skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The ability of exurban dwellers to visit a city with their car is of no interest to the people in that city. Why should they care?
Remember CGA?

Ah yes, MAGENTA+CYAN. Everybody's favorite palette.
consensus is strongly related to distributed computing fault tolerance and database or file systems' atomicity and integrity in case of crash. Basically problems that involve multiple readers and multiple writers.
Well two things/questions:

1. Can we somehow get Mozilla/Firefox ban/de-list the extension from the extension store so Avast doesn't get the user-base this extension has/had?

2. We should be able to get the author to publish the source code of the latest version licensed under GPLv3, any way to do this, except asking on Twitter/LinkedIn?
> Adobe is where software goes to die.

AFAIK Corel has the same reputation. What is the problem with design software companies?
and for privacy
> Permanent power savings the scale of a country

I don't know if you ever argued against that massive energy footprint as "FUD". But I do find it pretty hilarious to see a crypto proponent now use that as a positive. "We're not wasting country-sized amounts of electricity anymore!"

FWIW, I don't think most crypto-critics (yours truly included) argue that it's not technically interesting. We argue that it's tech in search of a (mostly) non-existent problem, that has a whole host of very negative externalities.
Normally we ask experts to give their expert opinions.

I don't think the NYT (or anyone, really) is hurting for news to cover either. It's been an exciting year.
I have such great memories of Fireworks prior to the acquisition by Adobe. It was my go to tool for 90% of all web graphics: simple to use, no need to fuss with layers for selections, vector + bitmap in one app, easy exports, and everything editable within a PNG file. Such a wonderful tool! I truly hope Figma doesn't suffer the same fate. Hopefully the $20B price tag, justifies resources.
> nothing tells me you've never even tried it as much as this comment of yours

You mean the part where I said that I haven’t tried it?
5P;1R Jellyfish Merkle Tree
Small core is easier to verify.
What are the use cases ?
That's exactly what stock exchanges are for!

Going public should be the norm, not being bough by a monopolist, otherwise the entire premise of what makes capitalism desirable is broken.
> Vector search, though, isn't as good on handling typos and not good at all when it comes to as you type searching. Vehic won't match on auto, for example.

This is incorrect in general case and it entirely depends on the model that is used to produce word vectors and the text corpus the model is trained with.

For instance, fastText model is trained on words, but also their parts (n-grams), so it should produce word vectors that would be close (in cosine-distance) to vectors of their corresponding typos and partials, even if the text corpus that was used to train the model doesn't contain same typos and partially typed words verbatim.
The point of the stock market is to trade and build wealth. Yet we have agreed insider trading should be illegal, because it ruins the game for everyone.

Anti-trust laws are similar.
I think most of those problems are being worked on and have a very real chance of being solved.

Right now, on layer 2, you can transact for a $0.01 fee no matter the size of the transaction. I’m not a Visa expert but from what I understand they take a percentage of the transaction. Visa could lower their fees but I see that as a win-win. They faced competition and either way consumers win.

Granted if Eth exploded in popularity the fees would go up potentially 10x. However there are upgrades on the way to lower fees even further. Namely danksharding (excuse the silly name).

Things like UX, and fraudulent transactions are much harder. However UX can get better and there are actually things we can do about fraudulent transactions. A Visa competitor could build their own smart wallet where the financial institution has keys to the wallet as well as users. This would allow them to administer the wallet for the user similarly to current bank accounts.

A competitors could also create their own layer 2 which would only confirm transactions on the main ethereum network after X amount of time. This would allow the company to revert fraudulent transactions within that time window.
https://archive.ph/OJYqz
Kind of.

If configured you can send your review by emails https://gerrit-review.googlesource.com/Documentation/intro-u...

If you get the an email you can read it from your mail client, retrieve the change from Gerrit over git (git fetch gerrit.example.org refs/changes/45/12345,8 && git checkout FETCH_HEAD), address the review and send back to Gerrit (git push gerrit.example.org HEAD:refs/for/main). Though to mark the review comments you would have to reply to the email or indeed head to the Web UI to mark them resolved.

One can send a review vote and message over ssh which is quite convenient to a point I locally have aliases +1 / +2 to do it directly from the command line instead of heading to the web browser.

The API is quite powerful (the Gerrit web UI entirely relies on the REST API). James E. Blair wrote a ncurses client for Gerrit there is a quick demo at https://ttygroup.org/gertty/index.html (Pypi page https://pypi.org/project/gertty/ ).
They weren’t creating a company for the “good of mankind”.

Most non profits have plenty of paid staff.

In fact, there is a Ted Talk about non profits and why their employees should get paid well.

https://www.ted.com/talks/dan_pallotta_the_way_we_think_abou...
I regularly have to drive in Ann Arbor, MI - by one account the #1 most educated major-ish city in America ( https://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/2017/07/25/a... ).

We are definitely stuck with idiots for local traffic planning. And those clever sensors - there is a huge difference between (A) a traffic light checking that Feature Box in PowerPoint (or Flash, or Microsoft Bob, or whatever software the local traffic planners use), and (B) traffic sensor technology being usefully implemented at the light's real-world location.
> Permanent power savings the scale of a country.

Don't count your chickens before they hatch.
You were talking about the practical value of comparing Transformers etc. to neural structures: "neuron centered approach research is still at the level of discerning urban activity by looking at lighting patterns, but it has obvious practical value".

This type of research has limited practical value, for the reasons outlined in various comments I made here. Transformers etc. have a lot of practical values.
Discoed does a lot of things 'right' for a lot of people.

For gamers, Discord became a no-brainer after not much time. Click to create a server for some friends, send out some invites, and that's pretty much all you need. Built-in game overlay settings, voice chat, and screen sharing. Text and voice channels.

Compare this to the old TeamSpeak/Ventrilo/Mumble era, where you'd need to actually manage the installation, and tell people how to connect.

Discord makes it braindead-easy to get started, and the risks you're talking about affect less than 10% of the userbase, probably. Until a more-open platform provides a better experience, Discord will be here to stay among the masses.
Well, I can't quite get my Word 5.1a to run anymore. It was the best version of Word to ever have lived. Unfortunately, it only runs on 68k and PPC macs (on the latter even under emulation, IIRC). Software has a limited lifetime, unfortunately. Bit rot may be metaphorical, but it does happen.
Exactly this!

And it's scary how good it is for "autocomplete" sometimes. I've found it much more useful on our angular webside frontend rather than the c# backend.. but man on the angular/javascript side it really saves time.

I can't think of any good examples off the top of my head, but every few days I literally am wondering to myself "how did I now I wanted to do exactly that!"
I wouldn't consider the abolishment of child labor or enforcement of the 40 hr standard workweek as "completely useless"

If government is supposedly accountable to the people it should serve public ends. If it doesn't it should be replaced. I thought that was the entire "Amwrican experiment"? Huh, guess it's a generational thing
That makes sense, but in the consulting case the employee has a motive to file expenses so the employer know. In this case it seems unreasonable for the employer to be heavily fined when they have no real way to determine their employees whereabouts. And because it would likely take an audit to catch the employee, when it does eventually happen it will be a larger hit to the business.
HN has been oddly prejudiced against crypto. Sure there is a ton of hype, but there are some extremely interesting ideas and some incredible innovation taking place.

This is what happens when startups become cool and the people who would have otherwise gotten an MBA and tried to find work at a major bank are now the ones on HN.
In many countries where enforcing income tax is hard, they do that. Often they still have income tax but since no one pays it, they try to collect it through VAT and other means. That's how you have very expensive iPhones in poor countries. It's not fun.
Only 15 states have requirements for regular safety inspections. A few more have some one time inspections when transfering a car.

Otherwise in the majority of states there are no inspections, or only emissions inspections (the later tend to only be required in specific cities/counties).
What I grow tired of is the increasing complexity. There was a period early in my career where “do more with less” was a key contributor to decisions in tech. But it almost feels like complexity exists for economics sake to allow more people to participate (i.e earn money) in it.
Post-truth sounds very bad. But it is concerning that newspapers and government statements can't be trusted anymore. Just ignore all the liars.
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"Properly regulate" a thing whose only purpose is to bypass regulation. Seems legit...
I'm moving to PA, so out of curiosity, why are you recommending to move to Philly?
I used to scoff at this type of response, but I agree with you. Cryptocurrency was created (seemingly) as a way to purchase things across borders free from regulation in a quasi-anonymous way. It soon devolved into an extremely volatile investment vehicle for the short sighted, and a way to push ponzi schemes by tech sociopaths.

The only exception I'm aware of is Monero. In theory, there has to be some regulation in place that would de-anonymize you when making the Monero -> Physical Cash transfer, but I guess Monero is designed so that transactions within the blockchain can't be tracked (specifically transaction amounts and sending/receiving addresses).
Unions are popular in fields like construction, medicine, teaching, etc because of:

1. The field otherwise would be chronically underpaid

2. The field is dangerous, or has a history of encouraging dangerous behavior

3. The field makes moving between jobs quickly hard

4. The field is antiquated, and the union is essentially a protection racket for prior skilled workers (this is very common in "older" fields).

Programming is none of these. Wages may be stagnating at the FAANGs but they certainly aren't anywhere else. My own experience with unions has me leary. In exchange for protection you mentioned we get:

1. Pitiful raises because they are no longer based on merit but "representation"

2. possibly better benefits

3. possibly better on call.

Given if I don't like a company I can mark "looking for work" on linkedin and get 30+ job offers in a week I see no purpose. The looking for work button is your union. Literally, just get a new job. Tech companies may enjoy the idea of a union. You end up getting journeyman programmers and often times they will be for less than what a merit rate would give. The key here is merit. A driver of our field. Since raises are given to everyone they are smaller. Those 30k+ pay bumps you get switching jobs? Gone. Busting your ass for a 10k raise at the end of the year because you merit it? Gone. Taking classes at the university? Gone, most college union work programs require you to join a union to even take the class. For what? Even "underpaid" programmers make 2x the average salary of almost any other field. You're going to have to convince people making 100k+ in a country where the average family makes 60k that they should unionize "for their own protection". It will never happen.
I'm assuming that an extension update is precisely what triggered this behavior. It sounds like the extension had no need for alert functionality, and that this was a first occurrence, so I'd also assume they had to add code to trigger an alert rather than just blasting a brand new alert to users via written but previously-unused code.
I am not aware of FLAC claims to be patent free ( when it started ), it may be royalty free and patent free now given it has been 20+ years since 1.0. They do however claims they dont hold any patent on it.

WavePack was specifically designed to be Patent Free, or using old and expired Patent techniques.
The title is still slightly misleading (sorry!).

"Denmark no longer offering second Covid booster shot..." suggest that Denmark have at one point offered the second booster to below-50 and have now stopped.

This is not the case.

Until now, the second booster have only been offered to a smaller group of very old or very vulnerable individuals. Now Denmark is rolling out larger scale vaccinations, offering the second booster to everyone over 50.

> assuming your comment is accurate—I haven't dug through the article

The article is somewhat unclear since it just assumes everyone already has the three jabs. The "autumn vaccination programme" is the second booster. A better source to the official policy is the page in Danish:

https://www.sst.dk/da/corona/Vaccination

Google translate to English: https://www-sst-dk.translate.goog/da/corona/Vaccination?_x_t...

Key quote:

> 10. Do you still recommend that one take the 1st, 2nd and 3rd shots against covid-19 if one has not yet been vaccinated?

> The Danish Health Authority continues to recommend that persons who have not been vaccinated be vaccinated with the 1st and 2nd shots. This also applies even if they are younger than 50, as there may be a certain risk of serious illness if you are not vaccinated.
As a point of reference. How many companies has YC invested in? How many have gone public? How many of those are profitable?
Do you use the shadowy currency popular with criminals known as the US dollar?

USD is by far the most popular currency used for crime. It has stable price, accepted everywhere, and lacks a public ledger.
I have sympathy for the regulation is violence philosophy but it doesn't sit well with me. It seems very focused on individual ownership, putting individual ownership above the rights of everyone collectively. Is the argument that it is not violence for an individual to control his own property, but it is violence for the people the control their collective property (the nation and it's resources)? Did I understand that correctly? Again, it seems like a philosophy that places individual ownership very highly, which I definitely sympathise with, but we shouldn't be too surprised when those who are unlikely to ever have individual ownership form a different philosophy, which I also sympathise with. As with most politics, there needs to be a balance.
90% of NYC IT dept lives in Jersey. 150k is enough for a family to live on. Get on the train at 6am like the rest of us. :)
Oh god, now I'm going to have one less excuse not to finish my side projects!
Awesome job everyone
>Apple controls something like 90% of all mobile phone profits across the entire industry.

Profits don't have anything to do with it though. Apple has sub-50% market share. Competition in the mobile space is so competitive there are few profits to be had.
Fred Franzia, creator of 'Two Buck Chuck', champion of affordable wine, has died
Paypal arbitrarily suspends accounts and steals funds, so yes... practically anything is better than that. They don't discriminate by size, as even I have been digitally mugged by that mob. Most recently they have given Flipper Zero the same run-about. [1]

Ebay isn't a payment provider, as far as I'm aware, so I'm not sure why they are relevant. They have certainly focused on the digital to physical mapping, but are overall rife with buyer and seller scams and they aren't really offering a solution beyond their easily gamed reputation system.

>Do you think people who use cryptocurrency escrow services have less problems than people who use anything else?

Typically, yes, the people using escrow have less problem by virtue of there being far less reports within the crypto community of actual escrow services being bad actors.

You brought up a random company from 2015 that happened to have eskrom in its name. That was not an eskrow service in the crypto sense of the word. If you are sending your crypto to a stranger and hoping they do the right thing, it's no eskrow. The typical eskrow setup will be some kind of multi-sig wallet (e.g. 2 of 3 signature) where the buyer, seller and eskrow service provider have a signature each, and two are required to release the funds.

Note: Eskrow systems are the very lowest tier of "zero-trust" when dealing with services or physical goods. It's a sliding scale of effort versus security, where a smart contract would be the "gold standard", and the eskrow is "better than nothing".

[1] https://twitter.com/flipper_zero/status/1567194641610465281
You also have MLM and Ponzis with cash, stocks (pump and dumps), diamonds, art, fine wine, gold and jewellery.

Anything of values get its share of fakes, even dev shops.
Your original reply was to a post saying: Sending an email on vacation is one thing. Setting up residency is something else entirely.

Those do not have the same intention. In the first case, the email is incidental to the vacation. In the second case, the purpose is to work (which defies the claim to be "on vacation" in the first place).

No-one is confused about whether they're going on a foreign vacation (taking vacation time, telling their colleagues they're not going to be available etc) and handling a few emails vs. setting out to work remotely from another country that might have a superior climate. The suggestion that these are the same thing based on observing that both involve work email in a foreign country is pretty obviously ridiculous.

If you tell the immigration officer at the border that you're planning to work remotely with your tourist visa, they're going to put you on the first plane home.
https://archive.ph/3R0bW
I don't think that's really necessary, and it could make the predictability problem much worse. What is really needed is a better cost model. Query planners fail only when their statistics and cost estimates do not reflect reality. What we need are statistical distributions for costs, with those distributions updating after every query. And any time you prepare a statement, it should be looking for patterns to create better column/row statistics and indexing schemes.
They did make the world a slightly place. Ppl use their tools and are happy.

What’s the better alternative? That it never existed?
I wonder if they were the inspiration for Datadyne - the evil defense corp in my favorite N64 game, Perfect Dark.
Staked ETH derives profit from your own effort. You have to buy equipment (consumer-grade computer), pay for internet and energy costs to have it plugged and put your own effort in maintaining it online, operational and secure. This is basically a side-job for techies but a side-job in the end. Staked ETH rewards are thus not passive income and staked ETH is not a security. In a similar manner that rental income is taxed as income and a landowner that rents an appartment is not issuing an illegal security.

A different thing is what happens with a liquid staking token like stETH, a much better argument can be made that it quacks and walks like a security.
> Same thing happened with Architecture software eg when Autocad bought Revit - end result is extortionately priced software that many architects cannot afford because they are paid so poorly.

Architects rolled up their sleeves and are solving the problem by writing open source software: https://osarch.org/
Checked Taiga, looks decent. On a side note glad to see your username pop up here. Where are you these days? Let's catch up.
I don't think this person is claiming to make 250k. They probably used that as a reference figure because the root post uses that as a reference point.

Most likely this person makes a more median tech salary in the mid 100s.
It's not negative or unexpected. Bitcoin naturally uses the cheapest energy it can find (arbitrage), which usually ends up being stranded energy. Something like a third of all electricity generated is wasted. So the idea that Bitcoin is unique compared to any other arbitrary & subjective use of energy is just anti-Bitcoin propaganda & green dis-information.

Whereas it may be difficult for one reason or another to transmit energy from where it's most abundant (a desert, or other remote areas), it's not hard to co-locate miners in those places & incentivize further development & utilization of that energy resource.
https://asciinema.org/

I wish Git(Hub|Lab) READMEs could embed asciinema sessions instead of blurry, bulky, un-seekable GIF clips.
You're right, I sometimes forget that the crowd here is motivated more by opportunism than real technical innovation.

All the more, we shouldn't cede financial power to Joe Shmoe and his pre-mined L2 chain.
Potentially the case, but this article was about two people who were going to great lengths to hide their whereabouts from their employers.

> I don't know of any companies attempting to actively document this kind of thing.

Well, not all companies tolerate casual lies, especially those that impact tax liability. At my organization, you'd be terminated for any willful lie in an instant based solely on a violation of trust... even if it didn't open the company to any tax or legal liability.
Self-testing most analog and sensing hardware is next to impossible in a circuit. Even testing them via specially designed test points can just not be possible at times.

A complex microchip can be easily caught. Simple one... Not necessarily.
Haven’t thought of that and you are 100% right.

That said, knowing Apple, they probably have a great long term vision on graphical UI/UX design tooling that will either be great when it finally comes into being in 8 years, like M1, or we’ll never see it at all.
Yeah, exactly right. People here are saying "I pay 20 dollar a month for something, now whole universe must stay same forever lest that 20 dollar thing disappear"
There would be very little value to a website respecting that flag if it is a significant part of revenue.
I'm fairly sure the Chrome Extension API doesn't have a way to implement "before self-updating, do this thing".

This might have been their best/only option. The only other approach would be to notify them post-update.