skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What's hilarious and sad is that MSN Messenger had a lot of features back in the early '00s that major players like WhatsApp and Telegram now only implement through gritted teeth, one every year if you're lucky. Things like custom emojis, audio messages, sending a drawing, avatars you could see, choosing your display name, exportable conversation history, you even had games! Nowadays people cheer for the bare minimum in UX that we already had 20 years ago.

And that's ignoring that niche it filled where people were identified by emails, and the particular social rules of knowing that if you went online, it meant you wanted to spend a while talking to people and were available to do so. Discord is kind of similar in that last aspect, but it's enormously complex for the average user and intended for servers, not for 1 on 1 conversations with your contacts. I've always wanted to build a clone of Messenger just because of how much I miss it.
Stablecoins offer a lot of utility already. Glo will be fully-backed by reserve assets to maintain stability. This is much different than stablecoins you might consider not so trustworthy.

Blockchain allows a new form of money to be created and used in a very efficient manner. There is no need to build out new financial infrastructure or payment network to use this new form of money. Blockchains have proven to be trusted forms of ledgers.

If we were to cease operations, we'd ensure that every Glo stablecoin outstanding is still redeemable for $1.

We are taking extreme care in our development to prevent any potential vulnerabilities in the stablecoin itself and the processes we incorporate as an organization.

We have expertise around managing funds and are also looking to add talent in that domain.

Treasuries will be liquidated to make sure redemption demand is met. We have no profit incentive to take any liquidity risk with reserve assets. The breakdown between USD and treasuries will be real-time transparent. At smaller market caps, we'll have to lean towards greater liquidity. At larger market cap, we'll conservatively estimate a trustworthy composition of assets.

Global Income Coin will exist solely for the benefit the mission.
I didn't mean "Java which is legacy", rather "Java code that is legacy". I think it was also running on old versions, don't remember how old though.
> UK office [..] was just too bleak and dull

> [..] has no relief, it's just pure misery.

That's kind of the entire point mate. There is plenty of relief, but it's not your typical American sitcom relief.
Interesting story: my parents had a fashion business in Yorkshire, and one of their regular customers asked them to produce a t-shirt with the words "I jumped the strid" on it. We had no idea what the words meant. Turns out, in Yorkshire, jumping the strid was a way to express your love to your girlfriend. We got a few of those t-shirts made, and were surprised by the number of 50+ year old couples that bought them that summer!
Even valuations of 2-4 years ago included inflation: It’s worth putting 10x the yearly revenue if it’s probable that every company will increase prices by 50% in 3 years.
Scary video, someone almost drowns at about the 3:35 mark.
> Just as a disclaimer, I do question the 70% stat. I don’t know where that comes from or if such a number can even be reliably acquired given the censorship that’s going on in Russia.

This number comes up regularly and is an average, with the actual numbers varying from 50% to over 80% depending mostly on age. See for example The Economist: https://www.economist.com/briefing/2022/07/28/vladimir-putin... :

"Among television viewers—mostly people over 60—more than 80% support the war. Among 18- to 24-year-olds, who get their news from the internet, it is less than half."
yes, this is only cpu based
> Neither of us mentioned free-markets, nor what we think of them.

I mostly post about free markets, and you had a general complaint about me, which is what I responded to.

> Why does it look to me like you are trolling?

I would be trolling if I didn't believe what I was posting. But I do, so there. If you look at my post history, I'm completely consistent in what I see as true. I don't berate others, call them names, call them stupid. For me, it's friendly conversation. I also like the sport of debate, like others enjoy a friendly pickup game of football. If you don't like it, please ignore me.
Interesting, thanks. That's something then - I don't know much about ChromeOS. I've considered it for parents, but in the end have opted for something modest running one Linux or another.

A true laptop-appliance with an immutable-ish OS, decent security and fast/easy updates is actually a quite compelling notion. I'd be pretty uncomfortable with it not being local-first for user data though.
You’re talking about a how a centrally planned economy can in theory overcome market failure.

> Just incentivize builders to build 2 million units within a year with fiscal policy and bam, inflation is gone.

Why fiscal policy and not zoning laws or something? Why would giving money to developers lead to zero inflation?
I'm with Douglas Adams, "Please don’t let anyone Americanise it".
One more: No keyboard shortcut for Back, on the Mac at least. And most of the other shortcuts only work in a meeting.
2 x GPUs with NVLink will pool memory

None of major ML frameworks such as Pytorch of TF support that. I’m not sure why.
I have a program that converts PDFs to text, in case PDFs become unreadable in the future.
Voyeurism, mixed with a little FOMO - they had a limited release early on, just like GMail.

I think a large part of it was also the digital photo and smartphone revolution. Instagram did that a little better, but posting straight to Facebook was a little better than what... Photobucket? Personal hosting? Emails with mass CC? It just solved that problem so well for not only the big event pictures we'd traditionally throw in an album, but also adhoc slice-of-life moments.

It also gave that power to businesses, humanising them in a way that hadn't been possible before, and that's where the money came in.
The End of Landsat 7
I use a Canon R6 as a webcam. I noticed it gets reasonably hot after long meetings so I avoid it day to day. It is great, though, for client meetings because they always notice the quality of the image and ask how do I get that nice out of focus background :)
I am not so sure of those two either (at least free)... the search may stay.
The Hobbit, or There and Back Again
FYI optics is Australia's second largest telecommunications provider. This would be the worst known databreach in Australian history.

It is interesting that compared to identity theft announcements from many US corporations they are direct, apologize and state the authorities they are working with. I imagine there's less fear of the legal consequences of not having a tight response as the culture isn't as litigious.
Published 85 years ago today.
The MiniDisc didn't make any sense if you were invested in CDs already. CDs have higher capacity, and 16-bit 44.1kHz sampling, which is much better than MD. MDs had more durable media, sure, but this means you have buy 2 copies of all the music you want, so you can play it both in your portable player and at home on your real stereo system. Cheaper and easier to just use a portable CD player, or dub onto cassette, or later, burn a copy onto CD-R. And CD didn't have any mechanism to prevent copying.
I'm with you. We're driving into the world of Snow Crash like Tina Belcher, and all I hear when folks talk about how marginally better for browsing these devices are is: "ehhhhhhhhhhhhh".

On a more specific (read: paranoid) note, these security chips give me the heebie jeebies. How long until I need to register a program hash with the FAANG-that-be just to run my own software?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worker_Adjustment_and_Retraini...

Looks like Google's limit would be 499 laid off per office. I wonder if "Remote" counts as one office location or not, and what timeframe is used to aggregate layoff events for purposes of compliance with this law. Could Google lay off 499 workers in separate layoffs happening weekly or daily?
I use Teams in enterprise, and Zoom for college. At this point I pretty firmly believe Zoom is hot garbage. Teams syncs with Outlook, and basically every org I interacts with uses Outlook and has Office365 at this point.

Teams hasn't been crashy, is responsive, doesn't eat memory, etc. At this point I personally cannot point to why there is so much hate for Teams. Either that or my organisation is doing something well to make it work well.
I’ll admit that my understanding of these things is rather superficial. I might understand more than the average person but that’s not exactly a high bar to set.

However I always understood potential to be different to polarity. And that AC (which, to my knowledge, all electric grids globally carry) is the literal oscillation of polarity. What am I missing/misunderstanding from the GPs post?
Find the job that doesn’t need web3 experience to join. They do exist.
Too bad there is no such thing as HN comment of the week, this would be it.
A mobile company that wants so much of their users ID info. Is it really necessary for them to get all that user info?
It's already full. Despite Putin's statements about partial mobilization, there are no restrictions in the decree itself.
Iran is probably not the best example right now, with people on the streets rioting and shouting death to the dictator and all
> Not the one you are answering to, but reading along

Doesn't matter, welcome.

> what is the chance of 300+ people all having the same standard?

Practically zero, and that's the point. The net effect is being exposed as different views as possible. Throw them to each other and to your standards, and see what comes out.

You'll find things you like and don't like; discover new niches and your mistakes, and the things you got right from your perspective. You'll evolve yourself slowly but surely, and build a bigger picture of this world during the journey.
It is my all time favorite movie. Its something of a joke in my family that we always watch it on my birthday.
GPU image classification on a Raspberry Pi Zero W
The thing is that 'Likely' is very far away from 'always'.
There is no guarantee the mistake will be easy to spot.

For entertainment purposes AI transcription is awesome.

For serious business applications the ability to recognize mistakes will continue to be a field to which serious attention is given. It would be interesting to see AI processes double check itself, and also run a logic check on whether the transcription makes sense. So that it can report sections flagged as incongruous or of dubious reliability.
That sounds ambiguous. To clarify: It is 35% of 26 million.
I think the authors do a disservice to their cause with the inclusion of judgmental, emotional rhetoric such as sentences like: “ From this perspective, it seems likely that future generations will label the past two centuries as the Fossil Fuel Age rather than the Industrial Revolution—emphasizing the critical importance of a now-depleted resource over a self-flattering celebration of human innovation”

It suggests they’re not looking at all options to solve our problems, and that there is a moral imperative to support a de-growth ideology.
On my ancient desktop it happily fell back to running on CPU just fine.
I don’t want my identity to be linked to many of those accounts. So I’ll take a yubikey. Second, I’m glad I don’t live in a country where I’m required to carry id.
Elon Musk is the shining example of how Silicon Valley might be able to reinvent itself and be more relevant than chasing quick IPOs and focusing on getting incremental products out.
This is bad. Australia isn't know for it's strong privacy laws anyway, but with the kind of data that's now available out there, ID theft is going to be a huge risk for almost half the country. Even if Optus gets sued, how the hell are people supposed to protect themselves?
A few months ago it was in Alpha (and it might still be idk) so that makes sense
This reminds me that they also had a US version of Skins that I think I saw the pilot (or a clip of it) somewhere and thought it was awful.

There’s some jokes in the IT Crowd that are clearly for the home audience (the fire extinguisher that doesn’t work having a big “Made in Britain” label on it) but I think a lot of it is just universal technologist stuff. Fooling your boss into thinking the internet all comes from a small box at the top of Big Ben, navigating a dinner party, dealing with inter-office politics…there’s a lot there to relate to.
I'm sad we are downgrading quality of workforce just to increase the size of the pool. Try not to have gate keeper mindset but the new army of js warriors coming in industry makes the ecosystem off of engineering basis.
I believe rchaud meant that the set of people using the term "military industrial complex" has a large overlap with the set of people demanding to "defund the military".
It's not like iPhones from five years ago were easy to repair. And definitely not as easily as Fairphones.

edit: wait, are we agreeing or not? I'm not entirely sure what you're arguing
Opposite experience: I use it daily and never had it crash on me. Everything works as expected and I see some slowing down only on very large meetings, but I am on a mobile CPU.

I would even say it's getting better and better.
Dave Thomas' Elixir for Programmers
Now if they could track down the US version of Spaced!
The desktop version is buggy. The browser version works better. Don't even bother installing it. Just use the browser version.
Also someone has to pay for those adds. Other sectors cutting their advertisement spending will directly hit them. And many are seeing cost pressure already.
I’ve seen Optus “computer security” in action. I use quotes for a reason.

There was a court-enforced order requiring them to apply security updates to their production systems. That was in response to a previous breach.

You see, until a judge made them do it… they weren’t patching anything. They would just build systems and walk away. For some software systems they had every major and minor version deployed, like a museum of software history.

They had operating system versions in production that were in my university text books… in the late 1990s.

Their interpretation of the court order was to update only production systems. Non-production on the same network was not to be touched.

And by “update” they meant simply running the system update tool, which does precisely nothing on software that has passed its end-of-extended-support before some of the IT staff on the payroll were born.

They also fired their entire IT staff recently and replaced them with a low-cost Indian outsourcer.

Most of the above is a matter of public record. I wish I could tell you all about things that are still under NDA.
It's really convenient for travel, you don't need to pay international rates for SMS, just connect to free wifi and you're golden. If/When you buy a local SIM card, people can still reach how they used too, they don't need to text a new number. When you change your number for some reason, you don't need to message everyone that you have a new number etc.
> As we set up machines do the hard work for us, why not just have the machine scoop up the cockroach in a little box and store it to be freed later far away from the house?

Far away where? Assuming we could airlift roaches anywhere - the location they get dropped off will be significantly impacted. In the best case you've condemned the roaches to await starvation (they will canabalize each other too). Which is like killing them with extra steps and wasted energy. Most likely they will impact the other living beings around them negatively.

Just quickly kill them when they are in areas that negatively impact your quality of life and don't feel bad when you do. Nature doesn't let you be neutral.
> When try to create the same resource twice, the second should report success instead of failing.

Before I quibble with the idempotency point: I agree with this, entirely, but it is what it is and a lot of software has been written against the current behavior. So I'll cite Hyrum's law here: https://www.hyrumslaw.com/

> GCP control plane is generally not idempotent.

The GCE API occupies an odd space here, imo. The resource being created is, in practice, an operation to cause the named VM to exist. The operation has its own name, but the name of the VM in the insert operation is the name of the ultimate resource.

Net, the API is idempotent at a macro level in terms of the end-to-end creation or deletion of uniquely named resources. Which is a long winded way of saying that you're right, but that from a practical perspective it accomplishes enough of the goals of a truly idempotent API to be _useful_ for avoiding the same things that the AWS mechanism avoids: creation of unexpected duplicate VMs.

The more "modern" way to do this would be to have a truly idempotent description of the target state of the actual resource with a separate resource for the current live state, but we live with the sum of our past choices.
After some kinds of hardware failure, it can become impossible to do live migration safely. When a crash can ensure due to a live migration from faulty HW, I'd argue that it's much better to not attempt it.
Thankfully my kids are devouring my Studio Ghibli collection. Ny Neighbor Totoro and Ponyo are played multiple times in the day. They've not yet gotten to Spirited Away, waiting until they are a little older. I dread the day they turn on Grave of the Fireflies. I thank the stars they have outgrown baby shark and cocomelon.
It sounded like they were saying "both pools have a lot of qualified applicants, but C++ has incentives to draw an additional flood of un/under-qualified applicants that haven't started to apply to Rust yet".
Indeed, but in the case of your average application it is not only lack of will/expertise to optimize, but also simply that the program domain has a much more random memory allocation pattern. Most programs are not operating in a single hot loop on terabytes of data.
Relevant: https://slack.com/blog/news/dear-microsoft
> Wait, why does the Chinese government hate a free Taiwan ?

The answer to that is the most important subject barely taught at schools: history.

Well: history, and humans being.
Entrainment is an intrinsic phenomena of powered oscillators. That’s why entrainment is pervasive in the brain and body. For instance, heart beats are entrained by rhythms in the spinal cord.

But that’s also (probably) why most animals don’t entrain to a beat—it would be very dangerous to allow oneself to be entrained by external rhythms, even from conspecifics (same species).

Humans are also bad at entraining to a beat when stressed — you gotta relax to dance. That’s why a little alcohol (or other drugs) can vastly enhance one’s propensity to synchronize to a beat.

For more, see this recent article on human resonance phenomena:
https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fnbot.2022.8504...
Show HN: OneSidebar – browser extension for navigating GitHub
So you used to be able to compose long messages in a decent editor and paste them in, and now you can't. Ugh.
The IT Crowd was actually aired on Channel 4, not the BBC. Channel 4 is publicly owned (for now…) but is fully funded through adverts. The ad break timings likely don’t match what you have in the US though (at the start and end and a single break in the middle over a 30 minute runtime).
What is a horizontal community? Why you cannot build one with Discord? Which tool do you use instead for this task then?
The serene joy I get from watching this film with my kids is comparable to nothing. The scene where the parents are turned into pigs is a bit taxing on them, but even that has become an in-joke, with my daughter reminding me that I might suddenly start grunting and keel over if I keep on eating. There are so many inventive moments like those that are also animated with such mastery that you want to rewatch it as soon as you are at the end credits.
To be fair, it was a local network toy, more akin to "talk" or "finger" in Unix.
Remember for point 4 it needs something in that salted water that can keep it at the lower temperature.
I really dislike Britbox and NowTV since for some reason they do not support the Android TV in the UK.
1) hence 'saved' 2) I assume hiring freeze for next 3-6 quarters
> 4k

> bandwidth

Last time i looked, youtube will give you 4k even at 100kbps.
Good question. I think the idea is you can’t have a burner phone. Well you can…for example use a foreign sim card of a less fussy telco. But in general this
makes it harder to have a burner. Once we get to a point where telcos are not needed to make calls (that amazon wifi mesh for example) maybe we can do away with this need for ID anyway because it is futile.
Unlimited texting plans were rare in some parts of the world. If you need to pay 9 cents per text, WhatsApp is a godsend. I even had to pay for receiving texts or pay a premium on sending texts when being abroad (which happens much more often in Europe). My understanding is that during the same time period, unlimited texting in the USA was pretty much expected. Luckily, we now have free roaming in the EU, so we don't have to worry about extra charges when using the mobile internet, but I still have to be careful when visiting Switzerland (which, again, is just a 2h drive for me).
> Do you also start/stop the modem on your phone whenever you need it?

That would be a slightly different way of accomplishing what I already do (silence everything on my phone, and in general, try to prevent it from bugging me when I'm not actively using it).

It wouldn't be a bad approach at all if it made the phone shut the fuck up. The smartphone is one of the best examples on the market of product managers mistaking addiction triggers and "engagement" metrics for evidence of good user experience.
Is it also a translation model? All the example transcripts are in English, regardless of the language of the purportedly transcribed audio.

The description makes it sound like it is a model for transcribing English audio.

> We’ve trained and are open-sourcing a neural net called Whisper that approaches human level robustness and accuracy on English speech recognition.
It takes 10 minutes to reload a kernel module??? Not even on a 386 :D
Note that C23 will include a variant of incbin spelled #embed: Semantically, the preprocessor will insert a list of integers which you can use to initialize an array.
The `***-dom.js` is 130.5 kB minified. Imagine parse and evaluate time browser takes before doing anything else. .. Oh also that's 0 LoC app, just a lib.
I agree. I meant more in the sense that if the vulnerability is fairly obvious, multiple people will claim the bounty and if you try to simultaneously not pay all these people because their find was not unique, and also say that nobody has claimed the bounty, I can't imagine that going well. People tend to get mad when they don't get paid.
Migration came to Early Medieval England, study finds
I have a Samsung laser printer that also pulls this shit.

I had to spend a few days in IDA pro and Ghidra to patch the firmware to remove the ink level checks from all the right places. Would you believe - even the firmware for the roller checks the ink level before reporting it's own health status!
Mate – simple math library, that can parse and calculate string expressions
Mate is a simple and lightweight math library to parse "arithmetic"(just for now) expressions from string.
If your child is still young enough to appreciate plush toys, can I recommend something?

https://www.amazon.com/YOUDirect-Dragon-U-shaped-Pillow-Stuf...

I'm leaning on one right now :)
The gaming industry has been using peer to peer downloads for a long time AFAIK. Unsure if they still do, pretty sure the Battle.net client did it.
Microsoft execs salivating at your comment. It won’t take long and Microsoft will buy Discord.