skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Do you suggest another way of quantifying exploitation? How do you judge who is more or less exploited? It stands to reason that if you're getting paid less but your employer is making a lot of money, you're more exploited than otherwise.

There is no good way of approximating the rate of exploitation of Google. All we know is that it is lower or close to the gross profit margin unless cost of raw resources are significant.

We also know that the rate of exploitation is necessary higher than the rate of return on capital for capital heavy industries, which was the case of the mills in 19th century England. So despite low quality data on the rate of exploitation we know that it's higher than for Google.

Also net income is closely related to the rate of exploitation. I'm not confusing them, they're just the closest proxy. If you take the "non-labour costs" as themselves a sum of indirect labour costs and ultimately rents, you will understand why.
Haha, what? Maybe if you're an institutional investor or whale (or another exchange is doing something for you), but for several years the closest thing Tether had to a redemption "policy" (beyond the fine print that said they had zero obligation to redeem) was:

* Only for holdings of over $30,000

* 90-180 day waiting period

* non-US nationals

It was so bad, that people put out bounties for anyone who could prove that Tether or Bitfinex (whatever, they're the same) had redeemed USDT. I believe one bounty was in the order of $5,000.

The ones I found were unclaimed.
> none of the three things you mentioned are anywhere close to monopolies

Let me propose a different way to think about it.

Can I do task <X> and prevent company <Y> from capturing any value from it?

Can I post my own video online and prevent YouTube from capturing any value? The answer is "No." Some jerk will post it to YouTube and a whole bunch of views will go over there and Google will capture ad revenue on it.

That's definitely a monopoly.
It was clear to me that this was about covid. The same problem happens here as well, "Would it be wise to always assume good faith in articles? I don't think so." This is not the spirit of my comment and it's assuming bad faith.
Now you're talking about the FAA essentially replicating the scope of Boeing's test/QA operation. There are thousands of pages of diagrams and likely millions of lines of code. One person is not going to scan them and say "Here! This is a problem."
The Weather Caused Southwest Airlines Disruptions
Pride inhibits many from admitting they are wrong...
Energy constrained? That’s odd. Just eat more? CICO after all. Maybe guzzle some lard? It’s very dense.
Yeah that makes sense. Sounded like the most likely explanation honestly.
The effect is the same: people want to cash out and they can't. The solution is the same: bail out the banks in order to avoid even worse economic impact. I don't see why banks deserve this royal treatment while Tether doesn't.

Whether Tether was or wasn't responsible with the money is another matter entirely. I fully support any efforts to hold them accountable for their actions there.
This school board deserves an all-expenses-paid one-way trip to Auschwitz. Let them experience the history they refuse to accept before they become history.
My project is somewhat similar to yours. I have a search engine too: https://roastidio.us/search
I also offer a web based RSS reader: https://airss.roastidio.us/
So my hope is to get people to use my RSS reader to subscribe to blogs, which can load feeds though my backend, and my backend can then index the blog posts on the side.

Ranking is hard; the problem with using social media popularity to rank is that it is a lottery driven by very strong positive feedback. My search engine so far has not done any ranking.
If Tether holders were fleeing, they would be going into other stablecoins like USDC, not BTC.
Big banks operate under regulation and oversight, not from financial havens, don't have CEOs (sorry deputy CEOs) who give interviews from gaming chairs and who aren't aware on what banking license their bank holds (actual quote: "There are actually two banking licenses here, one is... I forget the name, but that's the one I think we have. The other is the one everyone is talking about. We might also have that, too."
Wow, that was rude of you. Sorry, you being judgy and condescending about my mental state and whether I am or not curious is not conducive to a conversation here. I'll let you have the last word.
It's not a funny joke, but yes, that too falls in the range of comedy, distasteful and harsh at it is. It's dark comedy. Yet it seems to me you purposefully escalated it 10 levels above the supposed insult in the show.

I play a fair amount of games and pretty much every day I see in chat something like this: "I hope your mother dies of cancer".

This does nothing to me. It doesn't upset me. Because context matters. It's some anonymous kid cowardly saying the nastiest thing they can think of. Which in male to male dialogue means going for the holiest of holiest: their mother.

Who cares? Even if it would offend me...so what? What happens next? Nothing. You don't have a right to not be insulted.
>economically (I know this is dehumanising) this makes absolutely no sense.

Honestly, I think the breadwinner-homemaker dynamic makes a lot of sense.

Life has become harsher for everyone now that two incomes are required in order to remain competitive, and the work that women used to do as homemakers in a stable marriage has primarily been replaced by immigrant labour in insecure and underpaid jobs.

Yes, GDP has risen, but I don't think that necessarily means the new system works better.
Many of us have accounts on multiple social networks, and we are often connected to the same friends in multiple places.

I think that may be part of the problem, though. We don’t replicate our contact lists very often, and in part that’s because we use each social network for different purposes and would prefer to have different connections on each one.

For relatives and close friends, you probably have multiple ways to contact them including older technologies like email and phone. For other people you might not bother to keep contacts up to date.
I enjoyed the article, even though I didn’t agree with all its assertions. Unlike so many people who criticize the Agile movement, this author knows what they’re talking about, both with regards to Agile and the foundational ideas of software engineering.

I disagree with some of Dorian’s criticisms, but only to the extent that the Agile community is too big to neatly characterize. And, as with all (I suspect) really big communities, what the masses do and think isn’t really reflective of what those in the know do and think. Dorian admits as much:

> I’m sure these things exist in some form or other; the point is they don’t get nearly as much attention.

I have to concede the point, although I don’t have to like it.

Anyway. The things he criticizes are discussed I in the Agile community, and have been for many years. Most of them, you’ve probably heard of. It’s just that they’ve been drowned out by the din of the Cargo Cult, and in the case of the more popular ideas, it’s not widely known that they were introduced by people who were active in the Agile community. Here’s some pointers.

Anything higher up the chain than project management: Lean Startup. Lean Software Development. Kanban.

Specificity gradient: I don’t know what Dorian meant by this, and the link went to a YouTube video I couldn’t be bothered to watch, so let’s call this one granted.

Conceptual Integrity: Domain-Driven Design, specifically its Ubiquitous Language. The CHECKS pattern language. Fit and the BDD movement.

(As an aside: Dorian has fallen for the common myth that waterfall originated in Royce’s paper. But Royce’s paper was ignored until the 1980s, when it was brought into the limelight by Barry Boehm as a vehicle to criticize standard practice and promote his Spiral Model alternative. See Bossavit, The Leprechauns of Software Engineering.)
Why would you even assume that the plugin in question is free?
Yeah, I didn't mean to imply that Guido was holding anything back, just that he's no longer at the helm like the OP implied.
every moral imperative is also a personal choice. And honestly, if being a better coder saves 100k people a few hours in wasted time once, that’s ten person years - coming close to moral imperative! If your productivity tool’s new feature enables some engineering collaboration that builds a new bridge in Kenya, that saves a thousand person years?
That's a fair opinion. Like many academics and data scientists are probably fine with Python as a tool for scripting or as a simple interface language for calling C libraries.

But if Python continues as is, it will continue to to lose major enterprise traction as web companies transition to using faster languages for applications and infrastructure. It'll be tough to stave off the negative feedback loop at that point.
I don't think it's unrelated, I think they think the snap format is good for distributing and updating embedded applications, such as those you'd use with signage, easily. But no idea how realistic that is.
We considered the opportunity back when Nixon opened relations with China. Now's the time to consider that the increasing exposure to China plan has blown up in our faces.
"John Michael Posobiec III is an American alt-right and alt-lite political activist, television correspondent and presenter, conspiracy theorist, and Internet troll. Posobiec is best known for his pro-Donald Trump comments on Twitter, as well as using white supremacist and antisemitic symbols and talking points, including the white genocide conspiracy theory."
Do you expect the guy laundering money to accept bitcoins without charging extra? Because if the guy selling bitcoins takes ~10% from the AK-47 buyer and the guy laundering money also takes his ~10% cut for using bitcoins on top of his X% cut for laundering money, suddenly it’s starting to look really unappealing.

The real appeal of bitcoin for illegal purposes is it’s effectively a poor but really cheap way to launder money. Try and deposit even 1 million in cold hard cash and the banking system throws up red flags, liquidate 1 million in bitcoin and that looks significantly more legit at least on the surface. It doesn’t help if you’re under investigation, but then again it’s cheap.
But what if we had both? What if Ruby was as fast as Java? What a wonderful world that would be!
I think that's a misunderstanding. That's a very different problem from the serde one.

The compile time costs for the error handling crates is due to increase in build graph size, not due to the cost of running the error handling proc macros or the cost of compiling the code generated from them. For anything but a small project, that increase in graph size is probably not a big deal (and likely the project is already using much of the same deps). This cost does not increase as a project gets larger.

serde also probably has the build graph size problem, but the bigger problem is the cost generating and compiling the generated code. This cost tends to increase as a project gets larger.
I actually ended up using profiles (the way Chromium-based browsers do isolation) over containers. For my purposes it is nicer to have separate windows. For many sites I create a profile, then open that site in it, and "install as app" for even more convenience.

The only thing I used containers for was mixing personal and work stuff in one window.
OP was trying to be unkind so I wanted to keep the theme going. But, yes, your explanation is more likely
I happen to work for a company that employs a team of people to do just that, which allows me and others to work on mobile GNU/Linux ecosystem full-time. It's called Purism, and the product that pays for it is called Librem 5.
> Why should a person's leisure be subject to the whims of employment?

Even the leisure time of fish and rabbits are subject to eating leaves and kelp. Time is useful. Your work may give 100x more leisure time to thousands of people. And even if it doesn’t, it’s still necessary - who will maintain the back ends for the porn sites? The mind reels to think of what would happen if Netflix’s sysadmins became simple bumbling 1xers. So many kdramas unwatched! One slip up in 2010 and million basic whitegirls not knowing be soft touch of The Office!
https://slate.com/business/2021/10/southwest-airlines-cancel...
I am a big fan of the approach Mazda has taken. There is a nice sized cetralized screen with no touch controls. All climate and car controls are physical. All infotainment controls are physical and driven by a console dial and shortcuts.

It’s the best modern physical ux I have used.
I'm surprised to hear the phone is super thick and yet the camera performs poorly. I would have thought that by sacrificing form there would be room to get a top quality camera in (but then again I know nothing about phone manufacturing).

I don't need a new phone right now, but I hope to hear Purism improves on experiences like this one. I would be interested in buying one when I need to replace, but only if the hardware issues are addressed.
Banks (in the US) pay fees to the FDIC to insure deposits well past what most people have and are subject to reserve requirements.
> how to isolate that component

At the most basic level you only need to put the logic into a function. Of course, the cost of that adjustment may vary, so more options are good. If Python becomes easier to use in this respect then everyone wins.
I had a thought… what if Satoshi Nakamoto was… Bernie Madoff?

Maybe Bernie Madoff and Hal Finney working together?
What do you mean? None of this is incompatible with being fast, and no changes to the language itself were being proposed here.
I've always used CTRL+SHIFT+left then backspace. Since I'm used to using ctrl to navigate and skip words, adding the shift modifier just kinda slotted right into my brain
> If type inside of Option<_> has invalid values

Can it actually use any general invalid bit pattern? I expect that it only supports an optimization for values that cannot be zero (and then it uses zero to indicate None).
I dunno man, k8s is pretty simple, but only if you make it so, I have built (early on) complicated setups with all kinds of functionality, but the complexity was rarely used. I now manage clusters and deployments on those clusters with code, terraform to be exact (tcl expect for instances when terraform can't hang yet) I built a gui interface for terraform to manage deployments of kubernetes on various clouds and bare metal and to manage the deployments To kubernetes. \n
Maybe one day this will get too complex and we'll do something else but so far so good.
I was going to ask how to identify the "hotspots". But I guess, for most people, the mentioned learn how to touch-type fast and editor shortcuts are good enough first steps. And of course there's the obvious improve your programming knowledge and skills.

One of the linked HN https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22253893 post has an interesting advice. Record yourself when you're coding. Watch them and identify possible improvements. Reminds me of James Woods' lawyer character in the TV show Shark. He did the same thing.
How did you go from

> It does not suggest that fronting for the second party is the only thing the first party does

to

> Netflix’s chaos monkey program is ackthuallee an intelligence scam to attack your distributed systems from within?

You're trying to interpret me as saying literally the opposite of the plain text of my comment. Work on your reading comprehension.

But yes, when Google releases its 13th chat app, there are good reasons to view that as being a CIA chat app with Google branding.
You probably would, in the moments before your death.
It is much easier to change the "CEO" of the US Government than it is to change the CEO of Facebook.
Make Washington Irrelevant Again
I got the impression that anything transformers could be applied to, that would be an advantage. So now I want everything to use them.

Doesn't sound like these CCNs necessarily reuse a lot of information across object categories.
So long as you can get moving it is the best setup as everything you do reminds you how bad the roads are. If you can't get there in rwd than 4WD is better, but you have to remember to keep the speeds way down.

Most people just use 4wd to push then farther in the ditch.
Asean bars Myanmar junta chief from upcoming summit
Glass makes a lot of sense on the front of a phone. It's more durable and scratch-resistant than the transparent plastic that was used previously.
Most of the cleanup involves existing trash floating in the ocean.

Capturing new trash requires a different approach.
I live in the town and met the dude he's ment to be training he seemed like more of a musician and in all my last 20 years in christchurch have not once seen the actual wizard in the square
I think it's strange as well. There's all this uncertainty surrounding USDT. Why won't people switch to the other stable coins? Makes no sense. USDT markets still have the most liquidity and the peg remains unbroken.
I think modern phones have gotten absurd with their resolutions and that 1440x720 is plenty for a 6 inch screen. That's 268ppi, which is denser than most non-phone screens.

I want more devices to use sane resolutions so I'm not burning through battery for little benefit. One of the reasons that my laptop is a MacBook Pro 16" is because I think 1080p is too low at that size and 4K is too high. Apple is one of the few companies that uses a screen resolution in between those.
The older models are particularly bad because they lack a physical Esc and it extends too close to delete. I had to put an empty space where Siri is by default because I'd trigger it all the time by accident. I've also had a couple times where it didn't wake up from sleep so I had to restart to get Esc back. I don't really gain anything from it as my main apps don't really use it and I had to spend $10 on BetterTouchTool to get a weather widget for it which is the only semi useful thing about it for me. Otherwise it's just a shittier function row to me.
You may not have noticed that your post describes 3 different domains:

mybf.io

mybfio.io

mybfi.io
The number of years depends on when the various patents expire. Does anyone know?
NixOS and the Art of OS Configuration (2018)
I had the same thought. Like the idea though, AlternativeTo is definititely a bit spotty. I've often wished for something like The Ruby Toolbox for things other than Ruby libraries.
I'm confused. The article mentions that Python's data structures would be made thread-safe, which sounds like there is no intention to change concurrency semantics. How does the presence of the GIL help? Can you elaborate what would be lost by removing it?
I think it's just a green/monochrome CRT.
Sorry was referring more to the many different incompatible logging libraries in play.

Also the inability in the ones I've used for the person running the app to set a particular logger to a desired level easily.

I think klog can do this with the vmodules flag, if, and only if, the devs used klog.V() for their logging statements.

Logrus requires the dev to allow the user to configure the log level, common idiom I've encountered is doing so via an env var, but IIRC, that applies to all logging in the app, no way to limit it to particular files/modules.

It's been a real pain at times for me. Feels like the Go philosophy on logging focuses more on the dev controlling it, than the person running it.
This is not an audit. That's why it says "Accountant's Report". Because a real accountancy firm/auditor would risk their ability to practice by calling it something it's not.

The last time Tether claimed to have something that was an "actual" audit, they claimed they couldn't release it to the public because ...

"... it is in Mandarin".

Here's the big problem with this attestation:

> Our opinion is limited solely to the CRR and the corresponding consolidated total assets and consolidated total liabilities as of 30 June 2021, at 11:59 PM UTC. Activity prior to and after this time and date was not considered when testing the balances and information described above.

They're very, and repeatedly clear that this is a snapshot. There is nothing stopping Tether taking a 72 hour loan before this attestation and then closing that loan after it.

They claim $6B in cash holdings, in an undisclosed bank, presumably Deltec, whose "deputy CEO" demonstrated in an interview (among other problems) that he did not know the names of the two banking licenses available to banks in that country, and he wasn't sure which one they had.

You can't get a mortgage with a simple attestation of funds - why should it be okay for these guys?
Same here, my org has it locked down. Your Slack display name must match your official name (which is also your email display name). And your Slack handle matches your official login.

There's no way to "hack" it and spoof someone else. If you want to change your display name, you change it officially at the company source (which is straightforward and quick, so "Joseph" can easily be "Joe" or whatever).
What a bizarre editorial decision the author made when they decided to consistently present their own race in lowercase (white), but throughout the rest of the article they conspicuously capitalized the other race that was mentioned (Black). They went on to say:

> Given the long history of white people policing Black existence, I question whether Jack is the right person to be taking on this task and whether it would be more appropriate coming from a BIPOC person.

So apparently the author, in a fit of woke clarity, decided that the best way to encourage racial harmony in the world was to suggest that races stick to their own and police themselves. It's ironic that they don't seem to realize that by putting themselves at the helm of that conversation they are attempting to police how other races should be policed - and so right back to square one.
Yeah, the Bank of England even used to offer account services to employees after it was nationalized. Which would be scandalous if we found it in some dubious ex-Soviet republic today, albeit there maybe they're lending the Bank's President $10M with no real security and the Bank of England was offering employees mortgages and similar modest run-of-the-mill secured loans.

The UK owns a whole bunch of banks and entities that would need a banking license if they weren't owned by the government, of which only the Bank of England acts as a central bank, but there are also a bunch of commercial banks in (or at least operating in) the UK that are named after parts of the UK even though they're not owned by the government, including the Bank of Scotland.
I haven't looked into it, but it looks like they lied about being backed by cash (or at least, somehow implied it).

Now they claim to be backed by cash and cash equivalents, namely a lot of "commercial paper" (short term debt obligations), which is widely believed to be in Chinese markets.

For some reason though, they won't reveal exactly what it is they hold. It could be that they think the market will not react kindly to the kind of assets they hold, or that they entered some kind of weird agreement no to reveal them.

I highly doubt they're not backed by assets whose face value adds up to the total UST distribution, because multiple auditors have said they were fully backed. But it is possibly that some of these assets are junk that won't (or have a high risk not to) redeem at face value.

Even in very bad scenarios, UST could fall to 0.8$ if 20% of Tether's asset default (and they burned through profits). Problematic but not quite such as a risk as it going to zero, which is why people still hold it.