skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the point was that it changed the whole demand curve. If the major consumer OS at the time had v6 support things like FreeBSD would have added it earlier.
> the best, most privileged job available in the US

Not quite. Actors and musicians have it better, once they've established themselves.

I'm not being facetious here - with people trying to "break in" to programming and endless auditions in the form of whiteboard interviews, I can't help but feel like we've ended up in a career with most of the downsides and few of the upsides of an entertainment career.
USB-C cables are getting new, confusing logos for faster 240W charging standard
If someone took a look at my production logs and counted the number of times 'WARN' appeared, it would not be a very effective measure of either the correctness or robustness of my software.

Similarly without context "more than 1,000 problem reports" is worthless.
"I am surprised that ISPs haven’t started cracking down on WfH", "Public uproar would be immense."

You listed the reason why yourself, you shouldn't be surprised. Maybe -after- the pandemic, when WfH people can be painted as "tech elite" or something, but not while everyone wants to WfH and it's a mixed bag who can.
I don't think usage of instagram is much different here in western europe and the results regarding teen suicide are not the same seemingly. So I'm not sure of what to think.

Open to being proven wrong about instagram usage in the us vs europe. I haven't really looked into it. But it seems all teens and preteens here are hooked on it.
If you were really an imgurian, you'd know that the correct perfect score is 5/7.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28681228
So, umm, getting rodent poop particles airborne is the primary transmission vector of hantavirus..

That's why you're never supposed to vacuum rodent poop. Get it slight wet and wipe it off.
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Google Doodles are USA only? Huh, never thought of that. Makes sense I suppose.
Bitcoin has utility, though - it's genuinely useful for money transfer in some situations (and locations).

But NFTs don't appear to have any practical utility whatsoever. They intentionally lack exactly the parts that make Bitcoin useful.
When people say a mathematician "invented" something, it's understood that they didn't create it from nothing. Newton didn't "invent" gravity, for example, he just came up with the first mathematically rigorous theory for it. Same for Russell and types.
When you call Amex for a while (and maybe still) will send a onetime password for things that need added verification and ask you to share it with them. The text itself says don’t ever share it.
Just having underground lines doesn't stop everything...and no one has underground lines for extremely high voltage.
Author quotes a study showing "climate-related" deaths have dropped 96% over the last 100 years. So, 100 years ago, a lot of people died from natural disasters. And that proves...?
Nonsense indeed.
> Pointing out that a researcher has no scientific training and is working out of a strip-mall university is not an ad hominem

Yeah, both of those are ad hominem.

> Science is driven by expertise,

No, science is driven by methodology, including criticism that avoids appeal to authority and other personal characteristics of researchers to focus on the objective characteristics of the work.

> and non-expert opinion is correctly regarded as less reliable than expert opinion

Science isn't opinion-based.

> non-expert opinion is correctly regarded as less reliable than expert opinion - that isn't an ad hominem, it's the correct method for dealing with any domain requiring expertise.

It is ad hominem (argument to personal qualities of the proponent of the position rather than directly to the merits of the position), whether or not you view it as correct.
It's not about wanting to pay more, it's about wanting to stop causing damage that future generations will have to pay for. Young people in the western world today are quick to (accurately) accuse older generations of severely messing up the environment (as well as housing markets, government budgets, etc.) to enrich themselves at the expense of future generations. Given that, I don't think it's that crazy to expect those same young people to pay for the negative externalities their own activities create instead of just paying it forward.

The poll cited in the article I linked explicitly mentioned that the revenue would be used for policies to support greenhouse gas reduction. I'm skeptical that the respondents cared that much about how the money would get spent, since the vast majority did support policies that would tax the wealthy and/or companies that produce greenhouse gas emissions - the only difference is where they perceive the money to be coming from, not how it would be spent.
Yes, me too. But Iridium recently (2017-2018) launched the new constellation that they call Iridium NEXT which supports L-Band and offers significantly more bandwidth. So, it's now possible to get a 1GB plan for ~$1300/month ([2]). This obvisouly means that one needs to use a different modem. RockBLOCK modems are great but limited to the Iridium "Classic" with these tight limits and insane prices (~$1/KB).

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iridium_satellite_constellatio...

2. https://www.satphonestore.com/tech-browsing/satellite-intern...
> Actors and musicians have it better

citation needed

> once they've established themselves.

BIG if; the ones you're thinking of represent the 1% or less. Survivorship bias.
Railway ticket selling and checking/enforcement are only essential jobs if rail isn't free.
> only Aston Martin owners can join

How would that even work? Supposing I bought the car and received the token, what's to stop me from selling the token and keeping the car?
The repeal of the Glass-Steagall Act in '99 opened the gates for reckless risk-taking. Banks behave nicely only when they're legally obliged to.
Guaranteeing a maximum doesn't sound like much of a guarantee.
It seems like there does need to be some sort of method for RESOLVING these situations.

I'd hate to make more of a process for parsing a one sentence joke but ... how else do you do it?

So you throw it to a committee who comes back with "We told the user their statement could be seen as sexist and not to make that joke anymore."

There you go. Done. Issue is no longer relevant, time to move on with life. If it comes up again with the same user, then you can worry about bigger things.

I'm sure there would be some bickering after that but at some point you can't have the argument going on forever on every rando social media site and ... version control site...
It doesn't sound wonderful in theory. It's sounds awful. And in practice it is too.
Instead of quitting I retired this year after 40 years as a programmer. I was much in demand since I could do with fewer people and deliver things no one else could do, yet my team was taken advantage of repeatedly and given no thanks for anything. In the end it simply wasn't worth the long hours any more. I didn't work in a FAANG company but a huge non tech company that used a lot of tech to support the business. Now I make art using my programming experience and life is much more pleasant. But my former team (younger than I was) still suffers and likely each will move on soon as well.

Programming as a profession has always been a blend of amazing and fun, and stupid and sucky for 4 decades. Still better than lots of things you could have to do instead. I never got rich or anything, but still have enough for a decent life.
The authors compiled data for 1886 interventions in 20 categories across 138 countries going back to the 13th century. Fabulous work. Looking forward to reading it.

In the meantime, please do yourself a favor and take a look at Figure 6 on page 31, which shows that the number of interventions to rescue financial institutions around the world has been increasing consistently since the 1600's.

As the authors put it in their abstract, "intervention frequencies and sizes suggest that the crisis problem in the financial sector has indeed reached an apex during the post-Bretton Woods era – but that such trends are part of a more deeply entrenched development that saw global intervention frequencies and sizes gradually rise since at least the late 17th century."

And it's not only the frequencies and sizes of interventions that have increased, but also their scope. From the abstract: "The data shows a gradual shift over the past centuries from the traditional interventions of a lender-of-last-resort, suspensions of convertibility, and bank holidays, towards a much more prominent role for capital injections and sweeping guarantees of bank liabilities."

In short, over the course of at least five centuries, the financial system has grown more and more dependent on governmental support.
I think the problem here is motivation and keeping it up for so many years. Maybe there is a trick to it. Idk.
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I leave my work desk to grab a coffee. An attacker adds a hardware keylogger between my keyboard and computer. When I come back 5 minutes later I don’t sweep for any hardware modifications. Now they have my password.
Sneaking in under cover of hurricane for a first strike.
I keep my mouth shut cause I know it's absurd to think everyone should learn to use a computer efficiently as possible, but watching most people use a computer is torture for me

Every time they grab the mouse for something that has an easy shortcut I feel the seconds of my life being drained away
Fair point, I’m not super familiar with hello. The problem of cross-computer access is solvable* - add cryptographic trusts to transport encrypted data across insecure hardware.

*I didn’t say it’d be great user experience though.
> While here, the power generation itself won't have such a drastic impact (unless humanity overdoes it, though, we seem to always do that) but maybe more power means more consumption and demand for other goods that get used up while using things that consume power.

Eh, we are sitting on a giant ball of matter. Not much worry about using stuff up.

(We might use up any one particular thing. But there are substitutes.)
Yeah, I think I'll pass on that one. He did apologize for the tweet.
> No links to the joke.

It's quoted in the GitHub link, and presumably it'd be trivial to find in the list archives.

This isn't as benign as you characterize it, since it's basically "this date handling bug must have been created by a woman since women lie about their age". Lazy misogyny is still misogyny.

> Is it professional to make such a joke on a ruby mailing list?

I understand what you're doing here (https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Just_asking_questions) and so aren't looking for a real answer, but the actual answer is: Of course it's unprofessional. Make "women jokes" while working at any modern company and see what happens.

> Is this reaction proportional to the original joke?

Again, this is a mischaracterization. This comment wasn't the cause of the change, but a final straw.
If you want your safety complaint to do any good, it needs to be specific and actionable. Something like "Power bus C has unexplained overvoltage events during startup" or "Welds on PN123 were not x-rayed correctly" or "These o-rings become too stiff and stop sealing below 45f"

A general complaint about working conditions may make you feel absolved when the rocket blows up, but it will not prevent the rocket from blowing up.
IIRC, bitcoin ATMs do not set up wallets for you.

You still need to create a wallet, key, etc. and that is not easy to do for beginners without an exchange like Kraken. Most DNMs use temporary addresses so it's not a good idea to try to transfer directly from a bitcon ATM to a DNM.
So it's a good time to buy the stock? I'm not entirely joking. It's high risk but all that hatred may mean a discount and immediate gains once (if) the first commercial flight is a success...
Oh, cool! We are already using this tool and happy to it here
Global population is expected to plateau soonish.
i noticed this behavior in a drawing app called excalidraw. first save opens a file dialog, subsequent saves just update the file, basically like a standard local text editor.

i keep doing 'save as' to create new files because i don't trust it lol
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Note that Computer Systems Analyst is a profession listed in NAFTA; I was at a company where they used that. Also, the NAFTA definition of Engineer doesn't require a P. Eng title.

(https://www.nafsa.org/_/file/_/amresource/8cfr2146.htm was linked from state.gov)
Exactly why a company would hire a contractor - no long-term commitments. Hence 'gig industry' companies.
The government never regulates food products.

Fishing boats are allowed to keep any fish or crustacean regardless of size or sex. In fact, they don’t even have daily catch limits they have to adhere too. We’re so lucky that all fishing companies voluntarily avoid over fishing. If there was some sort of “department of game and fish” in most states regulating what animals you can eat, it would probably be the beginning of the end for America. I would just up and move to Canada.
The difference between the strike price and market price is the value of the option--its the money you otherwise would have had to pay to buy the stock if you didn't have the option. That's why it is so.
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> Banks behave nicely only when they're legally obliged to.

Not even then, as repeated illegal actions by banks (Wells-Fargo in particular has been getting caught a lot recently, but is hardly the only offender) demonstrate.
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One of the limited upsides I see with the cryptocurrency bubble is that it's funded some progress in ASICs, and if it funded progress in photonics that would actually be quite awesome.

Another upside is that it's funded a ton of very interesting cryptography research like SNARKs/STARKs and homomorphic encryption.
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> but it is wrapped together with aspects for which we do not think meaningful end user consent is possible to obtain (in particular cross-site access to the end user's local file system)

This is a really difficult problem to solve, and I get Mozilla's hesitation. I'm also frankly very hesitant about Google leading the charge on this, not because I'm paranoid about them sneaking in tracking, just because I think Google tends to create less thoughtful web specifications sometimes.

But... cross-site file access is really important for data portability and open standards, and Google's current proposal isn't bad, it might be rough but it's definitely workable. Mozilla really should try to figure out a way to move forward on this.

We've seen the difference in data portability between mobile and desktop apps, and a big part of the difference between those two platforms is being able to very easily have multiple sources working on your data at the same time. Siloing data has downsides. It's tough to embrace a Unix-style philosophy without allowing programs to operate on the same data. And having Unix-style smaller webapps that work with each other is a good way of fighting against data silos and in some cases a good way of fighting against anti-user and anti-privacy services in general.

I'd love to see more progress made on this, but who knows how that will work out. Caution is probably warranted for the moment, I'm just disappointed that the language suggests Mozilla would never consider a proposal that included this.

It's also very important that this expose user-accessible file system access and not just a virtual filesystem in the browser; otherwise it just becomes another data-silo in the web browser. This is something that Google's proposal really gets right, and it's disappointing to see what appears to be pushback on the idea that users should be able to open up the directories that a web browser is writing to, inspect the files, and open them or move them around the filesystem, or even write to them from native apps. That to me is an essential part of the proposal.
Probably depends on the person.

I personally love offensive jokes. Book of Mormon is one of my favourite shows, and I can't really think of a group/sect/principle they don't offend.
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