skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The concept requires demand, which you already identified. The demand helps retains the exchange rate.

You think the demand will evaporate if the cryptocurrency is illegal or hard to obtain. I think this is not true. Compliant hashes will still be easy to generate, acquire, and transfer and some people that they are transferred to will append the hash to a globally stored ledger. These concepts are not bannable.
>Why does everyone here just assume that everyone’s commute is as bad as theirs?

Because statistically it would be representative.

Also because even if the office is next door, you need to get dressed properly, prepare, etc., which eats at least half hour every morning.
1.8 b is equal to 2b but another 2 mill won’t hurt sold bin price but i would raise the stakes unforgiving deal what you ask for always will not your satisfaction in the end when it meets in the middle my price is right prosus won the bargain maybe going beyond and 2 million less than 2b is enough. Maximum level coding is Juntu. I’m known but it’s anonymous hit first claim your cig smoke guhd break do. What makes sense is logical but my minds at 1000 in maximum level.
I think the system was revealed a little too early, and someone like me will try to decide what the system is right away, rather than patiently waiting for the author to fully explore the idea. So it does feel a little long, but I'm not sure it's a flaw. I have felt the same way about gimmicks in other well-regarded and much longer writing (400 page books that give away the whole thing in chapter 1), but here it seems balanced enough. Part of why it felt too long to me was just because the people in the story are boring, although I think that is also intentional.
We all have, dude. But just like it's not completely rational to inject everyone in the world with a brand new drug that's been rushed to market, it's equally irrational not to try every possible thing we can to stem a once-in-a-century global pandemic killing millions of people and trashing economies.
Mach 30 ‘tunnel’ will put China decades ahead
Not everyone's an engineer. Lots of roles work better in person.
> I think it was all the deeper meaning analysis I was forced to do moreso than the book. It just seemed like we were going far beyond the author's intention in a joyless analysis exercise.

That was literally my entire high school honors English program. You must interpret everything, to the satisfaction of the English teacher, or else.

It quite reliably took people who absolutely loved reading and made them hate books. I'm not quite sure the point of it, really. It took me a decade after high school to read a fiction book again, and this is far from uncommon among those who suffered through it alongside me.

I don't remember a thing about Red Badge of Courage except I had to extract meaning from why the grass in this particular scene was green - to symbolize new life, hope, rebirth, etc.
IPOs the banks already have bought all the newly created shares from the company in the company’s last funding round before being publicly traded, and attempts to generate public interest and sell the shares at a higher price.

Keeping a percentage of the proceeds and a percentage of the shares and upfront fees.
For a few weeks I lived with people whose world view seemed shaped by popular news channels on TV. They seemed genuinely and constantly worried about getting mugged / raped / murdered / burgled in their perfectly quiet and innocent suburban neighbourhood. It has been years since then but this disconnect between reality and their perception still boggles my mind. And it really has me worried that it is not an isolated thing.
Why are the wages that low?!?
Practice interviewing, get a faang/other elite big tech gig, retire in 10
Not at all a brave or innovative move. These companies are already globally distributed. They have remote sites. And now they have a year of fully remote work under their belt where it has been proven that remote can work. Forcing people into concentrated residential and economic centers instead of giving them the freedom to work from anywhere seems not just backwards (foregoing a way to keep employees happy) but draconian. I wonder how much of this is out of a misplaced sense of control over employees and how much is just them trying to salvage the value of physical offices they are so heavily invested in.
Ask HN: Why Can't we disconnect Russia, from the internet?
A friend of mine, who is a non-technical person, asked me this question, after all the various cyber attack reports on the news. I found myself a bit at a loss, so I thought it might be a good question for HN. Setting aside for a moment the "if it should be done"... technically, could it be done? What would it take to do it?
Except that in America, the political right has now joined the alt-right in a state of “high conflict”, and are not only _actively preparing_ for civil war, but in many cases are _actively pushing FOR it._

The political right believes it is its god-given right to rule over America without interference by leftists, non-whites, and other undesirables, and is actually planning to kick off the apocalypse all on their own, especially if it doesn’t occur organically.

The right might be batshit insane, but they’re still almost half the country - and almost all of them are wrapped up in anti-reality fake-news delusions that fly in the face of real-world evidence (just look how many smooth-brained ignoramuses still think that the election was stolen despite zero evidence and scads of Republican and Trump-appointed judges throwing out the lawsuits for lack of evidence). It’s a powder keg that only needs the right match to detonate.
Spain too. Probably a local law thing. I'm sure there's some US states forbidding it so they probably have it banned for the whole US to avoid mistakes?
And real boys, LOTF is Fiction.
I don't understand how so many people in this thread are saying they spend more on food while working from home. How is this possible? Does it vary by country? In Australia at least it is orders of magnitude less expensive to prepare food at home purchased from a supermarket than it is to buy food whilst out an about.

Or are these people working for companies that provide food or something. I just don't get it.
Assume f(x, y(x)) = 0.

Differentiation wrt. x gives ∂f/∂x + ∂f/∂y y'(x) = 0.

Solving, y'(x) = - (∂f/∂x) / (∂f/∂y).
I wonder if it would make it better if teachers would explain to you that this bit is not very useful in and of itself, but we do it to practice writing and because other people think we should. It might dissuade some people from pursuing English literature degrees in college, but that's probably not a bad thing. Would the honesty help at all?

I didn't hate literature class in highschool but I think I might have liked it better if I wasn't so confused about why the various arguments and analysis seemed so tenuous to me. Fundamentally, the analysis of literature is the least productive skill we teach kids in high school, although writing is still very important.
Wow, remarkable.

Tech forums were a crowded field when stack overflow entered, but it really was a cut above everything else.

Good answers, well moderated, no dancing mortgage ads, no long bitter arguments where people call each other idiots because they use Java, no pop up windows. That's not the worst path to 1.8 bil.
Other pointers that I think I’d point out:

5. Focus and Finish: instead of starting new ideas, finish the last one. You feel great and you can then maximize whatever opportunities that accomplishment affords you

6. Relationships over wealth: don’t be an Ebenezer Scrooge giving up life’s fulfilling opportunities and relationships to maximize wealth. Take care of people and usually you are taken care of.

7. Go easy on yourself: the key to doing something long term is self forgiveness, taking breaks, sometimes being a slacker. You can’t rely on grit and discipline alone as solutions to getting things done.
Ok, we've put Italian in the title above.
Think a dedicated account in an old 3-tier architecture meant for a bot to login rather than a human. You're not making API calls though (at least not as we typically describe API calls), you're making HTTP requests to pull down a web page and then screen-scraping within the resulting HTML/JS.

Without a dedicated account your RPA bot needs to essentially impersonate a human or let the human login first and then drive the dashboard until the bot completes and the human can resume using their desktop seat. Very inconvenient for the human, and problematic for logging of who's really doing what.
That's really dope :) Though I guess I'll be stoned here for making stupid puns. Get off your high horses!
> Because of the already sunk cost into office space?

Yeah, Apple Park did cost ~5 billion dollars, and its still less than five years old so they haven't gotten a great return on investment yet.
As a thought exercise, suppose a proof is stake currency was only used by one person. How exactly does do it’s dividends create value? In short “crypto dividends” don’t actually create any value it’s purely incrementing an arbitrary number rather than creating an income stream.

The same is true if N people use the currency without any new money coming in they can’t cash out. Therefore it’s not an actual dividend. This is why everyone calls crypto a pyramid scheme, the only way to cash out is to get someone else to buy in.
No, it’s free in the US too. There are clusters of families in communities that reject vaccines however, so there are a bunch of schools with insufficient proportions of vaccinated kids. A ripe breeding ground to create a vaccine resistant strain of measles or mumps or whatever.
You're not entirely wrong. There are plenty of people for or against wearing masks regardless of what the science says, almost cultish. We had it before the pandemic and we have it now even with highly effective vaccines. It happens on the extreme right but it also happens on the extreme left.

I personally can't wait until the two weeks after my final vaccine shot ends so I can stop wearing a mask and not care anymore. I had a heck of an immune response so I'm pretty hopeful I'm in the now immune category.
And what did you determine?
It’s because it’s self describing right? If you look at protobuf, thrift, avro those are even denser
I haven't read Humankind yet, but a recent review I have read[0] gives a mix of positives and negatives to it. A lot of the cited studies are controversial in their own right: S.L.A. Marshall's claim that only 15% of soldiers in WW2 fired their weapons is based on subjective evidence, omits mention of whether they had any opportunity to fire, and has many other flaws that have since been picked apart, for example.

This is not to say that our negativity is justified! Only that Bregman seems to have as persistent a bias to positivity as other writers have to negativity.

[0] https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/your-book-review-human...
Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27375067, which has the article this one points to.
One would think of it’s so safe and small they would just build it in Bellevue.

Personally beyond safety my objection to nuclear is more about the centralization and massive potential for corruption.

I’d rather our money was invested in small individually owned energy solutions as much as possible, so that people have control over their own sources, instead of the control being held by massive megacorps and government entities.
Wow, Blender's video editor is really coming along. I'll have to try it out. Might be the best open source video editor available.
I guess I should be happy that I work at a company with people in the EU.

If you get up early and stop replying to emails after 15:00-16:00 (when there isn't something scheduled going on) no one gets surprised.
Flagged and functionally buried. Isn't it convenient to have an army of employees who love their employer!
> Because of the already sunk cost into office space?

Surely this must be a big part of it, but I haven't seen any good discussions about the topic. Workers are being massively inconvenienced and the environment is being put under unnecessary stress to prop up the value of now-redundant real estate.
Hash functions should use a random seed on every new container instance (or at least once per launch). Those hash tables that need specific properties of the hash should inject it in that way (cryptographic, deterministic, DOS-resistant, etc).
At this point, for those households, all I have to say to them is get vaccinated or STFU.

San Francisco sits at 60% fully vaccinated with most of the Bay Area in the same range; only Solano County lags very far behind at 39% fully vaccinated.

If between now and September, we can’t get society vaccinated to the point that kids can attend school 5 days a week without a mask, then we either need to do some full on Union busting or it’s time to start leaving the unvaccinated behind and let them take their lives into their own hands. Will that suck for those that for some reason can’t? Yes, but we can’t keep society in a holding pattern for them forever.
How far did you get with it? Did you end up abandoning the project?
California teen pushes bear off wall to protect family dogs
It is all explained at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27284079 and the links back from there.
The site guidelines answer that question: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.
That was a rubbish aside note. Without it the article is quite decent.
The Mystery of the $113M Deli
> I was one of the most scientifically literate people in my friend group and now I’m an outcast because I don’t always “trust the science”.

Unless you're an expert in a field, you are not scientifically literate in that field.

Being able to read a couple conclusions isn't scientific literacy. It's the same slapdash stuff that conspiracy theorists do. Find a couple publicized studies. Read the conclusions. Repeat as though you're an expert.

Even in your comment, the majority of your points are political, because I suspect you're not actually scientifically literate.
> The average American does not want to buy stuff from slaves, at any price.

This is a pretty bold claim considering the American history.

> There are a lot of vegans.

No there isn't. Only a small fraction of people are vegans. So I'd say that according to your example, most people in world are meat eaters despite the sufferings of animals.

China is winning at manufacturing not because of slavery. The Chinese infrastructure is advancing much faster than that of the US. I'm sorry but Your fringe view is clearly out of touch with the rest of the world.
This is pure fantasy.
$1.8B is the value of the business that encouraged this content creation, not the value of the information that has flowed through SO. The developer productivity gained by the existence of SO is probably on the order of trillions.
Minuscule (if we just take it at face value) is not the same as none. If a kid dies then there is a risk.

This isn't a useful classification; literally everything we do has some risk. 300 Americans under 18 have died from Covid (https://www.statista.com/statistics/1191568/reported-deaths-...), which is insignificant when compared to deaths from accidents, and not much higher than pre-Covid flu deaths (https://www.cdc.gov/flu/spotlights/2019-2020/2019-20-pediatr...).

Kids also interact with their grandparents in a lot of cultures quite frequently which is the highest risk group.

At least in the US, their grandparents should have been vaccinated months ago.
Who's there
I just hope you shover despite working from home.
Never tell your manager about plans to transfer, or even apply, until you've got a verbal offer in hand. Ask the manager for a "soft loop" which is basically an interview done off the books with no paper trail. Once you apply, your manager, hr, and others are notified.
TLDR: Logically Wrong program was working under an specific condition that no longer exists, thus broken.
I'd take the article with a grain of salt, too, like many others replying to this thread. Even with a grain of salt, the topic sounds like stack ranking being re-packaged: There is a metric to let go of a certain percentage of employees per quarter or year.

When I worked for a US company in Canada, the upper management was open the fact that stack ranking was used. They said the bottom 2% should be gone every year. There would be a quarter every once a while that looks pretty "bleak". Then the office was allocated with "less" budget. At this point the managers picked a few people across different departments to fire. In a larger office, it's not a difficult task. The ones who regularly stole stationary for personal use, conduct side business during regular business hours or has outdated behaviours were picked. At the beginning of the next quarter, the job postings for those openings went up to the company's career page.

From the grapevine, over half of those people who were let go in this situation had difficulties finding comparable employment. The percentage sounds like a backdoor to get rid of the people who got hired because of some false positives. For that particular site of the company, these people would be let go even without stack ranking formally stated explicitly.
> I don't think everybody finds work to be an unfulfilling drain on their leisure time

Well said. WFH doesn't fix a bad job or a draining company culture. If your job is miserable and you can't stand your coworkers then you need to find another job, remote or not.
There is this plant that grew in our apartment building: https://imgur.com/a/gyxEA7X

It went from non existent to taller then the 2 story building in a month. A plant app I used identified it as Agave Americana. But I can't find any literature describing this accelerated growth.

Any ideas?

Edit: this is in Los Angeles California.

Edit2: Here is a video on May 9th for a better perspective -> https://imgur.com/gallery/ACHnWNy
Legislation link:
https://mkcclegisearch.kingcounty.gov/LegislationDetail.aspx...

Interesting parts:
> The Proposed Ordinance would also prohibit county administrative offices and executive departments from issuing any permit or entering into any agreement which authorizes a third party to use facial recognition technology or obtain or access facial recognition information on behalf of the county. However, evidence relating to the investigation of a specific crime that may have come from facial recognition technology may be used by a county administrative office or executive department so long as the evidence was not generated by or at the request of the county office or department.
> but this has the same problem as Docker containers: you inadvertently become a package/distro maintainer. How does one update the system regularly with security updates? Are we locking by semver somehow (like node, etc.)? And who decides which version ranges to lock to, etc. etc.?

That is not true in the case of NixOS.

NixOS is an ordinary distribution: it has a release (which seems to be maintained for a year, receiving security patches) and an unstable branch.

So if you want to maintain your whole system in Nix, my recommendation is something like:

(1) use nix flakes. Flakes basically means you expressly specify the versions of your inputs, following the well known pattern of a human-edited but loosely specify source specification and a lockfile.

(2) One of your inputs will be github:NixOS/nixpkgs/release-21.05, which means the release-21.05 branch of github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs. The lockfile will ensure this follows the latest version

(3) In your flake, include your system configuration: it should build the whole system (systemd jobs, your reverse proxy, whatever it is you want each machine/class of machines in your network to do), not merely your application.

(4) In your flake, include your system tests. They can run on a virtual machine (or a network of virtual machines) whose configurations are derived from the configurations you created in (3).

If you've done that, you can now be reasonable confident that you can automatically receive security updates, run your tests against them, and deploy them.
It’s weird he even frames it this way, when the original SO pitch was that it was better than an older, competing website (which they derisively referred to by the disambiguating punctuation in its URL).

On the one hand, there is a slice of history in which SO absolutely deserves this much credit, even if this particular hyperbole is anachronistic. Early on, and for several years, SO did genuinely provide a single place to find relatively high quality/trustworthy answers to a huge range of programming questions.

On the other hand, I think that shark has been jumped for many years since. At least for my usage, I deliberately avoid clicking SO links until I’ve exhausted other promising resources (first party docs, reputable forums and blogs as you’ve mentioned). Because the quality of SO content is generally not just terrible, but because the gamification design they touted as producing quality can’t keep up with volume or time.

Nearly every SO link I’ve clicked in recent months has either been full of garbage answers (with maybe something helpful buried in comments), has an accepted answer years out of date prominently displayed over several more correct answers with no/few upvotes, or tumbleweeds because apparently even moderately difficult questions just aren’t interesting to contributors.

And I’m certainly not retracing my breadcrumbs to try to fix that, which would probably make me feel guilty if I didn’t find the whole enterprise of SO/SE skeezier and skeezier as it grew.

Honestly it’s a shame. I don’t care a bit for their solution, but it was really great to have such a reliable resource when it was one.
Cultural experience matters a lot here though. If 6 boys who dealt with hard grueling hunter gatherer labor, they'd have no issue pulling themselves up by their makeshift sandals so to speak, in the jungle. Western boys who may have had at worst, had a few days of hard labor, the rest school and sports, not so much.

Your forgetting about culture shock. White boys who know nothing of hunting and gathering aren't going to fare well compared to Tongan boys who studied the school or hard knocks first hand. It's like dropping a black bear in the Arctic and guffawing that it can't adapt like the polar bear! They're not equipped for the situation appropriately.

People are trusting. We know this. People want to work together. People want to survive. The simple fact that we are here today is evidence of that. Hunter gatherers, trusting an outsider showing them dropping seeds in the group produces crops. And now we have iPhones. All because baseline humans are "selfishly selfless." We learned that delaying gratification of the Id can provide greater rewards. That's why we aren't still animals fighting over berries with grizzley bears...
I tried a standard config (think BFO-9000 default config). Here are some numbers.

Main refers to the left half of the keyboard connected to USB. "Other" refers to the right half, connected via a TRRS cable to the left half.

Serial for comms, measurement on main half, other half disconnected. 7-13ms

Serial, measurement on main half, other half connected. 8-16ms

Serial, measurement on other half, main connected. 9-19ms

i2c, measurement on main, other not connected, 5-15ms

i2c, measurement on main, other connected, 6-16ms

i2c, measurement on other, 10-20ms

Not sure if any of the above is stat-sig. Measurement methodology - hook up one probe to the key and trigger on having the key scan seeing "key down". The other probe went to two pins I designated as a NumLock LED.

In terms of matrix refresh rate - I remember that enabling reporting to console slowed things down significantly, i2c slowed things down, enabling features slowed things down. No hard numbers unfortunately.

ZMK - just because it's a fresher codebase & support for 32-bit only. I did no measurements of ZMK.
Yeah, that’s getting really old. Especially since it’s each site in the family.