skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I doubt that all of the details that went into this decision will ever emerge, but if I had to guess, I'd say that it was probably about being seen as "playing ball" with the existing system to minimize their risk from getting destroyed by regulators.

Crypto itself probably cannot be shut down short of nuking the Internet or physically detaining anybody who wants to trade it, but Coinbase's ability to function as a company can be shut down essentially on a whim with the wrong rule change that prevents them from functioning in a normal fashion. Already with Crypto, they have to step fairly carefully to avoid legal problems. A company can probably get away with 1 controversial thing, but maybe 2 things is harder to manage. In Coinbase's case, they already have 1 big controversial thing just in their business itself and maybe can't take on another big fight.

Also, as an obvious point, there's probably a lot more investor money available in the traditional finance system playing by traditional, well-understood practices.

> How is the entire idea ever going to get tested in the real world when the company best positioned to do so lacks courage?

I'm not certain about this opinion, but as a thought-experiment, I'd argue that the company best positioned to do this might be a boring, non-controversial, non-crypto company that literally nobody wants to ban: say a company making cereal or running a retail or restaurant chain.

Crypto is a loaded topic to a lot of people, so if a crypto company tried to do a crypto IPO, that might give detractors room to argue that it's some kind of scam or a step too far.

Whereas a boring non-crypto company is a lot more sympathetic and less threatening. Can you imagine if a cereal company tried to do a crypto IPO and regulators wanted to go after them and tried to argue that they're some kind of threat? It would be much easier for that kind of boring company to win that kind of fight in the court of public opinion at least.
It's pretty clear if we ask, what is the proximate cause for most deaths of people. It's the self.
No there is much more to it than that. FoundationDB has a completely different architecture that is optimized for completely different things than Redis is. It’s not just about writing to disk vs. not.

Redis is basically a very performant, single-threaded (mostly) single-node in-memory datastructures system with an efficient and readable server protocol strapped to it.

FoundationDB is a completely different beast that has like 6+ distinct roles, and is optimized almost exclusively for interactive serializable transactions, range reads, and correctness.

They’re just completely different things, I recommend reading the FoundationDB paper to get a sense for its architecture. The amount of “steps” involved in processing an FDB write is much higher than in Redis.
But what if some form of exotic life has formed there?

I wonder if adding Jupiter to the sun could hasten or stall the suns current epoch of fusing hydrogen. I’ve heard it could envelope the earth in a billion years, for reference.
And nuclear power https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palo_Verde_Nuclear_Generatin...
I'm among the many developers of commercial + Open Source software out there. And sometimes I also contribute bugfixes/features to Free Software projects. I'm paid to do it and I enjoy my work and count myself as lucky to be a part of the communities I'm able to work with.

It may come as no surprise that I disagree with your characterization of being duped. I'm handsomely rewarded for my work and my resume has never looked better.
Emacs’s Builtin Elisp Cheat Sheet
I've been thinking about this recently and have a few tentative conclusions.

- My government (.au) runs almost entirely on the MS cloud/productivity stack, as do most large businesses. This is the stuff that's going to get resources when there are outages, conflicts, or difficult decisions have to be made. Assuming a degradation over the next decade or two, you could do worse than align your business or personal computing with PCs and MS tech/services - by the time you're facing major outages there are probably bigger problems outside your window. Even in extended collapse downturns there will be some work available to keep this stuff ticking along for many years.

- Intermittent connectivity is to be expected, but also the risk of suddenly losing access to some resource permanently, be that dependencies, documentation, software downloads, or your cloud data. At a minimum all cloud data you care about should have a full offline copy on local disk in a format that is usable. (This seems generally true of both Apple and MS cloud services, if you have a fully synced Mac or Windows PC with the right settings.)

- Development environments with batteries-included standard libraries will offer the most bang-for-buck, which can be installed from offline installers. Being able to build custom GUI apps on demand for whatever hardware your customer has is very helpful. I think .NET MAUI is very interesting here, especially if they end up gaining Linux GUI support. Linux is a great way to bring old laptops into service.

- When advanced technology manufacturing becomes too resource intensive and expensive for many people to buy, larger computers etc. will give way to phones, often crummy ones. Expect lots of Androids and hand-me-downs.

- There will be good trade in second-hand hard drives and batteries that are not too worn. If you can bodge together USB powerpacks from scavenged batteries then certain kinds of USB-powered devices should be able to run for decades. Ultimately I expect old Android devices to be dominant platform because they are numerous, relatively inexpensive, hackable and portable.

- If your value derives from what you have (hardware, stashes of offline data etc.) then expect it to be taken from you. Skills are more helpful - so long as they are actually useful in the computing environment of the time.
The reason Roe v Wade is being pushed is that a small number of people in power see who don't care about it one way or the other push/pushed opposition to it because getting that base emotionally charged gets people more engaged with the party. It is entirely opportunistically taking advantage of an issue to drive the conversation away from other issues. It's not that abortion is unimportant, it's that without certain politics motivations, it would just be solved and generally allowed and not particularly large on anybody's mind.

You find this all over and have to question about each issue that is emotionally charged... how does fanning the flames help certain parties and politicians? Likewise for news sources.

There's an incentive partially intentional by those pulling the strings and partially emergent (or a stand-alone complex for Ghost in the Shell fans) phenomenon where by in a intentional/emergent collusion between parties, politicians, media, and individuals... the most emotionally charged issues dominate the political landscape these days because from somebody seeking out the emotional rush of a like to a politician winning elections to corporate news advertisement sales there are benefits everywhere to make people frenzy about something, and whatever is most apt for it gets it, regardless if rationally it's a solved issue that only a few hangers on really want to fight about any more.

>Like what do you think the “demanding” is going to look like if not an emotional frenzy and protests?

There's a real core of the problem, inability to imagine what meaningful political discourse would look like without an emotional frenzy.
I have been feeling similarly lately.
Sorry don’t have any solutions atm.
+1 on the Pocketsmith recommendation. I've tried several others (YNAB, Lunchmoney, etc.) and I've been using Pocketsmith consistently over the past three years. It has integrations with just about anything, has support for crypto, etc. and their support is top notch.
Why don't they give it a name that isn't deceptive? Like "Right to Purchase Replacement Parts." My guess is because then it wouldn't poll as well.
"Malicious actors can take unauthorized ownership of online accounts even before their victims sign up for services, according to new research backed by the Microsoft Security Response Center (MSRC)."

"In their study, the researchers examined 75 services that ranked among Alexa’s list of top-150 high-traffic domains."

Ironically, Microsoft accounts seemed to be vulnerable as of last year. I got an email from Microsoft about someone renaming an account linked to my email address - an account I didn't know about.

I was never able to recover access as they wanted me to prove I owned the account and whoever had created it had all that info.

If anyone in Microsoft is reading this I'd appreciate help sorting this out!
Renewable are intermittent and seasonal. Intermittency can be solved with batteries, but seasonality can't. The capital cost for batteries is too high to be recouped by charging and discharging only once a year. By a factor of about 1000. So, unless batteries get cheaper by a factor of 1000 (they won't), a different form of storage is needed. Europe is betting on hydrogen. It is betting hundreds of billions of dollars (euros). It's unlikely they are completely stupid. Other solutions sound promising as well (ammonia, iron, syn fuels).

But people need to realize batteries are completely useless for seasonal storage.

Given that, all comparisons of solar vs nuclear are simply not apples to apples.

How about wind? For wind the situation is not as clear-cut but you still have a difficult problem. If you know you can have outages of 3 days about once a year, then you need to build batteries that can provide 3 days of consumption, but they'll be able to sell electricity only once a year. The capital cost of these batteries is going to be very high per kWh. One needs to look at the statistics of power generation with wind to see if batteries can offer the storage solution. My guess is that they still can't, but they are probably off only by a factor of 10 or so. Gas peaker plants may be a good intermediate solution.
WOW.

Ive not seen one of those iphone lidar caps before...

Cant wait until the "obsolete" iphones are just "brain-cards" you slot into a drone body of whatever format you want send it off, and when it returns you just pull the iphone from the slot... or better yet - the drone delivers it as a payload to a spot...

What if you have a "drone vending/rental machine" , you select what drone body you want to rent thats compatible with your cpu-drone-phone... rent the thing, stick in the phone to access and control it... with the app on the phone all configured to your settings (wherre it will upload, who controls it, blah blah)

When your rental is over - the drone 'phones-home' and sheds its exoskeleton and you take your plane-brain with you!
This can help you think through things: https://www.selfauthoring.com/
Honestly? Don't bother. You're not going to get through to a place that doesn't instaban people who have posts like:

> frontman1988 7 days ago | on: On Aging Alone
> 40 is the prime age for men. You can easily get a younger gf from
> Thailand/Vietnam/Philippines with minimum effort. And you never know
> you might find true love (if it exists) as well.
> reply

or

> frontman1988 16 hours ago | on: Can growth
> continue?
> The solution to tackling declining population can be by generating
> Genetically modified babies. This new race of humans will be smarter
> and stronger than the current lot due to eugenics. CRISPR will make it
> possible and it's already happening in China. The west needs to look at
> it instead of ramping up immigration and importing instability from
> third world countries.
> reply

I mean, the person you're responding to hasn't taken the time to understand the base concept of "cultural appropriation", or relative disparity of experience:

> MockObject 3 months ago | parent | context |
> prev | next [–] | on: The Casio employee
> behind the “Sleng Teng” riddim ...
> This speaks to a fatal flaw with the concept of cultural appropriation.
> Ok, so a "white" person can't "speak for Native Americans", but
> a Native American can? Can any, or just certain ones? Who wins if they
> disagree?
> reply

I'm not really sure why they would show more ability to empathize here with you than they do in other threads!

What's funny here is that these people would be probated or in the case of frontman1988, banned, on SomethingAwful these days. How times have changed!
Having backed out of including a reply with my downvote—which I seldom do, but couldn’t find a productive response in me despite some effort—I’m curious what your charitable interpretation is. I went through all of mine, and none of them reflected well on the commenter.
> The manager who helped me got an award for reducing the time required for the inventory from months down to a few weeks.

I don't know how state government works, but just curious if you got any kind of recognition for that rather than just your manager?
As thefunnyman pointed out, TrueNAS will make for a more user friendly sharing experience, but you could also just load a container up with Samba on Proxmox, to give you the NAS feature you seek. The heavy lifting of software RAID/ZFS would then be handled by Proxmox.
I don't think my experiences follow this, I've had very cushy well-paying jobs both in VC-funded startups and FAANG.

I think there is this romantic notion that the software industry is this cut-throat free market utopia where the best ideas win, and I just don't think it's so. Most large companies have a sizable monopoly and most VC funded companies of certain size usually have years of runway. In both cases, people can and do coast.

Obviously the new economic realities will have something to say about this, but in my experience long hours is not required for high pay and status in software.
AI image manipulation and creation is getting really wild. The last 12 months has seen a real explosion in published research. It feels like an exponential curve.
Paper suggests remote work drove half of a 24% increase in home prices [pdf]
This official (gov) document proves that I'm right:
https://www.statistiques.developpement-durable.gouv.fr/editi...

In the very first graph, titled "PRODUCTION NETTE D'ÉLECTRICITÉ", the reddish-orangish surface reflects coal, oil (petrol), gas (methane)
(also biomass and waste but it was and stays a small fraction)

Second: no, nuclear load-follow has severe limitations. Please read
https://www.sfen.org/rgn/expertise-nucleaire-francaise-suivi...
Pertinent information: « un réacteur peut varier de 100 % à 20 % de puissance en une demi-heure, et remonter aussi vite après un palier d’au moins deux heures, et ce deux fois par jour »
it means: "a reactor power output can vary from 100% to 20% in 30 minutes, then after 2 hours can go back to 100% at the same speed, and can cycle this way 2 times per day".

This is quite a good performance when it comes to load-following (French engineers are very good at this), however it is insufficient in the real world (save any ridiculously expensive over-provision of nuclear reactor, most idling) and very weak compared to gas turbines performances.

Then I can't understand your "gas has three main sources". It lists (including cogeneration) indeed "sources" of load-following, however they all are fueled by fossil fuels, and therefore are consistent with my observations: France needs fossil fuel for power generation, its nuclear fleet isn't sufficient.
The trailer thing is sorta exactly why I'm uncomfortable with it.

I have a truck which a few times a year I tow various trailers/etc with. Yes the truck was "designed" for this, but that doesn't mean its not eating in safety margins in many ways and is fundamentally far more dangerous for a laundry list of reasons over simply driving the truck around.

The asymmetry of something that large is going to create a lot of complications that this article is glossing over with "trimming", starting with weight/balance issues (which presumably end up being a case that the opposing wing tanks need to be unbalanced/over full, and managed by the crew, etc), and unusual airframe/control surface stresses that eat into the engineering margins.

So, it wouldn't be noteworthy except for the fact that they were also flying 350+ passengers at the same time. Many airline accidents are cases of confounding variables strung together. You can be assured that had anything unusual happened on that fight, that the NTSB report would have started with "The airplane was flying massively out of trim"
I should stop complaining to my wife we should move to a cold climate to escape the mosquitoes.
It is also possible to add DNA material to field observations. A DNA scanner cost around $1000 and attaches to laptops and cellphones so they could be used in the field. I'm not sure if amateurs can handle the software yet, but that could be fixed.

The most progress could come from my speciality: data mining scientific papers. This requires a few hundred terabyte of harddisks and a fast computer plus 2000 hours of programming. This would require a minimum of $20K or more in grants, crowdfunding or donations but it would yield an enormous boost of data.

Another addition could be scanning all the herbaria and botanical gardens, both photo's and DNA samples. Crowdsourcing by thousands of citizen scientist would be the way to go.
Youtube has made it easier than ever to do diy repair. Its massively different than even 5-10 years ago. If the billionaires don’t want people fixing things they are going to lose in the long run.
Similar, have a landline with (areacode) ABB-0-ABB When giving it out I'm almost always told, 'wow thats easy to remember,' exactly why I chose it. Unfortunately (AC) AC-0-AC was not available
Surely: training dataset of "personal information" contained genome-related images.
When I tried this after importing data and setting things up for a bit through the web UI, I somehow managed to get the database into an invalid state and it broke.

For finance, you need simple and obvious recovery and this just doesn't have it.
Clearly us crazy monkeys aren’t going to stop in orbit without touching down and touching the monolith.

More seriously I got the impression from summaries of the story that some alien force was influencing life on Europa.
IT security is an insurance problem, and the insurers may stipulate you need a pentest, which makes it not their problem and not your problem - just keep paying those premiums and the liability gets passed to the end-user ;)

There is no class-action lawsuit, that's just business...
One of my takeaways from listening to a lot of Telltale (an ex Jehovah's Witness atheist channel on youtube) was that the stereotypical charismatic Christian glossolalia is probably a learned skill. I have heard that people who left these groups are still capable of exhibiting it on command.

I have not actually met an ex-charismatic who could demonstrate this to me, but I would be interested in meeting one. I have never done glossolalia myself, I always thought there was something off about it. I have been at a charismatic church where people were practicing it. I was relieved that they were not extremely loud, they weren't rolling or flailing around, but I admit I found the audible chaos of it somewhat unnerving. I've heard charismatic Christians speak of the presence of God, or of spiritual power as a feeling of "electricity" or tingling. It seems to me that a major aim in that movement is to feel highly energized.

I ended up in a faith tradition that has a difficult but slow, calm, scripted practice, one that evangelicals would be likely to call "vain repetitions". I think the accusation could stick that I badly wanted some beauty and order. I believe that the gift of tongues is experienced as a miraculous automatic translation in the spoken word; we see it as a reversal of what happened at the tower of Babel.
All compilers allow builds that trigger warnings to complete.

Obviously code that only runs when built "debug" differs from released code, which ... doesn't run. That is the whole point. Before you ship, you will resolve all the borrow nags, and then there will be a release build, and it will run the same.

In the meantime, you probably have more urgent worries to act on first. The only difference is who decides when, you or the compiler. As is, the compiler decides, period.

(I confess it utterly mystifies me how this is such a difficult concept for so many. Inability to comprehend something so simple bodes ill for judgment on more weighty matters.)
> One big challenge for multi-threaded Emacs is that there are many elisp libraries and common patterns around buffer modification that make implicit assumptions about sequential and exclusive execution.

It might be naive of me, but why not limit the process execution to the state and buffer that its working in ?

I know that this does not answer the multi processor per buffer problem, but its a better start.
Yes, governments and public institutions like schools should do that.
Walgreens, Amazon and Wawa find success with most-overlooked unemployed worker
Sorry, "greed" simply doesn't explain anything. It's intellectually lazy. So is "you can find quotes...". Unless you actually have some evidence or reasoning that "greed" has increased somehow.

This has nothing to do with profit increasing faster than inflation which I'm not saying is false, mind you. Again, if you had a shred of evidence or logic to say prior to 2021 that corporations did not and would choose not to increase profit faster than inflation then that would be interesting.
For some reason I always thought Haribo was a Japanese product because of the name.
The predictive power that most people have (at least with normally functioning brains, for some neutral definition of normal being the baseline) is surprisingly good. Executive function requires making many such predictions and forecasts every minute. If I had to give a rough estimate, I’d say slightly greater than a coin flip for future event outcomes.
When I signed up for google voice I searched the last 4 of my cell number, and I got the last 4, and the first 3, and middle 3 was x+2, y, z+2 so it it almost as close as possible to my actual cell. At the time I didn’t think to search for more interesting combinations of numbers, I realize how short-sighted that was now. Oh well.
Crypto is very volatile. I would not recommend this as a long term investment.
It's all there, just need to get over the fear of change hurdle. Once schools use it by default, everyone will learn it, and things that aren't like it will become the hurdles.
>If we're all struggling to pay our rent and fill our cabinets with food,

if there are actual famines than surely rents would go ... down?
If you’re a different species than I am and COVID-19 is a disease unique in my species to parasitic encounters with your species, then yes.
https://moneywell.app is still my favorite: event-based budgeting, automatic transaction import, buy-once run-locally forever. It’s perfect. macOS only unfortunately but I highly recommend.

Edit: not a shill, just happy. :) The killer feature for me is the event-driven budgeting: you load in your expenses and note when they occur, and MoneyWell figures out how much to allocate to the corresponding envelope automatically. So nice. Anyone else know of another PF system that does that?
It seems strange to cap the number of shares, which makes me wonder if this is the number of shares in an option pool. If so, nothing can be inferred about percentage ownership, except that your friend would likely own a very insignicant number of shares. Note that a new company typically allocates 10M shares, so it's additionally unclear why now there are so many.
What happened is that Google has enough money to take the purchasing people out for drinks once a year.
Oh, let's not forget this zinger!

> MockObject 4 months ago | on: Being black in tech is exhausting
> I am a minority, and I am furious that my advancement is besmirched
> with the asterisk of the possibility of affirmative action. But I am
> powerless and unheard.