skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think it comes from the cultural influence of Spain, not Catholicism. I don't see it in Ireland or Switzerland, and not much in France, though they all have large Catholic populations. More generally, I think it comes from the cultural influence of feudalism. Catholicism teaches that wrath, covetousness, and envy are mortal sins, and strongly endorses property rights. Rallying people to confiscate their neighbor's property in order to improve their own situation involves all three of those mortal sins. (To be fair, running a successful business involves a certain amount of covetousness, too.)

Spain spent 300 years living off the plunder from Latin America and its other overseas territories, which of course perpetuated the power of plunderers, not creators or merchants. Even today in Argentina it's considered far nobler to be an escribano or a lawyer than a physicist, a programmer, or a businessman --- but the real national heroes are football players! Pure zero-sum players.

Physicians are at least somewhat honored, but Favaloro still committed suicide because of the lack of support for his work, and Diego Maradona is far more honored for cheating at football and raping teenagers (and, to be fair, playing football too) than Esteban Maradona is for his lifetime spent on eradicating Chagas disease and studies in anthropology and biology.

https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esteban_Laureano_Maradona
If all of Canada moved to California, think of all the things we could achieve!
The Wikimedia Foundation's acceptance of cryptocurrency donations
Based. Nullius in verba [1]. The whitewashing of censorship is accelerating the erosion of trust in the institutions, and it's refreshing to see a long-standing institution take a bold stance.

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nullius_in_verba
I don't disagree, and it's probably the right option - but most people are lazy thinkers. You want the simplest answer that explains the problem in a way you understand.

If someone is trying to take advantage of a situation that's inherently complicated or unpleasant - it's easy to do so with a simple message that makes it digestible, even if it's wrong or harmful. We've seen this time and time again over the last few years. And then worse still, social media perpetuates it by keeping you in a bubble and pushing you further down a path.
Wouldn't it become slower, the more functions you add? And exponentially slower if you start nesting those functions?
I really enjoyed this article. Can someone recommend a book about Microsoft history? I'd love to read about the internal through the ages...
Another name for it is Tall Poppy Syndrome.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tall_poppy_syndrome
But it's not security theater. Sandboxing and strong isolation is one of the oldest techniques around for increasing security. iOS has the least malware of any OS. The security measures it contains would appear to be extremely good at keeping out threats that plague many other platforms.
> Especially in the early days of the rollout the EU was very behind.

On one hand I agree, but on the other hand looking back now after 13-14 months, did it matter? Was any public health outcome significantly improved by that lead? (From the qualitative reports I've read I might believe there was in the UK - but not prima facie US vs. EU.)
> AWS has been rock solid

AWS is a hodgepodge of stellar, middling and some downright crap services. I think their strategy is to make a million flowers bloom and see what takes root. Unfortunately it's hard to tell at first sight which services offer a good experience and which are half baked. In my past experience teams tend to learn this through trial and error.
Microsoft has never been good at building things, period. With the possible exception of Xbox, their products are almost universally annoying to use.
UK U-turn on mandatory Covid vaccinations for NHS and social care workers
Unfortunately, for historical reasons the US railroads are private and pay many sorts of taxes, and the roading industrial complex is largely publicly funded.

Many lines used to have double or quadruple or even electrification but are now single unpowered tracks, because the additional improvements counted towards property tax assessments. It's just not a level playing field.
Its pretty noticeable, If I shave, I get a tight suction feel on an indrawn breath. This is same experience you get with a scuba mask.

That's interesting there is some protection, I could believe still better than things like cloth and surgical because the strapping tends to be tighter.
Tangent: what's the tax situation of .. let's say 'guessing' a private key that gives you access to brand new funds you had zero initial cost of acquisition?

I suppose framing it like that, in a conventional system (at least) it's fraud.
This was my reaction as well when the update happened.

I had foggy windows and had to watch a youtube video to figure it out before I could drive the car.
This kind of BS is why I have lost interest in ever buying a Tesla. For a long time, I was very enthusiastic and convinced others they were great.

Then Tesla proceeded to demonstrate time and time again that no one that purchased their vehicles actually owns them. In fact, Tesla can upgrade and modify the car without permission, and they have repeatedly done so in ways that would terrify me. Either love that modus operandi, or don’t buy their vehicles.

I don’t want my vehicle’s controls to change — ever - without my explicit consent. I thus never expect to own a modern car, because it seems that every manufacturer is now guilty of these kinds of shenanigans. They have all lost my business. It’s the aftermarket for me.
> in a war all the experts said was necessary

Just to clarify, many experts from generals to peacenik linguists to gonzo journalists predicted immediately that the wars would be an expensive and unwinnable series of atrocities. They weren't given airtime.
It's sub-par; the whole expirence is meh. I have to wear glasses so I had to buy lense extensions for my Valve Index because you can't put headset over my current glasses.

I miss out because my internet is so rubbish. I'm awaiting 5minutes just to download a 200mb world, 2Mb ADSL is all my apartment has.

You look like a idiot waving your hands while strapping a big box to your head. Sure, it may get smaller and smarter as tech envolves on, but you still look goofy. You need a large spacious area otherwise your going to mash your hand on your television or other furniture.

Don't get me wrong it can be fun but eh, it's not something I would jump out of bed to get on a company meeting for.
I use Fava+Beancount and this is not accurate, I use the Fava editor on my beancount files without any problem.
Plenty of people here on HN will tell you they choke in interview situations. A lot of people just aren't comfortable and it gets to them.

That said there are people who really can't code, from my experience working with such folks.
For companies it's one thing, but for governments it could be different.

If your schooling was free, then to some degree you do "owe" working locally in order to give something back for that.

Of course, if it's not part of an agreement you signed before you started your studies or they don't enforce it, then I guess that's that.
What do you use in practice for multisig ?
> 'Antipodean' still carries with it a sense of remoteness in the UK even if the countries may be culturally close.

A number of us have done our best to explain what the author is conveying with the choice of language he is using but if you don’t believe us then there’s not a lot more we can do.
What Microsoft's Planned Acquisition Means
I mean I don’t think it’s wrong to say that MS isn’t a cohesive entity and it makes the branding weird at times.

When you have MS as the amalgamation of the success of 100 mostly isolated little divisions which might as well be separate companies then what MS actually does is as murky as what Alphabet does. I think the sanest statement is that MS acts as a big pile of money and shared infrastructure for their “subsidiaries.”
For proof of work to be fair, you need a robust & secure job that produces results with a uniform distribution of zeros and ones. FHE gives you that, while performing useful computation.
"Developing at home is not an option"

Why not?
Scientific credibility is a combination of the quality of your current paper as evaluated by peer review and replication, and the same for your previous work.

Notice the lack of "correct credentials" in my sentence.

Just a few decades ago it was the case the a majority of comets, asteroids, and supernovae were discovered by amateur astronomers -- and their work is taken very seriously by professionals. You can still report such discoveries no matter what credentials you have.

p.s. my hobby is dance history and I can dance the Minuet, hope that doesn't disqualify my opinion in your eyes.
The world will always have heathens and heretics. Some people will always come to the wrong conclusion some of the time.

Skepticism of any claims is a pretty good heuristic, but should be equally applied to counter claims.
"It is not a beloved consumer brand like Apple, Facebook, Amazon, or Google."

They're not a beloved consumer brand, yet.

Microsoft has made an enormous investment in consumer and developer sentiment.

VS Code, Microsoft Flight Simulator, WSL, and Xbox are huge, long term plays that are a rocket ship in their brand's sentiment.
The perception, of course, is that you are not filtering egress. Since the objective is/appears to be to filter egress, people will obviously take askance.

This can't be resolved without a bunch of additional training.

Of course if we'd done THAT, we wouldn't be in this situation in the first place, and the whole discussion would be moot. %-/
No, Argentina was never either a first-world country or a developed country. What we were is rich, because a small population had conquered a large territory that yielded limitless amounts of beef, and with the advent of refrigerated shipping, that meant amounts of wealth limited only by how many cowboys and meatpackers you could hire. The self-defeating crab bucket mentality was already well in place during the Argentine civil wars, and the distance from the rhetoric of Juan Manuel de Rosas to that of Perón was really just as small as Perón claimed.

Also I really think it's a stretch to call Perón left-wing. Are you talking about the Montoneros?
If you just started the service, carefully consider the name of the service. "Bean counter" is a disparaging term that is almost never a compliment.

The first paragraph of https://www.cfo.com/accounting-tax/2007/10/finance-in-histor... explains:

“Bean counting” has long been an insulting term for what finance professionals and accountants do. Often it’s been used to tar CFOs as transaction processors — a role largely relegated to the back office. What’s more, people like to use the phrase to ratchet up the pedestrian aspects of finance by tagging practitioners as “mere” bean counters or “little more than” bean counters or “simply” bean counters. Such clichés get tossed around a lot.

Per https://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/bean-counter.html , "A disparaging term for an accountant, or anyone excessively concerned with statistical records or accounts."
Assume this works for f(i), how well would it work for even(f(i)), where even returns 1 if the argument is even and 0 otherwise?
>“An American company was offering him $15,000 per month to work for them,” Campos told Rest of World. “We cannot compete with that.”

Wow, that's crazy. As a (senior?) software engineer based in Chile who was recently hired by an American company for around $3.5k/mo (that was my offer) I am now feeling underpaid. :)

Assuming that this information is correct, I am now wondering how much I could get away with next time around...
> In one organization, I have even had two seniors go back and forth telling me to remove what the other senior told me to put in.

From: You

To: Senior1, Senior2, Senior1s_Manager, Senior2s_Manager, Your_Manager

Subject: Duke it out between yourselves

Senior1, you told me to put in Feature1, Feature2, and Feature3. A while later, Senior2 told me to take them out.

Senior2, you told me to put in Feature4, Feature5, and Feature6. A while later, Senior1 told me to take them out.

My job is to implement worthwhile features, not to be an implement in your quarrel over which features are worthwhile to implement. Duke that out between yourselves, and only then give me the ones you can agree on to implement. Thank you.

Your_Manager, I've looked over my job description. It says my job is to implement worthwhile features, not to be an implement in other people's quarrels. Yours says your job is to back me up in situations like this.

Senior1s_Manager and Senior2s_Manager, maybe Senior1's and Senior2's job descriptions need to be clarified with regards to which features each of them is empowered to request or veto.
Yes, just games and some novel VR experiences. Not for enterprise, shopping or communications (unless you consider in-game chat)

To clarify - I'm not against VR, I just think it's mostly gonna be use for entrainment, not so much productivity.
I feel the internet that existed when deviant art made sense has sorted of died off, Today the web seems more about people all trying to get fame, make political statements or cash for every little thing they do.

Deviant art like so many of the sites that were mostly supported by a sense of community have died off, and given the massive potential for blow back over a communities behavior it seems unwise for newer sites to push that side of things.
Exactly.

This could easily have become the next boondogle, akin to Solyndra.

The fact that it didn't, and achieved such a good result is a rarity.
It reminds me of the study of WWII airplane, when trying to figure out where to reinforce the planes. The key was the absence of data was more important than the plethora of data.
With only very little snark, I'm more than happy to nominate many Microsoft products for the same category of top down B2B sales that Oracle occupies.

You don't chose to use MS Teams. Someone sells it to your employees. On a technical level, Teams technically works.. some of the time.

No one picked Azure because they have better tech. You pick Azure either for business reasons, or because they exclusively offer something you need.

I have encountered more bugs, incorrect documentation, and operations mysteriously hanging for 20 minutes in a couple weeks of Azure usage than in years of GCP and AWS use. It is not even close.

And I will refrain, with great effort, from speaking about the confused inconsistent mess that is Azure Active Directory.
> has anybody used this to do business accounting?

Keep in mind that these projects were born for personal accounting that use the cash-basis approach. Business are more complex and require an accrual approach, simplyfying we can say that they recognize revenues in a period only when these are certain, and recognize expenses related to these revenues in the same period, even if the expense occurs before or after the revenue.

You don't need to perform these steps for personal finance, you just "follow the money".

I'm enjoying plain text accounting for personal use but I struggle to see it applied in business use cases.
I’m talking about me wiring money to someone who was actually a scammer, same as AI said before.

If your response is “oh well you should have been more careful about that”, congratulations on endorsing the very same defense crypto enthusiasts were giving and validating that they’re not all that different.
Ultimate thin client. No more code on your machine. Give employees a $100 netbook.
I haven't met many humans who would ever ask the baddies question either - I don't think it ever occurs to people to ask, which is why it makes for a decent comedy skit.

Shame and empathy are built in because we really do work better in at least small groups of up to perhaps a few hundred people.
>I strongly protest the concept that the recent introduction of politics is making things worse than they used to be... Corruption and bigotry were rampant.

It is wild how people think things like institutional bigotry aren't politics. How is a scientific organization that excludes large swaths of the population due purely to the circumstances of their birth apolitical? Science has always been political because politics is how people interact with each other. That is true whether we are discussing how governments behave on the world stage or how that big project is being managed at your job. Wherever people exist, politics exists.
Walmart still has film developing options. Typically they take the film, ship it to a lab, then ship it back for pickup.

It's reasonably priced, but seems to be low quality these days (or I just got 1-2 bad batches).
That sounds unpleasant :( brains are weird!
> My tarballs and Git tags are always signed with OpenPGP key

A key whose public component and fingerprint you serve over unencrypted HTTP too, meaning it doesn’t actually give any extra protection against a MITM.
I remember when the government and scientific consensus informed me that margarine was good for me. For decades.

Who knows what damage that has done to my internals.
Even if I do have time and energy, my lack of knowledge on the subject matter would probably lead me to waste that time on dead ends, wrong conclusions, or learning things I will never use again outside of fact-checking one study.
It won't be listened to.

The lack of public understanding of the scientific process and ability to parse published articles in context over the last year unfortunately shows the desperate need for scientific outreach to explain the current state of research to there public.

And obviously nobody listens anyway because everything has become overly polarised.

Maybe journals should be behind some sort of access restriction (not cost) so that the scientific method is less disturbed by the public and political idealogs...
Take your $120k a year job at Amazon, buy a $800k house in Seattle, hold for a decade and your a millionaire with the equity in your house alone, nevermind the $1.2 million you earned at Amazon during that time (and what you chose to invest it in).
p.s. I worked on-site at a factory doing industrial automation for a lot of the time; I really liked FFP2 masks because they fit better and my glasses didn't cloud up.

Masks with valves were available (because part of one's regular PPE at times before the pandemic), but no longer permitted.
> well the little I read of its unreadably thin font

Try pressing F9.
You've essentially described the trucking industry, without the need to figure out linking or being limited to rail routes.

Without the train length, you lose the efficiency. The sum of added traction drivers and energy storage on each car exceeds any savings you might gain by autonomous operations or possibly getting rid of the traditional locomotives.

Convoy based self-driving tech on interstates is roughly mature enough as-is to operate as a drafting, self assembled train, if there was a desire/demand to implement it.

But that goes back to political/social/business reasons.
That's the case for any good dev, anywhere in the world. If they're not chained to their job for various non-work reasons, they <<will>> move on to competitive salaries.
The only positive for me from this misinformation plague is that as soon as the next issue comes along all of the anti-Covid vaccine sentiment will be completely forgotten.

Don't believe me? When was the last time you heard about the MMR vaccine causing autism?

The "good" part of this is that rejection of science, politicization of science and the use of this issue to manipulate people who somehow claim to be "free" yet are the most easily manipulated aren't new issues. There was the MMR autism issue, resistance to polio vaccination and resistance to smallpox vaccines before that.

The damage is of course huge. The US is sitting at >3,500 Covid deaths per day currently. Annualized this is well over 1 million people per year (although it'll likely trail off), 90-95% of whom are now unvaccinated. These are people who are now steadfastly choosing to die. The government has moved on from this (eg the updated CDC guidelines on isolation to keep the economy going). People seem to have moved on (IME).

I don't think we should be worried about censorship of misinformation. Credible-sounding misinformation is easy to produce and hard to refute (aka the bullshit asymmetry principle). Leaving it out there does more harm than good (IMHO). You'll never completely get rid of it but the less of it out there the better.

As to what to do about this, the only cure is to teach critical thinking at a relatively young age so people can ask questions like "who is telling me this?", "what are their sources?", "why shouldn't I trust the CDC?" and "who benefits from me believing this?". Conservatives know this which is why they're busy passing laws to prevent such teaching.

It's why college graduates tend to be more liberal: colleges generally teach critical thinking and that tends to kill conservatism. Of course this is predictably painted as colleges being hotbeds of political indoctrination. So here we are.

A big problem with misinformation being out there is how people can fall into the trap of bothsidsing the issue (which is a logical fallacy, for the record).
This is what I do to develop the negatives. Then I scan them via a photo scanner that does negatives.
I actually don't hate writing docs to help other people, but can rarely motivate myself to write them for my own consumption, heh
I'd go further and say it's not just the recruiters that are the problem, but the automation of recruiting that is the problem.

Hiring is a people skill, not an algorithm skill.
Not knowing much about India, but excessive gov. bureaucracy is often a just side effect of rampant corruption.

It goes both ways:

- people wanting to fix the corruption problem through technical means will make it more difficult for individual clerks to make decisions alone, and push for more paper trails.

- the harder the system is to navigate, the easier it is for clerks to get bribes and quid for pro. At some point it can become impossible to get anything done without bribing to accelerate or bypass the checks.
Our whole family had mild delta two months ago, even then we are now finishing quarantine after everyone catching omnicron. Neither vaccines or previous infection seem particularly effective at stopping re infection. The virus seems significantly different to previous iterations meaning it might as well be a different virus altogether.

It felt like a medium flu for the adults and just bounced off the kids.
> We need to separate research from politics.

That absolutely will never happen as long as the funding comes from the government.
I do think people should pay their taxes in order to fund the next generation of universal prenatal medical care, education, etc., but having them work for local companies for 20% of the market rate means they only have 20% as much income to tax, so we can only fund 20% as much education and medical care. You might think this would be compensated by vastly increased profits for the companies, but it isn't, because the low wages mean it's profitable to set people to work on low-value projects.

So, no, I don't think people "owe" working locally. If they owe anything in exchange for free education, it's realizing their full human potential and being generous with their time and money.

Now, go donate to Library Genesis and Sci-Hub, so the next generation can have free education not only in Argentina but everywhere in the world that it's legal.
Also causing the prices in some sectors, such as real estate, to raise abnormally.
But people should be helped to draw their own conclusions with annotations where every time some crazy idea is repeated it is automatically flagged with "This idea has repeatedly been debunked by 37 national societies of medicine and 19 meta analyses of 2,000 peer-reviewed studies with a quality deemed high or superb," etc.