skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is an incredible amount of skullduggery going on in this space, along with an escalating social effect where anyone attempting to call shenanigans is drowned out by the "HODLers" who just want to get rich yesterday.

At first it was as simple as cloning Bitcoin, making a few parameter tweaks and pumping the resulting shitcoin until enough greater fools bought in. That worked for a while.

Now there's a newer generation of token systems that claim to represent a technical leap ahead of first-generation blockchains and promise to be the future of payments and/or smart contracts. They all have a white paper that looks legit, and the really convincing ones have a published paper. I read a lot of them and categorized almost all of them as follows:

1. Incomprehensible BS dressed up as academic research.

2. Uses recent or novel cryptography, but states assumptions that won't hold in the real world.

3. Uses recent or novel cryptography, but doesn't have significantly better properties than BTC or ETH.

4. Basically the same scaling trick as ETH2 (sharding) achieved in a slightly different way.

5. Centralized design, therefore someone out there can take your money without compromising the system.

On top of all that, you've got well-capitalized institutions who get to play in a $1.6T unregulated market full of dumb retail investors mostly looking to speculate, in cahoots with the exchanges, whose valuations depend solely on bringing the hogs to slaughter in increasing numbers.

SEC should be all over this but appears to be sleeping at the wheel.
Sometimes arguments and sometimes not.

Often the argument is simply test vs prod. So I can run it on my machine but also run it from Travis ci.

Any connections or secrets would be in the environment. For local I’d create another script to set them up and call the first script. Why? So the secrets don’t end up in the repo by mistake.
50 years of misery ongoing, Vietcong won bigly.
To put that into perspective, the US has lost more than half a million people due to the Coronavirus. Vietnam lost 50 people. And there was no war.
Not an IOS developer, but I think they are not blocking the buttons, just asking for the review in a loop. To avoid being caught by the App Store approval process, probably this is controlled by a feature flag enabled after a call to a remote endpoint.
No I haven't been to Vietnam specifically, but I've been to other countries.

Also, you don't need to visit a country to learn what it's GDP per capita compared to other countries in the region. And you don't need to visit the country to learn that it's citizen are used as a source of cheap unskilled labour, in the country and abroad.

Vietnam is not doing too bad though, they are gradually switching to proper market economy.
As someone who never has drunk, it's fine. You just drink fizzy water, diet coke and free food or whatever and nobody gives a shit. It's a work happy hour, nobody should be getting drunk and nobody notices.
Attributing south Korea's success after 1980 to US intervention in 1950 is disingenuous.

South Korea had an economy that was similar to or slightly worse than North Korea until the 80s.

This is a classic example of "white man's burden" where south Korean success in 1980 is being attributed to white intervention in 1950, which was followed by decades of poverty. Apparently Koreans can't build a country without American help. Perhaps north Korea would also have been in much better shape without US sponsored world wide sanctions.

If you want to know the consequences of American intervention, latin America is impossible to ignore. Especially Haiti.
People in the US misunderstand the Vietnamese perspective on the war pretty badly. Interestingly enough one of the best sources you can look at to learn about this is the documentary interview with McNamara, Fog of War. He's surprisingly frank about his own mistakes in perspective, as well as talking about conversations he had with his counterparts in later years: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YONEXPMVaQM
I asked my dad about this a while back - he spent his entire career in civil engineering and he said almost exactly what you just did.
Basically; modern concrete is far better, but often not built that way.
I use Julia as my main driver these days and have shared some of this experience but not all

1) I use VScode and have had 0 problems with Revise. It Just Works when using the Julia extension + built in REPL. I actually prefer the Julia environment to Python in VScode, I have way fewer problems when doing a Notebook-like workflow where I’m writing library code at the same time

2) Agreed, I also wish there was a better story here. I’m constantly frustrated by how little static support there is. It’s getting better though, eg precompilation in 1.6.

3) I haven’t had any issues here outside of the occasional update to VScode Julia extension that botches things

4) I’ve had quite a lot of luck on discourse and GitHub issues, as well as slack for the occasional small question

Rust is great for use cases where you have specific resource management needs, although seems an odd choice for general purpose scientific computing.
This is really cool, what an honor to see. Thank you for digitizing the footage and sharing it to the world.

Couple q's if you're up for it:

* What camera did he have? Was it common in that era for cameras to not have a mic? (not complaining, just curious)

* Did he ever watch the footage, after the war? I know some veterans, depending on how they processed their experience, just block it all out.

* Can you share more on what he thought of his service there?
Unless something external changes the incentives in the market you aren’t gonna see bits in a box return as a business model any time soon. ARR is the only metric that matters to get you funding, it’s way more expensive to support multiple versions than something evergreen, and you can’t really do per-user unlimited device licensing without a login. You can fake it with per user keys but then someone has to have a login to manage them still and your key is now essentially just a login where self-service password resets can’t be done. Why bother when companies clamor for SSO about a billion times more than they ask for anonymous user accounts?
Really excited to see your release on the Philippines. Godspeed!
> Do you also have the usual hot standby setup with synchronous replication just in case of a machine going down before the latest WAL segment is shipped out?

We don't have to — the data in our data warehouse is a rearrangement/normalization/collation of origin data from public sources. If our DB cluster dies, we stand up a new one from a backup, let it catch up from WAL segments, and then our ETL pipeline will automatically re-bind to it, discover the newest data it has available inside it, and begin ETLing to it. From our ETL ingestion-agent's perspective, there's no difference between "loading to a DB freshly restored from backup because it lost 10 minutes of updates" and "loading to a DB that is/was up-to-date because we just received some new origin data."

(Our situation of our primary-source data being easily and reliably re-fetched is pretty unique to our vertical; but you can put pretty much any system into the same shape by first writing your primary-source data to an event store / durable unbounded-size MQ [e.g. Kafka] as you receive it; and then ETLing it into your DB from there. Forget DB disaster recovery; just keep the MQ data safe, and you'll always be able to replay the process that translates an MQ event-stream into a DB state.)

We do have hot standbys, but they're async (using wal-g — master writes WAL segments to object store; replicas immediately fetch WAL segments from object store, as quickly as they can manage.) They're for query load scaling, not disaster recovery.
Thanks for your insight here! We are still deciding the exact implementation, but completely agree - Linux is a challenge due to the heterogeneity of distros, window managers, compositors, etc.

Our macOS approach might not work everywhere.
My personal website, which is admittedly quite simple, is (IMHO) totally readable and usable without CSS enabled.

As I was building it, I'd constantly check it with CSS off in order to make sure it had a reasonable flow for folks using screen readers.

www.ft.io if you're interested.
My thoughts exactly, and it was removed instantly it asked for my work email.

No, No, and no. matter fact, it earned itself a forever no. thx have a crap product launch.
> So when faced with a resume, I know that the non-diverse candidate got there on merit alone. But the "diverse" one? Maybe it was merit, maybe it was the quota... Why should I be the one to take the risk?

So the white candidate benefits from your attributing their career progress to merit alone, while the non-white candidate has to work extra hard to convince you, and every other potential interviewer, in a short amount of time that their career progress was legitimately earned. Maybe they'll be able to persuade you, maybe they won't. You might consider yourself to be unbiased and just doing a basic risk assessment ("Why should I be the one to take the risk?"), but maybe other managers would really just prefer to work with other white people, using thin excuses like "better culture fit."

Let's say that this type of bias leads to 10% fewer offers being made toward a non-white candidate than a comparable white candidate. Now multiply that by the number of interviews a person needs to go through to amass a decent amount of experience in their field. Think of the compounding effects!

This is exactly why we need programs that prioritize diversity in hiring, to try to chip away at the biases that non-white candidates often face.
There's nothing wrong with having long eaves if that's your preference; I'm just pointing out that there are a lot of factors that go in to building a long-lasting structure, and the answer to most questions around best practices is "it depends."

If you have a two-storey house in a wet area that gets a lot of storm activity coming from the northeast, for example, and you have an exposed northeast-facing wall, the eaves aren't going to do much to shield that wall from driving rain. You'd have to make sure it's dealt with in other ways.

> Here's another one. Run the plumbing up interior walls. Then it won't freeze.

Same with this - it might be good advice in Seattle, but if I told a local builder to worry about frost mitigation where I live now (Singapore) they'd probably question my sanity.
Many of the trusted infrastructure and construction projects in Vietnam are actually lead by foreign teams with Japan being a notable example ( bridges, etc.)

When it comes to drainage, Vietnam didn’t take the learnings of Japan who had to learn first hand this “tech debt” of a concrete jungle. In fact, the solution in Vietnam is often layering on more layers of concrete, so water floods anywhere but the streets instead ( people’s home, who foundation is now 10 feet below ground). This is the lowest cost solution while offering the politicians a kickback, until people build their barricades high and flood the streets again.
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I'd argue that Epic has the opportunity see what features are out there, what is possible and what users want and could imitate Steam much quicker than it would've taken Steam to build the functionality originally.

Afterall, it was released in 2018.
... don't they use stripe as their shopify-branded processor?
I thoroughly enjoy everything having to do with Bigfoot -- not because I believe any of it for a second, but because the theories around why the government is hiding them from us are fascinating. Its some of the craziest stuff you'll ever hear.
Those clubs cost money to run if they are funded by the government. The per seat cost of public transport is pretty low comparatively.
It's not just confusing but unethical. The confusion serves to put words in another person's mouth. It is a kind of impersonation. Please retire this account.
@dylan604 - I'm curious; do you have any company stock?
Hm, Luke has also been working on a GTK backend for McCLIM. I wonder if he gave up on that, or just working on it in the background, or simply put it on pause for a bit?
I agree with all this. I view this case as collateral damage from their lax policies.
That's really interesting. Wondering if it might have any applications in human cardiology one day. The genetic differences related to fibrosis sounds promising.
> but let's wait a couple of billion years

Without intervention, Earth will become uninhabitable to almost all life in ~500 million years. As the Sun ages, it expands; eventually, surface water will have evaporated, leaving a dead husk behind. Long before that, our descendants will likely have found hospitable planets around distant, slow-burning stars, upon which they'll have sown the seeds of Earthly life.

> This is a disaster, and we must be deeply ashamed as species for it

It is shameful; fossil fuels, ingenuity, and greed probably mixed this situation inevitable.

What "Five Whys" would you ask and answer, seeking to understand the path we've trodden to disaster?
Lots of animals have been verified to understand and use abstract count which is what numbers are at their basics.

Plants are much less adaptive than animals by definition. The problem isn’t whether they know numbers but how do you even test what plants “know”.
Is that good or bad? Do you want the likes of adafruit / sparkfun and similar to exist or do you just want to buy everything direct from the parts suppliers at the source? Neither answer is perfect.

If you choose direct from the supplier then don't expect the same level of support as adafruit since you've voted away with your purchasing power any sufficient margin to support it.

Most of the benefits the locals provide are tutorials, support and shorter delivery from local inventory.

The race to wafer-thin margins has consequences.
I wonder what his new face looks like
You can only present this alert 3 times a year. Also, you cannot configure it to have a rating already set. Also, when the alert is presented, it is animated. You would see the animation if it were in a loop.
And Facebook will choose which of those voices get to be heard more often than others. And I wonder if the people steering the algorithms are or are not overwhelmingly against Modi (they hate him). So really, this issue does not look that cut and dry to me. There are many confounding issues here that should be addressed, but countries frankly should defend themselves against Facebook.
The "Always Free Tier" is 0$. I work there but I'm also running "Always Free" resources for my side-project (2 compute instances that have been running for more than a year + the associated network and storage resources).

So far no charges on my credit card.

Even Corey Quinn was surprised - https://twitter.com/QuinnyPig/status/1389696434283245568
There must be a crypto betting market out there where you could create a "Journalist will not be rescued from Belarus" bet and people could start betting against it until it became profitable enough for a mercenary company to do it.
Dow Chemical was the real winner.
I'm surprised this alert isn't presented from SpringBoard to prevent tampering
Do not defend communism, man... you have too many history records to know it is a failure in all senses: poverty and lack of freedom.

For the record, China and Vietnam is not what I would call communist. That is more North Korea or Cuba. In Vietnam even foreigners can buy property already nowadays. I do not recall the exact conditions but I know people who did it. It is a capitalist system, actually. With a lot of control sometimes, but with market rules.

It is not about the sanctions. It is the system chosen. Everyone that has intellectual honesty knows that. There is a lot of literature about the problem of economic calculation in socialism systems proved by how russians did theirs, for example (black markets and copying countries budgets, the U.S. army compared to the russian one is an example of such a thing).

And do not make me started on the repression, that is the worst part. But all go hand in hand at the end.

Vietnam is developing, and I am glad it is. But what they are doing is not communism at all, do not sell us that. I have been living there for almost 10 years and I hope I can come back. It is a lovely country.
> which clearly wasn't obvious to other competitors in the space

I had a family friend that was a tech writer in 2007 or so. He proudly mocked my interest in the first iPhone. Pulling me aside and showing me how his blackberry had a mini trackball and a mouse cursor and just how precise this all was.

It’s obviously funny now, but yea I remember a lot of the “smart money” was against the modern smartphone at the time.
Correct.

But, is it ingrained griping?

Or Social Inequity Aversion? I don't like beer, so if you get it and I have to watch stupid sports and drink water, I don't want you to have your reward?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_inequity_aversion
I crossed the U.S. on foot with a group of strangers 40 years ago. It was one of
Assuming they're tax breaks on property taxes (since other than sales taxes, those are the most viable avenues for a city to tax), they would lose tax revenue on whatever property the factory is on (it is not the case that they wouldn't have been able to collect taxes on the business anyway, because the land they use is land they would have taxed had it been owned by someone else). So they may have to tax other businesses more to make up for it, which could drive those businesses away, or make them less competitive. Other businesses in the area can also be hurt by the presence of an employer who can offer higher compensation than they otherwise would be able to. And while hurting existing local businesses to bring in another could be worth it in the short run, in the long run pandering to a single company at the detriment of others could make you entirely dependent on that company and its fortunes.
> All you need is checksums, public key cryptography and a way to publish your signed checksums.

I agree that’s sufficient.

One non technical addition I see in Bitcoin is the incentive to verify the checksums.
Iran sold oil at basically the same price and with the same legal structure as Saudi Aramaco did. That shouldn't be surprising, both countries reliance on western expertise and capital investment lessened dramatically in the decade following the initial concessions; and with it, Iran and Saudi arabia were able to overturn the initial legal framework that favored UK and US investors. Iran and Saudi Arabia certainly did not give oil away.

As for Afghanistan, the taliban has only recently expanded its territorial base before 9/11. The afghan government of today controls more territory than the soviet backed state ever did; whose control only extended to the major population centers and connecting arteries.
Some years back, before I sold my business and retired, I tried something and I've stuck with it ever since.

I pretty much never say 'should', in the sense that someone 'should do' something. Instead, I use the word 'could.'

"Well, you could try doing it this way."

"As you're not having any success with this method, you could use this method."

The difference in responses was great enough for me to develop the habit and stick with it. I'd call it a success.

There are other things I don't say. I don't say "I understand." Instead, I say something similar to, "I can relate." Again, the differences in responses that I get from people have made it worth developing the habit.
Understood, Jews are bad and Communism is great. Good luck with that.
There are people in this world who say "Don't trust a guy (or gal) who won't have a beer with you."
Counterpoint: I have a small room that is now my home office, and I really enjoy that it is essentially "zero commute", and think that even just a small 10 minutes walk would make that worse.

Because a 10 minutes commute is not actually a 10 minutes commute, for me at least. In the morning, I have to shower even if I still feel clean (my hair otherwise would need hours to look like I didn't just wake up), I have to dress for outside, I have to take my breakfast with this constant mental reminder that "you should get out to work soon".

With my little office room, I just declare "over!" at some point in the evening and am happily at home instantly.

But everyone's different, and I had generally observed that the lack of physical separation that some lament seems to affect me less. On the weekends, I still use my "office room" as a recreational room, and I sometimes also work from my living room couch and am happy to just declare "over!" by closing the laptop, without the impression that this has somehow "spoilt" my living room.
> You understood my statement.

Well, I have and stated a tentative understanding, but if I correctly understand your present response you seem to disagree with it. So...maybe not?

> Also, seriously? This is just a smart sounding way to say that you think I'm dumb and that whatever is in your mind is the real truth.

No, there’s a difference between “your description sounds like you probably mistook X for Y” and “you are dumb”. Obviously, its a disagreement about the part of the description that seems to report an interpretation rather than observable facts.

> If you're going to put words in my mouth

I didn’t put words in your mouth.

> at least be charitable enough to disagree with me before or after your translation.

“sounds like ... mistook <thing> for <other thing>” is explicitly both a report of a tentative understanding of what you were trying to say and a disagreement with it, along with a specific alternate interpretation. So, inasmuch as I should have disagreed with you...I did.
Is it possible for you to start a coding job where you are not coding a behemoth application, so that you are the main cog, and not a tiny part of the process? I don't know your background but is it possible to do more embedded type or mobile app development?

Best of luck, it seems that you are near your wits end.
Some people fail to recognise the actual problem here. I, among many, live within <5 minutes from my work. Distance is never, and was never the deciding factor in my decision to work from home full time. I'm incredibly lucky my employer sees the benefits of it.

The deciding factors were
- that I didn't have to leave the room for a personal call so that I didn't disturb anyone.
- that I didn't need to have six seperate conversations in the morning before being able to sit down and begin my work.
- that I didn't need to sacrifice portions of my lunchtime to grab a coffee with others and look like a team player.
- that from home I could now show affection to my partner that I would otherwise likely be ostracised for in an office environment.

Do I seem antisocial to you? Probably. But that's how I'm wired and want to live. I have (easily) another 1 1/2 productive hours in my work day now, and that's without children or a long commute. I'm the happiest I've ever been.

When I'm feeling exceedingly social and want to connect with others, I will work that specific day from the office.
As a former corporate Siemens drone, can confirm. This is so accurate it's scary.
> There's a tree, there are more trees. So now it's useful to count them...

It's not that useful to count them. My personal interactions with trees have likely never involved counting them; not even when I was involved in woodland management.

Trees control their numbers according to whether or not they can reasonably live in a particular density of tree coverage.

Only humans want to count trees, perhaps in general to claim (abstract) ownership of a particular large number.
I just googled when 'The Ugly American' came out. 1958! Nobody can say "noone could have known".

I'm not an expert on Vietnam, but I'll just say that whatever their problems with a Chinese merchant class, the problems with a Western burning-villages class were probably bigger at the time.