skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This does make sense that cryptocurrency doesn't necessarily have any intrinsic value, but I also feel like there's going to be a bit of a "Bart Simpson" effect. If you tell people exactly what they _can't_ do, you are going to induce serious demand in many people who are going to attempt to do exactly what you told them they can't do, just for the sake of it. Which could then drive up value, and attract more people, etc... owning banned things is very attractive to a lot of people.
Wish Apple would put the cellular spec like iPads on MacBooks as well
If you're concerned that bullet-proof math might not stay bullet proof forever you want want to just shut down your computer right now.
PyTorch 2.0
That IS the central issue though, processes, techniques, and so on are not a THING until they are. And something has to change for that to happen.
Ah I see, so if country A has a million people and country B has a billion people then people from country A have a 1000x higher probability of getting a green card? Now I understand the problem.
Physicists Simulate a Simplified Wormhole on Google’s Quantum Computer
Radical AirJet cooling chips can double a laptop's performance
Debugging applications in production using service mesh
Russia and Ukraine are fighting the first full-scale drone war
Not sure what BloomTech gives folks over FreeCodeCamp? Accreditation? Career services?
Obviously the reach is better and that’s what they’ve optimized for.
If you’ve been through enough cycles, you know what things like this mean and it usually means the opposite of what the general public thinks. The public will think that it means get out of risky tech bets now. Start thinking about getting out of risky tech bets when Future.com type sites launch, for VC firms are using their media capabilities and unloading their bags.

https://techcrunch.com/2021/06/15/andreessen-horowitz-goes-i...

June 15, 2021 was a nice time to start thinking about restructuring your portfolio.

Conversely I think now is a good time to think the other way. The European Central Bank is publishing papers about how Bitcoin failed. No one wants to invest in anything risky and wants to only buy T-bills. The Nasdaq is down 28.3% YTD. The FED has admitted they need to slow rate hikes. Putin is 70 and has pancreatic cancer and Parkinson’s, in addition to many in his own country wanting him dead. No market condition lasts forever.
There is a bill that would do just that. Passed the house but then couldn't get past the filibuster even though it had 52 senate votes.
It's because they have some great marketing. But people aren't choosing the app store. They choose a phone, and then they are forced to use the app store if they want to add any apps.
> I think what's missing is some standardization around what an installer is allowed to do

I don't mean to be facetious, genuinely curios, but to the authors point, isn't that the point of the package management system? It's a standardized and encapsulated way to provide software, with sane defaults, in an auditable way, that respects the users system.

I tend to agree with the author here, but I'm sympathetic to the maintainer: packaging for rpm/deb (in my experience) can sometimes be an enormous pain with many hoops to jump through, _especially_ if you're trying to get your package accepted upstream. With that said, it is a mature, standardized process, and is fairly painless in the self-hosted/non-upstreamed case.
The venues are owned by ticketmaster
Totally unfair in my opinion:

1) They have excluded i386. It is well known that 64-bit archs waste lot of memory and 32-bit arch could probably save something

2) They should have disabled position-independent code generation because on i386 it takes more memory

3) Instead of optimizing for speed whole program it is better to optimize for speed only "hot" parts and optimize the rest for size. Or optimize everything for size.
He only comes across that way because he really did know it all relative to his peers. The things he talks about may be obvious now exactly because of him, but weren't in his day.
There are so many reasons to do it this way. You reach a huge audience. You don't have to how your own assets. If your post is popular, it won't get DDoSed off the air. Search engines will index it immediately. Etc. People get many benefits from posting this way.
> For a larger purchase, €30, €60, and more - transaction charge is negligible, naturally.

This is already the case. The status quo allows vendors to refuse card payments if the total is under €30.
> There’s nothing preventing GCC from having different inlining/outlining heuristics as well as different cost models for versioning based on target.

Does it actually have that different logic? Because otherwise this sounds like that tired "nothing prevents the compiler to be arbitrarily smart" argument — sure, nothing prevents that except for the fact that someone has to actually implement this smartness.
> rustup with its 700 lines of shell script

I wouldn't trust a shipping shell script with less than 200 lines just re: sanity checks.

Large shell script programming stinks. The person who wrote it probably swore off shell as soon as they were done. But it is portable and it isn't half the pain that packaging for several distros is.
> Personally, I’ve benefited a ton from reading the first couple chapters out of advanced textbooks (while ignoring the last 75% of the textbook)

Anecdotally, this is something I've thought about many times, that an awful lot of books cover like 80% of the important stuff in the first say 4-5 chapters, and then are just full of filler.

I find this extremely frustrating as I'm at the same time fearing to miss out on some important insight in the latter chapters, while reading the full length of most books is simply super hard to do in any sensible quantity.

Otherwise, great post. Going through a similar transition, for some of the same reasons :)
I never understood the VR hype. Sure it’s cool for games, and both AR and VR could have commercial uses, but people were talking to me like it was going to be the most significant computing revolution since smartphones and we would all be interacting with VR/AR user interfaces primarily in the near future.

Then Meta comes and it seems like it’s just a ripped idea that’s been done multiple times + some buzzword tech and graphics that make Xbox player profiles look good. The idea that this was seemingly going to be some grand new flagship product for the company was laughable from the beginning.
Roughly 66% of our 2022 DevSecOps Survey respondents told us their DevOps practices include a low code/no code tool. And that’s going to spread to all teams in the coming years. “Citizen development is a logical evolution of how enterprises deliver apps and enable digital business,” Forrester Research said in "The Future of DevOps.

So, it is DevOps, without Development. Makes total sense that it is not Ops so...
From what I see, still no 3.11 support — Same for Tensorflow which won't ship before Q1 23.
I respect your opinion, but I have to disagree.

I know this may sound “misleading” but I’ve only started “real” photography for a year or two and I find the Canon and Panasonic menus quite straightforward.

I like the very hardware focused setup of DSLR/mirror-less cameras.

I would also politely ask you don’t call me “misleading” just because you disagree with my opinion. I’m not in here spreading misinformation to start polarizing discussions. I’m merely sharing my opinion.
On those sites, I generally insert the same fixed uppercase-and-symbol string on my zbase32ed-entropy passwords. Zbase32 tends to produce numbers already, and that combo tends to satisfy the silly sites.
The point was most people don't justify put $1000 on a separate camera when they already have one that does maybe 80% of the job in their pocket at all times.

I agree, it's really fun though. Never had great gear, but I used to just drive around my town with a tiny pocket tripod trying to find new spots to shoot with my Canon SX260HS in 2012-2013. Spent some time with borrowed cameras in school a bit later too. There's definitely something soothing about just going around looking at things that look interesting, point, tweak, click, then rediscovering the whole thing on your PC for some editing later. The experience is kind of lost with how instant picture taking has become with phones basically just taking the shot and post-processing it however they like.
Being hit by a car isn't different than euthanasia in a kill shelter.
It's been happening since the Industrial Revolution started ~250 years ago.

Today's luxuries becomes tomorrow's bare necessities.

Each generation ends up having more than the previous one could dream of, and yet they keep wanting more.
A 67M-Year-Old Fossil Turned the Theory of Bird Evolution Upside-Down
I've long thought that should be a product. Especially if the shutter is a button.

For kids, and for other kinds of camera products (ahem, GoPro).
Effects of Covid-19 Pandemic on Mental Health AndBrain Maturation in Adolescents
Indeed, the compound growth required for BTC to reach Wood's $1M target by 2030 from where it is now, seems incredibly unlikely...
Did the lost generation complain about their kids(the ones that shot the bullets in WWII)?
curl ... | bash

is the moral equivalent of

{npm, pip, nuget, ...} install

and i really don't understand the folderol around that. In both cases, you can alter the command slightly to instead download the payload without executing it and inspect it first, if you wish. In both cases, you're ultimately going to either audit and then execute or just execute code from Somewhere Else.

This is true for distro package managers too, though you could argue that sometimes but not always (ppas, community/, whatever) a distro package manager is an extra layer of insulation between you and nasty stuff.
In the hypothetical future scenario where the output is good enough I don't think there's much of a point in making a distinction between something that is optically manipulated via lens vs done so via software.
Eh, it's more of an unprecedented demand problem. You would think 50 shows would be enough. So you can't really blame Swift for the lack of shows. Maybe you can blame her for being so likable that millions of people are willing to spend hundreds of dollars for a ticket. Or blame those fans who can outspend the cash strapped fans. It is almost as if Swift has a monopoly on this genre. Who are her competitors? Maybe go see them? And if she has none, that would be a problem worth solving.
They hunt squirrels, are nyc rats really that big?? Wow.
It wasn't a mistake, it was deliberate fraud.
I'm guessing none of these people work in low-wage positions.
Is this the future of the art and writing markets once ai gets better?
Seems like a rewrite for the sake of a rewrite. New frameworks are exciting but if you're building a product you have to realize that's not important to your customers.

Sure if you were on PHP, a rewrite to a JS framework would be worth it, because you could deliver features to your customers faster, less bugs, etc. But once you're in the JS ecosystem, it gets much harder to justify a lateral migration like that. Like what features have they actually picked up as a result of the migration? Or are they just doing it so they can work on flashy new framework? I'm going to guess the latter.
I think the implication can more aptly be stated as, "We survived this sentiment then, we can survive this sentiment now."
This reminds me of the old "AOL Keywords" system in its later stages, when it was just a shortcode for a web site.
Another downside of these scripts is that they tend to make changes to your user or machine configuration, something which is tolerated from Windows installers but a big no-no for me. E.g. I believe Cargo edits .profile to add its path and Teams makes itself start at login (!).

For reasons such as these, but also things like telemetry configuration defaults and clean uninstalling, I prefer using a package manager. In a way independent package maintainers balance out the power of upstream developers over end users. They embody “you can just change it if you don’t like it” for the regular user.
I was talking with one of these on call workers working for BNSF, and calling it on call doesn't do the terribleness justice.

They are 8 hours on, and 8 hours off. The on call call is also 90 minutes ahead of time. So more like 6.5 hours off.

Many end up sleeping in the parking lot.

There's an alarm that rings every minute on the train - a dead man's switch. Oftentimes this is the only thing keeping them awake.

To top it off, no sick leave.

And these people are overseeing fucking trains.

Congress backing these companies in any way is absolutely disgusting.
I'm using caddy because it takes care of Lets Encrypt TLS certs. I'd use HAProxy but I don't know if it can do this without additional scripts.
We should have an endangered-species backed currency. When a species goes extinct, all your tokens are destroyed.

Imagine activating the power of crypto bros for good
I for one am quite glad that modern AI-powered cameras have increasingly less blur on their images. I know that focusing on one depth is how physical lenses (including our eyes) work, I know that it can be an artistic tool. But for most of my photos, I don't care and I'd rather not have it. If I can get a 'tourist' picture of me and some monument, and have both well visible, I'd prefer that over the 'correct' way of being focused on only one. If I want to put an artistic touch on my photos, I'll use an app that gives me blurs and a million other options, but I'd prefer to have an unblurry version to start from.
Apollo Server v4 Breaking Changes. Time to move away?
>>The result is often substantial improvement in railroad operating ratios, and other financial and operating metrics; at the cost of less-reliable service, particularly to smaller customers, long-term capacity issues, increased derailments and other safety risks associated with longer trains, and crew fatigue.

So it makes the companies more money at the expense of everything else and you think that detracts from the OPs point?
The hands down best one is UwU Furryspeak evil: https://twitter.com/costa11235/status/1598402089239150624
Absolutely, but I'd still consider it a "major Nintendo title" and it's one of the best selling games on Switch.
Rats are easier than birds I would think since they're not on trees.
I've probably read around 5. Honestly though, after I discovered the Y Combinator YouTube channel, I just started blazing through those videos instead because they were so densely packed with knowledge and I could just listen at ~3-3.5x. But that's not to say I don't feel like I should still be reading more of them.
Why would they spend money on that? This severe vulnerability isn't going to hurt their bottom line, even if it "should".

(I'm not endorsing this perspective, to be clear, just recognizing that it exists.)
Do you feel bad when devices aren't utilized to the extreme?

No. My devices are rarely utilizing over 40% CPU and tend to last for a very long time. I know it isn't much but this helps keep some gear out of the landfill. I can always find a use for older hardware. This Linux PC I am writing this post on is coming up on 12 years old and is more than adequate for my purposes. I expect it to last at least another 10 years, though I may have to replace the spinning rust with an SSD at some point.

I recently bought my first smart phone despite not really needing one. I have mixed thoughts on how long this will last since I do not control the firmware yet. These devices are designed to be difficult to service. I will probably turn it into a glorified MP3 player since it has a large battery and just get the Caterpillar flip phone. I think the smart phone would be a great home audio entertainment system. I can not find a logical reason to push it to the extreme.
The housing shortages are artificial, but there is no organized thought of keeping people working behind it.

Mostly just homeowners voting in their self interest, and unintended consequences.
> Many of which would be more realistic, more palatable, and more beneficial. In fact, nationalization is so repulsive to most politicians voters that suggesting it is an effective tactic to squash efforts to create meaningful change.

Why though? Railways are a natural monopoly and critical infrastructure, so either they have to be state owned or heavily regulated.
> ...In the first CISC designs...

In the x86 world, this issue applied all the way through the 80386 CPU. Or through the 80486, if you're a bit harsher in judging it's unified (code + data) 8KB cache*.

(True, not one byte at a time once you got to the 8086. But the 32-bit 80386 and 80486 only had 32-bit busses, and those were still serious bottlenecks.)

*The cache was "write-through" on all but a very few variants, yielding extra congestion on the bus.
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1597792097175674880.html
Unlocking the next gear of knowledge work
Exploring why unbounded information transfer amongst teams is the key to more productivity from knowledge work.
Yes. I've worked for nearly 30 years now (mostly corporate and consulting jobs). I enjoy it and always have.

I've learned that this sentiment is somewhat uncommon, though.
I like it. Maybe replace NaN with something else. It's distracting IMO.
Its a strange thing. You need a stable society with a social safety net to unleash such creative destruction, but a stable society has a tendency to develop structures like guilds that prevent just this creative destruction.

The guild of map makers allows to ship in materials that allow for the creation of a machine that provides maps for free, but would try to prevent the construction of said machine by legislation influence at all cost.

Which is begging the question, how does one ensure that the "protective" legislation always remains ineffective or gets devoured? Should protective laws always have a "lifetime"?
> “Side-loading” can’t come quick enough. I have no issue with the App Store vetting apps arbitrarily, but there needs to be an alternative where developers can provide their apps direct to consumers without this BS.

I'd have agreed with you up until I heard about that Facebook Onavo thing and now I don't trust even that. Turns out companies whose whole business is emotional manipulation are really good at dark patterning users into doing unwise and unsafe things with their machines.
The professors the university cares about will get their just pay. I know of a professor who makes well in excess of a million USD yearly, and I've also known adjuncts getting paid 30-something thousand a year.

The ironic thing is that the former professor is an ex-CEO who had tens of millions before he ever taught a class.

"For whoever has, to him shall be given..."
I’m guessing the venue you’re talking about is tiny. There are only 1 or 2 major venues in the US that aren’t owned by live nation.

Anecdote != data

Cyber did an episode that covered this in more detail, btw: https://www.vice.com/en/article/z348k3/cyber-why-concert-tic...
Why should people not be able to sell what they own freely?
When choosing your sources, you might consider that Bloomberg is owned by Michael Bloomberg. He is the person funding Everytown for Gun Safety (which has nothing to do with gun safety), Moms Demand Action, Mayors Against illegal Guns, and Americans for Responsible Solutions, all with one purpose - to eliminate guns in society.

Bloomberg travels with a contingent of bodyguards armed with FULLY automatic weapons. He caused quite a stir after landing in Bermuda for a stay. Bermuda is so anti-gun that even its own police force isn’t armed, but Bloomberg's guards were.
so how would you provide the input to this code? I can't get it to working.
The interesting thing is that FTX had almost no retail customers in the US[1], yet most of the coverage has been US-focused, due to the VC investors and US political donations. It really was just investors (in the company itself) that got hit the hardest. It just goes to show how easy it is to buy media coverage. If the media talked about things that affected their readers rather than their owners, the FTX news cycle wouldn't have lasted one day before everybody moved on.

[1]: https://cdn.i-scmp.com/sites/default/files/d8/images/canvas/...
I think working in the tech bubble has really created some misunderstandings about the average worker’s ability to just up and leave when things get bad.

With that said, I don’t think this is about everyone leaving as much as it is about forcing the rail industry to capitulate.

But for the aforementioned reasons, this is unlikely to happen, and rail companies know that.

It’s a really sad state of affairs, and I’m not sure what fixes it aside from drastic political shifts during elections, but even that seems highly questionable.
It's even worse than that. The way common distros work is not "devs package software", it's "devs convince distro to pick up the package and maintain a fork".

Of course, you can run your own APT or RPM repo, but that actually asks your users for even more control of their systems (since you now have a way to get any new version more or less automatically installed on their system in perpetuity), and it makes it even harder for them to install your software.

You can also bundle your software as a .deb + .rpm + .[...] file instead of a .sh file, but there is really not that much difference.
I'm a little frustrated here, because I never attempted to imply that SPAM is easier to define than trolling. If that's somehow something people are legitimately reading out of my replies, then I must've messed up somewhere. All I have been trying to suggest is that nobody has made a good faith argument in favor of allowing SPAM, which is not the case for trolling. But the thing is, while neither have a concise definition, and social media moderation are imperfect at dealing with both situations, it is MUCH easier for a human to distinguish SPAM from trolling. In some types of trolling, the very point of it is that it is difficult to distinguish from a good-faith post; if it wasn't, it would be bad bait. Whereas many SPAM patterns, by nature of being SPAM, are detectable just by looking at posting patterns and not even contents, which is basically the way that social media handles such content. You can't do that for human trolls, because human trolls don't look much different from a high level as other users do, especially depending on what kind of troll you're dealing with.

I am kind of surprised at how many different ways people have interpreted what I said. I'm frankly feeling a little defeated.
Genial !

I suggest you expand and better showcase the third usage (add and remove metadata) to demonstrate how powerful this Obsidian->python->Obsidian cycle is.

The way you formulate it makes a big difference. It is a subtle power and people need to visualize it better:

- imagine you can export your metadata to excel/DB, apply all sort of data processing, and merge them again.

- Have you ever wished to batch edit that read-only Dataview result or that db-folder Table?

- What if you could use your DB/excel table dynamically in obsidian, so that rows could bidirectionally be linked to pages? (This is an advanced one, but still indirectly possible)

You can also show how this can efficiently replace a lot of plugins (importing data from API/scraping, Data maintenance...) and a lot more, with simple and personalized
python scripts.

Bon courage !
> You reach a huge audience.

You would reach the same huge audience by putting in a summary and link to a website with the detailed info.

> If your post is popular, it won't get DDoSed off the air

So someone who is capable enough (or a team) to pull off and uncover this exploit can't be troubled to run a website (server whatever) that can handle ddos or traffic?