skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The people who make money in industries that pollute would love for you to keep buying into the myth of personal responsibility. We saw this with cigarette and drink companies with the "Keep America Beautiful" campaign, a wildly successful PR move that shifted the blame for litter 100% to the consumer.

"Vote with your wallet" is valid, but it also takes the heat off of our elected representatives and regulators. We need to hold them to account for their failure to force companies to factor destructive externalities into their accounting. Vote with your vote, to hit companies in their wallets.
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That's probably true, but hardly unique for Bitcoin imo.
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So what stops Dell from making all their systems Linux friendly. Why do you have to faf with "Secure Boot" just to install an Ubuntu on an XPS15?

It's it Microsoft crippling things (technically or legally) or are Dell not capable (technically, or otherwise) of making the install of Linux work in a straightforward manner ... or what?

Does anyone else do it better? How do Lenovo compare, say?
> it wasn't possible to buy ETH direct until ~2017

Coinbase added ETH support in 2016: https://blog.coinbase.com/coinbase-adds-support-for-ethereum...
_The Surface of Meaning_ by Robert Bringhurst is a good starting point
To be honest, from my experience IT certifications don't bring much bang for the buck, but this probably depends on what kind of certification it is.

If you haven't had luck with applying for jobs, I'd suggest to think a bit outside the box. From my experience it helps if potential employers see you're passionate about something, whatever it is, even more so if it is in a relevant area.

A GitHub profile on that topic, (semi-) deep knowledge or something comparable helps quite a lot.

In our company we're primarily looking at, ordered in descending priority:

* is the applicant either senior or does she/he show credible interest in learning?

* is she/he a cultural fit (i.e. for our case, shows ownership, is able to express criticism and accept as well, is honest, ...)

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Thanks. 16% is still a surprisingly low number for 2019, I had expected something like 40-60 or at least 35-65. Also, surprising how they added black and Latino people to the stats but they “ignored” the Asian minority. Are they now part of the “privileged” minorities so that they can be ignored? If not, what’s the reason behind omissions like these?
Can you spell out (maybe ELI5) why the concept of Tether is a fraud? Why is it not possible to back cryptos to a stabilized "1:1" "medium/currency" (which itself is another crypto it seems) and finally the USD dollar ?
> The core issue is that ridership data is a key piece the cities need to craft a tax on ride-sharing,

Can you explain how the real time data can be used for that and why not some aggregated anonymized data, or data gathered by the government observation themselves?
I routinely use several languages, and am constantly forgetting which ones use .size() and which ones .len(). It's not worth committing to memory because, if I get it wrong, the compiler will tell me "what is this function of which you speak?", and I will simply turn around and use the other one, at which point it starts compiling again, wasting me at most a minute of my time.

Furthermore, I should point out that it's not out of the imagination that someone wouldn't use len() all that heavily. Python has functional operators that let you do map/reduce-style operations on lists, strings, dicts, etc. that don't require you to use length all that much. My most recent python script only uses len() in two places for more robust error reporting.
Delivery drones could land on public transport to extend their range
Considering the US media completely swallowed the WMD lies and that the most popular news outlet in America is Fox News (WTF) which has all the characteristics of a state run channel... the US media hasn't done a very good job of speaking truth to power.

The current Presidency has put some of these issues in sharper contrast, but the Iraq war was a total failure of the US media to do their job (IMO).
The real issue here is that FB allows post boosting via payment. The public will never be able to decipher the difference and so with FB and other social media companies, there is no way for the avg user to tell the difference between an ad and organic content. Since FB makes billions from the practice of boosting posts, they are never going to back away from the practice.

Its no wonder they dont want to ban political ads. They would have to remove their post reach boosting and super refined targeting and that's their entire business.
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Incorrect definitions should be downvoted to make it clear that they're mistaken.
By that metric, requiring that all cars report their location live to the municipal government would be OK - after all, that car is using the roads they maintain. For that matter, why limit it to cars? Require that every citizen report their GPS location 24/7 - if you're out of the house you're using their roads or sidewalks, and if you're in the house you're using city water/power/sewer.
Like with most things in games, Gears of War popularized the cover mechanic but did not invent it. The cover system was inspired by KillSwitch (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kill_Switch_(video_game)), and there are earlier titles like Win Back that feature cover systems.

From the Wikipedia article...

In the design of Gears of War, lead developer Cliff Bleszinski of Epic Games credits Kill Switch's cover system as one of the influences they put into the game's design, as Kill Switch's lead designer Chris Esaki was employed by Epic Games and was involved in the development of Gears of War.
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> It's because Fortnite is a soulless ripoff of GTA V and it has zero substance.

I can't imagine how you'd come to that conclusion unless you think GTAV invented "multiplayer on a big map."
PRECISELY my point. Everything is easy to setup, and works amazing, when nothing is actually in the database.
That's what I was thinking. This guy is one of the most reputable software developers in the world, bearing the weight of the Windows Shell on his shoulders, with a career that spans decades... and he bought... an alarm clock with wifi? Was he drunk that day?
Hackers Can Use Lasers to ‘Speak’ to Your Amazon Echo or Google Home
If this is true it points to Apple not actually having a strong game plan for AR outside the phone. One of Apple’s big strengths is that it does all its hardware design and development itself (or at least only with behind the scenes partners) and it does a good job of it. Partnering with Valve, a gaming company, on this is actually a bit of a red flag.
You have to also consider the (hard to measure) rate at which Bitcoin is accidentally lost or intentionally destroyed, which is a deflationary pressure.

"2%" is target for the growth in the ratio of money supply to product supply, not the money supply itself.

BTC could be wildly above or below 3.7% (+/- deflation due to destruction) based on the growth of the GDP of the BTC-financed economy.

In short, those two metrics are just not comparable types. BTC has no "target" inflation. At best, you could measure BTC's observed inflation.
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They'd win quite few more if they fought for open drivers and firmware from the big names as well. There's a lot of people trying to make that a thing, but support from Dell could really push things forward.
insane coincidence but literally the minute i started my first project ever on netlify just to play with it, i deployed it and nothing was loading; i kept googling and thinking it was my fault and then it clicked to check their status page and alas.
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I wonder what letter hides behind the ‘-‘?

Probably the worst ever OS to develop against. I worked for almost 10 years with a product codebase that was maintained on Solaris (really nice), Linux (nice), AIX (not so nice) and HP-UX (not at all nice).
PPP GDP is much less affected by currency manipulation than nominal GDP, because the latter relies directly on the exchange rate.

> China is a known currency manipulator

The accusation has always been that they're suppressing the value of their currency (in order to boost exports), which would actually mean that their nominal GDP understates rather than overstates the size of the economy. Whether these accusations are true is a different question.

> It's a third world country with vast majority of its citizens in poverty.

It's certainly not a Third World country anymore (technically, this is a misuse of the term "Third World," but I'll go with it). GDP/capita in Beijing, Shanghai and Tianjin (China's 3 largest cities) is about $20k, which puts them roughly on the same level as the Czech Republic, Greece and Estonia, and just slightly below Portugal and Taiwan. Lots of Chinese cities are richer than these three (Shenzhen is at $32k/capita, similar to South Korea). On average, Chinese GDP/capita is about $10k, similar to Mexico and Turkey. That's pretty much average for the world.

There are certainly huge differences between different regions of China (Beijing is way more developed than a random farming village in the West of China), and there's enormous inequality within every part of China, so there are a lot of poor people. However, there are also a few hundred million people living what you would recognize as middle-class lives. That's why you'll see so many Chinese tourists these days at any random tourist destination around the world - they have the money to afford those sorts of luxuries now.

> Vast majority of the people there are not doing well and it's not a prosperous country.

Most Chinese people would agree with you that China is not yet "prosperous." Even the Chinese government officially agrees with you on that. They are doing vastly better than they used to, though, and the country as a whole is no longer poor. It's about average for the world now, but with a high growth rate and some highly developed regions in the East. Whether they make the final push into developed-country status remains to be seen.
It isn’t. Some political candidates are.
What you say has been "known since Aristotle" appears to be wrong. There is really no evidence that this ability, or any cognitive ability, is "unique to humans". Yes, humans have more of this ability to "recognize abstractions and make generalizations" than pretty much any other species on this planet, but it is not unique to humans. In the contrary, there is lots of evidence that generalization and some amount of abstraction are fundamental to all forms of problem-solving (and "all life is problem-solving") and that the fundamental neural mechanisms that lead to these capacities are no different in quality between different species, just in quantity. This is being demonstrated in objective research again and again... there is no cognitive capacity we humans have that you can point to and say "this is totally different, no other animal has anything like this." Yes, your linguist abilities are orders of magnitude more sophisticated than those of most other animals, but even there it is only a matter of degree, not of a fundamental kind.

For a very good treatment of this subject by a highly respected primatologist, see Frans de Waal's recent books. But he isn't alone... until fairly recently it was taboo to say that animals are "intelligent" or "conscious" or "sentient", but this is thankfully beginning to change, and among the current generation of biologists, ethologists and animal cognitive psychologists many consider the notion that animals aren't sentient to be outmoded, or as Frans de Waal puts it, "anthropodenial".

But there is one thing that makes us truly different from all other animals and it's only indirectly related to cognition: for better or for worse we are the only animal that uses and controls fire. It's fire that really defines humans, not our big brains (and fire probably came first; cooking made our calorically expensive large brains possible). And it is fire that may be the end of us, as well.
In practice it is pretty easy to slip things past the automated checks if you try to, which is one of the reasons they threaten you with a permaban for doing so.
Tether is the FUD that never stops giving, anyone remember Bitfinexed from 2017?

Do people try to manipulate price? Of course they do. Sometimes it works, retail investors get excited and pile in. Sometimes it doesn't, and whales get rekt. Markets are messy.

How do we fix this? Stop barring Bitcoin companies from working with mainstream banks, and USDT volume will dry up.
The hilarious part of your example is that the Greeks didn't have words for colours, so couldn't actually talk about it as separate from things that are red.
The article author claims that part of the information they got from sift was information about one of their own logins. So it would appear that coinbase is sharing information.

The reason I'm so flabbergasted by this is that this seems to really, really damage account security. Now there is one company that has a massive profile on me, that also knows very specific details about when I log into my account, from where, from what devices, etc.

Completely unjustifiable imo.
>So this is NOT Visual Studio but rather VSCode?

Well I just tried it and it's aimed at the feel of VSCode.

>Microsoft keeps making misleading product names

What's with the hostility?
Bad assumption. Apple TV+ has only one price, no tiers of service like Netflix.
An alarm clock with a wifi chip to phone home your sleep/wakeup times. Maybe they should pay the OP to buy the clock if data is the real monetary transaction here.
Or the engineer that designed it.
Regulation isn't the answer.

First, politics will never allow it. Look at the political environment in US, Great Britain...

Then when regulation is put in place, it isn't effective. Loop holes, grand-fathering, unintended consequences, incompetent gov't agencies.

And then even if one country goes green, it won't help if the rest of the world is spewing air pollution and dumping plastic into the oceans.

The probability of all this getting aligned to make regulation effective is zero.
The global economy needs to properly account for the cost of carbon emissions and reductions.

For the oil and gas industry this would translate into a tax at the pump.
Pretty much everyone touting MacBook Pros as great dev machines mentions the touchpad. As a person who doesn't like touchpads (despite having used company issued MacBook Pros these past few years), I find nothing compelling about the MacBook Pro versus other laptops as a dev machine.
> That's an anti-feature from a legal discovery perspective. Unless everyone is extremely conscientious about every word, you have 15 years' worth of chat logs and emails with offhand comments, jokes, etc. All of which can be taken out of context by a skilled legal team.

I am ignorant of the operation of the law but why would taking quotes out of context present legal risk? Wouldn't the misquoted be able to supplement the record with the missing context?
A fitting entry for https://twitter.com/internetofshit
Bad publicity is still publicity, right?
What non-programming type roles exist that I could focus on?
To be fair it also doesn't look correct in firefox either.
True, but it's still, sadly, above my impulse-buy limit.

To make things a bit harder, I live in Europe and there aren't as many sources of used POWER8+ gear as there are in North America.
>Yes but you don't end up with the few hundred bucks, you end up with Ethereum. If you need to pay for something using euro, dollar, ... you going to need to convert it which will include fees.

I one has dollars and wants to pay for something using Euro or anything else, one will need to convert it which will include fees.
Command and control now easier in BigQuery with scripting and stored procedures
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I used several tools (trello, offline notepad like apps, regular notepad, Google docs, todoist, to do list, wunderlist, etc...) and the easiest/fastest fór mne is Google keep. It works on both Pc/mobile and your can make several checklist fór different projects
Back in 2013, Intel 8920 did cost $750 wholesale, and similar Broadcom card a little bit cheaper.

Looks a lot now, but back then you didn't have server CPUs with gazillion cores on the cheap.

It was also about getting more bandwidth to a single server. 20Gb/s was a practical limit per mainstream server, but with accelerators you could've multiplied it many times more than the fastest CPU on the market.
Macs are not really that great anymore. Between the keyboard, price and lack of upgradability, you have to have a pretty flexible definition of "good for developers" to choose one over even a Windows laptop with WSL, let alone a Ubuntu one.
I think this is a much clearer explanation of the fraud involved in Tether's valuation. https://www.kalzumeus.com/2019/10/28/tether-and-bitfinex/ Lots of discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21377892
Money should have a predictable value, not a stable vale. That's why most economies target 2% inflation. If money had a stable value, then saving would be riskless, until the accumulation of saved money increased would put increased pressure on the expected GDP until that "stability" collapsed catastrophically (as in the Great Depression)
A single transaction costs 2 weeks average wages in Venezuela so it's highly unlikely they're using it.
I’ve seen devs just run select * from table then filter it and sort it in their own code. Then they complain “the database is slow” when it’s spending all its time shipping gigabytes of data they don’t need to them!
Look at the jobs you have applied for and see what they asked for.
Mozilla’s track record in that regard isn’t stellar either though between episodes like the pocket integration and that forced iRobot marketing promo extension.

I think browsers have become so complicated that maintaining them is so expensive that you need to sell user data one way or another in order to cover the maintenance costs.
Morphie's Law.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lBZ3POXEvRE

Cute, but seems more like a gimmick you might see on a dead Quake server than something you can base a game around.
Yes, the x is a cap, but it is also a warning.

Anker's PowerIQ circuit seems to be wired to do exactly what you say, and looks like a modern CC/CV PWM LED lamp driver: switches to CV and lowers duty cycle to maintain intended max output once it crosses the voltage threshold (which could indicate a runaway thermal overload).

Apple's designs are baffling to me: the worst cables I've ever seen. Take the newest phone, the 11 Pro, and take their beefiest charger (I think this now comes with the phone? Is this the same one as the current iPad iterations'?)... and compare the stock cable to an Anker Powerline 2 or 3: an immediately visible difference in charge speed; and then do the same with a PowerIQ 2.0 charger w/ stock vs Powerline 2/3: an even BIGGER difference.

The hell, Apple?!
That's awesome! Can you share more about how you got into the cement industry? Did you need to go back to school? What was the transition like? Where did you start looking? etc?
Your ISP have ALL your internet data. Would you be okay if they shared it with the government? Sure they hold it temporarily, but they NEED to hold it to carry their business, even for a short amount of time. The same is true for theses scooters. In the case of the ISP, you trust them to destroy that data once it's moved to the next node, in the case of the scooters, the same can be true.

Thus, either you are fine with the government getting this data, simply because you don't trust Uber, or you are agreeing that the ISP should also share its data with the government in real time.
That photo is over 10 years old. A lot has changed since then.
But the second form is also more general, since you can express any computation that way, whereas you can't in the first or third forms.

For example:

x = A(B)
y = D(x)
z = C(x, E(y))

Is either an important optimization (possibly affecting asymptotic complexity in more complex cases), important for correctness (if any of the functions have side-effects), or at least more succint than the alternatives (in a lazy language like Haskell).
The "ends justify the means" mentality has been the cause of many (most?) atrocities in history because it takes the assumption that one side just knows what's right without being able to recognize our own fallibility
Because there really aren't substantial hard assets behind Tether. Even Tether now admits this. What keeps this going is a net inflow of cash into Tether. If that ever switches to a net outflow, the Ponzi scheme collapses.
How many troll farms exist in the USA? Perhaps they're simply an arm of PR and reputation management nowadays.

Anyway, further evidence that social media is bad for society.