skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
See it for what it is: a red flag. Recently I had one where I had a feeling but threw it to the side because I thought I would give the person the benefit of the doubt. But then in email correspondence with who would have been my team lead or project manager/owner it became crystal clear that this person's personality and mine would not work. It also illuminated a lack of professionalism as well.

I have been in this industry 10 years now. I am not a million dollar a year 10x engineer but I have taken jobs that paid well but that were horrible environmentally and know now that if I feel ominous things in just the interview then that's all I need to know to avoid a potentially toxic workplace.
Thats because its not economically viable not because they wouldnt want to....

Ever heard of the LN?
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Quite funny, when I read the title before checking the link, I first thought exactly about Poland voting preferences.

For anyone interested: the difference in voting exists, because the east part of Poland is less developed and more rural in general. I remember that it is so in part because of how the Russian occupation was mostly of “steal as much as we can” variety, especially compared to Germans. It is also one of the reasons that the west side has much denser railway network.
I’m not familiar with Durable Objects. When D1 does replication to read replicas, if it’s not doing synchronous replication, then it’s not strongly consistent, is that correct?
It doesn't imply anything like that. And in case someone takes everything personally, then they must be an extremely dysfunctional person. I am an average guy looking for truth through discussion, not a clinical psychiatrist.
Very cool! Glad to see all the love for SQLite recently.

One thing I've noticed that many commenters miss about read-replicated SQLite is assuming that the only valid model is having one, giant, centralized database with all the data. Lets be honest with ourselves, the vast majority of applications hold personal or B2B data and don't need centralized transactions, and at scale will use multi-tenant primary keys or manual sharding anyways. For private data, a single SQLite database per user / business will easily satisfy the write load of all but the most gigantic corporations. With this model you have unbounded compute scaling for new users because they very likely don't need online transactions across multiple databases at once.

Some questions:

Will D1 be able to deliver this design of having many thousands of separate databases for a single application? Will this be problematic from a cost perspective?

> since we're building on the redundant storage of Durable Objects, your database can physically move locations as needed

Will D1 be able to easily migrate the "primary" at will? CockroachDB described this as "follow the sun" primary.
First, El Salvador is not a dictatorship. President Bukele and his party won in a free election and everyone expects he will win re-eelection in 2024.

Second, no branch of government has been eliminated. What happened is that his party impeached the justices on their supreme court, replacing them with justices from his party. In fact, "packing" the court, the same thing leftists are urging the Democrats to do in the USA.

Third, the claim that the IMF does not lend to dictators is obviously untrue.
I wonder if they allow the same lifestyle to their own subcontractors?
Makes you wonder if this is something every user experiences or some weird corner case.

Seems Apple forgets old bugs after a few years. I recall having crackling audio on my 2015 Macbook pro which was fixed within weeks after release, but required a SMC reset to kill the old code messing with the audio...
> Explain.

I wouldn't read into that comment (of mine) too much. I meant what I said in an abstract sense.

> False equivalence, MTGOX wasn't a Publically traded company with tons of VC money and lots of institutional funds (Ark et al) backing them; Mark embezzled funds and had horrible OPSEC that led to a massive hack. He tried covering this up, Coinbase reporting a massive loss is definitely not the same thing.

Fair enough; good point. They are different. But I do think these intermediary, exchange entities, whatever you want to call them, tend to emerge repeatedly, with their own vulnerabilities, in a way that isn't always fully recognized in a lot of the discussion of cryptocurrency. My sense (which could certainly be wrong) is there's a bit of a gap between blockchain-level issues and macroeconomic theory as it comes up in discussions of cryptocurrency.

> And what exactly is Crypto theory, exactly?

I just meant academic computer science - economic theory about cryptocurrency, like you might have in conference proceedings, academic journal articles, or technical papers openly distributed for critique and discussion. Maybe the sort of thing that might get discussed in formal policy reports by various public and private profit and nonprofit institutions.

> The Infrastructure was meant to be P2P, as noted in the White paper by Satoshi: exchanges are merely a response from the growing Market to cater to the increase in demand,

I think that's part of what I'm getting at. From the very beginning it's been clear to me people generally don't actually want pure cryptocurrency P2P in the sense they don't actually want to store the entire blockchain on their laptop. So these kinds of intermediary structures will emerge.

> and the truth is they still exist. Kraken, Binance, Gemini etc... still exist and will for some time. The number of exchanges isn't the issue in 'Cryoto land,' it's the scams

I don't mean to imply I have a problem with exchanges per se, it's that it would be nice if there was some kind of robustness built in surrounding them. Maybe fraud is inherent to all economic systems (people lose money all the time on traditional stock exchanges and in investment schemes), but it would be nice if there was something like, just say hypothetically, a higher-order layer akin to the FDIC etc (in the absence of the FDIC etc), but distributed or something? I just think these things aren't really well-worked out -- the idea that someone could exchange USD into crypto and then have it disappear because a central entity collapses is going against the grain of what crypto is supposed to prevent.
One of those communications is aimed at people that regularly riot. Context counts for a lot.
Most likely a heater to keep the electronics from getting too cold.
I get that nobody likes ads, but the killer problem was the privacy infringements they contained. We're not going to get rid of ads in totality, they offer a degree of fairness to companies looking to break into new markets. Without them we give up market dominance to household names.

Advances in ad tech aim to remove the privacy issues so that companies can compete more fairly, and consumers can have at least targeted ads, not irrelevant ads.

Rejecting tracking outright, even anonymous tracking, doesn't reduce ad density at all. It has the opposite effect, targeted ads cost more because they're more effective. Untargeted ads as we had in the earlier days of the internet, are less effective, so they're cheaper, letting companies buy them in bulk. Forcing ad buyers to return to that model means returning to the model that introduced popups and interstitials. The model of finding every damn place to cram ads.

DuckDuckGo just wants more users, as they should. But this bad take on ad tech is more harmful to the end user. DuckDuckGo should be pushing for more oversight on ad tech and responsible use of ad tech, so that we get fewer, more targeted ads, not a deluge of untargeted ads like we had before.

I'm not saying popups and interstitials will come back, I really hope they're now entirely untenable. But, the ad world is always looking for new real estate, and it's the market that then decides if a new shitty technique takes off. If personalised targeting, via anonymity, can survive then we'll stave off more harmful innovations.
The boilerplate for their mobile apps is dozens of ad, tracking, and profiling libraries and components. This little feature of signing in to your account and submitting a post is the last concern for the app owners.
Biobased Adhesive from Glucose and Citric Acid for Plywood with High Performance
Seconding a vote for Spatialite support! I came here just to make that same request.
> since it's costly, time consuming (the cheapest way to send money is going in physical stores)

DING DING DING we got a winner boys!
This seems to be complete BS to me: all I see in these maps is a lot of confirmation bias, the author really sees what he wants to see.

Some maps do overlap very well but in that case it only looks interesting because we want to see a causation link where there is correlation.

So sorry for the harsh words but I actually find this upsetting.
On paper, you have and can report a lot of assets. However, many companies go bankrupt with current ratios greater than one with either overinflated or overvalued assets or undervalued or understated debts or some combination. Financial reports a la 10-Ks and 10-Qs are 'boring,' difficult for most people to read, contain specialized jargon, and contain significant lag time where a going concern is, well, a concern. Audits are almost always annual and not quarterly. Disclosures may be required, but they can be broad or nonspecific enough as to delay broader acknowledgement of bankruptcy level problems. I'd take information from financial reports with a bit of salt, even if they are often our best, or only, source of information.
I think "what kind of an organization would let someone like that represent them?" and thank the gods for learning early to avoid that place.
Confronting Misinformation in the Age of Cheap Speech
240v isn't high speed charging for EVs.
Cf: "Architecture Astronaut".

Abstraction always costs. This implies any abstraction you put in that doesn't deliver commensurate benefits makes your code fundamentally worse.

If you have an abstraction with a name that seems to say it does X, but to be sure I have to trace through four other source files plus an unknown number of dead ends just to see if it really does exactly just X, and in the end it could have just been coded in place, it has already cost way more than any benefit it could yield.

Abstraction is an engineering tool, not a moral imperative. You can always add abstraction later.

So, "Worse is Better" is at best misleading. Better is better. But the measure of "better" you have been using is likely to be way off. People who think of themselves as smart tend to undervalue simplicity. It is a personal failing.
Same experience I had constantly misrepresented, especially internet/quality of A/C which are not minor things.
For those who don't like the long form: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Grothendieck
The first example might not be a violation of the law at all. It's deeply unethical, but it might technically be legal.

The second example has many different interpretations. The most favorable one is that Trump was urging them to check everywhere to make sure no ballots were missed. Interpreting it as a direct call for ballot stuffing is also possible, but we can't assume that.

Humans tend to have good-faith interpretations of everything said by people they like and bad-faith interpretations of everything said by people they hate.
I don't see the need for discriminating against companies over $X size or whatever. Let's just fix the fuckup that Copyright has become for everybody.

I see the motivation; this is purely a PR stunt with no intention of endangering the cash cow of "intellectual property exploitation" which pays for so much politics.

Still, this seems a good opening to revive all the arguments from the last couple times copyright was redefined in law to be ever more perpetual.
I'll flip your question on its head: why are the people filling these roles so heavily skewed to one country?
Squid adjust their body color according to substrate
Let's Build a Compiler, by Jack Crenshaw (1995)
US immigration is in the biggest crisis in decades - between rhetoric & admin burden from Trump, covid, and ossified bureaucracy, it is the worst time in history for a tech worker to migrate to the US.

Each time a developer works for the US from abroad, the US economy loses up to 50% o salaries in taxes for gov funding, and up to 80% of the reminder in spending within the economy.

An argentine developer making 150k from the US pays 0 taxes and spends 80%+ in argentina. If he moves to the US he pays 60k in taxes and spends 80%+ in the US.

US is shooting itself in the foot so hard. The solution is the easiest - remove H1b caps.
Good luck. Only for VIP's.
If you count at the polling locations, most countries manage it in 24 hours for the most part and public scools/libraries can reopen on monday.

The purpose of the election is to 1 .: measure public support of candidates.
2.: convince the population that it has been fairly measured.

It is quite clear that some of the last two elections failed at the convincing part.

Give everyone mandatory 3 hours off on election day(which would be saturday so most people dont work anyway) and you are fine. Noone is "disenfranchised". This appears an excuse not a serious issue and just about every country managed to solve it.

just to reiterate. Dont just focus on candidates lieing about fraud. They do it. Also focus on independent verifiability of the fairness of the process where the USA is severely lacking.
It sounds like it was one person doing this? Unless this person is in a pivotal or supervising role, I would not worry a lot - they may be on their way out already. I personally would have continued the interview as you chose to do and then reported the experience to the relevant hr/recruiter person. Remember, the one jerk in the room hopefully does not reflect upon the other professionals that continued the interview and were probably thankful the rudy left. Edit: also remember that you will likely encounter the others left in the room in other places and they will likely remember your professionalism in the face of this uncalled-for imposition, which should hopefully serve you well.
There's no back-end! It's just a static webpage hosted on GitHub. It would be cool though.

It does serialize the code to the url bar, which is, not the most elegant solution, but it works
No salary information? I'm struggling to understand why someone would care at all about a "$1000 budget for your home office" when looking for six-figure and up jobs. It's work: the most important question to me is how much are you going to pay for my time? To me, everything else is secondary, bordering on irrelevant.
I think there are quite a few parties who would like to use twitter as a weapon of genocide / sedition / insurrection.
FWIW, at least one prominent accessibility advocate in the blind community agrees: https://mosen.org/make-accessibility-discussion-more-accessi...
The Wired story seems a bit thin.

Here's the original presentation: https://homes.esat.kuleuven.be/~asenol/leaky-forms/

I had a friend that had his card charged, even though he hadn't actually completed it (He entered the card number and exp. date, but then left the shopping cart, without completing the transaction).

The Web site owners were pretty damn aggressive, when he complained about it, but he was even more aggressive (he has since passed, but he was not someone that you wanted to mess with).
> a political party whose agenda includes literal genocide of transgender people

That's pretty loaded, almost flaggable, but I think in this thread I'll ask what are you talking about?
That is interesting. I wish CF would give us some more information as I've assumed that there must be a lack of strong consistency which would be a major drawback.

Edit: But that would mean that durable objects can't be replicated asynchronously? That would mean a big latency hit. Then what's the difference to a central DB in one datacenter?
As a HW designer who over the years has deal with many HW bugs, it’s amusing to see how almost everybody is agreeing that it’s a software issue “because it goes away when I restart or when I close this or that application…”

As if SW applications that stress the system in some way are capable of triggering a HW bug?

And if the issue eventually does get solved with a SW update, then it most definitely was a SW bug, because software update that work around a HW bug aren’t a thing.
1 BTC = 1 BTC, so how long does it take to convert it to $5000?
A TUI for viewing and editing database files
On the other hand, it's still the only website I know of where one can find and pay for a short/mid-term apartment online in lots of countries. Booking.com is mostly pricy hotels. Local bulletins are even cheaper, but typically have worse interfaces, awful listings, and require that you are already in the town to view the place in person.
Twelve students in Denmark have designed a RISC-V dual core chip
Would you like to explain to my 70 year old mother that she should install a Chrome extension, transfer her coins to it and expect her not to lose that? Oh and then explain to her that she is going to print out a piece of paper with 12 words on it. That's her backup in case she loses everything...so "Mom, do not lose this piece of paper you're screwed!"

Yes she'll figure that out easily!
yeah but why on earth would you store cash in Coinbase? Are you even getting a savings account interest rate on that?
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Who thought this was a good idea? Probably people who had to type “accessibility” out a dozen times a day. Also marketing minded people who know a memorable title keeps people thinking about the topic longer.

Side note, numeronyms have been around for a long time. This isn’t something we just invented for a11y.

Also side note: I personally love “a11y” because it makes me think of “ally”, which is what we would all be to people with special needs if we religiously adopted a11y.
It's high-quality software too. It's well-commented and exceptionally well tested.[^1][^2]

> As of version 3.33.0 (2020-08-14), the SQLite library consists of approximately 143.4 KSLOC of C code. ... By comparison, the project has 640 times as much test code and test scripts - 91911.0 KSLOC.

I don't usually place much stock in those sort of counts, but 640x is notable.

It makes sense considering the wide variety of use-cases, from embedded devices to edge computing and everything in between.

[1]: https://www.sqlite.org/testing.html
[2]: https://sqlite.org/src/dir?ci=trunk
Yeah, it was all in the clouds, I should have pointed that out. And in my memory it was silent/no thunder, but that seems impossible so I just discounted it as a tainted part of the memory.
Just to add to this that AD was also a game changer for the banks in terms of necessary computing power and the time it needs to do these calculations. Antoine Savine describes this well in "Modern Computational Finance: AAD and Parallel Simulations", if someone is interested in this topic.
Benefits are pennies relative to compensation.

I’d rather see anonymous compensation submissions.

Or aggregate offers from Blind app.
I wish the post had provided some more technical details.

It's more of a "quickstart" than a peek under the hood.
Using race as a proxy to avoid those with political perspectives one disagrees with is even more asinine and asocial than simple racism, in my opinion.

It’s an ultimate version of make-assumptions-about-individuals-based-on-external-signals.
They are complaining about it… That’s why it’s here on the front page of HN.
Much higher than the previous official inflation rate of 2% per year, yes. But not (previously, anyway) higher than 11%.
I constantly had this problem on my Intel MacBook Pro whenever I'd run the iOS simulator (YouTube would crackle and pop, closing the iOS simulator in the background would fix it).

I've observed this but very rarely on my M1 MBP, I wonder if there's some code from iOS in the M1 OS that causes this, or it's caused by running iOS (which are now first-class citizens) or Catalyst apps.
One interesting takeaway here is that it's somewhat likely that your own political convictions might be pretty different if only you had come to live elsewhere - sometimes not even that far away.
A ban on a web site is usually driven by one or more violations of Terms of Service. Some of those Terms of Service are linked to criminal laws and the company wants to protect itself from being prosecuted, liable to damages, etc.

I dislike the use of the words "freedom of speech" when it comes to social media/web sites because uneducated people seem to think a ban is a violation of the 1st US amendment. Which is even sillier when a website allows users globally. I doubt the conversations will suddenly change to "freedom to violate ToS" but I feel like there is a better wording than "freedom of speech".

If a camping website banned content about Bigfoot because they wanted to and you posted something about Bigfoot and got banned, its not a freedom of speech issue, its more like a "No Shirt, No, Shoes = No Service" issue.
Glad to hear that they're enjoying some growth and success but it's concerning to see them openly state their significant dependence on their subscription service as a revenue stream. That raises the possibility of less support in future firmware updates for allowing Remarkable 1/2 to operate as a standalone device sans cloud service.
Airbnb is to a great extent hotels and property managers.

The cosy little family business is not so common to come by.
The fascinating thing about the Poland example is that the Germans living in modern fay west-Poland were moved out and into what's now Germany. So the culture and people are gone. What you see are the political effects of better infrastructure.
FDIC insurance is for banks, not brokers. I think what protects you from a broker going bust is the separation of client money from firm money. Though I think that separation failed in the most recent major broker bankruptcy (MF Global) and probably many others. FDIC would protect the broker against its own bank going bust (though I am sure there are guarantee caps).
My hypothesis is that people in the drug trade and other illicit industries (hacking for hire, etc.) are the ones who initially gave Bitcoin its early value - much lower than it is today, but above close-to-zero. Then, the general public noticed this new class of appreciating asset, and that’s when the price really started to go up.
If you have the wit to needle them back without coming off as deranged, then do that.

If not, then calmly state that you feel the company is not a good fit and that ending the interview early is in both of your interests, go outside and enjoy the rest of your day.