skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, employees need to have their webcam uncovered. The purpose of the webcam is to make sure that the person we are paying to do the work is the one actually doing the work.

Screenshots are not checked in depth unless someone is having productivity issues. Screenshots are actually a protection for the employee who is not getting work done as they should. Sometimes it turns out that they've been working very hard at a specific problem, but may just not have been able to make progress against it at this point.

I also come at it from a different point of view. I don't have a specific number of widgets per day a person is supposed to turn out. That is not what I am paying for. I am paying for that person's expertise and time and it is up to me to direct it in a way that is profitable for the company. If I direct the person to do a test that is not profitable for the company and they do it to their best of their ability, that is my fault, not theirs. I never ask for overtime, but I do require that people work their allocated hours.

I have 200 full-time employees doing a very wide range of tasks and judging productivity is challenging even though we have many KPIs for measuring it. Time is far easier to manage. I do give incentive pay based on productivity to try to encourage not just butt in the chair time, but productive work.

Back when I was a line employee, I wish that there was a way to pay purely based on productivity. Productivity. As a manager, I have seen it is incredibly challenging to devise a proper system to do so. I have spent years and years working on this and still only have systems that are okay at it. Time just makes sense to measure from an employee standpoint and from a business standpoint, that's why most businesses do it.
If you are a researcher from another field that just wants to contract out the computation of a numerical solution to some chemistry problem infeasible on a classical supercomputer, a million "physical" qubits is a fairly reasonable guestimate.

If you are a quantum computation person developing near term applications, you probably would already start getting excited with a 100 (sufficiently long-lived) qubits.

The "sufficiently long-lived" is the problematic part. Every lab has its own bespoke figure of merit (quantum volume, CLOPS, fidelities, etc). It is basically impossible to compare devices without being a researcher in the field for now. But at some point a novel drug or material will be developed thanks to a quantum computer and then we should really get excited about renting time on these devices.
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RFC's an BCP's are worth following aswell. especially if one wants to know how systems in the default free zone are build.
I used to enjoy DiscoverDev and recommended it to everyone, but the RSS feed is never updated any more, so I thought it was stagnant.
Have a skim over the high level points covered in the post I linked here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29244992

There is something really novel unfolding right now and HN seems blissfully unaware.
Plus if the author is keeping to go versioning standards they'll probably also keep to go compatibility aesthetics which bodes well for the future.

It's still a risk, but in this case one I suspect I'll also take next time I need to add a build step to a JS project.
Sorry, "boonies" might have been a bit of a callous choice of words. Reading more about it, it sounds like the folks at Abbotsford, Hope and surrounding areas are having a pretty lousy time right now.
I don't know! :)

The best-of-both-worlds is what I want. The first decently country to let in immigrants while reducing working hours is going to crush everyone else with a strong, more technologically- and culturally-advanced society. I am excited to see it happen.

(incidentally a very vague materialist take on why the soviet union sucked is it began too underdeveloped, and in the rush to do more work they ended up too military-industrial. A lot of people say "not enough consumption" but you ought to connect it being able to let demand "pull" investment rather than centrally "push" investment. More consumer goods or less working hours are somewhat equivalent once you are (post-)industrialized.)
Thus far, only D-Wave has truly scalable control over their qubits. They accomplished that by moving to an entirely different computational regime. Until gate-model efforts find a solution to scalable control, every "we built a bigger chip" announcement is a milestone in microwave engineering.
WHERE THE FUCK IS @PATIO11 ON THIS MATTER!!!??

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I love this!

WEhat would be really awesome would be:

ANTI-PATTERN-OUTAGE-BINGO-DDOS-VOTE :

"Who should the botnet go after?"

And have users bot-vote the target of whatever version of LOIC they can muster...

(And a BLUE version - which is users dedicated to protecting such site)

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Im smelling a click-game here... Anyone? A N Y O N E ?> ? ?
Robinhood probably still earns more than half of its transaction based revenue from crypto, with the rest being options and stocks. I think it actually does qualify as a major cryptocurrency service.

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/08/18/robinhood-crypto-revenue-jum...
It's politically motivated, not about improving the service.
> Honestly, I don't see this and think it's both bad history and bad social commentary.

Texas just made abortion illegal. There was a huge scandal because someone inadvertently displayed a nipple on live television. The definition of nudity includes showing a mere breast. A majority of people think you can’t be moral if you don’t believe in god. People regularly swear on the bible in court.

> but it still maintained a "gangster" reputation

Because it made alcohol consumption illegal out of a rigorous conception of moral purity.

The USA remains heavily influenced by the puritain ideas in its culture. Far more than a country like France where 70% of the population says they are not religious and 29% say they don’t believe at all.
Looks like serious CDC upgrades in new CockroachDB v21.2
Azure has the same issues with updating their status page. Sometimes it never happens.

I might at least hold out some chance that Google Cloud will write an interesting PM, which is something Azure would never do IME.
I'm from the older generation. I don't agree with a lot of what's in clean code. Particularly the focus on micro unit tests. Nor do I like the moralising tone of the books author in general. Also flexibility comes at a cost. A codebase where everything is easy to change becomes complex in aggregate, such that nothing is easy to change.
It depends what game and what is the context. During corona times online collaborative games helped my kids staying in touch with their friends but when no in lockdown it is better to actually see people. Oculus Quest games promote a lot of activity for many people who would be couch potatoes without it but maybe is not so good for someone who is already training or working in physical job and need some rest time. Bottom line, it depends
>The argument of "if you read the blog you know what it means" somewhat falls flat when the link is posted on HN for people who don't already read the blog to see.

I don't understand your complaint here. The author (Lyn Alden) is not the person who posted it here on HN.

In any case, she's an American writing about USA policy where her audience already knows what "QE" is. Seems unreasonable that she should predict that a German on HN would be irritated by it.
WalletConnect/WalletLink solve this problem.
Nothing. It is just how many they were able to manufacture and control reliably. Probably were aiming for some power-of-two number but had a couple of defects.
It could not be "recovered" by git in any way.
I'm starting to get some fatigue about quantum computer news, and I just dismiss them now. If there really is a valuable breakthrough, everyone will be talking about it for months non-stop so I won't miss it.
Feynman used a differential equation to prove the correct size of the buffers on the first connection machine [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Connection_Machine#Designs
openssl rand -hex 8 | sed 's/..../&-/g;s/-$//'

Or if you like upper-case letters:

openssl rand -hex 8 | sed 's/..../&-/g;s/-$//;y/abcdef/ABCDEF/
This is going to be Internet Gold right here.
poor people don't get lower rates. they get payday loans and 19% credit cards, or a tent.

inflation is "good" for debts if your budget is otherwise balanced and your income rises apace, but if either is not the case inflation will only depress purchasing power.

historical farmer revolts were interested in higher inflation because they had land, a real asset, and sold crops, real commodities, that provided appropriate income. modern poor people generally have zero assets.
By assuming I'm intoxicated or not paying attention by its definition. Maybe I just suck at driving and have a lazy eye, is that illegal?
Wouldn't Twitch also count for the breach?
I thought that too.

https://mirror.xyz/theodorachu.eth/TJU1w2Z49KvzcrKnPEwJodTvB...
Interesting that the number of qubits is approximately doubling every year according to the article.
Beware that this may break certain applications that read from your clipboard

https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/web/FirefoxClipboar...
> MMT is linked to QE

No, its not. MMT rejects the fiscal/monetary dichotomy as fiction, and tends to prefer more targeted (traditionally “fiscal”) stimulus, without typical fiscal constraints, because it views the only real constraints on “fiscal” actions as monetary effects; QE is blunt stimulus that respects the classic monetary/fiscal divide that MMT argues against.
Non-engineer here - Is there an easy way to multi-provider redundancy around this? Can you have LBs on multiple clouds and use dns to move around or something? Or does your LB have to be at the provider the app is at? Sorry if this makes no sense. :o
Twitch was last month! New cards are made for each month.
Caffeine is also a central nervous system stimulant of the methylxanthine class.
> The chinese room needs to be taken super-literally: does the person just doing a "hash-table lookup" on "the right answers to pre-prosed questions" actually understand.

That’s not how it’s phrased. The Chinese Room needs to pass the Turing Test with arbitrary input of Chinese characters. So a convincing Chinese Elissa basically.

> The issue here is that if "computer" isnt just a trivial property it has to include, eg., measurability, determinism, etc. Properties that reality lacks. Reality isnt a computer.

Reality isn’t a human brain either.

Or is it?

Either way I don’t see how that is relevant.
I doubt that's OP's concern. Personally I also removed the browser when I couldn't de-install the wallet. I don't need crypto bloatware that I can't remove in my browser. It's fine if they like it but I don't and I have no idea why I don't get a say in that matter on my own machine. kind of defeats the purpose of promising more control for the user.
"tortuous" is the word you're wanting there. :)
Thanks for the reply! Nice to know those differences, I will definitely try your project on a spec in the future.
> Why couldn't Javascript have ever built a halfway decent standard library?

Because it's consensus-driven, and that consensus is achieved on meetings organized every ~3 months.

And because of strict backwards compatibility rule, everyone is extremely cautious.

I tried to add new methods to Set, but proposal is basically being held hostage by subclassing proposal. https://github.com/tc39/proposal-set-methods
That 50% of Robinhoods revenue comes from crypto does not make Robinhood a major service in the cryptocurrency space. Could be that they have way higher margins on cryptocurrency, that cryptocurrency fans spend more or anything else. But compared to other exchanges or trading platforms in cryptocurrency, Robinhood is basically non-existing.
I will say that this book works and worked for me. Obviously for some there is a very real physical component to backpain where this won't work. If your doctor(s) aren't helping and you have backpain I would highly recommend this book.
Rust Foundation Announces Cloud Compute Program
I'm sorry, I didn't realize that the EU was impacted by a massive critical infrastructure failure induced by a natural disaster.

Like I said, this isn't a discussion or debate about COVID restrictions, and while it sucks that you might be temporarily inconvenienced in relation to your travel plans, as a person who lives and works in the lower mainland and has several friends and family members who are either homeless or temporarily stranded, temporary travel inconveniences rank somewhere between "oh well", and "could you please not, while we clean up?".
You could, that’s interesting, had never heard of that. Thanks.
The signal-to-noise ratio is bad, but there's definitely meat to the concept if you look deeper.
T-Wand: Beat Lucene in Less Than 600 Lines of Code
My password generator can make pronounceable nonsense words. It has worked ok so far. Some of them are embarrassing though.
Shitposts belong on Reddit.
I remember them doing that, was that for steaming or to dry out green lumber?
Netflix does have that occasional bug when you've been scrolling for something to watch for a while and the description updates fall out of sync with the title.

For reference: https://imgur.com/gallery/v5GXX
> duplicating code is never the right answer.

Say you have (a*b+c)*2.0f+d several places in your code with potentially different a b c d variables. Are you really going to make up a new name for it as a function? It's much easier to just read the expression to know what it does than to memorize a new name for every possible small occasionally duplicated expression.
Security issue related to the NPM registry
This is his twitter

https://mobile.twitter.com/jonschlinkert

He definitely voted for trump.
As someone who is very much a lay person, my understanding is the qubitsness of a quantum computer is closer to the ram capacity of a classical computer than anything
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Add to that, that SMS 2FA is becoming rapidly more insecure these days.
Kinda depends on what you want to use it for. If you want to simulate a physical system then you need at least as many qubits as the system has (and an understanding that such a simulation will have terrible noise). If you want to do something “useful” like run Shor’s algorithm to factor large encryption keys then it would take millions of qubits and quantum error correction.

To me the significance of this kind of increase in number of qubits is that many detractors of quantum computing had argued we’d never even reach this point, so I am slightly more optimistic that we’ll eventually reach the scale required for reliable abstract computations.
For average person there’s also the problem of recovering access in case the phone with OTP app is lost.

Every service of course has the option to print backup keys. Maintaining those (in secure offsite location) over years takes some effort.
What does the warning say? "You might not be downloading the file you think you are"? That just seems like useful, accurate information that you probably want to be aware of.
I imagine anything on the loopback or the local scope IPs.

I'm curious what it will do with the 10.0.0.0/8 network.
There is a certain difficult to quantify benefit to video games vs sleep and exercise though. I have done 4-6 week stints of extreme discipline with a strict keto diet, 6X a week gym and no video games. I usually end up a little depressed after a few weeks. I think it is because we need to feel some enthusiasm or emotion in our day to day life, and if you combine a 40hr work week with disciplined free time you are just void of that. Video games and Movies allow you to feel a high level of engagement and escape in a 2 hour window. There aren't too many other activities that generate that feeling and can be slotted into the constrained time windows that working full time allow.
Yeah, and my point is that it's mostly superfluous.
I wonder this too. Vancouver Island was hit by a drought this summer and the (not unusual) torrent caused "water to flow where it has never flowed before" according to the road engineers.
CISA Warns on Vulnerabilities in Multiple Open Source and DDS Implementations
I feel like the in season (from Fraser Valley) vs not in season (california or mexico) produce price is only like maybe a +$1-2 price modifier on things?

I don't look too closely at my grocery bill, so I'm probably not the most helpful person to ask.

I assume all the food is cheaper in the USA than Canada.
This is essentially the philosophical zombie thought experiment: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophical_zombie
Yeah, the biggest benefit something like Snowflake or Databricks or whatever AWS tools has over the more traditional technologies is the pay-as-you-go pricing.

We're are now trying to scale unnamed technology running on EC2 from 100 nodes to 200 cores and the process to buy larger license is pretty painful. If we were using Snowflake or Databricks, we could just scale it up and update our opex estimate.
My impression are the prices are pretty similar with exception to dairy, where Canada has more stringent regulations and therefore prices are slightly higher.
>'Eagle' is IBM's first quantum processor developed and deployed to contain more than 100 operational and connected qubits. It follows IBM's 65-qubit 'Hummingbird' processor unveiled in 2020 and the 27-qubit 'Falcon' processor unveiled in 2019.

I guess I missed last years announcement of the 65 qubit one.

So okay we have a 127 qubit machine, what did they do with it afterwards?

The Q3 financials were released so this article can't have been released to pump up the stock price.
I'm not really sure that "mainstream economic theory" genuinely believes or believed that monetary policy alone is a substitute for fiscal policy (in particular, redistribution via taxation - UBIs, capital endowments, equitable investments in education, etc.). I think instead there's a willingness to handwave away all the thorny details of taxation and outsource decision-making to non-democratic institutions (i.e. central banks) rather than really tackle these sorts of challenges head on.
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I didn't even realise it was in October.
Status pages should be driven that way, though. "legal and financial" implications and "It's not a conspiracy" is a poor excuse.

Now, I'm on Azure, but it seems like from the comments the situations are similar. So, instead of an automatically updated status page that would help engineers do their jobs, we get a status page that isn't accurate, and customers have pull teeth to get a service credit where/when one is due. And it seems like you can have the cake and eat it too here: while IANAL, a footnote in the SLA or the status page that "this is a machine estimate and not reflective of what goes into the SLA" should do it, no?
Aww, no confetti and BINGO! popup or marquee?
First, you can use the +tag functionality of email to sort stuff.

Second, Gmail and every other email provider, together with my beloved thunderbird have options to set rules to email that do different stuff on an email based on conditions like:

if subject contains "hi, hi", send to spam

if email is to gostsamo+paypal@example.com and body contains "card removed", send to trash
Centralisation hell on a bingo card.
Disabling the wallet doesn't satisfy your needs there? I can't imagine it sitting idle on a modern machine would give you the same issues as 'bloatware' does. I do agree in principle though.
I haven't used it but it seems to be: less powerful search, no public wikis, no custom domains. Also, I personally don't like their design but maybe that's just me.
It's a lone voice, and has its own biases.
For Win 10 the Pro version allows disabling more telemetry than Home does and I pay extra to get computers that have Pro. I haven't yet researched Win 11 Home vs. Pro though and I will put off "upgrading" to Win 11 as long as I can as all I need Windows to do is run a web browser and the few programs I actually need without the hassles of reading the Arch wiki to fix desktop Linux issues or the hassles of Apple's non-upgradeable non-repairable computers that regularly break old software. "Oh, you spent all that time learning OpenGL did you? We're deprecating it pending future removal. Oh, you were using bash for 20+ years? Sorry, you're using zsh now."
> I assume there was some additional context about the order in the form that the restaurant filled out, to assist in the end-of-month bookkeeping?

Sure, there were a couple extra fields.

> And unless you built reporting into the MVP, I bet your friend got to learn how to use some kind of database GUI (e.g. phpMyAdmin) and/or basic queries?

I don't really remember, but I bet we'd include an option to export to Excel. This project was built on Rails, and there are readily available gems to export data. Also, I believe we had a dashboard powered by https://github.com/ankane/chartkick. Setting it up may have taken 50% of time. Was it necessary? No. Did I mention this in my post, saying we could have done it in a day? Also no :D

> This tripped me up for a second. In this context, "free" indicates that the courier was available..

Thanks for catching this, changed it to "available" for clarity
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> the C build ecosystem is quite a lot worse than the JS ecosystem

Other than module packaging (and that's admittedly a big "other than"), I don't agree. Esbuild is the first tool I used that's even close to e.g. Make in comprehensibility (~ ease of use x flexibility x ability to debug when something goes wrong). That's a pretty low bar, and I don't know how long esbuild will stay that way.
Oh that's a great idea! I've written it down ^^ https://github.com/queer/outage.bingo/issues/7
> It seems quite foliage heavy though, do you think that's because of the commercial nutrient blend you used?

Mostly inadequate pruning, I think--I was planning to replace it soon, so I'd gotten lazy. Normally I remove side shoots and lower leaves, for less foliage and better yield. The fertilizer was Masterblend 4-18-38, which is intended for tomatoes and pretty close to the University of Florida's "Stage 5" tomato profile (per their article linked from my calculator). So I'd guess the nutrient profile was close to optimal, except for all the excess phosphate from my pH down.

I'm on a somewhat protected balcony in San Jose, USDA Zone 9B. That's warm enough that I can grow tomatoes through the whole winter, as long as it's a cold-tolerant cultivar (e.g. Early Girl; or Sub-Arctic Plenty, which is a determinate so needs less/no pruning), and lots of other stuff too.

And contributions definitely welcomed, especially on the controller firmware. That's currently in a state that's useful only to programmers. More work there (integration with home automation software, a nice browser-based interface to schedule irrigation and dosing, etc.) would make that accessible to a lot more people.
I don’t have any in my RSS feed, but if you were to search for them I would try finding some describing iRobot Root or Mindstorm projects.

If videos could do then perhaps the Brick Experiments Channel could have something interesting: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=MwHHErfX9hI
> As for those other species allegedly capable of abstract reasoning, I'm not quite sure how you'd conclusively discern the abstract nature from observed cases.

My native language has a proverb I find fitting to this situation: no one is more blind that the one who doesn’t want to see.
I see your point but it smells like kids should be a privilege of the generously paid and financially intelligent.

In Europe the baby boomer generation reached retirement and in the meantime the number of kids per household decreased. There is not enough people to pay the pension of the old and many governments are motivated to increase the number of kids by any means - like making it a financially acceptable or even desired to have 3+ children.