skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Media coverage is a reflection, not a conspiracy. SBF pitched himself as virtuous, so the coverage reflected that. Jesse Powell and Brian Armstrong went the opposite direction (to varying degrees) so of course the coverage of them will focus on the contrarian aspects of their approach. We can, and should, hold the media to a high standard but not all journalism is equal: not all journalism is investigative journalism. Media is mostly just whatever people want to hear. Look at the coverage of Theranos pre-reveal, it was fawning because it was what people wanted to hear.
Complaints about "woke"/"wokeness" aren't confined to one part of the political spectrum. Many present the term as a "right-wing talking point" – but if you go looking for it, you can find Marxists invoking the term critically too (for example, the noted African-American Marxist Adolph L. Reed Jr.)

I think it is an attempt to name a real phenomenon – a particular strand of left-of-centre thought, with a great deal of contemporary influence, which (among other distinctive traits) foregrounds issues of race and gender/sexuality, in opposition to the classic Marxist emphasis on economic class as the "underlying cause" of all those other issues. If you don't want to call it "wokeness" – fine then, what should we call it?
The last time I was at CES I went to one of the outer wings of the event where they had all the random booths of people shilling cheap backpacks, cheap cell phone cases, cheap Bluetooth speakers, etc. etc. etc. Every booth basically the same as the next and each one promoting what was definitely nothing more than near-future landfill filler.

I remember having two really clear thoughts.

1) CES is mostly a megachurch dedicated to buying crap we don't need with money we don't have.

2) It's a special kind of existential debasing that goes into being a person who has to tend one of those booths and stand there pretending like your hot pink camouflage backpacks are so much better than the ones that look exactly like them in the booth next to yours.

A lot of people get really excited to go to CES. I've had to go for work several times, and it always just makes me depressed.
This only helps when you’ve already demonstrated technical competence or ability imo. The company I work for would immediately disqualify anyone who fails to meet the technical bar regardless of how interested they are in learning about our scaling goals.
Ugh ok, guess it shows that I didn't read it carefully.
Hence my suggestion of a good backup strategy. Which should ideally include data integrity measures such as checksums and/or integrity-aware storage mediums.

You're backup's only good if you can successfully restore it.
Ironic: https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-57413227
Somehow that doesn't count as support?
He should correct the login screen.

Like if you are reading a twitter thread, say 10 tweets in a row, a login screen appears on the 5th thread. There is no cancellation button for the pop-up, and it destroys the whole mood.
https://motherduck.com/

Is it this thing? So it’s a non existent service that has 47m in funding? Or am I missing something.
One time when returning from an overseas country, I was in one of two lines: One for foreigners, and one for US citizens. It was quite the line.

After a few minutes, I was pulled aside and whisked through customs. As I was nearing the exit, a staff member said "welcome home".

It hadn't hit me until later that I was likely skipped ahead due to having a military surplus duffel bag.

No particular point here aside from how silly the whole thing is.
At some point, they have to disclose they are an ad or the FTC can come after them. That's why Youtubers disclose it, and why Facebook goes through a ton of work to create a human, but not machine, readable "Advertisement" disclaimer.
Hey PaulHoule! Thanks! :-) Bandcamp goes into the right direction. However, this more to discover music. I was thinking more like a CRM (customer relationship management) tool for artists. Having integrations to collect fan information from different sources, like mailchimp, Eventbrite, shopify to create a holistic picture of their fan base. And very important I see automated campaigns to post content via social, email and SMS. We do have an MVP, but I am keen to talk more to artists and hear what their pains are. This is the MVP: https://offstage.fyi/
Any feedback is welcome! :)
Insightful. And rather sad. I suspect there's more than a slice of "old == bad" mixed up in this attitude as well.

P.S. - do not search for 'cat abuse' to understand this mentality. Rookie error.
The Super Bowl charged about $6M last year for a 30 second commercial.
Plus 10 bucks or so every 90 days for the visa waiver program if applicable.
Twitter employees don't necessarily have a credible opinion -- c.f. IKEA Effect, Stockholm syndrome, this is fine dog.jpeg, getting high on your own supply, etc.
Why are you paying people who can't figure out my age and gender from my behavior?
I like SBF. He did a bunch of good though he fucked up FTX and screwed over investors in the process.
I dunno that just sounds like a standard visitor visa that costs £100. U.K. government websites are excellent and you can apply for all this stuff yourself online.
Oops. I somehow read that completely opposite of what it said
No, you don’t have to “take it”. You could always just resign…and then comment on Twitter and frankly everywhere else about how wrong and how much of an asshole that Elon was yada yada yada…but I wam not exactly sure in which parallel universe people live in to think that publicly calling out your boss (who is known to be a little quick on the trigger already) should have zero consequences to you.

Pretty much seems to be a universally bad idea no matter who your boss is, but if your boss is Elon Musk…there is literally no other outcome to that action. He damn sure isn’t going to thank you for setting him straight and promote you.

This dude had to know and expect these consequences and this was an intentional publicity grab/hero syndrome deal. If not, he is just a moron (which kind of underscores Elon’s POV to be honest).
meta: There is a typo in this sentence (you -> your)
> But there are also disadvantages: these views are not very ergonomic when developing you application
Our guy
Why is your response so ridiculous? Wanting the police to pull over vehicles purposefully obstructing their license plates is incredibly reasonable. They are creating havoc on the streets of NYC and you are just making this ridiculous comparison for no reason...
This looks very promising. In addition to using KOReader I will be able to customize the lock screen and remove Amazon's upsells. I guess the only downside is that I won't be able to use WiFi or buy e-books from Amazon.
My first paid programming gigs were on video games as a freelance Unity developer, but my "real career" was founded on embedded Android

Embedded systems were a good match for my background tinkering with assembly for calculators and messing with MCUs, but it's a very "traditional" part of tech.

Android in embedded is much closer to mobile in terms of culture, so my lack of a degree wasn't a problem getting started, and demand has only grown over the years. I currently work in HMI for self-driving vehicles these days but I've worked on everything from in-store interactive displays to prototype fitness equipment

Bonus: You can also pivot to traditional mobile dev, which I've done for some stints over the course of my career
Good addition. I should have been more clear.
> What is the max qps and latency this supports?

We generally aim for <400ms in the continental US. The backend is hosted in us-central-1 on GCP. Obviously, we're always trying to expand, though we do rely on grant funding as a non profit so that comes into play too.

> Some moderation platforms I've worked with are too slow for messaging, especially if users are in different countries.

Typically it works pretty well on the message platforms we're on -- we've got a Chrome extension for Twitter + discord integrations we're testing right now.

> Do you have plans for image moderation?

We do! Though that's further down the line.
It follows that if you wanted a purposefully hostile "customer experience", you'd specifically hire the assholes ;)
Wouldn't moving away from copper (or at least using shielded wiring) also provide significant protection? The attack relies on electromagnetic interference being able to obfuscate a packet header.
Is that what people wanted to hear, or what the subjects wanted said?

I don’t think I know anyone who was particularly interested in hearing of theranos being fawned over, though I doubt anyone really minded it (insofar as they don’t mind all the other fawning).
Yes fair point. I see that pattern when running background tasks locally vs on heroku's workers.

In this case, most of the analysis is happening locally without a ton of network use.
> I can query huge parquet datasets in cloud storage without spinning up a VM.

You’re querying cloud data locally? Wouldn’t egress costs get expensive quickly?
Meh. This is so painfully generic to the point of being wholly uninteresting.

Lecture 1: Vore Within Ancient Babylonian Culture

Introduction

In this lecture, we will discuss some of the most important aspects of Babylonian culture that we can study from the tablets found in the area. The Babylonian culture existed during a very important period in human history: the Axial Age. The Axial Age was a period during which there was a great increase in philosophical, religious, and scientific ideas. These ideas were passed down from one generation to the next through written works, and in Babylonian culture, this is where we will see the Babylonian tablets come into play.

Tablets

The tablets we have today are a great window into Babylonian culture, and it is because of the tablets that we can now study the culture so well. The tablets were created by a cuneiform script, which is a writing system that is still used today. The tablets were written in Akkadian, which was the language of the Babylonians.
The survivors say they were using paper maps.
For sure. Good luck with the app.
The police weren't justified in charging him for criminal mischief and I bet you it will get dismissed, and he'll win on a false arrest claim as well. Those should be starting points for your analysis.
Still happens to this day. It's egregious.

In fact, I don't even think production games can use the default code, that's how atrocious it is.

You basically have to roll your own movement, user input, and consolidation code.

Go create a multiplayer game then turn on some fakelag and compare it to older games. No comparison whatsoever. It's dead on arrival. Completely unusable.

Whatever they're doing in official titles, users don't have access to it.

Separately from Epic Games, Valorant's development team has their own series of patches to make Unreal reliable, and it's a total hack job because the engine doesn't have consistent frame timing nor a mechanism for frame rewinding.

You're basically on your own. They milk their graphics marketing because it's the best in the business, but everything else in the engine leaves you wanting.
So how do you survive if not by working for a living as the vast majority of humans must?
It's really more akin to cronyism (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cronyism), if we're being pendantic. Nepotism literally referring to someone's nephew, although you're right that colloquially, it also refers to friends.

I thought the article was pretty critical of the practice, regardless. It takes at face value the idea that people may be choosing the strategy for rational reasons, while ultimately concluding that it's a suboptimal strategy with harmful consequences.
I was at a car rental and they had a lot of hybrrid SUVs they couldn't rent out aWaiting repairs. They said they wouldn't be getting more. Maybe they aren't less reliable but repairs were more complex and costly.
It obviously does. Still a great app though.
That's a very "snapshotted" view of Reddit, one that doesn't hold up to scrutiny once you consider what Reddit is today.
Oh yes of course, the immutable, unchanging law, a divine commandment, with only a single interpretation decides what’s ethical, good and just.
I think it is actually worse. The author is preaching toxic complacency. If a company is fucked-up, it is sometimes not OK. If the work culture is toxic, it is not OK for any workers (not even the ones that participate in the toxic work culture). The logical conclusion I must draw is that worker alienation is fine actually, and you must simply find a company that is alienating at the same level that you have been alienated.

And even worse, the article extends the analogy to relationships, which can be interpreted to excuse domestic violence, as long as the victim is equally “fucked up”.

This is not OK.
This is a pretty nice demonstration of how a Content Security Policy makes an injection attack harder.
240 as it happens to be. maximize the bubble game
Wow surprised to see if affect so many people, I thought I was alone downloading books from google play to adobe digital editions (and then to caliber and then to remarkable)…
What Mastodon really needs from browsers is some way of communicating what is your instance, so that features like "Follow" button on other servers just work instead of "new hostname, who dis?".
React Native hasn't yet reached v1.0. Or several critical issues hasn't been addressed yet as of now.
Kiwix – multi-platform app for offline Wikipedia and more
There is 95GB Wikipedia.zim file, all of Wikipedia with pictures.
To get a British visa you must pay a fee and physically mail your passport to VFS Services Inc. It is not possible to do it yourself online.

Source: I have a British visa.
Code size per function point. And defect rate or time to add new funtionality.
I hope this doesn't become SAR's "eternal September".
Yeah -- the latter is obviously much easier to identify because it's much more explicit/clear cut.

The first are of course, transphobic given the clear intent, but it there is definitely some ambiguity w/o context. Ie, if something just posted, "He will never be a woman" there's definitely many contexts where something like that is not malicious. Ie, if someone else is correcting an accidental mis-gender, they might say, "No, she is actually a he" which isn't malicious.

Since the state of our API (and literally every other similar system out there, lol) can't capture the context of the conversation -- what "He" is referring to, the overall topic of the conversations, etc -- we basically have to make the best calls given the available context...which unfortunately does create false negatives in certain cases (and false positives in others).

But, context is something we're working on, because its definitely a big issue, and as you can see, plays a very prominent role in informing better moderation decisions!
I've seen people make the choice to bring their trusted people and still not succeed. Like a security blanket, it may feel reassuring but ultimately not confer the imagined benefits.
If you want to find out what monads are most like (and least like) you can use the website https://monadsare.fun/. You can also add your own opinions.
Whether it is their primary mission or not, companies that don’t make money usually don’t last very long.

(Even when, sadly, a lot of them make their money via taxpayer-funded bailouts…)
I whipped up a realistic version of the Fortunes benchmark as would be written by a typical .NET developer. I.e.: Someone writing normal code instead of trying to game a benchmark.

I used the ASP.NET default project template and settings for .NET 7, using Dapper.NET, Microsoft.Data.SqlClient, and SQL Server 2019. I disabled the default layout to match the HTML expected by the Techempower benchmark, but I used a Razor template.

On an 8-core laptop[1] this yields about 33K requests per second, which is a far cry from the ~200K numbers being reported on Techempower.

I suspect I could nearly double that by optimising the test (e.g.: running the test on a separate machine), turning off various background processes, etc... none of which is "gaming" the application code itself. For example, using HTTP instead of HTTPS bumps the numbers up to 40K rps all by itself.

On the other hand, simply enabling Session State causes that to drop by about 4K rps.

I would like to see something akin to Techempower, but for a more realistic app that has JWT-based auth, sessions, multiple database queries, and reasonably complex markup. HTTPS would have to be enabled, compression on, and HTTP request logging enabled. Basically, the framework should be configured in the same way it would be in production.

Query code:

public async Task OnGetAsync()
{
fortunes = (await _connection.QueryAsync<FortuneEntry>("SELECT id, message from Fortune")).ToList();
fortunes.Add(new FortuneEntry(0, "Additional fortune added at request time."));
fortunes.Sort( (a,b) => a.message.CompareTo( b.message ));
}

}

Razor code for the table:

<table>
<tr><th>id</th><th>message</th></tr>
@foreach (var f in Model.fortunes )
{
<tr><td>@f.id</td><td>@f.message</td></tr>
}
</table>

[1] https://ark.intel.com/content/www/us/en/ark/products/213803/...
I'll run Twitter for minimum wage and heath insurance
Tablestakes for Taming Messy Data
Do you use cloud backups at all? I just got a Synology NAS and was looking into AWS Glacier. I'm not yet ready to manage my own offsite hardware, but maybe I'll get there eventually.
I use HeartFeed:
* https://heartfeedrss.wordpress.com/
* https://apps.apple.com/us/app/heartfeed-rss-reader/id1078754...

Which I consider a spiritual successor LinkedIn's old Pulse RSS reader.

I really enjoy the high article density on the screen and being able to scroll each fead individually.

It has bookmarks but I have a hard time taking advantage of them.
CREAM: Cash Rules Everything Around Me

So fitting!
Check out jj, it's made by someone who works on Google's source control

https://github.com/martinvonz/jj
> and we really dgaf

Or we really only gaf about the money.
Clickbait headline:

Facebok is doomed - according to its own scientific AI engine!
I had been using CFEngine 2 for configuration management of UNIX/Linux systems for a few years already when CFEngine 3 came out. I'd read the documentation carefully but struggled with the concepts. When I went to a CFEngine class taught by Mark Burgess (author of CFEngine) at USENIX LISA conference, I kept asking questions about anything I didn't understand in the tutorial and about halfway through the class, something just clicked for me and all the ideas that had been swirling around in a confused mess in my head just straightened out and aligned and formed this elegant conceptual tower, everything just fell into place. It was a remarkable experience, mentally. A real aha! moment.
Yeah, but it's not just border patrol, customs, etc., it's everyone I've ever seen or interacted with in American law enforcement: they're almost all assholes. It's nothing at all like, for instance, dealing with police or customs officers here in Japan.

There's no way in hell I'd ever ask an American cop for directions, and I look mostly like they do. But here in Japan, I'd never have any fear asking police for directions or help; it's what they're there for. Just interacting with security in airports between the two countries couldn't be more different. Japanese airport security is helpful and courteous. TSA is.... not.
If you add few files to docs, you have to upload the entire docs. Better to use Duplicity. You can still tell it how often to backup.
Wouldn't large container ships and trains be the perfect candidates for electrification? Create some sea can sized batteries that can easily be loaded on to and off of the train/ship. The infrastructure already exists for loading them, and they are used to carrying sea cans already. As I understand, ships are huge carbon emitters so if you could load a dozen sea can sized batteries, perhaps it could power it across the Atlantic (or maybe it would take a 1000 sized batteries, which would make it impractical).
I think you're forgetting that astronomers care about wavelengths of light other than visible light — that is a very, very narrow range of the spectrum of radiation.

In the infrared, for example, every satellite looks like a blazing star. In the radio spectrum, every satellite that transmits signals in this band looks hundreds of thousands of times brighter than a star.
You could say the same about any ponzi scheme until it collapses. The only way to make money on crypto is from some other sucker who buys in. Instead of the people running the ponzi taking a cut as in a traditional centralized ponzi, the miners take a cut in order to pay for energy consumption.
Of course your laptop is faster than the cloud, for things that only require a few cores. (Which is most things, thanks to Amdahl's Law.)

"The cloud" runs on servers with dozens (or even hundreds) of cores, optimized for reliability. The cost of that optimization is each individual core is less fast than a core on a laptop or gaming computer.

The cloud can bring a lot of computing power to gratuitously parallelizable problems, and it allows more effectively sharing and reusing resources, so you can act as a computing utility company instead of every user needing to buy their own on-prem gear.

It doesn't mean the hardware works by magic, which is what is really being expected if you thought optimizations never involve trade-offs.
Is this a dimension that matters? Ie while some companies are using snowflake/redshit/bigquery because of scale, many are using it simply because they have their production infra in the cloud, and have a pipeline to move their data into one of those datawarehouse services. It's as much convenience as anything, even if "production infra" is a couple servers and a single database.

How do I get the data on my "laptop" in a consistent (ie, daily updates or whatever) way? How do I share queries and results with other people?
Ancient Spanish artefact could help trace origins of Basque language
Pretty much everyone who does field work still has a flashlight. It runs down the battery and you might not want to be holding a phone if there's rain. Plus, flashlights are very fast to access. And often brighter.
Protocol, the tech-news focused website, will shutter
Designing a New Old Home: Materials and Hardware
There's a Docker image for Moncica which seems pretty dead-simple https://github.com/monicahq/docker
> Yes it’s a glaring example of fraud and dodgy deals/assets, since you seem unable to accept that the obvious fraudsters are in in fact up to no good.

Did I claim that they weren't engaging in fraud, or that the deal wasn't dodgy? My objection was with "money laundering". Even with the loosest possible interpretation, there needs to be some sort of obfuscation involved. The facts seem to point towards something very straightforward (ie. Alemeda Research borrowing money from FTX), which suggests that no obfuscation was attempted. All of this confirms my prior comment:

>It feels like certain terms (eg. "ponzi scheme", "money laundering", "shell companies") get thrown around any time there's any sort of financial malfeasance, without regard to their specific meaning.

Was there malfeasance at Alameda Research/FTX? Hell yes. Was there money laundering? No.
In terms of simplicity, nothing beats PHP. It's easily deployable everywhere, everyone knows how to use this simple language, and the Laravel ecosystem is fantastic. But I understand what you mean.