skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Isn't this entirely unrelated to twitter though? This is just Strike's value proposition right? What does twitter add to this?

Also, is the claim about fees really true? If you look at Strike's FAQ on fees it says it passes all on-chain fees (and lightning fees) through to the user.

Essentially I'm very sceptical at the moment simply because I don't understand what it is about Strike that is saving you anything.
Trust me as a teenager who has seen the effect of social media on dozens of his peers and even close friends I can assure you I know far more than both you and the parent comment how dangerous it is for us, but I'm also aware of the possibility of using it and the internet as a whole in a responsible manner as opposed to completely abstaining from it.

>By analogy I think it’s fairly obvious as a parent you’re right to withhold bottles of vodka from your kids even when they separately want to down them “and all of their friends are doing it”.

??

Vodka, or any hard alchohol in general is far harder to get your hands on than social media and has immediate, physical consequences relatively soon after consumption, it's a terrible comparison in this case.
Demand for motor fuels is elastic: https://www.dallasfed.org/research/economics/2020/0616
Scientists Have Reversed Time with a Quantum Computer
Few months back an SVP type came for internal talk about journey and growth that led to their present position. So their matra was: looking for opportunities, mentoring, having great mentors, learning, proactive problem solving blah..blah.

Now this all seems reasonably true. Most important thing they missed to tell was joining industry/company at time of explosive growth in sector. If one is out with graduate degree in EEE field in late eighties or early nineties and joined a growing tech firm they undoubtedly ended up doing very well even if not an SVP or higher. To their credit was not to totally screw up things and not some great leadership lessons.

This story is not going to repeat for engineer joining in 2020s. There are no great green field projects coming, or customer negotiations happening for a low/mid-level engineers. Most of them will be put to churn out and integrate thousand little micro services and feel grateful that they still have job and health insurance.

Reflecting on myself who joined in mid 2000s all interesting work is now past and even after gaining lot of experience I ended being a JIRA slave and daily agile standup chump today. I can't imagine what an extra mile would be in this environment. I might, however, get fired if I tell a lot of work they are trying to efficiently should not be done at all in first place.
That one appears to have been fixed. It's just a one-click thing now to enable E2EE.
It's not unlike the panic buying at the start of the pandemic. The media is driving this hysteria because a) it fits their narrative around brexit, and b) fear & outrage sells.
I strongly suspect you never had a 101 humanities class. Pretty sure "philosophy" is all about what you know and what you can and what you have to believe.

Maybe you confuse it with "Bible class 101", where you get told a set of moral rules that you are supposed to follow and never question, because they are supposedly given by god.

Still, I would be curious to hear your reasoning of why it is supposedly morally mandatory to believe in the Holocaust?
Angular Development Mocking External Calls
This looks great! I wonder how long it’ll be until someone posts a long ask snippet that will do something similar and claim this isn’t progress, but rest assured that they are wrong. I’m adding tv to my toolbox.
What, you think people didn't complain about their jobs in "the good old days"? What a remarkably wird idea; where did you get that from?
I had a similar problem that was resolved by changing some obscure Android setting. I think it may have been the restrict background battery usage setting, then another where Signal has to have a persistent tray notification, but it gets hidden from view, so I just enabled all notifications then dialed back from there.
Interesting, I had a very similar experience in the past.

I think we just were part of a software factory that is not necessarily bad, it's just a different approach to work. It's much more convenient for a manager to just apply "standard" principles (scrum, 2 weeks, story points, velocity, etc. like a mantra) rather than innovating at this risk of being wrong, difficult, etc.

Too much bureaucracy is not good, maybe that was the purpose of this article. The more you have it, the more difficult it becomes to get out of it, to innovate, etc.
Apparently the scare part was a pre-emptive attempt by Stalinists who saw Kibernetika as a threat to Workers -their bread and butter. So it was suppressed and derided ideologically.

After the Stalinists, Khrushchev sought to leverage Cybernetics and use it everywhere, so much was their propaganda the US took their rhetoric as actual policy and feared falling behind in the Cybernetics race.

After Stalinism Kibernetika was rehabilitated:

>"In the early 1950s, on the wave of Stalinist ideological campaigns against Western influence in Soviet science, the Soviet academic and popular press attacked cybernetics as “a modish pseudo-science” and “a reactionary imperialist utopia”. Soviet critics used all tools in their rhetorical arsenal: philosophical arguments (accusing cybernetics of both idealistic and mechanistic deviations from dialectical materialism), sociological analysis (labeling cybernetics “a technocratic theory” whose goal was to replace striking workers with obedient machines), and moral invectives (alleging that cyberneticians aspired to replace conscience-laden soldiers with “indifferent metallic monsters”). Like any propaganda, the anti-cybernetics discourse was full of contradictions. Critics called cybernetics “not only an ideological weapon of imperialist reaction but also a tool for accomplishing its aggressive military plans”, thus portraying it both as a pseudo-science and as an efficient tool in the construction of modern automated weapons."
Russia doesn't have either.
some very large companies have been created in verticals that were already crowded, rather than wide open markets. In these cases, you don’t have to educate the customers, and you don’t have to create new budget line items. You can just replace what is there. A great example is Zoom, which entered a market with webex, gotomeeting, bluejeans, etc.
I didn't imply that, in fact my comment agrees with what you are saying. Did you reply to the wrong person?
I was really hoping I could use it to implement some complex automated refactoring of a pretty large swift codebase (mainly from completion handlers into async/await) but alas, the docs on "Syntax Rewriters" is just a "TODO".

I think this is an area where software engineering is severely lacking: the ability to "code your code", but with something more advanced than regexes. Why can't I do something like this pseudocode:

functions
.where(params.last.isClosure)
.where(returnType: Void.self)
.forEach { f in
f.setReturnType(f.params.last?.asClosure.paramsTuple)
f.setAsync(true)
f.setThrows()
}

to take functions which take a completion handler and convert them to being async? (I know it's a bunch more work than that but I feel like, even if the resulting code doesn't compile, I can fix up the resulting issues faster than having to do all of this myself.)
Why should they mention a specific downside when they are merely expressing support for the overall idea? Ultimately it is all down to value judgements, in the same way you do not specify what constitutes undue physical stress as opposed to appropriate physical stress, nor when a risk of injury becomes too high.
Why am I not allowed to fire that worker that refuses to suck my dick?
And poor working conditions. Why live in a truck when you can get paid the same to stack shelves in a supermarket and wake up in your own bed.
> Overall if we just look at Germany it wouldn't even matter, the nation is too small

Every nation is saying this, including US pointing to China. China is then saying they use less per capita and started producing CO2 decades after western nations.

Congratulations, we're not doing anything collectively. I'm sure that'll excuse us to the inhabitants of earth in 50-100 years.
Datree is a CLI to ensure K8s manifests and Helm charts follow best practices
I pulled back a friend who had already stepped onto the street when a truck suddenly and unexpectedly turned right. To this day, I think that I saved his life.
It sort of betrays how people think of tech nerds. :)
This looks great. Sharing it with my musician friends. Will follow up with feedback after putting it through the paces.
'What our research says about gambler well-being and slot machines'

from your friends at Bally.
This sort of thing is how we will end up extinct.
oh? I'll have to check it out then. I would definitely prefer federated chat.
It would be hard, but word-of-mouth.

Growing a business organically was never easy, and never will be.

However, there are things you can do to short circuit it in good ways.

My wife went to business school with a woman who started a breakfast kolaches business. Her first two weeks open, she made mini kolaches, and they were all free.

In the college town, word-of-mouth about free food spread fast, and at the end of two weeks, though she had lost gobs of money, she had gobs of repeat customers because her kolaches were awesome.

If you make it, they will come if you make it free for the start. There are probably other things you can do too.
I assume they're referring to the theme-park-ish "Irish pubs" in the US, rather than pubs in Ireland.
> then the people that have never actually written code in Nim would be whining about that convention

Spot on. I wrote plenty of Nim and the style-insensitivity is a feature and not a bug.

Not allowing the use of 3 different variables named userName, user_name and username only encourages readable and robust code.
I do kind of love the idea of Git using ASTs instead of source code. It makes a ton of sense.

Even just in the immediate term I wish I could make Git(hub) tabs/2 spaces/4 spaces/whatever agnostic. Seems crazy to me that in 2021 we still have to make opinionated choices across orgs about what to use... why can't we pull the code down, view it in whatever setup we want, then commit a normalized version?

[whispers] this is actually something tabs allow you to do natively by setting custom tab widths in text editors but I've given up trying to sell people on tabs at this point and just want to be able to do my own thing
Eh, I'm not sure if they are that new, they have been around at least 15 years as far as I know.

And some sort of half-version of this has been going for decades. In my first warehouse job we used to have a legacy warehouse system but had worked out performance targets which varied by the make-up of work you got (e.g. a combination of total weight picked, types of order you had picked, orderlines picked and units picked).

IMO the only difference is that these new algorithms are generally 'fairer' (the old issue was that rogue department managers could to give preferential treatment to some employees, or put them on the 'best' jobs) but they are also more complex and opaque, which leads to employee mistrust.

Where I worked a union actually audited the calculation so it is possible to do this in a somewhat 'open' way, although the problem with opening the algorithm up to everyone is that it is complex and can be easily misunderstood/misinterpreted, particularly if you do not have training in how it all works (which then also requires WMS training!). There were always misconceptions with how the calculation works, because all users saw was a rolled-up number and it's quite a complex thing to understand (even department managers would describe how it works wrongly, and the union would also describe it wrongly, which would confuse people further which obviously isn't a good place to be).
We do it at my company/in my team. It's OK, come on, it's not that bad.

It's also a way for our team to get together and talk BS, have a little bit of fun etc.
this ivermectin stuff could cure Covid 19, in the same way a shotgun blast to the head cures cancer... It just wont save the patient... (facepalm) Not sure who the bigger idiot is though; the court (allowing them to use it), the paient (for wating it) or the hospital (agreeing and allowing it)...
The media may have made the problem appear a little faster, but they can't be the actual cause of the shortage, the supply strain existed well before the first headline was ever pushed.
> A better title would just be "How to talk to customers."

Hard disagree. That title doesn’t capture the reader’s attention and it’s also less descriptive of the main point of the book.
Yes, I'm sure the sweat shop workers enjoy working in a sweat shop. We're privileged, so who even knows if the poors know about holidays. Best to leave them to their hellhole.
> not applicable to your personal swimming benchmarks

Though, unfortunately, this is the connection the blog tries to make.

Swimming is competition as sport and that's true for even the professional swimmers.

Blue ocean makes sense if your in business for monetary success and not for the love of competing.
A couple of years ago, I had to teach the Unix shell to first year university students. I knew how boring such a thing could be, so I wrote a small game to make it more engaging (for the students, and for me). It was originally in French, but I was talked into translating it to English, which is now the default language.
That's the result: https://github.com/phyver/GameShell
- you create valuable content so that search engines bring people to you.

- you have a real activity in social networks, so that the community know you for you actual benefits, and will follow up on your work.

- you go to IRL meetup to create relationships with people and tell them about your products.

- you register your app to listings that let people search for things.

- you create open source software so that people will learn about what you do.

- you participate in the ecosystem you want to flourish, like being involved in not-for-profit groups related to your activity.

- world of mouth.

- partnership with complementary services.

- free samples, sales, etc.

Of courses those are only a few ideas. I'm sure people will get creatives; give a problem for humans to solve, and they come up with plenty of stuff.

The idea is that you can't just blast society with screams for you product. But you can have positives actions into the world that will make you known.
Yep, exact same experience.

I also had the unfortunate experience of working with some die-hards who believe DDD dictates that "the code and only the code should reflect the business requirements 1:1", with emphasis on the "only". Which means that things that are often configurable in other systems are instead hardcoded and scattered in the codebase done by those. In early stage startups this is a death kneel.
Exactly this. It's probably not an accident that one of those numbers is half of 10 (and the number of fingers on one hand) – a common made-up number for everybody – and the other is 2^3 – a common made-up number for programmers.
Ones motivation need not change. “Do what you love and the money will follow” is not universally true, but it is pretty damn true for learning and making software.
Entirely deliberate Bullingdon-style class warfare.
I would be less inclined to try find a pump if I saw photos of long queues and closed forecourts
It is on par with solar with respect to the emissions per kW. Nuclear power plants emit virtually no radiation when properly operated and maintained (indeed, coal power plants emit more radiation into the environment). In rare cases, accidents happen, but the risk adjusted cost of those accidents is negligible compared to fossil fuel power. I’m not sure what “radioactive impacts” derive from mining Uranium, but I doubt it’s non-negligible compared to the harm imposed my fossil fuels.
There's nobody to consult. It's like making drone strike pilots more inclusive. Normalizing children posting pictures of themselves online is pure evil. Children's pictures shouldn't be posted publicly online, period. This goes for parents posting them too. Because they can't consent. We have never had anything like the internet before, where you can instantly put things into the global public record forever. I only hope people will to stop and think about this. History doesn't make one optimistic though
Deep learning combines linear functions together, but the way in which they are combined is always nonlinear. If the way in which they were combined were linear, the resulting function would also be linear (a linear combination of linear functions is linear), and you'd have linear regression. Specifically the final layer of a deep neural network is often linear but the nodes in middle layers are often Rectified Linear Units which have a nonlinear "max" function applied to a linear function. Without these "max" functions you'd be able to flatten all the layers into one. Other common nonlinear functions you'll find in a deep neural net are sigmoid functions like tanh. These functions are sometimes called "activation functions".
Teaching a cheap ethernet switch new tricks (2019)
This reminds me of the video from the forklift driver in one of the warehouse where they store the toilet paper here. He was laughing as he drove by hundreds of meters high stacks of toilet paper.

If that was any indication at least, it will last for a few days and then return to normal if supply can resume for normal demand (assuming it can for normal demand)
I compare it to me being in a wheelchair. I would want them to treat me differently, if their actions are just (whatever that means). Perhaps I am simply more optimistic than you.
I think that's missing the point. Competition is fun for humans (hence sports). But domination of a market is better than continuously competing and struggling for a business. Incidentally though i dont think this business mantra has benefited society. Ruthlessly going after a market and then keeping it stagnant is certainly not progress, but it's how things are done in today's tech and elsewhere.
Google's 23rd Birthday
I disagree that they are difficult to keep in check. Jan 6th was a failure of capitol police and other law enforcement agencies. The mob that breached the capitol was around 800 people, which is easily managed by a small police force.

They had ample evidence that these protests would be in the tens of thousands. I'm sure you've seen the police presence for BLM protests, so I think the response here speaks for itself. I honestly don't see how this indicates the far-right are difficult to keep in check. It really shows that law enforcement didn't even try, either because they didn't believe they would become riotous or violent, or (hopefully not) for more nefarious reasons.
I like this idea and I do wonder how it might fair on specialized niche search engines too, which likely would have much smaller indexes. I'm always looking for "simpler" architectures for small but custom web search, and I like what the author put together here!
No; it'd be a bit like calling a cocktail "The 9/11", really.
What a coincidence that something that was claimed for years to be a likely outcome of Brexit happened right in the aftermath of Brexit.... but it turns out that it was mostly unrelated to Brexit.

What. A. Coincidence.
The first part that then seques into the subscription based economy part is pretty shallow and fails to provide much of an argument for the emergence of subscription based services. Imo, it's not very accurate either. European immigrants didn't conquer the US from native americans primarily because of a higher birthrate, it had more to do with firepower. Japan accepts very few immigrants simply because they don't want to, not because of language barriers or lack of a colonial past. And so on.
Unlike the toilet paper panic buying there is limited capacity people can buy, so I would expect this to naturally end short term when people don’t have capacity to buy any more.

What concerns me is government planning to address this looks a lot more forward looking than a few days/a week, so I can see it getting worse.

Interesting how the government say it’s not a shortage, if the refineries were running low you wouldn’t say there’s no shortage as there’s plenty of crude lying under the sea bed. If I can’t buy petrol at the pump then for all intents and purposes it is a shortage.

I feel like there’s a chance here there is a systemic issue and “panic buyers” are a convenient scape goat as I think most people are just filling up to the top instead of half way, or going a little earlier than they would otherwise. No actors doing this would class themselves as panic buyers, but there’s a lot of vitriol and anger towards the concept of a panic buyer which is a convenient diversion away from other causes.
From Factions to Parties: The Eighteenth-Century Debate
I'd argue that you don't have to swim for the sake of competing. I mainly do it to live happily.
I'm from Pinecone and can tell you we are figuring out now exactly how much to say about this.

We know you want to know, and we also know other vector databases want to know -- because this is a highly requested feature and it's far from trivial to implement in a low-latency way. That's why we have to give the admittedly non-satisfying answer of "stay tuned!"
Have you ever bought any snack from Japanese origin? They are usually in three layers of plastic packaging.

They also seem to absolutely love everything stationery.
My other favorites are Traction, Peopleware and Made to Stick. However, they are 230+ pages long. Pretty consise, but I think they could have been shorter.

There aren't many non-fiction books that are 150p and less. Hmmm
We can't read the mind of that potential customer. Did they want cheap, fast labor? Probably. Do you optimize for that? I assume not. You might have dodged a bullet or maybe there was a communication issue.
Only on a programmers' forum could this all be IR35's fault!

(could well be true - but i did laugh out loud)
The World Wide Web doesn't need funding. What it needs is for people to understand that if you don't have a day job you don't belong on the Web. Breaking news doesn't belong on the web; archives do.
It is possible, the consequences would be huge, and a lot of people make money with ads directly or indirectly, so they would get harshly impacted.

But after a while, I believe an economy were you pay to get this content would appear, stabilize, and be saner. Of course the decade where the filter would operate would be painful.

Anyway, I'm pretty sure banning slavery had a high economic impact on the USA. I'm also sure a lot of people complained about that, and said it would be impossible.
How can we counteract this. Should perhaps one or two settlements be created at the opposite ends of the Earth be established? In order to make ready for the new empire?
Just in case this is what you came for: https://www.ibm.com/design/language/ibm-logos/8-bar/
A general goes to the commander of a group of soldiers and says "In 3 months, I want them to be able to demo the "march in formation" feature in front of the big-wigs who decide whether to give us more funding."

So the commander says "Yes General, we'll do Drills™ to make it happen."

And then the commander writes down "Do drills" on a TODO list, gives presentations to the soldiers about the importance of drills, and maybe even hires a certified Drill Sergeant.

But the commander and soldiers never actually do drills. They clean their rifles, practice shooting, and do other soldiery things, but no drilling.

3 months later, surprise surprise, the soldiers walk all over themselves at the big parade, the general is angry, and the commander is confused why simply talking about drilling didn't work.
Scrum is Agile, strictly enforced.