skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sometimes your job is just to make the button bigger.

That job is not called software engineer, that job is called junior code monkey and pays $25k/yr.
So far, the most significant enterprise use case for blockchain has been to pay ransoms to black hat hackers.
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CNN report finds Amazon's own products are being flagged as fire hazards
The optimal strategy would probably have been radio silence, and then the blog disappearing without an explanation after a few weeks.
Also not the synthesizer thing. https://tytel.org/helm/
It doesn’t seem you are familiar with this space, given that Ethereum transaction gas fees have hit sustained all time highs. Bitcoin and Monero transaction counts are extremely high despite the price of the assets being well beneath their height, signaling organic adoption and utility beyond speculation.

It’s difficult for people outside of this space to see, as you only notice when news hits the front page. I work at a major crypto exchange (Poloniex) and all of our metrics are very bullish. I don’t think your 2017 opinion is relevant anymore.
iOS 14 has an option to share location without being precise - pretty much like sharing zip.
A lot of apps ask for location and I deny and enter my zip. In fact it was one of the major reasons I switched years ago.
Sorry, I don't think I understand what you said.

What about pandemic makes a difference in the way that security, laws, or timezones work?
California does have one of the most progressive taxation schemes in the country. That means the more well off complain louder. Because most people don't really understand taxes that well (for one thing, half of the nationwide population only pays FICA, which is more forced retirement savings than an income tax), they seem to assume that if the rich are complaining about high taxes then they must be suffering from high taxes, too.
I don’t feel as though you came away with the real intent of the article, which didn’t make the arguments you’re shouting down.
Exercise to be left to the reader. How is collusion and conspiracy detected now?
Yeah..I almost had a heart attack reading the title.
If you were working for them like a regular employee, that has quite a few pitfalls - you'd need to perform the duties that an employer has then (get a "Betriebsnummer" (employer registration number), register your contract etc) - working "on a freelance basis" where you actually act as an employee isn't legal (https://www.existenzgruender.de/SharedDocs/BMWi-Expertenforu...). And if compliance is important for a company, they'd need at least someone that is familiar with labor law in a country before they start employing people there, even if they don't explicitly need a business entity.
Why having side projects is important
You sound like someone who gets all their news about crypto from the WSJ and NYT. There are many use cases beyond paying hackers. And believe it or not, hacking was profitable before crypto! As was drug dealing! But HN commenters act like Bitcoin created the industries.
Converting wooded areas to homes means that the required controlled burn ares aren't there anymore either, they are trying to protect land that didn't used to be protected because now it's houses.

Pretty obvious in retrospect, confusing that we're still doing it, unclear how we'd reverse it, probably no good way out...
Google pays Amazon for glowing review of how good a person it’s CEO is. Is he really? I don’t think this article can tell you that though.
It's too late once a news reporter is interested.
That’s too bad. I personally didn’t use helm and found it a little strange after being use to vanilla Emacs for many years, but I know a lot of people liked it a lot. I wonder what happened there?
Netflix film dissects a technology-driven ‘social dilemma’
Ever try cold showers?
Related, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Mann_(inventor)

http://eyetap.org/publications/
> Is there any indication that this is caused by shortage of funds?

States don't have the luxury to just print money. For example, California uses inmates to supplement their firefighting workforce and at least 9 States have come to our aid this season, due to covid19 reducing that slave/prison labor.

I wouldn't call it 'policy' that prevents OR and WA. Most likely true in CA. I'd call it lack of desire. Most politicians aim for the most popular ideas that help get them reelected, not something prudent.

I don't care if I get down voted. Even if the West Coast wasn't in drier conditions, this would still be a problem. Not only that, I'm skeptical that WA is that dry. Maybe in select places but I'm very skeptical, maybe the heat changed the situation as well (record highs all throughout the West Coast prior to these fires).

Look, if you aren't blaming your leaders while things are this bad. How can you praise them when things are good? This is your life. This is your health. This is you and your families future. The blame falls on them, full stop.

The fact that the Governor didn't threaten the Bay/Tech Sector with steep taxes if they don't help fix it, is another stupid move. This isn't rocket science. This isn't something too far for humanity to solve. If you care about your State, be patriot and save it from the fires.

We're in crisis after crisis, yet no one is actually leading. Good luck having a State with 2 more decades of this. If you didn't murder them through gross negligence then you destroyed their lungs/health with all this smoke.

Gov Newsom signed a thing to allow prisoners to accept a low paying job as a firefighter? Seriously? Why not argue with your legislature and work on behalf of the people? That's right, no one gives a damn and if you think to the contrary, what actions have they done that make you think that?

Did you know a lot of residential new construction, in CA, is in fire prone areas? This is because...? Good leaders? Or are the people going to demand more from their leaders?
I've witnessed this a few times. Usually because you actually passed the current hurdle, but the company got cold feet because the next step requires more effort from them and they can't make up their mind...eitherway as irritating as it is you probably dodged a bullet

Its sort of like companies doing subconscious window shopping...absolutely infuriating stuff
Nothing about bitcoin, ethereum or any other blockchain enabled financial object lives outside of regulation. The regulation just has not have caught up yet. The implementation of the laws and regulations will change because of the nature of the technology, but in no future where cryptocurrencies have any importance, are they magically left unregulated.

Effectively what you’re advocating for is criminality, which is ironically the only major industry that’s thriving in crypto right now, as far as I can tell.
LC3 is the new audio standard for Bluetooth 5.2 and up, but when I read the Bluetooth SIG claims it provides better quality at comparable bitrates to a long list of codecs that ended with "and Opus," I had to laugh and close the tab.

For those that don't know, Opus is pretty much the current gold standard for freely available audio formats that are at least partially designed to operate at the very lowest end of the bitrate spectrum while delivering comprehensible audio; unless LC3 is also using SILK but just under a different name, I'd be extremely shocked to find it actually beats Opus.
> I know many state education systems say that many slaves enjoyed being slaves...

Out of those many state education systems, would you mind naming one of them? A reference would be nice.
Seed Funding: Ultimate Guide to Raising It
Nicotine is still extremely addictive by itself. So much so that if it weren’t “best known” you’d have to buy it in the same places you buy peptides with cryptocurrency. No other nootropic generates the level of irrational desire to consume it.

If you read stuff like this comment and just dive right in, best case scenario is that you end up at 105% of baseline and higher blood pressure, as long as you’re constantly using nicotine, but 70% of baseline when you don’t use it, and weeks of brain fog when you try to quit.

Harm reduction is to use only patches or nicotine replacement gum (not commercial nicotine patches), and to set strict windows and use cases.
China has been testing a central bank digital currency (CBDC, google the term!) which has spooked many central banks in western countries. I work in this space and the attitude from government has been a 180 since China’s announcements. It’s hilarious to me that a year ago the SEC was obsessed with cracking down and now they are playing footsie with a three-year safe harbor! https://cointelegraph.com/news/sec-commissioner-cryptomom-ex...
The nuance is this: the data looks at total state taxes paid as a percent of personal income. So if you're earning an average OH salary of say $90k, and your total taxes are around $8k, that comes to 9% or whatever.

But now imagine your an SV engineer who relocates to OH and is making $200k (after COLA reduction). Your personal state income tax rate tops out at 4.7%, which is perhaps 6% lower than what you were paying in CA.

Also, you have a mansion that's 3x the size of anything you could afford in SV, and it only costs $300k. So your property tax is under $6k (versus $20k in SV).

So while the tax burden on average might be higher in OH, the tax burden for high earners would be much less of a percentage of income.
For decades, the US has made its law the law ruling the whole world, use every measure imaginable, including war and subverting foreign governments to force it upon countries, business and individuals. Iraq, Iran, CFO of Huawei, to some degree, the forced sale of TikTok. The Hong Kong security law, is much more "sensible" and narrow in scope than whatever the US has been and is forcing upon the world: if you try to subvert the China government, why should China welcome you to its soil?
If it wasn't $50/month, they'd have made tons of money from me without using it. But I had it for a few months and simply canceled. You can't have a service for $49 when a whole server is $5 nowadays and GitHub is $7/month. Plus, when you can do it with code like with this [0] too, why use a GUI/WUI?

[0]: https://diagrams.mingrammer.com/
The Emacs package `Helm' is/was maintained by one guy alone named Thierry Volpiatto who is not even a developer. He is 57, and a mountain guide in the Alps!

See this rare interview from 2018: https://sachachua.com/blog/2018/09/interview-with-thierry-vo...
yes agree with this whole heartedly - have been using security by obscurity in my servers, home and office for 30+ years probably since I learned about it in the Linux Bible or something like that.

I don't think anyone assumes when people say "security by obscurity" they mean "only" it is a great layer to add in addition to.

In my home for instance, the entire back of my house is hidden with 10 foot trees so when people drive by the road, they don't see my house. Now I've got a deadbolt, alarm, cameras, a dog, and a gun to add to my layers but having those trees there is a nice feature.
(neo)vim user here; is this like the myriad of ctrl-p vim plugins like fzf, cpsm, etc? In the vim world the core functionality is often shelled out to a task-specific process via a plugin, and the vim code is only used to communicate with it. Is that not the case with emacs?
Azure IoT TLS: Changes are coming ( and why you should care)
Any idea how they handled static typing for messages? As I remember from previous conversations, that was an issue.
The Azure Network Security Tech Community and GitHub Repo
Things did seem off with Nikola before.
Oh really? Wow that's awesome I had no idea maven central did that.
One thing I always wonder, how do other professions do it? Do civil engineers have to make a building? Do chemists have to assay a sample? What makes programming so unique?
https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/msoffice/forum/all/how-m...
I’m generally fine with the general lockdown on iOS, but at the same time there really are only two smartphone players. It’s either the free-for-all Android or the rigid-reviewed apps on iOS. Given the market realities having at least the ability to side load apps should be allowed. Apple can still offer their curated experience, but I should also be able to add my own open source (or whatever) App Store without Apple’s blessing. Just because I generally like Apple’s approach on the App Store doesn’t mean I shouldn’t be able to “mod” my own hardware. It’s like if I buy a BMW because I like their quality, integration and security that’s fine, but I still want to be able to replace the stereo if I choose. Actually I think it’s my right since I own the hardware, no? Or better, if I install a Sirius XM radio in my car why in the world should Sirius be forced to pay BMW for that “privilege”? If they want to integrate into their pre-made BMW stereo system sure, but I want to be able replace that with my own stereo.
Apple at a Crossroads: An Interview with M.G. Siegler
The question is how one senior is chosen over others.
Latency compensation, not magic latency elimination. The latter is not possible :-)

You can get audio to line up across different outputs when it is being played from a source with a large buffering capability, which is what PulseAudio does well. But when you're trying to get real-time audio to respond to user input (e.g. games, or DJing or playing music), latency compensation just gives you the lowest common denominator, and PulseAudio isn't really any good at guaranteeing low latencies for these use cases anyway. That's why for music production on Linux, you should be using JACK (or directly using ALSA from whatever source app you have, e.g. mixxx or Ardour).

In either case, the Bluetooth issue is inherent to the protocol and codec and technology stack there, and there's no way to fix it. It's really, really hard to do wireless audio with low enough latency for live music, especially on 2.4GHz where you need error correction and retransmits because the band is always so congested. I have a wireless microphone set on 2.4 using proprietary dedicated technology for this, and it still has noticeable latency (though just about usable for karaoke and such, but not ideal), because it has to introduce a fixed latency to allow for a retransmit budget in case of error.
Azure Integration Services Synchronous Pattern Deployed with Azure DevOps
You're talking past each other.

Look back at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24447692

There are two complaints in that comment.

You addressed one of those complaints, showing it to be wrong. You did not address the other complaint, and it was not "moving the goalpoats" to repeat it.

> Also, it’s coming to iOS 14

Good.
Could you please rename the title to state that it’s Emacs-Helm search extension? Otherwise it’s too click baity for the Kubernetes crowd.
> Look, if you aren't blaming your leaders while things are this bad. How can you praise them when things are good? This is your life. This is your health. This is you and your families future. The blame falls on them, full stop.

That's not true. The blame falls on the voters who keep voting for those clowns, one after another in a parade of lies, greed, and obfuscation, all for the promised, immediate benefits.
Laws are only enforced if we all believe they are just. The government can say whatever it wants, but throughout history citizens have ignored / disagreed with laws and they have changed as a result. I don’t even have to mention current protests for a recent example.

If you don’t understand this technology then it’s easy to be naïve. Check out https://tornado.cash/ It is an unstoppable contract to facilitate monetary anonymity! Good luck
Why not paypal.com and facebook.com, for consistency?
It's more like fuzzy search for everything you could possibly do, with docs and completion. I'm a vimmer, emacs people should correct me.

It's magic because everything is a single lisp environment. So the client/server thing vim does isn't as unified.
This came up here on HN recently in some comment thread.

Raccoon Obstical Course

https://youtu.be/hFZFjoX2cGg
This is a snarky parody, but put together you are both just saying that you can only afford to spend any time on job matches likely to be especially good, but that you’ll spend a lot of time on the good ones. Which just means you both are in an illiquid or conservative hiring market that is out of your control and their control to change.
He might roll over in his grave...

I do agree with you though.
Sometimes, to remain human, you have to pick a side.
Japanese Government's Flying Car
https://www.yinyoga.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=2179&sid=39ec...
CA has an AMT. Until Trump's tax reform, you would have paid federal and CA AMT if you had a big payday (a payday of appreciable size typically happens once or twice to SV folks; they are not 'rich' by any stretch of the imagination, when cost of housing, living, and retirement are considered, but they can still get caught up in this AMT trap).

Ohio does not have an AMT. Somewhat surpisingly, Ohio does have a Capital Gains tax, similar to CA, but I'm not sure how they compare.
Inefficiency of meat and dairy production and land use were major arguments for switching to a vegan diet (when I did so) 20 years ago.

Others have chimed in with data, so here's today's anecdotal evidence: today I'm surrounded by fields and farmland. Fields make up roughly 60% of land. 20% of this land houses cattle and 80% grows barley which no human will ever consume. It's only grown for the cattle

I think it comes as no surprise that less land could produce more food for humans if the crops didn't have to pass through the cattle.

Some farmers not far from here are growing quinoa. It has a very good nutritional profile and offers a more effective use of land.
if the work can be done from anywhere in the country, how about doing it from anywhere in the world?
There is a trend with TLS attacks and fancy websites and names. :)

Is there a reason for that? Not really following the scene, the same group of people finding these issues over the years and hence marketing is similar?
A decent YouTube video that goes into the history and shows a restoration of such a machine: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x0_WL735Ueg

The presenter does a good job of describing how it works and showing the parts inside.
Do you not have a senior developer at your company you can pair with as a mentor? This should be someone who you can look to for not just software skills, but career management skills.
so, in theory epic could add an option for a $5 coaching session, where a coach watches you play and coaches you over voice, and the student receives a skin upon completion.

Can a yoga instructor add personalized text to each individual stream to have 5 simultaneous 1-1 sessions?

etc.

this is so rife for double standards, in practice it basically boils down to "what we say goes"
The problem is that frequentist logic doesn’t work if you have only one sample. Effectively we can’t distinguish between “we are just seeing very unlikely scenario”, “it’s just early and we are the first”, and “life is extremely unlikely”.
the "right" tool does not only depend on the business problem to be solved, it also depends on the team itself.

if the team doesnt like rust, they probably wouldnt use it less they are forced.
http://www.yinyoga.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=3056&sid=de862...
For remote workers, though, where the company doesn't care if a given worker is in Seattle or Albany there is no need to pay them different amounts for the same work. They just need one pay level for that work, which is high enough to get enough total workers to fill all their remote openings.

I expect it to eventually end up that most companies will have N+1 pay scales, where N is the number of cities they have offices in: one pay scale in each city where they have offices for the workers who actually work in those offices, and one pay scale for remote workers.
PulseAudio sucked when it first came out, then gradually grew enough features and stability to make it worthwhile. The people still hating on it are just too boneheaded to appreciate things like your speakers muting themselves when you plug in headphones.

That said, it's still glitchy at times and can't do low latency properly, and JACK1 is inefficient, and JACK2 has a messy threading model, and none of them can do any-to-any latency compensation, so let's hope it all gets replaced by PipeWire and we solve this mess once and for all.
Helm (for Emacs) and was there before Helm (for k8s).
Maybe Helm (for k8s) should have been named k8s-helm to avoid confusion.

Or not-emacs-helm.

And maybe helm is confusing as well for boat enthusiasts and should have been named emacs-helm and... oh... oh, I see, naming things and stuff...

Gotcha.
Wikipedia says: "At 7.25%, California has the highest minimum statewide sales tax rate in the United States, which can total up to 10.50% with local sales taxes included."

Sales tax is not normally considered progressive.

With such a high sales tax, you'd expect to not also pay state income tax, and you'd expect low property taxes. This is not the case.

I don't think anybody should leave California. If you vote to create a disaster, you should stay to enjoy it. No other state wants you voting to replicate that.
Get Customers to Pre-Order a SaaS?
Hey everyone! I am working on a AI-powered marketing studio that helps create social media posts, blogs, and digital ads 10x faster. (www.aspireto.be). Currently, I am requesting folks to sign up for early access. I want to convert some of these folks into pre-orders where they actually pay for the first month of the product and private beta access, but am unsure of how to go about doing so.

Anyone have any suggestions on how to do this tactfully?
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/connecting-britain/fi...

suggests that international direct dial wasn't even widespread in the UK before the 1980's.
Well, that's a useful reminder that work by itself does not have an intrinsic value. What matters is an outcome or a perception of it. Sacrificing your lifespan is generally not something that is valued in a corporate life at all, outside of the face value of being visible.

In my experience companies who try to not pay based on location tend to underpay in general (Gitlab would be a prime example).
MacOS has accessibility features for TouchBar including VoiceOver.
Eh, and I almost lost my breath when I thought my favorite open-source synth[1] was being discontinued.

[1] https://tytel.org/helm/
No rush! That may not necessarily be so: the one child policy has led to a peak in males, then relative prosperity has put demographics on a Europe-like path. The current bout of authoritarian leadership may be a last gasp before a climate led resource depletion enhanced population crumble.
May I suggest you read up on how WW1 started? Also Thucydides of course.
I would consider him a developer if he developed this package. Maybe not a developer by professional occupation, but still a developer.
Does "developer" imply professional? By my definition they're definitely a dev.
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Plastic does have a (significantly) lower carbon footprint per bag than paper to produce. This doesn't factor in disposability, of course, but that's probably where that message originated from.
Thanks for the mini heart attack. Thought it was the Helm synthesizer. https://github.com/mtytel/helm
Fire was used in ancient europe for agriculture by semi nomadic people.