motivations of (some?) open source engineers to improve the world in ways that they feel are effective.

It's understandable that if you're building something and see a for-profit company building exactly the same thing -- but with perceived worse negative externalities than your own -- that you'd be a bit frustrated.

If that competitor really wants to capture the market (ignoring externalities) it's plausible that they'd compete with him and try to pull the market across to their own services. Competition can be stressful, especially depending on how well the players behave towards each other.

I have little doubt that it's legal advice (or a sense of legal advice) that is the reason why he didn't receive a response to his offer to collaborate (perhaps a hope that they would take some of the weight off his shoulders; not totally unreasonable for someone who is maintaining important software that many people rely on).

He's been involved in some peculiar stories in the past but for the sake of debate here I'd suggest trying to ignore that. I don't think this will be a unique story; it's the open source sustainability problem[1] and I'm not sure we have consensus on clear, effective solutions yet (perhaps there will need to be a mix of options available depending on individual personalities).

[1] - https://www.theregister.com/2021/05/10/untangling_open_sourc...
I am a native speaker of English, yet my knowledge of its grammar is almost entirely informal. Having said that, it seems to me that in the 1:1 translation, the object of ‘is’ is ‘gold that glitters’, rather than just ‘gold’, and its subject is ‘everything’ rather than ‘everything that glitters’, and that these are semantic differences, as the intended meaning is specifically about things that glitter. I hope someone more knowledgable can cite the relevant rules here, whether for or against this reading.

To avoid ambiguity (whether actual or merely perceived by me), I might say “Just because something glitters, it need not be gold”, but that is not much of an aphorism!
> I don't think anyone who buys an NFT wants that NFT
> I could be wrong of course, but I seriously doubt it.

You're wrong. I hold many NFTs that I want just for the sake of the art. Sorry to disprove your theory. One of my favorites is the Bonsai collection by ZenFT: https://www.zenft.xyz/

Some people use NFTs as simple mementos (free to claim, and collect): https://poap.gallery/

People enjoy collecting and displaying NFTs: https://oncyber.io/nawkzst
People enjoy using their NFTs as avatars in Web3 games: https://www.webb.game/
People use NFTs to access exclusive areas on Decentraland (https://decentraland.org/) and Sandbox (https://medium.com/sandbox-game/cyberkongz-vx-partner-with-t...

People use NFTs for token-based access to websites or online services.
People use them for real world events.
People spend countless hours hanging out on Discord in various communities and servers and they build together.

> People want a central authority and not bother themselves with running their own server/infrastructure.

People don't want a central authority. Most people don't really understand the implications of the technology they use. Awareness is higher than it's ever been, however, in the age of censorship and deplatforming. It's not sustainable or desirable for all of humanity's communication and value exchange to be routed through a handful of trillion dollar tech monopolies.

It's not desirable that so much of the web be dominated by these entities. It's not good for democracy, it's not good for humanity.

> So the only way for OpenSea to "die" is if it's replaced by a different, but similar, central authority.

Only those who lack imagination or skill would assert such a thing.
There's lots of viable technologies that are currently displaced by the cost-performance of lithium ion batteries.

For instance, sodium-ion appears to be viable for grid storage and much less material limited than lithium-ion. Maybe it's addressed in the hour long video you link, I don't know.
Do check that they're not using a "cheating" implementation, I think some DBs have "sequential UUIDs" which are either UUIDv1 the right way up (aka uuidv6) internally, or an other scheme which yields a sequence (e.g. mssql's NEWSEQUENTIALID).

Alternatively, it's possible that they created pseudo-UUIDv1 by hand putting data in UUIDv6.
It exists as a demo (and on a student campus for food), but it's not like you can get Taler from your bank and pay at the supermarket or a random shop in the internet
No I'm not. Look at the data. Where are all these supposed deaths?
Because it’s none of your business.
Ireland... that's quite similar to "Iranland". That must be the problem.