skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If Tim's "missing the hum of activity, the energy, creativity and collaboration" then he's not paying attention to his employees.
> It's almost guaranteed that they will not pay to save face, no?

No. Lots of big names will payout ransoms, that's why it works. [0]

[0] https://heimdalsecurity.com/blog/ransomware-payouts-of-2020/
Can't you use Stripe as Individual/Sole proprietor?
can you name an example of a "popular smart contract"?
Adding my voice to the quorum, same here.
I've never heard of people eating cicadas, but I did have a dog when I was growing up who would catch them out of mid air and eat them. It was impressive to watch but the sound of them buzzing around in his mouth and then being squished to death in his throat still grosses me out.
> How do you reverse fraudulent transactions?

How do you reverse paying someone with cash? You don't. You can ask for a refund and hope they give it to you. If you're transacting with a trusted business, you can expect them to adhere to the law and reverse the payment.

In this sense, crypto transactions are no different than how humans have transacted for thousands of years. Chargebacks and reversals are a convenience - they are not necessary.

> What happens if your wallet is stolen?

What happens when your wallet is stolen in real life? You lose the cash inside. So you keep most money secure in a cold wallet, airgapped and password-protected, and some money secure in a hot wallet, PIN-protected. Usually losing a hardware wallet isn't a big deal anyways, since they wipe themselves after a few PIN tries.

The UX around securing wallets will get better over time, but if you pick up a Ledger X today it's actually already quite easy to use.

> Who do you speak to when you need help setting up an account?

Just like using a wallet with cash in a secure manner took time to become cultural knowledge, using a hardware wallet with cryptocurrency will to. Obviously, there are places where it could become easier to use, but using a Ledger these days is already pretty damn easy. You just connect it to your phone via Bluetooth and you're ready to go.

> it prevents the government from setting certain types of monetary policy that benefit the economy as a whole

For some, lowering government control over your finances is a pro, not a con, but I can understand that this is up for debate.

> This is all assuming it's pegged to a stable asset like the USD.

I can agree with this, I think currently the price of cryptocurrency is volatile due to rampant speculation. Eventually it will settle into something stable, and if it doesn't, we can just use alogrithmic stablecoins like DAI that track the value of the dollar to within +/-1% and don't need to be backed by a central institution.
That ship has sailed long ago. I doubt there's a country on earth that could protect all of its critical infrastructure against another nation with modern weaponry and tactics.

I wouldn't count on either country having much in the way of an energy grid left after a week or so. Additionally war will disrupt supply chains for a lot of industries, stuff you need for power grids included.

This is a popular example to illustrate how little it would take to cripple a nation's power grid: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metcalf_sniper_attack

Don't even need fancy long range missiles as long as you have clandestine operators in the target country.

In a discussion of this (on HN I think) someone pointed out that replacements for these transformers probably has to be ordered from Europe, which can take as long as a year.
For extra points, bite on a fake blood capsule beforehand.
We all know it's about money. It's more of a reflection about how little money knowledge makes you, and how much money selling clothes, makeup, and other self-image enhancers makes.
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I've noticed the same, and spent years in Apple's engineering, which was healthy as a culture and very very positively run, so the contrast is immediately visible and the blatant lying about leadership principles and hiring and developing the best are at once laughably obvious and super dysfunctional.
Either you can accept it as a logical conclusion, or ask around.

Suppose you are the manager and are happy with your team. But you have to meet the URA quota. What's the best solution you can think of?

And how much effort are you going to put in for the solution?
The University of Queensland website has a nice summary [0] if you're in a hurry:

> The University of Texas Hexapro vaccine candidate – delivered via the UQ-developed and Vaxxas-commercialised high-density microarray patch (HD-MAP) – provided protection against COVID-19 disease with a single, pain-free ‘click’ from a pocket-sized applicator.

[0] https://stories.uq.edu.au/news/2021/needle-free-covid-19-vac...
2021 – The Year Windows Became a First Class Python Development Environment
Office politics can be amusing if you’re able to step away from it a bit and don’t care too much about the rat race. It’s immediately obvious who are the folks genuinely interested in building value and who are drones interpreting what their managers order them to do.
There are many ways to store energy to suit different scenarios. Gravity with weights or pumped water, flywheels, lithium ion or other types of batteries, heated fluids, to name a few.

You’re not informing anyone of something they don’t already know when you say solar and wind are intermittent.

Solar and wind should be thought of as paired with storage.
> With crypto, the ability to reverse a transaction disappears and with that the ability to protect consumers. Now who do you think will thrive in a world where a consumer has no protection?

For thousands of years humans have transacted with physical currency, in which transactions cannot be "reversed" once the payment is made. Even today, many people pay and transact with cash. Second-layer financial institutions provide holds, reversals, and chargebacks but they are by no means necessary for a robust financial system.

Too many times "protecting consumers" turns into "censoring transactions we don't like" and "restricting your financial freedom to maintain our brand image." (Case in point - sex work payments, even in countries where it is legal, can not be processed by any of the major payment processors. Brand image and all.)

Not to mention the privacy concerns that come with a central authority knowing all of your transactions - no thanks, I think I and many others would prefer an electronic cash-equivalent over PayPal.
I honestly think they feel like they are like any other employees and hardly remember on day to day basis that nobody else around them shares the same incentive to work.

Sure, they know it, but also I think it’s pretty human to take your everyday life for granted. After all, it’s the foundation of political disagreement.
This is really subjective. I dislike water cooler talk. I dislike overhearing conversations. I dislike people interrupting me with something that could have been a message.

This year WFH have been a significant mental health improvement. I am more social outside of work and I am more productive during work.
I'm glad others are shocked by that $60/day on food. I would say food takes up the largest percentage of my expenses and $60 is easily 5 days worth of food for two.
> Prosus, one of Europe’s most valuable tech companies, is best known as the largest shareholder in Chinese internet and videogaming giant Tencent Holdings Ltd. Listed in Amsterdam, Prosus signaled its appetite for deal making when it sold a small portion of its equity stake in Tencent in April for $14.6 billion. The Stack Overflow deal ranks among Prosus’ biggest acquisitions.

Not sure this was properly vetted.

Call me tinfoil Thursday, but this sounds off.
Is it your hobby/part time job to defend China and dump on the USA? Just curious, looking back through your comment history and all.
7th on DDG for me.
Oh yeah, if you don't have enough karma to upvote then I totally agree (especially if you've put in the effort). I was assuming that you had upvote privileges.
I think the cat is out of the bag with WFH, and it will evolve toward what works for workers and what management can tolerate. As usual a lot will depend on how indispensable you are.

It's never that simple, as you had hoped.
>Well, it's also fair to say your comment is designed to cast doubt on the article's claim, despite the fact that you have no proof whatsoever to the contrary.

I have proof that they have not printed any evidence for their statement in this article. It's your decision whether you believe they should be trusted without evidence, I personally don't think so.

>Did they say it was the only evidence they had to tie the incident to China linked hackers, or was that one thing they were willing to share?

They also found a supposed job listing with tenuous links as well, I linked it elsewhere. I have no clue if they have better evidence.
A significant problem with the policy is that once people know about it they're more reluctant to apply for jobs at Amazon. That leads to missing out on some good hires.
Fwiw you can use `npm install -g` if you configure NPM to use your homedir for globally installed packages, as well. It's just not the default behavior.
Yeah, Haveno is a WIP fork of Bisq for Monero that doesn't require BTC as a middleman and will have a much better UI/UX for newbies. Bisq doesn't even work on my M1 Mac, and the interface is kind of a nightmare.
You can use a 15 minute break to be with family if you WFH. You can't use a 15 minute break to be with your family and complete a >15 minute round trip.

If you believe being in the office is required, fine, but if that's your criteria for what a "very high dedication" employee is then you'll need to pay more remuneration(or offer other perks) than a business that requires the same skill set and dedication without requiring the employees to be in the office.
It was posted on the comp.risks Usenet group. comp.risks is a forum & newsletter established in the 1980s for the discussions of the potential risks of computer technology failures in society, e.g. software bugs in critical infrastructure. Back when the Internet was small, it was a very popular group for anyone interested in infosec and frequently read by many sysadmins and programmers. In a sense, the audience is somewhat similar to today's Hacker News readers.

It's an interesting observation that many hypothetical issues discussed by the members back then (e.g. people get wrongful convicted of crimes due to a software bug) has become a reality.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RISKS_Digest
For me it's the "<Company I never heard of> is buying <Business I believed to be successful> for $<N>bn" type of headlines that seems to be on the rise.
Having written a shell namespace extension, I now use the concept as a great example of making the wrong abstraction interestingly enough. Shell namespaces are a odd win32 concept rather than a filesystem concept and cause a lot of headaches (read support calls) when people see that they work in explorer, but not from arbitrary applications depending on how they use the underlying APIs. If you're trying to abstract the filesystem with pluggable components... abstract _the filesystem_ with pluggable components.

It'd be interesting to now what lead to the architectural decision of wear to cut that abstraction. It feels like a Microsoft team balkanization issue (the explorer team and POs being different from the NT kernel ones, I assume?), but it's near impossible to know without inside knowledge.
After all this metric stuff, I’m much more in line with the idea of embracing the difficulty of assessment. What are the exact metrics I need to get promoted? There are none. I have heuristics for when it’s beneficial to reward an employee and increase their influence. Even I don’t fully understand them. Here’s some vague hints. Meet those, and you’ll be promoted.

At least it’s honest.
"Gender inclusivity" at tech companies is really a completely different axis than "motherhood or fatherhood friendly". "Parent" is not a protected class (at least, not on Twitter), and it's really not the goal of any FAANG company to encourage their workers to have families. It requires much harder tradeoffs than being "gender diverse".
> IIRC (correct me if I'm wrong) the other benefit of molten salt cores is that they are self regulating

The feature is called a negative temperature coefficient of reactivity. Most (all?) water-moderated cores have this feature.

> Therefore things like catastrophic meltdowns are not really a huge issue and cooling is much less of a touchy endeavor.

Meltdowns such as in Fukushima and Three Mile Island are a result of reactor decay heat. In both cases, the fission has already stopped, but the shortest-lived fission products are generating enough heat to cause a problem. Pretty much every Gen-IV concept reactor has provided for passive decay heat removal as well.
just do a PWA
Oh my god you are so right. It’s somewhat unfathomable that companies were able to see that remote work actually works and yet insist on going back even for people for whom wfh is essential to their well being.
Plant AI: A Hackathon Project
Animal and human testing just like virtually every other biological scientific endeavor. We also have gotten pretty good at detecting chemicals that would cause such issues. I guess I'm just throwing that out there.
It's a Facebook group and it's in Italian, so I'm not sure it'll be interesting to you, but look for "erbe spontanee mangerecce".
He was a guest on the 'Singal Minded' [0] podcast a while back as well and talked about his research.

[0] https://singalmindedconvos.fireside.fm/7 I use the RSS feed but that's the link to the exact episode
> Centering with Flexbox requires styling the parent and they use two different properties for horizontal and vertical centering

It does require styling the container, to specify that a new layout system (Flex or Grid) is to be used instead of the default. While it's useful to have separate properties for the two directions, you can also use a single shorthand property to set both at once:

.container {
display: flex;
place-content: center;
}

Alternately, use only Grid on the parent and place-self on the child.

.container {
display: grid;
}

.child {
place-self: center;
}
malloc didn't break JPGLoader. The code was already broken, malloc just exposed the bug
This is my theory as well. But do remember there is more friction with getting them to install the app. Depending on your target audience, there could be issues with them installing software without getting it approved by security teams, etc.
TLDR: it's a vehicle for companies who want to go public without going through traditional routes like an IPO
I really wish for reform in regulation, so that quality and dosage of over the counter supplements could be trusted. I haven't heard of any groundswell of support for that, though. People say that it's a problem with cannabis supplements too.
The people who enjoy the camaraderie of the office, signing birthday cards, gossiping by the water cooler and talking about their 10K run for charity never struck me as the smartest people. It always struck me as a ridiculous waste of time.
Except for the whole expansion phase thing that comes along with it.
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The amount that people go on about how WFH is saving them from their commute... Really goes to show how badly so many cities are designed that these sort of massive commutes are an ordeal required by so many

It'd be nice if an outcome of this pandemic is a political change toward ending absurd commutes by building cities better, but doesn't really seem like people are putting two and two together
Well you'll never satisfy climate apocalypse watchers. We've made real progress if you look at amounts of money and resources spent, but it will never be fast enough for them.
A while ago there was a thread asking for experiences for people who regret using Elixir. One of the most popular answers was that Erlang is now kind of obsolete because all the things it offers are now available with technologies like Kubernetes and other things.

The thing is however, with Erlang you get all of that in a pretty easy to learn language and it will scale to practically anything. Erlang is also an incredibly productive language. You can get a whole lot of things done in a short amount of time.
> The language grew and evolved and somewhere along the line acquired a name, Erlang, named in honor of the Danish mathematician Agner Krarup Erlang (1878- 1929) whose name is associated with the telecoms industry.

Huh, I always assumed it was a portmanteau of Erricsson and Language.
> "Lord of the Flies came out of the fantasy of an English superintendent."

One would think that a schoolmaster would have excellent insight into the behavior of children and young adults.

In any case, a quick look at the commonness of bullying (e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_suicides_that_have_bee...) should quickly persuade anyone that Lord of the Flies, despite being fiction, is not all that unrealistic.
They also bitterly protest that windmills permanently defile Wyoming’s natural beauty.
Of course they can't. Nuclear is about the only viable way currently, but "greenies" won't have that. I think eventually they'll have to accept it as well the climate skeptics. I certainly hope solar comes up from the rear and surprises me, but unless we have a 100x breakthrough in energy storage (batteries or something more exotic) I don't see it happening. I guess a break through in solar->biofuel energy conversion might also be sufficient for it to replace fossil fuels completely.
As also pointed out in the thread yesterday, that comment about Bar Raisers was nonsense. The fact is that HMs do have the final say in most cases. It is very easy to “game the system” and get candidates past the hiring loop, BR or not.

Plus, the entire argument that “there’s a bar raiser involved” is irrelevant to the point. Hire-and-fire doesn’t mean that HMs are trying to sneak unqualified candidates through the process. What it means is that HMs will take even qualified candidates, which pass the BR with no problem, and set them up for failure and firing.
Yeah agreed. My comment was tongue in cheek copying a comment from the Depop sale thread on HN yesterday.
The fall of Shervadnadze, the Rose Revolution and pro-NATO Sakaashvili's rise to power was precipitated by west.

That all happened before the Russian/Georgian war. It followed a similar pattern to many other post Soviet Republics as well as a lot of Latin America.

Russia will leave Ukraine alone if there is somebody friendly to them in power. If not then probably not.
I liked SO because it was a refreshing change from the php based bulletin boards.

However, I do miss hanging out on Ubuntu forums(in fact all *nix forms for that matter).

People were always always ready to help no matter how big or small the question. Someone always came along and showed me the right way to setup the printer.
Eventually someone has to do the lowly business of actually implementing the value that those 10x ninja fullstack super senior software architects just created. God bless the drones.
I have good friends, but I don't have family.
About six months into the pandemic I started having severe panic attacks.
Since we've been back in the office part time, my mental health has improved dramatically.

Point being that working with good people can be a healthy part of a social life, and saying the people who rely on that have personal issues seems... well, privileged.

There is value in having a team working closely with each other, and enjoying that doesn't mean you're broken.
The key part there is "buying prepared food". 60 per day is much more reasonable if you eat out or get takeout/delivery every meal.
I think they have connections/lawyers that could help sue for civil rights violations.

Also, if the police are doing something sketchy to one person, then it is probably not the only instance, and an organization like the LDF could pursue the broader issue.

By analogy, if a corporation steals $20 from you, it may not be worth personally crusading for it back, but if you tell the right person about it, they might file a class action.
J/w, have you ever packaged software for other distros? If yes, what made Nix more difficult here? If no, have you tried asking for help packaging TidalCycles on Matrix or Discourse?

I'm wondering whether that's some especially oddly-behaved software, or if what's lacking here is some onboarding (that maybe can solved for you with a little community engagement or something).
about two years ago Amazon’s Sphere had a corpse flower bloom for view, there was a huge line outside at 11pm and some local university researchers cut it to take the pollen etc because it is so rare.

https://www.geekwire.com/2018/crowds-pack-amazon-spheres-whi...
Where do you work that they care if your shirt has a collar?
Missing rep could be explained by the daily reputation limit of 200. Many upvotes on the same day when the questions get linked from news articles and discussions like this, only will count until daily cap is hit.
Sorry; but no. This weird virtual interaction is nowhere close to the real social environment of seeing and working with people face to face.

We shouldn’t be forced to come in; but I for one would freakin’ love the option.

This is a primary cause of concern for kids at school; that the social aspect is missing in that way.

Nowhere close, really.
I’m curious about if Amazon HR/recruiting cares about their poor reputation on here and places like Blind. Do they worry about it?
You have some strong anecdotes there but I'd like to see some stats from this previous year and see if there was actually a drop, an increase, or relatively neutral change in productivity/sanity amongst those who worked from home.
A corn monoculture is not a valuable biome. Otoh, a pesticide free meadow under a PV array that is "mown" by a couple of sheep can be a valuable biome.
I wonder if there actually is a possibility of something like that in human genome. Are there any known bugs that can be introduced to human genome and instantly kill a human after, e.g. 18 years of normal operation?
Ah. While my company does have a semi-daily "30 minute meetup" on "random topic of the day", that's not how I chat socially with coworkers. We have a few channels that are just "shoot the shit" channels. I us those to discuss random topics. And there's several private channels for the occasional need to rant. Overall, not all that different from the water cooler.
To parse it, you need to check the keys. If there can’t be other keys, you can just use an array which is stable on JSON and you can save on keys.

So you just have an array of arrays. Or even a huge array and every X elements, it’s a new record.

If each one has 2 keys,

[
{
key1: ‘a’,
key2: ‘b’
},
{
key1: ‘a’,
key2: ‘b’
}
]

Can become,

[
[
‘a’,
‘b’
],
[
‘a’,
‘b’
]
]

Or just every 2 will be a new record,

[
‘a’,
‘b’,
‘a’,
‘b’
]
The comment you are referring to was nonsense. Bar raisers are not some magical fairy dust that prevents hire-to-fire, and in practice they are not usually the one who ultimately makes the decision, the HM is.
the one started by the guy who is now the crowm prince of the defunct Joseon dynasty?
I think the intent would be to filter out SEO spam essentially, and get you a small primary-source website. Like searching for "san francisco restaurants" gets you some much more interesting results on MS than on Google.
The Moderna shots seem to be far more overkill than even the Pfizer ones. 100 micrograms of mRNA vs 30 in the Pfizer. Both are probably more than necessary but they had one shot to nail it and they went all in on the first try. Likely related, myself and everybody I know had far worse side effects from the Moderna shots than the people I know who received the Pfizer ones.
You didn’t have to say it.