skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not sure about that. Perhaps if they're super convenient to use. But if I'm going to put in the time to set up a system to reduce fees on FX conversions, I want to be sure I'm getting (close to) the best rate possible.

If they start charging 1% tomorrow, up from 0.5%, I'm pretty sure I would reconsider if I were using them (and I have used them in the past, in the early days -- they're great).

But I started routing currency conversions through an account at my broker (Interactive Brokers), and I'm currently getting market rate + 0.2%. These 0.3%s add up fast if you're converting meaningful amounts of money and in comparison Transferwise seems expensive again. But of course it's still a long way from the 2.5-5% banks are charging.
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Are you saying that registration taxes in Denmark amount to tens of thousands of dollars?
I disagree on both counts.

First, I believe that most people would rather relax and take it easy as long as their basic needs are covered (food, shelter, porn, games and some weed).

Secondly I think that we need SO much more work done around us, and of so much better quality. Everywhere I look I see crumbling cities, broken infrastructure, decaying building and wild nature reclaiming areas that used to be domesticated and manicured. The work being done is crappy, substandard and simply done badly. It's like nobody even thinks anymore.

Business are crying for better, smarter employees but they are unable to get them no matter the cost. Consumers are crying for better services and products but are facing a race to the bottom everywhere we look. Markets are failing everywhere due to the massive governmental interventions.

Maybe all this will be solved when robots appear, but for right now there is a lot of work to be done...
Maybe they will finally learn to provide updates, because people won't get new handsets anyway.
People that always have the latest phone seems to have a higher need to talk about what phone they got. Part of what they paid for, social recognition
I think it is an interesting argument.

My problem is just that while the farmers had power as a collective, they could really not threaten the political survival of the dictatorship.

History suggest to me that Stalin had reached absolute power and then he finally could dedicate himself to what he actually wanted to do.

The reason collectivization does not make sense as a strategy for political survival is that it massively endangered his position. He had major opposition to these polices because of how extremely damaging they would be.
Institutional money is coming in next year, via CME Bitcoin futures and possibly ETF. It would be wise to hold some crypto in case the bubble gets even crazier.
It's insane, borderline criminal. I knew someone who wanted to convert ~1m AUD -> USD -- and the banks were still trying to offer to do at 2-3% ! At that amount, you can open a brokerage account and trade through EBS or CNX directly and pay basis points.
Next lesson: you can switch to the n'th tab using Alt+<n> (or perhaps a different modifier key depending on browser and OS). Since pinned tabs appear on the left-hand side, that means you'll always have e.g. Alt+1 for email, Alt+2 for calendar, etc.

(Nice and related is that you can do Super+<n> for window switching in at least Windows and Ubuntu.)
I think what really damaged the Tesla brand was going with my cousins to pick up his >100k Model X.

1) They had done the paperwork wrong and hadn’t informed his bank about some additional charges so it required an additional hour for them to get that sorted before my cousin basically just paid that additional amount upfront.
2) There were scratches in quite a few places that were noticed by us and cleaned up once we mentioned them. My cousin has purchased a couple of BMWs in the past for a lot less and never seen that before.
3) Some parts were not fitting well and had to be adjusted.
4) The autopilot to remove the car from the garage doesnt work because the garage is at the top of a slight incline. This is pretty common in many US garages. Hopefully this is just a software fix.
5) The overall car quality simply doesn’t match up to what you’d expect from a 100k car.

That being said, it’s still a pleasure to drive and a really nice car. He can’t go back to driving an ICE anymore.

Tesla does seem to have a lot of quality control issues which may have been to,reared by the initial set of buyers that will become more of a problem with a less forgiving next wave of potential customers. And a lot of their solutions currently appear very manual and ad hoc. Hopefully they can improve on them soon.
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Of course they would. Most people don't understand how the fee structure works, so will comply.

You can open up a brokerage account at Interactive Brokers with a few thousand and use it to exchange FX. It's pretty accessible.
How can HSMs be considered MITM-proof if does not have dedicated input system (touchscreen/keyboard) ?
I live in Chile and have been to places like 200km North of Santiago that are very serious about curbing light pollution. After all, Chile houses more telescopes than any other country and they are a serious industry here. I believe the reasons are that there are a lot of high-altitude places (air is thinner) where the air is also very dry, with a sparse population that doesn't produce much light (especially because of favorable regulation to promote this industry) and there's local knowhow because of all the other existing telescopes.
> And how did Western society just accept all of this anti-democratic craziness?

Western societies, so as not to upset the guise of freedom and personal rights to privacy, do so in secret but it's not exclusive to them. China publicly mandates government backdoors into their equipment too.
Sounds like bad Infosec policies at work. I doubt they have VLANs, everything can likely access everything internally.
A regression is the kernel not giving the same result with the same user space
It feels to me that you might be looking for something like Firebase, Zeit Now, TJ's up, or even Graphcool, depending on your needs.

With Kubernetes, even on hosted services like GKE or semi-managed like Tectonic you will be paying premium.

Either way when you're large enough (e.g. 100+ nodes), you need to think about your VMs: i.e. default sysctl settings and similar are not one size fits all.
Its amazing they can transfer to the UK within the same minute now.
Innovation in mobile stopped years ago. Buying a new phone today won't bring you any new features.

So why bother buying a new device when the old one still works?
It's because you don't do bulk calls. Sells, support, orders, etc. They all need office phones at a certain scale. Not that they couldn't do it with mobiles. But infrastructures for those kind of systems all assume a land line.
I agree, most people are just not aware. I like the machines I've seen in airports and train stations that offer currency conversions. They have 'No Fees! No commission!' posted all over them -- ignoring the fact that the bid-ask spread they're charging is 15-20%. Again, criminal.
I've worked for pretty much every type of company except VC-funded Silicon Valley style start-ups since about 2008. Every desk I've ever sat at, including the one I'm at now, has had a VoIP phone sitting on it.
In my experience, the entire world runs on insecure systems (and will continue to do so until companies start getting sued into oblivion for leaking data). Secure systems are the exception--not the norm. It's just not a priority because companies only prioritize things that "add value". So until we attach a real cost to lack-of-security, it won't be valued.

I've literally seen a college have admin credentials hosted on a publicly addressable plaintext document just so that their new machines can netboot. And that's just one, quick, story out of dozens upon dozens I have.
It's not just about the government(s). No backdoor remains exclusive.
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and later he clarifies it thusly:

'''
People should basically always feel like they can update their kernel
and simply not have to worry about it.

I refuse to introduce "you can only update the kernel if you also
update that other program" kind of limitations. If the kernel used to
work for you, the rule is that it continues to work for you.
'''
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> I don't see how your comment is responsive to the excellent article. doc and xls were proprietary binary formats.

Indeed. He probably meant docx and xlsx.
I fully agree that whitelisting is safer than blacklisting.

But on the top of the article, the author explicitly recognzied this and explained why they went down that route:

> I wanted specifically to find a minimal set of restrictions to run untrusted code. This isn't how you should approach containers on anything with any exposure: you should restrict everything you can. But I think it's important to know which permissions are categorically unsafe!
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Yet.

Is basically what they're saying.

I actually think the scenario where robotics and AI cut the job market in half is worse than the one where they take over 99% of jobs.

If everyone is unemployed, the Protestant work ethic myths clearly no longer apply, and it'll be clear to just about everyone that we need to find another way to distribute the means to live.

Whereas as long as a large chunk of the population (even 25%) is employed, they get to feel virtuous about that. They'll continue to blame the rest for being unemployed or underemployed, unwilling to concede the possibility of structural employment or that there might simply not be work available for people who don't have the capacity for high-skilled jobs; or even that there are a finite number of such jobs to go around.
> The integrity of the blockchain is ensured by the number of miners.

No it is not. Even if you are a single miner you won't be able to pass incorrect transactions, such as moving other people's money or create coins out of nowhere.
Incredible fan of DRF and I really wish to thank all the contributors for the amazing effort in making this framework so simple to use.
Indeed it illustrates how much we don't need human resource workers.

I have a reasonable amount of experience with scripted questions for phone calls and face to face conversations.

It of course should be "foundation of" not "foundations for" but that aside...("..." for a short breathing break) your first question has a slash in it? The whole point of preparing questions is to not have such things. After a very tiny number of interviews one would chose between the 2.

I would smile at the second question and politely explain why I thought the job was interesting in well prepared words, then ask "Why do I want to work here? How long have you worked here? Why do you work here?"

I would totally expect an answer (only) to the second question. To which I would respond by asking if they enjoyed it.

By that time the vc question will seem alien to the context of the conversation. If you bring it up again I will ask if you ever applied for jobs while working there.

Then I will openly mock you by arguing it would be interesting just to see what kind of questions they ask.

After "I have other interviews to do today" to crank some urgency into the conversation, I will explain why I thought this job was more interesting than the others (same as before only more contrasting than generic), how it fits with what I know, my expectations for further development of these skills and what interests me about the product.

If nothing serious comes out in response I will leave "expecting to hear from you soon".

You will be in awe - how fast that went.

Then I will set fire to your bikeshed. (haha)
I don't know about 'the perfect team' - but I definitely feel like there's a lot of things that you 'forget' to talk about in your day-to-day work unless you explicitly dedicate time to it.
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Instead of a novel, I am trying to write a short story/essay each day of November. The idea is that I will have 30 different stories at the end of the month :)
Yeah, its akin to holding out for wireless charging on a Pixel. Its dead and not gonna come back :c
Sad but true. :( That said, people do pay for convenience, which I assume is the main function of those cash machines. If I end up in a foreign country that I haven't visited before, I'll likely withdraw some cash (not much) from one of those machines just to be safe.

You never know when your credit cards might stop working.. (I've had my main card blocked randomly while travelling and it frankly was a pain)
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Exactly. Basically the same thing that happened in consumer desktop/laptop computers 8-10 years ago. People are now keeping them for 5-10 years instead of upgrading every 3 years.
I didn't mean coverage measurement is a way of doing mutation testing, I meant that measuring how much of your code is exercised by your tests is a way of measuring test effectiveness.

Yes, it can be inaccurate, as your trivial example shows, but it does guide you towards unhandled test cases (i.e. where your tests are ineffective). Likewise, mutation testing guides you towards unhandled test cases (including ones that coverage can't detect).
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It's easy to get distracted by the value of the transactions, but they're just the payload. Nobody is "buying" a product worth those billions in transactions, the same way someone bought $N worth of books for a bookseller to have $N revenue.

A shipping company is evaluated on its ability to move containers, and nobody cares (well, the insurer does) if the containers are filled with iPhones or cardboard, as long as the customer pays the shipping fee.
Surprisingly, wood construction never really stopped improving and even picked up in the past decade or two. A renovation would not touch the core construction or noise. In order to make it even a little quieter you'd have to rip up the floor down to the joists and install a new subfloor.

Innovations like engineered lumber, PEX and high R insulation have made a world of difference since my habitat for humanity days.
Since batteries are the whole selling point of a Tesla, I'd say it remains evidence that something is "terribly wrong".
Since Netflix fires employees who are unhappy I would like to hear the story from the other side as well, that is - from the unhappy fired employees.
I'm suggesting that not setting rules is not treating people like grown-ups at all, but playing tricks with peer pressure and the power disparity.
But it could easily become true if SQLite was a common document format. Back in the 90's and early 2000's, OS didn't come with a ZIP utility either.
That's a moot point though.

If you want to compete in a market, you got to play at the speed/quality/prices of the market -- there is no slack given for being new.
There's the monthly Who Is Hiring thread[1] for that.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15601729
People may feel uneasy about this, but what is the alternative?

A few years ago we were in a situation where CAs basically could do whatever crap they want and had to face no consequences at all. Google and Mozilla have at some point said "stop" and have started tightening rules.

Ultimately if you operate a CA properly there is also little to fear. Don't issue certs for domains whose owners haven't asked for it, don't violate the rules that CAs and Browsers agreed upon, if mistakes happen be transparent about it, explain them and answer questions. No CA has faced any serious consequences for minor mistakes. The cases where CAs have faced consequences all had in common that major violations of rules happened multiple times.
Surely it would be easier to just get a cert.

What's preventing these types from doing so?
It depends a lot on where you are. Warm parts of the US will build houses with 2x4s and uninsulated interior walls+floors. In the northern US the exterior and even sometimes interior walls are 2x6 and have high quality insulation in the walls, floors and ceilings, plus nowadays there's quite a thick layer of foam on the outside. The extra strength and rigidity does a ton of work attenuating noise from other parts of the house, and the walls are much harder to transmit sound through.
That's true.

I agree, you should iterate over all your existing capabilities and drop those that are not in the white-list. (I have implemented this functionality in one of my projects this way.)

BUT:

Maybe the reason some people do it otherwise, is that capabilities API have only a drop function for the bounding set, and people just don't think they should use it in reverse mode - Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis in operation! ;)

edit: seems like the author have a different reason though
Oh.

As it happens, I wasn't making an argument. I was answering nikbackm's question.
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Rewriting "20 man years of software in 4 weeks" cannot result in anything else than bug ridden convoluted spaghetti code in my opinion. That is nothing to brag about.
I would assume that they will be able to get significant revenue from building higher-value-added services on top of their infrastructure. The "Borderless account" is a potential step in that direction: https://transferwise.com/borderless
You are using same characters as book printers - is your post skeuomorphic like a newspaper section for letters from readers?
There are still a few chipset companies selling CPUs with support for JVM bytecode.

As alternative, if one is feeling bored, why not create an FPGA for it? :)
Not so much, at most you'll save $5 to $10 a line compared to an MVNO. Postpaid carriers primarily make their money by locking you in on plans mis-sized for your needs, does every family member use unlimited data? Rarely.

Equipment protection plans and other similar features are also another profit center to beware of.
This is what happens when all the education about computer programming cuts out any parts related to humanities. In my three years studying information science on university, there was never one minute spend on ethics, the impact of technology on society or any critical thinking. Feeling some discomfort with your disruption? Just repeat the dogma “technology itself is neutral - it’s just a matter of how you use it.” and you will be fine.
The battery never dies on a paper copy.

Also, there's no Amazon take backs.
We do something similar at my place, it's a great way to make sure our dev discussions stay on track, and when they derail we go "we need to talk about this at the next sit-down, not here".
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To what exactly are you referring? Because right now they're reducing production, not prices.
>Yes, actually they could. They could be readable without any software at all. Like XML.

You can't read XML without software.

Perhaps you take editors and cat and less as a given.

In which case, nothing prevents you from taking sqlite the binary (or 1000 serializers that can be produced very easily) as a given too.
Using the same concepts as the REPL on Interlisp-D, Symbolics, Smalltalk, Mesa/Cedar, Oberon environments.

Which kind of makes Windows, with VS, .NET and Powershell, the closest to those environments.
You might also consider "more legal" as a factor. I don't believe PayPal wants you to have two accounts with different currencies.
That's fine, but "no rules unless you mess up" is very different, because it forces you to basically try to second guess what a number of different managers will consider messing up.

Ask yourself why your current company has that rule, and consider if they could do it in a more practical way without making you guess. E.g. put dev servers on a separate network segment.

Stupid rules are worse than no rules, but if you join a place with stupid rules at least you know what you're going to. Because in reality there are rules in the "no rules" place too - they're just unwritten conventions you have to learn by trial and error.
Good point. I'd guess that if modern phones had replaceable batteries the upgrade cycle would be even longer.
What do you Google EVERY. SINGLE. TIME. and never just memorize?
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Full Spectrum Dominance; war by air, land, sea, RF, nuclear, and through subversion of media, polticial processes, food supplies, pharma, medicine, ecology, culture, religion, economies, manipulation of demographics...

This is the reality of power struggle (all means are in the game), but this new level of reach, spread and deep integration has been within reach and in active development for at least 200 years, and it's just going get worse. It's enabled by bureacracy, "one voter, one vote" democracy in the face of a mature media manipulation ("mind control") industry, capitalism and other trappings of civilization. ML is just going to end up automating the doctrine of FSD.

I think I'm moving out of the city to learn to live off the land, be independent and raise a family. I think it may be very interesting to see how I can use modern technology in that context, while making sure I don't absolutely depend on it.

Anyone else think it's quite possible there will be a lot of new wars in Western countries in 20-40 years, when the tipping point of replacement migration is reached?
Came to Ctrl-F for Skynet. Was not disappointed. This seems to be a classic situation of reasonable strategic action with problematic potential of stepping over the fine line to automatic actions based on AI-derived intelligence. Maybe not now, but think a decade into the future where enough time and space has passed between the initial planning/implementation personnel and those advancing what "has always been there". We can only hope the others love their children too.
That caught my eye, too. I would speculate that the criminals called it that because they used a Pineapple or saw it on a web site, but the blog entry takes a more conservative stance (less speculative) than I do. And well they should!
There is way too many walls of text on some of those to be real presentations. Otherwise, the over emphasis on photography makes it more of a professional tool, and even then you could arguably for a better job with PowerPoint without the annoying transitions.
I consider myself pretty tech-savvy, but I'm still completely lost as to whether Bitcoin is basically a pyramid scheme set to crash massively, or something huge that will continue climbing.

I probably should've taken the time to mine some back when my friends were doing it and tried convincing me too. Ah well.

(Queue heated comments from both sides. Discussing bitcoin is like bringing up religion AND politics at the dinner table at the same time)
SV hip factor.
Decent deskphones are significantly more comfortable than cellphones, nevermind the better audio hardware.
Why, what would they get out of it?
"When it came to brilliance, Steve Jobs was the master."

Come on guys, really? I feel like they gushingly name-dropped Steve Jobs in the title of this article's page for no other reason than to rank higher in search results, considering they barely mention him in the article.
Postgres also has that concept, though calls it Foreign Data Wrappers: https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Foreign_data_wrappers

And it goes beyond single tables e.g. PG-Strom uses FDW to implement GPGPU scans, joins, aggregations & projections (and provides a pg/CUDA while at it)
I'm so glad someone write this story, I remember thinking it would be interesting, I wasn't disappointed.