skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
the "scalper problem" is strikingly similar to many cryptographic problems - the "sybil problem" in token distribution ("distribute 25 bitcoin every 10 minutes to a random participant") is obviously similar to distributing scarce items which are scalpable (sold below market clearance price).

"We'll just have a free-for-all (random distribution)"? Oh ok I'll register 2 million network participants (or IPs, or email addresses, or browser sessions, or privacy CC numbers, etc). Without some kind of outside oracle proving user uniqueness (and many many oracles that people think of, like CC number or billing address, are not actually unique!) it is extremely extremely difficult to construct this system.

NVIDIA distributing some 4090s via GeForce Experience is another interesting example of a hardware oracle, the telemetry is a fairly strong signal of hardware authenticity (as proven by Overwatch's fairly effective hardware bans).
That’s so depressing.
Uh, this is indeed weird. Hope all is ok.

For those curious and without showdead, the first link was posted 1h ago, and shows:

"For ok whatfix swaptoAPP blahhhh"
I really just want to be able to refer to e.g. a business registration number in a standard way. There is typically one registry per country, but some countries have multiple registries, etc.

If I want to refer to a phone number, that has an international standard (msisdn), so that problem is solved really. But not so for bank accounts or business registration numbers, or NINs.

I think I have ended up with simply saving (scheme, id), where scheme names the registry in which ID is registered (e.g., for a business, or a bank account, etc). But, I have to make up our own names for "scheme" for each supported registry.

Interopability isn't really a requirement. It works fine to self-invent how to refer to an ID in a registry but it also feels odd, like, someone else should have solved this already...
Search is one place where mediocre engineers and even many good ones consistently seem to think they know what they are doing, and they know what is good enough, and worst of all, that all of this is super easy. The solution, universally, is “use elastic search” (though there’s also the puerile cousin where people say “use the like operator”) but elastic search has never solved search if all you did was learn and set it up in a day.

The most important factor is to make sure you weight your results by two numbers - one that tries to score the match of the result to the search string and another which is a more absolute weight (which could be population here, simplistically). Without that search will look like this, and these engineers will always say, “this looks good to me? Just finish typing the city and it’ll give you what you want?”
Not picking on you, more on this kind if comment.

I think it is easy to be snide about fields like archaeology when you come from a field of absolutisms and proofs, but what else are they supposed to do with gaps in knowledge? We don't have to approach CS work wondering if the 1s and 0s we found were naturally occurring, or put there by some level of intelligent being. Our field in entirely of human construction.

The extension of this attitude leads to situations where Talib is berating a Classics professor for there being 'no data to back up her claim'! As if we can't study anything without data, or we should ignore history until there is something for a mathematician to work with on it.

Perhaps we should poke fun at the physicists who talk about 'dark matter' in the same way.

What a boring world it would be without shifting knowledge of the known and unknown.
A lot of the people pushing these ideas are primarily motivated by being anti-vegan, so that might explain why such articles are all over the place.
Nice write up, but what’s the big advantage of cat6 over cat5e if the switch is limited to 1gb?
Because there is a very strong negative correlation between overworking and productivity / quality of work. When I've been line managing people I find that if they work over 40-45 hours a week their actual productivity (as opposed to their self perceived productivity) starts to fall off a cliff after a couple of weeks, so I ask people to only work their hours. I've sometimes had to implement technical measures to enforce this when someone gets too obsessive about their work(and have done it to myself a couple of times!). I've never had to fire anyone for working too much and dragging down productivity in a team but I've come close a couple of times.
If you assume that every bot protection script will look at navigator.webdriver, you can just set a breakpoint before the script runs, and set a debugger statement on the property to land somewhere useful:

Object.defineProperty(navigator, 'webdriver', {
get: () => {debugger; return false},
});
> the largest oil producer and one of the relative cheapest has run out of legitimately cheap oil

You keep saying this despite it being wrong. America hasn’t run out of cheap oil. Americans pay less for oil because we produce oil cheaper than most others, and that will be true relative to e.g. China for fundamental, structural reasons. All while the economy uses less oil [1], year after year, per person and unit of production. (Adjusted for inflation, WTI is about where it was in the 1980s, and lower than it was in the 1970s and most of last decade [2].)

Unless your argument is now peak oil. That we’re running out of oil, as a planet, i.e. that oil will cost more as we extract less. Something we’ve known for decades and are actively re-structuring our economy for. If that’s the case, then your comparisons to Southeast Asia don’t make sense—they pay more for oil, are less productive with it and thus will experience price increases more painfully than America will.

> Domestic consumption of energy showing signs of serious stress

This is a brand new plot point that is also entirely wrong. Total energy consumption is at an all-time high [3]. We’ve even recovered from the pandemic [4].

[1] https://www.eia.gov/dnav/pet/hist/LeafHandler.ashx?n=PET&s=M...

[2] https://inflationdata.com/articles/inflation-adjusted-prices...

[3] https://www.eia.gov/energyexplained/use-of-energy/

[4] https://usafacts.org/state-of-the-union/energy-environment/
These might help:

* https://twitter.com/i/events/880688233641848832 - plenty of examples for little UI details

* https://twitter.com/OzolinsJanis/status/1595743913851035653 - presenting ideas visually
Super bizarre, doesn't really seem like the behaviour of a hacked account either (those usually use their fifteen seconds of fame to promote cryptocurrency scams or to troll).
It great advice for exactly the reason you stated. And in gyms that disallow dropping, you give minimal effort on the way down, just enough to not get kicked out.

If you’re hellbent on doing long eccentrics on your low back, do it on back extensions with light weights. I used to do them. I always regretted it the next day.
And lots of other Roman buildings didn’t survive because they were destroyed so the blocks could be repurposed into churches in other locations.

The Parthenon is one (1) building that survived basically as-is while countless others were actively demolished.

One thing that surprised me when visiting Rome is how little original buildings existed. But when you get increasingly far from the city of Rome, you’ll find quite a few well preserved Roman buildings that were out of reach of the long tentacles of the Catholic Church.
Yeah, the day you start your linear progression with Starting Strength is the day you stop subscribing to fitness social media and just get strong :) I fondly remember the times
moveq also not supported: http://68k.hax.com/MOVEQ

Good idea, however this is very disappointing. On Amiga, I used moveq extremely often to clear stuff.
Watch out for DoS when using Rust’s Hyper package
I'm not sure much of the stuff really needs to be "debunked" at all. Let's look, for instance, at Gobekli Tepe.

Is it really the position of mainstream archaeology that something like Gobekli Tepe was built by nomadic hunter-gatherer tribes who hadn't even invented the wheel? Some of the pillars weigh 22,000 lbs. There are intricate statues carved by people who supposedly didn't have metalworking or any metal tools. The entire thing is part of an even larger complex that has yet to be excavated and it was all planned out and coordinated by people who hadn't even invented writing or math. How plausible is this?

10 years ago, when these discoveries were much newer, mainstream archaeologists were still largely hung up on the idea that these ridiculous massive stone temples must somehow have been built by primitive hunter-gatherers. These days, it seems as though those attitudes have shifted, and that things like Gobekli Tepe call into question if we really have the right picture regarding the timeline of human development at all. It seems increasingly possible - even in mainstream archaeology - that humans 13000 years ago may simply have been further ahead than we thought.

One side effect of this paradigm shift is that people like Graham Hancock get to claim they were right all along. OK! Of course it this doesn't mean everything else he has ever claimed is right, but as far as I care, he can milk the "him vs the establishment" angle all he wants. He has a valid complaint - but more importantly, what institution is supposed to be able "debunk" him at a time when legitimate new discoveries are currently upending everything we thought we knew? You need to figure out what is actually going on first before you can hope to be Real Scientists "debunking" anything. Until you do, the notion that perhaps Gobekli Tepe was really built by people with a comparatively advanced level of civilizational development, rather than primitive hunter-gatherer cavemen, seems as decent a hypothesis to entertain as anything else. And if I were a betting man, I'd bet this really is the right hypothesis, in my view!
Ya this is rediculous. Ive been logging off for years at 5pm, sometimes even 4pm. I don't work for free. Sometimes I have had to work at night but that means I take a few hours off another day when it's slower.

I often think about code at night but only in the context of a personal project.
Telegram really is an outlier among messengers. Each version is developed by like one person, and they are all feature-rich, feature-complete, fast and smooth.
> with an impressive noise and sound signature.

Not sure whether it means that it was loud or quiet. /s
From reading the rest of this page, I can safely say that your claim, "vegetable oil is awful", is just false.

No one except you is claiming that. Some people are claiming that a subset of vegetable oils are bad, but so far I haven't seen one conclusive argument either way.
Most languages are compiled or transpired into another representation.

For TypeScript, source maps can help with the debugging.

The live reloading dev server is just a wrapper around your code. You should still be able to use the browsers debugger to set a breakpoint at the function you want.
> many of the native API integrations missing

Those "native API integrations" are Chrome-only non-standards that neither Safari nor Firefox are ever going to implement.
Citation for your numerous, extremely strong claims about medicine?
Said dependencies on bugs are some of the most interesting things to document, because they're non-obvious, and hard to change
It will happen, sooner or later. Some key management will stay for the first years because of retainer money, then they will leave. They will be replaced by parent company executives looking at some quick success with the newly acquired company.

Culture will fade, politics will kick in, etc
I would argue that giving my receipts to an admin also requires a fair amount of input from me before they can file the expense report. I’d rather much prefer an expense tool that works.
The folks on Los Andes are pleased it doesn't always assume Los Angles. Are we sure there isn't a bit of a sense of entitlement here?
> docker-compose

How do you deal with backups? That’s my main struggle with docker.
Personally, either of those scenarios are very possible that they happen and we get them destructively, tragically wrong by assuming the opposite.

In scenario #1, we treat a new life-form like ourselves as brutal slaves and factory cattle, under unfathomable psychological torture ala Black Mirror.

In scenario #2, we release our current $-based utility function (environmental destruction, social media & advertising manipulation) on super crack, and the majority worship it like the second coming of Christ as it just tears apart our fabric unwittingly as a hurricane does.
Google still beats DDG on local search and providing latest results on news updates and other changing events. On more technical and stable topics, DDG is miles better and doesn't drown in clickbait or ads like Google does. These tend to be 99% of the searches i do throughout a day, so using DDG first is a no-brainer. The best way to describe it is it works exactly like google did 5-10 years ago, without neither the improvements nor the regressions that has happened since.

For truly rare and unique searches, Google undeniable has a bigger index, so cases where searching for a unusual error code 0x004104010 give you nothing on DDG, Google could find one poor soul in an obscure Korean forum, that solved the same issue and then translate the result, just enough for you to recover your broken data.
Silence is rejection. If they aren't breaking the door to get you it's a no. (in dating and jobs)
> Because physical security boils down to capable men with guns, whether that's private security, the police, or godfather type arrangements.

>> drones , remote weapons, surveillance tech, “lingering weapons”, has shown that physical security absolutely does not boil down to “ capable men with guns”.

How is that disproving the parents point?

Capable men with drones is not meaningfully different to capable men with guns, or pointy sticks for that matter.
having an app (even Concur) to do expense acquittals sounds like heaven to me...
I think the difference is that when you have lots of duplication (of systems, departments, job functions, processes, etc) like after an acquisition, there is very tempting low hanging fruit there for a CEO in a cost cutting frame of mind.

If you want to boost numbers this quarter and don't care too much about intangibles, the incentives really push towards gutting the acquisition.

A CEO of an independent company has different incentives to a CEO of an acquirer.
Why would I read an article where the author has his own version of the English language?

Olives are vegetables. Their oil is a vegetable oil. If the author claims otherwise, they are just factually wrong.
> some employee expenses will not need to be reimbursed.

I don't think the savings would offset the system cost. But then again, I've definitely got a threshold where just spending my money without claiming is worth it for my mental health...
It doesn't actually. You can upload anything to github. The website doesn't stop you at all, even if you don't have the ability to grant anything to Github at all.
Who cares about the environment? The dystopians who want to control every aspect of your life.
If I were a betting man, I'd probably say either a pocket typing sort of situation (for the latter two) or a kid or animal gallivanting on/around the keyboard for the first.
Same here, and I always write the “a, o” clockwise. I was surprised to see my circle drawing skill is better anti clockwise :-)
I also love threads. And there's plenty of memes - there just aren't channels named #random.

The only people I know who use huddles are the same people who send messages like "hey" and "you there?".
There's a small trend towards stainless steel rebar. It's expensive, but is now used for concrete structures near salt water.

Epoxy coated rebar turned out to be a mistake. One scrape in the epoxy and it starts rusting. Exposure to UV prior to installation can damage the epoxy coating. Currently banned in Quebec.[1]

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27676447
maybe he's trying to code some kinda automation and running it on prod and the code is misbehaving.

Hope all is ok.
Seems like production repl access went wrong somehow
Salesforce co-CEO hints at more potential layoffs after this week’s job cuts
That WAF needs to be tuned. If they’re worried about the possibility of a local file read that can disclose /etc/shadow, there are much bigger issues.
The end of Minecraft copyright vs. Microsoft
then the question arises. are you a betting man?
Having to use Concur is one of the primary reasons I have avoided ramping up travel again after the COVID lockdown period ended.

It also inverts incentives in other ways. I'm narurally inclined to be frugal, but that would often involve buying 3 or 4 smaller things to eat rather than a large meal. Since I know that would massively increase my own expense filing hassle, I instead tend to make individual purchases which are larger than I otherwise would.
Examples of ancient software still being used
The success rate of startups varies greatly depending on the industry or "idea pool." I am interested in forgotten industries where there is little to no software being used in various processes, or where ancient pieces of software are still being utilized.

Can you think of any ancient software that is still actively being used or purchased in niche industries? Ideally, this software is not tied to specific hardware, making it more accessible for outsiders to develop.
I get the impression that in some jurisdictions, deferred equity compensation kicks in earlier than one would otherwise expect, in order to hit some employment law cut-outs for "highly compensated executives".

I worked over 10 years overseas at a Fortune 500 financial firm where my contract specified that my garden leave period jumped up if I ever accepted stock compensation. I got the feeling that was related to some legal requirements for shedding protections for "highly compensated executives". The garden leave worked out well, as I left right at the end of my paternity leave, so I effectively had almost half a year of paternity leave.

I didn't bother checking if I was getting the maximum legally allowed garden leave period in my jurisdiction, as the contract seemed fair. In any case, in some jurisdictions, I think some deferred equity compensation kicks in earlier than one might expect, in order to legally make more employees highly compensated executives.

I've always lived well within my means at my base salary, but even if I hadn't a good head hunter can often negotiate a signing bonus to partially backfill the lost expected TC , so you're effectively not really going down to your base salary during garden leave.
> ...like talking to someone who has a superficial understanding of the topic who thinks they know more than they actually do, and who has read enough pop science articles to sound somewhat convincing.

...trained on HN too, I see.
I think you are referring to RAIDZ expansion, which isn't merged yet? https://github.com/openzfs/zfs/pull/12225
You might find this interesting https://www.dreamsongs.com/MFASoftware.html:
Yes, being able to dynamically update and contextually change what is displayed is a benefit of a touchscreen.

I don't believe that should be relevant to mechanical features of a 2 ton weapon though. Entertainment/Nav system that aren't key features for operating the vehicle, sure, have at it.

The hardware isn't being updated remotely to add new features or functionality, so I don't see why the interface for controlling those things should need the benefit of being able to be changed.

"Keep It Simple, Stupid" has been an adage for a long time for a reason.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_forfeiture_in_the_Unit...

It’s probably worse than you think.
To me, it resembles so-called "Ambien twitting"[1]

[1] https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/872260000491593728
Oh that wasnt clear to me, that makes sense, thank you!
example from house construction industry: http://buildermt.com/
Egypt's natural environment cannot really support strong further growth. If they invest heavily into solar energy and desalination, I'm sure they can create more arable land, but it'll still come at very high capital expenditure compared to other locations.

What's your prediction here, Egypt, Morocco and Algeria overtaking Germany, France and Italy with regards to economy, science etc (broadly "development") and drawing migration from Europe? In what time frame, by 2050?
You wouldn't want to disable the ARC, since it is much better at caching than the simple kernel page cache
The most fundamental theorem of Enterprise software is that the users aren’t the the customer, and so UX issues fall to the very bottom of the priority list. So the explanation is very plausible.

Furthermore, amongst the already-low-priority UX issues, I can imagine UX of the expenses application being rock bottom, because which business ever called up their ERP vendor and said “we need to make it easier for our staff to claim expenses”?
Thanks! The font looks normal on my tablet.
https://taoofmac.com. Check out the 3D site map to see what 20 years of keeping a personal Wiki looks like.
As I mentioned elsewhere, check the details of that transcode you tried. Are you doing tone mapping? That happens on the CPU (even with many discrete GPUs). Is it in a supported container format? Did you validate that the GPU was being used for the transcode?

Other 10th gen I5 users get multiple simultaneous 4k streams going at > 1x speed. Even with tone mapping it should only use like 45% CPU for a single stream.

Unfortunately the difference between software and hardware development cycles means that when you're on data formats that came to prominence in the last 2 years, even the newest hardware may not support it yet.
I'm tentatively with you.

Reading this brings back some bad memories from working at a place that had something similar going, trying to be very open/transparent and deliberate about culture and processes. That culture and processes that existed on paper was about bottom-up power structures and so forth.

From that context, I can understand how people become very motivated to engage with these kinds of documents and have these kinds of discussions. It feels very empowering when suddenly you get to be a part of these conversations that are normally only had a few pay grades above yours. It's also a welcome change of scenery from the daily drudgery of a software engineering IC who lives breathes and works code, and nothing but code.

The problem, at the place where I worked, was that all of this amounted to nothing more than an "opium for the masses", and the informal/true power structures that lay behind all the decisions that actually mattered was very different from what existed "on paper".

So, all of this pretense of bottom-up-ness provides a motivation boost for new employees for maybe a year or two. But you can't hide the truth for longer than that. Afterwards, if you were naive enough to fall for it, you feel you've been manipulated and abused, and that's not a nice feeling. Also, the whole thing can take on a cult-like dynamic.
I'm in the midst of a similar situation to the Slack team, but on a smaller scale. Our app is a product of the people and the culture. You can't just steamroll the culture and not affect development and the end product.

I've been really surprised at how naive senior people in our parent company are on this front. Many have spent their whole careers at this one company, so they have very limited understanding of anything that doesn't align to what their company does.

Combine this lack of experience with a big dollop of hubris (they work for BigCo!) and it's easy to imagine a well-intentioned executive destroying the value of the acquired team and product.
To be fair US companies have built some truly awful tools in this field.

Can anyone remember the name of that awful booking system Oracle sells?