skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The government forcibly causing you to be fired from your job because you do not want your body forcefully penetrated against your will, is far from an inconvenience -- it's being shoved into poverty. There are individuals who could die of anaphylaxis or thrombosis from the vaccine if they are predisposed, and issuing mandates that fail to adequately screen for these predispositions is tyrannical.
Don’t forget Apple got caught red handed fixing engineers’ salaries by colluding with Google.
My partner is a civil engineer so I go to a lot of ASCE happy hours and it is common wisdom among civil engineers that for every $100 you spend on infrastructure, you get like $113 to $117 in economic activity. I also believe that almost all federal infrastructure spending has Buy American clauses.

The linked Reason article makes some libertarian arguments against Buy American clauses that if you know anything about libertarianism you can anticipate, but I am not a libertarian and personally think that more things should have Buy American clauses.

https://www.epi.org/publication/the-potential-macroeconomic-...

https://reason.org/transportation-news/analysis-of-the-bipar...
Coffee makes the world go round
Could you explain the recapture please?
It’s very important to note that Apple isn’t doing something special to Amazon. They’re removing an exception that Amazon enjoyed that others did not.

It’s not that bad a look.
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The UK practise is for initialisms to be capiitalised and acronyms, which are prounced rather than spelled out, to have an initial capital (when rerfering to a proper noun) but lower-cased following.

So "Nasa", but "FBI".

There's some adoption of this in US English, though typically for words which have fallen into normal use and don't identify specific organisations or entities: scuba, radar, sonar, laser.

The UK style isn't uniform in all cases, particularly where initialism are pronouced with a mix of spelled-out letters and pronounced terms. So "HIV", but "Aids" (https://www.theguardian.com/society/2020/dec/01/through-posi...). I believe much US military usage falls under this pattern, as with USAMRID or USCENTCOM. In the latter case, The Guardian chooses the entirely consistent ... "USCentcom".

The same source gives us "GBU-43/B or Moab, known as the 'mother of all bombs'". https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/apr/15/us-mother-of-a...

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This summer a company well known for GA engine mods actually completed FAA approval for a 'drop in' unleaded avgas replacement: https://www.aopa.org/news-and-media/all-news/2021/july/27/ga...

It's limited to a subset of the GA engine fleet initially, but the plan is to broaden over the next year or so.
Web3 Work Matching Markets
Yep: more cpu cores, more gpu cores, more memory, more thermal room allowing for a higher clock.

Who knows if they'll call it M2 or M1X.

The really interesting question is whether Apple can meet their No-More-Intel timeline. I'd bet they don't quite make it in time.
Um, no, climate change is by far the greatest existential threat to human civilization. Civilization thrived for thousands of years without healthcare of any kind, and although inefficient and too expensive today, healthcare is a near non-issue when compared to the climate crisis. If we do nothing, in a mere couple of centuries Earth will no longer have a breathable atmosphere above 6C warming.
OpenSea has opened an internal investigation as per https://opensea.io/blog/announcements/employee-information-u...:

* OpenSea team members may not buy or sell from collections or creators while we are featuring or promoting them (e.g. on our home page); and
* OpenSea team members are prohibited from using confidential information to purchase or sell any NFTs, whether available on the OpenSea platform or not.
My fascination with viruses actually brought me to programming. After reading a lot about them, one evening I said to my father (who was a programmer) that I want to learn how to write a virus. So, he gave me a book called “The C programming language”… But I never actually wrote one :)
"We should allow companies the freedom to continue to abuse their employees, because some companies instead use that freedom to reward good employees" is not a particularly compelling argument, at least to me.

That really depends on the magnitude of the two problems. "Don't throw the baby out with the bathwater," "The cure is worse than the disease," etc.
Thanks, Scalyr looks interesting too. For our ~40 GB logs/day, seems like they'd be ~$24K/year - a bit more than the other suggestion (Graylog), but a lot less than Sumo.
Credit cards are also not actually that expensive for merchants. I think the average transaction fees for MasterCard and Visa are in the 1.3% to 2.6% range, which is quite far from 30% in my mind.

Obviously, one would cry out how cash has no baked-in transaction fee, but cash is definitely not free. While a credit card payment will transfer cleanly into a bank account with a clear trail, cash must be handled, stored, counted, kept safe, transferred and so on. All that time counting change at the counter isn't free either.
My most highly upvoted answer on SO is something from 10 years ago that I just updated with an addendum that nobody should listen to anything I had to say and should go with the other answers.
What you call terrible I called job security.
what do you mean by BTC got centralized?
As I recall, when Facebook was first becoming a thing, a major narrative was that the quality of discourse and level of civility would be so much better than anonymous platforms - after all, they're your friends, of course they're gonna be on their best behavior. Seems that didn't happen, at least partially because Facebook figured out that civility is boring, doesn't get clicks.
OpenSea confirms executive used insider knowledge when buying NFTs
That makes it clear. For a reference I've been in between the USA and Australia since first coming to the USA in 1997. The change in wealth of the USA is dramatic. Things were never as extreme in terms of the 3 miles of homeless camps i see in SFO just North of Kings st station. I've never seen so many sleeping under bridges in the valley are itself.

Things have objectively taken a downturn in the USA for the bottom 50% but somehow there's push back against this fact? People are arguing against numbers in this thread.
It’s a relatively descriptive title and accurate to the article. I don’t think it is terrible.
With cheap solar and cheap gas I don't see how it's going to be any harder than having the self control to not shoot ourselves in the foot before the coal infrastructure ages out.
You would have to be making $5,000,000 a year before you are paying 50% in California (see https://smartasset.com/taxes/california-paycheck-calculator#...).
In Econ 101 you learn there's different pricing models.

Goods on a shelf, like peanut butter, are called commodities and will obey a commodity pricing model.

Anything else? Won't. They will have different pricing models often better fitting an auction model, of which there are several. For example, rare art. Second-hand or used goods. Employee salaries.

For any skilled employee, there is no such thing as a single fair price for their salary because there's such a right-place-at-the-right-time effect. You can look up Timofey Mozgov, a bad NBA player who lucked into a ridiculous $64 million overpay contract he worked less than 50% of, because he happened to become a free agent during a summer the budgets went up and everybody was getting overpaid.
Can I override stdenv to not pull in GNU stuff, but instead busybox. Or none at all? Stuff like that makes the image really small…
Here's mine if anyone's interested in seeing how it looks before making one:

elias.thoughts.page

Look or don't. It is your free will.
> In sum, given the totality of the record, and its underdeveloped state, while the Court can conclude that Apple exercises market power in the mobile gaming market, the Court cannot conclude that Apple’s market power reaches the status of monopoly power in the mobile gaming market. That said, the evidence does suggest that Apple is near the precipice of substantial market power, or monopoly power, with its considerable market share. Apple is only saved by the fact that its share is not higher, that competitors from related submarkets are making inroads into the mobile gaming submarket, and, perhaps, because plaintiff did not focus on this topic.
Thank you for perspective; I felt strongly that I've seen excited articles like this several times in the last decade or more. I was starting to wonder if I'm missing some changes or concepts that would explain the discrepancy :)
If laws can only be passed using reconciliation (because of the filibuster) then only reconcilation will create laws.
The same arguments is true for apps. You put years in effort and then someone steals a significant part of your revenue.

Apps follow the AppStore law. Apple follows US law. And the later includes some social aspects like Anti-Trust laws, consumer rights, etc.

Companies exist in a nation. A nation serves its citizens. So when a company is treating the citizens bad, a nation has all the rights to enforce whatever is needed. Hence antitrust laws.
It's misguided in the sense that people in developing countries that don't have the leisure time to ponder the future of the Earth will be having kids, regardless of whether you do or not. If you want to go ahead and not perform your one biological imperative because you think you're saving the planet, that's your prerogative. But don't think it's going to make a tangible difference.
I don't think you need metrics like lines of code.

> Based on peer evaluations?

Based on their interpretation of how you hit metrics? Why not just look at the metrics directly?

I think it's okay if ratings are subjective based on loosely defined job responsibilities. That's how it works at FAANG.

Nothing is going to be fair. But I think it's better than just counting how many bugs you fix or how many lines of code you review or how many users your code acquires (which should be mostly determined by your product and design team's decisions).
They do.

This would be the next best thing.

https://www.unitedsiteservices.com/what-we-offer/portable-re...
Also there are the possibilities for various questions and exclamations.

Why did Jake ask "Can I have another biscuit?"?

I was frightened when Jake shouted "Who are you?"!

My trousers were soiled when Jake shouted "Boo!"!

Why did I soil my trousers when Jake shouted "Boo!"?
> They should sign an ethereum address to reduce ambiguity

^I'm responding to this

_If_.

I am still openly questioning the nature of blockchain and open ledgers: trivial associations with transaction activity and address history can be had or via more complex analysis with clustering, modeling, etc (ie: Chainalysis). I used to think that a simple signature confirmation claiming "this is my email address" would be okay for solicited communications but what would happen if the channel used becomes adversarial?

Apologies but I'm failing at framing my own argument here as I'm confusing the intersection and implications of the current "NFT art" craze that's been happening. For example, some Tezos-based art projects are in reality minting your signature on the blockchain with an asset they host on an external source, eg: ipfs. You own the signature but do you really want to publicly "own" something controversial and perhaps illegal within your country's jurisdiction?
Having a name with "of Region/city/former kingdom/..." is often their last name. Unless you want to claim that these people do not have a last name.

I can understand that in some cultures this might seem weird or antiquated but here in Germany these names are reality. Sometimes people with such names are descendents of royalty and sometimes someones last name "from family-name" is thier last name and happens to historically correspond to one of germany's state names or city names or just a little town.

One a side note: In Germany in 1919-1920 royalty was no longer a legal aspect that changed how laws applied to you[1]. When that happened titles that were reserved for ruling functions (king, grand duke) were removed and all other titles were moved to be part of the persons name (such as prince etc.) and could not be decreed on anyone new. These titles still exist in Germany but are simply naming "conventions" in a formerly royal family.

[1] https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adelsrecht

[edit] In Leonardo's case perhaps not but still i wish to elaborate a litte on the situation here.
> We have found most of them, and all the easy ones. Today the interesting things are near the noise floor.

The noise floor is not static. A major theoretical advance spurs an advance in instrumentation, which then supports more science. The hypothesis space is usually much larger than the data space, making the bottleneck theory, not data. The "end of progress" has been lamented again and again since before Galileo, only to be upended by a paradigm shifting theory that paved the way for lots of new science. Many of these theories were developed long after the data and instruments were available, and were produced with relatively simple data: Young's double slit experiment, Mendelian genetics, the photoelectric effect, Brownian motion, most of classical mechanics, quantum teleportation, BOLD MRI, etc.
seems like it worked but now I'm stuck at "Uploading replay" https://app.replay.io/recording/8731334f-4731-4c10-beee-7e4a...
That’s generally something that might be desirable for a number of reasons but it’s an extremely delicate change because of how stdlib packages import each other, and how types from x/ repos vendored back into the stdlib are not compatible with the original ones. You quickly have to ask questions like “do we let the main module upgrade the version of x/ repos used by the stdlib?” Maybe eventually we’ll find a way to do this cleanly and decide to do it, but large changes like this take time.
Philip Schiller: Let's force Amazon to use our payment system (2010)

ftfy
Well it's not. Remember when Apple started? Nokia was big back then. There were a lot of other options. Yet here we are complaining.
A brief cultural history of UFOs, from secret Soviet weapons to alien visitors
To me, seeing that punctuation is soothing. It's finding another person who I know thinks the same way I do, if only about this one, pedantic thing.
rqlite: The Distributed Database Built on Raft and SQLite
The problem, I think, is that it's a mix of things that are obviously silly (your own windmill) with things that aren't bad ideas (reducing meat consumption) and stuff that's just irrelevant (jogging). That makes it unclear what kind of sarcasm you're going for.

Even if your friends all know that these are pointless, the whole reason you're posting is that other people do believe them. So you know that there are people reading it who won't agree, especially since some are sillier than others. It's confusing.

Not that I disagree with your argument; see my longer response below. Just giving the usual lecture about sarcasm on the interwebz.
What a surprise - Someone finally gets it!
Or they're paid more, because their neighbour is a good worker, and too nice to ask for anything. Meanwhile Mr. Jerkface next door is a very mediocre, unreliable character, and is still difficult to let go, so he gets paid more, because he always asks for more more money.

Dynamic pay doesn't always reward the very best, and certainly not proportionally. It also rewards the person the boss likes, well connected people, and people that are just more skilled at gaming the system.
He's a public figure and a walking billboard. I can have an opinion on his snake oil salesmanship without knowing his favorite breakfast cereal. Do you post this for every assessment of public figures or just ones that attack people you like?
> The Mu variant isn't competing very well against the Delta variant.

I think this logic only works if a Delta variant infection provides strong protections against Mu, and a large part of the unvaccinated and vaccinated population first gets exposed to delta variant (assuming it can spread easily...can't find R estimates for some reason, which seems crazy). After all, the same was said about delta before it was prolific, and this whole thing started with one person. "It's not very present, so it won't be present" doesn't make sense, only R numbers do.
Correct, that's what I meant, thanks.
Spending more money isn't going to fix U.S. healthcare. The federal government already spends quite a bit on healthcare per capita compared to most countries. The U.S. has a healthcare cost problem, which is a lot trickier to fix, and is the results of a lot of obscure policies that have built up and calcified over decades.
Oracle Free Java License
+ Minor point

Per the emails, that exception was originally granted because Amazon wanted users to be able to purchase books (into their Kindle account) on Kindles, but still be able to read them in Kindle-on-iOS.

At the time, this apparently seemed reasonable to Apple.

In the time between that and the email, Apple sold a ton of iPhones and iPads. Amazon did not sell an equal ton of Kindles.

Consequently, Apple looked at the deal as "You're getting value, based on a device count parity that no longer exists. So when you spit in our eye in an advertisement, we're going to alter the terms of our deal."
If you mean "New York City", then please say that when comparing it with another state, because I can tell you from first-hand experience that large swathes of Upstate New York have a similar cost-of-living to much of Kentucky.
This email is Mecha Jobs
I guess it's been about a generation since I implemented this as an easter-egg in a RESTful API service I built. It was quite the joke then, but now with IoT "smart" teapots and whatnot being so popular, it's not so funny now.
> him taking a pay cut and increasing his employees' pay was nothing short of a settlement.

Maybe this phrase makes sense to you but I have no idea what's going on here. He gets sued by brother, brother loses lawsuit, and as settlement he cuts his salary to $70k, and boosts his lowest paid employee to $70k.

Like if I get traffic ticket can I square it up by paying my mechanic more?

> This guy is a certified scumbag.

I know some scumbags, they usually don't pay their employees. Like at all.
It’s truly insane to me how often the charge of “not a good look” gets leveled at Apple’s policies. There was a piece here about the Epic/Apple thing that concluded with those exact words recently. Like, imagine saying that to any business person as a reason why they shouldn’t continue to do something that’s making them a bunch of money. You might as well invoke the boogeyman.
Want to do a mini PSA that you should (probably) read Steve Jobs' biography if you haven't, it makes posts like this much, much more interesting when you have a fuller background.

I wasn't a Steve Jobs fan so I never read it till recently. Still not a huge fan, but you can still see the tendrils of his influence that still affect today's world (adobe flash EOL last year, this stuff by not allowing you to buy books on the kindle/amazon app on iphone, continuing to control hardware and software experience). And you can see how it's gone (4 different ipads, etc)
Call Apple what it is.

An evil, overpowered marketplace.

Anti-stallman, anti-web, anti-computing freedom, anti-engineer, anti-privacy, spy panopticon.

Poser.
>inefficient and costly

That is the best part of today's blockchains - huge space for improvements! I don't see the same opportunity in centralized services/protocols which are kind of "done" and control by few big tech companies with so many resources, which they use to keep that control.
I agree that the information asymmetry is unfair, and that jobs should advertise a minimum starting point. It communicates ball park what they are willing to pay to get the quality of candidates they are looking for.

But I'm strongly against any law that makes _my_ actual pay public.

I think they are two separate issues.
There's a guy on reddit making a written series on air crashes, with articles every Saturday and it's been going for a few years now.

https://www.old.reddit.com/r/AdmiralCloudberg/

It's obviously not extremely technical (though a lot more than I'd have thought), and it's probably nothing you can't get from more in depth websites but it's neatly organized, well written and the articles are getting better and better. I like that he keeps conjecture to a minimum too but still points out what lessons can be learnt from the tragedies.

The only thing is that I'd recommend reading it through the Medium link he posts in the comments instead of the linked imgur albums. It's a much better experience
What do people eat in the real world then? A quick glance and most of those many times in my life. I’ve never even been to SF or been on TV. In fact the only items I can say I’ve never consumed out of that list is Mate.
Everyone says they are for bipartisanship because it sounds nice but they don't seem to vote that way, as each parties representatives have drifted somewhat away from each other.
https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2014/06/12/political-po...

We haven't had much bipartisan support for anything since before the bush years really: https://www.businessinsider.com/animation-rise-partisanship-...

It was particularly intensified during the Obama administration where McConnell's stated intent was to pass nothing and make him a one term president, but he hardly invented the effect.
Best I can tell, von Neumann stole the design that bears his name from John Mauchly and J. Presper Eckert. von Neumann doesn't seem to deserve as much much credit as he is given. I'm not saying he does not deserve credit for his other work.
Any other episode recommendations?
Why do you have to make random threats towards website moderators when trying to explain your point of view? Seems like you're being disingenuous and you're not coming to this discussion with the ability to stop yourself and see things from other points of view.
Great article, very glad I read it.
Bill Cosby legally walks free but he still admitted to sexual assault. Court decisions don't change facts.
Worth reminding folks: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=thOifuHs6eY
I see the same on WhatsApp too. Family members blindly forwarding whatever outrage meme of the moment lands in their message queue. Especially for family outside the US who use WhatsApp as their primary way to communicate with groups.
It’s way past time to break up big tech
No, thanks. Any person with experience on large, critical infrastructure knows the importance of being able to make changes locally to investigate an incident.
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I don't do a whole lot in this space, but when I do I create base docker images to handle cross-cutting concerns like this. I end up with a little stack of base images depending on which ones need some large or complex install (python, nginx, node, etc), and occasionally you end up with a couple vestigial things to avoid the worst combinatorics, but it mostly seems to work.

You have to get past runbooks to actual scripts to do this, but that's not a bad goal to have. Change history in wikis leaves a lot to be desired, and when you're trying to go from beginner to mastery, the change history can help a lot.
Sometimes there are reasons why the world acts like it does.

When you disagree with the world, sometimes it is because of your own naïveté: maybe open your mind a bit more? Your comment doesn’t reflect well upon you IMHO.

This is commonly called Chesterton’s fence https://www.google.co.nz/search?q=chesterton%27s+fence