skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is not as much about dismissal of the proposal - they are just pointing out a trivial mechanisms to bypass it, all the while making us all worse off.

I for one suspect that better the "equality enforcement" gets the less ability a company has to reward a better worker over worse ones. This applies to both men and women.

When everyone is "equal" it just means more productive people subsidize the work of less productive ones. Which at least today can be rewarded.
How can the product listing page on our car search website be improved?
You're not good enough for impostor syndrome!

/joke
The posted article does not go far enough. Due to regulations like GDPR, user ids are considered PII if they're ever transmitted to a device outside the control of the organization. So if you must follow European regulations (and other countries like Canada are catching up too!) then to make your life easier I recommend TWO id columns. One as a random uuid4 generated in server side software (makes sharding easier, and collision is effectively impossible) that can be used for API calls and one internal id in the DB that can be whatever you want.

I know it seems strange to have three effective columns that all do the same thing, but the reality is that we actually have three seperate concerns here anyway. One key to our user's data. One key to our (untrusted) API data. One key between the tables. The user's key can change (e.g., someone changes a SIN / SSN after fleeing domestic abuse), the external key can leak (so it's PII which should—and eventually must—be deleted), the internal key can be very difficult to delete or obfuscate due to
DB constraints, backups, etc.

If you don't do this you'll be paying a lot more for privacy engineers to write your erasure code. Or you'll be limited to countries without strong privacy protections.
> companies have physical assets, ongoing revenue and profits, dividends that they pay out to their shareholders.

Exactly!

If Uber ever shuts down for any reason, they can take all of their vehicles, buildings, gold, and whatever else they own, and evenly distribute them for all shareholders!
I look forward to when every human interaction is finally regulated in law, and we're still not happy.
> PNC Bank: $4.49B ... Chase: $2.45 Trillion

Perhaps grandparent's comparison of USDT market cap to the total value of the Financial Services Group stock is peculiar, but let's use correct numbers in the discussion. The grandparent comment refers to USDT market cap, which is ~$80B USD. That's roughly equivalent to PNC Financial Services Group ("PNC" on NYSE) market cap of ~$85B. JPMorgan Chase ("JPM" on NYSE) market cap is ~$450B USD.
Yep it's completely free, i.e. has no ads or any "premium" features you'd need to pay to unlock. Just a simple free minimal Markdown App.

From the Source code it suggests the author was exploring sustainability options, however that was last updated in 2019 so it's not clear if that's still the plan.

https://github.com/notable/notable/blob/master/SOURCE_CODE.m...
> You don't see them on Medium, Facebook. Wordpress or any one of a 100 other outlets either.

You'd be far more likely to see them on Medium or Wordpress, if only because those platforms let you write something more than 230 characters long without resorting to some sort of ugly hack.

> You seem to be angry with media in general rather than with Twitter per-se

Ah, yes. "You seem angry". Note that I specifically provided the Washington Post as a counter-example of content that appears to be of higher quality.
> wrapped up in our sense of self worth and identity

Speak for yourself.

I can completely fail at work, go home, and sleep like a baby. Conversely, I can have an amazingly good day, enjoy it and then completely forget about it the next day.

It's just a job.
The point is that it’s a huge pain as evidenced by the fact that nobody does it now that there is an alternative..not that it’s literally impossible.
> I would never have thought of just one, shared round per day which is surely one of the critical elements of its success

It's different anyway, but how are people building routines around remembering to visit a certain website once a day? Do they just see the shares on Twitter and remember to go play themselves? Do they bookmark it? I certainly can't build a routine around a novelty like Wordle.
OTOH with Steam you can generally not choose to avoid patches you don't like, even with single-player games.
I think you'll find it rather hard to trade the abstract concept of physics and math for some food or shelter.
First-ever recording of dying human brain reveals dreaming-like activity
The company (originally named ASM Lithography, current name ASML, which is an official name and not an abbreviation)[10] was founded in 1984 as a joint venture between the Dutch companies Advanced Semiconductor Materials International (ASMI) and Philips.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASML_Holding
Even assuming that crypto currency does provide value and wins out in the end - why would it be any of the existing ones as opposed to a new one started by the right players?
Are you currently in Ireland? If you want something similar consider other areas of England outside the South-East (I'm in Nottingham) or Scotland or Wales. Where have you lived previously? What do you enjoy doing?

Lots of people live/work in Germany or Switzerland without speaking German! Personally I'd go for Norway (not sure if that counts) or Spain.
If the Tether people are to be believed, there is $80bn of "cash" that's held "somewhere" (neither investors nor investigators are clear where). That may turn out to evaporate. Allegedly it has come from "institutional investors" (which ones?)

On the other hand, it's still not up to the size of Lehman ($600bn!). It's heading there.
To me, it only sounds dystopian if a distant, all-powerful big brother is running it. Not everything has to be like that.

If it's under your control, like it is here, it doesn't sound dystopian at all.

This person has noticed something in their life that they don't like, they get too sucked in into work and need to snap out of it a bit.

In the future, they could notice themselves watching too many memes, and they could add a new feature that sends them a though-provoking quote when their face is very relaxed for a long time in front of the computer.
Why would the poor have wanted to switch to the Internet?

After all, it required expensive custom hardware, and know-how.

What changed?

Have you considered it's just really early days?
This is going off-topic somewhat, but I am thoroughly confused by the article you link to. The author insists we should put the rain control layer inside of the insulation, even on roofs.

He does not go into much detail on roofs, but in his wall examples, the outer cladding and the drained cavity behind it appear to be a de-facto rain control barrier outside of the insulation layer (which could be, he says, rock wool or glass fiber, which are surely a big problem if they get wet, right?) If this is so, then what does it mean to say the insulation is outside of the rain control barrier? Furthermore, if we combine these diagrams with the one showing a roof-wall junction, there does not seem to be any barrier against rainwater reaching the wall insulation that way, and I cannot see how this is not a problem.
I hear ya, bro'!

Do you happen to know how you would you implement something like this, but have it read in a list of banned words/domains, rather than just having one hard-wired keyword?

I've long wanted something like Google Hit Hider by Domain[0], but for HN, so I can block some of the crap that gets posted here. I've managed to knock together something really clunky in Go that sort of does what I want but needs me to run it as a CLI app. Id love to have the convenience of a Grease/Tamper-monkey script that does this, but JS is not my strong point, so I wouldn't know where to start.

[0] https://www.jeffersonscher.com/gm/google-hit-hider/
http://perdu.com :)
Most ICOs, NFTs and smart contracts are just more complicated versions of regular securities, that evade regulation simply by taking advantage of the time lag that authorities have in terms of understanding them and enforcing existing regulation.

If you look under the hood, each supposedly decentralized, non-custodial service tends to have a centralized component coordinating or in some way controlling the entire thing. For example, a platform that pegs the value of an asset on the Ethereum blockchain to the US dollar, could depend on a single server to inject information about the price of the US dollar in terms of Ethereum or smart contract tokens.
Disney has done everything they could to kill this franchise.

All of the new movies are absolutely horrible except for Episode 8 and Rogue One.

Visions was okay, but that's such a bad sign. They basically had to give some anime studios a Star Wars license to make decent stories.

Episode 8 is the closest to capturing the original magic, the entire point was it doesn't matter who you are or where you came from. From everyone can be a hero. Broom boy was a fantastic reminder of this. By the time we get to episode 9, the story changes, no, only two families matter.

Instead of it being obvious, palpatine had a wife or something, in the extended universe. They drew some nonsense about one of his clones having a son or something.

It felt like someone who's never seen a Star Wars movie got a vague outline of what existing characters were there and got 4 hours to write a script.

At the same time, I am very happy with all the newer niche Sci-Fi stuff coming out
While we are at it, the cost of a product should depend on its objective value, not what the market pays.

My point being that sure, ideally it wouldn't be like that, but any implementation I can possibly think of is not viable at all. Jobs are fairly unique things.
You mean payments/yield from staking?
> Basically what's missing is the ability to even guess at the "true" value of cryptocurrency. There's no P/E ratios to consider because the only thing Crypto "produces" is Crypto transactions. It's also impossible to even guess at a floor or ceiling for the price of a cryptocurrency. The only thing that determines their price is human sentiment - a very fickle input.

Interestingly, this isn't really true anymore. Most of the newer defi currencies represent a portion of ownership in some protocol that is actually returning profits.

E.g. Maker is a lending platform for DAI. You can borrow DAI by depositing other currencies as collateral. The interest you pay to borrow is then converted by Maker into a sort of "stock buyback" against its Maker token.

The Maker token has a P/E ratio, as do many other coins. https://www.tokenterminal.com/

To your point though, the P/E ratio for most of these is denominated in other cryptocurrencies, not in USD.
Lol nice reference
How is this any different from the normal state of affairs?

You think you work too much and are paid too little? Then leave, this has nothing to do with "equal pay".
I rather liked it when employers asked about pay history because I used to lie about it. I managed to double my salary in two job jumps!
By "anyone" they mean anyone authoring the content. The nested sections can easily by parsed into the appropriate header level when publishing.
> Highway infrastructure is also anchored in physics and math. It doesn’t mean we should treat highways like a currency that should be purchased and traded.

Clearly, the world needs highway-based NFTs. Knowing that their ephemeral infrastructure is represented on the blockchain, something that is permanent, will lead to engineers building safer bridges. It will encourage the development of new fields of engineering, perhaps subfields related to structures and others related to materials.

Contrast that to the stock market, where companies sell ownership shares in their businesses tracked in ledgers maintained by western corporations. And some of the underlying businesses have no plans to ever to distribute cash to their stock owners-- look at Berkshire Hathaway! Look at Google! People buy and sell those shares only because the next person will buy them for more. It's a classic speculative investment, not like crypto which is backed by the full faith and power of NVIDIA.

/s. Or is it?
>bad actors could easily do great harm to me,[...] but they don't

If that is so, that's because you live in a good place. There are lots of places where material and physical harm comes easy. If you're curious how prevalent it is, I suggest to check out Numbeo, who try to put metrics on this and many other topics concerning everyday living.
The government can criminalize crypto. Investigation wouldn't be easy, but the FBI and other equivalents (depending on your country) are very good at investigating hard to solve crimes, and if given the budget can track you down in various ways. (tax fraud is often a big one - even if they can't prove you are in crypto they can prove you didn't pay tax on something)
Again you assume I'm talking about "any industry". I am talking about the software industry, which makes the world run without licenses. I'm glad you know outliers and I'm glad you know about normal distributions.
Possibly better security, too.
Learn from What Leading Companies A/B Test
Although frustrating and disappointing to hear, that certainly sounds like the perfect sort of opportunity to surreptitiously upload slightly altered versions of the company logo.

Slightly mismatched colors.

Bassic mispelings.

Logo rotated by 4 to 5 degrees.

Overlay a semi-transparent competitor logo for a single frame.

Etc.
There ain't no welfare state on heaven or earth that makes enough of a difference for new grads to earn 14-18k yearly (before tax). Good afternoon from Spain.
I wonder if a few smoke bombs in the clean rooms would be enough?
how exciting
> I dunno, isn't this the same thing as blaming climate change on the people who take a single vacation by plane per year

It could be, yep. And it could be accurate. Although that behaviour is probably what a lot of us consider normal, an estimated[2] 80% of the world's population have not travelled by plane at all (not once per year -- ever!)

(travel and travel by air is not intrinsically the problem - it's the negative externalities of doing so. but it's interesting how normalized a damaging behaviour can become simply based on the behaviours of people around us)

[1] - https://ourworldindata.org/transport
I understand what you're saying, but that's not really what I'm talking about.

It is solely the company who decides to outsource or lay off after saying they don't do that kind of thing. You have no recourse when the company gives you a bad rating. They don't even allow you to be present for the secret trial they put you on (calibration). God help you if you're in one of the departments that requires a manager to pick someone for a bad rating to balance out a top rating. Without a union, there's no way to contest bad ratings and keep the people in power from screwing over workers.

I have gotten certs like for AWS and one specific to my area's business acumen. So I'm not sitting here doing nothing. But it doesn't help that much and there aren't many options in my area.
"Newsweek reports on the zombie invasion of New York".

I buried a Konami code in the ad integration JavaScript (no one wants to code review that) which flipped all the stories on the homepage for zombie invasion stories. The authors were all members of the dev and project manager teams. You can still Google it.

I did not get fired, for a couple reasons. One, I disabled all the ads, so there was no negative brand association. Two, we'd just launched a redesign and our homepage traffic skyrocketed from 45,000 views / day to 750,000 views a day. My personal highlight was receiving a mention on NPR morning edition.

My general manager "scolded" me in public, but privately was thrilled at the several hundred thousand dollars worth of free marketing. I figured I'd hang my hat up there.
If you run out of things to do...

https://blog.sequin.io/events-not-webhooks

PS: Well done!
GDPR is a preview into what a more regulated web would look like and it’s awful. What should we do? Fight it. Demonstrate the pointlessness of the regulation now that everyone has a taste of it.
Complacency will lead to more regulation. Leading to regulators able to shut down your site for not following arcane rule 345 subsection A. You think it’s a joke, but this is how it starts.
if it's any consolation I'm going through the exact opposite. In my 20s I took a year off to travel, came back and only cared about taking jobs that would give me enough flexibility to work remotely and have lots of vacation so I could travel. Now I'm in my early 30s seeing some of my peers from college making double my salary.

Big tech doesn't seem all that interested in me so I'm kind of stuck working for smaller companies. I really do enjoy my job and like the people I'm working with but doubling my salary would be life changing for me so I feel like I should have been more balanced in my 20s.
Yes I understand. But consider two points: 1) People who are familiar with mainframes and COBOL are probably well into their career maturity (at least 40+) and because of the luxury salary they probably do not mind an early retirement, and 2) Even when bank moves it moves slowly.

But I do think that the whole COBOL thing is coming to an end...maybe we need to find something still hot but hated by everyone, for example...Java?
No, I assume the arsonists might be from any population, not excluding the truckers. I think the facts of the matter don't support the claim that "protestors attempted to burn down an apartment complex."

Looking at the photos of the arsonists, I see one is ear-wearing a mask. Having a mask at all seems out of character for the trucker-protestors given other photojournalism. Maybe it was a disguise?

Why would anyone think it is rational to tie the arson attempt to protestors? Have other incidents of arson been coincidental to the protests as in Minneapolis and elsewhere?

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/ottawa-police-arson-in...
Your suggestion is extremely laughable and naive and reeks of elitism.

The domains where the quality of code has very high stakes do have very strict processes and have an extremely high bar.

The domains where the stakes are not high, for ex - implementing an API to download user reports, have a very low bar.

And your point about cancelling the license to code if you implement a bad API, that's like cancelling a journalist because they made a typo in their article and it went out.
Woo-oo-ooo....
There’s a difference between using “natural data” and using a “client generated identifier”. This thread is talking about natural data and the example given amounts to a fussy customer rather than an actual technical problem (not that they don’t exist) with using natural data. Client generated UUIDs are totally fine provided you validate the ID and authorize resource access normally e.g. client A can’t put a resource by UUID owned by client B just by knowing the UUID. Using natural data or not really seems to be a product problem and in the face of inexperienced product managers or changing requirements probably best avoided for the reasons given. It’s not clear which issue the article is addressing, specifically, though.
Transparency is good, but what about freedom of choice, to enable individuals to act on that information?

Ideal would be outlawing non-competes.
I've kind of watched the meme resistance thing in real time.

We had this massive authoritarian populist right wing movement a few years ago that really exploited the fact that a huge number of Internet-naive people had just been brought online via the mobile/tablet revolution. These people had never been exposed to memes (in the Internet parlance), troll culture, conspiracy theories, propaganda bots, click bait, and all the other tools of the Internet influence trade and were easy pickings for a loosely organized confederation of "alt-right" propagandists.

As this happened I watched a surge in analytical takes on this from both the left and from anti-authoritarian libertarian (a.k.a. actual libertarian) circles. I saw podcasts that had formerly discussed conspiracy and fringe ideas in a detached "Art Bell" style pivot and go "meta" on these theories and start digging into their intellectual and cultural origins. I saw books like "It Came From Something Awful" that analyzed these phenomena become bestsellers in more mainstream circles.

All that analysis was the immune system working.

The Pepe the frog movement was a one off thing. It won't be repeated. I doubt we will see anything as explosively successful as Qanon again either. Sure there will be things like that on the fringes but something that vaults from a dumb 4chan LARP into a nationwide movement within a month or two is not likely to happen a second time. The population has already been exposed.

China on the other hand... if this is what they are doing and if they are actually successful at it, they will remain deeply vulnerable to an outbreak of this type of propaganda whether it originates from foreign or domestic sources (or most likely a mix thereof).

P.S. I think the strongest argument against deplatforming is that this is interfering with the process of memetic immunity. Given that we have no vaccines against toxic memes (or even a theory of how that would work), letting the population get exposed and achieving herd immunity is probably the best strategy. So go ahead, let tons of naive "conspiracy virgins" get sucked into Qanon or whatever. They need to build up their immune systems.

I rolled my eyes instantly at Q because I knew chan culture and I also recognized a grab bag of worn old conspiracy tropes from Usenet in the 1990s. I saw all that stuff when I was fifteen.

I've changed my mind on deplatforming multiple times, but I think this is where I've settled as I've watched everything play out. Democracy, if we let it function, is antifragile.
No problem. Find something that can give you some peace and that should be good. Good luck.
What does this mean for Atlassian and it's hosted suite of tools? They are stopping the on-premise versions in 2024. It seems to me that this puts Atlassian in the same GDPR pickle that Google is in with respect to FISA.
Many neglible amounts are a large amount.
"Google Play will start requiring new apps to be published with the Android App Bundle starting August 2021. This will replace the APK as the standard publishing format."

https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2021/06/the-future...
“USB Made Simple”? Not sure if that’s possible. Haven’t seen anything more complex than this.

https://www.usbmadesimple.co.uk/
You don't have to read social media to hold BTC/ETH.
Why wouldn't a dedicated data type be more efficient than an improvisation with CHAR, a pair of two BIGINT/INT8, INT16* or BLOB?

* Is there a SQL database with support for 128 bit integers?
Your hypothesis is it’s because of government regulations. I doubt it. It probably has a lot more to do with the smart device in their pocket. Sex is a form of entertainment and all forms of entertainment are struggling for our attention. Also services like OnlyFans are encouraging women to monetize their sexuality and young men tend to be cash poor. That’s my hypothesis anyway.
Should? Maybe. Is? No.

But Michael Chong did get a bill through reminding MPs they can turf their leader, and it just got exercised for the first time. And some parts of the Conservative party are aghast that the lowly representatives of people overturned the will of the party.