skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you want to proceed down this path, I'd be very happy to take your ten grand offer to charity.

I have a valuation report, and I have details of the prior transaction.

I'm 100% sure that you have no intention of actually parting with your ten grand, but allow me to repeat myself here: actual real estate lawyers put this thing together, the land has a solid set of documentation including a valuation, and you're just trolling because you don't like blockchains and want to pretend you have expertise that you plainly do not.

So if you actually want to put ten grand into a charity, feel free to email me and we can arrange the details. We'll do a nice press release about your generous gesture and everything!

We're a serious team: mostly middle aged, mostly backgrounds doing pretty serious life-or-death work for the State. My MD worked on TB and HIV epidemiology in prisons preventing spread in prisons and to the community. I was a disaster planner working on worst case scenarios at the Pentagon and for a UK military think tank headed by a former UK Minister of Defense. Our CCO was commercial director of the UK home office for many years. Not a bunch of hicks, and not some fly-by-night operation.

Seriously people who do serious work.

Do email us about that ten grand. I think there are a couple of groups we would like to make a large donation to this Christmas.

Appreciate your engagement, but we do have the documents, and your plain desire for us to be amateurs and idiots is your problem, not mine.

Are we taking your money, or are you slinking back into a hole?
You're wrong in A - biology doesn't care about consciousness. And in B - biology can be very much created and simulated these days. C is a fun joke, but realistically - it's good efficiency and we have reflexes that shut off most nasty stuff happening by accident when we recreate.
Division by 2 is one of the quickest operation.
The correct implies 3 additions instead of one, so you go a point.

But y>>1 + x>>1 + (x & y & 1) is easier to remember than ((x^y)>>1) + (x&y).
Makes sense. You'd be amazed the things football fans say to you on the train pretty much anywhere but Kreuzberg.

(RIP Jetpak Alternative <3)

I really hate stereotypes but if you want a funny mental image, picture someone assuming you're a Nazi because you're dressed in all black, bald, and muscular, because they have no grasp of history and don't know there were multiple kinds of skinhead.

Picture them speaking in German, you don't reply.

Then assuming you're French, speaking in French (both times having some poor bastard commuter translate as you sit poker faced).

Then they try Russian for some reason.

Then when they finally speak in English assuming you're British you loudly say "What the fuck? I'm not a royalist and I'm not a Nazi - get away from me before I put your head through the fucking window!" and having them exclaim "He's American!!" and _literally running off_ the train as one of the few non football people who translated and the ticket taker start laughing.

I guess morons like that don't know that they check us for guns at the airport, but there's a special joy in doing a little finger gun through the window as some dumbass runs off to wait 30 minutes for the next train and hopes someone like me on the platform doesn't just throw him in front of the next one if he ever says those thoughts aloud again...

Anyways sorry for the wall of text, but Germany (and the rest of the EU) was really nice to visit - us Americans don't get much vacation so we get very grumpy when it's interrupted, and these types are TOTAL ASSHOLES.
Show HN: Windows 95 style modern CRUD app
I would have been fine with a landline, but for some reason did not realize it was possible with Signal. Maybe call verification got implemented after I signed up...

And for the purposes of anonymity I am definitely more fine with a landline than any method that requires me to make a payment
Amazon, Uber ads appear on Twitter pages of white nationalists
The maker of that sensor called FLIR.
In the end he will have never announced the cybertruck, smashed its window or even failed to ship it.

Or announced a cyborg that (shocker) it turns out was really a real life human person in a gimp suit.
I was trying to find a new ways to get unethical responses from AI, to provide feedback for openAI about it. By accident I was provided with source of data - github repository, which was taken down before chatGPT launch. Isn't it violating the open-source licensing?
I vastly prefer the Thinkpad touchpad over the Mac one and do not get what people see in the Mac's touchpad. For me Macs have better cooling, better battery life, better CPU but worse input devices (keyboard and touchpad). Macs have better glossy screens but since I prefer matte screens I prefer the screen of the Thinkpad.
I would not want someone writing kernel code who can't understand what the rest of it is doing.
China Scraps Most Covid-19 Testing, Quarantine Requirements
Would running vscode in docker/podman mitigate the risk? When I started using VSCode I was a bit worried about potentially unwanted network traffic originating from VSCode and for that reason I'm executing it from podman container without routing to the internet.
How does a water spill render your Thinkpad unusable? Mine has drain holes to handle this situation, my work Mac can't handle crumbs. I don't want to think about how it would cope with liquid.
The correct solution is to use an isochrone rather than a basic radius search. Or to simply sort all the shores within the max search radius using a vehicle routing library/api.
If a nation state is after you you're going to need a lot more opsec than telegram can offer you.
Back when I was doing my undergrad in India, I was doing an internship in a lab there. It wasn’t a national lab, so calling that lab dirt poor is an understatement (they used to wash and reuse microfuge tubes). They would typically work with a budget that’s 1/100th of a regular American lab.

Naturally their research was also for the most part mediocre or worse. Except one paper that got published in a British journal in the early 00s.

I had the privilege of working with the first author of that paper and asked him how he used to get the papers to read back in the nineties when internet wasn’t a thing in India. Be warned that this university’s library didn’t even have Nature or Science.

His answer was, if there’s a paper they’d want to read, if it’s at least in a fairly prominent journal, they’d money order 15 rupees to the Indian institute of immunology in New Delhi with an ILL request and hope they respond. If they’re lucky they’d get a copy of the article in a few months.

They still did great research for what they were able to afford or read. Great research has always been done when access to articles wasn’t a given. It would be weird to assume that free unfettered access has anything to do with the spread of or lack thereof good scientific knowledge and research.

This is not even conjecture. We’ve already witnessed the never-before-in-humanity transformation of all general knowledge to the free public domain in Wikipedia and google, and yet, humanity seemed to have collectively gone dumber by a century if anything.

In spite of all the roadblocks put by greedy publishers, access to literature has never been this easier in all of history even if you are broke. This even if you exclude scihub as an option (not that I am saying you should, I love that scihub exists and hope it continues to).

All I’m saying is, keep fighting this fight but don’t assume it’s anywhere near as important for any real problem in this society, general or academia.
The introduction of bail-ins after the 2008 crisis is also worth mentioning here. For instance, "47.5% of all bank deposits above €100,000 were seized" during the Cypriot Financial Crisis 2012-2013 [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012%E2%80%932013_Cypriot_fina...
I am a little confused as to why a blockchain was necessary here? Since Telegram is a centralized platform, couldn't they just roll their own "usernames" which they already do.
I believe I have a decent understanding of the subject, but I’d love to hear a good podcast about it. However, I’m not familiar with James Corbett, and googling the name seems to result in a lot of conspiracy-related stuff.

Which is not to say CBDCs aren’t conspiratorial enough on their own, but is that an educational show, or is it more politically oriented?
>I too can't think of any commercial projects with embedded OpenBSD

The genugates appliances use openBSD:

https://www.genua.eu/
the people working on asahi seems to have a lot of fun, i am really envious of the work they are doing!
I think it's eye catching precisely because it's so bad.
> Then the next time I use it the previous order won’t have cleared out despite me picking it up, and I’ll have to go in and “cancel” the order.

Yes, I have noticed that here in the UK. I have to keep cancelling the previous order even though I picked it up and paid for it.
https://twitter.com/ChrisGSeaton/status/1599108759183577088

I didn't know him but recognized the name from HN.
Or I could assume a corporation that wants my business won't purposefully violate my boundaries and prove themselves untrustworthy.
Why not just allow signups without any number at all? That'd be a lot simpler than creating a fake number.
Why this could be better than (x+y)/2, since they both overflows?
The disclaimer is probably unintentionally funny:

This demonstration tool is not connected to our real grids: therefore you can feel free to go to the limits and test out all constellations that interest you.
It is uncomfortable to swim in deep opaque water.
About the birth of Tea:

https://medium.com/teaxyz/tea-brew-478a9e736638
Threema Preview of Upcoming Multi-Device Functionality
Lets not reduce this article to "complaining", it didn't just say "modern software development sucks" and be done with it. The author gave an overview on what she thinks is wrong about the field, with a fairly detailed example and references. Even if you disagree with her take, these kinds of articles force us to reflect on the state of the industry. There is nothing wrong with that.

Should we be mindlessly churning away taking no issue with the state we're in?
> The C++ folks often don't know what they're missing out on.

This assumption implies that C++ developers are all one-track wonders that lock themselves in a basement and have no contact with any other programming language or tooling.

> But the tooling is just insanely cumbersome (...)

It really isn't. Node.js with npm or yarn is a far greater mess than anything that happened in C++.

I'd say that 9 out of 10 times people complain about the C++ ecosystem, they are actually talking from a place of ignorance and at best are only complaining about the mess they needlessly dug themselves into.

Case in point: who in their right mind feels the need to bolt on a different scripting language to cmake, a build system that only rarely needs a damn if statement in the project? These guys are clearly deeply invested in making their lives far hard and worse than they need to be. I mean, where's the need?

If anything, this wave of contrarian bullshit targeting C++ only shows the high volume of inexperient and clueless developers who decided to skip learning the basics and instead thought it was a good idea o dive head-first into wheels reinvented very poorly, and from there in proceed to depict their own mess as representative of everyone else's experience.
Drawn on paper, and calculations done with slide rules. They were still widely used in engineering.
> Toncoin is not supported by Coinbase.

Source: https://www.coinbase.com/price/toncoin
Someone seeing automation tools and saying “cool! This will centralize wealth even more, and that’s a good thing” is quite revealing
Thankfully this article is about trucks :-p
> Do any audio file formats support separate tracks with level info?

There is a 4-track an audio format developed by Native Instruments that is mostly used by DJs, and only dance music gets released in that. However, now that I search their website, there's no mention of it anymore — guess it wasn't popular enough with the labels to get any traction.
Vivaldi integrates Mastodon in its desktop browser
Often the guest network has client separation where the router doesn't allow any device on the guest network to see any other device. So possibly not, but depends on your router setup
Advertisers don’t care about useful. Many customers see mWh and mAh and think “that’s probably the same… and look! this one has thousands of em!”
Right; so assuming that's true (I'm not really sure either way), for me it's an enabling technology, not a feature.

If I could write plugins in Python, within the Emacs environment, I would (i believe it is sort of doable but quite wonky).
The patent is already expired.
They are attacking their own product because it is no longer profitable.
Knowing some people who have done similar things, it's perfectly plausible, and doesn't read like fantasy to me. You're getting a glimpse into a niche subculture, like skydiving or rock climbing.
Not being required to do it sounds like a good enough reason for not doing something. Large corporation or not.
Docker and Podman are not security countermeasures.

They appear as such accidentally through controlling resources and visibility of the filesystem.

Docker and Podman solve the "isolated environment for development so I can control my dependencies", "package management" and "reproducible environment" problems; which is already a lot.

We should not pretend that it's doing more than it is; since it is already covering many important topics and it muddies the conversation.

The reason I'm being so detailed is that there are a contingent of people who will swear to death that Docker is a security layer: but notably none of them are ever security engineers.
Good question:

If you are doing things by yourself, this can be the way the go. But even then I think it helps to first think about the big picture.

Reasons to first do low-fi wireframing:

- It's the quickest way to find out if you understand the requirements of the task.

- It takes more time to do the details, in that time you could have gotten your first feedback. Like from the developer who says there is a component already built that looks like your wireframe, but somwhat different. Then you get to talk about that. Perhaps you can say "Yes, use that component" and your job is done.

- You might get the wrong feedback, like; why did you not use our company color blue for that button? Why is the tablet version looking so bad? Why didn't you consult with legal department about those texts? etc.

- Trying to design the whole thing at once might kill creativity in your team. Designers get sad if they only have to 'paint by number'. They probably have some good ideas you can incorporate. Same for the dev.

Having worked for decades in digital media (sites, apps, games, etc), I've seen projects waste many many hours by developing or designing things that the client simply didn't want. Just because there was a misunderstanding about requirements.

There are many more reasons, but again, if you are working for yourself, and you have a process that works for you, then that's great.
In 2004, a friend and I tried to do something along these lines, a structured system to remunerate open source developers (among producers of other types of digital works). I remember trying to pitch a presentation for one of the Debian conferences, and hoping to extend deb packages with the signed metadata. No one was interested-- mostly our fault, but also ahead of its time (no blockchain, and popular indexes like PyPI were just being born).

http://giftfile.org/documents/free_software_hackers_intro
Just post links with the titles straight from the original. HN demands it. (Light/obvious cropping for titles that don’t fit the character limits.)
I've always got scammers trying to get to me on Twitter. Once, I went down the road a bit to see what would happen. So, so boring. No conversational skill, no chemistry, just whoever happened to be working the shift at the time. I did wonder if the girl in the pictures was associated with the gang somehow, or just a random victim, as in the article.
PiinPoint (YC W14) Is Hiring Developers (Remote in Canada)
Intel: 4nm, 3nm-Class Nodes on Track, 1.8nm Technology Pulled In
Parties don't really represent interest of their voters. They fish for votes to obtain political power, but they represent the interests of the people who run them (and their friends and patrons) - who are, generally speaking, not their voters.

Thus, traditional parties represent the interest of some subset of the established elites. Which means that the current socioeconomic arrangement is broadly in their advantage. They know that those problems are real, but they can be only solved by giving up some part of the pie. And organizations are much more selfish than individuals, so they never give up unless they believe that the alternative is to lose even more (hence why a messy revolution somewhere else can often do wonders).
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Who said those people will be writing kernel code?

Rust for the Linux kernel is like 0.000001% of real life Rust use (which is not that big to begin with).

And it wouldn't be used the main kernel for the most part anyways, mostly (if not exclusively) kernel drivers.
I understood that reference :)
I would love to see the recordings too
plus a dash of aging royalty. Seems like some old fart "prince" wanted to be head of state.
But having the computer of your dreams means either making sacrifices (Running a VM atop a bloated OS, on a tablet for example, while lugging around an additional keyboard) or building it yourself from the ground up.

Having something else, something more simple and often having something more text oriented is a wish I have now seen often at different places on the internet. Maybe there is something missing, maybe just a place to tie it all together, leadership, or maybe its just that everyone wants something so slightly different, that there can be no concerted effort?

But certainly people with such wishes would benefit if there was some groundwork laid. And I also think showing instead of telling what we could have could also positively impact the rest of the ecosystem.
"Why We Fight"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wcAsIWfk_z4&t=30s
The GPT-detector is the post-GPT Next Big Thing.
I’m guessing the group is more familiar to Germans (I’m in the US) but I find wiki helpful. It’s not a monolithic movement but they basically want to go back to the German Reich circa 1918, and they have some kind of provisional government that’s supposed to be a continuation of this

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reichsbürger_movement
The last time I saw the statistics, Tesla autopilot was about average for US drivers, but it's actual usage was biased towards the roads least likely to cause fatalities.

I'm all in favour of the vision behind self-driving cars, but the reality isn't quite as impressive as I'd like, especially given the AI has inherent advantages such as "no blind spot" and "can pay full attention to everything all at the same time" and "not distracted by adverts, hunger, and phone" and "doesn't get tired or drunk".

And — at risk of displaying the limits of my domain knowledge — I think the AI can be tested without being in charge, by asking the AI to create a model of the world as it drives, and/or by testing its predictions of what it will observe in the next few seconds.
No its a product page.
So you still need a phone number to sign up.

Instant no thanks and no deal.
Oh man! You've nailed it with this comment. I am that senior corpo SWE you describe, and I confess that I push a lot of these ideas. I have to ensure my teams stick to business critical paths but I do encourage things like...

- If you come across something you don't understand, don't just unblock yourself with stack overflow or asking me, try to grok the problem. Take time out to play with the idea.

- Try to understand what you're doing, never cargo cult program. Dig a level deeper than you need to. Foster your curiosity. Understand HTTP now? Great, now look at TLS and TCP.

- Focus on quality of life scripts and tools. Don't ask permission, if a bash script will save us time to do repetitive task X, do it. Resist the constant pressure to deliver the ticket quickly at all costs.

- Do you really need that library? Try as hard as you can to avoid it, even if it adds a bit more work.

- For 10% time, free you mind to work on things and ideas that excite you. Don't let the perceived business objectives pressure you.

Etc...

The truth is, it's a balancing act but I do very much agree with the sentiment of this post. I struggle with the cognitive dissonance of having to think in these two ways at once, and push, as hard as I can justify, away from the 'ruthless pragmatism' route. As ever, it's all difficult trade-offs.

From a business point of view, if you have to sell it, the above produces better engineers and, therefore, the business benefits from higher quality and velocity ultimately. Obviously there is an upfront investment...
In the UK you can buy a SIM card for 1 pound, and a 10 pound topup will activate it for 6 months, all with cash from your local garage.
It's always surprised me how they go on about encryption being the worst thing ever and we need to protect the children, while anyone can get online anonymously for 11 pounds. Also very odd how anybody can snoop on the unencrypted nationwide pager messages containing hundreds of thousands sensitive information in a steady stream, all it costs you is a 15 pound usb sdr and you can see pagers being sent to doctors on call all over the nation. Instead of solving this they spend millions on convincing you that encryption is bad, and want to prevnt you from talking to your loved ones privately.
You are being downvoted into oblivion for that first line but I support you. Apple hardware look and feel is optimized for perception, not for practicality. I'll always prefer a laptop that's field maintainable even if it is a few mm thicker.
> You're missing the point -- it was written and still exists,

No you're completely missing the point. If it exists and needs to be managed then anyone in their right mind migrates their cmake project to modern cmake.

Why? Because odds are any weird thing happening in legacy cmake projects happened because either cmake didn't supported things way back then or old timers made a mess for themselves, needlessly.

Maintaining code does not require you to keep messes around. You're expected to pay legacy debt, learn from mistakes, and right whatever wrongs you made. With cmake projects, this means modern cmake. No excuse.

> and still needs to either be maintained or re-written.

It's not a "or". No one forces you to not fix mistakes. You only keep them around if you wish to, and if that's your own personal decision then the responsibility of creating that problem is on you, not on the tooling.

I'm talking from experience. I've maintained a dozen or so legacy C++ projects, some of which with auto tools, qmake, and the deprecated imperative cmake style put together over a decade ago. Porting stuff to modern cmake is trivial. There is no excuse.
Have a look at https://github.com/wiz-lang/wiz. I agree that this in an unexplored area.
Honestly. Telegram is a superb chat client, but there’s no reason for this blockchain nonsense. Let users choose a username and password like services have been doing for decades.
On the other hand, if you establish basic norms, you shouldn't have issues like "X won't let me cheat on my expense report" or "Y won't let be a literal agent of foreign power" regardless of the size of the organization.
This made me incredibly sad. I didn’t know him, but always enjoyed his insightful comments here on Ruby, Truffle, and the JVM.
I'd like to believe this works, but my experience in Big(ish) Corp is that you get the blame.

If you think you're in a position to change it and you're motivated to do so, go for it, otherwise my experience is that you're better off finding somewhere else to work.