skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Parent asked what it is, not what the acronym stands for. It's a modern euphemism for layoffs, redundancies or mass firings, sackings, depending on your flavo[u]r of English.
Ethereum 101 and How It Could Top Bitcoin in Cryptocurrency (2021)
Babbage's contribution was substantially larger and more impressive than Lovelace's in my opinion. But you're right, it was essentially a technical cul-de-sac. For what it's worth, I think - in spite of his genius - Babbage can also be said to occupy an inflated position in the public consciousness, but for reasons of national pride rather than gender politics. My impression from German language sources on the history of computation is that Konrad Zuse is talked about rather more, and Babbage rather less.
Indeed. Be warned, remote devs. Ideally only be remote on a fully remote team. You don't want to be the one person excluded from the meeting in the hall.
+1 someone saying BJP is helping muslims has to be from another planet. Lol
Putin's big speech listed out NATO compatible airbases he objected to as being a soft prelude to expansion, and one of the first things they did was bomb those airbases. The Russian state really was serious about that.
Of course, but who would believe us if we told u sooner?
Is there any data that confirms the decline of Java on the desktop?
> An Arch user wants (and gets) the latest versions of all upstream software.

My understanding was Arch versions often lag behind that of the latest binaries published on GitHub (based on only mucking around with Arch once); however when I checked the AUR just now everything I use was up to date. Cool.

> A Debian user does not want this or see constant updating to the latest version as an advantage, so that's not what they get.

I'm not sure I agree. You can value Debian's stability and also want to install the latest versions of some tools; that's where I'm at, and package managers that just download statically linked binaries work for me nicely.
That would be nice. I fear the solution is individually packaged potatoes increasing plastic waste.
Give them Sudeten in exchange for promise that they will not attack Poland.

This tactic worked well for 8 years in the case of Ukraine and was heavily (really heavily) promoted by François Hollande and Angela Merkel.

IMHO, it's good to stick to a tactic with proven track record. The main idea is to feed the monster with virgins. Give them Crimea, then Donbas, then Belarus, then South Ukraine, then Eastern Ukraine, then Central Ukraine, then Western Ukraine, then Georgia, then Finland, etc., etc., etc. With a few years between each scarification, this can keep the monster satiated for a long time, so it will be a problem of your children, while you keep a comfortable style of life. For bang per $, this is the cheapest and safest option for most Europeans and Americans.
Nice.
How come, there was a German classic laying around and not the Dream of the Red Chamber?
The wars had no win condition.
This is why you need a good bookkeeper who will catch things like this when doing monthly reconciliation.

There are so many ways that billing can fail and they all result in cash flow problems which is incredibly stressful.
Trippy, don't forget to learn Python next. ; )
Well, you can always add a VM inside WASM as a layer of abstraction, and modify its code at runtime.

Is that what things like this [1] are doing?

[1] https://github.com/pyodide/pyodide
What is new is that, instead of the partisan divide aligning with the ideological divide, the ideological divide turned over and around to match where the arbitrary partisan divide happened to be.

So now we have "conservatives" identifying with Russians and against election regularity, and "liberals" identifying with the FBI and government mandates and against free speech and inquiry.
It's better on zoom because no neck strain trying to look at someone else's screen. And you get your own keyboard.
I've noticed Stripe products tend to be buggy and/or half-finished. What's the deal with that? Anyone know why a company with so much talent and great product that seem polished seem to have critical issues?
Woa I’m selecting payment processors right now — does this mean the “subscription” / “billing” fees of 0.5% are on top of the 2.9%?!

https://stripe.com/billing
Yay no more zoom calls. :)
And if any one ever claims they haven't found any useful purpose for cryptocurrency, the answer is here. The most valuable use-case for cryptocurrency is to financially empower people in predicaments like yours.

A permissioned value transfer network, like the traditional financial system, poses problems that blockchain-based finance doesn't suffer from, and the trade-offs in using it are worth it for some people.
I am a google manager of a hybrid remote team. It generally depends on your manager and your VP; both have to sign off. I’ve heard rumors that it’s harder for Junior members to get transferred, but I had two successful transfers, a junior engineer with a transfer request outstanding, and hired a remote worker today.
Wasn't that bittorrent client early mid-2000s with the blue frog logo written in Java? I think I remember the author back then saying something like, "it's just a project I started to try out [some new java gui library]". I don't seem to remember speed issues using it.
I’ve been mostly remote for my entire career, about 20 years. I don’t think I’ve seen significant productivity issues with newly remote colleagues. I’ve just seen and felt a whole lot more stress. Not all because of being remote, a lot of it has come from mismanagement. In my experience people are mostly doing as well as you could expect given a dreadful situation. I don’t expect they’ll perform better under arbitrary scrutiny.
RadioShack is one of my favorite examples of a company that just couldn't evolve. They could have been a leader in the online electronics doodads market. They already had distribution warehouses to stock the local stores. One could have been converted to a pick&pull warehouse easily (in my non-experienced logistics point of view). They couldn't even do cell phones well.
biology does this.
> We think its the best solution to the employer demanding positive ROI on the disease management and telehealth based solutions

Just rereading this one line - again, I'm pretty sure your motives are noble, and perhaps you can move the needle a bit. But... why should employers be demanding positive ROI on something that isn't their core business? "Employers" as a whole, having to learn about various 'insurance' options and dedicated people to help guard their investments in Human Resources - something about this troubles me greatly. It's... as if... unless I'm somehow 'good enough' to warrant the protection/benefit of a 'good employer'... I'm less than worthy of good health, or access to necessary care. And... once that employer has no more use for my services (or someone else can provide them cheaper)... I'm essentially on the scrap heap (someplace we'll all be, metaphorically, at some point, sometimes through no fault of our own).

Again, I wish you the best of luck, but "employer provided health insurance" is just something that really is past its sell-by date, even if you can squeeze out some savings for employers and provide some good for the select few special/lucky enough to be employed by a company so forward-thinking as to engage your services.
> all stages in completing the implementation of capability based security started long ago with the separation of root and users back in Unix.

Ahem, such distinction predates Unix, and in fact Unix has a watered down regime compared to Multics, which implemented a multiple ring approach.

In other words, computing existed before Unix.
They did say

> I deployed it on November 6, 2021, the same day that Stripe stopped billing a significant number of my customers, left all their invoices in a Draft state, and didn’t tell me about it.

So at least a significantly large portion are outside of Canada.
The best computations are in powers of 2 [citation needed].
Gosh I hate hero images so much. Wasting anywhere between 30%-100% of the above-the-fold space on an often completely meaningless stock photo or illustration with a loose connection to a keyword — who the fuck likes that?
I need an exec cheat sheet for this one.
This combination of tools actually has a lot going for it. I love streamlit and snowflake isn't so bad either.
Is graphene stable when buried or does it return to the carbon cycle? Or is the plan to use it for other things?
Bitcoin doesn't do damage to the dollar, it enables easier wealth extraction from US adversary countries.
If you get rid of it, In about 30 years you're going to have pangs of nostalgia and want it back.

If you keep it and don't use it, you'll never feel those pangs.

As with the migration from 8 to 16 to 32 bits, most software won't support 32 bits in 5-10 years.
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1749618880/webhook

RIP - 5 or 6 years ahead of its time.
It's still possible to JIT Wasm code and run it, though. WebVM does that.
I'm not quite understanding the need to put them on blast here. Yes, they should have been more apologetic and they should certainly have escalated your ticket more quickly. But they made the changes you wanted seen: better documentation & better process, and reaching out to customers proactively when they see this problem.
Grandparent's point is that, in something with less functionality, you will hit missing feature X quickly, and it won't be the same missing feature as any ten random other developers. It is just your interpretation that it is, somehow, primarily about inertia or image. Joel on Software has an essay about (missing) features: https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2001/03/23/strategy-letter-iv...
Yet again, the desires and needs of workers are trumped by portfolios with commercial real estate and portfolios with companies that rely on commercial real estate.
Nice to see that Java works pretty well for indie games these days -it's a more pleasant language & ecosystem to work with than C++, and you don't need to deal with Unity's bullshit. Slay The Spire and Mindustry were written in it.
Reminds me of feature flags. They seem sub optimal at a code level but highly beneficial at the System level.
But why force people one way or the other ? Let them make their choices. Why not give optionality and then optimize.
I don’t know much about SV traffic but in Bangalore people were routinely spending 4-5 hours in traffic everyday pre covid. I don’t see how this can be beneficial for anyone at an individual level and for the company as a whole.
Interesting!

Do you have a particular use case in mind for this, OP? It's certainly always a fun and educational exercise to make a Lisp in another language, but the embedded aspect had me wondering if there is a particular problem that you aim to solve by that integration.

I'm picturing something like libguile does with Scheme?
If anyone is interested in this topic, I recommend the book "Field Guide to Understanding Human Error" by Sidney Dekker

It's an incredibly thorough treatment of the incentives and psychology that lead to people labeling process failures as 'human error'.

Most of the book deals with manufacturing, aviation, and air control failures, but the principles generalize so easily to software development that it's a treat to read. One thing that makes it so good is that I was vaguely aware of most of what he covers before having read it, but reading him stitch it all together brought me to the point of intuitively understanding the concepts that had been floating in the back of my mind, and being able to see them all around me at work. He puts it together so smoothly that after having read it, it felt like I always knew what I had just learned.

It's super expensive on amazon https://www.amazon.com/Field-Guide-Understanding-Human-Error... but available on all the online library sites that aren't for linking in polite company. It's also on audible.
You're right that there are many reasons people might seem to be underperforming in remote work, but unfortunately it doesn't really improve the situation for managers or coworkers. If many employees are spending their time in childcare instead of their job, it increases the burden on other employees who have to work extra hard to pick up the slack. It's a miserable situation, and because the reason for slacking is a protected one there's virtually nothing others can do about it.
Are you seriously explaining litigation costs to a quite well-known attorney working in this space?
Can anyone from SF vouch for this? I went there recently and it seemed fine, not sure if I just got lucky.
We definitely do not want to put plastic back into the carbon cycle. It was created from oil that was outside the carbon cycle for millions of years, bringing that back into the carbon cycle created the climate change situation we are in. Bringing more of that back into the carbon cycle via plastic just makes things worse. We want existing plastic (and carbon in the air etc) taken permanently out of the carbon cycle somehow.
Their other ones are very minimal. "R1 for fast attack." Etc. That's it. And they're delivered as messages, which simultaneously introduces you to the messaging system.

ER delivers them as very big popups that actually pause gameplay -- a first for the series, I think (pausing of any kind, I mean, besides cinematics). The fact that they're not delivered through the messaging system has I think led to some confusion for new players as to what the messages even are.

The popups also have more info, which I think can ironically be overwhelming for new players. Something as simple as "R1 for fast attack" allows players to discover the intricacies and nuances on their own through trial and error, whereas a big wall of text that takes them out of the game can feel like information overload after the 2nd or 3rd. I'm a pretty experienced player of the genre and even I was like "jesus, chill out" after the first few popups explaining new mechanics that are specific to ER (another problem -- there's a lot of new mechanics, so it really can feel overwhelming fast, and thus finding mastery and the pleasure it brings can be more difficult).

It's not a huge thing, but I definitely noticed it and was actually really struck by it. I found it very surprising, given the previous games' extreme minimalism in this regard.
Does the size of a computer limit it’s energy consumption. Meaning is there an equation describing power consumption limits of a circuit based on size.
It all comes down to you. Recent software on old hardware is most likely slow and hard to maintain, if it can be run at all. So to me it wouldn't be worth it.

But if you want to run old software that meets your needs then it's ok. I've heard of an author that used Wordperfect to write. He loved the fact that he could not get distracted by other software and he loved using the word processor to write. Old hardware worked for him.
Good thing I’m not a foreign people.
It's been a bit like having access to my computer's terminal for me. I didn't expect the power. I did way more than just turn off the distractions. I fucked some shit up and had to spend some time in the shop. But I also learned how to fix the stuff that was broken and then stay the hell away from the terminal the rest of the time.

My issue was mainly that I couldn't turn the UI back on.
But also I fucked up all the links and the whole system was out of order.

Now I still use it when necessary because I still have bugs, which is really easy because just thinking about it will pop it open. But I mostly use it to signal to me when the UI is starting to fade away; not something I was good at before.
Evidently he is not, then, interested in getting more popular, because the invasion is an economic disaster. But he doesn't get his power from popularity. He gets it by being the baddest ass on the totem pole.

Chances are the invasion on the northern and eastern fronts are more or less feints, and only the southern front actually matters to him, as it gets him full control of the Black Sea shore and the oil fields. He needs the Ukrainian forces fully occupied elsewhere, and doesn't much care what happens there as long as it absorbs enough of their attention.
Central allows the majority to rule the minority. Distributed allows the majority to rule the minority but also allows groups to move to a jurisdiction where they can be the majority, or at least have a more friendly government while central does not.

Central is certainly easier for the rulers though and they have much more power and resources.
> US citizens are eternally out of scope for Army psychological operations

When did you quit the force? Targeting US citizens has been allowed for almost 10 years, now.

Source:
https://www.businessinsider.com/us-domestic-propaganda-offic...
Pack up to 3MB of data into a tweetable PNG polyglot file
> And yet it is no exaggeration to say that, socially, H is of English letters the most important…

I love this.
I thought I was crazy looking at their API and thinking it was crap because everyone seems to praise the Stripe API. I ran into undocumented sections around line items for Checkout objects, and the whole loop-around to go from Checkout Session -> Payment Intent -> Charge Information -> Order Information -> Line Items (or whatever order the 4 separate, synchronous requests our app has to do to get cart line items) is overly complicated.

Like, why do we even need Payment Intent? I just want to make a Checkout session, set a few variables, and have it return whether the same Checkout session was successful or not, how much was charged, and the line items for it in one request, not four, five if unoptimized.
Sounds like the first step towards the world described by Issac Asimov in "The Feeling of Power": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Feeling_of_Power
Ethereum is now estimated to consume energy equivalent to or greater than mid-sized countries like Greece[1]. You can paint it as tiny, but 0.1% of world energy output is still enormous, for providing what is for the most part a highly speculative set of financial instruments to a limited audience.

It's been "about to go PoS" for several years now. The fact is it hasn't. When it does, you can tell people their concerns are out of date. About Ethereum. Bitcoin isn't even going there and its consumption is as bad or worse.

[1] https://www.statista.com/statistics/1265897/worldwide-ethere...
The ETH PoS chain is already in beta with the expectation of transition (the merge) later this year.

BTC mining is creating new business models for renewable energy [0][1], BTC uses less energy than many other activities that don't get the same flack- AC usage, Data Centers, etc [1]

[0] https://www.coindesk.com/policy/2021/10/11/bitcoin-mining-is...

[1] https://blockworks.co/mining-mutualism-renewable-energy-and-....

Finally, if energy is one of your biggest expenses, you're economically incentivized to reduce those costs as much as possible.
The weekly average just for the US last time I checked was over 1,000 deaths per day. I don’t even have to calculate age distribution to know that thousands of grandparents in a childcare role have been among those deaths.
Not everyone has the temperament to slack. I don't enjoy "phoning it in" and will work on things (including overworking) to accomplish results, even if others aren't carrying their weight.

If you build an org like this, the inevitable outcome is all the top performers leave (as they're tired of covering for low performers) and eventually nothing gets done at all.
What services are the best for transferring large sums of money cheaply, safely, and quickly? In my experience, you can only choose one. I would prefer to chose two: cheaply and safely. I am not as worried about time. Recommendations?
Somewhere it says the first million is free, so if you're small time it's effectively free
I think you missed something here; parent wasn't insulting the author. They were inferring that someone who made an archiving tool probably has resources that help with archiving (bandwidth means access to documents and storage space means a place to save them-- you get the idea).
32-bits is hard. I keep a Vaio P around out of nostalgia, but my options to keep it working are increasingly disappearing. Chrome OS Flex won't run on 32-bits, Arch 32-bits is a now a second tier distro at best (most AUR packages are not compiled to i686 or pentium4) etc.

Unless this is a special piece of hardware--and not just yet another generic laptop--do yourself a favor and get it recycled.
> I personally can't say what 'non-black' even means,

Strange, most black guys could.
https://ecat.com/

I'm disappointed, because the Dec 9 event was previously a new LED light of some sort, and now I can't find it with a cursory search.

$25 maybe for preorder at the time. Maybe I'll check wayback machine or something.
CLI and Python SDKs for interacting with Gretel's privacy engineering APIs
If companies don't want IP leaking, then society provides them plenty of avenues and incentives to prevent that from happening, from NDAs to fines and prison time.

If companies don't want employees working for anyone else, then they should compensate those employees for that privilege. They don't own anyone's free time unless they pay for that privilege.
I looked a bit into the company SWIFT and found this: https://www.swift.com/swift-resource/250836/download (warning: downloads the file)

Page 3 is interesting (ignore the rest, they're mostly buzzwords). It shows you the numbers behind the financial infrastructure of the world for international transactions.

>FIN availability: 99.996%
>Institutions connected: 11k
>FIN messages: 9.5b

That's about ~300 messages/sec, although I imagine it's mostly bursty and peaks during US/EU common business hours
> Like, why do we even need Payment Intent?

Could be to support payment methods in Europe and countries other than the US?
IME Kotlin is the worst of both worlds. It's like they took every cool one-liner example from Scala and said "see, you don't need a whole functional language to do that, we can just add this piece of syntax sugar and you can do the same thing while keeping that Java feel", but once you've done that a half-dozen times you end up with a language that's actually even more complicated since it doesn't have the underlying consistent core that Scala does.
yea it’s for mobile
> There have been entire monasteries full of people who spend many hours a day meditating for thousands of years. They don't seem to be mentally unhealthy on the whole,

Not to be snarky (ok maybe a little), but they do believe in unprovable beings on some "higher" plane of existence...
yuan is highly stable over the past 2 decades, in fact it gained about 20% on the dollar over that time frame.

The problem with Yuan are more with its low convertibility (read: usage rate outside China), but that may change eventually. Using currency sanctions to achieve political goals are simultaneously expending trust in those currencies.
Latin American has pretty much NEVER been allowed to pursue it's political destiny without the US interfering.
Right, Streamlit is decent but the price tag is a headscratcher. It's not as if there aren't plenty of other mature Python dashboarding solutions.

https://medium.datadriveninvestor.com/streamlit-vs-dash-vs-v...
Amazon Ads Uses PyTorch and AWS Inferentia to Scale Models for Ads Processing
So all Americans are to be blamed for Iraq, Libya et all right. Add in UK as well for good measure. Heck majority of Americans wanted Hilary to be president in 2016 after she voted for a war that was based on a lie. Look where Iraq is right now as a country.
Lenin - 200k executions, 5 million deaths due to famines

Stalin - 800k executions, 1.7 million deaths in the Gulag, plus some famine and some miscellaneous brings to around 5million, some estimates upwards 20 million.

Everything after that sounds like a breeze.
iPhones are boring. Perhaps a shiny new M2 chip will reinvigorate interest from myself.