skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is, but performance/value remains to be seen, which brings me back to my point that even the Intel juggernaut faces un uphill battle in this space vs Nvidia and AMD.

Granted, during the current shortage, basically any GPU will sell regardless of performance/value proposition which makes it very easy for Intel to enter the market right now, however, 2-3 years ago, when Nvidia and AMD GPUs were affordable and available everywhere, nobody would have ever considered buying Intel discrete GPUs as even their integrated ones were not well received.
> Doing business in India is so frickin hard, especially after GST.

How has GST made things worse? I had paid Service Tax for 10 years prior to GST, and that was a far worse experience.

a) Prior to GST these was an enormous amount of tax fraud. GST makes that way harder, on account of people being able to track and claim input credits. Many (not all) people who were complaining did so because they were suddenly unable to dodge taxes. This forced them to disclose all sales, which affected income tax as well.

b) Everything is now visible on the portal. Who you paid, what they deposited etc.

c) Initially, there were many more compliance requirements. Now it's simpler, with quarterly filing if you qualify.
You ask others to do some research, which implies that you have good sources on how "The Fed, and other central banks have dealt with inflation many times before. And very effectively at that"

I'd be interested to see them, especially any from the last 40 years (i.e. post-Volker).

For pre-Volker, I'm interested in your sources from the early-mid 70s, and the way inflation was "controlled" in the years immediately surrounding the release of the gold standard.
Besides the media, who else do you think could be relied on to gain an opinion on this issue? My German friends and associates - I don't know a single German, after 15 years of living in and around Germany and Austria, who wants US bases in Germany any more - in fact the majority of 'common people' that I know, want the USA to remove all of their bases from Europe, take their war machines, and go home.

From outside the American media bubble, it is quite clear to see which nation is committing the majority of crimes against humanity and war crimes today, and they don't speak Russian. They commit these crimes like cowards, hiding in Arizona strip malls, remotely controlling their death robots and raining hell and fury down on utterly innocent people, every single day. Germans know this and care. Americans either don't know about it, or don't care - or both.
Excellent podcast with the author:

https://peterattiamd.com/patrickraddenkeefe/
Nearly - have you reversed a part of the argument there? The argument is that people over-estimate the risk of COVID if unvaccinated, meaning they do go to hospital. You said "therefore don't go". Lots of marginal cases will end up going to hospital, right up until those people get vaccinated at which point the publicity campaign switches direction and tries to convince people with COVID to stay home because they're protected. Which indeed would hopelessly confound any attempt to determine true effects on hospitalization from simple rate data, and the trials simply didn't measure this at all. In fact the study paper:

https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/nejmoa2034577

doesn't even contain the word hospital anywhere in it.

It's not just Americans by the way. There's a French survey that shows something similar with respect to estimated IFR. Actual value between 0.1% and 0.3% depending on study, estimated value average of 14%. The misinformation campaign has been global.

I'm not saying something as simple as "vaccines are bad" - although COVID vaccines specifically could well be for younger age ranges, where disease risk is so low that it would require an astonishingly weak sauce to avoid tipping the cost/benefit balance negative. But the actual argument is that we don't really know any of these things with the level of rigor that should be required for a forced global vaccination programme. Literally all the data is either wrong or hopelessly confounded, and scientists are not only mostly ignoring these problems
but doubling down on them by insisting that analyses of side effect databases are illegitimate because they're "correlational" (which is a bogus argument but apparently enough to repeatedly get such papers retracted).
...but how do you implement this? How do you know people are not coerced?
I think Jessica3cho's response in this thread is the definitive answer, because she has more ironic web badges than anyone else.
in cases of review fraud that rule doesn't make sense though IMO, since no matter who's selling it, it's directly related to the rating of the article presented
> Why are men afraid of dating events - https://www.originaldating.com/blog/2015/6/18/why-are-men-af...

This article answers its own question in the rather insulting tone it takes. Why would men go to these events if the women who go there are dismissing most men as not "eligible"? Maybe it's true, but when that is the impression, it helps cement the stigma she describes.

It also, I think gets to the point that where women as described in the article often see thing like speed dating as a "girls' night out", to quote the article, to most men these kinds of events are purely functional. I would have considered going to speed dating events if I didn't find dates in other ways. But it's far down my list of things I'd consider, because it constrains the number of people I can interact with to a set of people where only a small number is likely to interest me from the outset. If your goal is to have a "night out" it might well be productive. If your goal is to meet someone to date, it's only productive if you struggle to introduce yourself and need a crutch to do so. And so you get the guys the article writer describes who have done this because introducing themselves is far out of their comfort zone.
"Microsoft really could use some product/UX zealot in the driver seat for a while."

I hate to say this, but I think it would just result yet another UX camp in the system. The weight of legacy is heavy.

To clean up the UI mess, Microsoft would need to heavily deprecate supported APIs and conventions, and I don't think that's going to happen.
The issue was earlier this year, but the systems I saw it on were probably both LTS with an older kernel.Good to know that it was fixed.
We search the web for remembering things we already know. We are not looking for insight on Google. If we really have a tough nut to crack, we consult with experts. If I am the expert on the topic, then I review recent research papers.
A shoelace button?
I have been tasked to write software like this for a couple of clients throught my carrer and once I even made a working prototype in C# for Windows. which turns out is not so hard.

The reality is though, after i had completed the intial client-app for the Pc's I called the client and terminated the project. He was not to happy about it and a lengthy discussion about whats right or wrong about it ensured. We agreed that it is really not neccesairy and also unwanted surveillance. so i was happy and the code has been scrapped.

....Until his inhouse staff taught him how to read the logins from the actice directory....

Truth be told, if they supply the hardware and you consent to it( at lesat in europe), they are within their rights. If you think its right and give your consent to it, is up to you though

PS:
A permanently running agent is most likely to make screencaps too.
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What annoys me is the forced injection of memes on tech presentations. Not saying it never works - some folks have the talent and the timing. However most of the times, it just elicits forced smiles out of politeness.
I googled "SOC 2 Audited" - and I've got:
"""
A SOC 2 audit is a company-wide certification that evaluates an organization's standards regarding its core data security infrastructure, information handling practices, consumer privacy, and confidentiality. For this purpose, an SOC 2 auditor needs to evaluate various aspects of a company's systems and processes
"""
So it is about security. I guess your point is that it is just a security theatre and not related to the real thing - but that is a different discussion. It would be a discussion about https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/07/30/meditations-on-moloch/ and https://www.amazon.com/Moral-Mazes-World-Corporate-Managers/... and etc
I tried using bluetooth speakers with Windows. It was fucking atrocious because Windows makes zero effort to compensate for bluetooth lag. Watch a video file or a Youtube video on Android and it inserts a split second of delay into the stream so the video and audio sync up. Windows does nothing of the sort, and it feels like you're watching a dubbed foreign language film.
That phrase is just flamebait and that's probably why it's framed in quotation marks.

That said, I'm not surprised to learn that doctors use Google. We go to doctors to benefit from their judgment and experience, not because we need to learn facts from them.
Disclosure: I work for a fintech in India, specialized in card payment.

It seems here people see this rule as "merchants can't store card numbers any more". This is actually a lot more than that, this is the new rule: you cannot store card numbers for recurring payment. Even if you are PCI-DSS compliant. Even if you are audited by the RBI. Even if you're sponsored by a bank. The only way to store a Visa number is to use the Visa tokenization service.

Now if you know a bit of the card payment industry, you will know that you need the card number just to process the payment, the refund, etc. So you still have to store the card number. And you can. You just can't use it for recurring payment any more.

My personal take: Giving full control to Visa and Mastercard over their card numbers for recurring payment seems to be a nice transfer of power to these two giants. But the time scale has been very short (a few months only). So practically, most recurring card payments will stop working or be illegal in two weeks. This is will more or less break existing subscriptions working with cards.

India (the RBI at least) has been in a campaign for independence in the payment infrastructure. American Express[0], Diners[1], Mastercard[2] have been banned in India. Diners' ban has been lifted now, but still. Rupay is a failure with a market share of 0.34%[3] (in comparison UPI is at 37.73%), in spite of having ZERO MDR on debit transactions[4].

This change is not for the sake of security. You can have the best firewalls, cutting-edge HSM, security team and pass 12 audits a year. You will be allowed to save these card numbers but you won't be able to authorized to use it for recurring payments. This is just a move against cards, and to promote UPI instead. By making recurring card payment a hindrance, more people will transition to UPI.

[0] https://www.americanexpress.com/en-in/company/notice/rbi-imp...
[1] https://www.reuters.com/article/india-banking-american-expre...
[2] https://westfaironline.com/138440/mastercard-banned-from-new...
[3] https://www.npci.org.in/PDF/npci/statics/RETAIL-PAYMENTS-STA...
[4] https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/opinion/et-editorial/st...
Interesting! What is your first language? Do you speak any others? Was learning English a natural part of growing up, or was it formally taught to you?
If someone believes they're underpaid they can talk to me about that without needing to prove it by getting another offer. If they do get another offer it's unlikely that it'll be for exactly the same role, so it doesn't really show they're undervalued anyway.
I can understand Bluetooth speakers being rare, but at least now Bluetooth headphones must be increasing rapidly in popularity. I don't remember how common they were at that time, but it should have been clear that they would increase in use in the near future.

If you want to connect to a pair of previously paired Bluetooth headphones in Windows 10 you can press Win+K to open the connect quick action.
Thanks for the heads-up. Sounds like I don't know enough about how those games are made.
Maybe so, but sometimes benchmarkers forget to employ compiler options like:

nim c -d:danger -d:lto --opt:speed

ymmv

https://nim-lang.org/faq.html

https://nim-lang.org/docs/nimc.html

Also, --gc:arc and --gc:orc are going to bring a stronger game to the table as they continue to mature (already pretty far along).
I've met people like you, some as employees, but most as coaches. I believe their role is somehow religious, priest-like: they are able to occupy a spot between leadership and workers to embody the ability to believe in what the company is doing. I think your role is perfectly summarized by your last sentence. You role is to be the person who says: "I'm enjoying the splendid world we are lucky to live in."

I envy your ability to see the world as splendid in the context of work. I see exploitation, destruction of the environment, abusive relationships, boredom, meaninglessness. I believe most of your/our bosses feel the same way.
I thoroughly enjoyed the recent Hulu show about the Oxycontin crisis, Dopesick.
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The guy from Stuff Made Here made an automatic golf club that corrects the swing in real time: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o5Cv9fvajrc

Those guys should talk!
That number needs to be mapped to the PAN, and somebody has to have stored that PAN somewhere in order for it to be used to process payment. This rule says nobody other than the issuer and the card brands are allowed to store the PAN.
It feels like Amazon is at a place where eBay was about, what, a decade ago? At least from a shopper point of view. In other words it feels like you're overwhelmed by choice but much of that choice makes you feel uneasy.

It seems to be full of dodgy sellers using questionable practices like those described in the post, the feedback (review) system is utterly broken, getting in touch with a real person is near impossible, sellers are using bots to game prices and the search system.

And (AFAIA) Amazon still doesn't use 3d Secure / Verified by Visa? Perhaps this is a sweetheart deal from the card schemes, given they're so big, or do the issuers not want to take the liability shift? There's something not quite right here.

Anyway, I don't know if eBay actually solved any of the problems or if most of the dodgy sellers just moved to Amazon.
The only reason other professions aren't relying as much on Google (with emphasis being on the relative intensity of use) is that their problems are harder to search (they don't get standardized error messages) and that they have levels upon levels of leeches asking for money in exchange for information.
> many other languages, regarding cognates of the word, such as French: Tzigane, Spanish: gitano, Italian: zingaro and Portuguese: cigano, this perception is either very small or non-existent.
> That's a weird generalization. Yes there are terrible, insecure e-commerce sites in India, the same as there are in the USA and everywhere else on the planet.

I don't have the experience to know if this is actually the case, but it seems completely plausible that different countries have different regulations (or enforcement thereof) such that US companies have to care about PCI more than Indian companies.

> These $100B in annual sales aren't processed by script kiddies, it's a very large and mature industry.

Those are less connected than you think; loads of companies run obscenely large monetary transactions and essential business processes with horrifying hacked-up systems (50k LoC files, 20-year-old Perl scripts that nobody understands, Solaris 2.x desktop in the maintenance closet...); utility and good code are less correlated than we wish.
If I would pick one, I would pick Zig.

The language that is missing is a simple language that can work well with C or C++, compiles fast, is easy to read, has a good lib, etc.

There are not enough non-GC languages that are statically compiled.

I really, really want a pythonic, statically compiled language. I don't want templates, OOP, abstract stuff, just A C-like language, more readable, with good syntactic sugar. My dream is that there would be as much time money and effort spent on python, than was spent en js engine like v8 and spidermonkey.

There are barriers that make python not really viable everywhere, and I wish it would not be the case.
> most Americans are significantly worse off since the 1970s

I think this is obviously false and hurts the credibility of the rest of this comment.

There are many pitfalls with measuring long-term inflation. How much did an internet connection cost in the 1970s? What about a computer? What about a smartphone? These modern technologies make peoples lives much better and were somewhere between impossible and impossibly expensive in the 1970s so an inflation metric can’t really take their price changes (from infinity to cheap) into account. Another is quality. Compared to the 70s, a new car is faster, safer, more comfortable, and more fuel efficient. Similarly, most houses are bigger and better in America today.

I think it is important to note that talking about long term inflation is different, and perhaps harder, than talking about short-term inflation which is what the OP is about.
Again, generalization.
What you're talking about mostly refers to small time sites with maybe not more than few dozen orders a day.
Typical ecommerce businesses (usually the kind with at least 100s or 1000s of orders a day) write their own code rather than using WP plugins.

As far as PCI DSS goes, there are multiple levels. Even at the tier 2 Indian ecom company I used to work at, we did not store any card info, it was just submitted in an iframe rendered by the payment gateway. And even then we were subjected to annual/semi-annual security audits (this was in addition to quarterly external security audits we ordered ourselves apart from typical OWASP top 10 checks performed by QAs in weekly sprints).
> We have a modified GitFlow: main: is the source of truth and is what is in production. develop: is the constantly moving branch we make PRs against. You can commit directly here which is discouraged but it isn't a hard rule. ticket: is a branch for each JIRA ticket not each feature. release: We don't make these and just use tags on main. Each "release" is a merge from develop to main and that gets deployed.

If you're a huge team with a slow release process then I guess you need that develop/master split, but it's costly. When I've worked in a small team we've had a single master branch and every feature branch gets released and deployed immediately after merge (with a "lock" so that you don't merge your feature until the previous person has signed off their deploy), with each feature branch ideally representing a user-visible agile feature (i.e. up to 2 weeks' work) - IMO you don't gain a lot by merging something that doesn't have a user-facing deliverable (how can you be sure the code you're merging is right or not?).
Yes, it's more not an argument, merely an invitation to consider the parallels.
It is of course possible to embrace both e2e encryption and KYC.
They have an exclusive clause, so at the moment I work only for them (and on a few open source projects).

Legally I work for a company in the EU which I own.

They are willing to pay for a decent laptop. That is not the issue. The issue is that I feel quite upset about this requirement. My motivation to discuss it here is to get an idea if I am out of touch with current reality (like some old guys some times are) - or if this is a form of cancer it's worth fighting against.
> I can't conduct the experiment anymore obviously

Why not?

$ virt-make-fs --type=msdos /usr/share/doc /var/tmp/disk.img
$ export file=/var/tmp/disk.img
$ nbdkit eval \
after_fork=' echo 0 > $tmpdir/read ' \
get_size=' stat -Lc %s $file ' \
pread='
diff=$(($4 - `cat $tmpdir/read`))
echo $4 > $tmpdir/read
if [ $diff -lt -10000 ] || [ $diff -gt 10000 ]; then
# simulate a seek
sleep 0.1
fi
dd if=$file skip=$4 count=$3 iflag=count_bytes,skip_bytes
'
$ sudo nbd-client localhost /dev/nbd0
$ sudo mount /dev/nbd0 /tmp/mnt

The tricky thing is probably making a deliberately fragmented disk image for testing using modern tools.
> CA's affect on the election isn't proven.

That’s quite a dismissal. Is this even possible?

How would one go about proving or disproving such an effect?

From what I recall, CA was considered to be a military grade weapon by the UK gov which needed approve each case prior to export.

Promises were made that it would never be used domestically.

Based on this information, I would have to assume that CA is effective, generally speaking.
Why do people bother with questions like this?

Araq created Nim because he wanted to. Others use it because they want to. Why does it need a raison d'être ?

What it has: garbage collection with option to turn off, small binaries, compiles to C (and other languages) as intermediate step so it's easy to integrate into existing codebases, it's very fast without needing much trickery, it has all the features everyone always asks for with more being added all the time, etc...

Is it better than Rust, C++, Go, Java, whatever? Probably not in a strict sense. But it's pleasant to write plus above features. It's like Pascal meets Python meets Go but compiles to C and JS.