skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> 2. This was literally a selling point of this.

FYI "Google Fi" has never allowed more than 6 months abroad and it's never been a selling point for being outside the US for that length of time.

I don't think "Project Fi" was ever clear on what the maximum limit would be until at some point before 2019 (can't find when specifically) they started strictly enforcing a 6 month limit, you can find many Reddit posts at the time of people running in to this issue: https://www.reddit.com/r/ProjectFi/comments/89w4vp/extended_...

I also think there should be exceptions extenuating circumstance but even if there are significant legal barriers to provide that I think the failure here, as is often the failure with Google Fi, is the lack of communication.

Google Fi has your phone number and they have an app installed on your phone, they have multiple ways they could give you a heads up that your about to hit your abroad limit. Google Fi offers you the ability to pause your service, it would be easy enough to notify you 2 months, 1 month, 2 weeks, 1 week, and then daily that you are about to hit that termination date unless you pause your plan or return to the US. Then you could get a local sim and pause the Google Fi service with ample warning.
If neither of you are historians then why is your opinion more credible than his?

In any case, the evidence supports his view much better than yours. While climate change is not the only factor in the collapse of the many civilizations of the region (Southwest Asia), it is one of the main factors. The region (which includes Mesopotamia and the Fertile Crescent) having been experiencing a warming climate and many instances of droughts. By the 1200BCE, it was in what historians now called the Dark age of Mesopotamia, leading the weakening and ultimately downfall of the Sumerians (even earlier), Egypt, Mycenaean Greece, the Hittite empire. What was once known as the Fertile Crescent is now mostly a dry and barren region.
sure, I just gave an almost extreme example for our capitalist societies, but just reducing their consumption by 20%-50% is easily achievable for most people, and that makes a huge difference
This is my favorite part of the job too - digging through weird, ancient spaghetti code and finding obscure bugs. Then either crafting a fix to the code, or creating some kind of migration path or workaround to mitigate the problem. Unfortunately in a lot of companies this kind of "maintenance mode" job is not well-paid or well-respected, and is given to the least-qualified devs. I keep finding myself promoted out of the position, or assigned to work on something that supposedly has more "impact" (read: increasing revenue and/or encouraging investment), even though from my perspective the most impactful work is helping loyal customers who already value the product highly enough that they're paying for support.

How did you deal with the "overqualified" problem, or did you switch early enough that it didn't matter? From my end, I have over 20 years of development experience, and I feel that often disqualifies me from consideration by a lot of employers.
All business models that promote VPNs feel parasitic to me. For example, there is this "unprotected" thing in red screaming DANGER to the unknowing visitor that feels exceptionally scammy. It says I am unprotected while I'm using a VPN to my server, Mullvad VPN or even Tor Browser. Why don't you say "You are not connected to NordVPN, the sponsor of this site"?
Age verification sounds like an application of zero-knowledge proofs
the one time i visited NYC i naively tried to use a public toilet at a subway station. entered the stall -- faecal matter coating every surface. filthy is an understatement.
Are you still not following that this "omission" is something you've entirely made up in your own mind by selectively copying one quote from an entire article?
Why is trying to improve the health and safety of the population “elitist”?
Why would they? It's Russia that is under sanctions and where banks are limiting currency exchange.
Oh yes I often ignore the whole metro and just walk. Especially since Covid.

It's actually better than it sounds for me because the metro makes a huge detour during those 20 minutes. Walking is a lot shorter than the metro route. It takes me about 1 hour. 7km or so (some uphill though :) )

Problem is where I live it gets quite hot in summer and it makes a 1-hour walk after work exhausting. In winter I do it more often.
I've been working on an IDE for music composition.

Launching soon https://ngrid.io.
Frankly, it’s kind of hard to pitch blockchain if you’re at all honest with your stakeholders.

“So, we want to recreate databases, except vastly slower, far less energy-efficient, and way harder to use.”
Kudos for those safety features, smart people don’t hire people dumber than them.

And it’s great that you found out that PS3 uses XKCD’s random generator for nonces (or maybe XKCD stole the random generator function from Sony, Sony should sue them).

Elon likes to take his teams ideas as well and present it as his: the gigacasting was a documented example where the Italian company had the idea years before Elon started talking about it, and they met Tesla at an auto show. Elon presented as he was looking at his Tesla matchbox and thought that it would be the best to scale it up.

Probably this similarity between Elon and George was the reason why they couldn’t work together.

I still love the idea that he (and his team) wants self driving cars to drive as an average human driver as possible, just with non-stop focus, while if you look at Tesla, they care about accident rates. The problem with Tesla’s approach is that on the videos nobody knows if the human driver should take it over or not, and I think that’s what’s really dangerous, and not the optimal way to get to full self driving. At the same time Tesla has orders of magnitudes more money.
A good argument against X might try to show probable -- or, failing that, plausible -- consequences of X.

But that video's too much like, "If they pass this law I don't like, aliens will invade, earthquakes will shake, and volcanos will erupt!".

If you want to make a real point that people care about, it has to make sense. You can't just make up non-sense, cite "artistic license", and expect people to believe it.
An Experience Designed by Committee
I have been working with a few Russian and Belarusian software engineers on Upwork and I now pay them in cryptocurrencies, because Upwork (and other websites) banned their profiles and they can't receive my payments.
I was a software developer during the dot-Com days. Lost everything when my company folded. Transitioned to being a licensed funeral director. Some of my funeral director highlights include working for the Office of the Chief Coroner, supporting the Canadian military during Afghanistan operations as a civilian funeral director and ending up in Haiti after the earthquake in 2010 to do recovery efforts for the Canadian government. Got injured on the job and ended up on long term disability. Transitioned back to be a developer because I used the downtime to learn to code again.

Let's just say the last 20 years of my life have been an adventure. Life is good.
Not a full switch.

But I started a cleaning company. I build custom software to help run the business because I could not find anything to fit my needs. My skills also came in handy to build the website to make it exactly for our needs.

And things like building a chatbot to help bring on new cleaners is what we are starting to build right now.

I still code, but not so much these days. Mostly manage and architect. But occasionally I get my hands dirty to deal with things I want quickly and efficiently.
Fair enough, and probably more people feel that way? Not all tech is good tech, especially not if one follows the money. But I feel the stuff I've done in my career have had a direct impact on people's lives, but perhaps it's because I self select for those kind of projects because that matters to me?
Mastodon proved years ago that you don't need a blockchain to decentralize Twitter (which I don't mean as a dis on Orbis, but merely a rebuttal to the suggestion that a blockchain is necessary for this use case).
I think I'm going to dig out my copies too. Enjoy!
Exactly, surmontable challenges makes one achieve. When everything is easy, why change?
What is FFA?
Sad to hear that top minds just give up on humanity and accept money as a goal by itself.
I do have long term investments (5 nanometers, extreme litography, electric vehicles... just what I love), I make money, but is not something I need to live.

Last month, when war started I told my team, Aerovironment stock, is gonna double (war drones) but I'm not gonna be part and I want you all to feel how calmed I'm about that and undertand (I don't need those 100k).
I now undertand the difference between being Socrates or a 'sofist' (greek philosophs both, one for pleasure, the second as a job).
Investing shouldn't be a need, is what's best for humanity. I think Elon musk already refered this way
The resulting policies from the league of nations after WW1 directly contributed to the rise of Germany as the main antagonist of the European theater of WW2.

In that context, the Marshall Plan was a complete reversal of policy, and saw the rise of allies out of the ashes. It should be small wonder, then, that the Marshall Plan gets the credit for averting future war. Certainly it was not panacea, but that is no reason to ignore the effect entirely.
https://archive.is/4FME8
>I’d never deny that there are streets that smell like piss from time to time

in my city we somehow contrive not to have any streets at all smell like piss, ever. in the civilized world we stopped using streets as outdoor latrines over a century ago.
The text you quoted does not seem to convey any displeasure at the law. Think what you like.

> This added step is informed by

Why so passive? Why not "required by"?

> We’ve built our age-verification process in keeping with Google’s Privacy and Security Principles.

Why not omit this apologia?

Also, that statement about the DMCA is on every single search page with DMCA omissions. Do you think Google is going to cite the ID law by name on every page requiring it? I guess we'll find out, but I'm not holding my breath for this.
Fun story - '94 there was a deodorant ad with Charles Barkley where he plays an "explorer". In the first two seconds of the commercial, you can hear the grinding of stone doors (think Indiana Jones).

How did the jingle house create such a noise you ask?

Two toilet tank tops from the bathroom, rubbing together. A perfect match!
Nope, it's an unintended consequence, I think the political motivation is naivistic. It turns into a kind of censorship, but was conceptualized as a speed bump.
That protects against bugs, segfaults, incompatibilities, etc. Not intentional malware.
Oh, get your head out of the sand. It doesn't take much searching online to find many valid use cases for the basics of blockchain verification.
Mastodon provides immutability? Huh
>to compare the one where he turned his engine off and on one time at night over a couple campers

The camper incident caused a UFO report.
The maglev in Shanghai isn’t very usable: it doesn’t go to the city center, just somewhere remote in pudong. It is fast, but if you need to get to the airport from somewhere except one or two places in Shanghai a taxi would do better. But definitely ride it once.
I'm in the process of transitioning out of a FAANG SWE position to be full time in property development.

There's not enough houses for people to live in. Most people hate you for "driving up prices" and "gentrifying neighborhoods" - but it leaves me much more satisfied than engineering.

After paying ~40% tax for a decade and paying ~3x what the Fed and State spend per Capita over a lifetime - it's nice to see my working hours reduced dramatically and my true tax rate drop down to ~12%.

You don't need to make $1M per year, when you don't have to give $400k to the tax man.
Here's the final cut - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eXce26k-leU
Lots of people are using it, so yes it has a use, and while people keep using it (even if it's not the best way to achieve their goal), it will continue to have a use, and the skeptics (I number myself as one) should just get used to it.

One definite potential use-case is FX settlement, which currently goes through an obscure (and expensive) bank-owned coop-type institution (CLS bank). I think other inter-bank and central bank uses might also make sense.
Programmer Power (2020)
Is Mastodon really decentralized? If you use YourName@SomeMastodonSite and SomeMastodonSite deplatforms you - how do you keep your posts, likes, comments and contacts?
Except, like I said… I just don’t really notice those things that much, and if your description is so tainted by that stuff that you remember that instead of walks in the parks; nights of omikasa sushi; basketball, football, and baseball games; evenings out with friends; Persian, Thai, Chinese, Italian, Georgian restaurants; world class museum after world class museum; days on the beach; parades that go on for hours with incredible costumes and floats; Broadway plays; movies in the parks and squares; concerts; and the wonderful varied architecture… then yea, you provably should live somewhere you enjoy more!

That’s what I think about when I’m in NYC, and sure I see the piles of trash… I just don’t really care. It’s a necessary part of having a gigantic megalopolis. Are there downsides? Certainly. Calling it Stockholm Syndrome when I and many others in my situation have both lived elsewhere and could leave tomorrow? That just seems like a laughable failure to see things through a different view point than you have.

It’s fine not to like a place, it’s the whole “I don’t like it so you must be deluded by ‘if you can make it here, you can make it anywhere’ and have Stockholm Syndrome” part that seems a bit like a mindset that’s not great at accepting other view points or ideas.
what is my alternative?

Do I actually need to list all of them? There are a lot.
Do you have any info/links on autonomous shipping ?

Deep sea autonomy should be a .. breeze (ha!). Last mile is obviously a different beast.

Maybe the trend to larger ships makes autonomy just not worth it. Crew cost is fairly marginal. AFAIK shipping is fairly legacy and regulation-bound, with captains filling in excels and emailing them daily to HQ.

EDIT: i recall a Norwegian cargo ferry doing a daily near- shore route. kudos to them
Glad you like it! It came about because the feedback I got was that not everyone knows or is good at technical analysis, or even wants to learn it.
A friend of Alice and Bob.
My understanding is that if a military is not protecting tanks with a screening force of infantry to counter ambushers equipped with anti-tank missiles (since, unlike video games, tanks/armored vehicles and infantry are intended to work together hand-in-hand to support each other) and if that military has not established air superiority or provided proper air defenses against drones (e.g. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pb5_F4_Eod8), then yes, their tanks are going to be ineffective and vulnerable. But, as the proverbial doctor said, "If it hurts when you do that, well, then don't do that."

[EDIT] It also doesn't help if the opponent has several big friends with immense reconnaissance capabilities that are telling them exactly where the tanks are at all times, allowing them to pick the best spots for ambush to make them much, much more effective than they normally would be.
somehow i don't think the invasive measures will go away with artificial placentas and factories that pop out healthy and ready 25-35 year old professionals/drones.

what will we think of then?
Someone summarise this for me please.
A version of this is extremely useful in Deep Learning code, where a lot of time is spent trying to guess the shape and dims of tensor variables. To help with this I often name variables like inputs_b_t_f where b = batches, t = time steps, f = features.
This combined with something like einops [1] ( intuitive reshaping library) can be a huge time saver.

[1] https://github.com/arogozhnikov/einops
Why? it would not be forced on you but think about this super easy scenario.

1 I buy a device for my child and I set it up and enter his birthday, say he is under 13

2 I buy me a device , setup my account and enter my credit card to use the Store , the OS now is 100% sure I am an adult

3 The browser on our devices knows our ages now

4 13+ , 18+ webpages will mark this in the header , the browser on the child phone knows to not just allow the child to click "I am 18+ old" , the browser on my device would check my settings and say if I am a religious guy I tell the browser not to show the pages to me.

5 if you can't or won't tell your OS or browser your age either send your ID card to all websites or don't go there, big websites will respect local laws so maybe you can have luck with a VPN or some small website that does not care about local laws in a different country.

I suggest this idea as an alternatives to having to send ID card copy to each websites, I am not advocating for UK or Australian laws to be made default everywhere.
> Which IIRC they reported back in 2020.

I don’t know if they did, but did they do it before or after the election?

Because before the election, both SV and MSM were trying to shut the story down as “misinformation”. Only later (after the election) did I notice that it was quietly confirmed, but that was more convenient for Biden wasn’t it?
There are a few core features music is missing on top of their semi-unintuitive interface.

For starters, it’s as hard for me to plug my phone in on multiple computers without licensing alerts going nuts/blocking certain songs despite the fact the music was bought through them. That is baffling to me given how synchronized Apple ID usually is.
We railed against the cops publicly during 2020, I think the police are happy to sit back as municipal workers and wait 10 years to collect their pensions.

What people don't realize is reducing police interactions with citizens is exactly regressive, leading to more mistrust between citizens, traffic deaths, and even pollution and climate change as per this article.

This comment on HN would have been downvoted to grey for the better part of 18 months until only recently, as a point of reference. During the Trump years assumptions would have been made about the commenter. Now I think we're all coming to agreeing that we need police to do their jobs and to hold them to it, or we get articles like this one.
I have never seen a defi example that didn’t ignore Coase.
> When our phones have billions of transistors, are we seriously supposed to believe that RISC philosophy still matters.

The point isn't just saving gates because it's cheaper. Less gates means less critical path length, meaning less power consumption, and/or higher overall performance when compared apples to apples.
The amount of times things are asking for feedback has increased by orders of magnitude in the last decade and yet things keep getting shittier and shittier.

Walmart added a "rate your experience" screen to their self checkouts, thus slowing down the self checkout lane and creating a worse experience by asking for feedback. I seriously want to meet the person who did it just to get some attempt at justification. I long for the days when Palm had a person counting clicks.
About 7000 people per day [1]. Because they either

- Don't know you can do it from a command line

- Don't bother remembering the order of arguments

- Want to see all record types in one go instead of
repeating the command for every record type

- Would like to have the output clearly formatted

- Are currently on mobile

- Would like to see additional ip info for A/AAAA records

- Would like to check responses for multiple recursive
resolvers without remembering all their IP's

- Would like to test GEO DNS

[1] https://plausible.io/nslookup.io
Yes, if anything the causality is reversed. Wealth enables a country to exploit others, not the other way around.
Zelensky signs martial decree combining Ukraine news channels into one platform
Just putting it out there:

Are their companies out there that do a cultural fit/assessment (it's nonsense of course, they just want to make sure they like you) BEFORE proceeding to a technical interview? Why not save the candidate's AND interviewer's time?

Agreed that this might be a legal minefield, but for fucks sake, look at all the anguish the widely practiced interviewing practices creates.
Wait, but they do point out the law requires them. And as you said,

> Pointing out that a law is requiring them to do something is the least anybody can do if they object to that law's requirements

Generally, I prefer comments blatantly contradicting each other to at least be a little more spaced out than yours are.

Have a good day.
A step worse. At least the mob stands a chance of being shut down.
"As the marshes dried up"

Did they dry naturally due to some kind of local climate change? Were they drained by humans? Did they dry up because humans diverted their water sources for power, irrigation, etc?
absolutely,meld is my favorite,along with the filters
I will be going over the top four best winning products and highly profitable product strategies in 2022.
Europe was practically bankrupt after WW2, including the UK.

Add on top Germany stripping valuable factories from the countries it occupied, which was then either blown to pieces or taken back to the USSR, there weren’t a lot of options for Europe after the war.

The US taking on the much of the cost of rebuilding Western Europe was paramount in accelerating the economic recovery.
Searching for Outliers
Blockchain technology itself is a great way to extract money from gullible people. I have friends who raised 8 digits from clueless VCs, to build solutions to problems that wouldn't exist without blockchains.
That's awesome! Glad you found a niche
This blog is awful to read. Wireshark will decrypt your ssl traffic automatic if you tell it to.
That's awesome. Funny how, as you get older, you might be bolting across "campus" to catch a meeting in another building, laptop under your arm, cutting across "the quad" to save time. For a second you catch a glimpse of the gardener outdoors in the sun, weeding around the perimeter of the quad and the thought suddenly occurs to you that he may well be enjoying life more than you.

To be sure, the pay is great, but as you get on in years it becomes easier to consider if you might already have "made enough".
>questionable functionality

Legitimately asking this: how so? I don’t really have any issues with it and I’m formatting drives all the time off of it. Are there some other features that are janky?
Also lets them easily join in credit card purchases to user info.
It isn't nice though, as the maintainer. I gave up on doing any kind of open source stuff probably a decade ago for way less than screaming. Just getting bug reports is depressing, it was a relief to walk away and never have to think about it again. I know I didn't owe people anything, but hearing that I'd written buggy incomplete code (which worked and was good enough for me) sucked the joy out of it all.
I'd been programming for about 20 years, but it wasn't fun anymore, and it had become a drag that I wanted to get away from. I recently (end of last year) applied to (and got hired at) a teaching position at the school I got my own degree from (they're programming and related courses, so it's relevant to my experience). This is something I had promised myself a good decade ago and I finally made good on it. I used to hate leaving the house to sit in an office, and wanted to work from home. Now it's a classroom, and I love being there and having this role. It's everything I hoped it would be, I honestly couldn't be happier.