skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>All the big failures I've seen in consulting come from having middleman between the guy building and the guy talking to the client.

I've worked in different sized consulting organizations. The bigger the consulting project, the more middlemen on both sides. Large consultancies focus on large projects at large customers. Large customers have a bunch of middlemen talking to the middlemen at the consultancy. What is sold, what is required, what is actually done...it's like a big maze...

If all you care about is a paycheck and checking some "delivered" boxes, these large consultancies are fine. If you are the type of person who gets upset because you feel like what you are asked to do can't possibly be right, try to find a smaller consulting org where customer success actually means something.

>If you are the kind of person that has trouble living with that (i.e. perfectionist), you'll be way happier in product orgs.

100% Agree. Note that smaller consulting orgs can be more focused on not delivering crap, but a change in profitability or strategy can change that quickly.
yes thats useful context, I was mentally grouping that into topology kind of stretching that to the few areas where people live and how desolate the rest is
I didn't get the impression that individualism was the USA's problem here, so much as political tribalism. Mask-wearing seemed to get established very early on as a tribal marker, and everything else followed from that.
>They were created to meet the specific law enforcement needs of each agency. Dept of Education agents investigate misuse of Dept of Education funds,

That's a really charitable way of saying "handle petty stuff that the FBI can't justify spending resources on".

Every specialty police department exists for this reason and this reason only. Because the mission is often so petty they wouldn't get any resources if it was obvious that resource allocation to that task was resource allocation away from other policing.

When you have real problems the real police have no problems allocating resources and whipping up dedicated teams. When you feel like using state violence to harass drunken college kids you create a campus PD. When you feel like using state violence to kick the homeless out of the train station you create transit cops. Etc. etc. Even if you're an investigative agency you will have no problem getting the local cops to provide muscle if your needs are legitimate. "Look at us working with the <pick three letters>" is the kind of photo op local departments love, so long as it reflects well on them.
Founder of Bob’s Red Mill Natural Foods transfers business to employees (2010)
> f you share land borders, you are subject to the whims of the least careful country on your subcontinent.

Only if a nation is incapable of controlling their land borders, and that doesn't have to mean fully closed.

All of those countries have had outbreaks and a single case in a country is enough to negate any advantage being an island brings, all have successfully controlled the virus even after it got a beach head.
The first thing I'd do is make a list of all the questions you've already received, and make sure you can generate good answers to them. I've gotten repeat questions, and variations on the same ideas, so it's a fairly straightforward way to do better.

Since you have a combinatorics background, you might also consider thinking of a model that will tell you your rough odds of passing a single interview. My thinking was roughly: "I usually get 7 questions, need to get 6 correct, and I have a 70% chance of producing a decent answer. What are my odds of passing?". That can give you an idea of how much you need to improve to have a decent odds.
Video games have this as well — interactive cinematography and participatory narrative.

As just one of many excellent essays exploring these subjects, may I suggest Noah Caldwell Gervais on Kentucky Route Zero through the lens of participatory theater (spoilers, 1+ hr).

https://youtu.be/pW3qZfF6JfI
Why was this downvoted? It's completely factual. Officer Sicknick passed away from natural causes (the narrative that his head was bashed in with a fire extinguisher evaporated a couple of days ago[0]). Two of the protesters had heart attacks and one apparently had a meth overdose. The only person who was killed was shot by police. If you have evidence to the contrary, please cite it.

0. https://www.politifact.com/article/2021/apr/20/update-capito...
By that argument, we should have capped Internet bandwidth at 56kbps.
> UK viva (oral) examination is far less of a foregone conclusion,

That matches my limited experience with UK, although I've seen north american ones without a foregone conclusion - seems really dependent on institution.

> The most common way to "fail" is to simply not submit the thesis.

I think that's true everywhere, lot's of people just don't complete. I've heard somewhere that the "ABD" (all but dissertation) rate in US is nearly 50% at 10 years, if you go across all disciplines.
Bitcoin Cash has handled more transactions than small-block core for two months now. https://bitinfocharts.com/comparison/transactions-btc-bch.ht...

Read the first page of the Bitcoin whitepaper: https://www.bitcoin.com/bitcoin.pdf.

It's a protest against fees and intermediaries. Now we see BTC claim to be Bitcoin, but it is crippled by high fees and custodial intermediaries.
I wrote for persons that are in a way innocent, as they had no choice but are guilty if they really did commit the crime worthy of the punishment. I'll confirm here for you that I think even an innocent person should be given a way out by euthanasia if they're living such a nightmare of being stuck in prison for a life sentence while truly innocent by not committing the accused crime(s). We definitely as a society should allow persons that were fated with such a cruel twist in life the ability to fight for retrials for examining how they truly are innocent even while the first verdict claims otherwise. I'm not assuming but just writing my thoughts for a better world than the one I observe in this life.
> I tested your theory and asked them to reverse my recent sale

Was your recent sale grossly and clearly mispriced with evidence such as similar domains selling for many orders of magnitude more?
I mean, that's what judicial discretion is for. Good luck convincing a judge that the seller honestly intended to sell his domain for 1000x lower than market value.
NASA Commercial Crew Program Press Guide [pdf]
Can you imagine if all of that was true except that it could be run by anyone? (Sadly, we have very little -- almost zero -- legal protection for our email in the U.S.)
Sure you can. Just mint some "lightnings" and move on. Nothing stops a large centralized processor from creating its own coin.

L2 is also shit for actual distribution and censorship resistance. Imagine a future where BTC is 100x the current price and the people who got in early are rich as heck and nobody else can afford even a single transaction and must instead rely entirely on L2 services, never actually owning their own wealth.
No, it would have its own bullshit to deal with, we just haven't seen it yet.
https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/coronavirus-excess-...

Looks like we are now over-counting instead of undercounting as we were a few months ago. Well, maybe, since things like car crashes and suicides are down in most places so excess would be negative with lockdowns but without COVID.
To build on what someone else had said- firmware updates may play a roll here. While I do think any manufacturer should test things before they ship I am grateful that Dell does seem to keep pushing updates for them.

I did install the latest firmware when I bought mine (early 2020) and was able to through Linux. I also had a few BIOS updates I had applied before I even bought the dock and do recall a few of the change log entries mentioning TB dock fixes. Perhaps the same will be true for your machine.
If you never close channels, you can print infinite Bitcoins. No one knows the true state of a channel until it is settled.
also, back then, the USPS did more than just deliver mail.
I guess political tribalism was certainly a big factor, but I always thought it was something that amplified an already existing characteristic for "rugged individualism", as in, a tendency for people not liking being told what they can or can't do.

It exists to various degrees in pretty much any culture (even highly collectivist cultures like some Asian countries), but in the USA, I think it's seen as a bedrock upon which the country was founded on and successful with. I don't disagree, and I think this individualist go-get-em culture contributed to some of the country's successes, but in times like this, it certainly shows its dark side.

You could chalk up the whole US healthcare system fiasco to this too.
In one year from now there will probably be coins that can do >1,000 TPS on layer 1 with negligible fees with intuitive wallets and all exchanges will have integrated them.
My understanding is that Mint is heavily based upon Ubuntu and assumed there might be none such differences. Thanks for the suggestion -- I will definitely investigate in that direction.
That shortsighted. Blockchain tech isn't only bitcoin.
There are solutions to the problems bitcoins has and they are working fine since years.
BTW the link includes the transaction fees on the XRPL you probably didn't see it because the line is almost flat and almost at zero.

Blockchains or rather DLTs are here to stay - bitcoin probably not.
I think it's a lot easier to get people to go along with measures like this when they actually seem to work, which might make it hard to disentangle cause and effect. Certainly, Europe seemed to have a hell of a drop in lockdown compliance once it became clear they weren't going to eradicate Covid or go away any time in the foreseeable future. Also, the media reporting focuses on the success stories and the people who comply when things are going well and the opposite when it's not working - Australia and New Zealand had their fair share of quarantine hotel escapes and government screw-ups in their precautions, some of which they got more lucky with than others, but because it was a success those didn't make it into news coverage elsewhere so much.
The same or similar patches exist for WSL. One of the examples I gave was tail not working on windows files, cygwin has had a patch for years so it just works, ubuntu had to add the same or a similar patch to work in wsl.
Hopefully those jobs pay more than 55k to the employed, and the government is doing better than just paying people to set up their own factory
And then released a security bulletin: hey, people are saying threatening things on the Internet!
com isn't "shared"; it points exclusively to the .com registrar, who determine the ownership of names under .com.

It would certainly be possible to treat "apple.com" the same way, but then, who decides who gets "records.apple.com" and who gets "computer.apple.com"? Does "records.apple.com" go to Apple Records, the music label, or to Apple Records, a hypothetical bookkeeping ("record-keeping") company, as one of many possible conflicts?
Describing what’s happening at the US border
The difficulty adjustment ensures that, on average, there will always be 6 bitcoins minted every 10 minutes. If the price of the bitcoin increases, miners will be willing to spend more energy to chase those 6 bitcoins. The end result is the network becomes less efficient, as more energy is burned to confirm the same number of transactions.

If difficulty adjustment didn't exist then mining would still be as easy as it was in the satoshi days. The current ASICs would have already finished mining all 21M bitcoins several times over.
> than I did in a US supermarket at the peak.

Where was this though? I am in chicago and even now I've never seen anyone in a grocery store without a mask. All the store require people to wear masks and have mask policies.

which supermarket was this ?

> . In America they just send you home.

https://www.health.qld.gov.au/news-events/news/what-happens-...

> If your symptoms are manageable without medical supervision, your doctor will instruct you to look after yourself at home in isolation.

https://www.coronavirus.vic.gov.au/what-do-if-you-have-coron...

> I have received a positive test result for coronavirus (COVID-19). What should I do?

> If you test positive for coronavirus (COVID-19) you must immediately go home and isolate

Why were you put up in an apartment if you only had 'very mild symptoms' when they advice everyone else to isolate at home?
That is what I was told 3 years ago.
Jesus H. Worse than Catch-22.
How has lightning network re-invented paypal? One is a custodial way to store and transfer money, another is a decentralized non-custodial way to store and transfer money. It couldn't be more different.
I have a simple pair of functions which I use to go up a level based on typing the portion of the path I want to go up until:

# When called as `argu string`, prints the closest ancestor directory which
# contains "string". If none is found, or "string" is empty, the current
# working directory is printed. This function is useful if you need to specify
# a file as an argument, but the relative path to it involves moving several
# directories up from the current directory. For example, instead of doing:
# $ pwd
# /this/is/a/very/long/directory/path/for/demonstration/purposes/
# $ ls ../../../../another/directory/something.log
# You could do:
# $ ls `argu dir`/another/directory/something.log
argu() {
if [[ "$1" == "" ]]; then
echo "`pwd`/"
return
fi
echo "`pwd | sed "s/^\(.*"$1"[^/]*\)\/.*$/\1/g"`/"
}

# When called as `cdu string`, changes directories into the closest ancestor
# directory of the current directory which contains "string". If none is found,
# or "string" is empty, no changes are made to the current directory.
cdu() {
cd `argu $1`
}

I also put the following in ~/.zsh/completion/_cdu so I can get tab-completion of the portions of the path:

#compdef cdu
_cdu_parents=$(pwd | tr '/' ' ')
_arguments "1:parents:($_cdu_parents)"

Or bash (in ~/.bash/completion/cdu):

# bash completion for cdu

_cdu()
{
local cur prev split=false
COMPREPLY=()
_get_comp_words_by_ref -n : cur prev
_dirs=$( pwd | tr '/' ' ' )
COMPREPLY=( $( compgen -W "$_dirs" -- "$cur" ) )
}

complete -F _cdu cdu

# Local variables:
# mode: shell-script
# sh-basic-offset: 4
# sh-indent-comment: t
# indent-tabs-mode: nil
# End:
# ex: ts=4 sw=4 et filetype=sh
I respond politely telling them exactly what my criteria are to be interested in a job, and invite them to send me any opportunities that meet my criteria.

That stops most of them from ever contacting me again because they know that I am not a match for the types of jobs they have. It also surprises me once in a while, and somebody does have a job I'd be interested in.
uhh what? It's true that nobody knows what the state of the channel is, but the capacity is known. so they know it would conclude with either party A getting 0.1 BTC (for example), party B getting 0.1 BTC, or somewhere in between.
No but what would you say if cancelling your Comcast subscription cost you "not that much" compared to 10% of your income? It's the craziest thing, to me at least, how the heck is this legal? Why can I sign someone else up at birth for paying stuff and yet not be the person liable? And then when they want to cancel my subscription, they have to pay a fine for cancelling?

It's beyond me, even if it's not about a lot of money. Which, I guess, is why it still exists and everyone just swallows it and the church can do things like approve fighting HIV and then launch an investigation when they employed condoms, recommending "natural" contraception methods (in detail) in the same investigation document as well as recommending husbands/wives to just not have sex to not give their partner HIV (and outside of marriage obviously doesn't exist). (I found this via the wikileaks talk at 36c3 and was rather weirded out https://wikileaks.com/popeorders/document/Attachment_9-Commi... )
Not every government in the world has equal access to the necessary wealth and technology to pull this off, but for those that do I agree with you wholeheartedly.
2021 12.9” iPad pro is 40.88wh

2020 Macbook Air is 49.9wh

https://www.apple.com/ipad-pro/specs/
https://www.apple.com/macbook-air/specs/
I wouldn't fault a Canadian prime Minister for running with a US friendly platform.
This article says local officials were also holding his passport so that he couldn’t legally leave: https://www.maritime-executive.com/article/chief-mate-strand...
If that's the case, surely it would be more appropriate for a law enforcement agency such as the FBI to investigate any crimes committed against postal workers. But we aren't even talking about crimes that were committed here – we're talking about crimes that might be committed.
Having worked on several large golang code bases, its verbosity is tedious to deal with. It doesn't lend well to IDEs (e.g. it's so easy for a struct to accidentally implement interfaces it doesn't mean to because of structural typing). Error handling is always a mess, it doesn't have enums, and so many issues to list here that Java doesn't have.

The golang authors' weird obsession with not having any methods on strings for example, makes it horrendous to work with them (e.g. can't chain someString.trim().toUpper().endsWith("...")).

Don't get me started on the supposed fast compile times. Parsing is fast (but so almost any other language that is not C++ or Scala), but linking is horrendously slow. Modifying and re-running individual unit tests takes seconds at a time due to relinking. In Java, it's in a blink of an eye because there is no linking.
>free of charge

As an American it is absolutely astounding to hear about things like this. My girlfriend fell off her bike last year and needed stitches and before we let the doctors at the hospital do anything, we were on the phone with her insurance agency to try and figure out the cheapest way to get them. Of course we had no idea what it would cost in the end, so we had to worry for the next few weeks until we got the bill.
I would guess that he was not in a city.
I really like what these guys are doing https://numbrz.com/ You can build data stores that can be published to other numbrz users. They can augment your data and republish. As the source data changes, everyone's stores are updated.
Graphics APIs and deep learning frameworks are really nothing alike. In graphics, save for a few new features, the goal every year is the same: draw more and faster. Deep learning is evolving much faster than that. The answer isn’t an API; it’s powerful and mostly transparent automatic differentiation. Anything that is just an API will forever be behind and is much less useful for active research. There are a few projects around improving AD support, but it’s a relatively difficult problem because to do it best you need deep compiler integration.
We won't be back at square one even if the fees end up the same, since the transaction thoroughput would be higher.

Bigger blocks means more transactions per block and at a constant rate of 6 blocks/hr that means the network can handle more TPS before fees rise. As long as the mempool remains relatively empty, fees will be low.
BCEI White Paper [pdf]
Imagine if they increased the block size and developed Lightning in parallel. On-chain fees would be low until Lightning becomes mainstream then Lightning fees would be even lower.
My mom is a college professor, among other things, and her exams are always open book. She has every expectation of the students to have the book in front of them when taking the test.

She's a fully online professor, though, so maybe that's the difference? Different dynamic from the traditional, in-person classes professors?

I also don't think anything but her quizzes are multiple choice? Everything else is essay format, participation (discussion posts in class forum), and a HUGE paper, so there's really nothing to cheat on, aside from plagiarism, and ... there are ways of catching that.
Less popular? Bitcoin Cash BCH is handling more transactions than BTC, with insignificant fees.
That's definitely a good explanation for language sentiment over a high number of developers.

I don't think these results or this article has much use in any language discussion, simply because I wouldn't trust the majority of developers to recommend a language.

I'd rather read why I should avoid Ruby on Rails magic from an expert.
Because San Diego leans right, and current conservatives are more likely to be anti-vaccine [0]. (This is interesting in and of itself, as in previous years, California’s antivax tended to be rich and liberal. Times change!)

Downvoting won’t change this!

[0] https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/why-41-percent-of-republic...
historically, things improve when you remove the russian federation
What would be really helpful is a doohickey that you can plug into a USB-C/TB port and it tries to negotiate all power options and data speeds and video modes, and then tells you which ones that port supports.

Add another doohickey, or incorporate it into the first, that has two ports. You plug a cable into both, and it tells you what the cable supports.
> Why would anyone want to live like that

Think about not being under control of any government of Earth. This is literally a new world, for you to shape. For some people it's worth all the downsides, and more.
I agree that all the concerns can be mitigated. But they're not just theoretical, they're also issues with the current implementations—some of which remain a year and a half after this was written.
For me the easiest place to talk to strangers is at a dog park. You instantly have a shared interest, something to talk about, and little else to do. The dogs take on the role of ice breakers in the same way that toddlers do. People who would rather be left alone usually go elsewhere.

If they change it to the United Nations Plaza and Dog Park I think the diplomacy would go more smoothly.
Rents increase with inflation, a mortgage doesn't.

I have a few older friends kicking themselves for not buying a property when they could afford it, rents have risen and there is a very real prospect that they will have to move out of the community they spent their lives in.
Tried that in 2017, but the stream got blocked.
> Sure you can. Just mint some "lightnings" and move on. Nothing stops a large centralized processor from creating its own coin.

But that's literally not how the lightning network works? If some intermediary in the chain wants to accept IOUs in place of real bitcoins that's on them, but on both ends you're putting in and getting real bitcoins. By "real bitcoins" I mean they can be redeemed at any point in time by closing the channel, and there's no risk of a bank run (at least to the sender and receiver). If some intermediary decides to accept IOUs instead of real bitcoins, that's on them if it comes crashing down.
And for the sake of discussion:

https://www.rogerebert.com/roger-ebert/video-games-can-never...
StackOverflow actually has a checkbox when you ask a question that says: "Answer your own question – share your knowledge, Q&A-style" which lets you post your answer at the same time as your question.
They used gmail.