skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The FIDO2 spec is written by someone who has no idea how web apis work. Lots of it is based on CBOR instead of JSON which makes it a PITA to handle in JS code (yes, there is a cbor npm library but why… WHY?!?).
Company mission statements are marketing, not actual missions. If you want to see the mission of the company look at what it actually does rather than what it says it aims to do.
Maybe an artistic statement on the futility of an online identity.
Paddle, raises $200M at a $1.4B valuation to supercharge SaaS payments
Paddle, the company that wants to take on Apple in IAP, raises $200M at a $1.4B valuation to supercharge SaaS payments
- NextCloud - Dropbox alternative
- UXWizz - Website analytics
- Percona Monitoring and Management - Database/server monitoring
No, what I'm saying is the music has slowed down; if the music had would have
stopped already, we'd be already living in the streets of San Francisco without a roof above our heads. FTX and Alameda are dumping crap into the market; the biggest excrements are about to appear
I just wish I could use it without learning the gamepad control system. It just doesn't fit my brain and if I step away from it for a few weeks, I've forgotten how to do everything and almost need to start from scratch.

A version of Dreams with either a) a more traditional desktop UI or b) a more intuitive VR-based UI would make me very happy.
This is what I understand as well. On top of that, you cannot call restore on the same sqlite file, so you have to create a new db each restore and make your reader app aware of the new db file.

Edit: As the blog is saying, it's mainly for single-node application so you should treat the project as a way to constantly backup your sqlite db and being able to recover from disaster.
I think this would be his favourite toon.
https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x1xhn
> The whole idea that you can make a billion dollar business without being hugely dependent on the infrastructure, education, history, societal background etc that has largely been paid for by...taxes...is utter fallacy.

Taxation is not a transaction you enter voluntarily; it's enforced by violence, and all these rationalizations don't matter as you don't have any choice anyway. So, taxation is either extortion, robbery or theft (I'm not sure which definition matches it better), and tax evasion is simply a moral obligation for everyone who believes that people should not be subject to violence.
By default I turn all of my channels to Mention only. Other than that I have a few channels with low posting frequency which require urgent attention that I always have on notify. This gives me all 3 message types. I use the same pattern on Matrix and IRC as well.
It mentions tensorflow specifically. Is there a penalty for using PyTorch instead?
I still don't see how.

Buy some companies, double the prices. That part is clear. But did they manage to double the prices? Surely the previous owners didn't actively try to keep prices at half of what the customers would pay.
> No owner-controlled devices allowed [1].

This is actually a key point with respect to digital rights.

When you analyse the debacle that put Jordan Peterson in the spotlight
it was not really about gender pronouns as such, but about compelled
speech. Compelled anything is a problem. Compulsion removes
responsibility. For example, I am currently not compelled to own a
car, so I can make the choice to help the climate by walking. I am
not compelled to own a television, as in Orwell's 1984, so I can select
my own entertainment and news.

What does this have to do with cybersecurity?

Ownership and control are central to the psychological motivations
that allow security to work at all.

Let's ask the question, would you allow a stranger to dump their
possessions in your lounge for a few weeks? No. You'd at least charge
them rent for storage. Stuff that takes up your space, that you cannot
use, and are responsible for is an encumbrance.

Now let's say that a government or some cabal of tech-monopolists,
begin forcing you to shoulder encumbrances that you must install in
your home, or walk around carrying - physical devices that you do not
own in any real sense. This is an imposition. An analogy that
springs to mind is the US constitutional third amendment on the
quartering of soldiers in private homes without the owner's consent
[2].

With secure enclaves we are seeing a drift toward devices as both an
encumbrance and imposition. Hardware one is compelled to use and take
responsibility for, such as repair or charging batteries, which serves
the interests of others (to track and identify you) is a cost without
benefit, and has no future.

Unless you physically attach it, like a prison tag, you can no more
compel a person to carry an object than you can compel their speech.
Unless the owner acts by volition, and chooses to take responsibility
for an object in their own self-interest, various forms of sabotage
are inevitable.

I've seen this where workplaces have tried to push workers into
carrying a "company smartphone". It gets "lost". It gets
"broken". People lock them and then "forget" the password.

Security solutions need the consent and cooperation of both subjects.
Otherwise they are not "security", but simply means of control. At
the very least we should stop dignifying them with the word
"security".

[1] "Owner-controlled" is already a tautology. Ownership implies
control (and freedom to dispose of) and vice versa. Anything else is
simply "in my possession" or "upon my person" as legal-people would
say.

[2] I never understood this seemingly ridiculous language about
garrison of soldiers etc, but it increasingly makes sense to me as a
catch all for any agent placed on my property. Hence I think that
secure enclaves touch on 3rd amendment rights.
Cancer risk increased by wildfire exposure, first-of-its-kind study finds
"in about 10 seconds"

Patently false. For example an "average" processor like Western Union processes only 25 million transactions monthly.

"with the option of reversal"

Which is the whole problem.
Bitcoin is irreversible, by design. That's crucial.
> It's a model that has worked well for OSS - many projects do just fine with Github alone, sustainably, for years.

What's the biggest OSS project you know of with no IRC, Discord, Slack or other chat presence?
There is not much to question about TMAO being bad. Fish having a high Omega 3 content which is protective against atherosclerosis may explain why TMAO from fish consumption is not as problematic as that from consumption of other meats. Before we start reconsidering if TMAO is bad, it's far less speculative to consider whether tmao's bad effects that are known have been offset by positive effects of omega 3 which are also known.
> simply put: mitigating price volatility of the base token

Then cash it out and put it in your bank. OMG.

> this might be useful for tax purposes,

How??

> payments

You can't pay for groceries.

> & donations,

Your donee won't be able to get groceries.

> or just to balance your portfolio.

But it pays no dividends, so it's not really part of any portfolio, and it's a poor man's cash.

> unlike fiat this has all the features of ERC20

And what are those? And can those be achieved in other ways?

> and self-custody.

What the hell does this mean?

> DAI, USDC and RAI are all fairly interesting

Oh, indeed!

> and make different choices and trade-offs to stabilize their price.

But I still don't know why you need this!!!

> all stablecoins do carry risk though; if you want a risk-free coin then just convert to fiat.

Oh, absolutely.

[addition]

I'm coming more from the BTC direction, where smart contracts are very limited. Then I really don't know what stablecoins are for. From an ETH direction, stablecoins might make sense as a way for smart contracts to operate on USD, assuming smart contracts are actually useful for something that can't be done better in other ways.
This happened on a log carrying frieghter near here, a few years ago.

The unprocessed logs in the holds are slowly rotting, so the air in the holds can be depleted of oxygen.

A crewman went into the hold to check on something, and collapsed. Another crewman went in to rescue the first, also collapsed. I don't recall how many went in, but eventually someone grabbed an oxygen tank and managed to save the last one. The rest died.
Yes, I did. And I grew up in a rural area, with small villages (eg, 50 people, 200 people), and miles between houses outside of tbem.

Most of the stuff you mention above is not safer due to phones, only mere convenient.

For example, how is running out of gas dangerous? You just end up walking, or hitching a ride.

And if cell phones helped so much, wouldn't the stats show it?
Yes, it was sustainable for a period of time.
The list continues hidden under "show newer" prompts.

(A demonstration of poor UI/UX...)

https://mastodon.social/@zensaiyuki/102772084205841784

https://mastodon.social/@zensaiyuki/104285260802004881

https://mastodon.social/@zensaiyuki/106039695704824881

There's a "chartodon" graph of the discussion as well:

https://www.solipsys.co.uk/Chartodon/106078148724410339.svg
Science is not a perfect, pure, infallible process. It's messy, political, and often wrong. In our modern world where science impacts every aspect of our lives and informs policy, laymen are the ones who need to be concerned with science and its results. A PhD cannot be a prerequisite to discuss these issues in a democracy, by definition.
I don't know if you're joking or not, but this would just be reinventing the Postgres/SQL Server/Oracle/MySQL wheel using duct tape and wishes.

If you're doing something that multiple systems have had millions of hours of development to do, just use one of those.
My question is: what would happen if my server blows up while Litestream is still streaming to S3?
Fifty-fifty chance global warming tops 1.5C soon
Diablo 2 has hardcode mode which actually pushes it closer to roguelike than Diablo 1. I'm not sure what other differences do you have in mind.
Public APIs Situation
I'm in the nordics where unions are still strong, so I have the option of taking almost a full year off with full pay.
50ms is under human detection?

maybe 50ms is under the "conscious detection" threshold (debateable, IMO...) but it will definitely feels "laggy"
To improve your suggestion, it's very easy to also get triglyceride non-fish omega-3 (DHA+EPA), so now there shouldn't be less worry about other stuff getting into it.
Sparse and Intermittent Hadeon Preceeds Plate Tectonics
But why? That seems such an unnecessary hack.
Ah, yes ... people with too much time on their hands, and, frustratingly, smarter and more persistent than I ever was.

I think the 1541 transfer speed only ever felt truly fast to people who'd experienced years of using the 1530 (the cassette tape storage device).
The device tends to be tied to an underlying "cloud identity" (apple id, google account, microsoft account etc).

You can use that account to re-enrol / manage devices etc.

Ideally people have more than 1 device enrolled to enable easy fallback if one is lost. However, if the user loses access to their primary / cloud account for any reason, they will have a bad day.
'Stablecoin' was always a marketing term and people outside the company should never have adopted it ('so-called-Stablecoin' would have been fine). Someone at a company doesn't decide that UST is worth 1 USD if they don't have the USD to back it up. The market does.
I'm fairly certain this feeling is ubiquitous across anyone and everyone who's had to transition from Slack to Teams.
I apologize if I gave the impression that I understand meekly trees
to normalize currencies world wide, the end game is killing cash
>At least $15M a year over most 3 year horizons, or the insane compounding effect of $300M invested over the long haul.

How about the insane compounding effect of a better funded society, through less multi-mill/billionaire tax avoidance?

>Your question makes sense from a "normal" perspective, but doesn't once you're UHNW

Or rather, it makes sense from a normal (non quotes) perspective, but not from the point of a power hungry sociopath.
So US has around 9x less per capita since only ~5 million people live in Norway?
As an American, I'd be more excited about taxes if I had access to affordable education, affordable healthcare, a well maintained infrastructure, and general social safety net. Now that I'm living outside of the USA & still subject to USA taxation, I'm even less excited about it.
ALA (short chain omega 3) is very important to get. It is converted to DHA/EPA, but the conversion efficiency depends on the ratio between your omega 6 and omega 3 intake. The same enzyme that converts ALA to DHA converts omega 6 to the inflamatory arachidonic acid. Since omega 6 is so abundant in most oil rich foods, you have to be mindful of how much you ingest relative to ALA omega 3, which is harder to come by. Hence the algea oil is important too, because it contians pre-formed DHA/EPA

Just to give some bacground info.
... Hadeon Processes "resembling modern subduction" Preceeds ...
Ask HN: How do you start your remote work day?
Do you log on to Slack right away? How do you structure your day?
I mean, it follows immediately after a bit praising the transfer size savings. That’s at least worth a smirk.
The point is that critical thinking doesn't mean "question everything and assume everybody except yourself is incompetent or evil".

It means that you understand you can replicate someone's results if you doubt them. You can look at the methods they used and find why they were adequate or inadequate. You can reason if the conclusions they drew from their findings are accurate.

But all of this will not come out of "I have a strange feeling on that topic". Unless you are really an expert on the matter, many topics will produce strange feelings in people, because chances are they lack some fundamental understanding that would be needed to even understand the findings.

I am not saying you need to either do all the work and check yourself OR blindly trust science and awallow everything that looks "sciency". What we need to do is to educate people on how to check studies and papers for themselves all while admiting which parts they don't know.
> The right thing to do is to hand out the money fast and go after the abusers later.

In my opinion, this is not a winning strategy. It takes magnitudes more efforts to go after criminals and recover misappropriated money than to prevent the crime in the first place.

P.S.; I'm not an American, so I don't think I have much say in judging how you guys spend your taxes, anyway.
I am doing something like this with https://www.uxwizz.com

I think the big difference is that it's not really Open Source (you get the original server-side PHP+MySQL code, but only the bundled React+TypeScript UI).

The model is more similar to "old-school" software where you paid once and could use the problem, the only difference being that the backend code is easy to read/modify, and it's not a black box.
>difficult to gauge ...

Everything rests on this. Every person is different, and an approach based on a boilerplate will always be a bad fit. Think of what you are doing as a bespoke service and you will do well.
But if the rules don't enforce that, and allow far-away rich arseholes to use these zones to cheat money out of the taxman, then that's sloppy legislating. The loopholes need to be closed. Relying on the goodwill of people whose primary unifying characteristic is the hoarding of extreme amounts of money is a bad idea.
> The hardware based encoding is not equivalent to software one; it is optimized for dumping compliant streams with low latency, it does not concern itself with effective use of the bits available. I.e. exactly what software based, offline encoders are good at.

This isn't my experience with NVENC for h.264. Sure, software encoding can do somewhat (but not a lot) better (quality per bits), but at a fraction of the performance and using much more energy. For most cases were you're personally encoding video it's likely better to use a hardware encoder.
I did read the article and I just re-read the part you mentioned. That section just mentions that if you manage to get buy-in from the team about some predetermined policy, then they will be bought-in to the results as well. This would be dependent on getting the entire team to accept such a policy without drama, which seems unlikely. There is often too much ego and too much future financial gain involved in promotion decisions to have a low-drama way of telling people that they did not get the promotion and that the position they wanted will likely not be open for the coming few years.

I expect that any such policy would also lead to the worst kind of "Goodhart's law" exploitation, where people start optimizing only for the metrics actually mentioned in the policy to the detriment of all else.
Startups aren't as cool anymore, people understand how the business works and the risks involved and (especially senior) people don't want to work in them. I think soon early stage startups will have to allocate a much larger pool of stock for employees (think 25-30%), low single digits won't cut it anymore.
You misunderstood me. I meant support in the US for the Ukraine cause.

A smart Ukranian politician would consider American sentiment since they want our help
The most likely reason to pay much higher interest on money deposited than money they lend out is to steal the deposited money. It isn't illegal to do it, but it is a huge red flag which is why it would warrant an inspection.

Smart contracts doesn't save you here, since the deposit happened when you bought their crypto coins, not when you signed the smart contract.
Doing things before you need to
Same way I got interested in programming, except instead of an Apple II (which was prohibitively expensive and rare in Brazil with import substitution in the 90s) I had access to my dad's Gradiente MSX and manuals for BASIC.

When you boot up a MSX it was the same: a straight command line waiting for inputs, learning to command that was quite magical for 8 year-old me and my intro to programming in general.
Hey, I named two characters (three with Eiwa!)!

I actually liked the movie, it's just that the characters aren't often addressed by names, so it's hard to remember them. In Aliens, for example, people always refer to each other by names (Vasques, Hudson, Bishop, etc), but in Avatar they don't.

(And i can probably name actors who played most roles, including Giovanni Ribisi)
I agree.

"UHNW" people are crazy, evil and dangerous. There is no amount of stuff that will ever satisfy them. They will consume, and cheat on taxes, obsessively - until our natural world is destroyed.

It has come down to us vs. them. We didn't start this fight, but we are going to have to finish it.
He's not wrong, it's well integrated, but they're all shit just easily connected. E.g, SharePoint is absolutely awful.
There already is, at least for the techies: YubiKey + OTP with your password manager.

Non techies are SOL as usual. Proper password education apparently is too hard, so big tech is frothing at the mouth to get total control over your password management so you can't ever leave.
Since people are misreading this comment, either deliberately or because I have not been clear enough, I am going to assume good faith and edit the comment to be more clear.

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And 6.7x the amount of the Norwegian Government Pension Fund Global exceeds the entire annual budget of the US government.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Government_Pension_Fund_of_Nor...

https://datalab.usaspending.gov/americas-finance-guide/spend...

Imagine if the US could just magically borrow from next year's budget, but at zero cost? That's the net effect of having an entire additional several trillion dollars laying around.

In hard numbers, that 6.7x works out to around $9.3 trillion, of which it's a pretty safe assumption that you can "borrow" around 3% of it annually, forever. That works out to around $280 billion.

It ain't chump change. We could easily end homelessness in the US with that amount, and have much more left over to do even more social good.

https://www.verifythis.com/article/news/verify/social-justic...

After we take the 50-ish billion a year it would take to eradicate homelessness (keep in mind, we can sustain this in real terms approximately forever), let's move on to higher education. The Debt Free College act would reportedly cost the US $75 billion a year.

https://educationdata.org/how-much-would-free-college-cost

No problem. We've only spent half of what we can borrow in perpetuity from the future with this hypothetical sovereign wealth fund laying around.

Let's go for the triple crown and give everybody universal, employer-independent health coverage.

Oh, guess what? That was a trick. Implementing universal healthcare, simply replacing premiums by taxes, would save the US many more billions of dollars we could put to good use doing even more social good.

https://www.citizen.org/news/fact-check-medicare-for-all-wou...

Or maybe it would cost an additional $149 billion. Who cares? We're still under budget.

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6...

And, so, now, we've reached a point where nobody in the US needs to ever worry about student loans, medical costs, or homelessness again. (Well, okay, not nobody -- we still need to figure out something for the people who have taken out student loans already, but I think we can probably handle that.) It's not quite the extensive welfare state that Norway has, but it's pretty damn close.

Guess what happens to the labor market under those conditions? If you said "it becomes much more like a free market," you guessed right! And who can argue against that, really?
EU has 2300km border with Russia.

Putin threatens all the time eastern european countries to "liberate" russian speaking population there.

(You are not political science student or you lack basic knowledge)
> My company right now is about 15 people, 5 of which are engineering (including myself)

The problem with posting any comment on here, is I have to always preface everything with "Generally speaking" I assume it's implied, but yes - you will always have cases where something isn't true. Tiny companies is one for sure, but tiny companies with 5 engineers, well collaboration isn't as much of an issue.

Most of us work at bigger companies than that (I would argue even on HN). I too have lived in the world where I was DBA, front end designer, API designer, infrastructure, and even contract negotiation, and that's a whole other ball of wax. It's also not what the original post is really talking about in my opinion. Companies like yours are not the ones trying to do in office work remotely, and those are the types of companies I am talking about.

On a side note your job sounds either fun or stressful as hell to me. I can't decide. I hope you're enjoying it and being paid well :)
I've watched a presentation on this problem that showed surveillance footage of this exact kind of situation happening and costing the lives of at least two people (I think the fourth one realized what was going on and got geared up before saving the last one to go in before him). You could watch them simply drop like flies, it was obvious they didn't realize what was happening to them before they fainted.
The utility of money decreases the more you have (outside of lifestyle inflation). When basic needs of society (like housing) aren't being met, there shouldn't be a cap on what the wealthy pay imo.
Take heart - I filed Dutch taxes in 2021 and not American, for the first time! It's somewhat more but every single day I see the results of my taxes.