skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Lmao no. The whole point of a launderer is that you can't know if it's clean money or not. You _need_ a stream of clean money to hide your dirty cash in. Otherwise you just have a firehose of dirty money.
I was so upset about the Android iMessage crying yesterday this completely eliminated my sadness
Apptron Demo: Shell Scriptable Native APIs
I used to feel suicidal in high school because I had shitty friends and my family was mostly disappointing. The minute I got an iPhone and went to college that feeling completely disappeared for about 10 years. I don't know what to tell you. Pretty sure my life is worse than yours right now. It's the best time to be alive in general. You can do anything. So go do it and be happy.
1. Turn on the reader.

2. Go to "Kobo Store".

3. Look for a book.

4. Click "Buy".

5. Click the book to open it.

Thats about my workflow in the kobo, assuming I didn't drop a file on there via usb.
When you read the comments in this article, everyone is basically arguing that abandoning the pyramid scheme and eliminating growth dependence is somehow going to make us poorer despite the fact that the vast majority of people in this thread only need growth to keep their jobs, not because they are unhappy with their massive salaries.
sure, but you didn't get the point. just because a model can predict certain results doesn't mean its correct. early astronomers were able to very precisely predict the positions (w/ looping motions and all) of stellar bodies in the night sky despite using a geocentric model. if you make it complex enough, you can engineer quite a few models that can predict natural phenomenon pretty well.
In a comment above you've said Java memory allocation had performance of arena allocators. This benchmark shows such statement is very far from thruth.
It is not even close.

The best you can shoot for with Java ZGC is the overhead level of naive C malloc/free (not arena) and only if you give it 5x more heap. You can do better only if you are ok with switching to a GC that does STW, in addition to overblown heap. But even with parallel, STW GC Java is still far from from arena allocators. Which is what I have said in the first comment about picking one feature: throughput, low pauses or memory eficiency.
Racket v8.6
> So there's not a lot that you can do, but just familiarize yourself with algorithms and ways to solve common problems and write plenty of code. :)

I'd prefer someone that can infer the algorithm without knowing it before hand than someone who just memorized a bunch of them.
I love my kobo. It's more open than kindles (you just mount it and shlep books over), and I like the kobo bookstore. That said, I had a kindle paperwhite and it was nice as well.

If you want to run android apps then check out Boox. I immediately bought one after playing around with one in person. But that's more of a tablet that can be used for reading than just an ereader.
That does now make me curious to what degree Dall-E could be prompted to do some more ux-type work. So far I've only tested it with photographs/paintings.
Great article! I'm glad people are making an effort to update the historical record. Los Alamos is a special place that I enjoyed visiting recently because of the history. William S. Burroughs went to boarding school there and then later Feynman and all the rest came along. The landscape seems to leave a deep impression on everyone who spends time there. I'd always heard Taos was a magical place, but I felt that much more at Las Alamos.
A bit of background:

The project was given to a political party associate/donor.

They basically forked the Singapore (from memory) open source app and re-skinned it.

They didn't wait for Google/Apple's updates allowing OS-level integration, meaning there were battery issues from Bluetooth drain.

In some states, they didn't create the proper legal framework, meaning police (and lots of other organisations) were able to get access to the data.

Due to the legal and battery issues, no one trusted it and stopped using it.

It found under 50~ contacts in total, and only 2 contacts that were previously unknown from other contact tracing efforts.

Also, the federal government at the time were very secretive - refused to publish data on the app or published it late or in useless summary form, didn't provide any details as to success rate, denied/stalled FOI requests.

It was basically a shitshow.
The reputation of ex Googlers was established in the early days when they were tremendously productive, the bar was genuinely very high and turnover was tiny so there were very xooglers to begin with and they were mostly founding startups.

Over time Google grew an enormous amount. Productivity dropped through the floor due to endless headcount expansion, the bar did get lower and "I was at Google for two years" became a much more common thing to hear. But first impressions stick so Google still had done of that early day mystique.

Source: was at Google 8 years, early days, still have friends who work there. Saw the changes with my own eyes.
You could do this whole thing with regular currency, so if you treat it like that the tax implications are no different to regular income. The government doesn't (yet) care how many apples you bought, or that you found some extra apples in the forest on your way home, they just care how much money you end up with when you sell those apples you found at the market.
I wouldn't count on it unless you add some extra repo. RHEL releases are historically behind when it comes to software, which is claimed to provide more stability, but often older kernels in RHEL simply will not support the new underlying functionality. I am hopeful that if Podman ever has to make the decision to adapt at a modern pace with new software releases, or constantly try to backport fixes and code for old software, that they'll choose the modern approach.
As my understanding goes the models used are there to see what would be needed to replicate the current best know state of the universe, given what we know about its beginnings and as said its "current" state. Running very many different scenarios the best models need something the astro "community" came to call "dark matter".

As long as a opposing theory can't replicate these simulations from initial state to known "now" state without the use of some form of "whatever" it is quite interesting to call out that there is nothing like "dark matter" (whatever this something may be).

But that is just my layman's take.
> Dismissing the idea that lighting is caused by Zeus being angry is "stupid" because there is no other theory yet?

It's not true that there are no other theories; here in Norway we believe that it's caused by Thor hammering away up there. Some say he's hammering away at dark matter...
Yep, it’s the ffmpeg of reading!
Any language with FFI can have similar bindings to the same libraries used by Python, see Java, .NET (C#/F#), Julia, Swift,..... yet it doesn't seem to happen for Ruby.
How to learn hard things in tech
Maybe their AP only supports that?
As a user I’d like to discourage this. If you use SFSafariViewController, the user’s extensions and content blockers load automatically. If you use WKWebView they don’t load at all. I’m one of those users who depends on these and every time a developer uses WKWebView instead it drives me up a wall. Plus, the UI is shared between Safari and it’s easy to jump out.
> I wish they made a breaking change in the next version and make the CLI actually usable.

As I understand it, they're attempting to make it "actually usable" by adding more consistent (and maybe even "intuitive") options to the syntax. In order to avoid a breaking change, though, they're also leaving the old confusing stuff in. Sure, it's regrettable that it's there in the first place, but understandable that they don't want to break people's scripts from, by now, decades back.

Sure, that makes it a little harder to learn, but it can be done, by just making a conscious decision to ignore those crufty old bits.
Bill Gurley on Surviving Downturns
F2fs (Flash Friendly file system based on LSM) natively supports Atomic writes.

https://github.com/sqlite/sqlite/blob/master/doc/F2FS.txt

https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/1411707287-21760-2-git-send-ema...
> MOND has more points in favour for it as a preferred theory than DM models.

Isn't MOND completely falsified by the discovery of galaxies without dark matter?
Well, seeing this in the light of recent news is kinda ... hilarious?
They have launched exactly zero of those "more powerful" satellites. And they are not launching at near the replacement rate for the final constellation.

Higher-bandwidth birds just moves the bottleneck.
But which generation/social class are the mayor candidates from? Why vote for a representative who doesn't represent you? That was never explained to me. Now, i still vote, but i'm also steadily middle-class and richer than 50% of the people of my country (by wealth, in my 30s).

And voting with your wallet is boycotting. If you boycott, you have to explain to the company why. I'm boycotting Lactalys and Nestle dairy products since 20 years, are you against that too? Or is only the demonstrative boycotts with social media reach you're agaisnt? And in this case, isn't it disingenuous? "I'm pro boycott only if the company doesn't know why you're boycotting them".

There is no justification imho. Like i said, if you ever use the phrase "you should vote with your wallet" or similar, you don't get to whine about boycotts and cacnel culture, this state is your own doing.
An insider critique of the Jeopardy QA System
Kobo’s iOS and desktop reading experiences are very subpar (although they seem to be fixing that with new experimental features for iOS)and there’s no cloud sync for the most popular (“cheaper”) models.
Last time I checked, removing the AZW3 DRM required third party plugins that many people had trouble making work, while the MOBI downloads were easy and DRM-free. But that was long ago, so maybe it's easier now.
Ask HN: What are the alternatives of HN for hackers?
Don't get me wrong. I think Hacker News are great and I often read good posts/news/works here.

I am wondering if there are alternatives/peers beyond my knowledge and are as hacker-friendly as HN. Thanks.
Back when I was shopping for an e-reader, the Kobo was more expensive than the equivalent Kindle for the same price. Plus, Kindles go for very cheap on Prime Day.
Why should this clutter up your tabs, though? Hitting the back button/making the back gesture should (given a sane implementation) close the tab and return you to the native app where you clicked the link, no?
Will read it, thanks!
It's more convenient to send an ebook via calibre to my kindle than to my kobo. I configured send to email on calibre, so it's just one click to send via calibre. On the other hand, I love the pocket integration on kobo whenever I want to read articles and the overdrive library integration is great. It's why we have both a kobo and a kindle shared between me and my wife.

Besides this, from an ergonomic point of view, the kindle oasis is better than the kobo sage, it's lighter, feels better in hand. The Kobo forma is better than the sage in term of ergonomy but when I had mine it broke after 13 months.
For example, I would imagine you could come up with a more perfect list of what the "pastel" color is for any given hue. Another example I remember from my early 00s UX days -- if you take a gradient-based glass/glossy bar that is blue and try to hue shift it to red, it won't look properly glossy without tweaking the relationships between the colors in the gradient. Having a perfect understanding of how our eyes perceive these types of color differences I would think could yield a perfect approach for transposing visual phenomenona between different hues. I have no idea though I'm by no means an expert on this.
Dark matter ratios are not free parameters, because galaxies did not form through independent processes. The evidence for a highly homogeneous early universe is overwhelming, and any dark matter candidate that required large-scale inhomogeneity would be rejected out of hand.
Good little writeup. There really is no real world use case for them. Glad to see the crypto fad ending.
If you want to do a straight migration you can start the socket unit and expose it via the DOCKER_HOST environment variable and use the standard docker tooling or use podman-docker to make it seamless. As long as you make no other changes everything should just work.

Where people frequently run into issues is when they want to utilize the rootless feature, and that definitely requires adjustments and work.
Hell, I remember that both Facebook and Instagram used to have this setting! I uninstalled both of them quite some time ago, but I assume from the gripes in the article that this option has been removed.
Meanwhile those of us on the JVM/CLR ecosystems, saw it come, influence of some the JEE/Spring/MVC designs, Groovy, coming and going as IronRuby, influence CoffeScript, and eventually fade away we still keep using JVM/CLR ecosystem, and the savy ones will even know how to AOT compile our applications, if needed.
I check Hackaday now and then, it often has cool stuff which is often actual hacking.
I see almost no reason to use mobile apps for Facebook, Instagram or Twitter today. Just use mobile web browser instead. The only thing is a dark mode for Facebook, but I believe it is achievable via DarkReader plugin for Firefox. Also, ad blockers are more or less working in browser, although Facebook is actively counteracts.
The blockchain is the solution to a specific problem Bitcoin has, so when people and businesses were saying "we like blockchain but not Bitcoin", it just didn't make any sense.

The problem is how to be able to synchronize an ever-growing database across an unlimited number of peers, and the answer is "through chunks we call blocks".
The article writes upfront: "The implications of this are nothing short of a revision of Einstein’s theory of gravitation."
Consensus based decisionmaking has its place.

It especially works better when there's too much ambiguity to proceed aggressively in any direction no matter how confident you are.

It usually more accurately reflects the group's appetite for risk, creates psychological safety, and reduces the social costs of failure.
This Slack: eventide-project-slack.herokuapp.com

It was originally about a ruby framework, but it's a slack server where we had great architectural discussions all time (still there!). When the discussion gets too complex, we would switch to videoconference.
I like the "put it aside until the next wave comes" approach.

I have many hobby projects, ideas, partly-built things. I have some that are very near to completion, and others that are probably a lifetime's work.

I tend to work on them in short stints: a few nights, sometimes like a month or two. And then set them aside as I burn out on that idea, or come up with a compelling extension/revision/use-case/etc for a different one.

It's really crucial to document where you're at in this model: you need to be able to pick things up again without too much time to figure out where you were. I have two things that help with that:

Firstly, a README.md file for each project which includes my roadmap, with stuff crossed off as I get it done. So I can pull it up and see exactly what's next and what I just did at a glance.

And secondly, I keep a (large) journal.md file, divided by date, where I write down what I did. Especially stuff that I needed to research to figure out. That includes literally copying command lines out of my shell and into the journal. It's just a massive bulleted list, but when I restart something, I can quickly search back to the date of the my last commit, and see exactly what (and how) I did the things I did in that burst.

Combining my roadmap/README, journal notes, and Git history generally means I'm productive again in about 15 minutes.
Wouldn't it be more convenient to only need one wifi network without 2 frequencies? Especially in dense urban areas where "wifi pollution" is high and it can be difficult to find an unused 2.4GHz channel
Boo boo? I'm not sure exactly why you expect Japan to be held to a different or lower standard than the rest of the world but I don't stop to think about the feelings of disgruntled nationals when bringing up racism in any other country.

What's far more arrogant is you thinking your culture is so magically different that you're somehow immune to such criticisms. I wonder how the Koreans and Chinese would feel about that.
> * probably don't want the site in question to have access to my cookies and whatnot*

Er, why not? Sites don't get access to any random old cookie, they get access to cookies they themselves have set before (more or less). Why should a tap from a native app be any different wrt cookie access than if you navigated to the site yourself in the web browser?
> How does this not mention git push?

Because it's about using git as a single-user, single-machine version control tool.
MicroPython Board Can Be Your Tinkering Periphera
Minikube supports rootless Podman. Both are Kubernetes projects, but I find that Minikube appears to be getting more maintenance and is easier to mimic a production cluster for testing.
I've been using it for years with KOReader instead of the stock OS and it's been amazing.
I can ssh into it, open epubs directly from my nextcloud, sync reading progress etc with calibre. It's great! KOReader is one of the best pieces of open source software i have ever come across.
The breakdown of what resource binding methods exist in the wild, and the table of what binding methods are used by which GPU vendors is great! First time I've seen this all in one place.

This explains a lot of the difficulties the Vulkan designers had to deal with in order to cover all popular GPU architectures. It also means that Vulkan isn't actually as low level and explicit as initially thought, it still has to abstract over very different hardware (I guess the dream that GPUs will eventually converge to a unified 'modern' architecture is dead?).

Vulkan sits in an awkward place sandwiched between slightly less explicit but more straightforward and convenient APIs like Metal, and GPU-specific (but also more straightforward and convenient) APIs on the game consoles.

I hope that the current wave of constructive criticism of the Vulkan API can lead to a Vulkan 2 which addresses those concerns (there are some interesting extensions in the pipeline like VK_KHR_dynamic_rendering which make parts of the API more flexible and convenient to use, however at the cost of not supporting all GPU vendors - e.g. there's a desktop/mobile split).

Anyway, interesting times :)
Never heard of a 1:1 PM to engineer ratio. Usually it's 1 PM to 3-6 devs.

I was a PM for many years. Now a tech lead dev. My job as a PM was significantly harder and more stressful than being a dev.
Not everything grows evenly at the same rate. You can have 20% growth in one area but 0% expansion in to the universe, like you suggest.

It's like people saying buying property now is a great idea because we have 10%+ annualized inflation. Just because the CPI is >10%, it doesn't follow that houses prices will grow in an increasing interest rate environment.

System complexity. Feedback loops. Human Behavior etc.
You are asking the wrong question. _Total_ Road transport emissions is 11.9% of CO2 emissions. It is still a lot but it will probably be the hardest to get rid of due to the whole car-centric infrastructure.

- Energy use in buildings is 17.5% of CO2 emissions

- Energy use in Industry is 24.4% of CO2 Emissions, The steel industry alone accounts for 7% of global emissions of CO2

The _number_one_priority_ is to force out Coal and Methane Gas from the Energy production sector and heating. That alone would cut global emissions by more than 40%.

This is a gigantic step because it solely depends on government energy policy, Infrastructure investiment, and also requires us to advance against an extremely embedded lobby of both Coal and Oil&Gas.
Uhm. That’s a nice straw man to support the “no true Scotsman” fallacy. Well done. :-)

I did a bit of digging on Wikipedia. And based on the description in https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/March_1933_German_federal_el... I think the claim that the ‘33 election wasn’t a free election isn’t baseless.

Having your fascist enforcers “monitor” the election, helping elderly people to the voting booths and “helping” them to vote correctly all seem to be indicators that the election is fishy.

And even then, the fascist party didn’t even get a majority…
Then he should know his "C example" is valid C++ code.
Musk admits Hyperloop about getting legislators to cancel highspeed rail in CA
iOS already does this, and that hasn't solved the problem. The issue is that the system-provided webview (well, on iOS, one of the two of them) allows the native app full control over it.

And on Android, that would mean Firefox couldn't use Gecko. Screw that.
Why would Amazon have to use WebKit for HTML rendering? Does Apple have rules about that which apply to more than just web browsers? (IIRC there's also some restriction against JIT, but that would only matter for JS-heavy stuff, which the web is but ebooks definitely aren't.)
Crypto has been rallying like all speculative assets. If crypto was like beanie babies (as HN group think says) it would have crashed years ago and stayed dead.
I'm waiting for a nice github repo called "You might not need Blockchain". I kind of am actually. I heard someone trying to convince a credulous interviewer why blockchain would be the perfect solution for a bike register to prevent theft. The whole time I was thinking this could be solved by a plain old database hosted by a trusted third party.
What about the font awesome brand logos they provide? Can I put them on my personal, or business, website as the "text" part of a link to my profile in their platform?

I mean, I already do it, but should I also ask permission to do that? That would be weird since they had to pay font awesome to have their logo included in the font.
I'd argue you should never do architecture alone, unless impossible, and it should be done with people of the same level. Of people are different levels, architecture is NOT by consensus, the most experienced will need to make the call, otherwise too much damage can be done
Designing for Long-Form Articles
> So why now?

From my reading of degrowth works the answer is: because now the global resource use induced by growth have accumulated enourmous negative externality costs, costs that will nedlessly increase further unless counteracted by degrowth policy. Food shortages, deadly heatwaves, property destruction. Direct dire costs to human health and welfare and rippling secondary effects. For example how would a scenario with hundreds of millions of climate refugees play out on top of current global political tensions?

I see the degrowth view not as "we should never ever have growth again" but rather the current modes of growth have very tangible imminent (on an astronomical timescale) negative effects that we must deal with right now.
If we fail to step up to the current challenge of provisioning health and welfare for beings on this planet how likely are we to manage an all universe encompassing expansion without it ending in catastrophe on the largest scale? You could see the climate change challenge, and the degrowth plan to tackle it, as a necessary step to get our house in order, before expanding out.

Us attempting to expand into and shaping the universe is quite a task - so much could go right or wrong. I think Toby Ord's The Precipice[0] has a very useful framework for thinking about such risks.

[0] https://theprecipice.com/
Looks cool. Can I feed it my PC stats like CPU usage or GPU temps?