skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> they won’t unionize no matter how many times I insist they do

Wow ... I would think if management is convinced it would make life better for the workers, management could make the case, bring in the organizers and get it done. There are definitely some ripe topics: H1Bs as you mention; age discrimination for sure; wage fixing. Of course the labor-friendly status quo disincentivizes "job security" but I'm sure you agree that's not the only or even primary reason for a union.

I'm not trying to imply it's simple or easy -- I'm pro-labor, a founder, and a dev, and I'm _very_ confused about what unions mean for us and would like to build a cohesive narrative.
Make the distance between the pitching mound and home plate inversely correlated to the prior weeks batting average (with the goal of trying to reach .33)
Another one for http://microservices.fail/

There are so many developers who think microservices are the answer to every ill in the world it is infuriating. It’s like one of those ‘nosql is webscale we should use it’ conversions.
This is utopia. Human beings are competitive and social, and to achieve your goals you need more than professionals sometimes- you need friends.
Guys, I was in a dark place when I saw this but the ray of sunshine this article sparked I'm feeling better than ever about the human Race!!!!!
Do you mean it's basically impossible to precisely calculate? If so, yes. But I believe (and many smart folks who have made a lot of money doing so also believe) it's possible to accurately give a range. Like, company X is worth between $900 million and $1.1 billion.
> Excel, Tableau, etc so much easier and most of what you need to do visualizations in the corporate setting.

D3 is the best way to make visualizations online. Yes, it requires learning the library and building things from scratch, but it's light years better than the dog shit modules Tableau offers.
The relationship aspect is also an important feature of psychosis in paranoid schizophrenia.

I think it’s possible we, as a social species, just have an elaborate model of other people and things in our brain which gets mixed up with the experience of self under certain conditions and the brain is coming up with unifying explanations trying to achieve homeostasis under the influence.
Isn't it better if companies try to innovate and come up with products that can stand up on their own? Ie the goal should be to not exit in the first place.
It's odd that the league doesn't have a rule where one coach can require the ump to do an 'equipment check' for whatever on any player. After the ball is caught by the catcher, the Ump can be required to check the ball. If it's sticky, the pitcher is out and the batter walks. Then they figure out what to do with the cheater.

And the coach can do this twice a game or something like that.
I work with a lot of tape in the oil and gas sector and one of the major issues we see is that industry wide file formats for data exchange are still based on old tapes. These formats have fixed block sizes that haven't changed since the 1950's. Modern tapes have exponentially larger capacities and bandwidth but due to the use of these file formats we rarely see 20% of the theoretical throughput on a brand new tape drive and cartridge. The industry has no desire to change the file format so we are stuck in this situation where tape read/write times grow exponentially with every new tape generation.
I suggest learning more about what the word dharmic actually means. It seems clear to me that you are using some non-standard interpretation of its meaning.
There is a valid place for a figure who's a "spokesperson" for the country though.

When there's a national disaster and we need someone to put on TV to provide calming words, when we want to organize charitable efforts, or send someone on tours to represent our interests, it's great to have a figure who can be brought out as a single trusted, respectable voice for the nation.

This person, almost by nature, cannot be an elected official. The moment you drag a PM or President-- ANY PM or President-- into the role, you're going to have 40% of the population ignoring the message because of toxic political divisiveness. You've also got the factor that many of them are short-term players-- if you were a real-estate developer until 5 years ago, you don't necessarily develop the same people skills and self-presentation.

In a way, having it be some sort of hereditary position works, because it's such a delicate job that you want a clear pipeline of people who can be developed for the job, trained for life, and kept "on call" for their turn.

Now, you could argue there's a way to get this sort of service with better value for money, perhaps bringing in a similar role with some more republican-friendly title instead of an allusion to an old absolute monarchy, but I can see the value a figurehead monarch can provide.

Elizabeth II has done, by any possible measure, a spectacular job in the spokesperson role for the country. Even the most ardent republicans generally don't dislike her on a personal level, and you can send her anywhere and be sure she won't cause an international incident.
Things are getting really weird.

Consider these stories that have been recently spun:

- Origins of Covid. For a while, it was 'settled' that a lab leak was totally a wacky conspiracy. Somehow the science has become unsettled, though.

- It seems there really was a laptop owned by a major politial candidate's son. (And it seems to have have contained some conversations that reveal same son likes to use the n-word)

- It turns out the story about why people were tear-gassed out of a park was totally false. This was a major news headline during a hot political campaign.

We are being lied to!

No matter how you like to vote, you should favor honest news and legitimate science. YouTube shutting down dissenting PhDs and MDs seems like it's not a good thing.
‘Cancel Culture’: Where Some See Calls for Accountability, Others See Censorship
Unfortunately, GalliumOS / Generic Linux doesn't work on many newer Chromebooks due to not supporting the CR50 EC. My Apollo Lake (circa 2017) Chromebook, for example, doesnt work.
because people have families, and parents can't just bounce on their children?
That's true from the perspective of users, but not content creators. 3Blue1Brown can't put videos on Netflix or Disney+, and I don't think Twitch would work. It's the content creators that are cornered YouTube's effective monopoly on serving user-uploaded videos with ads.
The next mIRC release adds Libera.Chat to the default. It's already out in beta.

https://forums.mirc.com/ubbthreads.php/topics/265827/mirc-be...
Even that is only true if you're coming from a system where branch, tag, and checkout mean something else.
The first portion of the audio (comprising all I heard) is just some guy kvetching about Alexa to a clueless but still pompous interviewer. As for "biometrics", per sei, it seems to be a marginally small addition to all the other information channels that are available to the surveillance industry. Not momentous in and of itself, and the concern seems to stem from questionable categorical distinctions (e.g. what you say vs. how you say it; wrong for others to consider the latter, not the former). And, regarding phrenology: its previous incarnation was discredited as a pseudoscience on the basis of its vagueness and potential inaccuracy. Now that it can be implemented using deep learning, its predictions' accuracy quantified and vetted empirically, that criticism no longer applies.
Very insightful comment on the data rate, if you can't feed the LTO properly, it may be stopping and starting all the time, which could have a detrimental effect to its mechanism. But this is probably easily fixed by spooling (using bacula terminology). You buffer like 100Gbytes, write them in one batch. Plus, some drives support variable speeds.

Also, in addition to SAS, a fibre channel card would also fit the bill, albeit probably a trifle more expensive. But if you go for low speeds (e.g. 8Gbps), those cards can be less than 100$.
Yes, exactly! Accurate or not, its completely unfair to generalize about people in relation to anything nontrivial.
Is AI the start of the truly creative human?
I was answering to “you should be happy you’re getting anything at all”. That’s not a healthy perspective for anyone.
https://archive.is/hdCjz
I remember being 15 or 16 and an older adult friend in my computer club describing LSD to me: "You know when you turn on your computer and the cartridge isn't in right or you have some fault on the PCB bridging some lines on the data or address bus to the video chip? Something like that... LSD is like opening the case of your Commodore 64 and dropping in some loose metal screws..."

I feel like the analogy holds, at least for simple computers like that where the machine still runs, but with weird alterations. You can look at the patterns that the chip is generating and ... see something [for me never particularly visual, more philosophical]. But it's really just throwing things... off. There's something to learn there, I guess, but I never thought it was terribly metaphysical.

More just evidence that our experience is always mediated, and a sensory change [internal senses as well], a change in texture of mood and thought, and not a very functional one.
Another factor is that Sony became content holder by buying Columbia
> vanishing New York

RIP Eisenberg's, Autumn Bowl skate sessions, circa 07 hidden Williamsburg warehouse waterfront skyline viewing spot, the old Chinatown Fair, and countless others.
I love how that's an obvious option for everyone else too! /s
I completely agree. I never understood the argument of docs getting out of sync. If an organization prioritizes documentation then the comments are just as likely to stay in sync as the variables.
Good points. Scale and centralization make the world of Facebook et. al. a much thornier problem. They've become Too Big To Fail™, with all that entails. Not to mention antitrust issues, but that's a digression in itself.

I see some hope in federated systems, and, for that matter, old-school forums that have survived. Usenet still sputters along, but it's not what it was before spammers ruined it.
Living here in SF Bay Area, I genuinely long for life in Boston, Hartford, New York, Princeton, Philadelphia, DC, etc on the north-eastern coast of US. There is sort of an old charm, hardened and battered aesthetic of these cities, withered through decades of solemn autumns and tough winters, the people and their straightforwardness, their ethic and resilience. New York accent is so cool. It's different on this side of the country with different challenges, wildfires/droughts to hollywood culture of LA, Seattle's wierdness and SF Bay's crunch and haste, impeccable sunny weather of California and the gorgeous National Parks of the west. I am sure, I will miss it if I move to east coast.
The ancient Greeks had olympic athletes compete nude as a check against cheating.
Right, so Bitcoin failed in its original purpose then no?
Animals in the wild die in ways that are orders of magnitude more gruesome than what occurs in a slaughterhouse.
Fun cookie dark pattern:

> I accept all cookies

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Basically in proof of work you have no idea who is participating at any moment. For example, the NSA could be running a blockchain in parallel and if they have more power create a fork. With proof of stake you are always aware of the participants in the system and a fork will only happen it the richest decide to fork. But why would they? In Bitcoin the most powerful miner might have no bitcoin and no incentive to keep the network safe.

At the same time, because of this, you don’t really get finality in Bitcoin. You get some assurance that your transaction is “confirmed” after a number of block but you’re never really sure. In proof of stake you can have consensus protocols with true finality, meaning that there’ll be no forks for sure if a threshold of participants remained honest.
Not just the Algorithm. Each major company has a family-xxx studio for their content. They have significant production value & popular performers, which feeds the optimization cycle. God only know's what societal effect it has when you fetish step children like that at scale.
Also good to know: pretty much all early switch games, even first party ones, ship with debug symbols!

If you're looking for a chance to get into aarch64 or are curious enough, having a peek at the 1.0 versions of Splatoon 2 or Breath of the Wild is well worth it.
Me too. I'm very disappointed :/.
Even force pushing is not really a problem. If you don't want to keep every typo and braindead approach in history, force push is a required tool.

Naturally things go wrong occasionally, but garbage collection is not run often. You only need to know the SHA-1 and you can fetch "lost" commits again.

Old SHA-1s can be found in reflog. We also have all pushes automatically announced all in chat, so you can look up previously pushed SHA-1s in chat history (we use gitlab and zulip and those support it out of the box).

Of course you still need a mental model how git history (including history rewriting) works, othwerwise you cannot understand what exactly went wrong. And without knowing what went wrong fixing it gets awkward trial and error, which unfortunately many less experienced git users seem to do.
There's no reputable source. It's widely stated without more evidence than pictures of lumber yards by the QAnon-adjacent.
I don't know how unique the ideas that people put out in these conversations end up being
Everyone seems to say it's been going on forever. Why such a big issue now all of a sudden? Is this something that has only come to light due to ultra-high-def cameras and super-slow-mo that can actually measure spin rate and other minute details that was impossible to observe previously?
Silicon Valley on HBO. Fabulously unrealistic, but some characters are uncomfortably believable.
The other advantage of tape is that ransomware shouldn't be able to encrypt your backups (if written in append mode).
I'm toying with the idea of getting a chromebook for my day job (software development). I already use the vscode ssh [1] plugin, so that my IDE runs on a remote server which has been a great experience. For Jupyter notebook type tasks, Google's collab sheets [2] run on a remote server (there's a bit to be desired of course). I even use Genymotion in the cloud [3] such that my android APKs are run on the cloud and rendered through a browser emulator. At this point I'm 85% of the way there, and can't wait for the day where no serious computation needs to be done locally.

[1] https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/remote/ssh
[2] https://colab.research.google.com/?utm_source=scs-index
[3] https://cloud.geny.io/
"The lowest-level x86 interrupt dispatch code is written in assembly language and C. Once this code has done its job, it invokes the kernel, which runtime system and garbage collector are written in Sing# (an extended version of Spec#, itself an extension of C#) and runs in unprotected mode. The hardware abstraction layer is written in C++ and runs in protected mode."

The point is that drivers and apps are managed code and can be software isolated, obviously some of the kernel is unsafe.

CAS was fined grain runtime model that added significant overhead and was never close to being verified, software isolation was coarse grained just like a hardware process and had much less overhead with the goal of verification, more here:

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/wp-content/uploads/...
There was a disinformation campaign against Hydroxychloroquine. In the failed JAMA study, they administered a nearly toxic dose at late stage patients (when there's no viral replication). This is now being investigated.

https://www.moneytimes.com.br/heinze-pede-a-pf-que-investigu... (in Portuguese)

See for example this peer-reviewed study of 29K patients, showing 73% reduction in death.

https://c19hcq.com/mokhtari.html

That said, Ivermectin is superior in almost every way, so you won't find too many people advocating for HCQ now.
I changed jobs recently, though not because the old one was going to make me come back to the office. I've never seen such a frothy job market, I had multiple offers for fully remote roles with a 20%+ raise.

I'm a data engineer in the Midwest with just under a decade of experience. All these companies seem to be hiring plenty of other roles and levels of seniority as well.
i think most of the highly paid COBOL devs are a myth. I looked into this a while ago and after talking to some people I got the impression that these jobs don't pay well at all. This may be the reason why nobody wants to do it. I bet otherwise they would have no problem finding plenty of people who are OK with making 250k in Cincinnati.
I think the suggestion there would be to find someone who is willing to maintain the extension when upstream does a new release.
Stop using X86 chips. I kid, but encouraging more efficient server architecture is surely meaningfully beneficial and will only prove moreso in the near future. Also: don't buy coins.
Kneecap the competition.
It’s the same for Bitcoin btw. The government can just forbid any VASP to accept bitcoin and to authorize on/off ramp and trades involving bitcoin. ISPs could also block miners and bitcoin websites. The coin is censorship resistant… to a certain extent. Maybe there’ll always be someone running it, and there’ll be a black market for on/off ramp, but it will severely cripple the adoption.
But Sony media group earn much money so they contributes Sony conglomerate's stability including electrics department. Mixed feelings.
You seem to have the writing chops to be a great documentation writer. What is holding you back?
Ubuntu doesn't ship with Gnome 40.
Sound like filecoin or chia.
This is an excellent observation.
I'm both confused and impressed by this... really can't think of a use case other than mentioned in previous comment about parsing out code from an image copied from somewhere, which is rare. Maybe pitch to some VC's, they might put in a couple millions just in case this is a hidden unicorn or something...
What is the ratio of Internet startups in total vs. the ratio of the ones that had multi-billion dollar exits?

I will grant you that I did not say "hard work" in my original post and should have. You are right, they worked hard. That was my bad.

And again their hard work and success is _not_ diminished by the fact that they were extremely lucky, but plenty of people work just as hard if not harder and do not find the success that the Twitch founders did. So I 100% disagree that the hard work plays a bigger role than the luck.

If it was more about the hard work, then everyone could get rich, and we know that's just not true.

I know it's not a great part of the "I made it" narrative, but luck is always a factor, and in the "acquired by a FAANG" lottery, it's extreme luck by any measure.

Lastly: next time leave the "ignorant" comments at the door please? We can disagree without insulting each other I would hope.
If it's just a private network, why even call it a blockchain instead of a database? It's not even decentralized.
No, I'm not being disingenuous. I'm telling you that it can take a number of days (4 if a weekend is involved) for retail transfers between American bank accounts to clear. I'm very aware that this is a matter of updating a simple database record--that's why it's so frustrating and why many people are bypassing this system entirely with stablecoins.
Ah yeah, correct. Weren't the first ones using Firewire IO? Just classic levels of insular on Jobs' part

edit: maybe not, plausibly just charging
Remember when people claimed that the bitcoin block size couldn't be increased because we would sacrifice decentralization? Well look where we are now...
Use cases are the same as with money btw. People use cryptocurrency today to trade and to transfer value. You can try to ignore that, or point to the low adoption, but it is there.
“The Last Surprise” by Richard Brautigan

The last surprise is when you come

gradually to realize that nothing

surprises you any more.
I designed my own custom computer just to play PONG
They are also a consensus mechanism: it’s called leader election. You need a system for participants to agree on who will be the next person that get to choose the next block of transaction.
> CS education is rarely taxing in terms of processor/memory requirements

Not sure I'd enjoy doing something like compiling LLVM on a Chromebook for a compiler class.
I’m aware of the general wisdom. If you can find any research supporting it my email is in my profile. Selecting by SAT and GPA alone would be very much against the interests of the socially elite. They wouldn’t be able to stop so many Asians getting in. See what happened in California after ending affirmative action in college admissions, a 20% jump in Asian admissions. That is the reason for the big push against the SAT and ACT. You can pay for higher grades by selecting the school with lower standards, you can pay for all the extracurriculars you want, you can lean on your connections for letters of recommendation but the gains from SAT tutoring and coaching are trivial no matter how much you pay. Holistic admissions is for the less gifted children of privilege.

The SAT, GRE, LSAT and similar lightly disguised IQ tests are designed to be as close to culture fair and uncoachable as possible and they do pretty well. Mostly the children of the well educated and rich get higher scores on them than the less fortunate for the same reason the children of professional basket players are tall. People resemble their parents.

The anecdote you recount about a question with a yacht never happened. The analogy question was removed in 2005[1].

[1] https://www.clearchoiceprep.com/sat-act-prep-blog/the-most-i...
To be clear, I asked where are the hordes of people demanding that we put an end to natural births, not all births, ever.

> Because they believe that the net suffering is reduced by the joy being brought into the world via the birth.

Sorry, who believes that?
That is what really matters because we can't really do much about population.

We could talk about population if we had unusually high birth rates, but that's not true. A high birth rate was the default state of all humanity pre-industrialization. Poor countries with high birth rates that plummet as they get richer is normal. A large portion of the world is still poor. Every highly developed country used to have extremely high birth rates in the past. There is nothing unusual about this, this is standard demographic transition. If you care about freedom, you can't just force poor countries to have fewer children. You have to wait for them to get richer and develop, and birth rates will drop automatically.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QsBT5EQt348

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographic_transition
And the fact remains, and McDonalds knows this, that their food doesn't survive 10 minutes in the bag, much less 30 with a delivery driver.
Pitchers have an incentive for a better grip on the ball. It's in a batter's best interest as well — getting hit by a 95MPH pitch is going to hurt.

Adding a substance to the ball to increase spin rate via the aerodynamics — in return, increase horizontal and/or vertical movement — has now become almost a standard practice. That's what this issue is largely about.

Obviously, a team can't challenge another pitcher saying "check his /jersey/cap/forearm/inside of belt/!" because their pitcher is probably doing it too.
You’re escalating just a bit from “hey, you got any gunk on your hat, head, mitt?”

Watch an MMA match. It takes all of five seconds for a ref to run their hands over the competitors head, hands, etc.

Which is certainly better than… nothing.