skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is no conservation rule saying that financial assets can never disappear. They don't have to go anywhere.

Financial assets can disappear from a balance sheet when it becomes clear they will never be paid. That's what happens when a debt is written off. Similarly when stock drops and is marked to market.

These assets are essentially predictions of future income. Sometimes that income never materializes. The promise was broken or the prediction was over-optimistic. People discover they're not as rich as they thought.

For a cryptocurrency, the only expected future income is from other people buying when you sell. If other people aren't there to buy at the price you expected, your prediction is just wrong.
Yeah, that's why tenths (~2.5 microns) are used when thousandths aren't precise enough.

I'm definitely not claiming it's a good, I'm just describing the system I have seen used in the handful of machine shops I've spent time in.
I like the premise, keep it going!
Although small, FLOSS supporters are severely underserved. I think it is possible to use the certification as a means to profit. Even if only for a few products or to get a good image among a faithful group. The sites listed selling ryf-certified devices are certainly benefitting commercially from that.
Businesses can always acquire new customers by diversifying away from what the competition is providing. This means that larger markets can inherently "support" a higher variety - there simply isn't a point where new business must inherently fail. This is not a new observation; it has been made repeatedly since ancient times.
For the record, `>> file.txt` will create a file if it doesn’t exist, won’t affect the file contents, and won’t affect modified or access times.
In fact, a study showed humans walk in circles as tight as 20 meters in diameter when they can’t see landmarks or the sun.

(https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/general-conference..., ^F scientists, click ⁴ for picture; https://www.mpg.de/788272/S003_Spectrum_038-043.pdf [PDF with brief summary]; probably https://www.mpg.de/788272/S003_Spectrum_038-043.pdf [should have full article but it seems to want broken JS to download multiple PDFs so I didn’t bother])
Obsolete, but still functional for their intended purpose. The screen will fail before the components get tin whiskers, if you use it often-ish.

E ink readers will fail later because of a very low refresh rate, but as a screen monitor it may be a poor match.

Pixel-Qi full sun display mode may be a better match for what most want.
Natalism for Progressives – Works in Progress
I was responding to the part of your comment where you said "even the rash of homicides, while terrible for the victims and their families, are very rare and unlikely to affect you (especially people reading HN)", not the part where you said to increase trust.
I don't see a problem with using C in the real world, but if you're going to attempt to race on the highway and you don't know how to steer clear of potholes, don't go blaming the car when the wheels fly off. The car requires you to know how to drive at high speeds and a lot of people don't know how to, so instead of being honest with themselves, they look around and conclude that it must be the car's fault, because this many people couldn't possibly be that bad at racing.

It's possible to become a better driver to handle the F1 car, just like it's possible to arrive at the same destination driving a Corolla, just 2 minutes later. If you want the speed though, you have to put in the effort.
Webb space telescope nears its destination ready for critical mirror alignment
why would life saving equipment be permitted to be proprietary in the first place.

how many people have died because they could not access it.

you speak as if proprietary causes no harm.
I think it’s a more general “eating meat is manly” that I’ve heard more often. I get it kinda, eating meat feels more “predatory” and fruits and vegetables are “health food” — only women care about that something something Dr. Pepper 10.

The whole “soyboi” thing has got to be one of the funniest but also saddest things I’ve ever seen. Pour one out for the men who eat nothing but carbs, meat, salt, and dairy. You’re all keeping the blood pressure medication business alive.
Musings on long-term software support and economic incentives (2020)
There is currently a HumbleBundle for this:

https://www.humblebundle.com/books/arduino-circuits-electron...

It covers a range of topics, from the fundamentals of electronics to how to use an Arduino, to how one might program ARM-based microcontrollers. I personally find that learning from reference books where I can practice the examples and see what they do in a real circuit is a good way to reinforce the knowledge.
That's not the timeline. It was a single day from contact to removal of compromised plugins. According to the article, the issue was that the vendor's contact form didn't work, not that the vendor didn't quickly remove the plugins.

You are also confusing plugins with themes. They are not exactly the same.
I've had problems with the weight of my fingers actuating the switches when I tried some light linear switches. But for me the Cherry MX Browns have just enough resistance from the bump to avoid that issue without being tiring to my fingers.
Thanks! A project similar to this is on my backlog of cool ideas to implement (which I never will get around to..)

I wanted to connect the following chain: whiteboard on my desk -> external webcam on monitor pointed down at it -> video feed perspectively transformed -> OBS virtual camera -> zoom meeting

Biggest loss from a remote only dev job is being able to whiteboard with colleagues. Nothing can beat such a high bandwidth communication to explain complex ideas.
It kind of boggles the mind, given vulnerability after vulnerability throughout the 2000s and 2010s.
Not only does the FSF object to the inclusion of nonfree firmware, but it also objects to even so much as making it available. Case study here would be OpenBSD, which is about as free of an operating system as it gets, and which does not ship with nonfree firmware by default. However, because of the existence of the `fw_update` command (which - by the explicit consent of the user/owner of the machine - fetches any nonfree firmware necessary for the hardware on one's system), OpenBSD doesn't qualify for the FSF's endorsement.

The FSF's stance here also impacts the "ports" trees of various BSDs and (GNU/)Linuxen; if they so much as include instructions for compiling and installing nonfree software (regardless of whether they actually include nonfree software), the FSF considers the whole OS nonfree. Same deal with any (GNU/)Linux distro that maintains a nonfree repo - even if that repo is disabled by default.

The rationale for these sorts of stances is that even so much as making nonfree software available for installation is an "endorsement" of that software. In spite of that rationale, the FSF maintains officially-sanctioned precompiled ports of software like GIMP for nonfree operating systems like Windows and macOS - because apparently it's okay to endorse those nonfree operating systems, because reasons.
Neither are Hungary, Czech Republic, or Slovakia. This guy is just really confused I guess
Throes files aren’t exactly hard to find on the internet…
+1, this has been keeping my old Thinkpad T42 running in silence for years. Great write-up about testing different CF cards on a Thinkpad X40 in 2013: https://www.daniel-boehmer.de/thinkpad-cf/
1. how does this bypass the DRM? That's suspiciously missing from the guide, considering other parts clearly suggests this will be used to rip commercial blu-rays

2. Why go through this trouble when you can get bit perfect copies (ie. remux) from the internet?
WP is way past being a blogging platform. Try: replacement for online multi-role portal editor with knowledgebase, shop, forum, stock management, image gallery, document converter, .... elements installable in 2 clicks.
What's interesting about this comment is that more or less entirely disproves itself.
Choose your browser carefully (2021)
> HN readers are generally pretty privileged. This is slightly inconvenient change they can make to their lives

Ha ha, nope.
> I think that testing of large scale interconnected software...

That's not the issue with WordPress plugins, which generally suffer from unknown provenance and suspect security-posture.
Why I am not a utilitarian
China has stopped construction of building over 100m and for a good reason. Tall building are incredibly inefficient - you literally have to haul everything high up - water, furniture, more recently cars.
Ta bigger height to width ratio, the more bottlenecked the transit systems (elevators) become.
Likewise for heating, a very tall skinny building has a much larger surface area to a shorter and wider one that houses as many units, plus it has more exposure to high winds and colder temps high above.

I think skyscrapers look cool, but from a practical point of view they're pointless, especially in places like Dubai, where land (plot size) is not yet an issue.
I like the hate example. In the same way that another poster mentioned local minima and metastable solutions, I see that unfolding in the current socio-political landscape. There is a metastable solution we're currently refining. That memeplex becomes an increasingly difficult well from which to escape. In a sense there may even be an ideological escape velocity to some of these memetics attractors.

On broader scales, the dominant mode of production is a metastable state. In the same way we might experience false vaccum decay, the current mode of production may undergo the same kind of spontaneous transformation. What's even more interesting is that it has done this at least three times already.
Heavy is such a good word to describe those things. But I disagree about this house. I think minimalism depends on materials. The wood lap attempts to demonstrate a material but it’s way too clean and it screams “MATERIAL.” In my eyes it’s a bit heavy. The island that’s made to look like a solid block of granite is terrible to me. It causes me to imagine how unpleasant it must be to use a cube of granite for anything. And I don’t think a loud piece of granite is minimalist.
When you're in a culture it's hard to spot the things that are not "normal".

From an external point of view working 60-80 hours a week is not "normal"[1] It's a very US centric thing. In, dare I say, most countries a 40 hour week (or less in places) is normal and working past that is not expected, and often frowned upon.[2]

If you are in the SV rat race, where you do 80 hours a week, then you can't imagine a world where people do less than that. But (spoiler alert) it works out just fine.

On the other hand if you have successfully indoctrinated employees to work for you for 100 hours a week growing your business for you, selling you their lives for nothing more than money, then by all means get rich off their sweat.

[1] I'm referring to regular salary work here, not minimum wage service jobs.

[2] there are also countries, often the same ones, that _require_ you to take 4 weeks of paid vacation every year.
What's the dating life like? Years ago I was interested in this lifestyle and I still read about it in fascination but I fear judgment of my peers.

I imagine it's quite easy to find like minded people though.
Or the DNS could change and the endpoint could be called on another server

Or your authorization could change and you no longer have access to the resource.

Honestly I'm not sure what the author thinks idempotency is.
I upvoted you just because your blog is great.
Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. (This isn't just some folk saying: it's a direct consequence of Bayes' theorem.) It's right to be more skeptical of a study that finds a result that doesn't have any known mechanism, doesn't match up with the rest of what we know, and isn't reproducible.
Obviously GET is not idempotent because as we see, the state can change if called repeatedly /s
This is from last month FYI, I'm curious if we have even more data now that this is true.

I keep wondering if I should get the Pfizer booster especially when they announced we might have an Omnicron resistant one in March and the risk of myocarditis is higher for my age group....
I think YZF just mis-parsed your sentence, and thought you meant a thou is for very high precision work, while you meant that a tenth is for very high precision work.

(That said, I'd add -- measuring to one part in 10^6, for anything except time, is challenging but still very doable; machining to one part in 10^6, for anything beyond very simple shapes, does require pretty exotic methods or very great care, and to verify it you have to measure to one part in 10^7).
I love my mechanical keyboards, but membrane boards might still feel better to some even if they do require more force than some mechanical switch options. One specific benefit I can think of is that membrane boards naturally cushion your bottoming out and don't feel as mushy as O-rings or silenced switches can be.
Next.js, and most likely all the big players, can achieve that. I use Prismic for a lot of projects, and here's documentation about how to achieve previews with it and Next.js https://prismic.io/docs/technologies/previews-nextjs
I have bought books that I thought I wanted to read, but then left on the shelf without reading for almost 20 years.

Then when I did read them, they greatly affected me, and were as worthwhile as I had originally hoped.

I could've died without ever reading them, but I still bought them to read at some undefined future date.

If I wanted to have books on a shelf for visual decoration, I believe that there are fake books available. But I have enough real ones.

Getting a signed first edition or something for the collector value seems reasonable to me, but I don't know why I would want it if I hadn't read some version of it.
yeah, disable the router if needed
Perhaps "correction".

... but really it's a partial correction.
There's usually a huge difference in access latency though. The usual cheap ftp hosting means a choice of whether you want to be 200ms away from the US or from Australia.
Wagtail [0]

[0] https://wagtail.io/
This really highlights how useless DRM is. Wouldn't it be nice to just be able to pay $5-$30 for a DRM-free, high quality version of a movie?

While this guide is cool, most people won't follow this guide, they'll just download what someone uploads for free.
his new wok cookbook comes out in 2 months as well
Most young people recover from myocarditis quickly [1] so it stands to reason that covid symptoms in the unvaccinated could mask myocarditis and never detected because individuals recovered, whereas if you get myocarditis from vaccination, it’s more visible against the backdrop of health and therefore more apparent.

I’d want to see some explanation for a mode for why the mRNA vaccine would lead to higher rates of myocarditis than from infection when the vaccine is effectively a subset of the virus.

https://newsroom.heart.org/news/young-people-recover-quickly...
Yeah, after seeing a video, it reminds me of something out of r/politics.
My point was “number of collision adjustments” makes for a nice scary sounding statistic but alone it’s not a good indicator of risk.

The vast majority of those would not have resulted in a collision even without collision avoidance maneuvers. But we do have collision avoidance, and SpaceX knows when a satellite will run out of fuel and can deorbit.
Separation of concerns is a must for ordinary/mediocre programmers to take part in building complex software. Getting these guys involved is getting a good deal for society.
I don't know how much to read into this anecdote, given a related one from around the same time...

In a discussion with RMS, after a little argument, he agreed that the immediate safety of certain underdogs who needed secure communications trumped libre software goals. (The question was something about the libre software solution at the moment being inferior for some threat model.)
I was thinking to install Ubuntu, to get rid of addictive stuff, make it harder to go beyond bare bones writing, coding and reading.
If you can ignore the errno case due to a "semi-constrainted" input, and don't care about trailing junk or having a pointer to more string material after the number is scanned, you can just call atol(str).
You're assuming that the person running the instance and writing content is the same. There are WP instances backing up serious business where people who don't know what CMS even means successfully edit content every day.
So, if I put one of these on top of an RV and parked it near Groom Lake, does anyone know if the flying saucers leaving Area 51 are transmitting ADS-B?
So when it is moved out of circulation, it sits idle in the central bank?
They don't use it for something else?
Oh, yep, there's an extra comma that makes my comment a bit ambiguous. Alas, it's outside the edit window...
As an aside, please spell out what acronyms mean at least the first time you're using them, just so the rest of us can understand.
> Nor is it NYC a city that has grown way beyond breaking even with return to scale

There is no way to support this statement on any economic grounds. If New York City wasn't almost as committed to not building as San Francisco it could be have a far greater population. The constant run up in property prices shows that even with the efforts to stop people moving they still want to.

If Tokyo can grow 50% in a decade in a country with declining population NYC could grow much more. People want to live in NYC. Let them.
This may not be a popular comment, but if you have to ask, then no. In Canada at least, engineering is a regulated profession. No one can legally call themselves an engineer without a four-year Bachelor of Engineering degree from an accredited University and membership in the professional engineering body of the Province in which they practice. Doctors and lawyers are other regulated professions; one cannot simply call themselves a doctor, lawyer or engineer.
https://primo.af is exactly this. It’s still in Alpha but I’m releasing the Beta within the next few weeks.
I get what you’re saying, but this form of argument sort of talks past the stance of the RMS’s of the world. The fact that the software being used is proprietary is a historical accident and not an attribute of the software that makes it function a certain way—it’s entirely possible to write non-proprietary life saving software.

RMS is arguing for principles and ideals. Sure when it comes down to it, it’s absurd to say we should save someone’s life because of the proprietary nature of the software, but that’s not really the point — the point is to strive for a world in which life-saving software isn’t proprietary in the first place. When one is arguing for absolute ideals, one tends to speak in absolutes and ignore historical circumstance since that’s sort of the point (though of course it’s also very silly in its own way). There’s a difference between advocating for a principle/ideal and solving concrete problems in a world that doesn’t yet meet that ideal.

If we were to constantly let proprietary software stick around because it served some crucial function and never put in the work to replace such software with non-proprietary alternatives, we’d never realize a world without proprietary software—so you can see how someone purportedly striving for that ideal really can’t capitulate.
The list isn't arbitrary. Bugs that let you read and write different memory than you meant to are some of the easiest to exploit. If you look back at the type of bugs that make headlines, they're pretty much all memory safety issues or code injection (and the memory issues show up more often).
>nobody had to labor or waste resources on something you weren't planning to use

If someone buys a collectible book with no intention of reading it, is it really a waste of resources?

Stuff is collectible because it's not being made any more and can't be. A signed first edition of something can't be sending an economic signal to produce more.

The money paid represents labor and resources forgone, and the more that the collectible costs, the more labor and resources is reserved for better purposes.

It is depriving someone else who would like to own it and possibly read it, but is that honestly a loss to society?
But that's not a price, I enjoy reading, that what I paid for.

It is not something that costs me anything other than time, however that's not the "price" he's talking about. Otherwise "low price pleasures" wouldn't be a category, if you enjoy that time it's not marginally better than nothing.
> how does this bypass the DRM? That's suspiciously missing from the guide, considering other parts clearly suggests this will be used to rip commercial blu-rays

The very first item in the list that's inside the first paragraph clearly mentioned the transcoder used.
Ada had literally billions of dollars in contracts backing it, a detailed specification, multiple industrial-grade implementations, tooling companies betting livelihoods on it, and university engineering programs teaching it. How many of those does Rust have? Any? Ada fizzled.

I have not needed to know of any important programs coded in Rust in general use. Ripgrep does not qualify. Alacritty does not qualify. (Haskell has, anyway, Pandoc and Git-annex.) I guess fragments of Firefox are coded in it. I like that Firefox is less crashy than a decade ago, but I doubt Rust is responsible: I think sandboxing gets that credit.

It is possible that Rust could become important someday, but only if things are done to make it so, most particularly acting not to drive away, for readily fixable reasons, a large majority of people who try it out for the first time.
Thats how Erlang works essentially.
Some similar concepts, but Kedro is specialised on the ML engineering workflow and team collaboration
Sounds like a case of decision delegation. I wonder if anything like this exists in the corporate sphere.
No, emulator primary motive is enabling longevity for the target system, since hardware get damaged over the years, CD/DVD/Cart get corrupt over the years, without it, there will be literally no way to preserve a console games and ecosystem, for example I own 805 switch physical games, but because I know Yuzu exist I don’t have to worry about if one day the cart get damaged or something
Look, in the article it literally quoted a main reason being any spurious result would be grasped on and lead to death. One is welcome to believe whatever affirms ones narrative regardless of facts, but that doesn’t make the narrative true.

> >” Probing possible side effects presents a dilemma to researchers: They risk fomenting rejection of vaccines that are generally safe, effective, and crucial to saving lives. “You have to be very careful” before tying COVID-19 vaccines to complications, Nath cautions. “You can make the wrong conclusion. … The implications are huge.” ”