skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We should give Russia Crimea and the water it needs to feed it in order to prevent Russia from siding with China on Taiwan, which we cannot afford to lose.
No. Three months in advance is just as stupid as a year past. It gives people opportunity to manipulate prices.

"Day of" should be the rule. Basically, have them trade in the public eye. You could subscribe to congressional stock feeds to see what they're personally buying and selling as it happens.
The ones predicted by Malthus, that never happened and never will?
The "Wolfram Language" name is essentially just a rebranding of Mathematica to highlight the fact that it does way more than just math now.
Yes but the principal is the same, no? Somebody in a position of power who has strong influence over decisions that happen outside the context of the free market economy should be restricted from participating in those investable opportunities.

Nobody is saying what she is doing is explicitly illegal. But it's abundantly unethical and, imo, a clear abuse of power. Her tone deaf response in this story only adds fuel to the controversy.
I indeed liked it, I laughed out loud because it sounded like a standup comedy.

It's interesting how GPT-3 encoded the concept of awareness, I've seen this a few times that it can reference itself as an AI and from then it can go nuts :)
Of course I do. Just that 99% of the people wasting their life and money remediating this issue did not need any of that, certainly didn't use most of it, and definitely didn't need the features causing this mess.

I have yet to stumble on an app that uses any logging features other than writing to a file. And yet the default is to mvn log4j to do that because they don't want to look foolish doing it the simple way or "they might need it."
The more general problem is: “how do you pass a law that benefits society but is a detriment to its elected representatives?” It’s a meta question too, because whatever mechanisms we come up with would be, by extension, beneficial to society and detrimental to politicians.
i monitor my work using a plugin and usually get 2-5 hours of code a day... and i have to do all kinds of communication work as well (JIRA, investigation, prepping QA test cases, documenting PRs)

i looked back and was getting 1k lines merged every 2 weeks on average. nothing crazy I know but theres much more then just coding to my job, thats just reality.

Days/weeks where i dont get a certain amount of code done i feel like actual garbage (like the last 2-3 weeks actually). So i try hard to make sure im moving the ball forward daily. The biggest obstacle to this for me is poor planning upstream, missing/bad requirements, missing APIs that are presumed finished, etc.
Potential: Persuasive Technology for Advancing Human Development
Imagine a security guard at an office building. 90% of the time might be sitting in a booth watching monitors. The other 10% of the time is buzzing people in or making rounds. But that 90% of the time when they are sitting around is important, since they are on call. So you are like a security guard. Your employer gladly pays you for the 90% of the time you are doing nothing, because they need the comfort of having a developer on call for when something needs to be done ASAP. They won't have to go to Upwork or wherever to find someone because you're already there. As long as you are 10x 10% of the time, you average out to a competent FTE and you are tolerated.
The solution is the require everyone that holds high office to put all their investments in a blind trust when they take the oath of office.
Democrats resort to blaming business greed for inflation
> sustains Batteries' development

What future development needs to be sustained? I developed a similarly-sized app back in the days of Snow Leopard and I’ve not really needed to do much maintenance to keep it going. An hour at most every major OS X version and that was mostly just updating dependencies and recompiling. That’s less time than I spend scrolling HN so I couldn’t justify charging for it.
It seems to me that consciousness emerges when things arranged in some particular way are acted upon some principle, which is true even for simple behavior, like a rock falling to the ground.

If you put a sail on a boat, it will catch the wind and move across the water. It's not the sail alone that moves the boat, nor the wind, but their interplay. A sail without wind doesn't get moved, and a wind without anything to catch it doesn't move anything.

May be a bit of an unintuitive conclusion, but I think may be that we are catching the consciousness like a sail catches the wind, and this is the same "wind" that we call the forces of nature, that we only can perceive as patterns in how things around us appear to change.
> It’s guaranteed she was pressing the gas, 0% chance she was pressing the brake

Congratulations, you reached stage 1 of debugging!

http://plasmasturm.org/log/6debug/
1. Social recovery methods.
2. Even if you use a hardware wallet you still need to backup your seed phrase offline.
IIRC, all web browsers on iOS are using the Safari rendering engine though.

So its still Safari underneath it all. Much like how Internet Explorer / Edge on Windows is really just a Chrome renderer / frontend these days.

EDIT: And since Google is in charge of the Chrome renderer, Microsoft absolutely has less control over internet-APIs / Javascript APIs / CSS details than say... Apple or Google does. Which is the "monopoly" bit that we're really worried about.

When you consider which company "controls the web", its Google or Apple. Microsoft really doesn't have much control of it.
I think neuroscience could in principle show that phenomenal consciousness is an illusion, by giving a full account in terms of the brain of why it seems to us that we're conscious. Whether it will is another question.
Be prepared to have a VM and pass through devices to it in order to configure them. "Gamer device" manufacturers easily the worst of the worst when it comes to Linux support.

OpenRGB may provide some relief.
you've spent too much time in the 18th century and have fallen into the trap of making vast hand-wavy claims about humanity without a shred of evidence. Stop it.
Neat coding challenge. You get the benefit of something rather simple and straight forward while getting to spend more focus on how to scale such a system.
>you could say that global warming is one of its legacies

Considering that the majority of emissions came from a select few countries(over half from the EU & USA) that don't make up the majority of the population, and they majority of those emissions have happened while there's been smaller population growth, I don't think it's unfettered population growth that's the problem.
Careful: That site played beeps and gave me a "we have detected [some trojan] virus on your computer" JS window alert.

And it's listing an event from last October
To me the chance of a future superintelligent AI being "catastrophic" is pretty much unknowable (we don't even have a concrete idea of how a superintelligent AI would even work yet!). It could be 99.999%, it could be 0.0001%.

Whereas the chance of a superintelligent AI created by a company being harnessed for personal profits, and that company attempting to maximize its profits by shutting down any competition, potentially by "raising awareness of AI safety concerns", is quite high simply based on our modern understanding of how large, powerful companies operate. And a single company with a monopoly on AI, in sole possession of AI (which you clearly agree can be dangerous) seems even more dangerous.
Other people can probably tell when you're bullshitting, but if management isn't coming down hard on a deadline, it ultimately doesn't matter. Some types of the tech industry like games, I don't believe you can get away with that kind of lack of effort, but other areas its easier to.
corrupt to the core
They’re going to build a cloud and rival Snowflake. Plus support/service open source users.
How are these related or conflicting things, in your own words?
> That is value that has been created.

I have 1000 toenail clippings I've carefully collected over the last few years. Each is unique and carries a genetic signature that is very difficult to replicate. My toenails don't grow very quickly, so the supply is limited.

This morning, I sold one toenail clipping to my wife for $100,000.

My toenail shard pile now has a market cap of $100 million. That is value that has been created.
Advance disclosure prevents insider trading because it makes it unprofitable. If everyone knows you have insider information and what your sales plan is, it's no longer insider information because your sales plan telegraphs what you know, and now everyone else can trade on that information too.
Futhark doesn't support AD yet. But it's pretty close afaik.
A few retroreflectors is not even scratching the surface of the issue. Most local governments don't even have accurate maps of their own road infrastructure, let alone correct infrastructure. They already can't afford to maintain what's already built, much less take on significant additional maintenance. Humans are able to cope with these issues most of the time, but for machines you'd end up needing to build nearly the same autonomous capabilities you'd require without smart roads.
Do you have an example of a particularly well-done rug pull that would help this layman understand the scam better?

I totally understand why folks fell for Bernie Madoff's scheme. He had a brick and mortar office, a stellar reputation, and a relatively well-known face. Revealing his scam destroyed his life and he couldn't have easily disappeared into thin air before facing consequences. His clients are no better off, but the consequences alone would keep the vast majority of investment managers from blatant cash grabs.

Conversely, the caveat emptor nature of cryptocurrency and the ubiquity of scammers would stop me investing a cent based solely on a website, PR, and/or social media buzz— none of which require anything beyond a small amount of initial capital. Do their techniques go beyond that? Were any anchored to well-known people or organizations?
Show HN: I made a bot that suggests fixes for Python bugs right inside the PR
It's a code review copilot for GitHub that suggests fixes to bugs it finds e.g, if you missed a comma in a list, accidentally committed a breakpoint, used deprecated features, using "==" when you should use "is" and vice versa, if you're making your life harder than it needs to be, and more.

This started life as a Django-specific toolbut I recently overhauled it to also support checking Python code in general hence changed the name from Django Doctor to CodeReview Doctor. So now it does both (and will do more languages and frameworks in future).

Feedback on landing page would be appreciated and of course give it a spin. it's free to public repos!
I think the need for 10x developers is possible overstated on the internet. In my experience, teams generally figure out how to work around medicore-to-great developers and they're typically not an issue. People online also tend to wear their 40+ hour workweeks like a badge of honor. Many of the people who are 10-20 hour workers like to keep their heads down, both on the internet and in real life, so maybe they're underrepresented.

Ultimately, if no one is taking issue with you, you are getting your tasks done, and you are happy with your pay, then you are exactly where you should be.

To answer the question in the thread title: I don't think most developers are lying about how much work they do, I just think it skews higher online, and the people who work less don't really care to share, or aren't around to share.
I think, generally, sanitization means protecting against potentially malicious input. Whether it takes form via escaping or removal or some other remediation is beside the point.
They used to be at one point. Then the hype machine switched track. The thing that did it, from memory, was Twitter coming out and saying they'd switched away because they couldn't make it go fast enough. All of a sudden all the cool kids decided that execution speed was the only thing that mattered, and oh look, v8 can handle a tonne of connections without slowing down and the circus moved on.
"don't appreciate this kind of cheap pedantry. Does it feel good"

I think this is extremely unfair, as in your own pedantry seems fine, where you are correct only for very spesific and us-centric definition of 'force' and 'snakeoil'.

You free market people can't even agree if patents and copyright are part of free market. I had one of you tell me that endentured servitude was part of freedom of contract.

You seem to think we should leave snake oil salesmen alone, so it seems free market includes freedom to defraud the customer. Does it also include freedom to defraud the company?

This 'free market' is a spherical cow and would collapse into anarchy from pissed off people shooting each-other, it's no more viable than communism is.
Shopify launches NFT minting shopfront (beta)
Compared to Both nodejs and python: lasst time I looked Ruby performed notably worse.

Note that I've been a Ruby developer for over 12 years now. Worked in Ruby-shops almost exclusively. Yet the performance is often so bad that I have to do work in python. E.g. quite recently a scraper, wrote it in Ruby -obviously-, found out that we couldn't get performance acceptable, rewrote it in python. Our ETL using Kiba-ETL had to be ported over to a rust-based ETL set because the nightly process took longer than 24 hours, causing it to hit it's own mutex locks. The Rust-based system ran this same data-conversion in under two hours on the same server.

This is not hate on Ruby. It's a known fact it's one of the slower languages and runtimes out there. It's getting better and getting there fast.
Yet the tradeoff of being extemely developer-friendly is that performance suffers. I'd gladly take that tradeoff every day (untill it becomes inpractical and we port that ruby tooling to something else).
Except in this case it is not emergency. Same as flu each year is not an emergency.
I assume people not consuming as much as the people in the EU and USA have a goal of consuming as much as the people in the EU and USA.
Or maybe the internal distractions are war being waged on a different battlefield. Sun Tzu talked of fighting wars politically before actually fighting...
Honestly, it's up to the buyer to take the responsibility read through the contracts on these tokens, run them through tools like token sniffer, look at the holder distribution, see if contracts are renounced, see if there were air drops to pre-sales to friends and token creators, do their research and see how the community is interacting, and making sure that all the boxes tick before throwing their own hard earned money at it. If you lose, that's the risk you took for the gains you wanted. Sucks to suck, but you're responsible for homework that you do before buying into a token and you're responsible for the money that you win or lose.
Honestly, I haven't seen any difference so far from my previous Dell Precision with 32GB ram. But I went big up front to keep it for years. I use it for work and home
> I dislike all the magic of rails. I never know what is going on because there is some functionality that inherits from a rails class or some other part of the code base.

This is also my only complaint with Rails.

I'm a programmer, not a wizard, and I'm not good at magic.
Can you elaborate why term limits wouldn’t at least help the problem?
Depends wildly on how many meetings I'm scheduled with.

I might work 6-8 hours if I don't have any meetings scheduled.

I tend to work about two or three if the meetings are scheduled in such a way that I can't accomplish anything worthwhile in between them.
Another useful thing to store as `pass` secrets is credit card numbers / parameters.

This makes it easy to fill in card info online using the same password tools you're already using (passmenu, rofipass, etc.), without needing to go find your wallet, or rely on your browser's form auto-fill database (and worry about hidden fields attempting to exfiltrate that auto-fill data).

I'm tempted to use `pass` to store TOTP seeds as well, but this seems like a bad idea because you'd be putting both factors in one place. Maybe a separate pass db stored offline or something...
There is an obvious answer to that: Newton's laws match our observations of reality, ignoring relativistic effects. Scripture is written by someone to reflect their opinions. They often have truths in them, but they're just a story. They don't reflect reality any more than Harry Potter does.

To answer your second question: science is not based on a god or gods. Scientific thinking often branched out of religion, but they're separate now and have been for hundreds, if not thousands, of years. And science branched off from many different religions, just not the Christian one you seem to believe in.
In a surprise to no one, the comment criticizing Dragon Maid's pedophilic dog whistles gets [flagged]
It's amazing that we don't have a middle ground party. The compromise between left and right since they can't compromise on their own.
Many developing countries go through a phase when fertility/mortality rates start to decline, and for a while they'll get an economic boost while the working-age population grows at a faster rate than the non-working-age population. That's when East Asian countries laid the foundation for their economic growth.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographic_dividend
Just in case anyone doesn’t know the reference:

http://bash.org/?244321
Love this project, happy to see its going strong!
This behavior is tolerated, and even defended, so far as the others go ("it's their platform").

There needs to be a serious reality check before any form of litigation could work.
Education is no match for the power of motivated thinking.

A lot of critical thinking failures are trivial. If people can't see though them trivially, there's not a lot of ways to help. People fall for really obvious scams and parrot things they read without a moment's consideration.

The people spreading misinformation don't have to work very hard. There are people who would be taken in by cleverly-disguised falsehoods, but in a lot of cases they're not disguised at all. They're just outright, obvious lies, and it seems to work just as well.

Sure, I'd love to see schools do a better job than they do with critical thinking skills. We could all benefit from it. But it won't beat out basic tribalism and people's insistence on believing things that affirm their membership.
Also a political and arguably civil liberties problem, as far as how cyclists, dumb cars, etc could be potentially excluded from some or many roads.
I think they have not updated the information. The kiosks to pay with card have been removed (at least at the lot I was at). Believe me, I would've used it if available.
It sounds like the old code search doesn’t include old repos either: https://github.blog/changelog/2020-12-17-changes-to-code-sea...
Does the 30kGBP limit include money that other people spend on you? If not, that sounds like a way to guarantee that big third parties (who can write checks independently of the campaign to support their candidates) will always be able to outspend grassroots donations organized by the campaign.
Not different here. My guess is that it only applies to people who never have a personal phone and only use work phones.
This is exactly how I feel. Great to hear it from someone with Netflix experience. So, so many organizations jump headfirst into microservices before they even realize what that entails just because they heard it's the trendy new thing Netflix is doing.

If you make your code and architecture simple from the get-go, then you can refactor to microservices when you know you really need it.
Pelosi is vile, not only in her conduct but what she represents. The sooner she leaves office the better off we all are.
Has anyone here used MonetDB? I wonder how it holds up against other column-oriented databases.
Show HN: Describe SQL using natural language, and execute against real data
I played around with GPT-3 to build this demo. Select a public BigQuery dataset and describe your query in natural English, then edit the generated SQL as needed and execute it.

https://app.tabbydata.com/sql-assistant-demo
> All the money comes from later entrants, so it's a Ponzi by definition.

Axie is not a Ponzi scheme, but is definitely a pyramid scheme (via their scholarships).
I don’t think that what you’re doing is very common, but it’s not uncommon either. What you need to do this is to work in an environment where not being productive is not harmful. There are plenty of environments like this. For example, not doing any work but still getting paid doesn’t do any harm at Google. The company is making money anyway. At a small startup that’s under immense pressure people would realise what you’re doing because you’d harm the business.

I’m a big believer in Price’s Law - the square root people produce half the value. If there are 10000 people at the company, you can very well survive in the group of 9900 that does the other half.
Clickable link: https://app.tabbydata.com/sql-assistant-demo
Today, our Argentinian vice president gladly shared Psaki's speech in her twitter account.
https://mobile.twitter.com/CFKArgentina/status/1471165829769...
I.e. a binary blob.
> Casinos are still legal.

Casinos are not pyramid schemes, Axie is.
There is an extremely broad range of work and effort put in by software engineers, but there's also an equally broad range of necessary and important work in most orgs.

I was a sysadmin at a company that had things extremely well-tuned and within our team we averaged a couple of hours of work a day, tops.

I've been at companies where there were 50-hour weeks of nonstop which which were necessary, followed by downtimes where almost no work was necessary (it was a very seasonal business).

In my experience most engineers have no more than 4-5 hours of real work in them a day. After that, mental performance drops dramatically and while you can definitely respond to emails and attend meetings and do less intense work, deep thought is just a finite resource and heavily influenced by your mood, anxiety, and motivation. Keep it up for too long in an org that doesn't value clean code and good tests and your performance can definitely be negative.

It's also true that good organizations and teams know and work with these limits rather than push people into unrealistic goals. People can switch around between deep architecture work and planning, managing a sprint, writing reams of code based on well-understood specs, debugging, etc. You can take turns when your personal life gets intense or you feel drained.

I think that most works vastly underestimate the importance of deep work and being strategic about what gets done. The right product spec and the right amount of work researching solutions can easily save an order of magnitude of coding work. It's amazing how little you need to do if you know the happy path for implementing the right solution instead of iterating through multiple broken attempts.
Don't get me wrong, this is some absolute BS from MSoft, but no it's not accurate to say you can't use whatever default browser you want. It's that there are a very few select things that force you into opening a link in edge - as far as I'm aware this is functionality mostly limited to just websearch from the start menu. So if you prefer to Google/DuckDuckGo your shit by first opening a browser, this won't really affect you. It's important philosophically and as an indicator of Msoft's behaviour/strategy, but doesn't considerably affect users too much.

Caveat - I haven't used Windows 11 so I'm unaware if they've enhanced the number of places that these edge specific links are used. In windows 10 I haven't even bothered to implement some workaround because I never want to search the web from my start menu
Which can also be done on a right sized ec2 instance.