skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And I would be happy to end my employment at an employer that mandates what IDE you use. (I would not be surprised that GitHub forces me to use GitHub for development, or Asana uses Asana to track issues, this one is just too far...)

No hard feelings or anything. I spend 5-8 hours a day working in my IDE. That's a huge chunk of my life and it matters a lot to me to work how I want. I've also found getting this aspect of my worklife right greatly impacts my overall productivity.
I think you're basically correct, but I think the "commercial paper" or "cash equivalents" or whatever they want to call it is loans that originate from the stablecoin issuer, that are against crypto cold wallets of the customer.

There's about 1,000,000 BTC in cold wallets of customers of stablecoins. They prove to the stablecoin issuer that they control the wallet (send two small transactions to some address somewhere). Then the issuer loans them the stablecoin and holds the paper against that debt, denominated in dollars. This provides a service to create liquidity out of BTC cold wallets, which is why it is popular to begin with.

Since the debt is dollar denominated that means if the stablecoin falls to $.50 then they have to pay back half the debt in real USD. So that creates upwards pressure to maintain the PEG. Downwards pressure is easy and just profit taking if it exceeds $1.00

Also explains why Tether printing stops once the outstanding number of Tethers is worth roughly 1,000,000 BTC and BTC pulls back. Once the BTC price falls much lower than that, you start to see redemptions and burn. Then when it rises near that point again you start to see more issuance.

This also answers the question of "who buys Tethers with USD?" Nobody does, it is all crypto debt.

And this all creates a positive feedback cycle driven by debt, backed by crypto. What could go wrong?
USSR was much more secular than US is today.

Downgrading jews in prestigious universities back in USSR had nothing to do with antisemitism as it is understood by most readers on HN.

The reason was pragmatic. Jews were likely to emigrate, taking precious knowledge to US or Israel. This also made it difficult to place them in the military industrial complex upon graduation.

The authors of the above paper are emigrants to US, this kind of proves the point.
Where do they draw the line for what is "code"? Does HTML/CSS not count? Browsers will take complicated actions based on that downloaded data. Even PDF is up there if you ask me...
People are unlikely to start a mass migration from traditionally cold climates, but it is very likely that a mass migration will start when densely populated regions become lethal a couple of times a year.
This was the thing that jumped out at me! I'm not sure how the VSCode application interacts with these to potentially put them to sleep, but dang that is $$$ for a dev machine at the scale github is operating at.

I guess lucky for them to be owned by Microsoft now and so that's just a cost of doing business. I have a hard time believing they could have even considered an approach like this if they were still paying for hardware out of pocket.

Kudos to the team for figuring it out though.
Many companies don't have positions titled staff, principle, etc. A lot just stop at senior, or use numbers, etc. My current shop has SE1,2,3,4,5,6. 4 is what most tech companies would call a staff engineer, 5 a principle, and I'm not sure if we actually have any 6s at the moment.
ownership issues aside, the "magic" under the hood is not a problem assuming it actually works. Its when the magic breaks, or works in unexpected ways, then it becomes a problem. Magic is also progress, and progress is usually good.
That's not counter intuitive at all: Desktop VS Code is a web app running in chromium.
Scientific experts have never been confused about what the '95' in 'N95' stands for.
3 major US airlines will not mandate shots for their unvaccinated workers
The actual science on the effectiveness of masks is mixed. While they can reduce the risks of viral transmission in certain limited circumstances there's no scientific consensus on masks as a widespread public health measure. If anyone believes the science is settled then please read this article.

https://www.medpagetoday.com/opinion/vinay-prasad/93803

While Google (YouTube) is a private company and can censor whatever they want for any reason (or no reason at all) it is highly concerning that their near monopoly status gives them the power to shut down public debate. Even if you think Sen. Paul is wrong on this particular issue, how will you feel when YouTube decides to censor a political viewpoint that you support?
There wouldn't be any Russian mercenaries in Libya in the first place, had it not been for the complete destruction of the country by Western forces a couple of years ago.
So if I want to use IntelliJ or RubyMine, is there a workaround?
You're saying that I should consider changing my views not to be equal to views of accounts who are called "paid trolls" by somebody.
Nice approach to self-censorship.
For certain values of “fully backed by reserves”
The author mentions, “Watch out for HPIB-only plotters!” — I forgot to take that advice when I bought a plotter from a scrap shop a few years back and thought I was completely out of luck. Spent a fair amount of time googling, and I ended up building an HPIB-to-serial bridge using an Arduino to get life out of the machine. Works just fine now! I’ve been meaning to write up how that works in case anyone’s in a similar disposition.
>But it's no big deal.

It's no big deal for you, fine. I acknowledge that but It is a big deal for me.

>I'm a grown up and I deal with it because it's a good thing to do for other people.

well not to me, when you wearing mask when interacting with me you are not doing a good thing for me.

I'm much prefer for you to not wear mask when you interact with me but still I wouldn't force you.

Its also one of the reason for me to not wear mask when interacting with other people, its a good thing to do for other people.
I am curious about what you consider a good gemeinde+canton. I've been thinking about moving to Switzerland but coming from a much more unitary country I am not used to finding a particular gemeinde this improtant!
Use your own personal blog, Matrix rooms, IRC/XMPP
I have been working on a decentralized social media platform that uses a token w/o cash value as a reputation and moderation system. The goal is to avoid needing a centralized content moderator. I'd love to chat about it if it sounds interesting.

We're currently using a telegram group chat as groups are still in development, only direct messages work due to complexity around the encryption.

A link to our chat is here:
https://t.me/stampchat

A description of how things work is here:
https://www.stampchat.io/whitepaper.pdf
That’s why you need forest rangers, isn’t it? (... I’m not really sure what this job is called in English.) If you don’t allow fires to clean out fallen, rotten or decrepit trees, you can have people that just walk the forest and clear them by hand. That doesn’t mean there won’t still be fires, of course, but they won’t be fatally bad unless you happen to be there at the time.

Then again, I’m thinking of a pine forest in a temperate climate, in which a fire of this kind doesn’t really harm the mature trees much. I think some other types just burn out instead and have a succession of ecosystems that restores the resulting patch from the literal (extremely fertile) ashes over the course of several decades. I’ve no idea where a California forest ranks on this scale, and while a forest may be completely fine with letting many square kilometres be completely razed and then heal over the course of a couple of centuries, as long as it happens rarely enough, humans will be understandably miffed.
"Everyone is so rich that nobody cares about politics anymore and they all just go to the beach instead" sounds like a wonderful end-goal for which all countries should strive.
Because those simple financial calculations need to be done reliably, for many, many clients at once, without falling over. You can requisition redundant cloud instances equivalent to tens or hundreds of real-world x86 computers, or you can do it on a mainframe. My guess is the cost works out about the same either way.

(Insert image here of IBM System z as Omni-Man, pointing to two fighter jets in the distance marked "AWS" and "Azure" and saying "Look what they need to mimic just a fraction of our power!")
After the first sentence I was like 'yea but litte better than Piers Anthony' but then you nailed it with the YA tag.

I've read a lot of forgotten realms books, and Dragonlance, but as I've grown I wanted something more adult I guess.

I've read the Malazan Book of The Fallen series and loved it but I felt it went off-rails, I prefer sagas that at least know where they will end up- as opposed to just figuring it out as you go (like Stephen King's 'Gunslinger').

As I've gotten older I can't do filler (why I hate most modern anime without a site that tells you which are filler episodes and so safe to skip).

I refuse to even watch any anime series on Netflix as they are all filler except the first and last 2 episodes (that new olympus series is exactly this).

Anyway does anyone have some more 'adult' sci/fantasy books or series to recommend?
> (Israeli mines too, but at least the army has the maps for them).

> they drift inside the terrain over the decades and they can get even in areas that were thought to be clear.

Hmm.
A Subconscious Dilemma
Around the UK too. The North Channel between Scotland and Northern Ireland contains ~1,000,000 tons of munitions. It was supposed to be dumped in the deep channel, but in rough weather the boats would dump it a few hundred metres offshore [1]. Separately, 1500 tons of TNT is deteriorating in a grounded WWII ship just off Sheerness in the south-east of England [2]. I wouldn't live there!

[1]: https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg14820042-200-the-ww2-...
[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_Richard_Montgomery
Not really, as long as you can bring needed talent to your location. I have barely seen graduates of Berlin universities on the job market, but Berlin startups are a thing and we have plenty of big names here. „Weltstadt“ can be attractive itself. On the other side, St.Petersburg does have at least one great technical university (ITMO), but is it more vibrant and innovative?
They do. I was refused service at a grocery store for having an out-of-state driver’s license. I tried having my 21+ sister who was with me purchase the beer with her in-state ID and they refused because they thought it was a straw purchase.
Ironically, it was Netflix and Steam that proved if you make things accessible the amount of people pirating content diminishes. People DO want to pay fair prices to legally obtain or consume content.
Numbers are equivalent to titles. You presumably don’t have senior as title either.
My company (I'm not the hiring manager, just in the know) has been struggling to find any kind of programmer who either knows Elixir, or who is willing to learn.

I'd love to help them along because the workload is getting rough. Are there any tips you can share about finding them? Where do you post ads, what's the process like, remote or in person? Anything would help. Thank you!
FWIW here's what the CoinBase USDC page used to say about the backing: "Each USDC is backed by one US dollar, which is held in a bank account."

It now says: "Each USDC is backed by one dollar or asset with equivalent fair value, which is held in accounts with US regulated financial institutions."

The former statement was not true. Or at least is not now.

https://web.archive.org/web/20210126125109/https://www.coinb...
I assume this is similar to delta-sigma ADC/DAC, where you shift all the noise to a higher spectrum, so you can easily cut it all off?
Show HN: OCR Invoices and Receipts in Seconds Using Go SDK
Here's an introduction to the Go SDK for Veryfi API that the team and I have been working on. We're gonna walkthrough a problem (having thousands of backlogged receipts) and solve it together by leveraging the Go SDK. Let me know what you all think.

https://veryfi.com/go
> I am saying, as one of them, that TikTok gave these "vulnerable" something that other platforms don't.

I have been incredibly disappointed by the queer presence on TikTok. Most of the people who I watched seemed misinformed, or were trying to sell me something. The shorter length of the medium encourages sensationalized media rather than longer, more reasoned takes. Furthermore, there's not a single worse place for vulnerable communities to exist than a Chinese app. China has demonstrated, at length, that they intend to oppress their queer population, Uighur population, Taiwanese population, student population and anyone who opposes them politically. As a queer person myself, I couldn't imagine a less comfortable platform if I tried. TikTok feels like a clinical exposure to queer identity, stripped of passion and packaged as a shiny toy. It's demeaning and degrading.

> My point was that TikTok is more than that (addictive entertainment). It saves lives too.

I think every social media platform of a certain size has "saved a life" before. I remember hanging out in an IRC chat with people who I used to drink with, and we had to call 911 for someone who had alcohol poisoning. There was only like 30-40 members, so "life saving" can really happen on any platform.

Communities can happen anywhere, too: you just need passionate people to drive them. I hope in the future there will be less corrupt/centralized alternatives, if you feel that this medium is particularly helpful for you.
There is money to be made in lifting things out of the gravity well. It's an obvious pile of cash to go after. Comparing the two is a bit disingenious.
> It appears to be personal and emotional; not based on any empirical data

I don't think that's true. I think you're conflating ageism with bias against someone who worked at one place for a really long time.

As a hiring manager, I'd be excited about talking to someone 50+ and the experience they can bring to the table, as well as their unique ability to mentor me as a manager because they have so much experience being managed.

But I'd be wary of someone who worked so long at one place, because I've worked with people like that, and it usually doesn't go well. They tend to believe that the way things were done at their last company is the only way things can be done. They were so senior at their previous company that they always got their way simply because of their seniority, and do not have a lot of experience being the new person.

Someone who worked that long at one place would have a high bar to clear, because I'd need some pretty solid proof that you worked on projects that required you to learn new skills, that you had experience working with different groups of people and different managers with different styles. All of these things I can assume are true with someone who has had multiple jobs.

And lastly, while you have a lot of experience, it's not a diversity of experience, at least not like someone who has worked at more places.

So all told, I'd rather have someone with 30 years of work experience at four or more companies than someone with 30 years of experience at one company.
Dang, but thanks. I'm going to assume that v8 will come out after Monterey, so we will probably get Monterey support in v7? Do you know if there's a date for when v7 is EOL? Thinking about security updates, mostly.
This is underestimating the UI problems of video games. Open up something like World of Warcraft, or Civ 6. There's a fairly complete windowing system, IME, accessibility features, and even the means for users to build custom UIs.

It's still common to see games list some UI framework in the opening credits.
Finding a trustworthy oracle is always a problem.

Either you can let (systemically important) people buy whatever junk they want, or you can mandate a minimum bar.

But if you mandate a minimum, who judges what does or doesn't meet it?
> telling people to contact their ISPs about this, when it's so obvious that the problem is on Netflix's end

They are telling them to contact their ISP because either their ISP directly or the ISPs customers(or the person complaining) are using the ISPs IP addresses to circumvent geo restrictions.

So, I'd wager it's more likely the person/the persons household themselves have either wittingly or unwittingly been using something(e.g. Hola VPN) which enables others to proxy through their home IP (& vice versa)
Use a numbers station and shortwave.
seems to be nothing besides "printing money is bad"
Even Facebook itself doesn't have this viewpoint. They are openly acknowledging they want to influence behavior in the real world outside of the mere use of just the Facebook app.
SRE is a highly skilled job. It is actually difficult. Doing a root cause analysis or investigating an infrastructure blackhole is a very rare skill. You have to be aware of the end-to-end landscape, or atleast communicate well with the stakeholders who own the domain and resolve issues, manage expectations, huge pressure dealing with time critical issues.

Having seen all of roles, being SRE was the only time when a slack message sounds would trigger anxiety in me.
The unicast PTP support can be limited to boundary clocks and the enterprise profile doesn't require transparent clocks to support the unicast mode.

Also, there are different types of PTP transparent clocks. They can either be end-to-end or peer-to-peer, and either one-step or two-step clocks. To be useful for NTP, I think it would need to be an end-to-end transparent clock and ideally it would be a one-step clock to avoid dealing with with the follow-up messages.
I checked my bookmarks, and there have been success stories for porting cobol into other languages. Here's a discussion from 2019, from cobol into Java: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19839563

Phase 1: automation of cobol to (ugly) Java

Phase 2: make the code more idiomatic for (cleaner) Java

Phase 3: move the infrastructure to AWS

In the discussion, someone mentioned "There are commercial COBOL compilers available that compile to Java bytecode."

Offhand, if someone were still on cobol, I'm not sure if they'd trust the comparatively new Elixir, but I can also see leapfrogging being a thing. (And I know it's based on Erlang, which pre-dates Java.)
I really don't understand why you're arguing with my explanation. I'm not attacking fortran, I'm explaining why it will feel old to people: because it has things in it that people moved on from. Heck, I'd even agree that it is a sort of bad attitude to automatically discount something because of such legacy. But there are clear historical artifacts in the language (like most languages today).

> A very clever way of applying your algo to a submatrix from the days of sequence association and no array expressions.

This isn't why you specify the leading dimension, it is just a useful feature of the leftover artifact of the lack of dynamic allocation. If the algorithms were written today, the array slicing notation would simply be used to achieve that.

Back in Fortran 66 days, you would compile a large 2d array to solve the biggest problem you wanted to solve because you couldn't dynamically allocate. The alternative would be to change the source code and compile, but that was untenable. Then you would set your array elements with ordinary matrix notation but you would need to specify the stride to the solver to work with that: thus yes, it was solving a block, but it is only capable of solving the upper block. So clearly not intended for general submatrix solving: it is meant for using the upper block of a matrix in lieu of dynamically allocating the matrix to the correct size. Alternatively they could have required people to work with 1d arrays and manually handle the matrix indexing, but that would have been unfriendly.
Ants Eating Timelapse #3: McDonald's Baked Apple Pie
I kind of don't understand why customer support would answer customer questions that way — Oh my, did you just a question about Electron? Because I swear you asked about our RUST BACKEND. Let's talk more about that.
> Are wildfires not an engineering problem?

No, they're 90% a political problem.

It's politics that dictates whether we have a workable schedule of controlled burns.

It's politics that dictates whether electrical cables get buried.

It's politics that dictates whether you can build new homes in wildfire-prone areas.

It's politics that dictates whether those new homes get electricity without paying the costs of burying the supply cables needed.

It's politics that dictate how many firefighters we're willing to pay for, and what equipment they have.

And it's politics that dictates whether idiots can get their hands on explosives for gender reveal parties.

Oh, there are some contributions that could be made with engineering - lower cost ways of burying cables, for example - but I doubt the adtech companies have any special expertise there.
I think the disconnect tends to be the assumption that "moralizing" is bad, thus if one is justified in their proposal, they aren't moralizing. That isn't the case. To be moralize, you just need to be making an argument on moral grounds, repeatedly.

The abolition (of slavery) movement in the 19th century was a moralizing one. And they were very right!

The irony is when one proclaims not to be moralizing in their argument, but are indeed making a moral argument, insistently, including the insistence they aren't moralizing.

The challenge is that to anyone who doesn't want to hear the message, having something be repeated continuously is frustratingly annoying. And it sure doesn't help any overall movement when specific extremes of that movement, or cherry-picked instances of that movement can be highlighted as representing the whole thing. This is certainly factor in the increasing polarization of society, for if the other-side is full of moralizing assholes, why should I bother listening to them? Especially if they are just going to keep repeating their same tired BS? This can apply to both sides of some many contemporary debates - independent of the merit of either side!
Wait, really? This seems like a buried lede.
Oh well. Thankfully I only use at company issued laptop.
We had a banterish atmosphere (lots of smack talk across the cubicle walls) with almost everyone on the team over 40. But it was grown-up banter, not high school banter. It wasn't passive aggressive, "hah hah only serious"; it was just fun banter. If we really wanted to communicate something to someone, it was handled very differently.

And when a woman joined the team, well, there wasn't any sexual harassment or sexism. But don't turn your back on her when she's got a nerf gun...
I love this rule! I try to do the same thing. I look at it as an investment...long return. Arguing to win daily is a fools game. As you say, make your point and watch things unfold. Over the long run, if your guidance along the way would have have been correct, well...the arguments stop eventually. The downside is that everyone assumes you are always correct...which is bad. Which means, you need to frame your guidance with some form of caveats/probability.
The Nakagin Capsule Tower in Tokyo: 140 tiny apartments [video]
Practically speaking... I guess you get used it. Yesterday I spent the afternoon outside by a river in 200+ AQI, and it didn't seem too bad. I use an N95 mask if it's bothering me, and a respirator if I have a lot of work to do outside.

The main issue for me so far has been psychological. Summer used to be peak season here, with tons of amazing nature and outdoor activities. Now, it's just a waiting game until the rain starts back up again.

The loss of place is palpable, honestly. My niece and nephew have never gotten to experience a normal summer:
https://imgur.com/a/EAVStxe

Edit: This graph cuts off at 2018, but believe me when I say that 2019, 2020, and 2021 have been even worse.