skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The claim being made is as follows: "paying workers geo-adjusted wages precludes a company from being a global leader in remote work".

That's just a counter-claim; a denial of the original claim, which was Gitlab's "We are a global leader".

With quite a lot of people saying"No, your behaviour is by definition not that of a leader", I'd say the burden of proof still lies squarely on Gitlab's shoulders: They made a rather bold claim, they get to show that it isn't BS.
The PS4 supports it, even! I dunno if it just sort of works for everything if you turn it on, or if games have to explicitly support it; my projector has 3d capabilities but I never bothered buying the goggles to see it.

Edit: well it used to support it, it seems to be gone from the settings now.
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She probably thought something like “Gang members are bad because they kill people. Let’s stop gang members from killing people.”

Without thinking through the the nuances of the long history of racial oppression that led the gang members to become criminals in the first place.

The same way that people who were combating the mob didn’t consider the history of oppression that lead to the creation of the Sicilian mafia.

I would argue that in this situation she was shortsighted and yes lacked empathy. But I don’t think there was any conscious racial animus there the way quoting “black super predators” makes it sound. I doubt she considered the racial component at all.
There's two cases where you'll see pragmatic wrapping:

1. Higher order usage. When functions would really benefit from being used in a higher order way, passed around as values, you'll see some of the Java methods wrapped so they can more easily be used as such, since you can't use Java methods in a higher order way. This would count as "can do it better", and it's the case for clojure.string.

2. For portability with Clojurescript. This is a more recent thing, but as Clojurescript usage grows, and code reuse between backed and frontend more common, there are certain basic methods Java interop was totally fine with that now benefits from being wrapped. This is the case for clojure.math.
Seems like dirty bombs would be a lot easier to make, in a world with ubiquitous nuclear power plants.
Straightforward studies are often not done. And, often done then ignored.

Dams collapse mainly for this reason, and those, while killing many people and destroying whole cities, do not leave the whole region uninhabitable.
Or read the bitcoin white paper, understand the tech and then you'd know these are all scams and move on with your life. Opps I mentioned bitcoin and forgot about "blockchains" immaculate conception
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electricity_sector_in_France

That's wrong. France is a net exporter of power, by over 50%. So even on aggregate it is a net benefit to the world since 90% of the power generated is CO2 free.
> 2009: “the North Pole will be ice free by 2013.”

I'll agree that was hyperbole, but interestingly this[1] article featured just the other day in the news here, about how a research vessel reached the north pole several days ahead of schedule because there was significantly less ice than expected. The scientists interviewed said conditions had changed drastically over the last 10 years. So maybe add 20 years to Gore's prediction?

[1]: https://www.nrk.no/tromsogfinnmark/forskningsskipet-ff-_kron...
What gave you the impression that the individual you are responding to would find their coworkers insufferable, or any of the rest?
In the last few steps, going from “Yes, you need trust-less updates” to “<tiny distraction>” to “Meh whatever, just use a regular database!” seems a bit lacking in short-term memory…
That sounds to me like someone used excitement about "blockchain" as an excuse to upgrade a two-decades old system to something a bit more modern.

It looks like it's a private blockchain shared between two (at the moment) institutions, which means it's probably being used basically as an append-only log.
I think you misunderstood the person you’re responding to. They are saying that the way we take in calories is so far removed from the environment we evolved in that any Darwin comparison is smoke and mirrors. IMHO they are spot on.
Your "black super-predators" comment is unfair to the degree of being slanderous of Clinton, in my IANAL opinion. Going by the information presented in the Politifact article, the final "mostly true" evaluation is garbage. This bit makes more sense:

> The full context of this incident does link children and superpredators, but nowhere in the speech does she directly label African-American youth this way.

Furthermore, the whole point of mentioning the Clinton factoid seems to have been to show that Clinton had a racist slip; but the reasoning here seems like it's underlied by the racist premise that all street gang members all black, so "of course that a gangbanger would be black".
As long as the methane stays in the atmosphere it does warming. Taking 100+ year to reach equilibrium concentrations still means having massive amounts of methane in the atmosphere doing warming, just at an equilibrium.

Because it breaks faster than CO2 is why we should really reduce the emissions today because it presents us a great opportunity to save more warming effect in the future

> Nevertheless, while methane may have a short atmospheric lifetime, its effects are
not ephemeral provided the source of the methane continues to exist. For as long as
livestock continue to be farmed, methane continues to exert a warming effect upon
the climate.

> As such the argument that since methane’s impacts are temporary, they
do not matter, is wrong. Its effects will in practice be permanent, unless ruminant
production is halted.

> Methane emissions also increase the risk of us ‘overshooting’ the
1.5°C/2°C target, potentially tipping us into unknown climatic territory, with possibly
devastating effects on agriculture, wildlife’s ability to adapt, heat stress in humans and
animals, and more

https://www.oxfordmartin.ox.ac.uk/downloads/reports/fcrn_gnc...
Sentinel 3 satellite imagery from July 2021 and 2022 over France
As an observer of many political discussions on various russian forums (pre-conflict and troll factories era), I can tell that these are nowhere near a level which you even remotely could call reasonable. Our political mentality and education is traditionally a non-funny joke. That’s what gp meant by “banalities nobody gives a shit about”, I believe. It’s always some populistic and accusing bullshit and nothing a reasonable adult could get interested in.
2023 Chevy Bolt EV is still the best value EV in America, by far
Christ that's a lot of work, just to start working on work. I really want to like Nix, but the UX is frankly offputting. I really hope it improves to the point that it can be mindlessly installed.
Does anyone have a recommended way to monitor my wifi connection on my PC or Mac over time?

I recently started at a new company which uses google meets and I’m having an issue where my out sound and video output freeze for people communicating with me for 1 to 3 seconds.

I’ve replaced the PC and I’m still having the issue so Id like to troubleshoot the problem by ensuring my network connection is working correctly.

Hardware: replaced google home wifi mesh with top of the line eero mesh.
If there was money for happy hours and off sites before covid, where did it go?

Meeting in person may be difficult, but if the money is still there, someone isn’t thinking of how to use it creatively.

If it isn’t still there, the company is cutting costs by defunding morale. And hoping nobody noticed because “you can’t meet in person anyway.”
If the assignment doesn't permit you to use a certain library and you use it anyway, I don't see why you would expect it to be OK with the instructor.

If the assignment does permit you to use a certain library and you use it, I don't see why the instructor would complain.

If it's ambiguous, then I would possibly ask for clarification.

Personally I would expect an assignment using a language like Python, Java, or C++ (for example) to permit use of the standard library (including STL in the case of C++) unless otherwise specified, or unless it was clear that the assignment was to reimplement some function or algorithm which is already part of the standard library.
I disagree. There is no evidence deterrence works, and I think it's very unlikely that there are people who want to commit sexual assault who would decide that it's not worth the risk if more people were punished. I don't think people work that way.

If you are thinking about citing the Italian study[0] that people always cite in respond arguments against deterrence. My response is that it's way more likely that 1 month less in prison is what caused the lower re-offending rare, not the threat of 1 month more in prison if they re-offend.

[0]: https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/599286
They're obsolete. There was some debate in the 90s and 00s over whether they should be kept around since they had an incredible amount of firepower and some people still thought that maybe contested beach landings were a good idea. But ultimately they were stricken from the Navy and are now museum ships.
What do you think is wrong with gambling?
That graph shows nothing of the sort, and it conveniently excludes the 2010s, where Areva's Olkiluoto 3 plant in Finland has been under construction for 17 years and is still not finished.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olkiluoto_Nuclear_Power_Plant
can you elaborate on those key missing language features ? You have commented multiple times about that, but haven't seen you giving any concrete example. I'm Genuinely curious.
The purpose of bitcoin, for example, is not to store a list of transactions?
On Arch Linux KDE X11 with 100% display scaling and 120 font DPI, whenever I pop the hex editor view out of the main window, it's missing a title bar by default, until I resize the popped-out view to around 2000 pixels tall.
Thanks for talking about it, I just discovered it.
Especially when you know Mr Rogers would want you to be impartial!
builtin.com does not seem to have any specific focus on blockchain - their site says "Built In is the online community for startups and tech companies. Find startup jobs, tech news and events" and their "Our story" page does not seem to mention blockchain or crypto at all, and if anything, is focused on recruiting ("career" is mentioned a lot). I have no idea how they ended up being #1 in google for that specific query, maybe mostly because of randomly matching some search terms, or they have a very good SEO team.

The author's credentials are:

Sam Daley is a Built In associate product manager who formerly covered AI, blockchain and emerging tech trends for BuiltIn.com. Prior to Built In, Daley worked as a CNN production assistant and development coordinator for Rotary International.

Which does not suggest he has any special insight into any blockchain technology or industry beyond being assigned to "write about all that new stuff because you young people understand those". OTOH, his previous title on Linkedin is "SEO Strategist" - which may be the explanation for the #1 result. At least we know he's good at that job, congrats, Sam. His credentials on being the arbiter of blockchain project prominence are still not clear - and I suspect his methodology of compiling the list differs little from the original article's methodology. Maybe I'm wrong but his bio doesn't show any signs of any relation to crypto. Maybe he still has huge knowledge of it, I don't know, there's no way for me to see it at least.

So, not a "construction-focused publication" but more like "local newspaper worker who covers any news about manufacturing industry, construction, agriculture, food industry and anything else nobody wants to". So yeah, random list of startups has most of them dead or pivoted in several years. That's how it works with startups.
Elixir is still Actor based though, and relies on modeling behavior through something very akin to objects. You could even call it OOP if you went back to the more original message passing/late binding roots of OOP.
Increase the price of storage devices.
San Francisco cops want real-time access to private cameras
There are a lot of successful blockchain projects that respond to various use cases. On top of my head:

- Uncensorable money: og bitcoin and pretty much everything else

- Uncensorable money + privacy: monero, tornado.cash, etc.

- Decentralized exchanges/automated market makers: curve.fi, uniswap, etc.

- Prediction markets: polymarket etc.

EDIT: looks like omen and augur are dead
You can still get value from a CS degree, it's just not an automatic pass to get into the industry.

For what it's worth, I also skipped uni (this was 25 years ago) and went straight into the industry. I'm not as talented as many, particularly in things like algo design but much of the day to day programming in Australia is fairly straightforward.
There are a zillion ways to handle sparse arrays or redundant values that don't depend on esoteric language features. You're not even losing any efficiency, you're probably gaining some because you know your domain.
That seems like a hell of a lot more work than just using Home-Manager and flakes. Flakes add a lot of boilerplate, but this seems excessive in comparison. And Home-Manager is quite easy.
> Considering how offended everyone is now, work isn't the place to socialize.

Remote work is a safeguard. There is a record of every Slack interaction, and with minimal equipment, you can keep your own record of every video chat conversation, too.

If someone chooses to take offense at something you've said, then seek vengeance by way of the HR department, you can go back to the record to exonerate yourself.
It sounds like you don't want to use a service. Take a look at GNU Mailman, it's mailing list software, which should do all the basics for you.

Importing your list may not be super straight forward, and you'll need to manually process your current inbox of bounces before you continue, but if you do it right future adds would be easy, and future bounce processing should be automatic.
Possibly, I suppose it depends on how the parents react to the cry. Bottling up the tears can also teach the 25 year old to numb themselves with alcohol or drugs, or feeling abandoned by the parents could lead to massive distrust, so I don't know if any of them necessarily lead to one outcome or another.
Nukes are inherently expensive. The NRC has saved us from enormous needless expense. We can spent all that on renewables now.
> How can you distinguish between infrastructure products and hype products?

If you don't understand the industry, you can't. That's what hype is for - to make you unable to distinguish those. If you really need to do that - you find somebody who knows the industry and who you can trust, and ask them. Otherwise, you just accept that you have no idea and would have to wait till the results are clear to know.

> it's hard to predict what's going to be an important infrastructure product.

Yes. Even for people that know what it is about. Virtually impossible for people that don't.
We need guides to disable this non-sense...
I don't know anything about the semiconductor industry, but it's not hard to come up with a plausible argument for this:

It makes sense to cut back on investment if they think there will be an oversupply of chips. In which case, returning the money to shareholders doesn't seem wrong, if they don't have a good way to invest it?

It doesn't show much confidence in their ability to succeed and regain market share, though.
I tried to Google this and all I was able to learn is it's backed by big banks and it lets you transact without disclosing information to your competitors.

Still can't quite understand if there's anything to it beyond hype and FOMO.
She has never been a progressive, and at the time that happened democrats were moving firmly to the right to try to capture some of Reagan’s base.
This post focused solely on the Nix package manager and Nix packages - for anyone that uses MacOS but is interesting in trying NixOS (or using it within a VM in MacOS), I definitely recommend Mitchell Hashimoto's NixOS repo: https://github.com/mitchellh/nixos-config

Honestly, doing that may be easier and a better option than using Nix packages in MacOS.
>This is wrong.

Okay.

>Mostly the answer to do you need a blockchain is no.

But... that's the same thing that the wrong chart says...
The nuclear navy has had numerous nuclear accidents, just like the air force. Also just like the air force they have avoided any spectacular meltdowns so far, but that doesn't mean they've been problem free.

I collected a list of publicly known ones in response to someone claiming the same previously here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28376137
The crew running the reactor during the accident were poorly trained, poorly managed, and weren't comfortable pushing back against bad management. There is no doubt that Chernobyl had a poor work culture, a rot that came from the top but nevertheless permeated the whole facility.
You are correct in normal circumstances, but when there is an active information operation in progress, people should be aware of that so they can evaluate claims in that light.
What are these valid use cases?
It would be nice to read an article on blockchain projects that are actually used in the real world and have real impact on human life. Assuming such projects exist.

By now, most people have a healthy skepticism of blockchain projects.

All that said, kudos to the author for spending a good amount of time looking into these projects.
> first of all, on a decentralized blockchain you can not really censor a transaction

This is not true. Even though blockchain is decentralized there could be a single chain/few chains of truth if you want to convert it to real money. And that chain could only be the one that would be approved by coinbase, bitfinex etc. If they want to censor an address they simply could stop accepting those transactions, and then miners will have no choice but to censor those transaction else they couldn't convert it to money. The same affect could also be created by bitcoin developers or government. Till now, AFAIK only developers along with exchange have been successful in censoring a transaction[1][2], but government came close[3].

[1]: https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Value_overflow_incident
[2]: https://levelup.gitconnected.com/how-ethereum-reversed-a-50-...
[3]: https://www.coindesk.com/tech/2021/05/07/marathon-miners-hav...
A good wrapper (like the Clojure version of java-time) can be a real lifesaver for those of us without Java backgrounds who don’t like having to learn deep and often baroque Java apis.

I also use a pretty half baked wrapper someone wrote because I just about lost my mind trying to make sense of the class hierarchy it was wrapping.

I think for people like Rich and Alex wrappers may look pointless because they already have invested in learning many of these APIs, know the patterns already, etc. For people like me from different language backgrounds they keep me from having to learn APIs with mutable state and deep class hierarchies and to me that’s a big win.

(I rewrote this whole comment to hopefully be more concise.)
I assume dogfooding the concept came naturally?
> how banks are apparently actually using the blockchain for currency trading:

There isn’t a single blockchain that we can call “the blockchain”

Technically, a private append-only log is a blockchain if it includes some hashing in each entry to verify the previous entry. This creates a chain of blocks that can be verified to have occurred in a certain order without tampering, though it wouldn’t have the features of a distributed blockchain like cryptocurrencies. This is actually fine for a lot of applications. It’s especially fine if you get a vague business direction to “use blockchain somewhere” and you need to check that box for PR/marketing/investor-pleasing purposes.
That it is Romania should tell us something.

Warn us, really.
Except you have a judging team do it, based on published criteria, rather than all the participants ranking eachother. A bit like a school exam (where students are usually ranked - curve fitted - to eliminate variable difficulty of the questions that year)
Because there's no alternative in Elixir.

In Clojure, you can make a website many other ways, use any existing Java server, implement your own server quickly, use any templating language you want, implement your own quickly, use whatever routing lib you want, implement your own quickly, etc.

Not only are there existing options from Java, but implementing your own is approachable to your average dev, and can be done in a reasonably short amount of time.

Maybe it's a bit of the Lisp curse afterall. A language too productive, that no one bothers settling for the one framework.

I also think Elixirs Ruby friendly syntax brought in a lot of Rubyists with Rails experience, and that attracted people who used Rails to Phoenix, giving it that inertia.

Chris McCord used to be a Rails developer, so he came directly from Rails, so it made sense to rebuild a similar framework for Elixir, and a lot of people followed from Rails to Elixir as a better ruby with better scaling.
There are other practical indicators of how good things are. Apple, for instance, demonstrated that the iphone was sufficiently secure to provoke some novel legal maneuvering during the San Bernardino situation.
At some point between here and like, shipping a language design and working prototype, the stated intent is to build a Foundation like for several other modern projects and then assign everything to the Foundation.

""We are planning to create an open source foundation and transfer all Carbon-related rights to it; our goal is for the foundation setup to be similar to other open source projects, such as LLVM or Kubernetes.""
Carbon is probably Gamedev's best chance of moving beyond c++

But you are going to need some minimal buy-in from Microsoft first, if not Sony and Nintendo too.

The great thing about carbon is that you can incrementally shift a codebase over from c++, and there are no problems interacting with existing c++ APIs, so the required amount of buy-in is pretty much just "yes, you can use a 3rd party compiler" and maybe some improvements to the debugger.
Oh heck yes! Low-cost government pen testing! The gov already does weapons deals to catch criminals, probably leaks other countries' secrets on the interwebs, so it sounds like you're on the right track!
That's an Acknowledgement of Country, a meaningless bit of boilerplate required at any vaguely progressive organization in Australia today.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Welcome_to_Country
Oh I agree with what you’re observing. But maybe not the cause. Or not the weighting.

It isn’t just the younger generation that’s afraid, or upset, paralyzed with anger, fear, sadness, etc.

Shit’s on fire, yo.

But the youth is still talking about it together, whether they can leave the house, or the bed, or not.
Why does Intel provide a dividend at all rather than investing in a better product
She passed away last year, but I remember her doing some press the last few years, and was always delightful. She seemed a little mischievous in a way that seemed like it would have offset Fred's near-saintly disposition.