skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> But in the end, it's FORTRAN all the way down. Even in Julia.

That's not true. None of the Julia differential equation solver stack is calling into Fortran anymore. We have our own BLAS tools that outperform OpenBLAS and MKL in the instances we use it for (mostly LU-factorization) and those are all written in pure Julia. See https://github.com/YingboMa/RecursiveFactorization.jl, https://github.com/JuliaSIMD/TriangularSolve.jl, and https://github.com/JuliaLinearAlgebra/Octavian.jl. And this is one part of the DiffEq performance story. The performance of this of course is all validated on https://github.com/SciML/SciMLBenchmarks.jl
Excellent, I was thinking of backing up my Gmail (but not with Thunderbird, had issues there in the past).

One suggestion - make it clearer that the backup format is not proprietary and can be consumed by other software. I assume that you're using a standard mbox format...
Bypassing Door Passwords
Source Code:
https://github.com/aydinnyunus/gateCracker
https://github.com/aydinnyunus/gateCracker-REST
I'm actually in Paris, but grated, I have no idea how things are in Barcelona or London.

I agree that transportation here has many issues and I absolutely hate it, but when I was a kid [0] I could get to school fine with the suburban train. My classmates had no issue getting there with the bus (regular, not school bus).

> Back when I had a car commute for work I could tell the day the school summer holidays begin just by how much it took me to get to work.

Sure, I can tell it from the Paris metro, too. The reason is that people tend to go away on vacation. This also explains the usual spikes in traffic jams the weekend right at the start and at the end of vacations.

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[0] I'm in my thirties, so that wasn't a long time ago
There was a point about web hooks being ephemeral and the events not. One could argue that it’s easier to comply with GDPR with webhooks. The example shown in the post of a deleted record would have to be removed after some time if the user requests their data to be off the platform
Rendering the primary text content and being able to collapse comments are not on the same level of functionality.

(Though for this particular website, I can see the text just fine with JS disabled in firefox, so I'm not sure why it doesn't work for CaliforniaKarl.)
I second the answers saying to bother on what to build, the how will follow, and that there is not hierarchy of languages. Js/Ts, rust, C++ are perfect choices. But maybe Go can be easy to take on after python. It all depends on what you want to build.
Fukushima. Current clean up cost around 600 billions dollars... Estimated costs over next 20 years? Unknown.

How much lives we could save or improve with that money... damn.
Do you have links to these certain sites/more info?
I use isync/mbsync (isync is the project name, mbsync is the executable name): https://isync.sourceforge.io/
Please notify us on the next achievements.
Losing a {byte,word,dword,qword} of weight

Cheers ;)
> No but maybe I can give a Croft-esque outfit to an in-game character if the player has the Lara Croft NFT. It could be a selling point to some players to be able to play with assets inspired by another game they love

Why would a company do this? They spend a load of dev time to create a valuable in-game asset linked to a non-fungible token created by a third party which only one person can possess at a time and then... hope the NFT owner pays $34.99 for a retail copy of the game, otherwise the asset goes unused?

That doesn't sound like a scalable marketing strategy.
Why be desperate? Cryptocurrencies are the dream of scammers and money launderers and criminals in general. Let them burn in hell
I've been thinking a lot about this. It seems to me that because many people in Europe have grown up in such homogeneous societies, there is a tendency to have blind spots when it comes to race. A recent example I can think of is how the Dutch justice minister said that if the Netherlands were a narco-state, then there would be someone with an exotic background in his place. I don't think he intended to be racist, I just think he didn't realise what he was saying had racist undertones.
1AM? you are tough mate. I was in bed by 10PM-10:30 in high school, broken in every sense of the word. If I was lucky I could actually pull off a 11PM but it was rare.
The restrictions are definitely not the same as they were 2 years ago when this all started. Schools shut, everyone working from home, no bar/cafe/restaurants, no outdoor social activities qas what we had then. In the last two weeks I've been to a bar twice and the cinema. I don't know of anywhere in the world (but could be wrong) that is still in that form of lock down right now.
In Why We Sleep by Matthew Walker there is a fascinating chapter about how teenagers are biologically programmed to sleep later and wake up later as well. He then explains that basically sending teenagers to school early in the morning is terrible health-wise and prevents optimal brain development.

Anecdata of course but I remember much like you being extremely sleepy at school all day and sleeping a lot on weekends.
Because the file name includes the "directory" prefix, i.e. each file's name stores the `/entire/bucket/dir/tree`, which can get large.
Happened an hour ago
It's like, _maybe_ eventual consistency. Hopefully the client doesn't try to do anything important with the ID/new object
Please help me understand one thing, while having in mind that I'm not particularly for or against single payer. My problem is that I don't buy the top argument for single payer I'm seeing here.

Many people here are arguing that healthcare is expensive, is a basic human need and it's really hard to get it in the US if you don't have a job paying for it. Even when jobs help out with the premiums, it's still hard to pay for it in California. All true.

Do you know another basic human need? A place to live. Without a place to live, you are homeless - which is normally seen as even worse as not having access to healthcare.

A place to live in the bay area is really expensive, more so than healthcare. I don't live in the bay area, but it appears that a reasonable rent for a place for 3 people is around $3500/mo or 42K/year. This is more than out of pocket (no subsidies) Kaiser + average healthcare expenses.

If the government is supposed to pay for healthcare in California, why isn't it supposed to pay for rent? Both are basic needs and quite expensive. Serious question.
I've been using mbsync (+ notmuch for indexing) for a good while. I run it nightly from a cron job, and it does what it is supposed to do.
About molten salt. I love idea, but we will have soon just 1st one right? Or is it already operational?

Btw. 660 bill on clean up thats nowhere to be done is big impact.
You mean compared to the abondended threads on Apple forums with major issues that never even get looked at? Or like the Microsoft support site where you can expect nothing but a canned response that does not even begin to tackle you actual issue?

Linux has its problems, support is none of them.
I'd say docker and sql. If you have some base that you want to build upon, extend the stack so that you are more versital and can handle issues around the stuff you are working on.
SentryPeer – SIP peer to peer honeypot for VoIP
Wow! Thanks for sharing--that really does strike me as unusual, coming from my US perspective. How did your friend date while living at home? I'm genuinely curious--having a hard time understanding how this would work (but I also have overbearing parents...).
Unfortunately, the best I have is a screenshot of a weibo screen inside a discord server that is now defunct so no luck on getting that out.
@Dang you haven’t even protected my identity like you promised.

Why do you have such a bent against victims of sexual assault and domestic violence?
agreed, I'd be more interested in syntax highlighting in my pager than in cat.
Because we never used the minor version and it doesn't have any practical value?

I mean I dislike the giant ponzi scheme but they do have a cool name, I'll give them that.
>NFTs and crypto currencies are a part of what people think the Web 3.0 will be, but they are definitely not synonyms. The author, however, seem to have did that.

Regardless of the original or intended definitions of "Web3", it will end up being whatever the masses think it is. To recap some history:

- "web3" circa ~2014 when coined by Gavin Wood covered 3 concepts without mentioning NFTs : (1) hash-ids of static content instead of urls (2) p2p encrypted messaging (3) consensus engine. (One of the earlier essays from 2014: https://gavwood.com/web3lt.html)

- "web3" circa ~2021 emphasizing the "token economy" (e.g. NFTs) popularized by Chris Dixon (a16z VC): this is the current news mania with celebrities selling jpgs, etc

Therefore "web3==NFTs" narrative has overtaken the original Gavin Wood narrative.

Analogous situation of evolution of terms was the "internet". In the 1980s, "internet" included Gopher, telnet, USENET, ftp. (E.g. I used to be able to telnet into public computers before all firewalls and Linux configs shut off telnet access.) But Gopher/USENET/etc faded and HTTP became the dominant idea of what "internet" is.

NFTs now have constant press coverage of eye-popping sale amounts from celebrities and OpenSea founders are now paper billionaires. Therefore, NFTs dominate the meaning of "web3" because getting rich is more sexy to talk about than encrypted-p2p-communications-based-on-hash-identities.
Very few games this would be the case.

There are games that completely waste their space, but we can’t lump them all together. Some create vast detailed and beautiful worlds from their storage budget. Some of them, however, are large without any compelling reason to be, with many gigabytes of wasted space on assets that are barely used.
It sounds eerily like geneticists trying to decipher where a gene or a piece of "junk" DNA came from and what they do.
You’re assuming that all schools are the same, they’re certainly not.

Yes, kids that already live in the city won’t obviously get taken to school by car, but most good schools in the periphery better have a way to handle the cars.
Well, you would have some kind of synchronisation protocol where the database confirms it has received that record and it now exists.
You missed the point then
The ability to mix different types of ID in one column or one business data store.

When you start with random UUIDs, and then decide you actually wanted per-host-namespaced ones halfway through, if you have allocated zero bits for the version ID you're up the creek.

You're trading off present-day efficiency for future-day flexibility. Whether that's wise for a particular case depends on that case.
Yes you are missing incoming money transfers to your account.

People that earn money on NFT don't have feeling that they miss something.
Thanks for the info, this was insightful. :)
As a parent this is sort of what I do with my kids -- there are problems I've faced along the way that I would have loved help with. I'm looking out for those things and trying to impart what seems like wisdom from where I am now.
At what age where you riding the train by yourself?
This so much. The reason my family has no choice but running Linux is because I get peace.

I still remember the regularity they found new viruses to fuck up their computers (15+ years ago). Hasn't happen once since.
Nicht dass ich wüsste, tut mir leid…
heise.de und golem.de sind vielleicht als technikorientierte Seiten interessant. Heise betreibt auch die deutsche Version von Technology Review, und Telepolis; eine Plattform die mehr in Richtung Nachrichten zur Gesellschaftsentwicklung geht (sollte aber kritisch gelesen werden, da zum Teil ein paar 'ungewöhnliche' Ansichten vertreten werden).
As a freetime project I monitor my internet connections and display them on a world map. It's interesting to see where your traffic goes in the world and to what company. You can make statistics like "which company got the most traffic or most TCP connections from me".

I wonder if this will be still possible with IPv6.
I hope so. Do I need to report rent splitting? What fresh tax hell would that be?
We rejected several schools last year for exactly this reason.

One in particular made a huge virtue out of being super early. That one we didn't even bother assessing on other dimensions.
Then someone drops in to remind this comment that USD and other paper is still preferred and less traceable. These arguments are always the same on both sides.
In TableCheck's API we do the same--both webhooks and events. Our clients (mostly Java/"enterprise") tend to choose polling for events.

We also retry webhooks with a backoff timer until we get an HTTP 200 response.

When any event has been successfully delivered (either by webhook or by a polling query) it is flagged as "delivered" and doesn't appear in subsequent polling, unless you add an include_delivered=true param.
My takeaway from this article: decentralization is usually bad UX (gas fees, slow to add features...), so people tend to aggregate to platforms w/ better UX that sit on top of decentralized services, which leads back to centralization

I love the Gmail analogy, that even though email is decentralized, everyone just uses Gmail (probably because it's a better UX)
However, the quality of the comments on heise and golem is abysmal (trolls and other idiots have taken over the forums/comments for years now) - and both use very hostile and intrusive nag screens to force you to accept cookies and ads. Better browse in incognito mode only.
We do not break userspace (2012)
I didn't know that about Japan. I was born overseas but have been living in the US since I was three, so you're correct--definitely a US perspective. The capitalist slant is interesting too but I don't know if I totally agree with it...I suppose it's possible.

I think my point is less about where you physically live and more about how you prioritize your time and focus.
> “Ah ha! Each of you has one falsehood in your lecture notes.”

Wouldn't that itself be the lie for that lecture?
Yes, and even more fun in that direction, the shape of the letter O descends directly from the hieroglyph of the eye.
You are massively over estimating how much a copy of the entire history of ethereum costs.

You can store the entire blockchain on a 1 tb harddrive.

The cost prohibitive nature is only running an open rpc that you tell hundreds of thousands of people about. Then you will have to deal will letting all those people access that 1tb of data.

Quicknode lets you have a private rpc with the full history of the chain for dollars a month.
This is golden. Thanks!
Not really, here school ends up at a given date (it’s generally around the 20th of June). It doesn’t matter if it’s Tuesday, and most parents will be still working until August.
Here is the why:

At the moment NFTs + crypto cover up to 95% of web3’s marketing visible functionalities.

Additionally no killer “app” has been shown to the public where it demonstrate an intangible value over previous technology, at least that the public understands it.
Stupid condescending article. Anybody who thinks quitting smoking is just a question of "realizing you don't want it anymore" has never tried to quit smoking.
The “a calorie is a calorie” is on over-simplification, but it’s a fairly safe one to make, until you’re managing all the upstream concerns optimally. It’s like the eng. concept of first getting the orders of magnitude right, before zeroing in on the details.

(This is for people with normal metabolisms, ie not diabetics)
If the job is to model financial statements to produce a forecast model, to answer questions like

* what cash flows can we expect from this business

* what will the profit be in 12 months

* what will that do to my balance sheet

... then Excel is still the best tool. Financial statements are usually less than 100 rows each. All the modelling is on a tab, out front where you can print it and sense check it with a highlighter. People on hn often think towards the big data world ( and like the other poster I would exhaust sql before anything else for ad hoc analysis), but there is a huge amount of work done that is more like my use case than yours.
But you don't plant a new forest where there was fire last year... Or you do? xD
Soft bigotry of low expectations is definitely a thing in Americans who aren't violent, raging assholes. I would even argue that it underpins a certain part of the diversity effort - the one that wants racial quotas.
This looks good, I've been meaning to backup my emails to the cloud for a while.

For anyone interested, or has suggestions on how to improve my general backup process (DBs, pfsense router config dumps, bitwarden passwords etc), here is the general process I use:

- Run a backup container as part of the docker-compose file as part of the service definition
- This container will always run, and start a cron service
- The cron is run from an env var set to the cron schedule syntax
- The cron runs an entrypoint script that calls a mounted mounted script in a consistent location (/cron/run.sh)
- The script will do some basic integrity checking, like making sure the file containers some data, is over 1MB and a few other things. This could be greatly improved. In the future for databases, I want to actually restore it to a database in a container and query it for data
- Zip, compress and place the data on a cloud service like S3
- On completion, the entrypoint script calls healthchecks.io to inform that a ran was done. I will get an alert if this task does not run in a set amount of time. The healthchecks.io alerts are created with the terraform provider, but I would love a way to integrate this with my current setup

In the future, I should really be doing some kind of integrity checking of these files once on the cloud.

I used Duplicati for a long time, but I had a disk failure on my home server recently and when I went to restore from a Duplicati backup on S3, it was corrupted. I should have had alerts set up for this, but I have now sworn off any solution that I don't fully understand whats happening with.
My parents found this box of Amiga floppy disks
I don't know of one yet. Lot of people are working on it, using various strategies. The grail being able to provide a virtual fitting-room experience. Or monitoring fitness of individuals.

A 2021 paper with code (I haven't tried it): https://github.com/akashsengupta1997/hierarchicalprobabilist... to generate a 3d morph-able human-shape in the correct pose from a single picture.

A picture always has scale uncertainty (a 2-meter human viewed from 1 meter away look the same that a 1-meter human viewed from 0.5 meter away), so that is an additional problem that must be taken care of.

But now recent phone have 3d sensor that provide information that could be useful.

To generate 3d human models there is also makehuman . In the old days there was a soft called facegen, that could generate 3d face models and could automatically fit their parameters to two pictures using an iterating refinement procedure.

Deep-learning usually estimate everything jointly in a single step so they are faster, but often less accurate. But there exist models that learn to refine a previously generated model, so you can apply them repeatedly and get improved quality (Denoising Diffusion Probabilistic Models is one generic class of models that does this).
SEEKING WORK - Contract, Remote, Part-Time (15-20hrs/week)

Technologies:
* Go (Golang), gRPC, Protobuf, GraphQL
* AWS, Google Cloud, Azure, Terraform, Docker, Kubernetes
* CI/CD: Jenkins, Gitlab, GitHub Actions, Concourse, Azure DevOps
* Postgres, MySQL, Grafana, New Relic, ELK, LogDNA, Kong Gateway, Payment integrations (Stripe, Adyen)

Recent highlights:
* working with one of the big UK supermarkets on their virtual till api to facilitate in-store and online integrations like uber eats/deliveroo
* building from scratch a multi-tenant hotel room booking system - now in production taking approx. 7000 bookings and generating £5mill revenue per month
* an on-premise to Google Cloud migration - tech lead: containerising legacy applications, coding standards, templates, logging and metrics

Location: UK - can travel/relocate for short-term
Remote: Yes
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I am an experienced backend engineer (15+ years) currently contracted to a public sector service in UK. I have been working with Go the last 3 years and before that mainly traditional Java stacks (more recently Kotlin). Very much adopted a DevOps philosophy with good experience across deployment pipelines, monitoring and generally maintaining distributed systems with best practices in mind. I'm looking for part-time work only and can travel/relocate within reason.
Some years back (maybe 5-10?) I remember doing a test with UUIDs on Postgres, and found no speed difference between UUIDs and integer PKs.

I don't remember the parameters of the test, however.
That probably would not happen in a first world country.
No. Spend 90 days socialising building relationships with you managers and coworkers, get nothing done blaming it on “I’m new here”
What would be your solution? I hope not the car, that ruins children's self-reliance and is generally to be avoided. Also clutters the streets.
No the expectation is that users of projects stop assuming SemVer is followed by every projects.

> pushing breaking changes at a yearly rate. That’s a horrible developer experience.

That's your opinion. I much prefer these bite sized yearly changes to much bigger changes over longer periods. e.g. Ruby with this strategy never had the big divide Python 3 had with its much larger change.
Carving Warsaw out of Mazowieckie would be very beneficial to Warsaw itself because it wouldn't depend on PiS wojewoda anymore, too bad this idea has died out. And voting in Poland has always happened on Sundays.
"No, you provided an unusual, very specific example, and strongly implied that you would fire any of the nannies you employ if they became pregnant. That says a lot about your mindset."

I never said anything about firing pregnant employees, it says a lot about YOUR mindset that you think I did. And it is not a unusal example, there are a lot of kindergardens in the world.

In my country (public) health insurance takes over paying sick people (or pregnant) people after a certain amount of time.

You keep claiming there is cheap insurance, which I rather doubt. In any case, it shouldn't have to be the responsibility of the employer. All that does is make employers reluctant to hire sickly people or people who are at risk of becoming pregnant.

"That's a terrible argument. Not only is switching not always an option, especially for low-wage jobs, but if we allow widespread abuse of employees then there usually aren't better options to switch to."

That is the usual leftist claim, which is just bullshit. Employers have to compete for workers, too, also they don't have absolute power giving out goodies to slave like employees, as leftists claim. People can take responsibility for themselves.

There are many, many leftists - are you saying they all would treat their employees badly, if they were to start companies? Or are leftists somehow incapable of starting companies?
This is probably the best argument I have seen in favour of web3
Funny because in the current b2b fintech project I work at I designed all protocols with /events (long-poll), but later everyone asked for a webhook instead. And their API is full of webhooks. It feels like people who build these systems don't bother to implement event streams.
Probably just https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/t-sql/functions/newsequ...
I think I've used Rails seriously only once or twice in my professional life but yeah, mostly treat data-stores as just dumb stores in most projects, unless it has some special requirements.