skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> What companies or roles will be more resilient?

Well, for startups, if they've just raised (in the last 6 months) and you know or can estimate their burn rate and they have 18-24 months in the bank (or are cash flow positive), that's a good choice. Also good if they have a clear business model, rather than still trying to figure it out.

I think that any of the pandemic focused companies were darlings of the markets for the past 2 years and they'll be a snap back for them (Zoom, Pelaton, etc).

But it's hard to counsel you on areas of growth/stability at this time. If you are currently employed and decently happy, this next 6 months would probably be a good time to stay still, since you're a known (and hopefully respected) quality at $CURJOB.

See this great tweet on the topic: https://twitter.com/techgirl1908/status/1524740200206848000 (there are also some companies in the replies who say they are still hiring).
> If you are tether and your asserts are in bonds that mature in under N days, then you could just promise redemption within N days to eliminate bank run risk.

I don't think that's reasonable for Tether, at least not with a bulletproof N. I can't quickly find any specific redemption guarantee, but their March reserves report notes that their US Treasuries (the largest single claimed category) can have maturities up to 120 days. The commercial paper category claims an average duration of 44 days.
Except I do not think you could (not easily, anyway), the C macro processor is a rather sophisticated piece of code.
Not exactly the same, but rats eating the power cables has been a problem with cars built in the last decade because of the switch to soy-based insulation.

https://www.thedrive.com/news/20878/rodents-are-feasting-on-...
> The first bug that eats plastic was discovered in a Japanese waste dump in 2016.

That wasn't a bug! It was the bacteria Ideonella sakaiensis, if my Google-fu serves me right.

Maybe the whole article (meaning the title as well) is off?
Here is what I saw for an ultrasonic jewelry cleaner:

>As a general rule of thumb, you will require between 50watts to 100 watts per gallon for your ultrasonic jewelry cleaner to achieve efficient cleaning.
Specifically, it's a local process that participates in the global IPFS p2p network, and also exposes content via a local web server
The last phrase of the article is either a clue or a pretty good deception:

Last week, scientists revealed that the levels of microplastics known to be eaten by people via their food caused damage to human cells in the laboratory.
Non-video link:

https://www.theverge.com/2022/5/3/23053536/ford-tesla-f100-m...
> Bankman-Fried, the 30-year-old founder of the cryptocurrency exchange FTX, said in a podcast interview released Tuesday that he expects to give “north of $100 million” in the next presidential election and has a “soft ceiling” of $1 billion, with his spending likely to be on the higher end if former President Donald Trump runs again.

isn't there a limit of how much one can spend for political donation?
I’m saying that keeping things in perspective is important. Being banned from IG/Facebook is sad. Not being allowed to vote is serious.
> I've got wooden furniture. It doesn't rot, because it's inside.

Also because it's treated.
I would lump 2020 through 2022 into one big catastrophe.
The thing is, I don't want Android smushed into a less useful, more fustrating to use, form factor. I want a dumbphone that calls, texts, and has a wifi hotpspot.

No battery draining screen, no app store, no navigation... if I need any of that, I can use the hotspot and a tablet/old phone...
Leslie Lamport revolutionized computer science with math [video]
I’m sorry, I don’t understand. You didn’t bring up NRP1 At all in your argument when clearly this is what the paper about.

SAR2 is entering the neuron via NRP1 and ACE2.
As said, falls apart with re-encoding. But is a bit more interesting than what is more or less QR codes.
Amazon claims it shut down fake review brokers, will go after sellers using them
It doesn't even need to be so intimate/permanent as our relationship with mitochondria, gut bacteria are just little mercenaries who are here to help with digestion. Maybe some of them will figure out plastic (although I suspect they'll produce some bad byproducts while doing so).
For the model I worked on, it was multicast on WiFi. I don't know about all models though. Not everything we sold had WiFi.
> Author here. Yes, this was exactly my point!

Your original example shows you doing extra hours and long days to achieve this: if this was your point, the example is terrible.

I do agree with high-impact work just being there, but finding the time to do it other than "on your own time" is where the tension is between management and engineers who have a different belief of what the highest priority is.
Coin Bureau on YT
It’s obviously a YMMV kind of thing, but I’ve had mechanical keyboards in the past with failing switches (one Cherry MX switch, and three Matias Quiet Click switches on three different keyboards!).
I recently saw Sheldon Axler's Linear Algebra Done Right recommended here, and have been working through it. In my nonexpert opinion, it's really good, and has a great series of videos reviewing each section in a clear and understandable fashion.

https://linear.axler.net/
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> After writing Clojure for a few years, there were several times where I ended up with a complex function with unbalanced parens, and the only way I could fix it was to basically re-write the function piece by piece.

Mess up Python indentation and you get something like that, but worse.
> “The next step would be to test the most promising enzyme candidates in the lab to closely investigate their properties and the rate of plastic degradation they can achieve,” said Zelezniak. “From there you could engineer microbial communities with targeted degrading functions for specific polymer types.”

John Todd has been working on ecologies (in a vat) that can process waste for over fifty years now. Among his accomplishments was developing an ecology that can break down DDT in a matter of weeks, instead of years. The main thing he does is drawing from all five of the major kingdoms together, and have them self-organize around the waste being processed. (https://www.toddecological.com/about)

With the self-organization, it's not always necessary to model and engineer everything.
> If surgery was made "easy" then it would be a one size fits all and anyone with an outlier condition would not get medical care.

On the contrary, I think it would be a lot easier to treat an outlier condition because doctors would have a lot more time to expand their skills and study uncommon conditions.
The humans better make collective will I guess. It’s our responsibility.
> The _goal_ of open source is to provide free software. Software that is free to _use_ now, and in the future, not _just_ free to get the source, free to use. If you don't provide free software (and free build processes) it's not compliant with Open Source licences

No, the goal of Open Source is to provide a user with ability access the source and do things to it. That's the difference between the Open Source and Free Software championed by FSF. FSF flopped. That's why we are still waiting for the Hurd to be useful.

Source: Sat in the room with Bruce Perens when this was happening.
> This is virtually every adult I know over age 40/50 outside of the industry.

Or even a lot of people in their 20s and 30s inside the [programming/IT?] industry.

Some people are fine spending 20% of the time to get 80% of the features and are willing to spend a bit more money to do so.
An acquaintance of mine worked for Mozilla on a project to add tor to Firefox. Code was done, but Google, as it’s primary funder, squashed it.
There is another, more legitimate way to create a stablecoin. DAI is the dramaless version of a USD stablecoin and is decentralized, secured by 150% reserve automatically, run entirely by smart contracts.

https://makerdao.com/whitepaper/Dai-Whitepaper-Dec17-en.pdf

It does not perfectly track USD but stays within a couple percentage points. Arbitrage traders automatically stabilize the coin thanks to the way the smart contracts are arranged.
Another useful tool I have used in the past in windows is Nektra Deviare for function hooking. This is similar to the old Microsoft Detours framework, in that one can dynamically patch code in the running binary. I have used this to grab raw keys.

https://www.nektra.com/products/deviare-api-hook-windows/
Generics are orthogonal to OO, they're about parameterizing your code with types (and sometimes values) rather than having to make many copies and tweaks for each possible specialization. Ada had generics in 1983, and only got OO in 1995.
Wealth beyond measure, outlander.
I have friends who ask me how to set their kids on a path to a tech career like mine. I tell them they may not want that at all. This is a good job, today. But I don't think it is so different from building pickup trucks in Detroit in the 1960s. Nothing lasts forever. Including those trucks, and those jobs. We can't know the future, only that change is inevitable.

Software Manufacturing is a term that best captures my impression of the industry today.
>They could ship with IPFS/DAP/I2P/Tor native in Firefox right now

A bit of a tangent, but I really cannot stress enough that if you're using Tor to be private/anonymous that you should never use anything other than the official Tor browser, you will stand out like a sore thumb.
That's fair. Traditionally land jubilee's and debt jubilee's helped this happen. In ancient Israel of the Old Testament there was a complete unwinding of ALL debts every 6 years. Any that extended into the 7th year were... cancelled. Also, land wasn't sold, according to the law. It was apportioned by family and you could only _lease_ it for 50 years -- after that, it reverted to the family. Thus preventing land accumulation in a few hands.
Strands in a bundle would likely have color coded sheaths. As long as you're not colorblind, it's pretty straightforward matching what gets spliced where.
"The first bug that eats plastic was discovered in a Japanese waste dump in 2016. Scientists then tweaked it in 2018 to try to learn more about how it evolved, but inadvertently created an enzyme that was even better at breaking down plastic bottles. Further tweaks in 2020 increased the speed of degradation sixfold.

Another mutant enzyme was created in 2020 by the company Carbios that breaks down plastic bottles for recycling in hours. German scientists have also discovered a bacterium that feeds on the toxic plastic polyurethane, which is usually dumped in landfills."

Would love to see the timeline and capacity plotted on a chart. I wonder how much we need to make it practical. 6x increase in 2 years but did we go from decades to years?

Hours on bottles sounds like we are getting there in speed but how much bacteria, and how quickly do they multiply and what do they do once they are done? I am asking because breaking bottles down in hours doesn't sound "promising", it sounds like we are there. Just pour that on the plastic island in the ocean! If we cannot, there must be something else going on that prevents us.
People follow instructions from a web page that tell them how to change the about:config values. Then they forget what they've changed.

I just noticed there is a "Show only modified preferences" which is wonderful. It shows me uhh.. a few hundred things I haven't changed myself.

I really can't remember what I've changed.

(5 minutes later)

I remembered, last time I've looked the about:config right click context menu was replaced with the rather useless default webpage menu. Kinda funny as I was looking to disable dom.event.contextmenu.enabled

Putting "enabled" and "disabled" behind the preferences feels kinda silly. It would make more sense if the gui replaced true/false with disabled/enabled.
Fluid Framework: Data Sync Reimagined
It’s easy to reflect on the past and “the way things were” and cast it in a positive light. We glorify the way things were before because we often enjoyed more security as children, or in young adulthood - our parents looked out for us. As adults, we’re faced with grim reality and the facts of life. This is really just a regurgitated “kids today…” complaint.

I have stopped giving the benefit of the doubt to anyone who talks about wokeness as a problem. Being aware of our society is not the cause of our ills. It’s the subject of that awareness. The skyrocketing housing market, collapsed investments, legislatures building legal loopholes to existing law, healthcare, racial bias, etc. If people are turning every which way desperate to find a direction it’s because the walls erected by previous generations are unassailable and closing in.
Firstly, job interviews are difficult but they are not dystopian. Secondly, your claim that you can skip negativity by unplugging from social media is ludicrous.

While I understand the point you're making, it is obvious why negativity is a no-no. A negative disposition makes you hard to work with and if you can't find the effort to present yourself in a positive light during a job interview, then you probably can't maintain good working relationships. Greed is a no-no in a job interview because everyone wants more pay. How does "I want more pay" differentiate you from the next applicant? I do not see this as toxic positivity - just positivity.
Funny scifi Mercedes Benz commercial
Because they're literally wasting your existence making it overly-complicated to either justify their own egos, or, to steal your/your company's money for an inferior product.

Linux is easy/well-designed/well-documented. Windows is a hackjob mess. There's a difference.
Oh :| Then I guess all I can recommend is f-droid where there is such an option (and also the issue wouldn't have manifested in the first place but that'd likely be different if f-droid were more popular)
It's unfalsifiable. "We don't know of any way this could happen, thus it will not happen" is not a claim that can be rebutted until it is proven wrong. "We don't have any reason to believe thalidomide is unsafe" was another such claim.
This is old school. When I first wrote code back in the Stone Age we used to store our stuff on cassette tape.
The elaboration is on the second link: "We are typists first, programmers second"
https://blog.codinghorror.com/we-are-typists-first-programme...

By Jeff Atwood, cofounder of stackoverflow.
Microorganisms that eat plastics will be great at first, until hospitals see breakouts of them. At least with insects, outbreaks are far easier to prevent
No, I'd be even more confused:

I'd look at huge building projects and millions of resulting apartments that were built but now had no buyers and were sat empty on some zombie bank's balance sheet. And I would not know whether they were worth sticker price (and China was very productive) or nothing (and China was very unproductive) or anywhere in between.

I'd look at FoxConn with >350000 workers making some of the worlds most popular and profitable consumer electronics, but then I'd see they only make 3.6% profit in a country with >3.7% risk free rate of return and think: they're wasting their time and would be better being liquidated.

It's almost as if big chunks of China are run to keep people busy and employed and meet arbitrary central targets and not to make things people want at a price they will pay...

Actually understanding what productive means, and how to measure it is really really hard. And at every step companies and governments have all sorts of perverse incentives to disguise it.
Yes this does make sense if you are, at bottom, an advertising company... in need of data... In which case your "putting a driver in the field traversing thousands of road miles" is called "wardriving."

Walmart's fleet, for example, drives 700 million miles. How much data do you think they "accidentally" sniffed and recorded? I'll bet precisely zero bytes, because they are moving goods, and when that's a company's MO it makes no sense to have wardriving equipment or expertise involved.
Yup, did the exact same thing to back up all of the Wordpress installs on a free server I ran for friends.
Can anyone explain to me how come we are about to hit recession when there is an incredible demand (as in people have the money and want to spend them) for everything (furniture, appliances, anything really..) but there's no supply?
> This study is just showing the infection in the neuron can/may/does precede it’s appearance in the serum.

That's pretty interesting, what does this mean for anything. Like does it change how tests should work? vaccines? any mitigation measure?
Way too much counterparty risk in crypto markets. If there is an epic tether crash, I can't be confident that I'll get my payout. Compare this to established markets. I could log into my Charles Schwab account, make a short bet that Charles Schwab will go bankrupt overnight, and if I'm right, I know I'll get my payout.
It's in a sinkhole, from a satellite image it would at most look like a valley of some sort.

The world is massive, more so if you add things that are underground or under water.
There is tension between being as far away from the banking system as possible and having the ability to cash out your USDT to USD.

The only way I can think of a stablecoin being totally independent of banks is to store their reserves as bank notes, and when someone wants to cash out USDT to USD they have to go pick up the bank notes. This glosses over the obvious challenges of storing billions of dollars in bank notes and distributing those notes during a cash out. The bank notes are also worth less than face value because you have to physically store and secure them.
Neat article. It doesn't even begin to scratch the surface. It claims that $208 million is the largest contribution.

Actually, Mark Zuckerberg did $400+ million, but he pretended it was a fair and balanced get out the vote.

If states do as they should and ban private funding before the next election, there is no way this guy puts $100-1000 million into the next election.

This entire article is about billionaires salivating to take over, run, and own public elections to ensure their candidate wins.

The response, "voter suppression", by Republicans should be in the form of allowing no private money, no ballot access, and no voter rolls WITH voters vote status.

Of course this is all to easily seeable, the game is out in the open.

They even write articles on how billionaires are going to imitate Mark Zuckerberg without mentioning Mark Zuckerberg or what he did.
Well they had the first $10B, but Lehman also probably had the first $10B when things moved south.

It's the final $10B that really matters here. They may have burned their real currency reserves first to avoid really sparking a panic, and are just standing naked hoping the crypto meltdown subsides before they have to start selling their less liquid/valuable reserves.
What do startup ideas have to do with the economic downturn?
Ah, I see. You're objecting to the "Most modern programming languages" part, eh? It would be interesting to investigate the subject more deeply. Like I said, I was thinking of Python and JavaScript, but you're right, there are lots of modern languages now, and many are very carefully designed (e.g. Elm.)
For certain types of political donation, but I think an individual can donate as much as they want to super PACs.
As someone who spends several hours a week livestreaming, I really appreciate the mushy-applesauce-inspired-super-quiet keys that Logitech provides - you can't hear them over the mic.
I would be very wary of the unintended consequences of just releasing such a thing into the ocean…
> My claim is that you do not

Yes, some people are naturally talented enough to do research without training, or with training other than a PhD.

But if you aren't exceptional, then promoting this is not realistic and is setting people up for disappointment. Some people can learn to play an instrument without a teacher... most would be better served with some structure and guidance for an experienced tutor.
morroblivion is done but skywind is still in progress.

https://morroblivion.com/

https://tesrskywind.com/
If there are truly only two full-scale web crawlers left, and they are Google (ew!) and Bing (ew!), then it's high time there were more options. I naively thought DDG was exactly that, with a 100% focus on privacy. The cake is a lie.
Not if you form a super PAC https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_action_committee#Sup...
As stated earlier this week, AWS's CF is your opportunity. Seriously, there is a business opportunity here. Make a multi-cloud interface that is easy to use, prevents lock-in, has reasonable defaults ... please?
BBC apologises after 'Manchester United are rubbish' appears on screen
I wasn't saying there can't be a good way to put a feature to use. And, like any programmer that is maintaining a level of pride, I'm aware I am constantly looking for reasons why certain features aren't needed or are even bad in the global picture, at least in a given context. Looking for a minimal set of axioms to build the world on does make sense. Language feature can be seen as axioms in the sense that it's hard or impossible to break them down, since they're hidden in the compiler.

Regarding OOP syntax specifically, let us agree that it is a question of religion if writing foo.bar() instead of foo_bar(foo) is really a huge saving of work. There are numerous counter-arguments (language-specific ones as well as more general ones) why it could be not, and could in fact be detrimental.

I disagree with the view that using any feature to quickly get something done leaves more time to make the program better. In my view, less focus on syntactic superficialities like OOP method syntax, and premature optimizations like using std::sort, leaves more time to focus on what really matters, to understand what a program does and needs to do on a global scale, and it holds me back less waiting for slow builds.

All of that is pretty subjective, and there are certainly good examples for many different approaches, and naturally one is most familiar with those that one likes personally. The important thing is to be happy and be / feel productive.
I don't think we could possibly evolve fast enough to keep up with the rate at which we change the environment (downside to having giant brains -- we can change the world at an incredible rate, but our generations iterate at a glacial pace compared to, say, bacteria)
That saying was probably invented by the same dolt who came up with "easy like taking candy from a baby", without having actually tried it.