skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think this is a valid argument. I also think a corollary argument is that it's also valid to decide not to use a bank, though, and do a lot of things purely through cryptocurrency even if you're not doing anything shady or illegal, since, as another comment says, "as long as there are reasonable checks and balances" isn't necessarily a guarantee you can always rely on: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27315773

>> but how have we always just accepted the lack of personal privacy when it comes to finance?

>We didn't. This is something that has changed in the UK in my lifetime. Unless you were the subject of an investigation you didn't have to provide much detail to the tax authorities, and what you did provide was kept strictly separate from other areas of government.

>There was an attempt to strike a balance with the emphasis on privacy. Nowadays the government thinks it is entitled to all the data all the time.
How much of your own capital do you invest in developing countries?

> I want to distribute the talent and opportunity for success to bring up the standard of living globally instead of focusing all the success, opportunity and wealth in developed countries

This is assuming that talent in developing countries will be able to leverage their talent in those countries. These individuals are more than capable of sending back capital that they earn in the US if they choose to do so. Also, global standards of living continue to improve due to the advancements made in developed countries.

>Is it fair to the less talented people of a developing nation that America takes the best doctors and teachers?

The US isn't taking anything, individuals are moving to where they will be most productive.

>Doesn’t that harm the development of that nation?

Possibly? Do the developing countries that these people are coming from appreciate their talent?
Shorter recommendation: read the chapters of non-fiction books in reverse order. Start with the end and work backwards. Authors tend to still be sounding out their main idea in the first few chapters, and the middle tends to be filler for publishers page count expectations.

Indulge them if you like, but with most authors, there are diminishing returns on your attention.
Then there is a snowcrash.
That is, until you realize it is becoming permanent…
The 'my job is actually to attend meetings' was tongue-in-cheek - perhaps that wasn't as obvious as I thought. These days I code during the meetings, since it doesn't seem to make a difference whether I pay attention.

> I've unironically been told that that's what the weekends are for.

This kind of rings true, I've only been here around 3 months. I did spend a couple of weekends on code in the first month, but overall this company (and my comp) really isn't worth that kind of effort, so I've stopped.

I really only joined this company because I wanted a better work life balance (joke's on me) and my business isn't yet profitable, but I'm actually financially independent so it's tough to muster up motivation to work overtime for free.
It's such a poor offering.

I'm not completely unopposed to Twitter having a subscription offering, but this isn't what I'd want from it at all.

(Number 1 would be unrestricted third party client before. The Twitter product team is awful and the UI basically unusable.)
No ownership, but responsibly to the community.

I see many famous athletes who go to their hometown in America and invest in under developed neighborhoods they grew up in, and see that as a model for investing in communities on a global level.

It seems better than taking the best talent and allowing the cycle of poverty to continue.

Why is extracting talented humans from the developing world good for the developing world?
Unless you're seeing things through the US duality lens, where everything is black or white, left or right, etc..

I don't get why climate change is a "leftist" issue for those people, and yet..

And to be fully fair, von Bismarck only did it to preempt social democrats' talking points and popularity.
I see this kind of rhetoric often, whether at work or here on HN. I think some important factors are typically left out, however:

1. Business value isn’t always a measure of coding velocity. Interruptions are often gifts in disguise.

2. The ability to work in a way that allows for interruption is a skill that can be learned.

As a younger programmer who loved nothing more than to sling vast amounts of code, interruptions were killers. Over the years I’ve learned to recognize interruptions as opportunities to re-assess my priorities. I’ve also learned to write code in a way that reduces cognitive load so that interruptions aren’t so disruptive to my productivity.

I’m not going to try and say these are universal principles or that any business can apply them, but as highly skilled workers I think this is an area where we tend to put in relatively little effort to overcome obstacles.
The outbreak was mostly in unvaccinated people, and there was no background of prior infections (they never had a first wave).

Besides, studies on healthcare workers, who are tested regularly, showed a clear reduction in transmission.
There is no choice on iPhone
Wow thanks for the surprise in traffic this morning.

Author here: I really wanted to illustrate the "why" it's frustrating. A more complete visual of what is actually in my head.

Also I didn't get a chance to pull it out as much as I'd like, but I'm my own worst enemy when it comes to interruptions. So I broke my tips into 3 categories:
1. Protect against myself (2 tips)
2. Protect against day to day working cycle (1 tip)
3. Help teams work together to help each other (1 tip)

hence why I catered 2 of the 4 tips to myself.
Webinar: Event-driven communication in microservice architecture
I mostly agree with this sentiment but I think it's not that necessary to point out. Yes, some of these are abandonware but many are written by the same set of strong Rust programmers. I think you'd be hard pressed to argue that ripgrep or fd is not a valuable contribution to the OSS ecosystem.

The more interesting question is - why is that? Sure, Rust is memory safe, but I suspect the real reason people built high quality software in Rust is because cargo is good and because minimizing copies is part of the culture around the language. This means that libraries are cheap to use, and as a result programming feels productive, because you don't have a reason to reinvent the wheel (see arrays in C, or various Boost libraries that have been moved into stdlib C++). For example, compare the cost of Python's click to Rust's clap. Or look at serde.

I find it more interesting to ask the question "why do people spend so much hobby time writing interesting programs in Rust?".
or use sendmmsg(2) and recvmmsg(2)

https://www.man7.org/linux/man-pages/man2/sendmmsg.2.html
And it will likely prove that people will pay $2.99 to cause and get involved in shit storms and lynchmobs :-(
"Police expected to find a cannabis farm." Back when I was mining Bitcoin, I expected to be raided because of this. That was back before CO legalized. Never ended up happening though.
But in the wild, on end user machines, many times the SPAs perform worse/slower than SSR ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

And users don't actually want SPAs, users don't care how it's implemented. But users want performance and reliability, and want their pages to feel natural and work fully with all the features other sites have. Anecdotally SPAs often load slowly, break subtly standard web features, and often are slow to use.

Not all SPAs, but a significant amount of them.

As someone who's fluent with SSR and SPAs (react/vue), who consults in the enterprise space, I reach for SSR solutions, about 2/3+ of the time as the appropriate architecture. Of course ymmv but you need to be fluent with all the options to be in position to pick the best tool for the job!
But isn't that driver's education class certificate basically a “checkbox”? I don’t think it’s so different from those IT certifications.
We run single node K8s. I do it for some non-prod apps. K8s deployments are a lot more easier to organize than a bunch of docker compose deployments and its also a great way to learn K8s internals, etc.
> At best they need some static site generator and a CI/CD pipeline maintained by the provider to rebuild the site if it is an actual blog, which is not that common.

What most people want is to have something that works, where they can focus on their content and not on your tools. Wordpress works for people.

If they get a CI/CD pipeline maintained by someone, how do they create pages, get updates, fix those pesky security issues, write a blog post on their mac that when saved automatically gets posted? How easy is it to apply a theme to your CI/CD pipeline? Your tools work for you, but are you going to maintain them with the same level of features as Wordpress?

Oops, it's holiday time, will you write a greeting card plugin for your CI/CD pipeline for them to purchase cards on their website and send site-specific cards to their email list by Monday? No? Sorry, they just switched off of your CI/CD pipeline to Wordpress.

When moving to a different hosting provider, people want to conduct business not learn a to use a new CI/CD pipeline to match the tools at the new hosting company.

What about when you get tired of updating their site generator code for them? They will need to start over, and they won't pick another CI/CD tool that's unmaintained and is expected to get horribly outdated after a year.

People go into business in order to conduct business.
Walking in L.A
I guess I need to update my angel investors pitch powerpoint to answer their "How do you intend to make money?" question.

"We'll charge users $3 a month to change the app colors and icon.".
It's always about evaluating your OPsec and tailoring it to your needs and threat assesment.
Seems unlikely that they're participating in a large scale fabrication like this but it's possible. I think it's more likely that there is some black project that uses novel propulsion systems and they're covertly testing it against our own military to evaluate how effective it could be. Or it could be another nation that made a break through in propulsion. And of course, the extraterrestrial possibility.

One thing that will be interesting is to see if any other nations have had encounters like this and can supply video and sensor data evidence.
I had COVID at the end of December. I just got my first Pfizer dose yesterday. Almost no side effects, just a bit of sensitivity around the jab site. And a very slight chill feeling for a few hours.
You can strengthen that... it is up to the users, as a matter of practical fact. I've right-clicked -> edit attribute -> autocomplete=true more than once. I've cleared the right-click handlers and keypress handlers that were blocking paste, or run $0.setAttribute("value", "paste your password here on the console where they can't stop you") (after you select the element in the inspector).

Browsers as they stand now are not capable of truly blocking autocomplete, or pasting into a field with an input box. If they aren't implementing their own text field with a canvas and taking keystrokes themselves they aren't blocking paste anyhow. (And if they do that I can still tampermonkey or something my way into a "paste".)
Sorry, but I dont base my worldview on what a bunch of bronze-age people said. It's a good mythological story, though.

We have science.

--------------------------------

Edit: I really don't understand the downvoters. This specific passage was written 6000 years ago, give or take. It's from a religious holybook that has no bearing on technology, medicine, or science. Germ theory was nonexistent, most forms of medicine were in their most rudimentary levels. They didn't even have the technology or know-how for basic ironworking.

If you're an adherent to a religion, good for you. Its simply that - a mythology, a belief.

And we should be bearing no credence to the writings of religion in our sciences, unless it stated physical fact (think anthropology, geology, architecture - sciences), or if you're a religious historian and trying to understand how human religions change.

I thought we worked with sciences here, not superstition.
Bitcoin mine discovered in UK after police raid suspected cannabis farm
Top-Tier Memory Management
If you do not trust Apple, why are you wasting time writing apps for their platform?
My least favorite, and all too common, kind of day is one that gets bracketed with meetings. The most usual form of this is the 10:30 AM standup/status meeting, paired with the 3 pm also standup/status/testing session. Assuming that you eat lunch, this is almost perfectly designed to make sure that you can't actually accomplish anything in the course of a 9-5 work day.
Many??? I doubt this is true. I am African, and throughout my college years, I established a very extensive network of African scholars in the US. I can safely say that more than 95% of them stayed in the US. The number for Africans is obviously higher, but even in my own college network, most of the international students stay in the US. The few who go back are either because they are rich or already have something lined up for them, or they did not get a job/visa to stay. Otherwise, for the overwhelming majority, the plan is to stay and most of them end up doing so.
no, I mean if someone doesn't have a place to live it will be harder for them to get a job or go to school to get skills to get a job. There is still competition if there isn't people dying in the streets
Someone from Oxford University is out, someone with a PhD from Yoknapatawha State College is in. In other words, the bill is a bailout for struggling US institutions, but this would be expected from our current president.
Ada is not a a commercial language. It's free, and the standard is free as well.

Adacore's support is excellent - you're talking directly to gcc/gdb devs. There is no intermediate layer. I've hit a number of nasty technical issues ( compiler bugs mostly), usually fixed within 48h. They then provide you with what they call a 'wavefront' which is essentially a patched version of the compiler which is supported as well.

It is true that the ada community is small, but there is no real other contender in that space ( embedded, formal verification, qualified toolchains, etc).

Edit: nvidia uses spark/ada (from adacore), it's not clear to me what other options they might have given what they want to do (video presentation in the link)

"AdaCore + NVIDIA Partnership | AdaCore" https://www.adacore.com/company/partners/nvidia
If the average persons ability to capture a photo of bigfoot or a ghost or a UFO goes up 100x I would expect the number of photos during these sightings to go up some amount. Why would bigfoot go extinct at the exact time that everyone has cameras?

I guess another theory is that aliens are pranking these people.
"Hey Blart, lets go to Earth and let one guy without a camera see part of our spaceship from a distance. Everyone will think he is crazy. HAHAHA"
This is a way more difficult conversation to have with a reasonably informed person on the right than you are making it out to be...

The social security fund has been “borrowed from” to fund other programs.

The government is clearly in the pocket of big Parma.

The government uses taxpayer money to bail out Wall Street.

The government allocates subsidies based on lobbying groups.

The IRS specifically targeted right wing groups applying for non profit status.

The list goes on and on.

So people on the right are not keen to give that structure more money and power.

It doesn’t matter how successful you may think Medicare is. The power structure and track record of the entity which would manage universal healthcare is abysmal.

I think there is a way to do it which could make the whole program solid and resilient against abuse but the proposals all come from the left who don’t seem particularly interested in resiliency.
Tovala (YC W16) Hiring Back-End Engineer
After learning about how expensive stolen art is exchanged as a proxy for cash from "This is a robbery" on Netflix I started to wonder if laundering is really needed with crypto. There are probably clever ways to just exchange wallet ownership instead.
The page claims they're awesome, it doesn't claim they're better.
"The modern concept of the vacuum of space, confirmed every day by experiment, is a relativistic ether. But we do not call it this because it is taboo."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aether_theories#Quantum_vacuum
If you are healthy, getting vaccinated against covid is not something you do for you, it's something you do for others. That's how vaccine works, when enough people are vaccinated, the epidemic stops. Some viruses evolves and for those a vaccine is required regularly (like flu, maybe covid). I can totally understand that you are not worried for yourself (I feel the same) but don't be surprised that people are unhappy that you don't care about them.

And you say you don't go out when you get sick, but I'm not sure how you would do that for covid, since covid can in many cases be asymptomatic.

I'm not sure how it works in your country, but here people that already had covid only get one vaccine shot, as the covid infection is counted as the first one.
Key inflation indicator rose 3.1% from a year ago, highest since 1992
I had someone complaint they could ping the public address of our load balancer.

I sent the client back a list of government and military websites that responds to ping. As an extra bonus, it turned out the pentesters own website responded to ping.
That's not the case at all. HMRC is very proscriptive about what you can do with their data, that's if they let you near it all, even then client consent is absolutely required for each access.
Where do you start when adopting Backstage?
So, they never want users with a disability to be able to use their site. Nice.
The XMR to sXMR bridge is live and applauded by both the Monero community and Secret Network community

Secret Network also has an AMM called SecretSwap for exchange to any other asset

All smart contract execution on the secret network is private, as in the variables and current state is not stored on chain for perusal, all assets are smart contracts
Amazing work. Childhood vibes were seriously kicking in while playing this. Now if only I could get my brother here to constantly yell at me to stop cheating it would really bring me back.

I just played on my pc and the only issue I encountered was a noticeable amount of lag.
I did tell you to try "command history" on the same line I told you about events.tail(). You can pass a string argument to events.tail() to filter it (which works even better in the beta/next version). I'm considering modifying the events.tail() behavior to filter / differentiate human-triggered events vs machine triggered events, which should clean up the default output a bit. One of the things I'm strongly considering for the next release is a "subtitle" feature that's enabled by default to tell you what is recognized.

The wiki is something I currently try to introduce folks to later in the process, because it's unofficial and historically has had assumptions, inaccuracies, or very outdated information that caused me additional stress/support load. I know the community has been working on improving that.

Bluetooth mics are almost universally worse than cheap wired mics, due to bandwidth/power/compression constraints. If you make a file user/settings.talon containing "settings(): speech.record_all = 1", Talon will record successful utterances to recordings/ adjacent to user/, and you can compare what the mic sounds like to Talon. It's also very likely the mic works better with Conformer.

The alphabet is pretty easy to change. Check out the top of keys.py. There are some words that aren't really the engine's fault when it comes to accent, and some pairs like air/near are more of a configuration issue if your accent doesn't differentiate them.

I'm hoping to release v0.2 with Conformer sometime around July 1
People care about status at least as much as their raw level of purchasing power.

A 25-year-old American man in 1960 had more status in society than a similar man today.
Contrast with https://www.lastweekinaws.com/blog/developer-portals-are-an-...
Curated List of the Best Google Apps
I don't disagree with the assessment, but I think it might be orthogonal to the issue. I think it's very hard to monetize engagement, period, even if it's all positive, constructive, and intellectual engagement.

If your service's business strategy is "1) acquire hundreds of millions of users and charge them all $0.00 per year for many years, 2) acquire lots of expensive infrastructure and employees to support the service, 3) ???, 4) profit", it's not going to be easy.
Irritatingly, an article that bemoans a homogenous view based on race repeatedly views members of a particular political leaning as ideologically homogenous.
Been moving 5 times in the last 5 years and this is what happened every time (mind you most of the time I was moving continent). This last time I just moved apartment in SF but still sold everything to be able to travel in between. Packed the car with everything we could and threw what we didn’t manage to sell.

I gotta say, it’s getting tiring to buy furniture (especially with the IKEA shortage) but the upside is that you get to get rid of a lot of the things you didn’t really need every time you move.

Also in SF, for some reasons, second hand is really expensive so you can sell stuff for the same price or even more sometimes.
So the ISR drones will see the launch site or platform and it will get hit by missiles
>It was ignored for so long, but

Its easy to ignore a bad but unpopular thing. As the bad thing gets popular, more will be written about it. Pretty straight forward process.
Inevitably, the "no meetings, no interruptions" devs are the same people complaining they don't have a voice in the larger org and that business doesn't care about their opinions. But no, they can't do a weekly 30 minute standing meeting.

Edit: and they'll happily point out the hypocrisy of the sales, marketing, and executive teams on coffee walks.
Also, I really really wish we had a good universal healthcare system. Being unemployed and terrified of being injured sucks
Take as an example the gnat.sockets package from upstream gcc:

https://github.com/gcc-mirror/gcc/blob/master/gcc/ada/libgna...

Compare with the same file from the GNAT 2021 CE install:

GNAT/2021/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/10.3.1/rts-native/adainclude/g-socket.ads

you will find there are a bunch of blank lines where the runtime exception was.
There's very clearly air, seeing as the helicopter is flying.
Wonder if that would be a breach of the cluster munitions ban.
They also arent creating output that has to be simultaneously harmonic with other peoples work in an often quickly changing landscape.
Satellite fleet management. Though presently I’m doing testing so the math helps to verify the software is doing the correct thing. Turnovers have me here out of necessity when I’d rather be on the software side of the house.
I wanted to write this comment, but you said it better.

The OP's post is entirely about themself, evidenced in that it is written in a completely self-centered way. "I am experiencing social shaming and being shunned for a position I take where I show absolutely no concern for others. And yet they don't subscribe to my superior reasoning powers. My feelings are so hurt!"

Cry us a river, dude.
It's a community of people with thoughts that sometimes differ from yours. It doesn't seem that confusing.
These people (social networks) are no longer solving any problems.

When they see users they don't see people in need as a service or product.

All they see is a Knob.

-> "Twist the user like this" Are we making more or less money?

-> If yes, turn further to that direction, else turn to the opposite direction.

Modern social media companies are no longer about offering effective social networking & communication services. Its all about the money now.
A number theorist who connects math to other creative pursuits