skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
haven't listened to radiolab in a while so can't remember off the top of my head what speed i'd put it at - but i think the difficulty there with speeding it up is how much they intersperse and cut things in to each other.

I mean, yeah, these are narratives - sometimes i like that and sometimes i just want the juice. If i can't keep up with it i obviously slow it down. If i find my mind has wandered i'll pause/rewind - if that keeps happening i'll stop and come back to it another time cos i'm obviously not giving it enough attention.

I'm not pretending to be a genius but English is native to me and I have tangential knowledge of what they're talking about already often enough so it's rare I have to hang on every word and ponder every implication.

I tend to adjust speed depending on 1) what i'm doing and 2) how noisy it is around me/how well i can focus/hear what they're saying. If i'm not keeping up or it's way too much effort, i slow down. That said, I'm never past 1.5x cos i just don't enjoy straining.
I trade as a car-thief. Enforcing the laws against theft would have devastating consequences for my business. Can I challenge those laws?

Nope. If my business depends on breaking the law, then I have two choices: pay the penalties, or cease trading.
> it's trivial to social engineer phone companies into moving a phone number to a new phone

Obligatory "if you're in the US, then yes - elsewhere, it depends". In the UK, obtaining a PAC code is a bit more complicated/non-trivial for the attacker. I'd consider it fairly safe to use SMS 2FA over here.
BBC's radio show More or Less did a great piece on this recently. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p09ch7qv

It is related to Matt Parker's youtube video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Ko3TdPy0TU which has already been mentioned on this post.
> There’s a reason my copy of “JavaScript: The Good Parts” is extremely slim next to its sibling, “JavaScript: The Definitive Guide”.

Because one's a style guide and one's a complete API reference?
Yes, the MIT 6.270 robot competition in January 1998 definitely ran the robot using a C interpreter on an ARM board.
Elsewhere in this thread, people are complaining about ads for useless and inferior products. This problem would only get worse if we handed out ad space via lottery, since most products are useless/inferior. Selecting for deep pockets means selecting for products that people are actually paying money to buy, which serves as a basic quality filter.
Note it death rate of infected, if you have less infected the death rate should be unaffected as long as you have enough resources to treat everyone equally well.
It's absolutely marketing.

Try selling your house some time without doing any marketing. It won't sell, because nobody will even know it's for sale.
So we can agree that by absolute necessity a company needs to market its products and services due to competitors doing the same. Since, you know, you can't actually outlaw marketing, businesses have no choice to compete in this area.

Also, marketers don't work in a vacuum, they are hired by managers and business owners to create exposure and help create growth. Of course marketers work for money, we all do and very few us do work that actually help customers in a profoundly meaningful way no matter how we rationalize our work.
> If a new cryptocurrency launches that can provide the same utility and security guarantees at a lower cost (either through less work, or through some other means) you will have a natural migration of users from the more expensive cryptocurrency to the cheaper cryptocurrency.

This seems to be purely theoretical.

In the real world, most people stick with the recognised names regardless.
... except for the problems listed above
It was after the stroke. He really started enjoying mountain hiking and he still does. He keeps telling me that I need to take care of my body. That we aren't made for office life.
If a single word tweet can lose people thousands of dollars that sounds like a scam to me.
> This is great for x86, but for low-overhead multi-platform binaries, IBM came up with a pretty good solution decades ago with OS/400 TIMI (Technology Independent Machine Interface), which is basically Android Runtime's install-time native code generation, but suitable as a C/RPG/COBOL/CL compilation target and not mandating a garbage collector.

To be honest, I think the dream of portability which TIMI represented is mostly dead in recent IBM i versions. More and more functionality depends on the AIX compatibility environment, PASE, which doesn't run under TIMI, it is full of standard AIX XCOFF binaries containing POWER machine code. (Interspersed with calls to IBM i-specific APIs which allow PASE binaries to access services provided by code running inside and underneath TIMI.) Given the increasing use of PASE as time goes by, porting IBM i environments to something other than POWER (if IBM were ever inclined) has become closer to being as hard as porting AIX – which is to say, as hard as any other operating system. TIMI has evolved from a genuine source of portability (which greatly aided IBM in the CISC-to-RISC transition) into being little more than a historical vestige and form of backward-compatibility.
Yo dawg. I heard you like browsing the web, so I put a web browser in your web browser so you can browse the web while you browse the web.
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If it cures COVID-19 patients, you can use that drug on exactly those people whose case is severe enough to justify the risk. Many chemotherapy drugs have terrible side-effects. We break people’s ribs from CPR all the time.

No one argues we should stop breaking those ribs as that’s a fairly easy balance to strike versus a vaccine that you give prophylactically to healthy people. Far more caution is warranted there. (This article is about a therapeutic drug concept, meaning it’s the former case, but I’d still argue caution and where traditional supportive and therapeutic measures are working, I’d not rush to use this mechanism on mild cases.)
Bluetooth Device Scanner for IoT and Smart House
Dang, I just watched the video and was going to contribute. Blink and you miss it these days...
My grandfather did 90% of work in his own workshop. No work on somebody’s house.

There were injuries on fingers, but he died with all of them in place. If I remember it right, only 2 nails were gone.
What a fool. He's letting people slack off for a full hour. That's a solid week of additional work over the year he's not optimizing for.
It might have been a mitigation for the 4G download limits where people couldn't download games over X size on 4G so they started downloading content on boot to get around it.

Seems likely considering it's a Japanese game.
Tesla invention still not completely understood useful in ways we hadnt realised
The English language is horribly ambiguous and confused around words like nation, state, nation state, country, nationality, citizenship, ethnicity, race etc.
I just use the editor's CMD-[ and CMD-] or tab and shift-tab indentation commands. You can also apply it to entire blocks.
I can already do this for most popular speed games, and it’s not a big problem. The TAS tools will help the community much more than they will hurt integrity.
Well the first step is realising the problem then discussing a solution. The solution is difficult. There's a difference between a single person business trying to show themselves to people and a department of employees working on tiny incremental improvements to manipulate people. The issue, like many issues, isn't with the small but with the big. I don't have a solution. I don't think any one person could offer a whole complete solution. But I think spreading the idea is a good start. It gets more people talking about potential solutions.

I know that's not particularly helpful but surely you didn't expect an actual answer to a global-scale socioeconomic issue? Personally, I would focus on breaking up centralisation. People spread ideas through networks incredibly quickly. But then there are issues of paying off "influencers", "streamers", "reviewers" to give a fake idea of authentic acceptance.

We should also be careful in the actual question. I don't think many people on HN are against the idea of "marketing" i.e. getting some information across. That why in my original comment I said 'mass marketing' and 'targeted marketing'
Thanks. The site is still new, I'll fix that bug. :-)
The lesson is that even when you go off on crazy tangents, you end up learning cool shit and you can typically turn that into a gig in tech.
I think a lot of the difference come from a conflation of concepts. For example, you initially talk about simplicity, but halfway through your post you start using the word "easier". In my view simple and easy are points on two different axes. In the best of worlds you get both, but as an example, a smartphone is a very complex system that is relatively easy to operate, and a unicycle is a very simple system that's relatively hard to operate.

The boundaries only break down when you need to peek and poke beyond the abstractions that make the complexity manageable. If your phone breaks down and you have to troubleshoot and fix it yourself you'd probably much rather be dealing with a unicycle from a practical point of view: there are only a handful of things that'll ever break, and you'll determine which thing broke at a glance. The potential for surprise in easy-complex systems is a good thing to keep in mind when operating a website I think.
Looking around the internet, it seems Shift Inc. is paying around 4.5-5.0 (full range: 3.8-7.8) million JPY / year total comp.
This is about 40k-45k USD/year. It's somewhat better than what engineers would get on a black companies and local consulting companies and perhaps on par with some of the traditional blue chip companies.

But this doesn't come anywhere close to what a software engineer can earn on the highest paying companies here, like Google or Indeed (levels.fyi pegs Google L4 as earning 14-23 million JPY per year, though the dataset is a little bit small).

Even the large local IT-focused companies are competing for talent: Yahoo, Line, Rakuten, Works Applications, Mercari etc. will all pay up to 11m-13m for non-manager software engineers (even though they won't necessarily pay much higher for entry-level engineers). Many well-funded startups are also paying 7m-10m salaries to their engineers.

The pay gaps between different companies in the very same city (Tokyo) for the same position can be quite high. You can read more about it here:
https://japan-dev.com/blog/software-developer-salaries-in-ja...

In short, if Shift Inc. is paying around 5m for their engineers, it might help them fight high turnover, but it won't be enough to bring the best engineers. There are companies which are both more well-known and stable and are still paying higher salaries.
Google's 'download all synced plaintext passwords as CSV' is a dangerous feature
Same, my parents still can't upgrade beyond 8down/1.5up mbit DSL, and they live in the neighborhood area where people would pay twice or even three times as much for anything better. Unfortunately cable is so deteriorated in the area that it barely scrapes above 20down/2up, but is reliably unreliable. Until a competitor shows up, they'll probably never fix the degrading lines or upgrade the service. Basically, if you don't like it, go f-yourself. It's not like the neighborhood is the hood or the sticks either, it's in a mostly richer/upper middle class area. If you're familiar with Century Link in the SouthWest, you shouldn't be surprised by the garbage service they offer, out there they're riding off POTS laid by BELL, and network infrastructure installed by QWEST in early 2000's, and haven't maintained, upgraded, or touched a damn thing since.
Yes, using a machine like this one [0] you just need to present your card to the contactless terminal and you'll be able to get £5 back in cash.

[0]: https://www.google.com/search?q=oyster+card+machine&tbm=isch...
This would require an incredible amount of international cooperation. It might be possible, but I doubt it likely.
That tooling exists for a few years now - I don't think a lot developers opted to use it though.
Show HN: Find the most competent app-designer/bioengineer/physicist in a country
Hey guys, I had the idea to make a website where you can simply find the most competent physicist, politician, architect, app-designer, marketer, dermatologist, soccer player etc. in your country.

I made this platform, because I was frustrated by how arduous and difficult it is to find competent people that are really good in their field. There is simply no way to find them quickly and efficiently.

The same goes for companies, hiring is very difficult and no one knows who is the best e.g. data-scientist, UX-designer in your country.

Of course, this list won't be a perfect reflection of who is the most competent, but the Top 10 by field would always be full of highly competent people.

So you could say it's a mix of Reddit and Wikipedia.

Everyone can submit new listings, however, only those with a verified account can upvote or downvote.

I just finished the first version and added a couple of listings myself. There's not much on there yet, so it would be amazing if you could add some listings of people in specific fields that you think are very competent.

Thank you!
I spent 76 hours/week working in a factory for a while as a machine operator and on the line. I guarantee you it's not healthier in the long term than programming work or stock trading at a desk and in conference rooms for 45 hours a week.
Disclaimer: I am not part of the community (for example: I wouldn't even have known about the Dream scandal if it weren't for the video by Matt Parker), so feel free to take my opinion with a bucket of salt.

It might be an idea to decide as a community that the time of completely unassisted speedrun leaderboards has passed, and shift the competitive element of your community to technological advancements in TAS tools.
> The people buying Bitcoin don't need to be aware that it costs 6 GW of power, any more than they need to be aware of the electricity costs associated with the manufacture of plastic, electronics, or other goods and services.

But people do need to be aware of the environmental costs of such things, because society does not account for negative externalities.

> regulate the coal plants, not Bitcoin. Regulation of electricity will increase the cost of electricity

What if society actually thinks it's reasonable to discriminate on energy use? What if we want to provide cheap-ish energy for end-consumers, for essential services like the medical sector, but not for cryptocurrencies?

Seems like a fine choice for a society to make.
Yeah, similar story from Western Europe - graduate consultancy gave me 3 months of Java programming material to essentially self-teach myself straight out of university with 0 programming experience. 3 months later I was starting a C# role at a bulge bracket investment bank where the team was expecting someone with at least some exp. seeing as I was costing 75kpa to them (I received 20k as salary).

Only reason I didn't get sent back the first week was my boss taking a liking to me, same story for the other 30/40 'consultants' starting at the same bank at the same time.

Worse part was the precondition to accepting the graduate consultancy role was a 20k bond that I would have had to pay if I wanted to leave within 2 years of my first contract. While without them I wouldn't have ended up where I am today, at the same time they earned absolutely zero good will from me due to the terrible wage/cost ratio they gave me and the complete lack of any training while I had to take personal responsibility on the client site for my lack of experience.
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So none? Because I’d expect a langage custom built for smart contract to prevent or at least mitigate issues like mixing unrelated objects or never updating variables.
I've seen it used to great effect for describing code sections, either using ASCII diagrams, tables, sample output, etc.

The point is, formatted monospace text will happen (albeit rarely), and when it does you want it to remain intact despite user settings.
For example, the court could declare that this transaction was illegal, and anything spent from it is also illegal forever. The ledger is open, so courts can compel exchanges to watch for such transactions and report anyone that can spend coins derived from them (exchanges have already been forced to comply with KYC).

This would destroy the real-world value of this block, basically making it a digital equivalent of dirty money.
> from experience ?

Then that's a bad example since this alignment with preceding line style commits you irregardless of your history with any function.

> I don't understand what you mean there, what would "aligning connect with foo" mean ?

If you are aligning with lines above you and your coworkers have so many options:

void foo(..
connect(..

int foo(..
connect(..

int foo(..) {
connect(

If you are nesting with fixed indents, then everything is fairly well defined and simple changes to one line don't cause significant reflow.
PDF is simply the lowest common denominator of what counts as "computerized sheaf of paper, with a layout and appearance that won't shift over time, no matter which reader software you use". It has its value, especially with preservation of pre-digital documents.

Accepting a potentially inferior machine-readable plaintext when copy and pasting is the price we pay for having something like that available.
That's an openssh issue though - nothing to do with the init system. You can do the same check regardless.
Is there such a thing as an ethical thousandaire? Millionaire?

If you think there is, why can't there be ethical billionaires? An ethical billionaire is just an ethical millionaire who kept working to make the source of their income grow until it grew 1000x as large.

Big businesses are generally more ethical than little ones -- subject to more customer and regulatory scrutiny. It's much easier for a small business to get away with flouting environmental regulations or treating its employees harshly. (When's the last time the manager at a tiny roadside restaurant got fired for sexually harassing his employees?) This increased level of scrutiny means it is easier to bring to mind examples of unethical behavior by large businesses even if the actual rate is about the same. The media is biased to cover misdeeds by billionaires due to billionairephobia, the same way it is biased to cover misdeeds by Black people due to racism.
Strikethrough pricing shows higher prices?
Maybe that had an impact, but maybe it didn't. We don't know.

Taking a single data point and extrapolating from it ("Carpentry is safer than desk work because look at my grandfather") isn't useful.
I feel like I'm being gaslighted by half the people in this thread that are saying that "have been being watched" is a normal phrase.

For context, I was born and raised in Northern NJ with Jamaican parents, and have lived in Michigan for the past 10 years. I have never heard anyone use grammar like this.
> ethereum is moving to PoS

"Any day now" for the last several years.
Fuck that cookie screen. Vice is one of the biggest offenders of the GDPR law.
It’s outrageous that they expect me to manually untoggle hundreds of individual switches just to avoid being tracked and having my data shared with the entire multi-verse.
At this point I prefer to avoid any Vice link.

I apologize for the rant.
You don't have the time to accurately judge every marketing campaign so assuming that all of them are manipulative and evil is reasonable. What do you suggest people would do instead?
So would I if I were able to make the cryptocurrency market move like he does with a single tweet.
> In other words, blockchains should be decentralized enough that no single entity can take control of the network, but too much decentralization is inefficient, so an equilibrium must be found.

I believe that is the hardest problem that bitcoin didn‘t solve. The hashrate is governed by the price and a arbitrary halving schedule. There is no mechanism to regulate the hashrate to a certain setpoint where attacking the network is not feasible. This issue becomes even more severe when the block reward is dominated by fees in the future. In that scenario the hashrate is not so much determined by the price anymore but the available block space and the utility of on-chain transactions. It is really hard to judge bitcoins security model considering all these variables. But for now the solution seems to be to vastly overcommit hashrate
How do you propose to evaluate success of a transit route? How do we evaluate trade off options.

In California, they are wasting billions on high speed rail, Hawaii cannot finish its elevated circulator because of incompetence. These are pushed as benefits for all, yet, if we took that money and bought the needy a Prius instead, with a ten year life cycle, are the people better off?

When we talk of just making transit free, there is no talk of what’s the alternative to the environment if we just enable people to drive by getting them a car. Rail is a waste, China even admits to it off the books. Look at how much expressway / freeway they have build and how they are slowing / stopping high speed rail projects.

Transit is great when it is constantly evaluated for getting people from point to point. However, because of political issues (I want a large bus to make it appear my neighborhood is respected, when there are only two riders per day on it or I want a train stop near my house not near where all the users are at) we end up with less than optimal effects.
> Perhaps some small fact about the RNGs that is not common knowledge

The MC speedrunning team reviewed the Minecraft RNG.
What's often missing from these discussions is that the trade off in the CAP theorem can change across the system and over time. If you have a cache on your client, you're trading off consistency for availability, same if you do an optimistic update on the client-side. But that does not change the consistency of your database core. You can also "downgrade" to eventual consistency if you detect a network problem.

I feel that a more principled way to navigate between these trade offs and awareness from the application and database of the current consistency guarantees of the data would help to make more robust systems. E.g. you'd want strong consistency by default, with a fallback to strong eventual consistency when the network is poor and the use-case allows it (e.g. not for changing your password, but ok for posting a comment). It needs to be reflected in the UI, and ideally you want the trade off to be decided at each level in a consistent way (client, local database, core database, ...).
My comment was a bit foolish, actually. It has to be factors like that. It's not like the work itself magically kills a person.

Though speaking as someone who strives to optimise his life for longevity with the single constraint of keeping working hours at a really high level, it does make the study much less meaningful.
There is a bug in the demo where discounted price is strike-though instead of the original.
This is misleading. The translation could trivially make him use incorrect word orders. "Lost in translation" suggests that it would be difficult to make him speak in a quirky way, but that's not the case at all. The translator just couldn't be arsed. They couldn't even be arsed to give him a non-human voice. It's just a shoddy translation/dub, not a statement about the Hungarian language.
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