skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd rather live in a house that fits my needs and wants and personal style than I would in a mass produced apartment. I'd rather eat the type of food I enjoy rather than some standard rations cooked up by a factory. I want a certain amount of stuff in my life to satisfy my interests rather than living in a bare room and only enjoying communal property. I prefer to live in a world where silly things like mobile phones and video game graphics cards can lead to revolutions in computing rather than playing the same chess games and watching ballet over and over again for hundreds of years. That said, if you do prefer to live a different way then I'm fine with that, just don't try to foist it upon other people. I would like there to be an option for people who don't want to be part of the rat race where they can go live a relatively comfortable subsistence lifestyle and enjoy seasonal vegetables and walks in the park while the outside world rushes past. It'd probably be nice to vacation there occasionally to take a break from things, maybe it could be funded by tourism.
It sounds to me like it's more of an "in-game" currency than a cryptocurrency.
Pretty much exactly what we pay for compute time today, if you don't count inflation. Accounting for inflation the System/360 was about 7x more. It was a good time to be IBM.
https://jacobdoescode.com/

Open source on GitHub too. Has a React-based build system that’ll do things like optimise images and minify assets.
What about parasocial relationships? With game streamers, youtubers, onlyfans girls, etc? IMO these blur the lines between celebrity and friend. Viewer can often have deep relationships to their content creators. The content creators in turn have a shallow, multiplexed, but still meaningful relationship with their viewers.
Why is lead a requirement for piston-engine aircraft? Land vehicles seem to be doing just fine without leaded fuel
PyGOD: Library for graph outlier detection (anomaly detection)
I am not sure where you have been but NNs were panned from the late 80s until 2012 basically. What I am saying that negative critiques mean very little if anything. CAs have also been around since the 1970s.
Is there a point? Probably not. I’m just saying that as a matter of fact, OTP is not CCA secure.

It may be secure under whatever alternative notions you’re proposing, but they’re not standard.
Channelized I/O, intent-based security policies (e.g. from RACF), multi-layered error handling and recovery. It's a rich garden. However, it's not as simple as "implementing a feature," since the interesting things are all systems of activity with interlocking assumptions and expectations with all the other systems. You can't "just" pluck pieces out of context any more than you can grab a cool phrase from Mandarin or Urdu, or admire a lobster's claw and decide to graft it onto your own arm.

But for anyone interested in evolving systems/OSs, definitely study S/3x0 and Z successors, or the proprietary mainframes and minicomputers in general. In many cases we are now stumbling into reinventing techniques that mainframes or minicomputer teams built many years earlier. Best case in point probably virtual machines (VMs), in which VMware et al started in ~2003 rebuilding a technology capability that had been developed in Z systems in 1967/68.
Replying to my own comment for additional content:

I wrote about this "sticky" header problem back in 2019. Seems very relevant to this current discussion.

https://tdarb.org/blog/sticky-elements.html
For industrial application, there are already mature systems based on CV. For majority of those applications, there is no need for deep learning or multilayer CNN. Shocked to see Andrew Ng talking like a marketing guy.
Politicians can, but it is VERY rare, and NEVER over something that affects a very small portion of the population.
> > What's the point of it?

> Live for others.

What’s the point of that? They are a blip in the universe just the same. Adding one level of indirection doesn’t solve the existential problem.
Apps that don't support that flag can be used with the -xrm flag instead. You can put a bunch of these into a wrapper script like this

xterm -xrm "someresource: color"
He seems to believe that trying to base science in terms of cellular automata will turn up something new and interesting. It hasn't yet, but he sees hints that similar patterns crop up at a wide variety of scales when you frame it the way he does.

Few scientists seem to agree with him on that, and it hasn't produced any novel results. To borrow an old joke, "His book contains much that is new and much that is interesting. But that which is new is not interesting, and that which is interesting is not new." Nothing seems to have been forthcoming in the decades since it was published.

On the other hand, he produced at least one very important thing in the past, and presumably has gobs of money. So he's welcome to pursue his idea. Most scientists don't think it will pan out, but it's his time and his money to waste. He's trying to recruit people, and I would caution that it's probably a waste of time -- as would people far more qualified than me. Still... it's also their time to spend/waste.
Holy moly, thank you thank you thank you for putting into words how I've been feeling about these perennial negging on Wolfram.

Dude and company has done some amazing things.
https://projects.brianmccrillis.com/

I wanted to have a site I could write and share small apps and projects with people, I actually use the summary tool a lot myself. Though pretty much nothing is "finished" here.

Built with Python Flask on Lambda using Zappa. Front end is BS5 and HTMX.
Agreed. A decent interviewer can also determine a person’s understanding of a topic by simply talking to them about it. IE why did you build a model like this? What diagnostics did you use? Have you tried ____ before in your career?
I owe a huge thank you to Hacker News for encouraging me to make more books like last year's Gently Down the Stream (https://www.gentlydownthe.stream/). If I can answer any questions, please let me know. Martin and I will be hosting an AMA on Reddit (https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/) today, as well :)
Seems that just the basic components are free and open sourced? Their layouts and more usecase specific stuff require a paid license. Would have been nice if those were under mit as well. Would possibly make a lot of open source protects much prettier.
The only way that this will work is if companies reduce their margins making companies less profitable, reducing wealth inequality. That is never going to happen.
You can’t pull their revenue from one of those estimate sites and pretend it is any bit reliable. It’s like those celebrity net worth sites, a total guess.
Man come on. This sounds like you've tried to help some people you care about with issues that are down to a lack of discipline (addiction, financial problems, etc), and people resented you for it.

Now you're writing off all charity and volunteerism because of it? Get real. This is just lazy nihilism.
Don't mention it, just glad to help!
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Not much to look at, mostly tech notes, some blog posts, and tests: https://www.bidon.ca/en

I'm in the process of migrating from Drupal to Hugo.

One challenge I have: I sometimes prefer to write in French, sometimes English, and managing a bilingual site is a bit of a pain. So in my new site I decided I'll mix everything together (which will probably annoy everyone, but hey, it's my site ;-)
Moved a SaaS tool from Linode to DigitalOcean. Reason for the move was security driven. DO's K8S volumes are LUKS encrypted at rest by default; one less thing in your security controls to worry about. Prices are higher than Linode's, and have had some reliability issues occasionally with the LoadBalancer, but for the most part it works really well.

The SaaS tool was mostly cloud-agnostic, so the changeover was not terrible. Changing the deployments to use DO's CSI storage, setup secrets, deploy services. I stood up the entire infra on DO, then moved the DNS over one subdomain at a time.Took about 4 days to make the move, including validating everything, and finally cutting off Linode totally.
That’s a very pessimistic view. I’m sorry you’ve had such experiences.

Are most of those in the context of your work or also in the context of family, friends and neighbors?

I’ve had mixed reactions with work, but usually good reactions when helping people in my social circle.
The sentence "It will cover international and Russian news for people who read in Russian and who share European values." suggests they "European values" as something separate.

Also, they are from Russia, had to leave Russia as the war started and Russia currently see Europe as Western and enemy. So, implication is that they will print things they could not print if they had been in Russia.
I was totally fed up with social media due to the dark patterns and disinformation currents so I created a site where I only use black and white or grayscale to avoid unnecessary distraction. It's a jekyll based blog and wiki or "digital garden" which I want to integrate with LogSeq.

I also want to integrate a text adventure with vorple and inform7.

https://olin.monster
I only see references to a BCH2 ECC in ec.c source file. I would have thought a non-binary code like RS would be better suited to filesystem coding since a fault is likely to corrupt more than a single contiguous bit. I don't have any experience with FS ECC, is there a reason BCH2 is desirable for bcachefs?
One trend among backend services is an explosion of requirements for logging, telemetry, and of course the woefully neglected humble health check. There's always someone with power demanding their personal style of productionization, and so these things pile up in redundant fashion.

"Better safe than sorry," they merrily chant, spending their money thinly on too many unfocused goals. Microservice as monolith.
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Wolfram deserves accolades for Mathematica. It's a magnificent achievement and he's kept his company alive and thriving and people use Wolfram (the company) tools everyday to do productive stuff.

BUT... Wolfram (the man) is very much an outsider when it comes to physics. This started 20 years ago when he published a "A New Kind of Science". It was a lengthy but ultimately not useful exploration of cellular automata (some of the fractal-like graphics were pretty cool at the time, but that's about it). Even that was perfectly fine, a rich guy with a vanity hobby doing some weird but interesting stuff, so what?

But lately he's really doubled down on the "theory of everything" stuff with his "hypergraph" idea. To be honest, it IS a bit cringe-worthy. To call this pursuit "The Fundamental Theory of Physics"... geezus, that takes a level of ego that makes one's mouth drop.

But you know what, it's still fine. It's not like he is applying for grants and competing with other worthwhile science for funding. His "staff" for this endeavor are his paid employees. AFAIK, he has no collaborators in academia (and no, multi-hour Twitch streams where he firehoses PHD level math jargon to the general public DON'T COUNT as collaboration).

Now he wants to launch an institute? Still fine by me as long as the funding it comes out of Wolfram's pocket and doesn't detract from more worthwhile non-vanity research.
Even though this site has been responsible for some of my biggest clients, I don't actually write about tech that much. Instead I just share my thoughts on certain things that interest me.

https://williamkennedy.ninja/
Because airplanes still use engine designs from 70 years ago. Your next question is: why? Same reason it takes 12 years to get a replacement fuel approved.
"It will be a heck of a lot more effective"

I do write letters to my representatives and such. Unfortunately, I think either action (writing letters or commenting here) have near zero impact. In my experience, you get a canned response. If you're lucky, that response actually talks about the concerns you raised, but usually is just loosely related and is mostly fluff. Sometimes it's completely unrelated. Sometimes they simply ignore you and never respond at all.

It feels like more of our government is broken or perverted than is actually functioning correctly and beneficially.
You can’t make changes to the metadata (e.g. change the spelling of an artist’s name) without reassembling the entire file to recalculate the offsets.

Split the file after the metadata block; change the data inside the metadata block (possibly changing its size); add the difference between the old and new size to all the offsets in it; recat the two pieces together.

You could even do this "streamingly", to inject album art etc., since you know what size the added content will be. Simply add the diff-offsets to the right fields as they get streamed out.

The above solutions didn't take much thought to come up with. I wonder why no one at Apple thought of that (especially the latter)?
> Do you think it’s moral to leave these people to fend for themselves in the vastly worse conditions they exist in?

This is moral relativism and as you clearly presenting it leads to slippery slope arguments.

Like justifying slavery and exploitation.

South was doing the same claiming that their slaves have better and they educate the savages through work and lords word.

> As I see it, the gulf countries are doing vastly more to improve these peoples lives than Western countries.

HAHAHA, ok this is a troll.

Tell that to Yemen, Saudis are helping them. They are just not realizing it.
Tell HN: Be careful when using Upwork for consulting work
Hi HN,

I thought I would warn some of you that might be using Upwork for consulting/freelancing about the first issue with payment protection I came across (I have logged 3k hours on the platform and received a top-rated plus badge, whatever it means).

To me, the 5-20% fee Upwork was taking for projects was fair, given their hourly protection programme, where if you use their tracking app that logs screenshots, keyboard and mouse activity then your payment for work was guaranteed.

The app has a feature where it will not log time if your keyboard and mouse are not active enough, what I did not know up until yesterday is that even if the app logs the work Upwork can decide that the activity was not enough and they will reimburse the client at their discretion.

In case anyone is interested how the process looks in detail: you get two e-mails:

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1st one:

Refund Notification

Hi Mateusz,
You refunded $X to CLIENT_NAME.

2nd one:

Upwork Help: Reversal Notification: Upwork Hourly Payment Protection

We are writing to inform you that your client’s payment was unsuccessful for the week of March 21, 2022 - March 27, 2022. As such, we have reviewed your Work Diary and reversed hours logged that did not meet the criteria for Upwork’s Hourly Protection policy.

The following hours have been reversed back to your client:

Reason: Low Activity

Upwork will reverse time for the following when reviewing your Work Diary:

* Manual time
* Low activity
* With insufficient or no work memos
* With more than 10 minutes of activity not pertaining to the job itself
* Activity that violates Upwork’s Terms of Service

Please note that the reversal will show up in your transaction history as a "Refund" even though the transaction was a reversal processed by Upwork. If your client approved the hours reported in your work diary, please ask them to make a bonus payment to you for the amount reversed.

To resolve this issue going forward, please use the Upwork Team app to track your time and make sure that your hours are logged according to the Upwork Hourly Protection guidelines: https://support.upwork.com/hc/en-us/articles/211062568-Upwork-Payment-Protection

---

As you can see, there will be no warning, so you will not have a chance to even get in touch with the client to start resolving the problem.

To sum up, if you do the work and the client has an issue with payment you can see part of your money disappear if you didn't use your mouse and keyboard, even though you were on a call with clients for multiple hours (documented by the screenshot) and you did not need to use your mouse and keyboard all that much because you are a consultant.

The cases when this will most likely hurt you are when the client has issues with payment or challenges your work.
Mother Teresa may not be the best example here.
No mention of WSL?
> The fundamental error l33t2328 is making lies in mistaking the part of the pad used to encrypt a particular plaintext with the entire "key" which must remain constant.

This is no error. The distinction you are making is nonsense. Indeed, given the key k and a message m, the basic correctness requirement of a crypto-system demands that dec_k(enc_k(m)) = m.

How on earth is this decryption to be done under your assumption that only some part of the pad was used?

The entire pad is the key.
Addendum: It is impossible to turn Windows Update off unless one is running an Enterprise License.
The cloud has normalized terrible underpowered VMs, so many new developers may just not be aware of how much performance a real dedicated machine has - even a relatively "mid range" one (i7 & 16 GB RAM).
Thats a very big if.

I have yet to work with a $corp that uses Linux for workstations.

Overwhelming majority uses Windows. Some use macOS.

The ocasional developer that uses linux will usually be in a VM, or if IT policies allow, WSL.

So yeah, running cloud services doesnt require sysadmin skills, unless you assume copy pasting from oficial documention "sysadmin skills".
Cloth masks do very little > utterly useless.

Litterally orders of magnitude.
These programs are ultimately run by people.. So you can force them out (hard), or second-best, give their fiefdom to others and mar their record to prevent them for future big projects.
There's a whole lot of conservatism driving it. I'm not talking about the political ideology, I'm talking about the basic idea of conserving the same way of doing things "because that's what we've always done" or "it was good enough for our grandparents" or "why change what isn't broken"

None of these things are good excuses to keep beating the same dead horse, that's not how progress is made. I also know that changing too many things at once can lead to issues so I'm not advocating for upending everything at once, but that doesn't mean we shouldn't start changing what needs to be changed.

Perhaps this is just my perspective and we may not agree where that start lies.
Hey - I was looking forward for some comparison stats of ARM vs Intel - but it seems the article is missing a bit of info?

> Once all 300K users had spawned, we observed the number of EC2 instances the cluster had scaled to: for Graviton2 and for the baseline.

Were the metrics accidentally omitted?
That sands for microprocessors. Minicomputers had usually bigger rates. Xerox Alto was, for example, 5.88 MHz in 1973.
or people bought the dip because they wanted to make some profit, that wouldn't surprise me
I think saying someone returned the notebooks is a common misconception. It's just that notebooks sometimes get returned and when they do, we hear about that in the news. Notebooks don't get returned all the time, and you just don't hear about it.
It’s a bit odd, but Music on Mac and iTunes on Windows needs to be controlled through Remote[0]. I tested it now and it works fine. I agree that it’s a tad odd that remote control of the desktop version isn’t as integrated as it is for the Mac/Windows version.

[0]: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/itunes-remote/id284417350
> If you want a tool for early programming your own ISA I recommend using Lisp or something else as a macro assembler to exercise the system.

That something else should be, and hear me out, Forth.

Yes I'm perfectly serious, if you look around you can find some interactive AVR Forth assemblers which are in the 2-4K installed range.

This is Forth's niche, it's a surprisingly capable language for many things but interactive programming a bespoke ISA, this is where Forth comes from.

Firm recommendation to at least read A Problem Oriented Language if working in this space, a combination of memoir and a distinctive philosophy of software development.
That’s not true at all.

You can make an oracle for whatever you want. That’s why it’s an oracle.
There are substitutes that work in most engines. The others can be re-engined. Continuing to spray poison should not be in the table. But plane owners are rich and have money and time to lobby.
> by making them buy chargers.

I'm still using the charger I got with my 2008 (pre-unibody) MacBook Pro for my 2014 MacBook Pro, which is perfectly operational in 2021.

I'm using a Spigen 48W USB-C + USB-A charger (and a 60W, 2m Baseus USB-C to USB-C cable) to charge my Macbook Air M1 2020.

I'm using a Belkin wireless charging mat for iPhone X.

So, no.

> earphones (ensuring its wire gets dirty faster than any other)

Making rugged plastics requires a lot of nasty chemicals. Either be nasty and durable, or be less nasty and be less durable.

Also none of my Apple devices' cables have frayed (incl. a 30 pin connector cable for my now lost iPod Nano 2G). How come?

> extra storage

I think their 200G plan has good bang for the buck, and even I can't fill it up with normal usage.

> Actually it’s so opaque you don’t really know what’s “really” happening.

System preferences -> iCloud provides pretty good rundown of which application is saving what, including the ones you can't see in your drives (i.e. game saves, application stuff, whatnot).

So while Apple is not the best company out there, it's not that worse either.

P.S.: Repairability is a problem. I have nothing to say about that, but at least battery change program is very good. They've even found and changed some damaged parts in my phone, for free, when I sent it in just for a battery change.
To reduce staff without formally having layoffs. I just came across this - https://twitter.com/GergelyOrosz/status/1512068287768653829?...

> when people quit on their own it’s not layoffs. There’s no lawsuits. No bad press. No questions on the business model. No risk of not raising the next investment.
I upvoted you for posting a fascinating article. Consider yourself groomed! BTW, this may be one of the more useful posts I've seen recently.
Interesting. I thoroughly enjoyed Outer Wilds (no "The" btw) and Return of the Obra Dinn and would say they are two of my favorite games ever, but I just could not for the life of me get into The Witness. I was just plain bored after a few hours.

Well, different strokes and all that I guess. Anyway, I strongly support your recommendations.
https://siemens.blog/

My simple little Django blog. I don't update it as much as I'd like, but it does the job.
For a lot of the soldiers who were fighting on D-Day would not have a lot of experience fighting british units, especially well supplied british units. The defeat in France was pretty swift and not a great place to observe superior logistics.

Meanwhile Nazis were heavily dependant on horses in their logistics - things like the Red Ball Express were pretty much inconceivable.
The article isn't directly about banning leaded fuel. It's about expanding approval of unleaded fuel.

You're right that from a environmental/health standpoint, it's not a giant issue. Lead emissions from general aviation are highly localized, and generally within air quality limits - with peaking areas limited to within airport limits themselves (https://www.epa.gov/regulations-emissions-vehicles-and-engin...).

But this rant is more about bureaucracy cockups. The FAA is launching another lead-free fuel initiative while sitting on approvals for an existing lead-free fuel. That's a waste of money, and it's not a sign of the competence/lack of corruption that we should expect from the FAA.