skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wouldn't in that case making money be their passion?

I can't relate to that either, but I think that this is common among successful entrepreneurs, often going all the way back to their childhoods (the guy in the article was buying and selling stuff in elementary school).
I would expect them to allow users to sideload applications easily so they can continue their protests in a form of mild malicious compliance. That's the least they owe their users.
This just sounds like my bank, although I'm in Europe. Why are US banks so behind?
Lesson 1: Don't do it.
Ocean cleanup device successfully collects plastic for first time
Unfortunately people are not 100% trustable, devices are not 100% secure and code is not 100% perfect.

If someone steals my credit number, I will likely not be on the hook for the money and will not lose anything.

If I make a mistake during banking, I can turn to people at the bank about it.
I was thinking it means their company will never have a "just google it" slogan attributed to them "Hey, how should we setup our startup bank accounts?" "Just Brex-it!"
TechLead, a youtuber that worked at Facebook, has covered this story [0].

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VbEQriZEfoI
Vegan Organization Sics FTC on Academic Journal for Study Promoting Red Meat
I may be missing something here, but I'm not sure this is quite right.

The paper attached describes a scenario where the player A chooses a number between -infinite to infinite. The simulation uses ranges -1000000 to 1000000, it's not a surprise that the strategy works in this case.

I think if the ranges were truly -infinite to infinite, this strategy would fall apart. No matter where you set C, there are infinite values above and below it.
Happened to me a couple of times. The common denominator in all cases is managers and an organization preferring opinions over facts. The last case took three months to reach that point. During that I had to manage a serious raw material shortage situation everybody tried as hard as possible to ignore. After three months that wasn't possible anymore and all of a sudden the business decided it was up to me find a solution, prioritize customers and markets and it was also me who was responsible for sales to miss their targets due to that raw material shortage. That the root cause was a force majeure incident at a single source supplier, we were most likely in a dominant market position and the global market for the raw material was empty didn't matter. The last straw was my new manager who insisted to provide numbers impossible to extract from the ERP system and present numbers I knew were wrong simply because they showed that there was no problem. Also he directly said that apparently I was incapable of doing my job. The day after that I quit.
>> That said, Apple is the least of all available evils. When something better comes along, I'll leave. If that thing already exists, please let me know so I can begin the process.

What do you mean by "better?" More privacy-oriented? You cannot sideload applications and you don't control the iPhone in the least.
IEEE to Create Standards to End ‘Wild West’ Legal AI Market Culture
Ok... this is giving me pause for thought.

I programme .NET on Windows. Have done for years. Never owned an Apple device until I took my wife's old iPhone 6S at the start of the year.

I switched from Android to Apple for a few reasons:

1. Constant spying and data-gathering for profit by Android
2. Ethics
3. I only use a handful of apps so the platform wasn't that important

Apple's public stance is that they take privacy seriously. Like incredibly seriously. Above all things and stuff. And as another commenter pointed out, they told the FBI to go fish when they wanted access to a phone. That resonated with me. That told me they are a company that (appears to) genuinely believe in something other than just profit at all costs. That they may just have my interests fairly high up their agenda.

This latest episode has made me rethink that. From the ground up.

I understand they need to follow the law but so do the law enforcers: Have Apple been watching the footage from HK?

I thought that Apple, with all the power they have, could perhaps say to the Chinese gov... "No, the app stays!"

My faith in Apple has been shattered.

As an aside... Apart from Librem, there isn't really any choice now.

I feel like a dad here... I'm disappointed in Apple.
I actually had achieved this effect (with the same setup, just replace Yabai with chunkwm) a very long time ago (before El Capitan). I just spent an hour or so searching for the particular theme I used but couldn't find it. From what I remember, you can use a tool like https://github.com/insidegui/AssetCatalogTinkerer to change the System Appearance.
Is it possible to buy both Sublime Text and Merge together in one package?
>> As a user, I am grateful for "walled gardens" like the App Store, Steam, etc.

That's nice that you get to experience that. I think the protesters may have a different opinion than you.
Well bitcoin is a killer app, I didn't talk about it being _the_ killer app.

I also don't think it's smart to compare and take sides when it comes to technology, Bitcoin and Ethereum are both interesting technologies, and one can learn a lot from both.
Good God, what a terrible situation but an even better outcome. So glad you didn't take your life.
It wasn't clear to me either at first but it's cryptocurrency, quite disappointingly I might add.
This has broader application than just technology.
I think in all contexts it is good to have a firm grasp of first principles and how to trace back any commoditized excellence back to them.
Also a good understanding of when to apply "beginner's mind" to check if a bit of "expert knowledge" is actually relevant
Probably they should stop using internet too, just in case, bad people lurk around there, they say.
This is about cryptocurrencies, not cryptography.
I mean, hard to disagree even if I wanted to.

Seems to me that free software community is lacking UI/UX Designers and so looks and feels considerably less "cool" than commercial counterparts. What do you think?
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We don't define galaxies in general to spin in the opposite direction.

Just the Milky Way.

(The reason for this seems to be that Galactic "North" was defined long before we had the data to determine which way the Milky Way rotated -- or even that it rotated. By the time the rotation was definitively determined, it was too late to override convention. This may go back to William Herschel deciding that the "north pole" of the Galaxy should be in the same hemisphere of the sky that the Earth's north pole pointed toward. In retrospect, he had a 50% chance of being right...)
Heard that a friend of mine had to use something similar at one of his jobs, and he was miserable. Even though the colleagues were nice and the place was more or less okay.

I think it felt like an extremely arcane thing to learn and just not something exciting to work with.

Sometimes we forget how blessed we are with the DX in mainstream programming languages.
They are not evenly distributed. If you mean Vienna under the city - software engineers do not tend to stay there - low salaries, no software product jobs, only basically IT departments - so you are seen as spends there.
> Unfortunately people are not 100% trustable, devices are not 100% secure and code is not 100% perfect.

- which is actually why you use crypto.

> If someone steals my credit number, I will likely not be on the hook for the money and will not lose anything.

- because the bank guarantees the safety of the payment means you use. The fact that you don't have to pay (as a private customer) doesn't mean that stolen credit card numbers and fraud transactions don't cost money. Someone has to pay somewhere in the chain. If the principal is recovered (the stolen money), then someone still has to pay for the overhead of recovering the money (for you). There're insurance and liability-shift mechanisms in place, but the money transfer would be much safer, faster, and cost-efficient if crypto was in place.

> If I make a mistake during banking, I can turn to people at the bank about it.

- So? It's not because your infrastructure uses crypto that you give up of customer support.
Schwab makes it even easier if your paycheck goes into their bank account. You don't even have to wait for a transfer :)

I don't like their cash balance for their robo-investor. But then again most "robo-investors" are 100-500 line python lambda scripts that run on timer if a hypothetical trading api module existed
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Forgive my ignorance on the subject of matter, but aren't these credits so expensive precisely because they're handed to unreliable debtors?

There is obviously a need for such a product since it's so popular, but it can't be cheap to manage and collect them especially since they're so small.
This recent trend of taking down past figures because they do not meet current criteria for acceptable behavior in society is disturbing. It's like people are trying to erase lessons from the past.
It's all marketing. Apple is a company not a country.

If Apple ups the ante on China, then China comes down and bans the App Store or tariffs Apple devices a ton as retribution - resulting in Apple getting itself into a similar situation Huawei is in with the US. If (this is all hypothetical, btw) that were to happen with Apple, then I would wager Xiaomi or Huawei would only see more investment to become the "Apple of China" and further develop a replica in-house app store.
https://www.fairphone.com/en/

Vote with your wallet.
Cool stuff, but I would have found it more useful as a python library, to allow integration with existing tools like Pytorch.
Depends on the people so. I usually fail at the point when personal interests and politics come into play. Which is my most common "fuck this" event.
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Giving a demanding task to a junior is usually how they improve and learn, but what you describe here is just a big pile of management incompetency. Escape.
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Where a single mistake will irrevocably send my money into the void or to a hacker.
UK Government Selects OpenAPI v3
#CancelCancelCulture
They do have more in common. There's a quote out there with the gist, that to really hate someone, you need to know them. Just look at the break up of Yugoslavia. Former Ottoman, very similar cultures and peoples and even very mixed and integrated peoples. Yet utter mayhem.
Not the person you responded to, but according to (my memory of) this[0] video youtube only counts views where an ad plays (excluding adblock users and some views from people in demographics that have low advertiser demand) and it is not immediately skipped, where the option is there.

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KW0eUrUiyxo
Depends. Even in Germany the company can simply decide to get you physically out right now as long as they keep you on the pay roll for the legal notice period.
It's basically random; the rotation of a solar system depends on the rotation of the gas clump that collapses to form the star and its system, and that depends on local details about the relative orientation of local gas clumps, the possible influence of winds from nearby massive stars and supernova shock waves, and general turbulent motions within molecular clouds.
I would have found it more useful as a python library

Today is you lucky day! Taichi is also a C++ library with first class python bindings: https://github.com/yuanming-hu/taichi
> Seems like it'd be pretty straightforward to block signals coming from the side (e.g. by putting some metal or something else similarly RF-blocking between the antenna and the jammer), no?

Depends on the wavelength and your surroundings. Imagine yourself wearing a cap that's little too small and half-transparent on the edges, walking on fresh snow, surrounded by snow mounds, trying to spot something on one of the hilltops nearby. So the cap mostly protects you from direct jamming signal, but reflections and bleed are still painful.

Now we're talking here about satellites, in particular LEO satellites, so you need a mass market (or at least commercial-grade) tracking antenna, which will have to look all across the sky and not just point straight up. In urban environments, there's a great chance there will be scores of decent reflectors (buildings) all around you for the jamming signal to bounce off, and as for bands, the ones used by Starlink are ones that are unlikely to be used much for anything else in places like Iraq - so they may as well just jam the whole band. And since Starlink is a commercial service, you won't be able to switch to something the government depends on (not to mention procure new antennas and adjust software on the transceivers).
The best test of any company's espoused "principles" is when it is forced to make inconvenient choices.
More Shell Inconsistencies
I am in your situation. No longer work in a factory but still in a dead-end job. Have you considered trying to become a sysadmin instead? Everyone and their nan are trying to become programmers, but network engineering gets overlooked a lot. CCNA + maybe an AWS cert and you would easily find an entry-level role. GL.
What kind of protests are you imagining? With that kind of ordnance in use, it's no longer a protest but an all-out civil war.
If you're looking for cheap transactions, Degiro (EU based) or InteractiveBrokers (US based) are probably the best options.

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Some languages have constructs that make it possible to make pseudo-DSLs in them. For instance function with receivers in Kotlin. That's a nice tradeoff I think.
I don't understand this. Can you give a more specific example? This wouldn't apply to limit orders, that will execute at the limit price regardless?
That happens all the time. Made in Germany in the beginning was a mark for cheap counterfeit goods. Copying British products is how Germany’s industry got started.

American chemical industry got a significant push when they received German chemistry patents during WW1.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Made_in_Germany
Let's try to deconstruct an oxymoron here: So all these protests are happening because Iraq is blocking a multi million dollar company? Right?

I know it is bad, but there are alternatives and we as people living on this planet should not narrow ourselves down to only one channel of communication that is operating on one channel that is internet.*

And let's face it: because it is so easy to use facebook, people are getting lazy and numb, more and more dumb and numb people scrolling through other peoples shit, they don't try to figure out a more complex system where at the end frees the individual from a controlling state.

Just wake up already.

* Not to mention the fact that facebook reads your messages and all your shit so it can feed you some more shit.
'beware of the leopard'.
Money/bullshit ratio made me chuckle.

I feel like I'm 5 years into what you are describing. From time to time I start to get that lost feeling too these days.

In my mind I have it mapped out that I only really have to do this another 8 or so years.

Then just go on whatever the hell journey seems the most interesting once finances are no longer the main priority.

But during that 8 year trek I struggle with "now that side projects and learning new tech are no longer fun by default, how do I make them fun because otherwise the fact that they completely consume 100% of my free time sometimes makes me mildly depressed."
I believe it's called Domain-Specific Language (DSL) and there are systems that excel at quickly, easily and reliably creating these languages, for example Groovy. You could write a language like in your example, and it would be usable and stable in a couple of hours. Then you could script all kinds programs in it quickly, while also being able to leverage the rest of the flexibility of the Groovy language, interchaning its code with DSL statements.
“If This Then That” for VSphere: The Power of Event-Driven Automation
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Ah, interesting, "Diaspora" meaning Uighurs outside of China? In that case though, what evidence is there that it was geographically targeted? My understanding was that the attack apparently focused on websites likely to be visited by Uighurs, so how would we know what the geographical target was?
i have worked at places that never used a PIP. they were fine. they did due diligence when hiring and helped employees grow. maybe i live in a diverse area, most people are socialized pretty well after university and a few years of employment. so disagree about never using them being a red flag. maybe at megacorp inc, when you're hiring thousands, it's a fact of life. with terms like "unregrettable [sic] attrition", you'll forgive me for being cynical.

none of the PIPs i've seen have been reasonable, but small sample size. i have also luckily never been on the receiving end, only observing from afar. hell, sometimes idiot managers have put their best, most helpful employees on a PIP because they're... spending a lot of time helping other members of their team! so their individual performance goes down, but the team performance goes up. but when you view people as "individual contributors", you don't see that.

i'll happily agree with you on "a strong indicator of poor management is a failure to effectively manage performance", and go one further, a stronger indicator of poor management is a failure to effectively evaluate performance. unfortunately, that is exactly what makes PIPs so tricky. ignoring who's perspective is most "correct", there's still a divide in either performance expectations or perception. the better strategy is still to leave, not see the PIP through. which makes PIPs a good signal for "you're about to be fired", but a bad signal for "we disagree on performance", simply because that difference in perspective exists. putting it on paper is again not necessarily helping the employee. if "it just doesn't get through", is a PIP going to change that? if they aren't performing, if "it just doesn't get through", why not fire them? a possible answer: passive aggressiveness ("work with an employee to correct performance issues") and leave a paper trail aka. ass-covering ("the needed improvement doesn't occur").

but look, i'm not a manager, and don't want to be. could i fire someone? probably not. so is a PIP more humane? i think so. at the end of the day, it sounds like we both agree what it's for, just that you didn't agree with my phrasing. fair enough, although i still maintain from an employee perspective, assuming poor management if you get PIP'd once is a good plan. if you start seeing a pattern, then it's time to look in the mirror.
You need to read Patrick McKenzie's (of Stripe) excellent analysis of this topic called 'How Discount Brokerages Make Money'

https://www.kalzumeus.com/2019/6/26/how-brokerages-make-mone...
You'd have to know a modem pool to call and have an account there, I wouldn't even know where to start. Especially if I was already cut off from the Internet.
Degiro has free commission on a bunch of popular ETFs as well.
> We haven't yet discovered a way to organise a group without the need for a central entity (an alpha male, a government, central banks, etc.)

Markets (at least, free markets) are exactly a way of organizing a group without the need for a central authority.
You saying like that is a bad thing, but in fact centralisation is something that let us survive through wars, hunger and other hardships.
She shouldn't accept it, but generally teachers aren't just working for a company and serving a customer. - They are responsible for the future of the kids they are teaching, and most of them are taking that responsibility very seriously.
Wire transfers in the US are expensive for most checking accounts. In the $20-40 range per payment. Also people don't usually carry around their account numbers for receiving payments.
Exactly. Else we might as well consider anyone who ever said anything more than ten years most likely a bigot, sexist and generally horrible....which with todays context is probably accurate.
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>It also matters where very strong guarantees are needed, which is everywhere, e.g., when setting up contracts or when making statements (expert or regulated) about a product, service, or a status.

10+ years later and we're still having this discussion. Yes, blockchain technologies manage to achieve a trust-less consensus about "a product, service or a status" but only if all the parameters can be encoded in the blockchain itself. It breaks down as soon as real world objects and interactions are involved because then the nodes need some sort of trustworthy "oracle" to monitor the real world. Many people have been working on that problem but I don't think anybody has a solution that works at scale in practice. And of course then a single bug and everything breaks down catastrophically (see the DAO).

Then there's the problem of scaling that solution to the transaction rate needed for a world-class blockchain. That also remains an open question.

Cryptocurrencies are interesting in the same way fusion reactors are interesting, if they can really work they will change the world but it's unclear if the technology is truly viable (even more so for cryptocurrencies IMO). As such I'm wary of this "crypto startup school" in the same way I'd be wary of a "nuclear fusion startup school".

Unless of course the objective is to effectively make a "pump-and-dump startup school" in which case I predict a huge success.
I work remotely for a company in the Bay Area, doing mostly web development.

- Compensation is great.

- Few calls, very little micro-management.

- People I work with are great.

- They don't care about where I'm working from as long as the timezone isn't too far off.

Somehow I feel miserable. I can't quite explain it. I think it's because the work I do is boring and I've been doing it for a long time. I've been working fewer and fewer hours because I just can't get myself to work more. Also I don't really like being an employee, even if my relationship with my employer is great. I yearn for the ultimate freedom of owning my own business. I wish I could just be happy with my situation which is fantastic in every way.
Not dividing population into two sides on the refugee issue, not breeding so high level of internal resentment. Having a bit more united front on the issue. I'm half-convinced that the way the current refugee crisis ended up being handled was much more disruptive to our internal politics than just letting them all in would be to our economies.
Hi cynix, thanks for the feedback. Working on fixing this next :)
I agree with you, but 'users put up with this' because >99% just couldn't care less, Facebook and Snapchat are in the App Store, why do I need to install a different way?
For me most interesting are autobiography books where author is sharing his path from the start, instead of giving "10 rules of success" (which is his subjective insights summary of what worked for him).

The beauty of autobiography books is that we need to aggregate (generalize) these key insights based on the raw story ("subjectively raw" of-course) and our current situation.

The most valuable part for me is about overcoming hard problems.

The #1 book in my list is "Shoe Dog" by Phil Knight (The Founder of Nike). There is also an audiobook where Phil himself is read the first chapter.
Wait a second, are American teachers only paid for the hours they are spending in the classroom? Here in Germany, 20 hours is what you spent teaching, but it is a full-time job, as it is expected that you spent at least an hour preparing for every class.
This is hardly recent. I remember hearing this exact conversation about Gandhi at least 25 years ago.