skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One factor that needs to be considered is that in Korea, as in many Asian regions, people are expected to look after their parents when they get old. Society and social security have been build around this assumption.
This is about Ybarra feeling he has a claim to the role and not wanting to pass him over for what would be seen as a PR reaction. This is pretty typical, and the companies I’ve seen be successful with these types of overhauls send a message loud and clear to their executives: expect to be passed over for promotions more than you’re used to. Building the right executive team in 2021 includes diversity of experience as an aspect, and you may be passed over for promotions you’re qualified for because we are building the best performing team, not locally optimizing for the best individual performers.

Sure this causes turnover, but it’s usually the kind of turnover you welcome during a culture shift. Especially with the transition to remote work, empathy and diversity from senior leadership will only become more important to recruiting and retaining the best talent.
I do think that smart contract based finance on blockchain protocols is necessary to stabilize captialism as a whole / to have predictable cycles instead of longer cycles with worse crashes.

At least you cant change inflation on a whim there (aside from on chain governance votes, but at least those are transparent and done by holders)
This is often said. But… what difference does it make if one gets killed by a hired thug, or the military?
McConnell's 50/90 approach makes a big difference in my opinion because it lets you encode your uncertainty. The extra math means you don't need to be good at estimation as long as you know roughly how bad you are at it.

If that seems like too much effort, I also run quotes.vistimo.com , which takes a similarly (if slightly more advanced) statistical approach, but does all the math for you.
Oh, is _this_ where the inspiration for Go came from? It would explain a lot.
For personal use, most of the time, not too much. However I have encountered enough binary package conflicts when using pip that is just easier to use conda (or conda-forge).

On the distribution side, we are a small academic group that provides a niche, binary, scientific package that has quite a few binary dependencies (things like hdf, netcdf, etc.). We do not have the human effort to provide support for different distributions of Python, but it is very easy for us to say it will work if you use Anaconda with this environment on multiple OS's.
> If a phone battery say catches fire it's generally not such a big deal

Unless it's in your pocket!
1password, Sonos, Fastmail.

Other than that, most things I do really are in Apple’s included apps. Safari, Music, Maps. I use a few other apps but Safari could replace them, except maybe Uber or Lyft when I need them. I use my bank app a fair amount though and sometimes for mobile check deposit, I guess Safari couldn’t do that.

Fastmail in the Apple Mail app is really not bad but this custom app is good.
This is basically fear porn for the upscale parts of the Boston suburbs. People are interested because they get to self indulge in pearly clutching because even though these were nice people living somewhere nice this still happened to them. If this had happened in Fall River or Lawrence the globe probably would have covered it with a "look at these poors and their tragic plight" tone and the customers would have skimmed it, said "well at least nobody got beat up or shot" to themselves and then clicked the next article.
For those who spent a lot of time on Facebook, it was a regular occurrence to see a viral IS beheading video about 9-10 years ago. Similarly, viral gang execution videos were also common 4-5 years ago. Facebook has done a great job lately of quickly nipping these in the bud. Interesting to see how the same growing pain will play out for it's competitors.
It's just a metaphor.

Complicated stuff is complicated. Dismissing policy work for its complicity is a oft used trope.

> ...its a bunch of people pursuing their own interests.

What org is immune to proxy fights thru code, rules, budgets?

I've won a few internecine knife fights by shipping code first. (TBH, I lost most of these fights, by whatever means.)
Maybe UBI will drill into business leaders heads that they need to either:

a) Make a better workplace that people don't hate coming to.

b) Make the wages compensate enough for the terrible environment they have created.

With a UBI, managers would no longer be under the illusion that "They will eventually come crawling back when they run out of money."
It's almost as if most of those jobs that req. degrees can be done even by uneducated prisoners, thanks to a cool invention called job training.
> as it simultaneously makes copyright laws more restrictive, such a ruling can potentially be used by proprietary software vendors against the FOSS community in various ways.

Could it? Copyright law is FOSS's only protection. That's why it's witty - copyright law against copyright. Weakening copyright law in an ad hoc way is absolutely not good for FOSS. It's fine to rewrite copyright in a way that explicitly allows things like Copilot, as long as FOSS gets to copy bits of proprietary code, too.

Otherwise, after some appeals court judgement that the FOSS community failed to participate in (or even worse, subelements participated in on the wrong side) we're going to end up with a copyright practice that looks like the NFL exception in monopoly law.
There's a big systematic inequality in gaming, particularly PC gaming where Blizzard's products are most popular.

Blizzard has its own launcher, which means they can sell directly to customers, at 0% commissions.

Any new Indies have to go through the monopolist Steam, which means a 30% commission and no direct access to their fanbase.

If we want better conditions in game development, it needs to be easier for disgruntled employees to leave and start their own companies. That means, explicitly, that Steam (holding the monopoly position on PC) needs to be pressured to lower its commission (the 15% level Apple and Google are moving towards seems reasonable) and offer the same terms to Indies as they do to AAA.
I agree with this one. People who don't know how to code can easily use spreadsheets in your everyday life. For example, to calculate your income and expenses. To track and monitor your finances.
I'm seriously wondering if you got paid to post this comment
I followed this advice right after the last time I spent 20 minutes having an ink-jet printer clean its nozzles thrice before I could print one sheet of monochrome text. I print infrequently enough that the nozzles would often dry up and get clogged.

It had been so long since I looked at laser printers, I didn't realize their prices had become so affordable for home/personal use.

Now, when I print something, I know it'll "just work", and that the text will be crisp and legible every time, with no banding and wasted paper.

Plus, it's so much faster.

The cost and reliability of toner vs ink is one thing... but the lack of stress surrounding the occasional small print job at home? As stated by a much-parodied ad campaign, "priceless"!

(Edit: and I still have 60% capacity in the complimentary toner cartridge it came with!)
Um, such actions were very very rare 200+ years ago. If you look at history from the lens of daily life in a given location, you will see that horrible behavior by the people in power would go on for lifetimes. Not only without without punishment or retribution, but sometimes celebrated and extolled. Often completely in the open. Typically, revolts only happened after things got really bad (as in lots of people murdered or starving bad). Even then, the vast majority of revolts ended up with lots of dead commoners and the same people in power.

Until very recently, the idea that those with power could not use that power to extract whatever they could from those without power was laughable. And the shit that the common folks had to deal with hundreds of years ago makes the worse harassment of today seem completely benign. Hell, mass murder to make a few bits of extra gold was common. And no one really batted an eye. Sometimes society not only condoned it but celebrated it.

Not to say that harassment today should be ignored. But harkening back to the good old days that never were is not, IMO, the way forward.
It's not hard if you make that much, just make $150 million and live like you make $100,000. Invest $74.9 million a year at even just 3% a year makes you a billionaire.

I don't see how not spending $37 million is hard.
You say that like saving more than half of $75M is really hard...
Paradoxical Lucidity in Alzheimer
There are plenty of ways you can obfuscate calls to `eval`. `unpickle` is a classic example.
How does providing a router put SSNs and health information at risk? Is the county transmitting that information without TLS? Then it's already at risk.
The first hit on google for "prisoners with jobs":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=prz4jfSX_Qg
Wow, thanks a lot, didn't know this. I've been forced to buy cartridges as I run out of ink way every few months, don't think the black HP cartridges today even last the promised 500 pages, they can literally configure it to their whim.
I like the advice in Thinking Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman about estimating, which is not specific to software but still very applicable to it:

Start with a known past project that is in some way similar in magnitude and adjust from there. For example, "this is twice as complex as some other project I did, and that took 2 months so this one might take 4 months". Most importantly, resist the temptation to say "although 1 of those 2 months was because of unexpected thing X so I shouldn't include that". Overall, it's highly flawed, but much less highly flawed than anything else. This is called "reference class forecasting".

He gave a really compelling explanation of why estimates are almost always underestimates by a significant amount, and this technique is the best defence against it, but I won't try to resummarise because I'll surely misrepresent it. But I do recall he gave an example where he and some colleagues were trying to make a school syllabus about deductive biases, and underestimated the effort required for their own project.
No it isn't. It's open core. There's a bunch of features that aren't in the open source version, such as LDAP authentication and 2FA enforcement.
If you're a game streamer, the keyboard might not be an option (since you're using it to play), and that's who it's aimed at, I think. I can definitely see the appeal, just leaning over to tap while in a meeting or watching a video or something. It would be useful in a conference room as well. It's a luxury item, but it definitely fills a niche.
The "hardness" of money is unrelated to the boom/bust cycle, which is why the world went off the gold standard and Bretton Woods in the first place.
I think the difference between materials and software through is that with materials, there's definitely a better understanding that comes with actual aging that you can't really get otherwise.

With some new material, they'd probably need to rely significantly on accelerated aging tests (at least for a few decades), and there's always the question with those of how accurately those actually model real aging under real conditions.

That's not to say they shouldn't try new materials, just that the rollout probably should be slower, and maybe not so good for tackling climate change. For that reason, I can see the benefit of a less carbon intensive way to produce an existing material, since that could be rolled out/scaled up immediately without some of the concerns of alternatives.
> Employees are being paid by hour, so they wouldn’t care at all

Sorry, but that's just not correct. It's always someone's job to clean up this mess, and that falls on individuals. If they have to clean up a stressful mess, they definitely do care. A lot.

I've had to clear up messes in the past, and it severely negatively impacts my mental health. Never, ever think that it's a victimless crime. They might not feel the force of the actual crime itself, but there are most definitely employees out there where the second-order effects on their wellbeing are starkly negative.

Again, for customers, you never know what those second-order effects of the delayed cost would be. I'm not going to whip up slippery slope arguments, but again, you're assuming that customer interactions with companies are all one-sided "I can do this later" kinds of interactions.

We shouldn't hand-wave away bad things because they only impact some faceless "company". Companies are made up of individuals, most of whom don't want to be there, but most definitely care when they're forced to do more work by some bad actor.
The Berry Amendment (not agreement) applies to military spending with the focus on maintaining an industrial base. The Chinese list is much broader and you'd be crazy to argue that China needs to take steps to maintain its industrial base. The article has this (incomplete) list:

- medical equipment
- ground-based radar equipment
- testing machinery
- optical instruments
- items used for animal husbandry
- seismic instruments
- marine, geological and geophysical equipment

Free trade is a bit of a joke anyway when talking about China when so many businesses are owned, to varying degrees, by the state. Reciprocal restrictions against China should have been put in place a long time ago, especially around environmental sustainability.
> Their social services are more extensive, I believe the minimum wage is higher, and they spend more on infrastructure.

They have to spend on top of what they already do, because the current level is the baseline and is generally priced into market expectations.

As the original article is about Germany, in 2020 they had their first budget deficit in a decade:

* https://www.politico.eu/article/coronavirus-pushes-germany-t...

To put it bluntly: the Germans don't spend s--t.
If college entrance exams aren’t neutral with regards to race, then wouldn’t any job within that college which requires an employee to be a student at that college be violating the Civil Rights act? You’re effectively employing with regards to race.
> some provision of AZ election law that I don't recall precisely which states that if the machines aren't air-gapped the election is invalid and must be rerun

So, we don't need to follow the law?

The law is merely advisory and doesn't require our adherence?

Would you be this unaffected by violations of the law if your guy hadn't won?
What's Next for Object-Oriented Perl?
Paragon NTFS driver might finally make it into Linux
taviso briefly wrote about it at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20171450.

Not sure if there’s a more detailed account elsewhere.
> but just happens to be used for in game purchases

Because if I make a game where items drop, and players can transfer items between each other, but not convert any of it to real world money... then making the system, or possibly every single player, be responsible for reporting all activity and participants to the government is... to be blunt, bat-shit crazy?
To some people the Earth is flat. Is it rude and dishonest to call bullshit on them?
> high saving-low investment environment

How can such an environment be so stable? If people put their savings into a bank account, then this savings would nevertheless be available for investments via the banks, arn't they?
I don’t think any of the jobs mentioned require degrees.
> take the bottom two tiers of Maslow's hierarchy off the negotiating table, that's a net positive for society regardless.

Who could consciously down vote this?

-1 to HN perceived morality.
I think we have that for Sarbanes-Oxley compliance. I wonder why CEOs are responsible for some crimes, but not others.
The amount of value it produces for the theif is equal to the amount of value it takes away from the company
I believe hn mods edited the submission to change "helping" to "compensating". It would be nice to know what the headline was at the time of each comment, because you're right: "helping" would be obvious clickbait.
The Cyprus confiscation had a threshold which was much higher than your hypothetical 10k.

It's still wise to at least consider the possibility of a bank failure, qv Northern Rock.

Grandparent comment's advice about keeping an overseas investment is wise, too; as a Brit I've not regretted having US investments.
I've noticed that full sun makes a surprisingly big difference, even with the naturally good tasting heirloom varieties (Cherokee purple, Brandywine, etc.).

I wonder what the science there is. You'd think the slower ripening in partial shade (often a week or more slower) would result in a more complex tasting tomato, but perhaps the flavor compounds never reach a critical mass.
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23629488.
Brack also played (plays?) WoW and he brought us LFR [1] so there's that...

But hope springs eternal.

[1]: https://www.escapistmagazine.com/v2/wow-producer-discusses-k...
War were declared might do it.
Disagree here. Sure, for pure BW printing, buy a laser. But I like to occasionally print a photo or a document in color.

I am using a Brother inkjet/scanner/everything combo (https://www.brother.ee/printers/inkjet-printers/mfc-j5330dw) and it's magnificent.

* From CMD+P to page rolling out of the printer is less than 5 seconds

* It prints on anything you can imagine and scans from anything too. Duplex, envelopes, photo paper, weird formats etc.

* No jams. No confusing setup. No dingy and confusing on screen menu but a good small touch screen.

* It takes 4 separate CMYK cartridges so you can replace a color at a time. 3000 BW prints for €30 (€0,01 per page). Color cartridges good for 2000 pages go for €20.

Concluding, laser printers have obvious benefits for certain printing use cases. No discussion here. But please do not conflate the butchering and crappyfication of inkjet printing by HP and Canon with inkjet being slow/annoying/expensive/useless in general.
>at a time in history where capital has more power than ever is a total joke.

If you're talking about the last decade, maybe. In the current month/year? No, because the government is currently paying people to stay at home at rates competitive to employment[1]. With that taken into account labor's power is arguably stronger than ever.

[1] The median US hourly wage is $15.35 (https://www.statista.com/statistics/185335/median-hourly-ear...). With the $300/week subsidy from the federal government and 50% of hourly wage from unemployment, that works out to $15.18 for staying at home.
IG is used for messaging, so the inability to text back and forth is the issue, with or without the rant. Attractive people are reluctant to give out their phone numbers and SMS is uncool.
One of the underlying problems is that the capital gains tax code itself is designed for a world from a pre-financialized, pre-electronic world from the 1950s. The idea that someone might trade in and out of positions within milliseconds, possibly using complex derivatives or sophisticated leveraged is completely absent from the code. There's nothing in the code that addresses even how to treat trades that are done in the same day. Wash sale rules are literally non-determinable for high frequency traders. There's no guidance whatsoever on when and how derivatives are rolled against the a position in the underlying.

I run a HFT operation, and just computing my US tax returns required thousands of lines of code of custom software. And then to actually file it, I print off a PDF, thousands of pages long of each and every individual trade. Not a CSV, not a data file, literally a printout. As if some IRS accountant is going to manually go through millions of rows line by line with an adding machine.
If Amazon is confident the last election was fair, they would presumably see the current push as procedural nonsense designed to stop them from winning, and would be concerned that more redos just mean more opportunities for trickery. Would you feel the same way if it were Amazon calling for a do-over after a union victory?
>NOT on market manipulation or trading habits of institutions which is the key driver of malicious activity and harm in the cryptocurrency space.

How much evidence is there of major institutions acting maliciously in the cryptocurrency space, and the scale of the impact?

I'm sure there's likely quite a bit of market manipulation from some people or entities who hold a lot of cryptocurrency assets, but as much as I despise finance and financial institutions (of pretty much any kind), I also want to know who to hate even more, if applicable.

(Not asking in a rhetorical or contrarian or skeptical way; genuinely trying to understand who's accused of what and why. And excluding Tether, since we all know the accusations, there, and the comment seems to be directed at major US financial institutions that were huge long before Bitcoin was created, if I understand correctly.)
By having hard money, the system has one less moving part and is a little less complex and less erratic.
Thanks for the microplastics with a typical "no longer my problem" approach.
Merging the Physical with the Virtual in the Metaverse
> […] and I still don’t understand why can’t Japan just print money and give them to people if they want 2% inflation.

Political will.

This is not a 'technical' issue, but a social/behavioural one.
There's a heck of a lot more ways the government can make your life miserable before they escalate to force and a great many more of those ways are legally defensible in court.

Imagine if the cops had been menacingly tailing these people for an equally BS reason, what would their recourse be?
This is not a solution.
> inflation

Inflation is the only good thing in this. It's finally close to Euroarea target. Unfortunately it wild likely slow down within a 12 - 18 months again.
the more people's lives you are affecting in a positive sense the more likely it is you are making a very high income.

the opposite arrow is not necessarily true, but one wonders if there isn't a 'baby with the bathwater' effect with progressive taxation.
Past related threads:

Couple harassed by eBay execs tell their story for the first time - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28021067 - July 2021 (5 comments)

eBay’s Cockroach Cult: The Story of a Stalking Scandal - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24598144 - Sept 2020 (107 comments)

Inside eBay’s bizarre campaign against a blog critic - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23629056 - June 2020 (136 comments)

Six eBay executives and employees charged over alleged cyberstalking campaign - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23529035 - June 2020 (207 comments)
I tend to agree with what you’re saying. My impression is that the main concern is for current technology used by astronomers, satellites, navigation and so on, which require leap seconds to be taken into account and have a relation to the length of day, and which would stop working correctly if the meaning of broken-down time would suddenly change. It maybe wouldn’t be a major problem if all such systems could be redesigned from scratch.
It is a different time. CEO malfeasance was not tolerated nearly as much: when it was clear that he would be caught for paying a bribe to the Honduran President, the Chiquita CEO jumped to his death from his office in a Manhattan skyscraper.

Nowadays, what drove Eli Black to his suicide is considered “business as usual” and is no bar to someone being CEO, staying out of jail, or even elected President.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eli_M._Black#Personal_life_a...
If you don't own your home, that is a far higher priority than trying to protect a comparatively tiny sum of savings from inflation hitting the dangerous heights of 5%.

Far more important is keeping your salary up with inflation, since for most people 1y salary > savings.
Euro area yield curves https://www.ecb.europa.eu/stats/financial_markets_and_intere...