skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Turning a profit on a $60B cashpile should be easy, even with current rock bottom interest rates. Even more so since Tether reserves the right to deny redemptions, or redeem them in-kind for securities (which would allow them to invest in relatively illiquid investments that might have a higher yield).

Problem: there never was $60B to begin with, and to the extent there was/is some real money, Tether has the nearly impossible task of proving its not related to money laundering, proceeds of crime, etc if they want access to regulated financial markets. But, no one with clean, legitimate cash has any reason to do business with Tether (or any other stablecoin for that matter - exchanges would be more than happy to take clean USD if people want to buy cryptocurrency).
Okay, I just want to reflect back to you that you have literally said that the green words “LOW KEY” constitute “fan art of the character Loki from the Marvel films... a specific character, and much more limited than the mythic Norse God.”

The words, in green, “LOW KEY.”

I think you are rushing a bit aggressively to Disney's defense here.
Then the task is simple for Disney: just make enough movies based on Loki that most reasonable human features are displayed there.
Presidential systems are unstable are known to be unstable. It's high-time the US stopped thinking it is exceptional.

I don't want war, but I think taking the threat of war, mass unrest, etc. seriously is the only way we're going to be able to muscle-through the reforms needing to avoid it.

Our current institutions are massively politically unsustainable, and doing nothing about it is not going to maintain the peace in the long term.
Re: DB support for relations as values — while no DB I know of supports full relations (sets of tuples) in values, composite-typed (single-tuple) columns are a thing, e.g. the on_hand example table in https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/rowtypes.html

Also, presuming DB support for some format like JSON, you can encode a relation into a JSON value, stick it into a column and then, at query time, use a function like Postgres's json_to_recordset(json) to emit a relation (set of tuples). Postgres doesn't know how to deal with it "as is" (i.e. it forces you to treat the result of a function as a named joined table in your query, rather than treating it as an concrete value) but it does understand where it is in relation (heh) to the rest of the row, since you can unnest() values from this virtual table and get the right results out.

As awful as that sounds, we're actually doing that in production to normalize data coming from redis_fdw (which gives you, basically, (key text, value jsonb) rows for Redis hashes) into relational shape.
The image in the tweet has a thumbnail of the image: the words LOW KEY, in green. The title was "Low Key Loki".

This does appear to be a reference to the Marvel/Disney version; the icon of the person posting this is a picture of Marvel/Disney Loki wearing a green/white shirt that says "LOW KEY" on it. https://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/1337356777113985024/e-a...

Disney sure does have a long-ass history of trademarking the public domain, though, so I'm not inclined to cut them any slack here.

The image also has the generic Redbubble message that basically says "we have removed your artwork because keywords in your description matched keywords that megacorporations have told us they will hassle us over". The next step in this process is to reply to the email saying "what the fuck" in a polite fashion and request a human review, and also to make a public tweet with this saying "what the fuck".
GitHub actions down for some users
Outside of its context of referring to exceptions in legal and other human-made systems of rules
evidencing the existence of a contrary general rule [0], this phrase is mostly just nonsense.

[0] the original sense of Cicero’s “exceptio probat regulam in casibus non exceptis” (“the exception proves the rule in cases not excepted”, e.g., a posting ”entry permitted in daylight hours” implies a rule that entry is prohibited outside of those hours.)
> The only drawback - the overwhelming silence at the start that I never really got over…

Dealing with silence is a cultural thing. In Nordic countries silence is the norm.
The entire blog reads like a conspiracy theory 4chan /g/ fever dream
The short answer is, they don't care.

Unless you are a very large advertiser, they simply don't offer support of any kind. Even small advertisers have great difficulty in reaching FB support.
> but I get a lot of trans rights content, queer issues/advocacy, BLM content, pro-choice content, "landlords are evil" content
How can people post these type of outraged replies without first checking if the link indeed contains an image of the artwork that was claimed to be infringing?
> this group of students effectively couldn't receive an education for the better almost a whole year

I suspect most students who learned remotely got a lot less out of it. It'll be interesting to see what standardized tests show.
He made text art that when printed on a T-Shirt became a facsimile of the design of a semi-recent comic (not film) Loki.

The exact text is "Low Key," which as a pseudonym for Loki predates Marvel's use by at least a few years when Neil Gaiman used it for Loki in American Gods.
What I'm seeing in my build log https://github.com/DontShaveTheYak/jenkins-std-lib/actions/r...
I think the OP is describing an abstract ideal, but not something that bears out in practice. When navigating old code, or very large code bases, or code weighed down by technical debt, or mathematically complex code, or just poorly/hastily written code, finding a comment describing a method's intention provides valuable context.
I've considered asking if any of my friends have an old Android so I could use StreetComplete, I hope we will one day see an iOS version.
And where are the Irish?
> In a company, employees needs an incentive to work together and be constructive.

I think this is exactly backwards. The overwhelming majority of people I have met in life are by default collaborative and supportive.

What screws this up is the introduction of bad incentives, often unintended ones.

I'm not saying there are no natural incentives to competitiveness etc., but if you artificially introduce more of them it tends to be net negative. Lots of companies do this, even without intending to.
Dear m12k,

I have a valid reason to outlaw humour.

Because of you comment 3 things have happened.

1) I snorted, causing my hot tea to use my nostrils as an emergency exit.

2) My nose became a tea tap.

3) My screen and keyboard, bless them, are covered with tea. My shame in cleaning it up is indescribable.

Bravo.
I think this is a popular narrative, but I don't think it's true. Especially in HN, some of the best articles I can remember aren't angry people being obnoxious, but can even be highly-technical and entirely dispassionate.

Also, I am not sure people do remember these types of articles. Perhaps they remember some notion of the content, but I'm doubtful many detractors would remember the author.
I see this kind of argument a lot, and I don't think it's valid in general. People confuse "big" with "having power over me", or something.

In this case, obviously a job seeker does have many possible employers to apply to.
Knowing you have lots of people with the skill to kill a rhino could be good for food security. When other food sources are scarce, you can go use those rhino killing skills to feed yourselves, while other tribes who don't have experience fail to catch a rhino.

This assumes that learning and practicing a skill is easier when food is abundant, and that skill can then be used in harder times.

Armies do the same when they spend all day long practicing without actually going to war. By your argument that would be a waste of resources, but history shows that well trained armies win wars.
Can you explain how you merge a compressed sorted stream with the sorted chunk, to obtain a bigger compressed stream (without extra memory, or quadratic complexity) ?

I can see a solution with memory usage :
size of( compressed sorted stream ) + size of( compressed sorted chunk ) + size of(compressed stream merge output)

This would work but it means you need to fit your compressed sorted stream in less than a single MB instead of 2MB (and I'm ignoring memory fragmentation problems)
If performance is subjective (# of tickets, "impact", cut of your jib, etc) and at times applied arbitrarily by a manager, would applying such a flawed assessment to the detriment of someone's career, livelihood, and personal happiness, not also be cruel?

If you honestly believe these rating systems are objective, consistent, and applied fairly, sure performance measurements are not cruel. But I argue most of the time they are at the discretion of management - and will reflect the worst qualities of that manager.
No, I'm saying 10ish years ago, my offer was about $85k/year + $50k of stock over 4 years - at around $90/share. Now at over $3400/share, that stock would be worth $1.75 million today.

The point being that anyone who joined Amazon saw massive growth in income, which I think means they didn't have to figure out morale or career growth or even compensation strategies, since everyone (software engineers at least) was getting rich.
Nuclear fuel that has never been "fired up" in a reactor is almost hamless - its just uranium. You could have it under your bed and you'd be fine, just don't eat it.

In this case the reactor would only be started once it arrives on mars.
>But it's not that much different. The main difference is who is doing the scripting.

That's just being totaly unrealistic. The news agencies like AP report news where forced must-run scripts from agenda pushing corporate owners cannot even be considered the same ballpark as "not much different"

>The reality is that local TV never did anything by themselves

If you are referring to local news reporting on anything outside the local area, then of course they don't do much themselves. If they had first party reporters outside of their local area, they'd no longer be a local news. This is why local news have partners in other markets, or other agencies like AP.
It's not that hard. With SDL2/GLFW and MoltenVK you are 90% of the way to a cross-platform codebase.

That said I can understand why there's not a lot of investment in mac, since Apple's shown to be very developer-hostile as far as games, and the market is pretty small outside of mobile games which are kind of a separate thing.

There's some potential with m-series processors - now there's basically one SOC to target for everything from an iPad to a desktop, so it's sort of like consoles where there's a very consistent hardware target to develop against.
Search this in Google News: "mass shootings surge as nation faces record high"

https://www.google.com/search?q=mass+shootings+surge+as+nati...
They're working on an expansion for Factorio, and this refactor may have something to do with that.

Maybe they just want to leave their code in good shape so they (or someone else) can come back to it at a later time and pick it up relatively quickly.
VC LARPing: Pretending their job is about “value add”, “deal flow”, and “access”
In the doc, they claim:

> Antikernel is designed to ensure that following are not possible given that an attacker has gained unprivileged code execution within the context of a user-space application or service: ... or (iv) gain access to handles belonging to another process by any means.
Something you don’t agree with? Better flag it so nobody else can decide for themselves! GG HN
> Of course, others might disagree, but personally i've found that only using the more popular engines makes sense, given the abundance of tutorials, blog posts, examples, assets and even the quality of the documentation, in most cases.

But then I have to use their languages and abstractions instead my preference, Haskell. Can't throw the baby out with the bathwater!

Well, I guess Haskell makes rolling your own engine just library composition and standard abstraction, so the decision making in that world is definitely not the same as mainstream gamedev.
Might be a way to filter out the Perpetually Angry Engineers...
I don’t necessarily agree with the approach, but I completely agree with the thinking. Thank you for sharing.
So you're criticising templating languages now. No point in engaging further. Bye.
Sure, I'll happily admit saying "this country" was bad/unclear because it led everyone to think only about the federal level.

I thought you might have substantive point about PR not working within Ohio to follow up.
What's your issue with that? In that scenario, the user doesn't even have Internet access. If they didn't force the DNS to specific servers, the user would only see that their service isn't working with no indication as to what's going on. It's clearly not something they do with normal, functional users and I never said that they didn't have the capability to do it.
And Marvel's use is a reference to Neil Gaimain's American Gods: https://americangods.fandom.com/wiki/Low_Key_Lyesmith/Novel
This helps a lot BUT my family went through multiple doorknobs/locks on our main entrance during my childhood just because of me doing this reminder "Jiggling."
The Burrows-Wheeler transform (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burrows%E2%80%93Wheeler_transf...) might be handy for this problem case; encode the deltas with something like UTF-8 first.
What's the issue with using the formula and a calculator to compute sample points?
Again this is a semantics game, SNAP 10A was still driving a thermo electric converter, thus "scaled up RTG", nothing resembling a traditional naval reactor.

The on-contact for a HEU billet is over 10mrem/hour. You and I have very different ideas about nuclear safety apparently and I presume you haven't worked professionally in the field with that attitude.
I see where you’re going, but I think if we start defining tests as part of observability then we’ll water that term down to meaninglessness.
Many newspapers have editorial boards that are collectively responsible for the editorials. They may have named opinion pieces.
>evaluated ASP.NET and it seemed significantly more convoluted

Which one? I would be very surprised if it were asp.net core, which is their current offering. It is one of the most straightforward and clean web frameworks I've ever had to work with. Spring seems to me to be a giant bowl of spaghetti in comparison to it.
Tangentially related segment from Last Week Tonight.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sIi_QS1tdFM
Surely the issue lies in defining and determining when the project is "done", something that can't be handled by any smart contract.
Fundamentally, a large "do not unplug" sign is just like any other failsafe system. Nuclear missile silos, probably the most "do not touch this switch" systems in existence, are only slightly more refined, and have red covers over all the important switches instead.

The alternative is to epoxy the keyboard in. But then when you legitimately need to unplug it, you need to find a hammer.

As an aside, that XKCD strip feels heavily inspired by an episode of the IT Crowd [1]

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iDbyYGrswtg
Also works with a computer display in a dark room. Until you hit the display going mano-a-mano.
Other options are tools like Percy.io and Sauce labs which do visual diff , but they are again based on image differences rather than component level.
Alternatively have been thinking of a simple home grown puppeteer script that will render the image of developed webpage and overlay with the design rendered as a image to identify differences.
To play devil advocate.

On one side, Brave come with an adblocker that will remove any ads from the website you're visiting. On the other, they provide their own ads through the reward program.

So it can be seen as "replacing website ads by its own".

I approve that line of reasoning, but I think that what the author meant.
Neil Gaiman may be the owner of “Low Key” specifically. The name appears in his book “American Gods”, which I’m sure predates this.

IANAL.
I completely agree with you, yet I design most of my schemas with integer keys anyway. The only thing I do different than most folks is that I make a unique constraint/index for candidate keys (the proper primary key) because otherwise we have lost the ability to ensure data consistency.

As for why I use integer keys, it has always been the convention everywhere I go so I don't want to break convention.

Now the only convention that I would rather see would be to use GUIDs instead of integers because I hate that I can join an item table to an employee table and get results back.
> For end users, it doesn't matter as long as it works.The less moving pieces, the better. A bundled interpreter in the OS gives a stable platform to develop against.

I can understand what you wish for. But what you wish for is very far from what we’ve had so far. Time to accept reality.
eh, Windows Forms is the default GUI library, this means relying on third party libraries if you want to write cross-platform desktop apps.
Yeah, I think the early proponents of relational models had a lot to do with setting the culture here.

I suspect that some of this has to do with an insight I recently discovered: a "natural" key is in some sense a key that's so foreign it's in a "database" you don't control. And if you establish a culture that converges on natural keys, you may end up with more easily cross-operable databases/collections as an asset.

And this is why I think it's probably dead. If the boring practicality of generated identifiers didn't do it, laws like the CCPA which are going to, because they recognized the potential of broad cross-operable data to be a liability and a hazard vs an asset.
Use GNU GUIX to manage it. It's been packaged for quite a while now
They're kind of trying to do that with Apple Arcade, but from what I've seen they don't really understand the market enough to make an interesting offering.

It's insane to me that they're failing so badly at it: Apple's amazing at building brands, but gaming is huge with people under 30, and it might get harder to sell people a computer you can't run AAA games on.

Google could have eaten iPhone's lunch with gen Z with Stadia if they invested in it properly, but they didn't manage to make it work
Totally agree. I loved how it just showed the difference between a cop going through the motions, and these 2 guys show up months later and solve the thing in the span of 5 mins. "Real police"

Show me a GoT scene anywhere this level
TDD and OOP as dogmas are very bad, for different reasons.

TDD encourages you to write many times the number of lines of code for your tests as the code you're testing, often 10X or more. So when you inevitably decide "there's a much better way to do this" (which happens to me 100% of the time) then you're not only changing your code, you're changing all of those tests. That's a lot of weight that you now have to deal with.

Most of the time, that's enough weight that the better design simply doesn't happen and becomes yet another chunk of tech debt that prevents certain things from happening in the future. I've seen that happen, and it's given me a very bad taste in my mouth for "TDD" because "TDD inertia" is the reason that better designs aren't implemented. If that piece of software lives for a while, and grows in scope, someone is going to have to deal with that, and eventually make the architectural change anyway.

By all means, test your code, of course. If you can find a way to easily generate test cases for an arbitrary code base, by all means, do that, because the test cases are no longer influencing your decision to change how your application works.

Otherwise, being "test-driven" is bad, IMHO. Software development is never as simple as the various dogmas would lead you to believe.
Too many MBAs ruining companies [video]
I've used Hasura for a couple of projects but I feel somehow and sooner rather than later, a requirement shows up that you an't really solve with Hasura. I don't mean oh this is a bit awkward in Hasura but rather this needs to be fully custom code exposing its own graphql (which Hasura would do an excellent job of stitching together). That being said some of the operational challenges with Hasura specifically metadata and migrations are better solved using other solutions.

Prisma when combined with Apollo on the other hand makes it easy to build GQL handler, which can handle strange requirements but also makes it easy to avoid Hasura induced awkwardness.

The Hasura team seems very component however and I hope they will work out these issues.
They wouldn't, so my point is why do RDBMSs support so many kinds of primary keys?
Your notable open alternatives are Matrix or Signal. Matrix is a PITA to set up and admin and has all the issues you'd expect from a newcomer. It's fine if you like living on the bleeding edge, and has some promise, but isn't exactly "tried and true" yet and its software ecosystem is small and immature. Signal, OTOH, is only kinda, halfway, sorta, open. In both cases, your options for server software, if you don't want to step directly into "here be dragons" territory, are limited to at most two options, and options for client software aren't a ton better.

With XMPP it's easy to get a server running on dirt-cheap hardware, maybe straight from your favorite distro's official repo (you have multiple choices of mature daemons for your server), and it has tons of clients and client libraries on every platform under the sun.

Basically if you want to serve an open protocol for chat, with all the ecosystem benefits one wants from a protocol (versus an ecosystem that's, at least so far, tightly coupled to an official implementation), XMPP's your front-runner.

(I'm omitting IRC because its ideal use-cases are different from XMPP's, so they're not exactly competitors)
I was a try-hard hipster in my 20s who, owing to poor socialization as a child, didn't understand that there's a big difference b/t what people say there virtue and ideology is, and what they actually do, and more importantly, how they broker that difference: your description absolutely matches my experience.

Enough women either refuse to date bisexual men or say things like "Well, maybe if they like girls more than boys". I met a bi independent brand designer in Portland whom relayed rather humorous stories of liberal, straight women's discomfort with his bisexuality.

Then there's the sect of women who'll suggest a man is gay as a insult, but when rebuked will play a rhetorical game like "What's wrong with being gay?"

I once went on a date with a data scientist and when I told her I was interested in getting a cat, either to be provocative or accidently revealing herself, she loudly proclaimed "That's gaaaaay" in the middle of a restaurent.
When I confronted her the next day about this statement, she said things like "I have gay friends", etc.

This notion that liberal women are absolutely receptive to queer men or anything they perceive as effeminate in men has real limits that are not actively investigated, and it has nothing to do with a subjectifying male gaze.
I mean, “voluntarily” in quote marks. They were likely threatened in some way and had to react pretty strongly, no? This looks like a typical action of a legal-compliance department or individual. “we just want you to know, Disney wanted us to take down everything with the keyword Loki and we are terrified of their legal department so we did.”

The title just says “claims trademark over Loki” which
may be semi-inaccurate (they may be claiming copyrights or other authorship rights) but I mean, you are complaining that the title is inaccurate for being pointed at “a specific work” and, like, the title doesn't say any such thing. I would have written “claims trademark over ‘low key’” and that might have indeed been a little more misleading in one way, but more illustrative in another...
There is a recent Last Week Tonight covering sponsored content on local news stations which is worth a watch as well.

https://youtu.be/sIi_QS1tdFM