skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
All these coins are funded by the people that adopt them, funding is not an issue for projects that solve the issues Bitcoin does. These projects exist because there is demand for the solutions they offer, attacking any single network does nothing to limit that demand.

I disagree with the 2nd part too, the idea that the Fed does anything tech related with a higher level of competency than the private sector has not been proven to me.

The idea that a centralized closed network that's severely hampered by operating restrictions can beat a well designed adaptable open network in the long run is a joke.
If you want style coherence, the same linter with the same options makes sense. “Use your preferred linter” won't produce style coherence.
It's not that I wanted them to love me for who I am as a human or anything.

It's that I firmly believe that there's more to software dev than just knowing a 'stack'. And even then, fair enough if they were curious about my .NET skills. But them asking about specific versions of .NET core really woke me up into how much of a commodity labourer they were trying to turn me into.
Are you sure it's your accent and not your command of the language? Your comment has several grammatical errors, lacks common English idioms, and has some ambiguities that make it difficult to understand.

> also get fluent speaking english because during internship at the end thats only feedback i got

As an example, I'm not sure if your saying that you do speak fluently or don't here.

The hard truth before I offer reassurance, I would have a very hard time working with someone who wrote a message like the one you typed above.

Reassuringly, you can definitely improve your grammar with some classes. I've seen people go from far worse then your writing to totally fluent. Good luck!
This is a great account if you’re interested in fruit cultivars: https://mobile.twitter.com/pomological
Afterpay's business model relies on high merchant fees which merchants, under their merchant agreement, are not allowed to pass onto their customers. So from customers point of view, afterpay often appears to be cheaper than other payment channels such as credit card / paypal.

Afterpay roll into a new merchant, cannibalise existing payment systems and at leat for the low margin merchants I work with, who are not savvy enough to look at their own sales data, their business becomes less profitable.

Their whole business model is deeply unethical IMO, harms merchants and harms customers who do not use Afterpay as merchants have to amortize cost of business across all their customers. The Australian regulator dropper the ball last year when considering legislation to align Afterpay with credit card instruments on this issue. Eventually regulators will realise this is harmful behaviour and align things correctly.
I did some research on pronunciation teaching. One of the tools I used was a speech analysis suit called Praat [1].
If you want to visually compare your pronunciation with that of a native speaker, I recommend it. Why would you do that? Because it can be hard to just rely on your ears alone to hear difference of others speech, and of your own.
With Praat you can do things like see if your vowels are the same pattern of .. harmonics .. as an example. You can also see how the attack of consonants matches.. how your connected speech looks.

And then drill and drill some small point you want to work on until its second nature.
You can do something similar with shadowing to.
listen to a section of speech and try to say it at the exact same speed and intonation as the example.
find the places where you trip up and drill them.
Stand from the end of the sentence and work backwards getting more and more connected speech.

[1] https://praat.en.softonic.com/
Hopefully you are enjoying the position you are in because most people, myself included, have no other choice if we want to find better salaries. It is an awful experience in my opinion.
Just sharing my take on that interactive jq (or anything else) repl:

https://github.com/kbd/setup/blob/master/HOME/bin/fzr

It's just an fzf wrapper that sets up temporary files and so on. It works really well; it's amazing all the things one can use fzf for.
I live very close to where the Honeycrisp was developed, and sadly I don't frequent them or the other local orchards as much as I should.
I hated apples all thought my childhood, but once I had my own kids I started buying more interesting variety's (even just from the supermarket) and I'm really hooked. Love em.

It might also help that I have tried to cut down on sugar and apples are now one of the sweetest things I eat.

I also discovered that cutting apples into bite size chunks for kids makes them taste better!
Firstly, there are many errors in the post above. If we assume that you talk like you have written here, then your speech accent is not the biggest problem.

There’s nothing wrong in focusing on accent reduction. But I’d suggest focusing on proper spelling and grammar while writing too. Most technical communications happen in writing (be they on email or chat) than through speech (though speech is very important in interviews and presentations, for example). Your return on time invested would be much higher focusing on writing and getting the proper use of English. That could also be a foundation for improving your speech.

Also, don’t get disheartened by the feedback. Learning another language well as an adult is hard. And English is harder (compared to some other European languages) to get right unless you’ve been exposed to the proper form for a long time. Give yourself a year or two and measure your progress regularly so that you can know how far you’ve come.
The tone of the article is dealing in general terms. For example the closing part:

> Next time you go to ask yourself why women in tech are so angry, ask yourself why you’re not angry with them.

Is that for everyone? It sounds to be directed at the party that would not be angry, which is hyperbole for caring, and why would any women not care about this issue? Therefore this sounds like it's directed at men, at least implicitly.

It's an angry article after all, why wouldn't it be pointing fingers. I'm just saying there's no one to blame but the individual culprits of those behaviors / actions.
> The financial services industry is focused on helping those with the most wealth accumulate even more wealth.

Every business is focused on making money, and that usually means serving the people with the most money because, well, they have the most money.

> Don't try to pretend they're actually helping us all, especially after 2008 has revealed their true nature to the wider public.

2008, where it became clear that the banks had screwed over their wealthy investors (and each other) to help chumps get mortgages they couldn't afford? How does that show what you're claiming it shows?
It's a bit like the good-books/bad-movies phenomenon.

There's a quality-distribution of both books and films.

There are only so many good books. And a percentage of films end up poorly made.

Sufficiently low-quality books tend not to get made into films. The ones that succeed are notable --- there's nothing but upside.

A good book can be made into either a good or a bad film. If it's a good film, then yay, but if it's a bad film, people are aware of it (through the book's quality and popularity). This is a perception illusion called Berkson's Paradox. It's an illusion because what awareness fails to account for are all the bad films made from bad books.

Hannah Fry of Numberphile does a much better job than I of explaining this: https://youtube.com/watch?v=FUD8h9JpEVQ

In the interviewing / performance case, you have good vs. bad interviewees, and good vs. bad performers.

Someonehone who interviews poorly but performs well is a positive exception. Someon who interviews well and performs well meets expectations. It's the good interviewer/bad performer who stands out. But it's the poor-interviewer/poor-performer who is missed by this assessment.
You know what would fix that?

Replaceable batteries.

And they lost the lawsuit.
That is irrelevant because the main point is, the attack will be unsuccessful. People will pay a premium for a coin/payment network that defeated the Fed and proved its censorship resistance.

How long can the fed fight a few hundred million (soon to be few billion) people?

In the war of attrition, this small group of people with incentives that are not aligned with the majority of the humans on this planet will lose, it's just a matter of time.

I expect Bitcoin will destroy/neuter most central banks in your lifetime.
Elon Musk wanted to be Apple CEO, but Tim Cook dropped an F bomb on that idea
To me, having to manually make links between notes doesn't seem unstructured, nor does it seem self-organizing. What if it doesn't occur to me to make a link in A pointing to B? Then if I'm reading B and looking at its backlinks, how will I know it's related to A?
> it's the same sort of trivially-blatantly-obvious thing as

> "quantum superpositions never actually collapse"

Popsci is fun,

Never stop learning, even if it's obvious.
Yes, it's scary.

But it's also not used <to have namespacing> but to <improve on cross-field memory operation>.
So, piecework, and you're paid for your risk if the company likes it according to some metric, and constrained by how well the company is able to monetize the work.

Since health insurance is tied to employment for most people in the states, it's hard to see the downside. For the company.

Aside: I can imagine specific people from my past selling this model. It's slightly nauseating when I cast it that way.
2 total interviews. Maybe 3 if they have questions. But if they have questions, they should have figured it out between the first and second interview.
For sure, but most of the population is now urban including large numbers of new gun owners.

The nearest place to the Bay Area for example, where you can shoot on public land legally is neither easy to find, nor anywhere near where most people live.
As someone who builds an open source remote browser myself, this is a non trivial task.

but anyone who wants to attempt to bring accessibility to a pixels only or drawing instructions only remote isolated browser security model is welcome to fork my repository and add that kind of stuff.

I appreciate the importance of accessibility but the tone of that article strikes me as strident and demanding, acknowledging only the situation feelings and difficulty of accessibility users, but not of the developers, nor of the other user groups.

Technically the issue is a trade-off between security and inspectability. the most secure remote browser technology simply sends pixels or in the case of S2 and cloudflare drawing instructions from the remote browser to the local client where the viewport is then presented so there is no HTML JavaScript or css sent to the client... which is the basis of that whole remote browser isolation security model. In order to make that accessible, without having the benefit of the HTML CSS and JavaScript on the client, it's not trivial. The more you expose that information from which you can bring accessibility to the client the greater the attack surface from a security point of view. So it's a trade off.
Red Delicious was my favorite apple as a kid. Some of this might be questionable taste - my sister's favorite was a Mcintosh - but I wonder if they were better 40 years ago. Had one recently and it was underwhelming. My wife turned me on to Pink Ladies and Fujis and I'll never go back to Delicious.
They’re not stock options, they’re RSUs or restricted stock units. And you can sell them whenever you want, inside the quarterly trading windows. It’s basically cash, it’s just tied to the company’s performance.
Try to negotiate only a couple days a week on site. Seems like you have a good relationship and he may be amenable to that in order to keep you happy.
Isn't it fun when they make you feel like you're at fault? Nice try, assholes.
The Steve Kemper book referenced in this article is excellent and well worth reading. I bought my copy (which I still own) when it came out and was delighted at its depth - not the ignorant fluff such books often are.
Even in the Release I was shaking my head. They have 100,000 merchants that seems tiny? I could understand buying market share but at some point don’t you think Someone could tell Jack “hey we can probably build this feature for a few bucks less than $1B. Might take a year or so but we can save a few bucks maybe”

I mean at some point don’t you have t
Ideally I'd like to have something like an appliance that a customer can plug in to their local network or their Data center and that just kind of takes care of any of their remote browsing needs. One of the main costs is bandwidth so the appliance solution is better from a bandwidth point of view because then the clients responsible for their bandwidth and they can get whatever deals they can get on that and also from a trust point of view you know then all the browsing goes through their own hardware rather than having to you know consider the liability and the trust issue of sending all their browsing you know to some third party SaaS.
How do you feel about "effective DRM"? For example, an online RPG where you pay a monthly subscription to play with others in the same world.

You could play single-player, or reverse engineer it and try to create a private server and modified client to play with others who choose to use the same modified client, but unless the implementation is unusually poor, the "DRM" is pretty much unavoidable if you want to play on the official servers.
You absolutely can alter/reduce an accent, albeit with potentially large effort if starting from non-native; worst case, a speech therapist should be able to help, but even without that you can adjust by paying attention. I mean, yes, you can/should mitigate issues in the meantime but it is doable.
If I were to be nostalgic, I would say I miss majordomo mailing lists filtered by procmail, and not just to be a kermudgeon.

If this predates you, imagine the content of your favorite subreddit or HN, where membership itself was curated by people credible in a topic, where you could read sincere conversations and arguments between knowledgable (or perhaps just enthusiastic) indviduals, with a defacto Chatham House rule around opinions and pseudonymity, and read it at your leisure without the risk of missing anything, without ads, cookies, popups, or PII hoovering, and with a real-time responsive threading interface (via mutt or even pine) where you could use simple / or vi-like commands, where you could index and pile the whole thing into a database if you wanted to.

What made the old internet good was it was mostly a privilege to be a part of it, granted and revoked by the communities themselves, and not by a back end layer of unskilled governance activists.

I managed news servers back in the day, and I'm tempted to just spin up an NNTP server again with my own damn cabal (TINC!LLTC!) and to hell with everyone else. The main change I would make is limit the binaries hierarchy, strip any and all markup for anything that isn't code, provide support only for an open pyCurses client, provide a robust killfile interface for filtering low energy shitposts, facilitate reasonable pseudonymity, no idiotic picture profiles, and probably apply some modern ML moderation tools.

HN already does about 40% of this today, but the idea of starting something that emmulates the platforms today only with a different political flavour is predicated on the same fundamental problem that it is for the public instead of being for people who can pass a basic skills and literacy bar.

The fediverse is based on real time addictive interaction, whereas time in news threads was measured in days and weeks. Discord seems to be for people who really want to talk to you, but you don't really want to talk to them. Blockchains appear mainly to be a market for matching money launderers with people nurturing untreated mental illness. (together at last!), and one-off radical political sites are just honeypots for patsies to get set up to justify law enforcement budgets.

As far as I can tell, an influencer on a social platform is just someone who shares pictures of their butt, and twitter seems to have found their sweet spot as a broadcast system for people united in their shared predicament of having nothing challenging to say.

The text based internet solved a lot of problems platforms struggle with today using simple rules, because the platforms have scaled beyond their use cases, and their future looks a lot like that of AOL/Compuserve. The good internet is still ahead of us, and probably using tools we have neglected.
Somehow I'm reminded of

> Let us think the unthinkable, let us do the undoable, let us prepare to grapple with the ineffable itself, and see if we may not eff it after all.
You and two other posters interpreted my comment this way. But it's not at all what I said or meant.

I'm not complaining about "too many non white gay people in movies". I'm complaining about bad movies that I judge to be bad because of the po-faced pursuit of diversity rather than an attempt to make something beautiful, meaningful, strange, funny, or some other quality associated with good movies.
True, but it also sucks because so many people say 'i dont like apples', including me until my mid 20s. Red Delicious are awful in every metric. Once a friend opened my eyes to pink ladies and honeycrisps, I was blown away and felt..cheated somehow.
The article is explicitly stating and explaining why they were indeed better 40 years ago.
That depends heavily on your threat model and who is out to bother you.

I agree that you can't make something custom totally secure - but you can radically reduce the number of people capable of attacking it, and increase the costs of attacking it.

If you're running Windows with Active Directory, the number of people who can attack your network at some level is "Pretty much anyone who cares to learn a bit about hacking." They may not be successful, but if they happen to get lucky around the time some new 0day drops, welp. Timmy Two Thumbs just pwned you.

The more custom your environment in terms of hardware and software, the higher the development costs, certainly, but also the fewer people who can attack you. If you've got a custom limited function OS, no generic hacking tools are going to work on it, so now your attacker scope is things like "Governments who can get a copy of it and are willing to invest the money to reverse engineer it and find vulnerabilities." Which, if you're worried about governments, is certainly a risk - but at that point, the chances of some random ransomware gang taking you down are near-zero, because they don't care about you - they care about easy targets who are likely to pay. Custom reverse engineering isn't really their thing.

There's no such thing as a system secure against everyone - but you can make it a lot harder to randomly target. And, if you're talking about a train system, there comes some point when it's easier to just go blow up the locomotives than to wage a cyber attack. Easier to trace, certainly, and riskier, but that's the point. If you can force an attacker to either expend disproportionate resources, or require them to go down riskier attack paths, you may be able to deter the attack.

You can also ask some reasonable questions about the concept of field upgradeable firmware on critical safety systems. There was some set of malware a while back that targeted some sort of industrial control system, and seemed designed to bypass the safety release valves through a remote firmware update. If you have a safety valve set to pop at 300 psig, why does that need remote firmware updates? It should be set to monitor the pressure sensor, pop the valve and report at 300psig. Allowing someone on the network to remotely update the firmware on the safety system seems entirely silly, because presumably if you actually needed to do that, you'd have been doing some piping upgrades that would make it easy enough to go get the unit, physically touch it to twiddle the write lock, and upgrade it.
This fundamental gap is known as "the analog hole": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Analog_hole
It’s not pointless if it works!

Seriously though, those of us who don’t like DRM need to switch messaging from “It’s bad AND it’s pointless/useless!” to “It’s bad!” The “it’s pointless” part has clearly been interpreted as a challenge, and now we’ve got incredibly invasive junk creeping in at all levels of hardware and software, and it’s not actually inconveniencing everyday consumers that much (hackers and powerusers are a different story), and it’s working better all the time.

I’m not sure exactly how to make this argument these days, but smugly saying “DRM will always be pointless in the end!” isn’t actually true, and I feel like we need to focus on the fact that the measures being taken to make it not pointless are impinging on both user privacy and the ability of open ecosystems (like Linux distros and more open hardware) to be useful for everyday media playback.
I have no idea why people think this. I've trained all sorts of people on all sorts of new things and it was always worth it.

Sometimes they leave. By that time they've used what they've learned and passed some of it on to the next person.
These kind of articles are always so painful to read. Here in Japan things are not so rosy. That or I really need to come to terms with my being a terrible developer.
Yeah, I think the "unicorn" bar needs to be pushed up to $10B at least, because of inflation. It's very rare though, but fintech seems to hit it frequently.

Perhaps finance people have less money raising money. Or perhaps people are more willing to pay for things that save/make money.
My other reply, posted under your other copy of your response: https://news.ycombinator.com/edit?id=28032491
Being responsible is a tough call give that institutions in Australia charge enormous interest rates on credit cards, typically 20%+. I find it staggering that they can get away with it actually. Regardless, many (less ‘responsible’) consumers get burnt by this and spend years paying down debts, so I’m not surprised these BNPL players have seen such success. Also they’ve done well appealing with younger consumers. How though I’m not sure exactly, is it a mix of attributes like mobile first product and the simplicity of accessing credit compared to traditional banks or is there something more overarching?
There are voice coaches who do this professionally either remote by video or in person (voice coaches do lots of different things, find one who is interested in your kind of business)
Spent 2 years at Ithaca College. Some of my fondest memories are of hiking and exploring the gorges.
A big part of this is that a lot of varieties don't travel well.

But commercial apples like ambrosia and honeycrisp do and are pretty tasty. Ubiquity of red delicious is sort of baffling.

There's also a huge chunk of the country where apples don't grow well due to lack of sufficient freeze.
But how do you evaluate value on a multi person and even multi team project? Is the tester or security person valued as much as the senior dev? Without them the devs work might do more harm than good, right? How do we put value on those intangibles?
It made me realise my normal process of:

- going on $JOB_BOARD

- sending out CV & Cover letter

- talking to recruiter

- going to 3 interviews

- rinse and repeat

Wasn't working. I was not in demand. I had to constantly reach out to people, just to get interviews at places I didn't really want to work for. And even then they'd usually reject me.

It was a wake up call that I was on the fast track to nowhere, and something had to change.

Ended up specialising in an industry and doing contract work. I'm not super successful yet, but there's a lot more interest in me. My work days are much less frustrating and I'm earning more.
also, lying requires intent - saying somthing you know to be false, and is not the same as making mistakes, errors, etc.