skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Companies are the most rational and levelheaded of God's creations, and so could never engage in any activity so at odds with their raison d'etre, like wasting budget on useless endeavors. Why, with all the well-trained MBAs filling out the bureaucrat ranks these days, I'm sure business has never been more efficient!
I doubt they will because then the EU would surely retaliate which would mean Russian airlines lose access to the EU.
Seems reasonable. Maasvlakte is a comparable project: an artificial island (20 km2 while this island is "only" 2.8km2) outside Rotterdam harbor and it was built over 25 years (1974-1997)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maasvlakte
(Dutch wiki has much more info:
https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maasvlakte
)

Another comparable project is the new Strandeiland in Amsterdam

https://www.amsterdam.nl/projecten/ijburg/deelprojecten-ijbu...

1.5km2, started this year, fully complete in 2040. But it's built in shallow, tide-less Ijsemeer not in the sea so it's a lot easier

EDIT; the Dutch out of necessity have plans for up to 2200:
https://www.delta.tudelft.nl/article/keep-our-feet-dry-new-n...
“One day with a sigh of relief we will give up this country to the waves.”
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It is funny how everybody knows what Russia wants and what is the "Putin's secret plan".
In common sense, u just need to put a function into map, right ?

x.map(fn)

In python, mapped takes some arguments that makes me confused in order and types of arguments.

Secondly, it broke my thinking process.
No... it is just a nice to have for some large sites. For most HTTP/1.1 is still good enough
Let’s not forget that womxn is actually allegedly transphobic, as Twitch learned the hard way recently.
Should VCs be held legally liable for data breach in funded companies
Shouldn't VCs be required to perform necessary due diligence to ensure that companies they are funding have implemented security safeguards at par with the best available in the world? A startup, driven by the desire to grow, will often cut corners. It is VC money which enables such startups to scale. Scale more often than not means more users, more data. Therefore, the extent of damage in the event of a breach is also indirectly being fuelled by VCs. Shouldn't VCs be held accountable? Shouldn't they be forced to strengthen their due diligence process?
Why do they need so many electricians? Is the UFO building sinking?
This makes me think of the loop quantum gravity hypothesis. It's sad that we probably won't find the answer in my lifetime.
Yeah, countries are usually unwilling or incapable of turning over their land to another country.

Back in 2016, the Norwegians had an idea to gift Finland a new highest peak by shifting the border between Finland and Norway just a bit as Finland was due to celebrate its 100th year of independence. However, it never actually went anywhere since it'd be unconstitutional for Norway to start splitting off its country.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-37662811
But you don't have to do things 'as soon as' they're 'possible'. It does have meaning.
This person has very strong opinions on a protocol of which they profess little knowledge.

They seem to think that HTTP/3 somehow 'handles' the fallback to TLS/TCP. When in reality the browser will fallback to an older HTTP protocol over TLS/TCP.

Adoption by their corporate network is not in any way important to the success of HTTP/3, in reality mobiles are the primary target market.
This isnt a good political argument for Fauci though, because the next question from a reporter would be something like:

> “So you are saying that the organisation you lead helped fund a lab that caused a pandemic, but that funding was without your oversight because you thought it wasn’t important/big enough for you to look at? Are you going to resign?”

Note, I don’t believe the above is a fair question, but Fauci has to be careful to not set himself up for a gotcha.
The movie was made before he knew it was the one that would be locked away.

100 Years is apparently a short film, Rodriguez having stated in a 2019 interview with French YouTuber InThePanda: "I was making several short films for them, and I finished that one first, we shot that one first, I thought that was gonna be a commercial or something. And then I showed them the movie and they said 'Yeah, that's great, that's great. That's the one we lock away.' And I said 'What? That's the one you lock away? What about the other one with the future--' 'No, that's the commercial.' [...] The one that I was most attached to was the one they locked away."
> if sounds have color to you, then high sounds are almost certain to be brighter than low ones.

Weird, I’d have thought brightness would map to volume and colour to pitch somehow.
The reason they require so much collateral is because the value of the collateral is highly correlated with the value of the investment, since both the investment and the collateral are in the form of crypto-assets, and crypto-asset prices tend to move together. This means, in the event of a crash in the crypto market, the probability of incurring losses from such a loan would not be negligible.

Then there's also foreign exchange risk. The return on these loans is quoted in terms of the currency the debt is denominated in, whereas what the investor cares about is the return of the investment in terms of their local currency. This is the same situation that an investor would face if they decided to buy Argentine bonds, which pay over 20% annually in pesos. The return that they would get in their local currency would likely be much smaller. It could even be negative.
> Talented people are no longer permitted to be assholes because they're too valuable.

How is this connected to politics at the workplace? You don't have to choose between a Steve Jobs-style CEO or a company openly declaring most people quitting have a certain skin color. Those are both not desirable imho, and neither need to be a part of the job.
Dams, skyscrapers, military bases, housing mortgages, bonds, business contracts, commercial leases, land/resource/farm leases.

Lots of things have 50 (or longer) year plans, contracts, payoffs, repayment schedules, and so on.

Here's Austria's recent 100 year bond (paying a comical 0.88%):

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2020-06-24/austri...

The deal on Hong Kong was supposed to be 50 years, with it operating as a SAR.

Modern US aircraft carriers are usually given a ~50 year service life. CVN-79, USS John F. Kennedy, would be planned to operate until roughly 2070. (the prior John F. Kennedy aircraft carrier, CV-67, made it about 40 years, 1967-2007)
To be fair, this is a reasonable assumption based on past experience. The government normally has no shortage of rules - it literally governs us. It's not unreasonable for some people to assume that this is a disorganized or inconsistent rollout rather than a form of social engineering meant to narrow the eligibility guidelines.
I'm Peruvian and married to a Colombian and have never heard of this. On the other hand, right across the Hispanic world it's very common to use @ for gender neutrality: nosotr@s, latin@s, etc.
Do you have a link outlining the details of his approach?
I remember how lax security was at Logan Airport a month before 9/11. I even commented on it to friends and family as I found it quite disturbing.

If cyber security is handled the same lax way with underpaid staff that doesn't give a crap I guess you could compare it to 9/11.
I think you're generalising a bit and end up building an imaginary persona you believe in. Maybe some people think like that. But for example, in my case: I agree with it and I'm not an activist. "You're bad..." is wrong way to look at it. I'm against helping them rather than against taking their money. There are no sins to forgive but if there were, signing a petition is not a way to achieve it.

You presented your idea of the supporter of the quoted opinion and it turns out to be almost the opposite of the supporter you responded to.
This comment came while I was writing my last response but I want to say, thank you this is clarifying and helps a lot.
Having a different interface doesn't mean its broken...
Why does it matter? They owe you the money in the first place. If they’re ill-intentioned they can just refuse to redeem your coins, or require that you send them to a new contract with different rules.

There’s no reason credit instruments should be on a blockchain in the first place, given you’re depending on a central party for redemption.
>> is one of the world's greatest books and its publication changed the world.

What would make it one of the world's greatest books if it's full of made up/fake/pseudohistory stuff?

I, being a non-beliver find all the cult books sickening, especially those that are still used as absolute truth.

While it can showcase quality craftsmanship it's no better than an old and "good" tabacco commercial for kids.
For unreliable networks we do need it. TCP has always performed poorly when there is a lot of packet loss.
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I don't know, if a lot of people believe that their own job shouldn't exist, isn't that an interesting and worthwhile finding in and of itself? Perhaps we question the validity of that belief, but few of us have a large enough circle to even get an inkling of how common this point of view might be.
Long haul flights are still subdued due to COVID which means we can play these games at modest cost. However longer term, I think things will normalize wrt airspace including in Belarus.

That Russia can make 400 m in fees means the fuel cost and cost of longer flights going around Russia is worth more.
Big discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27394925

Microsoft response: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27400774
The iPod never had an app store, an Apple are known to prefer to be in control of the experience. How can you be so sure they were planning an app store all along?
Only three of my seven observations are about the shoppers. Only one of those three isn't a choice: seeming sad, at a much higher rate than at other stores—shit, even Dollar General shoppers don't look as down as Wal-Mart shoppers, though, given the rest of my list, maybe they just look sad because they're at Wal-Mart. Dollar General's fun (for me, dunno about anyone else who's there). Wal-Mart is... exhausting.

Only time I see that much concentrated sadness in a store, that consistently, is when I find myself in a dying-rural-town grocery store that looks like it time-travelled from 1990. I don't remember whether those were sad places when I was growing up, mostly in those same sorts of dying rural towns. Wal-Mart wasn't, and their store function, service, cleanliness, and design all improved constantly through about '05, then abruptly reversed course and haven't stopped going downhill. Dunno what happened. Maybe Amazon happened, though that doesn't explain some of their oddly ill-looking paint color choices from the last couple re-designs.
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> Its oppinon depends on the name of the person boarding the plane.

Is there even one country where that is not so?
What about Yellow? If yes, you could shorted it as RBY which is more familiar to most old genners.
After all that hubbub, turns out it was just a bug in reporting the values and not anything wrong with the SSD? That’s surprising. Will be interesting to see a technical post mortem if one is ever written
I don't think its possible to amend the constitution in such a way as to remove the disproportionate representation of low population states.

Personally I would be happy with making house seats exactly proportionate to actual population and adding one senator for every 5 million residents.

So North Dakota with fewer than 800k people gets 2, Washington State with 7.6M gets 3, California with 39M gets 9. This still gives ND 1 senator per 400k while CA has to settle for one per 4M but this is better than one per 20M.
Why is "independence" a significant attribute? I don't see it as a guarantee of anything that I really care about.

By their very nature, every search engine involves some level of discrimination, discretion and control. There is no alternative. Only one result can be ranked first.
The point is not that the email came up with the idea and they decided it on the spot. But the email show that there was an open discussion, there was a point where they weren't sure.
The fact that the yields are higher for stablecoins simply means borrowers of stable coins are paying more to borrow stablecoins than they would if the borrowed the underlying currency instead. It has nothing to do with middlemens or central banks's interest rates.
Its not that easy to get rid of sticky activists. And it is also not easy to explain "You are not representing my views" without being attacked as either stupid or uninformed. I totally understand that after a few of those experiences, reasonable people just stop to voice their opinions, because the dirt fight is usually not worth it.

I am a member of a minority group (disabled), and I see it very often that activists pull "me" into other activism simply because they are also catering for a minority group. I am expected to support them all, just because I am disabled. This is so weird and patronizing, it killed my remaining sympathy for the left in the last 5 years. I used to vote for the left. Watching the fallout of political activism has made me a non-voter.
This new research was based on what people said about their own jobs though.

>They focused on those respondents who thought that the statement “I have the feeling of doing useful work” applied to them “rarely” or “never”.

In contrast the question Gerber used about a "meaningful contribution to the world" is vague aspirational follow your dreams guff. Who actually makes a world scale impact? You don't have to be Greta Thurnberg to be doing useful work that's valuable to those around you. The implication is if you're not changing the world, you're wasting your life. It's a very heavily loaded way to put the question.
The same criticism applies, a global distributed consensus is fundamentally flawed as a payment system, and the current ad-hoc organically grown mess of different centralised payment systems interoperating is somehow still more suited to processing payments quickly and reliably than ‘crypto’.

Fast transfers, trusted partners, regulation, audits, identity verification, fraud prevention, backing, sound money. All these things are important and valuable, and while our current system is really flawed in some ways (in particular the control of politicians over money supply and the monetisation of debt), cryptocurrencies do not offer a solution to the most pressing problems and introduce too many of their own.
How Normal Am I
Sounds like the parties need each other, then. Could it be that economic links promote peace and stability?
Cook is a logistics genius, he's not a finance person.
Tesla to use face recognition to offer new 'Driver' and 'Passenger' profiles
Ever heard of Flash Loan Attacks?
https://coinmarketcap.com/alexandria/article/what-are-flash-...
> However, several current and former employees told TechCrunch that they believe Medium’s mass exodus is tied more to Williams’ manifesto, dubbed “the culture memo,”

A perspective.

You chose one of several from the article.

These are related controversies. The opposite of unrelated.
"Government, family, and founder owned firms are usually poorly managed, while multinational, dispersed shareholder and private-equity owned firms are typically well managed."

From https://www.researchgate.net/publication/228268927_Managemen...
That depends, maybe the procedure is cheap because it's faster. Dentists would then be able to do it more often and still profit as individuals (higher volume). The ability of customers to save money, though, would result in less overall revenue for dentists as a whole. Hence the organised opposition.
Private equity is synonymous with “customers and employees will suffer” in my mind.

I get really miffed at how our system of economics seems set up to destroy rather than promote the common good.
Maybe the point is that central power is always indirect through manipulation of information and financial incentive, the definition of finance being a centralized accumulation of future benefit. Direct power would be to hold a gun to someone’s head and tell them to do something. But the same power doesn’t go along with an email. The power of that email is complicated because it depends on what specific threats or benefits are promised, and how it is measured, and by whom. So it’s very easy for a system of incentives to directly contradict the command given by a policy. For instance, if I tell everybody to nominate the worst performer on their team, who will be fired by popular vote every week, it won’t be long before they all wise up and start voting in their own best interests, which will either be the top performer, or the least loyal to themselves, which would be the new hire, which is exactly what this article is about. The lowest performer, however, is the most loyal, and the strongest political player. Now imagine that they vote for the best performer to become their boss. The most loyal person is getting elected for that role.
Entirely likely, though possibly there are potentially flaws that could allow people to identify it through other means.

I've never used TOR so I didn't realise that this would apply (and it makes perfect sense it would work that way).

It may be that whoever requested the data knows as little about it as I do (or more likely, they know a lot more about what they want and my speculation is completely wrong).
This is the reason why I have to stay away from hackintosh with their modified kexts.

And have to stay away from pirated games.

A compiled executable from a trustworthy vendor gets a score of 1/65 on virustotal? Well, I guess you are running in a sandbox..

A legit library has enormous number of lines? Well I’m rolling my own (except for crypto, noone should roll their own)

I just cannot take the risk anymore.
In Commandos 2 we stored the huge map images in YCbCr 420 in memory, and converted to RGB during rendering via lookup tables rather than shaders (this was back in 1999, all CPU!). We compressed the range of each component below 8 bits, running a histogram so our bits represented values inside the range actually present in the original image. We got it down to 6 bits per pixel or something close to that.

Converting via lookup tables, one for each component, made it very cheap to perform palette-style tricks like tonemapping and smooth color shifts from day to night.

[Edit: it may have actually been CIE Lab, not YUV/YCbCr, because the a&b tended to have narrower ranges. It's been too long!]
My personal opinion would prefer to improve those networks vs going UDP for http(s). Until spoofing, amplification attacks on UDP are properly tackled and not causing most internet outages, I'm not really looking forward to a UDP web (http/3)
That's fair enough and indeed quite plausible. I guess the same kind of argument would apply to the likes of Huawei them, too?
https://archive.is/p2XY1
You almost got there.

What makes a language powerful is the ability to put essential semantics into a library where they can be got right once, so all users of the library benefit. It is worth design, implementation, testing, optimization effort if the results can be delivered over and over, in many different contexts, reliably.

Destructors are the necessary ingredient to pull transaction semantics into libraries. Without, you are left to write comments explaining users' responsibilities, and users have to read and act on them perfectly, or be wrong. With, you can code them correctly once and users have no opportunity or temptation to get them wrong.
He wrote a book called "Bullshit Jobs", the rhetorical trick is to pretend to disown the role his own opinion is playing.

It's essentially the same type of technique socrates used: "of course, well all know nothing, but let me tell you what we all don't know..."
they dont hire full time though, and hours can vary dramatically per week. if you get 12 hours one week and 32 the next, that $15 an hour doesn't help that much. The big problem is we dont do full time work in most retail positions any more apart from the manager and maybe keyholders.
> Then they use the false justification to trick low-intelligence people into believing it's actually justified.

I don't agree with this. Anyone who has been following politics has noticed the growth in the left's base, mainly from the college educated. A lot of these activists seem to be motivated by the (ironically) paternalistic notion that they know better than the groups they advocate for.
I bet everyone in tech who has been around for a while has been in enough of _those_ meetings to be able to at least relate to what a bullshit job it.

Most probably have also seen the type of manager that is less concerned with the work people underneath them do (because they don't understand or care) and more with the prestige, making sure people stay there, even if they contribute nothing - either because they can't or wouldn't. Worse, eventually the former turn into the later with enough time to resign to the situation.
Of course it is bullshit. As if a capitalist society would produce so much truly wasted effort. The people who think their job is bullshit just don’t have the perspective to understand how it fits into the broader scheme of things.

It’s idealistic hokum.
Yep. Many years ago I was a junior at an engineering consultancy that specialised in noise & vibration. I spent many a happy hour out in the sun replacing melted loudspeakers that were being used to feed 'anti noise' into the exhaust ports of a pair of RB211 jet engines. The engines were ground mounted vertically to introduce pressure into the gas network should an emergency loss arise. This was rural Cheshire (UK) and some of the local properties were very old and expensive and needed protection from the vibrations these things produced. In reality they were never used but they were tested twice a year, for a total of about 2 minutes. After that the speakers (yep lots of hi-fi cones) were mush. They did their job though. And I got to travel up to Cheshire, see my then girlfriend who lived in Manchester and spend a week up on a roof in the sunshine replacing them.
Actually, what I've described is called "shorting".

In defi it's never the nominal value, but the current value, so it would be very clear that your collateral would unlikely be liquidated. You can also use something like USDC for the collateral for even more safety. (I think you can already see some evidence of this strategy since the interest rates for USDT are always higher)

The scenario where all the collateral would be liquidated would be if Tether broke its peg and went up. That would be a disaster. (Also called a "short squeeze")
Somehow I went all of the aughts and half of the 2010s without noticing

That makes me feel a lot better about the viability of any of this

Can I ignore it if I stop noticing and caring about politics and modern inclusitivity pushes?

I have my doubts but I’m willing to try! Its just other people shoving it in my face that I don't get to inherit American dreams because I’m not a cis white male and keep reminding me, not that I would want to be. Any accomplishment I have must be broadcast! Any setback must be broadcast as well! Doesn't feel like privilege. I dont want to be a role model I just want to blend in and make money and enjoy the same vices as everyone else.
You can't make inflammatory generalizations about ethnic groups on HN.

Also, "Have you people ever met a Jew" followed by weird grievances and generalizations is enough over the line that I'm banning this account. We don't need this here—as evidenced by the flamewar that it started.
Who are you going to believe, The Economist or your lying eyes?