skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>You list the trifecta of red flags for employers:

Incredibly I never went out of my way to do everything as wrong as possible. It just kind of happened without thinking about what is really bad, for the first couple years of my career. I would have assumed that to have so many red flags you'd have to actively work to get them, but here we are.

I've been following point 1 by making side projects that make more use of modern web development. Have some on Github and one on Heroku as well. What is unclear to me is which kinds of topics are usually taught in on-boarding and which are left to the candidate to learn for themselves. I don't have experience with mentoring or on-boarding situations which is why I ask.

As for the next point, I am trying to avoid companies with no IT staff as I've heard many times that they are not well suited to grow your career in tech. I also know from experience, been there, done that, hasn't worked for me, so it's time to move away from them. They are more "cost center" than "profit center" jobs and am following different advice to choose companies where software is at the core of their business.

I'll see what I can do with socializing with others for professional talk. The only people I speak with face to face are the places I grab a bite or coffee, etc. and typically otherwise just converse and chat with people in tech focused communities like this one.
I have a mixture of instant-release and extended-release standard methylphenidate/Ritalin.

Adderall works well too, but I find it a little bit too "drug-like" and euphoric, so I settled on regular methylphenidate which has almost zero euphoria.
It's weird how so many of the arguments against what I've originally written pretend that it matters whether the reward comes from a block reward or transactions fees. It does not matter. Certainly miners don't care how they get paid - for them they have a simple calculation of "bitcoin value I get out must be greater that electricity cost I spend".

And the fundamental idea behind proof-of-work that they amount of work you're "proving" must be enough to make double-spend attacks infeasible. If the electricity cost to mine a block is low enough compared to the value that could be gained by a double-spend attack (which is of course comparable to total BTC market cap), then the network is not secure.
I think I would appreciate it in both places! One more piece of drive by advice: I would reduce the font-weight of the hero text on the front page ("Meetsy takes two calendars..."). Unnecessarily bold text is a common pet peeve of mine.

Can I ask if you're trying to monetize this service anywhere? If not, would you mind making it a bit more clear how to run it on the Github page (e.g. with a compose.yml)?
Yeah sure, everything I buy costs the smallest possible value greater than zero.

shawabawa3 already explained it "There would be an equilibrium where the fee is worth the marginal cost of mining it"

The miner has cost X and wants profit Y. He adds those together and now the price is X+Y. Someone wants his transaction on the blockchain, he is going to pay X+Y unless there is a miner that offers an even lower rate.

You're making the assumption that the block reward is high enough to make transaction fees irrelevant, which is a trivial observation and not what we are interested in talking about here.
Why does that matter to the piñata?
I don’t trust Bluetooth for video conferencing.
Having everything hard-wired is much more reliable. It’s why work from home video conferences are janky in a way that in-office VCs weren’t. If you can get a dedicated microphone or webcam and combine it with wired headphones or speakers.
Immigration in the US is such a joke. I understand and agree that the US cannot let everyone in (you would end up with 100 mil people per year), but the current system is too screwed up.

If you want to do everything legally, you have to wait/work years, and even if you have all the papers in order, too many times it's a matter of luck or a government employee disposition on that day.

Be an illegal, and you can just walk through the border.

The USA could attract much more talent and better immigrants in general, if they just made it all based on qualifications and points, like for example Australia.
Kudos to the author ...

... but yes - a 'Modern' approach means calling out risks, or more abruptly - that which may even be considered 'anti pattern' inherent in a language as it evolves over time, with hindsight.

Perhaps the most preeminent example would be pointers in C++ - which we generally know to use with 'smart pointers'.

If C++ 'were designed today' - among other things, it'd be likely that 'smart pointers' would be 'default' and they'd be more deeply and seamlessly integrated, and 'direct memory reference' would be seen as a 'thing to do only if necessary' and a bit of a 'corner case'. Necessary, and common enough, surely as in that level of programming we are going to 'go there', however, it's something we wouldn't see as normal practice, rather something we do but with some other idioms, APIs and conventions around it ... possibly with demarcations of 'unsafe' a bit like Rust.

I think it's important, because these are precisely the things that young developers may become entangled in. It should be more like: "By the way this is how this works, but you may want to think twice about using it, here are some cases where it might be 'ok', here are some cases where it's not".

But I don't want to take away from good authorship either, we depend a lot on people stepping up to the plate and doing this work. As an aside, it seems almost perverse that 'Big Corps' just don't do this themselves. I mean, if AWS uses JS extensively, it'd seem reasonable (even from a selfish perspective) for them to 'just do' a comprehensive, JS set of docs.

It's weird that the world depends on 'a few nice dudes/dudettes' to maintain something like 'caniuse.com' and the plethora of other such important works.
Yes, "good" memories, in a bad way.
If you had a "home" PC, adding a sound card was not a terrible issue, but once you had an "office" pc with with something like two serial ports, a printer and, God forbid ! a network card (obviously a ne2000 or a 3c509), free IRQs were somewhat of a scarce resource.
That's true, but that being said, most of the bugs/issues are reported by low-paying clients that like to complain, so they also do provide extra value (apart from revenue).
(Edit: This can't be said to apply to "anyone on the left," but does apply to a vocal subsection.) Literally anything having to do with race relations or COVID mitigation. If you think it's possible SARS-CoV-2 is a lab leak, you're a conspiracy theorist; if you think "it's okay to be white," you're a racist.
The Clover bootloader designed for Hackintosh is able to boot UEFI operating systems (including non-Apple ones) on computers that don't natively support UEFI. Is there any reason a different bootloader couldn't do the reverse?
I thought this was going to be about pinball.
On the other side, you only need to be really interesting once, or at most a few times.
After they judge you attention-worthy you can basically stay quiet and they will drive the conversation for you, speaking as if there's no tomorrow.
I think the comparison is not accurate. According to you, the person you are answering to would only have to listen to the song somewhere. In reality, the movie you are mentioning isn’t being shown to him in the cinema (when watching something on YouTube) but instead he is given a CD (or USB stick, …) to put into a CD-drive (or port) in the cinema to start the movie. After the movie is finished, the person watching the movie leaves and the movie stays at the cinema but OP has „infinite“ access to it unless the cinema decides not to show it anymore. However, that’s still not how it works because I’m sure YouTube has some licensing going on.
Yes. The fees are mostly due to bitcoin's unreasonable 1MB blocksize constraint. Most other cryptocurrencies do not have this problem because they make a more reasonable throughput to bandwidth/storage tradeoff
https://zherczeg.github.io/sljit

https://github.com/zherczeg/sljit

Meany leany?
If it doesn't, then Bitcoin is dead. It has no future.
Intelligence really doesn’t seem like the solution to any of our big problems.

I’ve heard this argument before (and probably made this argument at some point too), and it seems to boil down to thinking that people would agree with me if they would just be a bit smarter and/or more informed.

But I don’t think this is true at all. If it was then smart people would agree, but they don’t.

There is another line of thinking (often seen in science fiction) that suggests all problems are solvable if only you are smart enough. But they are not, some problems simply don’t have a reachable satisfactory solution. There is a reason these science fiction stories often come with a ‘benevolent’ dictator to impose the smart fix on everyone, because taking away free will is the only way to solve some of the hardest problems.

I think there is a strong argument for emotional intelligence, worldliness, and empathy though.
Yeah, but that’s a less clear argument to make than “everything Bluetooth should always be interoperable”. Since Bluetooth isn’t universally interoperable (e.g. depending on the supported Bluetooth profiles), it’s not a priori clear that “doesn’t work with PC audio” may not be a reasonable technical restriction. Of course we know it isn’t in this case, but it’s not as simple as “it says ‘Bluetooth’ so it should work”.
Sony HT-A9 (+ a sub) has been praised, but it is not cheap.
Possibly relevant: an NES emulator for UEFI: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Juc1LT7Xls
Ask HN: What's Your Personal Motto?
Do you have a personal motto and what it is?

> While our immediate problems tend to distract us in everyday life, having a mantra can help us stay in touch with our deepest goals. Mottos ultimately can do many things, such as increase your productivity, inspire you, or help you change a habit. [1]

[1] 9 Reasons You Need a Personal Motto, https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/changepower/201508/9-reasons-you-need-personal-motto
I’ve taken benzos for half my life but I space them out in a way so they aren’t damaging like that. Yeah it can be bad how people don’t realize how damaging they can be. I’m really grateful for them, and they’ve saved me from burning out at my job multiple times (hypersensitive, social anxiety, likely autism)
Just to clarify, since people seem to disagree with me that this person lied: my evaluation of his sentence paragraph has more than 50% of his statements as false, with only one statement being compelling.

(truth? "And door handles that work.") resolves to false, because the subclaim (truth? "Tesla door handles don't work.") is false.

(truth? "Maybe Jane wants a button for her wing mirrors.") resolves to false, because it includes the subclaim "Tesla doesn't allow adjusting of wing mirrors via buttons" which is a false claim.

(truth? "Actually comfortable suspension.") is a subjective claim, but I personally find the suspension to be comfortable. So at least from my perspective this is a false claim. Moreover, there are a multitude of Tesla options and they don't all share the same suspension style. So even if you didn't like one suspension style, you could still like another, negating the thrust of this point for a larger category than would otherwise be negated. Thus, it seems false to me in a more general way, despite the subjective nature.

(truth? "Mercedes does cabin UX like Apple does software") is a subjective claim. but I heavily disagreed with its veracity. Since then the person I'm quoting has changed their mind on the basis of reflection. While not a lie, this sentence now resolves to false according to their stated worldview.

(truth? "An instrument cluster.") resolves to true. It is a compelling reason that someone might choose not to get a Tesla. If we're not going to give them the benefit of the doubt there are models of Tesla that do come with this panel. We'll give it to them anyway. We'll give it to them even though the very car that we're discussing has a display above the steering wheel. We'll give it to them even though it is a different car than was used for the comparison which didn't have this instrument cluster.

(truth? "A dealer to look after her from decision to delivery.") could be true, but it is a highly subjective situation. Moreover, I don't find it to be well founded that the average person would prefer a dealership environment rather than an online order.

So 4 false, 1 true, 1 true but not particularly convincing.

At what point does stating falsehood transition from being ignorant to being lying? Because I feel they have went well past a reasonable number of errors. This isn't a case of the majority of their words being true. The majority isn't true. They are majority false and arguably all of them are false. At the same time that they are majority false they were derisive: I posted facts, but they dismissed me as someone who was ranting.
You're probably thinking about the agreement MS had with PC manufacturers that required them to pay for a copy of DOS regardless of whether the computer they sold had a copy of DOS or not. MS was barred from using that method in 1994.

https://www.justice.gov/atr/competitive-impact-statement-us-...
> people in real life seem overly concerned about keeping things "harmonious"

“Overly” concerned… most people I’ve met that think harmonious social interactions are unnecessary ended up actually just being assholes, jerks, or weirdos.
> Which is still in use after almost 10 years and works flawlessly!

You are comparing macOS 10 years ago against Ubuntu 10 years ago.

While most Linux systems have gotten better over 10 years, macOS and Windows have degraded over 10 years.

Edit: I may have misread your message. You may have handed them your 10 year old macOS machine today. Nevertheless, my statements below still hold.

My Bluetooth works better on Linux than on Windows or macOS. My Thunderbolt hubs work better on Linux than on macOS. Graphics is a mixed bag--Windows clearly wins here with macOS and Linux being equally quirky and weird (for me macOS regularly loses the ability to play videos on webpages forcing a full reboot and Linux often winds up clearly using software and heating up the CPU).

Granted, I'm not using NoName(tm) laptops for Linux. I'm making sure to use something like a Lenovo Carbon X1. However, if we're comparing to macOS, I think that's a fair comparison point.
> Most men couldn't accurately describe shopping for a pair of pants as a woman, let alone something more complex.

I can't help but wonder where this statement came from. Men have sisters, mothers, daughters, partners.

It's not some kind of a mysterious and opaque world, to which they don't have any access.
You seem to be missing the point of what an ASIC is.
Never accuse American immigration policy of either intelligence or foresight.
If immigrants are coming into fill high-paying jobs, then by definition there is already an ability for the existing population to get better pay: fill those high-paying jobs!

That is already accounted for in programs like H1B. If the job remains high-paying even with H1Bs then we clearly have room for more people to join the labor market, including immigrants.
As someone that was a very active Heroku user for years and then worked there for years: I wouldn't trust it as my host. There is nowhere near enough people maintaining it in order to have confidence it'll run without reliability or security issues. They aren't exactly in a position to retain or attract talent either.

I thought Cedar was going to fall over years ago but ironically I think people migrating off the platform are helping it stay alive.
Looks helpful - have you chosen a license to release your parts under? So far it seems to build on BSD (GO) and some completely copyrighted extensions from (github.com/miekg/dns).

I have a work project this would help with, but at this point using it commercially feels a little shaky.
> "I've actually observed that people in real life seem so much more complacent and uncritical compared to people online."

Well, "Most of What You Read on the Internet is Written by Insane People" - https://old.reddit.com/r/slatestarcodex/comments/9rvroo/most... The more polite summmary at the end is: "If you consume any content on the Internet, you're mostly consuming content created by people who for some reason spend most of their time and energy creating content on the Internet. And those people clearly differ from the general population in important ways."
Sorry for stupid question, but how does it actually draw stuff onto screen? I see lots of GUI abstractions in fyrox-ui/src/lib.rs but I can't find where it actually interacts with the underlying OS. I'm very curious about how GUIs work in general but I am layman. I assume that you have to go through some API to push your graphic buffers onto screen. So something like SDL, OpenGL, or something native to Linux/Windows (Direct Rendering Manager?). Thanks in advance!
Around 2000, in Chemical & Engineering News, the organ of the American Chemical Society, there were 12 - 15 pages of job ads, a good chunk industrial. Now there are maybe 3 - 4 pages, most academic. Friend, you have no clue how much better it used to be!
It's a strange ML term to describe the data's metadata.
> The issue is that Chapelle dedicates a whole special to argue that their cause isn't worthy to be supported.

Why is that an issue?

Their cause is to enact a redefinition of "woman" and "man" (and in some contexts, "female" and "male") in terms of so-called gender identity, rather than sex.

This is a sweeping, fundamental change to how most people understand those terms, and there is growing evidence of some very negative outcomes of doing so.

Of course there will be pushback on this. And it's not a bad thing to do so.
For too long, the children of the rich have been denied their rightful genetic advantages. We need a ruling class we can really worship with a straight face.
I agree.

That said if I where writing a story I would have the protagonist gain the hashing power first, something strands their assets such as increased electricity prices making mining unprofitable or a next generation of hardware coming out etc. Then they come up with the idea of a big short.
nice to see an article about bitcoin mining's shonky accounting, and not about PoW itself.

the other weird accounting thing: in 2021, bitcoin miners started stockpiling unsold bitcoin.

This was new behaviour. Miners didn't hold onto cryptos for ages in the ten years previously - maybe for a short time, but then they sold it.

I can find no sensible reason for this, except that there aren't enough actual dollars in the crypto market to sell the bitcoins without crashing the market.

(I ask coiners about this from time to time. Most answers are some more complicated version of "there aren't enough actual dollars not to crash the market." Some of them confidently state that miners have magically transmuted some time in June 2021 from uncompromising economic agents into bitcoin moon boys, who are sure it'll go to a million. I don't believe them.)

The miners have tended to borrow against the bitcoins - from other companies in the crypto industry. Because they all know they're all in this together.
Shit Happens.

All philosophy boils down to those two words in the end.
Most reputable often just means ones with the largest marketing budget.
Covid-19 was an exceptionally difficult time. Many weren't able to do these things. This is why most CEOs of fortune 500s are back on the road again.
The links in your sidebar don't work, I can't see any info about your company.
So, would you say every now and then?
I switched to sonos and never looked back. I had a lot of Onkyo over the years and it always felt like they should have gone the software route much sooner.

ultimately i think smart tvs and roku were a bigger part of the receiver demise - it just didn’t fit the receiver mindset and the experience sucked

sonos wasn’t cheap but i’m on year 7 and it still works and i only saw one product refresh on soundbar but my old one still works - just sticking to spdiff. with 7 years of onkyo i would have been on 2nd or 3rd receiver just trying to stay ahead of dvd to bd and hdmi 1.x to 2.x and evrything between.
One of the most important ideas out there: Open Borders

I think it's the only sensible policy if you are egalitarian and cosmopolitan.

https://openborders.info/
Absolutely. 100%. Last night we turned the “stereo” up really loud after Eurovision to listen to Mikas album for the first time in years - Full height Revel fronts, monitor audio rear effect speakers, dual subs, blasted it. I spent hours tuning curves on the Denon amp with an external microphone last year… Anyone that thinks a sound bar would sound anything like what we hear is honestly deluded. But, I also wouldn’t spend much more money on it… it’s way more than good enough for us… audiophiles would tell me I could spend another £10k on equipment chasing another 1%, I’m not sure at this point it would deliver anymore intrinsic value. At a different token, two Sonos in Stereo in my kitchen are more than good enough while I’m cooking to listen to music and podcasts.

I’d never, ever, want to see high end audio equipment die. When it all works together, the experience is truly sublime, engrossing and immersive like nothing else.
> Your argument is not mathematical at all. It assumes first that bitcoin needs to appreciate 10-100 times current value

Satoshi consensus doesn't care about the numeric value of Bitcoin at all. It cares about the value of the transactions conveyed by bitcoin.

Satoshi consensus is the observation that if the energy required to fork the network and roll back a transaction costs $X, then it's financially non-viable for someone to roll back a set of transactions that is worth less than $X. That's all. If the value transacted on bitcoin increases above $X, then it is potentially financially worth it to attack the network, unless the amount of energy expended increases accordingly. So the value of the transactions is directly tied to the (value of the) energy expenditure.

As a side note, there is no automatic mechanism built into bitcoin that ties these two values together. The assumption is that the value increases and the rewards decrease and it all sort of works out (especially if the network transitions to transaction fees instead of inflation-based block rewards). But there is no mechanism that it must, and if the value dropped really hard all of a sudden, for example, it might suddenly be more viable to attack the network. Attacker energy cost will significantly decrease as rational actor miners realize they're taking a loss and turn off their mining hardware, miner energy expenditure will decrease, which decreases the energy (and cost) required for attackers to fork and roll back transactions.

It's an interesting variation of the "frisbee on the roof" attack, like a "fire all the janitors and then shit on the floor" attack. Nobody ever wants to go back into that business because there's shit all over the floor, but without any customers there's no money to hire janitors either. The network now enters a terminally unrecoverable state, without manual intervention from outside actors.
Uptime isn't an axiom. Most software isn't mission critical and most users won't notice if it's down for 30 minutes once or twice a month, and for everything else we have SLA's to manage professional expectations.
When market cap / price goes up, more people enter the market to mine until supernormal profits are gone - This is the relationship being discussed.

People will enter the market which pushes up the difficulty / electricity and hardware consumption until profits are brought back down to a normal level.