skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am skeptical any one person , even a typical president can take that kind of decision on their own, however objective or well rounded the metric it could be .

There are teams of career diplomats and intelligence professionals and variety of external stakeholders including business lobbyists, other foreign diplomats and those equations go into a diplomatic decision to publicly endorse someone.

Bush was very much establishment and not an unpredictable wrecking ball like Trump, that was unimaginable 20 years back.

More likely the decision was taken at the point to publicly support Putin and bush articulated it in this rather poor fashion.

The intelligencer community at the time may have had hope that the other power in Russia like the oligarchs to keep Putin in line. Remember this was before Georgia , Chechen and Crimea ; Putin hadn’t yet developed the reputation and consolidation of power he has today.
I think we will be seeing more of this sort of news, I wondered how some university bods have got on since their last expose in the media with their endeavours because they had solved the fast charging heat problem which turns batteries into plastic explosives. Last I heard they were trying to get the process commercialised in a factory setting.

So I think we will be seeing more of this type of news now, which is good because who doesn't like the acceleration of electric motors in vehicles if the weight can be kept down?
Yes, they are talking their book. That's why you should decide for yourself.
Still not seeing it. As it's an encoding, not a compression, it cannot produce a large amount of output. At most I guess ceil(log2(256)/log2(58)). So encoding will produce a slightly larger output, while decoding will produce a slightly shorter output. Still all linear.
1.29%? That's really low. In the US, for 5/1-Year adjustable rate mortgage (which sounds the same as what you have), it was 2.37% at the lowest.

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/MORTGAGE5US
The EU is a partially constructed dictatorship. Within the domains delegated to it in the treaties, it has total power without voter accountability (the most voters can do is elect MEPs who slow things down a bit). Also in some areas where the EU has effectively seized power without a treaty change, this is also true e.g. corporate tax law.

In some areas like health and defense it has failed (so far) to take powers, and so the usual democratic mechanisms at the state level are mostly still working.

So I think you're not really disagreeing with aborsy, unless by "domain" you mean exclusively physical domains.
Sure, but can management unionize and get protection? They’re clearly a different class of employee.
Fuel supply lines are a big thing in modern warfare. You can chart most of the big tactical moves in WW2 as being about control of fuel supplies.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oil_campaign_of_World_War_II

which is probably part of the reason the US Army is so big on renewables.
> Out of sight, out of mind? What does it matter whether the misery and poverty is in your neighbourhood, or in the third world?

Or a level self-abosrbedness that can only be defined as peak narcissism, really.

I get wanting to be paid what you're worth, but when it comes to pretending you're some how any better than any other wage-slave is where I have trouble crossing over that level of hubris.
Phones lie about being at 95-100% charged, because it's bad to keep charging them when at 100%, it stops, waits for it to go down over hours, and charges again.

But then people complain it's not charged to 100% even though they left it charging all night, and because it's easier to lie to people than teach them stuff, they lie.
I like Quine's Methods of Logic (Fourth Edition).
How do you figure? I don't think that installing an entire application is easier than browsing to a website. Not to mention that modern js is arguably less of a pain than Java if you don't have a capable IDE, which you don't with the processing editor.

Speaking as someone who loves and has programmed a ton in p5js, processing, and openframeworks.

edit: also this has link-sharing, which makes it easier to share with anyone with a browser, and it's more likely to be properly sandboxed so it's probably safer than sharing Processind sketches too.
I'm completely sure I've heard that music on an airplane before.
Those participants are going to mostly become mathematics academics which doesn't seem like the best demographic income-wise of you are trying to get a good return on investment? Especially as HPMOR doesn't directly lead you to the EA movement. I read it and it had some interesting ideas but it didn't make me realise EA existed.
Sure, but things like health insurance can easily cost $1000+ a month if you want full coverage and/or have some bad health conditions(and you still need to have a big pot of savings in case you need to use it, because your out of pocket excess might be 10k or more). In most european countries the monthly cost is nowhere near that, it scales with your salary(down to zero if you don't earn anything) and still covers you for absolutely everything and of course there is no such thing as copay or excess. Not to mention that Americans are swimming in student debt, while in many European countries higher education is completely free, or nearly free so you simply don't have that expense at all.

Obviously once you start making 300k+ in US none of that really matters, you win at life in general - but it's not like people in Europe making 60k(euro) as software devs are in poverty or anything.
Similar story for most Rolex models.
I think how much time and thought you put into buying things is an inverse parabolic curve. If you don't have much money you put a lot of thought into every purchase, because you have to balance your money to make it cover everything you need. If you have massive amounts of money you also put a lot of thought into every purchase, because you generally only buy things that require a lot of thought (houses, yachts, art, etc). It's the people in the middle who go into shops and buy $10k luggage sets - enough money to cover all their needs easily, but not enough money to be buying things that you need to consider.

Essentially, if you have actual FU money, you're not spending time going to a shop to choose your own luggage. You probably don't even see your luggage. An assistant packs your stuff, a driver puts it on your plane, and a hotel worker unpacks it at the other end. Your luggage is probably some completely boring, utilitarian metal box designed to keep expensive stuff safe.
£95k is very decent in the countryside but in London that's nothing to write home about, is it? I don't live in London or even the UK, so my statement is just based on friends living there.
We europeans are underpaid and taxed to death. The US could easily fill its worker shortage by offering easy visas for EU engineers. Many of us would like to move but it's a real PITA to apply to companies that are even willing to consider visa sponsorship.

I actually have no idea why this is not the case already. It's basically 1st world to 1st world transition and the one losing would be EU.
https://www.sqlite.org/faq.html#q19

>INSERT is really slow - I can only do few dozen INSERTs per second

>Actually, SQLite will easily do 50,000 or more INSERT statements per second on an average desktop computer. But it will only do a few dozen transactions per second.

>By default, each INSERT statement is its own transaction. But if you surround multiple INSERT statements with BEGIN...COMMIT then all the inserts are grouped into a single transaction.

>Another option is to run PRAGMA synchronous=OFF. This command will cause SQLite to not wait on data to reach the disk surface, which will make write operations appear to be much faster. But if you lose power in the middle of a transaction, your database file might go corrupt.
so C:/windows/system is a remnant from the 16bit era?
Same for Microsoft. In spite of the top-management-spirit teams were totally different in their stress levels, WLB and daily routines.
The same actually implies to those small "Used By X company" when you evaluate products, I have seen those claiming to be used by Microsoft while knowing it was just a short term evaluation that ended with nothing but MS is still paying for a licence.
You already do use stablecoins, you use BankOfAmericaDollar (or WellsFargoDollar or...), which is fully convertible 1:1 to USD - some exceptions may apply. Your BankOfAmericaDollar isn't backed by currency, it's backed by assets with variable values, and there's an insurance fund that may cover some of your deposits, again limits and exceptions may apply.

Unless you have tender in your hands, or a fedwire account, you don't actually have 'real currency'.
1 desktop
2 laptops
2 tablets
2 smart TVs
1 smartphone
1 Raspberry PI
This planet is sounding more hostile than LV-426.
Do you think a cis woman would fear being raped more by Natalie Wynn[0] or by Buck Angel[1]? I would bet that its the latter.

To be clear: not accusing either of those above of being an actual rapist! Just asking which would be more likely to inspire this fear in someone who doesn't know them.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/ContraPoints#/media/File%3AN...

[1] https://mobile.twitter.com/BuckAngel/photo
I personally care about rainforests and orangutans as well. But if I had a monthly donation going towards orangutans I would want to know what impact it had. How much of my money actually goes to successful habitat preservation, rather than e.g. the running costs of the organisation? Does it cost $5 million to intervene to save one orangutan, or $5,000? What does the evidence look like?

If I imagined two rooms, one with a child about to die of malaria in it, and another with an orangutan in it, and you told me I could spend $7,000 dollars to save the child or $50,000 to save the orangutan, I'd be very hard pressed to save the orangutan.

I think I would get the same 'feel good consumption' from more effective charitable giving, where my money went further and did more good in the world. The few thousand dollars needed to save a life from malaria would feel as good or better than tens of thousands of dollars needed to fail to save an orangutan.
I love their products, but their sales hasn't really convinced me either. I contacted them while our web service was getting hammered by a TCP SYN flood. They asked me which layer the attack was on, and I told them L4. They proceeded to try to sell me some TCP proxy product of theirs for $$$$, and despite my protests, just wouldn't listen when I told them that their HTTPS proxying/load balancer/CDN/whatever product would probably be enough.

I left that call and activated that free tier product and it has been enough. No wonder their sales reps need to resort to such tactics when their $0/$20/$200 product is enough.
When interest rates were at historical norms (5-7%), 3x income was a good rule of thumb to estimate a housing payment of 1/3rd your after tax salary.

$100,000/yr = $8,300/month pre-tax = $6,000 after tax

$300,000 home minus $60,000 down @6% = $2,000/month for mortgage + tax + insurance

But I recall right before the 2007 crash my manager was shopping for a mortgage and they were willing to lend him $800,000 on a $120,000/yr salary.
A Twitter announcement for Crypto support would absolutely not be enough to pump the market. The wider sell off in crypto is due to a sell off in all markets due to a number of factors such as increasing rates. This is not some minor slump that will end with a Musk tweet.
This checks out when I look at the coding bootcamp that I worked for. They advertized a lot on Facebook and that was more or less it. SEO was also a thing, but definitely secondary as that was company-wide, but we were the only European location.
Go solution to TreeWalk problem is wrong, or, rather, not real-world, because it has a memory leak. You need to make sure all goroutines finish, and not stuck on reading/writing to a channel.

In Kotlin coroutines you can .cancel() a coroutine, but Go doesn't allow to cancel goroutines.
Yes, those dependency trees can be large. Yes, supply chain attacks are a real threat. But Node isn’t that different than Python or Ruby in that regard. How far down the stack do you personally choose to go? I trust you’re familiar with that famous paper published by a certain mr Thompson in the mid-80s?

The world is a big place. There’s a lot of software out there written in Node.js, used happily and productively by millions of developers, many of them in corporate environments.

Given the opinions you expressed elsewhere in the thread here I think it’s clear that this tool is not for you. I hope no one is forcing you to use it.
you are looking for the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filesystem_Hierarchy_Standard
And the money is for....
> But inflation is over 11% since 2020. This isn't an increase. The average tech worker is making less than they were 2 years ago according to the Dice salary report.

Are you buying the average number of used cars and housing? I'm not. My expenses haven't gone up 10% in nominal dollars.

(Related anecdote: people tend to say the economy is bad if they heard it was bad on TV, even if they just got a new job and a raise.)
I'm looking into a slightly less retro take on this, with the files stored on my phone and played via bluetooth.

Is anyone aware of any geeky workflows for this, e.g. having a giant collection on a server and regularly updating the local selection. A simple player app etc. A service independent way to store favourite tracks and playlists etc.

Or have streaming services stolen all tha air from this sector?

The aggressivness of Apple Music hints that those services will start getting annoying.
What I want is non-startups hiring remote. These companies all look like jolly fun, but I need a bit more stability.
The “connection” is usually just with a sales associate (retail employee in store) who feels like offering to sell you one at any random Hermes store, which isn’t a particularly “impossible” connection to acquire. There’s a lot of things that can be done to increase the chances as well including but not limited to:

- send in your husband/boyfriend

- buy a lot of Hermes products from the same SA

- claim it’s your birthday or that you’re expecting (harder to pull of nowadays since it’s done often)

- visit a store in France

The difficult part is being able to get it in the size/color/hardware you want since they don’t necessarily have what you want in stock or have for whatever reason decided to not show it to you as an option.
I first started looking at RepLadies a year or so ago when I was looking at buying a bag for my wife (I would tell her it was a rep of course).

I never bought anything, but I do occasionally still check in on the subreddit. There is something about the way it is run, as if by a mixture of Reese Witherspoon from Legally Blonde and Kristin Davis from Sex in the City that makes it quite a fun read.
Reminiscing iPods? Build a Classic iPod App with SwiftUI
I haven’t come across Hurl before. It looks cool!
I clearly remember feeling this fatigue already 20 years ago when piracy became super easy and i went from the teenage paradigm of buying one album, say, a month, and learning the ins and outs of it for that month, to having more in my hard drive than i could chew on. I remember thinking oh back in the day it was easier to love music!
I have since learned to stop being nostalgic about the scarcity and instead trying to be more, um, mindful of my consumption. Genre rabbit holes are great. Live music is too. I avoid the recommender algorithms as much as i can instead going for albums or curated compilations - much prefer YouTube to Spotify for this. When people let the algorithm play, I can clearly hear the lack of intentionality and it bothers me immensely.
From the article: Fifa says it plans to release its own rival games, saying: "The Fifa name is the only global, original title."

Right... Maybe they should ask Pro Evolution Soccer how easy that is going to be.
More than worse, for me it has been practically useless. We have no way to configure objective rules to ensure random emails are not wrongly marked as important. The whole thing is left to the mercy of whatever unconfigurable heuristic/ML engine google is running on its servers.

The fact that notifications are linked to whether emails are marked as important makes it downright hostile.
While that's true, these days initramfs is what performs this job.
Homes on average are a lot bigger in the US. Plus we tend to use aircon a lot more.
> If I made up [Luna] and [Terra] on my computer and said to you “I will give you the number 10 billion in this Excel spreadsheet if you give me 1 million U.S. dollars,” you would say no, and if I raised my offer to 400 quadrillion you would not change your mind.

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2022-05-10/anothe...
It is, but that's also over 2 years and 4 months, so an annualized inflation rate of ~4.6%, which my salary didn't keep up with, but only barely.

I don't disagree that inflation is overtaking wage increases, just that the magnitude isn't that large....yet.
>Why cut-off at the 61 richest?

Because I am unsure where to get data on the 10,000. If you find it, I will absolutely udpdate.

>If directly distributed to the poorest 10 million Americans, that would more than double their income

The poorest 10 million Americans likely pay a negative tax rate already (as they should). But you're right—it would. But only for one year—so that's not sustainable.

>Property tax is not enough

What is "enough"?

>If we "deplete" the wealth of billionaires after a few years, then so be it.

Then what do we do once it's been depleted and we've gotten used to it? That would be a big tax gap that would have to come from...you and me. Is that what you want?
I generally think crypto is rediculously stupid but this seems like some stretched logic.

You're paying for the electricity via inflation of dodge coin the same way that you pay indirectly when governments fund things through seigniorage. The fact that stuff is very indirect doesn't magically make the electricity free.

For some reason i have never bee able to comprehend, people think this is worth it as emonstrated by the price of dodge.
Not sure where the claim about taking immigrants is coming from, according to the OECD: https://stats.oecd.org/viewhtml.aspx?datasetcode=MIG&lang=en

Germany takes more and this is raw numbers not adjusted by the size of the country. Germany is less than a third the size of the US and taking more. Spain takes 60% as many immigrants as the US and is roughly 1/7 the population.
Coinbase Shares Slump on Revenue and Subscriber Contraction
Hah, I felt the exact opposite :)
Good luck mounting /usr when mount is in /usr/bin. Not everybody uses a ramdisk to boot the system.
>Google tries to send me on wild boondoggles literally all the time. It sends me off highway in an attempt to avoid traffic

Same happened to me several years ago, I stopped using Google maps. It tries to hyper optimise the journey-- in one case, there was some traffic on the highway so it took me thru the city. The problem was-- even with traffic the highway was still moving at 40mph. In the city, I was at 10mph and a red light every 5 minutes.

And at one point, it tried to save me literally 5 feet by taking me through a truck parking lane-- that is not only dangerous but probabbly illegal as well. I dumped google for Apple Maps, havent looked back since
We also could have had 1.12% I think, if we increased our LVT to like 60%, but I didn't have the cash to do that at the time. It was in September 2021, so basically the historically lowest interest rates time in UK, ever - we were quite lucky to be remortgaging at that point. My sister is just getting a mortgage herself now and the lowest she can find is about 3% for 5-year fixed mortgage.
I don't know what to tell you, it doesn't work with the Video tag which is what matters
Phones reporting 100% charge are usually at around 97%:

https://www.androidauthority.com/how-long-phone-charge-30646...

In old Android phones you could even get those additional 3% by unplugging at 100%, seeing the battery immediately go to 97% and then plugging again. My old Galaxy S4 Mini would even report 94% in such cases - I originally found out about this due to this discrepancy.

The iPhone gives you more of a "gas tank" indicator, as in that 1% charge left is actually closer to 10-15%. Same with 100% - hell knows how much it really is.
Yes. They're "the norm" in some countries and business niches ( e.g. banking, but not Germany, there it'd be SUSE), software only comes packaged and tested for their OSes, etc.

For everyone else, there's Debian/Ubuntu/whatever.
You don't need to do this as a dev either. You could easily be doing Cobol at a bank since the 70s until now.
Air traffic controller guides passenger to safe landing at PBIA
Not using an initrd is unsupported on lots of distros these days.
I agree 100%, I’m just hypothesising why it could have ended up like that, and if there’s a way to have something “registry-like” without the observed flaws.
> What a shame.

I think this is a pretty dangerous attitude, and it is really the only thing wrong with Linux, and probably leads to replacement of simple structure and functionality with a complex software suite that is merely more convenient, like systemd. "Let's change this thing because we want to, because it will improve performance 0.0024%"

Feature creep is what happens when restraint was not exercised.

IMO, since it really doesn't matter what the filesystem looks like, leave it be for standards and compatibility. Seriously, it takes, idk, maybe, a lack of humility to want to change fundamental characteristics of UNIX when the reasons for doing so are a little capricious.

I'm not really talking about the parent, fwiw. I'm talking about the crowd and ochlocracy.
“calm”
You have lots of seniority, implies a good income thus likely a larger dwelling.

You have free weights at home.

> I think I am justified it blaming myself for lack of self-discipline.

The harsh side of me agrees with this. You have all of the material resources to set up a really cool training setup.

The empathetic/caring side of me disagrees. "Self-discipline" is certainly a thing, but you are also dealing with a medical condition and maybe your body shouldn't be working out in the way that your rational mind thinks it should, plus you want to be a good father to your daughter. Plus, your regular workouts seemed to always have a social component.

Your sub/unconscious needs will dominate whatever "self-discipline" you try to consciously apply.

That's the diagnosis. If correct, the prescription I offer is:

Find a way to do "workouts" which involve your daughter.
I started taking my son to the gym when he was 8, he was doing freeweights. He'd help me count reps. When it was his turn to lift, I stressed 1) low weight high reps (like sets of 30), 2) technique, 3) stop before exhaustion. Kid is eight, skeleton is not built for weight-bearing, so cannot stress it with heavy things.

"workouts" could also be walks, preferably in the park/in nature with your daugher. If you want to make it really physical for you while still keeping your daughter's pace, buy a goruck backpack and put 20lbs in it, then 30, then 40. You don't have to walk fast to exercise when carrying a heavy ruck. Your daughter stops to smell a flower? So do you, bend over to sniff the flower--- while wearing a 40lb ruck. You'll get your workout, all while exploring the world at a child's pace.
This makes, no sense at all?

Somebody opened a $4.2Bn short position on BTC, and spent $1Bn buying UST, on the theory that them unwinding their $1Bn purchase would cause the backers of UST to sell $1Bn in BTC which would somehow result in massive profits on their $4.2Bn BTC short?
I see it as a bit of a chicken and egg situation: you see a company you believe is overvalued, therefore you short it. The problem is that once you do that you become financially motivated to see them fail, even if that wasn't true when you originally shorted them.