skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That "low level fall guy" made $1.7 million in 2007. Unless if there was evidence that the higher ups at Goldman knew that Tourre was defrauding investors, but chose to ignore that evidence, I don't see how they can convicted of a crime.
It's time for a very basic question. Why is it profitable to not work or hire people?
I like that the name refers to a legendary ghost ship itself [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flying_Dutchman
I think the answer is "don't rely upon an external service".

BTW, Roku supported the Radio Roku service for 10 years after the SoundBridge was discontinued, plus the device isn't locked down -- there are community-based efforts which still let you use an old SoundBridge, with a little effort. However, I'd argue that SoundBridge-era Roku is a VERY different company than streaming video-era Roku.
That's the point man! Don't be naive. The company is not your friend it pays you as little as possible. There's no incentive for a company to pay you more than it needs to.
When I was in the Navy, the equipment I worked on was all Solaris
Discord’s pushing for school groups to use it, especially with the .edu pop up on launch

Discord School Hubs page: https://support.discord.com/hc/en-us/articles/4406046651927-...

https://www.reddit.com/r/discordapp/comments/p37s7s/so_disco...
I'm with you here. Not found the solution yet. Though there's a strange thing going on lately with lots of my generation is leaving to do some public service mission, either encouraged by the company (military 'réserve' is what we call it around here, and I hear the missions are really great, and the influx of so much expertise and good will from individuals is - from what I'm hearing - received extremely well) or just f'in leaving to help solve a societal problem with whatever tools they can bring to the table (be it IT for a non-profit, setting video conf hw/sw, doing personal support, raiding ebay for cheapest most-solid HW for servers or other missions, connecting PR people to worthy causes to pour their cash in, teaching all kinds of basic modern skills like opsec, itsec, backups, event organisation tools, group communication tools, ...). Huge pay cut but I see it a lot, even more since COVID-19. I may be in a bubble but I was surprised.
If we started putting politicians in jail for bad economic policies...
Slack added voice now: https://slack.com/help/articles/4402059015315-Start-a-huddle...
The study also showed that the hospitalization rate was significantly lower for fully vaccinated people than for unvaccinated people. Stop spreading fear.
British Petroleum ceased to be back in the 2001. Continuing to call them that is puerile at best and purposefully disingenuous at worst. Both of which detracts from the overall points the author is trying to make about the overuse and misuse of the term carbon footprint. Which is a pity really.
the writer has the responsibility give a source, not the reader
I think from a statistical standpoint, beating average is great. But the big difference is that we have this odd and fundamental requirement for justice/punishment in our society that gets lost with self-driving cars.

If a human driver kills someone / injures someone / damages property, people get satisfaction or resolution when the human is punished - insurance increases, license points, jail, etc.

But when a self-driving car - even if it's better-than-average - does something wrong, there's nobody to punish and no retribution to exact, so people will be left feeling unsatisfied. That's why the bar is going to need to be so much higher.
Checking account earns no interest. That's a foolish waste of money
Happened on the Golden Gate Bridge in 2007. No Teslas involved, naturally, but people sometimes do honorable things to stop an otherwise runaway vehicle.

> Beatty took bold and immediate action. He drove his Ford F-350 Super Duty utility truck in front of the Jeep and allowed it to essentially crash into the back of his vehicle so it would latch on, according to bridge officials. He then "slowly and safely" guided the Jeep across the bridge's southbound lanes and brought it to rest in a safe area, away from the flow of traffic.

edit: This was pre-divider, so a runaway vehicle on the GGB could have made quite a mess by crossing into oncoming traffic.
They already did—https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28293097, main article: https://www.scylladb.com/press-release/discord-chooses-scyll...
So why are you criticising someone highlighting annoyance of encroaching bureaucracy referencing a work of fiction that deals with this "shared part of human experience" in a "simple way"?

No one is saying its a 1:1 guide to reality, but as a nightmare vision of a dystopia gripped by unnecessary administrative apparatus, silly or not, it is a work of fiction that takes its root from reality and then makes a farce of it.

There are reasons works like kafkaesque, orwellian, ballardian become part of the lexicon despite all dealing with fictional universes of their own making...
I don't think it would prevent "new" abuse but just like you might have some material (books, music, whatever) these people have their stuff and it's not like every single one of them is a producer but they might be part of communities and catching some of them might lead law enforcement to bigger fish and hopefully producers or at least that's how I think the people behind this might be thinking.
Well Hugo can get you really great seo results but the way it handles themes is super annoying.
It sucks. The smartest capability I want is the ability to mount network storage, play video from USB, etc. Give me options for playing my media.

Unfortunately nobody owns media, they stream everything, hence TVs with "smart" features.
Holy!!! That site still exists??!?!?!?!?!! I remember when this was filled with videos which were mostly hosted on what were google videos back in the day(and a small number on vimeo). Must have been 2006-7-8-ish...
How often have you met compiler bugs? Also, humans absolutely can’t produce better code than compilers, at least not reliably. All those minor improvements that compilers routinely do does add up. And noone wants to write arcane hacks that make code unmaintainable and may not even provide a performance benefit (CPUs are finicky beasts, sometimes the seemingly worth option is faster)

I very much want my computer to work as hard as it can to make my code more performant for free. What I would like to see more is a separate debug and release build mode, where the former can go as fast as it can without optimizations, while the latter can be as slow as it wants and result in the most optimal binary it can produce. Zig does that for example.
It seems the crusades are always referenced but rarely in their historical context.
>isps giving out "correlation attacks as a service" to "i swear i'm a good actor" companies

>IMF recommends using ISP/OS/browsing history metadata for credit reports

>salary data is being sent to credit companies

I wish i could just only pick ISPs and jobs and houses and lenders and such which don't send information to tracking companies.

Sadly working for someone who pays you is illegal unless you report legal names, tax forms, and such to the government... and even making an online purchase without revealing your identity is difficult and questionably legal.

How viable it is to rent an apartment or buy a house, without letting others vacuum your personal information?
Are you saying that one person, without consulting other engineers, or having to do any research, made this decision in less than a day? Because I have some bad news for you.

The sentiment you express here is why interviewing is so shit these days.
I was a doubter for awhile.

Watching the Waymo video just changed my viewpoint.

They have a "Pull Over" lever in the back seat.

Would I trust a self-driving vechicle without Lidar--probally no.

Would I use use a self driving vechicle commuting, and around the city--yes. Two driving chores I hate. I hate them to the point that the philosophical argument over dying by my own hands, or a computer, is put in the trunk.

On a personal note, the thought of a computer driving me off a cliff while driving to Stinson beach is not something I would chance. Even if they are statistically better drivers than most humans.

I can't imagine tumbling down a cliff, and thinking if only I drove today.

I still foresee most trucking jobs, and most driving jobs, completely gone in a few years.

Yes--it's time for a Basic Income.
Which blogs? I'm curious to see more of them.
i'd love to hear your side, but i have to assume there is none from your explanation.
China today, us tomorrow.
The entire point is accountability, that seems to be what many people have forgotten. Also, you still have to use the state to enforce property disputes, so cryptocurrency will never buck the traditional system, it simply cant.
Its hard to say because they're not explicit about this but, despite being a decade-long Mongo apologist myself, I'd totally believe that they liked the linear scale story for Cassandra more from an infrastructure/config perspective.

Increasing top-end write throughput or replication in Cassandra is just adding more nodes, where in Mongo its not just adding nodes, its adding replica sets (which consist of 3 or more nodes). So there's a few more layers of complexity to that story. You need more replica sets to increase write throughput and need more nodes in replica sets to increase replication.

Im hand waving some details here, but I've worked with both platforms can definitely understand the choice at least from a pure infra lens.
Most end users loved Microsoft because they put real computing power in the average user's hands at an affordable price.

It is also important to note that Internet Explorer was a VASTLY SUPERIOR PRODUCT to Netscape. So Microsoft competed, fair and square. The antitrust trial was just Netscape getting assmad that they were beaten at their own game.
You mean like incompetent programmers who leak millions of records of personal information? When is the last time one went to jail for that?
An ugly workaround would be to embed the subvolume id into the inode number, but it would almost require 64 bit inode numbers and some tools make daring assumptions about the stability of inode numbers across reboots.
I would add RetroShare to the list.
The best time to do good transit was 20 years ago, the second best is today. SF needs to quit making excuses and make transit good. What they have is not good even if it better than everyone else in the US.
It’s well known amongst marketing people that targeting iOS users results in ‘better leads’
Its true you may not get to choose your household electricity source. But that doesn't give you free pass to start consuming as many kilowatts as you want. We make choices with what we consume. You don't get to buy clothes made from slave labour and claim you had nothing to do with it.

I don't get to leave my car idling 24/7, burning gasoline and spitting out toxic fumes. It can't be morally justified with "well I paid for it, mind your own business, go lobby the government to make a law against leaving my car on 24/7".
“Charlie’s good tonight, isn’t he?” One of my favorite parts from one of my favorite albums, Get Yer Ya-Ya’s Out by The Rolling Stones. Wherever you are Charlie, keep being good.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=jtno1O7NIGQ
Telescopes have improved. Jupiter has stayed the same since Galileo. May be the same as particles appearing in a vacuum as a property of a black hole and not the vacuum.
My experience has been fine after I learned that ankle socks and masks will cause the machine to jam. Now I just hand wash small items and the machine works perfectly /sarcasm>

Edit: I’m getting downvoted. Is this a well known thing not to wash small items? (I’ve been using washing machines for 20 years, without a problem until this one.)
I think this question is a much bigger than it seems at first. I made a streaming website a while ago, depending on how non-technical you are I open sourced it if you want to browse, it's not well documented, but it should give you a sense of all the pieces needed
https://github.com/MichaelEstes/Scrim-TV
I used Go as the backend because I knew it well, but you're also going to need a few databases and a CDN. It's a lot of moving parts without a black and white answer.

Depending on how non-technical you are, I'd focus more on finding the services that meet your product needs for the best price. Moving to a new backend is a lot easier than moving to a new cloud service provider in my experience. There's only a handful of them out there so once you have that it won't be hard to find a shop that has a great deal of experience in it and they'll use the backend they have the most experience in.
I text my wife to find them in the store; sometimes the received text sound lets me know where they are :)
> I think that autodiscovery is only finding the first feed.

Yes.

> Since you’re aggregating feeds, I’d expect it to find all feeds on all pages.

No, I don't think that would be useful. For example, a lot of blogs have autodiscovery for a feed of all posts and for a feed of all comments on their homepage. But if I want to create a multifeed of several blogs, I only want the posts.

Generally, the way I expect autodiscovery to work is that a link to the most specific applicable feed comes first. For example on the page for the tag "fun", the feed for the tag fun should come first, because that's most likely what people are looking for on that page. If they wanted the general feed, they'd go to the homepage.
There are three ways corporate America protects its executives from jail:

1) they allow their low level people to do the dirty work. They say “compensation will be a percentage of your sales” knowing what will happen, and put the disclaimers in a required training class that you can click though in 10 seconds.

2) they diffuse responsibility over a large set of companies with complicated ownership and partnership relationships

3) the Department of Justice never seems to extract the maximum punishment they can. They settle out of court for money, while bloodthirsty juries might happily hand down a 30 year sentence.

The effect is that the tycoons know they can get away with anything. Look at the recent Sackler family message that they would reject the paltry $4.5 billion settlement if they were not indemnified from other lawsuits. That’s the act of a party with a good alternative, not a party begging for his life while the crowd erects a gallows.
My intuition is that it isn't totally mistaken, more so that it is a massive simplification.

Whereas we seem to describe the brain as having "memory", as if that is something statically stored that is simply "retrieved" (somehow), it seems to me that this overlooks that the device that is doing this is also running an entire virtual model of simulated reality, which can not only remember things, but it can replay them, change variables and play them again, play them in reverse, manufacture completely fictional scenarios, run (as its default) a custom modified variation of "actual" reality that it finds more pleasing (this one has gotten lots of news coverage in the last few years), read the contents of realities running inside other minds (tens of millions if it so chooses), see into the future of "actual" reality, all sorts of different things.

"Brains have memory" is a bit of an understatement of what they actually do.
This very much sounds like storm with bolts in wasm. I am not really sure why there is so much focus on the technology used for this product rather than what it actually does.
The Secret Diary of a ‘Sustainable Investor’
I'd argue that any site with like/dislike functions which influence the visibility of posts end up this way.
Scala code is backwards compatible, only the class files are not - so at most dependencies could have become stale. With a recompile, the programs should work just fine.
> Saudi government (the one that assassinates journalists):

Just like the US does : https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/jun/15/all-lies-how...
If this drives people away from the Great Banality Laser, good.
Everything else was/is much worse.

Even years later it's still the only platform I know of that combines text chat rooms, voice chat rooms, and video streaming into one place, all accessible from your 'server' as they call it.

It also has clients for many platforms, including a web client, all of which look and function the same.

Any alternative out there does one of those things decently well, but either completely lacks or is utterly awful at the other things.
Here's some more for you too:

https://www.thisamericanlife.org/355/the-giant-pool-of-money (text transcript: https://www.thisamericanlife.org/355/transcript )

https://www.thebalance.com/what-caused-the-subprime-mortgage...

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-how-aig-fell-apart/how-ai...

https://finecoiitg.wordpress.com/2018/08/16/credit-default-s...
Here's an interview in which he says he didn't ever noticed it - and some other guy (whom I'm too ignorant to identify) - explains how Charlie came up with that.

https://youtu.be/CrAQQZi1Jf4
Nor was it a bank. It was a broker dealer, no banking license.
People get on passenger planes every day and there are loads of instances of those crashing for extremely unorthodox reasons.
Part of this is probably that it's such a young profession. Most people I work with are quite a lot older than me anecdotally, however.

Even though the frameworks and languages in vogue change rapidly, the patterns and logic seems to be very similar. When I have to learn a new language now it's more a matter of researching the syntax and idioms rather than learning from scratch.
I think of that as a parachute-rigger solution (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parachute_rigger).

Historically, people packing parachutes could be randomly selected to jump with the parachute they had packed.
Game art illustrators will be the first to get replaced with AI. At least on non premium titles.
Samsung and LG are so big that I would not expect to be able to make an objective statement on either's quality relative to another, not even for a specific product line, much less company wide.
Not allowing individuals autonomy over how they choose to spend their own money sounds authoritarian.
Apple has done this fairly successfully for years. The simple answer is, they'd rather deprive someone else of a good than have it themselves. Same goes for Samsung, and pretty much any other company that weighs their bottom line over general benevolence.
There are a few third party libraries/projects that are useful for that situation. Libpq[1] is one, and this[2] project is another. The readme for that second one includes links to several other M/PQ related projects.

[1] https://libpq.ml/

[2] https://github.com/KiaraGrouwstra/pquery
Covid-19 Rekindles Debate over License Requirements for Many Jobs
I was confused by this as well. The price shown on the S&S screen seems to be the total price for the full quantity after tax, which may explain the extra dollar.
https://archive.ph/CpyQT
I think that at least partly has to do with life circumstances changing, people get married, have kids, etc and have less time to spend practicing, reading.

I'm 32 now, have been doing this since 20, and (I think/hope) mostly kept up to date, but I'm also single/childless lol.

Also, as you move up, you inevitably end up managing/mentoring younger devs (unless you have terrible people skills or something), meaning you spend less time actually coding, this also makes it more difficult to keep up to date (in detail, you still know what's going on, but have less experience implementing).

To be fair, terrible people skills could also apply to still being single/childless at 32, I hope not...
The thing that gets me is that for commercial operations it seems to be a solved problem. They break and require maintenance like anything else but if they’re not outright broken they are super reliable where fridge ice dispensers even when they’re working suck.
Technically Skype existed but lost with the new sms-looking ui that everyone hated and it was hardly suitable for anything larger than a friend group. Then there were long-standing issues of voice chats being P2P and thus allowing users to find the IP of other users, enabling DDOS attacks on routers.
Was it the one that sings a Schubert tune every time the wash is done?

That cracks me up.
There are other movements in the region but they tend to be seen as even more antithetical to western governments.

For example, the PKK wants to establish a modern secular Kurdish state. Turkey, Iraq, and Syria are opposed because it would be in “their” territory (never mind the desire of the people in that territory for self-governance).

But why is so much of the “democratic” west unwilling to support the PKK? Because they want a socialist state.

Similarly, there is a large contingent of Palestinians that want to establish a modern secular and non-anti-Israel state, but you never hear about them and they never get a seat at the table—even though lots of people hate the PLO and Hamas—because they’re socialists.

The west really does prefer authoritarian rule with the minimum of western liberal values to democratic socialism with a full embrace of western liberal values. Profit above all else, so any attempt at socialism must be opposed even at the expense of those values.
Well, without starting a flamewar (.NET is an impressive runtime), the JVM is better at backwards compatibility, I think.
Saw him at Pizza Express in London, playing with his boogie-woogie mates... will miss that chap. I fear the rest of the Stones will soon follow. RIP Charlie.
Workers don’t want their old jobs on the old terms
I pay for nitro, I don't use discord non stop but it's great for a bunch of niche channels i'm on. I'm happy to pay $10 to a platform that makes it easier for me to find information and I know a bunch of my colleagues pay as well. All in we still support individual projects as well but truthfully it's the cost of a beer a month.
New Zealand has a bit of legislation called the Consumer Guarantees Act, and it specifies something to the effect of ‘the thing should have a lifespan commensurate with the price, free of defects or faults’. It’s really great - the downside is that we pay more for things than people overseas do. I vastly prefer that we have it.
Summer, Glorious Summer: Rethinking the friendship plot
Ah yeah, just tested it and it says "IF APPLICABLE, WOULD YOU BE WILLING TO RELOCATE TO DISCORD'S SF HQ? WHILE DISCORD IS EMBRACING A HYBRID REMOTE APPROACH GOING FORWARD, SOME ROLES WILL REMAIN HQ-BASED."

It is not applicable for that role. It is not applicable for most (maybe all) engineering roles.
> Discord uses proper markdown

Not even remotely.

Discord supports:

* fenced code blocks (but not indentation)

* quoting, a single level (nested quotes don't work, properly replying to other comments is painful)

* inline decorations (italics, bold, underline, strikethrough, code)

* inline spoilers (an extension)

* disabling autolinking (an other extension)

It doesn't support: headings, paragraphs, lists (ordered or not), labelled links, tables, images, footnotes, images (you can only use the image upload feature which puts a single image below a comment).

It also has a limit to 2000 char (4000 with nitro), which can be rather low when posting code snippets.
Scheme isn't large. There are many portable, fast implementations.