skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It might be because they had patch cycle commitments. Ideally you want this stuff to be tucked into the regular release cycle. It costs companies a shit load of money to release and out of band update, esp when security related
Inadvertent intravenous injections of mRNA vaccines cause heart damage in mice
"built out of century outdated concepts and prejudices."

Funny thing is, the opposite can be simultaneously true.

My company makes a big deal about diversity. I look the part etc, but I don't fit any of their diversity metrics. So you can't fit the stereotype too closely or you're hurting their metrics, but you also can't be too "out there". You have to fit in that narrow band of helping them meet their metrics while also towing the line enough to preserve the "culture".
Such a system will never be to the benefit of the worker. Those that say otherwise want to sell shitty software or are a bit deluded about the consequences of manufacturing.
Source that it is a success vs. Other payment methods?

Edit: for all downvoters. All sources since 2017 mention that crypto is a marginal % in comparison with other payment methods. If something changed as he indicates ( a rousing success), I'm really curious, but the op hasn't provided a source for that statement and i couldn't find anything in my search.
> The traditional data systems that power the global economy are no longer fit for purpose.

Why? They seem to be working fine.

> Moving transactional data to shared sources of truth can bring some much needed clarity to the state of the world.

How?
I don't know what criteria they use for unsafe follow time but I remember a government suggestion that was pretty impractical for rush hour motorway type driving. There were just too many cars packed into the road space to spread them out that much so even good drivers end up close to the vehicle in front.
'Using in production' is 27 companies. A large part of those (Amazon, Microsoft, SAP, Oracle, etc) probably as a service for others to built their own services. So in the end just a handful of those 100 companies are using it in production (today)?
People don't know the basics of changing lanes, passing slower vehicles, u-turns, planning for their exits, etc etc etc. People text and drive due to the most basic misunderstanding of how dangerous driving is and how much damage they can cause to others.
It doesn’t do any of those things.

The quarterly PI’s are for planning because the most you can reasonably plan for with any degree of accuracy is about 8-12 weeks.

There are no deadlines imposed. You plan what you’re going to work on and how long it will take. You coordinate with other teams for any dependencies they may need from you and when. But you as a developer are responsible for saying how long it will take and when you can have it done.

Even after that, you’re only allowed to plan 2/3 of your time and the final 2 weeks of the PI are unplanned specifically to build in more buffer for you. If you do finish when you originally planned to, that 2 weeks is equivalent to 20% time where you can work on anything you want for the company, training for yourself, etc. It’s a built in reward for being on schedule.

And then as a group you discuss all of the risks that could prevent one of these items from being hit schedule wise. So if something comes up that keeps a team from being able to finish something, everybody was aware of it in the beginning and had the opportunity to try to help address it.

There’s no waterfall to it unless you consider anything that acknowledges dependencies to be waterfall.

Planning for 8-12 weeks at a time is the ideal window that lets you set expectations, coordinate multiple teams and avoid derailment without the idea that you can plan forever into the future. The farther you get from now, the more any plans become pure imagination which is why year long waterfall plans are a joke. It’s entirely possible to plan 8-12 weeks at a time. Especially when the point of the system is to acknowledge that estimates are at best a guess.

There’s a balance between setting expectations that business people can plan around and working in a box without communicating anything other than “I’ll let you know when it’s ready.” SAFe strikes that balance better than anything I’ve seen.

But everything will always boil down to leadership embracing it. Until leadership can acknowledge the fundamental lack of accuracy from software estimates, you’re screwed no matter what the methodology.
Probably, but maybe not now. Russia has plenty of pipeline capacity to export gas that they could be using but have decided not to, and the general consensus seems to be that they're likely doing this to put pressure on Europe to approve Nord Stream 2. The thing is, they have a history of using their gas supplies as a political weapon, so if it wasn't this...

Nord Stream 2 and the cementing of European dependence on Russian gas it represents seems like a terrible idea geopolitically. The thing is, the more powerful European countries like Germany which pushed for it didn't think they'd be the ones it'd hurt.
> we find that there are still an impressive 65 companies who are actively developing blockchain solutions.

> Furthermore, 27 of the top 100 public companies have a fully functioning , live service that is using blockchain technology in 2021.

#1: Blockchain infrastructure services / BAAS platforms

#2: Supply chain / Traceability / Provance

#3: Clearing & settlements

OK, only use cases #2 and #3 provide any direct value. So I'm curious, what percentage of the 27 companies are in the #2/#3 bucket?
Hiring may be a part of it, but not the whole answer. It actually needs a more process-oriented solution. Adding people to a broken process makes things worse.

When people complain of being over burdened, more often than not it means the process they worked within had a lot of waste. Invariably, the proposed solution was always “we need more people”. You can sometimes hide process waste problems with inventory. The number of times hiring people made for a long term solution is exactly zero in my experience, and this includes process improvement work within healthcare.

“Just hire more people” tends to be a myopic view that underscores a misunderstanding of the systemic effects at work.
From the (extremely readable) Haskell Report, §6.4:

> The results of exceptional conditions (such as overflow or underflow) on the fixed-precision numeric types are undefined; an implementation may choose error (⊥, semantically), a truncated value, or a special value such as infinity, indefinite, etc.

So you're right, it's a choice made by GHC. Indeed, by the Report, it would be legal for a Haskell implementation to simply refuse to answer, and never return a value.
Why is it that every criticism of agile/scrum/safe is met with "well you just weren't really doing it?"
Good to see the CCP having their silly past decisions come to haunt them.
While I agree with the sentiment that a determined kid would go to just about any length to get something, even if that something is bad for him, I will have to give a hard "no" to what you said afterwards. Pointlessly denying a child what he deems to be a necessity in his modern life without giving valid reasoning is a terrible idea and will just make the kid despise his parents.

A much better tactic, and one that I see neglected far too often is to instill the reasoning into the kids from a young age, don't bar them from what's bad from them, teach them that why and how it's bad so they themselves keep a distance. My parents did his very effectively with me and my siblings, and we, despite our age and frequent exposure to such things, naturally gravitate away from obsession. And this isn't just a niche case, there are many people, even in my generation, who are waking up to the reality and behaving in a similar manner, although it's hard to get that fact out there with all the stigma surrounding basically any teenager nowadays.

And saying that this strategy "doesn't work" or is "too hard" is usually just cope for parents with poor skills in my experience.

>Watch them cry and talk about how they'll be social outcasts and their friends will mock them, or moan about how they need it for school to check the Facebook page their teacher posts assignments to.

I genuinely can't tell if this is some sort of meta-ironic take but no, just no. The vast majority of even elementary school childrens' lives are being moved online slowly but surely, and whether you like it or not they are going to have to pull out that laptop or phone for hours a day, can you sit and watch them for that entire time?
Some would argue that the introduction of alcohol as a social norm earlier in life would reduce the amount of irresponsible use when those still-immature young Americans turn 21.

Edit: I feel the need to clarify that I am also an American and a parent of young kids, and I do not intend to allow them free access to social media anytime soon (oldest is 11).
Yes, determine kids will much likely find a way to find a workaround, especially if it is something that they want to do.
Heroku deprecates SSH Git transport
Also goes hand in hand with Goodhart's Law.
I wish I could upvote this twice. So true, it's very frustrating.
What if Git worked with programming languages?
Signal is a horrible SMS client.
What about people who proclaim they didn't want to get the vaccine because of their freedom, and then die from covid as a consequence? Did they still have their freedom when forcibly intubated while in a medically induced coma?

Maybe people consider death as the ultimate freedom, freedom from interference of society.
Space tech to give arid countries food surplus
I had a great experience with pg_loader in 2014 but I had to use SBCL to make it work reliably. I'm curious if someone can inform my experience there -- I'm not a regular CLisper, I just followed some advice I found on a forum.
I'll copy paste what i said in another comment:People don't know the basics of changing lanes, passing slower vehicles, u-turns, planning for their exits, etc etc etc.

The DMV test is a joke. The 15 minute test in a quiet neighborhood does not prepare you to be a proper participant on the road.
Criminy your first paragraph is well put. I'm definitely stealing that.
Can we conclude from your example and your parents' that for Germany the term is hyperbole?
One thing I don't fully understand is how async-without-yield is different from the "bad" green threads as described in e.g. https://glyph.twistedmatrix.com/2014/02/unyielding.html

Are these two fundamentally opposing viewpoints? Or can these two sets of ideas be reconciled somehow?

The article that I posted specifically calls out Java as an example of why you need explicit await, yet the article in the OP praises Java for not having it!
Common mistakes when using libcurl
> If you have a history ... in your family, you would probably want

That's you personally. And the law enforcement? The HR? The neighbourhood?
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They're already trying to do hashmatching to better build ad profiles out of encrypted messages
What you say is certainly true, but there are still meaningful differences: named branches give you the option to push them before merging as an informal remote backup (good) switch to a different named branch (neutral) and let the old one grow stale (very bad)
So those of us with Plex/envy/jellyfin servers are collecting digitally. I have my physical books, could never make the leap to digital. But my multimedia collection is something I take great pride in- it includes every bit of SGI software I can get my hands on digitally imaged. Same thing for classic Macintosh software for the 68k series systems. Everything cataloged and stored for my personal use. Hell you can buy any album just about drm free, finally, on places like Amazon. I stream from my own system, with my own library that I curate.
wow you figured it out parents don't care about their kids.
Notes on Category Theory with Examples from Basic Mathematics
That trick doesn't work because people also filter out Google's IP addresses to verify that the "googlebot" crawler is actually a real Google bot.
I suspect the vast majority of people who say yes will change their tune when you ask them to take out their wallets. The second issue you’ll run in to is paying publishers. It will be hard to convince that many publishers to sign up and receive the funds, believe it or not.

I think a possibly more successful route would be to start with a niche cohort of people who like some set of niche websites that may not monetize well via ads but still have loyal readership/user base. Ideally sites that generate good, unique content on a regular basis —- content their readership loves. In this way you will find it easier to negotiate/pay the site owners and it will come with a built in audience that is likelier to pay.
Thanks for that honest feedback! I know that most people probably wouldn't pay for that, though it seems that micro-donations in the style of Patreon or Github Sponsorships are on the rise, so maybe that could work in the privacy space too.
China’s Power Cuts Widen Amid Shortages and Climate Push
--- Beginning of an imagination exercise ---

As I age, nearing 50, my bladder is getting weaker. I cannot outperform the younger folks who can hold it for four hours.

Should I, as an obviously unperforming resource, save up for a electro-mechanical bladder implant to replace my biological one ?

Does the company offer me a savings plan for the same ? Or is it paid from the fused unemployment/health improvement fund of the state where my fulfillment center is located ? How will I manage maintenance payments in 30 years, after the rest of my body is too old for this warehouse job ?

Then, of course, I have that auto-immune asthma since the lockdowns of 2022. I remember it like yesterday. I wasn't allowed in school (that was before virtuaducation). I didn't build up an immunity to basic flu, and was wrecked by a pneumonia when I started school. Never really recovered...

Then it turned out the 6 vaccine shots had strange interactions with my immune system five years after the troubles ended. My body never quite worked as it should. I always had strange "after-diseases"...

For the last three years, there was some stuff my body didn't like in the yearly combine-shots, ended up in the Hospitrailer, again, in coma for five days. The Autodoc said next time might be fatal. My work.pad shows me alerts from the warehouse AI that I might not be allowed on the floor next year if I don't solve the problem - both because of regulation and work time lost.

The problem is, antihistamites (yeah, funny branding for those histamine dispensing nanobots) cant solve work with my immune problem. My "Pearly Melinda Gates" insurance's doctorobot said I don't have premiums accrued to pay for the cloned organ assays needed to see what part of my immune system doesn't like it.

I even have less money for the immune reprogramming therapy. It's three years wages... It suggested me sell or collateralize the home I inherited. Wheesh, 12% interest. That's steep...

Maybe I should just give up, and go on that famed UBI ? Those container-box habunits don't look too bad, and the virtual immersion gear is included in the monthly stipend. Just don't get caught inside when the chlore/fluoride autowash kicks in, hahaha.

Then again, I'm not sure. After it proved financially impossible to sustain in the 2040's, it's now basically just food and water ration QR stamps.

It's like in the time of my grandparents in the 1980's, except the monthly syntheclothing you receive are soooo butt ugly, not even classy with those huge shoulderpads. And you can't even modify the unitransracesex cut of the garment... it's against the law, as it's state property, because it could differentiate people...

To be honest, it's not a future I'm looking forwards to... but at the same time, I don't want to become like the crazy homeless old man outside the warehouse with his "Rage Against the Machines" sign...

--- End of imagination exercise ---
Okay, I understand, but I am so sick of identifying stoplights, trucks, and airplanes. It would be nice to have someone say, "Oh, you'd like to read my interesting information anonymously? Go right ahead!"
Thanks, I'll have too look that up!
And an absolutely tremendous number of devices are still using versions of TLS with serious weaknesses and there is very little pressure actually moving them to more current versions.

Thus, tradeoffs.
I've found this specific issue doesn't matter for 30% of mobile users, because they're using the phone purely in a reactive state (usually to popups, or the notification area!).
Most parents are unaware of the issues that are caused. Parent would often just be annoyed and press the approve button without thinking. Like the way no one reads the TOS.

Those selfies for facial verification would most likely be used for something unrelated and most people would be unhappy with if they knew. Think of the ways these could be misused.
Agreed that "Kids" is the first answer. My second is "puppies"

Somewhere further down the list is this: https://web.archive.org/web/20030601115204/http://www.snafu....

For a bit there I helped a lot of people do some creative things including what became "VPNs". and almost without effort, merely by sharing something I'd made for myself.
Do you think a political opinion like 'taxes are too high and should be lowered" is on the same moral footing as misinformation like 'the holocaust did not really happen' ?
Given Mini's British origins, this is brilliant
> forcing you to move to yet another fork down the line.

And we will keep moving to other oss forks until they realize that closing the source down will mean that they will never get our business.

There are better ways to make money than bait-and-switching with the licensing. It's not my responsibility to keep them working if what they are offering goes against what I value as a consumer.
Then watch them go behind your back and use the internet with their friends.
>Perhaps today’s technological and political entrepreneurs, like their socialist predecessors, may find out that a new generation raised in conditions of financial crashes, pandemics, and political deadlock may draw different ideological conclusions to what the new status quo intends.

What a weird take, the generation that lived after the end of communism saw everything get worse year after year.

It's just that the majority of us left.

Out of six first cousins born between 1983 and 2003 one is still in Bulgaria because she can make a living from the farmland that we were all meant to inherit and is keeping an eye on the ageing relatives that are still there.

The rest of us aren't there and don't intend to return for the next 40 years.

We all view socialism very favourably and our parents as idiots who killed the golden goose expecting golden chicken nuggets till the end of time.
https://archive.ph/XppaH
Who are the countries which haven’t invaded other countries? As sordid as the Iraq war was, it seems strictly better to to topple an oppressive dictator than to go around annexing territories (or assassinating dissidents in EU countries, or installing dictators in foreign countries, or meddling in foreign elections, or jailing rival politicians in your own country, or so on). I think comparing countries’ sins is pretty fruitless in general, but I hope we can agree that whatever criticism you may have for the US, Putin’s Russia is on another level.
Story time!

Last year saw a revival of drive-in cinemas in my area (for ... obvious reasons).

Apparently drivers are getting so used to the automation, that the staff was doing rounds telling the audience to turn off their automatic lights.

Then, on the way out, at least the driver in front of us completely forgot to turn on the lights again. This was not in a well lit area, but on cross country roads. I honestly have no idea how the driver did not notice that she couldn't see the road well.
I think Matrix is a very hot candidate here

- federation (while P2P might be interesting for some, it definitely isn't something for everyone - yet, see below)

- scalable from private messaging up to thousands of users ((soon) with Spaces and threading)

- unlimited multi device with synchronization

- prospectively P2P with offline usage (Pinecones)

- open standard enabling competition
40's?! Is this a joke? Do companies think 45 is too old?
That's nowhere near the level of algorithmically-induced addictivity though. The goal may very well be the same, however.
There’s a saying that your can choose between access, quality, and low cost but you can only choose two. The US system has chosen quality and access at the expense of cost.

Other countries benefit largely from the US healthcare R&D machine. The US funds over 40% of the world medical R&D. While other countries put price controls on their medicine, this arrangement won’t work with the current system if the US does the same. To a certain extent, US high prices partly subsidized the rest of the world.
Of course you have the option of saying "no" unless the company culture / leadership climate does not allow it. That's far from the inherent obligation you're describing.

I do however agree with leaving any organization that does not allow you to express disagreement.
The issue with all of this addition process, ceremony and meetings is work still needs to get done. Sadly the only time to do work is often outside of working hours since then, finally, the meetings and ceremony have ended.
Just to be the old grouchy guy, I can't say that any of the modern processes sound like any fun. 90% of the time I've run into them it was basically a way for external consultants to make a pile of cash (and for an internal champion to work without doing work), the other 10% it slowed down development to a series of small changes.

Perhaps it's just a difference in the scope and type of projects (boutique hardware vs. large scale online stuff).

Looking back at old codebases that I kept around, we managed to build quite complicated largish systems in a reasonable amount of time using straight waterfall/ad hoc approaches. Simple source control. Simple spreadsheets for bug lists.

Admittedly it's hard to avoid attaching particular people to particular blocks of a system, so perhaps making development capable of absorbing random Engineering Resource Units (humans) is the point of all this.

..or maybe it's just that earlier generations of programmers were stupid. I can accept that.
I'm generally supportive of SQLite's NIH syndrome---which is normally bad, but it can work if the trade-off is well researched and the resulting product is of high quality---but this one is not. Specifically sqlar is a worse replacement of ZIP.

It lacks pretty much every feature of modern compressed archive formats: filesystem and custom metadata besides from simple st_mode, solid compression, metadata compression, encryption and integrity check and so on. Therefore it can only be legitimately compared with ZIP, which does support custom metadata, very bad encryption and partial integrity check (via zlib) and only lacks the guaranteed encoding for file names. Even ignoring other formats it is not without a problem: for example the compression mode (DEFLATE vs. uncompressed) is implicitly indicated by `sz = length(data)` and I don't think it is a good idea. If I were designing sqlar and didn't want to spare an additional field I would have instead set sz to something negative so that it never collides with the compressed case (of course, if I had a chance I would just add a separate field instead). Pretty disappointing given other tools from the SQLite ecosystem.
As I get closer to thirty years old, the idea of a person or machine asking for a grown-up to verify my identity gives me feelings that are more mixed than I expected.