skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This comment would read better if it were to admit that yes it is a different moral question to be forced to do something compared to doing something voluntarily but that in this context of the vaccine it's a not bad choice.
*100x. One of the other threads mentioned that they had to post their maximum bid publicly in a blockchain somewhere as part of the “dao” before the auction, so someone could easily have seen what they were willing to bid, and just bid them up to it.
Maybe they should've considered that before they decided to depend on fish and not American businesses, thereby making themselves expendable! There really is no respect for personal responsibility in the world these days.
> Depends on what you mean by the manipulation.

Fair point. I'll use the SEC's definition: "transactions which create an artificial price or maintain an artificial price for a tradable security". What the author described is exactly this.

> Some are illegal, some perfectly legal.

Agree. My point is probably more about the ease of manipulation when you have a completely deregulated environment.
So, the relevant bit from the Play Store policy documents is probably: https://support.google.com/googleplay/android-developer/answ...

That policy seems very reasonable. Is the policy being misapplied here? Hard to say, since it's describing the spirit of the rules rather than an exhaustive list of specific violations. It doesn't seem that anything in the title would be misleading. But the original title is kind of irrelevant; whether the app is libre or not has no bearing on its functionality.
Check out Jubeat Plus. Maybe it is real enough if you play on a large touch screen. Or perhaps you can find some replacement parts for the real machine and cobble together a DIY input controller.

I remember seeing a bootleg Jubeat (that isn't called one) in my local arcade. Perhaps it is from some Chinese or Taiwanese vendors. The input devices are very similar but it does not run Jubeat though.
What about anyone who fully understood its value proposition and held for a 3-4 yr timeframe?

EDIT: let’s check back in in 1-3 yrs here and see if people who bought last year and held are doing :-)
Youtube is pretty magical. It has everything, even in the "kid zone". Which also means I can't leave them unsupervised for 30 minutes and come back.

If I do, my kids will've gone from educational video about the rain forest to sponsored video to toy videos to slime to fart jokes to music videos of bikini-clad bimbos to steamy romance videos to ...

Anyway it's just too much work to curate youtube for a child, IMO.

For example, my kiddo found a bunch of inappropriately steamy fan fiction for her favorite cartoons narrated on youtube... and she demonstrated that she knew it was inappropriate because she started hiding her screen from us.
I don't have an answer for your question but it sounds like you are describing something like SlingBox [1] which is a device that lets you stream your entertainment center at home to your remote devices. If you had a DVD juke-box [2] or something like it then you could load it with rented movies.

I have no idea if SlingBox is compatible with all the DVD juke-box style DVD players. One could probably ask them what is known to work.

[1] - https://www.slingbox.com/

[2] - https://www.amazon.com/Sony-DVP-DVPCX777ES-Disc-SACD-Changer... [example, not tested]
Comments like these make me wish hackernews had a follow button.

You leave the article with a certain conception and sometimes it's utterly shattered in the comments; This is one of those times.
But maybe they were for the ones where they're use was (particularly) not pointless? I.e. those with consistent high readings, with simple measures like opening windows not helping (or for some reason not being practical).

It would make more sense to me to send 7-8k of them to say London schools than 20k to country schools.

Seems a bit tough to ever make them practical without central AC though, which is not common (nor any AC) in the UK.
I can't recall where, however I remember reading a super-interesting blog post of an old-time linux user complaining about his video card not being able to drive his displays.

He "solved" the issue by lowering the video card refresh rate (60hz -> 30hz) -- iirc.

Can't find that post anymore, but I always wondered if that approach would have allowed me to dive more displays with my integrated intel gpu. I was unable to go further than three 1920x1200 external displays (I had to sacrifice the fourth display, the laptop's built-in display)
At the very least, it's wrong that no one has ever been upset by this; many people have been very vocally upset by this.
One branch that was super-popular in the day was the dbase family (I work in FoxPro, it was THE dream).

Working in Fox dispel many of the weird limitations of sql (and BTW, you can use SQL on Fox alike linq, is first-class).

The #1? You can build ALL using the relational model. After MS kill Fox my career can be summarized as: Trying N workarounds because I don't have Fox anymore.

Other langs (python, delphi, f#, rust) capture a little of the magic or make the workaround bearable, but none is as productive.
Wayback Machine link, in case it's needed in the future: https://web.archive.org/web/20220117161603/https://ounapuu.e...
So you are not even arguing practicality, it's just straight up class conflict for you? Color me unsurprised.
Ahhhhh thank you. I had a minor freak out, thanks for the good info!
Why does something as basic as uppercasing a string or decoding latin1 require a third-party library? I would expect that to be part of stdlib in any language. Also, why does that third-party library come with its own string implementation? What if my dependency X uses zigstr but dependency Y prefers zig-string <https://github.com/JakubSzark/zig-string>? Basically all languages designed in the past 30 years have at least basic and correct-for-BMP Unicode support built-in/as part of stdlib. Why doesn’t Zig?
Correct.

To be pedantic, there is a built-in 16kB ROM starting at address 0x00000000 with RPi's open-source BootROM burned into it at the time the silicon is manufactured. There's no publicly-known way to write to this. It's technically "non-volatile storage", but it's not useful to anyone other than RaspberryPi/TSMC.
The most useful non-source code resources at the time were about GCC, BSD and Apple’s PDF guides on how the OS works, and the Human Interface Guides, paid Developer Connection accounts got you tools mailed to you and DVDs of WWDC seminars.

But it’s a profession, selling shrinkwapped desktop applications or the modern equivalent takes a lot.
Until recently the limit was 35, and 50 earlier still.

Google enforces new limits on app updates, so this game was not updated recently.
Ask HN: What are some worthy non-cryto uses of excess home compute nowadays?
When I was a kid, I remember participating in Folding@Home. Unfortunately, the project doesn't appear nearly as active as when I was younger. What do people do with excess home compute (if anything) nowadays?

I'm not interested in crypto.
Depending on what you're doing Cytoscape.js might also work.

https://js.cytoscape.org/
Restaurants Treat Sick Workers Bad, Will Anything Change Because of Omicron?
Nah. Probably exclude app already in store.
The drones are for bombing wedding parties. (The reader may wish to let that sentence sink in).

Link: https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=drone+wedding+party
Ford, Stripe sign agreement to overhaul automaker's online payments
PDI? What's that? Pad the Dealer's Income?

While that might be the joke for a lot of car dealers and companies, you're supposed to pretend to give a shit about the quality of the car before you hand a multi-ton machine with a bunch of lithium to a customer.
>>those people now OWN your precious Libertarian party

I see you have confused the Libertarian party with libertarianism they are pretty different

>>Do you support with the way your glorious Libertarian leader Rand Paul has attacked and endangered Anthony Fauci's

Aside from the complete falsehood of this statement entirly, I do support elected officials grilling non-elected bureaucrats in the manner used by Rand.

I also believe Fauci unfit to serve in his current role and there are serious questions around his tenure that need to be addressed including the funding of the Wuhan lab.
> * it passed the Matrix test. (1. I want to watch the original Matrix. 2. I searched for the Matrix and clicked the result. 3. It streamed the Matrix to me.)

This Matrix test is a great one, I'm going to apply it to a bunch of services and see what I get.

I think I might just have a bit of a hangover from how many times HBO Max logged me out and made me log back in via some contorted system with my cable provider that has caused me inertia with renewing it. Also, now that I think back, another problem that caused me to avoid it a bit was that the HBO Max app sometimes just seemed to freeze up on my Roku in the middle of navigating through shows. Certainly possible they have improved the app over the last year, and will respect my time more if I pay them $15 + taxes per month directly instead of through a shitty cable subscription.

In any case, I freely concede that HBO Max probably does have a higher-quality backlog of content overall – my main point is that a simpler interface can actually make up for lack of content in some cases.

> * that crazy Ridley Scott series with those shrieking harpies that fly around asploding the hell out of atheists

Raised by Wolves? I think the creepy sci-fi vibe of Scott's stuff is just not my thing – everything in Prometheus and Alien: Covenant both just made me uncomfortable instead of interested, even though they had visuals that were technically impressive. The trailer for that series seemed similar when I watched it.

> Edit: reworded so I only use the adjective "fucking" once when referring to ad-based streaming services

I think you were right the first time. Ad-based services these days always remind me of the 15 Million Merits Black Mirror episode.
I'm very curious at to what happened next. How did the conversation go with the dev and did they get to keep their job?
> Such an innocent looking operator, the simplest of all operations, leading to a function call, a memory allocation and thus a very real potential memory leak, all of that hidden from the eyes...

It's not a given that floating-point addition is a simpler operation than string concatenation.

If you're serious about what you write, then all operators should be banned.
I mean if they pay a dividend (and you believe it will continue) you can do math that treats it like a bond coupon and do a present-day valuation.

If they have attached voting rights you can get together with other investors and vote yourself a bigger dividend (though same goes for Uniswap v2), or a share buyback.

But yeah, mostly it’s a Keynsian Beauty Contest.
Yeah.

One more price hike this year and I'm out.

Their own content is shit for the most part.

Don't need it.
Every place is dysfunctional to some extent.

Working in truly dysfunctional and trying help the situation has taught me very valuable lessons that are very useful in less dysfunctional organisations.

In other words -- seeing very clearly bad things helps you recognise it when it is less clear. Fixing very bad makes fixing less bad almost effortless.
China’s coal production hit record levels in 2021
Fake Spies Ruin Real Intelligence
I think the answer lies with the ‘aesthetic usability effect’, which is a well studied phenomenon. Basically people find visually appealing UI more usable even if it is objectively worse.

https://www.nngroup.com/articles/aesthetic-usability-effect/

Of course what we find aesthetically pleasing is a subjective function of our life experience.
I'm sure such people exist, its just that there are probably more losers than winners in this net negative game.

Analogously, there are some people who have won a lot of money from casinos but the average gambler loses money because the house always wins. Miners are 'the house' for this analogy
Oh yeah, all kinds of baggage attached to the last bits of the vaudeville Borscht Belt. That's also something that makes the transition from Allan Sherman to Weird Al Yankovic so jarring; they did the same act, but even aside from production values, Weird Al didn't bother dragging a previous audience along, and was willing to go anywhere.
Self-Host using Docker, with examples
I remember being able to set that up with clang (obviously not indirect calls).
"Text Free - Call and Text Now" Updated January 10, 2022

"Free Now" - Update January 11, 2022

Many other examples have recent updates too.
My purely anectodical experience with this is that when people that own these kinds of businesses say they make $500k a year they mean in their best year they made $500k. What they don't say is that for every year they made $500k they had 4-5 years where they were just barely scraping by. Construction is incredibly cyclical and there are a lot of lean years. I've also found a lot of them aren't great at managing the financial side of the business. A lot of the time they don't actually know how much they're making.
Point and Spatial Data Questions
Hi:

I have several data sets, including US address information along with services that cover ad hoc regions.

I would like to provide both the ability to query an address, name, range or map area and display the results in a summary and / or map,

or view an organization's service area (ad hoc map via .shp or similar) and display the addresses/services within that area on a map, or summary, or both.

How might you approach this in 2022, and beyond from a data storage/update/management perspective along with interfaces for www and other services?

TIA.
Appreciate it can be confusing to the layperson, but a build is not quite the same thing as an application.

A build will often reach out, download and install new and potentially breaking software components and it is part of its function to prevent breaking software components from reaching the application where it could cause material harm.
Quite the opposite. The very broad-brush overview is that zig aims to replace C and rust aims to replace C++... but among other issues with that analogy, that can't happen unless zig and rust have a dead-simple integration story.
Based on its historical role as a pacific garrison, the military likely cares more about it being theirs rather than it being habitable at all.
git clone --recursive --branch "$commitid" "$repourl" "$repodir"
img="$(docker build --network=none -f "$dockerfile" "$repodir")"
docker run --rm -ti --network=none "$img"

Sure, CI pulls in from the network... but execution occurs without network.
if you are peaky I really recommend filmin: https://www.filmin.es/

all the movies/series are high quality and in VOS :)
A counterpoint would be that what some call the intrinsic value is the expected future share price based on expected future revenues. There might or might not be future revenue for SNAP, but there is no revenue for a digital currency.

But I do think digital currency has intrinsic value, in that for now, it affords you anonymity to commit crimes in a way that ordinary currency does not. I’m not happy about it, but this is a form of value.
My mom used a dryer (I'm in the US) but my dad insisted that the sheets be air dried on the line outside. If he was home for wash time he would do that for her. After she figured that out wash day was always on a Sunday.
The reactive data store bits seem very similar to baobab.js [0]. Baobab's api seems a bit more terse though, which I prefer.

[0] https://github.com/Yomguithereal/baobab
I don’t think I ever paid for a MacOS (OSX, at the time) upgrade.

I still remember buying a RapidShare account for a month to get Snow Leopard off those multi-split files because I couldn’t find a torrent.

The 00’s were such a different time for tech.
Never heard of it, and whoever Glyn Hughes is, is talking poppycock, balderdash, utter claptrap, absolute piffle when he states,

“Everybody in England was brought up believing in brown Windsor soup,” says Glyn Hughes, author of The Lost Foods of England. “What is really, really strange is how deep this is into the British psyche. Walk up to anyone in the street and ask them about brown Windsor soup, and they’ll say that it was terrible and horrible but everybody ate it in the Victorian era.”

Complete bollocks.
PoliticsDoes Power Corrupt or Are the Corruptible Attracted to Power?
I just don't understand how many people prefer these keyboards.

Key travel is only important to assist in your typing + provide feedback, but unless you type like a brute (I've a friend whom I would NEVER lend my laptop too, as I would be worried for my keyboard) or have sensory nerve issues like from diabetes, you don't need much travel.

I was dubious of the newest Lenovo keyboards, but after using my X1 Nano for a few hours, I was convinced: while the keys themselves have less travel, it has a strong opposing force that gives a lot of feedback.

It's still a bit too stiff for my taste (it seems to have been made for big burly guys) and I'd prefer something more like the current Macbook keyboards, a self-avowed heresy for any Thinkpad fan :)
In some I'm sure he does, but there are some videos of him receiving a sealed package and opening the package (and the lock inside) in a single take.

Like this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NSuaUok-wTY
Don't worry; for every misuse of a NoSQL database when they should have used a relational DB there's a solution misusing a relational DB for a queue, event bus, etc. Nature likes a balance!
Four Day Work Week
Starting? This has happened for ages.

Ad companies' customers willingly share the email addresses in hashed form so the ad companies can correlate this against their own lists (by doing the same hashing and checking for a match).

The same happens with phone numbers as well.
Wouldn't USDT crashing wipe out most large cryptos as well?
70% of BTC liquidity seems to be in USDT.
When reading things like this (and assuming it's true), I always wonder how it works in practice. I mean somebody has to actually implement the trickery in the codebase, right? Does that mean that one day there was a ticket that could be summarized as "Implement scam"? Or was there an attempt to hide the true purpose of the requested changes? Were the programmers not bothered by it? Were they in on it too? Are the implemented changes kept in Google's monorepo for everybody to see? Is it hidden somewhere else? Is it hot patched?
My favorite test of a workplace is to see how closely coworkers map to characters in the film Jurassic Park.

The more obvious each casting choice is, the more dysfunctional the workplace.
there you go: https://archive.fo/MwT63 :)
Their major competitors already have functioning platforms of their own.
But is it shardable? ;)
No that's not why it's not modular. If that was the case, then other relational algebra-based query languages would suffer the same problem. They do not.
> *I put devonly: as part of every placeholder secret in docker-compose.yml or similar config that is committed to Git.&

I put it `insecure`. I think it makes it clear that the password, and file, aren't secure by default and should be treated as such.
HashiCorp Waypoint 0.7 Reimagines UI and Extends Deployment Workflows
Fun question: what's more "pathetic" in popular culture: Spending Saturday by yourself reading a book, or drinking a six pack? Until you are old (that is, no longer a relevant 18-40 advertising target), it is #2.

Kinda like its far more socially acceptable to be addicted to heroin than be fat (courtesy of Vince Neil).

This actually isn't that surprising. "Socially acceptable" is partially defined in our ad-saturated world by the advertising industry. Corporate america can't get you to engage in onanistic consumption during work, because that is THEIR time.

That leaves your leisure time for moving their wares. Social activities as an adult are dominated by access to alcohol, because the alcohol companies spend billions each year in cultural propaganda inserting themselves as the organizing basis of adult social interaction.

This reminds me that in my lifetime the "key demographic" went from 18-30 to 18-40, and we have the rise of "40 is the new 30". I think a lot of that is how advertising has shifted our culture to intense consumption rather than "adult" stuff like raising kids.
One of the issues with Knights Capital was that they forgot about a server running an old bit of code and shut down all the new ones which just sent all the data to the old server which was causing all the problems. Not keeping track of that server was very expensive.
Sounds like a case of Mandela effect: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mandela_effect
> a bit more forgiving when they get dust inside.

It's a tough engineering problem, that's for sure. I agree that older ThinkPads are a little bit stiff.

Apple went too far with butterfly, but I think they landed a good place with their current line up. They have very little wobble. Cherry MX switches (and clones) are excellent in terms of off-axis binding. Some clones are significantly less wobbly than others, for various reasons but none of them sacrifice off-axis performance. It took decades to get to this point though.

On a related, Alps mechanical switches are notorious for dust and dirt ingress issues as they get older and they're extremely hard to clean. For some reason Cherry MX switches have fared much better over the years.
probably prohibited by most dvd licenses, plus would require actively using DRM circumvention outside of the context of making private copies

Probably no beueno
What We Know and Don’t Know about the Cyberattacks Against Ukraine
How does it handle a single defer in an if?
... in 10 years, as the cycle of nostalgia takes about 30 years.
And then competitors meet up to make a contract with each other - oops, was this part of the Smith playbook?
Correct - because the cost of the spam itself is negligible, but the cost of developing a prospective mark into cash-in-pocket is quite high in terms of time & resources.

The last thing the scammer wants is for the mark to back out after the scammer has invested resources into them, and before they have realised any gains.

Effectively, insufficiently gullible marks reduce their profit margins.
I find it interesting that people blame the engineers when they're the bottom of the hierarchy. It's their bosses that prioritize their work, decide whether their work is good enough, and decide whether to fix something that's broken.

It's not the individual engineers who decide whether the company will have a culture of helping users and/or app developers, or treating them like resources to exploit.

It's not the individual engineers who choose to have no humans involved in the app review process.

Some engineers are incompetent, yes, but it's the bosses who keep the incompetent folks working at the company instead of finding better people.
> The goal is to have moments of clarity where you’re able to see “ah that’s what’s going on in my mind right now”.

I think this is valuable advice, and it applies not only in this productivity context but in any day to day situation.

I feel worked up, angry, disappointed with those around me in certain situations. Whereas 5 years ago, I might get worked up and complain about all of it to my manager, I’ve learned to recognize my own emotional state. I feel X because of Y reasons.

In 30 minutes after I’ve had a snack or maybe just a glass of water, I’ll feel significantly better and will want to take back anything I say now. Not because I’m wrong or that what someone did or didn’t do is actually right, but because I need to control my emotion and how I respond. There’s a correct way to approach the problem.