skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Right. Just as with Amazon. You don’t necessarily see Amazon with the lowest price for an item (the most favored nation thing may happen but I don’t know that that’s standard SOP for everything on the store, eg PlayStation may have discounts through other channels and for certain types of vendors they view as fungible without a brand they may not care at all). But you don’t see advertising for the cheaper option on the Amazon page.
It’s not that Go is not a great language; The problem is that it’s a very conservative language that is not picking up low-hanging fruit. Their maintainers also have a nasty habit of being condescending to other people’s use cases; E.g., f-strings, unix shebang as comment, ... .
Japanese and Chinese uses counting words. Saying how many bottles of beer you have and how many sheets of paper you have use the same number but a different counting word. These are analogous to the following English sentences: "one bottle of beer" vs "one sheet of paper" except you cannot drop the counting word, saying "one beer" or "one paper" is incorrect.
Reading arbitrary css and html into something editable sounds like hell. On the other hand, translating an arbitrary layout to html doesn't sound particularly hard.
Novel idea :)
I think this has more just the consequences of international law (particularly the US being all up in your business via FATCA to the point of Japanese banks not wanting to even bother if you are a US citizen). It seems better than the Android situation where you either have to wait a _year_ between switching countries on your account or find the APK (y’know, for your _banking_ app) on some shady site.
Simple and Fancy JavaScript Analog Clock
2 CLI tools I can think of, they're all not very polished but get the job done:

`humanlog`:
- When you tail JSON or LOGFMT logs and want to get nice colored logs. https://github.com/aybabtme/humanlog

`datagen`:
- Until Go has generics, this tool generates common datatypes such as sorted sets, sorted maps, queues, heaps. https://github.com/aybabtme/datagen
Not that I've seen. You'd likely have to use a raw SQL query - or the RawSQL class as part of an expression in the ORM.
How do you source the job postings for this site?

PS: I'm one of the moderators for fossjobs.net, a site for job postings about working on open source projects.
This is super interesting. My entirely unqualified gut reaction is that this is cultural- that Japanese people take infectious disease seriously and test+quarantine after experiencing symptoms or traveling at all, having already handled SARS outbreaks before, and many Americans are still debating whether the pandemic is real, and that behavioral difference is enough. I don’t know how to test that.
But it could also just be as simple as Americans being less healthy.
I don't do manual testing. (This is why the majority of people in my role hate the name).
Not to mention all the recent attacks on hospitals.[1] My local hospital's electronic patient records systems were down for literally a month[2] after a cyberattack.

You can probably imagine how disruptive that is when it's the largest hospital in the state. Sorry, but we lost everyone's prescription information! We can't look up anybody's drug allergies, either! I guess we'll just have to guess the details of what treatments our current dialysis and cancer patients need? It was quite the mess.

[1] https://newsroom.ibm.com/2021-02-24-IBM-Security-Report-Atta...

[2] https://vtdigger.org/2020/11/23/a-month-after-cyberattack-uv...
At that point why not use something F# or Rust? Both can provide comparable or better runtimes, very decent ecosystems, and they are already much better languages.
It’ll help people understand the language if you remove optional words tbh. Hypertalk is HyperTalk, but the world isn’t written in it for a reason. Good luck. Btw Lua is also implicitly async like this as well.
pareidolia, plain and simple, shame it wasn't mentioned in the article
Ethereum crypto billionaire Vitalik destroyed 40% SHIB coins worth $7B
I had a similar thought when I studied French in school, i.e. that I could explain a lot more about French grammar technically, explicitly, than I could about my native English. This sort of example occurs to me whenever someone insists that you don't really understand something unless you can clearly explain it.
> Enumerate what?

You wrote: "There are possibilities"

Enumerate the possibilities.
It’s hard to appreciate just how strict the lockdown measures in places like New Zealand and Taiwan have been. People are driven from the airport directly to a hotel, then someone comes and checks on them and they monitor the front door. Even in Hawaii, the arrival quarantine was just in whatever resort you were staying in, and was almost entirely self-imposed.
There's something to be said for a food or retail establishment that is able to staff up with a cohort of smart local kids. Not saying the service is better or that they'll work harder, but it's nice to hear witty banter from national merit semifinalists enjoying (and especially not enjoying) their after-school jobs.
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Seconded - I do wish Asus fix the BIOS for unstable TSC that makes Linux switch to HPET which is much slower. I have also had display flickering issues with W10 but thankfully not on Linux which is perfectly fine. Otherwise a really great mini PC which can pretty much do anything you throw at it minus maybe demanding games.
Geocode-sqlite: Geocode rows in an SQLite database table
It is part of the sciter sdk. License is: https://github.com/c-smile/sciter-sdk/blob/master/license.ht... . Which well known open source license is this equivalent to?
Discriminating against PoW algorithms seems fine? It's like discriminating against fossil fuels.
A video note-taking app: https://annotate.tv
Doesn’t a distributed consensus protocol solve this exact problem?
The choice should be with the user. If an app has a redirect to their website for payment, there should be an option of Apple pay too(may be with 30% extra) just like how every app with "Login with Facebook/Google" has an option "Login with Apple"
English does not have a concept of THE right pronunciation. If you try to change the spelling of a "word", you'd first have to get a number of former British colonies to agree on how to pronounce it. Is it Woed, Worrrd, Woid, Waed? Germany, after losing both world wars only needs to deal with Switzerland and Austria to agree on updated spelling of something.
>correlation does not imply causation

It does not exclude it either. That is such a vacuous statement and I'm tired of it being used every simgle time someone has a chance to drop the most cliche "smart guy" phrase in modern parlance.

But back to the topic ...

Do you seriously believe that the recent up/downs of BTC have nothing to with Elon and Tesla's actions, i.e. it was just a coincidence?
> if engineers in America are ridiculously overpaid, or

why do you only compare to Japan and EU? American engineers get paid more than anyone else (except for EU outliers). I make slightly above 100k in Australia, it's a bit tight with the housing situation and cost of living but it's liveable. Cost of living in the US is lower except for maybe healthcare but engineers get companies pay for them anyway.

I don't have insights into other engineering, but
I think software engineers are overpaid. Would I enjoy being overpaid? Of course, but it's hard to say it's fair pay considering what people in other professions are making.
Move yourself into a position where getting lucky is more likely.

For example, if you want to be a pro basketball player, you'll be more likely to get lucky if you start practicing basketball a lot.

Watch TV instead, and you have zero chance at a pro ball career.
Hard to say. There is clearly at least a bit of manipulation by Musk though. It is kind of his thing.
"With modern CSS, WYSIWYG Web design is simply impossible." That is an interesting statement.
> But from the societal perspective it's reasonable to ask, "What does it cost per unit of value created?"

Then you have to define value. I don't think it's transactions. Any random bank can make transactions. People can transact with cash.

Cryptocurrencies create value by providing other properties such as decentralization, trustlessness, privacy. For example, Monero enables private and untraceable transactions and for privacy enthusiasts it has essentially infinite value.

With this definition of value, we can see how bitcoin isn't providing much. By now it's centralized, has no privacy, has high fees... It sucks basically. The only reason it's still the number one currency seems to be inertia. It's the most frustrating thing about this market honestly. Not only is bitcoin still king but it drags down better coins when its value plummets.
Bypassing Bloomberg paywall is the sole reason I keep Microsoft Edge.

Just clear everything upon exit. Works like a charm so far.
It's only 17% due to the lockdowns. If not the deaths would be way higher, not just because of the higher numbers of people infected, but also because of overburdened hospitals unable to provide critical care and oxygen.
There is a difference between media uploading media files and posting articles and for example intelligence/command center that have physical termination of multiple, physical secure lines of communications.

Media can take their laptops, get out and keep on uploading stuff 5 minutes later.

In case of intelligence/command center it will takes weeks to bring all the physical lines to new "secure" location in the city and to get/hookup whatever equipment is used to terminate them.
If you specifically want to avoid speculation, you could also provide liquidity with stablecoins and collect fees from people trading against your liquidity.

For people outside the US, they could also get price exposure to US stocks with things like sAAPL, sGOOG, etc (synthetic assets that represent an underlying equity)
Is there evidence of this chilling effect in action on the App Store? What’s the restock overhead for returning a digital game?
Great take! In my view, those are some of the best enterprises. Solve an immediate and personal problem. So long as one is not alone in that problem, a lot of good is baked right in.
Honestly it seems like this would be one of the few justifications for using electron. You're literally rendering HTML, getting that as accurate as possible is a plus.
The ability to compute the stack monoid on slices of the input, then stitch them together later, is essential for processing this in parallel.

So what isn't possible is having two threads push/pop to the same conventional stack. So I assume the author is doing something different.

So what I guess they're doing is descending down the tree, and splitting off all the operations that can be done in parallel so that you get a bunch of kernels feeding their results into each other with the structure of the tree. It seems like some synchronization is need so one thread waits for the results of another. A monoid, as I vaguely understand them, acts as a kind stored operation so this seems logical.

And if you ran out of threads, the monoid would just act as a conventional stack on some of the remaining threads.

Of course, none of this says the mechanism to implement this.
What about transactions that weren't made directly with a credit card, but rather with an Apple Store gift card purchased from a physical retailer? Possibly during a 20% off sale? Even if you elide any such discounting, Apple's transactional cost is going to be far, far higher than 5%.

I doubt there's any publicly available hard data around the costs of running the gift card ecosystem, but a number between 15 and 35 percent would not surprise me at all.
1. Some are possible now: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/minipedia-offline-wikipedia/id....
2. Airplay doesn't require a wifi network. Just wifi on, it uses the same thing as Airdrop.

Bonus 1: you can search your offline library in spotify.
Bonus 2: this used to be common back in the 00s but it was generally decided to be mostly spam.
Bonus: local search for downloaded spotify stuff works without a connection.
I take it You have an issue with BTC? What do You think about artwork? How about old comic books? Interesting that You included diamonds in Your example considering they are the penultimate example of market manipulation.

What do You think would happen if Elon had said he was going to dump 1.3 billion dollars worh of any one of your examples into the market?

I have about 500 bucks worth of crypto, and a couple factors of magnitude more precious metals (Silver, Gold and Lead) but if I wanted to move some wealth abroad, I would much rather use crypto than deal with customs agents.
One thing I have been wondering about from the outside is if part of what keeps Japanese lifestyle's relatively cheap is that the population is so homogenous (& seemingly law-abiding) that there doesn't appear to be the same emphasis on living in a "good area" as in other countries for personal security reasons.

I wonder if this acts as a somewhat hidden subsidy to life whereas for people in many Western countries it is normal to think "there is no way I am living in area X/Y/Z" due to security concerns for them or their families, in Japan you basically don't need to take that into consideration at all. Everywhere is pretty safe (relatively speaking).

This is all speculation and I don't live in Japan, don't speak Japanese, and have never even been to Japan. So it is all based on reading other's views/articles etc.

Even if I am completely wrong here, it is interesting to consider the economic costs of lack of personal security for men and especially women. All the extra costs paid, opportunities missed etc.
Any report that cites the navy videos from last year is not going to be very interesting.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jWWGmiZs4JA

Videos of blurry splotches and eye witness testimony that repeats the word "technology" over and over to imply that unlike the last 6, _this_ blurry splotch is an alien spacecraft is really just annoying at this point.

EDIT: Hey judge2020 did you watch Dr Mason's analysis I linked above? It's very informative and pretty entertaining too.
I'll take your downvote as a no.
I’m not interested in the password angle and more interested in the “is signal culpable” angle. In which case we could just as easily assume there is no known password or combination. If the evidence ends up destroyed, I don’t think the maker of the safeguard is responsible. That’s more my point.

Whether or not Signal is making a valid “safeguard” is an interesting question as you point out. I think you’d be on thin ice, but I’d be curious to see how that plays out in court.
People only say that since California is actually under reporting more than Florida.
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Having had experience in a company that acts as middleperson/outsourcing company, many of the employees where working for company A and then outsource to work for company B. They would be hired as full time employees at company A and let us say in my example start with a salary at around 30k USD per year and the company A would receive around 120k USD per year by letting that employee work for company B.

I thought it felt strange to know(although they tried to keep it secret) that one received about 25% of the work one did in terms of salary. This was a hugely profitable business model for a company and in a more competitive economy, such models would be difficult. Apparently, this gentleman realised that if you can cut off these middlepersons there are great opportunities for business, you could double and triple the salaries of the employees and probably still make a profit.
I went to therapy for many years, it helped a bit so I'm no longer suicidal but I doubt it will get much better.
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> 'partition intolerant' partitionable system

How about: any time there's a network partition, each partition decides on a new identity for itself, and becomes a new cluster that will never join back into the original, larger cluster again. People pick sides and never interact with people on the other side again.

Consistency! (Because every node in each new smaller sub-cluster is now consistent with any other node said nodes will ever interact with again.) Availability! (Because all the nodes stay online.) Partition tolerance—in the sense of the partition ever being resolved? Nope.

I'm not just playing around, either; I'm describing non-unilaterally-assented hard forks in blockchains — e.g. the split between Ethereum and Ethereum Classic, or between Bitcoin and Bitcoin Cash.
Parent is probably referring to how MongoDB has consistency issues and isn't recommended by third party testers like Jepsen.

https://www.infoq.com/news/2020/05/Jepsen-MongoDB-4-2-6/
I don’t think you’re going to be able to secure the blockchain without those governments and militaries. Maybe you replace the massive banking industry with a new massive crypto financial industry?

“The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.”
Hang in there. Get some friends to bitch about the work after work.

You can do it in this thread.
Use the Paintinglite SDK
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I’m working on a tool that lets you build a website out of Google Docs: https://docstosite.com/
Such a system would effectively halt evolution, though.
If you're curious about the Handshake project, this is basically all I needed to hear: they based their domain-claiming system on DNSSEC -- and when they launched they couldn't even claim their _own domain_ because .org was still signed with a RSASHA1-NSEC3-SHA1 key: https://github.com/handshake-org/hsd/issues/399
journalctl -fu takes over a second on my NAS with the logs on an SSD even.

I fucking hate systemd's logging so much due to this crap, don't make me read docs for every little thing, I just want to cat a damn log file, pipe it through grep and call it a day.
Most criminals aren't masterminds, they are easy to find.
I’m thinking it would be a rare CEO who both knew what they did to cause the stock price to go up, and not be involved in gaming the financials to make the stock go up.
Because they aren't publicly accountable. We were at risk of having to pay $300,000+ in legal bills if we lost the anti-SLAPP motion, meanwhile the City of Fullerton paid their attorneys half a million to sue us over their cock-up.
> the CRV goes to the waste management companies, who just keep it as profit.

It's part of the negotiation with the municipality on the collection contract. If you want to call it offsetting costs or profit, money is fungible; if CRV was eliminated, billing for collection would go up in the next contract.
Oof, this is really bad on macos.

Every graphic on the intro screen says "ctrl+whatever" instead of "cmd+whatever".

The standard text editing shortcuts don't work. You can't hold option to jump word by word, you can't use ctrl+e or ctrl+a to jump to the end or start of a line, etc.

This alone makes me not want to use it. Every other program I've run supports these things.
Actually they want both. They want copies of any files we have AND to delete said files. I'd get into why this is insanely stupid but it's bound by the rules of arbitration.
"complex case structures" are a useful tool in most languages (German to a lesser extent). They allow you to reshuffle the words in a sentence e.g. "the boat carries the car" without disrupting its meaning.
> trying to find logic in a language will only lead to frustration

Not really. Language as a system is pretty well understood. What appears to be exceptions or non-sense when learning a language often have a simple explanation when looking at the evolution of the said language.
Thanks, I really appreciated this article.

> Small b blogging is writing content designed for small deliberate audiences and showing it to them. Small b blogging is deliberately chasing interesting ideas over pageviews and scale. An attempt at genuine connection vs the gloss and polish and mass market of most “content marketing”.
Is it that high because of the risk? Why aren't competitors lowering the rates if it's that high and excessive.
> Looking back, if the store had more workers like myself and Dave, I bet we could have increased the sales 20-50%.

The fact that there are tens of thousands of restaurants not hiring workers like yourself or Dave to increase sales 20% to 50% means there must be something preventing that. Such as insufficient number of workers like yourself or Dave at the wages they can pay and also sell at a low enough price, or the inevitability of workers like yourself to leave for greener pastures, or maybe sales would not go up 20% to 50%.

Either way, the market data is very clear for some businesses that they aren’t able to necessarily differentiate themselves at scale to earn enough profit to offset the costs.
If you stop paying for Spotify, your account just gets downgraded to the free version with ads.
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> why do you only compare to Japan and EU? American engineers get paid more than anyone else (except for EU outliers). I make slightly above 100k in Australia, it's a bit tight with the housing situation and cost of living but it's liveable. Cost of living in the US is lower except for maybe healthcare but engineers get companies pay for them anyway.

Well those are just the biggest/most relevant tech labor markets I could think of, roughly by GDP. I don't know much about Australia but couldn't comment there, thanks for the insight.

> I don't have insights into other engineering, but I think software engineers are overpaid. Would I enjoy being overpaid? Of course, but it's hard to say it's fair pay considering what people in other professions are making.

I don't think comparing pay across professions makes sense -- why compare a plumber or doctor to what a software engineer does? the outcomes are completely different, the risks are completely different, the upside/profit potential is completely different.

I lean towards considering software engineers as underpaid because the power of automation (whether software or hardware -- because you generally need some kind of soft/firmware to make robots move) is insane. If software engineers were ever paid a percentage of the revenue impact they generate (which is not how markets work, but I digress), software engineers would be paid much much more. I think it might be possible to compare across professions if you think of % of value creation captured let's say but it gets tenuous.

In the end the only "fair" determination is what supply and demand based markets dictate. They're not perfect, but they approximate other forces/influences decently enough. When those aren't enough, governments may need to step in to enact policy.
That’s what I thought I said. Mars bad, asteroids worse.
This isn't the case here. The City wants the "return" of digital files AND to have them deleted from personal devices.
Software engineers in Europe aren't "underpaid," there just aren't enough highly successful European tech companies to make the job market there as tight as in the US. So they're paid less than what they'd be paid in the US, but that's just because that's what the market pays there IMO. There isn't a "fair" price other than the market's to judge whether someone is overpaid or underpaid, just offer and demand...