skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What I would love, and it has not been supported (I was basically told “Go away, kid. Yer bodderin’ me!”, when I suggested it to AgileBits), is the ability to store the local 1Password vaults onto a separate volume from the main one.

I have a small encrypted disk image that I mount, after booting my computer. A YubiKey would be similar. I use this to store my really critical stuff. I don’t back up the mounted disk, but do back up the encrypted image.
Is it a command one can use in Linux? Then it is a Linux command. And frankly I wouldn't put it past some people to have specialized peripherals they specifically use with Linux.
Is it possible to do something similar with an NFC smart ring? I'd be much less likely to lose a ring than a Yubikey.
Yes, temperatures, particularly high temperatures have a distribution. Here's a list of record high temperatures for U.S. states and territories:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._state_and_territory_tempe...

Notice the dates:

< 1920: 6
1920-1940: 26
1940-1960: 4
1960-1980: 3
1980-2000: 11
2000-2022: 6

Going by this list the really worrisome period would be the 1920-1940 interval, going by newspaper archives this is corroborated - this is after all the time of the Dust Bowl.

Now let's look at record low temperatures:

1885-1900: 6
1900-1920: 8
1920-1940: 9
1940-1960: 7
1960-1980: 9
1980-2000: 13
2000-2022: 4

Less spread but noticeably the very hot 1920-1940 interval also gave rise to a relatively high number of record cold temperatures. The 1980-2000 interval sticks out a bit in both record high as well as record low temperatures.

What, if any, conclusion can be drawn from these data? Just going by the numbers the 1920-1940 interval was the hottest on record thus far but in the same period a relatively high number of record cold temperatures were recorded. The same is true for the 1980-2000 interval. The conditions which give rise to record high temperatures also seem to be capable of producing record low temperatures. Elsewhere in this thread I posted an observation on the close relation between insolation and average temperature [1]. The difference in insolation is most likely related to the amount of aerosol pollution (of natural and human origin) in the atmosphere given that an increase in aerosol pollution leads to an increase in cloud cover due to those aerosols functioning as cloud condensation nuclei. It would be interesting to see the data on insolation/SSR (solar surface radiation) for these regions and compare it to those record periods. I would expect to find a correspondence there which would explain both the high as well as the low temperature records - clear skies make for hot summer days and cold winter nights.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31556790
The goods are also commingled so hopefully that will teach people to not buy stuff on Amazon since they're likely to get fakes. So win-win.
So the other way to say this is that companies are just as real as anything else in our society.
You're missing the scenario where the police take your phone and your electronics (and the yubi on your desk) and have access to all your accounts because of the yubi attached to it, and you're left locked out of everything.
Is it possible that we could have a permanent (small) presence of fossil fuel energy to smooth out capacity?
There seem to be quite a few models of 55"+ 4K touchscreen available (for thousands of dollars), so I think that product type is still available. It's the middle sizes that are missing; I've been waiting for years to upgrade my 24" 1080p Dell touchscreen to 32" 4K or similar, and if that existed for less than say double the 24" price I'd probably buy several.
The Fed is just the agent of Treasury (as Bernanke pointed out in testimony[0]) , and Treasury does what Congress tells it to do.

Which leads to the inevitable conclusion - the US dollar is a simple public monopoly, and therefore monopoly rules apply.

[0]: https://www.c-span.org/video/?c4454549/user-clip-bernanke-ag...
I really hated on-call support last time I had to do it, and we were all already putting in vastly more than 40 hours a week (seriously are there really any developer jobs that are only 40 hours in practice?).

The ridiculous thing was that it was only about a 1 in 10 chance one would get called, but I still couldn't get any sleep on those nights and would rock up even more tired than usual for work the next morning.

The callers would be end-customers from USA so I was always stressed I'd be too blur to answer well right after wake up and give them a bad impression. Didn't help I only understood some parts of the system so would have to muddle through the rest. My spouse wasn't overly impressed by having the phone randomly ringing at 3am either.
But that is the thing. The special 802.15.4 is what made zigbee attractive to people like me. How have their own custom zigbee hub and uses a variety of devices from several manufacturers that have all of them report to the zigbee hub that I control

Moving it to just standard wifi, Ethernet, etc will allow device manufacturers to lock out people like me

Others in the community seem excited for it however anytime you have Amazon, Google, and Apple all working together I can never see how that results in good things for users as each are open hostile to user control in various ways.
There's only so many issues someone can have until people in general will decide to give them a "fuck off, I don't care" treatment.

You don't have that for verbal communication with other people, but I'm sure if digged far enough you would have the same reaction to something else that other people think is acceptable.

Just how accommodating should the standard test be?

If the answer is "infinitely", I think you won't find any test that satisfies it
Reveal.js is low overhead for this use case - create a stack of vertical slides (overhead is typically just an opening and closing html tag for each section of your guide) and use the javascript api to toggle overview mode on when the page loads (1 line overhead plus open and closing script tags).

I know you should typically use reveal for presentations but the overview mode and print to pdf feature are pretty usable for guides.

I like it primarily for the low overhead, but it has decent support for low-lighting irrelevant lines when presenting code (my typical use case) and i can use markdown for text and because it’s pure text in git, i find it easy to share with others when there’s collaboration needed.
Honestly I think a lot of what you're noticing is the product of junior frontend devs. The nice thing about HTML is that it's really hard to write code that won't load fast, but you can write SPA which load fast, you just need to be more deliberate about how you load things and what you're loading. The problem with SPAs it's easy to create huge bundles pulling in numerous large packages then loading it all in the head where it will block page render. Layer that with some poorly designed APIs and slow JS animations and you have what you're describing.

I'm not saying SPAs should always be used because in most cases they shouldn't, but a well optimised SPA should in theory be quicker and provide UX improvements to the user.
An interview is not a quiz. You're allowed to ask clarifying questions. I'm sure most interviewers won't discount you for being unfamiliar with a fairly obscure word.

Needing stackoverflow to check for palindrome-ness would probably be a bigger problem though. Of course during your day-to-day you'll be allowed to google all sorts of things, but checking if something is a palindrome is so basic that all google could possibly provide you is the exact answer to the question.
And public transport here is so expensive. For a return trip, it is cheaper, and faster, to take a car (both petrol and parking costs). The only thing that taking public transport saves you is the hassle of traffic (so you can do something else on your ride), and parking, which can be real bad in some areas of the city.

The S-Bahn and U-bahn are usually only crowded on peak hours (2 or 3 hour intervals in the morning and evening).
I don't have two keys. I do keep a fallback method like restore keys written on a safe place.

I did find out however that my old Ledger X can do U2F and GPG so I'm trying to learn how to use it. This Ledger was my first first hardware wallet but I got a coldcard which in my opinion is a better bitcoin wallet. I had no idea what to do with the ledger - second hand market for these things are a big nope. I was pleasantly surprised when I found out there are apps that allow the Ledger to perform some of the Yubikey functions.
Pretty cool tool for all those who are uncomfortable with their non-native english accents.
Whenever you do a transaction on the Ethereum network part of the fees (the base fee) are destroyed, this amount goes nowhere not even a special locked account. It just disappears, it's "burnt" as it's commonly referred.

This means that you cannot look simply at total ETH issued from the genesis block as you will be overestimating the amount of ETH in circulation by the total amount of ETH destroyed through base fee burning. Currently around 2.4M ETH has been destroyed in this manner.

The figure I gave above (~120M) includes all other ETH. I.e. All ETH that exists. Including ETH that perhaps has been forever lost due lost keys or sent to wrong addresses or addresses that nobody has the keys for (e.g. https://etherscan.io/address/0x00000000000000000000000000000... or https://etherscan.io/address/0x00000000000000000000000000000...)

So for all intents and purposes circulating supply is total supply.
I guess social politics are not the only field where you can have a progressive - conservative divide, each in their literal sense (note: these do IMO not cleanly map to political parties in general, i.e. you could be a conservative left or a progressive right). Thus you can be a reactionary in your field of profession in how you react to criticism.
Its a comment chain on a tech site not an introductory article.

(Nothing wrong with not being familiar, i wasn't either, but it was totally reasonable for original poster to use them in context)
My grandfather who lived through the Dutch famine in world war 2 did fine buying food with gold while people were eating flower bulbs and grass, so in that case at least it worked.
It’s not impossible in practice at all. It just turns out that when the Fed pumps all risk assets for 15 years, nobody really wants to be hedged (until, of course, they do). Hedge funds are in the game of absolute returns. And it turns out that many investors time horizon for absolute returns is shorter than it should be.
The drowsiness detection isn't a kill switch, but the camera version of it is beyond creepy:

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

Cars used to be a safe space where one could get away from being monitored and listened to by other people. This is no longer the case.

I wonder why people accept it. Does it appeal to the narcissism, i.e., people like to be monitored at all times because it makes them feel important?
Have you tried using the "export" feature?
It's only a temporary measure. We would be ecstatic if it was permanent. Alas, it is not.
I suspect that a company is still a natural abstraction in the sense described by John Wentworth (wrt “information at a distance” and such).
The keyword vs symbol distinction still seems weird to me. :first vs 'first. {} delimited sequence of even length is a nice complement to () delimited sequence of arbitrary length though.
The experience is different when you're not signed in; you can only view a couple of tweets and then you hit a login wall.
Scaleway price 'harmonization' (mostly increases)
Just received this via e-mail - no mention on it on their blog:
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Scaleway invests heavily to build efficient data centers and reduce our environmental footprint, and the best example is our Eco-AZ in Paris, PAR2, which has the lowest PUE (Power Usage Effectiveness) in Europe. This is particularly important as we all observe a sharp and sustained increase in electricity costs in the recent months which we have to reflect, at least partially, in our prices.
To simplify our pricing and encourage the use of our more efficient data centers, we will be harmonizing the pricing of our Instances across our regions. This means that the prices of Instances located in AMS1, PAR1, and WAW1 will be increased, and align with the prices of PAR2, which will remain unchanged. The only exception remaining is PAR3, our unique DC located in a nuclear shelter. However, to encourage the use of this highly secure AZ and benefit from the full Paris Region, we will drop its pricing significantly.

With this price change, our compute Instances will be the same price in almost all our Availability Zones (except PAR3, repositioned at a lower price). This change fully supports a multi-AZ strategy, which is key to building more resilient infrastructures. You can now spread your workload without being constrained or concerned by AZ location and expand easily in all our regions.
As of July 1, 2022, the following price changes will be automatically applied to all affected services active on that date:

- The price of compute Instances located in AMS1 and PAR1 will be increased by 8% - The price of compute Instances located in WAW1 will be increased by 3.85% - The price of compute Instances in PAR2 will not change - The price of compute Instances located in PAR3 will be decreased by 50%

This concerns all Instance types: VC1, VC2, Stardust, Start1, Pro1, Development purpose (DEV), General purpose (GP), Enterprise (ENT).

The prices of our other products will remain unchanged.

We would like to thank you for your loyalty and support over the years, as well as your understanding concerning these price changes. If you have any further questions or concerns regarding this price increase, please do not hesitate to contact us.
Best wishes,
The Scaleway team.
I wrote this VR toy spaceship construction thing for an F# game jam. I think it has the potential to turn into something cool if I can ever find time to turn it into something more than a proof of concept.

https://youtu.be/uvbNOR3GnxU
A perfomative group of expert stooges must coordinate everyone to
resign together. Otherwise those who remain unwittingly continue to
lend legitimacy. It's natural to feel flattered if asked "as an
expert" to contribute on situations where they only want to use your
name to lend legitimacy to a course they've already embarked upon.
Without first ensuring that you have power as well as input, your only
leverage is to resign very publicly, and convince the others to do so
too.
Java Has a New Website
I had worked on a number of commercial MMO games' server and I don't necessarily agree on your opinion on "a completely solved problem space". Have you worked with your game designers and artist to find a sweet spot across latency, bandwidth, security, hit box and effect synchronization etc... just for one type of action skill? I had. It ended up with a very customized protocol which was nearly unusable on any other stuffs. It might seem simple to do such things for one or two features, but it's actually death by thousand cuts; it doesn't take that long till all those state synchronization and replication codes invade through game-play and presentation layers and all the logic and you got hundreds of them now.

And I am not very sure if you had a good look through the resources that you posted... Many of them are pretty explicit on their use of own ad-hoc solutions and the trade off that had to be made, which really supports my arguments. (Yeah, I think I already have read and watched more than half of them over the last decade) And this is not surprising if you have a good theoretical ground on distributed systems which have literally hundreds of impossibility theorems and real time games usually have quite tight latency constraints.
This was my go to for learning Flask, I wish I never found it. Flask has a very niche use case in my opinion and if you need something to scale (in terms of code complexity) Flask is the absolute worst decision you can make.

Try Django instead. If you read my comment history you'll see that I learnt this the hard way.
Go have a look at the Tulip Trend Fund
Nuclear as a technology is mature.
Nuclear as an industry involve too much politics, bureaucracy and very long term commitment.
> Mask usage in public places is generally very high.

Not anymore. In Hamburg, nobody wears a mask, even in the supermarkets in the busiest hours, even though during the big pandemic spikes almost everybody wore it properly.
ha, that's sort of what I had in mind but I was wondering what magic trick was I missing. Thanks for the explanation!
>Also they used to make bike racks out of wood? Sick (?!)

That photo is relatively recent (2006), and it's quite likely that that bike rack is not very old. It appears to be on the grounds of a hotel estate where locking would be unnecessary and a rural aesthetic is key.
When I'm using the scanner gun at Waitrose I can't help thinking of this. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q54lVO7elt0
No shame in sharing something cool on HN. This was a nice well-executed project, also I like the look of your blog
See also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31544372
Literally "proof of stake" as measured by headcount.

Is it a bad relapse of LOC metrics? ツ
No, it has healed. Regulation of CFCs worked.

https://twitter.com/CopernicusECMWF/status/12532730352489758...
You wouldn't download a Debian developer [video]
In my experience it's quite the opposite. We use Flask for a large-scale webapp in production quite successfully and it's enabled us to reduce application complexity significantly.
Disclaimer: I'm in Germany and self-checkouts are still kinda rare where I live.

I have never seen such a system where you had to scan anything after the fact or there were even some bars/obstacles to be able to leave.

That said, I'm very indifferent. The one at IKEA seems to work fine, the one in the local hardware store I've had problems both times I tried to use it. First there was no barcode on some item I had (maybe if you do it more often and only have 4 things you will check beforehand?) and the second time it wouldn't accept my card, so maybe the latter doesn't necessarily count as "self-check out didn't work" but more 'register broken'.

And where it would totally help - my local grocery store where more often than not I only have a couple things in my hand and no trolley and the 1 or 2 lines are very long.. of course they don't have one :(
Whoever wrote that is much smarter than me!
I'm allergic to both sides of the culture war, but the algorithms seem to want me to be invested in someone's narrative on it.
The gambling system has a house edge. It's a system which exists for the house to take money (in aggregate) off gamblers. The profits are real, and nobody pretends there aren't losers. Most casinos operate on this basis without requiring constant injections of further capital.

The stablecoin on the other hand claims that stakers are being rewarded for risking their capital without holders of the stable coin being fleeced at their expense. The only way to do this is by the number of people coming into the system expanding, and unlike the gambling system, the proposition of the stablecoin is these new participants don't lose money either. It has the classic Ponzi dynamic of being a zero sum game masquerading as a positive sum game through growth.

I guess a stablecoin could theoretically operate on the basis that "stakers" were supposed to enjoy average negative returns for the sheer joy of gambling like people on craps tables. That would be much more like your proposal, and would be far too truthful in its white paper to be called a Ponzi, though it might have trouble attracting gamblers compared with the glitz and glamour of the casino and all the crypto ways to gamble money that don't openly admit paying negative returns.
Yes, clearly there is an issue with the Schrodinger equation. I think it is very obvious that basic quantum mechanics (with the Shcrodinger equation) does not apply to the entire universe. It would be better to talk in terms of quantum field theory, and maybe the scattering matrix there is unitary, but already know that is in contradiction with general relativity. Basic quantum mechanics is only a very rudimentary model. Basic quantum mechanics is only a local theory, and there is zero reason to apply it at the scale of the universe. Not to mention, if there is such a thing as a universal wavefunction, it is probably extremely complicated and contains a lot of information. Looking at a very small slice of it (a planet) may indeed look very complicated. While the entire system might be unitary, that doesnt mean every component is unitary.
Paper:

https://www.apa.org/pubs/journals/releases/apl-apl0000906.pd...

Article:

https://news.stanford.edu/2021/02/23/four-causes-zoom-fatigu...
I heard about a known electronic cigarette brand that plans to do this with their devices. The future where all our habits will end up being tracked is close.
Yeah, at previous jobs there has been a db.devopsdomain.com (etc) which acted like a bastion into the network from which you could connect with DB credentials to the actual databases.

It's convenient I will say that. I've tried not to replicate this exactly and instead have adminer running on a server on the network but only listening to localhost connections. To get access to it you can then SSH tunnel the ports locally:

> # Route 8082 on your machine to localhost:8080 on the server:
> ssh -N -L 8082:localhost:8080 db.devopsdomain.com
It's almost like they integrated product design with usability and other human factors...all in one fell swoop. This smacks of brilliant solo design, if not a very, very tight team.
The “identity” and “behavior” encapsulated in an “object” is just more data to be interpreted in the right context. x86-encoded behavior of an object will all be gibberish to an ARM CPU. Or 64-bit code to a 32-bit CPU. You can add more data to say how the other data should be interpreted, but then you need even more data somewhere to state what the set of addressable interpreters is, which needs an interpreter as well. Data upon data upon data…
Causes problems with functions though as you lose straightforward recursion. That leaves you with either define creating cycles, or introducing letrec to create cycles, or the dubious beauty of the Y combinator.

The acyclic heap is a great property for most data but it's annoying for representing programs. It might be reasonable to restrict letrec to creating functions, and ensure they're all statically allocated, which would give an acyclic data heap with direct representation of functions.
See, that’s what I thought until I saw a properly built system.

Sure, you can buy good components and that will get you fifty percent of the way. But it won’t get you to a literally inaudible PC.
This is something that stresses me a lot. I care about fighting against these non-features but most people around don't care and have the mentality of "I have nothing to hide"

I've lost count the amount of times I thought about "I should just do an open-source version of <some home appliance I need and is full of spy/crapware>"
Xournalpp++ – closs-platform, open source note taking software
I've used this for reasoning about our ROV's underwater optics.
Basically a digital time locked safe.

You could send something to a reporter and not even the NSA could open it until the appropriate time.

You could encrypt crypto-wallet keys with it and your heir can’t open them until after turning a certain age.

My use case: my wife or myself write a letter that can’t be opened until some point in the future. Every year, we delete the old letter and write a new one. This is “in case we die” so it’s addressed to loved ones. Right now, we can theoretically read each other’s letters if we wanted to, but this encryption doesn’t require us trusting each other, the service we host them on, or anything.
If the city is paying for them and installing them, I think you have to try quite hard to be worried.