skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In my experience, workplaces HAVE created lots of strong friendships in my life.

Though, it's interesting, it varies tremendously by workplace culture and the work you're doing. In my jobs doing manual labor or jobs involving a lot of boring hanging out (as a cashier / supervisor / lifeguard) I made lots of friendships. In jobs where it's been primarily knowledge work, I had a lot of good acquaintances, but rarely did that turn into more. I think that being able to talk makes a big difference. It's worth noting though that when I was a lifeguard, I was a long lived employee surrounded by short term employees. The culture was in flux. There are times when I fit in and we became good friends (which remain to this day) and there are times when I didn't fit in or like the people and didn't make any friends. The manual labor jobs produced more lasting friendships than the lifeguarding for whatever reason. Something about actually suffering with others and working toward common aims and being able to talk about stuff produced the best friendships. (I also think that the nature of the work filtered out some of the lower quality people too, and that played a role.)
You can try it yourself using the invite code - hn.
>For now it seems America prefers escalation, so the war will go on...

I don't get this narrative - what escalation? What's there to be escalated?

Russia will invade more countries? Russia will start a war with NATO?
Public schools are part of the government, and the government should absolutely be held to higher standards than its citizens.
The point was -- was that line really necessary? Was it anything more than a throwaway line, providing more heat than light?

If he wants some sympathy and, wow, does it ever seem like he wants some sympathy, couldn't he just have avoided this incendiary nonsense? The answer is, of course not, this is Internet Troll Drew DeVault.
Glad to see the US subsidizing chips for the entire world market. It's about time we pay our fair share to give back to the subsidizes that asian countries have been putting in.
Not sure about Firefly, but I use KMyMoney. Is there a bank/CC where you can import via YNAB and not via KMyMoney and similar software?
Completely agree...
Yes, always.
Consider when Pokémon Go came out, which for video game HCI researchers, was revolutionary from a social perspective. To give an idea: people standing on the street corner staring at their phone are now fellow trainers you can talk to.

Colleagues and I started data collection. Submitted a paper and were rejected as another group beat us at a prior conference because they could move just a bit faster. Sucks when a reviewer says "Unoriginal. Already saw this last month."
The other possibility is that this report is straight from the SF dept. of homelessness, obviously they are biased and this is pretty much a PR move. It seems more like damage control, "hey guys, it's not that bad, see?".

Had the city remained cleaned, enforced loitering laws, and protected citizens from petty thefts and crime, perhaps it wouldn't be looking at a dark future after much of the tech force has gone remote.
This is a weird argument to make. The rational thing is to make different decisions in different scenarios. The choices I would make for how/whether to participate in society, whether to take a vaccine, etc., would vary greatly depending on whether a given disease has a 1 in 50,000 chance of killing me vs if it's like something out of the movie Contagion that would have a 1 in 10 chance of killing me.

If covid had a 1 in 10 chance of killing me I would have made very different decisions over the course of the pandemic. You're saying that people would still behave the same as they did during covid no matter how deadly a given disease is, which seems pretty ridiculous.
That's what happens when you start a homelessness program. The other states decide their homeless have a better chance with you and now you will never be able to fix the issue. State funding can never fix this issue and a state funded program will always fail. Don't even get me started on the idea that charity would solve it, they line their pockets more on nice vacation packages rather than solving the problem itself. Dig deeper and see the coolaid in action.
> I admit to not being a CPA, but that... doesn't make a ton of sense to me. What sort of tax do you pay on inventory?

Welcome to the US taxation system.

As I understand it, VAT solves a lot of this silliness. However, the US doesn't do VAT for a bunch of historical reasons.
Square needs a fine very similar to Twitter for this.

Let us all report them to the FTC or whatever because this behavior is unconscionable!
For those willing to take leap of faith: be careful about electronic element orientation aka polarity: on each element (where it makes difference) pin number 1 is marked in some way (a dot, cut corner, red wire, coloured band, ...), though rarely there is physical restraint preventing you from putting the clip the other way around. Doing this will fry the eeprom and/or rewriter (on this particular chip it switches power rails and this will cause excessive current flow), but most importantly, it might cause frustration worse than failed compilation for syntax error. Like missing semicolons, this will eventually happen to you. Just be prepared for it.
I’ve written a few things on APL and K for the learner. Links here:

https://xpqz.github.io/about/
This is neat. Though when I ran a fairly simple ffmpeg command through here to try and make sense of it, it was only semi-useful. (Not a knock against this service, but just a testament to the complexity of ffmpeg lol)

> ffmpeg -i input.mp4 -c:v libvpx-vp9 -crf 30 -b:v 2000k output.webm

https://explainshell.com/explain?cmd=+ffmpeg+-i+input.mp4+-c...

It doesn't seem to know what to do with combined flags in this case.
> If you look at the same data release, the excess deaths are almost entirely in cancer and dementia in old people

This doesn’t explain the correlated surge in the 45-64 bucket, the last two charts in the link I posted.

> unsurprisingly they correlate with the waves of COVID infections, not the vaccination program

Do you have a source?

What you linked takes me to some generic description of the dataset.
I remember that I read about Anna. Very interesting paper.
From what I remember that require that the operations will be conflict free.

I think came to conclusion that it could be interesting as an independent (novel) store but not something that can implement Redis with its complicated multi-model API, transactions and blocking commands. I do not remember all the details though...
.NET IQueryable-like generator for Golang
that's my impression about hledger and the plain text format as well. So not going to try other tools also.

Wife acceptance factor tho haha.. we will be fine as long as we never show the beautiful UIs from the YNABs & Fireflys.
In my city there was, for a brief time, a neat combination of the two. It was visually stylized with simplified geometry for easy reading, but it sorta-kinda indicated real distances and directions. I really miss that one -- seemed like the best of both worlds to me.

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Found it: https://people.kth.se/~e95_lra/tunnelbana/bild/linjekarta.gi...

Which is to compare against the highly stylised one: http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-nSNE5wTaCGA/VDZiVonjldI/AAAAAAAAQ5...

And, well, something more realistic: https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-BPoNTy6r7UI/VDZiXCe5oEI/AAAAAAAAQ...
> It's only connection to fiat is stable coins.

This is simply wrong. There are several exchanges that trade Bitcoin directly with fiat, even USD. It may not be a majority of volume, but it is significant.
So you're saying it's a drop in the bucket?
> It's not clear to me how a blockchain is used or needed in this application.

If what you want is decentralized discussions, a Blockchain per-se isn't a particularly good match.

You would be better off with an individual account being represented as a cryptographically signed chain of blocks (posts) that only the same user (public key) can append to, with special cases for adding edits to version posts. Replies from other users are appended to their own chains with references to the post being replied to provisionally added as metadata to the original.

Add in some DHTs, CRDTs, and maybe Hypercore, and you've reinvented the decentralized structure of Usenet for 2022. There are a few extra features you can layer on like Twitter-style blocklists (Usenet called them killfiles), spam filtering, and web-of-trust, but very little here is contingent on DeFi concepts. Conversation is often transactional, but those transactions are not usually monetary.

About the only thing that I can think of that might be helped by a monetary transaction is establishing a new account. If it costs $1 to make a new "hello world" root post (no renewals needed), and bad actors are filtered out as spam such that they have to constantly create new accounts, that should pay for keeping the system running rather well.

Paying for content can be done slightly out-of-band, for example by posting content in an encrypted form and only subscribers get decryption keys that are posted in private messages. Or the reverse, subscribers get private encrypted versions that are decryptable with their private keys.

Most attempts to fold financial transactions semantics into the core of a posts and replies protocol are likely to be ill-advised (and you won't necessarily know which ones until it is too late). There are too many potentially perverse incentives that mirror the arguments for why the result of cryptocurrency hashing functions cannot be something (anything) useful in its own right.
Totally agree, thanks for clarifying!
Depends on the vesting schedule of the people doing the buybacks.
And here are the benefits of nuclear

Much cleaner air than surrounding countries:
https://airquality.one/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/europe-air...

Resulting in thousands of lives saved every year from lower air polutions (that's one Chernobyl or more worth of lives SAVED every year, in France alone):

https://assets.weforum.org/editor/e1rgwaEG5hxgxOvB6LAXfj23t1...
Did you hear that NRA convention was a gun-free zone?

Apparently they were banned because vice president was there and that was the requirement of his security entourage.

So representative of the federal government forbade law abiding citizens from carrying a gun within the premises. Somehow there was no opposition to that.
It's a cat and mouse game as you probably surmise. What the
surveillant wants is a clear signal with features corresponding to
known information. The surveilee tries to send noise that most
closely mimics those features, so the signal is lost in, and cannot be
separated from, that noise. The adversaries each try to find a space
unknown to the other (much like cryptography - cryptanalysis) (and
undiscoverable by the other in a viable timeframe/information set)

For example, speech was traditionally though to be well masked by
white noise. But modern filter technology makes short work of removing
broadband noise even if the signal is fully buried in it. Instead we
now use speech-like fragments as an adversarial mask, as close to the
speaker's spectrum and timing as possible.

In terms of computational cost it's not a big deal. If it _can_ be
removed it probably can in real-time by a well equipt agent.
Something that always bugs me with stuff like this. The people in favor of these trainings and woke stuff in general make this claim that they are doing it because they are so deeply compassionate and have a ceaseless drive to do the right thing. But they never actually try to be compassionate or make situations better. Here's the response from a supporter

> "In the below figure, we see a textbook example of a tenured faculty member whose grasp on human decency is on par with his grasp on the reply-all function," wrote MGM doctoral candidate Jeffrey Letourneau in a reply-all email obtained by The Chronicle.

Is this guy the standard bearer for decency? Going into full on personal attack mode when someone disagrees with you.

Isn't his whole gripe with this other guy a lack of decency? How does this not strike everyone as disingenuous?
Just for god’s sake don’t put a Q-Tip in your ear! There’s even a warning on the package
It's a floor wax and a dessert topping: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux
The other part of the problem is that in a limited hiring pool your competition's labor pool overlaps quite directly with yours and now you need to have compensation packages similar to theirs potentially. I've seen companies have what amounts to the same stack as a large F500 enterprise (Java, Spring, AWS, etc.) and have massive hiring problems, turnover, and especially velocity of features to keep ahead of the big companies. Essentially, if you cannot iterate faster than your competitors sufficiently from the same customer market and hiring pool, you are designed to fail or in best case be acquired by your competition.

There is a balance to be achieved between boring technology, boring customer market, boring hiring pool, and so forth when it comes to any company. You need at least two such major advantages to even bother starting a company IMO.
Benign malice is still malice. Billionaires do well in countries of hard-working, educated people the same way parasites do well in a healthier host. They often aren't contributing to said health, merely profiting from it by chance.

Don't get me wrong some Billionaires are legitimately moving the ball forward, or at least trying to, but for every Elon Musk (despite the man's many flaws he's at least snapped the space launch and EV markets out of decades of stagnation) there's a few Sacklers who seemingly exist solely to abuse the populace for their own benefit, and are only shaped by how much effective resistance they are met with, resistance they will obsessively attempt to overcome/circumvent until they die.

People at that level tend to care about themselves and only about themselves, or at least that's what many of their actions would suggest. They're predators, and even if the wolf can't control what it is you generally want to keep it away from the flock.

That said I have nothing actionable to offer. Short of mass collective action it's hard to see how we deal with them, and mass collective action requires lots of mass collective pain for enough people to be motivated in a single direction. I'd imagine most of the billionaires are well aware of this and are betting that the breaking point will occur after their death, or they arrogantly think that they can be insulated from it somehow. Seems they get away with blatant malfeasance time and again.

Frankly I'm surprised the Sacklers haven't been shot at yet. If I was a broke West Virginian who's family had been torn apart by opioids and I had nothing to lose, I'd be saving my pennies for a bus ticket and take my hunting rifle to their next public appearance.
I don’t play any “quick” games… I like story heavy RPGs. And I don’t play for less than 40m/1h (so if I don’t have the time I don’t even start).
Thank you, and fuck that guy.
Not free & no personal association with them, just a former happy customer -- https://proxymesh.com/ -- paid/hosted "rotating" proxies with additional features available like session-pinning, location selection, etc. I haven't used it in years now but it was a great service back then; it looks like it has probably only improved since then, and the owner/developer was helpful and great to work with as well.
AGPL does not require source distribution of your application, unless the AGPL code is accessed directly by your users.

So, if this were AGPL and I have an closed webservice that uses this, it is in the clear.
American Times, Roman Morals
I enjoyed reading your article, thanks for writing it. I think your recommendation to new devs to focus on Next.js in 2018 (!) was prescient.

> I no longer think front-end suffers the instability people accuse it of.

Do you mind elaborating why you believe this is the case?
I discovered Gemini about a week ago, too. The couple of clients I first tried didn't work. Someone suggested Lagrange, which is a very nice client. Bombadillo is pretty good, too, if you just want to work from the command line. I think I just got unlucky with my initial tries.

I've started my own server, and may put it on a separate machine for extra security.

A site that everyone should check out is Antenna:
gemini://warmedal.se/~antenna/
which is a blog aggregator.

Another nice one is Exploration Surprise:
gemini://tilde.team/~sumpygump/explore/
It shows three random domains a day. So you can have a lucky dip.

Why Gemini? Because it's just so cool. It has a little bit of a sub-cultural feel to it. A big difference between Gemini and the regular internet is that people write because there is something they want to say.

I went onto Tumblr just to see what would happen. The first thing that popped up was an annoying window that wanted me to sign up. I clicked on "Maybe Later" instead. Apart from being an annoyance, there's a subtle cue there, isn't there? We'll get you later.

So, the first post that popped up was a picture of a pizza. Why, exactly? Like, what is it the poster is trying to communicate here?

Scroll down a little bit and there's a post by a guy who seems to have an eating disorder. He mixed peanuts with coca cola. That was essentially his whole schtick. Um, OK.

Scroll down a little bit further and I get a pop-up saying "We know you were really enjoying yourself, but we're going to need a little more info." Need? You "need" more info about me, do you?

This is why I like Gemini. There's a whole different mindset. People aren't trying to sell you stuff, scrape your analytics, or be superficial "influencers."
I was assuming you meant things like NFTs or smart contracts, i.e. commercial products that live on a blockchain
> correlated surge in the 45-64 bucket, the last two charts in the link I posted.

Correlated surge is an absurd way to describe something that basically fluctuates around 0 over the course of a year, which makes me think this definitely isn't good faith.

> What you linked takes me to some generic description of the dataset.

I recommend clicking the buttons on the side, it's a dashboard.
Probably not a complete break. But there needs to be paradigms that can allow for exacale computing. Instead of 20000 independent threads (e.g., SIMD / CUDA style) we will have trillions of threads that work in interleaved harmony. The von Neumann model break downs at that level.
Most consumers are not familiar with Wi-Fi sensing, which can be used to remotely monitor keyboard typing, human heartbeats and other business or home motion by humans and pets. The 2024 launch of IEEE 802.11bf Wi-Fi 7 Sensing will make "X-Ray Vision" accessible to hundreds of millions of consumers globally, unless nation-state regulators intervene. E.g. the introduction of radar sensing on 2.4Ghz/5Ghz/60Ghz could be delayed until local construction/building codes are upgraded to define standards for wireless shielding.

Prior discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30172647

Intel (2020) presentation on Wi-Fi 7, slides #19 and #20 describe Wi-Fi Sensing, https://www.intel.com/content/dam/www/public/us/en/documents...
The Tether MC has been leveling off. (See the 1M view of MC on CoinMarketcap -> https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/tether/)

While Tether may be technically insolvent there looks like there would need to be another $40 Billion in redemptions to really test the peg based on the latest attestation. (They had $82B MC & now have a $72B MC. Cash Equiv. - Comm. Paper & COD = $50B back in March).

My guess is they may have weathered the storm for now. Probably need a few more weeks to fully confirm, but high price today was .9995. If redemptions fully stop or MC goes back up slightly then peg probably returns.
This isn’t nearly so clear-cut as you make it out to be—compilers today often treat “imperative” languages as declarative, and CPUs are a lot more sophisticated than “fetch-decode-execute” implies. (Yesterday I was looking at some code where GCC took a fairly complicated for-loop and turned it into about four assembly instructions, all with incomprehensible acronyms.)

COBOL’s fall from grace was due in no small part to the syntax rather than the semantics, and I expect that trend to continue: I wouldn’t be surprised if the languages of 2050 are similar to the languages of today, just with more expressivity, better communication between compiler and programmer, and an even larger range of optimizations under the hood.
There is a lot more technical information at http://ddramdisk.store/.

It's slower than RAM, runs at around full pcie 4x speed of 7GB/s but it upports way more capacity than most boards would allow.
I know, I'm just making a joke that this looks like an attempt to hide the value behind a simple operation, and rot13 is the ultimate low cost way to do that.
If you aren't more guarded around co-workers than your friends, maybe you should be.
thanks, yeah it looks like it uses Audio Hijack, which can "improve voice quality" but doesnt quite do the fun voice effects i wanted. thanks though! i wound up finding Voxal which maaybe does it but doesnt do the echo. and i cant see it plugging into streamdeck.
If you want a high paying or high status job, it’s not clear to me how you escape the requirement for very hard work.

Just tell people you work really hard but don't actually do it. You'd be surprised how many seemingly hard-working and successful people use this strategy. Some of them even believe themselves.
Was going to reply with WPF. The best I've used for UX dev
Pardon my ignorance, but does "housing-first" come with an expiration date, or is it indefinite? Obviously, if you pay for someone's home, you cure their homelessness, but the goal is to have them pay for their own home eventually, right?

I'd expect something like: You get 1 year of "housing-first"-style free housing with no requirements, then you get 1 year of "tough love" free housing with sobriety and job-search requirements, then you get kicked out.
Jitx (YC S18) is hiring a senior optimization scientist
Code, Weights for VQ Diffusion Model for Text-to-Image Sythesis from Microsoft
>anything to avoid admitting the pixel pushers are solving seriously tough problems too :)

That's not how I view it, as a SRE/BE-SWE who has done substantial visual/FE work. From my perspective, the majority of problems in FE are due to extremely poor libraries and standards, bolstered by a community where copying and pasting large chunks of unknown code is acceptable. Yes, there are "seriously tough problems" with trying to develop in that world, but they are of a different world than most BE problems, from my experience. So they feel comparably difficult, but for very different reasons.
Wait is generation on the host? Nonono you generate a GPG key on the key then export the public key and derive the SSH key. These instructions are wrong the host never should store the key even if airgapped
My cat sitter's number legit ends in -0000. Couldn't believe it. She said it was just the number she was given.
Yeah it's this, just shared time, specifically time hanging out shooting the shit.

For instance of all of my coworkers I am paradoxically the closest to are the ones from out of town. I think this is because when they visited they had no other obligations so we ended up shooting the shit a lot. Where co-workers who lived here were always busy with family/life obligations.
Some of the vendor backed libraries are among the best. But generally I would agree that marketing, especially certain types, generates a ton of noise, like you beautifully illustrated in your article. I think navigating the web with a BS filter on is an important skill to have.
Thank you! Part of the reason that I love these front-end threads is because inevitably somebody will make a fool of themselves by spouting anti-js-dev "backend master-race" nonsense, and this certainly did not let me down.
This comes to mind:

https://math.uchicago.edu/~may/REU2015/REUPapers/Macor.pdf
We would know so much better if it wasn't for the genocide.