skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Does someone performing for free at your bar produce value or are they simply enjoying their leisure time? If they produce value without currency exchange, do the denizens of the bar trying to impress potential dates produce value?
Right now there is a lot of money to be made in moving companies to the cloud, I predict that in 10-20 years time there will be a lot of money to be made moving them out of that same cloud.

I hate having to learn all of AWS, GCP and Azure proprietary tech, I’ll take a Linode box any day thank you
I was happy to find that this article ended up focusing on the need for better web automation tools specifically. That's a very big problem right now. HTML is becoming more and more impenetrable to the end user. It's essentially just a delivery vehicle to get low-level presentation instructions to the browser. That gives a lot of control to the owners of the web page at the expense of the user. "With software, either the users control the program or the program controls the users", I think is the relevant quote.

HTML's building blocks are too low-level for our contemporary needs. We should gradually move to higher-order representations of the data we're exchanging online, and put pressure on companies/governments to expose their data using these representations. My browser (or the extensions I add to it) should be able to natively determine whether it's looking at a product listing, or a person's bio, or a social media post, because those blocks of information would adhere to a standard schema ("hooks", to use the article's term).

Naturally, companies that are in the business of putting things in front of your eyeballs don't want us to move in this direction, because it gives users much more control over what they see than they have today. If you don't want to see ads, tell your browser to skip rendering the <Advertisement /> element. (And if a company places ads outside of an <Advertisement />... I dunno, fine them?)

(Those of you who've been around long enough are probably wincing and rubbing your RDF scars, or your XML scars, or what have you. Yes, it's the same old fight. We have to just keep pushing until we make some headway.)
It depends on how deep the employer's pockets are and what supply and demand looks like for the type of labor. Fast food workers, small retail businesses, franchised hotels, all do not typically get holiday pay. Generally, the lower the income, the lower the chance of holiday pay.
joking aside, I remember a while back that there has at least been cursory investigation into running high-speed internet cables through water pipes.

Presuming you have water pipes to your property, could be easier than digging up roads etc.

Only issue might be if you have a leak and need to shut off your water!!

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2021/aug/09/uk-launch...
> There need not be one hub in a city for example.

That's not a solution, that's just moving to another point on the continuum between the downsides of hub-and-spoke and the downsides of point-to-point.

And this kind of hub bifurcation typically only serves to make residential-to-residential journeys even worse, setting up social barriers based on which hubs people have easy access to.

> The exceptions don't speak good English from what I can tell

Can't really respond to this if you're not interested in citing which "good" example you'd like to see emulated.
Wired Man's Burden: The Whiteness of Being Digital (2007) [pdf]
Thanks! Interestingly i remember I had started teaching her some algorithmic ideas but I didn’t continue with it consistently. I need to get back to that.
Flexbox is pretty good when you use it for what it's designed for IMO. Maybe you'd find grid more useful for those use cases you dislike using flexbox.
If that is the case then I would actually encouraged by it, Twitter social activist employee's are a problem for the platform.

sadly though I dont believe this will be the case,
I’d be more worried about the solder used for the mounting of the chip and other components.
In #2 you use Atomics.wait in the Worker instead and then it can signal the main thread when done.

We use this to convert async browser APIs to service synchronous callbacks that our C library compiled to WebAssembly expects.
Or perhaps an opportune time to make a change like this.
A lot, that is how Solr and Lucene clusters are managed as standard solution.
Yes "Alan Turing, was the first recorded to have tried, creating a programme called Turochamp in 1948."

But also

"Since 1941 Zuse worked on chess playing algorithms and formulated program routines in Plankalkül in 1945."

https://www.chessprogramming.org/Konrad_Zuse
beancounters are not in charge of the direction of the company.
In a lot of cases, it makes a ton of sense to go for capex vs opex.

My old employer had a strategy which basically boiled down to owning everything inside this company expect for the coffee machines and cleaning crew.
His reason being? This made it possible to run on very thight margins when the economy takes a downturn without having to scramble for money because of leased/loaned equipment etc.

In the 2008 crisis, this is how he stayed afloat with his company, and even made a pretty profit during a time of crisis too.
Yeah I personally see no issue with subscriptions on that sort of product, or on things like the recent sim-compatible Forerunner watch.
Interesting thought... If those with higher income, who presumably can charge overnight, keep buying new electric cars, will the market for used electric cars saturate because others don't have this privilege (that much) and other infrastructure is not good enough yet?
Normally it’s time and a half on federal holidays for hourly workers in the US.
It's a pretty incremental and small opportunity, but one worth seizing nonetheless. SiC devices have a better figure of merit (Qg * Rds) at high voltages than Si devices. The lower gate charge (Qg) means you can switch them more quickly, spending less time transitioning between fully-on and fully-off (where the device is inefficient). And the lower drain-to-source resistance (Rds) means that when fully-on it's generating less heat as well.

In a motor controller you will probably bank that as an efficiency improvement, probably on the order of 1-2% at cruise and maybe a bit more during heavy acceleration or deceleration. In a charger you will probably change your optimization to reduce its size and weight for a given power delivery capability. In case that's on onboard charger, that means you haul around less weight and further improve vehicle efficiency a bit. That improved figure of merit also reduces the cost of having more power handling capability, which is how it might incrementally speed up charging.

To my mind, the biggest thing we can do to improve cars generally is to figure out how to reduce their weight. It's not obvious how to do that without either cutting back on passive safety or dramatically driving up the structural cost (e.g., with metallic foams for energy absorption in crashes).
> Are you all using the incremental static regeneration API to accomplish this?

Yep. It's great, if hackish. A good overview (https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2021/04/incremental-static-...) or Vercel's own docs (https://vercel.com/docs/concepts/next.js/incremental-static-...)

Vercel aside, I think Cloudflare by itself works similarly if you configure it to "cache everything", including HTML pages, on a revalidation period. I find this a great balance between serverside rendering and static builds. Specifically it allows you to rebuild certain pages as things are created/updated (new or edit blog posts, products, etc.) without having to trigger a full rebuild every single time.
> In US counties with the highest proportion of elderly people, the IFR might locally be closer to 0.012.)

Yes, I do live in one of these older counties and specifically in my region of the county. Obviously words such as 'scary' are useless and subjective. Anti-biotic-resistant strep nearly killed me 3 years back, so to me, that was a scary disease. The COVID I had was milder than my yearly flu, and this is effect on the overwhelming majority of the population even considering the obesity rate in the US. Scary is not the word I would use.

> But that is still a very high IFR!

I mean, perspective is everything. What are you comparing this IFR to? I consider this a very low IFR, especially when you realize what we in the US classify a "COVID death". We do not count deaths of any other diseases using the same methodology as we have with COVID as far as I'm aware, and I believe this is the primary reason for our inflated mortality vs. most of the rest of the world.
Boy is for-profit operation a downer. We get so much from Twitter, but of course, that doesn't make enough money, so the march towards locking it down into a closed pipeline of corporate marketing/ads/curation/tracking for the product (us) at the expense of whatever made twitter great continues on. Like, my third party Twitter clients have less and less functionality as Twitter removes public API features. My ability to read Twitter without ads/paid tweets injected into my feed will likely go away, etc.
I always feel that most reorgs are done not because they lead to a fundamentally better structure but just to shake up things and break some managers' fiefdoms that are causing political problems. You could almost pick two or three structures and rotate every three years (which basically happens when leaders get replaced).

After some decades in the industry I think any organizational structure will work if people are honest with each other and leadership proactively addresses problems. I have had countless situations where I pointed out to a VP that certain functions aren't performing and are causing problems for other projects but the VP just shrugged and basically said "there is nothing we can do". Considering that corporations are basically internally run like communist planned economies they share the same pathologies like counterproductive metrics, people pretending things are great and leadership ignoring glaring problems.
Hey, I’ve fallen down the rabbit hole on this and stayed up all night writing a simpler v3 theory about it:

Unstoppable “Stuff”: A Fractal Synthesis of Light and Darkness

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1aLV89MuNTdk8hPNBXEEFSfAk...

TLDR: Do we live in Math World, or does Math World live in Philosophy Town?

No idea if it’s right, but it’s the best I’ve got with available information now.

What do you think is the true source of the “Stuff” ? Could the trees be made of logic?
Does it work on Github markdown ? (I made the tool back in 2019 mainly because I couldn't render latex in the render of the readme.md on Github)
IIRC Firefox did use to support installing of PWAs until about a year ago. It still boggles my mind why they dropped it.
You are paid dirt but there are a couple mitigating factors:

1) you don’t have to pay FICA taxes, which is a big deal.

2) you don’t have to pay tuition or taxes on the remission. That can be almost $30k per year before you reach candidacy.
The Alphabet Workers Union members are of course OK with paying twice the price in restaurants and in stores outside of the normal working hours.
We wouldn't have that problem if Gecko and Webkit went away and everything was Blink.
I ran a call center some years ago, and I would pay people double the hourly rate to work on holidays. I always saw it as the “not an asshole” thing to do. I also didn’t fire people for just bring up the question of their pay.
I've been hoping it somehow ends up available for pano logic client devices. No idea how big a project that be but it would be pretty cool since there are a reasonable number of them out there, they are kinda cheap, and are already in a nice case.
CEO does not have that much power unless he owns major part from the company. Board controls the company.
How to Pronounce “Omicron” the Star Trek Way
Maybe but I want her to figure that out. She doesn’t hate coding. It’s me who has been clueless about where to start.
It's an elaborate piece, but largely an unsubstantiated opinion piece.

Sure, some things are obvious: largest amount of cash goes on trivial, incremental improvements. Sure, popular movies are largely lacking substance.

But none of that makes the larger premise true: we don't need to be investing the most money in risky, experimental research and development. Throughout the history, that's also been the case (eg investment in military has always been huge, and only a fraction was for RnD).

It can similarly be used as a counter argument: we are getting more deeply invested during our daily work, and we need more frivolous entertainment to relax us. I don't think this is true either, but noted circumstances are not in a contradiction with this either.
I'd assume they have extra pay reported on the following month. Same system as for extra hours (don't exactly for Canada but it's probably something like X percent more for hours worked after 22h) and work done on planned holidays (you went on holiday but got a work request)
It's seems to work with the parenthesis as is.
The guy was CTO and they had a part-time CEO so I would guess he was running the business already to some degree.
(Someone’s going to mention it, so I might a well summarize the discussion beforehand: yes, Hacker News tries to strip emojis from submissions, and no, the process is not perfect. Solving this is actually a very difficult problem and actually depends on platform-specific quirks so there’s no one solution here. No, it’s not just “ban the Unicode variant selector”.)
Additionally, we've decided as a society that providing public access and right-of-way to private property is a somewhat fundamental function of government.

Providing streets without places to stop or park would be like building interstates without exits.

But the analogy would be if someone built the intestate and exits, and the government subsequently closed your exit.

Does it matter if the street, but not the on-street parking, is made public right-of-way? Would it be equally acceptable for the government to repurpose off-street parking or parking garages?
>Anti-semetism is not acceptable

Agree.

>and the most shameful expression of ignorance one can pro-pound in this day and age.

Disagree.
I tried that and got such a runaround that I gave up. They don't provide a sufficiently valuable service to be worth the effort.
This part caught my attention:

> Davis, previously a director of product design at Facebook, joined Twitter in 2019 to lead its design team. He is Black and Asian, and was the first Black executive at Twitter to report directly to the CEO. The company had touted him as a hard-charging leader who would detoxify the platform, but he was also criticized by some employees for what they said was a blunt, aggressive management style.

Since they've clearly gone for the "diversity" angle here, I decided to read more[0] about Davis.

> The comment occurred during a meeting in which Liz Ferrall-Nunge, who led Twitter’s research team, shared concerns about diversity at Twitter and referred to her experience as a woman of color. Mr. Davis seemed to dismiss her, telling Ms. Ferrall-Nunge, who is Asian American, that if she wore sunglasses, she would pass as white, three people familiar with the investigation said.

…Wow.

[0]: https://web.archive.org/web/20210816090522/https://www.nytim...
this happens lower down the stack too.

Distributed redundancy is a good example. There are very, very few situation in which this couldn't be resolved with a simple BGP daemon on a server and anycast.
The historical reason for the restrictions is obvious: https://www.dw.com/en/germanys-confusing-rules-on-swastikas-...
That's kind of my experience with the MiSTer UI - confusing, deep menus, unclear what button gets to what menu or how to get back, etc. I now wonder if there may be several MiSTer UIs and I'm just using the wrong one?
If and when sha256 is broken, the internet breaks, period. It will be a Y2K-like event across the world. Every single banking website would be vulnerable.

The Bitcoin core devs have been thinking about the failure modes of hash algorithms since Satoshi. If you are betting against Bitcoin primarily because you believe it will fail when sha256 inevitably falls, you are missing the bigger picture and underestimating the resilience of the Bitcoin developers and broader community.
DocuSign Shares Plunge 42%
Oh my, you are correct. Looking at the board and nomenclature, "multisystem", this should have been obvious to me. Thank you for the clarification.
Obviously didn't measure a California wildfire...
that's a very good and solid point!
I guess my home internet connection as a kid used wet string then.
This reminds me I was getting a bunch of ads on Facebook for these toys during the lock down last year! I resisted buying anything because the quality looked cheap. Good that I didn’t spend anything on them!

Looks like this comment section is heavily leaning towards board games. We play cards with her and she is getting better at strategizing there. I will have to explore board games.
That might apply more in Chicago than Lisbon, though.
to be fair, there is very little reason why shopify or stripe couldn't run on a couple of racks of servers in a couple of datacenters across the globe.
Ok but then why vorformulierte in the first clause
Yes, I do expect there to be PTO holidays, but that seems to be entirely up to the will of the employer if they actually give that. Unless I was desperate there's no way I would accept a job offer if the company didn't give the major holidays off (or extra vacation days to allow for flexible holidays)
That's what Apache Lucy tried to become, but it's an abandoned project.
Sounds like something someone motivated to sell cars would say.

Even with subsidies, that first leg of depreciation is the steepest slope. Like I don't see how that beats just buying and owning it.
If they're publicly traded, no one's going to give Bob's Consolidated Widgets a 65x PE or 2x+ PEG ratio, even if they have the best IT strategy in their market.
Gotta check out Scratch! Thanks
Thanks for the clarity!
My wish list for the future is a better API story

And the ability to write plugins in C, or rather offer a native api so i can use my language of choice, i despise python..
It's most of the cost at small companies. A lot of people underestimate the total cost of having employees perform tasks at unpredictable scale with unpredictable problems versus just writing a check each month.

It's true that cloud providers aren't reliably cheaper as some assumed at one point. But there's something to be said for cutting out the fully burdened costs of some number of employees (especially given everyone is saying tech talent is expensive and scarce at the moment) and just letting AWS deal with it even if you could theoretically do it cheaper yourself.
> What neither the EFF nor Santa Clara Protocols address is that niggling matter of scale which today's larger service providers face.

Scale is a problem created by these companies. They chose to eat the world in a winner take all game in order to maximize returns. That is not an excuse for ruining people's livelihoods without appeal. Facebook chose to create a world where certain types of commerce are done through Facebook and there are few other viable options.

Yes. These are hard problems. Maybe Facebook won't be able to make as big profits if they actually implement a just appeals process. That is Facebook's problem.
Israel should learn that lesson. The way to American hearts is through our phones! Worked for Nokia and Samsung.
Which is why some companies pivoted to "unlimited time off" so you never accrue any official PTO and it's up to you to make sure you take any time off whatsoever. And just like open office floor plans, they portrayed this cost saving measure as a perk. Once you understand how this game works, you know to follow the money first.

Edit: Guess the truth hurts...

https://www.shrm.org/resourcesandtools/hr-topics/employee-re...
"Our playground reflects changes not only editor → output (4000× faster, preserving the DOM state) "

Seems quite interesting, is the playground open source?
I wouldn’t bother to do that myself, though it’s harmless since there’s essentially no infrastructure support for the chip in DE, which is my complaint. The chip only contains the info readable on the card plus what you want to store there (public keys, basically) and can’t be read remotely.

I agree with you that mandatory ID cards are an affront to human rights, but you are sadly wrong to consider it unique to Germany. Quite the contrary: apart from commonwealth countries and the USA they required by all other OECD countries and many others besides (e.g. India, China, Malaysia, Russia…)

Their origin predates the nazi era too. For example passport system was introduced on a “temporary” basis during WWI but rather than revoking it several countries used it as the foundation of their ID system.
Why Bitcoin is not a socialist’s ally (2020)
It probably depends on the country you're in.

Not because destruction of property has a harsher punishment, but because in many car dependent countries, such as the United States, killing a person with your car has become so normalized and accepted as inevitable that there's very little investigation of it and punishment for it.

If you want to get away with murder, buy a car.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/53856098-crash-course
> Goofy employees shouldn't be ruled out, either. I added fake menu items that printed from fortune, employee quotes, ASCII art, etc that went unnoticed and unchanged for years.

Yeah but:

> But Andrew Morris, the founder of GreyNoise, a cybersecurity firm that monitors the internet, told Motherboard that his firm has seen actual network traffic going to insecure receipt printers, and that it seems someone or multiple people are sending these printing jobs all over the internet indiscriminately, as if spraying or blasting them all over.
Took me a moment to understand what's ironic, then I got it: the page discusses to use other visual (and also important, accessible text!) hints which don't solely rely on color, to convey information, besides purely color-coded information.

But then, the book uses solely the colors red and green to visually convey bad and good examples.

The meta-irony here is that reitzensteinm's imgur image cannot be understood by any visually-impaired person ;)
Two points:

First, the way you phrase it is confusing and generally not how most would refer to that type of position. Better would be 'how I have been short Bitcoin for a long time'. Likewise 'I suspect no one offers very long dated put options on bitcoin'

Second, even if there were exchange traded/cleared bitcoin options with very long expirations (say 5 years), you would still have to consider the possibility that the exchange removes the product at a future date, either for lack of volume or other issues. While that might still work in your favor, it would not necessarily imply a bitcoin value approaching zero.

Of note, CME only has bitcoin futures out one year and futures options out three months (with very little volume). The bitcoin ETF BITO has options out to Jan 24 with considerably more volume/open interest. ETFs are not 24/7/365 vehicles but do have the advantage as likely to implode quicker than anything else (see USO)
They say they plan to open source it and it's less than 200LOC.
Tbh "mere excuse for doing nothing" sounds like a mere excuse for a lack of imaginative solutions and reluctance to take time to think things out. It doesn't follow from my statement. We can disrupt the status quo AND (in parallel) do other things. It will be incredibly difficult to take land from private shareholders and keep people "off" of it- something that will be highly disruptive. If you read 5 words further you'll see I referenced referenced land-management techniques, there is a huge wealth of science that exists, and is ongoing in this regard, applying these is the opposite of "doing nothing".
This reminds me that I need to change my Tires!
Lots of people invest by buying small amounts regularly.