skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While training for Amateur radio license, I came across interesting things which I hadn't observed before, mainly to do with the ProSigns (like the SOS °°°---°°°)

* There is no word in English dictionary with HH (°°°° °°°°). Hence it's a code to indicate scratch the last word.

* The washing machines & microwaves of many manufacturers often beeped AS (°-°°° i.e. Wait) in Morse when they were done, to indicate machine is "standing by"
If this hasn't changed recently, the two official compilers for OpenBSD are clang and gcc 4.2, the latter for some more obscure architectures unsupported by clang. The specific version is used because gcc changed its license after that, and I think this was before the C99 support of gcc was basically finished (4.5?).

So technically speaking, it would sound possible, if such a large code base doesn't trigger various compiler bugs and undefined standard issues, never mind some low level gcc extensions (asm etc.) probably being used.

Haven't heard of someone doing that, though.
> Still, I'd suggest having a "user" that knows how to render itself as a string is better than passing around the user's name or something as a string everywhere and expecting every bit of code that needs to do some user-object-method-y thing to have to look it up themselves.

For some reason this seems to be the best kept secret in software development. Type-driven development lives somewhere at the intersection of OOP and FP. Here on HN every time TypeScript comes up, people claim to prefer code comments or some other nonsense that doesn't give you any of the benefits, because they see types as (userName: string, userAge: number) and not User { name: string, age: number }
All of them that I can remember. Note that this is from the '90s. At some point they all merged the X stuff into /usr. Maybe it was with the x.org switch, as XFree86 does indeed mention /usr/X11R6 in the docs.

https://xfree86.org/4.8.0/Install4.html#6
Control? no. Influence, yes.

The economy is like a cart horse. Government is sitting on the wagon, holding the reins. Often that's enough to steer the general direction; but can't control where each hoof falls. That's fine 'cuz those who aren't being stepped on don't care about those details, and everybody on the wagon just appreciates the motion without concern over the destination.

Now we've got a situation where the governments are tugging on the reins for the first time in a while and they're not getting the reaction they expect. They're ignoring the fact that the horse has been gingered up for the last decade with regular peeled root injections of fresh money. The roller skates of monopoly and over-regulation have grown into a rocket sled.

For someone riding on the cart; the experience is a hollow, falling sensation and a bewildering cloud of horse shit blocking the view ahead.
My recollection is that Satoshi wanted people to rotate public keys after every use exactly to have anonymity.
Ask anyone outside your tech circle to explain Bitcoin and it will be something like "It's an anonymous digital currency that can't be traced, unlike bank accounts."
Dollar stores however are growing rapidly. Where I grew up used to be upscale now there's dollar stores everywhere.
I think you misunderstood what he said. We are all links on a chain where employers pay us, customers pay our employer, and someone pays our customers. When the source of all the money starts to dry up because of rising interest rates and supply shocks across the world, customers and employees will respond naturally by tightening their purse strings, which ultimately affects how much money we get paid in cash and benefits. You would do the same too if your salary was suddenly slashed by 20%.

Does that excuse employers from treating you like shit? No, but it also doesn't excuse you from staying there if they do. You can always communicate with your employers about your grievances, and if they are not addressed your ultimate power is to leave that job. You should not underestimate what employers will do to retain someone...
I really, really dig this. Please be assholes to your employees. Makes it easy for any decent company owner to grow their workforce. Thanks ;)

PS: I'll never understand these practices. Happy employees make a happy workplace, where everybody spends so much of their lifetime. Maybe that's a millenial vs boomer thing again?
Their promise to accelerate profitability was likely for their own operations and not their investments (where presumably they have much less control). $8.5B is a pretty big loss, but it might be unrelated to their actual business. That said, investors would be buying the operational business (still at a loss but EBIDTA profitable and seemingly making progress to overall profitability every quarter) and the Investment business (seems to continually lose money).
Don't tell the crypto Bruhs about the several vulnerabilities already found in the Monero anonnymisation system.

https://arxiv.org/pdf/1704.04299/

The problem is also one of credibility, Bitcoin was supposed to be private and breaching privacy has proved to be pretty trivial. Encryption is hard, but maintaining anonymity is much harder.
Second order questions (i.e. get a really good machine): What is the minimal difference in input needed for class A to be recognized as class B? What the (an) input closest to all classes and what is the distance to each?
Are there weights for this smaller NN that remain equivalent to the given NN?
I liked Bee Movie, it wasn't for Seinfeld's established audience though, it was for kids, and I enjoyed watching it a few times with my kids, and they enjoyed it too.

Funny thing with people's expectations for consistency across totally different forms of media and target demographic.
Is anybody surprised by this?

Manipulative people will always use whatever is the popular/dominant ideology of their time and location to get any sort of benefit they can. It might be manifested as being the most fervent communist, fascist, pious/religious, or whatever it is the the society at the time holds high and dear. In our times it just happens to be victimhood and social justice things.
Never trust a system that seems to be working
>> That guy is bankrupt and homeless now. His medallion was worthless

Good riddance! The reason why people rushed to uber was that the taxi services were so bad. You can still see people near the taxi station/taxi cars waiting for uber. Wonder why...
That being said it looks like, unfortunately, the taxi industry is not over yet.
Let's all not forget the most "voluntary" contract of all: the "social contract" between the lowly individual and the all-powerful state. Apparently there wasn't a power differential there, right? Purely consensual and I had full choice in not signing it.
This article is from February 26, 2021.
Is a logging service/pipeline that removes* PII the only real high-level solution?

(* or 'does its best' to remove PII; I feel like there's an immovable object / unstoppable force thing if the answer is "0% PII _ever_!" because that conflicts with the need to log as many things as you can)
Monero has to become fiat at some point right?
Cockroach DB and MongoDB are some of the most famous examples.
I'm with the other commenter, I understand it's part of setting up the jokes and sort of an excuse for why they never grow as a character but it still makes it really unenjoyable to watch for me. I couldn't do Arrested Development or Archer for the same reason, after watching one or two episodes I just feel mad.
The Asian Tiger Mosquito is the common one you see in most of the US and is an invasive species from Southeast Asia. It’s not as common up North and I think the ones up there aren’t the invasive ones.
> A kill-switch for your mobile apps

Really? I understand the rationale but this is one of the main reasons I prefer desktop apps where kill switches are relatively rare.
I have refused to shop at numerous stores because they make a point of not accepting cash. Cash is incredibly important for modern society due to actually being untraceable and allowing for private transactions. Plus, a society without cash is one where you are forced to use central banking. Blockchain is just trying to imitate cash digitally, which as it turns out is really hard to do. So it just ends up that people use central services anyways.

The point is, cash is hard to trace. And that's a good thing. I personally refuse to shop anywhere that refuses cash, and I encourage you to do the same if possible.
What will it take to convince you?
Rooftop wind system delivers 150% the energy of solar per dollar
Commons itself has been around for awhile, but it looks like Commons Text was first released in 2017:

https://commons.apache.org/proper/commons-text/changes-repor...

If I read the disclosure correctly, it's been vulnerable for four of the five years it's been publicly available.
> The reality is that Satoshi envisioned bitcoin very differently from how things are currently implemented.

That's actually how the majority of Bitcoin wallets operate. I'm not sure what you mean here.
Categorically, do you tend to believe statements that place fewer demands on yourself?
I assumed modern factories were operated 7 days per week, considering the huge up front capital costs of all the new technologies and automation.
Take a look at https://heptabase.com/. It may help you consolidate... (it's in an beta state, but getting updated weekly.)
Love this! The addition of phrases (I searched "invent" and got "break ground" "bring forth" and "hit upon") is what my other favorite word explorer (onelook.com) is missing. Great for coming up with terms for headlines, marketing copy, and titles. Congrats on the launch and keep going.
I'm pretty indifferent towards Kanye. Not the biggest hater but this imo is somewhat stupid. It would need to undergo an overhaul and relaunch since it got banned off the app stores. Furthermore, the platform it mimics is potentially going to be overhauled by Elon anyway. Even if you're still at disagreement with Twitter, there is a sea of twitter alternatives out there. Some of which have policies that support free speech. For some reason, most alternative social media platform mimic twitter.
Honestly this almost reads like an Onion headline. You mean a publicly available ledger is less anonymous than physical paper money that doesn't require any kind of identification to use? Who would've thought?
Low budget movie acting.
There have been complaints about "quiet quiting", won't this make it worse?
The Bitcoin designers did not pretend it was anonymous – it’s obviously not to anyone who looks at the architecture! - but the people selling Bitcoin have loudly lied about this since the beginning, however. If you search here you’ll find like 14 years of people pointing out that it’s easily traced and getting a bunch of word salad from the sales guys in response.
I'm not sure what the issue is (using firefox and I don't have Chrome installed to test with) but I'm pretty sure the scroll hijack that people are complaining about, it is an intentional effect to make the site "fancy," which they only tested in Chrome, or something like that.

One side perk of not using Chrome is that there's a correlation between only testing on Chrome and producing code that we're better off not interacting with.
Not normal for Apple to discourage competition amongst its suppliers. Must be some very heavy pressure indeed.
I've never heard of Bolt. Interesting; glad there's competition. They need to enter the US market still though.
Not impossible - things in Alaska and Canada thaw as the last, so the mosquitos could be already on their way long before the thawing there began.

However what I think is happening is that their eggs are what survives of them, and they hatch out quickly.
You need to learn how to communicate with other developers and understand their ideas and arguments. Same goes for customers, and management. Therefore my suggestion is to invest time in building up a good working vocabulary of technical and organisational skills. Take the time to mentor others even on small things, it forces clarity of thought and being able to speak about a topic. I have known absolutely amazing developers who can't talk or explain their decision making process, and it handycaps them since they can't expand their skillset past churning out code. As someone who has changed fields a few times, rebuilding my vocational vocabulary has always been the most time consuming and difficult part.

Here are some things I think are helpful for long term growth (YMMV):

- "The Mythical Man Month" by Fred Brooks is a classic for a reason.

- Learn how your tooling works to a reasonable level. It's worth investing time into tooling as you use it every day.

- For your long term technical development dabble with other languages and libraries, try to understand why and how they do things differently.

- Ignore orthodoxy, but educate yourself on why developers follow it and come to your own conclusions as to whether you agree or not. This means reading widely but sceptically, check out many different open source projects.

- A lot of what constitutes current industry best practice is not written for any one developer/organisation and the chances are it won't apply to you. There are organisations of all sizes dealing with problems of all different types and the current language/framework/library/infrastructure pattern of the month may or may not have been developed with you and your organisation in mind. Don't be taken in just because everyone's talking about it.

- Set aside object orientation and type systems for a moment and learn the language of data. Data structures and operations on them, normalisation & the relational model and how to model a problem domain as data are all more important than class diagrams or arguing about whether composition is better than inheritance. Once you understand and can navigate how data works, you can apply those rules to any programming paradigm you want.

- You need to know how to operationalise your projects, or at least communicate effectively with people that do. Writing code and throwing it over a fence to QA or ops won't do.

- If you're building code that will be exposed to the internet, you need to understand application security. Check out OWASP.

- If you're not working in organisations where coding standards are cared about, consider moving on. On the other hand, beware holding too strong an opinion. If your tech lead doesn't follow Martin Fowler's, or Bob Martin's, or the GoF, or test-driven development, or whoever else you care to name, that doesn't mean they're "doing it wrong". Nearly all "rules" and "laws" in programming are just some person's opinion.
>He really does want to create relationships with the people in the places that he visits.

i really appreciate that idea as well.

that's why I read the article, seeking ways i could develop more relationships with locals. only, I couldn't appreciate any single piece of advice. I've been to soccer matches and museums and bars, none of them led me to local parties, invitations dinner, sailboat excursions, etc.s

for instance i can come up with a few from my experiences:

- Hitchhike, even when you have money and there is a bus route, is a great way to make an excuse to have a long conversation with a local. It also allows them the opportunity to feel like they're a good person doing a good thing.

- if exploring and you think someone is curious about you, don't keep just walking. take a seat, exaggerate how hot you feel, etc. and often that person will approach and offer you tea or water.

- look for local conventions or clubs that are meeting, and spend a few days learning that subculture and attend as a novice. even if its a totally new field for you, people love evangelizing to newbies at conventions.
Dessert is twice as good. An elementary teacher said that once and it’s still the only way I remember the difference 40 years later. Pass it along.
Good riddance to that person?
I only use uber when they send me 20-50% off coupons on uber eats.

Forever thankful for the rich investors feeding me on the cheap
Tech CEO calls overemployment trend a 'new form of theft and deception'
Care to elaborate what scams? I never considered someone could be scammed using uber
"free speech platform"
> Once self driving technology works

Once ?

More like "if"
> I see that you rewrote some of your comment after I published mine

That is false. I edited my own comment before you replied (I even checked right before and after submitting my edits), and apparently unfortunately you didn’t see my edits until afterward, and have made yet another incorrect assumption. My edits were not a reaction to you, I clarified and improved my own comment. Is it possible you’re complaining about my argument getting stronger, and jumping to incorrect conclusions about my motivation, because you were already failing to respond to the strongest plausible interpretation?

The point that you just clarified is that Weinstein would never have gone to court, nor to jail, without his actions, nor without the allegations. Just 1 comment ago you “attributed” his being in jail to the court, arguing that here and in all cases of cancel the final decisive people in power were the primary cause of the outcome. I fully agree that he’s in jail because of his actions. You’ve just illustrated the point that the judge that delivered his sentence is not the correct way to attribute his being in jail. The judge’s decision is only one reason, and it’s almost completely irrelevant. Once Weinstein was finally accused in public, after mounting public outcry, and once he was investigated and formally charged, jail was practically inevitable. The cause of him being in prison is correctly attributed to the whole series of events, especially the events that started everything (his actions and the allegations), and not, contrary to your claim, to someone in power.
> I did an Ubuntu ZFS install for the first time recently, and I can confirm that a similar list of datasets arrive automatically.

FYI this list was created to address Ubuntu's choices for ZFS datasets, which I think are suboptimal.

> It also taints the kernel, which is interesting.

Oracle could fix the ZFS situation at any time if they wanted to (and then get some positive feelings which they sorely need).

They don't. Personally, I don't care much. They may eventually change, like Microsoft did.

It's in their best interest: adapt or die.
The economies of scale on grocery store mergers is that you can reduce the number of stores you maintain, because typically competitors will have stores near each other. Don't need Albertsons and Kroger stores a block away from each other after you operate as a single company.
One must understand that "profit" isn't always as rosy as it may seem, and "loss" sometimes isn't as bad. A company can show a lot of profit, but digging deep you'll realize that most of it is stuck in receivables. This wasn't really a bad year for Uber, they became Cash Flow Positive for the first time [1]. The reason for their loss was valuation decline of its stake in Didi and Grab [2].

> The loss was due almost entirely to revaluation of its stakes in Grab and Didi in Asia and autonomous driving technology enterprise Aurora in the United States, the earnings report said.

[1]: https://auto.economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/aftermarket/u...

[2]: https://gadgets360.com/apps/news/uber-net-loss-q1-2022-usd-6...
> quit either don't hire somebody without the training.

What is better for employees - to have the option to get training and have to stay at the company one year, or to not have the option at all?
Of course - if you want to eat and have a house and make money and your options are limited due to the lack of any societal norm that people should be cared for and you weren’t privileged to have opportunities to or the the ability to develop skills that are worth money — then you should just be homeless instead of signing yourself into 10s of thousands of dollars of debt to a corporation.

Or you should be grateful for the opportunity to be contractually enslaved?
The whole article is a plug for Chainalysis, a company that sells its ability to trace crypto transactions to the US government who ironically gave them KYC, the most fundamental and lazy ability to start a business that traces stuff like this.

What I'd like to see Grigg admit to with a straight face is his companies ability
to trace monero. his company got the US Government bid for a $625,000 bounty to trace it, and its been two years...so i suspect Grigg's releasing this presser to take some of the heat off the inevitable "no, we cant" he's going to need to admit sooner or later.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monero#Efforts_to_trace_transa...

Updated to reflect the thousands, not mil. bounty.
I didn't read the article (I know, I know), but I think it would be really cool to get to run other languages in the frontend. Javascript just plain sucks. Having something like Kotlin or golang (in a reduced form) would be really neat and could professionalize the frontend even more. I think the frontend is always a bit wild west, compared to most backend implementations. That's not only due to more testing but also stronger language guarantees.
I don't understand all the talk here about grocery store monopolies - there's still Walmart, Target, and Aldi, with Lidl now starting to move in on that action, not to mention the regional chains such as Giant Eagle, Meijer, Marc's, Publix and Piggly Wiggly amongst several others. At least where I live I'm seeing more and more competition in the grocer space, not less. I don't see how this merger is going to change that.
Reproducible Man-Db Databases
From the article:

"Having said all that: Will you actually notice any difference your usage? Pretty unlikely. I've seen no changes in real-world benchmarks. Also multi-sourcing is pretty common in the smartphone world (Apple does this a lot)"
And now your question has been flag killed.

Take that as a sign that the majority of this community do not want any more open discussion about this issue, and the site's administrators accept this consensus
Well, "crypto" does allow that--and has for years!--using zero-knowledge proofs (as in Zcash), at least within some bounds (that I would say are quite reasonable for conversational purposes... hell: someone in the government seems to think this stuff works, hence the sanctions on Tornado Cash); Bitcoin, one very specific technology from crypto, however, does not.
Feels like a prime opportunity for a National Park. Restore it to the point where it won’t degrade further, add a museum, plantetarium, library, and preserve the land around the telescope. It’d be really neat! I’d take my kids to be sure.
So... How do you measure that then? Twitter followers, Instagram likes?

And isn't Kanye also still popular by those metrics?
The weird thing is, depending on who's being interviewed, people who worked with Larry David say he either cared about continuity or didn't care about it at all. I've heard both statements, which I was puzzled by. My guess is that he initially didn't care about continuity but by season 3 had come to fully realize that continuity allows you to recycle laughs (in a good way) in other storylines. It also makes the characters seem more real.
$625,000, not million.
> No one wants code that is hard to test

There are cases when testability shouldn't be a concern. If you're writing code iteratively or in an agile way, for instance. Nothing is worse than CI/CD rejecting your experimental PR for lack of unit test coverage.
Here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27886332 if you want a bit of history: https://web.archive.org/web/20060512213224/http://atrey.karl...
The DMCA disagrees. Specific methods of "circumvention" which inevitably take the form of a software tool are prohibited. Tools and their authors can be held accountable.
Lil Dicky would like a word.

In all seriousness, he’s created a small and apparently growing following by fostering the “harmless” persona. Sure, he’s no Dr. Dre, but his songs have featured in a couple of relatively large ad campaigns even though they definitely aren’t “radio friendly”.