skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's probably worth noting that online transactions with payment cards were never the dominant form of payment, many people preferred to send a bank transfer directly (with delay until next payment session) or use a number of services which work as middle men to settle these transactions instantly.

Card payments are often seen as the least secure way of paying for stuff, but they are mildly more convenient than sending a bank transfer.
Is this their way of saying that people don't want to go back to starvation wages and managed to find better jobs post COVID after being laid off?

This is basically McDonalds - "We laid our employees off during an economic disaster, now they won't come back without better pay :'("

Every labor shortage = employers not paying enough.

Inflation my ass
> why not just use a real warehouse like Snowflake

Customers who demand / are legally obliged to ensure their data does not leave their territory, is one big reason.

Snowflake give you some options, but if you get a big contract with a customer in another region your entire analytics platform is unavailable to that customer.
> However, after further inspection that's totally acceptable, because cops mostly (?) go after bad people,

So let's sum it up. You agree that the cops can seize property without any evidence and require the original owner to get a lawyer prove they are innocent before they get their property back.

You believe the idea of "guilty until proven innocent" is unimportant, because the police are mostly going after bad people.

And it doesn't bother you that the police departments actually get to keep the stuff their seize. You don't see any possible conflict of interest when the police departments can just seize property and keep it and never present any proof at all unless the person they confiscated it from spends a lot of money on legal assistance, and often not even then.

To me this reads like some dysfunctional dystopia, but then I find strongly authoritarian societies frightening.
> There is a word I can't seem to find, and it's for when you take a font or an image and round it to make it seem softer, safer, and less assertive, and so-called "feminine."

I don't know the word either, but this reminds me of the concept of "elevator music"
"Those who do not understand Unix are condemned to reinvent it, poorly." [Henry Spencer]
I feel slightly dumber for having read this article. There is so much history woven into Unix that I think one could write a a number of interesting articles about the vestigial parts: why they're there, how they ended up not mattering, why the fell out of fashion, what in the bowels of the OS still uses it for historical reasons. But this article is definitely not that.
The price is $25, but I’ve experimented between $15 and $38.

I spent about $8K on ads (Reddit) but most of my marketing was organic from my Twitter account initially, and later it was mostly word of mouth.
I think the piece you're both referencing is here:

https://kotaku.com/how-elmo-ruined-sesame-street-1746504585
There's a lot to suggest that Sesame Street is not the harmless quirky kids' show it's made out to be. From https://www.counterpunch.org/2016/03/21/obey-the-cookie-mons...:

Not long ago the new television ad featuring Sesame Street’s Cookie Monster pitching the iPhone 6 would have been considered a deplorable exploitation of children’s culture for profit. But this final collapse of a putatively public educational project into the realm of corporate marketing caused little stir, quite possibly because Big Capitalism was written into Sesame Street’s DNA from Day One.

Sesame Street was born as a ruling class experiment in social control, managed and funded by the Carnegie Endowment in concert with the Ford Foundation and federal agencies. Carnegie’s Children’s Television Workshop (CTW) created the show as a conscious response to late 60s urban insurrections and African-American revolutionary sentiment.”
Besides the difference between "worth" and "valuation", could you please elaborate?
USA-made is not USA-assembled.
The GPU in that chip is so slow it can't fill the screen with a solid color at 60 Hz.
Classic example of "I can't think of a use, so it must be useless". bc is very useful, and I can think of several times one might need a command line calculator.

Commands like 'arch' might provide a limited amount of data from a different command. However, to extract just the data from the larger response would then require a string of grep/sed/awk. or call the one command to give you the output you specifically need. This also holds true for the 'uname' section.
I'd say that the big enabling invention was the PN junction diode. From an application point of view it wasn't as important as a transistor of course, but from a theoretical perspective it was a much bigger leap than from diode to transistor. Most texts on semiconductor physics spend much more time explaining the PN junction than explaining transistors.
They ditched their own inferior custom core design and now use ARM Cortex X1.
yes they're not bash but they're an integral part of bash scripts pipe processing
One case I decided against it was when I needed to access the new postgres server (which I initially planned to be v13) from an old machine (with a legacy distro with v9.6). v13 introduces a new SCRAM-SHA-256 password hashing method by default and only libpq10 and newer supports this method. For some reason I couldn't or didn't want to neither rehash the passwords nor upgrade the client, so I remained on a lower version. Certainly not unsolvable, but I didn't have the time to spend on a proper fix.
This isn't an indictment of any side, even: it is a fundamental truth about the human mind. Not a one of us truly has rationality: at some point we're building our realities on sand.

Anyone who's done therapy where they managed to deconstruct some of their childhood crap, and gained some re-evaluation of the deepest tenets of their existence (note: if that's you, then it was probably a good thing because you probably were suffering under some ugly nonsense absorbed as a child, that you're better off without!) knows the truth of this.

There's no specific moral position to propagandizing the human mind. It's about what you're doing with it, and why. Bottom line is you can't do without that story, without that propaganda, so come up with a good story to go with your good purpose. It's story vs. story, all the way down (or up, if you're optimistic).
At one time, one of the classrooms in the Everitt Lab had a plaque noting that it was the site of the first university lecture on transistors, ever. I assume it's still there, though I haven't been back to the U of I for a while myself.

I never met Prof. Bardeen, but those I know who did said he was one of the nicest and most modest, unassuming guys you'd ever want to meet.

Edit:

An acquaintance of mine was a librarian at the U of I. According to her, even after he retired, he'd come into the Grainger Engineering Library a few times a week to catch up on the latest journals. She said he was always super-nice and polite to the staff. I believe she said he generally just wore a flannel shirt and jeans.
> If a Google recruiter told me

But it's not google telling you... it's literally the rank'n'file staff telling you that there's more important things than "money".

I'll not argue that many of the big players are garbage and are "anti-consumer"... but to dismiss how workers feel because you don't like some companies seems like you're missing the trees for the forest...
The whole thing is apples to oranges because Wendy's is a specific business whereas the game industry is an entire industry. Many people enjoy working in restaurants, maybe just not so many at Wendy's. I'm sure many people who work at abusive companies such as EA love the industry they're in, but maybe not as many love working at EA. Probably explains the high turnover rate.
An element not mentioned much in this thread is the significant challenges in using actual photography/people: expensive and time-consuming for custom work, super choppy legal waters (can't tell you how many times the subject of a photo pulled from Unsplash reached out asking how we got their pic), and paltry options for online buying ("free" sites like aforementioned Unsplash or expensive Getty and their craptastic library).
oh wow, I had no idea

thanks for the link
"They're greedy, misogynistic, untrustworthy little trolls, and I wouldn't turn my back on one of them for a second."
My company switched few months ago from ServiceNow to OTRS. It’s awful. I wish we just kept „the good old“ ServiceNow.
Obey the Cookie Monster: Sesame Street and Social Control (2016)
It's interesting because reading is so subjective. I think I've only ever liked a "best selling" book once or twice, because I like things that are severely strange and that is not to commercial tastes. So it's hard to judge "quality" collectively. It's hard enough to judge "quality" individually!
It's not nice to shame people, but it is helpful for the greater good of software developers if people would change their mind about being willing to work gruelling hours for lower pay. Because if there aren't enough developers willing to do it for low pay, the multi-billion dollar companies would have to pay more for game developers.

This is why groups like actors needed a union. There is an endless supply of wide eyed actors out there willing to work for nothing just for the chance of maybe becoming famous one day. The union keeps the big players from taking advantage of this endless supply.

Even with their union, actors make a median salary of around $40k. The top 25% best paid make closer to $60k median.
> You’re just assuming a lot of stuff I didn’t say.

That's because I took that opportunity to rant more largely about the whole industry.

I frequently ask myself what's the likelihood that this perception that the computing industry is regressing, and that is shared by many of the older devs who were passionate about it, would be just caused by normal grumpiness and confirmation bias. Eventually, I believe tech evolution is more dynamic than progress/regress.

I've witnessed the creation and then the demise of personal computing, unrestricted computer networks, free and open software distributions, unbiased search engines; I hope I will not be around when the Linux kernel momentum is lost and personal general purpose computers become once again inaccessible. There were of course already a lot of deficiencies when I started my career ; the big "Software Crisis" was already well documented, some big corporations were slowing down innovation as hard as they could, and surely many established programmers routinely wrote miles of buggy software on inefficient hardware. But there was a growing, vivid shiny trend, easy to spot, in all this gloominess: a Unix revival on micro computers led by young engineers who just wanted to do the right things. Ok, that momentum is gone now and I'm looking for the next big wave that would push us forward. Meanwhile: business, politics, conventions, ignorance and laziness are eroding that culture.

This is how I picture things, at least; in this picture progress is not automatic, nor is regress.
Please do not believe progress is automatic, or you won't fight for it.
At worse, if that is wrong and progress is indeed automatic, what's the loss?
I just think anonymity should be a right. I don't even remember when I was introduced to tor first, probably sometime in the early 2000s.

I'm not stupid, with anonymity comes abuse. But I don't think that's a reason to get rid of the option to be anonymous.

I'd say your impression is wrong about tor operators, I've met a few of them at various events. (Not including the tor operators who try to subvert anonymity of course, whoever they are.)

But the tor network is absolutely mostly used for illegal activity. I can't be dishonest about this, that would mean denying human nature. Give humans a way to be anonymous and they will absolutely abuse that.

But I've also met one reporter in person who thanked me for the tor network, that's enough for me.
This isn’t Apple or Google’s fault that application developers are choosing to pin their certificates in their apps?
It's just an old "joke", fusion has been 20 years away for the last 40 years or something like that.
Seriously. Many of us access sites when we can, not necessarily when we want. I know there's a bypass feature, but being greeted by this kind of nannying reminder can come across as annoying, at the least, to a certain nocturnal group of folks (ex. hospital staff, parents of newborns, security guards, etc.).
If it's an early-stage startup, "base salary (+ bonus if applicable) + paper money". If it's a late-stage startup where you're getting RSUs and the company is likely to go public soon, people usually give a TC number that assumes equity pricing at FMV with the understanding that much of it is illiquid (I'd personally put a 30-40% discount on that kind of equity offered by late-stage startups to compensate for the illiquidity, uncertainty, and risk, but different people will have different numbers, and obviously the specific details of each situation are also important).
Your last paragraph is exactly why I bring up the salary cap. Your original thesis is “Football isn’t like American sports” and your “measure” is that is that there is no “equilibrium strategy”. Which you say without explaining what that means. It is after all a two player (two teams) zero sum game. You heavily imply that analytics are not applicable to football due to the properties of the sport itself. For all the reasons you outline in your last paragraph, many teams have ulterior goals other than actually maximizing win probability which is why analytics isn’t an emphasis. An analytics department would cost these farm teams additional money for example.
> Crunch time is like 1 or 2 times a year, for maybe 1-2 months each time.

So, at worst, one-third of the time is crunch time. That's... a lot. Even a full month of crunch time per year isn't nothing.
oh my bad then, and the quest for an ideal shell / text user interface is a nice one. between lispy repls, to notebooks .. I guess there's a better solution that is both concise and fun yet not brittle.
Ahh, that does sound like a nifty feature! I didn't mean to so strongly imply HAMMER was a knock-off ZFS, more that it fills a similar niche, similar enough that ZFS's dominance kind of takes away from the "wow factor" of HAMMER.

It makes more sense (to me anyway) when you consider that at the time HAMMER was first released, the Linux port of ZFS had only just begun, and FreeBSD had just released their first port of ZFS. Btrfs was also still an out-of-tree patch then, only mainlined in 2009. (not to mention ZFS as a whole probably seemed much more shaky around 2010 with Sun's death-by-Oracle and OpenSolaris getting butchered)

I think back then, having a clean and functional "recreation" of ZFS with all the design bloat removed seemed really promising. Now, it's just a nice FS competing with other nice FSes, except with the downside of being on an "exotic OS". Shame :(
How Atari 2600 Game Pitfall Builds Its World
ARM has plenty of docs, sources, etc. for its Mali GPU: https://developer.arm.com/ip-products/graphics-and-multimedi... Their GPU drivers are even distributed by Debian: https://wiki.debian.org/MaliGraphics

You are probably conflating vendors like Broadcom who license the ARM ISA and processor IP but add their own (closed) GPU to SoCs they produce, like those used in the Raspberry Pi.

Remember ARM is just a company that license and sell an ISA and chip design. It's up to system integrators to turn those designs into physical chips, and sadly we have seen many of them don't value making their designs available to open source, etc. The solution to this is to not support those vendors, not to complain at ARM.
Usual suspects are Freshservice, Jira Service Desk and our (very) own InvGate Service Desk (demo instance link below because how can I not pitch my own product??).

https://webdemo.cloud.invgate.net/
A dollar is worth a dollar. So all the dollars are worth whatever that dollar amount is. It’s reflexive.

Crypto is valued by market cap, which is very different. If you tried to even sell 10% of all crypto in the next day, the market would implode.

Basically, liquidity is important.
> Or is this simply not seen as useful information in some specific definition?

You are adding another conditional but nested conditionals still all rely on the first.

We are getting 1 bit of data:0|1; from this entrangled pair.

Fleet1 has Strategy0 in case their measurement reads 0.

Strategy0 requires Fleet2 to act using Strategy2 for the highest probability of success.

Fleet1 also has Strategy1 in case their measurement reads 1.

If Strategy1 also requires Fleet2 to act using Strategy2 for highest probability of success then Fleet1's measurement is useless as Fleet2 can just use Strategy2 in both events.

If instead Strategy1 requires a new Strategy3, and even though you could communicate which of these strategies to choose faster than we know how to communicate that electromagnetically, our 1 bit of information is still useless because you would still have to prepare for both eventualities.

Both pairs: Strategies02 and Strategies13; would equally have to have the same probability of success because if one is favoured over another then using this technique to decide your fleet movements could result in your allowing the possibility for the measurement to order you in a strategy you know is less likely to be successful.

This is what I was trying to get at by using the word 'desirable'.

Fleet2 may appear to be waiting on Fleet1 for orders, but in fact both fleets are waiting on their orders from the first measurement.
I found those links slightly difficult to understand. Am I correct in summarizing these definitions as follows?

PSD2—The EU law requiring your bank/card issuer to establish SCA for online purchases.

SCA—Strong Customer Authentication: something in addition to a credit card number, e.g. your bank account password, a mobile push notification, a SMS code.

3DS—3-Domain secure, the protocol used by online merchants to communicate with the bank in order to establish SCA. This seems to be complicated by the fact that most banks aren't implementing this protocol themselves, but using a third party. So you get redirected to the website of that third party in order to authenticate a transaction.
Don't forget rokinon. The sharpest lens I've ever used was my cheap manual rokinon 35mm. It was heavy as hell but holy crap was it sharp.
There is a multitude of practical reasons. First of all, modern digital sensors offer resolutions far beyond what normal film material would offer. So 35mm cameras easily beat the resolution of classical medium format film. You need lenses to match that resolution.

Then there are new requirements like AF and optical image stabilisation. With classical prime lenses, focussing often would move the whole lens forward and backward. Or at least some large lens group. That makes the optical construction easier but prevents fast AF. Modern lens designs would use a rather small lens in the middle for focussing. With the reduced mass, the focus speed goes up. Image stabilization also asks for a small lens or lens group to be moved.

But one big difference shouldn't be overlooked either: the abundance of compute power. Today, you can easily simulate a lens system of any complexity. Leica did actually use raytracing to optimize their lenses in the 50ies - but in the absence of computers, they had a room full of people who did the calculations manually. So with a months worth of work, they managed to calculate the path of like 5 rays through their given lens design. Which had like 6 elements. Modern prime lenses can have up to 20 lens elements, zoom lenses up to 30.

For a good comparison about different lens design approaches, one should look at Leica lenses. Because Leica both still makes classical manual focus lenses for the M system, which typically have like 5-7 lens elements, and absolutely modern style lenses for their SL system, which have twice or more lens elements. In each design philosophy, they are making some of the best lenses, cost usually not the top priority :). Which makes a good base for comparisons. For example, they quite recently both introduced a new 35f2 lens for the M and the SL mount.

Personally, I am quite fond of the prime lenses with few lens elements. While modern glass coatings can pretty much eliminate reflections on glass surfaces, every single glass-air boundary does create reflections. So while the modern designs are technically close to perfect, I think those designs with few lens elements have a special image rendering. Very contrasty, lots of character.
"Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith."

"When disagreeing, please reply to the argument instead of calling names."

"Eschew flamebait."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I would say my most practical experience with increasing situational awareness came from getting into competitive Magic the Gathering. Misreading a card or a line of play = loss many times; it is very easy to miss a key variable on the board that could make all the difference and if you are the slightest bit inattentive or operating by rote habit, you will miss it.
Studies and Doctors Show Ivermectin Is Covid Effective
> some VP at a fraud prevention company recommends merchants to avoid using 3DS and use a fraud detection platform, got it.

Yeah, if PSD2 had an impact as dramatic as the article says then there would be a massive amount of noise from all EU/UK retailers. Instead we get an article from somebody with something to sell.
ROI is just under 5% right now

Minimum entry into decred staking is 37,000 USD unless you look into ticket splitting

I have over a few thousand decred which I'm already planning to never sell so staking is a no-brainer. My cost-basis is probably $25 so my initial investment was much lower
I left the game industry for FAANG and I'm getting paid 2-3x more. I'm happy with this situation if I consider the big picture but, at least in my case, my game job was much, MUCH better than FAANG. No matter how many fancy drinks and energy bars FAANG gives me, if the pay in the game industry was higher I'd have stayed without a doubt.

What this means is that FAANG is actually paying what it needs to pay to get employees, otherwise many people would simply work elsewhere.

There is a myth that working at FAANG is amazing for everybody, but most people I know there are actually kind of miserable and doing fairly dull work for which they are massively overqualified. Nonetheless, these companies have money and they want the "best" (in their eyes) people for everything, so they pay for it... Well, it's a decent deal.
In Japan, the game and anime industries are called "aspiration industry" because of the reasons discussed here.

There is also a term "aspiration abuse". That is because it's not only about the market dynamics (supply vs demand) but also a information asymmetry involved. It is considered more like a problem of immigration brokers: They sell dreams, but many of them are fake.
True, for me it I should have put in bold that for a 3 year old device its fast. Based on what I do with it as described above it does the job without having me to throw it against a window since its slow
I've spent a lot of time in volunteering for the food bank in my area and the local grocery stores generally give food away right before it goes bad. They're already incentivized to do this because we give them tax write-offs.
If a large fraction of the dwellings are truly unoccupied then it is a bubble plain and simple.

If it's just a matter of out-of-state money willing to pay a high price to own houses that they can then rent out for a high price after cornering the market, then it's less clear.