skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> That kind of constant fear based stress response causes most humans(and other animals) to just collapse at some point

Add lower standards of living, and lower prospects over all and you're understanding the plights that most millennials and perhaps all of Gen Z have and will continue to endure.

It's why they've given into this level of pessimism and nihilism. As a Millenial myself, I know fundamentally that Capitalism is a flawed system, which entirely relies on perpetual growth models that are not just unsustainable, but are only possible if extinction is not a concern.

With that said, yes, I agree; it's still my contention that tech workers still give into this absurd idea that what takes place in their sheltered World and leads to 'stress or burnout' is in any way a reflection of anything other than triviality compared to the majority of what the World deals with.

What's crazy is when you see former tech workers go into conflict zones, like in the case of Ukraine where many in Kharkiv had their lives entirely destroyed are forced to pick up arms and excel in these endeavors.

It's few and far between, but when you see it it gives you hope (?) that whatever we've done to the Human Condition be undone, and my hope is that it can occur in a way that doesn't require outright total war.
I think the person asking for $500k in unmarked bills probably doesn't want an electronic record of where they are sending the money.
I dont think anybody should be forced to do anything, but dang I sure would love to have this for basically any net or storage facing program I run.
I’m in the UK and moved to Monzo from NatWest last year and it’s the first time in my life that banking has been an actual joy. The advantage for me is that literally everything I ever want to do with my money is now vastly easier.

I’m sure there are potential downsides - if I trigger some opaque security process and find my account locked that’d be annoying, but that happened in the last week with both my company’s and my wife’s accounts, both with brick and mortar banks, and both were extremely painful to correct over multiple days. Having to go to a physical place with opening and closing times to talk to someone face to face is not something that I consider a positive feature of traditional banking. Nor is trying to do the same online or by telephone with any bank I’ve ever had, especially when the battery on the security single they sent me has run out.

Not only is the friction of every interaction lower, this also leads me to being far more engaged with my finances which is great. If there’s a bank that provides identical services via mobile to Monzo then that’s great, but I couldn’t currently be happier (and I can integrate other accounts in the app if I happen to need them). Personally I’m amazed Apple hasn’t bought one/many of these banks, it feels so natural on mobile.
The advantage is that they aren't burdened with decades of legacy. I use a few neobanks and one traditional bank, and it's day and night. Guess which ones have better terms in fees and insurances, don't charge for foreign currency payments and withdrawals, offer lounge access, allow you to buy stock for free/low rates, have usage mobile apps, etc.? It's not the traditional bank. They're the ones that still require signature on paper+scan for documents.

So, the neobanks have more services, for cheaper, and with better UX. The only reason I keep my bank account at the traditional bank is because i have a house loan through it and it's a requirement to keep their sweet low interest.
>It's just so much simpler to have most developers using a single editor.

vim?
This is about NSO Group, not Google, Meta, or Microsoft.
Decaf coffee still typically contains some caffeine: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2006/10/061012185602.h...
> They're even allowed to book "impossible" tickets if you're nice (for example, checking a bike to the last station before the one you want that has checked bikes, and working with the conductor to move the bike into the normal train can be done if the train won't be that busy).

That's useful information, and re: bikes something a conductor alluded to on my ride to CHI, when I asked why I couldn't just get off at NPV with my bike which was my actual destination. He was perfectly willing to let me have my bike stowed somewhere out of the way if I hadn't already checked it for unloading @CHI.
I’ve been a happy customer of Gandi for 6-7 years. I originally chose them because I operate my own DNS server on my VPS and Gandi made it easy to add a glue record for the primary nameserver and they provide a free secondary nameserver¹ but these features wouldn’t be something that 99% of customers need nor want.

On that note, their secondary nameserver suited my needs until I started using DNS authentication for Let’s Encrypt wild-card certificates. Their secondary nameserver only supports requesting a full zone transfer (AXFR) every half hour or so. For some reason, they don’t use IXFR or – what would be more useful to me – DNS NOTIFY. This means that the secondary name server lags behind the primary nameserver by about half an hour. This results in the Let’s Encrypt DNS authentication failing randomly, depending on whether they checked the primary or secondary nameserver for the authenticating TXT records. I plan to move the `_acme-challenge.example.com` to a different zone that doesn’t use the secondary nameserver but I haven’t got around to it yet.

Otherwise, I’ve been very happy with Gandi.

¹ https://docs.gandi.net/en/domain_names/advanced_users/second...
"6.18 Saving code in a file" Pharo 9 by Example, page 75

https://books.google.com/books?id=hfpwEAAAQBAJ&lpg=PA75&ots=...

> In Smalltalk there is no such thing as source files...

$ cat fact.st
Stdio stdout
nextPutAll: 100 factorial printString;
nextPut: Character lf.!
SmalltalkImage current snapshot: false andQuit: true!

$ bin/pharo --headless Pharo10-SNAPSHOT-64bit-502addc.image fact.st
93326215443944152681699238856266700490715968264381621468592963895217599993229915608941463976156518286253697920827223758251185210916864000000000000000000000000
Easier said than done. Aside from some headline incidents, cops do things regularly that would be considered a crime if done by anyone else. It's part of the job. It's also the fundamental premise for qualified immunity. It's largely why we have so much trouble holding obvious bad cops accountable.
Managers at GM who signed off on the Nikola stake then had an overwhelming career incentive to hide any bad news, however criminal.
Or maybe it's stagflation right now and a recession is coming in 2024?
SuperTuxKart has come a long way and is very well done. I haven't tried the online multiplayer, but it looks pretty good. I was really impressed that my Driving Force Pro racing wheel worked out of the box. Now I just need to fix the pedals which were designed rather poorly. Fortunately they can be improved with a couple of new potentiometers and some spring steel.
I've done it. It was pleasant. It felt like a throwback, because they had a dinner service where you dined with three other guests (or two if you're with someone). If you have the opportunity, I'd recommend it.
But funny enough, the fact that Uber eats costs so much is a factor of how much money people have and are willing to spend on a luxury service.
It’s a Scandi scandal Why has social media turned on Sweden?
Oh interesting, no I don't have a source for that. Just something I've read a bunch of times. Probably falls into the "if you repeat a lie enough times, it becomes true" (although I don't know that there was nefarious motives behind it, could be honest mistakes like mine)
When questioned about the change of tone, he answers "Well... a little bit of twitter hype makes a thread go a long way".

https://twitter.com/emnode/status/1531852124501553153
> This is likely cynical corporate damage control at best or the work of an annoyed Google employee

I fully disagree with your take.

You are assuming the default is negative. I think your explanation might be possible, but that by default it's wrong, as most people are not cynical/annoyed or any other negative quality.

My fundamental belief is that most people are nice and want to do good things.

If you are surrounded by cynical/annoyed people, you may be in a toxic environment, which may taint your judgement for other situations.

NB: either one of us could be making a fundamental attribution error https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fundamental_attribution_error and it might be hard to find the truth, as it boils down to beliefs.
Lessons from a Failed YC Interview
I see nothing wacky about this judge

> We acknowledge the scope of the definition is ambiguous but also recognize we
are not interpreting the definition on a blank slate. The legislative history supports the liberal interpretation of the Act (the lens through which we are required to construe the Act) that the Commission may list any invertebrate as an endangered or threatened species.

> (the lens through which we are required to construe the Act)

> through which we are required

Take it up with Sacramento!
True, although this is similar to what I described, I guess the distinction is purposely imbalanced and accidentally imbalanced. However I think the latter is less likely, the post I replied to originally mentioned doing this consistently across teams. Maybe the pool in QA is imbalanced? In that case we should compare to other QA teams to see if avensec is indeed an outlier. avensec made it seem like they was an outlier, and everybody in these comments is acting like this is the case. So I lean on the side of the pool being balanced.

I'm trying to understand how this is achieved in practice, however I haven't got a good answer yet.
The actual problem is that police are above the law. What I mean by that is, unlike citizens they are in a position where they might break a law without any repercussions or abuse their position of power.

The only real way to deal with this would be to police the police in a realistic manner. Bodycam and location data of their every move would need to be available for that. Currently, police can simply turn these off.

Yes, there are scumbags in both ordinary citizens and in police but one of these groups of scumbags already gets "policed". (Disclaimer: I do think that this idea is not the right way to deal with this problem.)
Unless you are the person pulled over, you aren’t going to know that a particular cop pulled over a dangerous driver. How would a citizen who wants bad drivers to be pulled over be able to rate the cop highly? Which cop would they rate? How would they know how many dangerous drivers there would be on the road without the cops?

Imagine the town has absolute perfect police, who only every pull over dangerous people, only arrest criminals, and never harass or bother innocent people.

What would these perfect cops score as their ratings? Probably really low, because the only people who they interact with are going to be criminals and dangerous people, who will obviously hate the cops.

Of course, cops aren’t perfect, but my point is that you can’t use a system like this to determine that.
Great question.

Take legal for example. I spend a lot of my time working with lawyers in countries where we are setting up a vehicle / working with a client but where I am not domiciled and IANAL in any country! I decide with our management team what kind of legal structure we want, the terms, the carve-outs, the financials etc and I draft layperson's language based on that. Our (external) legal team will turn that into a 60-100 page document that is compliant with the laws of the territory in question. I will review that in excruciating detail, look for errors, edit and iterate many times until the document is good for our purposes. This really means going through every kind of scenario (defaults, bankruptcies, early termination for any reason, loss of key personnel etc etc) to make sure nothing will bite us in the butt down the road. Once the vehicle is launched, it is my job to make sure that the financial vehicle follows the rules laid out in the legal document on a day-to-day basis. By this stage, I know every clause in that legal document, usually better than the drafting lawyers because I'm the one that "lives" with the document. I can do all of that without being a lawyer or being knowledgable about the specific laws of the territory where the vehicle is based (which is not necessarily where I am domiciled) because other people bring that local knowledge to the table.

So .. while as a firm we hire outside counsel to perform our legal work, it is far from outsourced. I am heavily involved with my business knowledge and prior experience with legal documents (learned on the job), and the lawyers have their legal knowledge, prior precedence and all-important templates. And we marry the two to craft and manage our legal agreements and vehicles. I am confident I could apply that skill in any country with similar legal foundations to the US.

To be clear, I cannot think of any scenario where you would allow a non-lawyer generalist to operate without external counsel.
Clearly not all Jews in Israel believe that Arabs, Muslims, Palestinians etc. should be treated as second-class citizens. I'm also not sure that religious identity is to be viewed as 'racial identity' unless you want to revive the definition found in the German Race Laws of the 1930s.
Let's say we have X amount of dollars. Time passes. The population increases, productivity increases, and now the economy (measured in actual stuff) is twice as big as it was. How many dollars should we now have?

If we have X, then each dollar is worth twice as much stuff (or, put differently, everything costs half as much). That's not a great outcome if, for example, you borrowed money to buy a house, and that loan specifies repayment of a fixed number of dollars. On the other hand, if you hid some dollars under your mattress, it's great. But it's unclear why society should want hiding dollars under your mattress to be the ideal investment strategy. That's not going to be optimal for society as a whole.

Or, we could have 2X dollars. Then each dollar will buy the same amount of stuff as before. That seems more reasonable. To do that, though, we have to increase the number of dollars in proportion to the growth of the economy as a whole.

(It's not that simple, of course. The velocity of money also matters. And the Fed is trying for 2% inflation, not zero.)
I for one hope that there's no pretzeling, and that the standard that's applied to the EPA is equally applied to the Fed.
Which part of the spyware section were they in violation of? Pretty much everything on that table has to be explicitly enabled and does the obvious thing when it is.
https://www.aa.com.tr/en/americas/un-registers-turkiye-as-ne...

> The country name "Türkiye" is replacing "Turkey" at the UN, following a request by Ankara to be referred to as such, the international body announced on Wednesday.

> The new brand "Türkiye" is now in place in foreign languages.

Now that's how you respond to a name change request!

Edit: It's good that the new name contains "i". That's like Microsoft (allegedly) using names with spaces for special directories such as "Program Files" so as to force programmers to handle spaces in paths. :)
Rabbit is definitely interesting. How is the maintenance/management on RabittMQ? Is it comparable to say a Postgres instance, or is it more or less?
Studies don't have value just because they are a study.

Put another way, just because Cosmo publishes an article doesn't mean it's true - but Cosmo does also publish true articles.

Plenty of studies are great and move our understanding forward. More studies answer a very narrow - but important - question. Some studies are just inconclusive, but have value too.

You should read studies. You should evaluate the quality of studies as part of integrating them and their conclusions. At the same time just because something was "a study" or got published doesn't make it true or good or useful, anymore than being written in blue ink makes something truthful.

The value of science is that it does not require faith.
I've got my personal domain in Google Domains, and the only "custom" feature I use is that they can forward email addresses to some other address. I wonder if there is any other DNS provider that has the same feature?
> "The companies" aren't marketing high-cost options in any way. Twitch's highest subscription tier is $25/mo.

Twitch has a "Gift 100 subs $499" button right in the gift UI. If you haven't noticed that with the several hundred live streamers you've consulted with then it seems by definition the streamers you interact with do not have the Super Fans being discussed yet such fans are common enough for Twitch to make UI for it.
If I want Visual Studio Code, Atom, or Sublime Text, I know where to find them. I don't use those. I learned Emacs in college, along with ed and vi, and I still find these tools useful almost thirty years later precisely because they don't chase trends.
Facebook developing a privacy-safe ad product to save its advertising business
OpenCost: Open-source cost monitoring for cloud native environments
Nice! At first I didn’t realize I had to match the small image, lol.
"Peking" approximates how it may have been pronounced at one point, but the pronunciation has changed, making that approximation even worse than it started with.

For the record, not all languages use "Beijing" either: pekín is common in Spanish.

Speakers of non tonal languages are not about to learn the tone system for a truly authentic pronunciation of Beijing. And if they did, should they also learn the Cantonese place names and tone system where it is common, in addition to the Mandarin ones?

And the Chinese, for that matter, have a rather...interesting approach to spelling and pronouncing foreign place names.

Different languages have different sounds. There are some English place names that are hard for someone from Japan to pronounce and vice versa.

Layer in multi lingual countries and regions, regional accents, different writing systems, . multiple local place names, and political concerns and the problem becomes even harder.

Until we all speak the One True Language, we will forever have those impedence mismatches, and harmonizing place names will be doomed to fail.
Alt+0252 on Windows.
> Who is a scumbag?

There are marginal cases for sure, but let's not pretend that true scumbags don't exist just because the demarcation line is subjective; that's like pretending there's no such thing as a ripe banana because the green fades gradually into yellow with no clear line between them. Look beyond the marginal cases and it becomes clear that the difference really does exist. There are people in this country with numerous DUIs and domestic violence convictions, obviously such people are scumbags.
I could argue that police come from the same population as anyone else, therefore a significant portion of police will also be scum
I bought 2 dozen mixed T-shirts and hoodies (mostly T-shirts) with the logo for my business on them front and back in two sizes (the logo, not the shirts). Because I wear these things daily, I bought good T-shirts and good hoodies: tagless 100% cotton (mixed polyester increases pilling). I think I was in for about $15 a T-shirt. More for the hoodie, obviously.

I'm not getting any kind of volume rate on these for a 2 dozen shirt order of mixed sizes (for friends and family as well). I can't imagine anybody ordering in real quantity is paying more than $10 a shirt, even for good ones.

If you go through somebody whose business is making and shipping t-shirts, you get the benefit of their lower shipping rates and their bulk purchasing power for the shirts). If you're handing them out at a trade show, your unit cost to ship a couple hundred shirts is negligible.

For me, my T-shirts for my business are effectively free: they replace other t-shirts I'd have to buy (or would, once I got through all the company and trade show swag from when I worked software). Plus they promote my business. And when they're too beat up to wear, they become shop rags before they hit the trash.

I think you make some valid points (sizes are a nuisance), but I don't think T-shirts are the clear stinker for the folks giving them away that you think they are.
Or it just shows that supporting a couple of billion people is an unprecedented problem and the solutions are still in the works.

It shows what you want it to show.
thanks, dude. I fail to understand this explanation, though. my bad. I guess your app is cool and maybe even "RAD", but average people might fail to understand it.
If find that this comment of your is an excellent example of the reason why whataboutism does not have any merit.

It does not advocate for world peace.
It does not advocate for the protection and rights of the victim.
Instead it advocates for the rights and interests of the aggressor.

Please study your comment carefully to understand how.

But your comment is even worse because it lowers to the victim blaming.

Before there is any change to even have any meaningful conversation you have to agree on the following.

Russia is the aggressor. It has no rights over Ukraine or over its decisions about its alliances. Ukraine is acting in its best interests how it sees possible given its own situation and international (geopolitical) realities.

If you can't come to agree with this, it is pointless to advance the discussion any further because you are then not participating in it in good faith.

Still, I would like to address something to what you have referred already twice under this post. The interview with Arestovich in 2019.

Your conclusion is very peculiar. Instead of commending his wisdom, you use it as a solid proof that shows how Ukraine is accomplice in this invasion. Is this your original idea or you have picked it up from somewhere? Think hard.

People who understand Russia knew that it is not question of if but when. Arestovich predicts that it will happen soon and he, having for sure thought about all the possibilities, proposes also how it will take place.

Let me help you to put it into perspective that is perhaps a little more relatable.

Imagine you are living in a country where rule of law is not very strong. You have a daughter who is engaged. On one evening two local thugs appear at your doorstep. One of them demands to "borrow" your daughter for one night. You manage to send them away but you know the following. They will come back. It will happen before your daughter gets married. One of them will probably break in from the front door while another one tries to enter from one window in the back of the house.

I would like to continue this discussion but you have to understand your fallacies first.
Industrial automation has grown at an explosive rate for 20 years. To the point that the biggest consumer of US automation tech is ... China!

What has happened in the US (the majority of factory jobs gone to automation) will play out in China over the next decade.

When we have around a billion 'surplus to requirements' people in the world, what is our plan? See, the labor market isn't going to cut it when labor has become moot to industry.

It seems two centuries of economic theory about the place of labor will be made irrelevant. Workers own the means of production? Hah, what does that even mean when there are no 'workers'?

We'll need new ideas about how an economy should (must) work to provide for all.
Why was such a confusing name chosen? Even the Hacker News title already gets it wrong. Just think how many times this will cause confusion that wastes time being clarified.