skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If an application is storing 'private' data that it doesn't expect to be modified by humans or any other application, then storing a struct straight into the registry seems appropriate.

It's the same as the application making a temp file to store some random state.

Except a registry entry is probably more efficient for something that's under a kilobyte typically.
What this guy doesn't seem to grasp about the Mittelstand is that those companies are ones that traditionally don't get acquired. They're usually generational family-owned businesses. They're the legacy of the lean bootstrapped startups he contrasts them with except they didn't aim for growth and acquisition but sustainability. Getting acquired is antithetical to being a Mittelstand business because acquired Mittelstand businesses stop being Mittelstand. The "exit" for Mittelstand business founders is death and inheritance.

The reason there's no "middle class for startups" is that both sets of startups he describes are growth-oriented investment/acquisition-seeking ventures, not sustainable businesses. You either get fast tracked by finding an investor or you have to take the long route and try to become profitable, but the end goal is to either get bought out (and die) or to go public (and become large enough to buy the competition).

Investors along the way buy you out piece by piece betting on you successfully reaching either of those two outcomes. Since investors are in it for big ROI they're willing to take some risks and overfund hopeful "unicorns" while underfunding startups that can't credibly promise (or don't aim for) that kind of ROI. Basically, the groups he describes are self-selecting. If you start bootstrapped as a growth-oriented startup either you wither and die or you grow successful enough to get acquired (and die) or get overfunded (and become part of the latter group). If you start overfunded either you overexert yourself (and die) or get acquired (and die) or continue growing bigger (or go public, leaving the VC bubble). Any "middle class" in between the two can only either be a transitional step from bootstrapped to overfunded (or from overfunded to bankrupt) or a consequence of low ROI expectations.

I'm not saying this middle class can't exist, but it can't be a growth-oriented startup and thus is only tangentially related to the kind of companies VCs think about. Another Siemens, Miele or Aldi isn't attractive to VCs because sustainable businesses aren't high enough ROI.
The Debian/Ubuntu merged-/usr is incomplete, various things are broken by the way this was achieved:

https://wiki.debian.org/Teams/Dpkg/MergedUsr
The Death of Mystery Is an Illusion
It depends. Fsck is slow on big hard drives. Also separating data from programs is a good idea.
> In that there’s not much benefit in altering any words to take into account the 1:100,000 situations where that’s true.

Please explain where you got that number. You are off by three orders of magnitude. About 1:100 of births have ambiguity of gender at birth.

> I think it would be like avoiding saying “people have two legs” because some people are born without legs or with only one leg. Yes, it occurs, but not so much as to matter in regards to population generalizations.

Please explain why you feel that the description "assigned gender at birth" is not apt to describe people who have unambiguous genitals. Yes I understand that the description "observed gender at birth" is a subset of the description "assigned gender at birth", I understand the difference between these expressions. But it seems to me like one expression nicely covers the other expression, e.g. you can say for any birth where gender was "observed" at birth that it was also "assigned" at birth. It seems to me like you are the one stretching language to weird places to achieve political goals.
Yes, they are an American thing. These salaries (or a decent percentage of them) are open to you in the UK, but you'll need to work remotely, probably for a US-based company. This may mean contracting.

Because some component of tech work usually needs to be synchronous, I'd suggest picking a company where most of the people are on Eastern or Central time -- for me at least, MT and PT feel just that little bit too far. If you're a night owl, that might not matter to you.
You mean initramfs, initrd is unsupported on lots of distros these days.
That's a short tweet and those who read the docs understand the tweet glosses over the mechanics. UST is backed by BTC reserves as much as $ is backed by gold in Fort Knox. Maybe in a way, but the gold conversion window closed and there never was a UST to BTC conversion window.

UST has convertibility by burning it at $1 into LUNA. Anchor protocol 20% did not seem sustainable. I looked into this contraption and stayed away from all of it. In hindsight, of course it all seems obvious.
Sofi
That is an impressively written letter.
At which point in time did we normalize saying "I hate/don't want to be near white people"? It's blatantly racist.
Where it goes wrong is when you remortgage in a higher rate regime, and the bank won't give you a new fixed mortgage to cover your remaining capital. Now you're stuck on the "punishment" variable rate you get when you don't remortgage.
Alternatively, 'their money is where their mouth is'.
Do transfers in the US really take three days, rather than a second or so?
I have.. they are OK. just stick with the Pull Zones.
TIL that people who hold "Luna" things are officially called "lunatics" by the very people who sell it to them. There's a hint in this somewhere.
And is it so surprising that the Ponzi scheme collapses when the general economy is having a bad time?
> They’re not that much more expensive than flagship Android phones.

You sure the women in the article don't think the same way about the bags? The price difference between a working Android phone and top of the line iPhone is around 10x as well.
Is cleaning up actually necessary though?

I don't delete old emails in my inbox, yet life goes on and it isn't an issue. Occasionally having that old stuff is helpful.
> #8-0

Is that the Coding Horror smiley?
Yes, it would normally be docked, but you still end up using the screen unless you're in "clamshell mode".

You also end up obliged to use the keyboard at some point, if that's because you took it to a meeting or whatever. Without a laptop, you no longer need an excuse.
av1 is open source and most major gpu vendors are adding hardware decoding support for it in their newer chips. it's a far safer bet
Roughly the same reason why dotfiles became a thing on Unix: https://linux-audit.com/linux-history-how-dot-files-became-h... Fortunately more and more software is putting its config in ~/.config/ rather than dumping it all over users' home directories.
Riana Pfefferkorn has thrown down a public challenge and I truly admire her courage.
> what do you use it for?

HEre in the UK, it is becoming the standard for test and automation, especially in the embedded/hardware domain. I have seen quite a few Django jobs here, but dont know how popular Python is for webdev in the UK (as it looks like Javascript still rules here)
I'm not talking about Webauthn's standardized user presence checking, certainly not.

The whitelist can be seen in Webkit's source when searching for "shouldBypassUserGestureRequirementForWebAuthn" or any of the whitelisted domains: dropbox.com, microsoft.com, google.com, twitter.com or facebook.com

I am saying from very practical experience this is not well made and shouldn't have been shipped to users in its current form.

There are better examples how to avoid users getting spammed with any requests, browsers have a long history of dealing with that kind of abuse much better.
The trouble with attacking your opponents from the other side is that now you're on the other side of them instead of the side you wanted to be on.
The productive ritual of listening to a single song
A lot of people. Some buy more than one. Apple is like Porsche. It shows your status.
That would be a brilliant form of price discrimination.
Well pretty much all the big tech companies use Rust to some degree.
The car integration is an underrated aspect in my opinion.

I used to travel for work and would rent cars. I would spend 3+ mins after picking up each car trying to get my bluetooth to work with my phone until I realised I could just plug in an iPod (from 2005!!) into the USB port of a MY2018+ vehicle and have my entire music library accessible through the car's interface with artwork. Just plug it in, and it would just pick up where I left off, on the podcast/album I was listening to on the plane.

I now use a 16GB 6th gen Nano set to shuffle for all my music needs in my car. I got it cheap since the battery doesn't last that long but it's fine when plugged in all the time.
Maybe, if when you reach the destination that wallet remains above 10k€.
In a country where cheques are still common, does this surprise you?
a.k.a it'll handle like garbage. You can also just put the appropriate springs in for the after-swap weight instead of adding a bunch of dead mass that will reduce range
There are countries that do something close to that, and it does in fact work. In many, many ways. Basic Income is a very real and powerful thing.

Reduced crime, increased economic strength, increased education and skills, better overall wellbeing, a stronger economy, better health.

Whichever European country you're in, I'd wager that the .1% are using tax loopholes and straight up fraud to fleece more taxpayer money than 10k per citizen would cost.

Sounds a bit like you're a victim of class war propaganda. Try looking into BI and how it actually works.
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You falsely claimed they are audits, they are not audits, not in the legal sense of the word. If they claim so then it's Tether who are committing fraud.

https://fortune.com/2021/10/15/tether-crypto-stablecoin-fine...

That's why Bitfinex thus Tether are banned from doing business with US citizens.
After a short bout of online harrassment, I created Google Alerts for my name, common usernames, email and phone number. If something comes up, I can react quickly.
> If you're a senior delivering 10x the value of a grad,

If you are, you’re not getting paltry 2-10% raises yoy.
Tell that to codepen etc

I think this site is fantastic, and the live editing is great for visual feedback.

And as a plus, it doesn't use Java
But you can use all those facilities during working hours, leaving your own free time more free.
Those aren't negative results on 'short positions', they're the underlying, i.e. taking the short position was a good call. '[Every] single short position is turning a profit'.

I'd agree that's confusing/ambiguous if it weren't for the S&P comparison. ('If we'd taken an equally valued long position in the S&P 500 instead' would be a weird thing to state.)
As a Heroku customer, I'd appreciate a migration guide from Heroku to Northflank in your docs. What are the equivalent services (nodejs dynos, worker, scheduler, postgres, papertrail) and what are the steps to move. Thanks
If you are in the EU, the GDPR disagrees with this belief. You have the right to your personal data, and the right to be forgotten.
It's a bag women buy if they have same type of personality that men who buy expensive watches has.
In a monolith they may be modules within a single application/binary instead of different services.

Nobody said a monolith can't be split in modules :)

IMHO, a well-written monolith is like a microservice architecture but without the network layer in between boundaries.
definitely. We need better mobile support (beyond RN/Expo/Flutter)
You can get 5 year fixed, and some lenders have now brought out a lifetime fixed rate:

https://www.moneysavingexpert.com/news/2021/03/habito-to-lau...
Think the same. In my case, though it is "Being excited and happy for 4-5 hours a day at work". More than that and my brain is just too tired to enjoy the rest of the day. My schedule is 40h/week, though, but I'm still productive doing half of that.
Terra/Luna is just one of many algorithmic stable coins out there.

The biggest AFAIK is still Maker/DAI which is orderly unwinding at the moment:

https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/maker/

https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/multi-collateral-dai/

(Click one year and market cap to see the unwinding.)
I'd forgotten that RK05s only had 1.5Mb which made me think about my disk quota as a student around the same time on a mainframe - 500 180byte blocks - ~90k - but I could back my programs up and take them home - on cards
Can't agree more, lbzip2 is the go-to tool for dealing with bzip2 compression and decompression, it's a whole lot of faster than bzip2 which is single-threaded!
All polemic aside — isn't there a value in making a nuanced statement? Let's for example take people who can be in principle against weapons deliveries into conflicted regions, but realize in some cases delivering weapons is the better option. They are non-dogmatic on this opinion, because to them the outcome counts more how the gesture makes them look.

Similarily you have people who realize diversity, inclusivity and equal opportunity are good goals, but there is certain actors whose way of trying (or pretending?) to get there just are not good and sometimes downright destructive of the very goals that they claimed should be reached.

But as much as things like diversity and inclusivity might seem like a fashion, for some people they are part of a world that they rather live in. So they are not just mere symbolic tokes or boxes to be ticked that make you look good to your peers, but part of an urge to leave this world in an better condition than we entered it in — and how we treat each other is a part of that, but by far not the only one.
Awesome!

It's a shame you can't browse other peoples work thouugh (like in shadertoy)
Because not everyone in the world has access to a banking system and a stable currency.
> I don't think that's a good analogy. The value of a CEO should be relatively well known before hiring into a company. CEOs are rare, and at the endgame of their career, so you're already pricing in the present and future value you think they will add to your company.

Some would say CEOs are paid to increase corporate profits, thus their value is their ability to raise corporate profits.

However, the Kalecki-Levy profit equation (an accounting identity which originated in 1908 and is still accepted as true) makes clear that in aggregate, corporate profits == government deficit.

Thus the single largest driver of corporate profits is not CEO activity, but government fiscal policy.

So CEOs are paid based on what the government does.
Some platforms offer non-negligible interest on those.
Technically, but that's moot as there's two incomes so not really what we're discussing. And the only way that happened is because your partner earns the same as you.

People used to be be able to easily afford houses on a single income. My old boss, for example, bought a house alone when he was 25 and rented out a room. And that was back when tech salaries were low, especially in the UK where it was viewed as a perfectly normal job and no better paid than, say, a teacher.

That's just not really possible these days, a 25-year old teacher could never buy a half decent 3 bed house alone.
Now someone is going to define const isOdd = (i) => !isEven(i); and you’ll get trouble.

A proper solution would be along the lines of:

const isRealNumber = (n) => {
if (typeof n !== 'number') return false;
if (isNaN(n)) return false;
if (n === +Inf || n === -Inf) return false;
return true;
};

const isEven = (n) => {
if (!isNumber(n)) throw new Error("Numerical error: Invalid input");
return n % 2 === 0;
}

const isOdd = (n) => {
if (!isNumber(n)) throw new Error("Numerical error: Invalid input");
return n % 2 !== 0;
}

This is the additional complexity created by dynamically weakly typed languages. And that’s why we get all these BS tiny npm packages.
US and its allies say Russia waged cyberattack that took out satellite network
From the company POV the capital investment is the outstanding shares. The shares need to be kept happy with some combination of immediate profit and continuosly growing projection of future profit (i.e. investing into growth), or they start to lose value in the market and become even more unhappy. Eventually investing into growth runs into diminishing returns and immediate profit becomes the dominant component.

The profit you get from buying and selling on the market is either a result of the shares being kept happy, or taking advantage of market mechanics. The latter is mostly a form of gambling that doesn't produce value.
Yes, in 16-bit windows it was system and then 32-bit binaries would go into system32. By the time 64-bit arrived so much stuff had system32 hard-coded in, there wasn't much point in trying to change it so you ended up with SysWOW64 (when a 32-bit app runs under emulation, it 'sees' SysWOW64 as System32, and can't see the 64-bit system directory)
I've read this explanation a couple of times, and if you go all the way back to PDP-11 the split does indeed sound ridiculous. I had my first contact with Linux from some magazine CDs in the late 90s, I think it was Red Hat or SUSE based. The documentation there had a much clearer explaination:

/sbin, /usr/sbin is for binaries that need root. You put them in separate directories so their permissions all match up, and so they don't show up when completing in bash.

The paths without /usr - /bin and /sbin - are available from the get go. It is the very first partition that is mounted, and what is guaranteed to be available if you do "init 1" or boot in single user mode. You can also do fsck from there (assuming the boot partition is not damaged). I don't know how this integrated with initrd (initramfs wasn't a thing yet). I think there was only one "base system" - either initrd was very basic, or the whole base was in initrd, or something similar.

The paths with /usr were managed by the package manager. Word of mouth was: don't install anything manually there. If you do (via make install), keep around the source so you can do make uninstall. But better install to /usr/local or /opt.
Presumably the idea was that the distribution/content of the book promotes rational thinking, and that rational thinking primes you for EA. And then rather than become a mathematics academic, you decide to become e.g. a quantitative trader and donate lots of money to effective causes, or take some other high-impact career decision.
This blog makes the HN front page time after time after time, even when it has no content and is marketing a non-free e-zine. With that level of web traffic it is no wonder the author is trying to sell text.
Have you ever shipped a monolith across 10 product teams? Everyone is working on different features, different branches, etc. The monolith becomes the bottleneck and you end up architecting processes to cater to its weaknesses where it should actually work to your strengths. Microservices inherently build that in, not just into the development model but the entire workflow from source to running and beyond. People are often disillusioned by the idea of the breakdown of the source code but fail to understand that the technical platform and processes in the pipeline enable independent product teams to move faster.
It looks like their reserve wallet is now empty: https://bitinfocharts.com/bitcoin/wallet/Luna-LFG

I'm not sure what if anything they have left elsewhere to try to prop this up. But if they deployed all those reserves yesterday to get it back to $0.91-ish then I don't see how they recover it again.
I could perhaps have been clearer about the kind of inequality I was talking about - intra-national - but at the very best it's been flat over the last few decades: https://www.economist.com/briefing/2019/11/28/economists-are... I personally don't really buy the post-tax rationale presented in that article though. Pre-tax is more interesting to me in that it's where the money is, not how much spending power people have after tax.
Now let’s put that in the Coinbase marketing and see what happens…

“Invest in Crypto, by giving us $100 with which we will buy $100 worth of BTC that we own.”

How is that not weird and who would follow a QR code on their TV ago “Invest in crypto” if this was at the top of the page they opened?
Basically the same way how they made AAA bonds "secured" by garbage bonds, and that resulted in the crash of 2008.
Why would they not pay? Perhaps they don't care about the .8 USD they'll lose the opportunity to gain?
This chaos will only speed up stablecoin regulations [0].

[0] https://techcrunch.com/2022/05/10/us-treasury-secretary-jane...
This kind of market manipulation does happen all the time in the cryptocurrencies trading world though. That doesn't mean it's the most likely explanation in this case (as there was a literal Ponzi scheme behind all this !), but it's not completely impossible either.
Hence Unstablecoin
Yep, that checks out.
In the demo I’m hiding the button if “platform” authentication is not available.

The API itself work great with yubikeys (“cross-platform”) and I use them myself.
USDT is a lot more popular, but there's still over $16B of UST out there (or there was before its value crashed). USDT's $83B is 5x larger, but it's not like UST was something tiny that no one used. Coinbase's USDC is $48B. $16B is still a lot of money.
Just look at google: how some people lost data.
When they start to implement such things, sooner or later a lot of people who have done nothing wrong will be affected. It is like CP.
Windows is a 32 bit shell for a 16 bit extension to an 8 bit Operating System designed for a 4 bit microchip by a 2 bit company which can't stand one bit of competition.
Institutional stables (USDC,USDT,BUSD) are backed by traditional USD (more or less audited)

Algorithmic stables are vulnerable to things like what happened to ust because the coin basket has to be balanced always, DAI tends to be more or less stable because it has a big part of its reserves in USDC so its more like a wrapped USDC with a little ETH.

The more damaged ones were people who felt attracted for the completely unrealistic 20% interest.

However, this absolute dump was coordinated by big funds, they saw they could borrow and dump whatever, nobody would save the peg.
the number of people actually able to obtain a job for which they would also self-actualize with if given unlimited money, is so small as to be a statistical anomaly.
Our CEO makes 120.000 € a year. Revenue about 2.000.000 €
There are employees that make more than him, but no one is close to 200.000 €. Personal is our biggest expense.

I earn a decent living and can afford a house and two kids and a stay at home wife in Central Europe with 74.000 € (Project Manager / DevOp / Admin).

Cost of living must be insanely high in the U.S. For me, these numbers are so high - I can't imagen what someone would do with all this money.