skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Germany will just start importing more stuff e.g. from Poland instead of producing it locally

And this way, they lose their main advantage: a strong economy that focuses on export. They can't have their cake and eat it too. Especially when their auto industry is set to lose greatly with the EV transition (which they still try to slow down).
The futuristic city of Telosa might be coming to Utah(Jan 2022)
Interesting.

I had a T42 in 2008 and read Thinkpads already went downhill back then.
Great to hear that! Manjaro support continues to be solid, and we just sent both 11th Gen and 12th Gen-based Framework Laptops to the team there.
First ever?
Yes, some consumers are bad too. You didn’t engage with my point though. Have you had generally good experiences trying to resolve disputes with merchants directly as a consumer?
I feel sorry for your experience. Glad you took it with stride.

I always try to understand the business model behind agencies. What they do is selling hours or teams. The more, the better.

I worked with so many agencies, for quite some it is almost like a meme: "Oh, your website/service/code is so crappy, we did not expect that! This means additional efforts you have to pay for."

If you ever hear degradations like this, run! It won't get better, even if you pay for. They will always come up with another reason to charge for more hours.
Often, the law will stipulated a legal rate of interest on damages from the point at which the breach occurred until damages are fully paid or specific property transferred.

New York seems to have this, for instance, with a 9%/yr annual rate. See, e.g., https://www.propertyinsurancecoveragelaw.com/2020/07/article...
Good points both; two more perspectives:

1) behavior change is generational, street layouts change all the time
2) in a healthy city, urban real estate is under extreme continuous pressure to be put to profitable use

For an example look at the hidden total costs we pay to park cars in many cities. Look also how long something mostly pointless like lawns can persist culturally.
> for absolute insane amounts of money.

What kind of currency do they typically pay in?
The current composition of the senate, 50-50, and the antiquated filibuster process, mean that the senate cannot do anything without bipartisan consensus. Not sure why you are railing about democrats that are secretly republicans when that is clearly not the issue.
What do you want me to say? Stop being a “Microsoft shop”?

You pick your poison. It wouldn’t be my pick but I’m sure you’ve got your reasons not to pick mine or someone else’s
> payment terminal

You need an interface on your phone for remote payment. Most of them have a workable mobile web site, but notifications for instance aren’t available in that case. Yes App Clips cover that case, but it doesn’t look to me that it got much traction.

> accessibility is worse on the web than on the iPhone (can't speak for Android). For printing and sharing, might be right, but it's broken on websites often enough, too.

I see this as the main point for having other browser engines. Mobile Safari is horrible to select text and on many basic features. I took these limitations for granted until I moved to android and the browsers work so much better (not flawless, but pretty close). Basically in this day and age, there’s no reason why a mobile browser should be weaker than its desktop counterpart.
I did it plenty when I was working as part of a contracting house where “every hour is billed to a client”. There’s plenty of room to spend time making crazy tools to automate your work or provide internal/external/personal value.

Sometimes these rogue gambits pay off and return multiples of value…sometimes they just waste massive time.

But I can say that I was absolutely a rogue project-doer in an engineering body shop.
‘The US Is Not Prepared’: Hot Temperatures Stress Transit Systems
But Apple doesn’t care about market share. It is far more profitable now than it would be in a race to the bottom as a commodity hardware maker.
It's not a non sequitur at all. The original claim was that contemporary market economies caused the problem so markets can't be part of the solution. I think this is first and foremost a logical fallacy. I'm also pointing out that the need for energy and resources created the problem, which is orthogonal to markets.

Markets are great for optimizing things that can be priced. Pricing carbon, and wild spaces can be really powerful levers for fixing some of these problems.
One of the specialties of the Federal Reserve Bank of Altanta is monitoring the economy, which may be why they're the ones to make this announcement. They have research tools and apps (GDPNow, EconomyNow) for viewing some statistics, forecasts, and model data about the economy.

https://www.atlantafed.org/cqer/research/gdpnow

https://www.atlantafed.org/apps/economynow.aspx
I mean one of the dudes was flying to india. 750k is probably enough to buy some rural property there and live the rest of your life off interest. The less money, the less radar signature.
Coinbase Manager Arrested by Feds for Insider Trading
The Eurozone as originally set up produced that situation, but it's slowly being tweaked with things like the TPI. The endgame is having a US-like setup, with trasfers and all. But for political reasons, it has to be sold to the public piece by piece.

The Eurozone is like Asimov's Foundation, periodically going through predictable crisis to modify its equilibriums while going from strength to strength.
* at least a decade, right? Or are the batteries going to run out at some point?
Don't change the design. It'd bloody annoying.
> Since then Democrats tacked left on social issues and kicked the “deplorables” out of the coalition. They’re mad at Sinema and Manchin, who are holding onto seats deep in GOP territory, but should be mad at the party that lost labor and agriculture voters in South Dakota, Iowa, etc.

Case in point: not too long ago they used to control the entire congressional delegations of deep-red North Dakota and South Dakota. Now they're all red. That's two reps and four senators, which I'm sure the Democrats theoretically wish they had right now.

IIRC, the last Democratic senator from those states lost because she was boxed into to unelectable social policy positions by out-of-state donors.
750k is a lot of money.
if you add a check constraint to an existing table only new/updated records are checked. Existing records will not be checked
God I genuinely hope they survive!

I bought a gen1 laptop as an early adopter in part because I wanted to "vote with my dollars" and support their mission. A lot of people I know did the same.

As someone who has used Apple products in various capacities since like 2007 (MacBooks, MacBook Airs, MacBook Pros, etc...), I'm just so completely done giving that company any of my hard-earned dollars.

Setting aside the M1/M2 processor specifically, they haven't put out a good laptop in the better part of a decade.

I realized a long time ago that I'm not Apple's target audience! They're more fashion/status these days than they are a technology company.
In America it is legal. The judge ruled as if the case was tried in New Zealand.
I agree. In particular the logo is truly excellent, IMO. It feels like the devs know what they are doing but are interested in producing quality, not in budgeting for OP. Meanwhile the management didn't care about squeezing him.
How it started:

https://www.coindesk.com/business/2022/07/08/crypto-exchange...

“We are not getting the sense there is any kind of stress on the organization,” the person said.

How it is going, this article.
> If gender is separate from sex, which seems to be the consensus these days, we can still identify a skeleton as "most likely" a male sex or female sex skeleton,

Yes, you appear to agree with Palladino (who the article describes as a "gender activist") wrote at the linked-to thread, at https://web.archive.org/web/20220705135223/https://twitter.c... :

] While a bioarchaeologist might identify a set of remains as "probably female", it is understood that the gender of an individual is never necessarily the same as their sex, and that gender is a whole spectrum we've barely begun to unpack.

> while the gender is essentially unknowable because gender seems to be a neurological characteristic not a physical one.

Archeological evidence has more evidence than skeletons. The article quotes the Trans Doe Task Force (which concerns modern forensics rather than archeological) , which mentions how contextual clues like wearing clothing coded to another gender may be an indicator of that characteristic.

> So what's the problem?

The problem appears to be that the author of this piece is viewing the argument through a conservative gender-binary lens - the publisher is 'an American conservative news website ... designed to recruit "young conservatives for careers in the news media by placing college students in internships with right-leaning publications." says Wikipedia - and doesn't realize that none of the "gender activists" mentioned appear to want to "bar anthropologists from identifying human remains as ‘male’ or ‘female’".

At least, I couldn't find any support for that conclusion among the linked-to sources.

I think we're being played by someone who wants to push buttons that activate conservative outrage.

> We are talking about long dead skeletons here right?

That doesn't make it insignificant. See long https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kennewick_Man .
Well, actually (muhahaha) I would call it nationalism… and yes, it’s a childish to make up such a demeaning term. Hating on Southern Europe for their bad financial situation seems so 2008 to me - it was stupid then, it is stupid now.
Thanks for reading!

>do you have any learning to share about how to better assess the character/ethics of whom you are selecting?

I don't try to assess character because I don't think you can effectively. And I know others disagree with me here, but I don't think the agency I hired was lacking in character or behaving dishonestly.

At the end of the day, if I'm hiring someone for $100/hr, they need to produce output that's worth >$100/hr to me. I'm a developer, and I have a sense of how long things would take me. I hire other freelance developers, so I see how long tasks take them relative to their rate. So if someone is charging a high rate but delivering work very slowly, I'd let them go, regardless of whether that's their real speed or if they're padding their numbers.

My typical strategy is to just hire and fire quickly. I don't do interviews, and I just hire someone for a small job (5-10 hours) and see how they do. If they do well, I give them a larger task and then keep going up after a few weeks. I wrote a bit more about my hiring process a different post:

https://mtlynch.io/freelancer-guidelines/
IMHO the market is enterprise and professional, not consumer.

If we could buy enough of them I'd advocate for moving my entire team over to Frameworks. That's not tenable for a few reasons right now, but I can see the day where bulk ordering them and support is better than what you get from Dell, HP, and Lenovo right now.

If you had to buy new machines for new hires in 2020-2021 then you know the pain of finding good and reasonably priced machines. It was a nightmare, and the options are frankly not that great for developers. Especially if you have an aversion to Lenovo products, because they seemed to be the only company with stock available to ship last year.
Uspto-WIPO agreement on SEP disputes won't increase efficiency at all
The Busy Trap (2012)
He goofed. Should have left the country far before.

And was found out only after a random twitter account did correlations

How much more crypto employees are getting away with it?
I really just think the issue is the senate. Look at all the bills that passed the house. They passed a bill that try’s to solve gerrymandering. They passed abortion legislation. They passed all the economic stuff Biden wanted, including his signature legislation universal pre k. But the senate needs 60 votes to pass anything other than a budget, which no one will ever have. I’m inclined to agree that the filibuster is mostly an excuse to not vote for things manchin and sinema wouldn’t vote for either way, but at that point it’s hard to say democrats have a majority in the senate.
The Americans were interested in the project too, according to the article. They just didn't want to fund it.

Remember that in the 50s-60s when Borisov was promoting this scheme, the consensus of scientists was that the big threat from climate change was global cooling and that the world was endangered by a new ice age. Climatologists were writing to the US President, telling him to prepare agriculture and industry for permanently colder conditions. Back then climatology did not have the same mindshare as today, but nobody would have objected to it on climatological grounds and if anything they would have supported it.
Google brands Carbon language as “experimental successor to C++”
The current composition of the Senate is the product of a deliberate choice by socially liberal pro-business democrats (i.e. Rockefeller republicans) to prioritize social issues such as abortion and immigration over economic ones.
Archive: https://archive.is/Ij9gH
Similar initiative for preserving ancient forests in Finland, originally founded by legendary Finnish environmental activist Pentti Linkola:

https://luonnonperintosaatio.fi/en/

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentti_Linkola
It is the same. Crypto exchanges can also freeze your assets when you hold them in that exchange. And actually this is a good thing, the accounts of fraudsters, thieves and scammers should absolutely be frozen and confiscated. Crypto companies are trying to promote this idea that because they've sprinkled some crypto magic on their banking product, they don't have to follow laws, and by doing this all the fraud will just all suddenly disappear for no clear reason. That overwhelmingly isn't true. Don't let them get away with this.

"Self-custody" in crypto is also a lie, there's no such thing. All activity on a blockchain is completely dependent on the miners to run the network.
OK, that's good to know!

Also good on SSI/WordPerfect Corp/Corel for putting old releases out there for free.

In case anyone read my Register story on this:
https://www.theregister.com/2022/07/20/wordperfect_for_unix_...

... a good point was made in the comments: Borland's Sprint had a very good emulation of the WordPerfect UI, as it also did of WordStar, MS Word, and others.

Sadly for Borland, its amazing emulate-any-other-UI feature came out just around the same time that CUA came along and forced all the DOS apps to harmonize their UIs onto a common standard.

The other killer feature of Sprint was the continuous background saving -- also foxed by DOS getting disk-caching as standard right around the same time.

Saying that, it remains an important app.

AIUI underneath, Sprint was based on an EMACS clone.

Mark of the Unicorn -- still trading, remarkably -- wrote MINCE (MINCE Is Not Complete Emacs) and the separate SCRIBBLE text formatter.

MINCE + Scribble evolved into PerfectWriter. That did quite well in its day; I tried it on a BBC Micro with a Torch Z80 2nd processor.

PerfectWriter evolved into FinalWord, again quite a success in its day. I've read several books written entirely in FinalWord.

Borland bought FinalWord 2 and renamed it Sprint.

ISTM that if the text-formatting part were outsourced to Pandoc or something, or some monstrous Electron thing, the UI and continuous-save parts of Sprint could be re-implemented in GNU Emacs if someone had the will to do it.

ErgoEmacs is a good start on the UI front: forget emulating WordPerfect etc. today. (Maybe provide WordStar keystrokes for the grumpy old gits.) Just put a _good_ CUA UI on Emacs, and give it the ability to handle basic, Markdown-style formatting, and a continuous save and live wordcount feature, and I suspect a lot of people would be interested.

But that isn't what the Emacs folks want.
You'd be better off with a $45 template. Maybe another $45 for a stock logo (scope creep!)
Stuck in the senate where it needs 60 votes
It caught my eye as well.

If you imagine a real car, this is the sort of detailed sensor data you would get from it. The sensor data in the game is never wrong though, as it comes direct from memory.

The other thing which caught my eye was this:

> For example, GT Sophy often drops a wheel onto the grass at the edge of the track and then skids into turns.

This works consistently because (again) it's not the real world where the grass has subtle variations.

It would be very interesting indeed to see such an AI compete on a real track, but it may not be as clear cut a victory when the very finely tuned senses of a human racing driver are in play.
Current estimate is 2 decades (original worst case was 10 years depending on the accuracy of the launch, which turned out to be best case accurate!)
A competitor (LivePerson) also has got PE interest in the past few months. I wonder how this impacts the evaluation of startups like ADA chatbot.
I'd prefer it Firefox was opt-in instead of opt-out, and if they'd just use the OS settings like every other piece of code on my system.
No. Just tried.
Exactly, why is a US judge ruling by taking into consideration NZ law ... doesn't make sense
Jobless Claims is the metric, the indicator is positive because the number of jobless claims has been going down (as opposed to rising which you'd expect in a recession).
> High public debt in your own currency supported by your central bank it's not problematic.

Yes but the Euro is not an own currency of any single country which is why a country in Eurozone can potentially go bancrupt. this led to players betting against Italy in the last Euro crisis until the „whatever it takes“ bailout guarantee. Challenge is there now is unbounded spending across Euro countries with no end in sight. It all just feels like a race of who can spend faster until the party is over.
It is my understanding that this is basically how the dissemination of opinions and ideas work. The fact that at a frozen moment in history a leading edge opinion did not garner much popular support does not mean it will not be popular in the future. We are in the future.
Isn't stock options meant to be under total compensation. Salary to me is the $$$ in my pocket that I get paid for showing up tomorrow, every two weeks.
I wonder if you considered whether this agency pulls this exact playbook intentionally and repeatedly?

I don't think they are made up of honest people in the first place.

My personal guess is that this is a perfected game that they play with all their customers:

1. Give a reasonable quote

2. Start the project on a reasonably productive cadence

3. Scope creep, deliver items that are outside of what the customer wanted but proves work is being done. Withhold any deliverables that would end the project.

4. Repeat step 3 until the customer gets fed up

5. Customer terminates the contract, quickly finish the deliverables in the 30 days and wrap it up with a nice bow to reduce the chance of getting sued. Customer got what they wanted – sure, it was over-budget, but we delivered!

This company played you, and it was difficult to read the article because of how I wanted to tell you to stop being so forgiving to them through each step of the process. I think there is a time and a place to be a demanding customer.

I am shocked you had a "postmortem" with Isaac, and that you even said that Isaac was candid! I absolutely disagree: all he had for you was excuses and bullshit. Isaac's kindness, to me, all seems like part of the plan. He's there to make it look like they gave it an honest try.

I don't know why you aren't at your lawyer's office writing some sternly worded letters.
Because the media hasn't told them to be angry about it.
Current estimate is closer to 20 years until fuel to keep it in the Lagrange point is exhausted. Originally planned for 10, but the deployment was precise enough to leave enough fuel for many more years :)
Hmm. Is this actually "insider" knowledge? I personally question the validity of this charge. This employee had knowledge of what COINBASE was going to do with the currency (ie, list it). He had no fiduciary responsibility as pertaining to the coin itself.

This is like knowing that Warren Buffer is going to say good thing about Microsoft tomorrow, and buying it today as a result (expecting it to rise). Is that actually illegal?
It’s amusing all the flagging going on here. what’s the process for inspecting the flagging?
Anything we can realistically give them by investing in science will be dwarfed by the toxic legacy of climate change.

It’s like your dad leaving you a really nice suit and one billion in debt in your name with no option for bankruptcy.
I was ready to fire the agency the moment the author mentioned they were going off script and building whatever they wanted. This was a huge, blinking red flag for me. Why would you keep paying someone when they're doing work you didn't ask for, doing work that doesn't align with your goals, and ignoring what you say?
The author chose not to name them.

Attempting to find that information and then publicly sharing it feels in poor taste, regardless of your opinion of how things went.
> So to protect democracy, America needs to institute one party rule forever?

I think it's clear that what is meant is that voters must steadfastly refuse to vote for a party that continues to promote anti-democratic ideas until they reform. In this case that means Democrats winning every election.

Of course that's not going to happen, since it seems that Republicans have by and large just doubled down on anti-democratic maneuvering to the thunderous applause of a bit less than half of the country.
We're huge supporters of a carbon tax, but there are significant challenges, both technical and political. If we had perfect information and the political will, I think the approach you describe would be great—in the meantime, unfortunately, the market needs tools like Bend.

I actually wrote a blog post on the subject, if you're curious: https://bend.green/blog/the-path-to-a-carbon-tax
Yeah, I wanted to give this feedback about this image, too.

Try reading that image from the website on your smartphone. It's very hard to see what's going on.
If you rely on Youtube for those things, yes. I was more thinking of a use case I often see where someone has a blog or a prominent Twitter account or something, and just wants to be able to link to their video. The blog itself may be monetized with membership or ads or something, but they don't need Youtube itself to be monetizing it.

A case study example is Jupiter Broadcasting. They run their own instance of Peer Tube. They monetize their content through premium members and ads that they sell and manage themselves, and most of their audience listens to audio through RSS feed, but they want to make video available for the few who want it. They just need a place where they aren't constantly getting dings for things. They don't care that much about monetization or discovery.
Right, and the most frustrating thing is that antitrust laws have been on the books since 1890. We as a country and a people know how to stop unchecked corporate power, and we already have laws to do so. Unfortunately, lawlessness is much more of a problem than any one ideological position.
Really? Meta, Google, ByteDance, Twitter, …