skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Here in Europe we have many of these issues too. In the Netherlands the country is practically run by big corporate, the leading party is basically a string puppet for them. Though the opposition is still strong. We also have extreme house price increases, decline in public education and health (due to budget cuts and privatisation).

Australia is very neoliberal but so are many countries in Europe. Though there is a lot of difference between EU countries. The Nordic countries and Germany are a lot less like this.

But between Australia and the Netherlands there isn't actually that much difference when it comes to corporate interests running the country. PS I've lived in Australia a couple years too :)
I wonder what the metrics are on productivity while working from home. They must be seeing some drop in productivity, because otherwise they wouldn't care. Having to pay less for office space and fancy office benefits would save them a bit of money.
The discussion for a longer timeframe is here [1]. It seems Moxie doesn't want this [2], and it's disappointing that he doesn't provide any explanation or justification.

I'd like something like 3 months / 13 weeks, but 3, 6 and 12 months seem like good durations.

[1] https://community.signalusers.org/t/longer-timeframe-more-op...

[2] https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Android/pull/6814#issuec...
I think the real reason is even more nefarious - by making this change they are dissuading expats from coming back at all. Why come back and use up a quarantine slot when you know you'll have trouble leaving again. Better just skip Christmas this year (again).
https://news.berkeley.edu/2021/08/09/how-wildfire-restored-a...
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The Chinese are doing it as part of 'reformatting' Hong Kong, but it happens in our own backyards as well [1]

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=22yqoDs1_TE

In our current world societies the university students are the most important visible protestors, because they're the smartest people that have the most to lose from incoming forced change. They're young and they see personal freedom disappearing.

However given the recent selling out nature of universities in Australia, we might lose this early-warning signal too...
I was asked to work on a project that used USDC. I ended up not doing it, but in reading the docs and discussing the project, there seemed to be a hand-wavy aspect to USDC. My impression is relying on it was a way to bypass many of the concerns (ie, regulations) about using the banking system.
Yes, I appreciate their engineering work. I did have to click the link to post my comment. I posted it for other people’s benefit because I understand the concerns regarding their privacy record.
Forking a coin is free. Anyone can fork any coin at any time. Most miners will mine whatever makes money, but some may mine for a possible future payout or altruistic reasons.

A fork is generally considered successful if it carries economic value. That is decided by the amount of users transacting in the currency. Working exchanges are a requirement for this, but not enough (as has been experimentally demonstrated).
Advancing technology is great, and yes, economically deflationary.

Some less creature-comfort things unfortunately have outpaced wages in the US: housing, education, and health care coming in at #1.

Granted, we have medicines and technologies we did not before.
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Well, elections usually happen around the AFL and Rugby finals, so there's a fair bit of drinking happening. So why not vote, get a snag and then get drunk. Seems like a win win for everyone.
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For people reading "web bulb" here and not having the least idea of what it is, first of all it's "wet bulb", and this article explained it very clearly to me:

https://www.iflscience.com/environment/why-is-everybody-talk...
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Well there's still gemini dollar, which apparently is also FDIC insured.

https://www.gemini.com/dollar
Someone will still decide to salt the earth with depleted uranium out of spite (see iraq) even if an effective alternative exists
Manual moderation doesn't scale. It needs to be automated.
Interesting idea, though I'm not aware of any desiccants that would be appropriate for the scale we'd need to operate at here. Silica gel, for instance, wouldn't work because there's too much water to handle. Dehumidifiers could be used instead, but they heat up the air as they dry it out. I believe desiccants also heat up the air, but only slightly. Maybe they would heat up the air a significant amount if they were removing enough water from it for this scenario.
"personal brand" in the context of the article is not about marketing oneself, but how to be a personable, reliable, competent, and helpful colleague. This as nothing to do about trying to get more money, but to have a more stable relationship with your company.

To be honest, this is an advice for everyday life, nobody likes a drama queen or a energy vampire around them.
Well you can use the installed browser on the OS if it's just to display content.
I have been there in a few of these buildings that use wind catchers. I can say that, as a modern day human, these work pretty well in their dry weather! I can that see you've never experienced it and maybe your skepticism is a result of that, but your reasoning is not sound.

For example, a significant number of "modern people" here in Germany don't have AC in their households. Point being, there are different people in the world with different conditions and not everyone expects the exact same thing. Also insulation is not a product of the modern world. We just now have modern methods for it.
I agree. With the 40 hours I’ve saved each month, I’ve wound up giving easily at least 10 more hours to my employer. I’ve used the remaining 30 to connect more with my spouse, work out, improve my home, read, and take mindfulness breaks.

My employer gets more labor. I feel more rested, so I engage more with my work. I’m interested in hearing perspectives where this is a bad thing.
Manuel moderation is not the solution. The issue is FB (insta) is the one moderating. Give moderation powers to the users, create a market for moderation. Some people will want whitelists, others AI screening models, others “manual moderation”. Let users decide what they want.
That didnt work in the slightest with the jewish community in europe, they were identified and forced into specific areas of cities or countryside. Unless by integrate you meant they should have just converted to christianity? Those that were in more liberal communities and integrated were identified and hunted regardless.
Yep.

if((now()-positivetestdate())<28days && person==dead) { coviddeaths++; }

Also suicide (our media has been told to 'carefully' report about suicide, and we still don't have the 2020 suicide statistics available).
And you really think a socialist revolution is a way to solve it?
> This is a real band aid that will do nothing to dissuade people from continuing their abusive behaviour.

Band aid, yes.

The only thing that will change behaviour is consequences. I don't verbally abuse people face to face because there is a non zero chance of being punched. I am almost entirely liberated from consequences in the online world.

Online I can't see the person I'm abusing, I don't see their pain, I have zero chance of empathising with them.

Even verified accounts wont help, if there are no consequences to me abusing someone. The next best thing is to hellban. (in my opinion.)

The problem is, doing that at scale is exceptionally hard.
Most companies believe they should establish wages based on location or other metrics instead of what people deliver. At the same time, most people don't have the bargaining power to demand wages based on what they bring to the table.

There are cases when a company will have to pay more to have someone is a specific, high cost location, but that is salary + location bonus and the location bonus really depends on location costs. But when an engineer can be anywhere in the world working from home, different salaries for people in different countries is not justified other than the power companies have in negotiating.
I got a rise and expenses paid instead. Which is why I haven’t gone to work for google or amazon. Also they’re bustards and I don’t want to work for them.
If you know that your clocks are exactly the same in New York and Japan you can assume that if an account creation timestamp in Japan is before the account creation time in New York for the same username that the account should go to the Japan user and the New York user will be told that he cannot use that username. Previously the way to handle that problem was to have all account creation be done on one server which will block the table while it is doing writes. That doesn't scale when you need to insert millions of rows a second.
Great overview, i am thankful that accessibility was mentioned as well.
I'm not convinced that dead trees in burnt areas are a major fire risk. Most of the fuel is already spent.

I'm okay with some logging. But it also increase the risk surface for invasive species infestations because you create disturbed areas with traffic.

The solution is more frequent, smaller fires.

https://news.berkeley.edu/2021/08/09/how-wildfire-restored-a...
No, dew point is the temperature of an object on which air will start to condensate (because cooling the given air to the dew point lets relative humidity rise above 100 %, i.e. condensation). Wet-bulb temperature is the lowest temperature an object can reach through evaporative cooling (i.e. humans).

The two are the same only if relative humidity is 100 %: 100 % relative humidity means that if the air cools at all, it will condensate; so the air temperature is the dew point. 100 % relative humidity also means that water cannot evaporate, as the air is already saturated with water, so the wet bulb temperature is also the same as the air temperature.
What if the Federal Reserve introduced an alt coin pegged 1:1 to the USD (upwards of 92% of the USD money supply only exists as digits in a computer anyway so this is definitely doable). Would banks, fintech, the government, or "common people" be the losers in that scheme?
Hmm, so both USDC and USDT have issues with the same claim? Before I did some research, and it seemed like USDC was more trustworthy of the two. Looks like in reality this might not be the case.
It's for perspective.
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I’m 61 and have been working in high tech since 1983 or so, writing embedded software, doing system administration, and managing people.

The article strikes me as good advice. I didn’t find anything to disagree with in it.

Ageism is a thing. People have all kinds of biases of which they may or may not be aware. You have them too, and so do I.

A line from another source that I keep in mind is this: “If you’re always getting angry, you’ll turn your nature against the Way.” [1] It doesn’t pay to be the angry, unapproachable person in life.

[1] https://www.dailyzen.com/journal/bloodstream-sermon
I assume they are invested in ultra low risk assets. Have those sort of things ever crashed?

I can see where they are coming from, because even Apple doesn’t really keep literal cash laying around, I assume no one does.

https://www.quora.com/Where-do-large-companies-like-Microsof...
The explanation for that is simple: the groove is a 1:1 copy of the sound wave, so higher frequency sounds have smaller details in the groove. Those details wear away faster than larger ones.

All mechanical record players have to pick a middle ground between picking up the sound wave and keeping the record surface pristine.

To prevent wear, you want the needle to exert as little pressure as possible. That calls for a large needle that’s only lightly pressed onto the record surface.

Unfortunately, that is exactly what you don’t need if you want to reliably pick up the signal.

To prevent the needle from jumping from peak to peak in the groove due to its inertia, you want to press it onto the disk.

Also, for the needle to pick up higher frequencies, it can’t be large (it has to be able to ‘fall’ into the grooves between the tops in the signal, and those are closer together for higher-frequency signals)
Really shows that Google (and co) are not willing to make some hard changes to fight climate change (besides lip service / greenwashing).
I think it might depend on what you're curious about and if that interest is valued.

For me it's multiplayer games, game engine architecture, computer architecture (built my own 8-bit computer). Learning Rust recently too. I get really excited about solving hard problems and bugs.

If I have to work for a boss to get paid, there is no way I would also spend my free time on projects just to impress some people. I got a little money buffer and no family though. So this attitude might not work for others.

"Fall in love with some activity, and do it! Nobody ever figures out what life is all about, and it doesn't matter. Explore the world. Nearly everything is really interesting if you go into it deeply enough. Work as hard and as much as you want to on the things you like to do the best. Don't think about what you want to be, but what you want to do. Keep up some kind of a minimum with other things so that society doesn't stop you from doing anything at all." - Richard P. Feynman
Larger amplitudes and frequencies should give steeper slopes on the groove and therefore larger forces and friction, makes perfect sense. Isn't this why more heavily used vinyls sound a bit muffled?
I see this is basically location-based cost of living adjustment.
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I read a similar article that cited the example of a 10% cut, for Google employees commuting from Connecticut to Manhattan.

Your mileage may vary, but to me that's NO-BRAINER trade off. When you're making hundreds of thousands of dollars, how is an extra 10% really worth the lifestyle downgrade of being trapped in transit for hours each day? To say nothing of the life quality downgrade of trying to do focused mental work in an open floor plan office all day.

I understand the gripes. But location, supply and demand, etc all factor into comp. Companies have to pay more to hire people in San Francisco than they do in Austin, TX because there are more people willing to work in Austin for less money. I imagine that long-term, WFH probably will result in lower comp than in-office work, simply because workers are competing against more people who want that lifestyle.

Personally, after the initial shock and anxiety of the pandemic's first few months, the past year+ has been the greatest and most satisfying period of my career and life overall. I feel anxiety from worrying about the possibility of battles ahead, if my current employer decides to pivot away from remote-first policy next year. I would absolutely, without a moment's hesitation, take a 10% cut to lock in my current lifestyle from now until retirement. If my current lifestyle remains permanent, then I may never retire.
Back in the late 90s I had the bright idea of shipping our COBOL runtime as a browser plugin. This worked relatively well for a fraction of our customers since we had a transparent remote ISAM & RPC system the plugin could use (the idea being that the browser plugin meant you only had to update your Windows desktop clients with new versions of the runtime; they'd get the latest app on load) but the rest had a huge thicket of system-level dependencies which made that hard to consider, and that was for customers who'd already been able to migrate off of mini/mainframe systems to Unix.

At this point in time, the mistake is to hear “COBOL” and think about a programming language rather than environments where they've struggled to manage technical debt and staffing issues for decades. It's not that COBOL developers can't produce good code but rather than places which can modernize effectively did so 3+ decades ago. If some place makes the news now because of a COBOL-based system, COBOL is a symptom of a management failure.
Wet bulb temperature is not the same as average temperature. See https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wet-bulb_temperature
Slaving your clocks to GPS seems like it just gives the USAF space command a way to, eventually, wreck your operations. If you don’t have requirements for accuracy referenced to civil time (such as mifid 2) why wouldn’t you just go with the atomic clocks alone, with gps as an advisory-only monitoring reference?
Tokenized dollars and dollar equivalents have many uses. One big one is that they make it possible to take advantage of defi products on Ethereum. It's not just "bypassing regulations" lol
Yeah I think the examples given are probably examples of hard exercises or the grades are a poor translation (maybe grade 1 has 6 year olds, for example.)

Another solution is with geometry:

Start with a 1x1x1 cube of coffee. Remove top half and replace with milk. Now remove left third of resulting combined shape (leaving a 2/3 x 1/2 x 1 cuboid of coffee). Now remove front sixth (leaving a 2/3 x 1/2 x 5/6 cuboid). Now drink it all. Now add up the volumes of the shape and write down the answer.
There already is a digital USD coming on the pipeline.

https://www.federalreserve.gov/faqs/what-is-a-central-bank-d...
https://archive.is/kEbGZ
>the concept here is to still have multiple screens and multiple PCs, but control them with same mouse and keyboard

I want more solution to this problem.

As someone whose job involves using multiple locked-down computers connected to different VPNs, tools like Synergy and Mouse Without Borders are non-starters because of the restrictions, so a hardware solution is needed.

The way I accomplish it is with a KM switch. As you might imagine, a KM switch is a KVM without the V (video) part. While I would like to recommend you search for them, the unfortunate fact is many search engines assume you've misspelled KVM and just show you KVMs instead. KM switches consequently have a chicken-egg problem of low supply, low demand, and high prices.

I most often use an 8-port Belkin F1DN108K only because one showed up on eBay at a very low price. I also use a lower cost 2-port Kinan KM1302.

Unfortunately, recent changes to Windows 10 no longer allow me to use these KM switches with more than one screen. The problem may be something introduced in version 2004. I also see it in 20H2. Might be an update that was added to both of them. Wish I knew, wish KM switches had some kind of priority support.
> individuals left to themselves make bad decisions because they're too stupid or too cruel

Which, to be fair, isn't entirely wrong. :)

That doesn't mean that the "authoritarians" would make any better decision of course.
Not being snarky - why does anyone need to be a loser in this scenario?
> neo-luddism has stronger ties to the anti-science movement

I have to be careful here because the frequency of word/expression changes trips me up a lot. Can you expand upon what you mean by ties to the anti-science movement? I'm not sure how opposing some forms of technology is strongly tied to being anti-science. That seems like an unfortunate accusatory leap.
Q1) Right now, we're manually approving/denying courses for publishing based on a subjective quality bar. Our aim is to be more of a premium course marketplace for career developers.

Q2) Ah yeah we have a ToS, i'll add it to the home page rn. It's still evolving.

Q3) Yup we want to help more developers realize they can be teachers. Figuring out how to better take a dev from Never teaching -> Making money while creating real progress in their students, is a big goal
I don’t know if that’s a good success metric. Feel like a lot of smaller, but revenue sustainable startups would be better for economic health than one mega-Corp crushing competition
These “stable coins” are more like exchange traded notes, which most investors avoid due to the risk.
People doing the same work already are paid quite differently. Some negotiated better offers. Others joined at a lower share price for their RSUs. The variance in pay is quite high at many companies.

Peer companies to Google also adjust based on zip code. And companies that pay the same regardless of location still don't pay as well as Google, which offers top of market compensation and has one of the strongest performing stocks in our industry.

My point is the market reaction won't change the dynamics here.
California / Silicon Valley is witness to that unusual and under-reported aspect of climate change where it simply rains money.
Imagine people had the ability to revisit your every single conversations with them. Would your relationships improve or degrade?
I did move out. I now live in rural Washington state.
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> Companies who are willing to pay the same amount regardless of location will obviously have an advantage in recruiting

I'm not sure that is accurate. Companies that pay the same regardless of location are likely to pay less than the going rate in high COL areas, and more than the going rate in low COL areas. As a general rule of thumb, a company can't unilaterally pay more for things than it's competitors and expect to compete; so paying the high COL rate to all employees, regardless of location, is not likely a long term viable approach.
This is much cooler than I thought it would be and calling it a proof language seems to undersell it. It seems to be more of a general purpose FP language that can compile to multiple backends and supports UI development out of the box (!!)
The world would be better if there were an honest, non-manipulable, consensus way of including externalities in cost calculations.
On the other hand, factoring in employee cost of living allows for the take home pay of each employee to be relatively similar.
I can't access the article to read it, but according to the USDC[0] page on the Coinbase website:

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

Is the part about being backed by USD or "asset[s] with equivalent fair value" the point of contention? Did they originally claim that each USDC was backed by USD (cash) only?

[0] https://www.coinbase.com/usdc/
True. And at that point I really believe unrest will be widespread. The saying "We are 3 meals away from anarchy" will prove its veracity.
Is it that people are taken in or just noticed overall? This was one of my early learnings in the workplace. A small portion of what I do gets noticed and I could just not have done half my work and nobody would have noticed.
This isn't really news, it's just better marketing language.

The new language is "Backed by fully reserved assets. Each USDC is backed by one dollar or asset with equivalent fair value, which is held in accounts with US regulated financial institutions".

They've have been open about their partial non-cash backing. Here's their latest attestation (page 4 is the relevant bit):

https://www.centre.io/hubfs/pdfs/attestation/Grant-Thorton_c...

61% as "Cash & Cash Equivalents", the rest in very low-risk investments.
I think cancer treatment is more expensive. Heart attacks have a pretty death rate.
Lately, I've been wondering if they are two sides of the same coin...
On principle I would agree. But such laws are so often carried on the back of fear-mongering that I just don't care about making an honest argument about it. It will be ignored anyway, in fact any serious technical advisor was ignored. So why not just reject everything that comes forward here? Spite politics work at least and have an impact. Not only positive, but that isn't in the hands of any honest critic.
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This is a bad faith comment. It's very likely not "whatever." It's probably dollar equivalents and low risk investments denominated in dollars.