skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Bitcoin mining is also its transaction reconciliation process, so at some point too, it affects their ability to sell BTC at all. That point won't be reached easily at all (the "difficulty" adjustment will try to keep transaction processing rates steady as miners get shut down), but truly global enough ban with no miners means no further transactions may be processed ever.

Again, that's not an easy or likely outcome knowing the nature of Bitcoin's intended resilience against it, but it is a possible outcome and knowing it is a possible outcome can indeed affect price today. (Markets take such uncertainties into account.) Bitcoin can't make transactions if it doesn't have miners. Miners are not just for coin production, but for all transaction processing.
I can't imagine anybody complaining about the second scenario being given an iota of sympathy.
Even AI will be influenced by external stimulus. If it's interacting with the world, then it has to have external stimulus.
I don't know of any that are different, but salary law is consistent enough to know that the salary starts when the employee begins work, so in this case, moving the start date up is what is happening even if the employer isn't acknowledging it. The same goes if the employer says the start date is 1/1 but you only show up at 1/2. The salary starts when the work starts, and doesn't stop so long as you show up once a week or so.

From California but similar everywhere:

> Pursuant to California law, an exempt employee must receive his or her full salary for any week in which the employee performs any work without regard to the number of days, or hours worked.

https://www.yourlegalcorner.com/articles.asp?id=135&cat=emp

If employers don't like this, they can pay overtime instead.
Deno Foreign Function Interface API
I suppose my previous message was easily misunderstood.

I'm not trying to say that China's extremely quick escalation and general hashshness is bad overall, or that good. I could argue both sides of that question, and I don't envy the politicians who have to make the choice for each country.

China's is a harsh response, but for a neurotropic and highly infections virus maybe the choice is between an immediate harsh response and another bad outcome dictated by the virus. And maybe the other outcome is worse. I wouldn't know. (I think noone knows — several other neurotropic viruses have a knack of putting people in wheelchairs twenty year later, is this one like them?)
If it is an argument, it is certainly a design issue:

`response_serializer(PersonOrError: person_or_error)` is confusing, impossible to reason about easily, hard to test etc. It signals a way too tightly coupled API, for one. And it breaks the SRP, secondly.

Why not `response_serializer(Person: person, Error: error)` or `try_error(person).then(response_serializer(person))` or many other designs that do the same, but make it explicit where, when and why the distinction is made.

It is something you often see in e.g. Rails, though. And I consider it really poor and confusing API: an example of that dreaded "Rails Black Magick" where a method like `form_for()` can get literally hundreds of combinations of arguments and behaves entirely different according to what is being passed. In runtime. In production. With user-generated content and dynamic typing and all that.

If it is a return-type, there too: why not make it a tuple, or do like Rust: make it an `Option<Some, None>: user` or a `Result<Ok, Err>: user`, the typing now contains this "either/or" not the variable names;

And if it is a class, or even method: it is violating SRP.

Neither of the reasons are absolute. But they all signal that a better solution is possible (but maybe not practical given constraints). Which is fine: but acknowledging this design is lacking (and choosing to still use it) is IMO the correct path; telling yourself that the design is fine, is not.
I use https://github.com/domainaware/parsedmarc
Sometimes these days it feels like people forget cold exists. They catch a cold, get mild symptoms, and their first thought isn't "oh, I'm glad it was just a cold and I quickly recovered" but "wow, good thing I got vaccinated, these covid symptoms were really mild".
'Watching' is equivalent to bookmarking a project, to keep informed on any new developments. I'd say it's roughly similar to "a script that forced people to like a tweet that [he] created"
This honestly reminds me of this "experiment" in which the conclusion was, if I remember correctly, that USB C becomes loose faster, but continues to work for longer in total: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OqtNleXhTRE
This has been the move for me.

I have a Carbon X1 running Windows through work and Latitude running Linux at home. It's not fair to compare the two because they are different weight classes and running different OSes, but the X1 battery life and performance have really put me off the smaller form factor. It's puny and it regularly gets ~2 hours off a charge versus 4-8x that on the Dell, all just to save a kilo.
Sure; you want to accuse Tether of being a Ponzi Scheme? I think it fits the plain definition to some degree. The points that have to be dealt with are:

1. How much tether is held by Tether itself (and thus is a self-cancelling asset) vs. how much is held by outsiders (and does Bitfinex count as an outsider?)

2. What is the fair-market valuation of Tether-held assets. A bank may have non-cash assets (like outstanding loans); that does not make it fraudulent unless the valuations are fraudulent, and does not necessarily make it insolvent.

Regardless this doesn't make Bitcoin into a Ponzi. To even connect it to Bitcoin, the question is to what degree fraudulently issued tether affects the market for other cryptocurrencies? Madoff, for example, was a Ponzi that "operated in the ecosystem" of traditional finance, but that does not taint the stock market by definition.

I continue to feel that stablecoins are far more dangerous than floating cryptocurrencies because they are piggybacking off of the legal status of sovereign currencies but are not under their supervision, so like S&L or LTCM they are a shadow banking system that imposes two-way risks on finance systems. But this doesn't really affect my thinking around floating cryptocurrencies in any significant way.
+1

The same technique with necessary modifications is also applicable to figuring out whether it is worthwhile to completely Read a Book. These days Books have so much unnecessary filler that a lot can be skipped with no loss of information/knowledge.

PS: The same author has also written two great books on Computer Networking; 1) An Engineering Approach to Computer Networking 2) Mathematical Foundations of Computer Networking
> 1. Regulated Capitalism

This is why we have cronyism in the first place. Who do you think is writing the regulations? Who's funding the think tanks and the "grassroots" organizations? Who's paying for the campaigns?
> I'm also not sure I'd say the security community as a whole feels that cryptographic agility is an anti-pattern, there are plenty of vocal voices on all sides of that argument. I personally agree that you gain very little from cryptographic agility but have to pay a fair amount, but I don't think it's as settled as you make it out to be.

I totally agree with this assessment, and rereading my comment, I say that as though it’s a lot more settled than it is.

I think it’s probably harmless to tag those sorts of bits of data, but also JWT has shown us that having that metadata in band does lead to people using it for those kinds of decisions whether they’re supposed to or not.
The incentive is obvious. And by looking at partisan media outlets you can see that the political machines take it seriously.

When Trump was in power CNN had a covid death count being displayed 24/7. America's ranking in deaths was constantly mentioned.

When he lost the election it was removed.

2021 saw more covid deaths in the US than 2020. Despite vaccines being available. This received almost no coverage.

And now, in the US the cases and deatha in individual states is used for political gain by both sides. Especially when the states governor is seen as a possible political candidate.
To be clear, the SSPL and similar fauxpen source licenses are unambiguously not free or open source. The controversy comes from some people not considering that to be a problem.
I had a nearly identical experience a few months after starting my first job out of college. Huge software firm. I was looking through code with a senior colleague, and something looked really off to me. I literally said something like, "How could the person who wrote this be so stupid?" My colleague replied calmly,, "I wouldn't presume to know the mental capacity or state of the person who wrote this code at the moment they wrote it."

What he said humbled me and I basically never said anything like that ever again.

I also had the opposite experience. Two years in, wrote some code for a library that I thought was pretty clever. One day I got pulled into an online chat with a couple principal devs -- phenomenal engineers, respected the hell out of them -- and one was asking the other about this piece of code. He said something like, "Who wrote this shit? It's so complicated, I can't figure it out."

So from that moment I understood that you have to be careful not to be too clever when you write code. Changed my life.

To this day I'm so grateful to have had such amazing, patient mentors early in my career.
Agreed. Even in my ideal scenario that's still a part that is difficult. My only thought is that that compensation amount is determined before the PR is accepted (or maybe even before it's asked for, like a bounty).

In [my] ideal scenario it's not the people that are vetted and compensated, but the work itself. A student who comes up with a particularly genius contribution could be compensated as equally as someone who worked in the field for decades and proposed the same contribution.

Note: it also requires an environment where work is recorded publicly so that plagiarism is essentially impossible, though that brings it's own challenges.
In Norway a lot of it is paid for by oil. Once the world transitions to clean energy Norwegians will be in for a wake up call. In their defense they are trying to diversify but it's not an easy task
Ways of Enlichenment: So what is a lichen, anyhow?
More HN anti crypto FUD huh? Has anyone clicked on the link?

"We could not locate the page you requested.
Our apologies. It may have expired or there could be a typo..."
I am on the spectrum myself. I don't give a damn. People should grow some thicker skin
As I mention in a different reply:

> I totally agree that it does not work in the current version of the real world.
The Politics of a Clock
So... they want to go back to totalitarianism? That doesn't make a lot of sense. I get wanting to keep your culture and identity... but not at this price for people who were paying that price 3 decades ago.
Yeah it's all okay because you got yours.
This isn't the typical scenario in the Bay Area where testing centers are walk-in vs. drive through. To ensure testing consistency, swabbing is done by a healthcare worker (e.g., nurse) not by the person being tested. This is my experience across 4-counties here, San Francisco city included.

Net-net, COVID-testing privacy isn't a laudable consequence of the US's car culture, at least not everywhere in the US.
There is also HPLuv which adds in absolute saturation, albeit at the cost of having even less saturated colors. https://www.hsluv.org/comparison/ would be interesting to see how much saturation changing from sRGB to e.g. DCI-P3 would bring.
Two newspapers have also refused to let the police question their journalists, because it’s not specified why they want to interview them, and given that they won’t name sources, questioning becomes pointless.
I don't see any connection at all
This is a great point. But your friends are unlikely to be Senators, Representatives, or the President unless you also have substantial capital.
I get your point. I get involved in these discussions because I am not really satisfied with the current status quo. I want OS creators to have their cake and eat it too. Well, at least have a cake to eat. And the problem with your consciousness driven approach is that it's not a real solution. Let's say I work at a company, and I push for us using your work under a commercial license because I'm a good person. Then five years later I move on and someone else takes my place. They notice that we're using a commercial license instead of an MIT one, and just switch to the MIT one. And by doing so they are fulfilling the fiduciary duty to their shareholders.

Software use should not depend on individual morals. Any usage restrictions should be written down in the license.
No, typed effects are still in the "research project with open design questions" category. It doesn't really make sense to have roadmaps for such open-ended feature.

In other words, I am keen to not reproduce the announcement that "multicore might be in 4.03" from 5 years ago.
Fine. They clearly weren't dedicated enough to my company/team. Isn't that the point?
You're splitting hairs about what the op said. How about len() ?
Only a culture change can end this state of climate inaction
I'm guessing that this is related to the Epic case? Seems incredible that Google/Epic/Apple have decided that the ongoing lawsuit is worth all the negative PR that these doc dumps have brought.
It sounds like boss is trying to set you up for success by including you in an important conversation, maybe wasn’t expecting it to be a big deal to you, wasn’t expecting you to push to accelerate your start or to get an invoice for time (both of which will cause them effort outside the normal onboarding flow, and invoicing particularly will probably be “weird” procedurally). They didn’t give you particularly polished answers but I wouldn’t infer from that they’re an unprofessional manager — likely the first time they’re encountering this in their career?

FWIW: I’ve led organizations of 250+ people for years and can’t remember running into something like your situation in that set of experiences. If we had, then we’d likely have just delayed the vendor calls until you were on board, however, <500 companies often have ‘task urgency’ where >25k companies just say “Another 3 weeks won’t hurt much”.

Subject matter expertise is always nice to have in leadership for sure but isn’t guaranteed. I’ve no idea your skill set or that of your new manager but particularly with larger teams you’ll invariably have multiple disciplines, of which they’ll be more comfortable with some and less with others.

I think you’re reading too much into IT mailing your productivity equipment - all the usual suspects like FedEx and UPS support “Vacation Holds” as well, so you could likely have taken off and everything would have just been there when you returned.

“Unlimited Vacation” at most companies is a bit of a trap. Primarily, in my experience at least, it exists to avoid both process overhead (tracking time) and financial liability (since accrued vacation counts as such). Many US companies still train their managers to expect the amount of time someone takes off to be roughly equivalent to what they had in vacation days before the switch to “unlimited” occurred, so 10-15 days PTO, and 7-10 observed holidays. Maybe a handful of sick or personal days.
And removing the legal stuff (candidates get publicly disclosed campaign donations from companies in all the industries they're favourably disposed towards the status quo in, which gives a pretty visible hint to any voters who care about how they're going to vote on the issue) potentially backfires by making the grey area stuff more powerful (candidates have much smaller campaign budgets from capped donations from private individuals, but mystery benefactors are spending a disproportionate amount on astroturf campaigns against some of them anyway)
I've seen many more chips last time I opened one....
This is one of the most disingenious and bent takes i have seen in my life.

its like arguing that homeopathy shitheads that 'helps with cancer' are not scammers because of placebo effect
There's a post[1] from 2019 about a group in Shenzen who update classic Thinkpads to modern specs. It's also been mentioned here a bunch of times [2-4]. I got an email from the group just a couple of weeks ago and they're building another batch. It's a bit sketchy with the Western Union funds transfer but I'm seriously considering it. I love the build quality of the x220s that I still have here, but would love to have better internals.

[1] https://geoff.greer.fm/2019/03/04/thinkpad-x210/
[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19246406
[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19246406
[4] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19413436
Nintendo completely owns Amiibo and doesn't see the value in coding the same effect for each Amiibo into, why would any developer want to put in the work to implement items they didn't create and profit from?
I have already seen articles discussing the CO2 impact of streaming services. Of course the conclusion was that it is bad.
If you have too many streaming services at home, and generally think you should cancel a few, but let inertia take its course and instead wait until a household budget crisis to cancel them, were you not really concerned about having too many streaming services before you had the budget crisis?
That's my main argument against flexitarianism. You can't be "kinda vegan" without leaving your brain in permanent stress due to dissonance. It's part of what stops me from adopting an animal, specially a cat.
Because the past button doesn't actually do that. lol

Edit: Oops. I didn't see there are two "past" buttons. I guess one of them does do that. TIL.
I also appreciate your contribution. Unlike a lot of the so called NRIs, at least you chose to stay and do your part to make India better.
The underpayment was a top priority of google, to the point that individual executives committed crimes that should have led to their incarceration - had the DoJ interpreted the law according to its text rather than according to their political ideology.

As it stands, all the DoJ was capable of was issuing guidance that acknowledged that crimes were committed that should have led to jail time, and politely asks corporate executives to not commit those crimes again, on pain of another chiding letter.
Was it a Xeon processor :)?
> context dependent

Isn't that by definition what good enough means? That on safety critical code "good enough" is a very different level than on a throwaway-script?
They funded me at the start a lump sum to build the demo, and then there was a vague promise to send me some more once I delivered so that I could continue working while we pitch it to investors.

The thing that's not working for me is the vague promise and the fact that I feel like a student who was put on a team project and left to do it alone. Throughout I was told that they like the results, so I kept working on it without finding other sources of income.

Apologies for being all over the place, I'm not in the best mental state and it's a long story (to me at least).
Jokes on me, I'm embarrassed about the code I'll be writing today!
I've got a T430 as my personal laptop (although I still use the work one more than I should) 2-3 years ago specifically because of its upgradeability.

Since then I found myself having the haul the laptop enough times to wish for something smaller and lighter so acquired a smaller X240.

I don't plan to move away from (these) ThinkPads until the arm-based improvements make it compelling enough. Hopefully someone will make a arm-based laptop that is as modules/thinkerable as ThinkPads.
Of course they create vectors for cronyism, massively. All these improvements require constant vigil by regulatory bodies, the justice system and the public itself.

They also rely heavily on the public being educated enough, interested enough and participatory enough to reflect bad behavior in their voting decisions.

None of this however is an argument for less regulation. It is an argument for education and political participation.
Military humour?
Canadians don't eat the same diet. The obesity rate is 36% in the USA but only 29% in Canada. I suspect that the difference in life expectancy is influenced more by obesity than by the healthcare system.

And yes we absolutely should control for climate, or at least for incidence of extreme heat waves. It's well known that heat waves kill a lot of frail elderly people.
Just like any NFT, the USD is stable and ubiquitous exactly as long as some collective delusion makes it so. Some currencies have more stable collective delusions than others. So I'm not trying to claim all fiat currencies (including NFTs) are equally valuable. But they're all valuable _in the same way_.

You can't attack the very concept of NFT. It's identical in concept to fiat currency. It has no inherent value, but it can't be easily forged. The only technical difference is NFTs are even more resistant to forgery than minted money.
The CN government doesn't immediately know when any one of their 1.4B citizens has COVID. Even if they did, early detection decreases death rate, it is not a cure. And zero deaths signals cure.
how many booster shots (per year)?

VAAS - Vax as a Service.
This is weird to me because I've only been in like 3 "shoes on" homes. Most people I know are "shoes off". I live in Atlanta.

Granted, all 3 of those homes were varying levels of filthy to me.
If your parents don't have symptoms, or have manageable symptoms and are self-isolating, why bother testing? As long as they're fully vaccinated they've done their absolute best in this situation.
Why does anything special need to be done for the legacy, when it's already available under the AGPL from day 1?
I don't quite agree. I mean yes, we use bikes, but Milan is one of the most car-heavy cities I've seen in Europe. There are cars everywhere, parked on tram stops, parked in the middle of the road, etc. It sucks, and I definitely don't feel safe cycling. What you say holds for smaller towns. In my hometown 40 km from Milan I never needed a car nor a bus. (However as soon as you need to go to the next town you need a car.)
Honestly it's absurd that that we have two distinct numbers (account and routing) but you always use both, they don't change, and they are good for both deposits and withdrawals. It would be so easy to only require an account number for deposits and to have a unique routing number for each withdrawal. Maybe for convenience you have some fraction of your assigned routing numbers be good for repeat withdrawals but only for the amount and frequency specified for the first instance. Thus you can hand out your bank account number to anyone without concern, and they can give you money easily, but only those who you legitimately desire to pay can take money from you and their opportunity for abuse is limited, and all the infrastructure remains relatively unchanged.
It would be nice if Composer can give me a `diff` of before/after an update though.
Hey Tim, can you share a little more? When I clicked on your thread, I was expecting at least a couple of sentences in explanation on your situation. As of now, the only reasonable respond you'll get, is, to go see a therapist - which a couple of people pointed out before me and you should read closely what they wrote. But visiting a therapist and getting an appointment can take a while and HN usually has a lot of good advise to offer what you could do in the meantime to improve your situation. But that'd require a bit more information. If you want to share more, that might give you some valuable insight on how other people dealt with similar situations. If you don't want to tell more about you - which is perfectly fine - but want _additional_ approaches, you can browse previous HN threads [1]. But definitely look after an appointment with a therapist. All the best to you! :)

[1] https://hn.algolia.com/ (don't spend too much time there, it's endless)