skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>On Monday, CoinFlex published a blogpost with more details about the counterparty.

>CEO Mark Lamb said in the post that a long-time customer’s account went into “negative equity.” That prompted the company to halt withdrawals.

That's right, the company halted withdrawals for ALL customers because ONE influential customer lost money. I'm not a finance guy but this reeks of market manipulation.
Blade Runner is one of those movies that are remembered more for introducing interesting questions and world-building than presenting a truly engaging and highly efficient narrative.

Like Star Wars and Robocop, it is not flawless and hardly a masterpiece. But, like the above, it also has a significant place in the history of film.
Interesting that arrowsmithing is endangered, but bowyery isn't.

What sort of arrows are not getting made? (cane, reed, bamboo, wood) using what techniques? Does this include the heads, or is that a separate specialty? (or does smithing mean that this is separate from blacksmithing? Really, any competent blacksmith can knock out any sort of point you want all day long)

What do they use for fletching? (here in the U.S. it's turkey feathers)

Knocks are mostly plastic these days, but a while back I remember seeing some bone knocks which I still regret not buying.
Did you have to be rude about it?

Parent obviously read the comment (which doesn't mention any particular movie in its text), but didn't follow the link, assuming it was about Dune (which was the context that started the subthread).
Frequency and sleep are certainly important factors. Stressing your bones from time to time lead to hairline fractures that get repaired and cause your body to strengthen the area, leading to stronger bones. But doing it faster than the repairs catch up leads to a stress fracture [1]. That happens even from what we consider normal loads (running, jumping, etc) if you aren't used to them and then suddenly experience them very frequently.

The same is true for countless other physical and psychological processes. Some stress is great, but you have to be very careful if you lack buildup or recovery periods.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stress_fracture
Toward Democratized IC Design and Customized Computing
I meant where do you draw the line as to what is "computer science", and what is domain and application-specific problem-solving?

Of course your language has just as much right to be dealt with correctly in computers as every other, but that's probably a separate conversation about the right to equal access to technology whatever the economics (A cause I agree with), etc, etc.
Why didn’t Rome develop a space program?
And even if you do everything right, there's never a guarantee that any given stressor will actually trigger a big enough set of adaptations to be a net positive. Human psychology and physiology do not operate on some kind of magic quid-pro-quo system where ability or health exist to reward effort or discipline; sometimes stuff just doesn't work the way you want or expect and you have to deal with it any way you can.
I find this kind of comment very sad. Work is easily the least meaningful thing in my life and I never have enough to invest in the things I actually want to do because work takes up so much of it.
That is a really impressive story. Talk about dedication when going back to school for it!
> Does it make sense to take out a loan to buy one myself?

Definitely not.

Ask for a better machine via the formal channels (meeting, your manager, support ticket, etc). At the same time, be aware that those channels are probably not very effective, so also "beg, borrow or steal" if you see some hardware around, perhaps from somebody leaving, etc.
And I bet no one sane asks musicians to play and talk at the same time (to better assess their "thought process").
Sure but we also interpret all other Constitutional rights as belonging to everyone regardless if they were unjustly restricted in the past.

Your argument sounds like “we denied black people rights in the past so there for the 2nd amendment right doesn’t apply to everyone.”

Weird argument.
Seems to be fine at my end. Logged out homepage and search queries.
A pdf reader with highlighter/notes functionality that can sync the pdfs AND their hightlights/notes across multiple devices on different platforms.

I was very surprised to find such a thing doesn't exist (to my knowledge). I've tried sending pdfs to my Kindle account and it silently fails (the pdfs never show on my device). I tried using a pdf reader+Dropbox combo, but the pdf reader kept having trouble saving to Dropbox and creating "MyPdf (2).pdf" copies. I would end up with 20-30 copies, making it impossible to tell which one had the notes I was looking for.
There are lots of domains, where the domains are hard (compression and compiler design comes to mind), but when it comes to pure computing I would say: Lockless high contention multi-threading. Its the thing that has made everything easy hard and fun again for me.
Not OP. When I was working in another field and working part time, remote developer I had my desk set up in my bedroom. When I went fulltime I converted a small, approx 5 ft x 7ft, closet to an office. I shoehorned a standup desk and a bookshelf in it. I have wired internet, desktop computer, laptop, everything I need.
Is it the most comfortable, meh..sometimes yes sometimes no. But when my door is closed my wife and kids know that I can't be bothered.
I do spend a lot of time away from the "office", sitting in the livingroom, on the patio etc but that I feel is part of the perks about WFH.
I'm curious how this will develop in the future;

Apple will have to follow the law and finally allow other browsers of course, but, based on how they currently handle competition (Spotify, etc.) i would not be surprised if they frustrate the process and endlessly annoy users who "opt out" of the Safari browser and use Firefox/Chrome/*
Which would result in most users just sticking with Safari...
The youngest millennial is roughly 26 (depending on whose numbers you use), so probably not an intern (though still possible). The oldest Gen-Z are old enough to have been out of college for a couple years now.
Fittingly named the "Anecdote on Lowering the work ethic".
Disclaimer that it's a spectrum, so what's true for one family isn't true for another.

But yes, historically a large proportion of WASP (White Anglo-Saxon Protestant) families in the US are very individualistic, and of the mindset that once when you graduate college, (barring a grace year or two), you're expected to rent/own your place. Apartments exist as a place that are more affordable than condos or homes. Inheritance exists, but that's considered as only a "when the oldest generation dies" sort of thing.

I do find this trend feels like it dovetails with a greater percentage of estranged kids/adults, and isolation for the oldest generation. Quite a lot of estrangement is necessary; this isn't a judgement on that choice, merely commenting there may be more friction under the surface leading to that mindset.

I mention the first line because (quasi-) immigrant families (like mine) are a lot more of your mindset. Makes far more sense to save, and there's less cultural taboo with multi-generation households.

some raw data: https://www.boredpanda.com/young-adults-moving-from-parents-...
Demystifying pack and unpack, these most misunderstood functions
> “Blade Runner” doesn’t engage you directly; it forces passivity on you. It sets you down in this lopsided maze of a city, with its post-human feeling, and keeps you persuaded that something bad is about to happen.

Which, as it happened, turned out to be a perfect prediction of contemporary life.
you left out the Molly when referencing a rave so believability takes a hit, but the end satisfies so it can be overlooked
Could it be that that just makes it a better business opportunity --- how many such tanks could one person clean in a day? What sort of franchise radius/density would make this workable?
It is not. It is just sometimes better than the alternatives.
They danced and died: Tragic teen party mystery in S. Africa
Man, I am old.

What gen is it then?

Gen Z ?
Works perfectly fine for me.
Why didn't Ancient Greece have one?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aeolipile

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antikythera_mechanism

https://www.renewableenergyworld.com/storage/ancient-greek-e...
> It's not terribly surprising to me that he simply doesn't have experience with coming up with architectures on the spot.

Or, maybe they spent their career mostly building applications and not architecting systems. Those are very distinct skills.

Of course, it also doesn't help that in an interview context, "system design" can mean "design infrastructure to support a system," or "object-oriented design of a system."
That's what a movie is. Most people judge a movie strictly on the story but you can get a story from a book. What does the film medium add? A movie is also editing, sound design, cinematography, acting, sets, costumes, etc.
OpenSSL 3.0.5 awaits release to fix potential worse-than-Heartbleed flaw
> Use two tiny needles

I'm wondering if it would be possible to manufacture some sort of clear plastic sandwich-like material that contains two separate chemical "fillings", kept apart by a central barrier which, if punctured, would allow the chemicals to mix together, triggering a colour-changing chemical reaction.

I guess the problem would be wrapping the target object in a way that couldn't just be unwrapped afterwards, but maybe a glue could be used which creates a chemical bond that is tamper-evident.
Probably the same reason people play absolute shit tier mobile games full of ads and with next to no gameplay, because it's free.

People will absolutely jump through hoops and take low quality products if it avoids spending 10 quid
I found the below point very insightful, which compares the output of HLS (High Level Synthesis) without and with small changes:

> For example, for the simple 7-line code of the one-layer convolutional neural network (CNN) widely used in deep learning, shown in Figure 1, the existing commercial HLS tool generates an FPGA-based accelerator 108x slower than a single-core CPU. However, after proper re-structuring of the input C code (to tile the computation, for example) and inserting 28 pragmas, the final FPGA accelerator is 89x faster than a single-core CPU (over 9,000x speedup over the initial unoptimized HLS solution).
Yes if your a person who believes those rights are unjustly being denied.

(The registry was eventually scraped because of non-compliance, less than 25% of estimated guns were never registered).
Maybe it is science fiction, and the intern had been part of a suspended animation experiment which went horrible wrong... until it went wonderfully right?
Agree, this is the same as if IEEE suddenly announced a breakthrough in cold fusion. A large chunk of even the highly educated and technical audience would tend to believe it, or at least give it the benefit of the doubt, simply because of the cachet and reputation IEEE itself has built up. At least until those are exhausted.

GPT-3 can't create a second IEEE so it's not an issue to be worried about.
I think Tolkien would have mentioned this somewhere. The Ents are notably isolationist.
Since when does technology not effect a society's mental state?
Real reason is more likely this:

"Clients have pulled cash from Jupiter for four years in a row and the firm has failed to stem the outflows this year. In the first three months of the year, investors yanked another £1.6 billion, according to its latest earnings report."
This is what I would have recommended... A transition period where both are used
Weird. Still down for me – cutesy 404 page for any request. Maybe a regional CDN problem.
Hey, everybody, take it easy on my fantasy!!

:)

just kidding, all in good fun.
I mostly want to retire so I can work on the things I actually want to work on, all the accumulated ideas for side projects I've only been able to take so far in my spare time.

Like I have five video games still pretty much in prototype form I keep having ideas for but no time or energy to implement, so I can't do much more than write them down on paper and maybe put a few hours into them a week when I'm not feeling so run down from my day job/maintaining the home/cooking.

I don't really want to work on yet another enterprise-level healthcare/finance/insurance system. I'd consider switching back to the game industry full time but it still sounds like it's a shit show for how it treats its employees (some video game company employees are forming unions recently, though, which is a much overdue change), and would almost certainly be a significant pay cut, also I've been out of it long enough it'll probably be difficult to find a company that would hire me again.

Also I'd still have the problem of working on games that aren't my own ideas, plus it could be a contractual conflict of interest if I ever did release my own games as it would be the same industry then.
Coloured book protocols (X.25 based networking) existed at some UK universities as late as 1997, it was still possible to use this network when I was an undergraduate in 1995, but the service was no longer available by the time I graduated.

Here is a link to a site describing a system that you could use (probably considerably earlier than 1997) to access the Internet (in this case an FTP server) despite only yourself having X.25, via hhcp:

http://deslab.mit.edu/UNIXhelp/guestftp/index.html
Breaking Things Without Breaking Things
Finally a guy who has the cash to do nothing, has actually decided to do nothing.
Dual cards? Does it write to both? Do you have a specific recommendation?
I don't think this is entirely fair. There are people in the United States who carry on skills that most people consider lost. One marvelously documented one is Dave Engel, wainright and wheelright in Joliot, MT. He has documented his skills in a weekly youtube video for years. There are many others. My wife is an expert in Scandinavian fiber techniques, and teaches weaving, spinning, dying and nalbinding (a Norwegian fiber technique that looks like knitting, but is in fact entirely different and much older). She can make you a sweater, or wool rya (thing the warmest bedcover you can even imagine) from raw wool, straight off the sheep (which she raises, and I shear) and the right pile of weeds (for dyes).
I would advice you to join a community on Slack or Discord. There are plenty of them and from my experience they’re often filled with good people and you can often come in contact with the core authors of different libraries and apps.
You are describing Manic Pixie Dream Girl.

Elon Musk did this (and left a few babies along the way) but didn't retire.
Yes, Gen Z is the current term for “everyone younger and un-relatable to me”

And would also likely be the interns you described
Their iOS app works fine for me, but their website shows a 504 gateway timeout.
PDE: A different take on editing code
I guess it is strange to me, as you usually only hear about bad stories. So I was expecting it to be much worse.

I agree, as long as companies evaluate candidates by a combination of different tests, this should be the best for everybody.

Two companies for which I went through the whole interview process had 5-7 different interviews, and only one of them was leetcode-style problem. So even if somebody fails at leetcode problem they should excel at something else.
Over the years I added my own: the hardest thing in computer science is making something useful usable.
Did 10,000 monkeys finally do this thing?
Class instances can go on the stack too using `scope`:

scope obj = new Object;
...
// destroyed at end of scope
hey OP, great project! I produce a daily mixtape (https://mixtape.swyx.io/) and Audacity's performance and small bugs bother me a lot so i'm in the market for a new editor.

i tried this out and first thing i looked for was a way to adjust sound levels in the clip (eg to fade in music for voice over, or crossfade clips). thats probably the only feature missing for me.

thank you!
On the positive side, "noblesse oblige" actually works in The West, e.g., The Shire, etc. - (that's how you can tell the books are fantasy.) The lords actually care for their people, there's no grinding poverty, and with few exceptions efficiency is less valued than custom.
I don’t understand why the use of the term fascist is used so loosely here.

I think there is a silver lining that people are squandering on outrage. We could be pushing awareness of the 9th amendment. The courts have almost never used it. If you’re not familiar with it, look it up.
That has to be the dumbest thing I've seen... today.
The problem being, of course, that if the rolls of the die are ever slightly unfavourable life without funds will be really miserable

Oddly enough people mentioning that parable never actually spend their days lazily on the beach. People who don't put their money where their mouth is always rouse my inner cynic

One never quite values money until they can't afford to pay for the roof above their heads or the meds that keeps them alive
M2 MacBookPro with 256GB SSD Slower Than Equivalent M1 in Real-World Speed Tests
I love the idea of these, but why one device vs usb-c mechanical keyboard + tablet. That combo of Plank keyboard + iPad Pro has proven absolutely killer for me as a portable and highly flexible work studio (design, write, Jupyter, and ssh-Ing).
Same here. In my experience, "Unable to reach CDN" message is a bit common, and occurs at random times. I could I see it at least once every week.
Python Logging Done Right
To answer your question; no this app does not have any filters (yet?)
Lying on a beach is pretty boring. Bring some kind of surfcraft and it might be more interesting!
Monkeypox found to be evolving at a faster rate than expected
This is a great comment but I feel obliged to offer a real-world counterexample: Europe, which had endless cycles of war (plus a few plagues). The Thirty Years War alone killed 5m people.
How would you watch BBC shows without iPlayer that's not an illegal source and not covered by the other paid streaming services?
I don't think even if you could get the entire human race to watch that the $100 billion cost per lap would be recoverable.
Hey, welcome to Germany.
And the businessman said, "Gotcha. Now imagine your doctor telling you that you have a disease and in order to continue to live this carefree life, you need a million dollars for the surgery..."
In my town you to have all of the neighbors within view of the proposed building sign off on your project.

Hopefully you find everyone with a claim before you build and that the person you missed doesn't give a shit.
What is it that makes it so bad?
The last sentence is Tolkien admitting he aborted the project. He wrote The Hobbit as something of a children's tale in a bout of inspiration, and the LoTR when his publisher was weirded out by the alien nature of the silmarillion, asking instead for "more fun stuff with hobbits."

This can best be seen in the history of middle earth, his son's chronicle of the writing process for his father's work; volume VI covers the fellowship of the ring, and it is a doozy in first drafts compared to the mainstream published version. He basically tried to reboot Bilbo, and in later drafts his son, going on another quest for dragon gold. It was only after the thing was in full swing that those old impulses and sources found their way into the fabric of the story, sort of figuring out where it was going based on how far he'd wandered in the draft phase.

Anyway he wasn't trying to build english myths when he wrote the books he is famous for, that was more a young & ambitious college student's feverdream.
I'm pretty sure if I could afford it, I could retire today and never be bored. I wouldn't be doing nothing, except on those days or weeks where I choose to do that (e.g. doing a silent retreat), but I certainly don't need a job to give myself a purpose or to stave off boredom.
I'm an European IT professional who lives on the East Coast for more than a decade.
You for sure can find 6-12 months gigs, but my experience is that it will take time to find the good ones, that pay well and don't treat their contractors as second class citizens. You need to build a network and that may take years. Also ageism in IT industry exists. For people over 50 the expectation is one to be in the management or maybe in very niche industry that has high demand for IT professionals.
I think your quality of life will go south in NJ. You should look into this from many angles and payment is only one of them.
Because money doesn't buy happiness?
oh wow

they should advertise that more obviously via the ui, but I guess that kind of feature discoverability has never been github's style
Many industries are still running on COBOL including healthcare.

We think COBOL will still be around 30 years from now, so we're training college grads.

No cobol experience? I don't think it will be a problem if you already know another language well.

https://www.indeed.com/jobs?q=Healthcare%20Mainframe%20Cobol...
I feel the same way about whiteboarding as I do about capitalism: It's not perfect, but what's a viable alternative? And like capitalism, it's a spectrum. Most companies could cut back on pure leetcode style questions, but ask something more practical that can still be whiteboarded in ~40 minutes.

Take home assignments, deep dive chats, pair programming, temporary contracts all have their own drawbacks. I've tried everything but temporary contracts.

We're measuring along a few dimensions:

- Can someone fake this expertise?

- What's it like working with this person?

- What's their general intelligence?

- What's the depth of their prior knowledge in computer science?

- What's the scope of the problems they've solved previously?

For both the candidate and the company:

- How long does it take to conduct the interview?

- How much money does it cost?

- How much legal resources?

You can assign points to each interview type, and at scale, I'd take whiteboarding over the alternatives.
Great resignation hitting the the C-suite.
Largest bacterium ever found is surprisingly complex
The texts on Folger’s site have a CC-BY-NC license, prohibiting commercial use. Wikisource seems to use CC-BY-SA, and the Gutenberg texts seem to be in the Public Domain as long as the name “Gutenberg” is removed from the text.
While the replies are jumping onto rent control (which is bad) the other parts of your suggestions bare a much better solution imo: public or for-public housing. My native germany also fucks this one up, but the best thing would he to use some form of eminent domain to kick out stratefically located villas and old homes, tear them down/renovate them and build up public housing in small-but-cheap apartmenta that can then be given to resident coops or other democratic-but-not-the-state entities. Vienna does this (public housing, not evicting millionaires or old-settles-residents) and it works quite well because it addresses the demand side. Induced demand for housing of this type is limited I think (it's a big decision and people don't generally choose cities only because od the price) and you could even adress the "granny loses her old house" to some degrew by offering evicted tenants extra-nice apartments as a reimbursement on top of the eminent domain reimbursment (at least in germany this one exists, government cannot simply take your land).

Like this you drop the prices in the "normal people" segment without rent control
i live in Montreal. Every appartment is rent controlled. People move out en masse every year. The issue is rent control only applying to a few appartements and not every appartment, and not having allowances to keep prices low when tenants move.
That was a proposed background but Tolkien never decided what their true background was.
Every computing abstraction needs a huge overhaul. We're working on a mountain made of layered abstractions wrapped around concepts from the 70s.