skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's interesting that this is almost entirely about the filesystem API, but barely touches on all the other things that the object-store proponents and other "POSIX is dead" advocates usually focus on. Hierarchical directory structure, byte addressability, write in place, permissions model, persistence and consistency requirements, and so on. If everybody switched to a new API today, POSIX would still be very much alive. I'm not going to argue about whether the rest of POSIX should die or not, having played an active role in such discussions for about twenty years, but for that to happen it has to be a lot more than just changing how requests and responses are communicated.
If an entity wanted to gain a significant share of a PoS network, they would need far less money than would be required to purchase enough mining equipment to try and gain a significant share of a POW network.

This would have an impact on the price of the PoS coin, for sure, but it would still pale in comparison to the physical costs of trying to compete as a miner. Not just capital expenditures for hardware, but operating costs as well. Buying a PoS coin is all that one needs to do in comparison.
> both things started widely available during the ban

Also, and I thought this was obvious, alcohol and drugs are either more fun and popular or more fun and addicting. That combination of wide and deep makes them insidious and sympathetic. Bitcoin is neither.
> If the open method is banned, people will start using layers of indirection.

Noo it's spreading!!
Skeleton of female “vampire” unearthed at cemetery in Poland:l
just like what happened with Hulk
Not legally in the U.S., but most consumers don't know that.
“ The Polish researchers came across the remains of a woman with a sickle around her neck and a triangular padlock on her foot at a gravesite in the village of Pień. The farming tool, according to ancient beliefs, was supposed to prevent a deceased person thought to be a vampire from returning from the dead.”
Was Marx against mass production? I don't think so and a quick Google suggests he wasn't:

> important ‘progressive’ features of manufacturing that can be found in Marx's writings and which are discussed here include: division of labour; socialisation of labour; mechanisation; increasing returns to scale; learning-by-doing; technological advancement; and overall, superior potential for cumulative productivity increases

All this degrowth stuff seems to come from the surge in fossil fuel propaganda that linked carbon with quality of life.

Once you believe that you either say, sod the planet or you try to save the planet/civilization by degrowth.

But since it was never true in the first place, both those reactions are wrong. Just stop doing polluting things.
Any interesting ideas for Master’s thesis in the fields of BA and finance?
I like to dabble in web development (end to end JS) and machine learning in Python and have been making a career in b-to-b sales before living in Munich and Amsterdam.

I live in Finland and started my second year of a Master’s degree in Finance and Business Analytics. Derivatives and financial econometrics by themselves don’t quite tick my interests and I’m not particularly good in math at all.

The thesis should ideally be quantitative and even commissioned by a company in order to be useful.

What could be some interesting datasets and ideas to perform “research” on and ideally graduate by next summer?

So the topics for my thesis should ideally be in the realm of strategic finance, business analytics, ML/Data. Some of my early ideas to be developed, narrowed down and sharpened:

* a simple prediction/forecasting service or model hosted as a service,
* simple rule-based or ML dynamic pricing optimization, segmentation, or a simple recommendation system,
* more general cloud economics topics from a business perspective (business agility / CapEx to OpEx, etc),
* Internationalization of the firm,
Compensation/incentive planning, or revenue/sales operations/territory management & CRM processes/automation

I would be mighty thankful for any ideas from you guys!
Electromagnatic Compatibility Engineering, Henry Ott

The Elements of Style, Strunk and White

The Hardest (working) Man in Showbiz, Ron Jeremy
> non water resistant phones
I hated the idea of Tailwind when I first saw it. Decided on a whim last year to give it a solid try after hearing others say "you just have to experience it for yourself". I tried it, and now it's literally painful going back to anything else. I can't explain it, it's just magical.

In my opinion, Tailwind is to CSS what jQuery was to Javascript. It's just the right level of abstraction that you need.

But you have to just try it for yourself and experience it. I'd recommend using it with VSCode's intellisense plugin.
I use the scrollbar on mobile. It's a way to quickly navigate to a section of a particularly large document that would take tons of swiping. Not a frequent use case but an absolute necessity on occasion.
> "After all we all are loosing the climate change game thanks to Bitcoin and co."

Thanks in part to Bitcoin and co. There's a mess of other really major contributors as well, and most all of 'em are filthy rich and/or giant corporate entities.
Yes. Why is this so difficult to understand? They already have censors rating movies and games and ban kiddie porn.
I'm guessing it's Tim Roscoe's keynote on how most fundamental questions about what the hardware is actually doing are invisible to traditional OS abstractions:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=36myc8wQhLo

Roscoe's talk is fairly long (the video is > 1h), but the basic thesis was taken up in a segment of Bryan Cantrill's 20 min OSFF talk:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XbBzSSvT_P0

Both talks are very good; I recommend watching both, in either order.
Crypto is probably not going to beat domestic interbank dollar transfers for small amounts

Thank you. It's probably not going to beat domestic interbank dollar transfers for ease of use either. With a CBDC, most consumers will only notice new capabilities and faster money transfers --- at zero cost.

Back to the original point: A CBDC will eliminate any argument for crypto --- except for paranoia.

And about paranoia --- imagine the outcry if government decided to store every transaction you ever did in an immutable public database?
Map Projections: A Reference Manual - John P. Snyder

Gravitation - Misner, Wheeler, Thorne

Already mentioned: (it's a goody)

Linear Representations of Finite Groups - Serre
> a predictable and reliable monetary system.

Now that's funny!
Classical Electrodynamics By Jackson

Numerical Recipes By William H. Press et al

Quantum Theory of Materials By Kaxiras
So is lynching. Democracy means zilch when people do not have inalienable rights not to be fucked with and those rights are enforced.
all of Tanenbaum's books, especially Structured Computer Organization
GPS Block III
> even if that means being unpopular with students.

The problem is that, at the end of the day, the students are your customers for institutions like this.
I feel the same way about Tailwind, but haven't taken the plunge on Tailwind UI. Though I kinda want to buy it just to support the team. Do you feel like it constrains you too much, or no?
> "There's no point in passing laws, because people will get around them."

> Why does anyone believe this?

Good laws are great. And there are plenty of them.

But passing bad laws just because "we need to do something" is worse than doing nothing.
Epic already abandoned the Emscripten toolchain sadly.
Mostly despair from seeing it happen far more often than it really should due to rampant corrupting "in high places" I'd imagine…
I got a version of this alert for the first time on a OnePlus 9 last week whilst using my phone on a long motorcycle trip. It also suggested there might be a foreign object in the port.

Curiously it wasn't raining at the time and had been charging ok for an hour or so. It was the only time I saw this error during the 5,000 km trip - including times when it was raining hard.

Unplugging and replugging the (2 amp) lead did nothing, but leaving it unplugged for ~30 mins seemed to fix it.
Managing the Professional Service Firm by David Maister.

No longer doing consulting, but found it invaluable as a tech person building a consulting team and trying to break into enterprise. Probably useful for any professional consulting through a firm (lawyers, accountants, big 4, etc.)

Someone mentioned Designing Data Intensive Applications which I’m partial to as well.
"Democracy" isn't some kind of electoral system. There are working democracies that eschew elections.
Design of Everyday Things applies to almost any design or engineering discipline. You'll never look at a door the same way.
Not necessarily, if the URL has some absolute position like the ID of the first item instead of the relative number of pages between the newest item and the current page. I believe that Reddit does something like that (of course, only if you sort by new).
> Someone claiming “technical impossibility” in banning mining implies the government can’t catch them mining illegally.

I think my statement is pretty correct. Short of something like cutting off power or global communication, you can't really technically prevent Bitcoin mining by decree.

Of course, anything that exists in physical space can be jailed/shot/seized/destroyed, so your statement is also correct. Goody.

> Most criminals don’t pay tax on their gains.

It goes without saying, but somebody who doesn't pay tax on their gains is considered a criminal by our system.

PS: I don't want to get into a mind-reading session with you, but your beef seems to be with rich people who you consider to not pay enough taxes. That is a wholly separate issue from whether or not Bitcoin mining is "allowed" or not.
Actually no, there's this thing called the First Amendment and a bunch of rulings saying just because speech is unpopular is not a sufficient reason to publicly defund or censor it.

So there is no "majority consensus" option here. Minority views have rights, too.

This is purely in terms of what can be declared "harmful" or "obscene" or "inappropriate" and again, these have to be weighed against the artistic merit and value of the work as a whole (so a single sex scene in a memoir doesn't count.)

And yeah it is book banning and has a chilling effect - my duaghter brought a book from home and had it stolen - as we later learned, it was by a teacher who was worried they (the teachers) would get in trouble for it being at the school at all, regardless of how it got there.
To those who think tech workers don’t need unions: unions don’t have to be about wages. They are simply an association that lets us as workers deliberate and coordinate our actions.

I think in tech they would be better used to help us control what we are working on and the conditions in which we do it. For example, you could use your collective power to push for

- eliminating creepy tracking from the software you work on that execs wants to put in

- open sourcing more of your work

- eliminating addictive dark patterns

- requiring engineers’ sign-off on deadlines to avoid unrealistic ones foisted upon you

- working on projects that seem meaningful and useful for the world instead of what will make your investors the most money

and a million other things specific to your context
Do.

I have sometimes used services where I prefer having infinite scroll. I sometimes prefer it.
Not necessarily. If things are going much better, but people are still pessimistic, they’ll keep pushing to keep things going in the right direction.
Or just imperfect, but often useful?
> Blue Team seems far more willing to commit itself towards doing something even if it seems like they don’t actually have the authority to do it

Both sides do and allege this. From violating confirmation norms (that were always just norms) to breach of decorum in executive authorities (that were always there if seldom exercised) to outright illegality that gets struck down by courts.

Congress delegated sweeping authority to the executive via rulemaking (which enables lots of blue team chicanery) while the Federalist society’s broad view of executive power (which enables lots of red team chicanery), together with a series of Machiavellian Senate leaders, from Reid to McConnell, did this.
That seems silly as well, doesn’t it? Why should I wait for all the 1030 pages and 155 MB of Matter and Interactions[1] or 1442 pages and 126 MB of Life[2] to load before I can do anything with it? (Not that a hundred meg should take that much time to load, but then you realize PDF is the moral equivalent of a bunch of gzipped JSON files pointing to each other...) It would be handy if PDFs included an index of all page sizes in a single place, but they don’t, so we need to make do with what they do include somehow.

[1] https://matterandinteractions.org/

[2] https://www.macmillanlearning.com/college/ca/product/Life-Th...
To give you an idea of how plausible this is, I recommend reading the facts that came to light thanks to the work of Privacy International taking the UK government to court. Here are some quotes from an article[0] written in 2018:

> The Investigatory Powers Tribunal has reruled that GCHQ, MI5 and MI6 engaged in indiscriminate and illegal bulk cable-tapping surveillance for 15 years – and has once again refused to do anything about it.

> By law the Foreign Sec cannot delegate that power and let, for example, the head of GCHQ decide what kind of data to grab or how much of it they wish to browse through. However, in practice, what was happening, the IPT ruled, was that the Foreign Sec rubber-stamped a "general direction" prepared by the spy agencies themselves that included a very broad form of words authorising them to do whatever they liked.

> Sir Michael went as far as to say he was "disappointed that inaccurate information was given to the tribunal" about the number of contractors with admin privileges working at GCHQ. The agencies also had to amend their witness statements several times after it became obvious that their original contents, claiming they and the Foreign Secretary obeyed the law in full, were simply not true

[0] https://www.theregister.com/2018/07/23/investigatory_powers_...
Since I moved into managed languages I never cared about POSIX any longer, as long as the runtime supports the underlying hardware, OS or hypervisor, I am good.

Ironically, while I am an heavy email user, at work it is mostly used for internal newsletters, all the communication happens over Slack.
Semantic classes.
The Jazz Theory book - Mark Levine

High Performance Browser Networking - edit: Ilya Grigorik

Effortless Mastery - Kenny werner
I'm intrigued by those choices and can't tell if you are making a subtle joke about life itself (building, writing, fucking?).
If the tech industry was unionized like the trades:

"Sorry, I can't merge this pull request, these config files are managed by the DevOps union and only they can review this code."

"I know the system is down and our customers are failing, but we don't work weekends."

"I can't give you a raise because you are maxed out for your 4 years of time put in here. Everyone with 4 years time gets paid exactly the same rate."

"Sorry you are getting laid off - these other (less skilled) people have more time here than you. We lay off based on seniority."
Michael Selvidge has a fun Twitter thread with Sneakers info: https://twitter.com/selviano/status/1568298272900673538 / https://nitter.net/selviano/status/1568298272900673538
LaserGrid-system neutralizes all backdoored-CPUs
Looks CPU-backdoors are over. This LaserGrid system defeats the Intel Management Engine (IME) and Platform Security Processor (PSP).

Logically un-hackable.
We jail journalists all the time, and beat them in the streets. Don't report on issues with the police or you're gonna get it.
Well there went an hour of my life.. Thanks for sharing the link!
I wonder how this differs though from refinement. Particularly for real people such as musicians, an element of it is also surely removing cruft that just wasn't interesting.
Why do physicists believe there are universes besides our own? [video]
you dont vote for every decision that an elected government takes. so in fact no democracy is a true democracy, merely the fake appearance of giving some power to people where they actually have none.
Imperfection (or non-universal applicability) isn’t the problem, absence of a graceful fallback when it hits is.
Absolute power corrupts absolutely. In this case, that power comes from new technology.
We have about 91 million cattle in the United States (including calves). The buffalo herd was historically between 22 and 88 million. Currently we have about 30 million white-tailed deer. I strong suspect that historical numbers were at least as high. I think you are overstating the case.
If you only see the static Huffman tree over all compressed deflate stream, that gives you an upper limit of the compression level and you don't actually need to decompress (i.e. undo LZ77) anything. If you meant that you still have to do the work proportional to the input length, yes of course, but that is very different from actual (de)compression.
Seems interesting, but I think the page really needs more detailed information. What is "add epub(s)" going to do with my file? Does "offline-first" mean offline only? If not, what is uploaded?

A bug(?): The brief about screen doesn't seem to display in private tabs in Firefox Android. Possibly I hit the rubbish bin button by accident, but restarting the browser didn't bring it back, while in Chrome closing and reopening an incognito tab brings it back.
Mimic Octopus: Master of Disguise
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mimic_octopus
Bank tells customers to disable updates and not upgrade to iOS 16
It also means that when dragging the scroll bar, the page will suddenly jump when it loads in more content
Thankfully in many European countries unions span across the industry, it doesn't matter if there is one on the building to enforce our worker rights.
California environmentalist activists on the Costal Commission refuse to allow desalinization which is what is truly threatening the Colorado river.
Regulating email providers
Somebody from 1930 might posit the average American today is rich (if not famous) based on the average household with private bedrooms, air conditioning and central heat, multiple vehicles, multiple TVs, computers and electronic gadgets, kitchens stocked with food and gadgets, closets full of clothing, etc. Sure people have problems and poverty still exists but at baseline its a pretty comfortable lifestyle.

Mostly bemoaning about not being rich and famous comes down to desiring better (or perceived to be better) versions of items listed above -- or the ability to have "fuck you" money and the fantasy that buying people off will isolate you or solve all your interpersonal problems.
Any good resources on floating point accuracy proofs/literature?

As you say, it’s an often ignored topic while coming up again and again in software engineering
And in many countries there is no need to have one in the building, they span across the industry and one can always reach out to them anyway.
Code by Charlse Petzold.

Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs aka. SICP.

Designing Data-Intensive Applications by Martin Klepmaan.

The C Programming Language by K&R.

Distributed Systems by Tannebaum.
Not a technical book but A Theory of Fun for Game Design by Raph Koster had a few perspectives I’d never considered.
Infinite scrolling also immediately destroys the concept of a footer. IME (building websites/apps for a living since 1998) footers are an excellent and underutilized place to put large amounts of supporting materials, expanded navigation links and related affordances. Consider the absurdity of infinite scrolling in a page with a layout containing a footer that can never be reached (perhaps briefly glimpsed before being pushed out of sight).
For compiler theory, "Principles of Program Analysis" (by Nielson, Nielson, Hankin).

It is so foundational to what we do at rev.ng, that we gift a physical copy of the book to every interviewee, even if they don't pass.
My board of 3 years now has Topre clones and they feel vastly smoother than mechanical keys
It’s an “algorithmic toolbox” in the sense of a set of algorithms you can use as tools, not a set of tools for building new algorithms.
My problem with exactly that is that governments in general seem to be keen to spend money quite freely on making, participating in, and/or funding various wars and other military spending, yet are loathe to spend more than they absolutely must on things like education, infrastructure, and other things which most directly benefit their own people. It's the people's money they're spending, so logically they should be spending it most freely "at home" to it's own citizens' direct benefit instead of abroad. Not to say that we shouldn't support our allies in times of need, but … priorities?
Getting Real, Jason Fried.
California fire creating its own weather as dozens of blazes burn across U.S.
> I see two interpretations, and I’m guessing you mean the second one

In order for Bitcoin to remain secure, the $$$ amount spent on electricity to mine Bitcoin has to be commensurate with the value of Bitcoin purchased on the markets. Because there is only so much electricity in the world that can be allocated to mining, this places an upper bound on the price that Bitcoin can reach in the markets.
Let's ban air travel. It would make a big difference. Can't lose the climate game
I get it all the time on my 2020 iPhone SE, even after several hours plugged into the car. I've come to hit "Emergency Override" if I know it's not been around moisture in the last few hours.

Pity, because I wanted to hand this one on to an older relative in a few months, but I'm not about to saddle her with this.
I used to think this too, but then I recently helped organize a new tech union.

Traditional unions and tech unions are pretty different indeed. But unions stand to be one possible tool to help remediate some of the problems unique to tech. For non-managers, this change can often be difficult to influence otherwise. Nothing says they have to mirror construction unions, anymore than management in tech has to mirror construction management

In addition to having a stronger voice around working conditions (which are pretty awful in some tech fields like game development), they also stand to help workers have a stronger guiding voice on decision making. There is valid critique against tech that too rarely does anyone ask if something should be done; not just if it can be done.
The worst is when there's important links on the footer of the page. You end up trying to race the loading to click the link you need in time.
Ageed. OP's language is disrespectful to say the least. If it wasn't for this post I wouldn't have known there was an "outage"
> my own backyard first

And last. The US is a trade-based empire, it has to care about the rest of world
Some datasets don’t have a natural order so a position is arbitrary. You just want to iterate over all of it in some useful sequence without arbitrary seek.
> Maths: Rudin's Real and Complex analysis.

Yes!! Rudin kills it, but you need a year or two to get through this gem. A course in university will go too fast for sure.