skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And if a bank steals any other assets you may have in their custody (e.g. stocks, forex, bitcoin, etc.) does it work any differently than if they steal USD currency? Isn't there some sort of insurance or legislation that protects you in such cases? Or, if your US bank decides to steal your EUR, you have no recourse and just have to take it?

In this case, we are not talking about a bank, but about an exchange which exists outside of US jurisdiction. In this case, it does not matter if you handed USD or BTC to this third-party (outside US jurisdiction): if they decide to take your stuff, there is little actual recourse you have and FDIC won't cover it.

On the other hand, if you are dealing with an exchange within US jurisdiction (e.g. Coinbase), I don't see how BTC theft would be treated any differently from USD theft: if they take your assets, they can be brought to a court to have that fixed and return your assets (be it USD or BTC or whatever).

TL;DR: What matters is if you keep your assets (USD or BTC) with an appropriately-regulated institution (e.g. a bank within a jurisdiction you trust) or not (e.g. in an unregulated exchange outside your jurisdiction), and not so much the type of assets you have (or that were stolen/taken from you).
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Google’s Time Crystals
You could argue that we were isolationist until we became the dominant world power. I wouldn’t say we’ve been isolationist since WWII— well before drones.

Honestly, you could argue that we’ve rarely been isolationist. We attacked Native American nations, then took over bits of the pacific, etc. We’ve been at war in some form or fashion for nearly all of our history.

I’m mostly libertarian and mostly pacifist, so I hope we change, but I’m not holding my breath.
Big tech companies are at war with employees over remote work
Its touched on briefly in the article but this is what phased array antennas are good for. With a sufficient number of elements, you can modulate the shape and direction of the beam electronically. Its not magic, so you're still operating within some envelope of transmit power and receive sensitivity, and the antenna's effectiveness is going vary across the spectrum, but you do get a few new knobs to twist.
The kind of malware the average user is concerned about is the one that will break into their accounts by logging their keypresses, or lock them out of their own computer for a ransom. Neither of those things are likely to come from windows, so whether it technically fits some definition of malware is beyond the point.
I would say that depends on your background.

This is just me but I’m quite happy viewing the graph via CLI and doing interactive rebases to fix issues.

I have no problems with other people preferring a GUI but all I’ve tried have been confusing for me.
Few companies of any consequence are going to use a piece of software illegally.

Every boilerplate due diligence process when trying to sell your company includes looking at what open source work you’re using to see if there’s any legal issues.

You’d be stupid to risk scaring off a multi-million dollar pay day over something so trivial.
Would it be possible to print out on a piece of yellow paper to make the yellow dots undetectable?
I wonder why tree-shaking wasn't always the default for, say, JS bundlers. If a compiler/analyzer knows what the entry point of a program is, as well as any symbols it exports to the outside world, isn't it relatively simple to figure out what's not being used?

I could be misunderstanding something.
And you can’t talk about the Apple Watch without talking about the other half of its wearables: Airpods, which are near-universally lauded and undoubtedly innovative.

And who was talking about wearables before Apple entered the game? Only nerds, pretty much. There is something to be said about Apple repeatedly setting trends in our society. Many will chalk it up to “Apple worship” or whatever, but I think the real answer is that Apple is one of the only tech companies who can innovate in the cultural space.
This is exactly what motivated me to write Learn Git The Hard Way - I was surrounded by people who depended utterly on IDEs and got themselves into terrible states that based on models that were refractions of what the the (universally available) CLI gives you.

The best example of this was when I worked with a project with 12 dev teams that didn't rebase. They asked me where a commit came from, and when I ran 'git log --oneline --graph' the output was all pipes across my (maximized) terminal.

I've never seriously gotten into the 'plumbing' of git, so can't claim to have a 'true' vision of git via the CLI, but I've never yet been in a situation where it's been required.
And you get one more place for people to get out of sync. One more excuse for why engineers don't need to understand their own fundamental tools.
I'm much less bothered by the idea of developers having access to things like aggregated anonymous heat maps, and more worried by the amount of individual details required to generate such a heat map.
What, even at the expense of his company’s survival?
Vast majority of turkish citizens are anatolians though
I don't know git from scratch, never written it or dived into source code itself.

Yes, you can write C without understanding poinnters, you can paint without understanding colors and how they mix, draw without knowing difference between 3H and 2B, use a drill without knowing which type of head is for what.

But try doing it long term and you either gotta learn those things or your output will be limited and clear expression of your vision will be harder.

I'm not advocating for people to learn git from scratch.

I'm advocating for understanding - not low level, at least high level.

And is it better to go through a "how to use X tool in Y GUI" tutorial or how to use "X tool" and then gain immediate understanding of what Y does? What if you switch GUI's? Which knowledge will be sticking?
Seems like money is only useful to pay for things that are predictable and require hard work, but we're quickly moving into a world where things that are predictable don't require hard work and thing that require hard work aren't predictable.
That's so cool! Are you able/willing to share the course name/a course page?
Yeah this matches up with my experience when I was working as a consultant and trying to get large organizations to buy into managed and structured changes to their enterprise IT environment. It is not an easy job and it is very necessary for enterprises to coordinate their systems development. I've seen the messes first hand, the frustration from "the business" at how "long" everything takes. I've seen tech teams struggling to communicate the complexity of certain requirements in a way leadership can understand too.

After 5 years I was done with that type of work. Way too frustrating to try and get buy-in from development teams, leadership, IT etc. to make changes necessary to support the business at the enterprise level.

I do think SaaS has relieved form pain for organizations. Hopefully legacy Peoplesoft and Lawson systems are being replaced by things like Workday etc. It does open up a new set of problems (and expenses) but these seem way more manageable than the problems and challenges with working with on-prem ERPs.
> Netflix was the one to "solve" piracy with movies/series, where you'd pay a small fee to one company, and get "everything" on one platform

the true issue is that such a way to "solve" piracy means less money for the publishers, who are very used to hold a commanding position and they do not wish to give it up. Thus, the current fragmented on-demand video platforms - every publisher from disney, to HBO, wants a piece of the subscriber pie.

I wish the gov't can intervene - like for cinemas, mandate that you either produce, or distribute, but not both. This will remove exclusivity, and let the platforms compete on platform level features.
Personally I prefer to use open source software rather than closed source and official closed source rather than torrented files but realistically the difference may not be that big, when the hardware where the code runs is not open / not possible to be checked.
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The ones in Germany are different than the recent immigration. After the WW2 Germany required workforce and hundreds of thousands of Turks enlisted, other immigrated due to political reasons. The inventors of the Pfizer Covid-19 vaccine are the children of Turkish workers who made Germany their home.

The more recent immigration to EU, UK and the USA tends to be among the much more highly skilled.

The brain drain of Turkey is at all times high. Doctors, software developers, Engineers are fleeing in thousands. What I meant was, it could have been worse.
Well there’s the Streisand effect so this will actually help them more than it hurts. Everybody already hates YouTube, now skynews will get a bump from those who seek out censored books and media. Such people exist. Deplatforming works as well as book burning. It doesn’t.
I thought it was going to be about whether counts should start at 0 or at 1.
Turkish soldiers are more expendable
Carnot cancels out if you follow up with it in reverse.
> since WWII - well before drones

Surprisingly not: First flight 1939 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radioplane_OQ-2

The MQM-57 Falconer for example was doing battlefield reconnoissance in 1955. But, it’s far to say attaching weapon systems to drones rather than using the drone its self as a weapon was more recent.
The cynic in me knows there will be almost no wild animals by the time I'd die of old age.

Europe si almost completely devoid of wildlife but we still have well of guys pretending bto be real men hunting what little is left.

When I look at Africa developing faster and faster, I cheer for the people but make myself sad because I know that human development would be the end of many animals. Especially the apex predators. I mean, even the biggest animal lover would object to their child being eaten by a crocodile.

I've been thinking about volunteering in Africa for years now. At this rate, I don't think I will make it. Not even sure I could handle it
I live in a 99,9% white country where punishments are not as excessive as in the U.S., and yet prosecutors will fight tooth and nail against setting people free, especially if the cause attracted a lot of media attention.

Don't discount the role of ego and face saving. People wielding a lot of power hate being challenged publicly.
The Git commit history of Git is nicely browsable here: https://github.com/git/git/graphs/contributors?from=2005-04-...

Indeed, Linus has only one commit in the last 3 years, and is the #28 committer of all time.
> But there are actually people who like to rent

I've never met any. Have you?

I guess maybe rich people who could afford to buy but choose not to, like to rent. I live in Sydney, don't know anyone who owns their house or even dreams of it one day. Saying there are people who like renting, sounds to me like saying there are people who like pain, or a terminal illness, or a death sentence. But hey, at least our money is going every week to people who already own more than one house?
In a business context however, how knows how many apps are using it, and a properly done licence forces business to pay, maybe only once but it's something. A commercial license could bring in some small revenue that justifies maintenance and new features.
> Does anyone know why this happens?

Unless it is continuously and actively minimized with explicit countermeasures, large organizations tend to degrade into filtering sociopaths into top positions.

The tendency to prioritize financialization over product also doesn't help.

As you mention, once both the founders are gone and the organization is large, watch out...
Corporate does not care about the job, or the client. Corporate only cares about billable hours.
Effectively life?

> They were sentenced to detention at Her Majesty's pleasure until a Parole Board decision in June 2001 recommended their release on a lifelong licence aged 18.[5] In 2010, Venables was sent to prison for breaching the terms of his licence, and was released on parole again in 2013.
I'd be pretty pissed if I bought a copy of the product with a perpetual license, and the seller switched it off by turning off "activation".

It is not a good idea to install Office executables on your personal computer in any case, because it is a vector for hacks. Many attacks work by getting you to download and open an office document or a PDF file. Office and Acrobat are very old products written in languages without memory safety, which means they are an easy vector.

If you need to open Office documents create a OneDrive account and upload the file. Now you can open the file for free, in an browser, without exposing your computer to any attacks.
Not all investing is rent seeking.

Rent seeking REQUIRES manipulation of public policy to benefit you.

Being a landlord at the 5 building scale gives you no leverage in public policy. It makes you a capitalist.
Amazon gets $888M GDPR fine for behavioral advertising
Unfortunately I think the issue not AWS here. You say you lost interest when it became a frustrating exercise, I read it as you lost interest once you realized setting up a cloud environment is not trivial.
Thanks for pointing this out, while the bread and circuses are free and on offer, Japan is entering a real state of emergency.
That porn for males is massively popular ? What a lesson :D Isn't it the whole purpose of the internet ?
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My experience is "it depends". I had, for example, a good experience with AWS Fargate. It's not inexpensive, but it did what it said it would. It let me focus on packaging apps into containers, and caring less about making them elastic.

I had the opposite experience with Lambdas/Serverless. It made easy things very slightly easier, and hard things impossible.
I certainly have plenty of days where I do around 8 hours of productive work. Of course there's also days that I only have 4 hours of productive work. I'd say in a given week there's usually around 2 or 3 days that I am productive for ~8 hours.

I am happy I work for a company that doesn't distract me too much as distractions cause me to lose focus. Every Monday we discuss deliverables and bugs issues with last deliverable. I add new features and fixes in the coming days and Thursday evening or Friday morning I send out a new release for testing. Apart from this there isn't too much communication, this approach allows me to focus on my work most of the time.

My daughter has been home for the last month or so, since schools have closed due to COVID. To stay productive, I only work in the night once my daughter is in bed. This way I have no distractions. I sleep in the morning while my girlfriend takes care of our daughter. In the afternoon I wake up and spend plenty of time with our daughter.

As a freelancer I only bill the hours that I feel I really delivered work. Because of this mindset and because I want to make a decent amount of money, I can't afford to slack too much. An hour of slacking is an hour I not bill to my client. I think some freelancers are probably more liberal in what hours they invoice, e.g. always invoice 8 hours every workday regardless if they really worked 8 hours or been slacking half a day. I think most clients wouldn't be able to tell the difference regardless.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28006989
A philosophical treatise from 1807, no matter how interesting or insightful, could hardly represent the current state of understanding of the topic.

My comment is loosely based on a general appreciation of textbook-level neuroanatomy and recent advances in AI/comp sci.
Thank you very much for taking the time to address my comment, it has given me some food for thought.
Crafting Interpreters came out just in time for this :)

http://craftinginterpreters.com
With the exception of (high-resolution) video, I still do much the same things I did on my computer 20 years ago. Most of it involves fetching and sending text over the internet. It's a little prettier now, the protocols are more advanced, and (crucially) it's a lot easier to develop and distribute applications[0], but in the abstract sense there's absolutely nothing new and nothing older machines couldn't handle given the right set of protocols - i.e. less JSON, less downloading raw application source code and expecting to run them in less than 100ms.

[0] The web is good, actually. It sucks, but it's also pretty good.
I think the underlying issue even above that is we've automated away the need for workers, yet people still exist. So let's say our economy only really needs 100 million people to do stuff and there are 150 million people, that's an obvious disparity. What really sucks is automation is cranking up but the next generation will be even bigger than the Millennials, which were much larger than GenX. So in the next few decades we'll have 160 million people and only need 95 million people, etc. This will keep happening until something breaks.

At some point crimes of desperation will become rampant.
When it works, the collaborative editing features are nice. It’s good to be able to do that in the native app rather than a browser.
Jetbrains Git integration is quite self-explanatory - if you're already using GitKraken, you're not missing out much except being able to do it from your IDE instead of another tool. Maybe conflicts are a tad easier due to same syntax highlighting style and ability to edit on the go.
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> I wish the gov't can intervene - like for cinemas, mandate that you either produce, or distribute, but not both.

This has now been repealed, fyi: https://www.polygon.com/2020/8/7/21358637/movie-theater-anti...

Not that Netflix or Disney would see the "booming" physical theater industry and want to buy in these days.
The profit potential is not infinite because the arbitrage affects the prices. If you do enough storage and release, eventually the load is practically flat on the generation side and the price fluctuations become insignificant.
Nukes, or their lack thereof, is the elephant in the room here.
Exactly. The way I see it is that “checkout” has two arguments:

- the commit you want to checkout, which defaults to HEAD

- the files you want to checkout, which defaults to everything

Simple as.
Which forums do this? I couldn't find any through Google.

Facebook doesn't work as a forum because (1) its use case in the minds of most is as a personal social network, rather than a discussion board, so most people end up using it to upload personal photos, status updates, etc. rather than engaging in "Facebook debates". (2) The platform doesn't easily facilitate discussion; the best you get are comment threads on links, but there is no convenient division of topics or way to rate and moderate content like you might find on a site like Reddit.

The value would be in more qualified information discovery. It would be a lot easier to filter out who probably knows what they're talking about, and who doesn't.
Couple of weird language edge cases

JS allows functions to by called by name.

A.foo();

Can be

A["foo"]()

Because foo is now a string it's possible to add levels of indirection.

Action(name) {
A[name]();
}

It's possible the list of actions to perform are sent to the client as data.

This amiguity has left enough doubt for most tools, and people making tree shaking a practice on code not commonly performed. The longer that happens the scarier it becomes to start investigating.

Since the browser will tree shake for you the incentive to cleanup your source is also less important.
I find the visual ones often harder to use but that's just me. Whatever works works.
Or is it a punishment for accurate reporting?

Joe Biden 'has to be taken out of circulation' after 'rambling about men on the moon' and aliens

https://www.msn.com/en-au/news/other/joe-biden-has-to-be-tak...

Second video

Or is this fake? There is no shame in admitting your president is a loony
I've never seen the auto complete work with anything but file paths. Nor did I know it ever could.
Here's a tricky one. Common Crawl runs its bots from AWS. AWS has like a jillion IP addresses. How do you tell which traffic are legit Common Crawl bots and which are imposters?
Human rights in Hong Kong let's not exaggerate. Except in american news, our human rights are still okay, thank you very much...

Maybe press freedom is a bit damaged, political expression more difficult, but we still have 1 millionaire in 7 people, are immensely prosperous, and let's not even compare to the average Chinese.

Human rights in Hong Kong, psh, we probably have more protection than the US...

And what does it have to do with a video game company in the first place, people are insane :D
Indeed. This story sounds like a parallel construction aimed at deflecting questions from the true means of his discovery. No idea what they might be trying to hide; mayve a satellite-based ground-penetrating infrared radar with millimeter resolution? Regardless, I would never trust the government to be forthright and honest in such matters.
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That would be a risk you're taking in that case.
I like them exactly because I can not search for a book but only wander around looking at what catch my eyes or attention.
My absolute favorite go-to mix while I’m at work:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=K1iS-_EQMGE
I haven't seen any comments that praise him for cheating or stealing or faking his way through being a teacher. The only praise I see is for his learning to read and then coming out to tell his story.
> deliberate and precise execution of the legal requirements

I really want to agree with you, all evidence says you are right — but then I see any 30 seconds of geohot, speaking a mile a minute and saying about 40 things that would give any lawyer a heart attack, assertively antagonising _everyone_ and piling on the least politically correct way of seeing things. Either he’s the Top-Gun of walking the fine legal line, or he’s incredibly lucky. Inexplicably, lucky seems more likely.
I don't think magic is part of it. People like me just want it to be consistent.
I am still amazed some parts of the world have no problem with the label "organic" when it comes to food. People are well aware anything that is considered food is, in fact, organic but have accepted the marketing.

The rebuttals I've heard boil down to me being ignorant about farming and other food production practices.
I refer you to this much more, um, nuanced solution already in place in a number of top browsers:

https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/+/main/docs/i...

https://wiki.mozilla.org/IDN_Display_Algorithm#Algorithm

Safari (implicitly) bans scripts with letters that look like Latin characters. https://support.apple.com/kb/TA22996

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IDN_homograph_attack#Client-si... also indicates that Edge, Opera use Chrome's algorithm (makes sense, being built on Chromium).
Thanks greggman! It does make sense why it behaves this way, I was confused why Chrome doesn't behave similarly.

(huge fan of your work by the way!)