skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It will be, that's what CB in CBDC is about.

If you wonder what Governments may / will do with CBDC, here is something which shall be enlightening https://cointelegraph.com/news/the-world-could-be-facing-a-d...
That's only until you've grokked Rust. I find iterating in Rust to be faster than Python.
I somehow doubt that the number of github stars is part of VC due diligence.
Just to give my humble experience, having bought a VIA-compatible keyboard was the opportunity to reorganize keys and test which options make sense for me.
I am still in my early phase, but (for example) I discovered that a 60% keyboard would suit my needs just fine (with CapsLock as my favorite choice as a mapping switcher).
I wonder how to check if an even more compact layout could work for me.
Does that mean additional mapping switching keys? [i wonder how to handle a Ctrl-Alt-Shift-F9, then ;) ]
That seems like a generic malware filter/anti-virus? I'm not sure that will prevent targetted attacks?
I think Maven does PGP fairly well. It's not perfect, but enh.

Sonatype are the community stewards. They make sure you have control over and email address and a packaging namespace. PGP is nice because it _requires_ an email address tied to a cert.

They _require_ signatures for _every_ artifact uploaded.

The maven repository manager makes your release transactional. Either all of your artifacts are signed and the signatures match, or none of the artifacts are published.

Your release is rejected if you fail to pass the test.

After the checks, you are given the option to publish the transaction or not.

There is no undo button, as it should be.

I also reported a bug/security issue to Sonatype and they fixed it within a few weeks.

There is room for improvement:

I think they could get stricter and require the signing keys be listed in the pom or whatever build file you use.

Maven does some signature checking, but it oddly enough doesn't do pgp verification. Given that 100% of signatures are checked on upload, it technically is redundant since nearly everything is TLS these days.

I think Sonatype should publish a transparency keymap. This would probably be an actual good real-world use case for a blockchain too. KeyId -> Artifact Namespace controlled.
It seems like without fail, whenever PGP is mentioned, someone is ready to offer criticism of it, usually without offering a better alternative, since one doesn't really exist.

Yet it is the most stable, the most open, the most proven, and the most supported PKI technology, supporting both encryption and signatures.

I found GnuPG and OpenPGP.js are incredibly easy to integrate into my project. I didn't like the current ways that it is used, so I designed a new way, with disposable private keys, which frees the user from key management burdens. I don't use many of PGP's features which I don't need, such as key management and nested keys.

PGP is still an incredible standard and technology, the rare kind that's remained supported and (mostly) backwards-compatible for 25+ years, like HTML and Perl.

I'm glad it exists, and I anticipate it being useful for at least another 25, thanks to the Lindy Effect.
EU spent so many research Euros on Semantic Web projects. They all went something like this:

CS researchers: Hey guys, here's the niche marginal improvement our grad student spent 200 hours developing. Here are the guidelines for you domain experts on how to encode and load your knowledge. START!

Domain experts: euh ... what you are asking us to do would take 9 manyears for the initial base and a 2 FTE upkeep. Why exactly would we do this?

CS researchers: not my problem. Paper has been submitted and accepted. Your question was out of scope. Want to join our next proposal?
Instead of throwing the baby out with the bath water, try posting on some python discord channel and educate ur users.
Many of Philip K. Dick books and short stories, but Ubik and A Maze of Death are my favorites.

William Gibson's Sprawl trilogy (Neuromancer, Count Zero and Mona Lisa Overdrive)

Douglas N. Adams - The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

Frank Herbert's Dune books

Theodore Sturgeon's More Than Human

Robert A. Heinlein - Citizen of the Galaxy

Robert Charles Wilson's Spin trilogy

Frederik Pohl's Heechee books
JSON allows you to store arbitrarily large integers/floats. It's only in JS this is a problem, not if you use JSON in languages that support larger (than 54-bit) integers.
I assume you are the lead developer or someone in an exeuctive position associated with Dragonfly. Your defensive, holier-than-thou attitude and tone here and elsewhere is another reason we decided not to adopt Dragonfly internally.

Yes, your results are either inaccurate or deceptive at best. I challenge you run to memcached, under all default settings, and Dragonfly, under all default settings, and memtier_benchmark, under all default settings. Performance is reproducibly orders of magnitude slower, and Dragonfly is also much less efficient--consuming more than double the CPU usage for the same workload.

We also created a test Dragonfly cluster mirroring a small percentage of production traffic in order to do a side-by-side comparison with Memcache. Dragonfly consumed 47% higher CPU usage and regressed P99 latency by 22%. Perhaps our workload is unique, but claiming Dragonfly outperforms Memcache the way you do in your marketing material is an outright lie.
Windows XP and Server 2003 would mark the only time in Windows's history that the releases weren't fully synced up. (Unless you count Windows XP x64 Edition, which was the same OS files as Server 2003)

I doubt any Windows administrators are really mystified by it. Vista and Server 2008, one and the same. 7 and Server 2008 R2, one and the same. 8.0 and Server 2012, one and the same. etc. It's even obvious if you pay attention to update files, they start with "Windows6.0-KB...", "Windows6.1-KB...", etc.

As for marketing, there is a real difference between home/workstation releases and server releases. It's not in the kernel or basic OS services, but instead with things like Windows Media Player or IIS. It makes little sense to include WMP on a server. Likewise, it makes little sense to include IIS on Home Edition.
> I’ve used their products pretty much exclusively for nearly 20 years but I’ll never understand many of their decisions.

This is why they make those decisions, they know they have an extremely loyal customer base that will buy it anyway
To counter what the other active business said, we tried using KeyDB for about 6 months and every fear you concern you stated came true. Numerous outages, obscure bugs, etc. Its not that the devs aren’t good, its just a complex problem and they went wide with a variety of enhancements. We changed client architecture to work better with tradition Redis. Combined with with recent Redis updates, its rock solid and back to being an after-thought rather than a pain point. Its only worth the high price if it solves problems without creating worse ones. I wish those guys luck but I wont try it again anytime soon.

* its been around 2 years since our last use as a paying customer. YMMV.
The article itself says things are already being done about it.

> Senior national security officials said Friday that all of the incidents described took place before the FBI had completed a series of internal reforms—including written justifications for searches, more oversight and requiring analysts to actively opt into searching the foreign intelligence database. Those steps, adopted within the past few years, are intended to reduce incidents of noncompliance.

> “We’re not trying to hide from this stuff,” a senior FBI official said. “This type of noncompliance is unacceptable, and that’s why we put these reforms in place to stop that from happening.”
> PGP is defined by its baggage, and any greenfield implementation that avoids that baggage is intentionally breaking compatibility with the thing it's meant to be compatible with.

Is there a way in PGP to say "I won't talk to you if you have a weak key, or use ciphers that are not one of <some reasonable list of modern ciphers>"? Like you have in TLS, SSH, and IKE handshakes?
YAML is great except for everything wrong with it, YAML is the worst except for all the others, etc., etc.
Worked in Wang UK VS OS tech support in the early '90s.

Best memories:

- Figuring out how to get square root in COBOL (no built-in fn).

- Writing Conway's game of life in Wang assembler (more or less IBM 270/370 assembler).

Worst memories:

Quality Learning Process (QLP) - a completely ineffectual attempt to turn the company around by writing "working together for quality" on mugs, pencils etc. (at least that's how I remember it).
> trying to set up a philanthropic fund that he hoped would include the billionaire as an anchor donor

haha yes, I'm sure this was the sum total of the influence Epstein was exerting.
FedNow
You can store arbitrary precision numbers in JSON. The spec explicitly doesn't lock you into floats or any other specific number format.
I don't think you even need to be particularly religious to be disgusted by the whole thing. Infinite clickbait generator, automated forum shill, endless copyright-infringement re-mix, digital telemarketer horde, electric pedestrian mower ("only a few more years to fully-autonomous driving!")... Only part of it that gives me a warm-fuzzy would be autotranslation.

Then there are the vile people trying to "regulate" it because, turns out, their moats weren't nearly as deep as they thought they were. Even though regulating ML would be like regulating long-division, given how venal and/or mentally challenged most politicians are, Altman may actually complete his "Hail Mary" pass.
Blindsight by Peter Watts. Canticle for Leibowitz by Henry Miller. The Moon is a Harsh Mistress by Heinlein.

Blindsight is possibly my favorite book of all time. It stayed with me for a very long time and sincerely changed the way I view the world.
Too bad this “cheater” failed to learn about grammatical errors.
Why are all these companies bidding on this? Is there a bubble of headset users that I’m not aware of?
QB Enterprise uses Sybase internally, which is a sound choice, except they also do some kind of crazy file-locking over a SMB share, which can sometimes go wrong and cause issues. They scramble the login/password (and there are tools to do this computation so you can try to connect to the DB directly, but the schema is convoluted, and clearly decended from their old Dos/Win 3.1 roots), and then connect over the network to Sybase.

Network clients crashing can cause issues that are difficult to unwind. It should not be possible to get the database into a state where backups + verification fail if it was enforcing referential integrity, but that seems to be common.

The official tools to get yourself out of a pickle from Intuit are guesses at best. There is a cottage industry of people who will (for a great fee depending on how urgent it is), attempt to recover/correct the database for you, because they have experience peeking behind the curtain and building additional tools on the XML API.

Good luck if you are using EDI or other electronic document exchange with other customers, and you transmit sales order numbers for a few hundred orders in the morning, and then things go pear shaped and QB refuses to cooperate and open the file in the afternoon. Going back to last night's backup means carefully/manually re-ordering 4 hrs of work to make sure that everything lines up, so you're probably in for a late day.

Intuit "officially" supports a linux based server for QBE, but the community seems to thumb it's nose up at it, and offers no support for this configuration.

QB, for many years was a very good price for the SMB market. There was a LOT of pricing headroom to the next best accounting package. Someone @ intuit has figured that out over the last 10 years and they are ratcheting up the price till customers fall out -- figuring it's finally worth it to drop QB for another solution.

I'm aware of a migration from QB Enterprise to QB Online, that after signing up and paying, Intuit basically aborted the process. "Sorry, we don't support doing multiple tax rates for employees in multiple states in the QB Online version, here's your money back". Maybe they fix that eventually, but that's where it stood last year.

QB is a frustrating product, for the inertia it currently has.
A man in charge of knowing when the U.S. runs out of money
George Orwell: Why I Write (1946)
It really isn't financially feasible. HVAC is different. Electrical loads are different. Plumbing is different. Sewer is different. Requirements for elevators are different. Life safety is different. Huge chunks of the building would be unlivable because they'd be on the interior with no windows.

To meet even the barest of code requirements you'd basically have to gut the building and redo almost all of it. And SF requirements are hilariously strict and complicated.

Of course it can be done, but if you think renting to businesses is hard, try renting at >$75/sq. ft. A 1200 sq. ft. apartment would be $7500/mo. The only people who can afford that are high-paid technology guys, and their job has already left SF for Texas or wherever.
> Obviously, anything with OAuth is "bundled" into my Google account. So if anything this is a huge underestimate.

If Google ever pulls the plug on you, you're in for a bad time.
NuGet (the .net package manager) maybe?
The article says the current administration is trying to fix it and might have been successful already. None of the incidents occurred after the fixes.

> Senior national security officials said Friday that all of the incidents described took place before the FBI had completed a series of internal reforms—including written justifications for searches, more oversight and requiring analysts to actively opt into searching the foreign intelligence database. Those steps, adopted within the past few years, are intended to reduce incidents of noncompliance

> “We’re not trying to hide from this stuff,” a senior FBI official said. “This type of noncompliance is unacceptable, and that’s why we put these reforms in place to stop that from happening.”
QB Online works pretty well, I've used it for many years.

Intuit has an obvious disrespect for their customers - some important bugs have gone unfixed for years amid continual complaints, while the newbie support people suggest they be reported to Intuit!

I handle the accounting for a small non-profit. We need the ability to categorize our revenue and expense, which now requires the full QBO.

At $850 / year, the cost is out of line with our $30K / year revenue. But, I'm rather stuck because the organization needs to be able to transfer the work to another accountant if something happens to me, and GnuCash, ledger, hledger, etc. aren't well known. Also, we need the ability to accept payments from PayPal and Stripe without a lot of manual entry.
Get a lawyer or forget about it.
Nope, that's just what it feels like we're doing. It's a good trick!
I was able to get one last summer. Since then it has been even easier to get, albeit this was from Germany and it was not marked up in price but from a standard electronics retailer
Hacker News has Blackberry amnesia.
You absolutely get adware on iOS, I remember at least the calendar ad infestation as an example, and I had my fair share of broken icloud account to fix for my tech illiterate father as well. Don't know what they are doing on that aspect but even as a software developer, it was very hard to fix
Can you elaborate further on what you mean by a "desktop-level operating system"? By what metric(s)/feature-set? Because Windows Mobile out-did it every way in terms of multitasking, file system et al. You couldn't even multitask on an iPhone until iOS 4 in 2010.

The capacitive touchscreen wasn't unique, the LG Prada was announced prior to the original iPhone, and launched before the original iPhone too. Perhaps "unusual" would be a better term.

I had an iPhone at launch, and perhaps it's down to what websites you used (I'm a Brit), but the browsing experience was pretty terrible until people started developing responsive websites, and it really wasn't until ~2009-2010 that this took off in any appreciable or meaningful capacity in the UK, and even then, it was still common to have a separate mobile version of a website up until 2013. Prior to that, an app for larger websites became much more common, and offered a much better experience than the mobile website or responsive website ever did. Browsing the web over 2G sucked. Websites having buttons too small to press with your fingers also sucked.

Websites that were 100% Flash were super common, as were Flash elements. Even the PlayStation Portable could display Flash in the browser by 2005 after an official firmware update from Sony.

I also had Windows Mobile, BlackBerry et al in the years prior to that.

Sure, pinch-to-zoom, that was serviceable in lieu of a responsive website or mobile site, but it still sucked versus just using the app for the site when the App Store eventually launched. Furthermore, most of the software innovation was happening in Cydia via jailbreaks prior to the App Store launch. Even then, for a considerable number of years following it. Apple would frequently incorporate whatever was hot on Cydia as a concept on the next major version of iOS.
When you say "acknowledged by Microsoft" I notice you don't provide a link or even a quote. There's a big difference between what's obvious to programmers and what you can get fanboys to accept is true about a product they've somehow connected to their self-worth. In my experience the Registry Key made all the difference and of course Microsoft were not publishing "Use this registry key to effectively pirate Windows Server" docs - unless you're claiming they did?

Windows 2000 Server is like older NT versions, it's exactly the same actual code as the far cheaper Windows 2000 Professional, whereas Windows Server 2003 was a different branch from the similar XP on the desktop, there was no "Windows Professional 2003" or whatever. The bundling makes it a bit easier for customers to stomach that you're blatantly selling them the exact same product with a different badge for more money, but it's not enough.

It wasn't just about Client licenses either. Some Windows "editions" (ie the exact same code with a registry change) had different hardware support. Got 4 CPUs? Can't use them in "professional" edition, you need Server. Got a huge beat with 32 CPUs? Ordinary Server won't work, get yourself Datacenter Server. Same for RAM.
A recent favourite is "There is no anti-memetics division".
You can read it over here, for free. Or buy a physical copy (which I did, and was very happy to)

https://qntm.org/scp
$3k+ is exactly the right price point. A customer cannot be disappointed from a product they don't buy. And the type of enthusiast who spends 3k+ on it, will be satisfied before they even wear it.

At 3k+ it will likely be the unchallenged top headset on the market, and that alone will mean that tech nerds will be raving over it.

> where are the apps going to come from?

Gaming whales exist. Enterprise customers exist. Microsoft got a $2b from the DOD for building the holo-lens 2 at tech demo levels of product quality. IMO, VR is 1 UX breakthrough away from finding a money-generating niche. And UX breakthrough/popularization is Apple's bread and butter.
redis being single threaded is actually a feature since you have guarantees about consistency and serializability
Does Maven Central check that the GPG key used matches anything? Or can you just use whatever random key to sign your packages?
What is intriguing is that while French politics drove the project, it is entirely a British building plopped in the middle of Paris.

It's a pity Jean Nouvel wasn't around then - his work* is great imo.

This is a modern French building:

http://www.jeannouvel.com/en/projects/institut-du-monde-arab...

* http://www.jeannouvel.com/en/projets/

A must see if you go to Switzerland - an amazing structure that defies photographic capture - has to be experienced: http://www.jeannouvel.com/projets/centre-de-culture-et-des-c...
NASA – Our Solar System
Today's AI(ML) is "just" big statistics. And so ...

The math-and-adjacent cohort you mention would like to avoid another "AI winter".

It's possible "you should try it" is a UX use case indicator that (perhaps akin to engineers who don't understand why normies buy iPhones) those telling you this feel you're missing something essential about the experience of this tech's utility: "You may be right, but this works for me, while whatever else you're on about ... doesn't."

As for woo woo, this is the first time the big statistics are indistinguishable from magic for them, passing the Turing Test en masse.
Neural Network Architecture Beyond Width and Depth
Snowden used gpg and taught it to non-programmers:

https://theintercept.com/2014/10/28/smuggling-snowden-secret...

I'm surprised by the number of people who say that gpg is insecure. Is it disliked because it is decentralized and everything has to be owned and tracked by the four MAGA (formerly FAANG) corporations?

A bullet proof HOWTO can fix all of this.
I've had "better" experiences with Brother, but it still seems to suffer from being a printer in the ecosystem of "printer hell".

My Brother printer no matter what I do likes to go into this deep sleep mode that may as well be powered off, nothing wakes it up, power cycle and it drops right back into deep sleep immediately.... The software for it is bulky, wants to run on my PC all the time (why?).

Is it better than an HP printer, yeah probably in some sense, but the landscape of printers all being a pain is still true.

I don't have a functional printer right now. I need one ... but I keep procrastinating buying one. I just don't want to deal with it.
3,995 by 1Password as of May 21, 2023.
Architectural approaches for AI and ML in multitenant solutions
"The line" in Saudi Arabia is apparently under construction and not vapourware.
https://www.neom.com/en-us/regions/theline
Very nice!

Took me 4 tries (and one extension of the snippet).

Good that this is only updated once a day — otherwise I’d spend my afternoon hooked on it :-)
Coincidentally I did some research on this topic the other day and I couldn't find any SSD model with unlimited SLC cache. They all have fairly low limits like 10% of overall capacity.
It could have a better type system and be just as versatile.
Can't speak to the Netflix/Prime integrations but Jellyfin is perfect. Also the YouTube extension(after some FAFF setting it up) is a far nicer, ad free YouTube experience.
Not necessarily: https://archive.ph/jL5J9
A tankless water heater is a drop in replacement for a traditional water heater.

Your contractor messes with it for a day and that evening you are taking a warm shower just like you did the night before.

This is what drop in means.

But if you were to go around selling people this drop in tankless water heater 150 years ago before homes had the required electricity, you would rightfully be called a liar.
The "server OS" bit came from software assuming that Windows NT 5.2 would always be Server 2003, and it was an incorrect assumption. If they had instead read the ProductType key and based the SKU lockout on WinNT (home/workstation) or ServerNT (server, obviously), no such issue would have happened.

Windows 2000 was always NT 5.0 in both professional and server, such software had to use ProductType instead. Likewise, Windows Vista and Server 2008 are both NT 6.0. XP/Server 2003 is the only time when it deviated, and some 3rd-parties didn't notice the proper way to distinguish between client and server; becoming even worse once XP x64 came out and was actually NT 5.2 (XP 32-bit was NT 5.1).
The distinction between "old" and "dead" seems important, though.
You cannot patent a removal without an accompanying addition.
> Mexico City, Rome, Athens,

Definitely not landlocked, or sterile. Seats of millennial civilizations for a reason
That's not Google's definition of search spam, as I suspect you will soon find out.