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The Klobuchar PR comment you link dated Feb 4, 2021 references S.225, introduced in February.

This article seems to be about a new bill that Klobuchar and Grassley will introduce "next week".

In yesterday's WaPo article, Klobuchar seems to imply that the new bill will motivated similarly to HR3816, which is very different than S.225.

Until the new bill is published it is difficult to have a solid analysis. It is possible that the lobbyists quoted by WaPO actually have seen draft versions given how Washington actually works.

So ... expect this item to appear on HN again next week when outsiders can have a more informed opinion.
I attempted to use Nomad for a couple months before going back to Kubernetes using k3s. The main issue I ran into was that there is no out of the box solution for ingress and it ended up being quite difficult to get something working reliably. With k8s, I was able to hook it up to cloudflare tunnel using ingress-nginx very easily and it was all integrated into the standard way of doing things.
RWD is fine in winter.

Good winter tires (Nokian Hakkapeliitta in my case, but there are plenty of good winter tires to choose form) plus traction control and ABS will help a lot, but you also need to modify your driving behaviour as the car can only do so much.

Give yourself more time, apply all inputs (gas, brake, steering) slowly and deliberately - sudden movements are more likely to give you a bad time. Understand how your car behaves in various conditions, empty mall parking lots are good for this. Leave more distance between you and the car ahead of you. Know what do to when you lose traction. Keep your car maintained - properly inflated tires, functional wiper blades and keeping the washer fluid topped up are important. Keep your gas tank at least half-full, which helps during unexpected delays and the additional weight helps with handling. Know what spots are bad in your city and avoid them. Know how to get your car free when it's stuck in snow - if you're going to rock it out, you'll probably need to disable traction control to do it successfully.

Personally, I also avoid driving the first day or two after the first big snowfall. This gives the city time to deal with the snow and gives other drivers time to re-learn winter driving.

Source: I've daily-driven a RWD car for years in Edmonton, AB.
Scaling a geographically-aware key management system
Depends on the country. For instance in Europe, GDPR enforcement is way more lenient towards small companies, to the point where it makes no strategic sense for a startup to invest anything but the bare minimum required to feign "good intentions". Striving for actual compliance with the letter of the law is something only huge companies do.
Shameless plug. I recently wrote an article for Lowdefy (co-founder here) for using pdfMake with Lowdefy to generate pdfs. Works really great and easy, perhaps the next step is to add a pdf render block using pdfJs.

See the article: https://docs.lowdefy.com/generate-pdf-document-from-data

(edit: confused pdfJs for jsPdf)
The actionable advice in this post:
1) Track where you spend your time
2) Apply deliberate practice to improve where you are weak/slow

I am typically energy constrained rather than time constrained, as I imagine is the case for many working in engineering/science. Yet, the author's advice remains useful. Deliberate practice should provide gains to both time and energy costs of tasks.

For me most productivity advice, including this post, ultimately reduces to "try to get better at your trade, and track your progress".
Let's not sugar-coat things, r/HermanCainAward is a subreddit designed around schadenfreude and a sense of comeuppance. I am entirely serious when I say that I believe it is designed to make users internalize the idea that those people deserved to die.
The sun won't (potentially) swallow up the Earth for about 8 billion more years. The carbon cycle on this planet will have ended about 7 billion years before then; the increased output of the sun will have boiled away the oceans; plate tectonics will stop, etc. There won't be anything alive on this planet left to see the sun burn out.
Half-baked recipe apps aren't meant to be published. They are a TODO List app that everyone does to learn tech stacks.
I suspect the dissenters and Dan are not as far apart as one would expect. What I see in the dissent is a rejection of the specific brand of Silicon Valley rah rah productivity cult. There's a lot of mysticism in SV style productivity, whether it's the new hottest app or the latest lifestyle craze. It's also almost always directed at squeezing more work out of someone who's already working far too much. What Dan's proposing is a much more concrete, much more grounded sense of productivity. It's the difference between trying to get an overworked line cook to fulfill the job of 3 regular workers and watching a master chef work with no extra movements, no wasted energy.

I'm sympathetic to the analogy of practice. Too many people are extremely static in their assessment of their skills. They make overarching claims like "oh I'm just not good at cooking" or "I just can't type very fast", when they can remedy these issues with practice. Of course they aren't obligated to do so, but it's a useful mindset to see weaknesses as potential places of improvement instead of permanent failings. It's also true that if you're racing against someone who doesn't see it as a race, you'll win. Granted they probably won't care, but sometimes people get to the end, realize they did care about the race, and were just never clued into the fact that it was a race.
I've tried basically every ego-death drug that exists (or that I'm aware of) and I've still not felt the need to assert to people that they have a non-functioning part of their brain they aren't using to understand "intimacy" with inanimate objects.

I've had intimacy with a lover because the lover is participating in the intimacy. I've never had it with an instrument, I have felt it with a musician. Again, intimacy requires two participating entities. An instrument is dull and lifeless and only a tool used by the musician to facilitate in intimacy. Without the musician the instrument is effectively a curiously shaped rock.

I've also had intimate moments, where again there was an entity participating in the intimacy. The very roots of the word mean to impress or make familiar, which requires two participants. A rock can't be impressed it cannot feel familiar. Likewise a rock cannot impress itself upon you even if you feel impressed by the rock, it also cannot make itself familiar to you even if you feel familiar with it.

Again though, it's not about the incorrect usage of the word, which people do all the time to _improve_ communication. It's about the assertion that I, or anyone else who feels like me, is wrong and just isn't using part of their brain. Has it occurred to you that maybe you're wrong? Maybe you're misusing a part of your brain to imagine something that has never existed.

I'm fully aware that I may be wrong and there may be something beyond my natural senses that would allow this intimacy on a spiritual level that maybe can be revealed only by taking drugs that unveil a part of our psyche that sees this more clearly. Are you aware that you may be entirely wrong? I suspect not since you've asserted your position comes from a greater understanding, although I suspect you've had no experience that was vastly different from my own, you've just chosen to believe that experience imparted a superior understanding to you than I might have.
I've heard that some companies will filter you out if you have over a 6 month gap on your resume. I'm not sure how common that is though.
The platforms that deal in USDT have a very strongly vested interest in seeing its continuation. To the long term detriment of nearly everyone else.
Specials like Chapelle's bring a ton of eyeballs.

Some of those eyeballs will start a Netflix subscription just to see it, or continue to subscribe, or rethink about cancelling...

Streaming services like Netflix survive by having content people want to see. How many of us cancel HBO or whatever once the show we're watching is off-season? That's a lot of money to miss out on... making things like Chapelle's special worth while, even if it costs a ton up front.

In a weird way, all this hullabaloo surrounding this particular special is actually increasing it's awareness and therefore viewership. These employees are defeating themselves, really...
I'll plead ignorance here: Do data science workflows often require high concurrency using a single interpreter? I thought all that stuff was compute-bound and parceled out to workers that farm out calculations to CPUs and GPUs.
It's basically the same as the Darwin Award. Impolite, sure, but it's hard to feel bad for people actively making the pandemic worse, contributing further to all the death.

Compared to actually causing more deaths, simple mockery seems rather mild.
Facebook does not have a monopoly on social networking
Only if the workload doesn't shake out favorably in light of Amdahl's law.

Most mechanical processes aren't necessarily conducive to parallelization. Verification and information processing on the other hand can do favorably in the presence of non-reliance on a physical system-under-test.

Which subsystem vetting arguably is. If you're talking vetting specs.
If your end goal is to get promoted, there are far easier and less demanding ways to get there.

(Not saying that you are wrong - not at all, you're actually quite correct that many of the people that get promoted are over normal performers, usually combined with some other talent or skill.)
I'm right there with you null_shift. I am considering a career change that might have more interaction with people than hiding behind a computer all day.
> Zelalem said the village cited in the post was ransacked, burnt to the ground and the inhabitants were murdered.

Did the people who carried out these actions attribute them to Facebook? This seems like a pretty weak correlation here. How many villages have been attacked that aren't being heavily shared on Facebook versus those that are?
nope. have a GKE cluster running "unattended" for months now. looks fine. ;)
Yes, tech companies always fire people for the publicly stated reasons.
I've been hearing this for over 5 years now, but social media is still booming, and most people are still on Facebook, and similar apps, and spending more time than ever.

It feels weird as if everyone agrees, and knows that smoking kills but continue to smokes more and more.
This is, I think, the key detail. Everything else is subjective enough that it's easy for people inclined to dismiss the whole thing to make a reason up. There's really no way to misunderstand those things. He's declared an allegiance with people who spend all their time on Twitter and forums dehumanizing trans people, often using the same insinuation that being a woman is the same as doing blackface. Maybe he's ignorant of what he's really saying, but that's not an excuse.
Thank you, not sure why I couldn’t do that, but I couldn’t.
Well, thank you!
Somehow the notion.so "content-security-policy" makes me feel less not more secure

curl -I https://www.notion.so

Love those websocket entries for localhost and 127.0.0.1

Also feels somewhat embarassing that the man who allegedly invented batch jobs and the command line has his interview appear here of all places.

.so is ccTLD for Somalia. Here it is just some SF "tech" gimmick. All your notes are belong to us.

(Pouzin's wife wants to enable non-ICANN domain names on the internet. The ultimate in decentralisation. https://web.archive.org/web/20120414042613if_/http://www.ope...)
Many jokes about people are grounded in aspects of a person which they can’t change. And even things they can in theory—can they really? Being obese isn’t just a choice.

And of course nobody can change the past.

Making jokes about aspects of transgenderism should be seen as a sign of cultural acceptance, not rejection.
Slightly off topic but I signed up for Algolia to try it out a month or so ago and it's done nothing but spam my inbox daily with so many things.

I tried clicking the unsubscribe link in the email and it just takes me to a blank page.
now I'm confused as all hell, and I apologise for any offense caused.
At the same time, if they wanted to get rid of this person they would come up with an alternative justification like this. It's similar to how Terra Field (Netflix engineer) was suspended after her viral tweet about the Chapelle special, on the justification that she joined (without disrupting at all) a QBR zoom meeting, despite being invited to it by a higher up.
> ... I see friends apologize for their posts.

Canadians?
This is because sacred "carbon" word used outside climate hoax scope. Hence the negative reaction from radical environmentalists (we've got an infestation here).
What makes these games decentralized and how are they different from hosting your own http server for distribution and taking crypto for payments?
Or is "decentralized games" a marketing term for just that?
I went to the finos website and looked at their list of repositories, and literally none of them looked like things I'd be interested in from a financial services/banking perspective. I saw a lot of very "high level infrastructure" repos for things like processing JSON, standardizing models, etc. The example you gave, Perspective, honestly looks like the most interesting of the ones I saw, but it's still a generic data visualization component.

I contrast that with the Moov.io repos (full disclosure, I'm familiar with them though I haven't contributed), and they're actually nitty gritty details of dealing with the banking system (at least in the US), things like processing ACH files, wires, ISO 8583 (card network) messages, Image Cash Letter, watchlists needed for KYC and OFAC checks, etc.: https://github.com/moov-io

TBH it just sounds like a very apples-to-oranges comparison.
It's an odd disclaimer. If it's a quota-based sample then the performance in terms of nominal coverage is going to look similar to a probabilistic sample (especially given the current environment for probabilistic samples, which is quite poor). Probabilistic samples don't report design effects or adjust MOEs to reflect them either, the norm is just to report a classical normal approximate binomial confidence interval (e.g. +/- 1/sqrt(n)) even when a real design effect exists.

My guess is the reason for this disclaimer is that it's not a quota sample, it's just literally a completely undirected opt-in survey and there's no reason to believe this is anything resembling a representative sample, probabilistic or not.
I'm really disappointed that the EU hasn't launched an investigation yet ( at least, not that I heard)

Should have been done 5 years ago.
Well… she had “personal and financial information” on her work device.. reminder that those devices are not the place for such things…
I recall it was because of the payload capacity/volume of the Ariane rocket. Maybe there are better alternatives at this point.
It's always a red flag when someone thinks they know what point I'm making better than I do.
Many people are also assuming that unlicensed unregulated offshore exchanges keep 100% of client funds in reserve. LOL.
Sure but "not holding Tether" is just "Tether not existing" but with extra wasteful steps.
It would at least open the door to more regulation, not to mention prudence on the parts of investors. I can't escape the feeling some of these risks aren't being priced in properly.

I don't think very many average people are invested in crypto significantly, if at all, despite the hype, so hopefully the harm would be limited.
Apart from this issue, these machines have been great for me. And the Apple ecosystem is hard to beat (when you get used to the seamless integration between devices…)
Kids do weird shit. Its just embaressing (for the kid) to have this telegraphed. Perhaps its just the kid trying to work through their thoughts. If it is something more nepharious that should maybe be monitored privately. As an article it just seems like flamebait for people concerned about woke-culture.
The NFT piece of this is just such a small part of what’s needed to make this work though. This sounds like it is only something that would work in a very cooperative model - where the players and the games devs have their interests aligned in getting to use these shared assets.

The most similar thing I can think of is like gravatar images - as a blog comment section it made some sense to let people bring their ‘identity’ with them in a low trust way.

Sure, that kind of interest alignment can exist in games but if everyone’s cooperating there’s no need for a system like NFT to enforce the rules about who gets to use what cosmetics.
Ethereum user pays $430k worth of fees for a failed payment
It goes something like this:

- someone gets offended from clips, or watches the whole thing but dislikes bits they feel can taken out of context

- they say it is hateful

- everyone who listens to them takes the judgement and runs with it. No need to subject yourself to hateful content when you already know it is

- the judgement spreads, and people wanting to feel important add their own (uninformed) thoughts, which are just exaggerations of the original

- enough people say it that it becomes a foregone conclusion, and anyone who speaks up in opposition obviously only does so because they are anti-X, bigoted and hateful themselves, and so their opinions dont matter

It is basically how all stereotypes spread, with an added hint of malice thrown on top to be extra divisive. In a world of things like "anti-racism" where you must parrot the orthodoxy loudly and often, this is the natural course of things.

Culturally, I think "celebrification" is to blame for the intensity. We have spent so long worshipping celebrities, and celebrity status, that social media gave us the added shot of each of us being our own mini-celebrities. Being liked and mentioned has become a form of self fulfillment for some people, and the easiest way to do that is parrot every bandwagon you can find.
> Does it feel "brittle" to use

Yes and no.

No because when you try to do unsupported things like calling a method on an object which doesn’t support one, you gonna get an appropriate runtime exception.

Yes because if you fail lower-level things like local parameter allocation, you gonna get an appropriate runtime exception but that one is (1) too late, I’d prefer such things to be detected when you emit the code, not when trying to use the generated code (2) Lacks the context.

Overall, when I can I’m using that higher-level System.Linq.Expressions for runtime codegen. Things are much nicer at that level. I only using the low-level thing when I need to emit new types, like there: https://github.com/Const-me/ComLightInterop/blob/master/ComL...
But that's just taking the moral argument another level deeper. Why should a person's leisure be subject to the whims of employment?

> you can accomplish enough tasks to not get fired in less amount of time.

And how many employers will look at the work you got done in less time and tell you to go home for the rest of the week because you've finished everything assigned?
If it's in the US it's likely the OP is in a "Right to work" state, so can be fired for whatever reason.

One family in particular funded a lot of the push to implement "Right to work" - the AmWay owning DeVos's.
> I am typically energy constrained rather than time constrained, as I imagine is the case for many working in engineering/science.

I've found that being energy constrained is much easier to track than time constrained. You notice instantly when a task takes a ton of your energy, you start hating the task so you work hard to ensure you don't have to do the task any more. Compare that to someone who mostly wastes time, they'd happily sit and waste tons of time every day since you don't really feel your time slip away.
Gay porn pays well too but I don't hear a lot of men fighting over that career choice.
I seem to be in net positive point territory being critical of Netflix in numerous comments. I used to get flag killed and rate limited for that kind of thing! A too small improvement, but an improvement nonetheless.
Tether can absolutely insure its own currency by printing more Tether as needed -- it's identical to what the US government will do to protect bank deposits, by printing more dollars!
I do wish for a world where Python 3 had handled unicode/bytes very differently.
Common sense in tech went out the window with touchscreens on phones. They even make the cases out of glass now. So not only do they break immediately, they slip out of your hands easier.
Why would a dev write a game that detects another game's micro transactions and then give the player the fruit of the dev's labor while ignoring that the other game's devs got the profits of the micro transactions?

This is not a solid business plan.
Sounds good. Congrats! Just wondering if it can accept submissions as HN does or it just checks the RSS feed for newly created articles in personal websites? And if my personal website is using RSS, how can I know it's picked by IndieFeeder?

Thanks
Earlier discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28877095
I have two LG 4K monitors with a 2016 model (which I really want to upgrade). It's mostly fine. Waking from sleep it does go thru an annoying sequence where it wakes up one monitor at a time. When I gave feedback to Apple, they suggested plugging in the dedicated power supply as well. Maybe that would help some of the issues you see.
the current renaissance is driven by standard metadata

https://eips.ethereum.org/EIPS/eip-721
While I wouldn't say that their reserve is matching now ( I do not know) there were a few threads on twitter that I read a while back that stated that the folks behind tether were increasing the supply (of tether) to artificially inflate the value of their bitcoin holdings - which is something that they could have liquidated in exchange for more fiat since then. Obviously this is all conjecture.

This is the best reference I could find in relation to what I've said above:

In newly published research, with Amin Shams of Ohio State University, he finds evidence that Bitcoin’s 2017–2018 bubble was inflated by a lesser-known digital currency called Tether. [0]

[0] https://medium.com/texas-mccombs/tether-connection-puts-bitc...
There is no wasm in the version built-into Firefox.
You are right, they lied, and people could have been harmed if there were a “bank run” on Tether.
But in practice there was not and nobody suffered any damage, zero, nada, nicht.
While big banks got fined for actually taking money illegally out of people’s pockets and nobody said let’s shut them down
It’s certainly effective, but so is a thermonuclear bomb. The question is whether the outcome, fully accounted, is the desired one. It’s accelerating cultural polarisation, perhaps one of the most caustic and dangerous forces in modern society.
Designer's solution: a 3lb camera and battery pack you strap onto the muzzle to give you a Picture-in-Picture boresight reticle on your goggle lens.
Show HN: AI-powered copywriter that writes for you
Sorry I confused pdfJs for jsPdf.

Perhaps the next step is to build a Lowdefy block that uses pdfJs to render pdfs :)
> It is no different than the anti-vaxers posting picture of people's social media feeds bragging about being vaccinated and then ending up in the hospital.

What a sad analogy. One group that can take one or two shots and can drastically decrease the odds of hospitalization vs one group that tried to do the right thing but still got COVID mostly due to huge community transmission contributed by the unvaxxed group.

> Is it okay to celebrate when an obese person dies from heart disease?

If only obese people could take 2 shots that drastically reduces the odds of heart disease.