skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It would have probably ended up in similar mess with some different trade-offs and design decisions. Not in anyway certain it would have been better.
OpenVMS 9.2 for x86 will be released tomorrow (2022-07-14), so exciting
Remember Skype? How it could run in the background and get text messages and calls and not really cause any problems?

And then Microsoft bought Skype, and every subsequent version just kinda got a little shittier? And then MS puts effort into MSN Messenger and other not-Skype things despite Skype having a huge established userbase for both personal and professional use?

IIRC, they gave up with the later versions of Skype and used Electron for those too, but I still remember them being at least a little bit better than the absolute heap of shit that is Teams. I mean, it's almost like you have to put effort into being a shittier-than-average Electron app.

Thankfully there is only one person inside of one client company who insists on using Teams. I couldn't imagine having to use it every day. I have to presume that nobody inside of Microsoft uses it… I can't imagine this shit is being dogfooded.
It's also specific to phone call recording. Nothing about recording the audio of someone talking outside your house.
Thanks, ya any kind of large file hosting video, ISOs, or larger images. The open source software can also improve page rank with faster page loading.
I was on a Zoom interview panel where it was clear that the interviewee had someone else on an earpiece and was being fed answers.

When we conversed about non-technical things, the interviewee spoke clearly and fluently. But when we'd ask a targeted technical follow-up to something on their resume, they would always repeat the question slowly, and then robotically with several pauses say their answer back. Another interviewer said they could hear the voice in the earpiece talking in between their pauses.

I'm not sure what their end goal was with getting hired, but we ended up cutting the panel short.
Nice article! I'm building a language (https://flame.run/) in Rust that aims to have WebGPU+GUI support built-in. I'm playing with refinement types, which you effectively described in the second-to-last section. I'm not familiar with contract-based languages (other than Solidity), but I think refinement types would allow specifying function parameter requirements in a similar fashion to what you described in your contract-based language section.
Either that or it's a lot harder to get OTR truck drivers who run their own businesses as independent contractors to sit down in one place or take a phone call, which they're not supposed to do while driving, than it is to go to the port in question or contact the offices of a guy with a desk job.
I was hacking on this back in 2019 but never finished it, glad this open source project came about and looking forward to trying it out on my next hike! Found a great case for the modules on here too https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:5200457 !
> the ability to manufacture enough power plants to satisfy the current electrical demand of earth in a ten year period.

LOL.

Is Helion backed by the same VCs that back all those shitcoins?
Where, pray tell, does the fulfillment center receive them from? Shipping happens regardless (I know my local hardware store doesn't make vacuum cleaners), but the waste of individual boxes and delivery for every single item on demand is obscene.

You're right that it's just as nice in cities, if not nicer. But that doesn't make it right, and it doesn't make it not a maladaptation within our economic system.
Why does that sound familiar? Was that in a postcard picture from back to the future or something?
Very nice tip. I've filed this away in my brain for later. Many thanks!
I think it is more that the earlier money printing addressed more normal, slow moving business cycle issues, and so slowly backing off of it worked exactly as planned. With COVID, the money printing was addressing a fast moving and fast correcting temporary effect of organic and top-down behavior changes in the early part of the pandemic, which snapped back hard with general reopening, meaning the normal pace of unwinding fiscal and monetary stimulus was too slow to prevent the measures meant to prevent catastrophic depression and deflation combining with the rapid economic rebound to produce inflation (there’s some pieces that didn’t rebound which actually exacerbated the inflation effect, e.g., supply chain capacity.)
As I recall, PC-DOS sold for $40. CP/M86 sold for $180. People overwhelmingly bought PC-DOS because it was cheaper and nobody was able to explain why CP/M86 was worth the much higher price.

The company I worked for bought both, and I tried CP/M86. There was no reason to prefer it over PC-DOS, and that was that.
Cant wait to test it myself
As a matter of fact this is exactly what came out from an experiment made in Europe (Biarritz/France), in the '80's and '90's (the price was not an issue as the experiment was subsidized).

People had troubles in finding a place to put the device (most put it in a "neutral" area, like a corridor), and there was the "etiquette" issue of allowing video or not (because of not being "ready" for the video call).

This is how the devices looked:

http://rxcontrol.free.fr/Visiophone/

Here is a related paper (French):

https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01671120/document
You can use Teams in chrome on Mac and it works fine. I'd never let that tech touch my Mac. I have no clue how MS forced so many people to use that app but I'm glad my team uses something else.
I get that a whiteboard code test at Google would be probably very hard. A whiteboard (err, screen share) code test at my company would be fucking bubble sort. Yes there's a 100k/year difference in pay more at Google.
My Win10 laptop has started shutting off the WLAN device at the worst times, and it seems to happen when a Bluetooth mouse is connected and a battery charger is plugged in at the same time.

The troubleshooter and report forms both crash on opening.

I guess that's one way to hit a "zero negative feedback" KPI!
(Disclaimer: speculation ahead, never having met Sam).

> I wonder whether Sam really believes in all these ventures, or if he's just building hype?

Part of being a VC is having many moonshots in your portfolio; if only some of them work out, that's still a huge win in total, even if the others go bust.

So he likely "believes" all these things in the same way that he believes in his portfolio: not that literally all of them turn out to be true, but some of them will, if you just believe in enough of them.
Looks at Teams on Linux... yeah... abandonware
> Perhaps try to fully evaluate the idea rather than just shooting it down at the first perceived hurdle.

I'm not trying to shoot improvements in this area down? I've spent time reviewing patches in the past, and I plan to do so in the future.

Perhaps try to give others a bit more benefit of the doubt.

> Repeatedly introducing strawmen like "entire table be rewritten" doesn't really help the discussion; the performance impediments and solutions are largely the same shape as what Postgres already does elsewhere.

I don't think it's a strawman. For one there's plenty complaints about those rewrites where we have them, so we try to avoid adding more of them. For another, always packing columns would turn an operation that doesn't currently rewrite into a rewriting operation - which'd wreck havoc for people with existing upgrade scripts etc.

> In the same vein, you could just have an indicator of the number of columns of each alignment, since the simplest solution is to group columns by alignment and add new ones to the end of each.

The per-row overhead would be too large - we already have problems with that.
Right I get that, I guess I'm looking for an unbiased party to evaluate what they're saying here.
just pass a const reference. It's immutable anyway.
IIRC, iOS 13 (the last iOS on the last generation to age out) still gets critical security updates.
3 copies is great, but is one of them offsite? Without an offsite location I can't consider my personal data safe, and offsite is generally harder if you are buying your own disks/using local storage. If all three copies are in your house, you are still vulnerable to thefts/acts of god etc, regardless of who owns the disk the data is sitting on.

Personally I think local storage is a bit of a losing battle for long term personal backups; the running costs of expanding and replacing disks at 28tb size start to get significant if you do it properly with offsite compared to the range of affordable encrypted cloud backup services out there, many of which let you provide your own private key for storing the data encrypted at rest on their side (how I use backblaze right now for all my machines).

I'm honestly not sure I could do local storage well at less than the $65 per computer per year I pay Backblaze - one new drive a year for a NAS is already more than I pay Backblaze annually before other costs and my time to maintain are factored. While I'm not accusing you of this, my experience is many people running their own NAS do so because they enjoy running their own NAS if they are totally honest with themselves, not because its necessarily the best or most convenient option.
The Words Associated Press Did Not Want to Use
Film director Wim Wenders's "Until the end of the world" from 1991 shows a very interesting future with "video fax" and "video phones". And instead of CD's it shows credit-card-form audio storage. The way this film depicts how video phones might work was actually convincing. Still, right now when someone tries to FaceTime me, I decline...
Being funded by a campaign might even be a negative, as it would likely increase the odds that the address is being used for election manipulation.

It would be easy to register <state>voting@gmail.com, start using it as a contact for public-facing election-oriented documents, and get at least some people confused about whether I was officially associated with <state>'s election apparatus. Given the current environment, I'm positive Google very much doesn't want their systems being used to (even accidentally) impersonate election officials.
The theory has been in place for about 70 years.
If you liked Delphi I recommend giving FreePascal and Lazarus a try.

https://www.lazarus-ide.org/
Its not public language, but at Risk Management Systems, I worked on Contract Definition Language- an external DSL for computable insurance, re-insurance contracts. This was used to simulate insurance losses when catastrophic events happen (earthquake, hurricane)
Actually the irrational number that is hardest to approximate is phi (the golden ratio) which is not transcendental.
I did it by using lots of polish, time, and a little (drops of) water. I don't remember holding my boots under a faucet, maybe I could have had an easier time if I'd have known back then. Some folks did use heat guns, but that always made the polish crack for me.
GP's file is shared with others, so your proposal doesn't work.
Apple and Jony Ive will no longer work together
I'd say something unintentional is a bug. Perhaps someone can use this in a DoS attack
Notion is also better as an Edge App than its own standalone app.
This is for real?

I read the web site. It's all web glitz, not much content.

Are there peer-reviewed papers on the technology?
I'd be afraid in an atmosphere like NYC that the damage to buildings, gas pipes, electrical wires and the like would make staying in whatever building you happened to be in quite dangerous in its own right.

I guess it's still probably less dangerous than risking radiation exposure, but it seems like an overly broad solution.
Bingo, I made the exact same comment.

That was quite an effective way to take your credibility and shove it down the drain.

They're all scumbags.
To be fair I don't think we're going to see a resurgence of that collection of projects. hyperhype hasn't seen updates since 2019 and was not that big to begin with.

Hyperscript here makes a lot of sense as it's the companion project to http://htmx.org
Very late to the discussion here, but I often put a single song on repeat and listen to it all day long. Well, "listen" to it -- it's usually something that I can tune out (heh) or fits as background music for whatever mood I'm in at the time. Could be anything from Timber Timbre's Hot Dreams to Air's Sexy Boy.
I agree that meditation was mainly a practice mainly reserved for suitable monks.

But I didn't speak of meditation; I was speaking of mindfulness. Everyone that hopes to follow a Buddhist path needs to practice mindfulness. The idea that mindfulness is a meditation practice is pretty-much western, and modern.

"Mindfulness" could simply be not drifting off; it could be a practice you do while walking, or programming, or whatever; or it could be a rather intense investigation of your whole experience, with the goal of exposing what you think your selfhood consists of. I think the latter is usually referred to as "vipassana". In the West, vipassana is taught to newbies and non-Buddhists, as a relaxation technique. But it can be strong medicine.

I'm pretty sure you're right that it's only recently, and in the West, that meditation has been widely taught to laypeople. But, for example, Shaivite and Buddhist lay yogins have been practising meditation for centuries. Not very many of them, sure; but these yoga practices are not monkish specialties at all.

That Tricycle article is, I'm afraid, full of speculation. And in the early paragraphs, the article notes that solitary meditators sitting under trees were scorned by the monks; they didn't follow the vinaya. So if we're allowed to speculate, I'd speculate that most meditators were not monks, at least in the mediaeval period.

The stories about Shariputra and Ananda are instructive, but they're 2,500 years old, and were not written down contemporaneously. An outstanding example of a monk-meditator is Shantideva, who lived in the 8thC, and was a monk at Nalanda University. His work is remarkable on its own merits, but he's also remarkable for being a monk; most of the famous meditation teachers were lay people. And Shantideva was criticised, because as a monk he was practicing tantra. Tantra calls for behaviour that is not permitted for monks.
Unfortunately recruiters lie about "exclusivity" as well.

About a year ago I was on the job market and multiple recruiters reached out to me with the exact same job listing, just with the company name removed. All of them claimed to have an exclusive relationship with the company and they were working directly with the hiring manager. With 5 minutes of Googling I found the original position and the company that posted it.

Do they get penalized if they present a candidate for the job and the company says "No recruiters" and they remove the candidate from their candidate pool?
I use Dart for custom cli tools and recently deployed small service that feeds data to my backend service. It's simple and nice to write, no learning curve to speak of.
First-- this is a summary of statutes for recording phone calls; the laws are not always the same in each jurisdiction for making an audio recording in public.

And we're in a thread where someone is describing a scenario where neighbor A records person B talking to child C. Neighbor A is not a party to the conversation. Whether a state has a one party or two party statute, this behavior would likely violate it.
Thank you! I checked windows system notifications & it looks like edge notifications were already enabled but I did need to turn on the teams.microsoft.com notifications in edge.
I know that I should be skeptical of all fusion claims, so I'm not asking anyone to predict if this actually WILL happen from Helion, but this machine claims to be smaller than other designs. Does anyone know how small this approach to fusion could scale down? Is it conceivable that it could deployed as the power source for an ocean-going ship, or could it be small enough that it could be part of a campus-scale microgrid?
I wasn't going to ask about this until I had it running on my machine but... its very interesting that you can do out of core models with weights in various memory hierarchies. It feels almost like swap/paging. This is exciting!
https://sci-hub.se/https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.108...

Here's a paper that explains it better than the wikipedia
match? definitive proof that verbosity introduces bugs ;) (also you can't deduce what ! means? it's literally the factorial symbol)
Or watch all your google accounts get disabled quick
I can also recommend Cryptomator (F/OSS) for this client-side encryption, which also supports other services than Google Drive.

https://cryptomator.org
You mean like back in 1987 - when Joe D. User could install MS-DOS from a couple floppy disks, then WordPerfect and Lotus 123 similarly, then just use his PC for years - withOUT knowing what Windows Registry entries, security patches, spam, phishing e-mails, virii, typosquatted domain names, SaaS, etc., etc., etc. were? Let alone having to regularly pour time & grief into dealing with those?

That I am aware of, every one of my family members who has retired in the past 15 years was stuck using MS Windows at work. Every one of them has been happy to delete MS and Windows from their life - getting rid of their home computer, buying an Apple iPad, and running their modest on-line lives from that iPad.
I would love to support this endeavor, but a distinct lack of remote jobs makes this not very feasible for me. Best of luck though!
The customers they lost don't show up on any metric.

I've often wondered about how to measure aversion instead of conversion.
I think main differentiator is that an individual human is unlikely to stand in one place just watching for an extended period of time. It actually was very expensive to do that kind of surveillance not that long ago, which is why it was not deployed without a good reason. Camera, on the other hand, is cheap. Individual creep is preferable to a panopticon.
This seems unnecessarily toxic. Slack is an app first, not a webpage. Just install the app.
My company recently started to invest more into analytics and we had to find a good solution on which backend/database we want to decide.
After some research we settled on ClickHouse and we couldn't be happier.

- Super easy to setup
- Easy to backup
- Fast configuration (documentation could be better at some parts)
- Similar SQL dialect as our devs use in MySQL

Only negative points I could find so far:
- No 'good' management GUI as e.g. phpMyAdmin, pgAdmin, Mysql Workbench
- Caching/Batching layers not directly implemented, but through external software

As we are a fairly small company all other analytical databases would have cost us a large amount of money/time more. Friends of us recently hired a group of data engineers/analytics who also brought all their AWS knowledge and toolings with them, which basically brought them to the same outcome as us, while we only have 5% of their costs and all our devs are able to either ingest or query some data

EDIT:
Does anyone have some recommendations on what GUIs I could give our PMs to work with ClickHouse instead of writing queries? All SaaS I found didn't support ClickHouse yet or would cost us a newborn.
Also what tools do your devs use when they work with ClickHouse data?
What prices went down during covid? Housing? Vehicles? Food? I recall only gas was cheaper.
TIL about delayed disconnect. Scary!
To be fair, the Bar exists because lawyers themselves felt there were too many lawyers.
Writable Optical Discs: MO, PD, DVD-RAM (2015)
I was having throttling issues with a new 4k monitor. Teams seemed to make the issue worse. Pointing an external USB cabinet fan at the laptop has resolved my issues.
Not a lawyer or accountant here but I think it would be reasonable to only treat
the eventual on-chain withdraw as a taxable event.

IAAL. Specifically, a tax lawyer. It would not be reasonable to treat the on-chain event as sole the taxable event.

Every transaction in a cryptocurrency is a taxable event.

This is the same tax treatment that applies any time a non-USD currency is used in a transaction (by an American). Similar rules apply to citizens of EU countries.
As a kid coming fresh out of a similar phase at 18, now 22 I might be able to provide some insight from my self reflection.

First off if your kid is medicated especially with high dose ADHD medication it is likely way over prescribed, and to deal with the literal mental overclocking storm the best way is to have an environment and stimuli you have complete control over, IE a computer in a room.

Secondly as somebody else mentioned the child has likely been emotionally neglected, not only by their parents but by their peers. Its very hard to fit in these days and with social media it is overly apparent when you do not. Looking back the best thing that helped me claw my way out of the funk caused by this is most importantly that I wanted to, and secondly that my parents cared enough to try and involve me in social programs. One of the blessings of being young is that when you are forced into situations by your parents such as clubs or social circles, you have no need to justify being there. It sucks at first but it really helps. Also if theyre obese A health coach would be a great first step.

If the young adult is defiant and very hard headed, forcing them to get a job will likely not work, but if theyre just soft getting them a job where they work with others is a great way to foster social intelligence.

TLDR: If theyre from a rough and emotionally neglected background, be tender and encourage growth. If theyre from an easygoing and supportive background, be harsh and force them to grow.
I think this is not a fair title for the company in the ongoing mudfight.

If Musk successfully backs out and/or legally wins over Twitter, these would torpedo the company's stock valuation & public trust, mostly over spam & bots. Twitter revenues aren't spectacular even though they are decently okay in social media ops. Any future buyer will keep this on record as a bargaining clause to drive down the price.

With the deal falling apart, stocks most likely will nosedive significantly, if history shows us anything.

This isn't about only money - but survival & reputation.
Yes, this is what I want to include - the cost metric.

Although it will be tricky for systems with consumption-based pricing: BigQuery and Athena.

And Snowflake has almost consumption based pricing - while you pay for warehouse time, it can quickly spin it up and down based on load.

Maybe use some assumption like - the price for running queries on consumption based systems is equalized to one hour of run time of other systems...
How are you doing your deployments today? And, any other targets other than K8s?
I believe it's using Sharepoint behind the scenes, so yeah... gross.
I'm always confused at how there's such a seemingly large mismatch between on one hand people trivially dismissing the gold standard as a joke and on the other the fact that the gold standard seemingly worked well enough for this country for hundreds of years. It was the system that powered the country over the majority of its history, for the vast majority of its expansion and rise to power. But it's so obviously a joke of a system?
After you’ve water-bulled with the little drops of water how did you get the water off without leaving any streaks? This laminar flow approach collects them up and rolls them off as larger drops so the surface is left dry.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I0wZLGrxuKg
So many newspapers want a subscription to read anything. I mean get real, if I visit your news site to get information about some unusual newsworthy event I'm not going to subscribe.