skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Monogamy isn't just for kids. By ensuring that most men get married, it quells social unrest. In polygamous society, one man gets more women, which causes jealousy, and ultimately social unrest when inequality gets too high. Men without partners are a recipe for societal disaster.
> the fiduciary duty of Meta the company

This argument for public comapanies needs to be de-bunked. This isn't a real thing, "fiduciary duty" means don't burn money and don't fraud your investors not don't do a slightly-less-shortterm business decision.

Also zuck owns a majority, so even if it was a real thing, if he approves, no other shareholder's opinion on duty matters.
Wait. Why? How? Their in-house system (Magic Pocket / Diskotech) seemed so promising.

https://dropbox.tech/tag-results.magic-pocket
Is the future of remote working in the metaverse?
Does everyone ignore the fact that you need to take an antibiotic with Ivermectin or any other 3CL protease inhibitor? That itself should be enough of a reason to get the mRNA vaccine over taking a 3CL protease inhibitor for prophylaxis.
I mean one could begin by looking at when taxes are due at the transaction of an art piece, and ask an attorney, instead of just assuming no taxes are due and wandering off could one not? The burden is on them. And then when someone suggests doing the bare minimum due diligence on a half billion dollar transaction replying "the tax remindooooooor."

You can see why pretending no taxes are due because "blonkchain" and making fun of someone who suggests that doing some due diligence on a half billion dollar transaction isn't a good look, can't you?

Do you really think it's unreasonable to assume a half billion dollar capital gain isn't a taxable event?

> "... when a flash loan wash sale would just as easily not cause any tax at all"

What's your basis for this guess? Is it because a tax wouldn't be due on the sale of stock you repurchased within 30 days? That's called the wash-sale rule and it only applies to securities. It doesn't even apply to commodities or futures - or crypto. So either it's a security, in which case this is a federal crime, or it's not a security, and the wash trader has to pay taxes on the first transaction - and a hypothetical second transaction would have to be made to generate a loss to cover.

Y'all need to get over yourselves, the toxic community is easily the worst thing about crypto - and that's after figuring in the ruining the world with your emissions so you can gamble bit.
A wealth tax is the only thing that makes sense to me here. Also eliminating the stepped up basis.
Not parent, but yes. This describes my life to a T. High successful when I actually do work, but constantly frustrated at the small % of my time actually operating at the high-level output.
I installed the extension, tested a search, then switched my default back to another search engine. Future searches on you.com failed because I did not have the extension installed - even though I did.

I uninstalled the extension. I don't want to use tools that give me less power over my browsing experience, arbitrarily breaking although I'd done what was explicitly documented. I want tools that give me more power.
Yes. Basically the main reason it isn't the default now is the still rough executable memory management.

Other than that it's been rock solid and offers decent speedup across a wild range of benchmarks and real world applications.

So my personal expectation is for it to be enabled by default in 3.2, but I might be wrong.
I think you have a definition of "easily" that many might not subscribe to.

If this policy isn't available and enabled by default in some package containing common policies, do you really expect your average developer to a) even know anything about AppArmor, or b) know how to write an AppArmor policy file without spending a few hours digging through docs, reading examples, and engaging in a bunch of trial and error?

(If your answer is "yes" to either of those questions, I'd suggest you might overestimate what is common knowledge.)
The problem with the metaverse is that people don't actually want to live a virtual life in a virtual world for significant periods of time. I honestly think the only people who are interested by this are grifters.
Might be time to buy ETH or the one you think that'll provide more utility than it in 10 years.
It's actually quite old - here's a humurous take from WWII: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=URwmZq70_DU
> The metaverse will be an open, standards based network of VR environments, each analogous to a web site.

I think an important enabler of websites is the click-to-download nature of web surfing. You download the HTML site at read-time without worrying about installs. This makes it a lot easier to jump around.
You can be stratum 1 if you get your data from GPS, as is the author of the article. So if Google puts hardware with GPS receivers all over the world and routes time.google.com to the nearest machine they have a stratum 1 service without having to put atomic clocks in every data center
normal (probably average) senior developer pay in capital (Warsaw) to be more precise.
> Having lightweight userland threads fundamentally changes the way that you write concurrent programs. There is no need to worry about creating too many threads or of thread creation being too heavy. Old school patterns like process/thread/goroutine per connection are very natural to write in Go and result in dead simple code that performs well under load.

Well... there's still a problem in the tens-of-millions of Goroutines.

But the issue is that OS-threads generally had issues at the ~100,000 of OS-threads. Making something "more lightweight" than pthreads makes sense, because 10,000,000 coroutines is a fundamentally different program design than 100,000 pthreads.
> There doesn't seem to be any evidence that any of this data is going to be used to

Irrelevant. Get a targeted warrant, then get limited data.
They compared those who had COVID, as determined by antibody tests, and were not aware of having had COVID, to those who believed they had COVID, but had not had it, again according to antibody tests.

This was to isolate the psychosocial impact on health of believing one has COVID from the direct biological effects of having COVID.
> in the road shoulder that passes for bike lanes

Bike lanes do not exist in most places. The poster had said that their comment was about:

> areas where the bike infrastructure is poor or nonexistent

If there are bike lanes, then being overtaken by cars is not as much of a problem. But in most places, cyclists have to use the same lanes as motorised traffic, so it is more important to be able to keep up.
> There may exist some colo where I can get a server(or storage, or network cards or anything else) added in minutes over an API call but I haven't heard of any. That's usually found on the VPS side.

To be fair, you can't get hardware added in AWS via API call either. What you can do is spin up instances/storage/etc via API call, as long as that spare capacity hardware is already set up, available and ready to be allocated to you. Which you can also do on on-prem hardware.

If you're saying that your utilization is so peaky or unpredictable that you end up needing an order of magnitude more, or fewer, resources available day to day, then you are absolutely correct that provisioning so much spare capacity on-prem would be prohibitive. This is an use-case where AWS excels.

But if your utilization doesn't have dramatic peaks and growth is mostly predictable, then it becomes practical to provision for it on-prem and it'll be a lot cheaper.
Let’s talk about the future of USB-C
> the importance of physically residing in the US will decrease, and that there is an opportunity for other locales/governments to attract remote workers.

COVID really did changed everything, and proved working from home not only works well, but more importantly to CFOs, made it significantly cheaper by literally outsourcing real estate costs to employees.

The past few months have been interesting. I've been contacted by so many recruiters the past year not from my state or even country that it's wild, and all for remote jobs. Compare that to the past few years where the conversation ends abruptly as soon as I mentioned that i would not be relocating.
Not everyone wants to work as a contractor. It also limits the amount of control you have over their output. It also is not a complete failsafe, as the state can say you treated them like an employee, thus they are an employee.
Degrees are often used as proxies for an IQ test. To get into school X you must be at least Y smart. As long as we ban IQ tests for employment employers are going to keep using this as the best practical proxy. It’s going to have these kinds of bad effects where people need to get $115k degrees to get a $50k job since some people will do so despite the nonsensical ROI. We need to remove the law banning IQ tests in job interviews and let employers test for the kinds of things they currently proxy by university degree.
Lol that didn't age well. France just announced they're building new reactors to meet their emissions targets.
They do hire in Europe but pick expensive locales such as Switzerland, London or Dublin. I can't stop wondering why not open shop in Italy or Spain - wages may be much lower with way higher life quality.
> You're making the point about _when_ they implemented generics

I'm not, I'm pointing out that there was nothing actually exceptional or praiseworthy about it.

> It's non-trivial to design and add a feature as core to a language as generics and make it a backwards compatible release

So?

> and you're glossing over that by saying they should've done that sooner.

I'm glossing over that by saying that it's hardly novel, and that this is a self inflicted issue which dates back literally to the original language. This is a problem they were told about all along. They never had to take that risk, they decided to against advice.
YES!!!!

This is what I am building: https://www.jigdev.com

It’s based on ObservableHQ, and is meant to give you ui components that you’d generally use in small tools: buttons, selectboxes, inputs, tables and charts…

The code part is javascript, so you can just connect to rest apis no problem, and do some data wrangling using javascript.

The doc is non-existant, and the product is in early beta (in use at exactly 1 company).

It’s an electron app people can run on their computers. The apps generated are text files containing mostly javascript code that you can diff/audit.

Shoot me an email if you want a demo / more info.

Edit: the current version can query mysql databases as well. I could write other modules as well. Also planning to add pivot table soon.
House prices are often even higher in Europe, relative to wages. Check prices in London or Paris to see: you get smaller apartments, smaller houses on smaller lots than in US, and you’ll pay larger percentage of your paycheck for them.
Fair point! Although the name field isn't particularly sacred in its own way (your inbox may already be littered with things like "No Reply" or "Taco @ Trello").

I suspect this really comes down to spam filters. Most emails would generally avoid a shell game like this for fear of spam filters - but I imagine emails from Wikimedia have enough authority that they can get away with it more.
how would you even allocate the money fairly besides rolling it into the company to keep it alive and successful (and maybe the added profit increases the bonus pool if that exists)?

The engineers didn't do it in isolation - how much of a share goes to the office receptionist that answered the phones and kept visitors out of the way of the engineers? How much goes to the Finance department that kept the engineering paychecks coming while they did they work? How much goes to the salespeople who kept the deals flowing and money coming in that filled the disks in the first place... and so on and so on.

Once a company exits the "a few devs in a garage" stage, many people contribute to the company's success.
Windows 11 SE, a new Chrome OS competitor
Back in the day, before Vuforia implemented volumetric tracking, I developed my own Pepsi can detector for an augmented reality app, just processing filters.
> Salaries may continue to go up for a little while longer, but they will fall to reflect the rest of the world catching up with the US.

This has never happened in US history. The upward trend has stopped. Employment outside the US has grown much faster. Other countries have caught up. But wages in large sectors haven't gone down in any sector I'm aware of. And MAGMA all have over 100,000 software engineer employees and make huge profits on them. Google makes over a million dollars per software engineer. There's a lot of room for wages to go up.
See also, "Carcinoma Angels", Norman Spinrad, 1967.
I mean... I had not even yet heard the talk that others have pointed you to (from Armin Ronacher); after having gone several times down the rabbit hole of looking at what the interpreter is doing in specific scenarios (and I like lots of things, at the language level, that python does, the terseness and expresiveness that it brings) I also think that python is a very complex language under a soft-looking skin.
So platforms can kick off LGBTQ+ folks, but not Nazis?
My "best" rm -rf story was when I created a system user account on a production system (router) to test something. What I didn't know is that for system users their home directory is set to / by default; this will become important later.

I finished what I was doing and wanted to clean up after, so after undoing my changes I ran userdel -r on that user (-r removes its home directory). The command took way longer than expected, at some point I terminated it to investigate as I assumed there was something unrelated going on (high CPU or IO contention).

At this point you probably figured out what happened. By the time I stopped the command the damage was done and a good part of the system has been nuked. Surprisingly (and thankfully I guess) the actual firewalling and routing is done at kernel level so it continued doing its job totally fine despite userspace being nothing more than a smoldering wasteland.
For the past 50 years the lower and middle class person where robbed, not by inflation (which was way higher before 71 than between 1981 and today) but by neoliberal policies (Thanks Raegan, thank you Bill Clinton, and all the others, really).

Interestingly enough those policies where grounded in the same ideological background as today's crypto enthusiasm: Austrian economics.

In the 70's, Keynesian's political influence died (because of inflation haters), and so died the golden age of America, and the lower-income families spiralled to straight poverty. Now, after the 2008 crisis, Keynesianism is in charge again, and some people are really bullish with crypto for ideological reasons (because they've drank too much of the 80-90's propaganda comparing Keynesianism with Communism, really). But using lower and middle class persons as an argument reveals either poor historical knowledge or bad faith. It's pretty ironic anyway.
> If science is a set of methods and tools to discover truth

Science, as practiced, is a process that consumes dollars and PhDs and outputs peer reviewed papers.
> it's probably too late for the protease inhibitor

...which is exactly why I'm skeptical about PAXLOVID™
Democratic Architecture
> Now my $1200 LG washer has WiFi (I NEVER connected it on purpose)

I think some appliances (TVs, perhaps?) have been caught connecting to any open AP they can find, even if you don't give it credentials to your network.
There are easy to repair competitors like kubota. It is just JD still has a lot of name recognition and "Buy American" and all that.
Private corporations are collecting the data, the state is just buying it, and I doubt they are the only customer.
We shouldn't be too hard on these new search engines. My search engine spent a fairly long time returning comically irrelevant search results.

Building a search engine is easy enough. Getting it to return good results is the 10% of the work that takes 90% of the time.
Error handling differs. But we try to move up metrics and logs as high as possible in the call chain. Handling an error may be a retry with a strategy, moving items to different queues, changing concurrency, potentially triggering jobs to run, feeding different events to event streams, and, of course, retuning errors to callers so they can programmatically respond.
In my mind (I know nothing about the universities' threat models) the biggest concern is not looking up some reference online, but paying someone for a couple of hours to take the test for you.

I agree, if you can look at available resources and competently perform the task that is likely not an issue in the field.

However paying someone to tell you all the answers to a test is cost effective for an exam that takes a couple of hours but will not get you by in the field. The university doesn't want to be known to give out degrees to incompetent workers so they need to prevent this case.
He compares it at the bottom of the article:

Compared to Wilson's formula, it's very short, and it's not nearly as difficult to understand the idea behind how it works. One could easily get the question "Why would this random formula give better results than what a very established mathematician came up with?" I can't really answer that, but it would seem a lot of you agree that it does indeed produce better results when rating Steam's games. I can, however, try to give some insight into this.

For one, Wilson's formula isn't really meant to be used quite like this. It takes a rating and the sample size (the number of reviews), and outputs a confidence interval. And a confidence interval basically says that “We are some% sure that the score is between x and y”. If you increase the % of how sure you are, the distance between x and y also increases, and vice versa. But to get a single rating, it's not quite okay to just take the lower bound of that interval.

Secondly, because of what was mentioned in the last paragraph, it always gives us a lower rating than the original. This is clearly the incorrect behaviour, as something that just came out and gets a single negative review will be marked as having a score of 0%. Meanwhile, an established terrible game can have 10 positive and 500 negative reviews, and it will rank higher. This is also the reason why one of the two rules I listed was that all ratings should be biased towards the average.

Finally, while Wilson's formula probably gives us a more “precise” rating, so to say, it's not necessarily what we want to see. There's a lot of mathematics behind why what it does is correct, while the previously mentioned numbers of 2 and 10 that I picked for my formula were rather arbitrary. Still, I selected them so that the result would also account for the high number of reviews when assigning a good score. It's why you'll probably notice a lot less games with a low review count among the top games than before.

I think that's important because a game that is very popular and very highly rated should be ranked higher than a game that isn't as popular and is also very highly rated. Not because we can be more certain that this rating is indeed correct, but because you, as a random person who has yet to try that game, will more probably like it if a lot of other people have liked it as well — if it's not a niche game. And I think this aspect is definitely important and should be accounted for when trying to represent an entire game with just a single number.
Haskell in Production: Scarf
What about: https://people.freebsd.org/~seanc/postgresql/scale15x-2017-p...

16k record size 2x amplification and still (?) allows compression w/ lz4
> I know long covid sufferers personally

The problem here is that covid is a respiratory disease, and as with any other serious respiratory disease, there can be a whole host of consequences that are long lasting. Everything from brain damage, lung damage, and that will then affect pretty much every other system in your body.

And then ontop of that you have a full blown viral outbreak, which can damage pretty much any organ. What we know only scratches the surface.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2082798/#:~:tex...

https://medlineplus.gov/genetics/condition/acute-necrotizing...

But we do not call someone struggling with the results of acute cute necrotizing encephalopathy as a "long flu" sufferer, as if this meant their flu infection was never cured.

Just like we do not call it "long pneumonia" when someone discovers that damage to their lungs has caused a whole host of permanent ailments, from difficulty climbing stairs, to dizziness and short term memory loss, or even weakness, loss of muscle mass, joint pains. Nor we do not say "long oil-burn" when a failure to replace burnt oil causes long term damage to your car.

As long as this keeps being framed as some special form of long lasting covid infection, rather than damage caused by covid, you are going to run into all sorts of problems with people who point out that no covid can be detected in the person, and so there isn't any scientific basis for the long covid theory.
Same. The world would feel quite dystopian without Tor, Signal and other similar software aiming to preserve your privacy. I rarely use Tor but I'm soooo happy it exists.

Just started wondering: If Tor disappeared off the face of the earth right now, what would be the replacement?

1. Would it be an existing alternative that would become dominant in the space?

2. Would an identical software/network be built?

3. Would something new (and better) be built to replace it (and how would that look like)?
I've had the same thing with race fundraising charities. I donated to someone else's Best Buddies bike ride fundraising trip and I haven't been able to get off "Maria Shriver's Best Buddies" email spam list for years. They create new email addresses to spam me constantly. It's turned me off of ever donating anything to them again!
This is exactly what is happening. And afaict as far back as the 70's.
Major isp's taking public funds, close relationship between nsa and Google
This didn't age well lol. Macron just announced they're going up build more nuclear reactors to meet their emissions targets.
How is ProctorU different from Microsoft or Apple or Facebook?
It's not really a fad as much as a selection pressure. I wrote an article about it because there is a lot of confusion about why one-line npm packages are popular: https://erock.io/2021/03/27/my-love-letter-to-front-end-web-...
28 business days of vacation per year? More than 5 weeks? I know of no company in America that offers that, not even informally.

Few US companies offer most of the benefits Europeans expect, from free/cheap health care to child care to generous maternity/paternity leave to low tuition to job security to strictly enforced equal opportunity.

Combine all of those into one employer in the US? That unicorn doesn't exist. However such beasts live all over Europe. But they just don't pay US wages, perhaps for obvious reasons.

What's more, as soon as US companies hire remotely en masse in Europe, regulators there will surely demand the same benefits & protections for their people from remote employers. This will erase the economic advantages of outsourcing there unless wages paid there are substantially lower than in the US.
Why should I reference the particulars of the link when refuting a generalization?

If the parent comment had said something to the effect of "I should give the benefit of the doubt to a sitting US senator" then you'd have a point, but that context wasn't part of their statement.

Edit: Also, frankly, I wouldn't give the benefit of the doubt to a US senator. If anything, it makes the identity politics feel even more irrelevant.
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