skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is similar to what Germany and to some extent Italy are doing, and it's very different from sanctions. I'm ambivalent.

Germany's clearer, so I'll use it for examples: Germany bought coal, oil and gas from Russia, and decided to stop that after the invasion. This is a big threat to Russia, because it's large, fifty-year-old contracts being ended, and that has a certain finality. Once a customer has found a replacement for a large and old contract, regaining that customer is no simple matter.

Sanctions take effect quickly, but can be ended just as quickly. The Ukrainians can use sanctions for bargaining, "give us Crimea back and we'll ask our friends to cancel their sanctions, so you can get spare parts for your BMWs and supplies for your dentists".

On the other hand, these changes have urgency. So long as the Danes haven't started building, the Russians can hope to repair the relationship. If the Russians wait too long with starting the negotiations, Denmark will have half-constructed new infrastructure. That's not going to be torn down again, once started.

There's something to be said in favour of time pressure. But I'm ambivalent. Thanks for listening.
Sports wagering is getting more social via the Web3 treatment which will introduce NFT’s as rewards for successful wagers and predictors. The idea sounds great and is being pursued successfully by New York-based Stakes.
Stakes, in a recent funding round, raised $5.3 million for sports and sports wagering fans in a bid to integrate NFT‘s and Web3 in sports wagering.
#sports #betting #NFT #web3 #crypto #fans #Nfts #predictions #wagering
Are professional programming experience required for all the role listed? Things like Business Analysts or Market Data etc?
You haven't proved me wrong, you just said I am wrong.
Before HR there was a Personnel department, and before Accounting there was a comptroller, accountant, or some other person doing the books (even if it was the President of the company.

GAAP based on my reading is as much an outgrowth of regulation post 1929 as it is anything else. It's less about standardization and more about accountability. Even now though, with good reason one does not have to comply with GAAP, so long as you have a good reason to depart from it.
you can't buy monkeys pictures otherwise.
10% of what? Endsales price? Not too bad.
Calling what they were doing simply "disagreeing" is a little insulting to common sense.

You have every right to disagree and protest --- but you don't have a right to illegally blockade bridges and prevent others from traveling to work or to the hospital if need be.
“ In the beginning there was NCSA Mosaic, and Mosaic called itself NCSA_Mosaic/2.0 (Windows 3.1)”

Mosaic was for UNIX at first and wasn’t the first browser, so what on earth is this?
It's a retention issue. If people don't level up fast enough and get raises they'll leave for another company.
That makes sense. Googlers keep dumping out technically interesting products with no go-to-market strategy because one time doing that, they made a perpetual money machine (search ads). The problem is it’s 20 years later, technology has changed and not all markets are like search.

Throwing something out there is fine when it’s a magic website that answers your questions. When it’s, say, a half-baked messaging app none of your friends use, not so much.
I think Apple continues to innovate in new product categories.

Apple Watch

AirPods

M1 Chip

Services (Apple TV+, Apple Pay, Music, Fitness, iCloud etc).

I include iCloud for services likeHide My Email and Private Relay.

They do this all while maintaining a consistent release cycle of upgraded versions of their hardware (new iphones, macs etc).

Also, everything in the list above has been developed under Tim Cook which is also impressive. He's been able to maintain Apple's ability to expand into new products and services.
> whole different ballgame

What an apt phrase.
A 70% take rate on a cellphone app in a country where 73.8% of the population lives in cities... And this is being characterized negatively?
The datasette tools are really great. I use them for pulling GitHub statistics, such as the distribution of GitHub followers, from their REST API into an SQLite database with sqlite-utils(1).[1]

Simon is in the 99th percentile (PR=0.998, n>25,000+) of GitHub users by followers.

Thanks for such great tools, Simon!

[1]: https://github.com/andrewmcwattersandco/github-statistics
> Sure, there’s plenty of space out in the middle of nowhere. But can you imagine the scale of the infrastructure that would be required to turn so much of that into living space? Think streets, water, sewer, power, food distribution, etc.

My position is "we don't need to move everyone into cities or expand public transit infrastructure to every corner of the country". It is not "we should move everyone out of the cities and distribute them uniformly across the country".

> Anyway, I’m not saying everyone should live in concrete jungles either. Think more like the Netherlands than New York City.

The Netherlands has 10x the population density of the US, and the US probably would come to resemble NL if we didn't have the luxury of space. The US has a whole range of density, however--if you want something like NL, we certainly have it on offer, and I'm fully on board with making urban and suburban areas more people-friendly. I just disagree with people who think we all need to live urban lives.
I saw your original post and your cringe edited one. I won't even comment.
User-agent strings finally make sense now. I thoroughly enjoyed this article.
If a person is locked up in one feature/one product and unwilling to learn new things for the years then I do not think that person should be promoted. You can certainly give merit increases to keep up with inflation but that's about that. Ultimately, we all responding to market value of a person. That value remains unchanged for someone not learning anything new for years after the earned experience saturates. In many professions like doctors or pilots, experience never saturates and continues to increase person's market value however in other like cashier or barista that's not the case. So this opinion is job-dependent.
Hey, super interested in your OPNSense install. I also have a ProtectCLI box. However it currently runs PFSense.

Whenever I try to install OPNSense it fails to load once installed. Maybe there are some initial configuration steps that I am missing? Last time I tried this, about a month ago, internal DHCP addresses were not getting assigned to clients. Troubleshooted for an hour, no results. So back to PFSense I went.

Do you have a guide for installing and configuring the basics? Or something you would recommend?
@uncleOxidant (great screen name!) Don't disagree but a weak deadlocked 'democracy'. with uberrich globalists making key decisions and funding them is not a good way forward either. The German National Socialists were great 'green' investors in the 1930's, that didn't end well...

https://www.amazon.com/Green-Tyranny-Exposing-Totalitarian-I...
It really depends on which market segment you are talking about.

There are high-end products like Gucci or Saint Laurent where you really aren't paying for much other than the brand. Sure, some of their products might have great quality, but it's so far down the spectrum of quality where returns have all but diminished.

You bring up rain jackets. I think that's a great example.

Any rain jacket that even mentions windspeed is gonna be some knockoff garbage. No self-respecting company would ever talk about that.

https://www.patagonia.com/product/mens-torrentshell-3l-rain-...

This is a good option for a rain jacket. Notice how none of the copy tries to sell you on any gimmicky features? The only "marketing" BS is their 3-layer H2No® tech. But that's just Patagonia's name for one of their waterproofing techs. It just makes it easier to differentiate which product of theirs uses which tech.

While that Patagonia jacket is a good option for most people, it has some drawbacks. The material is very stiff and heavy, the material feels terrible against your skin, it doesn't have much stretch so it limits mobility, and it has virtually no breathability.

https://www.rei.com/product/894312/patagonia-stretch-rainsha...

Whereas this jacket (retails for $200, so about $50 more) is better in that the material is much lighter, softer, and stretchy. It has about the same performance in regards to waterproofing and breathability, but the improvements in the comfort make it worth that extra $50 _for me_ every time.

Of course, if you spend even more, you can get almost everything you want out of a rain jacket. That's not to say that more expensive jackets are always better, that's definitely not the case. The question is what do I need out of a rain jacket? Once I determine that, I find the product for the lowest price that satisfies those needs. That second jacket fit my needs and I bought it after trying many other jackets.

If I'm embarking on a month-long hike in the mountains during a rainy season, I will probably spring for the best option since I'll be wearing it all day, every day and it can literally make or break your trip.

So you might think some of these features are pointless, or overkill. But that all depends on what your use is. Obviously buying a $600 Arc'teryx jacket for your kid to walk to school is overkill, but that's not even the price-point that the author is talking about. He's complaining about $16 socks.
Thanks, I appreciate that feedback. I agree that I was over enthusiastic. Unfortunately I can't edit the post now, but will do better next time.
Fruition, Plex, and Minecraft haha! (at least the ones I can remember)
My late Uncle Vic taught me how to repair clocks and pocket watches when I was young. I let it go, and returned to re-learning it with this book. I still dream of completing my first, from scratch, pocket watch.
And then you get Go readability reviewers enforcing a single letter (!) variable names so that everything fits in 80 columns. Do you prefer that?
> if you want to reduce the amount of abortions, do stuff that actually helps: promote sexual education, support free and available contraceptive, support government programs that help families so that having a kid is less of a financial burden, support longer maternity leave.

Our society already does most of these things. One I would add is adoption.

> All stuff that will reduce abortions. Isn't that the goal?

I don't think reducing the number of abortions is the goal of many pro-abortion people, no. I think they just want a convenient way to not have to deal with a child they don't want by making it just go away.

> why are mist people against abortion also against most of this stuff?

Many people who are for abortion are also against much of this stuff.

> we all know that outlawing abortions doesn't stop them. It just makes them more dangerous and lead to more suffering for everyone involved.

This argument assumes that abortion is not inherently wrong. Many people who oppose abortion do believe that it is inherently wrong. If abortion is inherently wrong, it should not be legal even if some people will choose to do it knowing it is illegal, and having to do it by more dangerous means. If they choose to do it knowing it's illegal, that's their choice and they will have to bear the consequences.

> what is really your goal here?

As far as I my personal policy preference? I think the fact that there is such profound disagreement about whether abortion is wrong means that there should not be one single policy dictated to everyone. Different states should be able to have different policies.
What wallets do they use instead?
Came here to write the same - that was amazing...
Masks don't even work for many of the things people want them to work for.
The biggest thing for me is using only async communication methods and not responding right away except if there's a problem.
Plaid moved away from scraping years ago, most integrations these days are through APIs.
Or you can keep 100% of your own self publication monies. If 10% of whatever you think O'Reilly can get you is more it might be a reasonable deal?
Indeed.

It probably would have been much better to plant $1B worth of trees, or buy $1B of the Brazilian Rain Forest. But for similar reasons that Robert Moses loved bridges and hated tunnels, putting your name on a building at Stanford wins.
We'll have to agree to disagree here.
Do their budgets balance or do they take on credit card and other debt to manage the deficit ? I am not claiming its one way or the other as I do not know the answer.
I have worked in three FAANG's and that was not true in any of those once you reach a certain level. This is somewhere between 4/5. The reason is that at that point the employee is considered mostly independent and can be expected to solve their task without too much intervention.
I use this: https://github.com/SimonBrazell/privacy-redirect
I've worked in ISO companies and non-ISO companies.

ISO 9000 (I think 9000, it might be 9001) is less about standardization and more about documentation - you can use any process you want to produce a result provided it is adequately documented, and reproducible, the process can be anything you like so long as its a documented one. Similarly, you can deviate from that process all you like, provided you document those exceptions and why they were made.
I learned the mnemonic "Compress ze files" for tar -czf and "Xtract ze files" for tar -xzf. Also netstat -plant for showing occupied ports.
Minetest might be that thing for you -- the whole game is a collection of mods, meaning that it's essentially designed to be as easily extensible as possible through its Lua interface.
He has one on the ICE actually, though I don't have the link handy.
rsync to external USB HDD in my case. I cycle two 8TB externals between my home and safe deposit box for offsite storage. I swap them and then do a fresh rsync of all my jails/etc.
I'm pretty sure Snowden or the schihub founder would be candidates to freezing. Cryptos are really useful for specific edge cases where the law become too retrograde. That is not a huge market, but that is a meaningful one.
According to his Twitter, he just uses bare canvas and WebGL. [1] What a legend. You can inspect the page and read the source js, it is unminified.

[1] https://twitter.com/BCiechanowski/status/1484013009219375105...
Good point. Part of my "struggle" is the fact that my crypto holdings are essentially just for fun, and I never need to figure things out.
2016 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14683173

2020 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25540870
Gotcha, I didn't realize that there was only a single PCie x1 available, that puts things into perspective.
It’s a bad choice too better to generalize in chem e
Women aren’t competitive???
I bought a second hand Acer chromebox with a celeron and 4GB ram for $15 on ebay (plus another $15 for shipping). It's much more powerful than a pi4 and a lot cheaper too. Plus, it's x86, not arm. I'm running docker swarm on it and using Cloudflare's Argo tunnels.
> In the US your public bank account number is effectively a password to debit your account! There’s literally no authorisation at all!

Don't you also need the routing number? How does this differ in other countries or anywhere that checks are used?
Isn't this problem shared by pretty much every large company? Why is Google particularly bad?
There are diseconomies of scale too. My experience is mostly of UK higher education, but my feeling is that most universities are a bit too large for their governing structures, and are poorly run as a result.
I think you meant "pro forma" not "performa".
I think there are a lot of FPLs, like Erlang (and friends) and F# (which is in TFA), Julia, which are #1 and at least mostly #2, with their concommittant benefits, without the pain in the ass for small benefit of #3
> There are a lot more factors to the equation than farming space

Yes, but agricultural footprint is the dominating factor.

> And what do you think was there before the farms?

Nature, to my point. Recall that you're the one arguing that suburbs rather than agriculture is threatening nature:

> The enemy of wilderness is not urbanists, it’s suburban sprawl.
Reminds me of the parable of three envelopes
I wonder if any company has successfully eliminated promo-culture. One possible option (in tech context) is to have same base for everyone (like Amazon used to have) with a $0 to $1billion stock range for everyone. Then you select actual stock amount in proportion to increased customer satisfaction, product impact and adoption. No promos ever. All the mess of titles "Staff", "Principal" etc are gone too. No one talks down to anyone exercising their titles.

What would be problem with such a system?
I think that the person(s) that created the interactive visuals would find this to be a helpful comment. Radically impressive is a fitting description. I don’t think I’ve ever seen and interacted with anything like it, although I imagine people working with CAD software get to see and mess around with this kind of stuff pretty frequently.
Don't blame the developer for what the frameworks did
If they start off as VPN but morph into something more (like Cloudflare, Google, etc...) then it really doesn't matter how you define them "today" if their goal as a company is to become something more/different.
I use a different email address on each site (though usually the same username).

Many services today use emails as their userid, and even often the login username (account display name being separate), so I think it's probably more common for attackers to match passwords with common emails rather than common usernames. But they can & will still do both, so the unique username certainly has some use.
It's a culture thing IMO. I used to be an electrical engineer, which has a strong culture of "everything I don't specify is a black box that I am free to change" (since the core products of EEs literally are black boxes with some wires sticking out the bottom). I was shocked that programmers don't think the same way. Also, the super-coders having bad attitudes on PRs matched my experience, and is incredibly toxic.

I think part of it is that programmers don't like to write a lot of documentation, but infrastructure services have very long lives and naturally build up a lot of documentation. If you write down a lot of promises, you also have documentation about what you don't promise. Unfortunately, the culture of G was that docs don't get updated and you promise all observable behavior.
Should it also be weighted such that finding a letter in the right place is worth more than in the wrong place? That could make sense specially if one letter in the right place is worth more than two letters in the wrong places. Should we unleash a Wordle Solver program to see if that is true? The author is right of course, this is all a waste of time. :-)
Only true for E3/4. After that you can stay forever. I know someone that’s been E5 for 12 years
Screwed up in what way? I haven't noticed any difference since the account migration.
I believe you haven't read what rvz is talking about. He didn't say payments with lightning wouldn't work. He said that lightning nodes are a centralized system which open the doors to censorship and manipulation, which was the motivation for btc in the first place.
This is utter nonsense.

In the US you can't become a flight instructor with a private pilots licence. You have to pass your commercial licence first. Just like in Europe.

You have to do at least 100 of your hours as pilot in command in the UK to get your commercial license. You will have to finish that before you can be an instructor. You can't make money from flying until you have finished your commercial licence.

To be an airline pilot you will need to have flown 1500hours in Europe or the US. Nobody gets there because of culture, they get there by flying 1500 hours

The US has better flying weather so you can build his more quickly, is cheaper and because there are more trainees there are more opportunities to build hours at someone else's expense. But cheaper does not mean better.
The Hy page had way too much syntax, but the Hissp Quick Start didn't have enough? Or not soon enough? One does have to understand the little pieces to make sense of the big ones. You want something in between? Can you point to an example at the right level?

Ctrl+F and try skipping to ";;;; The Basic Macros" section on that quick start page. Is that about the right level?

For many of the "popular" languages, a simple cheat sheet showing the equivalent control structures in a common language might be enough for a typical programmer to get a handle on it quickly. But Lisp is not an Algol-family language. It's different enough that such a document would fail to convey what makes it interesting. There's an inferential gap that must be bridged first, and it's difficult to do that quickly; a programmer mistakenly [expecting a short inferential distance][1] may not have the patience to "get it".

[1]: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/HLqWn5LASfhhArZ7w/expecting-...
SQLite and Lua could have been coded in C++ with no downside. They could be coded in Rust with some loss of portability, but nowadays anywhere you can compile C, you can compile C++. There is no difficulty whatsoever in exposing a C API from a library coded in C++.
Deflationary being bad has nothing to do with essential spending and everything to do with discretionary spending. I (and many people I know) don't buy games that we want to play right away because we know they will be on sale in a month or so, and can wait. If I expect houses to go down in price I will not put a lot of effort into buying a house, and instead rent for now. Used car prices right now are extraordinarily high, so I will not be upgrading my car until prices start coming down. I'm not buying a new graphics card because I think prices are inflated and I believe they will come down sometime in the next yea. Etc...

A significant portion of our economy is reliant on discretionary spending, and when discretionary spending drops we usually end up in recessions, as companies that rely on that spending start layoffs.
Did you misspell "world" as "US" ? Or are you dishonestly using non-representative figures? The US has a much smaller proportion of the developed world's men, women and children than it does the land, and those men, women and children are extremely carbon-intensive.
yes. I've picked up a few on ebay:

https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_nkw=wyse+3040

Many listings will not include the power supply, but if you have a drawer full of wall warts, you can probably find something that works.
I wonder why it took so many years for Stripe to start competing in this area.
Yes the public account number and routing number. Which are printed on my card, statements, might be read out loud, etc.

My bank in the UK would not let you debit my account with just the numbers. I’d need to authorise it.

How do you stop people debiting your account with whatever they want?
OK i wanted to read some CCTV...maybe so i googled, first link:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CCTV_(disambiguation)

>Closed-circuit television is a remote monitoring system using cameras.

That is just hilarious!
Okay, but the important part is "the five places you'd be willing to live". There are significant reasons most of us aren't moving to the middle of nowhere to be able to afford a home.
I think promotions to the next level should just be considered a new job (in the same company), and you don't 'win it' or get promoted - instead you apply for it and go through an interview process.

That sounds like a recipe for an incredibly toxic environment. Not only are you hired for a specific pigeonhole, you are expressly forbidden from progressing through it: at least in some sane companies promotion is preceded by already having done the new role for a time and the title jump merely formalises the situation.

In fact, I thought the pigeonhole hiring in traditional finance was bad enough. You just managed to outdo decades of dysfunction in one try.

The last thing we need in tech is a codified caste system.