skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This was implemented poorly (and bitcoin was a poor choice), but it's not crazy to want a currency that is decoupled from the US government. Especially in Central America where the US government has a pretty shady track record.
I would sell my 8 million company for X million and then quit and start a x million company. Where X > 8. The question is, why would Unity buy a company like that?
>They are still working perfectly after months, and I got a spare for another $5.

Jesus. "After months".

I have been using my Sennheiser HD600 for 5 years now. They don't even seem to show any sign of age. Should anything ever break, they're modular and the individual parts can be bought separately anyway. But what's most important is that they sound really, really good. To me and to a very comfortable majority of audio equipment reviewers. Subjectively (ears) _and_ in objective measurements (i.e. accurate FR, low distortion on a pro head-shaped measurement stand). And there's no shortage of these, for a set that was released in the late 90s and has been popular audio equipment in the hobbyist/pro markets since. To top it off: They're even extremely comfortable to wear.

And the worst part: Is, it is, by now, near impossible to do even cursory research on what headphones are good and not hear about them.

It remains a mystery to me, to this day, why it isn't the case that everybody owns a pair already. Particularly, as they're not even expensive. They cost only a little more than the average gaming headset everybody seems to own. Instead... utter crap sounding, ear-exploding "cordless" trash from "popular brands" do sell well, alongside awful-sounding, fickle, gaming headsets.

Consumers are this easily misled by marketing, and seem incapable of doing even the most basic research.
Appwrite 1.0, an open-source back end-as-a-service solution
Why is infinite scrolling not more popular with these sites?
I've seen you copy/paste thus statement a couple of times in this forum. Can you explain the context if possible, so it makes sense to "outsiders"? We like to learn here.
Apologies if I'm missing something, but the CEO's statement seems ambiguous about whether they're trying to:

(a) avoid disproportionally laying off some demographics, vs.

(b) intentionally disproportionally lay off some demographics to reduce layoffs of other demographics.

(Edited for clarity)
Crypto is an asset you can use to move money around, gold, checks, valuables, art all can be used for that. Crypto is just way more easier to move, it doesn't make it money.

Real estate is used to launder money, that doesn't turn buildings into money.
this helps the point

reasoning by analogy across different criminality is filled with risks

i’m hopeful society and eventual the law will catch up with what is reasonable. sadly, i suspect what is reasonable to the majority won’t be reasonable to me.

or worse yet the flaw of reasoning will be borne by future generations like the blood letting cures of prior centuries

i offer no solution only the occasional comment bordering on full blown troll.
>>If you give Jeff he benefit of the doubt here,

Sorry, not giving a virtue-signaling billionaire the 'benefit of the doubt' - he explicitly says that race was taken into account when deciding who to fire and who not to - that is de-facto a racist statement.

You don't fix racism by being racist.

If jobs need to be eliminated, they should be eliminated by making decisions about which departments/projects/initiatives are no longer needed, which people are no longer performing well, or which area's are not profitable etc.

As soon as you say, we took into account peoples race when deciding who should be fired, it is racist, period.
Intense levels of plausibly-deniable passive aggression, and absolutely god-awful intent being treated as something better to the detriment of discourse thanks to the "assume positive intent" rule, are what I consider some of the core defining features of the HN experience.

I dunno if it does any good, but these days when I smell ill intent beneath the surface of a "just asking questions" post I just flag the bastards rather than trying to help them by answering. Responding is simply feeding trolls, and HN threads are full of that sort of thing. Argumentative jerks who are just trying to argue, while staying just civil enough that they don't get slapped down (not too quickly, anyway).

My kingdom for sigs and blocklists.
He is corrupt. El Salvador is half a dictatorship, and the reason it went on this bitcoin venture is because its beardo bro dictator hangs out with bitcoin people and unilaterally decided to do it.
> The fact that hydrogen has no odor, and its flame is entirely infrared, invisible, does not help.

I thought it was UV? (Which, if anything, is even worse).
What do arbitration clauses have to do with violating federal non discrimination laws?
Did you try CKEditor 5 with collaboration features? It is quite ready to use: https://ckeditor.com/collaboration/
Assuming positive intent, when you say "At the end of the day, skin color should not factor into WHO gets laid off, or HOW they are laid off." Maybe Twitter is just agreeing, and they're reviewing the layoffs to make sure particularly skin colors and other groups are not overrepresented, all else being equal. There is a lot of opportunity for conscious and unconscious bias when someone is looking at their team or organization for who has to be let go.
I find there’s a leap there from “we are trying to make our firings not racist or oppressive” to “they are firing all the whites and Asians”. It’s clear that you think is true, but I don’t see it as clear-cut. Can you back that claim with anything solid?

> how people can be onboard with this?

I think people are not and you might be jumping to conclusions from the previously mentioned leap.
Also indoor plumbing/showers/toilets, all the hygiene products we use everyday that cost us basically nothing, indoor lighting (everything done at night was by candlelight and candles were expensive). So much of modern life we take for granted, it all adds up to a very different quality of life experience.
In case you didn't know, they did last year!
I cannot wait for the supreme court to strike down affirmative action. It is coming and it will be a glorious day: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Students_for_Fair_Admissions_v...

This needs to be discussed openly and without bigotry. We need to confront the issues of racism on both fronts that includes reverse racism.
Honestly, I don't get the hate for this.

If the layoffs are NOT based off of performance, as the CEO says:

> By no fault of the Twilions impacted today,

Why not ensure they are equitably distributed? Is it racist somehow to ensure that black people aren't the only people laid off?
/r/btc is strong in this one. Lost truly he is.
The long-term solution to this is to replace gas ovens with electric ones.
Not really, no. It is clearly wrong, most people wouldn't notice though. It's about the same level of wrongness as "alot".
Totally agree. Saying they are ensuring that their layoffs didn’t disproportionately impact minorities and pregnant women doesn’t mean disproportionately fire white men.
The legal process itself opens the door to proving it. You sue them, and if you survive a motion to dismiss among probably some others, you’ll get to go into discovery.
"Development Environment", "Fast & Smart Editing", "Java, JavaScript, PHP, HTML5, CSS, and More"

yes it does?
A twist of the wrist. Great to see it show up here. The only instruction I took before I bought a bike and rode 6000km to the uyuni salt flats. With near zero experience, that film pretty much saved my life.
Building good software is hard, even when you an infinite pocket.
I don’t know. Seems like apocrypha layered on apocrypha go me

>…I wrote FAT on an airplane, for heaven’s sake.”

>(I can’t believe I had to write this: This is a dramatization, not a courtroom transcript.)

>This “I wrote FAT on an airplane” line was apparently one Bill used when he wanted to complain that what other people was doing wasn’t Real Programming. But this time, the development manager decided she’d had enough.

>“Fine, Bill. We’ll set you up with a machine fully enlisted in the Windows source code, and you can help us out with some of your programming magic, why don’t you.”

>This shut him up.
There's no way to defend what Twilio said here. None.

What they said was that race was a factor in considering who was laid off, or how they were laid off. There's no way to polish this turd.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bancor
Another thing that's pretty interesting to have, but isn't quite there yet is dynamic render resolution scaling, which can be a godsend for lower spec devices.

That said, there's pretty much nothing preventing from people writing their own functionality to achieve this and someone actually did: https://godotengine.org/asset-library/asset/1141

(note: for some, certain limitations might be dealbreakers, as described at the bottom of the description)

It's pretty cool to see people creating pieces of functionality like this, be it terrain functionality, or even the resolution scaling, which you can see a video of here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AW0A-G5mMcw

I also recall there being a more static version that didn't seem to mess with your scene (as much?), but it wasn't really suitable for dynamic resolution changes at runtime back when I checked.

Now if Godot 3 could get a backport of dynamic LOD that would be great, but other than that Godot 4 is promising and it feels like the engine has a bright future ahead of it!

I just doubt that the asset/plugin situation will get anywhere close to as much of a flourishing ecosystem as Unity's, given that the financial incentives aren't quite there yet. Of course, having most of the current ones (even if a limited selection) be free is nice, though.
Shockley Semiconductor, the company? Yes, it eventually closed because of this. It took a decade of them floundering, but it did happen.
> they come outright and say that when choosing between two "similar" employees they will fire the least "diverse" person.

They don't come outright and say that. They come outright and say something that could mean that, but could also mean "when choosing between two "similar" employees, we ensured we didn't always fire the most "diverse" person."

When faced with multiple possible interpretations, you're treating the one you find offensive as the only possibility. It's not. It might be the case, but there's no way to know from the text.
>you're effectively acknowledging that cryptocurrency is money

While I've never claimed cryptos are not a kind of cash, it doesn't have to be. For TC to be a money (laundering scheme), it just has to have resale value. Artworks can be washing machines too, doesn't make them money.
Removing freedoms because someone might use theirs in a way society doesn't accept is a bad tradeoff for sense of peace. Gangsters use cars and it allows them to flee police.. removing cars would provide more peace and justice.
I see a lot of good ideas for how to get around this failure mode, I'll throw one more in the ring: "giant spring loaded spike to jab into the road"
Title VII prohibits employment discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex and national origin.

If 90% of the people who work at Twilio are white, and 90% of the laid off people are white, that isn't discrimination.
"God save the queen, the fascist regime, make you a moron, potential H-bomb, ..."

Unlike in the 80-es, singing that today would make you arrested. Maybe the song is now more true than then, maybe the regime really became more fascist?
My problems with git commit signing mostly overlap with the critiques leveled against GPG. That said, git’s implementation of signed commits combined with Github/Gitlab’s validation framework of only respecting the current key on a user’s profile really makes commit signing’s usefulness limited.

The signatures are stored within the commit object and the only way to resign a commit is to rewrite history. Also you can only attach one signature to a commit, though this is less of an issue.

GPG has plenty of critiques that I do agree with: horrible defaults, difficulty of use, a key model that is outdated and does not serve the plethora of uses it’s now used for, etc.

All of this adds up, tbh, that ephemeral keys are probably no worse than a GPG key. If your GPG key is compromised (or lost), you won’t be resigning your entire git history with your new key. You will simply note somewhere visible that X key was valid until Y date and Z key is the current valid key. Any commits pushed after Y date with X key are suspect.

The point being, signed git commits regardless of what type of key you use really only validate that a particular person at a particular instant in time signed that commit.

If anything, using a more ephemeral and disposable key will encourage Github/Gitlab/etc. to start thinking about key rotation on user profiles. As it stands, if you change your GPG key in Github all commits made with your previous key become invalid until you change you GPG key back. The fact you can change your key back is probably also bad.

The current state of git commit signing is useful, but that usefulness rapidly decays as the commit ages.
You should check out SendGrid's case study on how they managed Hacktoberfest. It has a lot of good information there. https://sendgrid.com/wp-content/uploads/pdf/SendGrid-Hacktob...

A great way to get the most out of Hacktoberfest for your repo is to identify where you need help before and create issues in those repositories with the label "hacktoberfest" or "good first issue" or any other tag to signify the task is a good entry point into your project. A lot of first time contributors check out websites like https://goodfirstissues.com/ to find issues to work on.

Other than that be vocal about your participation. Write a blog post, post on twitter, participate in the Hacktoberfest Discord, attend local Hacktoberfest events in your area, or even how your own Hacktoberfest event!

Be sure to review the maintainer best practices on the website https://hacktoberfest.com/participation/#maintainers

Happy Hacktoberfest and best of luck!
Banning holocaust denial didn't stop germany and other european countries from having sizeable neo-nazi groups and to a wider extent white supremacy groups
I've seen hispanics from Mexico that look like Henry the 8th. Theoretically I'm assuming that they'll be singled out by this cult too. Being a latino won't help.
> despite opposition of engineers on the project

Huh? Despite 'opposition'? Can you elaborate?

(also make sure not to miss /s in my previous comment)
No it stays the same if you have an investment portfolio and only invest max 5% in high risk assets.

Assume you invest 1% of your portfolio in Bitcoin. What is your downside? 1%. Not that high, is it?

What is your upside? Maybe x100, so double your entire portfolio.

Right now, you came late to the game, so don't expect a x100. The risk is probably still the same, but the upside way lower. But when Bitcoin was still young, the upside was definitely worth the risk. And it didn't even live up to its original intent. Imagine the price if it did!
One thing I don’t see mentioned yet: I look into the labels of artists I like and see who else they’ve signed.
This last cycle, many people bought Bitcoin to use as collateral for loans, which was a novel and even smarter use of it. Use your money to make money.
And if everyone picked every pregnant woman on leave and every minority, leadership should totally just assume that it wasn’t some bias or racism. /s

It makes sense to review to ensure that there is no slant to your layoffs to me.
> implicit bias and/or racism

I think it'd be better for them to re-market this principle as "bias-free" or something more generic. Calling it "anti-racist/anti-oppression" is, fair-or-not, going to invite this reaction from outsiders.
All fair points! My apologies I could not be more helpful.
I have access to 6 streaming services. None of them have a Godard, one of the greatest movie makers of all times.

Streaming is really f*ck#d.
Bypass the pay wall: https://archive.ph/ui4uc
Making process spawning faster would allow for workloads to spawn "so many" processes/threads significantly more practically, and therefore more simply than userspace async-style runtimes.

(Note that threads on Linux are just processes which share memory and some other properties.)

Merely halving it may not be all that's needed to totally replace those runtimes but it's a good step in the right direction.
Because the people in charge are often in the majority group and when they're going down a list of names, their biases come into play.
Or maybe do a good job so that next time you'll be their first (and only) visit?

It's not like they have a monopoly, so that should be a valid strategy.
This is not how I understood the phrasing. Layoffs can include a mix of randomization, removal of non-critical areas or groups, and quantitative low performers (reviews). The initial output of the layoffs may have skewed in one direction incorrectly representing marginalized communities or maybe not. Twilio says they would attempt remove a bias to baseline.
If these ideas were viable, the class 1 carriers would have already implemented them.
Did you read the post? This is a new spec called COLRv1 which adds a bunch of complex rendering features to do what is effectively word art.

Why does this need to be a new spec? Nobody is going to use it for body text. If someone wants those ugly 3D titles, they could use SVG or Canvas.

One of the examples in the OP was colored arabic text for education. That’s an extremely narrow use case which could be entirely supported with custom rendering via SVG, Canvas, WebGL, etc.

This isn’t the end of the world or anything, but it’s annoying and frustrating to see as someone who thinks there should be more browsers and operating systems than the ones Google makes.
One of the few closed-source applications I can't do without. They have a very fair pricing model that's designed with their user base in mind. Live productions are seasonal and / or short-lived and the company understands that users (individuals, theatre companys, venues etc.) likely don't need a licence for every day of the year. They allow you to rent licenses (split into audio, video, lighting) by the day AND 100% of every rental goes towards store credit. I recently used years of store credit to buy a full video licence for the first time. I'd like to thank QLab for making an incredible piece of software with such a fair and thought out pricing model!
The names of shows/movies are so small too, really needs a redesign.
So the fly by wire just means it is digital control to the hydraulic actuator instead of a physical cable running from the yoke or something to the actuator. They have not gotten rid of hydraulic actuators yet, they are working do that in the future but that is still a long ways out. Aircraft power systems also have significantly more redundancy so loss of control power is not a common mode failure due to have multiple dissimilar power sources.
I haven't seen this with a loan on the other end but I've definitely heard of it with a payment: they send you a large amount, then contact you to tell you it was a mistake, but it was their fault (or sometimes _your_ fault) and they just need you to send the excess back to them.

Of course after you send that real transaction "returning" the extra amount, you find that the check from them didn't clear (or that the transfer didn't happen for whatever other reason; a modern variant uses remote desktop to trick the victim into thinking a large amount of money is in their account when it's not).

Though with a three week delay that's probably not what's happening here.
It appears as just another framework but once you dig in and start using it the elegance is ridiculous and addicting.
I quite disliked the Latin fonts at first sight, but I like the Arabic ones just as much as I dislike the former. An occasion to contemplate that what may be not that great in the context of Western culture may be still a great thing and useful for another one.
Because you can't go anywhere else to see the same content so why spend money on the quality of the software? There's no market competition there so you'll suffer the cheapest product to see their content.

It really, truly just boils down to that. You're not going to switch to Netflix. Or Hulu. Or Apple. Or buy BluRays. Or watch it on YouTube. You can't - they have monopoly. Every dollar they put into the quality of the app is eating into the margin. There's no pressure to increase quality. It needs to just (barely) work so you suffer it enough to watch.

The software engineer can throw out the laziest, fastest turd, the UX designer can do the bare minimum and the product manager can sleep on his job and money will keep coming in.
Replace "cars" by "machine guns" in your comment. Does your stance still remain the same?

The sanction was on tornado cash specifically and not on Ethereum or cryptocurrencies as a whole. The latter would be similar to banning cars IMO.
I am not saying Tornado Cash developers are not culpable. Rather, I am saying Ethereum miners are culpable as well as Tornado Cash developers. Consider a case of botnet whose command and control server runs in AWS. Botnet developers are responsible, but Amazon is responsible as well, and Amazon should (and will) shutdown the command and control server.
I remember hearing similar economic arguments in 2006 - 2012 about gold and silver.

I often wonder if those same people moved into Bitcoin.
> I'd like to see an analysis of the situation, assuming that the value goes neither up or down, but simply holds a constant value in an inflation indexed manner. Would it still be a bad idea in that situation?

Why? BTC has zero history of doing this.
Wouldn't table markup be the correct semantic designator for tabular data? Plus the plugins that work with tables, the ease of copying tables from the screen to spreadsheets, that screen readers know what tables are, etc.
exactly - arbitration clauses are not going to help with obvious race-based discriminatory statements from the president being used to pick who should be fired.
I'm currently trying to use Spotify's radio feature, but it seems to just play me the same 15 or so songs over and over. Even if I skip particular songs, they keep coming back.
Yet. That's the whole point.
Latino isn't a race.
To be fair, is-odd is a bit of a weird case because schlinkert has a whole web of useless packages
that depend on each other and promotes them by shoving them into real open source projects. Bad-faith clout hacking is a real problem in the js ecosystem but not the same problem as excessive good faith dependencies
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Did Advanced Civilizations Exist Before Humans? Silurian Hypothesis [video]
If anyone can shed some light on how this 14-day threshold came to be, and how it's not just expanded but entirely eliminated now, fill us in! The commit messages putting this limitation in and eventually taking it out must be pretty interesting.