skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Long term, that seems like a fairly straightforward way to make sure you get poor performance out of your workers.

End result being snakes, backstabbers, and sociopaths rise to the top of the chains. Engineering is a collaborative effort so it speaks to the culture of AMZN how they incentivize this nonsense.
What's the point of mentioning Bitcoin? Why do people have such an irrational hatred of cryptocurrency?

You're not even correct. Bitcoin value has skyrocketed compared to gold, even if you go back 200 years.
I simply don't subscribe to self-causation.
I'd like to clarify that you do not need any type of connection pooling or proxying in front of PlanetScale. We can handle a massive amount of connections unlike a lot of other DBs.
Most of these are either invented scenarios or not really advantages.

- Transactions are final. The merchant has no risk of chargebacks

So as a consumer, if I pay for something and the merchant stiffs me, I have no recourse? That's supposed to be a selling point?

- The amount transferred is known to you. Whereas with credit cards, the merchant terminal could lie and show you an incorrect amount, and you could approve the fraudulent transaction

Do you have any evidence of that actually happening? Even anecdotal evidence? I've never experienced nor heard of anyone experiencing a situation where a point-of-sale terminal showed one price and they were charged another. I have heard of merchants (airlines, especially) tacking on "hidden" fees, but those hidden fees become quite visible when you get to the final checkout page for and you see that the price you're about to pay is x dollars or euros more than the price in bold letters on the listing for the price. I have never once seen a merchant (online or off) display a price on the checkout step and then have a different amount charged show up on my credit card statement.

- The maximum amount you can lose is limited by the amount of cash in your wallet (let's say $100), not by your credit limit (let's say $3000).

Incorrect. The Fair Credit Billing Act (in the US, not sure what the equivalent EU legislation is) gives consumers 60 days from the statement date to dispute transactions. If the consumer files a dispute, the financial institution has 90 days to correct the charge, or give a written explanation as to why they think the charge was valid. If the transaction is fraudulent, the consumer's liability is limited to $50. I have way more safety against fraudulent transactions on my credit card than I do with cash or check.

- It's easy to understand - you have physical tokens with numbers on them. There are no accounts, statements, minimum payments, interest, fees, reward points, customer service phone numbers, etc.

Only if you're storing your cash at home, under your mattress. If you're using a bank account, you most assuredly have to deal with accounts, statements, interest and fees.

The only valid advantage of cash (and crypto) that you've cited is:

- Transactions are private. There is no middleman between you and the merchant to censor your transaction or to sell your purchasing habits to advertising companies.

That is why I have a crypto balance. That is why I have a certain amount of cash in my wallet. If Visa, Mastercard, etc. get into a dispute with my merchant, or if the centralized payment infrastructure goes down (i.e. due to a storm knocking out power), I still want to be able to pay people. But would I want to use cash for most transactions? Absolutely not.
I didn't explain my reasoning there. Most of SOL is in the hands of VC investors and hasn't hit the free market.

If you don't have any other liquid asset, it would make sense to go the route of selling your SOL for ETH. But it looks like this was not necessary and the ETH to fill up the contract again was either at hand or sold over the counter.

The $21B is the trading volume for all pairs. Most ETH pairs are BTC, fiat currencies or stablecoins. If somebody had sold SOL to get ETH that would have been noticeable.
Currencies are not to store or create wealth. No-one in their right mind holds anything close to "wealth" in cash-like things (heck, not even bonds really).

In defense against 2), I'd venture it is probably better to own production assets (and parts thereof) rather than crypto.

Also, if inflation is sky high and destroying everything left and right, they could very well come for 1). So there is a spectrum of inflation where crypto might(!) be a hedge, but similarly a lot of other assets might(!) deliver said hedge. Just because it is limited in supply does not mean people will always imbue it with value (stamps are great example of staff that is dropping in value as far as collectables are concerned).

Now where I could see an issue is then with people who don't have "wealth" but some savings that get inflated away and potentially limited asset selection to invest in. Whether or not crypto will help, is up to crypto, not some law of nature, though.
In the event that Meta were to dissolve, liquidate their assets, and return the money to the shareholders, I suspect we would quickly see the establishment of the React Foundation or something akin to that under the mantle of some other open source software foundation.

Either that or it will be forgotten like KnockoutJS was (and for the same reasons).
Are you American? I'm Pro-American and I don't agree that I am not Pro-American just because I believe a decent chunk, like 5% of continental America, should be given to Native Americans if they want that.

I don't see what that has to do with being Pro-American. Being selfish and greedy and nationalist are bad principles to me. That's anti-American to me.
I rent a home and wanted to map the circuits and fuses to lightswitches and outlets. I documented it in Excel and used the "National Park" font to make it look like an old school schematic.

I used that font for the reason you described.
Faxes are still used for some purposes in the US, probably especially in healthcare (though that's slowly transitioning to electronic transfers).

There can also be physical paperwork involved requiring a particular kind of signature guarantee with financial transfers. After 2 weeks of back and forth involving my brokerage and my local bank, I finally ended up having to go in person to a brokerage office to transfer stock to a different brokerage account.
None of this matter - Between Japan, Korea, Taiwan, Israel & Arizona.

You got desserts, water scarcity, earthquakes, security risks - pick two.
What's Wrong With These Equations? (1989) [pdf]
No question, but that doesn’t make science hype just because it didn’t produce a cure by the end of the episode. Just in case it wasn’t clear, I’m explicitly calling out that choice of wording. If they’d said “this is a notoriously hard problem”, I’d agree.
It’s not as if PG&E has a checkbox like “Pay 5% more for us to fix gas leaks?” or gas stations have an octane selection that pollutes less. Consumers have the choice in some cases to consume less, but we need to affect one very specific thing (better maintenance) that companies with lower demand would, I’m sure, be happy to just pocket in additional savings or profit if they don’t have a damn good incentive to care.

Then on a political level, at least here in the US, the choice for politicians who could hope to influence this is between a party of “we don’t believe climate change is real // it’s real but not a big deal // inevitable / natural causes” and “climate change is real but we still won’t make much real change” or maybe even “climate change is real and we demand real change but Congress won’t pass anything even mildly changing the calculus for companies because 49% is the party who doesn’t care / is on the climate-affecting companies payroll and the other 1% required to swing the vote can be bought for 1/100th the price the proposed legislation would cost us”.

It’s frustrating, and the result is that the world burns and everyone just argues about whose fault it is while trying to do any small things they can to help while companies and politicians continue to not really care that we’re rapidly heading towards a non-inhabitable planet in a few generations.
You mean e-signatures? Which is what I use in my office whenever we sign documents around here?

I'm sure Japan knows about e-signatures. The problem is that of "culture" perhaps? I'm not entirely convinced that this stamp-thing is a bad thing for Japanese culture, or that this is an issue that needs "fixing".

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But "if it does need fixing" (and again, I don't think I agree with that mindset...), e-signatures are readily available and easily done in Adobe-PDF readers, backed up by public/private key infrastructure given out by your company's smartcard system (or whatever).
Facebook still has billions of users. It's a very very long way from losing users for the first time or losing stock value to dying altogether.
That's true in a sense. But I would still be paying them money to receive data from Twitter. So in a sense, yes, I am paying for Twitter data. In any case, I have a hard time seeing how this wouldn't violate the ToS.
Not only was their stuff cool, but it was also more reliable. In that time period, we had to deal with the "capacitor plague" infesting every manufacturer with low-grade components if they didn't keep a close eye on their supply chain or willingly pay extra for the good stuff. Japan is really big on 'Made in Japan' and mostly managed to avoid that.
This is an absolute sea-change. Pretty much "worst case" that could have been imagined post-acquisition.
I think this write up is much too one sided and obsessed with making the practice seem horrible. Some drivers might like to do a little dance occasionally. I know I would like anything that adds some levity to the day.

If it's not mandatory and just a bit of fun, what's so bad?
I like the spirit of this, but the monetization strategy rubs me the wrong way. You're basically reselling a UI wrapper for the twitter API.

Nevertheless, good luck and I hope they don't shut you down too fast.
> if you are not allowed targeted advertising, what practical alternatives do you have to mass market your useful product?

Contextual advertising.
People confuse the arguments made out of political expediency for political gospel.

Even though many points made about the constitution were rooted in political theory, and make good sense even today, that doesn’t change the fact that the people involved were politicians who were looking to make the best deal possible within the context of a rapidly failing state under the articles of confederation.
I think I have heard that.

I suspect youtube is trying to do both at the same time and... doesn't work.

But for me and a rando one off clip, I'd rather see it on youtube.
The `create-react-app` project has existed for years, and gives you a standardized stack the bundles and boots with a single command.

Rails 7 has abandoned JS bundling in favor of using somebody else's CDN. Have fun with that.
Singapore has very good connectivity for Asia, specially to India, FB's largest market, to China, Japan, Korea and Taiwan.
Love using NestJS. It's true that most places are stuck using express for whatever reason so you have to be a bit ahead of the pack.
> As a language JS progressed a lot, so much I am not sure if switching to TS is a good idea or I just need to wait until JS will catch up with TS.

Can you elaborate on this? TS is just adding type checking to JS, the only runtime addition are enums. I doubt that JS will incorporate type checking anytime soon.

I mostly agree with your other points.
This resonates a lot! I've always considered myself a general software engineer (mostly doing algorithms and ML in uni), but then moved to industry and for every project needed to get into web. Over last 10 years I went through php, Java and Node on the backend and jquery/angular/react on the frontend. I understand and appreciate why and how these technologies developed, but it still felt I had to do a lot of re-learning to catch-up with the latest stack and build the similar thing all over again.
I did too. I’m grateful my job experiences made me think of Python before a slow-motion firing.
Two channels is a poor way to handle priority. If data comes in on the low priority channel just before the high priority channel, you would still be blocked waiting for the low priority task to complete.

In a case like this, maybe just run two different consumer routines for the two channels, then neither would be blocked waiting on the other.
Right. Consider:

>>>

What do you do for a living?

"I track animals."

Oh, cool, like you're a hunter or in animal control or something? Trekking all over the wilds, keen eye for detail, grand adventures, lots of mud and amazing stories?

"No, I manage a zoo. I track the zoo animals in a spreadsheet. I sit in an office."

>>>

AFAIK Apple means the hunting kind, when they write "tracking". As in following a user around and watching them while they use services & apps that you don't operate.
Apologies, I edit the parent comment to remove mention of the other article with the intention of posting it as a separate comment, around the same time you posted this reply.

For context here's what @dfawcus was replying to since I can no longer edit back in:

> Here's a related article from 2018 with a bit more historical context: https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2018/sep/19/wreck...
Well yeah, sometimes some technologies take a greater hold in some countries, and persist long after they have disappeared in other countries. Such as the Minitel (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minitel) in France. Or Teletext (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teletext) in many European countries. But I don't think we should read too much into such technological "relics"...
I don't think "everything is politics." I think the government needs a response to a global pandemic. Which is politics.

And you said "they turned this into politics," and I think you meant to say, "they turned this partisan." Or "it became politically divisive."

Yes, it's unfortunate that the two parties here in the U.S. did not agree about how to handle the global pandemic.

People from both parties would tell you they were absolutely trying to care for the overall welfare of everyone. And they just disagreed about how to do it.

I'm just personally horrified that we don't even agree about how to measure reality. Really fundamental questions like, "Is Covid more contagious and more deadly than the flu?" "Is the vaccine safe?" "Is your risk of myocarditis greater if you get the vaccine, or if you are infected with Covid?" "Does the vaccine put a chip in your body?" "Does the vaccine turn you magnetic?" "Did 5G cause Covid?" "Is this medication effective at preventing or treating Covid?"

Like, the leaders of our political parties don't apparently agree about how to measure the answers to those questions. Or they're not effectively leading the people in their party to follow that decision.

Basically, we're totally hosed.
Godot is a dead end. I tried it and found it very difficult to grok and then immediately ran into their hacked to hell threading model that you must know about (and sprinkle yields around in just the right spots) to get anything done.

I see it being revised significantly which will be a breaking change. If not, then it is what it is.
The author says he copied the font from a Leroy Lettering set. I don't get how he can copy a font from that set and then distribute it with an open license?
One should always think and take care of the ones around oneself. She is my friend and not someone who does not matter.. you can't meet up with her anymore without talking about the conspiracy the whole evening.

Call it "captured one's eye".. I call that caretaking of my social circle. What would you do if someone suddenly think you're driven by the government and tries to "fix" you, when the thinking leading to that conclusion is clearly based on lies and impossibilities?

And, yes. I'm completely with you. Not good journalism. But the thing with the weak minded ev. Christians - this is really like that.

I've grown up in a evangelical christian family. Have been "forced" to go to church on Sundays until 18. We pray before every lunch. And engage in house circles and doin some other things.

Ok.. my father is the smartest man I met in 41 years of my being. He studied engineering and being a freelancer/company owner for 40 years of doing programming in C, C++, Java, JS, bash on HP Unix and all the *x systems used by banks, car makers and and and, python and a few other languages. Working 18 hours a day, 7 days a week, for the last 40 years..

I studied engineering, work with students and teach them what I know - Icm able assess what it means to be weak minded.

The most (90 percent) of all the guys in the church are weak minded, as the ones who have a stronger mind (gained through education) tend to be atheists.. once I asked my dad having his brain, why he still believe in a higher being / god. The answer was "I don't know if there is a god. But if, then I'm better off than one who doesn't believe.. I lived my life without hate, always doing good things and giving love - my believe made me a better person. So, why the discussion?" .. yes.

We often talk about manipulation of simple minded by the priests (to stay on topic).

If you strongly believe a thing, then there just needs to be one who's telling what your ears wants to hear and you believe him everything. Like my aunt.. the priest said "COVID is sent by god to sort the bad from the good ones. If you pray loud enough and show god you're worthy, then COVID won't harm you." ... WHAAAT??? She prays. And there is no discussion possible, because than I need to argue against the priest - I do and as effect, I piss her off.
Difficult case :)

But I'm with you. Journalism should be completely neutral. Connotation and underlying negative tone shouldn't be part of reporting.

I read a news in german language once. It was clear. Shortsentenced. Just facts. Ok!
Then, I learned from my russian community, there is a translation of the very same news. Being able to speak that language, I read it. It was completely different meaning. There have been some personal conclusions like "the migration of foreigners will change our life" hidden in-between. All the russian guys started to discuss that in terms "we need to exit Europe. We want the German Mark back. Europe will kill us"... Wait, whaaat? There has never been similar said in the original report.

That's how we all get manipulated. And that's how the money is made xd
Arguing that "ads are evil" is different from calling them ineffective. Most people dislike targeted ads them because of privacy/resource usage issues. Other people dislike ads in general. Some of those want ads to stop existing exactly because of how effective they are.
Actually, the biggest issue with the Big Mac Index in Argentina, is that the government tried to regulate the price of Big Macs specifically to manipulate the index!
I don't think I claimed it makes me cute? If I want to put a smiley, I do. I asked you a question because I was curious. If you don't want to elaborate and prefer to nitpick on my punctuation, that's cool with me.
The case against analogies is like trying to teach something to someone without any kind of frame of reference. A well-crafted analogy is frequently one of the best tools a teacher (or lecturer on technical subjects) has to make an abstract concept relatable to the student/listener. To the article's point, however, a really good analogy is one where likeness of the things being related are readily apparent, or at least easy to explain. The example of Karen (or was it Beth?) conflating X::Y to A::B is a lack of apprehension on her part. This is more an issue of communication and lack of precise understanding; once that's cleared up Karen will get it rather quickly.
That is how it works both in democracies as well as dictatorships, where few people have the time or incentive to be well informed, they associate the good schemes with the person/party symbol attached to the scheme.
When I was younger I loved making batch file scripts and would look up how to do things like this. It seems to me that something like this would require its own private "internet" that allowed the user to make searches that the search engine would funnel into a desired result.
Entanglement as an explanation for anything about consciouness is exactly the same as saying "it's all magic", and exactly as meaningless, leaving nothing to talk about.
But that's dumb. I don't even pay for data. I'm helping _them_.
Multi-core realities required teaching developers about the abstracted-away hardware. This talk is a continuation of the surfacing of hardware reality at the language and library levels.
When you're running a world wide service with lots of moving and connected parts this dramatically increases the danger you'll have catastrophes that will cost much or most of that market share.

As a thought experiment, suppose all of AWS was down for a full week? What would happen after that?

More realistically, how many times can us-east-chaos-monkey bring down various global services before a lot of its users start making moves to mitigate or eliminate their exposure to AWS?

For a more concrete example, I'm working on a project that has an easy but critical use of cloud services. The more I read about Amazon following Microsoft into Ballmer era stack ranking madness, and the most AWS fails objectively fails, the lower the priority it gets for which cloud platform to support first and best.
Google searches for React and node.js exceed searches for Ruby on Rails by 100% and 50%, respectively [1]. Some people have used this to argue that React/node are more popular than Rails. But I wonder if perhaps this discrepancy appears in Google Trends because it takes more google searches to accomplish the same thing in React/node versus Rails. I feel the Rails ethos of "convention over configuration" allows me to accomplish the same objective with less googling.

[1] https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?cat=31&date=today%2...
Yes, of course, but everyone has to pay income, housing and a few other taxes regardless of employment status.
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