skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I just realized that I haven't thought about having to defragment a disk in a really long time since it's been almost 10 years that I've used a Windows machine (that's not provided by work), as well as a machine that didn't have an SSD/NVMe for the boot disk.

TIL this is indeed a thing for Linux.

It would be really cool like other people said if it defragged a real disk, but also up the stakes by wiping your drive if you do it wrong or not fast enough (à la Suicide Linux). Though that's totally against the spirit of the game :)
“Wuhan is crowded and it could spread quickly there” isn’t racist.

“And that’s why I won’t go to SF’s Chinatown for lunch” was, as is the racist harassment detailed in your link.
hey! I'm a software engineer at Down Dog, an app for at home yoga & fitness.

We get users who write in thanking us for our work every day, so I feel very good about the positive impact we've had (made the apps free for 3mm+ people during the lockdowns in 2020, all apps free for students & teachers forever, etc).

And we're hiring! https://www.downdogapp.com/jobs
Climate change is definitely a cause for concern, but the world is doing more and more to solve it (albeit it not quickly enough to prevent large numbers of unnecessary fatalities throughout this century).

As for violence, it's worth noting that "The USA has lower violent crime rates than the average of industrialized countries."[0] That's not to say it doesn't have severe problems that absolutely should be fixed with better policies, and it doesn't disprove your belief that things are devolving, but it maybe shows that things can be a lot worse and still be okay.

Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying complex civilization has a good chance of getting through this century, but I think the problems are more subtle than current news stories suggest, so we need to think carefully about what actions we can take as individuals that will have the best chance of improving things.

[0] https://safeatlast.co/blog/gun-violence-statistics/
> shift register required for ESP8266

Why? A D1 Mini has 8 Digital I/O ports that could drive a 3.3.v relay module.
If you're an immigrant working in the US, the rules don't apply to you?
Interesting, please provide link if you have one handy
And many Christians observe a sabath day's rest on Sunday.
> I seriously doubt those skills which are supposed to define scarcity at this point. There is too much management to require a seriously special person on that chair. I'm sure you could have someone from mid-management on that chair and it still wouldn't run worse. It would probably even run better.

Did you ever try to manage small org vs big org vs huge company? It's very naive to think that managing dozens of people requires same skills as managing some of the biggest companies in the world.
Exactly. I don't get it.
You need a ton of focus to succeed overall, not just math. I think people tend to get distracted by things as they get older.
lol, thisrapdoesntexist.com
oh hell yes. Software literacy in my book (30,000 words still no end in sight) is literally, literacy.

Look I automate almost everything i can see. And where I put effort and focus the software that is a force multiplier for my brain (or a bicycle of the mind if you like).

But so often in a large company or normal life, there is a great gulf that the virtual world cannot - yet - cross. ut more and more we shall.

One thing that's just silly is I take photos on my iphone of bills and letters. I cannot be arsed to navigate the awful dropbox API but I would like to store them under "insurance" or whatever. Fuck having some AI monster read the bill. so I played with Pythonista and can just run an action after a photo - and it gets moved. It's my solution, not an app. And that's software literacy - where you can, write, not on paper, but on the world.
Wouldn't it be great if instead of stopping to deliver the images, Google would just massively scale them down and still serve them? That way they could be scaled up and deconvoluted to give back (almost) the original images...

;-)
...and I missed it, again... dammit
Thank you for a very enjoyable paper. It was interesting, as you said.

However, if I gave you the impression that I was a Machian, this is a mistake.

According to this paper, Mach equated reality with sensory experience (ie. the experiences afforded us through the five senses: seeing, hearing, touch, smell, and taste.. and perhaps some others like proprioception), and that speculation about a world "outside" and independent of such sensations was unwarranted.

This is not my position, as I include in "perception", the perception of thoughts, theories, conclusions, intuitions, feeling and everything else considered to be "internal" -- which includes everything Einstein or any other physicist could ever base their own theories on.

Also, I don't object to speculation as to an "external", "objective" world, as Mach does. Science can come up with all sorts of interesting and possibly useful things through such speculation. I'm happy to read of such conjectures, and if some people want to engage in it more power to them.

However, do I not see any way we could ever verify whether such speculation right or wrong (or, to put it another way, whether such speculation corresponded to the way the world really was), because neither mathematical simplicity or the elegant fitting in to other, larger theories (as Einstein seems to have favored) means that the speculation has anything to do with the "external" world as it is (or even that there is an external world).

Since we seem to be limited to our own experience, the belief that an "external" world exists and that we have any (direct or indirect) way to access it seems to be nothing but faith.
You can be a leading character actor. Like Ray in Goodfellas, or Arnold Schwartzanyeaggear in all his movies.
It's kinda similar to Facebook - I block Joe Schmoe, but people who haven't blocked him (or me) can still see whatever it is he wrote
My team has been using this for collaborative / ephemeral whiteboarding sessions https://excalidraw.com/. This tool looks simple but well built, and in the same vein (hotkey driven).
Would you mind giving an example of how exactly you would bill your client, what does a “retainer block” mean?
What the hell is a unicorn at this point? Just say "successful private company". Because of the craziness in valuations, $1B pre-public isn't that rare any more, so "unicorn" is not apt. But Crunchbase says they've had 20+ funding rounds, and there should be some limit at the D or E round.

Nothing against Stripe, Stripe is great.
this will go down as one of the biggest blunders in business history.
Wait until he hears about the efficiency of an ICE. 5% losses for fixed infrastructure feels like not a big deal?
I want the government to interfere with the operation of _specific_ private companies so they're forced to give a platform to everyone because of the sheer amount of traffic and eyeballs they get every single second of every single day. Facebook, Google, and Twitter come to mind first.

IMO they can't be trusted with having more power than the government. They have way too much control over what people consume on the internet.
Not to mention the financial fallout of not having an experienced leader at the helm. Sure, it would coast for awhile without a leader, and I'm sure someone will try to explain to me how it could be run completely democratically, but eventually a competitor with a competent leader would eat their lunch.
You shouldn't have to opt-out of a DOS.
" the virus killed roughly 10% of the breeding population of barnacle geese"

Isn't that a very good thing? !0% is not enough to seriously harm them, but it is enough to make sure that the survivors are resistant. If it stays at 10%, then after a couple years the birds should be immune to it.
It amuses me that I feel using an ESP32 is overkill when the ESP8266 is an option.
Back in the day before regulations, peoples lights would go up and down in intensity with sound from over powered AM radio stations.
> With no way to make a todo

The red notifications are the todos to check later. Don't treat them as interruptions, treat them as something to check when you have time. Or simply turn Slack off when you are busy.

It may also be worth noting that if you personally feel anxiety due to this, that is not a universal feeling. It is a legitimate feeling, and does need a resolution, but it is more likely something you'd want to individually work on via various coping skills. If that process is new to you, I recommend at least a short-term therapist to teach you some of the basics for dealing with and adapting to anxiety triggers.
I think this is actually great news. After acquisition the conglomerate level scale will slow innovation. Freeing up opportunity for talented folks to start companies in the space in the areas that are being underserved by Goliath. In addition, these types of deals prove liquidity to financiers creating precedent for financing young upstarts.
Oh no, R as a general purpose language, argh!

I mean yeah whatever floats your boat but I find it torturous for anything other than as a specialist platform for doing linear algebra - aka statistical analysis.

I got a nice half hour meeting with one of the core R developers a few years ago back when I was pretending to be an academic - he was a regular collaborator with one of the senior academics in the business school that most of my work was coming from at the time.
the issue here is owner compensation, not CEO compensation. that is, wealth accrued by virtue of "owning" a company that other people are merely "employees" adding value to, but not receiving any of that value.
Basically what the low-pass filter in digital cameras does.
I did a little development on Ubuntu back before Rider existed and switched back to Windows because I prefer it but now with Rider I think for any .NET Core shop the development platform is more or less irrelevant.

Almost everyone in our team uses Rider (except me and a couple of other holdouts) and the general consensus seems to be that it is far superior to VS. We completed a long migration over to Core and now we have developers on Mac (not sure on Linux) and we don't have a hard requirement on OS.

As for general numbers/market I think it's still relatively niche as any glance at a more start-up focused jobs board indicates (though not niche overall, just tends to be enterprises where dark matter developers are employed).

I hope one day people will realise what a fantastic ecosystem is available but for now they'll be bashing out messes in write-only languages and desperately carrying out microservices migrations to try and escape the pain when the project goes above 100LOC /s
FTC fines Twitter $150M for using 2FA info
yep, that sounds right to me. also I see you're the author of the Noether article from Ars Technica. I enjoyed the read.
And for everyone of these stories is a story of a startup that screwed its employees during a buyout by another big firm while founders walked in the gravy.

I've found a lot of the "secrets" really aren't that. The ideas are usually pretty public, and the questions come down to ability to execute and integrate etc. Stripe has a good position from which to expand linked lines.
Oh my lord, these developers are not at all mature. Just after seeing this, and the following information below, I'll be recommending everyone stay away from LinuxFX. Their response to very substantial security issues and the fact that (according to TechRadar) they bundle proprietary programs is enough of a red flag to me.

$ curl http://www.linuxfx.org/linuxfx/x86/11.1/.http
mysql
38695
204.2.195.229
kernalisdumb
kernalislammer
$ curl http://www.linuxfx.org/linuxfx/x86/11.1/.https
idleassholes

Any junior engineer would know that letting clients connect to your MySQL database is a terrible terrible idea. No amount of (bad) obfuscation can fix that. It would be much more sensible to make a proxy application like NodeJS or PHP (as suggested by another commenter) that can then control public access to the internal database.

N.B. According to Urban Dictionary (as this one is new to me), Lammer means "A person who knows very little about computers/computing. It also refers to a person who pretends to be a hacker but is not."
Sorry won’t sign it unless it’s mutual* ;-)

* “mutual” in this case means both parties agree to that he same terms.
Nope. You can run programs to detect some behavior, for example printing sizeof(unsigned long) or checking how some rounding is performed. Those tests of course may affect the program behavior at runtime, but what they test is still the compilation environment.
Migraines and or autoimmune issues?
Prices would go up in a bird flu epidemic
If folks who had to pay them believed that, then they wouldn't pay them that (in my experience).

As to if you think the folks who pay them are clueless to do so, do you know any of them personally?
Sadly so :-) I felt much more productive coding without all those bells and whistles than nowadays - I wonder why..
Look at the frequency spectrum. If you consider focus, or "blurness" a parameter that varies, the value where the picture is "least blurry" or "most in focus" tends to be a local maxima of the power of the higher frequency components.

When the picture is crisper edges will be more pronounced, which is high(er) frequency information. So the high frequency power would be at a local maxima.

(If that doesn't make sense yet, try imagining the opposite :D When a picture is the "most blurred" or "most out of focus" it looks like a soft colorfield. low frequency :D)
Anyone can buy Amazon stock. Then you own some of the company and will benefit financially if the value goes up!
Perhaps the Barriers to Entry for Creative Work Have Become Too Low
Don’t confuse compensation with his wealth.

CEOs often have hardly any salary. But his shares nearly doubled in value over the pandemic - increasing by $84 billion.

Divide those billions per employee instead and they get $84,000 each. And Bezos is still as rich as he was before the pandemic.
Bolt isn't public so there is no sale option.

You have to pay to exercise, pay taxes, and pray for a sale option some future date.
> Surely many others were brilliant contributors to Stripe's becoming a $95B unicorn, and staying one, beyond just the Collison Brothers.

From my experience working at several saas unicorns, in each companies there was 2-3 max people who where responsible for the success of the company. It is not that all others were useless but they all could have been replaced easily without having any impact in the success of the company.

I know this is difficult to hear as an employee but this is the truth. 99% of us are replaceable.

In my opinion and experience, working with skilled and nice people VS working with stupid and coward people for example has only an impact on the happiness of the employees but has no link with company performance. (company culture has no impact on company performance)
I'm watching Ted Lasso and it's uncanny how well this describes the titular character
So Elon made an offer, Twitter lying about how many boys they had came out, stock price fell. Much like crypto, you should have sold after Elon bought.
Their presence as an immigrant in the country definitely can be though!

Hence 'Illegal Immigrant'.
There's no simple and easy way as far as I know, but there are many approaches both for blur detection and automatic correction (kernel estimation). It's called blind deconvolution.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blind_deconvolution
Yes. If anything DjangoCon is more worth it than PyCon in my opinion having attended both multiple times. PyCon normally has thousands of participants; DjangoCon US is several hundred. You can/do meet literally everyone if you want to.

The talks are excellent. The hallway chats even better for staying apprised of current best practices. And since Django is so volunteer dominated much of the changes/improvements to the framework happen during in-person discussions.

So a big thumbs up here for attending if you are able.
It's fairly difficult to find actual details on ACUs and how it all works, the best I found after spending significant time looking was things like:
https://www.jeremydaly.com/aurora-serverless-the-good-the-ba...

According to AWS you're paying for chunks of CPU and memory on a per second basis: https://aws.amazon.com/rds/aurora/faqs/

It's hard to imagine that the CPU capacity is measured in anything other than CPU cycles (time slices of physical capacity) — in the same way it's hard to imagine that the memory capacity is measured in anything but bytes. But whatever, I don't care. It's cool, good for them. The point was... you don't think you're paying for reads of records that are cached? I give up, I fail to see how this can really be a good faith discussion.

I don't know how all other serverless database offerings do pricing. What difference does it make? They're all different. As a user, you want it to be based on your usage and to be fairly and reasonably priced while also being easily audited and predictable. Those are the key properties I would care about.

I honestly cannot see how you could be missing the point by this much and still be operating in good faith so I'll for real, for real stop. :-)
I agree and disagree in some sense. We've seen countless superspreader events in the US, and animal husbandry in the US entails concentration camp-like conditions, which are the perfect storm for disease development, rapid spread and zoonosis. Our agricultural practices end up getting spread to other markets so that they can remain competitive, which means those perfect storms are spread all over the planet.

However, there's no reason to pick on the Middle East in particular. Pilgrimages tend to get a lot of people from disparate areas to convene in a small centralized area at the same time. Research has shown pilgrimages in Europe were responsible for spreading leprosy in the Middle Ages, for example. Research has also shown that pilgrimages in modernity act also as disease vectors, although not with leprosy, with research studying the Hajj in particular, showing a 78x increase in the spread of meningitis[1]. Similarly, there's been research on COVID cases stemming from the Sturgis Rally in the US, suggesting that it was responsible for hundreds of thousands of cases of the disease[2].

[1] https://bmcinfectdis.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s128...

[2] https://docs.iza.org/dp13670.pdf
From the names it seems reasonable to me that "New York" and "New Jersey" should be parts of "New England." As a Californian, I thought of all of the NE as New England and am surprised that they aren't. Wikipedia says the "Dominion of New England in America" in the 1600s did include New York and New Jersey.
> Developer Productivity & Not Getting Too Creative

These stories seem to have an undercurrent of mistrusting the judgment of your expensive and carefully chosen staff. It’s not doing anyone any favors to force an expert to laboriously write out the same junk a novice would have.
Some of those critiques introduce additional assumptions that Diamond's arguments don't rely on:

"has almost no role for human agency—the ability people have to make decisions and influence outcomes. Europeans become inadvertent, accidental conquerors. Natives succumb passively to their fate."

Assumes a conquest due to technological and other disparities implies a lack of human agency on both sides. Why wouldn't the level of human agency everywhere remain roughly constant pre and post colonization regardless of what happened? The only way I can make sense of this is if the writer assumes 'human agency' is some magical force that can overcome every other factor.

"Diamond's account makes all the factors of European domination a product of a distant and accidental history"

Assumes all 'factors' arose as a result of events in the distant past.
Gunpowder, which was spread from China via the silk road, clearly and immediately was put to use fairly soon after the Spanish got hold of it, within a few generations.

etc.
Mainly with stablecoins we are worried that there's no 1:1 correlation between the two assets. Whether they're backed or not is an implementation approach.

People are worried that the dollar slides, which was a big motivator for bitcoin in the first place. But my point is simply that the dollar is an algorithmic asset who's algorithm is governed by a governance body and has a targeted value based on economic factors, and if you don't want that, you should peg to an asset that does not have those properties.

If you want to do backing with dollars it's easy, just spin up a corporation, keep dollars on a balance sheet and you're done. Doing it with other assets if you want requires vaults and things, it's much easier to do it algorithmically, and the only reason reserves are easier with dollars than with other assets is that other assets actually exist, dollars are just a ledger in a computer, again, controlled algorithmically and governed by a board.
Dude. I have... multiple books on my shelf about Deconvolution (though more 1 dimensional than 2 dimensional)... never even heard of this and am tickled pink :D Thanks! (and thanks grandparent for remembering it)

Will 100% post to HN ~should~ when I try implementing it.
I have a remote Linux server for my dev environment. This way it's one dev environment that I can access from any device.

I am mostly using NeoVim now but in the past VSCode with the remote extension worked great too. It's totally platform agnostic (I can even work straight from my iPad). It's also a single instance that I have to manage instead of syncing or making changes in more than one place.

With this setup I can still use docker containers or VM's to make it easy to spin up different types of dev environments but it's all on one computer so super easy to manage. Since I don't have to worry about managing multiple platforms I create simple bash scripts to install everything and create the necessary configs so if I need to wipe everything and start over it's no big deal.
> Damn near everyone in America, at least, has access to YouTube or other streaming services. I learned how to program in R (...)

Enough with this pseudo-moralistic perpetuation of abuse, specially the tone-deaf ones based on survivorship bias.

Just because someone is not able to win the lottery that does not mean they have no right to earn a living wage that allows them a honest living.

Aren't we supposed to live in a civilized society? Why are you unwittingly normalizing exploitation and the widespread abuse that bars the majority of families from having a decent life? If not for the parents who can't be self-taught engineers, why not for their children? Are those also expected to endure hardship?

Just pay people a fair wage. Is it that hard?
This is technically true, but of course there are many other methods of increasing warehouse worker pay beyond reallocating the CEO's compensation package. The pie is not zero sum. For example, stock splits often result in market cap increases due to more liquidity / access. Amazon could issue some (or more?) stock options to its employees in the warehouse or elsewhere if they desired to do so, and it's not a foregone conclusion it would adversely affect their ability to retain a top tier CEO. Who knows, perhaps Amazon would see better worker retention resulting in increased efficiency if they had a more generous package for warehouse workers (not making this claim, but I disagree with the zero sum framing here).
We're talking a theoretical language here, so... maybe? It could be also that set_fs is usable only in the preferred_syntax mode.
And they already do, google and Microsoft both scan emails for ADs and tracking.
The joke is that all crypto is like that. No coin has any actual utility (incl eth). As soon as the supply of greater fools dwindles, the price crashes.

With stablecoins the crash is more spectacular because they are binary nature. Either they are equal to $1 or $0.