skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For some reason I feel like I missed the timeline where "free" cloud services are hosted at the public library, and paid with a monthly subscription.

Specifically a registry of all available services worldwide, by location, and automatically billed and paid to the right entity. So if you want X service, pay for it, Y% goes to the software maker, the rest to the local host, and automatically gets installed at your location of choice.
The real purpose is almost always incompetence.

Then grift.

And only then comes malice.
This was a pretty fun read.

Just a note though, these have totally different meanings:

Robot Chop Few Bucks Off... -> robots make little or no difference in prices

Robot Chop a Few Bucks Off... -> robots make a difference in prices

Anyhow, thanks for submitting.
Not only totp, but you can also get it to populate ssh-agent with a select set of keys only when kpxc is logged in.

You can also have multiple files to handle different contexts, if you want some separation ie. 2FA-ness.

(you might also try keepassdx on android if you want a bit more polish)
i thought the browser blocks sounds from autoplaying without permission - how come it didn't do it this time!?
The Top%
That one always makes me laugh :-)
> 1. Only US-based websites and forums get to that level of extremism that is cause for de-platforming. I find this option the hardest to believe (pretty sure there are hideous things in other countries as well).

Because in places like Brazil racists and bigots can be easily-ish arrested long before they reach that level of extremism. For example, throwing racist insults at another person in Brazil is a literal crime for which you can be arested by anyone.

Also, places like Brazil make website owner legally liable for user content if the website does not comply with court orders.

> 2. The infra is mostly US-based (Cloudflare, cloud providers, etc.), they are focused or getting their attention drawn specifically to US-centric topics.

> 3. It happens in other counties as well, but because HN is US-centric I am hearing about the instances that are dealing with US topics.

I think that's partially true. However, the big issue is that the US has an absurd view of free speech that doesn't line with anyone else and as such the US hasn't really ratified the ICCPR nor does the US enforce foriegn court orders on matters related to free speech (see the SPEECH act). So anytime anything bad happens anywhere in the world people are forced to go to the media instead of the US government for help.

> Would love to learn about similar cases from other countries.

In Brazil, Justice Alexandre de Moraes ordered the arrest of congressman Daniel Silveira for his antidemocratic activities. Because congresspeople can only be arested _in flagrante delicto_, that justice came up with the novel legal theory that everytime a person watches a video you posted it's like if you were speaking the same words again and thus if there's any crime there, you can be arrested at any time so long as the video is still up.

I'm of course simplyfing. Daniel Silveira, if I recall correctly, was involved in groups making physical threats against the Supreme Court Justices among other stuff.

Some useful sources: (in Portuguese)

https://www.conjur.com.br/2021-fev-17/especialistas-defendem...

https://www.camara.leg.br/noticias/729294-camara-decide-mant...

https://g1.globo.com/politica/noticia/2022/04/29/alexandre-d...

https://www.conjur.com.br/2022-jun-22/bloqueio-paginas-pco-g...

https://www.conjur.com.br/2022-set-06/tre-rj-nega-registro-c... (that congressman was barred from running for relection)

https://veja.abril.com.br/politica/deputado-do-psl-ameaca-st... (he said he would volunteer to physically/militarily attack the court)
And then we can start putting ads on it /s.
I just read the article after reading this comment. You weren't kidding! That was a really great read and one of the most original things I've come across recently.
Winters in the World by Eleanor Parker Review – A Dive into the Anglo-Saxon Year
Despite this probably being effective for casual or opportunistic people, the problem is that the opposite of the responsibility hot-potato thing happens on the "client" side too. Companies dedicated to "getting around these tools" and their ads start popping up, and now you have these companies effectively (in students' minds anyway) taking over the responsibility of dealing with the tool. So it becomes an IT pros vs IT pros cat-and-mouse game, just like jailbreaking and every other game cheating service.
Malloy writes SQL that I wouldn't write, that's for sure. Nothing there is hard to do, let alone impossible, with commonly used SQL constructs.
Careful. If you value your time you might be accused of being a “quiet quitter.”
I think you’ve completely written off human limits to produce and maintain correct code, while being technically correct.

People swear when they have to extract a symbol from an expression because that pollutes a scope and reduces readability (see “assembly” as an extreme example of it). You can’t expect them to be cool with a ladder of queries to do simplest things. They choose languages for comfort much more than for technical yadda yadda. SQL is only comfortable in comparison to other '80s tech.
https://www.economist.com/asia/2022/05/26/indias-exams-are-p...

> Yet even as officials come up with novel ideas, so do the cheats. In February, a medical student at Mahatma Gandhi Memorial College in Indore, a small city, was caught with a skin-coloured Bluetooth device surgically implanted in his ear. A phone linked to the device was sewn into a secret trouser pocket. Last year, ten students taking a trainee-teacher exam were arrested for attempting to use Bluetooth gadgets concealed in the soles of their flip-flops. At least 25 students had bought such footwear from a gang for 600,000 rupees ($7,700) a pair. It is often mandatory for students to remove shoes and socks before exams.

Cheaters get pretty clever.
You're not wrong, they are a kind of memory. I think more people would understand you if you call RAM memory and HDDs and SDDs storage though.

It goes the other way too, RAM is a type of storage, which is the terminology IBM uses (and I think has used since the 60s or so).
Each case and each person is different, maybe dependencies arrays just work better for you. Potentially huge effects that read a couple of signals shouldn't exist, because you can always read the signal at the top and pass their values to an external function containing this huge amount of code.

> What do you mean by conditional dependencies?

Random example:

useEffect ( () => {
if ( !supportsThemes () ) return;
if ( darkMode () ) {
doSomething ( darkTheme () );
} else {
doSomething ( lightTheme () );
}
}

In a reactive system this is all you have to write, if the first check never passes you only read "supportsThemes" so you will only be listening to that. If that passes in the future then maybe you'll start listening to "supportsThemes", "darkMode" and "darkTheme", but not "lightTheme". If "supportsThemes" becomes false again you'll automatically stop listening for "darkMode" and "darkTheme".

In React this works differently, all those signals now become dependencies in the dependency array, the entire array will be diffed each time, whenever any of them change your effect will be re-executed, even if something you don't care about in that moment changed.

Basically the same problem exists for hooks too, all hooks must be called all the time, which also as a side effect implies that some hooks calls need to become non-sensical, like if I don't have an onChange function what do I need to call useDebounce for it for? Should the hook support receiving a non-sensical null argument? Should I call it with a pointless noop function? This problem doesn't exist either in a reactive system, fundamentally because dependencies are dynamic, if you don't want to call a hook you can just not call it. If you want to nest effects you can do that.
Had a relative who was an executive at a timber-only structural design firm and I visited them a few times so I know a little bit more than a layman. Comments here are kinda low-brow, honestly. A little disappointed by that.

Anyway, there are all sorts of timber-based products these days. I'll pick one, cross-laminated timber, and just link a bunch of basic stuff:

- fire resistance, measured by the Forestry Service https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HuVTCOmRGd0

- structural integrity code https://shop.iccsafe.org/mass-timber-buildings-and-the-ibcr.... (high-rises approved in the International Building Code)

- structural integrity example https://www.ascentmke.com/ 25 story building in Milwaukee (strictly uses both CLT and glulam, but well, give me a little slack)
This.

I have a small sticky note pad on my desk. When we have a meeting about features, I jot down my todos. In some cases, I may do a screengrab, or submit a bug report (to myself), but, most times, it’s the PostIt.

When I’m done with a task, I crumple the note, and drag it into the trash can.
Can confirm my Mac has 64.
Hard agree here, buildings anywhere between 4-12 stories are fine.

I don't consider buildings < 13 stories high rises, I consider those mid rises.
Return To Monkey Island: looks great, full of laughs
And it seems like pocket change too. How many companies are going to pay to access a standard? Thousands? Still not a lot of money.
Who says the oxidation isn't encapsulation? If you aren't disturbing it, there will be an oxidized layer surrounding whatever is making the smell
Exactly right.

How many trees go into making one barrel of petroleum that we burn millions of years later?
In my opinion, you have to have a public health system before you get to make dictums about public health, at least when it comes down to what substances you allow people to consume.
Timber is type 4, not type 5.
PCIe bifurcation is a function of what your CPU and/or PCH can do. There are hard limits in the silicon as to how you can divvy up your lanes.
The Tank Is Not Obsolete
For anybody who needs the citation for the above, UT Southwestern posts the “r” value trend chart on the last slide. Just under 1 is bad, 1.0 and over is in layman’s terms “still active transmission hopping to multiple people from 1 infected / potentially asymptomatic individual.

Every time r makes progress, it recedes. This does not please management because they can’t fire a virus or human herd stupidity as a collective.
I’m trying to find the control plane api. The current laws suck.
Just link how successful a team is with a metric, OKRs are great! Downtime is gone now someone’s promotion depends on it… /s

Oh, I mean, let’s redefine downtime so we can have nice numbers and everybody gets congratulated. /s

When you measure something for “consequences” you tend to destroy the value of the measurement.
But looking from another perspective - if healthcare is 20% of GDP, an awful amount of people are therefore paid directly due to this "waste".

Any improvement in efficiency would mean those people lose out on jobs. A new use for them must be found, or there will be massive unemployment (at least, short-medium term).
They actually got to that part pretty early on I think. They had a feature that allowed businesses to accept crypto through them and receive plain old fiat payouts to the bank account. It's still there nowadays, too: https://commerce.coinbase.com/

Edit: it was even earlier than they actually added an exchange – these days it was just a custodial wallet.
This is a topic that’s always going to have wildly different numbers. Who cares? It doesn’t change what we all know to be true. Nothing has been undermined whatsoever
Github is Microsoft. I expect the same from them as I do Google.
Is shipping less JS important for your use case? If so Preact can be 10x smaller than React. If only you could do that with all of your dependencies that'd be outstanding. According js-frameworks-benchmark it's also faster at runtime (https://krausest.github.io/js-framework-benchmark/current.ht...).

If startup and runtime performance have 0 value there's no reason to use Preact. If startup and runtime performance have greater than 0 value there's some reason to consider using Preact.
> Crypto is just software. There's no need to deploy infrastructure. Bitcoin is old enough to be in high school. Soon it'll be old enough to be in college. At some point we have to accept that it's not fit for purpose, do we not? It can't just be BBS-ing forever.

This argument relies on the assumption that Bitcoin's age is a proper marker for the entire industry, whereas most of its development only finally kicked off during the ICO mania.

It also relies on the assumption that Bitcoin's decisions reflect the entire industry's decisions, which by proof of contradiction (via anti-BCH-BTCers), does not exist: Many parts of the system are off doing their own part of the whole.

> Compare other things that came out in 2007/8. The iPhone and Android, for instance. In spite of actually needing to build and deploy both hardware and software, everyone on earth has one. Billions and billions deployed.

Apple is a centralized company that can dictate what its products will look like & can standardize their product evolutions to take future developments into account via executive/managerial leadership. Even if all of the decisions were made by the designers/devs, no one from outside the company can have a say about the hardware parts of the product, with only a relatively small part of the software side being accessible to 3rd party developers: Said developers can't access the core internals of iOS without working for Apple.

In contrast, BTC started out with relatively little leadership: While Satoshi was part of Bitcoin's early development, his control over the network was still contingent on other participants within the same network agreeing to the changes -- Disagreements are where the Bitcoin block size wars & subsequent forks emerged. At any time, a developer can modify the core parts of the codebase without restrictions, with the main limiting factor being getting other people to use that modified code instead.

IMO, are more apt comparison would be to compare it with other protocols like Bittorrent and IPFS, whose development nature is not fully controlled by a select group of people, and where everyone can modify the internals of the software to their desires. Similar to Bitcoin, however, adoption of the modified software is dependent on the modifier convincing others to use their code instead.
The traditional methods of measuring competence via a closed-book, fixed time test is being rapidly dated.

Practical knowledge and rote memorization have held mostly equal status, since out in the field both used to be inaccessible. Our tests are still structured around this, however the reality has moved on and rote memorization is now easily a search away.

I like to see more tests moving to open-book model where test takers are allowed to use all resources, as in work. Of course, this will be harder to administer because schools can't just reuse tests over and over again since they're bound to show up in the internet. Overall, more and more of evaluations will move from testing altogether into some project based evaluation, which I believe is superior in terms of accessing skill.

Let's see how long the old format hangs on.
That's a pretty good deal considering US federal spending alone amounts to 7.3 trillion dollars.
There is a noise floor but I’ve found it to be a pretty reliable early indicator of problems when the question was “is it just me or…” and far superior to any company’s status page.
Sprinkler systems and redundant fireproof stairways solve this problem.
Best use of compile time.
That's the best 'company culture hack' ever.

Join out creative gaming company!

(But really we're going to sell SaaS against Microsoft, I'm just not honest with myself yet!)
And now I want a 12 core radiation hardened SBC. Hopefully Microchip can sell these commercially. It'd be fun to see folks do steam punk themed rad hardened "cyberdeck" using one: https://hackaday.com/2022/09/04/2022-cyberdeck-contest-the-b...
Victor Lustig, “the man who sold the Eiffel Tower twice”
From Common Lisp to Julia
Without appropriate metadata, data-sharing mandates are pointless
The Spanish flu also happened in a much less medically advanced society, that didn't understand how viruses work
Checkbox compliance is everywhere!
Note:

I just recently got bit by degenerate behavior of this package in yarn 1.x, which I didn't have the option to upgrade due to usecase.

I ended up just settling on using patch from GNU coreutils to apply the diffs.

The core of the degenerate behavior was that yarn 1.x does not have an option to not run builds after installs invocations, and if you're trying to uninstall postinstall or remove patch-package from a dist, a yarn remove will remove the package from node_modules, but will not deregister the lifecycle hook of the running NodeJS session, leading to chicken egg frustration.

Just a cautionary tale.
Sometimes, the old(er) stuff just werkz.

P.S. I'm an old grognard who thinks Node is specifically out to assassinate their sanity. YMMV.
There Is No “New Normal”
idk the people i know who buy drugs either use monero (online) or cash (in person)
Specifically for VM's, something like Looking Glass (shared framebuffer so you don't need a dedicated monitor) needs the extra bandwidth to get the video signal through without tanking performance, especially at higher resolutions and refresh rates.

Aside from that, I agree it's not too big an issue for 95% of computer users, but it's something to keep in mind.

[1]https://looking-glass.io/
This has happened across the entire country, in big towns and small, in red states and blue, (and, to a great extent, across the rest of the developed world). I assure you, the Democratic boogiemen are not responsible for such a broad international failure.
That fire resistance video is impressive.
In this particular song, His Weirdness offers a few timeless observations:

> Upgrade my system at least twice a day

> What kinda chip you got in there, a Dorito?

> You say you've had your desktop for over a week?
> Throw that junk away, man, it's an antique!
> In fact, of the countries that usually make up the global leaders in health/medical innovators, all but 1 (the UK) engage in price controls (https://immigrantinvest.com/insider/the-best-healthcare-coun...), and the UK's NHS is suffering from a rationing crisis, and (ironically) a cost crisis.

The UK's difficulty lie in their leadership and political issues and in the economic consequences of Brexit. I'm not sure it's the best example for your argument.
Obvious now, not real sure how I misunderstood.
I'm surprised nobody has brought up Samsung yet. Their first product was packaged noodles, back when Korea was occupied by Japan.
USB everything tends to end in dongle spaghetti. And then plugboard spaghetti to hold all of the power adapters. Just the feature of being an expansion mounting rack and power/data backplane is valuable even if it only ran at basic USB 3.0 speed.
>PCIe switches weren't common or necessary for most consumer applications. Workstation and server CPUs have plenty of lanes on their own. PCIe switches occupied a relatively narrow use case in the middle where people wanted to use consumer CPUs but attach a lot of add-in cards and share bandwidth across them.

PCIe switches still have a place in storage servers. I can build a backplane with a PCIe switch so I can get a ton of ports/slots for HDDs or SSDs and not have to buy a much more expensive CPU with the IO to handle everything. The trade off is that you are over subscribed and all disks will never reach full bandwidth simultaneously.
(ND)JSON is simpler because people actually follow the spec, unlike with CSV.
This post https://twitter.com/madebyollin/status/1566838643771457536 is a step in such direction. I quite like the author's vision about neural nets eating through the graphics pipeline, given there are work like Gancraft (https://nvlabs.github.io/GANcraft/) and GTA photorealistic GAN (https://isl-org.github.io/PhotorealismEnhancement/) have produced stunning results.
Thwaites “doomsday” glacier is melting faster than expected
Waiting for the announcement of an even more intrusive technology called Proctolio.
I don’t think you can run BigQuery over a Google drive document.
And what does the "fi" stand for?
Note that X280 is not OoO. It's the same proven dual-issue in-order U74 core (similar to ARM A55) what has been out for a few years, and is just now hitting Raspberry Pi levels of price in the VisionFive 2 and Pine64 Star64. The X280 just has an added RISC-V Vector unit.
I don't think cheat-detecting software like Proctorio could catch any of these schemes either
Why? Because the tools don’t provide nice ways to interact with it? I use colors and other formatting as ways of providing metadata to cells that I want to be able to move around in the spreadsheet.
Global Village Construction Set - State of Completion (2018)
Not sure what your point might be. If you burn the equivalent of thirty years of forest growth and release that carbon it will take, I don't know, a thousand years to get it back. This isn't a 1 to 1 game. Nothing in the real world works with 100% efficiency.

Atmospheric CO2 remain in the atmosphere for a very, very long time. Thinking we can just reach out and retrieve it --at a planetary scale-- is nothing more than a fantasy being sold to make money.
To be fair, CPUs haven't improved a ridiculous amount either.

10 years ago, mainstream computers were being built with i5-2500ks in them. Now, for a similar price point you might be looking at a Ryzen 5 5600x. User Benchmark puts this at a 50-60% increase in effective 1/2/4 core workloads, and a 150-160% increase in 8 core workloads.

Compared to the changes in SSDs (64GB/128GB SATA3 being mainstream then, compared to 1TB NVMe now) or GPUs (Can an HD6850 and RTX 3060 even be compared!?), it's pretty meagre!
More recently than not I’ve proven to myself “trust my gut” when it comes to work versus career mindset, 2022 now proved the career in the US is dead for high skilled professionals. We are now in a mercenary environment and I love it. I seated and slogged underpaid and viewed as a tiny cog for a decade. Others must have as well - the way to get real raises was jump every 2-3 years. Never get a cut of sales bonus anyways, greedy bunch of course.

Now post reorganization I believe a large percentage of workers with my skill set and more longevity found different work with the free time with WFH. Can actually BE BUSY applying for things instead of double grinding. Employers want people like me available now, and there is a supply gap. A significant one. Nobody really wanted to do the kind of thing I do but it was never going anywhere in large business deals. The work is still there but maybe a quarter threw up their hands and said “f-this I’m out” and wow 20% market rate raises across the board and now 60% of postings are 100% remote.

It’s like my union went on strike or took the early buyout and now the sharks are tearing each other apart instead of me and my compatriots. Welcome to the new normal.
I almost missed this at the bottom of the page:

"""

A set of instructions known as the "Ten Commandments for Con Men"[10] has been attributed to Lustig:

- Be a patient listener (it is this, not fast talking, that gets a con man his coups).

- Never look bored.

- Wait for the other person to reveal any political opinions, then agree with them.

- Let the other person reveal religious views, then have the same ones.

- Hint at sex talk, but don't follow it up unless the other person shows a strong interest.

- Never discuss illness, unless some special concern is shown.

- Never pry into a person's personal circumstances (they'll tell you all eventually).

- Never boast – just let your importance be quietly obvious.

- Never be untidy.

- Never get drunk.

"""