skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's the optimistic scenario. The pessimistic is USDC goes down to $0.98 and then people panic and sell and it goes down to $0.97, $0.96, ... Meanwhile Coinbase tries to borrow a whole lot of cash to try to prop up the currency. The amount they have to borrow keeps going up though and at some point they stop being able to cover the promise.

This scenario is not implausible. It literally happens every few years in the modern economy with different assets. Real assets that are backed by real things, not a completely synthetic currency.

The dollar assets backing USDC are the only thing that really secures it. Not "game theory". Sometimes you lose games.
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The “corporate paper” backing the now nearly $100 BILLION of issued stablecoins relies largely on crypto exchanges to continue making money in order to have any value whatsoever.

This is basically a giant distributed Ponzi scheme resembling wildcat banks of the early 1800s. Customer US dollars come into the market, USD goes out into the pockets of crypto insiders, and the crypto market remains propped up by the “value” of these stablecoins.

The only thing that keeps it going is that the stablecoin issuers (same people who are running the exchanges) have no incentive to collect the debt they are owed so everyone is happy (for now).

Crypto fans like to think they are innovating but all they’ve done is found a way to circumvent regulation and try a concept that was ended in 1863 by the national bank act.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wildcat_banking

If you think this ends any other way than regulation and tears I’m not sure what to tell you.
Move the hands fast enough and it's right every second of every day.
There are programs in the US to encourage physicians to practice in under served rural areas through student loan forgiveness and other benefits.

https://nhsc.hrsa.gov/loan-repayment/nhsc-rural-community-lo...

But those programs generally only apply to physicians who have finished residency. We really need to increase funding for residency programs in general so that those are no longer a limiting factor in training new physicians.
> support our shell-based colleagues

What do vim and emacs have to do with the shell?

This is another case of people thinking "shell" is synonymous with "TUI", which is false.
If the company IDE is annoying to use, then rewriting it is probably a net time saver. The time consuming part of coding is rarely typing the code, afterall.
Selectolax is nice, much faster than bs4 or lxml. Not a very well known project yet though.

Not sure there's anything faster on the javascript side of the fence?
The configuration is complex, but in reality you don't need to touch any of the configuration for most development workflows.

The configuration also syncs itself if you login with GitHub, so you're not going to keep having to do this or juggle files around.

In reality it's not that different from juggling around dotfiles and the various configurations that go into other software.
No it's not news, it's prescribed by the state constitution, and it's an arrest to deliver them to the legislature. They don't go to jail.
If you've downloaded a file, the system will guess in it's own way, and your viewers and editors will have their own settings.

If, however, you meant how the site is supposed to tell your browser how to interpret a file, it's in the Content-Type HTTP header. [0]

In this case, setting something like:

Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8

[0] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Headers/Co...
The FDIC moves the accounts to a solvent bank. Usually it takes a day or so and then all customer funds are available.
I don't know if DSLRs changed while I wasn't looking, but my old Nikon D5100 turns on and takes photos without delay, i.e. as fast as my fingers can actuate the levers. My phone takes 5s to wake up, 5-15s for the camera app to wake up. It is actually kind of a travesty how slow it works (Android on Nexus 6P) given how modern the hardware and software is. Clearly you could run a lean BeOS style system on it that would rival the DSLR.
No mosh? I've always had some latency issues trying to pull this off on my mobile hotspot or even just in general in SEA.
These are also the costs for Teams/Enterprise (who would be willing to pay more); I wonder if they'll release a cheaper/free SKU for individual users.
It's hard to know when something is Facebook, Google, Apple, or Amazon vs. when it's MySpace, AOL, Palm, or pets.com!
That's not a requirement. RTFA
How did SRE become such a non-skilled job almost like a CISSP auditor is for security?

Originally it was supposed to be a SWE who could also do operations, but there seems to have been a quick race to the bottom to remove all the SWE tasks and turn them into pure operations policy wonks.
I'm given to understand leasing/outfitting 747s to drop fire retardant can be fairly profitable:

https://www.outsideonline.com/outdoor-adventure/environment/...
Just to be clear: when I say self-driving, I mean whatever Waymo is doing. Tesla has assisted driving at best at the moment. Waymo is aiming for true self-driving.

Looking at fatalities would make the analysis easier, but when I last checked, Waymo hadn't driven enough miles to make a good comparison possible on that metric.

(They haven't killed anyone yet, but neither would the average human driver have done so, yet.)

So we would need to look at less dramatic accidents.
Well, technically ASML is based (as in, headquartered) in Veldhoven, but that's part of the same conurbation really.

Meanwhile, check out the 235 (at last count) technology companies located on the High Tech Campus in Eindhoven (where NXP is headquartered): https://hightechcampus.com/companies
Yes, from their Github page "The Bitwarden desktop app is written using Electron and Angular. The application installs on Windows, macOS, and Linux distributions."
Let's get some data, Sweden, 2020 SEK/y:

Approximated historic exchange rates: SEK / euro-dollar-franc: ca 0.1 - 0.12

Gross salary income at 90th percentile: 567 600

Actual sales cost for a small-medium company: 1 084 050

Included: VAT ca 25%, social fees ca 31%, other misc ca 10%

Net income after taxes: 420 492

So, about 61% is lost in taxes from gross billing to net income after tax, for someone earning at 90th percentile. "The world's highest taxes" is misleading. It really depends on your family situation and lifestyle:

For those 61% you get quite a lot when the system works. Free health care, education, child care, work-life balance, freedom, nature, social life, etc.
I do not recommend living in Sweden without a good private medical insurance. The public health care is top notch when it works, but without private insurance odds are it will not work well in your case. If you are willing to put in 10-15MSEK for a house/apartment you can choose areas with very good schools, but it will take you many years to find a decent rental below 30k/m.

Society is generally very nice, open, liberal, clean. Nature is wonderful. 6 month winter is made for working, 4 month summer is made for swimming. I generally expect to get ca 1500h efficient time on target from the people I had in Sweden, and I expect to pay around 1kSEK/h effective.

I used to hire people and place them in Sweden. I have sadly not done that for several years. Slowness of immigration, severe lack of rental housing, etc. A good gemeinde+canton in Switzerland is much faster and smoother.

* sources: statistics office, tax office: SCB, SKV
Yeah, love the dig at terminal editors with "ed". Anyone using one of those must be stuck back in the 70s on a 16-bit minicomputer terminal.
I don't use any of the features of VSCode. I just use it as a simple text editor. I'm mainly doing yaml files, bash scripts, and Jenkins pipelines, so I don't need any fancy features. I just "alias vs='code .'" and then "vs" in any directory I have code. It's just a fancy text editor to me that also shows git statuses as well which is nice.
Could just use sshfs with any of those editors
The irony is that they gave money to the digitisation of newspapers, but this outfit then charged money fir it abs cut out the general public.

Hopefully this will be like Australia’s Trove.
Because without proper regulation of establishment players, the alternative, which is competition from upstarts, is the only way to keep them in check, so stunting them only serves the establishment.
You can ssh in and run actual editors.
> ... I generally find that misunderstandings are more about "I said X and I thought it was only interpretable one way but apparently there was also another interpretation and that's what the listener got".

I relish knowing about those, too. That's a learning moment for me.

> It's not that common (at least in my group) that this is done out of malice ...

I don't see that in my personal interactions either. I've seen it in business interactions enough to look out for it. I've worked for and along side ethically-challenged individuals who consider agreements subject to interpretation, to their advantage, indefinitely.

(An aside - Thanks for the continued interaction here. I am enjoying it, though I should get back to work. >smile<)
If you create a Codespace, then install Projector, you can securely forward its server port and then access it from your browser: https://docs.github.com/en/codespaces/developing-in-codespac....
Sure - but that doesn’t help us now, as fuel has built up in many areas to the point fires are apocalyptic. The time to go that route would have been in the 50’s or latest 70’s.
Yes, quite similar. According to their definition it is a "library to automate Chromium, Firefox and WebKit with a single API. "
Why would that require a hard fork? It doesn't seem like it would need to be done on chain at all...
Not specifically other than having a cool toy.

However, I'm doing research into being able to turn this into a short range WWVB transmitter as I like radio clocks but my area does not get good reception. So I suppose, there's an ultimate end goal there.
Do you have to drag your .vimrc and plugins along every time you set up a new code space? My vim setup is pretty bespoke, it would be annoying to have to set that up every time.
Standalone vaults (including 3rd party sync) will not be part of 1Password 8. You can read more about this here: https://1password.community/discussion/comment/602340/#Comme...
Correct. Pen plotters have been superseded by large-format inkjet plotters for the most part, and those, like the HP DesignJet, still accept HPGL as input.

CAD software stores objects in vector format, and it is much easier to write a vector output driver and leave the rasterization to the plotter, than to roll your own rasterizer.
I can see how a web based IDE speeds up on boarding and reduces the friction in support and collaboration. But I wonder if it reduces the skills engineers develop over time?
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I'm totally with you here. Like, ideally you should be able to clone, install packages, and then do ``npm run start'' or ``python manage.py runserver'' or whatever, and the result should be a mostly functioning web app running locally. If it needs certain attached services, they should be 1) as standard/boring as possible (eg SQL, so you can have mocked versions of them for tests), 2) and added sparingly in only well-motivated situations (eg do you really need to have that caching DB, before you even have profiled real traffic?)

IMO investing time to keep applications "normal" like this pays off in the long run. It keeps development closer to "greenfield", which causes a general multiplying effect. Tutorials are slightly more likely to work, 3rd party packages will be quicker to integrate, etc etc.

(Note that this is separate from dev/prod parity, which is also good.)
I would ship a daemon/service that makes use of the user installed browser, if a Web interface must be.
Exactly. I need Intellij to be productive in such a horrifically spaghetti code base
Don't execute random javascript from the web in nodejs, nodejs isn't sandboxed the same way that web browsers are and it generally won't work any way.

That opens up massive security problems.
I'd absolutely never work with someone so arrogant (and, for lack of a more polite word, dumb, as you).

When I work for someone, I do the work they ask me and in return they pay me AND I get to learn something. For my learning process, I need the work part to be over fast. And that means I need to use stuff that I works best for me. I also need to be able to be able to fulfill my potential and spend time doing actual work (again, using tools that work for me). I don't want to spend a day setting up vscode and then realizing I can never edit as fast on it as vim what with the 300ms latency it adds to every keystroke
It does, but I have yet to need it. I use the browser plugin for everything. If a desktop app needs a password, I just open the FF plugin and copy the password myself haha.
That makes even less sense, though. Yesterday's news does not really compete with today's news, they're effectively in separate markets.
Yes I agree with you here.

Solution is not government as with the Space race. It will be won by private industry. I'm perplexed that more bay areas thought leaders haven't jumped on this problem given how close it is to their back yards.
They could just be logging IPs that have been used by a large number of accounts. They could also be tracking accounts that tend to hop between IPs and enforce more strictly on them.

EDIT: Oops replied to wrong comment.
I would claim that if you can SSH in, you can do anything, including exposing a network share over ssh.
I Helped Kill the Segway
FWIW, my experience has been that Bitwarden's autofill is pretty bad compared to other password managers (I recently migrated from Lastpass, and used 1password in the past). I end up having to manually copy and paste a lot of passwords because the browser extension can't find the right fields.
For development, what's the main advantage of this over sshfs-ing into an instance and using PHPStorm for example?
From "Follow the science" to "Who cares if it works or not?" in 17 short months...
Rand knows this 100%, and I find it pretty fascinating from a creative perspective to watch him speak on these topics. He's a senator and an MD. He is well aware of how infection control works, but he also knows that his ultimate job as a politician is to make arguments that will resonate with his constituents. He knows exactly what landmines to throw into a sentence to make it mean one thing to an expert, but sound like the opposite when it's on the news. This is why he gets under the skin of people like Fauci so bad.
i disagree. most people here have very superficial views about geopolitics , base their opinions on political party affiliations and are often manipulated. Sophie Zhang's revelations show that
Probably, but I am more likely to be fired for not doing work
Microsoft owns Github now. There is only really one way things will go from that point.
Sure, but it is unfortunately normal throughout history. Certain groups become demonized and it is fashionable to demonize them. Orwell had "2 minutes hate" in his book "1984". Jews were demonized in the late 1800s leading up through WW 2. It is now fashionable to demonize Russians. It is fashionable lately to demonize white people in USA. Notice the recent rise of the term "Karen" to describe white women behaving badly, but the non-existence of any correlary terms like "Shaniqua", "Maria", "Liu", or "Adita".
I do not have an iPhone so I am not sure, sorry!
This is a good article that every programmer should pay attention to. You will get older.

This is a replay of a comment I made a few years ago which strikes me as being somewhat timeless.

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I'm 60+. I've been coding my whole career and I'm still coding. Never hit a plateau in pay, but nonetheless, I've found the best way to ratchet up is to change jobs which has been sad, but true - I've left some pretty decent jobs because somebody else was willing to pay more. This has been true in every decade of my career. There's been a constant push towards management that I've always resisted. People I've known who have gone into management generally didn't really want to be programming - it was just the means to kick start their careers. The same is true for any STEM field that isn't academic. If you want to go into management, do it, but if you don't and you're being pushed into it, talk to your boss. Any decent boss wants to keep good developers and will be happy to accomodate your desire to keep coding - they probably think they're doing you a favor by pushing you toward management.

I don't recommend becoming a specialist in any programming paradigm because you don't know what is coming next. Be a generalist, but keep learning everything you can. So far I've coded professionally in COBOL, Basic, Fortran, C, Ada, C++, APL, Java, Python, PERL, C#, Clojure and various assembly languages each one of which would have been tempting to become a specialist in. Somebody else pointed out that relearning the same thing over and over in new contexts gets old and that can be true, but I don't see how it can be avoided as long as there doesn't exist the "one true language". That said, I've got a neighbor about my age who still makes a great living as a COBOL programmer on legacy systems.

Now for the important part if you want to keep programming and you aren't an academic. If you want to make a living being a programmer, you can count on a decent living, but if you want to do well and have reasonable job security you've got to learn about and become an expert in something else - ideally something you're actually coding. Maybe it's banking, or process control, or contact management - it doesn't matter as long as it's something. As a developer, you are coding stuff that's important to somebody or they wouldn't be paying you to do it. Learn what you're coding beyond the level that you need just to get your work done. You almost for certain have access to resources since you need them to do your job, and if you don't figure out how to get them. Never stop learning.
Hi! I addressed this question here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28144189
You get only cases when the authorities get to know.

Teachers are for example required to report cases in class.

But the same laws apply of course to any such content minors create and send to each other. Only that it doesn't get reported in any case (until now e2e encrypted chat is completely private for example; Apple is working on changing that though).

But there are cases where things got reported to authorities by social media companies, when kids used unencrypted messaging for example. Where else all that giant numbers of child porn on social media come form? Form a few cases before all the new laws to thousands of cases now?

No real pedo would exchange such material in the open as it's commonly known that those companies are scanning for it. That's mostly children not aware that they don't communicate really privately!

With the new law in place the numbers of such cases will skyrocket likely. As now it's going to be mandatory to scan for such content and directly report it to the authorities.

They can than say, "look, the amount of child pornography cases on the internet is skyrocketing. We need more online surveillance to fight this epidemic! To do that effectively we finally also need to solve the encryption problem"…

This game has been going on for quite some time now. The goal is also clear: More surveillance. This new law now is just the next step on a long journey. CP (besides "terrorism") is the vehicle to sell things to the people. It's always "terrorism" or child porn when they want to cut down the next civil rights…
Who pays the bill eventually? I would wish the people directly benefit from the power line should pay for it. (The article seems paywalled.)
This is a fun article but the author really should update it to include the AxiDraw[1] which is a modern, off the shelf, pen plotter. It makes EPIC plots because you can use what ever pen you want in it (as opposed to old HP plotters that needed HP pens). Check out #plottertwitter on Twitter for some really amazing things folks have done.

[1] https://shop.evilmadscientist.com/productsmenu/846
I once had a setup where I could just clone a repository and run a script to get my dotfiles set up. For Vim, I would just need to then run the command to install the plugins and that was that.

Edit: Here is the CLI program that helped me set this up:

https://github.com/thoughtbot/rcm
Agree with you. I'm doing my part. Also raising awareness is part of that. Thank you.
I have to confess I suspect our experiences aren't that different. In the same way people can choose to be offended, people seem to have chosen to find this a huge imposition.

I actually really dislike wearing a mask and sometimes have a mild panicky feeling of suffocating and have to move to a window. (I get a similar thing snorkeling).

But it's no big deal. I'm a grown up and I deal with it because it's a good thing to do for other people. I understand some people might have really strong psychological reactions and that's why we have mask exemptions.

But I don't think that applies to the majority of the people that are claiming wearing a mask is a massive problem for them. I really don't.
PG has moved to the UK.
Thanks for the "one clock" mention for east coasters, about half price from Amazon vs. LaCrosse directly:

https://www.lacrossetechnology.com/products/404-1235ua-ss

https://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/B01CCHXTE2/

In the Zoom Age, ambiently glanceable accurate (for humans) time is super useful, as is the temporal pie chart of time left vs. how much I have to care how much time is left illustrated by analog clock faces.
It's impossible to say with certainty which way it will go. There's factors pushing in both directions. You're right there will be some defection from the military to any US insurgent side but there's also a lot of space to draw divisions in the US and given enough people you can assign soldiers to fight places they're not particularly aligned to support.

My biggest point is that all the often cited success stories of a guerilla army winning against any modern military are all on a home turf vs invading army (and the guerilla forces are often heavily backed by outside forces or backed up by an actual regular army like in Vietnam). There are completely different incentives there, on the extreme end of things losing means you might be killed

Also don't be so sure about Cuba if you're talking about the current situation, it's far from over and they're not exactly a peer comparison to make to a theoretical US insurgency.
What's interesting is why they move. Europeans would mostly move for the ability to make money. Americans would mostly move for the better society.
"A lot of people think masks are very effective"

And they are free to make YouTube videos saying so. A US Senator, trained in medicine, is not allowed to opine otherwise, and is in fact banned from saying _anything_ on their platform for a week. It's punishing him in addition to silencing him. A lot of people find this very problematic.
The Adafruit HAT was out of stock earlier this year so I ended up with a USB-to-serial for everything but PPS (using GPIO) setup.

It's not the prettiest but works brilliantly.

Now just waiting for Raspbian to respin to be Bullseye based so that I can update to a version of chrony with NTS support.
> PG and friends all have their lives in Nor Cal where most of these recent fires have been taking place.

Thiel and Page have bought New Zealand residency, so maybe thr billionaires have sorted a solution? It does rain an awful lot down here.