skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sony still makes ereaders? Are they affordable yet? Last time i checked they cost an arm and a leg.

Don't know about others but the first ereader i bought was a paperwhite on sale. I.e. cheap. I was used to reading on dead tree and pda/tablet and didn't see why I should get an expensive dedicated device. Only tried when it was discounted enough to be an impulse purchase. Don't think Sony ever had something in impulse purchase territory... and come to think of it, haven't seen anything about ereaders from them in the news in a long while.

As for walled garden, Calibre. Amazon can be safely ignored should you wish that.
Growing Open Source Projects with a Stable Foundation (2021) [pdf]
Banning Trump exposed a lot of tension around politics, the state, private enterprise and FAANG which people don't want to discuss in the context of WeChat because.. whataboutism? I truly don't know. China is overt about state controls and we're kind of in denial. Important to remember US free speech laws don't actually apply to private spaces as much as the commons and if Twitter and Facebook are declared the commons in law.. a lot of things stem from that.

And of course, by majority I suspect most twitter people are not US, although I may be wrong.
If you want to get good at something, practice that thing. It sounds like you're asking how to get good at coding interviews. So practice coding interview questions, not logic problems or competitive programming. LeetCode is probably the best known coding interview practice platform right now, and it has hundreds of free problems. In the LeetCode discussions, you can find people reporting on their interview experience, and companies often ask identical problems to the ones on the site. It's exactly optimized for what it says it's for.

You could get better at logical problem solving by practicing on Khan Academy or Brilliant or Art of Problem Solving. If that's what you want, then do those things. But it's not an efficient way to get better at interview questions.
The "progressive" case for making things worse.
That's a false dichotomy. Anyone would choose someone they trust most out of other need-to-trust counterparties. If there was an alternative to not use any unnecessary counterparty at all - that would be even better. E.g. if you transfer Bitcoin from country A to country B you know for sure that it will arrive without any intermediate bank inserting their opinion in the process and causing surprising delays.
I got confused a second.

you should write "mi" not "m", m symbol for meter.
They have three tiers. Paperwhite is the middle so you're going to see a difference with the low end model.
IME the hard thing is not something that there's accessible examples for. If there's a tutorial or an example project, you'll figure it out eventually.

The thing that's hard is something like how to make a project maintainable. You have to have the experience of screwing it up over a long period of time, feeling the pain each time there's a bug to find or a new feature to implement. You won't find a tutorial in how to do this, because the pain is a necessity to learning.
yes, but not with Chanandler Bong
Kindle work very well too when you install koreader.
You got a bit trigger happy to score points for Team Gun and missed that this person is actually on your side.

> I hang out in libertarian circles

> They’re all good guys and haven’t done anything illegal

That said - raising the one single isolated case of a person with a gun helping to stop a mass shooting, while conveniently forgetting the hundreds of such attacks that have occurred in past couple of years is IMO pretty disgusting. If I were making the argument that gun ownership was not a cause for suspicion I'd be giving mass shootings an extremely wide berth.
> The town I live in just outside of Chicago refused to disclose their police General Orders to me; I had to engage the same attorneys Bernstein did to get them. What can I infer from their refusal? That the General Orders include their instructions from the Lizard People overlords?

Naah, probably just that they include some pretty shitty stuff in general.

The fact (AFAWK) that the town came up with this shitty stuff even without any Lizard People Overlords having ordered them to do so of course makes it even worse for the powers that be of the town; now they can't even put the blame for the shitty stuff on the LPO.
Don't know why you're being downvoted.

This born in '69 53 year old right here is programming backends and frontends for websites, and PySide5/6 Qt5/6 applications.

I'm still sharp as a pin.

Like you say, there has to be some point at which those younger than I stop thinking someone in their 50's isn't as hopeless with technology as they assume.

Of course not everyone in my Gen X'er group will be like me, then again, I know of folks in their 20's who struggle with anything IT.

Quit with the ageism, people. It's getting old ;)
Never really understood how to play that. It is too hardcore :-D
I suspect that you wouldn’t react as strongly to a smug assertion that the USA is a basket case.

It’s okay to admit that the US has done immigration well. It has. There are a great many things that Japan does better than the US. We can discuss them without taking umbrage.
is it expected of skilled immigrants to be able to speak Japanese? getting people to learn the global lingua franca is a much easier sell. reading and writing Japanese at a fluent level takes quite a while and oodles of memorization.
getting files to kindle for me this summer vacation 2-3 weeks ago was major PITA, I took kindle for kid and first USB cable in drawer unaware that this particular USB cable is only for charging and can't do data transfer, since i use only USB C and kindle doesn't support it

my kindle has no amazon account, because I am sideloading everything offline, prety much not using anything online on kindle

so when I figured out the problem is USB cable and registering amazon account would be too troublesome I discovered you can't send files to kindle simply over wifi direct or bluetooth or other simple way and I end up downloading legally obtained books from my library first to my laptop from where I connected to FTP server launched in Mixplorer in my Android phone, transferred through there books to phone, then again launched in mixplorer in phone HTTP server since kindle doesn't support FTP connection, typed IP address in experimental kindle browser and et voila I could finally see files I wanted to read on Kindle, only problem was despite the format supposedly supported by Kindle, when I tapped on file it shown me error the file is not supported for download through kindle browser (despite supported if you sideload it through data cable), so I had again convert these PDF/EPUB/AZW or whatever files in calibre to MOBI, again transfer to phone, then again transfer to kindle, where finally after tapping files were downloaded and I could finally read story to my kid, can't imagine how regular user would be able to transfer books to kindle without data cable and amazon account and if their transfer service stops supporting certain format then only option for regular user is data cable
In fairness, the author's response is demonstrating a better understanding of goals and tradeoffs than the manager.

Asking questions as "in what way do you hope to improve it?" will help the manager understand. Just giving the explanation will sound rude.
RHEL 8.6 upgraded podman from v3.3 to v4.0.2, so v4.2 is not outside the realm of possibility in the next release. Since podman development is driven by Red Hat, I feel that podman upgrades get quite some leeway... Very impatient to test out the play kube functionality managed by systemd.
By that logic, we shouldn't have invented the Internet because it has also benefited the DPRK. We can't just stop inventing new useful things just because it might also be useful to people we don't like.
Thanks for accusing me of group think! To turn the tables around, the burden of proof is on crypto to be useful, not on me. Stuff is not useful by default. So, instead of stooping to your insults, let me ask you - what use does it have?

Also, I found you online, you work for crypto, pretty dishonest of you to not disclose that before commenting.
Bitcoin can't make up for lack of trust in your business partner.
I agree. I find it hard to argue against the claim that all physics is just curve fitting. We always end up with tuned parameters to make the maths work. For example the G in F = Gmm/r^2 (Newtonian mechanics).

I'm not an expert, but it seems like Dark Matter theories allow the DM distribution to be tuned. Is that the case? Can you say, "oh, there must be a clump of DM over here with mass X". If so, that would give you lots of parameters to tune per situation you're modelling. It may be that IS how the universe works. The problem is that the theory is hard to falsify if it has so much wiggle room to fit every situation.
Whilst hardware keys are clearly better, I appreciate how storing TOTP keys on bitwarden also largely mitigates this kind of phishing. Bitwarden also checks the domain name, so if you don’t see the auto-login option (with or without 2FA), you should be concerned and not proceed. I know that storing the TOTP keys in Bitwarden kinda reduces the second factor to one factor. But practically I would argue that this kind of phishing is a bigger risk than someone hacking Bitwarden itself. For small orgs without security teams and resources, promoting password manager usage and including TOTP keys is a smart move.
> I learned Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, which I've internalized since I'm a programmer. CBT is like a language I can use to program myself. Just today I spontaneously told myself "Stop making things up! you don't need to come up with a reason or wild rationalization for every feeling"

I seem to be using this/similar(?) technique, too, to force myself to do things long-term good, but short-term unpleasant.

I didn't knew its name though. Any good books on the subject?
MIAU!
This is the second comment that mentions an iPhone - what's the catch?
If you try to turn money into a policing system, it will turn out to be an increasingly cumbersome and authoritarian money system.
Omega Star still not supporting ISO timestamps smh
I read somewhere, when John Carmack faces engineering dilemma he programs both.
Yup, less options is win for users! Why not just add more supported formats instead doing mess with removing and ading formats?
The blockchain can prove that I bought the car and own it now. But that has never been the problem.

Trust is still required because I need to trust the seller that the car isn't a lemon and he didn't put explosives into the back seat.

The blockchain solves none of that.
> If you could rely on blockchains instead of trusting based on past cooperation

What about blockchains would make them an effective stand-in for building trust over time? One is a ledger, the other is an interpersonal relationship, and the two really are not the same.

If I'm going to take a risk, I'd rather take a risk where there's some human expectation of managing bumps in the road, and which has some means of redress if sufficient malice is involved, instead of one where a smart contract bug means that I've lost a lot of money.
Ask HN: Why do companies that allow remote pay $200k when they can pay $50k?
Not to mention books available exclusively on Amazon due to KDP Select.
ReactOS LiveCD Runs on Elbrus-8C1 CPU
How would a blockchain replace trust in a supplier's ability to deliver on time and with the right quality?
>more modules

More modules that can be replaced individually or used to diagnose a problem is a good thing.

If an ICE car had all the fuses in a locked box (which required replacing the whole thing when one burned out) you would correctly identify that as a negative for the end user.

I'm sure there were reasons why they went for the alternative at Tesla but "easy to work on" wasn't one of them.
CBT is an amazing invention. Aaron Beck it's creator passed away not so long ago.

There is an issue where some personality types don't accept it. And will rationalise somehow that they ought to remain miserable.
-- To further your point - The Tibetan Book of the Dead (1994) - Narrated by Leonard Cohen is excellent peek into the word of Bardo --

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mg8ikDKL_zs
There is no obligation to supply an alternative solution. Engineering taught me to define a problem without thinking of a solution, because it restricts your thinking.

That the person above didn’t bring a solution does not invalidate their statement. Immigration is only a solution for those getting the immigrants. It’s not so nice for the countries that raise and educate them without any ROI.
This is not guaranteed as a general property of blockchain systems, but can be guaranteed on a case-by-case basis by the immutable nature of smart-contract systems. I.e., if a centralized system sets up a lockup contract such that value can be forcibly unlocked by making a request on the blockchain side, and the centralized system just has to observe the event and deal with that — then for the company running the centralized system, that contract becomes an immutable part of "the way things are"; they can't decide to later renege on it, keeping people's funds locked up, because nothing can change the working of the [non-upgradable] contract once deployed — it just "is what it is."

By deploying such an immutable contract to be the custodian of customer funds, such an entity is essentially making a hard/inescapable precommitment to doing for users, whatever the contract happens to do. In a sense, the central entity's owner is not the true custodian of people's locked funds; rather, the contract itself is, and the contract can be independently audited by anyone who cares, before anyone begins using it, to prove that it will only ever be able to act in the public interest, rather than in the corporation's interest.
> Popular apps such as Instagram and Facebook don’t just use vanilla webviews. They use customized ones, with their own quirks.

This might be understandable, but also feels a bit odd. Why couldn't they just use what the system already providers, without bloating everything with their own implementation?

Then again, one could probably ask the same about desktop software that is commonly based on Electron, but in theory might as well be run through Firefox with some additional capabilities that locally running Electron apps would otherwise get. Then again, we kind of had PWAs on the desktop, which have been retired now as well: https://9to5google.com/2021/01/27/firefox-discontinues-work-...
How many weeks of reading they last on one charge? Also OLED screens ae horrible for reading compared to e-ink.
I'm not entitled to say so definitively, but Wakanda, to me, appears to be vaguely patronizing (I would hesitantly say flanderized?) if taken seriously as in this context, in the same way that depictions of Neo-Tokyo with giant Torii gates and lanterns and whatnot are (that's not to say it's not fun for some to look at). If you were to envisage a future for, say Australian Aboriginals, the first thing you might turn to wouldn't be, say, laser boomerangs and cave-painting graffiti on alley walls. But anyway, it's not my culture, so it's not for me to say it is so definitively. I am aware that the production of Black Panther involved a decent non-white cohort of people, but I am also trying to distinguish between the usage of cultural stereotypes for easy visual recognition in entertainment (generally accepted) vs. in real life (possibly disrespectful).

On a broader note, it seems to me that boring glass box skyscrapers aren't so much a non-afrofuturist thing as much a reflection that they optimize for space, maximize views and are easy to clean. Round towers have been demonstrated to be difficult to furnish. I think this ruthless optimization for low costs drives how a lot of today looks.

A note must also be made on greenwashing, which is widespread in architecture design spaces, with certain firms liberally daubing structures with hanging greenery. Often these turn out not to be quite as practical in real life.
Along the same lines, folks interested in this will also like learning about Rep. Barbara Lee, the only person in Congress to vote against the 2001 Authorized Use of Military Force after 9/11.

> She "warned her colleagues to be 'careful not to embark on an open-ended war with neither an exit strategy nor a focused target'". https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara_Lee#AUMF_opposition

The Radiolab podcast episode is IMO the best way to hear the telling. The link is to their re-release, which has a bit extra at the end IIRC. https://radiolab.org/episodes/60-words-20-years
David D Burns "Feeling good"
No, you have DEFEATED thoughts of suicide every day since then. A major accomplishment in my book.
>So yeah, if you want to find out. Jus cross the border, turn around and come back. You'll find out quite agressively.

Were you deployed or did you go there on your own? Joining with a militia and fighting in a war zone full of terrorists is the sort of activity that should trip all the red flags. US-backing doesn't necessarily mean the group is without their own controversies and if you weren't deployed how the hell do they actually know what your goals were while you were there?

I get it, your situation sucks ass and you shouldn't be subject to abuse but you're absolutely not a normal case and 'fighting with a foreign militia' is exactly the sort of activity customs is going to want to know the story behind.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯ that thing often works in mysterious ways...
Cheaper, in some situations. E.g. starlink would be horrendously expensive to provide service to everyone in downtown SF.

But yes. For rural less dense deployments. Long range signal through the air is much cheaper.
I don't think you can judge the validity of an idea, or a technology, or anything really by looking at its (perceived) failures. The fact you don't think blockchains don't work for bank transfers, shares, currency, contracts, or whatever else doesn't mean they aren't useful. It just means no one has found a use that you think is appropriate yet, or they haven't persuaded you that you're wrong about any of the things you don't like.

The one thing that gives me a ray of hope about blockchain is git. A git repo is a very similar to a blockchain. It has blocks, and each block has a payload, and they're all chained together in a way that allows distributed additions. git looks, walks, and quacks like a blockchain. It's just lacking the consensus bit really. As someone who would gladly apply git to practically every problem in tech it makes me think that blockchains could be really damn useful if only people would stop trying to pretend they're the future of money.
I might repeat what others said but since it's a "huge hobby project":

1) Break it into smaller chunks

2) Prioritize all those smaller chunks by impact, difficulty, and dependency

3) Break them again into smaller pieces based only on difficulty

4) Work based on priorities, get lower diff and high impact first

This way you will start to get a good feeling about your work/project.

Take breaks and make sure you don't burnout.

Good luck!
We consider particles with oscillatory behaviour sufficiently different from aether to abandon the name and the concept as useless. But contrary to aether, dark matter is still a new, vague and complicated concept: there is ample room to evolve dark matter theories without giving up on the idea of dark matter.

In any case competing theories will need to converge towards new experimental evidence and therefore towards each other, and then names and starting principles will be unimportant.
Sony product
affordable

Pick one.

When had last time Sony affordable product with good VFM not beaten by any other brand? It's same story with their smartphones and anything I can think of.
“despite the passage of time, Bitcoin and blockchain technologies have a kind of permanently nascent feel to them - as though widespread adoption is forever just around the corner”

This perfectly describes how I have felt about VR since the late nineties.
osquery legitimately fits that description, and I wouldn't mind seeing more like it.
Exactly, most employees aren't in a position to allocate their own tasks. The entire point of management is to algin what happens in the company with the interests of the owners of the company. If management makes a mistake in allocating work and there is no flaw in execution by the employees the real dead weight lies in management.
Can you explain to me why Walmart could not have used a normal database?

They don't need trustlessness, they have a root source of trust.
The most amazing feature of Blockchain is the anonymity provided by monero/zcash/tornado etc. However it's being banned by governments because it can be used to launder money.
good luck transferring files if you forget cable, see my other lengthy post here
I'm no physicist but if you want to be cheeky, you introduce a "rare dark matter" to a MOND model and explain away those rare instances.

My point is, dark matter explains the observations by being very flexible. There can be any amount of dark matter to fit the observations.
That’s just arguing in bad faith.

No one is denying that it’s your right to move around. It doesn’t make it any less of a bad deal for your home country. They invested in you and you left. Do this a few million times and you feel the effect.

No one is blaming you. The person above just pointed out that immigration isn’t a free lunch.
Banks do provide much more valuable services than just processing money transfers so.
I think it also depends on architecture and what the specific endpoint does. Let's say it's a microservice architecture with lots of network calls (to fetch data from different services or even outside API calls) ...how will CPU be 80% of the time? Doesn't sound reasonable.

But if there's not much calls at all and it's rendering one huge view then yeah maybe it's mostly CPU...
Not to mention that Zizek talking sounds like someone slurping ramen.

I understand the quotation (and only partially agree), but only because I've seen the same thing expressed much better, and without the absurd parts, in... the Unabomber manifesto. Basically, people need sensible difficulties to overcome.
Impressive investigation and mitigation!

My lingering question however is still how come the phishers knew so much about cloudflare, yet missed the critical key (no pun intended): they had 76 phone numbers of CF employees and a plausible call-to-action, plus knowledge about okta usage, but missed the crucial fact that CF uses hardware tokens??
It's the same person. They probably found God inside their Apple device. Not much different than seeing Jesus on a burnt slice of toast.
> they are a shared, permissionless and open source protocol that is resistant to takeover by a single entity

Sure, but what’s an actual real world use where that’s a good thing? For domain names it’s exceptionally useful that a stolen, infringing, or fraudulent domain can be recovered through the legal system.
It’s not voluntary to the drained countries
blockchain could be used to put reputation systems on them.
In what way this game should sound appealing?

It's like a normal space game, but now you have to pay 10 dollar to shoot a missile. Doesn't seem very cool
merkle tree is the underlining technology of blockchain

And the most popular usable of merkle tree? Git.
It sounds like all this paper says is that the metric of the color spaces is non-linear, i.e. the perceived distance between two colors doesn't really agree with the Euclidean distance between 3D points representing them. I think this is more or less well-known.
Umm does this mean I can now “borrow” ebooks from the library?
From the point of view that the library borrow systems never supported MOBI but seemed to support other formats.
> As long as you're not mean, you can hang out at most companies for at least 6 months just doing nothing.

Longer if you're CEO.