skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I didn't say anything about a job being a bad choice. I recognize not everyone can be a software developer and that some jobs have bad pay.

My point was that if you are poor, and you don't choose to live frugally and save what you can, then you are implicitly choosing to remain poor. This is not to say that everyone can escape poverty, because I don't think that's true, but there are people who don't do themselves any favors and it isn't helpful to blame the consequences of their bad choices on everything else.
I work for people from Canada. Basically ignore Argentina's holidays and follow Canada's. Working remote means we can do whatever we want, no need to take a holiday here if we don't want to (paid, of course)
The government of USA is incredibly inefficient at getting anything done.

If I had billions of dollars I would always strive to legally pay as least taxes as possible and use the funds to contribute back the country in much more efficient ways, including investing in people who are provably getting shit done.

Here's the latest of a constant firehose of misuse of funds I've seen. The gist is that a Stanford professor is basically leeching $40K of tax money at a $5000/hr rate for "consulting" about social justice and equity in schools. I'd rather give that $40K directly toward educational supplies for underprivileged students, or to a hundred tutors and therapists at $50/hr, or something else.

https://nypost.com/2022/04/08/stanford-prof-calls-cops-on-be...
Time in the market beats timing the market. Dollar cost average money into VTI every month automatically from your bank account and forget about it.
While "toxin" refers specifically to a poison produced by a living cell or organism, "toxic" does not -- it's a synonym of poisonous, directly derived from the Latin word for "poisonous".

"Toxin" is a newer invention, derived from "toxic" by adding the biochemistry-related suffix "-in" to indicate toxic substances of biological origin.
uBlock Origin has no problem blocking them. I thought domain-proxied ads were pretty common.
If you know when the bottom is, you shouldn't be posting here, you should be chilling on your yacht.
Been a while since I've used Windows as a daily driver but I used to use SumatraPDF for basic PDF operations. Small, lightweight, open-source. Looks like it'd still be useful today?

https://www.sumatrapdfreader.org/free-pdf-reader
Difference is that the internet was and is a real thing with real value. There were a zillion dotcoms thrown up onto it that offered no such value.

Crypto coins and NFTs are like the latter.
Me: Your hierarchy won't necessarily help others.

You: How does Twitter's lack of hierarchy demonstrate that hierarchy doesn't help anyone?

How did you read into my comment that I said that "hierarchy doesn't help anyone"?
Your old computer running newer versions of Chrome and Office is a feature, not a bug. More efficient software is better software
I'm not saying that 'essential' means 'obvious' in any official sense, rather that they generally cover solutions that experts in the field would come to if attempting to solve the problem.

I struggle to see how the patent office could ever uphold the requirement of inobviousness, how could they possibly have expert level domain knowledge across all domains?

So the patents get granted, contextually obvious or not.

I should stop typing while I'm still vaguely on topic, before I start ranting about patent thickets and wilful infringement.
MongoDB are basically their Atlas product right now, and AWS has a number of offerings aimed right at it.

I'm surprised Google hasn't been more aggressive in this space, but Google cloud strategy has never made terrific sense to me.
I've long wondered why there are no college courses on sales.

Almost every company has a sales department and there are tons of careers in sales, yet there is no formal path to learning in higher ed.
Retaliation for union organizing is not legal, actually. It is not lawful to terminate someone for exercising their rights to collective bargaining - even in at-will employment.

For example: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/us-labor-board-say....

And: https://www.nlrb.gov/about-nlrb/rights-we-protect/your-right...
Electricity and gas are typically non discretionary spending.
Recruiters who insist on scheduling on phone call when it can just be an email/text.

Or a video call when a regular phone (or voice-only zoom) would be much easier and quicker on both sides.

Endless rounds or interviews with all sorts of weird stuff

As if expressly designed to indicate just how worthless your time is, in their view.

Its a bizzaro world out there.

Yep - it's enough to make you say "F-it, just give me a CRUD job with a boss who isn't an outright asshole".
Elon Musk says he is 'aligned' with Europe's new rules for social media
It’s weird you didn’t mention the number one reason for all that. Millions of people with decent incomes and nothing to spend it on due to Covid, bored out of their minds and looking for something to do. Unfortunately for them they did something really stupid. At least nobody got hurt.
I own Cloudflare too, it'll recover long term
Oh it's strictly correlated just not pinned.
It is too late for that.
How much time? The codec licensing shitshow was already going strong before web browsers were a thing.
I don't think there's enough investigative power to find all the people who were abusing the system. The level of fraud that I personally witnessed of people filing hundreds of PPP loans for non-existent businesses was in the high 7-figure range, and that was just 2 guys I happened to hear of. There were likely hundreds of scammers doing the same thing in every major city, each stealing millions of dollars each.
This may be the wrong place to ask, but if a regular person wanted to buy stock in an individual company or two, and mostly hold it (not day-trade), what's the right channel for that?

Might put some fun-money in Cloudflare
Multi-coin stablecoins like UST are usually structured to make money for a third party. For some, additional usage of the primary coin drives the appreciation of the secondary coin. If they are built to incentivize adoption, you can guarantee nobody will pay too close attention to whether or not the match checks out.

We desperately need to support collateralized stablecoins like USDC through clarifying regulation that standardizes reserve requirements and transparency. This would likely drive use away from algo coins and bring stability to so called stablecoins.
> it's hard to imagine most US presidents deriving joy from music

They're people, not gods. People like music.
I mean.. it's been sitting at 75 for a bit - there is definitely some support.
Probably works in some parts of the country but it doesn’t work in SV unless you’re mega-wealthy already and paid off your house.
Does it? The reporting on polls I've heard of sound like it has a few to many convenient assumptions baked in.

Answer that they is a limit to how much immigration is sustainable? Clearly you must think we're over that limit now.

Answer that cheating visa systems is bad? Clearly you must think the quotas are high enough as they are.

Answer that opening the floodgates would let in problematic people? Clearly you must think contrary to data! that the people currently being let in are bad (rather than that the process acts as a filter).

It's at least as complex of an issue as the new hot topic, where appropriately formulated polls can claim to find overwhelming support for either extreme position despite that (or because, really) most people seem to favor something somewhere in the middle.
^This guy gets it.

Also, in nearly every parliamentary system the state's ability to quickly invalidate patents by an act of parliament gives them even more leverage in the negotiations with drug companies.
Gods I know. Basically everything I invested in in my spare time day trading during the pandemic is down to an insane degree. My entire portfolio is in the red except Tesla, AMC and Nvidia. Shits getting real depressing.
Sag-Free Deformable Simulations
Why? Should I adopt the Inverse ARKK?
I loved the link to the SNL skit. Agree it's a fantastic performance by Ryan Gosling. The funniest part for me though is how it ended with Comic Sans, the only font in the universe more reviled than Papyrus.
That doesn't contradict the EMH at all. The EMH does not say that stocks never go up or down without news.
The Problem with Slack at Scale
The user experience and ecology of the internet is built on royalty-free open standards. It's up to video codecs to meet that standard.

H.265 isn't interested in being royalty-free. But, luckily, AV1 is very interested in being royalty-free. So this time around we don't need to repeat the mistakes and compromises of the past.
Day trading is not investing.
That startup math worked out fine until a few months ago.
The common wisdom was tech companies can always fire personnel when they will want to become profitable and until then increasing expense to get more market share is the thing to do.
It's not completely baseless but obviously we now know too many companies rode this momentum and built businesses that might be unsustainable. We will see.
> Imagine if everyday the bulk of your decision making was literally about every dollar: heat and lights or shoes? Shoes or food? Food or healthcare? Healthcare of rent? Rent or heat and light?

Again, I haven't met these people you talk about among any of poor people I grew up around. I think the "research" you center your worldview on is a fiction. Propaganda of some sort? Maybe meant to make you slave away for more money than you need and to fear being destitute?

The poors I grew up would do things like buy a TV they couldn't afford, then trade it to someone for several ounces of weed that they planned to sell. Then smoke too much of the weed themselves and have no TV for a month or two.
What's on your buy list? Asking for a friend.
Throughput for a single service / app improves, but does it really scale? Across a cluster, you will have to have data replication and sync routines, that are a whole mess themselves.

The latency is not reduced, it is shifted elsewhere.
They just added more content https://www.cloudflare.com/platform-week/cloudflare-tv/
Are windows codec packs still a thing? That worked fine back in the day. They're welcome to talk to me about licensing their $1 patent for personal use after they track me down (though, chances are, I already accidentally own a license to it anyway.)
> I have no clue on earth why I am downvoted

Because everyone thought you were trolling with a dog whistle: “We need something (a bomb?) for you (Russia)”.
Siberian permafrost is melting, and the apartment buildings relying on it for a foundation are collapsing.
Well the OP did not mention ransomware, so my comment is not addressing that case.

Here is a fun article as a counter point: https://www.coindesk.com/markets/2021/07/13/dont-blame-bitco...

And my comment: Piracy and kidnapping of property existed long before cryptocurrency -- just google Somalian pirates. I don't have to reason about person kidnapping I assume.

Also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ransomware#Encrypting_ransomwa... please read the history of ransomware. I guess all the criminals of the past since 1989 need to use time machines because they could not possibly do ransomware pre-cryptocurrency... /s

P.S. Downvoting because you disagree with a comment that addresses another comment is not really polite.
Opposing view.

Cloudflare doesn’t own anything significant in the form of data centers. Having small rented footprints at IXPs across the globe is not an asset, it’s just a cost. I’m not downplaying the difficulty of getting it setup but there is no intrinsic value in having it if demand for their product collapses.

> Developer sentiment towards Cloudflare is comparable to Apple fanboys of the previous decade

This is far from true. People begrudgingly pay protection money to cloudflare to protect themselves from DDoS attacks. Very few significant operations depend deeply on the cloudflare stack. It has not been the AWS alternative it set out to be with the launch of its lambda like edge compute products.

An AWS, Azure, or Google DDoS protection product could eat Cloudflare’s market in a hot minute. Cloudflare can’t escape being a “feature” of a cloud provider.

(Disclosure, I sold out of Cloudflare at the end of the year when it failed to gain significant traction.)
> An urban farm is not nearly as efficient as a true industrial farm.

They're also not as efficient at destroying the environment.
I think this architecture would be really powerful paired with the actor model to shard databases to nodes.
> football player style contracts for engineers, where you are tied in to a team for N years, and with a requirement that another team has to pay big money for your contract if they want you to transfer?

i.e. golden handcuff equity grants with vesting schedules? Top performers in highly demanded areas can have some or all of their remaining equity bought out.

It definitely ties the value of the contract to the stock price. In a way the company is leveraging its stock - significant declines hurt talent retention, and significant gains help it.
Bash is bad and ugly… But I just avoided a day’s worth of development of a little command line utility by adding two alias lines that go into .profile.
No question but utilities' distributions have to compete with higher treasury yields so that would be pushing downwards pressure on their prices.

Actually in a tight money environment I don't really think there is a place to hide. Bonds and stocks are both likely to decline across the board. Cash and gold might be the best refuge.
No one said that they are?

You agreed to a job where you would work in a specific location, your employer continues to want you to work there. No one is saying or asking anything of you outside of work hours, just that work hours require being in the office. Just because you don’t think it’s necessary isn’t relevant, you are required to do the job, and they’ve decided for whatever reason that they consider being visible in the office a part of the job. That was a part before Covid, and it remains part now.

When this first started and people were told to stay home it was explicitly stated that employees would be required to return to the office eventually, people rewriting the past to pretend that wasn’t the case are just deluding themselves, and frankly that letter felt like it was trying to exploit those groups it claimed were disproportionately harmed to create favour for its positions.
I liked it. Also because the markets have become decoupled from reality/fundamentals/value - like a sandbox - at this point. Also liquidity and fungibility of the money supply/sand =)
Legit every major drug company would give you the drug in question for free, not to mention Medicaid, which if you can't afford 7k, you would easily qualify for.
All of those links seem to be consistent with my understanding - it was a patent infringement lawsuit and there were no allegations of stolen implementation code?
Bob just can't receive message from Alice anymore. But he don't know whether it's caused by acknowledgement or all messagers from Alice was caught. Whatever it was a low probability depending on how hard can be for a messager to cross the city, but never centainty.
> I always get discouraged by the fact that I'd have to buy-in to the Lisp language to even get going with Emacs.

You can't be further from the truth. I was a power Emacs user for almost a decade with virtually no Elisp knowledge. I could set variables, but as an example, couldn't write a loop or function.

Of course, once you know elisp, you'll find excuses to use it.
It's not all about efficiency. More greenspace is healthier, and more people taking part in community gardens is also a good thing.
https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/purity.png
Why are you insisting that my trust is "blind"?

I'm looking at predictive power and track records.

Yes, it's entirely possible that an institution has played the long con, revealing one verifiable truth after another, only to tell me a giant lie.

Or that an institution can be suborned and corrupted.

If there's some cutting edge field, with an urgent and important finding, I have to trust the scientists. You and I do not have the expertise to verify their findings. We can try. But it takes a deep understanding to make valid and constructive criticisms.

I mean, let me walk you through this - your doctor says you have condition X, and need treatment Y. Being a skeptic, you get a second opinion, but it concurs. Tell me how you are not merely trusting the scientists? Feel free to explain like I'm five, I won't be offended.
USDT is a black box. They almost certainly just write whatever is needed to keep the peg on their “bookkeeping” each day
>I personally wouldn't start a new, greenfield web API project with an MVC framework. There are still too many choices present in how to handle concerns like querying, authn, authz, caching, migrations, etc, etc. I would use a system like PostgREST or Hasura and generate the API from the database directly.

It depends on the framework. In .NET the only difference between MVC and API is the base class of the controller. You either return JSON or you return a view. Database connections, migrations, routing, serialization, error handling, exception handling, authentication, authorization, Swagger specification, Docker file generation, can be handled by the framework if you so desire. Also, you can mix MVC controllers and API controllers in the same project if you so desire.

>For server-rendered UI I think there's still a strong case for these frameworks but they could probably take some lessons and generate their data-layer models from the database DDL

I find it better to just generate the database from the domain entities using code first approach. It's faster and the ORM will generate proper indexes and also provide optimized SQL queries.
I understand why the lender demands 20%. The economic problem is that the borrower has no conceivable use for the funds which could reasonably be expected to cover that yield (short of inventing the money out of thin air)
> Is this really what people strive for in the USA. To avoid contributing anything back to the country that helped them achieve everything they've ever wanted?

You are working from a flawed model. Government spending is not tied at all to revenue. Over the past three years the federal government has dropped over 5 trillion dollars on the economy from a helicopter.

Why not take advantage of a loophole when money can and is being created out of thin air?
Don't catch a falling knife - someone pretty smart
In the previous Cloud TPU architecture, PyTorch and JAX users had to create a separate CPU VM for every remote TPU host and arrange for these CPU hosts to communicate indirectly with the TPU hosts via gRPC. This was cumbersome and made debugging difficult.

With TPU VMs, none of this is necessary. You can SSH directly into each TPU host machine and install arbitrary software on a VM there to handle data loading and other tasks with much greater flexibility.

The blog post provides an example of training cost improvement using PyTorch / XLA on TPU VMs in the "Local execution of input pipeline" section. Hopefully we will be able to provide more tutorials on using PyTorch / XLA with TPU VMs soon.

With TPU VMs, workloads that require lots of CPU-TPU communication can now do that communication locally instead of going over the network, which can improve performance.
It's also not the first asset class that comes to mind when I think of "not highly leveraged"...
20% per annum isn't close to enough, as today's market demonstrates. I'd have needed probably 20% per month, if not per week.

But why would anyone be willing to pay it?
You mean like DBeaver?

https://dbeaver.io/
By what measure? I move money around trying to grow it. That's investing.

> expend money with the expectation of achieving a profit or material result by putting it into financial plans, shares, or property

None of that says "long term"
It works if you live by yourself in a 1BR. To pay the mortgage on a family home you probably need to sell RSUs. It is also super risky to to buy a house you need RSUs to hold on to - exactly the kind of risk that is unreasonable if you have a family.
This is the worst kind of confirmation bias. Even worse, it's just wrong.

Both of them were born into families with important connections and money. They're abnormally intelligent and had good educations before college.

Most importantly, both of them benefitted from going to Harvard. They met exceptional people there, and those people were vital to their success. Gates and Ballmer met there, for example.

Any dropout can certainly run the world, but the average person is far better positioned to succeed by going to college.
> realization, hindsight, genius and humbleness

These resources are rarer and more expensive than increasing cloud bills (for now).
Exactly. Not many asset classes that have not gone up a huge amount in the last 10 years. They all have room to fall.

Also, buy real-estate requires significant amounts of money, much more than the average person has lying around (or can borrow).
>> By default, cells rerun whenever its code changes or an input reruns, like a spreadsheet!

> This is transformational

Just a note, but this has been around for forever in tools and languages like TouchDesigner, vvvv, Max, Pure Data, LabVIEW, with various permutations on the idea.
The scifi convention scene used to feature Marian Zimmer Bradley cruising for teenage boys, as a procurer for her husband Walter Breen, a convicted pedophile and member of NAMBLA. I'm not sure we want to pine for the return of those days.
Wait, why would anyone pay $40/month to use an exercise bike they already bought?

Am I stupid? Or is the world stupid?
>A senior engineer is someone you can point in the general direction of a business problem. They rarely get requirements, and never fleshed out. Their job is to understand the problem in consultation with stakeholders, guide a team through execution, and maybe but not always write or debug some critical parts.

That sounds more like a manager or architect than an engineer. Engineers should take a proactive role in discovery and talking with business to figure out the best place to create value (that's a once a month meeting for us), but at the end of the day it's up to the PO to translate business needs into product development. Either way, I doubt you need 4+ hours a day to flesh out the technical requirements. When I worked at bigger companies, I'd spend only roughly 4 hours coding a day too. It's not because the problems were harder, but because there were blockers at every corner due to siloing and overly complicated business processes. I'd spend days in meetings and escalation emails just to get a networking rule exception.

>As a senior engineer, if I told my manager in a performance review that I mostly worked alone on tickets with well defined requirements, I’d be on PIP immediately and probably fired a month later.

Then you're a sucker. Engineers are supposed to write code. Even at the bigger companies, all senior engineers (and I mean 15+ experience) wrote code most of the time and did everything in their power to avoid meetings and other disruptions. That's how I learned about the "Law of Two Feet". Business expects you to coordinate between stakeholders and the rest of the engineering team. What's next? Should you manage the team's budget as well? Make long-term product roadmaps? Get yourself a promotion!
Are you not remote friendly? That could be an issue.
"hacking is not cracking"....

if you're going to be pedantic, at least add something to the conversation.
It's not reasonable to expect everyone to grow out of the "editor wars" phase at the same rate. Some never manage it at all.
It could dilute the stock and further hurt it though no?