skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I remember doing this, transferred a few large (at the time) files from one server to another. There were definitely some clients which had this feature, but I cannot remember which one I was using specifically. If I remember correctly, I did this because the servers in question were some "free" webhosting things where you'd only get ftp access (along with http, of course), but no shell.

I also remember talking to some people back in the day who regularly did that supposedly. Members of some minor warez group who uploaded new releases to one server and then used FTP to directly transfer files from one server to another to create mirrors. Then retransfer from the two servers that now had it to even more servers for some exponential growth.
But that is what a lot of these initiatives want. They want to be able to say "Bob got X, so I should get X."
Same here in Japan: generally phenomenal service, no tipping. Even the convenience store staff and McDonald's drive-thru staff are exceptional.

I've lived in Asia long enough that I hate eating out in the States when I return, with the silly expectation of tacking an extra 15% onto my bill just for the staff to do their job.
You're being little too quick to judge here. This project represents software running on an embedded device to collect, process, store and display measurement data in realtime from the real world. Like something you could connect to a solar panel or a small battery pack and put outside in your greenhouse.

Nerves is an incredibly powerful tool. It will burn a firmware image to an SD card for you that you can just insert into your device and boot. It's almost like magic. There is also an elegant OTA (over-the-air) update process so that you can update your device remotely, where it deals with managing disk partitions so that the system can pull the new image and boot into it without the need to remove the SD card. You also get the benefits of lots of community work for supporting a big number of devices. And when what the community has created isn't working for you, it's all just open-source buildroot goodness so you can do your own thing. In a project I was working on I needed an external wifi adapter vs. the onboard one and was able to recompile a custom kernel to enable the right drivers. It was a lot easier than I ever imagined.

You also get Elixir - which is pretty rad in and of itself to have such a powerful runtime on a tiny little device.

So sure, you can do as you describe but you are only considering about 1% of this project: rendering data for the user to see. You are missing out on the fact that in order to gather that data you need to be able to communicate with some kind of embedded chip that is actually collecting those measurements, often via a very low-level communication protocol like i2c or spi. You need to parse the measurements, which are often not in a human-friendy format, then you need to get the data out/off the device so you need a network stack, your network might go down so you need a system to capture data and replay it once the network is restored, etc. It's really sophisticated! Seeing a book like this is incredible.
Moving the goal post I see.
Why does (near) silence equate to incompetence?
this is new to me. i appreciate the response
Possibly related hypothesis: a minority of the human-generated content on the internet is "genuine", that is said because it is believed. Rather, a majority of the content that pretends to be genuine, is instead done only in order to try to provoke a response. In other words, most of the human-generated content on the internet is done by a human trying to emulate a bot, or at least with the same motivations as a bot.
I wonder how these social media posts were being uploaded due to a loss of internet connectivity. Satellite internet, or has internet been restored already?
Still not massively convinced HTTP needed to progress beyond 1.1. I’m sure someone at Google got a promotion out of it though.
Robinhood doesn’t support naked positions at all.
Changes in the implementations are not the question. It's application that she's skeptical of. Who has found a reason to use Blockchain for anything other than cryptocurrency?

I actually witnessed one attempt. An actual Fortune 100 built a Blockchain for their public communications. Mostly just an excuse to show off their street cred. It landed with an absolute thud. Nobody cared.
If tips do improve service why aren't they for example used with judges, police officers, immigration and toll, tax officers and so on? Should everyone be ready to give bit to this poor people so they can provide more personal and better service?
War is expensive. It is impossible to hide the preparation for it
I've been using BunnyCDN - it's been pretty cheap (<$5 month for 250GBs of data transfer).
The poor guy is lost on the wrong side of the planet.
You’re getting unfairly teased for this; I do think its a bit weird. But it’s mostly a problem for FAANG. My advice to everyone who can get a job at FAANG is to put in 5 or 6 years there, raking in a few million dollars (!!). Pay off student debts and secure your future, and then work for ~100k on something you care about or good for the world.

FAANG has to pay so much that they can actually have trouble retaining people. This pattern I have described seems to be becoming more common.
Ok, speculate all day, but...instead, build an example, for older hardware. Allow a 68040 or so, even. That shouldn't be all that hard with modern tools. Let's see if it would have been better / useful / good. It could, at worst, point to another direction which could be taken now.
I had to do this recently because of a now-ex-friend. He crashed an Omakase dinner six courses in, loudly demanded a menu and when he was refused tried to order a beer. The wait staff managed to get rid of him. As a party we tipped 100% and stopped returning his calls.
$vau: the ultimate abstraction - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18405014 - Nov 2018 (25 comments)
Sorry, I've tried to parse this several times and I'm just confused as to how the system actually functions. Like, I have a dollar. I buy a token at the ICO price of a dollar. I dont understand how you can guarantee no one can ever buy a token for less than a dollar. What happens if I need US currency today?
Great library and an amazing README. I kind of wish this functionality was built into the language tooling and other languages.
WiFi adapters don't really expose this type of interface. WiFi adapters interact with the host computer by sending and receiving packets, the 802.11 framing and radio de/modulation is performed internally by the adapter. In other words, the host computer sees IP packets, not radio data. Some adapters (or really most adapters) provide some ability for the host to send and receive raw 802.11 frames but it's an infrequently used feature and tends to have a lot of caveats and limitations... you'll see a lot of discussion of this if you read into security/exploitation use-cases for WiFi that involve monitoring or generating 802.11 management traffic.

This is somewhat related to the old difference between a "modem" and a "winmodem": proper telephone modems performed the de/modulation internally, winmodems did not and relied on the host processor to do so, resulting in generally lower performance but a much cheaper device. At modern network data rates it is not really feasible to do this and the general direction is towards offloading more and more of the work to the network adapter, outside of the host's control or view.

For gnuradio you need raw radio samples, often referred to as IQ data due to the nomenclature for amplitude and phase. Few devices that aren't specifically designed for software-defined radio use expose this data because it requires extra complexity in the device and tends to be rather high-bandwidth. The "RTL SDR" TV tuner dongles are so well known precisely because they contain an undocumented feature that allows a host to request raw IQ data, although at a poor sample rate and bandwidth since these devices were not really intended for it.
"Entirely novel" is a high bar, but that does exclude edgelord rubbish, which is what they think passes for heretical.

Taking a knee is mild compared to the precedent of raising a black gloved fist on the podium at the Olympic Games. Still heretical to the nationalist-lite orthodoxy.
There is no unlimited downside with options. The worst case scenario is losing the amount you paid for the contract.
I’d say continue to use Wise now. No reason to switch UNLESS you get faster transaction, lower fee, less risk, and it’s more practical to do a crypto transfer. I believe if you join the novi beta today this might be the case if you want to send $$ to Guatemala. For the rest of the world: Early days my friend.
> This was written in response to LionKimbro saying he wanted to get beyond text for programming. (Ie. TextFreeProgramming) [..] I'll go further and say that it's denial of text-files [..] that ultimately killed SmallTalk. Had someone seen this clearly in 1980 [..] we might have seen a very different evolution of computing : a true synthesis of Smalltalk and Unix. Smalltalk could have become the graphical shell on top of Unix, providing it instantly with a sophisticated GUI

This seems to rely on the assumption that Unix was the best approach for OSes one could do in 1980. Perhaps we should also think not just getting beyond text for programming but also beyond Unix as the lowest common denominator in thinking about OSes?

(BTW "beyond text" doesn't mean "beyond symbols" since somehow you'd need to represent the program neither "beyond keyboard" - especially if you consider that chances are your keyboard already has a bunch of symbols like "@#$%^" that aren't really text, they just are some random symbols that someone at some point decades ago decided it'd be useful to be part of ASCII)
https://blogs.nasa.gov/dart/2021/11/24/nasa-spacex-launch-da...
I am always shocked that radio isn’t core science curriculum in high school at this point.
>I rarely (never?) see Apple engineers posting in these threads.

You mean on HN? Oh they do, From JSC to Webkit Engineers. Mostly on technical discussions.
I suppose once you are improving the service of a government official we call it a bribe
Any chance this is at least partially deliberate? If more people were to use GNU Radio, the manufacturers of said hardware would get sued until they were forced to lock down their hardware.
Firstly, Facebook is a unicorn. Secondly, most people are just happy setting up a lifestyle business that generates passive income with little effort, albeit the initial setup of the business will be tough and have many hurdles, but you can 'set and forget' / automate many things if you put in that initial hard work.
A lot of people of a certain age think this. It's the old "The Golden Age of Science Fiction is 12" effect. People just have subjective fondness for TV, movies, and music from their youth. Later generations may just find them cheesy.
It was called Unix Navigator - I don't see any obvious references/links.
You were right, blockchain analytics was a great startup opportunity and there are already a bunch of companies, like Glassnode, doing blockchain analytics.

You also seem to be missing a lot of interesting stuff happening with cryptos if you think it's exclusively price speculation.
right because there's no examples of modern comedy that uses trans people as the butt of their jokes... None at all. Certainly no massively successful Netflix standup specials or anything like that.
Depends on the people I’d say. There’s definitely a market.
> Building a computer or a phone company today is basically impossible. We're heading towards a state of extreme monopolies. There is no way to vertically integrate like Apple without having access to crazy amount of resources and time.

If you're building a new hardware company today, you wouldn't want to start out vertically integrated. You'd start by whitelabeling from an ODM, and as you gain experience and hopefully sales, figure out what parts you can design and get manufactured yourself. You can't differentiate much when you're selling the same ODM kit as everyone else, but maybe support or updates or meaningful changelogs or a splash or color or less spyware or ?
Automated Market Makers (AMM) and Liquidity Staking/Providers are terms for what you have described.
Cloudflare has a CDN gateway on top, but they don't do pinning (just kidding, you can add a site to IPFS through CF now — edit2: I still don't think they do pinning... really can't tell): https://developers.cloudflare.com/distributed-web/ipfs-gatew...
> As long as there are single-member districts it's basically impossible for a third party to gain a large representation.

This is only a result of first past the post voting. If a third party had any significant support, they would split the vote with the major party most like them and hand the election to the major party least like them. Then the third party merges with the major party most like them and we're back to two parties.

Switch to STAR/range/approval voting and that doesn't happen. You can run a hundred candidates and no one splits the vote. There is no point in even having primaries anymore, just run all your candidates in the general. Party becomes little more than an endorsement.

Libertarians don't have to run as Republicans to avoid splitting the vote with them, and then don't have to vote with Republicans on stupid wars or oil subsidies or whatever to avoid having a Republican run against them and hand the next election to a Democrat. Likewise with Greens vs. Democrats and anything else you like.
Your comment makes no sense technically. PoW is not a solution to the 51% attack, 51% attack is an attack on PoW.

Furthermore your analysis of PoS makes no sense as well. I guess you have a lot of BTC?
This is pretty great!
An electronic viewfinder or a hybrid viewfinder like the fuji xpro/x100.
>just leave the pan on the stove and drop the heat right down.

I still lift the pan to cool things a bit on an induction top; most units will give you 2 or 3 seconds before auto-off when you do so.

Why you may ask? My cheap induction hob has slowly failing membrane keys.
As far as i understand, the dao de ching is in fact more of a confucian text. Its original focus was 'how to rule'. Albeit a great intro to thought of that time and place. It may be my perverse nature, but religions that actively try and hide their knowledge make me think they have something worth researching (as opposed to ones that knock on the door and try to convert me!). Its hard to find good stuff online. Here is a rare "interview with a daoist":

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ZG_E1BDb_XFmvq-dj6ZK_vFWYJz...

The other component that seems uniquely daoist is the fundamental goal of long life/immortality (as opposed to a buddhist nirvana) hence the emphasis on starting with the body and the overlap with chinese internal arts taichi, hsing i and bagua.

Around the 15th c there was a fundamental shift in physical training theory to the principles of the yi jin jing ("changing the muscles into the quality of tendons theory")

This is a sophisticated and fundamentally different approach to the body than most western training systems.

Here's a rare clear explanation:
https://youtu.be/ZuA484T1CHM
who dictates what false information is and what not?
the majority?
guess what. the majority once thought the earth is flat
I couldn’t care less :) if you want to pretend the rest of the ecosystem doesn’t exist it’s up to you. But it’s a bit like China looking at democracies in the west and only looking at the US and being “democracies don’t have universal healthcare, what’s the point lol”.
Bitcoin is not a Ponzi scheme because IF it successfully achieves a certain level of adoption or usage it WILL have some intrinsic value. The current value can be seen as a view of the average expected future value. A risky bet/investment is not the same as a Ponzi scheme, even if _some_ people are talking it up like scammers.

The fact that YOU do not believe that future will happen doesn't make it a Ponzi, just a bad investment in your eyes. And yes, some people talking up their book and trying to manipulate it's price — a pump and dump — is still a scam on their part, but it doesn't make the underlying asset a Ponzi scheme.

At a bare minimum there are some fringe use cases (no matter how unsavoury - dark web, ransomware, etc.), so I'd argue that barring a major security flaw, even if bitcoin was banned everywhere, the floor price would be >0. (I am considerably more optimistic for long term use cases, but we're just talking about whether it's a Ponzi or not here, which doesn't require any extra optimism.)

I honestly don't know if BTC will end up above the current price in 2, 5, 10, 50 years time, but I do still think it's incredibly cool that we were able to create something with a demonstrable non-zero value and no centralised control.

The challenge now is to keep iterating the ideas, make new weird and wonderful things, throw them all at the wall, and see if anything sticks. Luckily plenty of people seem as excited about that research and exploration for the sake of it as me, so I think we're going to get to find out :)
I suppose it could be argued that the streaming services don't count as "American TV". They aren't exclusivly American and the bulk of their content doesn't follow any sort of TV format.

So if we were looking specifically at the major broadcast channels: ABC, NBC, CBS, and PBS, then I think the TV of the 60s/70s is probably easily much better.
I’m going to hurt my neck
My perception of Apple’s (software) engineering capabilities comes from being their customer and using their products daily.

This might be different if I had some perception of what was happening internally or how problems are approached. But from what I see nobody at Apple cares. So the silence contributes to the perception of incompetence by not counter-acting it.
One man observes while the other keeps moving
> I just named a rather massive one in my comment.

You named one that was envisioned by the creator(s) of Bitcoins 13 years ago and was subsequently abandoned. Today bitcoin is marketed as a store of value, not money. Also the idea that it is a P2P money without intermediaries is laughable. What are miners other than intermediaries in a transaction?
Maybe I’m just not reading the right threads then. It’s all a perception.
How do they know how well they're going to be tipped at the end?
I work on Mina, check it out
Why not Zoidberg, tbh?
Experiencing something repeatedly and feeling the need to keep doing it sounds an awful lot like a habit.
I think the idea that you've developed some absolute control through consciousness is the final stage of a habit. You go from forcing yourself to go to running practise weekly, to internalising that you are a runner and nothing could stop you from going.
I would be interested to know what insurers are thinking about flights over places like Iran, Afghanistan, and Ukraine right now.
I noticed that too, and my initial reaction was similar to yours.

But then I realized there's nothing wrong with "Self-improvement is embracing your messy, imperfect life". The paradox is that letting go of the fantasies we have of ourselves can actually help us move closer to a better version of who we'd like to be.

For example, today I woke up and thought "I should just accept the fact the I'll likely waste many hours on YouTube, Twitter, podcasts, etc." The funny thing, it already put me at ease that if the day ends up being like this, it won't totally surprise me, and perhaps I won't judge myself too harshly for it.

Which in turn could change the direction of my day, now that I feel a bit more relaxed and less uptight.

We'll see.
Seems like a pretty reasonable analysis of what is going on. I'd be interested in hearing any rebuttals.
Dependencies are why we have functional tests.

Write as much code as you can that has no dependencies. Unit test that code exhaustively. Fake all inputs that don't contain behavior. Mock all interactions that do. Then write functional tests that check that the glue and state management actually work with the real things.

The plumber is still going to run water and check for leaks before they leave, no matter how many certifications the copper piping came with. But that's only at the end of a long process of work and inspections.
I call it: delicious!
Fastpay can pretty much do infinite transactions/s
And quite importantly: lighter, and longer battery life. Displays, CPU, RAM, flashlights and storage use a ton of power, anything that can save on that is useful.
Feel free to respond to this comment with your LinkedIn. I will DM you there.
There's a huge segment of prosumers missing from your list - aspiring content creators. If you look at the numbers someone like Peter McKinnon is putting up on youtube, you realize there are millions of people out there learning how to use mirrorless + DSLR kits for things like twitch, youtube, ecommerce, etc.
Do you mean manufacturers of RTLSDR devices? Those don’t need to be locked down (in the US), as they are receive-only devices.
This happens with many companies when there is internal realization that the same labor is being paid unfairly. I’ll never forget hearing from a colleague whom I admired their work being paid half of what I was paid. The difference? They were much older and had no formal education. I was a new hire with a degree. This absolutely floored me and they gave our boss an ultimatum of matching the market rate. It worked out for them and their career.

You should know your market rate at the current company you’re at. Most people don’t have that transparency today and seek new opportunities because of it. It absolutely feels terrible to know that a loyal productive employee is getting paid significantly less than a new hire who will jump ship in a year or two.

If the company is going to min/max compensation, you have to take that into your own hands and play the game of getting what you’re worth in the market. Ironically most people do that by jumping ship temporarily and coming back with what they wanted in the first place.

Managers should be actively looking out for their employees. It’s their main priority of retention. HR needs to give them enough budget to keep up with the market and not be greedy. It costs much more in the long run when there’s retention issues anyway.
> That's not even close to a file system

Nonetheless, Smalltalk is to Unix as globals dictionary is to file system, image is to virtual machine, etc.

> How do systems outside of Smalltalk get access to the Smalltalk global? How is such access mediated? How are permissions handled? What's more, if other systems could get access to a pointer (and it didn't move out from under them during a GC), how would they be able to deal with the data?

How do systems outside of Unix get access to the file system? How is such access mediated? How are permissions handled? What's more, if other systems could get access to a disk sector (and it didn't move out from under them during normal system activity), how would they be able to deal with the data?

Answer these questions, and you'll have answered those you asked about Smalltalk. If you squint a little.
A heretical idea is any idea that people are scared of and suspect is true. If they didn't suspect it is true, they'd have no reason to be scared.