skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It is one factor in why companies are not democracies

societal democracy works because everybody is born into a society equally.

A company democracy doesn't work because not everyone is "born" into the company - the founders are more born, since they put up initial capital. If the employees also put up capital, they will get an apportioned vote.

So a company _is_ a democracy, but the votes aren't tied to lives like in society, but tied to capital. Each dollar buys you a vote.
This is why we should use packages from well-known Linux distributions instead of npm/pip/cargo etc.

I know the available libraries are a fraction of the ecosystem, but very often it's a good enough fraction if you are willing to be flexible in your choices.
Yes from UK
It seems like you just want to live in a rural area rather than a city, and are resentful that people want a city to be a functional city. Why ask a city to stay rural when that's not the purpose a city serves?

You have a strangely hostile relationship with small shops. Even the laziest suburbanite probably wouldn't single out local businesses as places they'd never go to, Costco being their favourite. That said, if you already live in the suburbs, most small shops end up being pretty awful chain stores, flavourless restaurants that serve people who favour convenience and predictable food, liquor stores, and commodity crap cafe's like Starbucks. So actually maybe none of your opinion is so surprising. Living in the suburbs is a kind of unimaginative antisocial hellscape

When I visit my parents in the suburbs of my hometown, the closest cafe is about a 30min bus/walk, and the coffee is grotesque at best. So... so bad.
Scribbling all over a book and rearranging the pages isn't copyright infringement, no matter whether you stole it, so rearranging or modifying sections of copyrightable material in any other physical item shouldn't be either.
This is a good case for why we're looking at a global phenomenon, but as far as relative inflation it's not that much higher in the US, and currency markets are taking into account what they think will happen in the future, i.e. without Russian energy the eurozone will see much more expensive goods. But even Japan went from deflation to 2.5% inflation in the past few months, so the forex markets are considering where those lines will cross over.
I've been burned by VSCode's collapsing folders more than once.
That’s also difficult when people set up dichotomies like Bezos vs his workers and disregard the entire world.
Nobody can drive Israel's most beautiful road
It's about 30 minutes. All relevant files live in git of course. And I tend to be diligent about documenting things because having to figure out the same shit months later really sucks.

I have plenty of experience doing this stuff; so I know what I'm opting out of. IMHO the price of devops automation can be unreasonably high for small teams. You quickly hit the point where you start considering having somebody do this full time. IMHO that is too high of a price in most small startups. In my case, either I do feature development or devops. Meaning that if I have to pause development on a project for some massive open ended devops project, I might lose weeks/months on a tight schedule. It's never simple. You always get blocked on weird shit for hours/days on end. So, I try to take as much of the pain away. Terraform is a bit of pain that doesn't solve a problem I have. Having to manually recreate something in the case that it somehow blows itself up is OK with me. Unlikely to happen very often. Not worth spending 3 months automating something that might take me hours to figure out. I have better uses for those 3 months.
Status page, like my girlfriend, says everything is fine.
> and for stuff under a few kilowatts it's totally fine to just have a bridge rectifier straight to a capacitor. That's what every other electronic device in your house will do.

The EMC Directive mandates compliance with IEC 61000-3-2 which certainly requires you to do a little bit more than hook up a bridge rectifier to the grid.
GDPR section 20 theoretically counts here.[1] I guess the argument would hinge on whether save data counts as a machine representation of the state of the system after a series of user-generated controller inputs. A similar case was when Spotify stopped trying to block automated playlist export after a GDPR complaint.[2]

[1] https://gdpr-info.eu/art-20-gdpr/

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24764371
Tell HN: GitHub Is Currently Down
>Even that's an oversimplification, we have the 3 branches and check and balance so that everyone watches everyone else.

The Federal Reserve, which manages the current currency, was explicitly made independent of such checks and balances.
Glossary - Torsocks : https://support.torproject.org/glossary/torsocks/

You should transport all IP packets, not just TCP packets : https://support.torproject.org/ga/alternate-designs/transpor...

Cloudflare - DNS over Tor : https://developers.cloudflare.com/1.1.1.1/other-ways-to-use-...

Cloudflare - DNS over HTTPS : https://developers.cloudflare.com/1.1.1.1/other-ways-to-use-...

I think a single-point for DNS, i.e. Using Cloudflare's DNS over HTTPS

https://dns4torpnlfs2ifuz2s2yf3fc7rdmsbhm6rw75euj35pac6ap25zgqad.onion

May compromise your Anonymity
$45 1Gbps symmetric Japan (for house everywhere except very rural), effectively like 250-800Mbps
Learning about billable hours was a revolution for me. It changed how I looked at everything. It's such a simple concept, dollars per hour of work or $/h. Then I started maximizing the dollars and minimizing the hours worked.

Time is the most precious thing to me now. I want to spend it enjoying my life and the people I love. I selected my job for the highest $/h ratio rather than highest salary.
> I run a service that uses 4 threads in Python and it's horribly slow and unreliable. I worked on a service in Go that used hundreds of concurrent go routines and it was reliable as hell.

That is very anecdotal to the point where I’m not sure it is all that useful. Go is supposedly good at parallelism, yet it has plenty of warts to the point where it is not at all more stable than any other mainstream language out there, so other than its pragmatism on channels, it really is not better than what you can do in Java or C#.

If parallelism is truly important for you than the actor model will be hard to beat in terms of reliability.
Because it's really important for publishers that users can't edit their saves on their single-player-but-always-online-with-insane-amounts-of-grind-and-ingame-microtransactions. Think about the profits!
While you're right that you have to account for the entire organization, not just the engineers (obviously), the gap between what the owners earn compared to all other employees combined is still wildly disproportionate.

It's of course hard to precisely quantify these things, but the worsening gap between worker and owner incomes is quite obviously not proportional to any change in how much value owners add to a corporation compared to workers (if anything, workers' contribution has been increasing, not decreasing, as productivity tools and techniques have been advancing).
Unpopular opinion, but I think RDF and shacl solves a lot of this!
Everything is down now at 9:42 CEST.
For sure, the threat level hasn't dropped. What is different is that attackers have to use different techniques, since the software isn't as easily exploitable as it used to be. Ten years ago, any pen test of a web application revealed loads of vulnerabilities. These days I rarely find anything really significant (although maybe I work at better places!).

This is not to say that software isn't exploitable any more, only that the cost has been raised sufficiently to make cheaper attacks more attractive (e.g. phishing).
in what scenario an amish farmer, a professional welder, or, well, anything but a programmer, would know anything about this "javascript" thing?
> If he would have tested positive would this have be3n registered as a Covid death.

Absolutely not. Falling from a balcony is never recorded as a Covid death.

Also, you act like there's no more evidence in the article. It says he:

- fell from a balcony when he was alone

- complained to relatives that he was depressed due to losing money in the Terra scam

- had no other known illnesses

So it's pretty safe to conclude that he committed suicide due to depression, and the depression was caused by gambling and losing on Terra.
(Other than Generics, which was known to be required decades before its existence.. sorry)
It was down for me but it is fixed now.
> Your original capital is yours, but if you get income from it, you should be taxed the same as any other income.

capital is what makes future productivity improvements possible. If you took a risk investing your capital, but that return is taxed the same as wage income (which has zero risk associated with it), you would be discouraged from investing that capital, and instead consume more of it (ala, why invest in your business buying plant and equipment, when you could just go on a lavish vacation!).

The low capital tax is to encourage more capital investment, because those with capital has the choice to not invest (and thus society as a whole loses the potential benefits of such investment). People with wage income don't tend to have the option of _not _ working, so lowering their tax won't encourage _more_ wage income.
I use it at least multiple times a week. It's awesome.
Once again. GitHub is down. As expected at least once a month. [0] Some companies and open-source organisations who are self-hosting aren't affected since they already migrated off of going all in on GitHub [1] or they have a self-hosted failsafe that they can use in case GitHub goes down [2].

As I said before, going all in on GitHub still makes no sense.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31152518

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31409705

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31433182
> public coins in the sense of government backed currency and we get private coins in the sense of company backed currency

We don't call them that because blockchain (as originally intended) should be not be company backed.

> I think we can catalog most of the companies in the crypto scene in this part. Yes, we still have foundations (ETH), but let's be real, they are not the majority.

Ignoring that with its 70% premine, ETH significantly deviates from the decentralization ideal, Bitcoin and Ethereum together do form the huge majority of the cryptospace.
Ah – a perpetual swap (perp) doesn't actually settle like a futures contract does. It is purely a synthetic instrument that tracks the price of the underlying instrument (Tether, in this case). The contract technically does not settle (hence the "perpetual") and is priced constantly. There is no moment at which an exchange determines a settlement price because no Tether is held for the sake of delivery.

You may be wondering how the price of the perp tracks the price of the asset if there is no underlying asset to moor the price to? It's done through what's called a funding rate. Basically, there are two prices relevant to a perp contract: the price of the perpetual contract on the exchange and the price of a reference index that is meant to accurately represent the price of the asset on a fiat exchange.

The price of the perp should follow the index price, but there are often deviations. That's where the funding rate kicks in. To moor the price of the perp to the price of the underlying asset, traders pay/receive a funding rate (think of it like an interest rate) every x number of hours (x is determined by the exchange).

If the contract price is higher than the index price, that indicates there is excess demand for the contract on the exchange and, thus, traders who are long the contract have to pay a funding rate to those that are short the contract. That is because the system is trying to incentivize traders to sell (short) the perp in order to move the price down, in line with the reference index. The further the perp price deviates from the index, the higher the funding rate. If the price of the perp is below the index price, the funding rate flips negative. That means that those who are short the contract have to pay a funding rate to those that are long, thereby creating incentive for people to buy the perp and raise the price.
The Australian NBN would also have sucked a lot less if the government hadn’t sneaked in usage fees on the network.

It is, or at least was, insanely expensive to use the Australian next generation network. It cost ISPs providing service on the network thousands of dollars per month if a fiber customer actually used their gigabit connection, instead of a fixed line rental fee.

Batshit crazy stuff.
NextDNS Is Out of Beta (2020)
Pretty much every aspect of video games already make them “handle everything with extreme caution”-type software- eg there were RCE bugs in tf2 that could be triggered by a malicious client joining a server, or being able to write whole programs into various pokemon gameboy games just using the right sequence of inputs. I think if I’m not mistaken there was even a case of user picture sprays in source engine games being maliciously crafted.

You may as well plan your security mitigations in such a way that, ultimately, RCE is no more of a big deal than somebody being able to launch notepad.exe or chrome.exe to use a cloud gpu server as a remote desktop.

Now, that’s all to be said unless you’re dealing w somebody who has a GPU-/hypervisor sandbox escape exploit in addition to a RCE sploit they want to plant. In which case ya ur screwed. And I bet there’s serious effort spent by both eg NVIDIA and other cloud gaming providers, but, well, that’s a different beast than untrusted binary savegames
Not sure about C#, but Java has a similarly good debugging story.
Not to be confused with the abominable Taxii
Might as well be when they basically match each other’s prices. We have three telecom companies for mobile so “competition” - but they don’t compete abs our mobile prices are the worst
> I don't know whether we'd argue this DC->AC is harder/easier than an ATX supply (AC->DC)

The little box challenge was significantly harder, primarily due to the ripple requirements on the DC side. This is not an issue in the same sense in the AC->DC case, because you don't have that problem there (you have other ripple considerations that might look similar, but are not (PFC and ripple on the output)). Usually you would require a lot of capacitance to solve the ripple issue for DC->AC and the winning team had a very interesting way of solving it without the use of very large capacitors.
Are they good for logic (CPUs, GPUs etc) as well or just for power applications?
That's funny, every time I think that I should invest a bit of time to actually learn JS, someone comes along and says "a mess in JS at the moment". I can hack something to a working state but I never feel I have a full grasp of what's happening... But I grew up on assembler 35+ years ago so all this magic is unnatural. :-)
HP can control the full stack. MB and PSU at the same time. But smaller OEMs might want to not have to manufacture their own totally custom components. So it makes sense for them to standardize. If not for interchangeablity then to ensure you can sell your custom parts to other OEMs.
100% click bait title and opening statement. Is journalism that bad these days? Ironically I quite like some of the points in the main content.
The idea that promoting a tool intended to undermine governing institutions, democratic and undemocratic alike, will result in a world with less oppression is one of the dumbest pitches the crypto community has come up with so far.
Good to see GitHub keeping to their rule of not letting a month going by without having a serious outage. /s
*had

The small independent isps were almost universally loved. Now they are being killed off.

That all said I will say the big ones we have left, while awfully overpriced, still provide waaay better (not great) service then what I heard from across the border with Comcast etc
> Why is their "risk" not considered the same as capital "risk"?

a worker gets paid when they worked - there's no capital risk. They took a risk when they invest in skills for the job, but that risk isn't capital risk. If you are saying that their job should compensate for the initial risk they took getting educated, then i would say this risk pay-off is embedded in the salary of the job they took.
£59/month for 600 Mbps up or down. I’m in rural England using https://gigaclear.com.

(Actually more like £30 right now as I’m still on the introductory offer.)
Good thing I spent time refactoring my Github workflow files to put all of the meaningful logic into separate shell scripts, so that I can still deploy without relying on Github Actions to be available.
#HugOps to GitHub Engineers! Such things are usually stressful, especially before the weekend. In addition, in some European countries today is a bridge day (day between a holiday and the weekend, many people take off on such a day).
Your current gaming PC setup sounds like what I'd want. Can you give some details about the SAN hardware? What does it take to have Windows boot off of a FibreChannel SAN that's backed by ZFS?
It is not going to convince you that ESM modules are well designed... but this post explain a lot of the intricacies

https://jakearchibald.com/2021/export-default-thing-vs-thing...
> taxes and regulations could be a sufficient explanation for why unicorns are birthed in the US.

If that were the case, you would have to see unicorns in Delaware and Texas and many other places in the US, especially since many of these have a much more lax tax regime than California or New York.

The fact that unicorns are almost exclusively bred in two cities in the US actually suggests that the influence of the tax and employment regimes is overwhelmingly dwarfed by other factors.
Hi, your FAQ page is difficult to use from within your browser. It also appears like I’m forced to use You as the search engine and can’t change it - is that right?
relevant: https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/right-to-read.en.html
Philippines (in the Metro Manila area), $50 for 300mbps (and I think 50mbps up). Service is ok but some slow-downs do occur during evenings.
It is currently awesome and could remain awesome at any other company then google.
No problem.
It's almost Friday's 5 PM in Japan right now.

It's time to stop working and go out for some beer.
I don't know if you're trolling but, probably it's all about support contracts and liability.

- If your hardware hasn't reached EOL, it's probably under a warranty or support contract. So you just let your provider swap/fix it.

- If you tinker with anything and there's a problem with the rest of the hardware, they'll probably won't honor the warranty or support contract, or you could have problems with your insurance.

If it were a home user fixing a PSU... that's a different thing.
Upwork, they are doing good as the leading freelancing platform which helps people make side income or even establish their fulltime freelancing business

As employer, they are mostly remote

Disclaimer: I work for Upwork, this is my own genuine comment though
Like it or not, we're prone to adopt popular beliefs, even fake ones
1. VM-targeting languages have even more trivial cross-compilation, like you even get a single .jar file
2. There are hundreds of languages like that
3. It’s not too hard to be faster than python - Java, C#, JS are all in the same ballpark as Go (and for more complex programs some can often surpass it due to the much better GC-implementations)
4. Very very slightly easier than the above mentioned bunch. But with Java’s stellar backwards compatibility record you pretty much just has to have a big enough JVM version and that’s it.
For Rust the Clippy linter will warn that such a line has "No effect" by default but the compiler itself won't warn you that the literal was unused. I was surprised by that too. This is also true for other literals, such as an integer.
New data reveals climate change might be more rapid than predicted
Let’s Think Step by Step
a bunch of Parquet files in S3 ;)
Technical debt has the second order effect of crippling morale.
So, the JKLF hijacked a civilian aircraft, kidnapped the daughter of a Kashmiri minister and abducted and murdered a diplomat. Remind me, what did Bhagat Singh's HSRA do?
I hooked a big extractor fan up to some ducts. In summer it pushes fresh air into the house, in winter it pushes warm air from a wood burner into the bedrooms.
The ESPs and some relays allow me to toggle some valves to change between summer and winter modes.

In winter mode Home Assistant automatically checks if the bedrooms are cooler than the room with the fire, and pushes warm air if so.

ESP chips are great, and ESPHome makes programming them very easy.

ESP-MQTT allows more custom stuff, and I’ve done that via Arduino.

I’m sure someone skilled could make something very tidy, mine all all botch jobs, but 3 years later it’s still working fine without maintenance.
> I genuinely think this is an antisocial and unhealthy state to be in

I think wanting to live crammed in with thousands of other people that you never interact with is unhealthy, but whatever. You know what they say about opinions.

Cities don't really have any redeeming features.
You'd have a big stack of bot-generated 0 or 1 view articles about moths.
You cannot download React from apt/yum AFAIK.
The trouble is that, with a lot of these names, [although, to be fair, not in the case of SLIM] the acronym is so tortured it is of no help with remembering what it stands for, anyway. For example, they sometimes use the second letter of the word, or random pairs of letters...

* JAXA – Japan Aerospace eXploration Agency

* MESSENGER – MErcury Surface, Space ENvironment, GEochemistry and Ranging

...or miss words out entirely, when they don't fit the acronym:

* BLAST – Balloon-borne Large Aperture Submillimeter Telescope

* BOOMERanG –Balloon Observations of Millimetric Extragalactic Radiation and Geophysics

* FAME – Full-sky Astrometric Mapping Explorer

* FIRST – Faint Images of the Radio Sky at Twenty-Centimeters

* HARPS – High Accuracy Radial velocity Planet Searcher

* MARVEL – Multi-object Apache Point Observatory Radial Velocity Exoplanet Large-area Survey

This one even uses other acronyms within its own acronym...

* MUSTANG – Multiplexed SQUID TES Array at Ninety GHz

So, as well as remembering what MUSTANG stands for, you also need to remember that the S = SQUID = "Simultaneous Quad Infrared Imaging Device" and the T = TES = 'Thermal Emission Spectrometer'

Arrrghhh!Just make it stop, already!

I can't help but imagine a scene like something from a Gary Larson cartoon; where a project chief sticks his head round the door of a research lab, saying "How are the designs for the Mercury probe coming on?" whilst a room full of white coated scientists guiltily covert up scraps of paper on which they've been idly doodling 'MERCY.. MIDAS... MUON... MONTAGE...' etc.

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_astronomy_acronyms
Exactly, setting your money on fire will slow down inflation
It was down for me too but it now works. The website feels fast again but GIT operations still are a bit slower than usual.
> As for wild and dangling pointers (I would argue the are the same - pointers that show somewhere they shouldn't), fair point. Of course one would expect this from a language so many decades younger.

It’s not due to age, but due to having a GC and being a managed language. I really don’t get all the comparisons of Go to C, the former seems to want to sell itself as a modern C replacement but they are nowhere in the same niche (and that’s ok, there are very few places where a GC can’t work). They just operate by completely different semantics when it comes to pointers.
Reminder: npm is now owned by GitHub
What were* the passwords hashed with?