skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In this article being discussed the author's own words are: "'legislation and intervention in the financial system at only the level nation states can act. The free flow of money from US banks to cryptocurrency exchanges is the root cause and needs to halt'"

Which is a call for regulating, not banning. If you want to use something different which the author said somewhere else, to back some other point and say that it outweighs what the author says here, then actually do all those things. What are the author's own words elsewhere, where, and what point are you trying to make by vaguely gesticulating towards them?
String similarity search and fast LIKE operator using pg_trgm
You can call it that but every professional non-profit calls it development.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Development_director
I did cut and paste :-)

I guess I am being cynical - signalling during the job process is really hard - for both sides, and I doubt there is a quick fix. But I like yours - it might be worth a try next time :-)
>Crypto is heavily regulated at least in the US

Most of these criminals perpetrating ransomeware aren't in the US or Western Europe.
I found it weird that they describe themselves as "remote first", but all of their currently open roles are geographically restricted (to pretty much either USA or India).
Ask HN: How to negotiate continuing to work remotely?
Hi HN. Like many of you I am working remotely due to COVID.

I want to continue working remotely, but my job wants me in the office next month.

How would you negotiate this with your employer?

Have any of you already had this conversation? How did it go?
Wanted: Senior iOS Developer who loves design
As we continue to refine the Dwell app we’re looking for an enthusiastic Senior iOS Developer with great attention to detail, who loves UI/UX details, who can help us bring our vision to life, working closely with our UI/UX designer and founder to craft and maintain the highest-quality user experiences.

Our iOS app is 99.9% Swift (UIKit), and we’re using GRDB to manage the data, which we sync to our API server.

Please, no recruiters or contractors.

Requirements
Senior-level experience building iOS Apps, especially:

1. Custom UI implementations
2. Performance optimization
3. Attention to detail
4. Working with a designer and founder to bring ideas to life
5. 5+ years experience
6. Enjoy working at a remote-first company.

Expectations
As a Senior iOS Developer, you’ll report to the Head of Development, leading the implementation of iOS-based projects while working closely with our design team. You'll help us stay on the cutting edge of UX/UI development. You’ll provide the technical background and feedback needed to build thoughtful, delightful, stable, performant user experiences across the entirety of the Dwell iOS app. You’ll maintain our iOS app throughout the process, updating libraries and development approaches as technologies change over time.

What We Offer:

1. Time Off

Paid Time Off (Personal and/or Sick): 15 days
Summer Fridays: 8 or 9 days
Minor Holidays: 4 days
Thanksgiving: 3 days
Christmas: 4 days
New Years: 2 days

Total: 37 days

2. Benefits

Paid Time Off
Dwell offers 15 days of paid time off (PTO). PTO is prorated your first year working at the company. If you start mid-year, for example, expect to have about 8 days off.

And more...
> Better to have good housing construction policies, good food distribution policies, and transportation as well.

City governments are ripe for corruption. They make bad choices.
Introducing Quill
You give pervasive tracking an inch, it takes a mile. The overton window on privacy has shifted. It's not showing signs of stopping, either.
> listening to prerecorded audio of a concert would be indistinguishable from a live concert

It seems to me this would be really dependent on the type of music and the size of the venue.

In a large percentage of the bigger shows I've been to, the sound was honestly pretty awful. That's not really what I was there for. I was there to see what the artist(s) could do unedited in real time, in person, and to be (somewhat) physically near them when it happened. It's a different skillset from what they do in recordings.
If the device didn't first appear on the market in the last six months? About as likely as Apple opening their hardware.
Not for me, it's usually something related to aliasing or iterator invalidation.
"The days of junior staff wandering the halls to collect signatures are over with the new House e-signature application, Quill. According to House Admin’s announcement, “Offices can now share letters, collect supporting signatures and track the progress of the letter signing process from start to finish without ever making a phone call or visiting another office,” free of charge. Watch this short video. We commend the CAO for developing this tool, but more than that, for taking technology developed for the Senate and modifying it to meet the specific needs of the House."

https://cha.house.gov/sites/democrats.cha.house.gov/files/Qu...
Here are my thoughts. I like the simplicity of the UI, and it's pretty snappy. I've done 2 of the quizzes, and they are pretty fair. As expected I've forgotten a lot so I will have to review.

Other thoughts:
- I thought the signup buttons/some action buttons could use a color contrast - some of them were hard to see visually.
- Some of the visual indicators when the mouse hovers over a button/action would be nice, just so the user knows which items are more clickable - more affordances can be nice.
- I put in my preferred name to be called during sign up.IF you are going to do verification, maybe you can make that clear. Or have the option to keep a nickname.
- The profile page needs more information for editing and display. But I think it is probably on your backlog.
It's not murder, it's defense
> Informed consent is the gold standard, except when it's not.

You're thinking of medical research and experimentation.

In the practice of medicine the Hippocratic oath takes precedence over everything else so of course informed consent gets thrown out when there is concrete evidence that it interferes with medicine's purpose: healing people.

When's the last time someone gave informed consent while unconscious and bleeding out after a car crash or shooting? That's why we have DNRs.
How so? Every MATLAB code base I've seen rolls their own unit computation. The symbolic toolbox costs money and I've seen it on university installations only. The unitConvert command is rather new. Neither mechanisms are native to MATLAB and have awkward call patterns.
iirc Casio's offerings aren't any cheaper.
Name a single company that has died due to data breaches.

Meanwhile, I'll name a dozen that got breached/leaked data, and got away with it: Experian, Microsoft, Facebook, Google, Marriott, Yahoo, First American Financial Corporation, Deep Root Analytics, Court Ventures (a subsidiary of Experian), Capital One, Anthem.

Go on, search "list of largest data breaches" and then see how many of those companies are still in business.

It sure seems like large companies aren't suffering for their breaches.
Yup, people are the issue.
Or they could just do it the old fashioned way and just follow them in their car.

Or just tape a burner android phone to the car.

Or tape a GPS with cellular tracker using a burner SIM to the car.

Cellular connections are more than anonymous enough in most countries, and its not like a perpetrator in you scenario is gonna be leaving the device on the car for an extend period of time.

At the end of the day stalking someone who isn’t actively defending again being stalked is pretty trivial. AirTags don’t really change the status-quo that much. They’ve just shone a light on an existing issue.
US officials believe Russia may be behind the suspected directed-energy attacks
I agree it would be fun to add a little chaos. I have some feature ideas on the todo list, one of which is a 'snake' traveler that disrupts the cells with an effect/glitch.
In Germany, another sweet way for a company to avoid paying property taxes is that a good percentage of relevant properties are owned not by the company itself but by a subsidiary "company" specifically founded solely for that purpose.

Then, when a property is to change hands, it isn't actually sold at all. Instead, the subsidiary company changes owners. Actually not even that, only the majority of the ownership is transferred, or else some other tax laws would kick in. But this way, if you do it right, almost no taxes need to be paid by either party.
Yeah that makes sense thanks. Obvious in retrospect, but I had not considered that people other than my manager might see my self-assessment
This is one of those things that shouldn't even have a standard made for it.

What does everyone think is going to happen with capabilities like that?
SMW Memory Map
I use to be one of those fanboys until I used their product.

They have quite a few dodgy subscription traps and a firm "no-refund under any circumstances" policy even when mistakes were on their end.

I have constantly had to initiate chargebacks in order to do business with them and can't switch since in our case have no competitors.
I'm not sure how satirical the parent's comment was, but every single point is completely inaccurate, irrelevant, and/or nonsensical.
The aspect I find most interesting and internationally relevant is that as these local rulings proliferate, they kinda make it visible to what degree companies finance their operations by selling user data. The more the business model relies on this, the more likely companies are to get hit with a ruling like this — and it's not just the ruling that's interesting, but also what Facebook's reaction will be. If they stop offering or reduce WhatsApp services in Germany (or India), that's a great indicator that the service isn't profitable without the sale (or other commercial exploitation, Facebook is an ad company after all) of large amounts of user data.
This is an extremely interesting point. One could argue that the degree to which one is "platformed" is relative to the rest of society, but it's also inescapably true that if you wind the clock back 50, 100, 200 years, the level of platform someone like a presidential candidate had, was spectacularly lower.
I'm not generally a fan of puns, but that's a solid pun.
There are plenty of friendly gatherings that happen throughout the summer where people who know each other spend significant amounts of time together outdoors.

If outdoor transmission happened, you would see some documented cases. It’s not just all strangers walking past each other on the street.
Scaling Mercurial at Facebook: https://engineering.fb.com/2014/01/07/core-data/scaling-merc...
> The CDC cannot win no matter what they do.

Their job is to pick the most accurate number they can.

And by accurate I don't mean "most mathematically correct", because that would be "less than 100%".

Making an accurate estimate isn't about winning or losing. It will never be perfect. Oh well, still have to try.

You see how "less than 100%" would be a horrible number to pick, right? Wanting more accuracy is not pedantry.
Why does the CDC want to prolong the sense of danger?
I work as a DS as well. I don't think there's such a thing as "should be paid more" - the market shows us that SWE's are more highly valued presumably because there is more demand for those skills.

However, this will lead to people migrating from DS to DE and SWE roles if the compensation is relatively better. Yet we see articles about a 'shortage' in DS when they just aren't paying as much as a similar skill-set can get in a different role.
ah, it finally let me respond to this comment, sometimes hn is sooo weird :)

safari 14.1 in Mojave. I spend too much time with weird audio stuff to move past Mojave on this laptop unfortunately.

edit:

aha -> looks like you have to turn on the experimental features to get it to work. might be good to have a note for someone who doesn't have that turned on to avoid the black screen.
Yes, I think that the point is that planting trees is fine but preserving actual forests is way better and that in any case we do have to stop all emissions. That the most efficient carbon capture is epsilon regarding the magnitude of the problem.
Ted’s Caving Page

https://www.angelfire.com/trek/caver/page1.html
I go to my room, hug my knees and sob a little bit. Let's be honest, sometimes the task looks shitty bad and putting on a brave face is a complete lie.

So, when I'm done sulking, I build bad prototypes that break and try to iterate on them. There are failures but if you accept them, they are not all that daunting. Don't be ashame of not knowing, be ashamed of not trying.

And yes, breaking it into smaller steps and mapping the unknowns help, but sometimes you don't even know what are the things that you don't know. I'm talking for those situations.
Not on the scale we're seeing now.
It's a chicken and egg problem. I'm certain being shut-out of every major platform lead to much fewer people actively seeking out his commentary.
8.50/hr if I’m sitting in Portland traffic!? Shut up and take my money
I've found prose is much more painful (by orders of magnitude really) than code (provided the keyboard has symbol/modifier keys and works well with your editor.) that's why I thought it wouldn't work.
Thanks! I hope we end up sustainable too. :)

I also did a lot of paid tutoring for more privileged kids in HS and college, so I can relate. Fortunately that experience ended up being very useful in starting UPchieve!

Based on your past experiences, it sounds like you'd be an awesome volunteer! If you want to just learn more about the volunteer experience you can check out this page on our site: https://upchieve.org/volunteer
Many of us remember a time when there was no RSS and there were no social media sites, and we all still somehow managed to read blogs :)
you know people don't only go home. they have affairs, they may be undercover agents, or they may be doing something they're not proud of (legal or not).
Let's try to keep politics aside from this one.
Why is it important to be able to talk about what colour your skin is? Have you lived through the past year?

There is more to language than debate-club argumentation, too. Consider - why is it important what gender someone is? Or age? Should emoji only have had unisex and age-less figures instead of its current set? Is it sexist to use a female-presenting emoji?

These things all have obvious utility for communication, and you're ending up making some deeply strange arguments to try and dismiss that utility.
Ginkgo Agrees to $17.5B Merger with Harry Sloan SPAC
If only sealions could use Google :(
At first I thought you were kidding, but I looked it up and it is true:

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-54591761
mills have been going out of business for decades since we are shipping whole logs overseas to be processed there.

Local small players, boutique mills if you will, can't even buy logs because the lots of logs that are put up for sale are so big only container-ship scale buyers are in the game.

I am 100% against exporting whole logs, we have lost so many jobs in the mills and supporting the mills.
Scary thing is the cheaper trackers already exist:

https://www.amazon.ca/Real-time-Worldwide-Coverage-Portable-...

But the ease of use of AirTags is undeniable.
The big thing that has been slipped in is the yearly granting of shares. This means that people with the risk appetite will no longer have a shot at possibly higher upside. This also gives employees incentives to hop on the leetcode bandwagon, interviewing towards the beginning of every anniversary to ensure they are not booted out or forced out via reduced pay packages.

Every year the VCs and greedy founders are finding new ways to screw engineers over. First, it was the AirBnB founders cashing out while still building the company (https://techcrunch.com/2011/10/01/chamath-palihapitiya-airbn...), now we have Stripe and others shifting to yearly grants. It appears that there is very little incentive for employees to stick around for more than two years maximum at any one place, which is a shame because it will lead to a loss of valuable experience (supporting your coding/architecture mistakes and learning from them) and loss of the ability to capture the value they have created.
Let's zoom in on what happens when a CEO is replaced. They get a severance package that is more than what I (making 6-figures even) will make in a lifetime. That's what I mean when I'm taking about risks. If I do any of those things, then I'm risking food, housing, and taking care of my kids. If a CEO does it, then he is risking early retirement. That is what makes all the difference.
"Teeth" might be some kind of infected abscess. In pre-antibiotic days you could easily die from that.
What is wretched about Monero's history?
Well, we dumped a lot of money into the F-35 to fill a perceived strategic gap in fighter jets that had not yet arrived. This was many years before we actually received such a jet. This kind of long-term investment of lots of money for (arguably) public good is what federal governments are _for_, in my mind.

A 250M$ - 1G$ investment / year is big, but if it's self-sustaining in a couple years, that's a huge win.
I never used Ada, but read a book on it.

I don't even remember much, just that how much I loved just the look of the example programs, but that was during community college when I was new to programming. It wasn't part of a class, but the guy who implemented the curriculum just jammed the library with jewels and the entire library collection was just full of classics especially since the actual curriculum was just a basic associates in "business data processing."
Yay, anarchy.

The half-life of anarchy is measured in hours. Then the gangs show up. Gangs are basically governments, except even less responsive to your needs and more openly committed to enriching their own leadership.
This is one of the most enjoyable action games I've played recently. The things it does with visual design, shaders, perspective, and environments are incredibly impressive.
Please. There is a difference between saving a loved one, and hiring a hitman to kill one.

It's literally illegal to pay certain sanctioned organizations today for kidnappings - because they are designated terrorist orgs.

Who negotiates the ransom? Lawyers and security firms, been going on for a long long time.

Amusingly enough, this has even gone through courts in some places, you might wanna look up caselaw. They just decided to classify kidnappers as "criminals" for the ransom purposes, or some other such wordsmithing.

In the US these laws are simply ignored outright.

"The United States Code prohibits funding terrorist organizations, which includes the payment of ransom monies to terrorist organizations.2 However, the outlook in the United States on ransom payments being made to terrorist groups has softened. In June 2015, President Obama announced that private parties may negotiate with and pay ransoms to terrorist groups without fear of criminal prosecution, which has been the informal practice for years. In fact, nobody has ever been prosecuted for paying a ransom in the United States."

Just imagine your election prospects after jailing a mother who paid a ransom to save her child.

Imagine defending a claim that such law is constitutional, moral and just.
This guy on Youtube did a comparison: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y-hrbdsOP-E

Singapore comes out on top, but I'm not sure how credible he is.
Cryptocurrency has properties that make many kinds of criminal activity far easier than most other kinds of "wealth".

There's a reason that ransomware payments are now exclusively transferred through Bitcoin.
A data scientist is someone that people wish was a unicorn but that is neither that nor a scientist, despite the name.

People who are _actual_ scientists usually in industry go by the name "scientist" or "research scientist", although they just data just as much. You can recognize them by the peer reviewed scientific papers they publish, often preceded by filed patent applications, as their work is novel. A real scientist wonders why some people call themselves "data" scientists, because science has always been about data, modeling and measurement.

But back to our "data scientist":

On a good day, she is generating value from the company's data to increase customer retention.

On a bad day, she is just doing the ETL prep work so the boss' other assistant can make that spreadsheet that aggregates the data that the boss' PPT slides will show.
I think because the item is shipped from overseas not everyone wants to do that and wait the few extra days. Even though it’s ordered from a standard online shop from the brand.
Good news, the paper mentions privacy.

> We identify a number of critical issues that need to be addressed in this space... First, individuals should be provided the opportunity to opt out of SENS services – in other words, to avoid being monitored and tracked by the Wi-Fi devices around them.

Bad news, the paper proposes remote human identification by every Wi-Fi device.

> This would require the widespread introduction of reliable SENS algorithm for human or animal identification.

Would opt-in be legally easier than requiring human body scan registration for opt-out of Wi-Fi remote sensing?
Should, sure. But that doesn’t help their customers who often have no choice for their ISP.
I can't read from your comment if you think this is A Good Thing. In my opinion it is s Very Bad Thing. None of those entities are more important than everyone else. If anyone should be alerted it should only be those that fix the vulnerability in WiFi devices. Anyone else and not only does the risk of leaks rise exponentially but some of them will rub their fingers with glee and exploit it ASAP.
Doesn't the subsidiary which owns the property still have to pay the tax for the property they own? I don't understand how this decreases total tax paid.
Nope, other apps on that category use interpreters and do not have entitlements for running unsigned code at runtime.

Swift Playgrounds actually compiles down to native code.
Yes, most libraries have wheels, many others can be compiled, or installed from packages online.
Good form: The UX of booking a Covid vaccination appointment
There are already Android apps to detect them:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.dylan.airt...
Only if you tolerate devices with non-free software.
It solves the issue by not breaking any existing code that doesn't explicitly opt in to the new edition.
Amazon and Google own about half of the market. To criticize Cloudflare for re-centralization would require that we are decentralized in the first place.

Personally, my experience with Cloudflare's edge products so far has been amazing. I've had a free CDN with free SSL certs on every website I've made for the last 5 years. When I started using Workers I hit a mildly troublesome scenario so I opened a PR and they quickly thanked me and merged it. The usage limits for only $5/mo are genuinely unparalleled; they have by far the lowest and most transparent pricing of any similar service, at least for my use cases.
Identifying is the problem. It’s usually when I think “wtf why is this more expensive on eBay” when buying something for myself.

Then I check the number sold and think “oh someone is making some money here”

I don’t do anything special and realise I may have got lucky with this one.

I found another item like this in theory but I listed on this week and it hasn’t sold. So we will see.
Depending on what you mean by "the speed of light", it's quite easy.

The speed of light in water is 0.75c, but other things sometimes travel faster than that in water -- Cherenkov radiation (the blue glue in reactors) happens when you have eg electrons moving through the water at speeds faster than 0.75c.
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