skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ah, yes, that is indeed experimental, though it seems to be coming along nicely (I'm not involved but talk with the main author to support it).
Some companies do provide a technical track in which you can become a Principal Engineer with no management responsibility. But if you have experience in solving problems, you may be good as a mentor/coach to other devs.

The longer term solution to this problem may be technical consulting.
Facilitating spontaneous gatherings – iOS App Release
I love social hubs, you know that one friend's house where there's always something going on? I've enjoyed being that friend who hosts, & attending other gatherings.

I've sought to combine my love for community & my love for technology into a service that helps make this kind of event more seamless.

I've spent my evenings and weekends moonlighting Lazztech Hub, a location-based social network. I've just released it on the Apple App store and am working on an Android release in the near future.
Sea level rise, more powerful storms (especially nor'easters), etc. My folks live 60 miles away from here and sit on the highest elevation in the area, which is 11ft above sea level. There's very little margin on the Outer Banks.
No, he's absolutely right. Nobody cares what you look like naked. Stop negotiating with terrorists. Stand up for yourself.
There was a requirement without training, so they're now making sure people know what to look for.
If you want to build .NET Core yourself, Microsoft provides you with the steps necessary to do so here: https://github.com/dotnet/source-build

Maybe our definitions of open source are different, or maybe you're just shitting on Microsoft for your own reasons. Regardless of whatever your experiences have been with .NET in the past, they don't mirror the majority of the folks that use it everyday.
Keyboard: dygma raise. Takes some getting used to, but has been a big improvement over having a keyboard in my lap.
Monitors: Left is LG ‎34GK950F-B, right is a cheaper 32" LG. I wouldn't really recommend either of them. The left one has a great picture, but has developed some weird issues with powering on with my laptop over the past year.
Mini desk: https://www.amazon.com/VIVO-Universal-Microphone-Platform-MO...

Getting out is a bit of an exercise. I push myself up on the armrests, pull my legs in, and then step out over the left side. The whole monitor setup is on wheels, so if I had the whole thing further away from the wall, I could just roll it away from me and get out normally.
If you're in the U.S., you can use LawHelp.org and look up what the law is in your state for blackmail, defamation, etc. If a law has been violated, file a police report.
>Should distributing powerful, dangerous, and addictive drugs not be regulated?

Absolutely not.

>This seems like light handed regulation to me

Yes in the sense nothing interesting will likely happen except a few bureaucrats and people offering the training fatten themselves at the trough.
> seems like a high risk low reward crime?

The upvotes on social media alone will be worth it to many nowadays.
The Zimmermann Telegram was WW1 though, not WW2.
Not OP but I figure I'll pitch in because nobody else explained it. When referring to backed vs unbacked Bitcoin (or any other UTxO accounting model based cryptocurrency), the "backing" isn't about whether the token is backed by another asset but rather whether your proxy holding of the token is backed by the actual cryptocurrency on the ledger.

If it's some wrapped Bitcoin that is backed, that means that there exists some UTxO which corresponds to the wrapped bitcoin tokens you hold. UTxO are atomic and unique so you can verify that your wrapped tokens have a 1:1 mapping to the tokens held within the UTxO on the native token's network. Non-backed bitcoin instead are just tokens that are handled through some minting mechanism where there is claimed to be a 1:1 equivalence without any actual tooling to prove that.

This concept of backing can actually even be further extended via Secure Multi-Party Computation where private keys can be collectively held in such a way that no user ever can see the private key but together they can coordinate to build and sign transactions with that private key without leaking it even to themselves. This can then be used to actually hold tokens from a foreign/incompatible network and interact with that network with little to any required trust.

Hopefully that helps answer what is meant.

---

Also since it's often a question asked I'll answer preemptively: "What is UTxO?"

I've mentioned the UTxO accounting model a few times here. Bitcoin doesn't have accounts but rather UTxO or Unspent(U) Transaction(Tx) Outputs(O). These are indivisible bundles of tokens that can only be created or consumed/destroyed atomically. There are no accounts but rather just private/public key pairs which can redeem/spend those UTxO. Additionally, all transactions are just a collection of input UTxO (that are consumed with the tx) and newly created UTxO. All Tx must uphold the rule that the sum of all inputs equal the sum of all outputs (or some equivalent of this rule as is the case for Monero's Zero Knowledge transaction proofs). A number of networks use UTxO or a UTxO extension (such as EUTxO or the cell model). Most famous is Bitcoin but Monero, Litecoin, Cardano, Ergo, Nervos, and a number of other networks also use this model.

This is opposed to Ethereum and co (Polkadot, Solana, Luna...) who use the balance-account accounting model. This model works like traditional ledgers where tokens are stored as some balance in an account and transactions are just transfers from one account to another.
I just realised I’ve been using Kaleidoscope for maybe 10 (?) years now.

I certainly didn’t pay $150 for it at the time, but if I had done, it would’ve been worth every penny.

—

I seem to recall the app was acquired by a new development team a couple of years ago. It seems to have been one of those rare acquisitions where it’s consistently gotten better afterwards (and it was great to begin with).
Been doing it for 15 years. C is a very stable target and easy to use. Portability doesn't come out of the box but is doable with a single abstraction library of your preference.
US and Southeast Asia: A Dysfunctional Romance
Have tried to buy paper maps lately? I have and was surprise how hard they are to get for many places. On the other hand I had copies to google screen shots for most places I want.
Mining a Dispensary
Very cool - worthy of the best ham radio go-boxes, which have a real following ‘cause you never know when all hell will break loose!
I went through a category 5 hurricane and this would not have been much different than my 2012 modem MacBook. Which performed excellently and kept me mostly sane.
Instant-Runoff Voting Simulator
It's based on a French visual novel and the theme is class struggle. Trains are a pretty good metaphor for that as trains segregate passengers by their "class", usually defined by how much they can pay for the fare.
I guess CCAN died?

https://ccodearchive.net/
Document everything. Have copies of things in multiple safe (non-work) locations. CYA. Note all dates, times, locations, methods of communication, and as much physical evidence as you can manage.

I'm sorry you're being treated like this. The fact is, unless there's something illegal about what happened, you are in the right and need to act with integrity. You're a victim of a crime, not a perpetrator. Stand strong.

I doubt in these days that anyone would fire an employee over having been betrayed by a sexual partner (save some highly religious employers). If this girl follows through with their threat, it is unlikely to come to anything. And if your new employer did let you go as a result, you're dodging a bullet in the long term. Companies with HR that evil don't deserve you. Might have a legal case if that were to happen (again, document everything) so prepare for the worst, but you can reasonably expect the best.

I'd say file a police report, but am unsure how to treat HR. That varies so much from place to place. Might be best to tell HR the basic story and give them info to keep this girl out of the workplace. You don't need her showing up and causing a bigger mess.

It'll be fine, sooner rather than later. I'm sure this isn't her first rodeo, and she's betting on you getting shaken up. Be calm, don't engage with her, and remember she has no real power here.
That doesn't align with my experience. The vast majority of what I see in my feed is real people. I do know, however, that if I look at the replies to any viral tweet that a large percentage of them will be through fake accounts.
Scammers gonna scam
If you're doing any malware analysis, I think a VM is the minimum bar for isolation; and separate physical hardware is even better.
this is incredible talk form the Background Artist of monkey island, about 8 bit and explain in details how palette cycling works, and modern way to doing the same more efficiently for modern games.
8 Bit & '8 Bitish' Graphics-Outside the Box
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aMcJ1Jvtef0
If it’s a coworker then you have legitimate reasons to worry - and blackmail might be your saving grace.

Keep all communications!
Avoiding burnout (as a student)
I worked for a company that was saved from bankruptcy due to COVID (i.e. product was instantly of high demand). Instead of using this “gift” to stabilize the company, management used it to raise their wages, hire outside consultants, and further invest in our out losing strategy.
> Oh, interesting! Wonder why? Maybe people exist who don't want the same people from Twitter to follow them on Reddit, Youtube, Steam, Spotify, etc. too, eh? Maybe independent isolated logins aren't such a bad thing? Maybe hand-waving about "BLOCKCHAIN" doesn't actually have any solutions to any of these problems that arise from the fact that: different people have different desires. There is no tech solution for reconciling the irreconcilable.

I have dozens of wallet addresses. In fact, while typing this message, I just created 3 more, just for fun. It's really as simple as running an ECDSA function in the browser if you want to create separate identities for separate platforms. The beauty of owning your online identities is that you are in control. It's really that simple. But if you want to compose that identity, there is really no better way.

We've already seen deplatforming, censorship, financial exclusion for protesting in a democratic nation, shadow banning, and worse from the big tech cos. That's not the internet or the values I was raised on, and I'm working to push back on it, vis-a-vis tools like SIWE (https://docs.login.xyz/general-information/siwe-overview/eip...). Take ownership.
No no, that is not the problem I was thinking of. Hint: what is displayed on the screen?
Does PostgreSQL not fit your needs?
Some crazies want to make them permanent, thankfully only a vocal minority it seems.
Oh, this is the greatest! The brew version of meld is quite out of date (still very functional). Don't know how I'd live without it...
>Yeah, but an Apple TV or HTPC or w/e can transcode your DD+ media to DD in realtime.

Sure. But that means tanking the quality. It doesn't magically keep the quality just because it started as DD+.

>(And current Sonos products support HDMI.)

Which is why I was making the point about going the SPDIF route.
I think the idea is more about "avoid bundled changes that are harder to debug and roll back". A change doesn't have to be a new feature, might be a bug or typo fix.
The very concept of a currency peg is that you sell things in exchange for the currency when it is not valued highly enough, and buy things in exchange for it when it is valued too highly. It wasn't the implementation that is algorithmic, it was the idea of a pegged currency itself that made Black Wednesday inevitable.

If a national government can't maintain the value of their currency, they aren't backing it, and if they have so much gold that they can maintain the peg no matter what happens, it isn't fiat (the gold standard is where the government will sell and buy gold at a fixed price, printing or destroying currency in the process). So I would conclude that fiat currencies aren't backed by anything.
(I meant https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sy_SN7945Io and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31392326 )
Yeah: "No glove, no love."

That was much funnier back in high school health class, but it sure is easy to remember.
Don't threaten to quit. Line up another job, then quit without threatening.
Here's a pic of the frame: https://i.imgur.com/BViZJri.jpg

The bottom rectangle is 12" x 24", and then the top/side pipes are 36" each.

It's a bunch of steel pipe from Home Depot, and sturdy enough you could do pullups on it. The pipe isn't super cheap, was around $200 total I think. I went with 1 inch diameter because it would hold the monitor arms better, but you could go thinner and cheaper with a different monitor mounting solution.
I'm just showing how a compiler could optimize files that have include guards. This doesn't do anything for files that are intended to be included multiple times.
Genuinely surprising to me. An RSA certificate has been a requirement where I am in Aus for as long as I can remember. And it has consequences if it’s not followed by those who have the RSA license, too — does this bill include similar?
Wouldn’t that make managing tags and categories more difficult?
The ‘E-Pimps’ of OnlyFans
Judge Liam O’Grady removed from Kim Dotcom's US copyright case. [tweet]
Agreed, more like "Should have been there since day 1 and we know we still don't have a decent deploy dashboard"
Well, our growing revenue seems to suggest otherwise, but I guess we’ll just have to wait and see!
I do at my company. It is a little clunky initially, and it's too slow in multiple situations, but works well enough that I can work reasonably well from WSL or mingw32 in most situations, even with MFA.

However, to your point, it requires a broad discipline with naming and categorisation, so whilst it's part of a core workflow, it's a limited part of one segment of what we do.
Alright. Fine, I'll concede its fine to be skeptical of their actions, I just don't care enough because of the other bigger ways that it doesn't make a difference for the burned user.

Okay, people are out for blood from someone they trusted that did a bunch of dumb things extremely transparently while undiscerning users chose to ignore that. So they want to find a bad opaque thing now to justify their anger and legal or extrajudicial retaliation, which won't help any recovery of assets whether the opaque thing was bad or done properly.

Interesting season arc. I guess. It would be way more interesting if it was used to bailout whales or pocket for himself.
How is "GR on Bernoulli", GM cannot describe nxoo more precisely than oo, and Conway's surreal infinities aren't good axioms either (for GR or for QM with (chaotic) fluids which perhaps need either infinities plural or superfluid QG (instead of QFT fwics); not making sense?
The FSL crisis was caused by wild-west deregulation, accounting practices which have since been banned, and resulted in a thousand convictions.

The crypto space is repeating all the same bullet points, except with more outright fraud, with less accounting, and without any convictions.
This is my favorite merge tool for years. Haven’t seen updates for the latest mac OS Mojave though
I should have clarified, proprietary software that needs to be compiled and distributed; GPL compels disclosure of the source code in this case.
That is false. You can edit directly in it, at minimum in 3 column view. I know because I do it regularly and have done for years.
I expected way more white high school kids.
What kind of chair is that?
It’s a circular argument. The kTln(2) cost of erasing a bit is itself derived from the second law. So it cannot be used to prove the second law.
Thank you for providing a good example of using Schopenhauer's 1st and 25th strategems[1].

1. https://www.mnei.nl/schopenhauer/38-stratagems.htm
I don't agree that this thing about moving to the browser is currently relevant outside of the drawing software like figma and equivalents. I don't see NLE, 3D suites, DAWs and many more moving anytime soon to the browser. Maybe photo editors like photoshop? But even that isn't there yet.

And to be honest the only FOSS content creation software that actually competes at the professional level (i.e not just simple edits) with proprietary tools is Blender: As in, would people use this software, if all the (currently proprietary) alternatives were also FOSS? But inkscape doesn't need to compete. So I don't think it's getting left behind in the dust.

I'm sure too that most inkscape users would much rather have a lot other improvements, than moving to the web.
A Database for Whitepapers for Ya'll
I don't think AWS has ever raised prices. Generally for a given service, prices are fixed and they'll either release a new version or a new machine generation with new pricing (and the old version usually has a very generous deprecation window).

AWS pricing can be confusing but they also offer significantly more services. I think it'd be more straight forward if they had the same number of products as Digital Ocean. Afaik they bill for the same things.
When the UK ended the ERM, they stopped backing the currency. The UK does not back the pound, the pound does whatever the market wants it to do.
> MetaMask already relies on "Web2" apis to query blockchains

False. MetaMask uses Infura as a default, but you can edit your RPC URL to whatever you want. You can even run your own node and sync the chain if you've got a couple hundred gigabytes to spare (no stake required to run a non-validating node).

They don't have to hit the blockchain all the time. Only when it makes sense. For everything else, there's off-chain signatures. That's the beauty of it. Hey, you don't want to use the chain, just use the sign-in with Ethereum feature, and that's totally cool!
Similarly, my hands would go numb if I worked like that
The fact that things are being rewritten and the primary criteria being looked at is speed IS culturally a big part of the problem. If you don't prioritize provable correctness first, then I guarantee that the code is not correct. And as the complaint explains, incorrect code costs people months and leads them to not trust the result.

Don't believe me? Re-read the blog post about how a major source of bugs is people making assumptions into silent errors by removing bounds checks. Simply being able to re-run the same code in a slow mode with the bounds checks turned back on would undoubtably catch bugs.
Never used it before but check out https://github.com/scylladb/scylla

I have a lot of experience with Cassandra though.
In my case it was mostly office PCs that might have important documents or spreadsheets on them. I've been working on a redundant, networked backup solution to serve the whole office, but realized that I was building a henhouse while the chickens were already running loose. So I ordered some USB hard drives just to make sure things were getting copied.

Maintaining a super basic (but regularly verified) hourly incremental backup system has spared the people who use those PCs a lot of grief, plus saved me time trying to recover lost data.
Great question (and apologies for the length of the answer)! Through our previous experiences in building services around tsdbs & relying on tsdbs to host monitoring data, we kept hitting the same issues around ingest, retention, and querying capabilities.

Existing solutions, and those architected in a more traditional way than Axiom, would require highly-coordinated nodes running on expensive VMs that would be bound by cpu, memory, and storage depending on your use case:

- Want to store TBs of data for months/years and query any piece of that at any time? Prepare to have expensive SSDs or wait for 'archived' data to swap in from cheaper storage.

- Want to run a query that combines N datasets, calculates aggregations, over TBs of data, and then compare that against data with the time shifted back a week, month, or year? Great, fire up some heavy VMs with enough cpu, memory, and bandwidth to compute all that.

- What if you use case varying greatly in each dimension (how much ingest you'd use, how much storage you'd need, and how heavy your queries would be) across a day, week, or month? You'd have to find a way to adapt to changing requirements or just scale up for the worst case x2 and just pay the $$$.

With Axiom, we had three key goals:

- Hyper-efficient, co-ordination free, schema-less, and index-free ingest (~1.4TB/day on a $5/mo container)

- Cheapest storage for hot, cold, archived and warehoused data: all data is stored in object storage, highly compressed & ready to query. 10 seconds or 10 years old data is the same, already as cheap as possible.

- Serverless querying that can expand from 0 to as-much-as-AWS-will-allow depending on what your query needs + how many of your team are querying at once.

The above was achieved through a lot of trial-and-error, tweaking, testing, and head-scratching, but we're really proud of what we've built. We can run super-fast ad-hoc queries, we've eliminated the need to think about retention, we have live streaming, and we have an incredible query language inspired by Microsoft's Kusto (Splunk users will be familiar!).

We still have a lot I'd like to see done, but I think we really do have something unique :)
I may be unusual in this regard but I don't think I can remember a single time that I have fallen asleep "by accident." I've never been able to fall asleep in class, or reading a book, or watching a movie or just lazing about the couch late at night. Is this something most people have to worry about?
I think I prompted you to look into this a few years ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26051254#26051847

Anyways, thanks for all of your work :)
Agreed, while Github Actions seems more modern at first glace (mostly because of the marketplace listing of public Actions), it's got a lot of rough edges, after thought features, unreliable behaviour (such as flaky build console output) and limited supported off-the-shelf auto-scaling self-hosted runners implementation.

99% of feature requests / bugs I've Github support result in a "Check the Roadmap, it might be on there" - you check the roadmap - it's been there for years with no progress. New features/offerings seem to get prioritised over stability and core functionality.
Not to discount women also scamming… I was thinking it’s probably a dude making a living blackmailing people online.
Except there's a lot of studies showing CD8+ T-cell generation from inactivated coronavirus vaccines:

https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fimmu.2021.7662...

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/resp.14191

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1198743X2...

The dendritic cells which take up the inactivated virus vaccine will chop up the structural and spike proteins and display that on host MHC for T-cells and B-cells in germinal centers. The T-cells don't know if the protein fragments come from foreign particles or cell synthesis. The happens in both mRNA vaccines and inactivated virus vaccines and both require cross-presentation by the dendritic cells.
Just buy an oculus quest and get virtual desktop.
I did this after an injury and began experiencing orthostatic hypertension upon standing after several months. It went away completely after not spending many waking hours a day reclined or lying down, and I don't have any underlying conditions that would cause it.
I agree. And given that it's legacy, surely you can just weed out the abusers and leave the legitimate users that signed up when you promised it was free?
You probably should still transition your family to something else. Google is not gonna stop being Google because they got a ton of pushback for
this stunt.