skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is little worse than hoteling desks. One of the reasons our current facilities is a ghost town is nobody wants to use a hot swapped desk. Sure, we have an aggressive cleaning staff... but nobody wants to reuse a mouse/keyboard right now. There is a distinct lack of private space and storage and most don't want random hands on their space. I doubt we have more than 20 people in a facility that can house thousands right now - all with hot swapped desks. (The few that do show up have offices) We 'optimized' the space in a cattle car open space... and nobody wants it that actually works in that cost effective space. Shocker.
Back in those days, before cable television, home video, and obviously streaming, movies would spend months and sometimes even years in theaters. The movies mentioned in the opening span multiple years. I guarantee one could put together a similar list of (soon to be) classics from 2017-2020 that rivals those movies from 1957-1960. Sure, it is less prestigious stuff like superhero movies that break box office records and not these classics, but that was also true at the time too. And maybe you can't see all these classics in a theater at the same time like this hypothetical New Yorker from 1959, but that is because there are so many more distribution channels today competing for "content". These new channels make these movies much more accessible to a much larger audience today than was ever possible in the past. I think this whole debate is overblown.
I’ll always have a soft spot for VMS, the first “big computer” OS I ever used. And perhaps did a bit of hacking (allegedly) back in 1990.

Did the hobbyist licensing [1] get resolved? I was inspired by the work of Andrew Back [2] getting VMS clusters working on Raspberry Pis.

The fact that it’s still around today is a testament to our purest technologist passions. I’m old enough to remember how we though the (open) web would be (creating one of the first 100 websites), and now curmudgeony enough to complain about what it’s become. Come on, we all know it’s at least a bit shit. But also awesome.

I guess I was lucky enough to be around VMS, SunOS and NextSTEP in a 12 month period and filled with the optimism that the intersection of them, with some of that all seen mostly via an Amiga interface, could become. Man, they were the days.

I think that even with all the pressures put upon the creative devs, product folks, and hard-working ops and support folks that we’re all driving towards what’s best for our organisations - despite the mediocre early 20 MBAs and managers who’ve have no formal training.

Apologies for the extra episode of HCF but in those days it was more exciting than helping folks with cloud, IAC, etc.

But I’m just a grumpy ops bloke. Off to write something in BASIC on my Spectrum and remember why computers are fun.

[1] http://www.openvmshobbyist.com/news.php
[2] https://web.archive.org/web/20190620014639/https://www.rs-on...

[EDIT[ typo “produce folks” and “product folks” are completely different!
It's kind of mind boggling that anyone who spends any amount of time looking at Tether comes away with the same exact conclusion: this seems like scam...

and yet there's a billions of tethers flowing around.

Luckily for me, I have no money, so I don't need to worry about losing it.
In the US, our bureaucracies seem to attract some of the least intelligent people who have no interest in improving their institutions, just in riding the gravy train forever. I think that this is an outcome of how we treat all bureaucrats as equal. There are no entrance exams, or university -level courses for being a bureaucrat. There's no national standard. There's no pride or recognition in being a good bureaucrat, and few if any consequences of being a mediocre one. IMO it seems like a problem with what the US views is the acceptable structure of government, with many overlapping state and federal agencies and endless finger-pointing. There's rarely a "the buck stops here" moment, and so no need to ever improve. If you're familiar with the bozo theory, basically the entire bureaucracy is already full of bozos and thus irredeemable.
I'm working in the display industry. I've never heard anyone in our industry talk about this "tarpit" or "locking down". Could you explain exactly what you mean or what you are claiming?
Did you know this because he was reporting to you?

I find people who are constantly measuring some metric they're doing well on (and this metric always changes) and then making sure you know about it are covering for some sort of performance problem.
I've long thought that there should be an absolute rule against linking to NYT articles on Hacker News. This underscores one reason why.
Trust is neither warmth nor competence - trust is the assumption that our mental model of the person we trust somewhat reliably predicts how they actually act, combined with somewhat aligned values.
Pursuing “realpolitik” strategies to “divide and conquer” the global political landscape in order to further their own agenda is hardly unique.

What’s nice to see is it being said out loud so that the narrative can begin to change.

Right now when any country acting against China’s interests, anywhere in the world (including the domestic affairs of the country taking action), it is “decried” by the Chinese government as with whatever is the most relevant negative connotations, often it’s simply accused the country of being “rascist”... for bigger problems it begins a long game of threats, culminating in China beginning to exert economic leverage such not by traditional means but by non traditional ones such as internal marketing campaigns for local alternatives to other countries goods, using their government control of their internal economy to change demand in a way that’s most favourable to whatever leverage they are trying to exert.

China is economically a very big country and the level of control they have makes them to use a strategy game term, an effective player of “micro” intensive strategies whereas most other countries can’t play the game of realpolitik at that level. Fortunately smaller countries can react to things more quickly and are to continue the metaphor, better able to play “micro” both because they have less resources to split their focus on (less sprawling government departments and militaries) and have less territory to try and defend (smaller nations in terms of area).
I'm surprised how many publications went the route of selling subscriptions to a virtual paper. I can't bring myself do to it. If it was just a 75 cents charge for the new articles and you could access them forever, that would be more appealing to me.

Put it this way wouldn't mind buying a national geographic on the iPad but I don't want a subscription for this very reason and it seems like a waste of money paying for something I might not get into.

Thanks for posting
Directly quoting people is not character attacking them:

Here's a screenshot of what Tim Boyd (the mayor I quoted) said, in his own words: https://twitter.com/Holiday1326/status/1361808806515253248

and here's Rick Perry in his own words: https://www.republicanleader.gov/whats-up-in-texas/

I'm not in any way mischaracterizing what these people say and therefore it is not a character attack.

You may disagree with my conclusions, and you might even be justified saying my conclusions don't belong on this site, but you can't just imply I'm lying or simply trying to make people look bad.
Wikipedia lists the demonym for nearly every major city.

San Franciscan

San Francisqueño
I am guessing people park their money in tether during periods of instability without needing to pay a broker to transfer into fiat. It looks like a place for temporarily hedging against crypto generally.
Natural gas is imported into Japan on ships. It's relatively recent that it has been the inexpensive option in that scenario.

And then gas does usually need ducting or radiators.
> Instead you can spend 20% time doing management tasks and 80% time coding.

If you're that good at delegating that you're only using 20% of your time and your team is humming along at a high level... congrats, we've got these other four teams that AREN'T being managed that well, you're now the senior manager in charge of all of them, please get those other managers up to your level too!
I disagree that it isn't possible to accurately describe one's political leanings.

I am a proponent of aiming for accuracy when trying to describe other people's politics, and being charitable whenever possible.

If I see a group of people using words to describe another group of people in a way that purposely misrepresents them, particularly in a negative way, I think that's something worth calling out.

I don't have the nihilistic take that "if you can't 100% accurately describe something, then it's okay to not even try".
The reason you can't do that by the way is because of literal centuries of slavery and oppression which was informed by the same basic idea, that some groups of people are naturally better than others.

Until things have been fine for an equally long time, such arguments will be socially sanctioned, as they should be.
All electric heaters are all considered to be 100% efficient. A bitcoin miner is an electric heater, not a heat pump. Although much more noisy, expensive and breaks more often, plus it requires an internet connection. So it makes more sense to get a normal heater. Mining bitcoin only makes sense on an industrial scale. Which is why these things are usually found in data center like facilities.

(Meanwhile heat pumps can go up to 300% efficiency.)
> I don't think you understand. The layout engine could be on the server, not "non existent".

Oh, I do understand which is why the thing in your quotes isn't something I said. Layout on the server means you're laying out without the context of my device or viewport, and certainly without any change of context like if I switch to dark mode or prefers-reduced-motion, or if my data access changes.

> And what's wrong with the "m." standard as an option? For some jobs it's the right tool.

Instead of getting overly principled about it... one of the reasons it went away was because the heuristics that determined what even is mobile were becoming increasingly wrong. And like I said this resulted in a bunch of ridiculous horizontal scrolling for lots of users.
I think it’s more who the writer is.
Even if you end-up reading the article you do so in a state of annoyance which is usually does not help the author's cause.
I wonder why Josh Frysenberg didn’t mention this at his presser today. Contrast this to him repeatedly saying “digital giants must pay traditional news”... I was waiting for him to slip once and say “tradition news must pay my boss Murdoch”
I believe it's an open secret that tether is not backed by $ 1 to 1. If I remember correctly, they admitted that somewhere around 80% was backed by cash and the rest in collateral. Not sure how much you can trust what they say anyways.

In the meantime, avoid tether at all cost, alternatives like USDC and DAI are much better and trustworthy.
"Just a modest majority of Americans, some 55%, own stocks, according to an April 2020 poll by Gallup, which asks whether households owned stocks either directly or as part of a fund."

https://www.forbes.com/sites/teresaghilarducci/2020/08/31/mo...
core CPI last month was 1.4% and has consistently been under 2% for a long time
It was the rise of information sharing that finally ended the Cold War. I would argue that inherently unfair closed internets will lead to a modern "hot war." Because when you get trapped in bubbles of positive feedback loops, with only your own propaganda being spun up like hyperdrives, you can't ameliorate extremist views with actual realities.
Clearly Rick Perry's house is warm.

Also, those glasses, adapted in a previous run for president, are still working for him. They make him look smart.
Well, to be responsible, all you have to do is not understate the risks. In fact, it's probably best to err on the side of making it seem scary. If you said "N people have died, M people are known to have gotten it and recovered, so you should not assume your survival chances are better than M / (N+M)", with N being at least, say, 100 for sample-sizing purposes, I think that would be reasonable—so one could have said that probably back in February 2020. That would have yielded overestimates—probably 1-10% IIRC—but you could probably find some people willing to risk even those odds for the sake of their country or the world (or bragging rights).
Isn't that like saying "it's not owned by Google, it's owned by Alphabet"?
Not yet. Hopefully eventually.
They don't invest in tether, it's just a means of moving money between exchanges like you say or temporary hold between trades.
This is what is actually so scary. Iirc the petrodollar system has kept American economic hegemony in place for ~50 years but new debt is more likely to be denominated in a mix of Euro, dollar, and RMB. At some point there will be a breaking point in foreign policy (not least of all because the end of American empire has us so focused on domestic fights) and the petrodollar will be over with the signing of a pen. That will trigger a massive reorganizing of the domestic economy and launch China’s primacy.
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Maybe host and use it in a non GDPR environment, it's always going to be ambiguous and risky.
As far as personal prep, things aren’t that different from a hurricane/flood event. Intermittent power is better than 2 weeks without like Ike. The cold is a new twist but not unmanageable. Judge Hidalgo seems up to the task and a few steps ahead of the mayor.
The Big Long – The Reformed Broker
Continue this line of thinking, would you want all algorithms banned? Might as well shut everything down :shrug:
> You would be surprised at how quickly tolerance builds

my experience in the US navy with alcohol lends strong credibility to this.

heavy drinkers can put away 750mL of 80proof a night and not be hungover the next day (much less debilitated). a person with no tolerance would drink that amount and either vomit or die - possibly both.

a heavy drinker with an uncommonly high tolerance is capable of truly startling things.
This is great stuff, thanks!
When I hear "low code" I get a little skeptical. Often such tools make the first 80% of the project simpler but the last 20% a bear, unless you live with clunky defaults. There's a difference between managing code better and removing code. Generally I find the best path to "low code" is to write small simplification wrappers that fit your shop's conventions, because a big vendor probably won't fit your shop's conventions out of the box.

Thus, you can code like "currentForm.AddButton("clickMe", destination: screenY); and all the styling etc. is done by your shop's wrapper to fit your shop's preference. The wrapper won't fit all needs, but if fits 90% of buttons, then you only have to specialize 10% of them. I don't know why people tolerate copy and paste of verbose snippets for such. Wrap the repetitive clutter away to make it easier to grok your primary work.

I like optional named parameters such that customization is incremimental:

currentForm.AddButton("clickMe", destination: screenY, color: "green");

currentForm.AddButton("clickMe", destination: screenY, style: "compact", animation: "images/wiggle7.gif");

It's kind of like query-by-example: only specify the constraints you need instead instead of every potential attribute under the sun.
I bought a subscription last year during their $4 a month special but cancelled it a few months later. I had to go through the chat system on the website to cancel my subscription, but my experience was rather different. I told the customer service agent that “I thought I’d be reading more of the newspaper but I found that the free allotment of articles will likely suit my usage,” and the service agent cancelled the subscription.
bit.ly links (and I'm going to assume other shorteners) seem to work, just so long as you remove the preview before you post it.
Is that a bug, or a feature?
I think you had to log in and set something up to get it.
I've been wondering if shorting Tether (though dont think e.g. Binance has it on the list but some new dexs with leverage might allow it) isn't an extremely safe bet - no chance it will increase in value and a significant chance it will collapse eventually..
This is a sign of dying industry.
Are they incompetent or restricted in what they can actually do? Or both?
Why There’s No Such Thing as “A Startup Within a Big Company”
> The social media effect works to amplify the negative and dismiss the positive.

You're not wrong here, I use to look at TikTok to fill the time and my god have my emotions become more balanced since deleting that app once I realized how it was making me feel.

But this is another good example of how we're beset from all sides by forces attempting to extract value that will never be returned or re-distributed, just a bigger mess made left for the rest of us
That's my point - not in the stdlib if you have to `npm add`. It's not just the libs you import that are affected. Npm is arguably the size it is because the libraries it contains are not written against a stdlib. Certainly not front-end JS libs. That has a quality effect on the whole ecosystem.
Very good point. Also usable for any other transport activity (in near future?). Last mile packages, etc.
The date is right above the title in this case.
They're not doing all the coke, but they're paying for it. In any case, it's still a lot. $40k would sound more believable.
Oops, not native to cali, had no idea...
Modern monetary theory is an interesting look at this that says “print money to pay for the things you need; you only raise taxes to pull money back out of the economy so that inflation doesn’t skyrocket”
Because ctci is a terrible book to start learning basics from. I agree with let perfect not be the enemy of the good, but CTCI/LC are not good, they are terrible and overwhelming for someone with no background in algorithms.
Starts with: "The lawless rollercoaster of bitcoin enriches few investors, while many often lose everything."

Not true, It is another ATH day for BTC, so literally anyone that bought BTC in the past and held is in the money. "Many often lose everything" is absurd.

There isn't anything radical or new discovered here, and is trying to drum up 2021 "Tether FUD". Heard it all before. Hasn't crashed. Works on several more cheap, smartcontract blockchains now than expensive ol' ether in '18. Powers billions in defi, loan and other radical new financial instruments. Few believe that there are literally bank accounts backing this 100% today, and you know what?
Who cares?

Do I trust an ECDSA signature more than I trust a nameless brick and mortar bank holding some corporate funds. Hell yes. Computational security. Hard laws of math. I'd rather not hold tether in general, but IMHO it is less at risk than funds in bank accounts. I know this might sound strange to you dear reader, but you may not have experienced a time where bank accounts got haircuts, or your bank started freezing your funds. You cannot trust a bank! Be your own bank!

Too many folks are holding onto old ideas of what money is, and do not see what it is turning into. While I do not claim that tether itself is non-controversial, its behavior in the cryptomarkets general is non-controversial in that it holds a peg 1:1 with the USD, and is generally fungible and easily converted.

Chill on the tether fud, next cycle you will probably be sick of it too.
"Calling this blackmail seems hyperbolic."

It's interesting to note that none of the key points I made about these corporations' very dubious place in history penetrated. Therefore I'll have to assume their behavior is acceptable with you.

It seems you also missed the point that Australian users like everyone else were cajoled from an open web to a closed system. The fact is they had no choice whatsoever and that Facebook knows it. If it's not blackmail then perhaps extortion is a better word.

To say users were not cajoled when they had no other choice, I suggest you refer to my point in the nearby post about the fact that everyone's telephone, like it or not, went from an inviolable private service on a government utility to 'ownership' by Facebook and Google. If you say this never happened then I've nothing more to say to you.
Yes—-there has got to be more to the story-otherwise they could hire a sophomore Econ major, learn about elasticity, and pull in exponentially higher earnings.

I have seen contracts between large manufacturers where one pre-purchases exclusivity variants, like:
1) Exclusive licensing for x years
2) Exclusive licensing for x years after the first time buyer deploys tech not to exceed W years (usually 10)
3) Very limited sales/licensing to others

This smells like (3) + (2) here.
Even 80% seems like enough to make a bank run very unlikely, especially if some of the rest is mostly in easy to liquidize crypto.
weworkremotely.com is a really great remote work resource!
I think I get what you're saying. the amount of energy required increased, and therefore the % of energy from natural resources decreased because carbon plants are running 3 times as hot? especially since you'd rather burn free renewable energy as opposed to a limited supply of gas.

but isnt that the point? even if wind energy held up better than expected, theyre still not enough to cover the energy needs?

texas needs energy that they dont have.

and obviously the wind/solar output DID drop, and carbon plants have to make up for it
When they ask why you are cancelling say "No reason". There is literally nothing they can say to prolong the whole experience. Don't volunteer any information. Don't tell them what is wrong with their website. Don't tell them anything. You will make the whole process go longer.
Why specify “in 2021”? You worried someone’s gonna hip you to the bet tiling window manager of 2037 instead?
>> Epic can't create an alternate store on iOS. At all

> And I pray it stays that way.

If Epic had an alternate app store, you know you wouldn't have to use it right? You could still use Apple's walled garden. Granting me the ability to run more software on my device doesn't restrict your ability to control what runs on your device.

> it’s just a selfish desire to impose your will on others.

You're the one arguing for restrictions about what I can do on my phone. I don't care what you do with yours. Nothing Epic is proposing would stop Apple from reviewing apps and selling them in the app store.

And if opening the door to free and open marketplaces, with the user in the driver's seat is selfish, guilty as charged! Sign me up! The engine of capitalism works best with healthy competition. (And no, the phone megacorp duopoly is not healthy competition.)

Reigning in monopolies is what healthy regulation is made for.
Great link, thanks. Vladimir Chelomei's name is all over that page. 12 counts to 16 for Von Braun.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir_Chelomey
The problem with doing a DAI-USDT short is that they're correlated: if Tether implodes, it may take down DAI as well.
Co-organizer of PyATL here. I help folks like you land jobs. Shot me an email (in my profile) and I’ll do my best to get You on your way.
Not sure about make & model, I'd have to find the paperwork from when the house was built 8 years ago. It's radiant, not forced air. That's an option I could add but it would require electricity for that part.
When I was a boy, we had nine planets! Kids these days don’t know what they’re missing, schoolyard speculation about Planet X was the good life...
It's not just in front of the camera. A good looking relative of mine was told that if he wanted to keep working on set for the television network he would have to regularly sleep with a female producer.
A majority of equities are overvalued. You'd have to be asleep to think otherwise. And of the marketable securities that aren't, projected future cash flows are difficult to calculate (sending the discount rate to 0), or when they aren't, growth prospects are very poor.