skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They said it's an apples to oranges comparison unless both things do <the two facets that dapps offer>. Which is absolutely correct. You could compare apples to oranges if you wanted to... but usually there's no point in doing so.
I know this isn't the panacea to your problems, but I do a ton of music production and LinVst + Reaper works really well these days.

It is still ultimately a workaround, but it's a possibility.
I have 18 years of professional experience (after getting my Masters degree in CS), so I would count that as seasoned :).

I think 15 years would do, to be named a such.
Are you subtracting wages lost to both employer AND employee contributions to health insurance, co-pays and the like? That's the only way it's a fair comparison. Hell, even if we do earn more after accounting for that, living in a society with universal healthcare is worth something all it's own.
We as a society broadly agree people shouldn’t be economically coerced into doing things we don’t want to?

That’s not true in the least. We use economic incentives to drive desirable behavior everywhere.
Tell me you don't understand memes without telling me you don't understand memes.

Memes != Jokes. A meme is a repeated and iterated phenomenon be it a picture, phrase, video, image or thought. Just because it isn't funny (to you) doesn't make it a meme, just because you find it funny doesn't make it a meme. To graduate from thing to meme needs repetition, iteration and spread.
I think you're right. I tried this on Firefox for Android. Looks great on Firefox for OSX, though!
Not exactly something unions will solve, and not enough to destroy those gains on average.
This is fair, I wish more teams were working on the boring useful use-cases.

One I particularly like is gig tickets. Represent them as NFTs, prove ownership of the ticket as it is in your wallet, trade them for USD with anyone around the world in a single atomic transaction, use third party tools to verify a ticket is authentic (either manually copying an NFT address onto a bands website or programatically). Suddenly I can sell you a ticket to a band we both like from a link in this message and you can guarantee if you pay you get the ticket and if I send the ticket I get the payment, and you can guarantee the ticket is authentic by checking it was one of the originally minted tickets. Boring, bad UX, but solves a multi-million dollar issue in the ticket reselling market. These are the peer-to-peer systems I wish people focused on. Sadly a couple million just isn't that cool in the web3 space.
Hmm. Might be a poor analogy then. I’ve never had any issues with anti-cheat software or ever noticed it’s existence — other than an icon on a splash page.
Do they? I could have sworn they just accounted for taxes. Do you have a citation? Do they also count employer contributions to healthcare premiums?
Aren't the positive performance reviews such an indication?
I would love to be able to have to proactively authorize every single recurring purchase via a tap on my phone. If I have enough that I’m being overwhelmed there’s a good chance I’m not tracking my purchases very well and there could even be fraud I’m missing.

There’s some use-cases maybe where automatic billing is required but the vast majority would do better to need to prompt the user.
>Is this the new normal now?

In my last four engagements, every single laptop provided by the employer had something. Usually Tanium or Carbon Black. Network interfaces being disabled entirely if you're not connected to their VPN. One client requiring the use of a Meraki hardware VPN appliance.

This was an investment bank, a university, a software company and a health insurance company.
Well, when you bullshit your teammates all year and tell them every day "Ah, I'm still working on this problem, it's a real tough one" (when really you're at home watching YouTube all day)...

and every three weeks you say "OK, I'm done with this tough problem -- next!" (when really you could have gotten it done in two days)...

and the schedule drags out but no blames you because, after all, you tell everyone at standup how busy you've been...

and in your review self-assessment, you use big descriptions for every small thing you bothered to do, knowing your manager isn't enough in the details to realize it...

then, yeah, at the end of the year, you've successfully suckered your manager into giving you a great review.
> turned sharply negative the last two months.

What I'm seeing is a chart of real gains over the last decade. That's great!
Just run of the mill white collar workers --who presumably he had statistics on given he mentioned many "only worked two hours while claiming eight".

He claimed that at the same time as firing 900 people. To me it sounded much more like his internal justification for his actions rather than something that was true. Essentially I believe he was mentally shifting the blame from his own failing to successfully run a company that could profitably utilise 900 people, to making it the workers fault that he had to fire them.

The fact that he doesn't appear to be replacing the workers shows there wasn't work to be done. Is it your fault if you do all the work required of you in 2 hours?
Copy'n'pasting "mailto:test@test.com" into gmail's new mail "to:" field also doesn't magically remove the mailto: part either.
I have already lost my online book store: "perlego" subscription because of this. This is has 100% directly stopped my access to learning. There is no other way to put it.
Wasn't that the point of the PPP? Give companies loans that are really grants that find their way back to asset holders through buybacks?
> Unfortunately we have other design decisions that force us into using structs for deserialization on this endpoint (part of our validation strategy.)

Oh I’m not blaming you, sorry if it came across that way. I’m aware of the issue because i’ve been hit by the exact same (hence having been made aware of the rust workaround), can’t say I was a happy camper.
OMG I wanted to create a similar service to Hoppy Network, but too bad you came first. Guess I'm stuck at a Big Tech job (for now).

Anyways, wish all the best luck to you.

There's also this service which I have for Tor bridges: https://www.aceinnovative.com/internet-access/static-ip-vpn/

Ace's "Static IP VPN" gives you more IPv4 space and is uncapped, but forces a long-EOL Cisco router and is very slow (meaning 2010 speeds). I had this on-and-off, and pushed my main Internet traffic over it from 2013-2015, but it is less flexible.

I'd love to join Hoppy Network if it had a Seattle PoP, and if I could get an "uncapped" plan or at least a higher bandwidth version (even if it is super expensive). I don't demand it from you, though.

And at the same time I totally understand why you have limits (for real), you don't want people to abuse your service and slow down everything. Maybe I will join, who knows.
5 hours a week is barely getting any work done at all and falls in the category of slacking. I’m surprised how this work ethic can survive and yet get promoted/rewarded. I have come across cases like the OP and have seen them either being fired or see good developers leave because bad work ethic is rewarded the same as developers with good work ethic and people who get things done and make progress are treated the same as slackers.

I believe it depends on how you look at work. The higher you climb the career ladder the more responsibilities you get. Everyday is an opportunity to make some progress — get something done, move forward, show up and make progress. Some days you are at the best of your mental capacity and some days you are not. It’s important to recognize those days and focus on low hanging fruits on low mental capacity days vs getting high value work done on good days. Managing yourself is a part of your job that’s not in the job description.

As a professional, it’s my responsibility to get my part done and make progress everyday. Things add up over long time. Similarly not getting work done does the opposite, let’s lot of backlog pile up.

If slacking is the result of procrastination or lack of attention or lack of motivation, I recommend people get help.

Imagine calling customer service rep and they just work 5 hours a week and imagine them responding to your requests a week or month from now. Imagine everyone working like this, society won’t function. Not doing your part for what you’re getting paid for seems unethical to me personally.
So glad I don't see this as a presumed badge of honor anymore.

Rather be working on simplifying security/privacy tools for these users, or educating them.
What's the difference between the first group of technologies you mention, and the second, other than the fact that a large group of investors has piled onto the first, whereas the second is basically non-profit? Do you refuse to acknowledge the value-add to decentralization that the first group brings?
Trillions: https://www.federalreserve.gov/monetarypolicy/bst_recenttren...

The rich: https://www.cnbc.com/2021/09/17/fed-officials-owned-securiti...

- Powell held between $1.25 million and $2.5 million of municipal bonds. They were just a small portion of his total reported assets. While the bonds were purchased before 2019, they were held while the Fed last year bought more than $5 billion in munis, including one from the state of Illinois purchased by his family trust in 2016.

- Boston Fed President Eric Rosengren held between $151,000 and $800,000 worth of real estate investment trusts that owned mortgage-backed securities. He made as many as 37 separate trades in the four REITS while the Fed purchased almost $700 billion in MBS.

- Richmond Fed President Thomas Barkin held $1.35 million to $3 million in individual corporate bonds purchased before 2020. They include bonds of Pepsi, Home Depot and Eli Lilly. The Fed last year opened a corporate bond-buying facility and purchased $46.5 billion of corporate bonds.
German high command knew it had to be over quickly to have any chance of success. They didn't have reinforcements to send, everything in the area was already committed. Once the US reinforcements arrived it was game over.

The whole plan was kind of dubious IMHO. Even if it were successful and the Germans were able to capture Antwerp the soldiers would be surrounded and cut off from supplies. Using it to negotiate a better surrender sounds like wishful thinking.
That's because this is Keynesian 'semi-inflation', which is a reallocation and rationing of increasingly scarce resources by price. Markets are doing what markets do.

Those with the power to match prices with wage demands stay where they are, and the cost is transferred to those who cannot push wages, and those who lose their jobs.

That's actually how inflation is actually controlled - via the threat of unemployment and wage suppression.

Interest rate changes are the Wizard of Oz. Wage suppression and unemployment are the man behind the curtain.
Chi cerca, trova?
OnePlus 10 Pro – the gaming champion
This is actually a good thing. Think of it like Apple's email masking service - Merchants can only store a tokenized version of your credit card instead of the real card details. I say this is a good thing after having worked with many E-Commerce shops in India as a consultant. Most of them barely know a thing about security, let alone about PCI DSS compliance.

I have worked with shops that stored the entire credit card number in PLAIN TEXT!. Not just credit cards, even their users' passwords. This also explains why many of them got and still get hacked from time to time. Even credit card processors got hacked due to this. Lot of shitty ones in the Indian market actually.

The root cause of this, not to cause language flame wars here, but is most of the shops use script kiddos with just basic PHP knowledge. Bare minimum, they're recent fresh college grads who just know how to consume data from a form using PHP using GET and POST, that's it. Most of the code I've worked with just consumes this directly instead of stripping/processing it and end up introducing SQL injection attacks. Atleast, if they used a framework, this would be provided by default for free, but many of the developers hardly know about even MVC.

(As an aside) - As a personal mission, I started touring around the country teaching college kids for free about basics of web development, security, etc. But, still, I have a long way to go.

Well folks, that's it for today's note on why this was a good move. Have a nice day!

Edit: Some of the recent hacks that were not made public widescale like they should've been:

1. Domino's Pizza India (Yes, the international pizza chain)

2. BigBasket (Largest online grocery ordering App)

3. PayTm (One of the largest, if not the largest digital payments app in India)
Yes, it is GPON.
It's foolish to raise by 6% across the whole company when most employees are too lazy to interview elsewhere.

Whether or not employees are actually worth 6% more they should not have a problem finding a new job in this market (that will pay 6% more).
There hasn't been much positive wage growth for the vast majority of Americans in 70 years.

https://apps.urban.org/features/wealth-inequality-charts/

The "distribution of family income" chart has been inflation adjusted. Note that for the bottom 10th and 50th percentiles, income has flatlined.

The 90th percentile income earners have seen their wages nearly double, after inflation adjustment.
Amusing that this post goes from

> My first response when the plan to add generics was announced was “meh”. In my 5+ years working in Go, I can probably count on one hand the number of times that I felt like I really needed generics. Most of the code I write in my day job is very specific to the domain and doesn’t fit the use case that generics aim to fill.

to

> I love that I was able to delete 95% of my code because of generics.
In my case your guess is completely correct, as I learned data.table in a financial company analyzing large insurance datasets :)

I apologize if I came across as a hardliner. Sometimes I feel like data.table is not well advertised for how capable it is, so I will defend the library if given the chance. Surprisingly how many "big data workloads" you can replace with a high memory cloud instance and a simple data.table script. Cheers to using the right tool for the right job.
So the order doesn’t prohibit tokenizing or saving cards, it specifies who can save them.

Earlier, merchants could save the details, and this ability leads to massive amounts of fraud and theft (see US right now).

Then only regulated payment aggregators could save them, and issue a token to the merchants. Stealing the token wasn’t too helpful because you couldn’t grab the money, the token was tied to the merchant. But this still means my card number is stored on a bunch of companies that can suddenly take whatever funds they want, and I can’t cancel these tokens.

Fast forward to 2022, where only the issuer I got my card from can give out tokens - so I can now see a list of every single merchant who has access to my card tokens, and I can cancel them whenever I want.

So the functionality is not going away, it’s moving to another part of the regulated system that’s more in the control of the consumer.

As a person I welcome the move (no more struggling to understand card charges or pleading with companies to cancel my subscriptions). As a developer it’s more work to implement the new system, but it’s not much more work than the old one. Projects using Stripe or Razorpay will get the new system with no changes.
IMHO, VPNs scare me more than ISPs spying on me. I ran a small ISP (<100 subscribers) and the sheer amount of data you could collect on a single person was mind boggling. This was pre-https-all-the-things, so I’m sure it’s better these days. Still, do I really want my traffic to go through some unregulated entity? Not really…
Modern “Bitcoin Maximalism” has similarities to religion, but I think it’s possible to independently arrive at the conclusions that there needs to be a single dominant cryptocurrency, and for various reasons Bitcoin has the best chance of being it.
Nice.

If you can automate the observation, you can automate your observance of the observation. The symmetry is great.

It’s even kind of poetic, because the more creative type of person who is less valued as a drone is the type of person to extend the effort to do this, whereas the clock-in-clock-out type with less investment and motivation is less likely. Sort of a “if you’re clever/motivated enough to end run it, your clever enough to not need this anyway.”
If it does, inflation has failed as a policy:

https://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/02/13/the-case-for-hi...

"in the long run, it’s really, really hard to cut nominal wages. Yet when you have very low inflation, getting relative wages right would require that a significant number of workers take wage cuts. So having a somewhat higher inflation rate would lead to lower unemployment, not just temporarily, but on a sustained basis."

Worker pay not keeping up with inflation is not merely an effect of inflation. It is the policy goal.
What could convince you, as a skeptic, that crypto currencies are a technological step forward and deliver value to humans?
In my experience HR are never receptive to those types of arguments. If you want a raise the best thing you can do is find a new job.
How does that math work?

> If worker pay never kept up with inflation, the country would be among the world’s poorest.

That is flat wrong. Even if you were still making 23$ an hour as you did in the 70's:

https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2019/04/50-years-of-us-wages-...
https://www.factcheck.org/2019/06/are-wages-rising-or-flat/

...you'd still be among the top 20% of earners across the earth. Let's take another step down to simple minimum wage. over 7$/hr in the US puts you at... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_minimum_w... - in the top 20, which doesn't even include countries without a minimum wage.

Your statement about "among the world's poorest" requires revision.
I don't see how "Damn Daniel" is significantly different from "Badger Badger." I do agree with the author's other point that memes these days are much more mean spirited than they used to be. People these days tend to treat people they disagree with as if they were caricature wojaks rather than real people with complicated beliefs and motivations.
I shop at Target online regularly. I don’t see very many products being sold by 3rd party sellers. If I did start seeing them, I would slowly move on to another online merchant like I did with Amazon.
To the first question, both. Many developed countries that did not practice QE are also seeing rising inflation. Having said that inflation in the US is particularly high, but then again there’s historical precedent for that. So it’s a messy picture, but a large chunk of current inflation seems global and systemic.

As for where is the money going? The rising costs are due to increasing demand and simultaneous reductions in supply. A lot of pent up demand deferred by the pandemic has been released. Meanwhile suppliers have lost capacity due to shutting down factories, slimming down work forces and not maintaining or replacing equipment.

A lot of the money from increased costs is invested in ramping up production again. This is pulling people back into employment and kickstarting businesses that were suffering in the lockdowns. It’s funding necessary work. But some of it is being taken by suppliers who find they can ramp up prices and people will still pay.
tl;dr
Author is maturing and doesn’t feel “cool” or “in” anymore.

Welcome to the club.

As we mature our priorities and the priorities of our peers change.

Time is not a straight line, it’s a spiral.
> To use card tokens for any kind of payment, you need to integrate with some kind of card data vault, which this rule seems to also prohibit.

Why would you need that?

The rule says nobody can store "actual card data".

If you're using the token for a new payment, you don't retrieve the card number, you use the token directly.

> It seems to be instructing the card brands to issue unique tokens for ever cardholder + merchant pair. No idea how that would work…

Pick a random number and store it in a database with those two other fields...?
Is it not rather that the inflation of the past 6-12 months has taken everyone by surprise, including employers, and the wages haven’t had time to adapt yet? What we don’t see in the article’s graph is that inflation used to be somewhat consistent but has risen sharply starting in March 2021: https://tradingeconomics.com/united-states/inflation-cpi
The chart excludes housing. It's pointless.
If you've reduced your argument to "people shouldn't use it if they don't know what it is", have you considered that you might not be talking about the future of software? Nobody sold iPhones because it "exists for those who actually find a use for it".
As a consumer in India I’m so happy at least some part of this government is doing what it’s supposed to do.

A century of unchecked lobbying is pretty much the reason why the US is at the state it is. The difference I’ve seen between how things run in india and the states is that in India what’s illegal and called corruption is called legal and lobbying here.

What exactly are you worried about ? Clicking authorize on nytimes subscription every month?
The current price changes are due to a lack of supply, which the market is rationing.

Remember firms will always try to charge a fortune for their stuff. It's only competition that stops that happening. Competition is excess supply, or at least excess supply capacity.

When competition stops being effective, prices go up.
> Why are slurs towards men is acceptable these days ? How are these policies acceptable ?

What gender controls the purchasing power in the average household? The median one?
growth of what? Purchase of shoddy goods that are made by countries that imprison minorities and political dissidents and force them to work for state-run companies?
"As an extraordinary period in which social life was upturned, the covid-19 pandemic will be over when we turn off our screens and decide that other issues are once again worthy of our attention. Unlike its beginning, the end of the pandemic will not be televised." - I like that.
GenZ memes are much different to the venerable lolcat/Scumbag Steve format. They are often wackier and absurdist as opposed to pop-culture-referential. They're self-referential. It's not wrong it's just different.

There's also a lot more people trying to meme who are really awkward at it - see every Minions meme ever.
i am unable to use lsp for javascript it freezes out my computer(may be i am on underpowerd machine). I mostly get by using ripgrep and dabbrev. I wonder if there is catgs based solution for languages other than c/c++ . I used to have global gtags and it was fast even on large codebases probably because no json marshal/unmarshal.
Why? You certainly fit his profile.
I now get paid in ETH.

Feels like I no longer to make money twice - once to get paid, twice to invest it such to beat inflation.
> Commercial bank to bank transfers costing $50 in total fees isn't unusual

This is interesting. What amounts are we talking about here? What would be the equivalent tx costs if BitCoin were used do you know?
Well the crypto will say the same thing about the non believer.

I took a pragmatic view: 1) it seems a useful hedge asset against stock market (although it becomes more and more linked nowadays) and other fiat money dominant security market. 2) it seems have some value of bringing financial products to more people (albeit today the new users are fleeced immediately when they enter the market, without getting any value from it). 3) it seems has a lot of engineers working in this space (which seems a good technical problem).
I guess in Java, it'd look something like this:

public class JavaOption<T> {

public <U> JavaOption<U> map(Function<T, U> func) {
//todo
}
}

Kotlin might be a closer match in semantics if I use an extension function:

fun <T, U> Optional<T>.map(func: (T) -> U): Optional<U> {
// todo
}