skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My father worked for a company that had its own in-house system and migrated to SAP as their CTO made them. Everyone views it as vastly inferior as apparently SAP doesn't do anything out of the box and requires a zillion customs to do anything. At the end of the day you get locked into a very expensive system that has to replicate everything you were doing before.
Electoral politics is largely a failure. It's the last mile of any political movement, where activism has succeeded, the culture has changed, and the politicians are ready to sign off on it - nothing changes through electoral politics that hasn't a already changed from boots-on-the-ground activism. We are seeing people realize this and embrace other forms of political action. Think about the rise of "quiet quitting" - people are pushing back against this fatal culture of working endlessly to produce useless crap that's destroying our environment.

We're on the cusp of something major. There's no guarantee it will get here in time to save us. But it's a real possibility.
That's why we need to have an actual political revolution, even if it is bloody. I don't understand this modern liberal obsession with doing everything within the law. A lot of meaningful historical social changes were done by breaking the law. It's absurd to think we won't have to do so
They are though. The most profitable paid search engines have incredibly sophisticated operators and interfaces. Westlaw has a super sophisticated topic sorting system that goes back about a century. Lexis has something similar it generates by software.

Free search isn’t the only way. When your users all charge hundreds or thousands of dollars an hour and really need good information, they will pay a lot.

What’s ultimately limited is general user free search. Normal person time just isn’t very valuable and they mostly just want stimulation. Google is mostly a stimulation engine pretending to be a knowledge engine. It started off as more of a knowledge engine and over time optimized itself for providing a buzz.
Not exactly nonsense, of course employers should be able to ask people to work in an office if they think that's the best place for them and it's clear that working in an office might be part of the job during hiring.
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Likewise in MO and OK
No, bur for situations where writes are rare and/or tend to be in bulk (so you can perhaps buffer writes to avoid saving partial blocks and use variable sized blocks instead of always writing things in fixed-size blocks (though variable blocks implies some sort of index, that would need careful design to not be a massive source of contention particularly during write operations)) that effect is reduced. Everything is still very latency sensitive of course, even for reads, but still potentially usable. You could apply compression to the blocks and use a local S3 implementation so you now have a compressed block device upon which you can apply any filesystem: the S3 implementation will deal with managing the allocation and freeing of space reducing complexity and you now have a read/write compressed store (most compressed filesystems are make-once-then-read-only). Still not most efficient due to the extra layers, but the latency will be much lower due to locality and implementation of each layer is simpler because you need to make each aware of less (in fact you can use a pre-existing implementation for the filesystem and the object store).
Covered with forests except for the parts that are new shallow oceans. This includes parts of the world like the American Midwest. Some countries will simply cease to exist.
The Great Pandemic Wealth Migration
It comes down to culture. Will you be reprimanded for talking the wrong way about a project, feature or service in your organisation?

I’ve worked at FAANG where I was reprimanded by HR equivalent for raising an issue in chat rather than email because of who was in the channel. I wasn’t rude in my report, I just explained the issue, the impact it had and the likely resolution.

Maybe a VP was having a bad day, but I’ve since learned to keep my mouth shut working for large organisations as an IC.

It’s something I expected from shitty workplaces like Big4, consultancies or FinTechBroCorps but it’s everywhere.
Google paying a high price suggests people will not change the default. It does not suggest changing the default is hard.

People may not change the default because they

1. find it too difficult

2. they do not believe they are negatively effected by not changing the default

3. they do not even know it is a choice

4. or they prefer Google.

Going into 2022, I would rather governments focus on educating people how to use computing devices than nannying them by barring two businesses from engaging in business. #1 thru #3 can be changed via public education, or even requiring more transparency from search engines to make comparing them easier.

The physical actions of changing the default are not hard.
Id also add that Jquery's principle of simplifying and making JS accessible is legendary. A junior with a few weeks of Jquery can jump on a legacy codebase without much apprehension.
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India fixed this problem with “direct benefit transfer” straight to bank accounts. And this was before the current UPI system had really taken off.

Really, if a country of 1.4 billion people where beneficiaries can number more than the populations of most countries, I don’t see why you would need CBDCs at all.
If the sale price is $12.95, what was the original price?
Nah, you can still force it. It treats exact-strings as suggestions at first, but you can still power through.

e.g https://www.google.com/search?q="search+enqine"

click the link that says "Search instead for 'search enqine'"
We are about to enter a new age of social welfare as Gen X and Millenials enter old age. We don’t expect anyone to start dying quickly. Boomers are here too. Start doling out the coupons digitally to subsidize life. Instead of printing money constantly, devalue the coupons (social security) and set rates for what life actually cost (e.g get everyone used to accepting 1 unit for food, 1 unit being whatever the government decides). Otherwise we have to keep manipulating a real world global economy with debt printing. If we do it, China does it, and the global economy gets whacky. It’s much better if China and America and India can just get their people to start looking at 1 dollar/euro of digitally money as worth 1 piece of … food.

But I hear you saying, “no, the cake is definitely $10”. Uh, no? No it’s not.

And that’s how we can pay for everyone, by convincing everyone to stop charging each other for everything. Take care of your elders for free Westerners, like every other country.

This is roughly China’s plan. They want to directly send money to people that need it. It stops graft and the black market, but the inevitable end game is that it’s state welfare, which is the easiest currency to manipulate (vs debt markets). You all wanted capitalism to die, it will, and it’s because no one is going to die. Welfare is the dystopia no one ever told you about, not the hedonistic capitalism wolf we’ve all been crying about.
I used a lot of Perl at various jobs.

Nowadays I have my own startup and my code is a mixture of JavaScript, TypeScript, and Rust.

Rust is good for anything sufficiently complex that you want to run quickly, have a small footprint, and want to be sure it works, while allowing for easy refactoring due to the strong type safety.

JavaScript is good for anything you want to write quickly and the code quality doesn't matter as much (e.g. test scripts). It's also much easier to write than Perl syntax-wise and has great async support (unlike Perl). Also it has a much larger ecosystem of libraries and easy to use in IDEs like VSCode. Obviously JS/TS can also be used in both the frontend and backend which is another big advantage.

TypeScript is sort of in between - if the JS codebase gets too large it should be written in TS instead. This makes the code less "write-only".

Perl and PHP were pretty good solutions as scripting languages until JS added good async/await support, map/filter/reduce, and destructuring syntax in my opinion. JS probably requires the least lines of code to get a program working.
Wouldn’t it be really good for google if the DOJ banned paying for default placement? I mean it seems like an untenable result to say that anyone but google can pay for default placement. So if paying for default is not okay, then that just saves google a lot of money (since google knows most people will pick them if presented a slate of options).
Amazon explicitly hires remote employees in Canada. Are they going to try and force them all to move at some point?
Live is only one, go enjoy it and forget about being an outlier.

When you are 40 you'll miss the time when you are 23 and will laugh at this concern.
my tidbit of the SAP world (I now work for a company building connectors to these ERP).

I had a upgrade process meeting for SAP and I invited my usual SAP engineers.

I had a polite decline from one of my favorites so I dropped by her desk to ask her why she wouldn't come.

"I work on SAP 7, not SAP 8. I'm going to be retired in 2 years by the time this project kicks off and dead by the time it's implemented"
I can actually purr very realistically, and my cats appear to be interested when I do, although of course I haven't the slightest idea of what I'd be saying to them:)

If you want to try you need to imitate first the letter "R" as they do in France, which is roughly done by exhaling while keeping the upper rear part of the tongue in slight contact with the rear of the palate. It comes easy to me as I had this "R" pronunciation until about 17 when I started correcting it (with some of the family disapproving). Now do the same but not using any vocal cords, that is, only breath, then repeat also while inhaling. Keeping the mouth barely open helps a lot to give it its particular sound which with practice can become really close to a real cat purring.
Global heating caused by carbon in atmosphere => melting permafrost => releasing more carbon stored in permafrost => even more heating of globe.

Even if it is S-curve I do not sure lots of people can survive Venus' climate.
"I'd rather watch the Earth burn than let 'wokeness' ruin the ideals of free market capitalism!"
I keep seeing people talk about the seriousness of climate change, but when it comes time to propose policy solutions, the answers are "$X trillion of dubiously helpful spending and restrict the supply of energy." I think we all agree (even the so-called "deniers") that climate change is a serious potential problem. What our civilizations disagree on is the solution.

When the revealed policy preference of world leaders is to shut down the AC in summer in a desert, turn off the heat in a Scandanavian winter, and restrict energy supplies to developing countries, you don't have a workable solution. Current policy prescriptions are going to kill a lot more people than the warming they are trying to prevent. Further, it suggests that the most ardent activists are not actually serious about solving the problem: If they were serious, they would propose something less anti-human.

Creating more studies about how bad it could be actually hurts the cause of stopping climate change at this point. It doesn't convince anyone.
I work on a home grown solution at work, but they are considering abandoning it for a third party system that everyone we talk to says is inferior in every way. For some reason, the higher ups trust software built by someone else rather than their own people.
In short, permissioned digital currency is all the bad parts of crypto and none of the good parts, while simultaneously getting rid of all the good parts of cash. There's almost no benefit to the user that something else doesn't do better.
There is also
https://gitlab.futo.org/circles
I will be deleting my Patreon Account. I work in Hacking/Remediation. This is a big ol' red flag
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Going to temples? That's neutral clearly.

Praying? Yes. 100% superstition. Which is why it's not a thing Buddha talked about at all.

Making offerings? Same as above.

Belief in reincarnation? Well.. maybe. Buddhist rebirth can be just "have kids" or "influence others with your ideas", and then it can be "I got reborn as a monkey". The first is just science and common sense, and the latter is superstition. It's a wide range... Literally buddhists shouldn't believe in "reincarnation", but believe in "rebirth", as they shouldn't believe in a soul.

But we all know what Buddha says and what Buddhism teaches, and what people actually believe who call themselves buddhists are vastly different. Just as with Christians. There are plenty of people who call themselves Christians who don't believe in the divinity of Jesus. The head of the Swedish Church once said about the virgin birth "It's a nice story..." :P

Buddhism unfortunately has a bad history of talking down to the lay people and allowing them to believe all kinds of clearly incorrect stuff like immortal souls, or gods, or spirits. Hell, Pure Land buddhism is based on crazy stuff like that!
I don't understand this comment. It comes up a lot, but nobody is seriously concerned about the Earth. Clearly global warming is a threat to humans and our way of live. Pretending that people worry about the Earth is a strawman.

Even if it is not, how is it of any consolation that a round rock revolving around a burning ball of hydrogen and helium will be fine? Even stating that "humanity will survive (but millions or billions will suffer and die)" isn't any consolation at all.
Free radicals in the water table. Pollution in general. Plastic in the rainwater. Doesn't just affect nature. Backs up up the water table, from ocean to river from the slums to the hills.

Good that we're doing it less and less, in some respects. Pollution is poison.

Although there is always some. Even very primitive societies eg in the Amazon Basin pollute a bit and after like ten years they move to a new place, and the go in circles in the long run, sustainable.
I'm still an activist. But I've decided that if the EU continue to move as slowly, if my country leaders keep their path and if my fellow citizens still vote for the same idiots (or change to fascists) next time, I'm out.

All the money my local bank is putting in local project will go to Total and Exxon, i will stop my hiking vacations and choose all inclusive hostels on others continents, and visit cities or areas that will become unlivable in the future.

Or maybe not. But i decided that this next five years will be the last years I'm really caring.
People who assume that suffer from the Dunning Kruger effect
I never understood this attitude, it's not like commenting out variables is difficult.
I have a theory that people also misjudge the root causes of change, which causes them to overestimate foundational shifts in attitude. Changes in attitudes can reflect technological or economic changes, without changes in moral philosophy. For example, a society based around knowledge work is inherently going to have different attitudes to women working than one based around manual labor in heavy industry, without necessarily any deeper differences in social philosophy. Similarly, I suspect the rapid increasing in acceptance of same sex marriage, from 27% in 1997 to over 70% today, has mostly to do dissemination of scientific knowledge than deeper changes in attitudes.
Right, the Queen was (unsurprisingly given her privilege) a closet Tory and couldn't be relied upon to stop dirty Tory shenanigans. I don't think anyone was disagreeing? Not sure what the point of this comment was apart from to assert your opinion on Brexit.
Who would have thought that Climate Change is a global issue?
In the comment section on article about *tipping points*. Priceless
i think i will, they may not delete my data but at least i can't help them make it worse.

I'm going to export all my files and drop the account i think. Need to tighten the belt anyway.
programmable money is a good thing. Permissioned programmable money is a bad thing.
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Yes, methane contains carbon.
> Worldcat hid that traditional search view years ago and, like Google, keeps it around for those who prefer it.

In fact, it's so true that in order to find Advanced Search on Google and it doesn't occur to you to go into the settings menu in the top right (the gear - because why would anyone bury Advanced Search there anyway?), you have to actually google Advanced Search.

For Google to have buried it like this, Advanced Search must've been confusing the vast majority of people who tried to use it.
Try making them at home.
It really depends on what the security team was doing. Saying they fired the security team sounds like bad PR, but who knows. Maybe they were just running scanners and couldn't prove value to a VP.
If they knew most people would pick them, then why are they paying?
Yes, there are question marks though that the Queen theoretically fulfills.

Otherwise, we might need a 'Supreme Parliamentary Council' to basically enact those duties, and if any members of Parliament didn't agree on the outcome, they'd take it to the Supreme Court who would rule on it kind of thing. Something that would only happen 'once in a century'.

Where there are Presidents, it's generally straight forward: the Dude with the most votes (of whatever type) is the Dude and that's it. There can be voting shenanigans but generally not outcome shenanigans.

I'm fine the way it is in the UK and Canada, I wouldn't change a thing.

If we want reforms, we can do that at more operational levels, aka 'governance by blockchain' to put it in 2019 Valley terms.
Yes if it is useful copy it to a wiki etc.

But how do you get the information first. You have to look at the chat transcript - and in an international company and a problem requiring thought or research the information could be spread over a couple of weeks SO you still need to scan the transcripts.

Yes Chat is ephemeral and I can't think of cases that involved looking back a year but weeks definitely.

Chat id part of the process - if an issue is raised then the solution will be a permanent change, in my case software code changes, or an email summarising the solution for non computer issues, or chnages to documentation (if you are lucky enough to have documentation)

Another example is if you go on vacation for a few weeks the a quick scan of chat is often useful.
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The money is the message
The issue is on competition. Nobody can really change consumer behavior, but we can regulate businesses to ensure the free market remains fair and competitive.
> If we assume that a new idea, never before propagated creates itself we should have an explanation for how that works, which memetics does not have a current explanation for.

The same way viruses change: usually recombination, but sometimes random mutation. Yes this happens in a human mind, just like viruses change within cells. The point is to focus on ideas as self-propagating and humans as merely vessels, rather than the other way around as people usually think about them.
My amount of recruiter email has increased :-s
> Out of sight, out of mind. You don't see it but Visa and Mastercard consume up to 3% of the transaction amount. Over the course of a year, this amounts to $50 billion removed from the economy. The merchant pays this --- and passes the cost along to you in terms of higher prices.

Visa and MC get only a fraction of the PSP fees. You can regulate this space and bring the fees down (like the EU did). But fundamentally, an electronic payment system isn't as simple as moving money from one bank account to another in an immutable way: that is extremely cheap already and further gains from using CDBCs would be marginal at best.

> The money transfer system that deposits your check is old and slow and involves human labor. Unless you pay additional fees (banks love fees), it takes at least 24 hours for the deposit to be made and the system only operates during "banker hours" --- 8-5 on weekdays; no weekends, holidays or nights.

> A CDBC will be fully electronic/automated with instant results and operate 24/7/365 at insignificant cost. Basically, it will speed up and put billions of dollars back into the economy.

No need for a CBDC to fix that. You just need to bring your banking infrastructure to the 21st century.
I would argue that yes it can be done outside of a platform like this, but each time you want to implement a new policy you need to talk to all private actors and force them to implement your policy.

With programmable money (think ETH smart contracts for the government) a policy could be roll out to the entire population uniformly in a matter of days.

This is why this concept is so powerful and is inevitable IMHO.
So...price fixing? That definitely hasn't worked so well in the past.
> Normal bank accounts are on the books of the commercial banks. That requires a deposit insurance scheme to make those deposits "money good". Otherwise you end up being an unwitting investor in the bank and subject to losing some or all of your deposit if the bank lends badly.

> A digital currency, at least in the terms generally discussed by central banks at the sharp end, moves your bank account to the books of the central bank, so it is always money good without the need for a deposit insurance system. The commercial bank then operates it as agent rather than principal.

You can have Fed Accounts[1] without a CBDC.

[1]: https://www.slowboring.com/p/fed-accounts
Other companies have done so in the past, well pre-pandemic. And historically companies have asked (i.e. told) people to transfer locations all the time--at least if they wanted promotions. Companies also eliminate projects and organizations. All of which is to say that just because you're hired into a position that's either remote or in a specific location doesn't mean those options will exist in a year or five years.
As a rule of thumb, take 80% of an ERP system as is adopt max. 20%. If said edge cases are truely your competitive advantage by all means get them working in your ERP system. More often than not, people consider edge cases competitive advantages when they usually are just legacy stuff that doesn't really matter.
It's human nature. I do this rote task so frequently that I don't know the steps.

Most of my work right now is trying to eke information out of customers about their ERP system so we can get it connected via EDI or to their Ecommerce system (shopify whatever).

So we go live, with a whole process revolving how payments are accepted - and then within an hour there's a problem. Nobody mentioned that certain customers have a different payment workflow!

Back to the drawing board, except we're already live.

This happens again and again.
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I went from activism and being anxious all the time to acceptance. I feel like regulation is the only way we can improve the situation. But most of the people in power are owned by rich corporations/people. And their only goal is to make more money. I don't see much a common person can do to change or improve things.

I live in a country where I still don't have the right to vote (maybe a decade from now). Instead of being anxious and getting stressed out everyday from thinking about the worsening climate, I feel it's better for my health to accept the fact and move on.
So Google understood my search query perfectly fine, but still chose to ignore what I asked for, and then makes me jump through additional hoops to get my initial question answered?
There's been a spike in cases recently, and even my non-Amazon employer has encouraged people to stay home the last two weeks.
To prevent their competitors for making deals to be the default.