skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Incompetent people will do anything they can to avoid admitting that they are incompetent.

One of the more interesting possible outcomes of a UBI I hope to see in my lifetime is the ejection of many of the seat-warmers currently occupying IT positions in western public sector organisations.
> maybe they should start learning Chinese.

Despite all the cool Matrix aesthetic, I dread to think of a programming language in Chinese.
"turning screws"??? He's (presumably) going to be a legislator. One of many. He's not an executive, let alone a dictator.
I use Visual Studio to develop software ( C++ ) for Windows and Linux targets. I do not find it slow and rather than being "pain" it is actually way above other development IDEs in my opinion.
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This is sweet ! Now i can truly have the Strategy pattern implemented with TS.
No doubt they will start by cuttings up trees along the transmission corridor, just to spite everyone else /s
Can you explain that logic?

The possible cases I can see are: the insurance prices are reasonably fair (roughly equal to risk percent times insured value, plus some profit buffer), or they're significantly higher or lower than that "fair" amount. Given that, I have trouble seeing a case where the rational action is insuring part of the value. If the cost is significantly higher than the risk-adjusted value, then it wouldn't make sense to insure at all, and if it's roughly equal or significantly lower then it would make sense to insure as much as possible.
So, do you know of anyone that has written this type of thing up? I'd love to have some fodder when having these types of discussions. :)
WebAssembly without Emscripten
To be clear: I do not support theft and law enforcement must follow up on the offenders, recover what's left and seize the assets. But I just think a lot of people won't receive the message about these stolen cards and will be left with a rather shitty situation.
Interesting how recently there's been two projects providing a wire-level compatible alternative to an established database using postgres as the bacckend.

First Amazon's project to offer a SQL Server-compatible solution and now this to replace MongoDB. I recognize they are of entirely different orders of magnitude at the moment but it's still very interesting to me how versatile yet performant postgres can be.
I think all jobs suck in some way or another. The best approach in my opinion is to not worry too much about it, work just the required 8 daily hours and try to enjoy life outside of work.

If you feel you are not getting good enough raises, just look for another job. The market is hot atm.

If the codebase is that bad and the offshore team is making it worse, see my last paragraph. Honestly I've many times considered quitting because of an awful code base

If you really like/enjoy programming and feel bad because in the job you can't program the way you want then make your own side projects, they don't need to be for profit.
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Where is this data coming from? Almost nothing you said is true or perhaps you don't actually understand what retail traders are. Retail traders, essentially by definition, do not have sufficient capital to cause large asset bubbles. Once an individual's net worth exceeds a threshold (generally enough to where their purchases or sales affect the spreads and liquidity of the underlying market) they are not considered "retail" by definition.

Even now, with retail being the most powerful they've ever been in human history, they might be able to squeeze a single, small or mid cap equity (GME being the most famous example) but they cannot move sectors of markets, much less create a generalized bubble in ANY asset class.

Crypto 2017 is the only "bubble" which you might claim was retail-driven (even then, you'd need to provide evidence for such a claim), and even that had institutional money such as Grayscale, high-net-worth speculators, and algotrading from high-net-worth speculators driving the bubble. Not to mention that was a tiny bubble relative to any equity market bubbles.

It's well-known Tech bubble 2001 was driven by investment banks. It's even more well known that the 2008 bubble was driven by investment banks, hedge funds, and derivatives trading. The current $2.5T+ market cap crypto bubble has been formed by large institutional buyers, high net worth individuals, and corporations pumping money.

Dutch Tulips, South Sea Trading Company stocks, 90s Japan were all from institutions or high-net-worth individuals (nobles, royalty, corporations, etc) as well. Your post really couldn't be further away from reality. The historic bond bubbles have all been inflated by institutions and governments. Making a claim that even one bubble, much less "most" bubbles are caused by retail, is an outrageous claim which requires extraordinary evidence that you would need to provide.
As I understand it, Cloudflare’s major use of LuaJIT was for their WAF, and they have recently rewritten it in Rust https://blog.cloudflare.com/new-cloudflare-waf/
If you use the setup url callback, you don't get any authorization code just an installation id and the setup action. So there is no means to verify that the user honestly owns the installation that they are providing. Because the number is so short, it's easy to guess every combination.
One of the things I did to steel my will was to to think about the parents and the dog owners when I picked up other people's poop. However, thinking along those lines, I ended up connecting the idea that babies and dogs do not have free will, and I noticed that connection bubble to the surface when I saw homeless encampments. It colored the already dismal sight with a tinge of existential horror.

So, I'm not so sure that the baby/dog to encampment dweller connection makes the most appropriate vehicle for mentally dealing with the poop. Or, maybe, it is the right vehicle. I really don't know.
Worst case, add one more person armed with a crowbar and then we have the smash and grab thieves that seem to rampant in San Francisco with a very compliant automated driver stuck behind the accomplice just standing in front of the vehicle.
By size maybe. Way less disruptive than a highway though.
> use money in a moral way to extract value over time, by taking appropriate risk in a manner that is not exploitative

I've been reading on islamic banking recently, and I have to say that it appears one can arrive at a consistent philosophy and working economics with usury being prohibited. The world won't grind to a halt because capital is no longer entitled to gains by the virtue of purely existing, as opposed to being used productively. (Observe PoS vs PoW parallels, in the theme of this submission.)

You can lend money and earn a profit without interest, and you can pay for getting a credit without it being immoral. The trick is that both parties share both the gains and the risk, not just the lender being responsible for all the risk.
How could a customer tell before buying from EBay though? No sellers going to let you try to register the serial so the end customer would get screwed.
GPUs are the expensive part of a mining operation.
75 ft x 53 miles is a total of 0.74 square miles. The North Maine Woods are 3.5 million acres, or ~5500 square miles.

The total area consumed by the corridor will be about 0.014% of the woods.
Apple go above and beyond the competition with their security updates and hardware support. That said I'm not gonna judge them too harshly for not supporting more than one major os version. That they even support multiple is nice. In general I think the expectation of receiving support while being one major version behind is kind of absurd. You sort of accept the risks when you decide that potential unresolved bugs aren't worth the upgrade.
All the examples use polling model, and sleep for 1 nanosecond between polls. This will require those applications to use 100% of the CPU all the time, whether there is work for them or not.

Is QuestDB written like that? If yes, this is a great reason to avoid it.
I live near enough to the border that most of Maine is a day trip away and that’s the impression I get from local news, and friends and family living in Maine.

Only other stereotype I can recall being told on top of the GP is that it’s very insular and if you’re not a Maine native then don’t expect to ever win an election.

Again all anecdotal but it’s what your neighbors think of you at least
We should just build a resort city for them somewhere in the central valley and provide free housing, healthcare, and training opportunities. Anyone who doesn't want to go is left on their own and subject to the same expectations & laws as everyone else.
In Colorado, the return envelope has a unique barcode and has to be signed on the outside. Not fullproof, since they could print a new envelope with the same code and forge the signature, but not as easy as just having a stack of return envelopes to use.
And it's only used once in the code - dealing with GROUP BY in the query planner maybe?
I'm keeping an eye on this gear as well.

https://www.bluettipower.com.au/collections/portable-power-s...
Where does it say that they stole a trailer's worth of GPUs? LTL is a thing[1], so it's totally possible that there's only a pallet or two of GPUs on board. If that's true, even a factor of 10 adjustment wouldn't account for your overestimation.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Less-than-truckload_shipping
You can't handwave away the main resource of the century going up in price like a rocket in a world where oil shocks were practically unheard of in times of peace.
And I like how they've been hiding behind the "progressive" label, as if pushing for electric vehicles and the identity politics are equally progressive ideas.

That's something that bad guys have been doing for long time: they pick a good idea or symbol and attach themselves to it. This is how nazists have turned swastika (an ancient holy symbol) into something evil and how the supporters of the identity cult are destroying the image of the true progressives.
No, 70s inflation had nothing to do with Carter.

Inflation in the 70s preceded Carter. There was the oil crisis. It preceded that. Nixon ordered price controls ... in 1970.

No, 70s inflation had nothing to do with Carter's 'spending'. Carter's spending as a percentage of the GDP decreased from 1977 (19.65%) to 1979 (19.18%). It increased in 1980.

In no real universe was Carter anything but a fiscal conservative. In no real universe were Reagan and Bush anything but profligate.
A GPU is a component, not a complete system.

For laptops and smartphones, sure being stolen a common risk, and that kind of functionality grants the end-user some protection, and perhaps a chance to recover the good.

For TVs and motherboards, GPUs, printers, etc it's basically superfluous DRM that typically only serves the manufacturer.

Overall Smart TVs have been the polar opposite of user-respecting technology.
Their risk model should really account for the possibility that housing prices go down. I mean, there were famously in 2008 banking firms whose models didn't even allow for that.
A doctor friend of mine would joke about it being good organ transplant weather when it was raining, because they’d get dead motorcyclists turning up in the rain so frequently.
What's the "lifetime" of a graphics card?

As in, lifetime doesn't mean your lifetime. Or the time you own the card. It means whatever expected lifetime the item has as per the manufacturer. The manufacturer may define the "regular lifetime" of their item to be 3 years for example and then it would not have helped you at all.

I've never registered for any warranties in my life.

I'm not sure if this is a thing where you are. But where I am for example, there are warranties guaranteed by law that require manufacturers to warranty their items for a "reasonable" amount of time (regardless of what their actual terms say). What is reasonable is up to interpretation and different for different items. They do give a few examples for common items like a washing machine but otherwise it's up to consumers and companies to figure this out together and if they can't you can make an official complaint with the government. Helped me w/ NVIDIA who wouldn't replace a broken tablet shortly after their official warranty ran out.

EDIT: No idea on the downvotes, when I started replying there were no downvotes yet, when I submitted there was.
PET scan, the tumors where in lymph nodes. They got rid of them with surgery.
Talking about "pedantic nitpicking" does not favor your argument. Inventing claims from whole-cloth to debunk does not favor your argument.

The world uses literally millions of tons of hydrogen every year, industrially. That the only event of any note that you can get any traction with was over 80 years ago should give you a clue. Noisy scaremongering does not improve anybody's life. Give it a rest.
Yup, now OP just has the choice to make...completely rewrite American society, or go down to the gun store and buy a gun.
What I do:

interface OutputDoesntExist {
exists: false;
url?: never;
}

Now it’s:

- Optional in the union type

- Always present and has the correct type in the exists: true case

- Still optional in the exists: false case, but if you try to access it you always get a type error
I stated "rifle" not all guns. Because saying we need to take away all guns is pie in the sky thinking. Dems run on "taking away AR-15" but the stats show that isn't going to achieve anything.

In 2008, there were 800k-3 million defensive uses of guns.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29101364
To be fair, AMD played these games too when it was hopelessly behind in architecture and design (cherry picking benchmarks, comparing to lower powered CPUs, etc). Always wait for independent reviews.
It'd be more efficient to just fence the cards. There are so many communities of flippers / eager buyers out there that it would take minutes to move an entire truckload of 30 series GPUs to buyers of all types.
Some Whales Can Eat Upwards of 16 Tons of Tiny Shrimp a Day
If I were EVGA, I'd contact eBay to flag all sales of the stolen GPU models, and that providing the serial number is required for the listing to be accepted.
Not quite: Truetime has guarantees about ordering, rather than accuracy.

If you ask for the time and get A, and then ask for the time again and get B, then Truetime guarantees that A is less than B.

Obviously, in a distributed setting this is much easier to do if you have accurately sync'ed clocks, but that accuracy goes to reducing the uncertainty in the time (and hence making truetime faster) rather than providing accuracy.
Went this direction once only to encounter nepotism and unwillingness to pay decently, but I have seen it work for some!
And the right wing tried to stage a coup and thinks our elections are rigged. Crazies everywhere!
The worst mistake I made was accepting linkedin invites from recruiters. I expected that it will increase my chances to get offered some kind of job but most of them never even wrote to me. And my linkedin absolutely filled with spam
If anyone else was wondering:

> The Pittsburgh left is a colloquial term for the driving practice of the first left-turning vehicle taking precedence over vehicles going straight through an intersection, associated with the Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, area. [1]

I guess that would be a Pittsburgh right where I come from :)

1. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pittsburgh_left
I think one of the key lessons here is that a framework fundamentally cannot be compliant. Too much of what is required is simply beyond what any framework can deliver and a matter of human-based process.

I have no doubt of the technical sophistication of Dream, but I do have some doubt that it provides a way to automatically assess the data handling of subprocessors for me (4.3).
Cool, the Japanese edition has katakana:

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/71/Kunyu_Wa...

Some of the names are easy to recognize:

イタリア = Italy
フランサ = France
アンギリア = Anglia
アンダルシア = Andalusia
カステラ = Castile
イスハニア = Hispania
...

... and looks like Mexico is "Nova Hispania"?
If they disabled mining on all GPUs and hardware not intended for that purpose, video card prices would return to normal in a month.
Unfortunately it's too late; we just entered the era in which every appliance consumes less power, yet there is an unprecedented demand for energy, and it grows steadily. What will happen when everyone on the planet will want their own mining machine on 24/7?
Public Key Cryptography could have it for services to journalism.
> Avoid public firms. A corporation cannot show loyalty, but a HUMAN can.

Counterpoint: I work in a FAANG and the first thing I noticed what that I was just a small piece in a big machine. Everyone is replaceable. People change teams all the time, some leave the company after 6 months, only to re-join 1 year later... But it's actually a good thing! I don't have the same amount of stress I had when working in a small company.
I'm confused, how could they be like a highway?

Don't your power lines look like this?

https://energytransition.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/Wind...

1 pole of maybe... I don't know, 30m by 10m, every several hundred meters? That's a tiny footprint.

Isn't the rest just electrical cables hanging 20m in the air?
> Hard to say since research into gun violence is banned by the government.

That's plain false.

The reason they stopped studying because it didn't fit the narrative.

In 2008, there were 800k-3 million defensive uses of guns:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29101364
In the USA, you either become big enough to replace the military, or you simply get integrated with them. The CIA did the former, AWS did the latter.

Google is already by law providing tons of data to NSA/et al without a warrant, for military spying (PRISM/FAA702). This is just another predictable step.
If you are doing business internationally, you are more likely to be asked about this. SOC2 is not all that requested internationally. For some deals with mature European customers, ISO 27001 is a hard requirement. For B2B US, SOC2 is most often requested.

Most organizations take a calendar year or more to get their ISO 27001 certification. One difference between that and a SOC2 is that you need to show that you are running it continuously. At the end of the first year, you get to have another audit. And you really need to show improvement over that year. And the following year. In the fourth year, you start over again with a full audit. Keep in mind that ISO 27001 will require staffing involvement.

Some deals can work if you show convincingly that you are on the road to getting it.

And no, having both won't make the questionnaires go away (contrary to my hope of obtaining it). They may be slightly reduced, but if you have a lot of large customers, you will find quite often hundreds of questions that don't exactly overlap with the last one you filled out. This make it hard to scale the questionnaire effort. There can be some luck if you prepare a standard one, like starting with the CIS controls.

We decided to get it done before it was a hard requirement, as we wanted to show a better security posture, and pursue international (not just EU) business.

One thought I share with teams building security practice is to obtain a copy of the ISO 27001/27002 standards and read through it. It may give you some ideas of how to measure your own security program. One thing that I like about that standard is documenting the executive commitment to funding and staffing the security effort. If you can wrangle that, you are ahead of the game.

The new (2017) SOC2 standard has new language that goes a bit in that direction, with controls like executive commitment to ethics, and division of responsibilities between the board and management.

With respect to security, in your own enlightened company self interest, don't let the idea of SOC2 or ISO 27001 lead you to think that you have security solved. Didn't SolarWinds have a SOC2? (Don't get me started on Third Party Risk Management.)
I agree that if you ignore the saved life on the other end of the transaction, it does seem rather pointless.
This article is pretty fascinating, never knew about so called preservation solution https://www.livescience.com/how-long-can-donated-organs-last...
You ever go running with an energetic medium-large dog? Sometimes they are just so excited they want to sprint away, much faster than you can possibly bring yourself to go. It's not that you wouldn't love to go that fast, you just can't, and you have to pull the younger, more dependent dog back to a tolerable pace for you. You're still running, just at a pace that doesn't cause injury. You're also making sure that the dog doesn't get off the leash and cause any harm or get unintentionally harmed.
Two reasons why this won't work:

1) The GPU probably already comes with a driver CD that can't have this serial number marked as stolen.

2) Even if you use a downloaded driver, you can just use the last version that didn't contain the serial.

You'll be left out of future driver updates, but that is of no concern to miners.
> There are speculators in every market.

For crypto speculation is <<the market>>.
Nominal/opaque primitive types. You “can” do it with hacks but it’s some kind of a fib and depending on approach it’s less type safe.
Have you heard of "molecular beam epitaxy"? You can make functional microelectronics with vacuum vapor deposition.
Why bother making up so many numbers? The truck could have been any size. There could have been 10 or 10,000 boxes in it.
Kidneys in the US are largely sourced from cadavers.

If we enticed poor people to sell their kidneys, some percentage of them would wind up needing kidneys again without an ability to pay for them.

This turns into a kidney marketplace where the rich win out over the poor.

FCFS with triage based on need, immunocompatibility, and health outcome is the most equitable model.
Yes, coordinated conspiracy to commit mass murder definitely falls under "evil" in my morality.

Let's not forget that "defense" is itself a euphemism, a rebrand from "Department of War". There's nothing defensive about the USA's global drone assassination program, quite the opposite.