skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Are you sure this is a Germany vs US thing? I'm originally from Germany and now live in Switzerland. I also think I'm doing something for someone else, no matter that my current project has public utility. I've also never cared about my company for socialization purposes.

We'd need some data about this question to see whether it is a cultural or individual thing.
What why? Surely you mean stock buybacks in very specific scenarios such as after a bailout? Isn't it just the inverse operation of printing stock?
You can disable it with a registry variable or through an app like Winaero Tweaker.
I used to work at Roblox and I confirm the layers upon layers of knowledge in code.
What this would mean is that insiders with large holdings of stock (due to e.g. grants) would be forced to quit their jobs just so they could have some liquidity.

That's a terrible incentive.
Right, that's likely doable on the same ISP, even 3k miles away.

It does highlight a philosophical question I raised in another comment. What exactly are consumers purchasing from last mile ISPs? Is it 1Gb to anywhere on the providers network? 1Gb to the nearest CDN/Internet exchange?

I don't think there is a good answer for this. But it's important to think about when we talk about ISPs reaching their hand towards large content providers.
It's not like Compound is able to do KYC on its users. There's nothing they can tell the IRS that the IRS can't see by just looking at the blockchain.
And I'm willing to bet "chrome" or "google chrome" is also near the top, or at least a significant number, typed by users in edge/bing right after install.

I'm not the biggest fan of Chrome domination for the future of the web, BUT I found microsoft insistances on trying to force edge/bing down my throat really pushing me away from trying them. If they do that when they're behind, how am I supposed to think they will be any better if they ever get back on top.
Gives me flashbacks of OpenGL methods like glDrawElementsInstancedBaseVertexBaseInstance
They should stop teaching students stringly-typed scripting languages and all the confusion will magically disappear. Toy language like Pascal would suffice almost any educational faculty if they are afraid what introductory C course is too hard for audience.
Man, it feels like this has been happening a lot. I guess this happens when you have what is essentially JavaScript code on the EVM handling vast sums of money.
Other studies show vx have higher load. Up to 250x
But banter, irony and jokes were more accepted and not policed and politicized.
>People just type "google" in the address bar when they want to go to a search engine.

Is this still common? Modern browsers will give an option to run a search directly from the URL bar, or automatically search anything not a URL... I haven't actually had to "go to a search engine" to search in a long time.
Can anyone shed light into why Robert Leshner jumped into the fray at all? Its not even an issue and some people got rich. People know how to report income to the IRS themselves.

edit: okay I see his followup tweet saying he wanted to act on behalf of the community and considered the prior tweet boneheaded. Just normal amateur hour with amateur founders in crypto.
It would be even better if Federal and State governments told employees they were unenforceable, and better still if they did this after passing explicit legislation to ban the practice entirely (with civil penalties for employers who disregarded the law.)
That is misunderstanding of the principle. Of course you still need to use your head. For a community to be welcoming for people that aren't too extroverted, not fitting anyone on that mailing list really, your approach is very counter productive if you really want to empower voices that normally don't speak up.

It is also required for completely dry technical discussions. I am not sure I would want that in open source communities though, but that is certainly a preference.
Podcast – Lapse app goes viral in the US App Store
I've seen estimates of the Chelyabinsk energy yield at about 500 kT TNT equivalent. How that was distributed as light, shock wave, and thermal energy (latter coupled with light) has been something I'd wondered at, and your comment on the heat is interesting.

I'd think that a larger impactor or one that survived further into Earth's atmosphere (and closer to the surface) might have changed that experience markedly. You're informing my own advice-to-self as to how to respond should I see a very large airburst at some point. "Stay away from glass" was already part of that, as well as "expect the shockwave after about 90 seconds". I think I'll add "avoid direct thermal exposure if it looks to be large" to the list.

If you've not already seen the Sandia Labs modelling based on the 1908 Tunguska event, the shockwave dynamics suggest to me why and how the multiple shockwave arrivals at a given point on the ground occur:

https://newsreleases.sandia.gov/releases/2007/asteroid.html

Particularly this simulation: http://www.sandia.gov/videos2007/2007-6514Pfire.hv1.1.mpg
What is a distributed or parallel computing theory in this context? They can’t compute anything above and beyond sequential computers.
Not that I noticed, but I mostly scroll through headlines to open them in the browser and don't use the articles much.
None of this needs NFTs or blockchains though.

We already have a concept of ‘ownership’ in the real world.

If an artist wants to sell a digital work to someone they can do so - just write up a contract, sign it, exchange some value, and you’re done. Selling things is a well understood concept. We have a legal framework for it.

If an NFT represents a transferable sellable set of rights, then those rights have to be expressed in a sale agreement of some sort (implied or explicit).

Sure, the blockchain gives you an easy way to handle the ‘transfer of ownership’ portion of a subsequent sale, but items not some radical new form of ownership - it rests on an underlying legal framework that is indistinguishable from selling deeds to acres on the moon or selling numbered prints of an artwork with a certificate of authenticity.
How many such stations will be built and how many different shapes, sizes, battery chemistry, and capacity batteries will each station have to have in stock?

It sounds like it isn't even possible except in the trivial sense that if one has a fully charged battery of exactly the right type on hand, then it can be swapped in five minutes. Sounds like each station would either have to have a large store of batteries or it would have to only serve one model of car. The first is a large capital cost, the second generates very little revenue.

To compete with, say Tesla, Nio would have to build hundreds of battery swap stations in Europe. Tesla has 601 sites in 27 countries. When I drive from Norway to the UK I am rarely more than 50 km from a supercharger.
Dev Interviews
I recently got laid off and I've been interviewing for dev positions for the past month.

I'm a developer with 12+ years of experience, working across multiple languages and a variety of technologies throughout my career.

I've not had to formally interview in a very long time, so now it's shell shock for me.

It's literally insane what these interviews are.

I feel like I'm taking a test, but I have no idea what the subject is.

One interviewer asked me leetcode questions. But he didn't care about the thought process, he just wanted me to code the optimal solution as quickly as possible. When I got stuck for a minute, and I was trying to think it through, he just told me to code it. I don't understand why I would want to work with someone like this?

Another interview, I went in thinking it would be leetcode questions, but the interviewer proceeded to ask me questions specifically pertaining to the language. He started asking me questions on syntax, how do I filter or group data sets using the language, how would I create threads, etc. Of course, he also wanted this all on Notepad. I was taken aback, as all of my focus was on studying algorithms.

On and on. There is no set format, I'm not told beforehand what I'd be asked about.

I've asked the recruiters what I'd be asked beforehand, and obviously not so helpful on that end.

How does one handle the variety of questions that you could possibly be expected to answer? I'm at the point where I just want to go do something else with my life.
There's nothing really wrong with stock buybacks. They're just a tax efficient method for companies without strong growth opportunities to return value to shareholders.
So what's the point? If one is guilty, everyone is guilty; and I'm pretty sure most of the redditors were going at it from a perspective of "beat them with their own dirty tricks" precisely because playing by the rules while others don't is what people consider unfair.
Was it Facebook? I always remembered OkCupid as having that quote and a bunch of other 80s movie quotes.

Aside from being from Top Gun, what it refers to is a principle of fire control of being "danger close," meaning you or other friendlies are within the collateral damage radius of a weapon. When one fighter jet is close enough to an enemy that blowing it out of the sky might also blow themselves out of the sky, they switch to a less destructive weapon with a smaller collateral damage radius.

It's sort of interesting to think that something like this meant anything except early web 2.0 pioneers were largely xennials raised on Top Gun, Terminator, and John Hughes movies.
I had no idea mustard was taken so seriously. It makes me want to take a tour of salsa and post about that.
I have been thinking of when I start a project to add a CODE_OF_CONDUCT.txt file which only contains "No code of conducts are allowed" making proposing a code of conduct a CoC violation. :D
Rules can be enforced however fairly or not the rulers want. Better rules don't make for better rulers - at best, they make it more obvious when a ruler is not being fair.
Miniflux

https://miniflux.app/
Force of habit. Inertia. Familiarity. Bad aftertaste from IE.
If the hare never takes a nap it will die of sleep deprivation.
Scrum stems from lean not agile
> You just maintain video courses, ebooks, mailing lists, multiple social media profiles for marketing all of the above, and an endless supply of blog posts because you enjoy doing all this in your spare time.

You're not wrong but it's probably not as many hours as you think to do all of the above (and more). I average around 15 hours a week on that stuff and a few things you've listed are close to no time at all. For example I only send one email out a year and I haven't written an ebook in like 3-4 years.

I still stand by my claim that you can make a living as a freelancer without doing any of the above. That's not based on theory either, it's what I did for over a decade. I only started a blog and doing courses because I thought it would be fun and it felt like a good combination of things to do with contract work because both things feed each other in a nice way.
the softwares exists. it is very much in a state of play and profit (all example code on the pages are executed with the output supplied). albeit, right now it seems i will not be able to supply it :)

yes, i intend to fix my software (not server) problem to the end of the week and make a better try.
As someone pointed out already in the baseball card example. NFTs do not give you copyright over the images. You may buy a baseball card but that doesn’t let you sell or license the image displayed on the baseball card. NFT is exactly the same in that sense. It is purely a collectible not explicit ownership of a likeness.
> Or maybe it just puts more responsibility on people to think "how could my intent be read?", "what impact might it have?"

How can you possibly read any possible minds. Even if you can predict the 'reasonable' person, outliers can take offence and you don't know what can offend them.

People can and do take offence at anything. This leaves two possible solutions.

1) Eventually fuck up.

2) Immediately leave the community and find greener, less insane pastures.

I've taken #2 in almost all cases, because I'm definitely going to screw up because I'm human.
> managers want graphs, points, velocity, etc.

The desire for metrics is also a major driver of surveillance capitalism and why every web site and app is now larded up with telemetry.

Some of surveillance capitalism is indeed about making the user the product, but a decent chunk of it is about people having metrics to show to people higher up the chain.

People who sell advertising need metrics to sell it. Managers need metrics to show the value of feature X or Y or the application in general. Companies need metrics to woo and placate investors. Investors need metrics to show to their investors/LPs. It goes all the way up the chain.

I'd say there is a general lust for metrics on the part of everyone who answers to anyone. Markets are not DAGs, but undirected graphs of power relationships, so everyone has a boss somewhere and thus everyone wants metrics.
No sure, just you have strongly dismissive opinions of someone you mockingly refer to as a mere blog author, and I felt I had to weigh in. I confess I definitely don't know nearly as much as I'd like about the ancient world, especially not to the extent of having read the primary sources but I feel like you're missing the point of people's reactions.

I think the underlying point is that you actually can learn more about the ancient world despite not necessarily possesing any more primary source knowledge - things can be inferred, close analysis can change perspectives and so on.

I know it isn't the point you're trying to make but you sound like you're trying to dismiss the entire premise of historical research. Like, we don't have any new information (which is patently false by the way, maybe not so relevant to this particular topic but new information comes to light pretty much daily) so therefore we should simply not think about it anymore. I'm not trying to be dismissive of your argument and you clearly feel quite strongly about it.

Do you think all historical research is bunk or just this argument?
This is not a good use of the paradox of tolerance. There was no threat of the ruby mailing lists being taken over by sexists using violence.

Popper was talking about groups like the Nazis coming to power. When overwhelming violence is near, you have to make a choice or else you’ll lose the capacity to make that choice. And even then, determining when overwhelming violence is near is extremely difficult and should be the absolute last resort.

It’s astounding how often this is linked with respect to online discussion.
Yeah, saying Russell invented types is fun but horribly wrong. He invented other things and stood at the center of an explosion in formal logics. But types are way old.
I would throw in also real estate market that makes them cash in on their homes in the city to move to the rural areas (or back home). I think the are way more factors that just this.
I have the similar plastic-coated hex but ran a cable across the top because I was thinking about deer. Never knew those porky groundhogs could climb so well. I buried a few inches and that’s enough to keep them from digging it seems.
That's the new standard at least for companies in Canada and US. Everyone says the market is hot but with 6 rounds of interviews where the companies nitpick on every little thing is not a signal that they actually really need more developers.
>All these extinction woes boil down to irrational fear that one day the wildlife will disappear from the planet.

No, they really don't. You've massively oversimplified and then projected that onto everyone else.
I realize CoCs were introduced to make certain supposedly marginalized groups more at home at conferences. But my personal experience/feeling is the complete reverse. I am a member of a minority as a person with a disability. In all the years I was interacting with the community, I haven't had a single issue with someone I couldn't handle myself. I never felt uneasy interacting with others. But the day I saw the first CoC being used in a community I was interacting with, I started to feel uneasy. I cant really say why, but I feel I dont want to interact with groups which need rules like these. I also stopped going to conferences. Gosh, I am even glad I didnt go to the DebConf where they invited Linus only to realize later that they are very unhappy with his speaking style. I would have felt too much shame for being a part of such a group of hyprocrits.
Also office environments have degraded, open offices, yuck.
Art market started because people appreciate art. In fact rich people even commissioned art for hundreds, if not thousands of years.

It can be used for various scams and as an investment, but the whole premise is ridicolous: people pay for art since they like it and want to own it. (And in this NFT scam they dont own anything useful)
Masks are not meaningless; they're just not effective against COVID. The (quite important) meaning recently carried by masks is purely tribal. Failing to wear a mask marks someone as unwilling or unable to meet the dictates of the God of Mass Media.

We need some way to distinguish people like that in our society; there's no telling what they might do. They might not even be carrying their smartphones with them!
the 4-7 rounds of interviews is just a time staller while they pick and choose alternative candidates. unethical.
Selective enforcement is exactly proof that the above comment is constructing an irrelevant problem. When the rulers don't like the rules, and there is no mechanism to force them, the rulers simply ignore the rules - they don't need to change the rules.

If you have bad rulers and no mechanism to change them, all giving them a perfect rule book to enforce will not produce better outcomes - they will selectively apply and interpret the rules as they want.

At best, a good set of rules will make it more obvious that the rulers are acting in bad faith. But the rules themselves can't compel the rulers - only other people can.
Sometimes I wonder if crypto is making the mistakes that led to regulation for standard money systems.
Non-fungible doesn't mean something can't be divided, it means a specific one just can't be substituted for another one.

An example: If I trade oil, one barrel of oil with a certain spec[1] is fungible with another barrel of oil with the same spec. If I sell you some oil you don't care which specific barrel you get as long as it's the same kind of thing. Likewise if you borrow 10 dollars from me you can pay me back with any combination of notes up to the value of 10 dollars, you don't have to give me back the specific bills I gave you.

On the other hand, things like art are not fungible. If I loan a Van Gogh to a gallery I very much want the same piece to be sent back to me after the exhibition is done. It's not ok for them to send me something else. Even if it's "sunflowers" (since Van Gogh painted a few of those and they are quite similar), I want the actual one I loaned to be sent back to me.

Normal bitcoins or ETH are fungible whereas NFTs are non-fungible. The specific one you have matters usually because it represents a digital proof of ownership of some specific resource (a bored ape or whatever).

[1] The spec for oil types standardises particular grades and then people trade a standard barrel size (called a bbl which is short for "blue barrel" because they used to be painted blue). "Brent" and "WTI" are different grades. A barrel of brent is fungible with another barrel of brent but not with a barrel of WTI because that's a different grade.
pays quite different too no?
The app improves my user experience, and considering how often I use it, even subtle UX and UI improvements make a big difference.
Can you lose what you never had to begin with?
Offending someone doesn't make your position wrong, it may make you an asshole in their eyes, but it doesn't make you wrong.
How I Finally Made Sense of Todoist’s Priority Levels
this is nuts.

essentially, serving a website to older devices that are missing the X1 certificate is broken now that the X3 certificate expired yesterday...

or?

(meaning, it's not a realistic strategy to tell clients to update/upgrade, and the cert-expired page makes you look dodgy, and mavericks ain't never getting a chrome higher than 67 and there are tons of people on that still, so...)
I'm still trying to wrap my head around the NFT thing (I get the base concept, and I know originally it was thought of for digital ownership of home deeds, etc, which makes perfect sense to me, but everything that I'm seeing from it lately just seems like beanie baby collecting, like art and avatars and buying with the sole expectation of selling to a bigger sucker later).

Where are you going to immerse yourself into this universe and seeing the community and experimentation? I don't know where I'd even start with that.
This is conflating two different issues.

Nobody here has said that other cultures shouldn't have special designators for various family members. Some even knew the specific term for this one and the Chinese symbol for it.

It's perfectly reasonable for programmers to ridicule an unwieldy symbol and offer a shorter replacement. The replacement was to use the same word that is used in that culture instead of trying to describe the concept in English.

I don't see ignorance or arrogance in any of that.
No. That's not what my contract with my ISP says I'm buying.

Besides, physical access alone is useless. Unless you're claiming that ISP's have been selling physical access but giving away usage for free? I don't know if that's the intent of your comment, but again it isn't how my ISP words the contract.
While there are people who both refuse the vaccine and subsequently refuse real treatment, and those people are largely beyond help, they're the exception.

The _common_ outcome for an anti-vaxxer who gets a severe case is that they go to hospital, accept treatment, and sometimes die. Usable antivirals would help reduce deaths and hospital resource consumption in this common case (and also with breakthrough infections).
Previously to Squid Game, I mean.
By all means crypto coins are assets, not currency.
Selling at a loss in order to beat the competition is (in theory at least) an antitrust violation. But, to your point, it’s unlikely anything would be done about it.
> Pommery moutarde de meaux: Truly excellent. You can put it on something as simple as a sandwich and elevate it, or you can put it on grilled meats like lamb or veal. This is the Rolls Royce of mustard.

This is a whole grain mustard and imo far better than maille.
Bay Area elected officials battle health officers on Covid mask mandates
No upward financial mobility for developers?

Developers are rushing to start new companies?

Seems bogus to me. Tech workers are doing quite well financially speaking, and anecdotally I know no one (I’m 37 in medium/big tech) who started a new business the past year. The data from VC funding of companies is hardly a good measure of devs in their 30s/40s leaving their jobs to start new companies.

Also angst against capitalism is being addressed by…checks notes…starting your own company?! Seems like such an endless spew of one false narrative after another
> BASIC 2.0 [...] not providing any kind of abstractions around [...] sound, graphics and sprites [...] almost impossible without embedded machine codes

I remember trying this a handful of times with code examples I found in magazines or books, using arcane strings of seemingly arbitrary numbers manipulated by POKE and PEEK commands. I felt very limited in what I could do considering the amount of time required, and like I was doing data entry instead of learning something I could use in the future. So I gave up on that.

It's hard when you're the only person you know interested in coding and there's no internet.