skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wouldn't say trust. But an entire nation is required to accept it so there is a market for it. Plus with interest rates nations are paying you to hold it.

I don't do Forex trading so I'm not particularly defending it. The currency I hold is the one that has utility to me. It's the one I'm paid in, the one I pay taxes in. I don't particularly want it jumping up or down 100s of %. I want it to be stable.

If bitcoin is more stable than your local currency go for it, (although if inflation is 'only' 25% it still doesn't seem to meet that bar). But that says more about your currency than the bitcoin and it still doesn't make it an investment. Your case would seem to be better served by holding USD though.

My first post pointed out it wasn't a very good investment. You seem to be buying it as a store of value, but it isn't very good at that either. So all were left with is a distrust of government. But the cure is worse than the disease.
there’s a zero percent chance people will be laid off and be happy. same with seeing people be laid off. there is no right thing to say
I have heard of employers doing a credit check, or making it part of the hiring background check. This may tend to only affect the not-highest-paying types of employers that also require a drug test, though.
> 2) In a near future neuroscience will cure pedophilia and ,partially, psychopatic tendencies with artifical empathy generators in your skull.

This will be the first application of so-called "desire engineering": the elimination of desires that people do not desire to desire.

From there though the implications get... interesting. What happens when you can also add or tweak desires? What do you want to want? What do you want to want to want? Raises a lot of philosophical questions, some of which may be troubling.
> they eventually just gave me a beer and put a tally mark on a notepad

oof
This is actually why this needed to be written, new riders on a race track come with a malformed understanding of how the bike works, and when you need to put more force into the bike to turn at higher speed, they don’t know where to put the force.
People think that just leaning does the work, but you can try to turn a motorcycle with your hands off the bar and see how that works… basically you just go straight.

The part I find amazing is you understand how to make this work in a part of your brain that apparently doesn’t communicate with the conscious understanding part. People can ride a motorcycle and not even understand how to make it turn, yet they do it.
The true cost of hardware is greater than the purchase price of the hardware. It's not feasible for everyone to buy hardware, esp. for intermittent load.
I kinda feel the opposite.

When you can afford to risk it, become your own boss.

When something hard in life is coming up, it's better to be employed.

Less stress, more benefits, lower chance of being fired.

If time is a concern I'd recommend some part time (albeit I realise it's not that popular in the USA).
You can also prune logs based on level at different time intervals.
No I never used any of that. I would have moved on to another job if someone insisted on it.
I tried quite a few of them in stable diffusion, and while I found the results typically look worse, it was still interesting. How much curation of the output did you do or was it that exact prompt and the first result?

I would love to see it re-run with stable diffusion, and have those added along side/or ability to toggle.
Exactly. If that were the case, it would be impossible for people raised to be religious as children to become atheists as adults when they've realized that the evidence for their religion doesn't hold up, but this is very common.
A terminal-based mind mapping tool with Vim keybindings? Count me in!

The fact that the name immediately made me think "Hamlin-McGill-McGill" is only a bonus :)
> An attacker with local access on a system where Microsoft Teams is installed could steal the tokens and use them to log into the victim's account.

Big deal? They can also read all sorts of stuff out of ~/.config, or my Kerberos tickets out of $KRB5CCNAME, or my tokens out of ~/.kube/config, or my MS Graph/Azure access tokens out of ~/.azure/accessTokens.json!

I guess Microsoft agrees:

> Vectra researchers discovered the problem in August 2022 and reported it to Microsoft. However, Microsoft did not agree on the severity of the issue and said that it doesn't meet the criteria for patching.

> With a patch unlikely to be released, Vectra's recommendation is for users to switch to the browser version of the Microsoft Teams client. By using Microsoft Edge to load the app, users benefit from additional protections against token leaks.

Hold on, can't the same attacker now read my access tokens out of ~/.mozilla/firefox or ~/.config/chromium?

> The researchers advise Linux users to move to a different collaboaration suite, especially since Microsoft announced plans to stop supporting the app for the platform by December.

While I wholeheartedly agree with anyone advising people to ditch the awful Microsoft Teams... why not just switch to the browser version, as already advised? This is what MS are advising users to do anyway...

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I'm still dreaming of a world where Flatpak runs every app as a separate UID and SELinux domain, to prevent the above attacks.
Most YouTubers have sponsors who they mention in the video. If there must be advertising, I prefer that kind, because the creator gets 100% of the revenue.
Rust's standard library is statically linked. Rust binaries typically only require libc (and can be compiled with musl to avoid that dependency too).
The most obvious benefit is easily handling non-tree interactions.

The fact that it's terminal-centric is also situationally an advantage as opposed to gdocs, but that could easily be solved by vim or something, so I don't think that's quite what you were asking.
This stuff just comes from templates. The templates optimize for people not freaking out. I wouldn’t read so much personal emotion into it.
Meta Stack Exchange: Google Analytics 4 Upgrade
A thread about Stack Exchange's upgrade to Google Analytics 4 and the changes to their GDPR data processing consent flow, along with some good discussion around how it doesn't actually comply with the regulation.
As others said, accessibility and cooling. But inboard brakes are still popular in some niche areas, like sandrails:

https://www.dieselworldmag.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/DW...

This particular example doesn't even have front brakes.
So get a cashier's check from the bank.
Forge a second copy.

Now any caller to the bank will get an okay.

On deposit, bank, with better abilities to detect fraudulent paper will determine one of the two is not real.

That doesn't seem forge-proof.

Bounce proof maybe, but that assumes you can tell the document in your hand is the original.
There's support in Firefox Nightly, actually, if you enable the setting 'gfx.font_rendering.colr_v1.enabled' in about:config.
Do websites respect the DNT (Do Not Track) header?
Oh wait, it seems to have been deprecated :(
Unless you’re looking for a job in finance
> By default Parseable uses a public S3 compatible store (MinIO) to store the data. Please change this to your S3 bucket before storing any important data.

Wait, am I reading that right? Does this mean by default the docker container is going to store my data in a random place on the internet?

If so that's a crazy bad default.
I’m not sure about that. Most cars can stop way faster than they can accelerate. The differences in force would be even more extreme for front wheel drive cars where the weight transfer allows for more grip on the front wheels during braking compared to accelerating or peeling out.
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A lot of the people focusing on certain aspects of this layoff are unfortunately taking focus off of the increasing trend in layoffs. Patreon had a similar size reduction yesterday. There are others that are not as visible.

People talk about default-alive and default-dead companies, but everyone should be looking at their personal finances in the same way. Look at your savings, your debt, and what expenses are discretionary and make sure you have enough time to find a new job in a difficult labor market.

We have experienced an unprecedented period of growth and good employment conditions in many areas of tech, and it has been funded by venture capital while operating at a loss in aggregate. That is not how a default-alive industries run, and capital is going to be getting even more expensive soon. There are going to be more layoffs, more closures, more competition for jobs, and slower growth or contraction in compensation.
Yeah it's sad, I feel like Martin Luther King Junior's dream was a pipe dream. In a better world or maybe just a better place or time, it would have happened. But what we have now is obviously diverging more and more from his dream.
Coincidentally, I was watching a YouTube video last night about the YB-60. This was a version of the B-36 with the same jet engines as the B-52. And the aircraft lost in a competition with the B-52 because the Boeing jet was just plain better than the Convair jet.

Boeing did a very good job. I don't think there have been (or will be) another aircraft that lasted this long in service. There are prettier aircraft (in my opinion), but "pretty" doesn't get the job done. The Big Ugly Fat Fella will be around for quite some time.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NcumiS0uk5o

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convair_YB-60
It is an experiment in long term maintenance. The type has long been planned to be in service for 95 years.
> There are probably better places to put your 1% on. ;-)

I totally agree, but the argument being made is that "the potential upsides outweigh the low probability". That's not investing, that's gambling.
I see no problem with that.
https://www.metaculus.com/about/

Pretty amazing: a b-corp in the reliable, trustworthy discourse space.

No hint of pricing. Reading their Privacy and Collection page, I'm left with the suspicion that their business model is not one that respects your privacy. Being a b-corp, they are not subject to the financial demands of investors (big +1 for that!), but still, it seems that their business model needs to be clearly articulated.

I'd love to find out I am wrong on that.
What are 8500 people doing at Twilio?
would be even better if it had the ownership/trackage rights that the other map had, though, that's quite interesting.
> I would love to see a ProtonPhone.

Depending on what you mean here, it might already exist: https://puri.sm/products/librem-5.
Programming is not my career, but rather a hobby, and I developed h-m-m because I wanted to have something like this and couldn't find one. Therefore, what I've done here may have a lot of room for improvement. If you see an embarrassing problem in the program or have an idea for improvement, feel free to contact me; I'd be happy to receive your feedback.

I’m not fond of it being in PHP, either (mostly because I doubt I have it installed to use this), but that doesn’t make this a bad tool, just one that solves someone’s problem.
Same, building product feels great and stock options are usually worth it
I suspect the "ESP guy" is actually meant to refer to Daryl Bem?

https://slate.com/health-and-science/2017/06/daryl-bem-prove...

https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/04/28/the-control-group-is-o...
Jakarta EE is all of the Java EE spec that are now open sourced. Right now in Java-land, the big development ecosystems are Quarkus, Spring Framework, and Jakarata EE. Jakarta EE's big advantage is CDI, which is a very nice dependency injection container and allows applications to be broken down and composed into easily testable modules. Quarkus partially implements CDI and has its own set of APIs. Spring has their own DI container that is showing it's age, but is still quite popular.
HN is the only place on the web that I know of where someone will tell you--someone who has experience in X, Y or Z--that you are wrong, or "sealion" you, or better yet, attempt to correct you with their armchair experience.

Then, you'll be reprimanded for pointing it out, asking you to "not do that here."

I wish moderation would curtail this obnoxious behavior, because I see HN as a place where experts can detail their experience, and over the years I see more and more amateur butt in or sealioning behavior take place, and people I know have left over it.
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> Which suggests that our bodies “know” calculus even if our minds do not.

No, it does not. If a player's body "knew calculus", it wouldn't occasionally get fooled or miss a shot. Just like optical illusions give us a clue that "seeing" is not ray tracing or other optical math, getting fooled by a ping pong ball gives us a clue that the player's body does not know calculus.
Thanks for pointing this out! Octane benchmark is a rendering industry standard for pricing hardware. It's useful because when someone launches a rendering job, it doesn't just run on one device, say an RTX 3090 or 1660, but rather on a whole host of devices.

Using this benchmark and our pricing of $.0019 per Octane benchmark hour, a 3090 would cost about $1.24/hr. The important thing to remember, and the reason we don't display our pricing like this, is that you aren't buying raw graphics card power from rentaflop or renting a single GPU. Instead, you're paying to have your Blender project rendered by dozens or even hundreds of graphics cards in parallel.
A leak of an executable doesn't imply a requirement to provide source anymore than a theft implies a warranty.
The reward/risk ratio of lottery tickets is very well known. And it's obviously not in your favor. So it's basically a no brainer not to invest in them.

Things like startups for example also have a very high risk rate, but also potential high payouts. There it actually makes sense since the ratio is way better.
As an early Bitcoin adopter, I wouldn't say so. I have never seen anyone among the people I knew in the Bitcoin community in the last 12 years who believed it would "make tradfi obsolete".

For example, I expect Bitcoin to likely remain an alternative system, used only for a minority of transactions. And this view didn't conflict with my desire to buy in when I did.
Presumably there are also people in the US who are “white” but who also have “black” close relatives.

If it matters I’m with the OP on this. I’m Romanian, I’m “white”, my mother is, for lack of a better word, “brown-ish” (between “black” and “white”, that is), my brother has the same skin “color” as my mum. My brother has been the victim of racist remarks over the years of which I was not, I suspect because of our slightly different skin “color”.

Nevertheless, I find the essentialist policy the US has when it comes to “races” quite baffling. For example I don’t know how me and my brother would potentially be “labeled” were we to move to the States. Like I said, technically we have different skin “colors” but, after all, we’re brothers.
Exactly. I think the only time this matters if you have read permissions on a machine you shouldn't have and want to get access to other SSO-related network resources.
What about casting a part for a Dungeons & Dragons movie?
I used to know jeffiel personally and let me tell you he is the sweetest person. He was incredibly humble when twilio became a darling in the sf-sv scene and (imo) he steered twilio to IPO effectively and quickly. Being a PoC, i'm disappointed people have felt so offended by the "anti-racist" comment in the statement, the person I know would mean that from a sincere perspective.
If someone were to tell me, you've got 12 weeks left on your job. And then adds, and you can leave early when you find work. I'm probably not going to be the most motivated/productive employee. In fact, I might cause more harm than good.

It's better to just rip that bandaid off and let people move on with their lives. 12 weeks severance is (hopefully) enough time that the former employee can find new work, and also that the company can start adjusting to the down sizing.

A non-productive worker is probably worse than no worker at all.
Prescriptivism is "Invalid syntax on line 32, column 14: 'everyday' is an adjective".

Descriptivism is "shush, if people are using it this way then it's correct".
Zatko was hired by the CEO (Dorsey) and reported to the CEO and CTO, not the board.

Zatko says an inaccurate and misleading security report was going to be made to the board at their Dec 9/21 meeting and he was able to stop it. Agrawal let the report go to the board's Risk Committee a week later.

Zatko then reported that the Risk Committee meeting report was fraudulent (because of the inaccuracies?) and was fired two weeks later. Twitter then paid him $7 million to shut up but an NDA can't block an SEC whistleblower complaint.

I took all that information from this article: https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/interactive/2022/t...
Is "moot" an autoantonym? It just takes a different meaning depending on if it's a verb or an adjective.
Constantinople to Istanbul. Why did Constantinople get the works? That's nobody's business but the Turk's.
Does anyone know why nginx used separate processes for workers, instead of threads? This post makes it sound like threads are the way to go, but presumably nginx had a reason for using processes back in the day.
GPG is available nearly everywhere on every platform. If you're on OSX you can install MacGpg which provides a nice UI.
Do you really think you'll get quality work from someone who knows the clock is ticking & they'll be out in 12 weeks? From someone who is going to be busy looking for their next move?

And that's ignoring the chance that one of your employees isn't too happy at losing their job and decides to make your company a bit uglier in the process.
Projects like TS, React, etc that are already well unfunded most likely won't claim their funds which means they will be reallocated to your other dependencies after a few months.

They will also have the option to be pass-through organizations which means that funds allocated to them will instead go to their dependencies.

We are also exploring the idea of being able to declare a list of repos/organizations to exclude from being funded.
Link for those unaware: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28309202.
Any pointers to Astronomer vs. Dagster comparisons or just good experience reports with Astronomer?
No, they've been promising laser links with (IIRC) v1.5 for a while.
SPACE LASERS!!!

Sorry. The inner child in me got far too excited by this.
This is amazing! the TTS is definitely a lot better than the native browser TTS available.
A guy who cares about evaluating the likelihood and significance of an event taking place.

I'm not value judging this, I'm just trying to determine if it's worth reacting to, and based on the number of folks effected, the severity of the impact, and the frequency, privacy violations seem pretty minor overall as a threat, not worth considering within my personal attack surface.
Pijul handles all merges predictably, by design, because it doesn't actually merge anything, it just applies changes to a CRDT, and CRDTs work.

CRDTs aren't common in real-world distributed applications because they are hard to design. But when the problem is important enough (like in this case) I think the approach is worth it.

One way for Git to do what you said would be to import the repos in Pijul, commit by commit since the last common ancestor, instead of doing a 3-way merge. Technically feasible, but the performance would be terrible.
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>If all that cooking-electricity comes from a natural gas peaker plant, then you've just doubled your usage of natural gas.

I think the idea is to move away from that.

Regardless, even using natural gas power generation electric induction boiling comes ahead.

>Burning natural gas inside our homes is surprisingly efficient use of fossil fuels, far better than centralized electricity production.

This isn't true.

Technology Connections tested a typical electric range, an electric kettle, and a gas range, and calculated the Watt-hours needed to heat 1 liter of water using each.

He found that a gas burner required 375.8Wh and a plug-in electric heater used 190.4 Wh. Induction is even more efficient.

Even with transmission losses, burning the gas in a large, much more efficient central power plant and sending it in the form of electricity to the home where almost all of the energy gets transferred into the pot instead of the surrounding air as is the case with an open flame will result in much less gas being used to perform the same work.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_yMMTVVJI4c

All of this ignores the myriad of other improvements induction heating has over gas like not polluting the inside air, being impossible to leave on accidentally after cooking, and not being an explosion risk due to gas leaks.
While that's true, they could be placed in secure credential storage instead. The Ripcord chat client for Discord and Slack uses Windows's secure credential storage, for example, so I can't easily extract its saved credentials and to clear them I go to the Credential Manager under Control Panel. Mozilla VPN and my GitHub credentials are both in Credential Manager instead of a dotfile as well.

The recommendation that a browser is safer seems pretty silly though. As far as I can tell no web browser uses secure credential storage.
I use: https://raytracing.github.io/books/RayTracingInOneWeekend.ht...

I second the advice of loading .obj, it's a good exercise.

Implementing Octrees is another good one that will speed up your code while exploring tree structures in that language.
Contract work is about relationships.

Since you have 16 years of experience, talking to all the people you have worked for and with over your career might be the best place to start.

As a rule of thumb, a good working hypothesis is that there are already enough contractors/consultants in the market to meet demand...or another way of thinking about it is that established businesses already have logistical solutions to their normal operational requirements.

This means that random potential clients won't be excited that you are suddenly available. They already have consultants. Those consultants work hard to keep them as clients.

Easy button websites for finding consulting work are races to the bottom because new consultants only get the worst work. Good work is regular well paying work and regular work means there are a regular cadre of consultant/contractors in that workflow.

Quite simply, contracting/consulting is not driven by performance but by sales. The easy button is Amazon Mechanical Turk.

Good luck.
All parenting advice should say "DEPENDS ON BABY" in big red letters at the beginning.
White people aren't privileged, privileged people are privileged. I sure as heck didn't get any privilege by growing up poor on a reservation. Hell, I'm pretty sure some of my college applications were thrown away because of rural circumstances. So, this new, fashionable racism bugs me a bit.
if and when the design team of Google hiring are not made up of HR personnel, it could be construed as a violation of Federal labor law. It becomes a violation if the hiring (non-HR) team are privy to sensitive info of applicants. and if HR design team and hiring (non-HR) team are one and the same playing fast and loose with privilege info, many lawyers will be all over this.

Of course, I am unwilling to find out because my priorities lies elsewhere but if and when I learn of the next Deaf applicant that got turned away because of lack of direct call support, then my priority of my legal team will change.

Federal law says accommodation must be made … after the hire. No need to tip your hand earlier.
I mentioned to just use the Gutenprint mailing list, but I was downvoted. They are at least a bit more likely to minimally look at the proprietary driver (no one of the commenters here did), or even remember by heart a similar model with the exact same interface (which is rather likely to exist).