skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In many states OZs were selected as political handouts and were placed in areas where development was already planned. The characterization that they lifted up poor regions is pure horseshit.
I loved that book. They started off with nothing but slide rules and large brains. Incredible.
Prominent Apple staffers write letters to management, resign over office return
My brother and I have developed a "the enemy was capitalism all along" refrain, and it's pretty wild how what started as facetious irony has slowly felt more and more correct.
There’s a command in pyenv called “python-build” that more or less automates the Python compilation part. Most don’t realise it (it’s hidden from the general UI) but that’s where most pyenv functionalities come from.

I agree the rest of the pyenv (shims, shell magic etc.) tends to make a mess.
You don't handle it. Garbage in, garbage out.
Agreed, it’s just so strange to see the hyperbole get more ridiculous as we get better graphics... As if graphics alone are all it takes to make an interactive experience seem real. It makes me wonder just how familiar the average person is with video game physics, because I don’t consider myself a hardcore gamer or anything but it just baffles me that you could play any kind of 3d first person games for more than a few years before beginning to “learn” these instincts because they actually help you play games better, learning what to expect from the physics engines, learning how to gauge when your close enough to hit the button to interact, at some point surely even “casual gamers” will begin to learn these at a “meta level” and be able to generalise this knowledge across individual games and begin to “see the matrix” so to speak.
I think the easiest way to explain is this:

Think of any SaaS app that has webhooks to notify users of events, and an API for automations to respond to those events. For example:

* Chat service -> Chat bots

* Forums -> Moderator bots

* Spreadsheet editor -> User scripts to perform complex calculations when a cell changes

* Payments service -> Hook to send an invoice upon a successful monthly payment

Today, for a user to receive those webhooks, they have to run a server somewhere. Maybe on Digital Ocean or the like. That's easy if the user is itself a SaaS service, but it's a high hurdle for many other users.

Imagine instead that they could just upload JavaScript directly to the SaaS service, and it'd be run by the service in place of sending a webhook.

But most SaaS app developers don't want to be in the business of trying to run code on behalf of their users. Security and efficiency are both pretty difficult to get right.

Workers for Platforms lets the SaaS developer leverage Cloudflare Workers to do this. Cloudflare understands how to run arbitrary code security and efficiently.

So now, the SaaS developer can offer their users the ability to upload code snippets to automate events.

(Disclosure: I'm the tech lead of Cloudflare Workers, and I'm personally very excited about this product!)
What are the lightweight alternatives to Preact?
I just want this to work by spending the minimum bandwidth to the user.

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For some reason he didn’t want to fund William Stein and his rival to Mathematica.
Thank you !

If never been good at C, but I'm enjoying reading though this
What would you do to get a job in tech in a week/quickly? [pdf]
What would you do to get a job in tech in a week/quickly? I set myself a challenge this week to get a job or at least an interview by the end of this week starting 9th of May 2022. So far its going badly as usual. I remember a time when I could literally get a new job within a week, it was very easy to do, I never worried about it too much after finishing university as perhaps in hindsight I was over confident in my approach. I have now been looking for work since August 2021. I honestly don't know what to do anymore other than endlessly fill in online application forms (I even tried to do freelance a bit and land contracts to be more flexible but am met with similar results) it is just at a point where it is getting hopeless, people talk of the tech industry like its breaking into the big screen in terms of acting or something. The thing is I would be willing to work in any tech job at the moment even IT support. I consider myself a good programmer etc... but I mean even when I try and narrow stuff down nothing new changes I am still stuck in the same situation. I thought maybe its a good question to ask here, for example if you were struggling and hypothetically you needed a job by the end of the week, you had 5 days to find a job no matter what, what would you do? I thought this would be a better question than asking over and over again what should I change in my CV / Resume and such because I feel like I am constantly doing this and nothing changes. So I thought its a better idea to ask more what would you do from scratch in this situation so to speak?

Please note I am based in the U.K. and not the USA.

Other points:
- I linked my CV for reference on my background.
- I am located in a small city in U.K. that has no local tech jobs but am willing to relocate or work remotely.
> Does that not lend at least tacit assent by ambivalence, if not outright assent? Welcome?

Not at all. It reads like pure sarcasm.

> The next 750 words are given over to normalising the "lot's of valid reasons" to surveil workers, and lending value to an emerging surveillance industry

This is a rhetoric device to underline that you understand the incentive of those employing it in preparation to offer a better alternative, e.g. actually capable management. Or just to explain why managers want to use it.

An employer has of course the right to check your work to know why he is paying you. I firmly condemn management employing crapware like this, I think the developers offering these solutions are very likely shady characters. Defining a goal a worker has to reach is exactly what surveillance management isn't capable of. Employees will optimize the metric not the business goal and honestly I would help them cheat it in any way possible.

> It would be improved by actual productivity studies, the psychological literature on workplace surveillance

Not needed to reject it as an employee at all.
The plots are utterly surreal as well. If it's a parody of economist nonsense it's done perfectly...

It seems like it's trying to make a point about how we never truly recovered from 2008 but it's poor grammar and overcomplicated everything really detracts from the point.
> In a traditional banking world businesses take a loan either to cover for a short-term cashflow crunch (example an invoice that's delayed by their client) or for longer term investment. That money usually goes into economic activities which are expected (hoped?) to bear fruit to repay the loan.

There's another option in the traditional world that also makes sense in the crypto-world:

People typically borrow shares of companies so they can sell them short. When the loan comes due, they 'cover' their short by buying the stock again. (So in some sense, the share that you give back is not the share you borrowed in the first place.) If the share drop in value between the sale and the covering buy by more than the borrowing costs, the short seller makes money.

Taking a crypto-loan would be one way to short-sell a specific crypto-currency.

Those crazy interest rates you mention are relatively normal for hard-to-borrow stocks with a lot of short interest.

Shorting stock is perfectly legitimate, and the proceeds from the short-sale usually sit with your broker as collateral for the borrow. In that sense, they don't go into 'economic activities which are expected (hoped?) to bear fruit to repay the loan'.

In practice, I suspect that most crypto-loans are not for short-selling purposes, but closer to what you suggest.

> The music has got to stop at some point.

Funny thing is, heavy short selling is one way for the music to stop earlier. And short selling needs exactly the kind of borrowing we decry here.

(Just to be perfectly clear: short selling by itself doesn't cause a collapse in value; Tesla hasn't collapsed after all. But short selling is a way for people who predict a drop in value to profit when their prediction comes true. Thus incentivising to add their information into the market price.)
He's right about the auto rejection. I have a degree in History which I never bother putting on my CV, but I have 20 years as a developer. My CV doesn't get auto rejected.
This sort of approach only works reliably if you have a credible alternative to the negotiation.
Are you sure? The Luna Foundation has been the largest buyer of Bitcoin the past couple of months because they knew their scam was crumbling and they needed an actual reserve asset. Yesterday they deployed their reserves to exchanges and OTC desks in order to start buying up their scam token and keep their scheme going a little bit longer.
It also takes magnitudes more efforts to means-test than to simply distribute resources equally, yet here we are.
Or get of it completely? It is only used by a "narrow" sub-culture group in the USA, as far as I know.
Same here. I don't generally have a lot of faith in supplements beyond a diverse and reasonably balanced diet or nor do I think it's a good idea to make uninformed decisions risking to disturb the body's natural equilibrium with wrong dosing, but as I'm not a big fan of eating fish, omega-3 supplements are an exception. As long as research seems to point out obvious benefits, I will keep taking them.
Yes thanks, I took it to mean understanding what are likely to be the bottlenecks in a particular system and how your design assumptions might shift those bottlenecks, which seems to dovetail with what you said above. Having said that your example above is interesting, I hadn't thought about conflicts between the cache algorithm itself and the cached data in memory.
Its a very common misconception that immigration takes away jobs from the native population. Also known as "Lump of Labor Fallacy".
I love it when articles about privacy and consent published on sites that don’t give me that option.
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"If it could have been outsourced it would have already been outsourced."

You're in for a rude awakening.

It wasn't outsourced before because:

1) standard was in-office and

2) no mass movement to validate it

3) 'outsourced overseas' often meant 'poor country'.

We are only expanding overseas right now because the quality is good and the price is much better. At least for what we are doing.

The Valley is not going away, neither are high salaries, though I do wonder what it means for 'home talent at the high range'.
I played for a while in both large alliances and smaller niche corporations. It's a very flawed game that is completely unique and mesmerizing.

The bad:

- The dreaded "learning wall" is/was very real. Nothing is/was properly explained or introduced. Best tip is to join a new player friendly corporation ASAP to get some proper explaining.

- The combat is janky and a lot of the skill involved is/was learning how to abuse or sidestep technical limitations such as the one second server tick time and the quirky methods of manually controlling your ship.

- A lot of players prey on newbies to scam or troll them out of what little they have. There is a certain edgy attitude to a lot of pirate players that are attracted to the games "full loot" model.

- Most of the "missions" or "dungeons" feel really stale, and it's slow as molasses.

The good:

- Looks completely amazing. As in jawdroppingly beautiful if you like hard sci-fi.

- Everything that matters is run by players. This is the most unique aspect of the game. No other game has a constant ongoing player driven lore like Eve. The market, the social constellations and much of space itself is run by players. There have been huge market plays, alliance mutinies, assassinations, mineral cartels and colossal battles that has raged for days. All is talked about by players, and since everyone is playing on the same server, it's relevant for everyone.

- The setting is pretty good, and the atmosphere is great. The "races" all have very distinct motivations and character.

- It has a "full loot" PVP-model. If you fly something and it's destroyed, it's gone. Including everything you were carrying. Some of it is dropped so that other players can pick it up. This means that PVP combat can be incredibly sweaty, and I have never had actual adrenaline shakes the same way I've had from Eve. It also makes every kill incredibly satisfying. The rush of flying something relatively inexpensive and managing to kill someone flying a pimped out super expensive ship is quite incomparable.

I probably skipped a lot of stuff, but that's some scattered aspects atleast.
the point of ccache is that it reduces the need (if you're lucky) for "build farms"
There was a poll on LinkedIn for tech salaries in Quebec (same timezone as New York, most people speak English well enough, good universities) and the result was that 50% make less than 100k (75k USD). Only 20% make more than 125k (96k USD). Plus the government will subsidize the salaries anywhere from 25% to 60% using tax credits (even more in video games).
So it does make sense to hire here for a US based company without sacrifing quality like we all had the experience with cheap outsourced.
Governors. Many tracts were selected as political favors to donors to developers who already owned significant acreage in the OZ.
My naive guess? Incentives.

Their institutional fund, which at one point was claimed to be capable of managing $100B, is also a dog.
I just use pip and, sometimes, virtualenvwrapper. You just pick one that works the way you want and be happy.

Having said that, I dislike the way pyenv works by adding proxy interpreters that are globally visible.
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Yes, but "Eve is a spreadsheet MMO" is a meme, so this title is more creative and funny to those that know the meme, driving them to the article.
>The long list of historical supreme court decisions provide evidence enough that due process under the war powers is not relevant.

Not a single one references specifically targeting a US citizen who isn't actively engaged on a battlefield and who wishes to turn themselves in to face charges, charges which the government refused to bring.

So no, none of your citations are relevant. All the government had to do was charge him with a crime. The refused to specifically because they needed to deprive him of his Constitutional rights in order to keep their secrets secret. .
I played that a lot too, but I always preferred f18 interceptor.
> its frontend is highly composable too - just drop in JS code to extend!

Eagerly looking forward to new and exciting vulnerabilities this will open players to!
I grew up in Hoofddorp, and it's fairly similar. Not a lot to do there. Rapid growing town where people sleep while they work elsewhere, although that has been changing. Also built in a polder, although a slightly older one than Almere.
That's dependent on believing that your government spends money effectively.
We didn't get to see it for nearly another decade or so, though.

"The existence of the aircraft was officially acknowledged in 1988"
– https://www.britannica.com/technology/F-117

Certainly, the precursor to the above game, F-19, was released in 1988, with the assumption that the plane looked something alike that on the box-art.
Imagine living somewhere where "gunshot direction detection mics" are considered normal and good, instead of the dystopian nightmare it actually is.
>That isn't the case for private banks who have been getting away with the worst scams

People are straight-up rug-pulling in the crypto world for tens of millions of dollars, outright scams, and the scale of crypto is a fraction of the banking world. I bet you'd be hard pressed to name a couple equivalent scams banks have pulled in a first-world, financially regulated economy. I'm not talking about some rogue employee ripping off accounts, I mean organized fraud.

Anyone who has ever actually worked with or in the financial industry knows how crazy the regulation is. It's far from perfect, but saying it's worse than the crypto world is laughable.
TLDR is very good idea, yes! Thanks!
In around 2005 I had a pleasure of visiting a central office of a shipment company, and could see their setup for the whole country involved: 1. a hacked ISDN connection "borrowed" from the neighbor one floor below; 2. an entire shipment tracking done from a single Excel file kept on a Windows shared drive and edited simultaneously by different people. My respect for whatever dark magic Excel did back then was instilled deep into me, along with unending wonder about how didn't it all blow up spectacularly yet.
If I had to push a fix to prod ASAP, I'd personally rather it take more time but go in production safely. Especially in a case like that with not enough testing to really be sure if everything's okay or not, the stricter the compiler the better.

And if I had to train employees, I'd rather them fight the compiler more in the beginning but write better code later, than be able to write code quickly but make a horrible mess.

I've seen the "fast and loose" approach fail miserably and turn into a nightmare enough times that I now advocate for strict languages whenever I have a say in things. (which is why, with the state of programming languages right now, I will almost never suggest zig or go for a project). I think developers in generals should trust themselves less, to be honest. I feel like it would avoid a lot of issues down the road.
Most tech work isn't that hard

Other people around the world have been getting CS degrees too. Americans think everyone in Africa is starving...everyone in Mexico is in a drug cartel...and yet, I know folks who are extremely happy with the tech talent in both regions.

These other people tend to work for less than US tech workers

So, why is anyone surprised?
Almost all of them. Back when I used to play Kingdom of Loathing (a super casual game whose main attraction is that it contains a lot of jokes), I used spreadsheets to optimize everything from which food to eat to which familiar to use when. Way back in the day, I wrote a (for me-at-the-time) math-heavy guide for the N64 Goldeneye game; I used spreadsheets for that.

I know of people who've used spreadsheets for routing speedruns of games you wouldn't think you could optimize that way (e.g. entries in the Mario Kart series).
RxPy and "Functional Reactive Programming" (Flow Based Programming) also seem related, albeit they are not visual tools.
I find that I do that more often now than ever.

Most times I get the urge to pull in a rando package I find I really only need a few things it does. I check it out. Read it. Write my own.

I almost never need "all the things" outside the situations where I am using a big framework. So reading it, getting inspired / ideas from someone who did the thing and then I write a much more narrow focused version for myself.
A common trend I've seen for roles recruiters have contacted me on was for startups that outsourced huge chunks of development and are looking for senior \ staff developer to ensure the quality stays above board.
I hope Ingenuity can survive the Martian winter, but even if it does not, it has been a massively successful mission. Everybody who contributed to it must be incredibly proud of how well it has done!
> If my job could be outsourced, it would’ve been ten years ago when I first joined the workforce as a remote employee

The difference this time is that we are heading for a recession. Company leadership doesn't want to take the risk of outsourcing while times are good and profits are doubling each year. But when the stock price is in freefall and they are under pressure to cut costs, then the risk/reward of outsourcing looks more attractive.

We haven't had a recession since '08, and the landscape is very different now. Remote work tech was in its infancy back then - Zoom, Slack, Google Drive weren't even created yet. Plus India and China (and others) have developed further and starting pumping out 100s of thousands of CS grads each year that didn't exist in '08.

I think we're about to see a big wave of outsourcing over the next few years. And if companies are smart about it (e.g. do it slowly to allow knowledge transfer and compete for top talent, not bottom of the barrel) then it will be successful.
No one invests into stablecoins to get crappier versions of USD.

They go into UST because they were promised 20% risk free APY from Anchor.

CDOs (or really the generation of junior vs senior debt) showed these people how to cut up risks and provide returns for extended periods of time. Much like how CDOs cut up debts and moved risk around in funny ways.

But no wealth was actually generated. At least with CDOs the subprime mortgages had high APY, it was just that the risk of widespread default was miscalculated.

Furthermore, the senior debt tranches of CDOs had lower returns than the underlying. (3% 'risk free' for example, built out of 5% or 8% subprime mortgages)

This Anchor / UST / Luna looks unsustainable. There is no financial instrument that offers 20% risk free returns in today's world.
Of course. Why pay US salaries and US rents, when the rest of the world is cheaper and probably has better tech talent?
You're right. There are more than two categories of gender. 1/(number of categories) works if the categories are the same size. They are not the same size. Male and female cover a vast majority of cases.

What percentage would all the categories that are not male and not female need to be in order for 42.3% to be better-than-chance?
The science of that is far from settled.

There's evidence that mercury in fish accumulates from natural sources [1]

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2003/12/031205053316.h...
This company is trying to do that:

https://www.kreiosspace.com/
looking at ongoing death tolls in the United States and elsewhere

Are you serious?
It’s about who owned the land in 2017 and who was governor. Some states were less corrupt than others, but as a general rule OZs were and are mostly political grift with a few legit trades thrown in for cover.

The reason that HUGE tracts of OZs make no sense is that the “for development of blighted areas” thing is very thinly veiled bullshit.
Borat: "You can NOT check out any time you like NOT"

https://youtu.be/fhIdbRp6xeg
ok. I'm not trying to be hostile I only brought this up because you mentioned concerns with privacy and what your children are learning to tolerate and accept re: surveillance.

We feel safer with cameras but in practice there are few cases where we truly are. I think what the kids are likely to learn from this is that an authority's sense of security is a more powerful demand than their own need for privacy, something with, to me, pretty direct connections to the overall worker-surveillance conversation. I'm not judging you for having cameras or even specifically recommending you don't, just agreeing that your fears are justified and they may not be, probably aren't, worth it.

TBH I'm not sure what the wealth link is either! But I was poor/working class most of my life, and am high income now, and have friends in both groups. I just do not see cameras in the homes of people who are not affluent, except sometimes camera-enabled baby monitors. It may just be a matter of access but they aren't all that expensive so I'm not satisfied by that explanation.
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What innovations or ideas have been presented to reduce derailments?

What would it take to build a train that could sacrifice one car (i.e. let it derail) to save the rest of the train from the same fate?

Start by instrumenting each car and coupling with inertial and spatial sensors. Gather some stability control engineers from the automotive industry perhaps. What could be done?
Biden signs cybercrime tracking bill into law