skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In a backwards way this validates the general decentralization movement crypto is a part of even more in that a mob attack on social media can get an organization like Mozilla to limit their own capacity to accept donations.
>Because they both want a job quickly and limited choices are available where they live?

You described two different positions with two difference experience requirements and two different salaries.
Thanks! It's def really hard. Nothing easy about it.
There are no limits on traffic. It costs $0.01/GB across the board.
The price started getting pumped up by Tether, and now it's managed by Alameda and Cumberland in cooperation with Tether. USDT volume is 50% higher than the sum of BTC and ETH volume. The price you see, $42500 or whatever, that's not USD. That's USDT. If you control the printing of the currency, and you buy shit with it, you can absolutely set it to whatever you want. [1]

To quote Bitfinex right before they fired up the Tether printer:

BTC could tank to below 1k if we don't act quickly

So no, I'm not surprised by the price. The action dragged in a few profiteering hedge funds.

[1] https://cryptonews.com/news/how-merlin-lost-patience-trying-...
A lot of corn also goes to animal feed.
Teacher absences are forcing hands right now, but even from the student perspective parents seem pretty split on if they want their kids going in, so I'm interested to see how number of absences develops in the next week.

The shitty part is there seems to be 0 compromise in most school districts. A friend's district is staying in person as of now with no accomodations planned for those out sick or not comfortable going in. The whole situation has become bizarrely political so I fear they will not make accomodations even if half the school ends up staying home.

It's especially ridiculous at the high school level where these kids are more than capable of continuing academic progress virtually for a few weeks. Hell even with the teachers out for a week high schoolers could easily be assigned self directed work. Would all of them do it? No, but it sucks for the kids that would be willing to and are instead now forced to sit in person with a substitute teacher doing whatever to kill time.

Meanwhile I recognize some lower income districts where a week or two pause of in person schooling could be a lot more impactful are shutting down. Not much they can do when it comes to sick teachers, but in an ideal world I would get as many teachers/subs as I still could to come in and at least "babysit" for the parents that need it.
It’s been worldwide for a few days now I believe - been experimenting with it for the past week, ish. Was curious why it didn’t get more mention.

It’s super well implemented and probably the only cryptocurrency I care to touch at this point. Hats off to Moxie and the team at Signal.
Hot take: rise of crypto not too dissimilar from the rise of Trump in that there's clearly something there but it isn't what everyone thinks and it also will have more staying power than expected (already showing this).

I recognize that use Trump is risky as he is very polarizing - however there is something uncannily similar on the rise of both of these events. Both in that neither had an agenda but caught on like wildfire - I hope that crypto somehow ends up benefiting the world. I don't see it at this point but remain open to seeing successful projects.
Thank you for the suggestion. That's exactly what we have with our recent integration with Soda: https://metaphor.io/blog/metaphor-and-soda-partner-to-unify-...
You could launch the container itself with sleep. (docker run --entrypoint /bin/sh [image] sleep inf) Then start the dev watch thing with 'docker exec', and when you don't need it anymore you can kill it. (Eg. via htop)

With uwsgi you can control which file to watch. I usually just set it to watch the index.py so when I want to restart it, I just switch to that and save the file.

Similarly you could do this with "entr" https://github.com/eradman/entr
There was I, having just read the headline on the main page and not yet the article thinking it stood for "equality and diversity initiative"...
BTC uses 50% energy the banking industry uses, source: https://www.nasdaq.com/articles/research%3A-bitcoin-consumes...

BTC daily transactions, below 500k, soruce: https://www.statista.com/statistics/730806/daily-number-of-b...

Cash and card (made available by banks) daily transactions are just on another level, more than 1 per person in EU for instance, and the number of people is easy to find, source: https://www.statista.com/statistics/893459/average-number-of...
I was wondering about this but I haven't looked yet.

...

So I just took a look now. Are you talking about the huge list of ~12,974 words embedded right in the code?
Very subtle differences in behavior. It's fine if you start writing your project targeting TruffleRuby, but its a nightmare porting a massive existing ruby codebase.
Compatibility is one, it's hard to be 100% compatible with CRuby, and large codebases tend to sometimes depend unintentionally on weird behavior or even bugs in CRuby.

Keeping up compatibility (while keeping things efficient) is a lot of work, TruffleRuby tries to reduce that by reusing as much as possible existing code, including reusing C extensions shipped with CRuby.
Almost all Covid related predictions have been incorrect, and the ones that seem correct, are only so at the surface level and require mental gymnastics. The pathology of the disease simply isn't well understood at this point, and the new mutations make it a moving target. I don't personally like Fauci, but he is a victim of being conscripted as the Chief Covid Prognosticator by the media. It's a fundamental misunderstanding of science to believe a person can give guarantees on an emerging pathogen like that.
The novel I am currently writing imagines a world where all human values are subordinated to ecological sustainability. All progress is measured by that. Perfection is zero resource consumption. This is not the Jetsons future. It probably won't sell that well because it is not at all like the present and is kind of brutal, though there are some good parts.
> keeping an image "warm"

Do you mean container? So you'd like to have your long running dev container, and a separate test container that keeps running but you only use it every now and then, right? Because you neither want to include the test stuff in your dev container, nor use file watchers for the tests?

Then while I don't know your exact environment and flow, could you start the container with `docker run ... sh -c "while true; do sleep 1; done"` to "keep it warm" and then `docker exec ...` to run the tests?
That's a distinction without a difference. The end result is the same; we lose the ability to make use of the resource in question and have to design alternatives.
I imagine something like a local text file / draft email (because I always have my email open)?

The problem I run into is that I'm either running from thing to thing so there doesn't seem to be much time to write things down as they happen OR I run out of steam at the end of the day and I don't prioritize "write things down".
Have you talked to homeless people? A lot of them just don't have enough money to get a house.

Have you ever met a schizophrinic before? Its not like they're off the loony bin / completely off their rocker, its actually pretty similar to QAnon-style conspiracy theorists. They have some delusions and have difficulty accepting which facts are real or not. But that's not enough of a reason to prevent them from holding a stable job or house.

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Have you studied John Forbes Nash Jr.? A celebrated mathematician, the one who discovered "Nash Equalibrium"? He's literally diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia and never suffered from homelessness.

Its not like "bam, I'm mentally unstable, lol I don't want my house anymore". That's the stuff of crappy Hollywood stories, and has no basis in reality. In most cases, any person, be they crazy / delusional / schizo / mentally sick or normal, will want a warm place to sleep and the rain out of their clothes.

They'll need various amounts of care. Maybe a few drugs is sufficient to hold off their worst symptoms. Maybe socialization / keeping up with friends is what's needed. Hard to say exactly, I'm not a psychologist. But from what I've seen and experienced, mental illness is not an excuse for homelessness. Not at all.

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Homeless people, the ones I meet and interact with, are people who don't have enough money for a home. They've been kicked out of their apartment and don't know what to do.

Maybe they're crazy, maybe they're schizo as well. But even if they are, that doesn't change the fundamental issue (ie: their lack of money, their inability to afford a home right now).
How could it catch up to C++? They are not even in the same category of languages, other than some surface level syntax, they are as different as they get.
> I don't recycle passwords

That’s good. I think you’re probably in the minority though.

There are other ways unique passwords can be compromised. I see passwords accidentally entered into IRC windows about once a month. And even if you have perfect discipline at using unique passwords, that’s not something you can enforce on anyone else logging into your machine.

Maybe someone will chime in with strategies to run ssh from a wrapper that loads a unique password from a password manager with no risk of reuse or entry into the wrong window, or something. But at that point, your complaint about being locked out without the necessary files would apply—might as well use a key, which is simpler and provides strong security with no rigamarole.
If you're forbidden to do that, what happens when your government forbids you to use crypto for the reasons you just stated?

China already did, what's to stop yours?
We could also stop feeding so much of these plants to animals and start feeding them to ourselves and cut our growing immensely. We’re feeding about 3/4 of our soybeans to animals, but they’re packed with protein that we can digest.
I’m talking about going after developers in the sense of “subcontractors”, not humans.

Also, weapons manufacturing isn’t illegal I can’t see how there could be a case for going after anyone for it? We don’t have a morality and ethics police (at least not in most western countries)
People get fired all the time for being harsh, abrasive, confrontational, etc. Maybe that’s what they meant?
Bad analogue.

When trains ran on coal there was pretty much no alternative. Also more economical trains generally were in preference.

There is alternative to crypto _today_ which does not require unreasonable amounts of energy. Cryptobros don't care just like they don't care that crypto energy consumption only seems to go up.
Black Sea Undersea River
It is a legal requirement by US government that they can't.
Looks like every strip has a transcript embedded in the markup right under the image, which is very thoughtful of them.
New Zealand isn't doing Covid Zero any more since October.
There's a preprint for a study of 12,000 households in Denmark that seems to offer evidence to the contrary[1]. Take my earlier claim with a grain of salt, I'm not an epidemiologist, but this is what an epidemiologist told me.

> Surprisingly, we observed no significant difference between the SAR of Omicron versus Delta among unvaccinated individuals (Table 3). This indicates that the increased transmissibility of the Omicron VOC primarily can be ascribed to immune evasion rather than an inherent increase in the basic transmissibility. If this observation can be confirmed by independent studies, it has important ramifications for the understanding of the current challenges for control of the epidemic

[1] https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.12.27.21268278v...
> I have a bit of a man-crush on Leslie Lamport

+1 - I really admire him too. I wonder, what makes people like him and Edsger Dijkstra so charismatic in this sense?
I don't know the numbers but mid 2000's J2ME was a very popular mobile platform. Don't know why it fizzled out.
By all means, enlighten us.
The analyzer product this post is content marketing for looks interesting, but I would want to run it locally rather than connect my image repo to it.

Am I being paranoid? Is it reasonable to connect my images to a random third party service like this?
What few private organizations I've seen working with ULA ... are not using really random global IDs. I'm sure larger scale organizations are following RFC4193 more honestly, but getting V6 going at all versus ever more horrifying NAT contraptions in industrial networks is usually enough of a victory for me.
Interactive Rebase
I talked to several people (not just 1) and am still friends with some to this day.

This was an event held by LINK (https://www.libertyinnorthkorea.org/) which I already wrote in both the article and this thread. You can go to their site or the several talks I linked in this thread to hear their stories directly.
I did medical billing EDI adjacent stuff with a VMS system (that ran decades past point of obsolescence).

One thing - in the past the EDI integrations just had to be simple, the feature set was so small - there wasn't room to go totally crazy.

Once they mandated full ehealth records and exploded the complexity of the medical IT side, clinician productivity (face to face with patient) went way down. Integration pain went way up. The old tab separated value row turned into GIGANTIC XML monstrosities for the smallest things - now thousands of these blobs in a document. If you put even 10,000 XML blobs in an exchange vs tab separated values - very quickly appreciated the old way of doing things. One annoying thing, even the person on other end you are dealing with lost all ability to troubleshoot issues.

For some reason in some areas - no EDI in the traditional sense is being used (ie, govt contracts with idiots who build latest buzzword filled solutions - total annoyance to interact with).
Getting Custom Hardware Made?
Hi all, I have some ideas for extremely niche products. Has anyone had any luck getting some custom hardware made, maybe based around a Raspberry Pi + a small battery.

I'd be over the moon if I could find a way to get this done for less than $10,000.

As a stopgap , has anyone made something like a Raspberry Pi zero, but even smaller( a single USB port would be nice too) ?
China to ban exclusive copy right deals
>Tactical nuclear weapons are basically a faster and more effective version of conventional strategic bombing. "Little Boy", the first weapon used in combat (in Nagasaki), had a yield of 15kT. That resulted in an estimated 66k deaths and 70k injuries. Compare that to the firebombing of Tokyo, which killed ~100k civilians and burned the homes of over a million more.

Two points:

The first bomb was on Hiroshima, and killed many more people. The reason why the Nagasaki bomb killed "so few" people is because they missed. They were supposed to do a visual confirmation of the target, but the weather was cloudy so they (probably) used radar targeting, which wasn't particularly accurate in 1945. A lot of the energy hit the side of a mountain.

Second, there's a huge difference between a conventional bomb and a nuke of the same size simply because of the fallout. It continues to kill well after it's dropped.
I am confused by one thing - when you forward to your employee's phone number is that number also owned by your company? Or is it a phone number owned by the employee.

If the first Twilio should fix this bug in their system, if the second then they should maybe have some process of setting up employee phone numbers in their system so the shut down process does not happen. At any rate both scenarios should be common enough that they should have a process to handle that.
Thanks for pointing it out. You may find this post interesting and many of these OSS projects (including DataHub) failed to deliver the promises: https://metaphor.io/blog/why-cant-i-find-the-right-data
> Keen also claimed that he’d won several online gaming competitions using the CharaChorder, which he says brings up an interesting ethical dilemma. “I’m not sure if there’s any restrictions on what keyboards you’re allowed to use,” he said over a video of him playing Super Smash Bros. Ultimate on the Nintendo Switch, using his CharaChorder running through a XIM-style adapter.

As someone who's somewhat familiar with eSports, I'm having a hard time imagining what game would let this style of keyboard provide a substantial advantage, and I'm very skeptical of these "online gaming competitions" he supposedly won.
It insulted me (correction: it redirected me to the image meant to insult), seems like your browser could be blocking referers by default (maybe they block it if it's an external link?)
I'm in the Ozarks, on the border of Arkansas and Missouri

Outside of large public gatherings, where there are always a handful of people wearing masks, I've not seen anyone wearing a mask in public here since mid-2020.

COVID restrictions are only a "thing" for most people here when we need to physically interact with the rest of the country/world. I'm trying to figure out what I need to do to attend PyCon this year (and if it's worth it to me), and had absolutely no reference as to what "proof of full vaccination" means to them. I've never even seen a vaccine card in person. My doctor (GP) doesn't offer COVID vaccination at all, and the first couple of places I called didn't seem to know what documentation was provided. I had to call a chain pharmacy to find anyone that seemed confident that they knew what I was talking about.

Similarly, I've recently started seeing posts online about not being able to find rapid COVID tests. I already have a handful at home, but thinking there might be a shortage I checked while I was out shopping - both Walmart and Walgreens in my town are fully stocked, and there are even some gas stations that have them at the checkout.

The "post-COVID world" is very different depending on the population density and prevailing political views of where you live.
Sorry you're going through this. At my last company we were in a similar spot to you - around ~$700/mo spending for Twilio. We had issues where they also were shutting us off and were unresponsive for days at a time. Once we had a rollout with a few dozen new clients in an area where we hadn't sent texts before and after sending a few thousand messages we were shut off at the carrier level. We tried reaching out for a day or two and really didn't get much back in response - to us this was the final straw and we moved to bandwidth.com (which I believe is who google uses for their auth).

Support with them is significantly better but if I remember correctly pricing is around $1k/mo minimum (which was more than worth it in our case).

Best of luck to you.
Go one step further and respond with "One million dollars...mmmm"

Asking someone what they made at a previous employer seems like a cheap way to try and pay someone as little as possible. A fun snarky response feels justified.

Best case, they laugh and offer you a fair salary. Other best case, you move on to interview at a better company.
To be fair, nowhere in the US (that I'm aware of) is close to the % population vaccinated numbers necessary for a semblance herd immunity. According to the CDC, only 62% of the US is fully vaccinated, with only 35% of those also having had a booster.
I really do sympathize with people living under corrupt regimes. And I sympathize with them having to use a metal pipe to whack someone in the head to survive. Does that mean that non-profits should start embracing head-whacking?
Perhaps your employee's cell carrier detected the message as spam and automatically complained to what it saw as the source (twillio). From twillio's point of view they absolutely and unequivocally need to keep the carriers happy. If Att or Vzw simply blocks all twillio then twillio is dead. When faced with the choice of losing the entire company or losing your $600 a month it's pretty obvious why twillio has in place the automated system you recently chafed under.

It's probably a good idea for twillio to be more reachable to any paying customer, at least until a human employee makes the determination if the customer is a spammer.
I understand. Russia is no doubt pressuring Ukraine but I don't know if that's because they they want a buffer or they just don't want a stronger NATO.
Nobody could ever live forever no matter what happens, but we might prevent people from dying from one specific cause (old age), if they don't want to.
Don't be so selfish. Insurance lawyer or manager cannot make his lambo buy itself.
Tesla Tunnel Traffic Jam
> Take some Sackler millions and you can feed a million hungry people, cure cancer, or expand our knowledge of the past.

At best you can feed a million people for a day (you certainly won't be curing cancer) but you will launder their reputation in the process. These kinds of charitable causes allow for people like the Sacklers to get the attention they crave from their fellow high society despite the awful things they have done, just because they flash their wallets around at a few galas. As long as nothing requires them to change their behavior, they won't.
Overall solid introduction to the space. EDI was one of the things that boggled my mind early in my career.

> What we’re seeing here is that while a standard can be opinionated about the structure of a document and the naming of fields, it cannot be opinionated about the contents of a business transaction – the contents of a business transaction are dictated by the idiosyncrasies of the business itself.

Maybe it's the engineer in me speaking, but this seems like a pretty unfortunate stance to take. Sort of similar to saying, "we have the concept of HTTP status codes, but we cannot possibly opine on the codes themselves."

A bit hyperbolic for sure, but not having opinions on critical multi-party information has led to things like the reluctance of financial services to support non-ASCII values for customer names.
Truthfully whenever I have been forced to interact with a chat bot designed by a business I have come to the conclusion that it is not there to help me, it is in fact there to frustrate me beyond belief and push me into giving up on seeking whatever help it is that I need. Chat bots while sometimes amusing often turn into a huge time sink as I try to interpret how it was programmed and how I can issue the correct commands to get me through to an actual person.
That second sentence seems a fair assessment.
TruffleRuby does support many native (C/C++) extensions so that's rarely an issue.
But indeed in such a large codebase it's likely to depend unexpectedly on CRuby-specific behavior. And while that can be fixed it takes some effort either in TruffleRuby (to match CRuby) or in the app (e.g. to avoid relying on `RubyVM`).
Concrete with basalt rebar. It doesn't rust like steel.
That seems optimistic, odds are your typing flow will be interrupted as tou think about the mistake and go around to fix it, plus you likely only realise it a bit later and need either some movement or to remove entire words and retype them.