skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Disclaimer: I work for AWS

I think Outpost is a great hybrid-ish solution for those companies with workloads in AWS that want to supplement that with on-premise workloads using the same APIs and tools they are already used to.

The use cases I see for Oxide are, like other have said, are for hyperscalers or hosting providers who want to have their own on-premise infrastructure that isn’t tied to another entity like AWS. Whether that’s because you have the in-house talent to manage it or for compliance reasons it’s required it does have a niche.
Fringe; from ethics point of view “pro-life” is no different from flat earth.

Many countries legalized abortion over the past 20 years; very few went the other way.
I sympathize, also being bad at and unhappy doing this kind of study. But to be fair to biology, its fundamental thing is the incredible variety of creatures in the world; their stunning diversity as well as similarities, family resemblances, and interactions.
My company just closed our local office and forced everyone to work from home permanently. I rent a room and do not have a dedicated office space to make WFH comfortable.
In order to make remote work viable, I will have to find a new rental and spend an extra $800 per month for an office. These are extra costs the company has forced on me.
All these talk about code safety just want me to stop wearing my bike helmet.

For most of my programs safety is of zero concern. I'll trade it for convenience any day. Just let me implicit cast signed to unsigned thank you very much.
Generally anytime anyone tries, it devolves into special pleading; basically saying that this or that isn't "real" utility.

As if being able to transact with anyone else on the planet sans middlemen isn't enough utility on its own. I would instead ask people who make comments like the one that started this thread to substantiate their affirmative claims about how crypto is only used for these shady things. For some reason, no such evidence is ever forthcoming.
> What’s interesting is that we don’t really have this kind of structure in place elsewhere to my knowledge, outside of open source software.

https://developer.apple.com/support/authentication/ ?
I mean, it would be strange that in 2022 HN would not be included in continuous campaigns to maintain good PR and keep getting baseless positive opinions, seed doubt and confusion to any criticism.

I would expect any big multinational corp to have few permanent people / external agency on permanent contract just for this. And considering how these corps in discussion are almost cartoonishly evil, there is probably a lot of work being done constantly.
It's what runs above the vms that is the distinction. For xen it has its own kernel instead of running Linux as the hypervisor and host system. Xen still uses Linux typically as the domain zero as it calls it for doing control and setup but it doesn't necessarily have full access to all the hardware on its own.
Teleportation, curing all disease, bringing the dead back to life.
How can we give feedback if we can't sign up?
I think if every tenure is less than two years it's a red flag for a senior position. Anyone can get by for a year but if you're around for two you'll inevitably need to deal with conflict resolution and maintaining relationships and products.

If you can't stick around two years anywhere I'm prone to thinking you're someone who vomits a bunch of code and then leaves the team to pick up your mess. Or someone who can't provide critical feedback without sabotaging the relationship. Either is a no go for a senior position.
What does it help spraying/cleaning the solder joints? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=amuRIydCoJk&t=6m07s
I think the utility is the medium itself. Your TradFi loan was delivered to you using a financial system maintained by thousands of highly specialized bankers and engineers leveraging billions of dollars in infrastructure. A DeFi loan is delivered to you via a smart contract that runs on a generic financial computing platform known as a blockchain. Even if the only thing you can do with a blockchain is implement existing financial systems, that itself is utility because the blockchain has lower barriers to entry, both in terms of knowledge and capital, which thus democratizes the financial system.

I agree with the beanie baby analogy when it comes to the various tokens that people "invest" in. But I wouldn't be so quick to say there was no utility, at least conceptually. It didn't really "click" for me until I implemented a smart contract. I realized that I could implement the entire financial system relatively easily, e.g. I could create an analog for stocks, options, margin lending, etc. Building a similar system without the blockchain would be much more difficult. I certainly couldn't do it alone. And even if I did do it with the blockchain, there would be an additional step of convincing people to trust that my system would stay up. Smart contracts run "forever" (in a sense).
Huawei's MateView 28.2" monitor too. It has a 3840 x 2560 resolution (which is slightly more than the 2560 x 2880 resolution of the LG DualUp), although sadly is not VESA mountable.
Suggesting that the US did everything in its power to annihilate all of its enemies in the period between 1945 - 1949 but could not achieve it is not correct.
This kind of reply is frustrating. Someone wrote a nice article explaining how it may not be desirable for package indexes to force the authors of packages to put on even more work to get their free work published, work that they didn't have to do before... and the best answer you can come up with "that's nonsensical"?

Here's what is nonsensical: to call the author's argument "i would like to have my cake and eat it too" because the author does not ask to eat any cake... they just ask that package authors should not be burdened with even more work the more their creation becomes popular, and that the burden should be on users who care about it... to call this argument nonsensical is offensive to the author and to those who read the argument and actually understand it.
Insulator or superconductor? Physicists find graphene is both (2018)
Space Bubbles (Climate Change Solution)
I use a window manager to split a 21:9 5k2k monitor into 11:13:11 panels, so the largest is in the middle. Suits me just fine, and I mostly look at the middle panel, with terminals and browsers off to the left and right respectively.
Someone on reddit claimed he was on a US presidential campaign doing exactly that. Respond to posts with pre-made replies, if things got hairy, distract with humor or memes. Interestingly, they were aware when they were dealing with another paid shill from the opposing side.

After all those years on the internet I think I can also feel the impact of systematic forum activity; controversial topics that get swift, well articulated replies with links and upvotes. Another comment, declaring the winner of the debate!

Is it individual experts who weigh in, organically? Groups who are passionate about the topic and organize via Discord? Or professional shitposters and memers? Who can tell. But a few internet-addicted Reddit aficionados could cover a lot of topics in a lot of communities for a small salary and huge impact.
If you are someone who prefers startups over big companies, then you will find value building relationships with your peers and leadership. Hopping around will make this difficult.

There is no shortage of high paying companies that don’t care, but you will have trouble building those relationships if you reset once per year.
Which scene? They used it in two key scenes.
Twitter spaces are awful however and are also not easily recorded and can't be used easily on any device. (You need to go to some kind of youtube link from one of the participants to listen to a recording.) Also their twitter talks are more unfocused rants by the participants with little focus. So it's hard to listen to. I'm sure it's more fun for the participants, but not so much for the listeners. You also lose the comfort of consistency of participants.

Some of them have even been delving into some of the participants personal politics as well which is just something I'm not interested in hearing.
It seems that’d help make semi “broad spectrum” possible as well.

Manufacture a serum loaded with hundreds or thousands of phages known to target superbugs and let them decimate the bacteria. Choose the survivors. If you could automate the last step it could be something any old doctors office could do.
Yet another victim of Catholic hate preaching.
First, thank you for your contributions :)

I agree with the author that the request is unwarranted. As far as I can tell, most licenses typically have a clause that waive any damages caused by the software along the lines of 'THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY COPYRIGHT HOLDER "AS IS"...', so there is absolutely no moral obligation on behalf of the author. e.g:

https://choosealicense.com/licenses/bsd-4-clause/

Absolutely agree that PyPI, seeing that it benefits from the contributions of unpaid developers, doesn't really have a moral right to exert this kind of control over developers. Basically, corporations are free-riding on the unpaid work of developers, and now they have decided that some packages are "critical" and require more unpaid attention. Here, have a Google 2fa key, the proprietary firmware will surely be convenient.

I also kind of see the point others are making regarding the OP's presumed entitlement; nobody is forcing them to publish on PyPI. Yet, PyPI is the go-to distribution channel for Python, so if you want to contribute anything, it is reasonable that you do it through that channel. It's the similar kind of network effect that happens with 'social' networks.
semantic: the 8 letter s-word
Thanks for your comment, if they broke the temperature requirement that would be BIG news.
I only just now realised that PyPI stands for Python Package Index.
I do. I use it in a Librem 15v4, with 32GB of RAM.

It's not only about threats, it's pretty convenient. I do all my dd operations, feeling confident a mistake won't wipe out my HDD. I have a work vm and a personal vm (and many more), and I can share full screen on my work vm knowing that all personal windows are hidden.

I have files and programs organized by vms. I can try installing new applications in a disposable vm knowing well that all their files will be wiped out when I close the vm.
Polygon.io – a modern stock / option / forex / crypto data service
I met an almost billionaire once; I mentioned how a million dollars would cover me for the rest of my life and she followed with a 10 minute speech on how money is horrible and she can't sleep at night for their concern. I was moved but I confessed I'd still want that million dollars to fall out of the sky. It didn't feel like she "wanted more".
Hey! Happy to help here -- are you having an issue with signing up for the waitlist? If you're looking for the actual software, we'll open access later this year in order of waitlist sign ups.

If you're referring to the feedback we received earlier, it was in reference to the features we described on our pre-launch website :)
Obligatory reference to Derek Lowe's "Things I Won't Work With" series:

https://www.science.org/topic/blog-category/things-i-wont-wo...
It is illegal to have. Part 95 requires GMRS radios to have pre-programmed frequencies (no keypad) and a non-removable antenna. No ham radio meets those requirements.
> It really seems that, for open source projects, the author is expected to be responsible for everything.

If you wrote "for underfunded projects" I would agree with you. It's a pretty universal fact of life regardless of the nature of the source.

> I think it’s a problem worth solving.

Definitely, I don't think anyone is against a solution to this problem. The question is what we can expect before the envisioned solution is finally created by someone and provided to us.
Same here. I put mint on my.computer illiterate girlfriend's old computer. She used it as effectively as any other os. The update issue is real though.
OK, I'll skip the obvious analogy. PyPI is a free, open source service. It hosts packages for distribution. When you go to PyPI you say "Hi, I would like to distribute software, can you do this?" and they say "Yes, you can do this for free. There's some terms of use, and we require 2FA."

You can say "Great, I accept all of that, thanks for providing distribution of my code for no monetary cost to me" or you can say "Ah, ok, thanks anyways but I would prefer not to accept that".

Is that clearer?
Apple hiring more engineers in China to work on automotive software
I agree it's nonsense. The argument appears to dodge 2FA itself and the benefits to ecosystem by instead focusing on fairness, which is subjective at best.

It's not "fair" that the author has to accept the burden of 2FA, because they created a package that turned out to be critical through no fault of their own.

It would seemingly satisfy the author's "fairness" goal if everyone had to use 2FA whether their packages are critical or not.

It's also ironically not "fair" that the volunteer maintainers of PyPI are subjected to complaints like this for their hard and valuable work to improve the security of the entire ecosystem, which has become critical infrastructure itself through no fault of their own.
> Open source developers need to learn how to be professional.

No, professionals need to be professional. Some FOSS devs are professionals and should act like it, but many FOSS devs are just hacking around in their spare time and don't owe anyone anything; certainly they're under no obligation to be "professional" with their side projects.
German govt: coal-fired power plants prefered to nuclear power
Hiya! I'm the founder of XJ music. It's taken me seven years to build this thing I dreamed of when I was young, producing electronic music on a pair of MPC-2000s trying to hack them into something more.

XJ is human created content fed into a "player" that fuses the composition process with the storage and distribution. It's an algorithmic medium. The music is never "done" and what you hear in the app is playing live in real time from the software we run in the cloud.

What do you think??

Free on iOS and Android.

https://xj.io/download
Disappointed to see you folks get caught up on the question of 2FA and not a single mention of @mitsuhiko's discussion of solutions, such as vetting as a service. Personally I think this is a very interesting idea, separating distribution from verification, and allowing for people to set their own criteria for vetting/verifying code. It would work well and scale from hobby projects all the way up to corporate behemoths. But sure, let's get stuck talking about 2FA and how slippery slope is a fallacy as if we haven't each one of us seen this sort of thing before.
Please! PDFs are such an awful way of transferring information. What a joke to have to read on an LCD device or buy an enormously large and expensive E-Reader.

Makes actual printing way more attractive than it should be.
Some good points:

"... same risks that are all too familiar from traditional finance, such as leverage, settlement, opacity, and maturity and liquidity transformation."

Yes. I've been making this point for years. It's mostly problems that are well known. It's just that the crypto crowd doesn't study financial history, so they get to repeat it. Although crypto has its own unique risks - it's really hard to secure crypto assets and still use them, and fast anonymous remote irrevocable transfers make it hard to catch crooks.

"... there is a risk that a single dominant stablecoin might emerge, given the winner-takes-all dynamics in such activities. Indeed, the market is currently highly concentrated among three dominant stablecoins, and it risks becoming even more concentrated in the future. The top three stablecoins account for almost 90 percent of transactions, and the top two of these account for 80 percent of market capitalization."

Network effects tend to concentrate stablecoins. The Fed points out that they're already very concentrated. It's a single point of failure. If USDT crashes, a lot of people will be hurting. Many of them had no idea they had a big exposure to risk.

*"...decentralized lending, which relies on overcollateralization to substitute for intermediation, can serve as a stress amplifier by creating waves of liquidations as prices fall."

Right. This is the concept that if you bundle enough high risk investments together, you get a low risk investment. The trouble is that the risks are usually correlated; multiple investments of the same class crash together. Add in leverage, and the crash speeds up.
This reminds me of the "olden" days where you view source and copy/paste into Dreamweaver.

Is this limited to React sites, or any HTML page?
That's interesting, I've never heard it with longer tenures because people tend to leave if they aren't getting promotions, growing responsibilities, etc.

If someone's stays in the same place for 10 years with no growth I'd love to analyse that gig.
Seconded, this looks great! Didn't have time to do more just than a test to see how it works, but I think I ran into a problem in fifths mode when the second key of the interval was outside the span of my two octave keyboard, so there should be perhaps some sort of an octave limiter setting. Oh, and I don't have any sound in the app, but I use VSTs anyway.

Also, would be great to have triad inversions. (larger chords aside...) I'll surely do some learning when I get some free time.
At a previous company (3 employers ago), we got like an extra $500/week for being on call. It was optional and about 7 or 8 people were in rotation. Some weeks, there would be no alerts. Other weeks, it'd be a total nightmare.

At another company, I was the only person on call for about 4 years, no additional compensation. I controlled all the alerting, so I'd just turn down the alerts to the bare minimum. Unless the site was completely down, I didn't get paged. Everything else waited until morning. It was a B2B SaaS business and very little actively happened outside of US working hours.
I'm not affiliated with this company, but was excited when I found it. Haven't used it yet, but given the issues I've encountered with other companies I wanted to post this.
ShareX is a great alternative for the built in screenshot tools, it’ll even take gif screenshots :)
I think it also has screen recording, but I’ve never used that
I'm quite surprised by this request, given that Kotlin doesn't really improve on classic Java language problems to a quantifiably better degree than later JLS improvements. Further, Kotlin seems to bring along its own design baggage from the very beginning which makes it little more than a distraction for most users I've seen try to pick it up.
You need one that can handle higher than room temperature for it to be able to carry meaningful amounts of current at room temperature. See the link provided in parent for why this is.
> In undergrad I took a bunch of biology and chemistry classes. It wasn't until I took Biochemistry (a senior level class) that everything came together.

In high school I really hated biology and chemistry. It was just a bunch of abstract stuff. What made me (re)discover biology was taking up gardening. To me gardening is like applied biology. After a while you really start to get a sense of how it all works and just how unbelievably complex life systems are: photosynthesis, the carbon cycle, the different water cycles, how soil life affects the plants that grow in it, and how incredibly resourceful plants are in interacting with their environment (not to mention insects and other creatures higher up the food chain...)
My wife is a GP in Slovakia and she has a device for a quick test (CRP) whether you have a bacterial infection in blood or not. So they don’t prescribe antibiotics if the test is negative. And she doesn’t recommend them if not necessary - unfortunately many patients demand them because that’s what they expect to get. But she is maybe an exemption who cares a lot about each patient and invests into better equipment even though you are not really incentivized by the system to do so.
It is important to carefully match the phage with the target pathogen. A mismatched phage will not be effective.

This tool can't be used like antibiotics. It requires expertise in classification.
Risk of getting Covid outside: New variants may have changed the answer
> they just ask that package authors should not be burdened with even more work the more their creation becomes popular, and that the burden should be on users who care about it...

Yes, the "having the cake" would be the ability to publish code to pypi and the "eating it too" would be the abdication of responsibility to abide pypi policy.
https://archive.ph/cVO6c
Well yes... I have been to the Rockies. That's why I am proud of them.

I lived three years in Alberta. I skied at Fortress, Sunshine, hills so long they cross provinces. The mountains are magnificent, awe-inspiring.

I now live in the Maritimes. Stan Rogers' Mary Ellen Carter is one of the greatest songs ever written :o)
But isn't on TGVs, AVE and Frecciarossa trains, so more networks disallow it than allow it.
I'd even claim that we don't really fully understand how computer systems work anymore. Let me explain.

When someone creates a new system, we could argue they have a complete understanding of it, since they build everything from the "ground up". Although even then, they use a particular level of abstraction - not necessarily needing to understand how third-party libraries work, or how it all translates to machine code etc.

Imagine now this person (or a team with equal understanding of the system) leaves, and another team joins. How are they supposed to "understand" it? They would have to piece together everything very much like we're trying to do in biology. Even when the original creators left a "plan" in the form of code, docs or even being accessible for Q&A, they cannot possibly verbalize all the minute details, because the complexity of the system is so large that they would have to spend an equal amount of time on explaining as on developing it. And that doesn't even account for random things or reasons they themselves forgot, or never understood in the first place.

As a result, we're left with only a partial understanding of the system, the level of which goes down the larger the system is. And as more teams join and develop their own pieces and leave, this knowledge gets diluted so much that it becomes hopeless to even reason about the whole thing.

So, I'd argue we can only strive to understand the most important pieces. And, just like we see in biology, the process of their discovery is mostly just educated trial-and-error, aided by the tools like better diagrams to speed up the process. And maybe that's OK, if the ultimate goal is to get to some practical results like curing a disease or expanding the business. We can discover the mechanisms that lead to reaching these goals, but if they aren't relevant, then it's just going to be an academic exercise and another data point in the trial-and-error (until someone discovers how to use it for some new goal!).
Thoughts on algorithmic medium I invented?
Quite the opposite. Many people feel there is a pro-Jewish bias. Universities openly limit the number of Asian students in the name of diversity, but when a school is around 40% Jewish, there doesn’t seem to be a problem. Many have a problem with that, hence the lawsuits.
Seems likely: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermo-dielectric_effect
No, the 'better' question is why the logic of the US taking credit for an initiative that isn't (entirely or solely) theirs is considered an acceptable norm.
If you're curious what a setup with three of these would look like, there was a post on r/battlestations today by an app developer who uses three of them [0].

[0] https://old.reddit.com/r/battlestations/comments/vv2tca/app_...
I don't use self-checkout on principle: if I am doing the work that checkers do, why don't I get a discount?
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