skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
WeGift (https://wegift.io) | Mid / Senior / Engineering Manager (backend) | UK | VISA can be arranged

WeGift just raised another $12m and we’re on a mission to overhaul B2C payments. At peak, our platform sees £100k in transactions every hour, but we need to scale to handle 10x this. We just launched in the U.S and expect volume to massively increase and that presents a challenge to the engineering team.

We need Engineers who are excited to help solve this. We have a great team of independent thinkers, with autonomy, ownership and the ability to bring new tech and ideas to the table.

We're hiring for Mid and Senior Backend Engineers, as well as hands-on Engineering Managers. Whilst we work predominantly with Python we are very open minded to background; in our minds good engineers are great at adapting and learning new things!

If you’re interested in applying or have any general questions, please get in touch with Adam Horne (adam.horne@wegift.io)

Our tech... core services are containerized Python Flask web apps on our brand new Kubernetes cluster in AWS EKS. That’s all provisioned with infrastructure as code using Terraform. Persistence comes from AWS Aurora (Postgres) with some Redis for the fast bits. We’ve got a range on the frontend from server rendered templates to Vue 3 SPAs driven by GraphQL apis.

More detail: https://www.notion.so/wegift/Collateral-for-Engineers-a64604...
Will the communism page be finally closed when it's implemented in the USA and the country fails, eventually falling apart? Or will it be "not a real communism" once again? I mean we're trying this experiment again and again expecting to get a new outcome. But so far it only lead to poverty, famines, mass killings, slavery camps.
:) fully produced in-house by our designer Tga. Song on SoundCloud too https://m.soundcloud.com/replit/kaboom
I also strongly suggest the C Programming FAQ:

http://c-faq.com/
How long ago did you learn that? Because back in the day I didn't know even one developer who wouldn't curse when working with DCOM/Corba implementations because of convoluted complexity, bugs, and problems with debugging.
I do stand corrected
What is your motivation of putting it on github? Have you considered selling it to google?
I would think a specialist paying 40% in taxes has already escaped poverty? That's my confusion here, poverty suggests such a low income that progressive taxation shouldn't really affect yet.
Also, why still use the old confusing long, short, long long etc... types when the much better fixed-width types had been standardized in stdint.h since C99 (even the Visual Studio C compiler has those since at least VS2015).
True local self sustainability stopped being a thing in the bronze age.
In my previous job, some PHP developers loved to pick on JS with that same accusation, then we checked the composer packages folder...

Also, working with gradle now... I'd take the npm + webpack any day.
I think the parent was talking about personal taxes and how that affects escaping poverty.
Was the communication encrypted?
Why people are doing this?

How can you compare Elon or Steve Jobs wealth level to well anyone?

There are CEO's of successful companies that worked their whole lives and never got to that level. Aiming for that is well crippling. People should aim to have a good life...
China has built the largest navy
XUbuntu 18.04.3 LTS

It is possibly eroded somewhat by liberal use of "apt -F install".

But something was wrong to begin with because Wine and Virtualbox refused to install properly. "i7-3770 CPU" + [GeForce GTX 760].

But this is my Steam-machine mostly, which works OK, so no actual alarms.
Really you couldn't make it up considering the criminal activities this bank has been involved in most recently in Latin America
This is missing the root cause. Why did the great depression happen? It's because of the usurious financial system. Move away from usury (aka interest), and these things instantly become a non-issue overnight. This is why the government moved away from the gold standard, they want to have their cake and eat it too. They want to rely on the unfair, immoral and parasitic usurious system, yet they want to be able to bail out the market at anytime they feel when they go too far. And guess what, this will keep happening because the fundamentals are rotten. And people still cry about the wealth gap, which will keep happening because of the broken system.
This is also bad advice for C:

void function_1();

Most people coming from other languages (like C++) will probably think that this is identical with "void function_1(void)", but without the explicit void argument list, the compiler will not warn if the function is accidentally called with parameters.
Its been a while that I did somehing with python - but shouldn't event handlers work pretty much the same? Or in other words, how can eventhandlers work any other way than asynchronous?

And you need eventhandlers for games.
Are you a Bayesian or a Frequentist? (Or Bayesian Statistics 101) (2008)
The US strategy on China is also all about denying China cutting edge chips which makes the dependence on Taiwan a source of precarity.
> Have you ever worked in the embedded space? The technical work is often fun while the business side is miserable.

This is such a perfect description, it make me want to cry.
Korea expresses 'strong regret' over decision to release water from Fukushima
> And yet I do not believe that if my single parent was richer, I would have been a better programmer or writer.

This has nothing to do with your belief.

The level you're at now? You could've reached it a decade earlier, had you had money. As could I.

Poor people fail significantly more than rich people. For every one of you or me there will be 100 others who couldn't make it. At a certain level of wealth, however, it does't matter if you're a "better programmer". You will still be able to enjoy life and achieve fulfilment, but at a vastly reduced timescale.

> It is precisely random luck

Yes. There are random chances, such as where you're born. Apart from that the chances of misfortune decrease exponentially with money.

- You're Einstein but born in poverty? Hello, malnourishment, no access to good education, menial jobs until the end of your life.

- You're a regular Joe, but born into well-to-do family? Hello, happy childhood, good education, necessary connections, largely stress-free life of your chosing.

There's 150 000 shades in bteween, of course, but luck has little to do with chance, and has a lot of to do with money.
This.
I come from a coal mining village in the eastern Ukraine, where people didn't get salaries for 4-5 months and would live off the food that they grew in the back yard. My home village is controlled by the DPR separatists, my parents became refugees in their 50s.
I made it to the top ~5% in Germany. Of course there are many factors to it: my parents saved up to buy me a computer, I was fond of western culture to an extent of self-learning English and of course I was just very lucky. Now, here in Germany, all of a sudden I get treated as if I had a head start over the other 95%, especially given my skin color and gender.
I'm definitely not a fan of Ayn Rand, but some tirades about people who are not poor get more and more resemblance with the monologues of her grotesque looter characters.
Can you really call it a dying company when their annual revenue has tripled over the last seven years? This isn't the downfall of Adobe. This is the most successful they've ever been.
I need something like this but open-source so I can run it locally...
Reminds me of the Land of Lisp video—in a good way.

http://landoflisp.com/
hey now. that blog is part of the job, memes are cultural research, and shitposting is how you stay in touch with retail investors. that's at least thirty hours a week together
Reminds me of observablehq.com
I don't think our judiciary arm, which is supposedly independent from our government, but reality is much more messy than that, will do anything about this shit.

Revolving doors... and all.

Maybe change could be enacted on the local government level which is the power more easily sizeable by real people and not political drones, in order to hijack current zoning laws which as far as I know are heavily concentrated down to local adminstrations like -ayuntamientos-, which in itself seems to be what's making things more complicated as corruption is harder to spot there, even if it's more obviously done than at higher levels... Anyways...

Maybe a return to the ghost villages once a job is not easily found in a city but online, but remote seems hard to implement here locally on a culture level at least until a couple generations of older folks retire from management, where one could get cheap land and construct with fairly advanced and economically minded new construction processes, like 3d printing homes or whatever, maybe...

But at the end of the day, we're still fucked, paying high rents for small jails in highly contaminated city centres... One can only dream to retire on the countryside for now.
Eric Weinstein is very wealthy, has many supporters, is invited to many talkshows, and holds an important position in industry that enables him to have many connections. If he can't find professional support, then that is a smell.

Compare to Mochizuki, who is in fact a career mathematician, but is also having trouble finding support.
>> governments baling out rich people

>> the lives of the bottom 20% could be improved, and I think that we should ask those at the top 10% to help them out

Governments are taking money out of people's pockets by running a printing press / increasing taxes and using them for personal gains. Solution? Ask the government to take even more money. They will be ashamed and start working in the interests of every citizen.
I'm sure that Russian state owned media is way more biased than most Western media. However, if you factor in that for instance a large part of the US only watches Fox, OAN or Breitbart, I don't think one party is much better off in the news department. A lot of people have access to independent media, but actively choose not to use them.
They were valued at 100B$ before their earnings last week showing an annualized growth of 500% (1.8B revenue for q1 vs 1.1B for the whole 2020), I expect it to settle at a higher number tomorrow.
Our agency develops wordpress sites and shopify storefronts, managing multiple clients became cumbersome so we have decided to automate. I must admit that at first it was all black magic to us, we were using Jenkins and eventually were forced to hire someone proficient with YAML scripting. Even then, the automation processes caused some issues and it wasn't as straightforward as we expected. Until recently. Our new front-end hire told us about Buddy - suddenly CI/CD became so damn simple. I had no idea how easy it can be - predefined actions, easy to understand trigger conditions and env vars, automatically fetched dependencies, deploying only changes, team management etc. It all feels next gen. We were able to migrate our Jenkins processes that we've been building for months in roughly two days. If CI/CD is still some sort of wizardry for you, try Buddy - seriously, you'll thank me later :)
Sure, Amazon wins by providing lower prices through economies of scale. The details of how they acquire customers of small businesses are not relevant because it does not influence the end result. Wealth is moved from one party (a small business) to another (a large multinational). There is a clear loser.
"We just made the smallest of changes to a chip that everybody is building, and all of a sudden it started doing a lot better.

"It's quite amazing to me that nobody spotted it in the 20-or-so years that people have been working on that model."

The research paper was published in the journal Nature Communications: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-021-22274-1
Brands Fail on Social Media
There's still some situations where saturated fats might be bad (iirc high fat+high carb at the same time is worse than just high carb) but there really seems to be no reason at all to believe that low-sodium foods are healthier. The problem with fries is everything except for the salt.
Technology Radar Vol.24 [pdf]
Less than bitcoin, while providing actual value? According to Netflix's 2020 ESG report [1], their hardware infrastructure used just under 95 GWh in 2020 (not including data transmission or your TV). All of which was from renewable sources, btw. Including transmission and the end-user's viewing devices, watching Netflix is estimated to use 77W of power [2], for a total estimate of around 1.2 TWh per year. Bitcoin is estimated at 140 TWh per year [3], or 1500 times Netflix's data centre power usage, or a 120 times the likely total energy consumption of watching Netflix.

Going further, all data centres in the world use an estimated 200 TWh per year, and data transmission networks are estimated at 250 TWh per year [4], for a total of 3.2 times Bitcoin's energy use. Maybe it's just me, but the value provided by the internet is more than 3.2 times higher than that of Bitcoin.

[1] https://s22.q4cdn.com/959853165/files/doc_downloads/2021/03/...

[2] https://www.iea.org/commentaries/the-carbon-footprint-of-str...

[3] https://cbeci.org/

[4] https://www.iea.org/reports/data-centres-and-data-transmissi...
I quite like this! Payment processors obviously need to take a cut, so they can't send the funds directly to your wallet, but having an alternative might be good.
Nice! And we can even pay for it by using universal income, we just need to do an initial round of UBI and then it will bootstrap itself! Why nobody thought of that before?
>The $19.2 million judgment includes $9.2 million for litigation fees and expenses.

So, frictional losses in the legal system were nearly 50%. All that value going not to customers, nor to shareholders, but rather to lawyers.
And a well functioning social safety net (which also requires money from the state) to catch the youth who suffer from parental neglect and/or lack or resources. You can have role models aside from your parents.
Isn’t Secure Boot supposed to solve that issue?
> The type of tax fraud that requires money laundering is drugs.

even white collar crime would face the problem of explaining where the money for purchases came from if that income hasn't been declared. money laundering is part of the strategy for anyone who does crimes and wishes to not get caught (otherwise why give up part of the profit for the laundromat).
...and be in the right country. And have money or a support network that helps you while chasing the unicorn. Or if you get sick.
This is why any time there is anything with a date associated with it more than a week or so out I go into my work calendar and add a reminder. Depending on what it is that may be on the date, or a week or even month prior. If it's super important I'll add it to my Google calendar which I don't use for anything except alerts like this that a year+ out where I may not be at the same job but still need to remember.
When a government gets consumed by drug cartels, the UN security council should vote to conduct "peacekeeping" (blitz war) on all the drug dealers, burn all their plantations with napalm.

Drug dealers can't harass the family of a peacekeeping soldier from the other side of the world. So all those intimidation tactics involving people's families get invalidated and everything that's left are the drug dealers alone against thousands of well equiped professional soldiers.

Unfortunately, the UN starts with the premise that governments should deal with their own stuff, something that in practice doesn't work.
It might be more liberating if the success narrative in the US focused on relative success instead of “absolute” success. But afaik and have seen in my life thus far, the people everyone knows, worships, or revered for their <INSERT_ACCOMPLISHMENT> are 95% of the time the absolute best (sports star, movie star, fortune 50 CEO, bigwig politician, superstar dev, most well known doctor, most fancy medical practice in the US/world, etc)
Absolutely sleazy practice. Just checked the UK website to see how this works: monthly prices are shown. When clicked on 'order' the default is always annual, while some products don't even have monthly option. Pathetic
Yeah, today’s browsers remind me of flash and acrobat: they add features faster than they can fix security bugs. And those features are default on for everyone to exploit. Yeah, I know the comparison is a hyperbole.
https://wptavern.com/state-of-css-2020-survey-results-tailwi...

Clearly, not "everyone" stopped doing that.
Ministers urged to give UK home-workers a ‘right to disconnect
I agree. If it doesn’t follow the Debian Free Software Guidelines then I wouldn’t call it open source.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debian_Free_Software_Guideli...
You left out the most significant reason: that most people just aren't as lucky as those guys. In the US, you can become a millionaire through hard work and dedication and not much luck. However, there is nowhere that you can become a billionaire without tremendous luck.

Amassing that type of wealth depends on many other people embracing your ideas, and random events that are entirely beyond your control working out in your favor. There are ways to improve your odds of reaching this level of success - if you never start a business, your odds are zero. But luck is the ultimate decider of who becomes a "self-made" billionaire out of those that are actively trying to become one.
Every medical practitioner has been begging for voice EMR for like 10 years. EHR systems are a nightmare to update; a doctor basically needs an intern with an iPad to wander behind them and translate their dictation into EHR. Whoever controls this space will have a close relationship with every doctor and nurse (and any EMRs that don't will seriously falter)
It appears to be the 1000 packages with the highest PageRank, as pulled from https://anvaka.github.io/npmrank/

So it's safe to say that this package has the most transitive dependencies in npm.
> > Depends on what you mean by cruft

As the one who asked that:

That wasn't even aimed at sawyer for one.

For the other it was an honest question because Perl has a LOT of cruft both in the code, in the tooling, in the docs, in the design and the syntax. As such it was important to ask which cruft the person was referring to before being able to answer.

The existence of cruft is not in any possible way in question for anyone involved. The only questions are: Which cruft are you talking about? Why do you think it's a problem? Do the people who touch said cruft daily agree it's a problem for <implementation of x> at the current point in time?

Now note also how the above compares to sawyer's central claim in his email:

> I had dared to say that people in Core recognize there is cruft in the language

And consider that such disconnects marked his communications for almost a year now.
"How to become a GOOD Theoretical Physicist" by the Nobel laureate Gerard 't Hooft. https://www.goodtheorist.science/

A list of resources and topics to master in order to go from zero to a rigorous grasp of string theory.
Automotive actually has better margin that even DC chips. The problem for them will be that the automotive IC market is actually not that big.

A gorilla like Intel will be able to saturate the market few times over if we take all of their capacity.
Surely there is some compromise.

Diesel is far worse than petrol for local pollution for example. So let's ban diesel in the city, then as electric becomes more viable, we can finally ban petrol as well.

We shouldn't have sympathy for things that actively harm people's health. Society shouldn't favor an individual over the harm they do to many more people. A white diesel van driving around all day, idling in front of schools and parks, has significant negative impact on others.

It's similar to how coal fueled power plants used to exist in the middle of dense cities. Coal worker unions objected to them being closed down, but the health interests of millions of residents fortunately prevailed in most cases.
Whatever let's you sleep at night, bud. I'm sure you really think like that, and not rationalizing your inability to become rich.
The Mulefa creatures in Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials use wheels for movement
https://hisdarkmaterials.fandom.com/wiki/Mulefa
You mean the helmet or the windshield? :-)
What is the “correct” version of this?
They have an official site (it's a wordpress one, but still)
All it would take is your fleet of lawyers against Adobe's office towers full of lawyers. If you have the resources to back that, be a sport and make the sacrifice for the rest of us.
Really? I think you would hear some strong arguments about how that would incentivise people to have tons of kids.
You're both not wrong in my eyes. It's that drugs have a disproportionally large section of the income pie. It's way more scalable than sex slavery.

But you're right in that AML also includes things like terror financing which wouldn't be fixed by... legalizing terror???

Terror has a pretty sizable portion of the pie... maybe... the lines get blurry really fast when say a state level actor is terrorizing its own people.
Scratch is drag-and-drop, no actual typing code, so this is quite different.
Seconding (or thirding) Affinity! I switched last year and apart from some functionality about charts and graphs, I am not looking back at all.
Somethin’s Off
MSVC has C11 support only since very, very recently:

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/cppblog/c11-and-c17-standard-...

(it has a solid subset of C99 since around VS2015 though, just _Generic was missing - and ignoring VLAs, which have been "dropped" in later C standards anyway).
Scientists watch 2D puddles of electrons emerge in a 3D superconducting material
Was it in the Balkans?
As a web developer, who mostly spends time with Go and Python, is there any benefits of learning C?
U.S. Calls for Pause on Johnson and Johnson Vaccine After Clotting Cases
BlitzMax NG – a fast cross-platform, open-source, programming language
What people often forget is that cross-AZ traffic is included in those .elasticsearch instance prices.
In a 3-AZ deployment and given the frequent rebalancing/replication traffic that is a significant line item if you run it yourself.
I'm not arguing it's not expensive, but when you look at the TCO it's less obscene than if you just look at EC2 pricing alone.
'What Is That in the Sky?' Floridians Catch Meteor's Close Brush with Earth
The story says they were delivering partial shipments of the tens-of-thousands of screws in their personal vehicles. And also, that they couldn't make as many screws as Apple wanted.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/28/technology/iphones-apple-...
You pretty much can't, because once memory has been written to at runtime it is assumed to be untrusted. JIT in and of itself is a W^X violation, so the only real solution is to not use it when security over performance is preferred.
Yes! USSA, for motherland! For Stalin!
> I would feel so much better if my browser could just access its settings, the download directory, and read access outside my home directory (for libs and such).

I regularly have to both download files to other directories than my Download folder and upload files from other directories, such a restriction would break a lot of existing use cases.

The optimal way to achieve this would be to have the file / save picker a completely separate process, which then passes a token to the browser, which the browser then exchanges at some sort of "broker" process that returns a handle to the file.
This is exactly how contracts for a lot of things, most notably ISPs work in Germany and it's infuriating.
He Tried to Organize Workers in China's Gig Economy.Now He Faces 5 Years in Jail
Irrespective of how big Elastic is, this is an escalation of Amazon's behaviour of suppressing the tough weeds of competition.

> First they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out—because I was not a socialist.