skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If they ride at night, maybe you can try finding a free light dataset on Earth Engine Data Catalog. When I checked last year, the data were pretty recent I think.
Is dgraph?
Imagine spending thousands on a service with no customer support.
I listed the most Important questions on Y Combinator
Model Y, battery cell production underway at Tesla's Austin-area factory
Indeed their report card is advocacy with no credibility and is a running joke on Capitol Hill (I'm a former policy staffer).
Word meaning tangent: I have never heard the expression "line-of-business employee" before and I'm not quite sure what it means. Is it trying to differentiate from the "IT department" which is a cost centre?

Or are they just trying to say "ordinary employees" as in non-technical? Why don't they just use a generic term like "office workers" or something?
Oh No. You don't like twitter. Oh No. Let's start a petition.

I also don't like Twitter. But unlike you, I would consider posting that I don't lke Twitter on HN terrible BANAL.
So the real question to ask is: what ideas and vision gave Rome that coordinated energy in the first place, and one that lasted so many centuries before it got tired and lost its ability to energize people?

A related question: how much longer can the ideas of the Enlightenment drive the current global civilization (created in the West), and are we seeing signs of the West losing confidence in itself?
PSA: don't use brew to manage your development python, unless you like having the carpet pulled out from under you by brew deciding to change 3.8 to 3.9 on you.

Use brew to install pyenv (or bootstrap it from github). Use pyenv to manage python versions, and then use a virtualenv.

Or conda, if that is your jam.

https://github.com/pyenv/pyenv
The internet and world wide web were both useful immediately since they were both a solution to a problem. Blockchain seems like a solution searching for a problem.
Bob himself has mentioned that many of the rules are contradictory to one another. I can't remember what examples he gave. I think it was in his video series.
My main issue with this is regulatory capture. This sounds great on paper but you know that any right to repair law is going to be complicated. The big names will take a small hit to their profits but it'll take a bigger toll on smaller competitors.
No Sysadmin in Europe is being paid 120k Euro. It‘s learned trade and you‘d be lucky to pull 70k.
> I had a look at one of these guides posted

Could you be so kind and provide, at least, a title of the book wehre you have seen "little girls ... with breasts"?

Because from a cursory image search I see at least high school [0] students in ".. Physics"

> dying to learn about some nerdy subject

Eh? Is this is a problem here?

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secondary_education_in_Japan
Videos also get modified by HN btw. I have firefox HTTP warning turned on as well, so I assume that's what you saw.

I still don't understand what you found so sus about my link, as it's exactly relevant to the thread here. It's not uncommon to see links in HN threads that bypass paywalls for example.

Ig there's no conclusion to be reached other than, be more careful next time? If you are really worried, you could sandbox your firefox with Qubes OS.

EDIT Just noticed that Ken must've seen this thread.. @kens well played! You got me good :D
Analog Television Simulation
That's a great point and clarification, thanks!
This is true, but for Albini there's a big difference between bands he records and bands he likes. He's on record as not liking Nirvana very much, but recorded them on principle. And he's super allergic to any kind of hypebeast music.
> are we seeing signs of the West losing confidence in itself?

Plenty of those around. I won't get into them because it gets treated as "doing politics" and usually attracts angry replies, even though the signs of degeneration can be seen uniformly on either side of the mainstream political debate.
I argue that the whole blockchain approach is a solution designed for the needs of the early adopter... and is just seeking a mass market problem to solve.

I reach this conclusion, not as a cynic, but as a skeptical advocate.

I ask everyone I can this line of question and have yet to get an answer that doesn't involve magical thinking.

Question:

Other than "decentralization", what value does blockchain provide that can't be provided with existing technology (which will always be inherently less technically complex and thus easier and cheaper) can't do?

My sense is that the answer is "nothing" (except decentralization).

If that's correct, then all of the technical complexity is to be able to achieve decentralization.

However...

The mass market (everyone to the right of the chasm... early majority, late majority and laggards) has proven with our dollars that we don't care about a goal of decentralization. In fact we make sacrifices to have more centralization because we love it. It simplifies our lives.

So if the major market doesn't care about the only real value, then there is no real mass market value.

In that case, blockchain would be just another early adopter solution trying to not die off in the chasm.
Move a toad? Is this using a camera? What is this for and who is this going to serve?

Step #1 for you guys should be to refine your story so people can understand what it is you made. This video was very confusing.
> were still a long way from their greatest work a few years later.

Their whole existence was really only a few years. That said, even "I saw her standing there" kicking off the first album is a really good 'basic rock' song that has become a classic (they're all classics, I know, but it's... just still so fresh 60 years on). Not 'greatest' piece, of course, but holds up well compared to a few other originals on that album.

> During that time, they worked really hard, they wrote and released a lot of songs, and their songwriting improved immensely. How they were able to work so hard and stay focused while in the maelstrom of Beatlemania, though, is hard for me to grasp...

Their progress is astounding. From "I Want to Hold Your Hand" (October 1963) to "Day Tripper" and "Drive My Car" and "Nowhere Man" and "In My Life" (October 1965) - that level of progression in writing/recording/production in a self-contained band which also produced 2 films, 5 albums and more than a hundred shows around the globe... it's just not going to be repeated. Between changes in the entertainment business itself, as well as the talent/skill combination we witnessed in those four... it just won't happen again. But we have all the recorded legacy to enjoy :)

I made a comment about One After 909 in another thread last week. It's the only(?) song we have of theirs with a recording from both 1963 and from 1969. The evolution in their playing, their approach to their own song - is really something to ... I hesitate to say 'marvel' at, but just really engaging for people who want to hear their progression. IIRC it was slightly under 6 calendar years - March 1963 to January 1969. They were good as a group in 1963 - they were so much tighter (yet looser!) just a few years later in 1969.
Maybe. Python 3.2 was fine, I moved my stuff over to that shortly after it came out in 2011. Waiting this long to upgrade 2.7 code is completely on the user.
Ah, yes, the person that ignores everything I said and goes on an irrelevant rant because I mentioned the word "libertarian".

You're getting evangelical positions mixed up with libertarians btw.
Thank you very much! That's the type of answer I was expecting. Could you elaborate a little bit more on what kinda problem the industry is trying to solve with NLP today, even in the ecommerce space? That one you mentioned, about product review, is really interesting.
Deerhoof. If you like Lightning Bolt because of the drumming of Brian Chippendale, you'll probably dig what Greg Saunier is doing behind the kit. He's seriously one of the most exciting new drummers to come along in quite some time.
:-) If you've written a while loop you've used recursion. Not saying you need to understand the inner beauty of a fixed point combinator . . . it's just there, to be noticed, if you choose. You might (meaning if it caught your eye) study some recursion and notice some properties that give you some insight into how your algorithm performs or how induction over your datatypes works. Often when writing some Scheme or Julia, I'll carry a mental model in C at the same time.

What I enjoy about code is that I can understand it on a number of levels.
>> (it's written in Golang)

That means no memory related security bugs, which is a huge plus.
I liked the article. One thing that I think was missed is that the engineers can understand the circuit because they designed it. We know what the capacitor symbol represents because we designed a circuit that only depends critically on a small number of parameters represented by that symbol (and maybe an accompanying bill of materials). We chose design elements that are, themselves, understandable as a language, and laid out the diagram with a prior knowledge of what ideas we were trying to convey.

Having had to do so, coming up with the schematic by inspecting the circuit is much more difficult.
Big discussion yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30107687
Preaching to the choir, but mostly they don't care about any of that.
Brian Chippendale is amazing.
Thanks, I didn't know about the HTML renderer.

Is there any demo online?
Yeah, nature is brutal. Like well fed house cats killing birds for pleasure
> Now add to the $200 month bare metal server, the yearly salary of the 3 admins you need to manage it.

That's the line the clouds, MSPs, and service contract providers sell you on, but it's never true. When you need help you're getting some minimum wage slave who hired on 6 months ago, and is struggling to juggle the dozens of other clients competing with you for his time, too. When you don't need help, they get to take your money for doing nothing.

Anything your provider can do for you, you can do at less cost. Cut out the middle man and you're far better off.
Deep familiarity with a complex code base is a thing and is not easily replicated. I have seen this first hand. In my day job - I work on a very popular but complex open source project and in my team there is a engineer who has been there since beginning and I am like second person after him.

I have noticed that when we get certain class of bugs from customers(and customers want fix NOW) that spans 2-3 layers of the project, only me and him can pick those bugs. Some decisions are there in the code that is not easy to figure out(like why it was done this way) and I have also seen engineers who are founders of this project - point design issues that I could not have thought (and I am doing this for 5 years!).

Can we hire someone new to provide design reviews that spans network, storage, kernel? May be - but engineers who created this thing and have been doing this for long time, have got really good at it. To me - some of them seem god like. I know they will probably suck same as me, if they had to start developing a new iOS app or write new game for Nintendo Switch.
and the song title could be, "when life hands you lemons... f*k facebook"
Why is this useful? I assume it is, but I don’t know why…
You're absolutely right, thank you! I've posted a correction.
Yeah, people don't realize that the operating systems we have today arise from devices about as powerful as some of these microcomputers. Removing the complexities that have been added to the x86 platform itself and being able to see "oh when this pin goes high cause I pressed that momentary button the CPU runs the code at this memory address" things can really start clicking. A great youtube creator I recommend for those types of explanations (he's making his own CPU out of base components) is Ben Eater and specifically his 6502 series, but the series on how USB keyboards work is also quite instructive for people looking at the hardware at that level of detail.
I learned how to make corn cob pipes as a kid, supposedly as a gift for dad or grandad. That's the wonky side effect of living in a town that grows and exports tobacco. It always seemed sexist because when was the last time you knew a woman who would smoke one of those?

The same thing: imagine teaching kids how to make corn cob pipes nowadays! It's just not going to happen.
Not a notable company, but my dream job is a company like science.xyz
Sure, but then he can expect most of his roommates to be easy to live with, as long as he is willing and able to shop around and to change roommates when needed, even if his current roommates are not.
Thankfully most transaction happen off the chain.

It seems like this person wanted a browser for identity reasons instead the utility of browsing.
Firefox isn't being sold and when you donate you donate to the foundation which doesn't fund firefox. Whatever impact on the environment she imagined doesn't exist in reality because she was never going to donate cryto and even if she did it would happen on a big exchange off the chain.
>Not the immediate mode that everyone understands anyway. Your "traditional immediate" and "react immediate" are just terms you made up.

The terms, yes. The descriptions and understanging of React (as an immediate mode wrapper over DOM) is shared across the community, all the way to Wikipedia:

"One way to have the flexibility and composability of an immediate mode GUI without the disadvantages of keeping the widget tree only in function calls, with the lack of direct control of how the GUI is drawn in the rendering engine would be to use a virtual widget tree, just like React uses a virtual DOM".

What you're arguing is little details about "how things were always done in immediate land" as this was set in stone.

Well, React and descriptions of the UI such as SwiftJS, also shown that you can apply the immediate UI concept to something other than direct drawing calls - namely, controlling a retained mode UI underneath with the same logic you'd call paint functions (or abstract them to "drawButton" and such).

It's not that you're wrong. It's just that you're right about the trees, not the forrest. It's the concept that matters, not the implementation details -- which is like complaining that "Linux can't be UNIX, it doesn't derive from ancient blessed code". Yeah, but it's still UNIX to everybody - and in fact today's de facto UNIX.

>I don't think the guy you linked is a React Dev.

I didn't say he was. In fact it says up there on the tweet he's doing Aurora, and that in that he was inspired from React and its immediate mode approach (he's the guy behind Lighttable/Aurora/Eve).
There are also interesting reports from the whaling era where killer whales would heard Target species to the whaling ships in reward for voice pieces of meat
This reminded me of "Teach Yourself Programming in Ten Years" - http://www.norvig.com/21-days.html
I have high hopes for Apple. Given their reputation for "taste" and design, I would expect something more sophisticated than Meta, not so plug and play. More "Tomorrowland" vs. Meta's "It's a Small, Small World" vibe.
Everything the Armed seem to do has an element of eating food, usually somebody else's food or bizarre food choices.
Neal Stephenson wrote a novel (Reamde) about pretty much that exact scenario - companies putting mechanical turkish tasks into an mmo-type interface for players to grind out digital currency.
> but it means that your code handling things-that-might-be-strings-or-bytes often needs to have a different structure than the rest of your code.

Isn't that the point? String and bytes are different beasties. You can often encode strings to bytes and just about anything accepting bytes will accept it, but the converse is not true. Bytes are more permissive in that any sequence of any 0x00-0xff is acceptable, but str implies utf8 (not always guaranteed, I've seen some shit), meaning e.g. you can dump it to json without any escaping/base encoding.
Interesting detail, didn’t realize go dead code analysis was this easily made ineffective. 52MB for ec2 SDK is a big chunk of code that must be mostly dead/unused.

Seems like eventually this should become a priority for library writers to support dead code analysis, otherwise going to get worse and worse..
I agree that since you can reproduce all tradfi structures as cryptocurrencies, that means some cryptocurrencies aren't scams. But if so, they might be unregistered securities.
Did they go to some cool new site we can't get into?
This is a very contemplative comment from you, so thank you!

I'm much younger than you, so advertising really caught me in the ear with catchy jingles that rang through the playground.

With online advertising it's become a different playground. It's nearly impossible to find reputable products among the ocean of meaningless one-dimensional rating systems, virality speculation, and cloaked endorsements to name a few symptoms.

My only solution is the tried and true word of mouth.

I can point to maybe 5 personal items, all of which I could do without, that I discovered on my own, and I will stand by as my solid oaks.

As a rule, if I see an ad for your product, the only signal I get is that you have enough bankroll to get eyes on. I immediately distrust advertisements because desperation in market emergence or social manipulation is never an indicator of quality.

> Cook a fresh meal

Just made 5 servings of chicken curry tonight for about $10 ;) cheers.
> No, I'd expect it does include TOTP

I'd expect it to be any mechanism that doesn't do mutual authentication. In other words the authentication not only proves to the service your "you", it also proves to you the service is the one you think you are authenticating to. And it does that reliably even in the face of a MITM attack.

It's damned hard to do, and obviously none of SMS, TOTP and passwords do it. https + passwords was supposed to do it and technically does do it, but in practice no one looks at the domain name. Email + DKIM could do it, but no email client shows you outcome of DKIM auth and again no one would look at that anyway.

WebAuthn / FIDO2 does do it. It's undoubtedly the best option right now, but until tokens that open source + reproducible build right down to the metal, they aren't "Zero-Trust". You are forced to trust Yubi or Google or whatever as the tokens they give you are effectively black boxes. Worse, because an open source token means "easily build-able many companies" and thus means "WebAuthn tokens become a commodity", I expect Yubi to fight it to their dying breath.
Just host this portion of your operation in an area that doesn't give a shit about EU rules? Seems like kind of a non issue in the context of the OP.
I'm curious how you completely eliminated it. I've heard the claim from others, but it hasn't matched my experience at several companies over the past 13 years (the first place I worked at using AWS was in 2009).

While cloud may have a lot of advantages, I don't think it's trivial to run or manage. The AWS dashboard is simply overwhelming. Trying to decide between different, but overlapping services is time consuming. And while you can rebuild somewhat easily, you're also almost certainly going to have to do that as you learn about Amazon's little quirks. Your general RDBMS experience doesn't map to DynamoDB very well and you'll be in for a rough time when you learn you can't just add a new index or whatever.

Then you have all these provider-specific APIs. My experience with both Amazon and Google is that their services will return errors that they claim should be impossible, so you get to have fun debugging that in a service that you don't manage. Your application will invariably add a bunch of handling for exceptional cases and accumulate your best guess about how this impossible situation came about.

Then you have the constantly shifting devops orchestration tooling space and "best practices". I've lost track of the number of times I've needed to pull my Terraform state file and manually edit this gigantic JSON file because some plugin updated an internal struct in an incompatible way.

I'm sure there are people that get an environment up and running in one of IaaS platforms using just the web console. I've never seen it managed that way at any company I've been at. Instead, the devs own the IaaC stuff. It's certainly easier to be in multiple regions that way, but I have a hard time believing any time or money is really saved. Sure, no dedicated ops people, but now your expensive devs have to deal with and probably be on call. Moreover, all that archaic time-sucking Unix admin knowledge acquisition everyone is worried about is just replaced by time-sucking knowledge acquisition of a proprietary service and all its quirks.

Maybe we're talking about different levels of "cloud"? I can buy that Heroku is easier than AWS.
This is in the context of essentially a bug bounty for data loss issues that they were running… sounds like a NASA administrator saying something like "show us how our rocket will fail"
As I work away in my own Antipodean lair, a few miles away from Jackson (sadly working on projects that will make any number of orders of magnitude less impact) it felt like an entirely natural sentence that resonated deeply with me.
New Quantum Bit
I’m saying I have repeatedly tried to express a strong disinterest in discussing the political difference in this context, and I’ve repeatedly clarified that. Clarifying your engagement isn’t going to change my unwillingness to participate, here, where I clearly described my politics to support a candidate with whom I disagree.
from the wire.com pricing page, it costs $$$ for more than 5 users, I assume that means connecting to their servers.

Does that mean if a group of friends used the wire service for IM they have to pay to join a group chat of more than 5 users?

It does mention the server can be self hosted - If self hosted is it free from all licencing costs?
Since you only provide opinion, and not facts, I'll say you're wrong until you can prove otherwise. Everyone knows the App Store is full of scams and no one does anything about it.

With viruses, at least the OS vendors are getting rid of them.
They're not. It's very obvious when you see it.

And it's usually when they've already pushed the seal to exhaustion and are extending things so the kids can play.
Illegal stuff happens.

Shocking, I know.
The first thing a 5 MB upx-compressed binary does when executed is uncompress itself to 15~30 MB of memory, right? So what does the on-disk binary size have to do with my L3 cache?
A Tesla drives, a PS5 plays games, and a fridge keeps food cold.

What's the one and only thing that a smart phone or tablet is meant to do? If it's make phone calls, most people don't anymore and doesn't apply to tablets.

This is an absurd argument.
I heard they hang out on Facebook now