skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A friend once pinged me about how I'd handle a request from a candidate to do text-only interviewing. He was outraged. The candidate said it would be easier for them to do a better job text-only, and his first thought was "Clearly they're scamming us." I told him, my first task would be contacting HR to ask if they needed some form of accommodation, to more elegantly address the "Why are you asking us to do this" concern he had, but also that if the candidate needed a legitimate accommodation I thought it would be great of them to accommodate. My friend had never considered that there are people that might need accommodation, and that it was a good point.

The bummer is, I think, most companies just do not give a shit about accommodating anyone. If you cannot fit their mold, they'll just find someone who can. I'm hopeful that more companies will deploy interview processes to bring out the best in their candidates, rather than processes that will specifically weed out everyone but the specific archetype of person a given interview accommodates.
"Computer money" isn't a great term to describe the difference indeed. Rather, some call it the first digital scarcity, or sound money.

Emphasis is on how minting, the creation of new money, is strictly enforced by the protocol (software), and decentralized. Further, it is hard-capped.

As such, it's money that is born digitally, natively. This extends to ownership, which is just a bunch of private keys.
If no one complained about this I wouldn't know about it. Should they receive no scrutiny?
> Why do I need “safety” from a web response?

I’m not even sure where to start from that. Responses provided to an HTTP request are one of the most obvious places where enforcing structure and type safety is clearly a win.
My tinfoil hat theory is this was some BS used to hide the fact there was other news propping up Bitcoin recently that is getting lost in headlines like this
I've been studying Japanese for about 10 years now and think these systems are actually rather intuitive if you know the language. Digital input methods aside, most of the complexity comes from the writing system itself and just comes with the territory.
>One might wonder if our society is all about motivating people to do things they don't want. How many of our modern conveniences could theoretically be traded away in return for a 15 hour work week?

Easy, look at US's GDP ($68k) and compare it against a country that's proportionately lower (to 15 hours). That gets you around $25k, around the GDP of Bulgaria and Chile.
Indeed. And in this case, the #3 contributor (and #1 in recent times, really) to Julia is also the current primary maintainer of libuv so it’s very unlikely that there would be any critical fixes that would be missed.

This particular example turns out to be a case where a feature was developed in Julia first and there’s some corner case on this poster’s Windows 10 setup that triggers a bug in the new feature.
I'm not so sure. I would be surprised if they made their own coin given the regulatory scrutiny that would bring. I don't think they'll necessarily use Bitcoin though.
Yeah the grand irony of comments like this is that it is a brand of thinking that is actually very characteristic of a specific group of Americans who blindly view the rest of the world as some utopia(and they are mostly just equating Europe with the rest of the world here) and America as this embodiment of everything terrible. So you get to seem worldly while in my mind projecting a very limited view of the realities of the broader world.

Slate Star Codex (Astral Codex Ten now) has an amazing piece on the sociology and psychology of the phenomenon of "Blue/Left American's" who enjoying trash talking America where he points out that these people who make an identity out of trash talking "America" as well as things like white men who write articles about "how terrible white men are" are not being self critical because those terms in this context are a code word for "Red/Right America" who are stereotypically more openly patriotic.

So it creates this great rhetorical tool of getting to seem humble and self critical on the surface while everyone knows you are really just complaining about the other side.

https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/09/30/i-can-tolerate-anythin...

Truly one of my favorite things I have ever read. Put words on so many things that I felt but struggled to articulate.

Worth pointing out that I don't identify with conservative or right politics. I know because I'm critiquing one side here but it's not an indication of me being on the other side. I just find it to be an interesting point that matches my lived experience.

I'm also an American expat.
That'd make a hell of a fiction story, but it's completely divorced from reality.

(... and, unfortunately, it's already been written. I believe "Diamond Age" makes use of the idea of nanomachines that are usually harmless but when triggered by an external signal spin into microscopic daisy-cutters and perforate the victim in a million places).
These are beautiful maps, and I'd love to add one to my collection.

If anyone is a fan of adding depth to old maps, check out https://scottreinhard.com/Mapping-and-Visualization. Not sure if he's selling them any longer, but they're beautifully rendered.
> If you like chess, then play chess! It's a fun game with an amazing depth and a huge player base. But if you're just starting out: Please forget about having "becoming a grandmaster" as a goal.

I could not agree more. You can waste your entire life becoming excellent at chess and that's all you will gain, being excellent at chess. It is a myth that chess makes one smarter or more intelligent at other things in life. The skills are not transferable.

That said, sure, there's a lot to chess that does transfer, such as: learning to concentrate for an extended period of time, accepting losing, learning to consider multiple possible solutions and uncertainty, etc. However, I feel that if one just plays chess and nobody makes some of these connections to real life some of these skills simply don't translate.

My kids and I play almost every day. They love the game, try to win but I taught them not to care about winning or losing at all. It's much healthier that way. There have been cases when one of my kids might lose eight or more games in a day and not win a single one. Someone who is invested in this game could easily crumble and have a bad week because of something like that. In his case, he could not care less, he knows that sometimes you win and other times you do not. The following day he might have ten wins in a row, and that's fun enough.

The other problem is that, in order to ascend through the ranks you have no option but to become a human database. This is what can consume a lifetime of study. Just learning a few openings, counterattacks and end-game strategies can elevate someone in ranking. That isn't super hard and I still consider it fun "sport" chess learning.

To get much beyond that you are going to go up against people who devote every living minute to shoving a database of games and strategies into their brains. Which means you have to do the same. To what end?

I often say that if you are going to study that hard for nothing you might as well study something like medicine and actually get something of value in exchange.
Because of Tether melting down?
As usual, the inverse HN index seems to outperform.
This reply assumes someone else cannot get ahold of that data.
I don't really see how this is a "rumor" nor a "joke"... The job posting is very real and is still on Amazon's website.

https://www.amazon.jobs/en/jobs/1644513/digital-currency-and...

"Digital Currency and Blockchain Product Lead" on the "Payments Acceptance and Customer Experience" team... that doesn't seem like much of a joke to me.
You might be interested in checking out Perkeep or Zotero.
> The government doesn't need bodycams to spy on you.

While that statement is literally true, it is also bogus. It sure makes it convenient for government when always on body and vehicle cameras record everything everywhere all the time.
All of those examples have real, non-trivial costs for employers though. If in order to adopt any of them I need to provide them to everybody I'll just provide the accommodations to no one
"For example, if you want to see Microsoft have a heart attack, talk about the idea of defining legal liability for bad code in a commercial product."

That sort of discussion is quickly dismissed on HN. And probably elsewhere on the web/over the internet.

Instead we frequently see discussion blaming users of the software, i.e., Microsoft's customers, or even suggestions to make the customer liable, or comments from "security experts" on how Microsoft has made such amazing strides in securing Windows (a tangent). In the real world, outside the Redmond/Silicon Valley monopoly space, how many mistakes does someone have to make before we start to suspect there might be problems with relying on that person's work. Even more, how many times do we hire someone knowing they have made 500+ mistakes in prior work leading up to their application.

If Microsoft products are so infallible when used as instructed by Microsoft, then why would Microsoft have a heart attack as Snowden suggests. What a remarkable state of affairs we have today where employers such as Microsoft can call their employees "engineers", and yet both the employer and employees are absconded from any liability for the so-called engineer's work. The number of "second chances" Microsoft gets is nothing short of astounding. A bit like the number of pardons we allow to Google or Facebook for privacy infractions. Infinite.

https://www.nspe.org/resources/professional-liability/liabil...
Their #2 company has failed miserably and exposed as fraud. SMIC is the only game in town in China.

>> How much did we spend on the Iraq War, despite our own country being a major producer of oil and gas?

With all due respect, from 2004 - 2007, all we were talking about is Peak Oil and US was not such a major producer then as we are today. So some recency bias here.

>>The way forward for the US may be similar in mentality: throw the government behind the industry.

Yes, US will become mercantilist again, and I will rejoice but the goddamn world will burn or not.
> Our economic incentive to entangle ourselves in Taiwan is even greater, but the stakes of military confrontation with China would be more dangerous.

> How much would you pay to avert such a conflict -- or worse, to avert the consequences of acquiescing to China's expansionism?

These are questions easier to answer than what most people think.

There are countless unclassified defence studies with very good estimates of how much would USA loose in case of an all out war with a nuclear state for worst, medium, best scenarios. I'll encourage readers to check them themselves.

Washington defence planners are most well aware of these things.

The later question is much more important, and with more real world relevance.

> consequences of acquiescing to China's expansionism?

There is no limit on on how much "acquiescing" you can do before such states will come up with more claims.

Remember "Finlandisation" precluding the WW2, and how it ended.

Giving the most minimal concessions to such opponent will instantly lead to them wanting more, and more, until you will have to retaliate, but now against much stronger enemy.

There is no "strategy," no political trick that works against opponent planning to attack you from the start no matter what. All treaties, political manoeuvres, compromise moves, even overt tribute payments will be only delaying the inevitable encounter in cul de sac.

In Russia, people gave a simple way to characterise behaviour of such people: "A guy who wouldn't stop until punched in the face."
Yeah I think I agree now. They'll probably be better at proving straightforward things that don't require any big new insights, but I don't think machines will ever be any good at determining what kinds of new concepts will be interesting to define and explore. Like a machine isn't going to develop calculus just for fun from base principles.
Right now the focus is on devices that devs have and run mainstream Linux:

https://wiki.mobian-project.org/doku.php?id=devices

PostmarketOS runs on more devices (and is a great Distribution!), but they also run a lot more devices through Halium (which is a compatibility layer).
Sorry, I thought you meant it's a nightmare for Amazon to figure out how to accept BTC. I agree that buying stuff with BTC is a nightmare which is why in reality virtually no one bothers (and the few people who do spend BTC just "forget" to do the paperwork).
There is already an Amazon "coin". It's called your gift card balance.

If you mean they will try to move away from USD (or other national currencies), there is absolutely zero incentive for them to do so. And how will they pay their wholesalers, vendors, employees, taxes?
> I don't see how that's going to be electrified. And I'm not talking in the sense of "technology isn't there yet", but more like "the laws of physics wouldn't appreciate that".

Well, good news! The laws of physics don't really care (at least not directly). See, scale occurs nowhere in the range equation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Range_(aeronautics)#Electric_a...

No matter how much it's repeated, scale still doesn't matter in terms of the physics of flight and electrification. I know people find it counter-intuitive, but it really ISN'T harder from a physics perspective to electrify a 737 (although you generally want a longer wingspan than airports like, so you may choose 777x-like extending wingtips).

Pet peeve of mine that people think "oh, it's big so it's hard to electrify" (without actually doing any fundamental physics on the idea) when the largest machines are actually already electric (think
bucketwheel excavators).

In fact, in some ways, efficiency IMPROVES with scale, but it depends on a few factors (may need truss-braced wings at long enough wingspan, but that's doable). See how L/D improves with increasing Reynolds Number: https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Lift-to-drag-ratio-varia...

I mean ask yourself: is a business jet much more efficient than a 737? No? Well then why would it be harder to electrify a 737, from a physics perspective? In fact, a 737 is far more efficient than most much smaller aircraft using jet technology. And a Cessna is like half as efficient (or less) in terms of L/D in spite of being slower and much smaller.
> And no -- anti-virus is not voluntary censorship because it's not censorship at all. It's protection from harm, not a shield from comunicative ideas. If anti-virus were "voluntary censorship" then locking your home from burglars would be too. And that twists the word beyond any recognizable or useful meaning.

And what exactly is harm? Microsoft is making subjective judgements, which can not help but be political. Microsoft has decided that historical and obsolete keygens and ansi art are harmful. It would not surprise me if they deemed software to circumvent obsolete abandonware encryption harmful as well, since it violates the DMCA.

A better analogy would be if you let a third party security company examine the items in your home and remove what they deemed to be "harmful" to you.
You can still see the job posting on Amazon's website : https://www.amazon.jobs/en/jobs/1644513/digital-currency-and...

It says on the posting that its for the "Payments Acceptance and Customer Experience" team, and if you go to that team's job page: "Amazon Payment Acceptance & Customer Experience team’s mission is to launch products and experiences for any customer that lives in a country to which Amazon ships enabling them shop on Amazon and pay, or get paid, the way they want to."

That doesn't sound like an AWS service/team to me.
That is the idea yes. Many of the Mobian Devs are also on the Debian on Mobile Team

Debian on Mobile team: https://salsa.debian.org/DebianOnMobile-team

Mobian Team: https://gitlab.com/mobian1
Looking into the human rights campaigns about this from Chatham House we have

"• In some parts of the world it is common practice for patients to be detained in hospital
for non-payment of healthcare bills.

• Such detentions occur in public as well as private medical facilities, and there appears
to be wide societal acceptance in certain countries of the assumed right of health providers
to imprison vulnerable people in this way.

• The true scale of these hospital detention practices, or ‘medical detentions’, is unknown, but
the limited academic research to date suggests that hundreds of thousands of people are likely
to be affected every year....

Women
requiring life-saving emergency caesarean sections, and their babies, are particularly vulnerable
to detention in medical facilities."
Nobody should stress out too much about not getting a name right. But it's also not ok to not care at all and just go around butchering names without ever asking the proper way or even worse, ask for a nickname because they can't pronounce it (I've seen it coming from a CTO in an all-hands meeting). Both extremes are not ok.
Probably more like a farm, full of pests and dog poop
EOS Price Update 07/26/2021
> If no one complained about this I wouldn't know about it.

For real?
It's already a solved problem. Most bitcoin payment processors allow you to get paid in USD (basically doing the conversion for you). If you decide to accept bitcoins directly, you don't get capital gains/losses unless you sell.
BRB making a programming language in which this is one of the sigils.
Disclaimer: Qualcomm employee with no inside knowledge of the terms of the deal, opinions are my own.

Generally fabless semiconductor companies use a variety of foundries and processes for their products. It largely depends on the technical requirements of the particular project as well as the cost of the node. In the early stages of a product development cycle, the team will choose a foundry/process and stick with it to the end. In rare cases the process will switch mid-stream, but this is costly because design essentially has to start over. (For digital, this would be after RTL is frozen; for analog/RF, a change at any point requires starting over)

Sometimes, second sources are added after the first source is in production. These tend to be the lower cost fabs like SMIC or UMC, but they in turn design their processes to be drop in replacements for top fabs like TSMC and Samsung to make it easy to switch over.

Given the above, and that Intel's process is not aimed at copying TSMC/SEC, I would guess that you'll slowly see a handful of non-critical products rolling out on "Intel 7". If the process turns out to be performant enough, you'll see more, even possibly higher end more critical product lines. Don't forget that Qualcomm isn't just about Snapdragon. There is a boatload of RF, Power Management, IoT and WiFi as well.
I don't know if it's the city that's well-known so much as the Treaty of Versailles.
Nothing will change
Lots of things poorly. A lot of EVs don’t have internet so you can’t monitor the status, don’t have sentry mode so
people can screw with the cable without being noticed, don’t have a mobile app that lets you (again) check on things or remotely control things like when your wife goes to collect the car but forgets the key and you can unlock it remotely, don’t give you a fast charging backup option that makes life easier, don’t have the range, don’t have Netflix and YouTube to pass the time for the odd times when you need to sit in the car for a while… the list goes on.
Let's imagine for a second you're correct that they are commuting from one relatively underdeveloped area to another.

That's still totally unrealistic in the modern economy. I get it. All of you that have kids and a settled life want to flip the table and make yourselves as unavailable as possible. No more mentorship of younger engineers and new team members. No more face to face planning and strategy. No more conferences, after-work networking, etc.

It's selfish. You're going to be proven wrong by those who are willing to show up, collaborate, and innovate. We're going to run circles around you and leave your failing businesses in the dust.

!remindme 1 decade.
Then it should stop existing.
He also gets SO CLOSE on a lot of important things. Examples include:

1) The US has been running a massive trade deficit with a country that saves more than it consumes and intentionally deflates its currency (China).

2) 'Buy real assets that produce cash flows' is a funny thing to say when you predict a cash crash

3) The random autism reference in reference to income inequality.

Oh well, there's nuggets in there.
Agreed. It's the difference between privacy and security. I think the issue here is the former.
> one of the critical vulnerabilities from a user's perspective is the network connections that a device makes, nominally on behalf of the user, but really on behalf of privacy-forsaking data harvesters like google and facebook

Apple provides APIs now on stock iOS to allow an app to use a “VPN profile” to implement a firewall blocking outbound connections, but without requiring a remote server (aka the app applies rules locally to outbound connections). The downside is you have to trust Apple to pass their own traffic through the app’s firewall unlike with a JB, but at least that covers the other examples you gave.
Edward Snowden is a traitor or a coward.

Daniel Ellsberg gave the pentagon papers to the press after trying to give them to Congress. He then fought the govt in court and won. Ellsberg is a patriot.
Apricot kernels, bitter almonds and cherry stones all contain amygdalin, which releases cyanide if you eat it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cherry#Health_risks
There is a reason why this research moved out out of universities. It seems that capitalism works "better" than academic research (at least the Oxford vaccine shows that it can be effective). Makes me sad in a way, because it would feel better if all the tax $$ would stay in nonprofit oriented orgs. But it seems that capitalism is converting a bit of narcism and greed mixed with genius better to some useful outcome that the academic system. IMHO we need to create better incentives in non-profit research before we complain about capitalism. At least those guys really create something. Having said that it is pitty that nobody funds clinical trials on the same scale for stuff that you cannot patent anymore (e.g. covid or cancer medication candidates) . Here we really need to fix also the incentives in the commercial space ...
My guess is the ‘users didnt know what they were doing defense.’ Not that you can deploy software in a secure by default stance. But once somebody sets up users and a million other settings inside Active Directory, it’s pretty much bound to be insecure. And then the defense is akin to ‘you werent supposed to crash the car into the tree’.
Asshole Astrology: Week of 26 July 2021 – Horoscopes for horrible people
To be fair, you do have to start with over-collateralized loans before you can get under/no collateral loans with plenty of projects trying to do the latter. That's how lending itself started (https://www.provenir.com/resources/collateral/history-of-len...).

But I agree that if it's always overcollateralized then there is obviously much less utility created (though definitely some - similar to how you can get a loan against your home).

The project mentioned, Goldfinch, has already distributed 4.5M in uncollateralized loans to emerging markets using DeFi rails and liquidity already (https://medium.com/goldfinch-fi/goldfinch-raises-11m-from-an...). My 2c is that it's a sign of what's to come.