skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As a Chicagoan, I struggle to call Rod anything more than a stupid asshole and a total opportunist (notice how he got on Trump's radar because his wife was going on Fox News and calling Democrats evil).

Marc Rich was bullshit though. Absolutely disgraceful. That being said, I'd still rather cast my net with Republicans though if I'm trying to get out of jail for white collar crime. Clinton had n=1 and was famous for not commuting crimes. Trump basically legalized white collar crimes for his friends. Even Bush let some real pieces of shit off.
C, ObjC, JavaScript.
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I would call any ideology that destroys the environment of the society that holds it "warped" and "bad" but maybe that's just my personal bias.
that might be true. i don’t know. however the question is what the executives might decide to do or what the expectations of shareholders are. i bet someone will have the idea to double or triple cost of parts at retail because chips are now made in the US which would be a terrible mistake. it could make it impossible to start a small hardware company.
Wirecard multi-billion dollar alleged embezzlement trial of Markus Braun begins
I’m a certified curmudgeon then. If a workload can run on OpenBSD then it does when I’m working. If I’m ever speaking the programmers language and cursing a computer then it is rarely an OpenBSD box. They just work.
I’m not sure you can attribute every COVID death to failure to follow restrictions that arose after COVID had spread worldwide.
Madoff admitted to his crimes so it was easy to arrest him right away.

Ken Lay, who did not admit to crimes, took 3 years to be indicted and then was convicted.
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Are there any popular languages which don't have unchecked exceptions? Java, for example, supports both checked and unchecked exceptions. In practice, checked exceptions seem to cause more problems than they solve for large scale software development. If you want to inherit from a class or interface it becomes impossible to add new checked exceptions to method signatures. So developers have to resort to hacks like wrapping the new checked exception in an unchecked exception.
I don't see pricing listed anywhere. Can you expand on what that might look like? Also, can Neon scale down to zero like serverless aurora v1, or is there a minimum capacity unit?
In my mind the great thing about PHP was packaged application software like PHPNuke, Wordpress, etc. that would let you make a highly capable dynamic site with little or no coding.

At that time you could have made similar software for JSP, ColdFusion or ASP.NET but hosting would have been much more expensive and a big hassle. With PHP it was feasible to offer a $5 a month hosting plan good enough for blogs and simple web application.

I wrote a lot of PHP because it was a great way to deliver products to customers, particularly ones that didn't have a lot of resources for "ops" but also a place where I could write open source software which might really get used and have an impact.
It had an emotional reaction to the poem when I first beat the game. I find it to be beautiful.
I would still like to know how that all played out. There were credible predictions that the federal sentencing formulas would put her away for life. For next time, I'd be interested in knowing why those predictions were wrong.
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The "How it works" section surprised me - I did not expect to see Websockets there.

Other serverless drivers or database APIs (PlanetScale Serverless Driver, AWS RDS Proxy or Prisma Data Proxy) usually use HTTP to replace the stateful TCP connection. The post explains a bit why this might be beneficial (can use existing tools, and use connection state) - but what about the other benefits and use cases of going with HTTP?

For example in that architecture the connection pool also moves from the application to the component in between and all that complexity can completely be removed from the app. Especially on serverless platforms, where in theory each request gets its own application with its own pool, that is huge. How does that work here? Or does the pool also move to the "WebSocket-to-TCP proxy" and you just did not highlight it in the post? (The graphic shows a "Connection Pool" but I can not really make sense of what that means.)
"US blacklisting Bahamas with the various tools at its disposal isn’t worth it for Bahamas."

Really for SBF? Removing financial systems? I think this is a far stretch. Fraudsters are held up in extradition messes all the time. The US doesn't change international policy for a single case (usually).
This is a Dec 2 tweet from Representative Maxine Waters, Chairwoman of the House Financial Services Committee:

".@SBF_FTX, we appreciate that you've been candid in your discussions about what happened at #FTX. Your willingness to talk to the public will help the company's customers, investors, and others. To that end, we would welcome your participation in our hearing on the 13th."

https://twitter.com/RepMaxineWaters/status/15986938112528752...

She backtracks a bit afterwards.
Madoff confessed.
My everyday living today is waiting for the war to end.

Electricity cut offs, freezing cold, water shortage, rocket
terror and general unpredictability make it harder for me
to commit to some sort of a long term plan, much less
muster enough energy to do Leetcode style interviewing.

Although, I've started running for an hour per day,
which helps with bad mood and suicidal thoughts.

My goals for 2023 and beyond are: survive,
connect with people like me, transition, hopefully
find a new tech job, get into health/longevity.
I believe that logevity is the next big thing.
Natural-born p-doped material for pervoskite solar cells – pv magazine
Seems like a baby born on Dec 31 would be 2 years old come the next day of Jan 1.....
>as he's one of the 5 people that contributed to the game

I think members of the modding community contributed much more in material terms, and both they and YouTube content creators contributed much more in driving it's rise & popularity, than the author of this poem. It seems the author had a pretty clear verbal contract on their compensation, and received the money.

They author didn't receive the promotional support for their other work that was promised, and I think should be their much bigger gripe. For an artist/creator I would think that would be the big pain point, not having their other work broadly exposed to an audience of millions, instead of the $$$ aspect they spend so much time on in this article. (Especially when that exposure would possibly have lead to significant financial success for their work as well)
And test it on the VM [1] inside itself.

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[1]: https://www.engraved.blog/building-a-virtual-machine-inside/
Be careful directly comparing Madoff to SBF. Madoff admitted his crimes (hat's why it was so speedy).

SBF is more like Ken Lay, and that took 3 years for the Feds to build their (ultimately successful) case.
Madoff was arrested fast because his sons went to prosecutors and admitted to the fraud. That's very strong evidence + direct witnesses vs. here where they have to prove fraud and gather evidence.
I had to click the link because I sadly thought the same thing as well.
Low rep poster, no citations. I'm going to call [citation needed] on that. The door is often perpendicular to the toilet so the explanation doesn't even really make sense…
Same. Too much cynicism, too little empathy.

I relate with the story. Many times in my life I put love in my work (passion for the work itself, going the extra mile) and I feel it was not acknowledged. The gap between ones commitment to the cause and a cold reception can be heartbreaking.

… the hard lesson is that in these cases we need to acknowledge that we work from the heart because we want to create meaningful things in our lives. It is for us, in the end. We have to treasure and feel lucky for the times it’s acknowledged and reciprocated, but can’t base our happiness on the expectation of being seen every time.
Probably not that easy to play dumb if you set up a corporate structure involving a hundred different companies.

I don't imagine a jury would see that level of unfathomable complexity and think "clearly a guy in over his head".
I have very little doubt the effect's real.

Note though that getting base rates from one place and getting rates of accidents from another is usually a bad idea: they will have various ways of measuring the rates, so will have different biases (based on location, time-of-day, time-of-year, ... where the measurement happens).
The same sorta happened to Paul Allen’s fighter plane museum in Washington. His sister manages his estate now, and has been ruthless at liquidating all the assets he collected for the public good. It’s infuriating.
As a long-time Jenkins user who never hopped the Travis/Circle bandwagon, is there any reason to consider these in 2023?
OPEC holds huge power over global oil markets, and is not "barely held together". Com'on. Competition colluding or conglomerating is not uncommon. Much of brand competition is actually various arms of the same parent company. The illusion of competition.

My point was the free market you lauded for Lasik is a mixed bag with some potentially good value for money, but also deceptive salesmen muddying the waters for consumers to make valid comparisons on price & quality. It's no panacea.
Some napkin math (may be wrong).

A man is about two square meters of skin. Assuming they lay down to photosynthesize most efficiently from perpendicular sun rays that would be one square meter, so 1400 watts. You would need an ~11% efficient conversion to meet the needs of a human. Plants currently top out at about 6.4% for highly efficient C4 plants like sugarcane. 11% is the maximum efficiency possible.

>The photosynthetic efficiency is dependent on the wavelength of the light absorbed. Photosynthetically active radiation (400–700 nm) constitutes only 45% of the actual daylight. Therefore the maximum theoretical efficiency of the photosynthesis process is approximately 11%.

Not only would you have to somehow replicate the extreme efficiency of sugarcane on animal skin (an organ with no support structures for photosynthesis), you’d have to double the efficiency.
$20,000 is actually an insane amount to be paid for for the amount of effort it takes to write a poem like that. Even if it took 40 hours a week for 2 months.
Which, I really doubt it did. I read a fair amount of poetry and while it is nice, it's not particularly deep, it's also a prose poem with little to no effort put into metrical style. I feel like I could write something similar in 2-3 hours if given the prompt. To be fair, part of the value is the ideation of the universe-intelligent-being vagueness, but given the context of the game, that doesn't seem like it would take that long to think of, either.

The same can certainly be said for everyone else involved in this. Notch made off with 1.7 billion dollars for a few years of work - that's a disproportionate reward for the level of effort.

But if the poetry author wanted a disproportionate reward for their level of effort, they should have asked for it. It's business at the end of the day - they didn't write it for art's sake, they wrote it for a contract job. And it's not a particularly great poem that will be featured on poetry.com, IMO
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You could reasonably argue that having languages make floating point arithmetic appear superficially similar to integer arithmetic despite key differences (inability to store exact results of various operations etc.) could qualify as such.
In many ways it is surprising that more languages haven't been given features to help avoid FP- arithmetic/rounding/conversion/formatting issues - e.g. just adding a built-in decimal type can help a lot (it's woefully common to have decimal amounts such as monetary quantities stored as FP, particularly in Javascript).
Hold your horses sir. Both of those links cite the same not-reliable source: a comment [0] made by Sam Bankman-Fried in a conversation with crypto YouTuber Tiffany Fong.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6DezodR9hNI&t=774s
I think he will eventually be appointed to the of the board for the Federal Reserve. Maybe even chairman!
Try Tauri
I believe SBF stated in a recent video that it might be possible for US clients to be “made whole” (indirectly stating everyone else will be fucked). So if he manages to return funds to US investors, would he still be likely to be prosecuted?
> If you put the lid down before you flush to protect yourself from all the dirtiness, doesn’t that mean the lid (which you have to touch to put up/down) is itself extremely dirty?

The parts of the lid that you touch to raise and lower it are probably relatively distant from the parts of the lid that would receive the brunt of any splashback.
While I do agree with you overall, I think the author was right to assume that the non-skip feature was meant to appreciate his result. And calling it poorly-written is uncalled for, I think.
Literally "Do it for the exposure" jeeze
Does North Korea follow the same traditional system as South Korea?
Pricing is coming very soon. Dotting the is and crossing the ts
Apparently the airframe for the second plane is undamaged. So it may happen.
I thought Dr No was worse than the movie as well.
This is an interesting view. Like anything else it's important to establish what the goals actually are.
This is obvious a priori but as most experienced folks know there are lots of behemoths that will take forever to phase it out.
And yes. Scales to 0
A bit off track, but my first reaction when I started reading the article was: "well, these governments are really spoiled, entitled brats". This is because they take Internet as granted like a teenager addict of Instagram attention and not having it results in "20th century technology — pen and paper" - lol, pen and paper were good for thousands of years. Internet is a tool and like any other tool you need to pay attention to care and maintain it and have it available, especially when you are in the middle of nowhere.
>to get waste down to X... where X is actually the measured waste in the existing program.

that's called "lying".
Really impressed with Coffeezilla on this one. Have watched him for a while but this was really well done investigative interviewing. He prepared, studied and ended up getting the info he wanted to. Nice work coffee!
I'd quibble with "non-relevant"

The goal of qualifying exams to produce well-rounded students---or at least ensure that they are minimally aware of the major intellectual traditions in their field.

It's not crazy to expect that a soon-to-be physics professor understands how a battery works, at least roughly.
A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles, was a great piece of fiction that shows that you can be true to your word, and experience a good life despite whatever is thrown your way. Beautiful prose too.

Sand Talk by Tyson Yunkaporta, a primer on how Aboriginal Australian cultures view time, chaos and interactions. Good reminder that there are multiple ways of creating a narrative about the world that may or may not be more sophisticated then your own culture.

Tools of Conviviality by Ivan Illich, reaffirmed my belief that technology shapes our culture, and some technologies create artificial monopolies that push out more humane options.

Evolution in Four Dimensions: Genetic, Epigenetic, Behavioral, and Symbolic Variation in the History of Life by Eva Jablonka and Marion J. Lamb is a wonderfully instructive book on the multiple way in which biology evolves and can pass on information beyond just genetics alone.

The Listening Society by Hanzi Freinacht, a good introduction on the progression of culture, and where do we go after post modernism, and why it is difficult to do so.

...so many more good reads, but I'll leave it at this.
> Web3 data is different from what most classic databases are optimised for, because of how it's accessed and the (mostly) immutable guarantees.

Nah. Blockchains are (of course?) not the first database use case where immutability is necessary. Blockchains aren't unique in terms of access patterns, either.
I thought BuiltWith is an amazing idea, something small and useful and scalable without needing teams for things like customer support, marketing, and sales. See https://builtwith.com

There is a recent interview with the sole proprietor that is more business focused https://5to9.beehiiv.com/p/builtwith-generates-14-million-ye... .

This was super informative for me and my search for something similar.

Good luck!
What the chat should have is something like a chat interface that exposes the FAQ via question and answering, through natural language processing, basically like ChatGPT but it doesn't need to be that advanced.

If the bot can't find the answer, connect to a human. That way, the company's support burden is decreased while still being able to talk to a human if needed.
Helmets are cool.
Nice collection :) How do you find all of those articles?
No this is fine. I think they used to have a one-price rule (or best-price rule) but I don't think that's been the case for quite a while.
There also are dual 2.5G Ethernet (and multiple SATA) adapters for M.2 sockets, which make things even more interesting for those little ARM boards.

https://www.aliexpress.us/item/3256804337466480.html

https://www.aliexpress.us/item/3256804400925663.html

OpnSense/XigmaNAS devs, are you listening?
Storage is multi tenant and bottomless. Unused storage spills to S3 and is cheaper. We pass savings to our users
None of the links ON YOUR WEBSITE work. Should have been clearer.
One issue that plagued the mars rovers so far is the buildup of dust on the solar panels. Could the helicopter help by flying over the rover, thus blowing away the dust?
> If SBF did donate the large amounts of money he claims he did as "dark money", surely he could prove this.

To what end? Selectively believing what SBF says is a Rorschach test. If it was something that goes against your your politics "Oh, he is obviously lying" while simultaneously "He is running his mouth and confessing his crimes unforced".

It's particularly notsble because those who disbelieve SBF spending dark money agree with his reasoning dor doing so. I his own words, he said most journalists/media folk are on the left, and he wanted journalists to like him, so he publicly donated to the Dems and made dark money donations to Republicans. He also specifically mentioned Citizens United for enabling this.
That could actually work for the host ID part of the address (not so much the network part). You could do it today with v6 just by extending getaddrinfo() (e.g. with an NSS plugin on Linux).

But L3 addresses aren't the place for naming. They're meant for computers, not humans. DNS supports names longer than 2-8 characters, descriptive hierarchies, multiple address families, other useful info types like SSH keys, and in general operates at the right layer for it.
Elon did, does that upset you? You say "no one can" but he did. The platform is not on fire, it hasn't been down for any relevant amount of time. Even if it were, it's twitter, not critical infrastructures. Some people won't be able to post hot takes and snarky retorts. Oh my.
If FTX was on chain, SBF could not have absconded with users' deposits.

Crypto mathematically prevents fraud. The problem here is that business was conducted in the fiat world and on a "trust me" basis.
The Apple ecosystem is not the App Store. They make money off the sales of physical products and their own services like iCloud.

Making money off of the App Store is pure rent seeking. It's maintainance and (very infrequent) improvement costs (negliblible compared to its profit) don't make it any less so. Heck, actual rented properties like houses also incur some maintainances costs on the owner.
> the inevitable indictment will likely require proving criminal intent, specifically that SBF knowingly and willingly engaged in fraud. The Justice Department won't indict SFB until they have ironclad evidence demonstrating as much.

IANAL but I'm not sure that's true. I believe they can charge him with fraud or negligence. The latter carries lesser penalties, and everything SBF is doing now is trying to steer the inevitable indictment in that direction.
Peoria or Muncie
> A proper vent fan

I don't think I have ever, in my life, been in a bathroom with a "proper" vent fan. AFAICT by observation, regulations must require a fan that makes seems to only make "chugchugchug" noises while seemingly doing nothing to the air.
Your hyperbole undermines your point.
Web3 is decentralized web, like web 1.0 - but with tokens this time! Tokens solve the issue because you can buy and hold them and get rich! Buy my shitcoin!

Seriously web3 is just another way to create hype for arbitrary crypto tokens and Ethereum. In a few years there will be something else - quantum web or something to suck new buyers in.
A lot to unpack here.

First, I don’t think a civil suit by people caught by the hash-checking would be the remedy any of them would seek. More than likely, they would be trying to convince a court that Apple, acting on behalf of the government, violated their rights by searching their device without a warrant. The remedy they’d likely be seeking would be to have the “fruit of the poisonous tree” (Apple pun intended) excluded in their criminal prosecution.

I guess maybe they could file a civil suit afterwards but I’m having a little trouble imagining the assemblage of a class around which to file a class action since (allegedly) this hash matching system should “catch” innocent people extremely rarely.

And what duty does Apple owe to users? The duty not to inform the police that they might be committing a crime? This seems pretty shaky.

The problem with all this is the liability they’d be seeking to impose on Apple is specifically relieved by 18 U.S.C. 2259 (barring recklessness, malice, or a disconnect between apples action and 2258A).

The other thing is that “forwarding the results on[ ]to the government for the purposes of law enforcement” explicitly, under Miller, is not government action. It’s the law enforcement function itself that would be interpreted as state action.

> How is it different to charge for a subscription to an icloud folder vs a paid substack?

I think the answer is that liability for failure to moderate substack might be relieved under section 230 of the CDA[0], while liability for the act of moderating Apple’s cloud by scanning hashes and reporting hits to the FBI would be relieved under 18 U.S.C. 2259.

[0]: assuming, of course, su stack didn’t/shouldn’t have known about the offense. Once they know they have a 2259A duty to report.
The point here is that the movement against IPv6 for security reasons is disingenuous or even outright dishonest. Those security reasons don't exist.

Personally, I have never seen any argument for IPv6 based on security (except for some very fringe ones about address enumeration). But if anybody makes one to you, well, it would be disingenuous, or maybe even dishonest too. There is no security-based argument either way.
If you support lying and propaganda, please state it plainly
"First people wrote cgi-bin scripts in Perl, which were not efficient because they forked a process for each request"

I don't recall the sequence of events that way. That is, there was regular cgi, then mod_php with problems similar to mod_perl...then later fastcgi options existed for both.
Yes, and as former federal prosecutor and current white-collar defense attorney Ken White explains on Twitter, moving too fast also prevents them from using their best tools: flipping witnesses for lying and the Grand Jury.

His really good thread starts here: https://twitter.com/Popehat/status/1600877380683280384