skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> As a whole I think people need to ask what money is again and have some serious conversations about what money and the monetary system should be.

Yes! This is an incredibly important conversation and this conversation is already happening. You see MMT becoming mainstream. Because MMT is a description of how money works today. That it's a technology (and always has been) for governments to provision themselves.

In fact, I doubt you would have had the stimulus package we had with COVID without that conversation. And it helped millions of people. It also had the unfortunate side affect of growing inequality. We also have the euro, which is, in my opinion a bad implementation of money (central bank without democratic oversight). And of course bitcoin based on the idea of hard currency economics.

One discussion I don't see at the moment is a vision for society without money. That's a discussion the communists had over 150 years ago. It's a serious question because money IS a technology. Is the telephone the best communication technology? No, we moved on from the telephone. We should be asking the same thing about money. Because money is a technology designed around organizing economic activity. But is it the best technology?

Example, the value that money represents is a single value. But why is it a scalar and not a vector? For example, why isn't everything priced with a value and a carbon cost? That would make prices vectors instead of scalars. In fact people value things across many dimensions and have to come up with a price, a single value. Imagine playing a video game where, instead of 3d vectors, everything is represented as the length of the vector. That's a lot of information that is just thrown away.

In fact, markets have a known flaw called externalities. This flaw is created partly from the fact that value is a scalar. This flaw is so severe that major pollution has been created by economic activity (global warming, ozone, etc) that risks all life on this planet.

People need to have imagination if we are going to survive as a species.
Native messaging allows modern web extensions to talk to a pre-authorized desktop app. That's what my competitors and I do. There are also some custom scheme tricks, though they would require rewriting markup IIRC.
of course they should be rolled.

Even if slack would delete the message, clients like bitlbee and wee-slack exist, and save the messages as soon as they came in, and slack will not be able to delete them.
Bots get those messages as well.

Just because the chat service deletes messages from their backend does not mean the message is deleted at the clients.
It's much more simple than that. It's meant to prevent job mobility. Eng salaries are already absurdly high. Ever noticed how almost all the big tech companies do more or less the same ritual? It's entirely design to prevent seniors from moving around. They're too expensive already. It is almost collusion. Before the big tech companies used to have a secret handshake agreement not to poach each others candidates. They were caught and ordered to stop and forced to pay fines. This was around 2013/2014. Since then LC questions have become absurd. The process is designed to favor younger candidates who will accept less money and work harder for the company.
There is not even one Chromium (or Firefox) based browser on iOS because it's not allowed to publish other browser engines on iOS!
Thank you! I really appreciate this :)
Unfortunately Apple's autocorrect has totally hijacked the meaning of "Go duck ___"
Flagging all posts that refer to cryptocurrency as just "crypto" starting now, on the grounds of inaccurate title.
> So they aren't "dumb" for taking a risk they are comfortable with.

They are dumb, precisely because the risk is unquantifiable to them until realized, then it's too late to act.
Are you serious? Most of Europe at least is at numbers that would've created herd immunity with the alpha variant (had the vaccine actually stopped transmission). I'd say that's pretty widespread.
Oh I don't know. news coming out / leaking about a massive data breach, and the stock dropping off it's high _the very same freaking day_ seems like causation, not correlation.

But whatever.
Accounting software perhaps?
Grounding and bonding is done for many safety reasons. Reducing stray voltage is certainly one of them:

https://www.mikeholt.com/technical-stray-voltage-newsletter-...
"I can still enter into a contract with you without ever telling anyone. I can buy something from you, in cash, and nobody needs to know. [...] As long as the regulators are doing their job."

Is he not aware that regulators in many places work towards making that impossible?

What are examples of good, helpful regulations, does he cite any? Or is it just a vague feeling that regulation is good, and governments are good and for helping people?

All I read is "bla bla power bad" - all those leftists have is "power theory". Power this, power that - power somehow explains everything. It is almost esoteric.

Even the bad things he claims happen without regulations (monopolies) are not proven to happen without regulation, and also not proven to be automatically bad things.

And his first sentence:

"Rich, powerful, greedy people and corporations just get richer, more powerful, and more greedy."

How does everyone feel so exploited? Who is greedy? Why are you in their power? How do they make it so that you don't have a choice? Goods for consumption generally get better and more affordable over time. So are the producers really so greedy?

What is stopping you from creating a better bank, better health care, better what not? The "rich, powerful, greedy" people are just people like you and me. You are not forced to use their products. With one exception, the government, whose power you can't escape - but that somehow is the one thing lefties like?

I mean some people did and created a better financial system. But now this leftie hates them, too. Guess it is just unbearable if people are independent and not victims like everybody else. And without asking him for permission to boot.
IMHO it's a dumb policy and against competition. This is discriminatory and abusive.

Pretty sure there are thousands or tens of thousands of email domains out there that are personal. Nobody can track them all. How many of you guys don't have your own personal domains?
Servefolder.dev
To expand on my sibling post, since vs code is really the only thing I run on the portrait monitor, I can scroll anything I need to focus on to the center. You’re right it’s tough if there is a blank page and you have to write at the top, but most of the time I’m dealing with a long enough file that I can move what I need to focus on to the center.
Teaching people that dissent is illegal and/or not tolerated is not infantile. Orwell discussed it at length in his book ;)
I think similarly and also see with interest when someone writes "<insert FAANG>er here". Personally I'm happy to write what I think without having to worry what employers might think. (Probably it's different when you have a lot of public exposure anyway)

That said, probably most people are aware that most companies are ambivalent - in fact even some NGOs. The more you find out the worse it gets. But still most people continue using those companies products or open source creations. Speaking of React, Angular etc. etc. Although in theory it would be possible to slalom around that.
I didn't speak of a specific "big question" but rather big questions in general. Dave Hume (paraphrased) said, "You can't derive an 'ought' from an 'is'". Science can tell you a good deal about reality but can't tell you what you ought to do. For example, science can tell you what risks a baby boy will be subjected to if he is circumcised; it can't tell you whether or not -- in the big picture -- you should go through with the procedure. Science perhaps can tell you the likelihood that you will die if you jump into icy water in an attempt to save your drowning child. It can't tell you if that is the right thing to do.
Fauci funded gain of function research in the Wuhan Lab and repeatedly lied about it to Congress which is a federal felony. His own agency admits this.

Fauci must face execution for his war crimes.
Patrick Stewart is Royal Shakespeare Company trained. You won't find an actor trained by the Royal Shakespeare Company that mumbles their lines.
This is the general perspective on conservatives and I agree with the sentiment. If you extrapolate this out, people who live happily in rural areas do not want someone (government) to tell them about new changes. Small government and less regulation is a big part of their ethos.

"All those issues are about enforcing a worldview on others."

This seems to apply to everyone involved. Liberals want to impose their worldview on others just as much as conservatives. I think that's ok. We all want to pursue what is best.
> ...and let them rot for decades, simply for his private amusement.

Maybe I am too straight-laced - but might 's/private amusement/major mental illness/' be appropriate? It does not sound like he is suspected of killing anyone, but...
Explain the changing of definitions by the WHO then please. Just that alone.
As of right now people are not forced to get vaccinated in Germany, so you still "own your body". This is mainly making those that choose not to get vaccinated to make a choice - don't get vaccinated and basically be restricted from doing most nonessential things, or get the vaccine.
That would be easily the worst search engine ever deployed. Imagine just returning all docs containing the word “bicycle” in chronological order. Useless.
Excluding, or penalizing for, advertising and trackers could do wonders against perverse incentives and SEO, IMO. It would also be a better experience for the reader.
I wouldn't be surprised if that because Vivaldi had/has a corporate MS service using the domain in some way. E.g. if I test with one of my personal domains with MX records/email configured it continues just fine, if I test with one of my personal domains without email configure it continues just fine, if I try to create a personal account using my work's domain (tied to O365) it blocks it.

So it's not that you can only register gmail/yahoo/etc it seems that the domain can't already be registered for non personal use at MS. Maybe there are other criteria as well (perhaps a way to explicitly exclude your domain if you don't want people registering it for example) but it's a lot more open than "only these services allowed".
I see what you mean, though I think that one doesn't necessarily follow from the other. A person can feel proud of their work and the impact it has, without succumbing to what is essentially corporate patriotism.

On shared values, I think it's wise to be skeptical of a company's declarations of their values, especially the tech giants. It's typically just a veneer over their actual values of making the largest profits possible and dominating whichever market they enter.
https://opentitan.org/
I don't anymore. I just keep my favourite pages pinned in a window that's always open in one of my virtual desktops so I can easily jump to them. It's easier and more readily available.

Firefox pinned pages just show the favicon so you can have a ton of them in one window. And they're not pinned in other windows so you can have one just for the pinned ones.
Ask HN: The most pleasant engineer interview process you've experienced?
What is your favorite interview process you've been through? What made it particularly enjoyable? Something in the interview? People you interviewed with? How they prepared you before the interview? Could it have been better?

I once interviewed with Automattic for an engineering job and they did some of the experience/behavioral interview over Slack. It made things a lot more relaxed and was something I had never done before so I really appreciated it. I did not get an offer from them but I look back on the process very fondly.
> I think this is often thrown out there to push back on liberals and socialism but this is the wrong point. We as a global society _need_ to agree to be productive.

And when someone tells you "no", how do you respond?

You have three basic options:

1. Submit (but you can't submit to everyone saying no)

2. Take your toys and go home (but then your group will forever shrink)

3. Force people to say yes

The only good answer is (2) but that means some systems are simply untenable if they require universal decentralization.
The video games have pretty much universally been having at least two separate volume sliders (one for music, other for SFX, optionally the third one for the dialog) for about 15? 20? years. Maybe in another 20 years the cinema industry will adopt something like it, who knows?
What a load of absolute garbage.

Banking has some of the slowest to migrate MAINFRAME workloads. These keep track of things in order, atomic transactions, synchronous writes to HA solutions.

"When you pull cash from an ATM or swipe your card at the coffee shop, the machine needs to determine the precise time that the transaction occurs to, for example, prevent it from being over-drawn."

Absolutely and completely false. You do the withdrawal inside an atomic transaction on deposit balance. This is 101 type stuff - how is this garbage getting to HN?
I prefer to work with a single large external monitor. If my device is a laptop I keep it in clamshell mode when attached to an external monitor. I find switching applications with keyboard shortcuts and focusing on one thing at a time has improved my productivity. Using two or more monitors made it so easy for me to get distracted. To each their own though.
>Centrally planning a whole society clearly does not work (demonstrated, bloodily, several times).

I really, really hate this argument. If it's true, why does the CIA feel the need to destabilize countries with centrally planned markets? Why has China been so successful despite what is widely believed to be a failed premise?

Central planning works as well as unplanned markets work: That is, sometimes they work, sometimes they don't, and it mostly comes down to external factors.
I didn't mention my vaccination status or any conspiracy theories, those are your projections. You seem triggered by this debate, so I don't think a productive conversation is frankly possible. If you honesty think rejecting new technology is only based in "conspiratorial" thinking, there's really nothing to talk about.
I imagine I've seen them now and then but they're hardly common. I'm grateful when I get real glassware.
author is describing a system of taxation based on compatibility rather than on the need to pay for roads + armies

this part feels real

integrating with things is a tax in a lot of ways
That's known as Open Domain Question Answering[1] and is only a subset of NLP.

[1] https://www.pinecone.io/learn/question-answering/
This is not correct. Brave Search owns its own (growing) index and relies on third-parties like Bing for some fraction of the requests. Which is not the same thing as relying fully on Bing or third-parties for results like so many meta-search engines. More detailed answer here: https://search.brave.com/help/independence

Edit: Forgot to say that I work on Brave Search.
Three monitors with one central in landscape remains the best layout.
Indeed, but the goal of the project is to support django ORM, if you already have a backend running under django and you wanna migrate to async, you will have to write a lot of wrappers. with this module it patches django (QuerySet) with async methods.

You still have to update your code for example

MyModel.objects.get(name="something")

becomes

MyModel.objects.async_get(name="something")

so even though tortoise orm syntax's is similar to django, everything else can be different, migrations etc ...
Can winget also uninstall the Microsoft Store and all their spyware/telemetry/advertising BS?
Development News November 2021
If you can't see how the removal of bodily autonomy equates to control, there's no hope for you.
>strong, overbroad statements that amount to "everything affects everything,"

Perhaps the author did not mean to include abstractions as "things" in this context?

I think you're discussing metaphysics and I don't see the connection to the article.

I guess gravity doesn't affect faith, hope, or charity, but is that news, or actionable?
> I didn't say anything of the sort

Yeah, you didn't say anything of substance, just slander.

> admits that they've sold their sold (soul)

> and acknowledges that the company is doing harm.

> They care more about the money that they're making.

None of those are quotes btw, they are secondhand anecdotes mixed in with your opinion.

> The Church has tons of good causes but also has priests that literally fuck kids

Yeah well until you break the case that FB is fucking kids how about you find a better analogy.

Or maybe come up with an actual reason you want to state about why you don't like FB and why you are singling them out over other terrible social media companies.

> Should we give them a pass even though they actively covering up such vile villainy?

Vile villainy. Good one. Care to expand? Nothing you said is specific, just angry feelings.

What do YOU really want them to do?

-- edit --

None of that was clear until your last comment, it's still not fully clear.

You kept saying FB, not social media companies.

It seems you have a generic issue with social media, not FB.

Does that stop at forums, news aggregators, or what?

Is Reddit included, is Hacker News? What's the core issue for you?
What are the major root causes for the surge in Germany? Low humidity/temperature? New variants? Something else?

IIRC last winter in the US at least, health officials and the media were quick to blame irresponsible citizens and social gatherings – but the major root cause seemed to be a new, more transmissible (delta) variant.
Actually "two wrongs" is exactly how enforcement of the law works. Party A breaks into house, so Party B assaults and kidnaps them. Ideally, Party B is operating according to due process (including duly enacted "laws"), thus is approved of by wider society and the situation converges. It's not a given that Party B can only be some government-blessed police, because such police cannot be everywhere and police (or even wider society) can be corrupt (eg gun control laws gained stream after Black communities started arming themselves in self defense).

As a libertarian who is generally sympathetic to arguments from both tribes, I have to say that the red tribe arguments here seem quite sensible and applicable (which frankly is a relief to me because most everything else I've seen from the red tribe over the past two years has seemed batshit insane and I was worried that I had been captured by the political machine)

If Grosskreutz had ended up killing Rittenhouse, it's certainly possible that the legal finding would have also been self defense (with Rittenhouse not being prosecuted posthumously). In general the law doesn't have clear answers for chaotic situations, and the best way to protect yourself is to avoid them in the first place.

Which brings us back to the larger issue - if Rittenhouse's behavior was problematic for electing to become an armed combatant or force escalation at a riot or something like that, then it seems that is what needs to be criminalized directly - regardless of the specific armed confrontations precipitated. Of course any such law would have to distinguish between bona fide community defense by residents standing their collective ground.
That's just not borne out in looking at the many markets already functioning under various regulatory schemes for decades now. Lots and lots of markets work as markets, and have fundamentally voluntary transactions, even though certain kinds of transactions are restricted. We've been living in that world for a long time now, and while there's room for debate about what's most functional, there's no credible way to claim that there aren't any functioning markets these days.
Mozilla should switch to chromium.
Should we also hold people accountable for drinking alcohol? It's a leading cause of death and chronic disease. How about for eating too much sugar? Or engaging in high risk sports like boxing?
When I'm alone, I watch most everything with subtitles. Not just for this reason, but because the vocal track tends to be really low and the MUSIC and GUN FIRE track really high, so I need to crank the overall sound down. (And, yes, I've turned up my center channel on my sound system to try and compensate for this.)

My Apple TV has a "tone down the explosions" setting, which helps a lot.

Even still, at times I wish I had a volume knob on my remote to swing one way or the other as the scene change in the thing I'm watching. The remote is too slow.

But it's annoying to have these wide ranges. Then you watch a news or talk program or something like that, and the voices are front and center and everything is peachy.

Later, we can talk about how dark things have become on screen as well.
> replace AWS with <cloud provider> and every bullet point is still True.

No they're not. AWS is pretty much the most expensive, sometimes by a factor of 10 or more - especially for egress traffic.

> For cloud providers, point of failure occurs if you don't pay them.

"It's in the cloud" doesn't mean you don't have to think about reliability, redundancy, and backups. AWS, GCP etc all had outages.

All points of failure are exactly the same vs. buying bare-metal. In the case of "the cloud" they're just partly managed by other people.

But yes, as I said, there are choices with trade-offs. Overall I'm unsure what you're trying to tell me with your comment. Is your argument that not choosing the cloud isn't really an option? I have not chosen AWS for a decade and saved a seven figure sum in the process (just for my private projects - 500TB monthly egress alone already would be expensive).
DDG is still bad, though. I use it out of principle, but whenever I'm doing a deep dive into some technical topic, DDG fails me badly. I almost always have to just search a second time on Google. Google may corrupt the top results, but DDG often doesn't give any relevant results.
I'm using Brave on my iPhone right now.
The "content" of TPB is just hashes. Are they illegal already?
Thanks for the reply. I would be interested in your longer reply, if you get the chance!

I get where you're coming from now that you mention the microbiome. That similarly reminds me of headlines like "antidepressants alter the brain," specifically variations that imply something groundbreaking; on some level it IS impressive that physical effects can be observed, but on another, it's almost trivially true that it affects the brain, because where else do thoughts originate? In fact, speaking of depression, there's probably studies exactly like what you described where depression is X.

I think this could be usefully tied back to the software/hardware distinction I raised. Some might say that, in a lot of cases, depression is due to faults in "software" -- negative thinking, assuming the worst, etc, -- or at least is better treated as though it were. This is opposed to faults in "hardware" -- insufficient production of serotonin, or whatever (and I'm sure there cases where this is the best explanation/treatment).

So maybe a certain microbiome state is like a computer running on the Mars rover where its hardware is subjected to fault-inducing radiation? The software/hardware distinction probably isn't as clean in the brain compared to our silicon-based computers! We know so little in this area that it probably does make sense to proceed as though everything affects everything, as you say -- but I also think it's important to allow that it may not.
To be more accurate there are no Blink or Gecko based browsers on iOS. Both Firefox and Chrome (and many other Chromium browsers) exist on iOS, using WebKit rendering engine.