skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wasn't that your entire supposition, that both crypto and traditional finance started as criminal activity?
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Nothing.

Its up to the user to keep their funds offchain so they never have to guess.

Funds on exchange (by quantity of assets) are at or near an all time low, so users are learning. No sympathy to other users, unless their funds were in transit.
You only need to start worrying when people start hoarding massive amounts of cobalt..
Its your life and your career. You don't owe anyone a second of it. If you want to leave leave. Find a way to nicely say there were a lot of issues which is why you left when interviewing. Most folks have a 6 month of less stay and this is why.
> 4. John Brunner - not really "cyberpunk" but some of his work is often described as "proto-cyberpunk". The Shockwave Rider is one of his most famous works, and it is really good IMO. I haven't read Stand on Zanzibar yet, but it is also highly regarded.

Brunner's work is sometimes a bit of a downer, Stand on Zanzibar is matched or exceeded in that regard by The Sheep Look Up.

However, if that's your thing I can suggest George Turner and Paolo Bacigalupi, and Harry Harrison's Make Room, Make Room! (which was turned into the movie Soylent Green).

> 5. Pat Cadigan - I haven't read any of her stuff yet, but she is on my short-list of authors to start reading. Gets recommended a lot in these circles.

Cadigan is great, but her ouvre isn't all that large. Linda Nagata is a similar author well worth reading.

BTW, from my perspective Stephenson's real contribution in Snow Crash wasn't the Metaverse per-se but the huge dose of irony and insider humor, which reinvigorated a subgenre that was starting to take itself and it's RainyGrimDarkness a bit too seriously.

Then again, others have since explored similar territory (Tad Williams' Otherland series, Diane Duane's Omnitopia Dawn, etc.), but Stephenson's return to these stomping grounds in Reamde was a bit... turgid, by comparison.
This is of course completely silly, but kudos to the company regardless. They had a chance to capitalize on the crypto-absurdity and might have managed to hit exactly the right kind of 'silly' for that crowd, which is still an achievement in itself.

Now, if any company representatives are reading this: Please make small Weighted Companien Cubes and take my money.
>increased amount of CO2 in the air as a result of anthropogenic activity

Couple of questions because I'm curious...

What percentage of the 0.04% CO2 in Earth's atmosphere do humans contribute?

Has it yet been absolutely proven 100% that a gas comprising 0.04% of Earth's atmosphere is the main culprit/control knob which controls climate(s) around the Earth?
> ...essentially keeping on-prem 2000's philosophy and revamp it as microservices). On top of that add vendeta-developers in Asia (I'm in a small offshoot team in Europe) handing down half-baked frameworks (not-invented-here and reinventing the wheel are strong) with minimal documentation and a culture based on meetings instead of documenting things.

Ouch, this hits close to home. I can identify with this type of culture.

If you can get another job, get out ASAP and keep your sanity.

You'll slowly go mad as you realise that every best practice and "normal" way of working in software dev/IT (e.g. documentation and not just vague verbal descriptions for everything), is done exactly backwards. The cultural gap is just too big to bridge, and you cannot fix that.
Another Microsoft Gaming Moment
I have to assume the people who make this comment have never used TB3 devices.

Most TB3 monitors, docks, drive bays, eGPUs etc provide power to the laptop. So while some people maybe don't make use of that capability, it's completely inaccurate to say "there's no port loss". I'd wager that those of us using all four ports already are predominantly using all four for data or video in some way, with one also providing power, rather than one dedicated to power and only three for data/video.
Happens to fiat all the time too.
So true. And also at the systems level. In most places I've seen, the #1 priority is hitting arbitrary executive feature/date goals, not maintaining robust systems. At some point, the shit will hit the fan, causing a "Why didn't you do perfectly the thing that wasn't a real priority?!?" reaction and a temporary lurch toward robustness. Although often the lurch will be less about actual robustness and more toward performative addition of control mechanisms like more layers of review.

I remember one large company I consulted for in the mid-aughts. Before I got there, they had an outage so severe it was on CNN and caused a short but notable dip in their stock price. By the time I got there, the ops people were absolutely dominant. All changes had to go through their review board, and woe be unto any project that they raised an eyebrow at.

Of course, the real problem was that developers were scheduled out 18 months in advance to work on a list of projects they hadn't been involved in estimating and where often they hadn't seen the code before being swapped onto the project. Dates were absolutely not allowed to slip, so it came out in frantic overwork, which meant a lot of bad/confusing code. Meaning more likelihood of failure and no time to think about systemic issues and impacts.
I don't click on every #1 link.
There are loads of simple tasks, there should be a bit more reasonaing as to why this is a good filter relevant to the job's day to day.

For example I think writing some logic to filter datapoints or timespans is much better and more practical. But it takes more effort than just opening and pocking binary tree.
> This is why I can replace almost any use of unordered_map with, say the corresponding abseil implementation with very little changes to the code.

How is that useful? For "easy" optimization? Because that's not how you optimize code.
That was probably a question to determine basic competency in coding, simple data structures and simple algorithms. I.e. if he can do this, that means he's at least minimally competent. if he can't, then we don't have to waste any more time.
Obesity is increasing in most EU countries. Give them a few years and they'll eventually catch up to the US and UK.
this was a royal pain in the arse to figure out if I had live examples in the specs, because vim also just rendered them "correctly"

That's because vim supports Farsi/Arabic natively from day one. Even if the OS does not support it, you can still write bidirectional and right-to-left text in vim. Never knew the reason, but thanks Bram Molenaar.
That's not my experience. 'Free speech' was never an issue on the boards I visited because each board had its own culture and etiquette, so posters would 'read the room' before posting rants.

Some forums got sold (Head-fi, AbsolutePunk), others simply died out if the forum owner was unable to keep paying the bills.

This is where the community would step in to provide support. I'm still on a soccer message board whose original owner unfortunately passed. It is still active because core members took the responsibility of keeping the site up and handling moderation.
US intelligence report sheds new light on Wuhan lab accident theory
A wide variety of sources queryable through standard SQL, including some not found in alternatives. The competition for querying the common data sources is, as you note, stiff! We want to do those well, but also chase the long tail of more obscure systems, interfaces and formats that are out there and still contain stuff people are interested in. Even people who'd like to run query or two before they're required to declare a schema, though admittedly this latter trick is helpful for exploring but no magic wand once you need start doing computation (and data types really do become indispensable).
Surprising limits discovered in quest for optimal solutions
I’m in a similar position. Except it’s not chaos that’s the issue, that is fixable here.

It’s that I report to a gigantic dickbag. A migration had a couple of issues Friday night, with two customer apps not working. I only do the infra. Yet on sat, I was left a vm threatening to fire me, it was 100% psychotic.

I’ve sent it off to HR, and a side channel to the exec team. So hopefully action is taken.
I was #1 for a few hours a year ago, from last St. Paddy’s Day. It was a nice ego boost, but it only lasted for a day or so, and then it was back to being a regular schlub.

Anyone interested in a secondhand cape? I never even got a chance to wear it.
No. It's far better to publish misinterpretable information than to lie/censor.

Professional bullshit peddlers can still peddle bullshit without any help from misinterpretable facts. However, if you lie/censor and are discovered, the facts will be on their side. Tiny upside, large downside -- I plug those numbers into my calculator and it makes a frowny face.
i ve had posts in the frontpage in the past. It's not worth it for the community, it is negative and stuck in a groupthink. It usually contributes zero or less than that. Still, you get a lot of link juice because a lot of other sites copy the link.
Going full pop-neurophysiologist here: perhaps if being messy is a result of being distracted by ideas which are a requirement of being an entrepreneur. It all hangs together, for me!
NFLX was founded in 1997. They didn't have original content until 2013.

Before their original content I seriously considered shorting their stock. Their business model without original content was structurally flawed. They effectively had a maximum profit they could earn. Literally anything they did to increase their profit would be taken by the content producers they were forced to buy the licenses from.

Creating original content was a necessary step to survive just like pivoting from their original DVD mailing business to streaming. They're still a technology company though.
Already resumed, non news.

https://twitter.com/binance/status/1455169923026653185?s=21
Think of it this way; you were hired with the thought that after 6 mos they'd evaluate your progress and determine they want to keep you or not. That's how a lot of business work.

So, yeah, leave and don't feel bad about it. It's just business.

Take care of yourself first. Nobody else will.
>There is probably no good reason to distrust Huawei

Backdoors? Being caught red handed doing espionage? Cozying up to bad actors like North Korea and Iran?
I believe it's serious to the point he probably avoided using backspace while typing it.
If contract doesn't state how long one needs to stay, it is professional to leave anytime.

I had the luck to get into a company which was (to some extent is) a mess, where I had (have) so many opportunities to improve things and get paid for it.

Noone told me to improve things, many (including my bosses) told me not to poke around. I stopped asking, did it anyway, presented measurable improvements, got raises and respect from some, hatred and envy from some others. Latter ones usually got sacked in the long run, so I guess not everything is a mess, someone up there cares.

I don't think I owe company anything, or company owes me. I do stuff, I get paid. What I think I do owe is real-time feedback about state of stuff under my care, about my long-term goals and money expectations. Company owes me timely paycheck for time and money we agree upon. Debt from both sides is erased monthly, on payday.

I left some companies. I stayed at some. All's fair in love and war.
You are correct! But this is the situation with our entire adversarial legal system. We have in general not solved this by excluding expert witnesses, so it is indeed out of the ordinary to block testimony like this.

For example, police have a long-documented history of not giving reliable testimony. And yet these "experts" provide testimony at most criminal trials. If a state is willing to allow its police to provide expert testimony, why not its other employees?
Uh oh, these questions smell like climate heresy

Edit: for those struggling with the irony, my comment is pro-questions and pro-heresy. Let's not attack people for asking questions
Facebook dont consider themselves as tech companies. But there aren't any other category that are clearly defined in which they fit in. Social Media isn't one.
> If this happens all the time, I'm genuinely curious: What distinguishes this from fraud?

Fraud is when an exchange runs away with the customers' funds. If you had a legal money printing machine like Coinbase or Binance, would you keep your money press printing cash or would you steal your customers funds and risk prison?
It would start with us software engineers to be more exact in our communications. For an engineering discipline, we’re terrible at it.

Take your example. I don’t know whether a web page is encrypted. I do however know whether the transmission of one request of some website contents to a specific web browser is. But that won’t yet tell me whether the communication between me and the website has stayed confidential between the intended parties (which is probably what you’re interested in).
> When paypal/banks put a temporary hold on transactions is that fraud?

A bank halting withdrawals would be shut down. Massive difference between putting a hold on an account and freezing across the board.

And for good reason. From the outside, it’s impossible to determine if they’re having liquidity or operational issues. Let that question fester and you get a run.
> and were expecting to live off the interest in their savings account once they retired. The interest they were due was effectively stolen when the central banks started giving away free money, it was a massive transfer of wealth.

Well, it goes to show that the economy and financial system shouldn't be based on interest does it not? Something we've known for thousands of years now with the prohibition of interest/usury in Islam, Christianity, and Judaism.
it usually amazes me to see sites going down because of HN traffic because it is really not that much, in fact barely noticeable in a 10-year old server.
I’ve never been a fan of voting with likes either. I’d be all in for legislatively banning up and down vote systems. You will get minimal traction here though as the political left use these content voting systems to focus effort and gamify division.
I’ve always felt that the word “rescue” when applied to dogs (it’s almost always applied to dogs as pets vs other animals) comes across as self-serving.

I used to think it meant the owner was busting down doors with animal rescue police to take an abused animal out of a bad home, but more likely than not it just means someone got their dog at a shelter.
I worked at a big fintech company about to go public in a SPAC worth $4 billion. They were a unicorn when I was there. Literally everything was in a GCP MySQL Database......and they refused to pay for a hot spare. They had backups but nothing for redundancy. We had downtime almost every week.
You don't owe anyone anything if they aren't listening to you or letting you actively correct issues. It seems like you at least tried and I would bet even if you could make change, it would be an uphill battle not worth your time and energy. Sounds like a bad environment you should move on from.
So you advocated falsifying science in order to combat science denial?
If the subject is politically polarized then I am inclined to agree. Its an open secret that right leaning opinions are taboo across academia. That doesn't actually mean such opinions are wrong.
This can do exactly that.

You would create a dummy display at 1920x1080 (or higher), then have your real display become a mirror of the dummy display. macOS will scale down to display on 1440x900.
temporarily.

Paypal sometimes withholds funds to check some transactions. They are legally a bank in europe.
I'm curious if that approach to eliminating expert witnesses passes legal muster.
Abstracting things away is literally the entire point of programming.
Am I stupid? is this just disk caching or page filing? why is this so clickbaity
Tesla launches pilot program to allow non-Tesla cars at Superchargers
No, haven't gottan any raise in the last 3.5 years and I want to quit. Currently at Lufthansa as a consultant and very unhappy.
>I did something similar and loved it but a friend pointed out That he will fall over with an anxiety attack in such a situation.

I might, too, but I frankly might do the same to an even more extreme degree for a particularly challenging real-time 1-on-1 interview question from someone staring at me.

All things considered, I think I'd prefer being left alone in a room where I don't feel them over my shoulder while constantly wondering what they might be thinking with each passing second. I can take a few minutes to relax a little, look over the code, and try to figure it out.
this doesn't sound like a big deal. UF is saying that professors cannot both receive compensation for your testimony and testify as a member of the university.

in other words, they can testify for free, or they cannot use their the fact that they're UF professors as part of their credentials without prior approval, or do anything that's a "conflict of interest" as defined by UF themselves.

the article itself admits that plenty of professors at UF serve as expert witnesses, but this particular case is unique because UF professors want to testify against the State of Florida, which funds UF.

obviously UF wouldn't want that.

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which organizations will allow you to testify against an entity that funds the organization without said organizations approval. free speech aside, obviously no organization will let you do that in your capacity as a member of said organization, but nothing is stopping you from quitting and testifying anyway.
What does "politically unbiased" mean here, exactly? The way I interpret what you wrote is that you're against the current push for making it easier to vote and anything that disagrees with that will be seen as "politically biased" by you. Is that correct?

I guess the other option is that you disagree with expert witnesses as a concept?
I probably click the #1 link less than 10% of the time and idunno there's only like a 1 in 3 chance I check HN when any given story is on the front page, so from their 29k views now I'm thinking HN is 1M active users. Which of us is way off?
Compared with what? What exact measures would you propose, what benefit will they have and to whom, and what will they cost?

Is coercing people into getting vaccinated by preventing them from travel, jobs, etc. going to save thousands of the willingly vaccinated who otherwise would have died? Where are the numbers? Do you understand the gravity of coercing people to get unwanted medical treatments, or at least if you don't think it's a big deal at least accept that many people actually do extremely strongly believe notions like the government staying out of their bodies and medical issues?

And then can you logically make all these arguments and numbers in a way that they can not with similar arguments be applied to automobiles and related deaths, obesity and related issues and medical system load, etc etc?

None of this has been thoroughly examined, litigated, justified and sold to the public on its merits as far as I can see. Still. It still has not been. There has been propaganda relentlessly pushed out there in the form of fear and urgency and appeals to authority rather than facts or evidence. There has been no room to question things or present different opinions -- people who dared to do have been attacked, bullied, fired, deplatformed, and censored.
> temporarily

A bank temporarily halting withdrawals may not be shut down, but it would be massively fined.
Race appartenance in the US is self-declarative. You are what you say you are, there is no "measurement of race match".
If not people who specialize in voting rights who exactly would you expect to be brought forth to lend their expertise?
Sure, the defense lawyer may not be personally "equipped to deconstruct whatever the "experts" spend their professional lives working on".

However, the defense team certainly has the full capability (including budget) to find their own experts in the field to present to the jury whatever counter-arguments may exist to the plainiff's experts.

If the defense fails to do so, it is either their malpractice, or the reality that they actually have no effective argument.

Either way, even with your original assumption that those plaintiff experts are biases, that is ZERO reason to prevent their testimony.

The only reason to prevent their testimony is that the defense has no real case, and they know it.
As a curious non-Floridian, what about the bill is objectionable? I think I found the text here: https://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2021/90/BillText/er/HT...

I personally find issue with the idea of convicts being unilaterally disbarred from voting while I also feel that verifying the identification of the voter is pretty crucial to a believable vote. But I didn't read the whole thing. There might be more objectionable material that I missed or didn't understand properly.
Most data structures in a project are not performance bottlenecks, so that's alright. While there are much better hash table implementations, std::unordered_map is still usable, although not great.
We rescued an old dog from a shelter early this year. I love the dog and he definitely brings a lot of fulfillment similar to what you are describing.

I still agree with the majority of this article. The idea of dog ownership is inherently problematic. It’s so ingrained in our culture and evolution, however, that I feel like the only thing I can really do is help by preventing at least one dog’s soul from suffering in a shelter.

I think realistically what one could easily do if they cared about the future of dogs in this respect is to never purchase dogs from a breeder unless they were needed for a specific purpose that is mutually beneficial for the human and dog (some “dogs with jobs” are given as examples in the article). Instead, adopt your dog from a rescue. At least then you aren’t actively making the problem worse.
I've been to a concert that had an upright piano rolling around the stage, being upside down at several points. Apparently getting it to work involved installing some extra springs in the piano.

Unrelatedly they also had a trick piano where the whole backside and frame with strings would detach at the climax of the song and come crashing down to the floor on cue. Apparently they didn't need to tune the piano used for that an abnormal amount.
I don't mean to nitpick, but calling this un-American strikes me as the No True Scotsman fallacy.

I.e., Florida is part of the U.S. So if Florida does it, in at least a small way it is American.
And even more meaningfully for tool authors, the plumbing is very long-lived and general-purpose, with basic objectives like not leaking and not breaking down, while the porcelain is rather easily replaceable, possibly specialized, "smaller" but more complex than plumbing, with meaningful user interface (in Git's case, specifically, designing commands that are unlikely to do harm, easy to understand and efficient after they have been learned) and significant dependence on tastes and environments.
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave?
It all depends on the specific topic. If I just want to store my data in binary tree structure without the possibility of deletes and just with an insertion-order requirement, then the tree is automatically balanced and using an array like that is totally fine. The use-cases are probably rare (I can't think of a situation from the top of my head), but binary tree doesn't have to mean search tree.

The self-balancing part is usually added after the search part as balance is trivial/unimportant when the order/position of the elements has no constraints.
Sure but what changed between the time the equipment was purchased and installed and now? It’s not like the idea of malicious hardware is new. There was probably specific information about a credible or actual threat.