skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Many teams had to discover those practices during the pandemic; companies that didn’t adopt them effectively likely lost a lot of people to frustration or apparent underperformance. After two years, many people have had the time to find places where those practices are understood and practiced, or at least have met people who know they can be.

I feel like the real story is something like this: a lot of people on HN are folks who have a highly introverted nature and work in jobs that demand extensive quiet time. Also, most are pontificating on the internet, but still haven't returned to the office. They have almost completely forgotten the velocity achievable when a team works together.

Can you overcome the limitations of remote work with better, more intentional documentation? Yes, to an extent. But my experience is that once you go back to working as a group, you'll re-discover that in-person communication has orders of magnitude more bandwidth. And if you have those best practices in place and work in an office together, you're even more efficient.

I don't hate remote work -- I do it myself, sometimes -- but nothing works as well as in-person communication. I forsee a future where most companies embrace a hybrid schedule, but demand in-person attendance on a regular basis.
Fusion reactors are likely to have very high operating cost, due to their complexity and the difficulty of repairing them after even minor malfunctions (because all those complex innards will be inaccessible to hands on maintenance due to induced radioactivity.)

A fission reactor can operate with 2% of its fuel rods leaking. A fusion reactor will cease to operate with a single leak from a blanket module into the reactor vessel.
I don't think anyone will disagree with the fourth paragraph or with forcing the platforms to clearly set out their rules and apply them universally instead of selectively, but some of the issues around what is harmful and what constitutes defamation will dissuade a lot of important discussions on these platforms.
More evidence section 230 of the United States Communications Decency Act needs to be either rewritten or clarified such that oligopoly media (FB, T) who wantonly censor or maybe even use _any_ sort of algorithmic amplification are not covered by this provision.

NYT or other activist media are free to ignore / interpret as they see fit.

But the wanton and overtly partisan censorship by the massive amplification engine that is FB/T/G needs to be properly reconciled with the definition of "publisher".

If you control views / engagement and in effect distribution but choose to moderate this channel in accordance with a policy that is over and above what is legally mandated, and aligned with your personal whims, it seems you are in effect a publisher and should be held to the same standard.

In this case as the author points out it is plausible the actions of FB/T/G swung a close election without the obligation to justify, in a court of law, why / how / what / when / where those actions were taken which if in place may have led to a more fair and balanced treatment of the 'laptop from hell' story.

Current law does not seem to account for the massive influence suppression or cancelling of distribution has on the influence of the public. It is an act of speech in effect. Nevermind holding the executives of these companies accountable for personal statements that have the same effect.
>If it was completely luck, then they (hopefully) wouldn't do it.

I remember an article in Analog, a very long time ago, that touted how dowsing was used to locate mines in Vietnam. John W. Campbell was into a bunch of silly things.

https://www.latimes.com/books/la-ca-jc-astounding-20181115-s...

There was a guy who made millions more recently selling fake bomb detectors that were used in places like Iraq:

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-22380368

If it was not real, would they use it in life and death situations? Yes, yes they would.
Kagi is probably a lot more usable, right now. Nobody’s trying to game it.

As long as it remains niche, it might actually stay that way indefinitely. I’m just worried about Google taking inspiration from them. I bet whatever “tricks” they use now would get a lot less effective if they did.
> It's actually about the licensing of the source code and not the source code itself.

This is a big misconception. The Open Source Definition requires source code, you can't have an "open source" project that just releases binaries under the BSD license for example. The OSD (and the Debian Free Software Guidelines that the OSD is based on) is about the software and its attributes, including both the source code and the license.
Which are used for military purposes, and they always give warnings to avoid loss of life.
> That is likely to change in the next two years as Blue Origin continue their certification

Do you mean Boeing? Blue Origin aren't competing for commercial crew, and haven't even managed an unmanned orbital flight.
Currencies dont really work at the "may the best one win" level, especially with so much political power behind it. You have a dominant one which stays dominant till it implodes. Then people fall back to the next best thing. You dont need to be attractive, it just has to work.
https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2018/05/21/london-is-a-laundromat-f...
dense old-world cities were constrained by city walls and mobility.
If "most sane people" are not the target audience it makes you wonder who is.
If that's a non-rhetorical question no they don't because that's a criminal matter, not a commercial one that was handled in an Emirati court in 2009. But distrust as a consequence of failures of the domestic system where exactly why they bothered to built an entire parallel judicial system largely in the decade afterwards.
great project! definitely curious about this for lots of reasons; can add as resource to our legal topic filter list at Breeze search whenever you go live; may also be some collab opportunities
Why would someone in another country steal your money unless you give it to them.

Don’t get involved in shady schemes and try to double your money.

I encourage you to put a tiny bit of fiat into the system and play with it. Low risk. Buy some Bitcoin. Make a wallet on your phone and transfer it.
I think it’s something that needs to be seen to understand. Stop fearing what is designed not to happen.
Quantum hair may resolve black hole paradox
I suspect there is also a race component to the numbers being so wildly off. It’s something that I actually have noticed a lot over the years.

About 15 years ago when I was in high school, I asked a classmate “without looking around, how many Asians do you think are in this class right now” (he had just ranted about how the Chinese were taking over everything). He estimated 70%. There were 4 out of around 30 or so. a lady who I later found out was extremely racist once told me quite confidently that NYC was >90% black.
except that in some case this private companies can change the rules of the game like happens whit etherium, who fork the blockhains after one of the biggest owner being theft for have an insecure smart contracts, and some Blockchain only allow certein type of transactions, o request specific fees for gambling for example.
Thank god the supply chain attacks are happening in software, not at a molecular biology level.
You don't need crypto for that. Cash will work. Or a system like India's UPI - direct, instantaneous inter-bank transfer, with no fees, via mobile apps.
> like corrupt leaders in Africa, the Middle East and the developing world all dump their ill gotten gains into the opaque system away from prying eyes.

Not just limited to London. Vancouver is a prime example of that thanks to an out of control immigration policy coupled with almost no enforcement for financial crimes [0].

Anyone with money who can't pass the stricter bar for US immigration and investment tries to hide it there.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snow_washing
> it costs them money

The value calculus of something always seems to be heavily dependent on who gets the bill.

> even if it is in their own best interest.

I'm one of those people blessed with knowing what's best for other people, but I restrict my efforts to giving them unwanted advice. I don't care to force it on them.
Makes me curious how accurate a GPS clock is, they must be pretty good given the timing precision needed for accurate positioning.
For any document in the form of PDF files, this is fairly trivially done using a certified PDF signed by a member of the Adobe Approved Trust List. Other data could be signed by PGP from an issuer that publicizes its public key. In practically every use case there exist trusted parties, obviating the value of decentralized certification.
Bad call.

Governments can change things. Blockchain is eternal.
Here I am in Ontario wishing I could come up with the magic formula to get a colony of bats to set up shop in the woods near my vineyard, so they can dine on the japanese beetles that decimate it every year.
That tells me how to value a degree from there when looking at resumes.
This point should be discussed more (and sadly isn't). Who is going to enforce the de-escalation in case of outraged mobs and individuals, and the automated artifacts of war they left behind? The likely answer is nobody, and it will just breed more violence. It's the reason behind banning certain munitions in warfare, by the way.

It's not just the individuals either. Broadly speaking, the whole war happened because there are very little de-escalation mechanisms in modern politics, leading to runaway processes of hatred and violence. And being able to back down requires williness, understanding, and most importantly mutual guarantees. There are simply no such mechanisms in place, modern politics can typically only go "forward" (whatever the perceived forward direction is) which is self-destructive.

Things should be as reversible as possible.
And among other things a price that's stable enough that you can actually cost goods without the value spiking upwards or downwards under your feet.

Zoom out to the "all" range on https://www.bitcoinprice.com/ and try to tell me with a straight face that you're looking at a graph that belongs to a stable currency. Heck, even just look at the last two years.

Part of the problem with Bitcoin in specific among all of these cryptocurrencies is that the Bitcoin community in particular is completely divided on whether they want a speculative asset or a functional currency. You can not have both. A currency that is regularly spiking in value to the degree that Bitcoin spikes (even a currency that spikes upwards in value) is not suitable for everyday transactions. A currency that doubles or even triples its value in 2 years is not a good currency.

The bigger thing to understand is that it is impossible to fix this problem with Bitcoin, because a sizable portion of the Bitcoin community doesn't want Bitcoin to be a currency. They want a speculative asset. In my opinion, that portion of the community is significantly larger and has significantly more influence than the portion of the community trying to create a currency.
GIS map of coyote sightings in Bloomington MN: https://blmgtn-mn.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.ht...
If it's a bubble, it's a pretty lousy one in terms of returns. Some energy stocks were up 100-1000% a week ago due to surging oil prices. And then some SPACs were up 500%. Some guy on reddit's wallstreetbets recently turned $17k into $600k with amazon call options. I never seen anyone make those kind of returns with crypto...just guys with tiny Binance or Coinbase accounts who are happy to make 20% from a $1000 initial investment.

The same coins now like litecoin are unchanged even as far back as 2017. So either it's a weak bubble or a deflated one. Compared to stocks, Crypto is dead..nothing goes up for more than a day..tons of wash trading. tons of scams.

3x tech etfs are way better than bitcoin anyway. I would rather own TECL and TQQQ instead of bitcoin. TECL and TQQQ were up over 100% in 2021 compared to 60% returns for bitcoin.
Everything needs a risk assessment. If a reactor needs to shut down once a month for two months of maintenance that is obviously untenable. Nobody is arguing that. Bad engineering yields bad results. MCF devices need not be made by bad engineers.
Long before Dubai registered on the map, their speciality was gold smuggling towards India. It's also no coincidence their entire economy is run by British expats, the native citizens are an indolent rentier class that just skims off the top.
Here in Ontario coyotes seem worse in urban areas than rural. We live on 6 acres just outside town and we hear them at night, see their droppings and the remnants of their rabbit-dinners, but have seen them only a couple times in our 10 years. They're dreadfully shy.

In town, though, they're brazen and walk right by people and sometimes will snatch their pets from their backyards as a snack.
We’re talking methodology so I think it’s fair to dig deeper.

The most obvious point is, how do you tell someone you met is transgender ? The question itself is pretty weird IMHO.

It would also be interesting to see how many gay people the Americans responding to the pew survey reported to have met.

All in all, these survey are about what people think, it seems pretty hard to come up with control numbers, or validate a methodology as much better than another in meaningful ways. At most we could have different surveys from different groups converging toward the same numbers.
> The Ipsos one [0] has French guessing 30% of population as Muslims (vs 7.5 for reality) for instance.

Looking at prison population, 30% is actually significantly under the real figure (close to 50%).

[0] https://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/26/opinion/the-mill-of-musli...
Classic correlation =/ causation problem.

If you are napping during the day, it's probable that you didn't sleep well or enough the night before. We know that, amongst other things, sleep is absolutely necessary to clear out toxins that build up in the brain during one's waking hours, and we know that people who get less than 7 hours of sleep per night are themselves at a significantly heightened risk of neurodegenerative diseases. The studies behind that particular stat strongly suggest causality - I don't have the paper handy atm but they've done experimental studies where they've taken the experimental group of rats and prevented them from sleeping, as opposed to this study which is simply observational. With the group of rats that are chronically sleep deprived by the researchers, they are significantly more likely to develop neurodegenerative disease.

I wouldn't draw much from this paper, aside from being astounded that a team of scientists wrote and published it without apparently seriously considering the basic and frankly obvious causality issue that an average first year science student would be expected to notice.
huh is this actually true?

Darwin already works on arm, as the iOS is darwin
That’s not that big of a deal, just move BTC into a stable coin first and then use that for the transaction.

Bitcoin is more akin to a gold like store of value than a currency.
The Russians did not come to London to corrupt the political elite. The elite was already corrupt, they just came to avail themselves of this corruption.
A white paper was sent to a small group of people in 2008, yes. But the group that acted on that is a subset of those people, that consists of maybe Hal Finney, Craig White, whoever Satoshi is, and a couple others. It's an extraordinarily small group of people.
Some blog posts related to the EU and innovation:

https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/european-innovation-and-ca...

I especially like this one "How Tech Loses Out over at Companies, Countries and Continents" about outsourcing:

https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/how-tech-loses-out/
I feel like you live in an imaginary world where the data doesn’t fit reality:

https://usdsat.com/

Fiat is going to ZERO. All fiat currencies. I’d you fail to see the utility now at year 13, I hope you will not let another 13y pass.
> You just need to control the onramps and offramps.

Thats a nice theory, but in reality it is false/implausible to be able to control every single on and off ramp in the world.

Evidence: Nobody is currently controlling all the on an off ramps, despite the fact that I have heard the same exact argument that you are making right now, for literally over a decade.
Crypto is not the evolution of money, it's the evolution of the pyramid scheme.
Many years ago, I almost bought a Tadpole.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tadpole_Computer

It was the sparc flavor... but they had an Alpha too.
It's pointless to poll a country where public statements against the "special military operation" are criminally prosecutable with 1-5 year sentences. Only TV zombies will respond.
The small town where I grew up in has one now.

Also if you’re in a small town without a co-working space, there probably aren’t many software employers either. So you’re either working from home, commuting to an office, or commuting to a co-working space.
I worked in the ad industry for years and made good money doing it. I now work, unpaid, on a FOSS passion project.

What I would advise is treating each job as a college course which you also happen to be paid for. For me, this meant not allowing myself to become emotionally invested in the work, taking good notes about what I learned each day, and looking for a new job (typically with a raise) once those notes were sparse for too long.
Because indexing the web and organizing all that information is expensive. It’s also a lot of power so we can’t exactly trust that job to a single government or even a group of allied governments. Universities could potentially handle it by pooling a lot of resources, but I can’t really think of who else I would trust to be The Search Engine. Google isn’t ideal but at least it’s priorities are mostly aligned with the average user’s.
we require prescriptions for drugs for a reason. medicine should be evidence based. I am also upset that pharmacies sell homeopathic remedies. people selling snake oil hurt society and should be forced out.

further there were supply problems with ivermectin when only a small portion of the population was trying to take it. a clinical trial on ivermectin was halted due to supply issues. imagine if it were recommended broadly.
Stocks "represent ownership", is such fiction I don't even know where to start. If you really believe this, I'd like to sell you 49% ownership in my next venture! I of course have 10x voting rights and can issue more shares whenever I'd like ('oh but why would you do that? Won't that depress the value of your stock too?' 1. Not really because of crazy structures of the banks that underwrite these issuances, and 2. Because fuck you, that's why! I want more money and I can use any number of excuses to dilute you, like: "the capital constraints of our business necessitated these extreme measures" ), I can flex on my employees by giving them all kinds of triggers and contractual ways to screw them. Sigh. No. Stocks today (as in those that are traded on NYSE, etc ) don't "represent ownership" to the average person. They represent an idea, a way of saying, "This company will be worth more in the future than today".
That doesn't sound very scientific. I personally suspect if you took a proper poll you'd find the numbers about the same as they were a year ago.

Myself I'd prefer to be back in the office. Just not the office I was in that was 45 minutes away. Working from home was dragging my soul down.

So I quit, living off my RSUs for the time being. Wherever I end up though, I will be asking for some kind of office, even if it's just me in a WeWork or whatever paid for by the company. That's just part of negotiation for me now. Being at home with the dogs and the kids and the distractions is unbearable.
hi, i can chime in and say this is a known fact. M1 is not OOTB IBM PC compatible (unlike almost all x86), which means no standard BIOS/UEFI firmware interface for bootloaders like grub etc. internally, there was some significant overhauls to the automated testing and silicon validation/quality control processes during development (well before pandemic) which resulted in a need for this. apple can validate their silicon, but foundries, factories and other third parties are typically not able to (without added cost, implementation, Apple intellectual property, etc), so developing this was cost beneficiary to apple and eases production, and is really just accordance with existing industry standards for CPU manufacturing. i am just surprised this was made public, the motive i do not know, but i hope this helps explain, it's my first comment on this site.
More context: The main thing I'm unhappy with is the extra developer burden imposed by needing to denormalize information. E.g: I have a user document in Firestore, with userId, name, and avatarUrl. If I want to be able to fetch a list of comments and have the name & avatarUrl of the creators, in Firestore I have to write those alongside userId. Then, if I later add isVerified to the user document, I need to either backfill my entire db and denormalize again; or client-side handle the missing case.

Then the other pain point is the "joins" use case; right now we do the equivalent of fetching all comments & users, then doing an in-memory join. Ideally, we could craft a single request that just says "get the 10 latest comments on this market, plus the associated avatars" without data duplication and without doing a bunch of up-front thinking about exactly how to structure indexes.

My hesitation with relational DBs comes from the mismatch between client data model (loosely, JSON objects of pointers) and how it's represented in the DB (in a row); plus the requirements of needing to specify your e.g. indices up front, and annoyance of doing migrations. I'm hopeful someone's found a graph-type solution to work really well for them!
I really doubt this causation, for a few reasons.

1. Everyone gets sick and dies. Dying a bit earlier from diesel probably doesn't cost more than whatever you would have died from later.

2. These other countries also have government funded pension system. If people live longer that's an added expense! If you do the cynical math, government finances are best if people die of something cheap soon after they retire.
If your strategy is "we will be the only currency remaining after every other fiat is gone, and then people will use our currency even though they hate it because they have no other option", then I have bad news for you about the future of Bitcoin.

If your perspective is that Bitcoin isn't going to be a ubiquitous alternative to the USD for general purchases until after the government collapses and no longer has the political power to prop up the dollar, then I have bad news for you about your currency's usefulness as an anti-authoritarian weapon/tool.
The article starts out with this quote:

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“The four most expensive words in investing are: ‘This time it’s different.'”

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And then proceeds to talk about cryptocurrency as a bubble.

The same rhetoric was used for email, webcams, web browsers, and internet companies (dot-com bubbles, VCs etc).

This time is much the same. There's a lot of hype and a lot of hate. Behind the hype is real technology that is in the process of being deployed.
Fiat inflates by design. It is very specifically intended to never be an investment. It is meant to be spent or invested in equity and interest-bearing securities. Deflating currency is never spent. Hence, Bitcoin is not currency and comparisons to fiat are not meaningful.
At this point are ESA and Rocosmos even relevant?

SpaceX completely dominates the launch market and has a 15 years lead on everyone. Short of countries bared from purchasing launch services due to ITAR and nationalist job programs everyone is seriously lagging behind America.