skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From what I understood, they are talking about the author’s complaint that he doesn’t get to spend 100% of his workday coding/testing/documenting. That doesn’t necessarily mean that the companies were poorly run - larger enterprises with more projects, teams and customers are going to require more meetings.

Maybe he worked at poorly managed companies, who knows. The fact that he was asked to participate in meetings instead of only being assigned purely code-related tasks isn’t very compelling evidence of a company being a “joke”.
Why 'the Russian army just isn't good'
The user can money launder their money via NFT wash sales.
This is a well studied developed vs developing world gap.

An interesting corollary that appears to be related is that the gender gap in STEM is much less large in the developing world.
Check out obsidian.md and the many YouTube videos demonstrating how it can be used.
In Italian “euro” is masculine while “lira” is feminine, but some people still occasionally use the feminine when referring to euros.

Since we're talking about the language of euros, what is the correct plural of "euro?"

My native English-speaking sister-in-law lives in the E.U. and uses "euro" for both singular and plural. But when I watch European television, I hear both "euro" and "euros" used as the plural form.

Sometimes within the same program, so it doesn't appear to be based on the country.
That's just a matter of haggling.
Interesting (or maybe not?) that the App Platform and Spaces pricing hasn't changed. I've been migrating as many projects as possible over to App Platform + Managed DB + Spaces recently. Although it's been frustrating due to their documentation being lacking, I've found it great for simple projects and static websites once you get your head around it. It's certainly more expensive than running plain Droplets, but the convenience is worth it. Their costs must be better covered on the App Platform over Droplets.
Russians are in fact allowed to buy USD (provided the bank actually has the physical dollar notes). The earlier prohibition on buying foreign currency has been relaxed.
The real question is - how your hourly rate that will justify increasing with $1 per month?
Ouch. That sounds all the more damning for the authors studious care to calmly describe instead of angrily rant.

I’ve spent too much time in research working on codebases that feel like quicksand — you never know what changing something might do!— to want to worry about that for stdlib or major package ecosystems, too.
It used to be that I’d end up on older systems with only cshell as the default. So immediately would install bash for what I had expected to be default behavior by that point.

zsh never clicked for me though, until I used oh-my-zsh, which allows for sharing custom extensions from folks. And it’s great, and superior to bash.

I used to not care, but these little improvements are worth it.
Not quite. It is still the property of Gazprom, but the control is exercised by the German authorities at the moment to ensure proper operations.
IIRC there was mention of it providing some p2p network style communication capabilities for Ukraine's military, and one of the reasons it's appealing to the US's military is the ability to route communications entirely within the network (well, with the gen 2 satellites which have laser interconnects).

So it can (at least eventually) function without 'regular internet', although I would still be hesitant to call it a viable infrastructure choice if the goal is to get around government control, simply from how much SpaceX have to appease the government to do anything space related.
So... I happened to tell this story to colleague years later. I heard... they did hire someone and they ended up being down for more than 1 shift. They fired the new person before getting back up and running.

The backup IT people from the other shifts didn't pick up the phone calls and the next person on shift saw the amount of phonecalls. So he never showed up to work. It wasn't until the third shift guy showed up did he know what needed to be done and fixed it.

They threatened to fire him because he didn't pick up the phone. He explained that he was sleeping because he was the night shift immediately before the outage. They said he was now the only IT person and would need to cover shifts until they can get back up and running. He left during his next break and never went back.

The outage of their factory ended up shutting down the main factory that they supply. That would be millions in fees. They brought in a MSP and were up and running and covered off.
No. They just associate repeated sounds, without any semantic whatsoever, just like bird songs.

Cats do not have the brain circuitry for semantic networks (based on a language concepts) evolved yet. So called language areas are required.

How this crap is even got through a peer review? Rithoric question, I know.
How is China even remotely similar to an aggresive fascist state of Russia?

(And can't help but notice this account has been created less than one hour ago)
>> The funding bodies want us to detail all expenses and justify all the changes in the plan, because they don't want people to say that the public funds are mismanaged. This is just an example. We also write tons of useless papers, to justify that we are productive with this money.

See how the solution is causing a different form of the problem it's trying to solve?

I agree with your premise, but sometimes I think having multiple efforts in parallel and letting many fail might be more productive than going the safe route.
My favorite piece of 'knowledge': "'Red shift' shows increasing totalitarian domination of the outer reaches of the universe. Write your congressman!"
The NSA Says There Are No Known Flaws in NIST’s Quantum-Resistant Algorithms
I keep meaning to experiment with https://yglu.io/ (it has support for env vars via a $env builtin -if- you enable it at processing time)
Affirm Q1 2022 Earnings: investors are panicking, but the company keeps growing
I operate a service called RunBuildRun that sells managed GitLab runners that run on DigitalOcean droplets. I have lots of droplets. I may need to bump up my price a bit :)
"My text editor, KeenWrite, allows users to reference YAML variables as paths while editing documents."

Another thing that would help in these template languages is if they'd pervasively track the sources of things, and let you view the final output of the templating process with some mechanism for viewing those annotations. Then when you look at the final result of some templating operation and can't figure out why "AWS_ENV_VAR" is "lol don't deploy this", you have some chance of figuring out where it came from.

This is yet another entry in the class of things that aren't too hard to add from the beginning, but good luck retrofitting it on after the fact.
I wonder if they pick it up by what draws your attention - so they may assume your name is texting sound or phone ring if that's all they ever see you react directly to.
That is an awesome visualization. Hats off.
China Is Heading for Disaster on Purpose [video]
I'm already evaluating changes with macos FileMerge.
I suspect a lot of this is survivorship bias.

I suspect if one were to compare a large number of startups to one large company (or even better a portfolio of large companies), the “ruthless founders” will significantly underperform the middle management in large companies even after adjusting for the inherent advantages large companies have.

The only reason the “ruthless founders” look better is because we usually only talk about the successful ones because unsuccessful ones have disappeared.

Middle management is more successful and ruthless founders are less successful than immediate appearances would suggest.
This data is already collected and aggregated (e.g., for issuing license plates), so it's probably more that it was handy than it's a perfect proxy.
But isn’t that idea - the level at which both sides agree the transaction is “worthwhile” / the arrangement is “worth keeping” the definition of “market rate?”

Price is what the market will bear, all that?

In your example, I have two options. I take your “lowball,” grumble about it, etc - but I also establish that evidently my house is worth $180K.

Or, I sit back and wait, grumble about it, etc, and see if in fact my house is worth $200K after all.
And then that gives you two options; both involve grumbling, one involves establishing a “market rate”
A friend of mine tooking in a cat that had been owned by a deaf family.

This cat didn't make any noise (meow) at all, if she wanted to go out, etc.,

she would run between you legs, (yes, totally under-foot!) a major trip hazard.

I taught her how to vocalize very quickly, which she understood we would hear, and would respond too.
The article reads to me that this is the point they were getting at.

> Tropicana’s orange juice became generic

They genericized something which was uniquely branded. To some people it's the orange and straw, to others it's Grovestand, etc.
> "[1a.] Can America's 25th percentile out-compete the 1 percentile of other countries"? OR

It's more like can America's 1 percentile (PhDs) outcompete the 0.5%-ile of other countries and I think the answer is probably yes, which is why the west coast is so dominant in tech.
That's strange. Nuclear is purely an engineering challenge. The political obstacles are a result of poor engineering. For example, radioactive waste was improperly deposited in Germany (Asse) and now nobody wants to be responsible for disposal anymore. Fukushima was also an engineering problem. The backup generators were placed in such a way that they failed during the tsunami. Chernobyl is another example of shoddy engineering. They used a terrible design that was particularly prone to meltdowns and then intentionally ran it in a configuration that caused a meltdown.

If the engineers actually did their job correctly there wouldn't be any problems. After all, every new generation of nuclear power plant got safer than the previous ones. If gen 1 and 2 reactors were as safe as gen 3 reactors there wouldn't be any safety problems to necessitate "political obstacles".
With the sanctions, imports have fallen but exports are still going strong. The Central Bank now requires all exporters to exchange at least 50% of foreign profits into roubles. So, there's a lot of demand for RUB, not so much for USD.
> Later, plug'n'play meant that your PC's BIOS could auto-detect and auto-assign everything to avoid collisions

which at the beginning was rather plug and pray.
https://hal9.com helps data scientists build faster web applications.

It uses WebGL and WebAssembly to process larger datasets, perform inference in the browser with TensorFlow.js, and enables running Python code with Pyodide.
Stand in the shoulder of giants - Sir Isaac Newton
Exercise in point free-style (2006)
Some evidence of an uptick here too. Historically it has been ~80%. 6 days ago we had to block 92%. Yesterday we blocked around three times that number of bot searches.

edit: the three times spike yesterday was one particular new attacker; general recent rise holds.
Yes. For more thoughts on this, I'd recommend reading Moxie's expansion on these ideas here.

https://signal.org/blog/the-ecosystem-is-moving/
Honest question: Is there something specific about TikTok technology/usage pattern paving the way for distopy acceptance or it's just the same concept of facebook/instagram/Twitter but with a younger audience?
Perfectly fine according to you, but others will disagree. For example I've noticed that those who posts religious messages will be rarely tolerated here, even if they are on topic or insightful
https://www.figma.com/ Is becoming the dominant design tool in the last couple companies I’ve worked for. I heard it used web assembly and canvas for a large portion of its app.
French carmaker Renault sells Russian assets to Moscow
I guess it depends on the cat. Mine is like that. She was a stray. I found her in my backyard one day. I took her in. I groomed her. I enriched her with toys, food, love, and all the luxuries a modern cat could want. So naturally she goes on the prowl each night marking territory making sure none of the other stray cats in the neighborhood get adopted too.
Yes that's a full 20% increase on droplets in the 5-10USD at least :(
Seems like the $4 droplet is a smoke screen hiding price increases. I'm a long time DO customer. I wish they would have just said "prices are going up" and listed a comparison of the old price with the new increased price. In their new price list, they do not list the old price... so you cant tell if they are going up and down. Because the article starts off with the $4 droplet announcement, you get a feeling that they have made changes to their infrastructure and prices will be going down to pass along those savings.
> That’s why today we are announcing that for the first time we’re changing our prices to best serve you at every stage of your growth journey.

To best serve you at every stage of your growth journey it would seem. Or if you'd like a translation from stilted corporate speak into plain language: we went public and the line's gotta go up and engineers and hardware don't come cheap.
Puzzling quantum scenario appears not to conserve energy
The reason NIMBYism doesn't work to lower housing prices is because you can't just pass a law that says "don't rent/buy here." With immigration, you literally can pass that law so my guess is that it would have some impact on easing demand.
There's some truth to your comment, and the one threat you'll never run away from is yourself, but it misses a lot.

I've been using an Onyx BOOX Max Lumi as my daily driver for about a year. It's an e-ink Android tablet, principally intended as an e-book reader (which I use it for), though it also serves quite well for podcasts, web browsing, and general terminal work (Termux / SSH).

If I really want to minimise distractions, I'll disable networking. I can read local content (articles, or my Pocket stash), which is already ample distraction. Or play back downloaded podcasts.

It is far more usable outdoors or under bright lighting than any laptop or tablet, which is itself highly useful.

Battery life is quite good when reading ebooks. This involves disabling Bluetooth, WiFi, and if possible, the Backlight, and avoiding screen repaints. When used for podcasts or browsing, CPU drain is fairly substantial, though I can get well over a day's use per charge typically.

There's no social media or any other apps on the device. My one authenticating app is Pocket.

The UI is not entirely as distraction-free as I'd like, but it is far more so than any other device I've owned in decades.

Lacking colour and high-speed animations is of and by itself a major win on distraction-free status. So, interestingly enough, is the ability to take freehand notes on the device. I'd not anticipated doing that much, it's turned out to be a significant use.
>I really have no idea what could even make sense. The cause I consider most likely is that they have a bias toward blocking new accounts, and only if you do display certain behaviours, will they not block you.

No, if twitter just blocked all new accounts they'd be out of business very rapidly.

Twitter isn't actively talking to facebook about content moderation.

You're definitely on a list. Don't worry, practically everyone on HN is on a list or 2.
> What is the value proposition of web3 to the user?

Potential of paying for services and being able to require privacy in return? It is not a choice one can make with many web2 services (e.g. google).

As for "blockchains are transparent and can't offer no privacy" - just a question of time. Tech is already here (zkps, mpc, etc).
I don't think it does, I get a ~~middle finger~~ recaptcha every time I try google something
web3 is not "pay for every click." value prop is disintermediation and decentralization. like purchasing a game asset, and not having it tied only to your iOS or Steam account.
Ongoing discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31396794
> https://www.reddit.com/r/interestingasfuck/comments/t9s0f4/r...

I guess this is also after 70 years of soviets and people never seen anything like this before?
Essentially only adding more options for the managed databases?
As MinorTom pointed out, the final fee in the end still comes at a hefty percentage of the transfer.

> The solution to micropayments are not shitcoins, the solution is to squeeze the rent seekers.

First, "shitcoins" and blockchain-based tech for p2p payments are orthogonal points. You can have cheap transfers without requiring specific tokens.

Second, have you ever considered that the best way to squeeze the rent seekers is precisely be developing a technology that disrupts their business and forces them to lower their margins?
It's not just a question of ownership if you consider the pricing of rental substitutes and how that impacts the pricing of owning.
Time spent working with stakeholders and building consensus takes away from the urgency and energy you can devote to good work

I don't see how I should square that statement with your next:

Don't work on software nobody cares about

How do you know what software people care about unless you spend time working with the stakeholders?
I still believe the P2P version of Skype was better. Centralized Skype may have more features, but the P2P version of Skype was better at the core functionality of video and audio calling. It was also more private and secure, since your calls were not routed through a central server.
EconTalk: Marc Andreessen on Software, Immortality, and Bitcoin
Why do you blame your bad eating habits on food?
yup that'd be one good option, I'm sure there are others as well.

I think fundamentally rethinking the default assumption of investment models from taking many risky bets on 20x-100x return, to taking less risky/more-informed bets on 2-4x returns may also be something to look at
Google Is Sharing Our Data at a Startling Scale
If they had to choose, NATO would probably rather have Sweden and Finland in and Turkey out. Here's an interesting thread on Finland's strategic importance: https://twitter.com/tomiahonen/status/1525959053490458624
I mean this looks like good potential targets to improve the language moving forward, it's healthy to not be in awe of your tools and push to make them better. I don't see this as "bad" honestly.
Yeah, 4 and 5 are things they should train you on after you start. Also, I don't know why anyone would ever need to write their own hashmap, and if you have a hashmap then you don't need binary search :\ .

I agree with TrackerFF that someone likely vetoed the group consensus, also potentially a funding issue.
Isn't it funny though, how I could make the exact same baseless claim about you - that you're just clout chasing by engaging so adamantly and arrogantly on HN? It's such a vacant name calling argument tactic but it works on ideologues like yourself - and so why you also use it; it also goes to show that you don't actually weigh your arguments out, if these experts are lying simply for "clout chasing" then what behaviours will Pfizer (et al) partake in if they are profit chasing?

Pfizer in 2021 made $37 billion just from the mRNA shots - but you think these "clout chasing" experts who are probably only making a very tiny fraction of what Pfizer is making (probably nowhere near how much the politicians make, who get money from these companies, for added conflict of interest that you should address too), these counter mainstream narrative experts putting their 20-40+ year careers on the line for clout is more likely the one participating in bad-unethical-illegal behaviour?

You're aware of the pharmaceutical's previous unethical behaviours that they'e been fined to the tune of billions of dollars for - and arguably those fines aren't adequate, and because none of the executives end up in jail - there's no disincentive to try to stop them from continuing to try the same unethical behaviours?

I'm truly curious: how do you balance these facts, or do you not understand or appreciate or believe that this human behaviour exists - even though Pfizer et al have already been found guilty of these behaviours in the past? Do you even weigh things out of what you believe with opposing information presented to you?

I hope you also reply in depth to my long reply, we'll all truly see if you actually care about the truth then or not - if you're more likely doing it for clout: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31396978
Not wrong at all, this is a great idea (as long as it mixes well).

I've resorted to something similar when making my tangerine juice: I put some water, ice, and a sugar cane "square" in the jar or cups first, and then go to squeeze the juice. By the time I'm over making lunch or dinner, the juice is ready without having to use a spoon to mix it.
It’s just a low-tier generalization about newer generation. Nothing to analyze here.

There is nothing about TikTok that makes my generation mindless Web3 drones.
It was 12 years ago and presumably GP hasn't read it...
Wait, are those examples real?

I remember complaining about 1-bsaed indexing only to be told "julia is great! we have offsetindex". If it's a source of bugs, that ... greatly reduces my future interest in adopting the language.
Is it a Lenovo ThinkPad, or one of their other models?
Nearly 20% of active Twitter accounts likely to be fake or spam
Russian people: (Much like in every country)
"Oh no, we wont be able to buy s*itty industrial hamburgers anymore."

I would be happy if mcD would pulled out of my counry.
site is down for me. would have been better hosted on ipfs :)
> With anything cryptocoin everyone on the planet can now analyze where my money flows to and from

I don't believe this is correct for Monero, ZCash, and anything based on mimblewimble (BEAM, Grin).
This is just a specific case of "what if the program I'm using doesn't have a config file option for X" though.

I usually run into it with webserver config files where (in both apache and nginx) I have to do something moderately contorted to get the end result I had in mind, but in the end the general case is just another trade-off.
Dictatorships are much more enjoyable for the elite and top class. Especially, when they have free access to all goods, services, and progress created in free countries.
Ironically the Kagi search engine is not in the first few results in Google when you search Kagi (at least in Thailand)

And when I did make it to the site, it looks like I have to sign up to use it? I'm not sure putting a locked gate in front of a search engine in 2022 makes sense but okay
Can you get to your point, please?
OpenTelemetry Traces and PostgreSQL
Eventually, a black hole will decohere any quantum superposition
20% bump for the most budget-sensitive option is a crazy increase. Sure it's fine if you only have one, but I'm sure there are many folk who have hundreds
Actual title: “Why I no longer recommend Julia”.