skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Hanging out near war zones and sanctioned countries significantly increases the chance that you're committing financial crimes...

Citizens of Ukraine are just "hanging out" in Ukraine? We're still talking about Ukraine being sanctioned because of Crimea, aren't we? Or have you unintentionally broadened the scope of the discussion?

Wouldn't it be more truthful to say that citizens of a country sanctioned and/or that have become war zones are at an increased chanced to do things (however uncolourful) to survive as a direct result of that very same reality?
> The more times you force me to change my behaviour, the more badwill (being the opposite of goodwill) builds up. Eventually I'll become so pissed off that I'll move, no matter what the cost.

This is why I gave up my iPhone X. I just hated constantly re-learning Apple's new paradigm du-jour, and I absolutely loathed FaceID and the notch.

Now I have a OnePlus 7 Pro, with "Touch ID" and no notch, and except for some friends occasionally saying "why are you not blue" I am happy as a clam. I never want a "Face ID" and I never want a "notch." (I don't care about bezels, etc.)

Now, I'm considering dropping the rest of Apple from my life, after a 15 year Apple-only lifestyle. It's really the "touch bar," when all I really want is an ESC key and real F keys, and the fact that I have to repair my laptop every six months because some key or other is broken again. And, it's not even a "wait 20 minutes while we replace the keyboard" but more of a "wait a few days to a week" and god hope they don't charge you $700. Ridiculous.
OK, but $500 BILLION? Come on. Maybe that's Aussie dollars.
Actually, music was the only thing Clive Wearing can play, and he was suffering from retrograde amnesia--he could not remember his past at all.
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2007/09/24/the-abyss
A lot of C++ changes are aimed at this. For example C++11 auto removed a lot of the ugliness, and is removing even more with auto template parameters and deduced return types.
> The solution to food security is not to re-engineer the farm, but to return food production to people...

I agree so much I started a side project, https://automicrofarm.com/
Trump: Make Mac Pro Parts in US of A
listening to your conversation - good luck to both of you guys:)! keep spelling!
Ah yes, that would make a lot more sense.
> This is why I find the Irish government's strategy puzzling: they continue to insist on a measure that has been a proven deal-breaker for an orderly withdrawal,

I don't think the Republic of Ireland has a good alternative. If they accept a hard border, then they suffer some of the worst no-deal effects anyway. If they accept customs checks between the Republic of Ireland and the continent (effectively putting them alone in a customs union with the UK), then the effects might be worse.

Really, getting the remainder of the EU to agree to this is an important victory for them. Under different circumstances, the continent could have thrown Ireland under the proverbial bus for the sake of a deal.
> if any of them address what I think is crucial. Once you have all your HTML and CSS and JavaScript all ready to go, how do you actually got about putting that webpage online the right way for the modern internet, including basic security best practices.

I consider this the seperating difference between a good and bad tutorial.
Firefox on Mac here. Absolutely unusable. I disabled ublocko and umatrix.
Mozilla hosts an https tunnel for subdomains that match YOUR-subdomain.mozilla-iot.org where users choose a unique subdomain and a cert for it is auto-installed (using LetsEncrypt) onto the RPi or Turris Omnia during first time setup. In the future once the WebThings Gateway has control over edge firewall rules, then the tunnel can go away in favor of a "hole" for 443 or a port forward rule for https access directly to the gw. Privacy risks are far reduced if we all run our own local smart home gateway in our homes.
This so called bubble isn't tech at all. This is the everything bubble caused by excessively low interest rates, held down by the government for inappropriately long periods of times. Sure, 0% may have been justified in the wake of the 2008 crash, for maybe a year or two, but not 10+ years!!

People shouldn't be surprised that SOOO much money is sloshing around looking for increasingly risky returns when interest rates have been 0 for so long. And here we are, at barely 2.5% (far below where it should be) and the fed is already considering rate cuts even though we're in the biggest bull market. This article is doing the world a great disservice by trying to blame the tech industry without even once mentioning the real reason: excessively low interest rates forced on us by the Fed. And it's not just the Fed, other 1st world countries are doing the same thing. They're all following the call of Keynesian economics: Keep the party drunk as long as you can by refilling the punch bowl. By creating every incentive in the world to separate people from their money as quickly as possible in a hopeless attempt to spur money flow, ultimately resulting in increasingly risky investments.
IRS sends warning letters to more than 10k cryptocurrency holders
Absolutely agree. Some people are just beyond saving. Sometimes this a matter of skill, and sometimes a matter of will but the result is the same. If you're hiring pipe-hitters and grafting them onto a JV squad the results will often not be what you'd hoped for, unless you have a particularly high-tolerance for projects being over (time-)budget.

Having personally burned myself down in such an environment, a good interview question to ask is if everyone has gone through the same hiring process and if not ask what the previous process was and why things have changed.
This seems like a reasonable way to run a tournament/contest like this. I don’t think you’d get good results if it was based solely on voting it something else that could be easily gamed. Almost all your winners would just be teams good at gaming!

But I say all that not knowing how the tournament was presented to the participants. I’d be pretty mad if I thought they asked me to do one thing and worked really hard to achieve that and it turned out they wanted something else all along.
I hope you realize that doesn't mean that you disconnected.

Try opening an ad-monetized app that requires network connection to load the ads. Make sure cellular date for that app is off. You'll get ads. Unless something has changed in the past few weeks, you should see ads load despite the fact that they should not in this scenario.

This means the Wi-Fi isn't off, isn't even in a respectful hibernate state, it's on but telling you it's off. It's your child telling you "yes mommy/daddy I'll do it right" and then cuts corners knowing you're going to trust them.

In the past few weeks my iPhone X has been having a strange Wi-Fi bug where it says it's on in the top corner of the screen, but in settings it says it's off. I didn't turn it off. When I go to turn it off, it's frozen and I have to restart settings. I'm highly suspicious it's related to Apple's Wi-Fi and Bluetooth default hibernate code or implementation of that code.

Apple screwed the pooch on this one. They should allow us to toggle the hibernate mode or long press to choose whether to go into hibernate or actually turn off, not force us to use it in a misleading way.

I've trained myself to always turn it off in settings, it's annoying, but it fits apple's product motto:

It just works.
I can confirm it says that in the corner once I turn off ublock origin in Firefox.
Adblocking: How about Nah?
Almost 20 years ago, we shipped a game called The Sims that used Comic Sans all throughout, that sold pretty well in spite of the font. Although maybe it's one reason some people are sick and tired of Comic Sans.

https://www.caseyconnect.com/hs-fs/hubfs/Imported_Blog_Media...

When to use Comic Sans:

https://www.caseyconnect.com/blog/2013/typography/comic-sans...

>The Sims Comic Sans in-game text

>Because of it's lighthearted nature, Comic Sans might be appropriate for design situations where humor or lack of seriousness is appropriate. One example of this is the simulation game The Sims, where Comic Sans was used for all in-game text. Materials appropriate for children might also benefit from the use of Comic Sans.

In case you can't stand to read Comic Sans with your own eyes, I also made an external screen scraping utility called Simplifier that reads Comic Sans text off the screen, and catalogs and recites the product descriptions with a speech synthesizer.

Demo of The Sims Transmogrifier, RugOMatic, ShowNTell, Simplifier and Slice City:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Imu1v3GecB8

I recently dug up an early internal pre-release demo of it for "The Sims Steering Committee" from June 4 1998, that convinced EA not to cancel our project. It shows a very early version of the user interface, that was already using Comic Sans. (So did the Quick Start Guide.)

The Sims Steering Committee - June 4 1998:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zC52jE60KjY

(Notice last word of the second paragraph of the Level 4 scenario description at 1:00! ;) Maybe the fact that it was written in Comic Sans enabled that little boo-boo to fly under the radar.)
>... it is not possible to estimate the long-term health risks associated with e-cigarettes precisely...

> the possibility of some harm from long-term e-cigarette use cannot be dismissed due to inhalation of the ingredients other than nicotine

> Smokers should be reassured that these products can help them quit all tobacco use forever.

> This new report builds on that work and concludes that, for all the potential risks involved, harm reduction has huge potential to prevent death and disability from tobacco use, and to hasten our progress to a tobacco-free society.

The report is pretty clear in that vaping is likely to be better than cigarettes on the health of the UK.

Not that vaping is harm free, to be clear.
Like deriding irrelevant things on the internet?
Were nicotine harmless I'd be ok with teenagers getting hooked on it. After all many of them are hooked on excessive sugar consumption and that is not harmless. Better to care about where the harm really lies than where it doesn't (again, if nicotine is harmless).

Please don't say "aargh, drugs!" and lose your cool. We need a rational not emotional response or things will be made worse.
Hong Kong Protests Become a Global Problem
> Is there any demonstrable harm caused by the banning of fruity flavor cigarettes?

loss of freedom.

you should have to demonstrate some value to the ban.
Years ago, I started work on a library that does this in Java: https://github.com/dvx/jssembly

The syntax looks like this:

jsm.define("test", new Block(x64) {{
__asm(
"nop", // no-op
"ret" // return
);
}}).invoke();
> It's a completely different skillset, and you're probably only measuring how eager people are to have breadth of knowledge

In my experience, this skillet being measured is the critical indicator for high-quality development talent at a healthy shop. You might need one deep-magic wizard for a particular area. You need breadth everywhere. You need to kill "that's not my job" stone dead when you see it.

Writing code is easy. And it's usually an additive process, even when the code is subtractive. All the other stuff, the being-a-person-in-a-community stuff (because that's really what it is), is multiplicative. So I pretty unashamedly hire for curiosity and for breadth. When it's necessary, I contract out hard expertise until curious people can develop it internally.
>[TL;DR] So, I merely suggest you answer for yourself why "I enjoy looking good" and _consciously_ decide on the weighting that has in sartorial and other aesthetic decisions.

Which, I have. It's the fact that your original comment has unneeded swipes at complete strangers maturity for expression their opinions and worries regarding what they find attractive in themselves that I have issues with. If you can't see why one could read your messages in that matter, then I'm not sure how else to explain it I'm afraid.

[TL;DR] Being bald looks gross on me. I don't like that, because I like looking nice. This isn't a sign of immaturity, as much as you keep repeating it as it that'll make it true.
On the other hand, I’m totally against subscription software because I resent having to pay again and again for the same product just to be able to use it a month later. What ever happened to making a product, selling it once to the customer, who then gets to use it as they wish for as long as it works? Why does everything have to be a recurring revenue stream? Because you have software engineers who need something to do? I don’t want to pay your software team over and over so they can keep changing it on me over and over. Just make it once, sell it, then go make something else!
Thank you very much. It seemed like we were just duplicating a bunch of scheme-less json for no reason, but if ES can lose data, that's probably not a good idea.
I disagree with you.

If you want to tell me how big your public cloud is, in terms of revenues, you are not going to count revenues that come from software than runs on top of it.

By that account, AWS could say: 30B, plus 200B more, taking into account the revenues of Salesforce, Elastic, etc.

It makes no sense to conflate these two very different categories.
Will this article be remembered like the book Dow 36,000[0]? Only time will tell, but I would be nervous about suggesting a bubble had "disappeared" rather than the media losing focus on it.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dow_36,000
Agreed. If the smoke smelt of vomit...
Absolutely. If your market is geographically concentrated, a newspaper - if the people you're targeting in your geography read that newspaper - can be a great channel.
MineRL: Towards AI in Minecraft
Unisys ClearPath MCP, the modern version of the Burroughs linage never supported any kind of Assembly, instead it was the first high level systems programming language to use compiler intrinsics, in 1961.

The same path that Microsoft has decided to follow since they introduced 64 bit support. Compiler intrinsics.

Also copy paste inline Assembly from C into Rust only works for a specific C compiler.
I'm just disappointed that TechShop went bankrupt. At one point I wanted to open a facility in the Balt/Washington corridor. I figured there'd be a lot of people wanting to learn those skills, and an accessible location. They opened a franchise in Crystal City, VA (DC) but all closed in 2018. It was a a mega-makerspace with classes to learn all theses technologies.
Quite the opposite, in fact: https://www.cnbc.com/2019/07/26/ex-german-defense-chief-ques...
Maybe have a senior review the code afterward so the new guy can see what's being expected?
> So far the answers aren't clear.

That article contains no information that clearly states that nicotine is harmless, just that using vapes and nicotinic gums are less harmful than the use of cigarettes. To be clear, it does not say that nicotine is harmful, nor does it say that it is harmless.
Stress is such a stupid thing. Here in London, you're almost celebrated for having a stressful job. Neither does it improve productivity in the long term, nor does it support a healthy life. I wished more managers would understand that.
i know what you mean but work is not the place for that. Your life is the place for that but I'm opening a whole other can of discussion worms.
Perhaps that could augment or replace our existing salt mining.
All of these pitch contests are a waste of time

You should treat them more as marketing, and that works if you already have the time and resources to go on this marketing circuit

Doing these to get the initial seed is a waste of time

Biggest shock of coming to silicon valley for me was the industry of silicon valley. Poor programmers, idea guys with no network or money or talent (just like everywhere else), hackathons where powerpoint presentations with mockups win, event hosts making a killing, all operating in parallel to the real action which is still only accessible by your network.
Depending on what you mean by a suburban-sized lot... here's my blog post on complete nutrition from plants, eggs, and fish (all of which can be grown/raised on a typical lot): https://automicrofarm.com/blog/2018/08/complete-nutrition-no...
Office has gotten worse for me since 97, they added more and more crap that I didn't need and then put it front and center with a "look at the crap we added you don't need" design.

These days I write in markdown and it it has to be pretty format it in libre office (mdpdf works fine for 99% of my uses though).
I can't be the only one who use Comic Sans ironically, in situations where it's as far from appropriate as could be...
That sounds like an extremely flimsy post-hoc explanation to me.

> People like to complain about "health and safety gone mad" but there's usually a psychological component to blanket-banning things. It's usually the path of least resistance.

That doesn't mean it's the right thing to do, or even that it's the sensible thing to do.

In addition, after having lived in several different countries, I found that the extreme institutional distrust of everyone to act even vaguely sensible is rather specific to the UK, as is the almost gleeful willingness of the British people to enforce these kind of rules on others even in the most pedantic of circumstances. Other countries with fairly strong Health & Safety cultures – mostly UK-infuenced countries like Ireland or NZ – also have some tendencies, but people also tend to be more flexible and apply at least some judgement in specific cases, which is much rarer in the UK.
Increased diversity in open source is a good thing -- not just in operating systems and applications, but licenses as well... I just wish VS Code ran on DragonFlyBSD.
There's already a solution for that: Rust. C++ lives and dies by it's commitment to keep all of its ugly. If you want all of the nice stuff and lessons learned without the cruft, choose Rust.
Usually when I stop to admire the typography on a certain site it's almost always a paid font.
IMHO most of the interviews with the same person cover the same material so I wouldn't even bother listening to another podcast with people I've heard before.
Sure, so it depends on circumstances in the broader society. The judge needs to be convinced that on balance it's more likely the case that the prosecutor is right than not. That's all probable cause is.

In today's IoT world where basically everybody does all this potentially shady stuff sending encrypted data to who knows where, and with no legislation on the books saying they mustn't, you would not get anywhere trying to obtain a warrant.

But if things like WebThings Gateway were to make that unusual, so that as I said there aren't other Smart TVs sending mysterious stuff directly to HBO - that changes the balance of probabilities, and it also changes the incentive to regulate / legislate behaviours that are now less common and still undesirable so that what they're doing isn't just immoral it's illegal too.

Circumstances change. In 1975 the idea that you shouldn't smoke cigarettes inside a train, deep under the ground, in a crowded city, was a bit weird. By 1983 it was illegal in London. In 1985 somebody who'd cut a few corners and was lighting a cigarette on the escalator out of the Underground caused a fire in which a lot of people died (a lot of other things went wrong, but none of them would have mattered if not for the cigarette). Today when we're trying to explain that fire to children it doesn't make a lot of sense to them. They don't remember it ever being legal to smoke cigarettes inside a building - it smells bad and looks obviously dangerous - why would somebody be doing it not just inside a building but so deep underground?
> Look at the Opiod crisis, despite the pills being highly controlled and only given out via the supervision of multiple highly educated doctors

They may be highly controlled now, but they weren't for decades which is how we have gotten to this point.
Vibrations: A Memoir
David Amram

American musician who worked with people like Kerouac, Miles Davis, Leonard Bernstein, Odetta, etc. Wrote 100s of compositions, operas, jazz pieces.
Why a question mark is needed at the end of this?
> An Irish fiddler of some note once quipped, "What's the difference between a great tune and a hackneyed tune? About 20 years."

TVTropes calls this phenomenon "Seinfeld Isn't Funny".
I wholeheartedly agree, but it's still not perfect. Introducing new revenue models into old industries where people are used to "owning" their software can be dicey.

A decent middle ground is permanent fallback versions. But then you still have the issues with feature creep.
> It's hard to say how the future will develop. There are only three open-source operating systems in the entire world that really pull it together on having a complete, modern, SMP kernel: Linux, DragonFlyBSD, and FreeBSD. And that's it. We also have NetBSD and OpenBSD and I'd kinda like to know what their plans are, because the future is clearly going not only multi-core, but many-core. For everything. But as I like to say, for SMP there are only three at the moment. One can't dispute that Linux has nearly all the eyeballs, and DragonFly has very few.

Some bold statement right there!
Have you ever travelled to a farm because its pretty to buy their lavender? If I buy lavender, its because I want lavender, not because the farm is pretty (and Ill probably buy it from a shop and not the farm directly)
It didn't seem like they were turning a blind eye, they seemed to be very much biasing towards VCs/certain makers, in particular by controlling who could submit things. They ended up with a leader board similar to Digg's in its heyday, where a few submitters controlled the outcome of the top entries. Unlike Digg, since this seemed to be from the top down, I think it actually helped Product Hunt rather than hurt it. Their curation seemed well done, at least to someone like me from the outside.
React Dashboards – Open-Source and Free
Thanks. Error responses from our API always generate a JSON object with top level error and error_description attributes, while non-errors never contain a top level error attribute. It might be interesting to add a response header to disambiguate even more.
“Force multiplication” is an intangible. If your salary depends on it, you’re depending on someone in management noticing that you’re “multiplying the force”, and that you’re willing to leave.

Most managers don't set their own salary, and are dependent on someone else noticing and respecting their "contribution" (like "headcount" metrics) for their compensation consideration. It is entirely possible to be sidelined as a manager, just as it is anywhere else.

Everyone should have clear, communicated, consistent, meaningful, deliverable, pragmatic metrics that they are subject to in their evaluations.
The thing with online ads (Google, FB, etc.) is that you can tell pretty quickly if your ads have a positive ROI or not with a minimal setup and correct from there. The fact that Google Ads continues to be such a huge revenue driver is evidence that the ROI is positive enough for a large number of businesses to continue using it.

The biggest threats to Google Ads & co. are:

- Recession (less money in pockets = less money to spend on stuff = less ad clicks)

- Ad blockers gaining more popularity

- New competitors with higher ROI for customers (it's anyone guess who these will be)

- Increased privacy regulation (less data collection/utilization = less targeted ads = fewer clicks)
Yes, let's look at the facts.

Russia invaded Ukraine, broke into Crimean parliament and held illegal referendum _after_ that.

So, sanctions were not because of the referendum, but because of invasion.
Stop Trying to Be Happy at Work
I really prefer Payhip over Gumroad, mostly because I'm in the EU. Thread: https://twitter.com/m_herrmann/status/1153387040714711040?s=...
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