skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I had something happen to me that was similar. I was forever scrounging for points for this cocacola thing. One day I realized I had let some expire. I gathered all of them up and dumped them in the garbage and did a little dance in my kitchen yelling 'im free!' my wife thought I was nuts. I am now on the look out for engaging patterns companies use to draw you in. Point systems are one of them.
And yet cryptocurrency evangelists would have you believe that fiat currency collapse is precisely when people should be switching to digibucks.
By what year would you expect temperatures to be 13°F higher in summer?
This is very well organized, wow.
The news is misleading. You can still buy, sell and trade cryptocurrencies, but you can't use them for payments. I think people in Turkey got a bit scared because of the previous burst, and now all wanted to withdraw their coins. We see a classic bank run here. Luckily, this one has a very low volume.
Time to update the old quote? 'Show me your AI and conceal your data structures, and I shall continue to be mystified. Show me your data structures and I won't need your AI.'
To your point paper production is a wasteful process, I’ve heard figures of 10-20L of freshwater are used per one piece of A4 paper in addition to transportation costs and running a pulp mill. Pulp mills produce waste as well.

The phone has a lot of waste on metals but in a less consumerist world - read don’t upgrade your phone every year - it has the property of reuse for every restaurant and durability compared to a restaurant menu.

Even better you can power your phone with the rays from the sun.
It used to be very very popular, back around python 2.4 days was its peak i think.

That was around 15 years ago roughly from memory.
I think from their perspective it was very different though. The article specifically talks about compensation to a woman's family if her husband kills her. It sounds like if a slave or a woman was killed, it was considered similar to someone's cattle being killed or a property crime, as opposed to a homicide of a free man, and thus something to be payed for. It seems that the remarkable thing about this story (aside from the emperor's involvement) was that usually a husband wouldn't be encouraged to kill himself for murdering his wife.

Whereas in the barbarian kingdoms and later on, all murders were initially a private matter and people retained the right to kill someone back (not necessarily the killer) unless they opted for the compensation. If this specific case happened after the fall of the empire, probably the father would have just killed the husband back instead of seeking government involvement. And probably the husband's family would have not thought it fair and either seek compensation or kill another member of the wife's family.

Either way, I'm glad things have changed since then!
Ha!! My miniskirt says true ;)
>Maybe we should think about the associated negative externalities

Narrator: "They didn't"

If we had that much foresight pollution wouldn't be an issue that is attempting to destroy us.
Urban Dictionary is superior. There is a lot of Internet slang missing from your dictionary.
a tornado?
They could undervolt the CPU too XD
Well yeah - you can do exactly the same in other languages, such as Scala. It just isn't a good idea. They explain it themselves:

> there’s plenty of applications that need evented I/O to behave correctly. Switching to blocking mode, without introducing any change, might cause them to deadlock
> disregard for safety

Your opinion seems to be that any future systems language that doesn't implement a heavy Rust-style borrow checker and explicit safe/unsafe modes "disregards safety"?

Zig does have a lot of checks, such as bounds checking[1]. There are also test modes that help catch errors. I don't know what you're referring to about "information breach".

> The manual states that dangling pointers is the developers problem...

In a systems language where you can cast an int to a pointer:

const ptr = @intToPtr(*i32, 0xdeadbee0);

or where you have to manually manage memory, what else do you expect?

Zig made the design choice to not split the world into safe vs unsafe. It seems a bit unwarranted to say that because they didn't make the same design choices Rust did that they have a "disregard for safety".

[1] https://ziglang.org/documentation/master/#Index-out-of-Bound...
As a counterpoint to whether the CEO role can be outsourced or automated (posted by the former CEO of reddit):
https://www.reddit.com/r/explainlikeimfive/comments/210to8/e...
If you are, like me, tired of Medium... https://archive.is/wip/UJQq2
I would really like to know how profitable it is to be a McD franchisee today, my guess is not too much.

So maybe this is the straw that breaks the camels back, who knows.
Even better, you accidentally click on the incorrectly typed word and add it to your dictionary.
New proof reveals that graphs with no pentagons are fundamentally different
Socialism, like capitalism, also has a zero day vulnerability by the name of mundane old “human corruption” that undermines its goals. Capitalism just works better because it pits people against each other, keeping the focus off authority and top level control.
Dogecoin 'Bubble' Will Burst Anytime, Blames Elon Musk
There isn't one. It's just not true. There is lots of creative work that is routinely outsourced and cannot be automated yet. A CEO of a startup constantly outsources tasks to people, whenever they cannot be automated easily.
For reference, there are 2.5 types of star trackers (called mounts):

- Equatorial: follows star in one direction. Works best on lower stars since the move E-to-W mostly. Cheapest models start at $200 USD (MSM)

- Altazimuth (azimuth+altitude): follows the star in two directions. Can be used for stars higher in the sky. Models start at $400+

- Computer guided and GOTO: Use a secondary telescope to lock onto stars and counter small integration errors. GOTO means you can type a star by name into a computer and the mount will move to its location in the sky (based on a database of where the star is at that moment). These start at $1000+ and can easily be a lot more.

These systems are so expensive because they need to swing a typically very heavy telescope with a lot of precision. My mount (on the smaller end) is rated for 11lbs. Being off by 1 arcsecond (1/3600 degrees) at the distance of Alpha Centauri is an error of 200,000,000 km.

If this tracker can provide all these features + precision at $200, that’s a steal.
>otherwise costs blow up as you go back and forth

I've seen that and it's apparently a viable business decision. I don't know why - I'm not an MBA
Sorry for my late reply. This comment is brilliant: <<They could just pay 10mil yen stipend per child after second and it would be far more effective. Japan needs young people, period. Not more taxes, infrastructure etc>> I agree: A massive child bonus might really shift the mindset of couples to have another child. At the very least, it would be a humane, worthy social experiment, akin to universal basic income. I wonder what (South) Korea and Italy are going to do. Their demographics are looking more and more like Japan everyday.
Not all automation is economically efficient - i.e. it's cheaper to hire outsourced janitors than building state of the art cleaning robots to automate their jobs.
>your product

In a hypothetical world where I don't benefit from a competitive advantage, in what sense do I own the product / company?
Wow, no love for info?
A patent is granted to something new, here the goal was to show that the patent is void, because it was already existing before the patent was (wrongly) granted. It doesn't matter if it was invented less or more than 20 years ago, or even that the original invention was patented.
What happened to "be your own bank"? I imagine, when it comes to it, nobody wants to be their own bank.
As an outsider--who doesn't use Telegram--it looks like they want to become like WeChat outside of China: Where you shop and do basically everything from within a single application (Telegram).

They claim this is improved privacy but it doesn't look like that to me. Instead of my transaction being between myself and a merchant it's me, the merchant, and Telegram. Furthermore, Telegram can now aggregate all my purchases and info across multiple merchants (and whatever else I do).

They say they store, "no payment information" but that's really only a small part of any given transaction. They may still record what you bought and how much it cost along with when it was purchased. All the, "no payment information" claim means is that they're not storing your credit card/account numbers.
Thanks for the deep helpful analysis
For front-end to back-end web development, UI/UX-friendly collaborative diagramming: https://whimsical.co and https://figma.com (new FigJAM tool).
If I place 4 cups of water out in the rain, does their spacing affect how much water lands in each cup?
Hello, thanks for your work, this seems very promising and I am very eager to push it a bit to see if it addresses the shortcomings of OpenSCAD, which I am using right now. However, when downloading the MacOS release of the Studio app and running it on my intel MBP, it seems that it cannot open the examples correctly. When opening the files with a text editor, I get the full content, but when opening them with Studio, only the last three lines (set-bounds, set-quality and set-resolution) are loaded into the text editor. I can copy and paste from my text editor and then it works like expected, but it's a bit tedious. Am I missing something or is this a bug ? I can open a ticket on github and provide more information if necessary. :)
Encouraging news! What a tragedy Chernobyl was. Both in the lives lost and those forever altered by the event.

Compounded on that is also the humongous set back it contributed to for no-carbon energy. Now we are at a point where some congressional leaders are telling us the world may end in as soon 12 years[0] because of the man-made climate emergency. Since the situation is that dire perhaps the small risks of modern nuclear energy are a better alternative?

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHk8nn0nw18
The sum of the deferred lines is, for federal corporate income tax, $51.4 billion. The difference is $9 billion...

IDK I dont know much about US tax law, financial reports, or the like. So maybe I did something wrongly. It'd be interesting how they obtained that figure in the press release.
I have not had that problem. But, you do have to specifically wait for the actual air time to come and go before you're able to play it with fast-forward capability.

Once that's done, I've never had an issue with fast-forward. The UI does differentiate between "recorded" and "on-demand" content.

What I have run into:

- Something I recorded is no longer available, I assume because some contract expired.

- Something that's immediately available as on-demand isn't scheduled to air "Live". I can still click the thing that says to record it, but it never airs and so never records. That's pretty rare, but it's happened.
I don't know, with so much of American business capital seemingly having gone to Asia in the past several decades, it is rather charitable to be investing in the U.S.

I mean, I wish it were not, I wish it were normal for U.S. business to invest in the U.S., but here we are.
Because making money doing fraud when running an exchange is easy, and making money without doing fraud is hard.

You accept cash from credit cards with risk of clawback etc., transaction costs for money major cryptos (bitcoin, ethereum) are through the roof, you need lots of users to make a liquid market plus cost of infrastructure and development.

I don't see how an exchange is making money unless it charges ++% pr. transaction or does something that invites fraud and sudden collapse like keeping all crypto in a single wallet.
This is part of the reason open source is so important, but should be enough on its own to argue that free services should exist: these CI services have been an important piece of education, which should be free.
In NYC the subway never stopped running before midnight, and we were hit way, way harder than SF. How are people supposed to get to/from work without a train running? Not all essential workers earn a lot of money and can pay for car rides to and from work everyday.
The people moving money into crypto are likely just trying to hedge against the collapse of the lira vs other currencies.

Assuming their experience is primarily within a regulated banking system, they would not know about the numerous security precautions you need to take to 'be your own bank'.
Myanmar’s Journalists Are Defying the Junta
That would imply there isn't an equilibrium.
> The obscured threat doesn't have to be worse than the overt one for a parable to be applicable.

It has to be, if the message is that obscured threat is worse than the overt.

At some point, I wonder what is really in the work, and how much is this just the critics projecting their own thoughts onto it.
This is the equivalent of gold confiscation.

But because the government doesn’t really care about confiscating your bitcoins, they can just “force” exchanges to fail and “destroy” their monetary value for their citizens that way.

If you think just because you own bitcoin you are safe from government actions when shtf this should make you reconsider.

Exchanges failing is the equivalent of gold confiscation for a digital fiat currency like bitcoin.
Um, yeah, but there are other issues that make it not so nice. And it's an inoperative concept for most kernel/embedded work. I'd say in most contexts where forking would be OK you should be using a GC language anyway.
"KVM host in a few lines of code" (https://zserge.com/posts/kvm/) is a fun article to get started with.
>Why investments should be like charitable act?

That's the point. It isn't. The OP was asking why it's therefore being sold as one.
Dumb question, what’s wrong with Medium (as a platform)?

Also that link doesn’t work for me - server not found.
>being allowed to screw their suppliers for billions through bankruptcy (GM).

This is 100% of the issue. Those other two are issues with large business in general (tax breaks) or car dealerships (who pushed c4c).

The Big Three have been able to run their suppliers ragged through collusion because, for many suppliers, all they produce are car parts sold to The Big Three. Which means their production figures, profit margins, and general growth are completely at the whims of automakers. The few critical suppliers with a chance to get out of the industry are acquired.

The Big Three are learning the hard way that they don't have the kind of influence over chip makers that they do over their other suppliers.
How about fires?

This seems to be a risk with the use of high power lasers, meant to burn the weeds.
I used to make my diagrams in draw.io but I find that I spent way too much time fiddling with the way the diagram looked rather than the thing it was modeling. Also it is a huge pain to have to go back and make revisions to the diagram. After presenting diagrams to stakeholders they would always ask for changes and I would end up having to redraw everything.

I recently stumbled upon code to diagrams tools like app2code and plantuml. I really enjoy this because I can focus on the model and not the aesthetics. Also making revisions to code is a lot easier than fiddling around with draw.io.

Does any one have any tools like this they can recommend?
Typical H1b empty promises.
It depends on how you place them, horizontaly on a table no, in a pyramid yes.
> I'm not copying committee working documents from ISO livelink to somewhere else

Well, then it makes littles sense to refer to these minutes as evidence. From our discussion, I conclude that there is no reason to believe (absent evidence to the contrary) that "STEP (ISO 10303) is moving to use SysML to define the models for the collection of standards", neither as a replacement of nor as an equivalent alternative to EXPRESS. As a user of the standards, I do not care much which tools the working groups internally use to develop the standards.
Here I was thinking of the film Runaway (1984). It had farming robots which eliminated pests with grippers and grinders -- pick up a caterpillar, drop it into the grinder. I like that a bit better than the laser solution.

Not all of the *cides could be replaced with these, but certainly you could identify undesired plants and insects that way, and destroy them. Insects may be fast enough to require lasers, but who knows? Non-desired plants could simply get snipped and fall to the ground. Fungi ... could at least be identified and marked on a map for later spraying.

I think all of this is do-able (and a lot better place to start for self-driving AI than the lofty goal of cars, given the restricted domain, lower speed, reduced danger ...), but the real question is: can these robots price out lower than the *cides they might replace?
At the very least, you could do a hybrid model: An AI that makes 80% of the decisions and routes 20% to a human to help guide the decision making process.
I have a few dumb terminals connected to my machine. I wanted to get an X-terminal but I’m holding off because I’m worried about the incompatibility between modern X-clients with whatever extensions they may use and the old X-servers typically running on the terminals.
but this declares a new variable - I find this super messy and really decreases readability in practice since now it's not obvious anymore that what you're working with was a function parameter. Also it adds a scope level - I much prefer the

if(!bla)
return;

// use bla

early-return style. So that's really a no-go for me from years comparing the two styles
But Metal Gear Solid had great voice acting! Much better than MGS5, anyway.

And so did Deus Ex. Part of the fun was that these games did not take themselves super seriously, they did not pretend to be an overly-polished (to the point of being sterile) Hollywood blockbuster.

It's a bit like 80s movies. They weren't realistic, they had cliches, they weren't polished, but they were awesome!
Because China. What we need to automate is lawyers.
ERD software that connects to databases is plentiful. I'm not sure what tools are commonly used in the Postgres world, but "ERD" is the term you'll want to use in your googling.
Please indicate the phrases that imply a "great charitable act." I see normal, straight-forward corporate press release speak. If Intel or Google were making a similar announcement it would sound quite like this one. They are making significant investment. Would you "give them credit" if they were not making the investments?
I am not disagreeing with this article, but in my opinion it would be slightly better to say don't drink or breath unfiltered tap water. My tap water is absolutely awful and I would never use it in a humidifier or diffuser. I am not even comfortable showering in it.
>” and narratives of ecocide related to geomorphic change need to be validated...”

Why are there “narratives” when it comes to archeology?

I realize there are favorite or predominant hypotheses, but they should not become “narrative”. I really dislike when everything becomes narrative.
Just curious - how much would you pay for that? $20/mo? $30/mo?

One one hand I completely agree, and hope for paid service alternatives to all these "free" products. On the other hand, I can find everything I need through Google, as is, so why pay for an alternative?
I'm building a house right now, and I sure am excited to learn that I cab replace all these expensive subcontractors with robots!
It's based on the faulty presumption that labor outsourcing motivations are purely based on cost minimization. Obviously, this falls apart if one considers that outsourcing also occurs for specialized labor that firms prefer not to keep in-house.

A great example of this is legal. If you rewrote the title as "Lawyers are hugely expensive -- why not automate them?" it would sound patently absurd.
The person I was replying to was not complaining about how revenue is distributed, they were complaining about revenue being spent at all on a public good that they don't use.

I agree that there is a lot of work to be done to rebalance the equations on how we spend money on roads, public transit, and various forms of energy subsidies. But all else being equal, getting that balance "right" is not going to make personal transit just go away. Some will shift to public transit, but you will always have a case of "your tax money" going to pay for roads used by private transit.
I see something similar happen when a startup goes from a bunch of self sufficient teams to one that requires collaboration and cross-team coordination, and hierarchies form. It's not the hierarchy that is the problem, but that at this stage half the people at the company are independent self-starters, and the other half are organizers and that can hold folks back for a period. Eventually the self sufficient people go to another startup, and the business hires folks more flexible working with cross collaboration and more organizational overhead.

I'd put my low effort, unqualified pin on the Social Orientation Theory side of things :)
I can imagine a scenario where an approval board of 3 or 5 people paid 1/10th a CEO's cost must approve the actions that the iCEO is suggesting rather than give it full autonomy to act indiscriminately. They'd effectively become executive assistants with veto power. If there aren't many things for the iCEO to do, then the board doesn't even need to be employed full-time and perhaps it could even be offloaded entirely onto the company board with a rotating schedule. Though, I imagine many board members don't like the idea that their involvement would then become more involved and they wouldn't be able to sit on as many boards collecting some nice comp/benefits.
The verbosity, hassle and error-proneness makes async/await definitely worse than yesteryears 'goto' failure
An internal "platform" team is often just a mismanaged infrastructure team. Careerist managers and engineers advocate for a sweeping, complex, centralized system which competes with real-world products sold by outside companies. It starts with "my team will reduce costs" and then it snowballs into "the platform delivers value! Look at all the people working on the platform! We need to hire more people to build even more! We make money!"

A few years later, the platform's code is rotting, its interfaces are unusable, and all the original proponents have chosen to depart rather than to maintain the mess they created. The company is stuck with a legacy system, far inferior to the real-world product, which has been shaped by market forces and not the political dynamics of one, single company.

Polemic aside, I think internal engineering platforms are ok to build when the industry solution hasn't matured yet, isn't available, or is otherwise too expensive. Otherwise, I think the infrastructure manager should seek out the minimum abstraction (and team) that enables the simplest path towards buying from the outside.
This does not follow, since there are things that machines cannot yet do but that humans can. Producing new humans is one such example. It is not at all clear whether "CEO-ing" is another example.
Markdeep[0] from Casual Effects has a way of drawing diagrams using extended markdown.

I used it to write this document with two diagrams: https://loan-free-ed.neocities.org

Other tool I like are PlanetUML[1], BoUML[2] and Modellio[3](it is very heavy though on system resources!)

[0] https://casual-effects.com/markdeep

[1] https://plantuml.com

[2] https://bouml.fr

[3] https://www.modelio.org