skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>"It is easier to bring about a revolutionary
scientific discovery such as that of the
X-ray than to alter in the least degree
the quality of emotion that arises between
a man and a maid. There will probably
be many new rays in 2022, but the people
whom they illumine will be much the same."

Nailed it.
Yes, outfitting all poor villagers in Kazakhstan with highly expensive computers seems like a realistic solution.
Would you be willing to share some of your learnings on social regulation?
50/50 I think. Some parts of the corp have caught the bug on programming puzzles that are tedious and irrelevant to my position.

I understand the need to narrow down candidates but this kind of screening is about as useful as throwing darts at a dartboard.
Could have been worse, it could have been returning hotDog or notHotDog.
Very interesting. This aligns with my experience. It also explains the random crashes and freezes. Things might just go missing.
And lets not forget that the JVM runs all kinds of things that aren't Java. So Java devs who get bored can write a few packages in whatever new hotness they like until either they're sated, Java catches up, or all new development moves over.
1ml of sea water contains billions of phages which eat bacteria, so I wonder if there is some truth with the restorative powers of beach holiday.
> It's not the US, Switzerland, Finland, the EU, nothing.

What these countries has to do in Kazakhstan? Russia and Kazakhstan has a treaty: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collective_Security_Treaty_Org...

Also, significant percent of population of Kazakhstan is Russian.
Kazakhstan internet shutdown deals blow to global Bitcoin mining operation
As a Cloudflare customer, I really like that you were comfortable just taking responsibility and jumping on it. That’s a healthy sign in an engineering group.
For people prone to migraines it is also common that attacks will coincide with time off: weekends or the beginning of vacations.

https://www.webmd.com/balance/stress-management/news/2001030...
Among other, they demand/receive better requirements. Underspecified and underconstrained systems leave much space for variations of conditions “they may find themselves working in”. I put that in quotes because software is not sentient, and it’s really a programmer who encounters that enormous space at the implementation (or ignores it for some reason). When that happens, they often can’t ask anyone what to do, because nobody except them could understand the problem deep in the structure of a program/process. It leads to defensive approaches which may or may not trigger in the wild, producing cryptic messages, because it was hard to formulate it in the first place. Unrestricted underspecifity puts roots deep into the code, when they could be cut much earlier. Programmer’s clients and employers are rarely aware of that, and it’s a programmer’s responsibility to specify the details as deep as client is able to grasp.

It’s another (imo most important) level of correctness, unrelated to rigid math-like correctness of a result of programming of completely coherent requirements, which almost none of us ever receive.
When my wife calls me 'dad' or 'daddy' I know she might be talking as well to one of our kids instead of to me. It gives it context, and it also does something with me by increasing my responsibility instead of slacking. After all, if you are once a dad or mom, you're always one.

Honestly, I think its a great way to get some perspective (but I am on the spectrum). I also find it plain fun, and -sometimes- cute. Doesn't mean I always do it in family circle. Its just that, in a work environment, there's an etiquette, and this one isn't part of it. If you're too different (e.g. weird in this context), they don't want you, and one way or another you'll get cast out. Goes for weird people too.
The miners are not siphoning value, if that were true the network would not require them and there would be one thousand forked repos running off your imaginary system which secures account balances without the economic deterrent.
The commenters here seem to take for granted that this cookie law is a good thing and Google/Facebook are evil villains, but there is a difference between a law and a good/just/reasonable law. I would argue interrupting the experience and wasting billions of peoples time clicking on cookie banners is also a form of harm. That’s certainly been my perception as an end user under this policy. I don’t work in ad tech and have no financial stake in this, I’m just sick to death of these fucking cookie popups.
At this point, it is their intention whether it is or not, because they can't be unaware of their effect.
I got into salsa dancing after I quit drinking.
Botometer 101: Social Bot Practicum for Computational Social Scientists
I think part of the sell of NFT's is precisely that you shouldn't have to manage the asset yourself. It would be quite odd that there would be an expectation that every holder of an NFT had to arrange preservation of it themselves, it seems a bit self defeating from what it's being sold as.
Honestly, at this point I’m not sure if it’s just blind stupid hatred for Oracle, or deliberately spreading libel.

Oracle was the goddamn company that completely open-sourced Java for the first time to begin with. There are no longer paid-only tools in OracleJDK. Recently, they even made the support version free to use, and then people go on and claim this bullshit.
Europe does fine differently than the US. The fines will increase dramatically and persistently for each continuing violation. It might eventually reach 4% of annual world-wide revenue - for each EU country.
Reminds me of a Sten I hired many years ago. He requested (and of course got) an hilariously exotic work setup and spent a ridiculous amount of time on its configuration. Right from the start he expressed his unhappiness with seemingly random office
stuff: Every day, sometimes multiple times per day, he would would come to my desk and tell me what was wrong, implying I should fix it right now even though it wasn’t obvious that there was a problem in the first place. He also heavily criticized the code base while the same time wasn’t able to produce anything meaningful. For a couple of weeks we hoped his genius to appear and that we just have to give him more support and time to adjust.

Eventually, a group of female coworkers came forward and complained that he would make them feel uneasy. He would stand behind them watching silently what they were doing.

I don’t remember whether we gave him feedback for this or room to adapt, we’ve let him go the next day.
> And you mention the 4tx/sec thing, you know that payment channels were invented many years ago and are used by WHOLE COUNTRIES today right?

Really? Name a single one lol. Chivo is a MySQL store. And a garbage one at that. They only use Lightning to transfer value internationally between their own two accounts that they could do instead with an addition and a paired subtraction. Nobody uses Lightning. Nobody's ever used Lightning. Not to mention all the liquidity is provided by 3 centralized entities. [1]

I don't think Monero actually offers the level of security that most folks think it does, and Hydra still uses BTC no?

I did forget to mention ransomware payments, so thank you.

[1] https://bitcoinvisuals.com/lightning
Counting days is relevant to the amount of time the story too to change from “strangling” to recanting the police report.

It’s called documenting and understanding the facts.

I’m not interested in mental health advice from a DV apologist that can’t get the facts straight or count.
I've skimmed through the report linked, and I'm pretty skeptical of their methodology. For example, on their "Television Methodology" section:

> Television data are derived from Nielsen’s National TV Panel that is based on a sample of over 40,000 homes that are selected based on area probability sampling.

The report does not go into any details on how these 40,000 homes were selected, or any demographic breakdowns beyond saying that the data is "inclusive of multicultural audiences." It's difficult to say how representative these 40,000 homes are of the "average" American.

It's also not entirely clear how they derive their measurements. There's little that discusses how they handle potential over or under-reporting, and there's nothing that says how they differentiate between different people in the same household.

While this report certainly isn't useless, there's enough grey area here that I would be hesitant to draw any conclusions from the data presented. We'd need a much more comprehensive breakdown of their methodology before we can be confident that their data is accurate and representative.
The framing that Uber and Doordash are exploiting the workers' own capital because workers also supply their own cars completely ignores that the cars were unproductive, sunk cost capital until these platforms arrived, and that people desire flexibility and autonomy, and it was dead weight regulation of monopoly (taxi) licensing that kept these people out of the labour market. People aren't "workers," even if the establishment has defined them into classes of workers and employers as a means to further manage them.

Even if gig economy companies were pyramid schemes for investment as you suggest, their redistrbitive function would still be way more efficient than any other scheme.

The crux of this view is the belief in and characterization of literally everything as exploitation. It's the axiom in the logic of that idea. People want jobs that provide some balance of economic security, status, and freedom, but if you discover need, desire, and value that creates jobs for them and risk your own capital to grow it, you're exploiting them? Personally, I'd reject that premise.
Do hard, painful things first.
- workout at the gym
- running
- cold shower
- stuff that you are avoiding

Then the fun will pop up in unexpected places.

Alcohol give use the pleasure of accomplishment without doing work, look if you need a big goal to give you direction in life.

Do you have a career plan, house, wife, kids ?
At your age it’s time to get started.
But the NFT should be independent of the game and exists elsewhere. The game company can integrate it - or not.
Who has some interesting insight to add? Advice/perspective/appreciation <3
Nothing stops a democratic country from deiciding they don't want to accept inflation in their fiat currency, just like in Bitcoin. The reasons this isn't done are complex, having some amount of corruption but also knowing that printing money is the only known way of getting out of a deep economic crisis, like the great depression.

And Bitcoin will not protect anyone from non-financial inflation, such as rising energy prices causing a rise in prices for most other goods. If anything, Bitcoin would make kt harder to actually transact in this type of market potentially leading to problems of simply there not being enough money for the economy to function.

Finally, while Bitcoin may give some protection from a hostile government, it also leaves you with no protection for much more common cases of fraud, forgotten/destroyed passwords etc. Not to mention, most people transact Bitcoin through an exchange, the equivalent of a bank, which could probably be forced to cede control of "your" wallet to a government just as much as any other financial institution.
France fines Google and Facebook €210m over user tracking
Maybe. In a few months to a year though?
Forget comment moderation... comment spamming is going to be a much harder challenge. It's already time-consuming to remove spam from one or two sites and to constantly battle new spamming techniques - I don't see how this tool would work well on a global scale.

What about websites/comments in other languages?

How do you moderate content you don't understand?

What are your rules for what's allowed and not allowed?

Also, people often comment when they are displeased with something. As a website owner, why would I want negative comments on my own website? Or comments I have no control of? What if users are just spreading misinformation about my website on my website? Can I request this tool not to work within my web pages?
Link to the strip - https://www.gocomics.com/calvinandhobbes/1995/08/17
How is this a victory for ordinary Australians ? What do they win ?

Djokovic doesn’t have covid, he is in good shape and wont overburden their medical facilities

This just saves face for the government that is imposing travel restrictions on ordinary Australians
August is the 8th month. Something something octal...
This is really not true at all. One risk is actually the overreaction folks might have. Ie, a big focus of the "dirty bomb" type plots are really around trying to drive big reactions. Chornobyl was a worst case scenario. My guess is someoen could go to the area they have closed off and find plenty of plant / animal life thriving in the "nuclear wasteland".

Most waste is processed so its for example sealed into some kind of material prior to burial. So recovery of the radioactive portion, concentrating and refining it etc would be a pretty major undertaking.

You may also be confusing the long radiation stuff with high radiation stuff.
It takes a long time to recover from abuse and assault.
Medium-term quality-of-life comparisons tend to involve a lot of apples-to-oranges comparisons.

For example, in the 1990s only the richest people would have a flatscreen TV, or a phone capable of browsing the web, or an internet connection faster than dial-up. Today, even a person working a minimum wage job can have all of those.

But if healthcare, college education and rent have got more expensive over the same period, is that a net improvement in quality of life?
The classic (and likely apocryphal) story is that of Pheidippides, whence came the term "marathon": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pheidippides#Story
But from a product perspective if there are still no competitors to the extant 2019 Threadripper SKUs, what's the point of such a minor bump today? I don't buy the capacity argument for the exact reason you mention: it's low volume. That's the whole beauty of the Zen architecture, right? They can shift capacity around after the wafer stage.

The way I see it, Zen 2 Threadripper is still a good enough product for its goals of a shit load of cores. Zen 3 didn't increase core counts, but Zen 4 does. My suspicion is that AMD probably overproduced Zen 2 TR and is letting its supply run down until it can launch another category redefining product built on Zen 4. Plus, it would look even better in their comparison charts.
Leetcode is more about learning pattern recognition of the problem category than it is critical thinking.

What started off as "write a binary search" has turned into a massive gate-keeping process to try to select candidates who fit a profile. I'm not sure what that profile is, but I know I don't fit it. I grinded Leetcode for 2 months and failed Google, Facebook, and Amazon. I thought there was some luck involved and decided not to put any more time into it. But, I don't fault others who do.

I do think the large pay increases the candidate pool, so there has to be some form of testing. I just don't think as a senior developer, it assesses my skills.
Yes, but only because I've only been in it for 4 months and the requirements haven't changed yet. I don't think I'd have been able to pass an interview for my previous role.
Nah, I don’t feel I need to verify any of those. I buy the coins and get them off the exchange. I don’t touch tether. Why would I care what games people are playing on the exchange, as long as I get my coin at the market price, I don’t care. I am talking about not trusting (eg: relying on a fixed source of with no verification, eg: trust anchor. A ‘root CA’ is a good example of a trust anchor. BTC does not have this at all.) Verify the block. Verify the tx. Verify the sig. that is all.
I didn't figure it out in time and he didn't elaborate, just sat there and watched me flounder, so I don't know for sure. This was way back in 2012 too, so I don't remember the details of what he asked super well.

I was under the impression he was wanting me to figure out how to do it using only the bounds of the rectangles mathematically, and not by changing how it rendered, from what I can remember.
It's not the same thing at all. Stocks confer legal ownership of a productive enterprise so it makes sense that stock price increases when revenue increases; if the enterprise produces more revenue than a stake of ownership is worth more.
It was a language in the hands of a dying company, so it is sort of understandable.
> TS is just fancy JS. If it didn't exist, Flow, Haxe or Dart would just be in the same place

"TS is just fancy JS" is like saying "Java is just fancy machine code" or something like that. It's a major software project with a much larger scope than simply slapping a few types on top of common JS constructs. More importantly, it's been an innovating force at the language and editor tooling levels for web developers worldwide. I think it's likely to be the most successful language that Microsoft has ever produced in the long run.
Needs a (2018).
It’d be quite the three ring circus to see France attempt to arrest Mark Zuckerberg or Larry Page. I’m 100% sure the US would flat out refuse to extradite such people, they might as well try to arrest John Roberts.
Boxers who die in the ring or shortly after usually either: didn't have enough time to rehydrate after cutting weight, were fighting too soon after taking a lot of damage, or were in a too-long fight. In almost all cases they've been failed by their corner, and often the commission.
> Smartcards were never MS's target market

https://techmonitor.ai/technology/microsoft_to_slash_smart_c...: “Microsoft Corp has plunged into the smart card market with an operating systems that will compete with existing systems such as MultOS and Java Card

[…]

Microsoft’s Smart Cards for Windows is an 8-bit operating system with 8K of ROM”

That was October 1998. About a year later, there was https://news.microsoft.com/1999/11/15/microsoft-delivers-win...

I don’t think that went far, but they certainly tried.
Can you give me an example? Java is used for so few user applications, the only project I can think of is IntelliJ, which is an amazing project.
Heh, i'd say that Eclipse is universally even more horrible, because while Android Studio feels sluggish for Android development and other JetBrains products are generally pretty good, Eclipse has been slow, laggy and even buggy for me in every single one of its forms - be it using it for Java, PHP, or even more obscure tools like 4EM for enterprise modelling or EMF for model driven development.

It excels at having a large plugin ecosystem, moreso than JetBrains products have (probably close to what Visual Studio Code has, just look at https://marketplace.eclipse.org/category/categories/programm...) and being a common base for a variety of other tools out there, due to its modular nature, but there are plenty of disadvantages to that approach (loose coupling that ends up being brittle and worse runtime performance come to mind) and the workspaces concept feels shoehorned on.

That said, some out there swear by it and admittedly the customized versions of it, like Spring Tool Suite (STS), provide a lot of value to them and numerous other people, so everyone should probably just use what fits their needs. For Android in particular, however, i haven't found an IDE that's as pleasant to use as for other languages. Oh well, high expectations be damned~
This exact prediction was made in the 1922 article.
I would regularly catch a "flu" during spring break (immediately post-midterms) despite just hanging out at my apartment. This explains why.
Trading that article, I wonder if you are conflating prediction and desire for something to happen.
You're looking in the wrong places for the cutting edge of self-driving. While I greatly respect Tesla for energy storage/generation, you should really be looking at companies like Waymo or Cruise.

If you live in San Francisco or the Bay Area, I'm sure you've seen many of their vehicles being driven around.
It’s true java the technology is actually pretty good. Java the culture on the other hand… It’s probably less to do with the language itself rather the fact it’s used mostly for boneheaded enterprise crud
> after the humans reach herd immunity

That doesn't appear to be on the cards; neither vaccines nor actual infection confers immunity, in either case you only get resistance. And if you can't get individual immunity, talk of herd immunity is silly.

COVID is going to be endemic.

My hope is that omicron confers cross-resistance to other variants. From what I've heard, an omicron infection is nastier than a bad dose of 'flu, but much less nasty than infection with delta. With omicron's extreme success at transmission, perhaps omicron will give the whole world a degree of resistance to all COVID variants, and endemic COVID will eventually become no more scary than endemic adenovirus.
I think it depends. .NET on UNIX has allowed it to survive in some places. I don't think I would still be a .NET developer if it wouldn't have happened. It's far easier to sell .NET as a technology to upper management now than we can deploy it on Linux servers with no Windows Server licenses cost.

And even though developing on .NET is fun for a lot of developers, using Windows Server is definetly not.
The important thing here is caching/static delivery

I've had this argument too many times to count. Every page view does not need to be dynamic per user request. Creating a sane cache policy reduces origin resources, servers, cost, etc... and surprise gives a better user experience at the same time.
I don't agree that the movie "depicts a monstrous world where the establishment is conspiring to keep the truth from you in every possible way." Rather, it depicts a world very much like the one we live in, where the establishment is venal, short-sighted, incompetent, and almost entirely uninterested in truth. There's no conspiracy - merely an affinity for bullshit, in the Frankfurt sense.
These are subjective and personal. What causes the stress? What caused reduction in harmony, certainty, hope?

Your parents probably lives through a transition from extreme scarcity to abundance. As scarce as things were for them in the 80s, they were probably at lot more scarce in the 50s and 40s. Maybe your parents didn’t experience that directly but their parents did for sure.

From our grandparents generation and before, a much higher proportion of them were directly affected by things like war.

If you’re lacking hope because you’re afraid of something like war, I would consider that a luxury compared to actually being in a war.
1) ES 1022 which was a clone of IBM/360 and SM-4, a clone of PDP-11

2) Maximus BBS was the most popular software to run a BBS in USSR in late 80s, in addition to FifoNet utilities for sending/receiving/reading messages. In 80s there were just a few BBSes but their number grew exponentially starting 1990.

3) Unfortunately OGAS ceased to exist before my time. I haven’t seen Soviet equivalent of ARPAnet either.

4) I‘m in Mathematics, not Physics and never visited Dubna. Although I had a tour once of accelerators in Novosibirsk Institute of Nuclear Physics, it was very cool experience.

When I was an intern at the Institute of Catalysis I was introduced to Yulii Khariton, chief designer of Soviet nuclear program. I don‘t remember details of that meeting unfortunately…
I’ve always wondered why Java didn’t take off more for desktop apps. Was it a compromised user experience vs native apps? Was Swing bad to work with? Did Web 2.0 come in and steal the show right when it was starting to gain traction?
DuckDB Time Zones: Supporting Calendar Extensions