skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I never understood this "say bad word" -> "completely banished" pipeline either.

A: We aren't talking about a bad word or two here. You'd not receive an action like this for saying "gg ez noobs" or w/e. We are talking about racist, sexist, violent harassment here.

B: It's not "completely banished", that's why I would suggest exponentially ban durations, hopefully people get the memo on the first offence.

FWIW you can already be banned like this for cheating via VAC. Sexist/racist harassment is just as toxic as cheating to the game. It means big chunks of the population don't feel comfortable participating in the game fully(ask any female friends if they use voice chat in pubs).
Company wants to use carbon dioxide to store renewable power on the grid
It's not that she works for RT, which is known to be the Kremlin's mouthpiece.

It's that she has a history of fabrication and lies, as noted in the linked Wikipedia article's citations.

With such a history of non-credibility, whatever she now spouts is suspect and tainted.
EA should just buy FIFA and fill stadiums with loot crate vending machines.
Probably a group of government officials earned significantly from these and if the country goes default most of the pain will be on the ordinary citizens, sadly.
Pay peanuts, expect the world. Complain on HN about with a throwaway account. Get a personal message from the Cloudflare CEO.

How can some entity move 200-300TB but have no finances to pay for it while having a multi layer management team? I really don't understand any of it.
Nah, EA isn't even close to the level moral bankruptcy and corruption that FIFA represents.

IMO the entire leadership of FIFA belongs behind bars.
Do they apply Occam's razor, where simpler equations are favored over more complicated ones?
It's still nasty. Structs are brittle. They aren't easy to inspect when doing some forensics on a bug. It makes it harder to extend the program when you are fussing with version number fields and multiple formats.

INI or JSON or something can make life a lot easier, at least in high level GCed languages.
Eh, it's fine for the target audience who knows what FC (football club) means, but definitely not their best rebrand.
No, not really. I don't use those platforms - I was thinking more in the sense that women are outnumbered 10:1 (or 100:1 ?) on those apps and "get to choose" the terms.

Also there is a meme (?) that even average looking women on Tinder will be super picky ie "he must be 6'+, have a 6 figure salary, and has to hit the gym everyday day*...
,, The firm added that debt to gross domestic product (GDP) is expected to rise to 86.9% in 2022, “increasing concerns around debt sustainability over the medium term.”

As a comparision US debt to GDP ratio is 133%

Also forex reserves is 3.4B, I don’t see why it would be impossible to pay $800M
This is wrong (and dangerously so too).

On FreeBSD 3rd party packages go into /usr/local and not /usr

You absolutely will get base packages in /usr/bin (eg `env`) so nuking /usr/bin will break your FreeBSD install.

There's a good write up here: https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/332764/role-of-the-...
I do not know

I send them mails and do not get any answer
Yeah in terms of greed it's really hard to say which of these two parties I detest more.
Given that Python's ecosystem is enormous, I would be surprised if everything was duplicated in Julia code. It would also be quite wasteful.
> Do transfers in the US really take three days, rather than a second or so?

They take about thirty minutes (Fedwire), given banks’ antifraud procedures. That said, I can wire moderate amounts (generally, less than $25,000) in seconds to known counterparties. There are also P2P rails like Venmo for small, instant transfers, though that’s a gross settlement system.
Naked greed from FIFA it sounds like..

For FIFA to ask for a $1bn over 4 years based on EA's revenue of nearly $6bn from FIFA and Ultimate Team in the same period (assuming zero growth) doesn't seem that greedy to me.
It's inconsistent, but certainly some programs adhere to XDG on macos. I've got pretty healthy looking ~/.config and ~/.local directories, and it's not all just my own stuff.
The major issue is that there is no cross-platform webview currently.
The main candidate is the official webview shipped on windows, but it is currently lacking linux support
https://github.com/MicrosoftEdge/WebView2Feedback/issues/645...
Linux webviews like e.g. tauri are shit, they use webkit wich leads to platform specific bugs and limitations vs the tauri on windows and more importantly webkit is the new IE, it lacks so many features it's pathetic and has major performance issues, e.g. https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=WebKit-W...
Why can't linux distros get an official chromium webview is beyond me, and those are the same shills that continuously rant about Electron bloat..
Bad/illogical/outdated directory structure is one of the most annoying things I've encountered while using Linux, because it makes the admin job feel unnecessarily messy (things are all over the place), and it feels as if there's a fundamental imbalance in the system that you can't get rid of.
I'm sure some marketing exec doesn't want to say "Football" or "Soccer", and has a whole worldview prepared with EA Sports Hockey, etc, but this new name completely misses on being actually usable in conversation.

Just like everyone says Facebook instead of Meta, FIFA is probably here to stick for the game in the next 5 years probably. Even an oldschool dumb name like EA Kickmaster would have been better.
> Talk about unintended consequences!!

Talk about intended consequences. That was their whole goal.
looks legit. Just like vanilla kernel, it must be also vanilla C, vanilla Rust and vanilla js.
There's an implicit "per year" in there. It's better expressed as a time: "100%" means "1 year's worth". There's no tipping-point.
How about a game? Doesn’t get more interactive than that.

https://vim-adventures.com/
Yes, it's due to the amount of melanin in one's skin.

Have you ever seen someone with a sunburn? It's painful, the skin is red, hot to the touch, and the person feels generally unwell (flu-like symptoms). The skin hurts for days and the it will blister and then peel. The blister/peel stage is extremely itchy.

Wouldn't you want to avoid that if possible? Even ignoring the risk of long term harm.

I prefer wearing long sleeves and a wide brim hat to chemical sunblocks but that is not possible when swimming.
Maybe in the US, but I still find Google maps to be far better in Europe
There is really not that many places to look. I agree it could be better but part of the time the issue is with package maintainers. And to some extent, systemd has made things a little more convoluted. Compared to Windows it is far better because at least you don't go having to search thousands of registry keys.
What do EA get out of the deal though? Made sense when they were launching the series back in the days the Sega Megadrive, now it's just an incredibly expensive albatross round their neck. FIFA are so corrupt the association is negative. Why would you pay for that? In a saner world FIFA would be paying EA for sponsorship to launder their image!
That is not what it means.
Lifting zero-Covid policies in China could risk 1.6m deaths
It's a yearly number...they would have to spend all their income, including taxes, for 1.5 years to pay off their debt.
Crises Don't Need Your Software
What really bothers me is that he is using this obsolete gzip compression format instead of the new bzip3.
wake up, prepare coffee, shit, eat, work work work until 12, lunch at 12, back to work 12.30 - 45, work work until 16.00. Close computer, prepare food eat and go outside.
Don't be sad, since intel changed from a engineering to a pure money-making firm, it went downhill...they deserve it. So many shady things, blatantly lying to customers and faking benchmarks.

I hope they are a getting beaten down until they realize that the are an engineer firm, and if the US is smart, they eventually take over Intel -> "country important products"

Intel - From Inventors of the CPU to Laughing Stock:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JH2nXMv6yZI
> sus that these massive selloffs are happening exactly in the middle of the night for the US east coast?

Not totally.

Algorithmic stablecoins have two equilibria: 0 and 1. Zero is presumably permanent. Small dislocations from 1 are fixable, but require arbitrage bandwidth. That bandwidth has a limit that varies based on participation.

Considering this, it’s almost expected that the peg would break more violently when most arbitrageurs are asleep. And given a single unfixed deviation from 1 pushes the system to 0, and given zero is a permanent outcome, one would expect the long-run value of the system to be zero while governed by these rules. (Hence the push to accumulate unconnected reserves.)
> Strong job markets, hordes of millennials nearing homebuying years and a shift to remote working have raised the demand for more living space.

Millennials are now between 25 and 40. They should nearly all have been on the market for buying homes by now.

edit: people misunderstood me, so I'll amend my point somewhat to clearer convey what I meant: most millennials have been on the housing market for years, but are unable to buy. Only the tail-end of the millennials haven't entered the market yet (because they live at home and are still in school).

Entering the housing market != buying a house.
Entering the housing market == intending to buy a house.
My unpopular opinion is that there are a lot of times a database should not be used, and the rest of the time, a standalone database is still a bad idea if you don't need it.

Text can be versioned.

And databases invariably need either manual admin or a docker container or something. Many apps could totally be easy, instant app store type things, but they depend on some extra daemon. More things to misconfigure.

DBs are usually secured by passwords. Now I need a strong password... on a completely local system, instead of just some file permissions?

SQlite is absolutely wonderful. Possibly one if the best libraries ever made. But text is perfect for configuration.

Apps don't need to do queries against config. They don't frequently make small updates of the type one usually wants a DB for(Unless they are horribly written and rewrite megabytes files every minute even with no changes like browsers do or used to do).

Config isn't high performance, storage space isn't critical, but you do often want to version.
No, it's a ratio of remaining debt to yearly income. Notice they say new home owners have a multiple of 4 to 5.

On average a person making 100k a year has 150k or remaining debt.
This is by far the best explanation for the mess that is historical file hierarchies I have ever read.
Over the last 10 years in the US:

Inflation (CPI): 25.2% (2.2% annual increase)

Pilots average wage increase: 67.8% (5.3% annual raise, $118,070 -> $198,190)

Lawyers average wage increase: 13.4% (1.2% annual raise, $130,490 -> $148,030)

A mere 4.1% points difference in their annual pay raises, but it really adds up over the years – pilots started the past decade with lower wages than lawyers, yet ended it much better off. Keeping pace with inflation is extremely important.

https://www.usinflationcalculator.com/

https://www.bls.gov/oes/current/oes532011.htm

http://web.archive.org/web/20120526161129/https://www.bls.go...

https://www.bls.gov/oes/current/oes231011.htm

http://web.archive.org/web/20120526012248/https://www.bls.go...
Thanks, this looks promising!
If you forget to activate the venv you cannot accidently install packages in your system python.
In most (all ?) countries except US, you are not taxed for crypto to crypto conversion. However you are taxed when you convert crypto to fiat. For example if you want to secure your bitcoins benefits by converting them to 1M USD, in France you should pay 300k USD (30% flat tax). But if you convert them to 1M UST, or USDT, or USDC, or whatever, then you pay nothing.

So using stablecoins is a way of securing volatile crytpo assets for any period of time, while not having to pay taxes immediately (only when you decide to convert to fiat)

Of course this makes sense only if the stablecoin is actually stable ...
DIY Homemade Hologram Projector
AT&T will now use a device’s GPS location to route 911 calls
It was a way to get around bond regulations, the bond is a wrapper around Bitcoin. It’s similar to how some companies buy MSTR because they are not allowed to buy Bitcoin directly, but want some exposure.
Isn't this exactly what Qt WebEngine does?
Nobody knows, and that's a big issue. There's a lot of secrecy around the whole project that there shouldn't be.

Apparently the BTC is in custody at BitGo? But that's the word of one blogger.
My German online bank, N26, does free “instant” SEPA up to 2000 EUR. I think others do too but not all.
Ask HN: Azure payment issues with EU credit cards?
My employer is facing a really strange issue where we can't pay open invoices issued by Azure for our subscriptions using credit cards issues in the EU. Is anyone else facing such issues? Their customer support indicated that this might be an issue on their side but I haven't received any updates for several days now and I fear they'll start to disable subscriptions soon.
Europe is doubly-screwed, because the central bank can't raise interest rates without causing instant defaults for most southern European countries, because their bonds become junk at any rate above 0%.

They've painted themselves in a corner in 2008-2010 and are now presented with the bill.
Smishing
> It's a historical quirk on linux, where there is no clear separation between "base OS packages" and "3rd party packages".

It was a historical quirk to start with. At Bell Labs, back in the early 1970s, Unix was being developed on PDP-11s with RK05 hard disks (with removable disk packs), which had an amazingly generous capacity of 2.5MB each. The Unix operating system had grown too big to fit on a single RK05 disk volume so they had to split it across two. Other operating systems of the period faced similar issues, but dealt with them in (arguably) more elegant ways – on IBM mainframes, OS/360 maintained a database ("catalog") mapping file paths (dataset names, to use the proper terminology) to volume names, so you could move a file to another disk without changing its path. True to Unix's penchant for simplicity, its authors decided instead to just split the OS into / and /usr. And the split survived long after they'd upgraded to more spacious disks.

Any other explanation for the split is essentially a retcon. Some of those retcons (even if, as other commenters have pointed out, not your own) may actually have become true – some of them may have been approximately true to begin with, and they influenced people's decisions, thereby making themselves more true over time. But its ultimate origins will forever remain this quirk of computing history.
> but exactly what you'd expect from programmers who spent the majority of their careers writing C

Writing C is an understatement given that Go and C were created by the same person (with help, of course).
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This is very basic stuff for people developing accounting or ERP systems. Sometimes it’s good to have some enterprise development experience ;)
Not the kids, but were the parents vaccinated or spend too much time with vaccinated persons?
Yeah, this is received unix lore: anything needed to recover a system needs to be statically linked and in /bin or /sbin.
Sorry, I'm not able to change it any longer. Maybe that'd be something @dang could do.

I don't know whether we have a policy about that, but I thought I should keep the title as the heading of the article. Sorry for the confusion about that.
One big point about remote companies is that most companies even if they are remote still want employees that are in a similar time zone. So if you're in Japan it's unlikely a European company will hire you as the times zones are so different you essentially never be able to communicate with each other in real time.

This means that you should have something on this job board to indicate where they want to hire people from otherwise it's completely useless.
I think people will generally buy the game that has the real teams and players.

I believe the falling through of this FIFA deal does not (severely) impact that as EA has agreements with all governing bodies separately (Premier League, Bundesliga etc.)

I am not sure if they can now still have the national teams?
They discontinued the iPods (Shuffle, Classic, Nano etc) quite a while back. What remained was the iPod Touch, which is basically an old iPhone that has been gutted to remove the cellular portions.
> The main candidate is the official webview shipped on windows

Why is that one ‘official’ or the main candidate?

> they use webkit wich leads to platform specific bugs

Doesn’t the Microsoft one have platform-specific bugs as well?
Pretty sure I'm still CTO, unless eastdakota has news for me in our next one-to-one.
> The maintainers of the Python packaging

Who?

> have just officially adopted Hatch:

Do you have a link?
The tech stack drop-down appears to dynamically load an infinite number of software as you scroll down?
Just give it a little time: "Camp Nou will be rebranded as Spotify Camp Nou" [1]. But, I agree, I was also a little confused when reading the title at first.

[1] https://www.theverge.com/2022/3/15/22979943/spotify-camp-nou...
Ah this makes way more sense!
It's more helpful when you can see it without reinstalling the app.
That isn't a viable critique. You have to prepare the right answers and bad faith questions are easy to counter. Or maybe not, but you still have to be able to do that. I have seen much more instances where no answers could be provided when people asked legitimate questions that weren't in bad faith at all.
> so why should those be present in the user's path

And why shouldn't they?

It's not as if a user could do anything damaging with them, if the system is setup properly.

> Having only usable binaries in the path aids discoverability of the system.

Except when someone new has to go online to ask "I found this tutorial telling me to use the `xyz` command to do this, but all I get is `bash: xyz: command not found`, please help!"
Housing should not be a financial instrument.

Governments everywhere do nothing about the insane house prices because all the politicians own multiple houses. They want nothing more than house prices to keep going up.

I think:

* people should be financially punished for owning more than two houses - via dramatically higher taxes

* everyone who wants to own a house should have the means to buy one - yes that means teachers, firemen, policemen, the disabled, warehouse workers

* the government should provide people with the deposit needed to buy a home

* banks should be banned from requiring deposits - this is just a means of keeping house ownership for rich people, so it should be banned

* any house that is rented must be offered for ownership to the long term renter

* all international house ownership should be banned - you must be a citizen or permanent resident to own a home

* corporations must be banned from owning homes in order to rent them

* In Australia, the government - and this is hard to believe - gives money to investors who own multiple houses via tax breaks. This must be reversed into multiple home ownership leading to paying much more taxes.

The goal is to crash house prices as far down as they possibly can be crashed.

I loathe it that housing has divided our society into landlords an renters, and anyone who owns a house does not give a shit about those who don't.

I welcome the economic conditions that will lead to housing markets being ruined and will party and celebrate those investors who own multiple houses suffering ruinous losses - I'll laugh.

... when you read the negative comments to this post .... probably those against own houses, those for do not own houses.
They were probably trying to avoid using 'football' or 'soccer', because the former would be misleading to some North Americans, and the latter would be off-putting for some Europeans.

The suffix FC is used by teams on both sides of the Atlantic, and should be well understood by fans of the sport.
I would expect that more likely than not, the same dynamics allowing the interest rate to be low also cause the purchasing power of the currency to decrease. A homeowner not able to increase their income to offset this decrease in purchasing power may be experiencing a net loss of purchasing power even if their mortgage interest costs decrease.
But.. show me a trustworthy journalist!

To get on, you have to be a government mouthpiece, all over the world.

I think its valuable to sample the 'delights' in all the troughs.
I'm a homeowner. If my house goes up in value it gives me an asset I can sell when I need to buy a different home (a benefit a renter doesn't have). It can even mean I sell my expensive home here and retire somewhere cheap.

Also, where I am, I can enjoy the capital gain on my home tax free. Even in the US, if you're married you only have to pay CGT on appreciation over 500k.

And, of course, it means that I have collateral and can take out a Home Equity Line of Credit if I need to.

The one downside is property tax, of course, but in some places property taxes are kept low - CA has prop 13, which means existing residents might have very low property taxes while new entrants have astronomical taxes, and in Ireland (where I am) property tax is so low as to be effectively 0.

Also, don't discount the high people get from feeling like they're rich.

Edit: I forgot!! You can also use your expensive home as a retirement fund via a reverse mortgage, sometimes called a "lifetime loan", etc. - Basically you sell your house, get the cash, but can live in it until you die. This is pretty useful if you're a retiree who doesn't have enough savings.
> they turned garbage mortgages into AAA was 1) tranching, ie having junior and senior tranches, and 2) the assumption of low correlation (not all borrowers will run into trouble simultaneously)

Even the junior tranches eventually paid. They just weren’t liquid like other AAA assets (namely, Treasuries) in a crisis. The ratings described the tranches mostly accurately in terms of payout probabilities. Not in terms of liquidity.

The correlation assumption is common to these two. But…

> we have something equivalent to the assumption of low correlation: if a few people here or there dump UST, you can indeed maintain the peg by issuing LUNA against it

LUNA and UST were simultaneously issued by the same system. They are fundamentally correlated in a way even American mortgages are not. If the bandwidth of arbitrageurs is broken, the peg fundamentally fails. While one mortgage not paying increases the risk of another not paying, it doesn’t directly cause it in the way we see here.

Also, holders of junk mortgages still got a deed of real property against their loan. What will most Terra/Luna holders get?
What has worked for me was to just learn a few basic functions. Save/load a file, cut-n-paste, move to line # and search. Just enough to be productive. Then I google as I needed something like search and replace, search and replace over selected line numbers, etc.

My VIM skills are still very basic and vanilla and I've used it as my main editor for a couple of years now.

My .vimrc is setup and I copy that to whatever computer I'm working on. I pretty much "stole" my setup from others.
The company that I work for makes a b2b wholesale platform. We use Rust on the backend for its reliability. The performance is a nice bonus too.
On my personal Linux desktop PC I have dumped all binaries into /bin. And /sbin, /usr/bin, and /usr/sbin are symlinks to /bin.
Just don't put /usr on its own partition. What is the point anyway after we have merged /bin into /usr/bin, /lib into /usr/lib etc. Just put your operating system on a single partition and be happy.
Crypto forensics startup Chainalysis raises $170M at $8.6B valuation