skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What about the competition on the relevant market ?
it’s because american corporations put profit above all else, and someone probably crunched the numbers and determined that faster transactions make them more money despite higher occurrences of fraud
When I was 18 in rural America I had to do telemarketing and day labor in addition to webdev gigs to cover food and keep gas in the car I lived in. My income more than 10xed once I moved to Silicon Valley where my skills are in high demand. I do not think I know anyone technical making less than 6 figures here, with 200-600k being the norm for anyone with 10+ years of experience.

In a post-covid world you can normally move anywhere you want and keep your pay after you build a good network and reputation.
You must be new to trading
NPR's stock in trade is bias by omission so I can only assume this article is meant to be instructional.
Well, Long Covid is prpbably a worse version of it as it apparently can for reservoirs in susceptible people. So not only are they immune dysregulated, but also sick repeatedly...
I heard of a parent telling a young kid that beyond the turn on the road there is a Foobarator, and kid dutifully keeps within safe distance without knowing what's a Foobarator nor what threat it poses.

I remember at age 7 being afraid of tigers and dinosaurs at night, sometimes I watched tall coconut trees. I also asked my mum if she will abandon me for a mistake.
Lots of things stop working after 4. (5 here)
My place has a large shipyard and as story I got told is that good welder lands there with a private jet, do their welding then fly to the next place. I am guessing good welders have a niche market as well.
Wow, I also had to use blueJ when I had to program in Java. It felt really weird to me as there as so many better alternatives. Any chance this was at the Erasmus University?
But not Stanford University, where he continued to teach other students and be a professor until his retirement, and on whose website Shockley still prominently is posted: https://engineering.stanford.edu/people/william-shockley

So perhaps there are communities smack dab in the heart of Silicon Valley startup ecosystem that do tolerate even the most extreme assholes, still. It seems personal asshole-like behavior is tolerated or ignored in lieu of their "other contributions".
> How can you manipulate a neural network to suddenly fear water? How can you manipulate _different types of neural networks_ to suddenly fear water, in a generic way?

These kinds of reactions, and the many hyper-specific adaptations across the animal kingdom, make me think our current model of life lacks the entropy required to account for the behavior we see. It's like in a movie when they tell the geek to do some highly complex and customized task, and he clicks a couple keys and it's done.
The date of the merge has been known for sometime, so the price increase has been mostkly priced in the previous weeks (see recent pumps). Unfortunately the recent US CPI info release has sent the markets (including crypto ones) into a frenzy. In any case I am optimistic that the price of Eth will explode once the better part of this "recession" is behind us.
I guess this begs the question, are there any RPi alternatives/equivalents that use an open source firmware by default?
Afaik Aurora lets you pin plans and will at the same time ask you to approve new, better plans, if ones are discovered.

I haven't used it yet, but it sounds like that gives you the cake and lets you eat it too.
Yeah, this. Should come up with a more unique title.
There’s a bank near me. It is open usual hours but nobody seems to go there other than employees. Nobody goes through the drive through, nobody in visitor parking, ever.

When I used to work late at night I would drive by there would sometimes be people inside scurrying about.

It has been open for nearly 20 years like this.
1. There is no mechanism to unstake yet.

2. Having a centralized staking pool means that there could be governmental sanctions a la tornado cash coming on such "validators" for facilitating North Korean payments and such. Once again, not a good look.
I kind of wonder how much NordVPN paid him to make that "actually VPNs are great sometimes" ad with the robot head.

They had to be gunning for it for a while.
Ether is also scarce. You can't spend one Ether multiple times for staking.
“The best engineer is the one that can solve a problem without writing a single line of code” - Andreas Wixler, CTO of FINN, speaking on the alphalist CTO podcast #59

Find out how FINN is run as no-code/low-code company with just a bit of API-first hard code. And how even the non-engineers in their company automate everything in no-code
This is not against the spirit of the law. The deemed employer is suppose to pay tax at source _on_behalf_ of deemed employee. So, if someone has been found to be in fact in scope of IR35 and now the Fee Payer has to pay the tax - this is the tax _on_behalf_ of the deemed employee. They can legally and ethically claim it back from the resource, because this is _their_ personal tax. The grey area could be the fine itself. Then you have the mess when resource's company already paid Corporation Tax, Dividend Tax and other taxes. Good luck for any accountant to do the reconciliation.
This legislation is completely botched and cares only about the happy path, where everyone works in scope of IR35. That's why it had a huge chilling effect across industry, as companies don't want to take the risk and simply write contracts in a way that they will be firmly in scope or just tell the resource to abandon their company and join unregulated umbrella and become their employee.
The only acquihire I was remotely involved with resulted in stock worth something, but on the amounts of low thousands for the chief engineer.

Many many many startups don’t even get that much. They fold entirely or get acquihired for “hey you still have a job”.
That’s the question, isn’t it?

Is Twitter (or Meta or whoever) closer to print media (ads and editorials, controlled by a company)? Or is it more like the proverbial town square (almost any speech is fair game (in US), controlled by government)?

I’d say the former, but have friends who strongly believe the latter.
I worked for my uncle who had arcade games then for a lottery with slot machines. Capacitors always leak I've never seen a device over 40 years where there wasn't a bad cap.

At the lottery I had a $5,000 3D multilayered monitor fail. All it needed were 3 SMD caps at maybe 1 cent total parts cost plus labour to fix. the lottery just trashed the monitor instead.
> does not give U(255)

What do you think each byte from /dev/(u)random is?
I don't have any further comments.
I've experienced this with liver flukes (fasciolosis). I've always been strong, quite confident, fit and healthy. But gradually over a period of 18 months or so I was experiencing chest pain in the right upper quadrant, binge eating (sugar / sweets) and ultimately had a panic attack or two. I was agitated, exhausted and a somewhat fearful. I felt like I might die and I made the necessary plans for that. Altogether a dramatic departure from my former "self".

Thankfully some googling of symptoms got me on the right track, I got the medicine and got that nasty thing out (it took 12 months to get fully rid of them). Full body health checks, ultrasound, MRI, doctors, specialists all failed to diagnose this not so rare parasite. Lucky for me but sad for those who aren't likely to find the answers I did. Some others have had gall bladders removed due to false diagnosis of cancer due to dilation of the gall duct.

I certainly feel they manipulated me to consume what was beneficial to them. Fortunately they made the mistake of not being stealthy enough. Perhaps they where too greedy for growth. Absolutely fascinating.
The 30% cut talking point is way overblowned. It came out in the Epic trial that 80% of in app revenue comes from games. Most of Apple’s “competitors” don’t even allow you to pay for services within the App Store. For instance Netflix and Spotify have been forcing you to pay outside the App store for years
It's like people bragging about lighting their farts in crowded elevators instead of not farting in crowded elevators.
I’m in Australia and an American friend who is visiting was shocked at how nearly everywhere from small cafes to supermarkets all support payments with Apple/Google pay and tap and go.
But isn't Auth0 a US-based company? In that case, they are obliged to implement US sanctions, regardless where their customers are located.

That applies of course to any US-based company, so in that case you would need to avoid touching anything that is based in the US. That may be possible in some cases, but if you rely on the third parties, it's almost inevitable to completely avoid US.
So you can just snipe peoples accounts if you know their phone number?
True but you also get more “free” services for your tax payments - especially if you have kids.
So very wrong.

$102k/year = DKK 759288/year = DKK 63274/month.

Typing 63274 into https://hvormegetefterskat.dk (howmuchaftertax) says 40.2% tax rate.

The you have to factor in $0 in health costs (gratis hospital and doctor visits), no payments for kids attending university, 32 weeks of paid maternal leave, and 5 weeks of mandatory holiday each year.
The take home in California would be $20k+ per month. Income tax for a single person would be 40% and if married it'd be 32%. That's not counting any deductions you could do or $401k match.

edit: The comp is also not counting stock appreciation which historically was a lot. If you joined Apple in 2019 with a $200k in annual RSUs over 4 years then this year you'd be making $800k from those RSUs. So likely over a million in total tax reportable income.
React moved away from OOP quite a while ago. It's mostly pure functions and closures that return what are functionally records.

When the JS tuple/record proposal is finally implemented, I suspect they go even farther in that direction.

Of course, you could argue that closures are simply objects with one method (or that objects are a poor man's closures), but that's a rather pedantic line of discussion.
Europe's Energy System Is a Scam Against Its Own People
Makes sense. The bit I didn't understand was that presumably there was uncertainty around whether the merge would be successful. But perhaps there still is, or like you say, the CPI info release has obscured things.
Like anywhere in europe, and if you want quality or quick service you go private.
I look forward to hearing your Nobel prize for Medicine speech in a number of years so.
Some number of the staff may also be from the “questionable” side of the business. They don’t have to do any actual restaurant work but will get some clean income as part of their total compensation. So the laundering happens at more than one level and could be more efficient overall than at first glance.
I think that specific part is meant more to be read as "consume as much energy as an app running on your MacBook", not "you can stake your ETH in your notebook".
> And maybe they do, but overall I don't think the market is that big.

Before Trump nixed the JCPoA, Iran had a firm order with Boeing for $16.6 billion worth of aircraft, and a firm order with Airbus for $25 billion worth of aircraft. Taken together, that's one of the largest aircraft orders of all time. Iran is not a small market.

> In other news, setting up businesses that go around US sanctions is not something the US will just wave off. Bullies don't accept their authority questioned.

Businesses in the UAE regularly trade with Iran (and Russia, for that matter) in the normal course of business.
I found these graphs: https://www.familiesfightingflu.org/flu-deaths-vs-covid-19-d...

It's remarkable how few people died from flu the last 2 years. I know people were (probably still are) being tested for COVID when visiting the hospital. Do we test for flu?

I also feel COVID deaths are overblown, should probably be much lower in these graphs (many people that died /with/ COVID have been marked as dying /from/ COVID).
Tesla struggles with Elon Musk’s strict return-to-office policy
- Alternating Current considered harmful
> Adobe and its forever subscription model will eventually get applied to Figma.

Figma is already a “forever subscription”. It’s a SaaS subscription.
I pretty much just thought that ticket to ride had gotten their account suspended for a second. So I was confused for a little bit.
There is no such thing as “free services”. You paid for them through taxes. Also you need to factor in vat and everything else being expensive due to taxes. Dont get me wrong, denmark looks great, but as many “rich” west eu countries the country is rich but the people arent.
There is no evidence that the exchange value of any PoW coin has anything to do with the energy used to mint it. In fact we have counter evidence, for example that there are PoS coins that have value
A few years ago a Danish friend of mine said she'd hit a point where it wasn't worth taking a raise because of the progressive taxation system, and so instead she would negotiate for more benefits.
I've never heard of Erasmus. I used BlueJ to learn Java in intro to Comp Sci classes in 2010 at a small school in North Carolina.
This is a source of contention with regular OSM mappers from time to time.
> What I did was walking in at a fixed schedule, starting

Wow I never heard this before, it sounds like a great idea. Did you learn from someone else or figured out yourself? I struggled with getting kids to sleep by themselves.
I think it's more an indication of higher expectations in child-rearing. If you're struggling daily for survival and 7/10 of your children will die before age 6 I don't think can afford to spend hours every day experimenting which method will get your child to fall asleep without crying.
> You have to trust government, banks, paypal... something.

In the case of crypto you're trusting that an adversary won't be able to control 50% of the computation power on the network for a substantial amount of time (and cryptographic theories, but you're trusting those whenever you use the internet anyway). Generally you're not even trusting the other party.

Yes, it depends on electricity, but so does 95%+ of the modern economy. https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/2003-blackout-fiv...
You have ad-block turned off?
Not with that attitude. If you are healthy, have people skills, and are capable of learning new things regularly then you can generally make as much as you want in this industry.
Sure, the vast majority do. But to say that only a small handful of companies pay this is just untrue... it's probably in the high double or even triple digits. Many namebrand non-FAANG (ie. Linked-In, Uber, Snap, Slack) do, and some you might not even think of. One example - OpenDoor, which pays over $400k for a regular senior engineer.

Additionally, it's not uncommon for small NYC fintechs to pay straight cash comp of $350k+ for basic senior fullstack devs.

All these places do the standard FAANG type interviews though. They're all competing for the same talent pool, and typically they're full of ex-FAANG engineers.
Adobe consolidates. Where is the Blender equivalent for Photoshop? I don't think GIMP is the answer, but it seems like Photoshop is ripe for an open source competitor in the category. I just don't know of any realistic candidates.
Negligent narcissistic assholes.

They drove a faulty car knowingly, riding the brakes and cooked them.

Then in the video all they talk about is their injuries and how bad it was for them and damage to their clown car, no concern for the innocent person they hit.

A grade assholes.
I had the same experience, TU Dortmund in 2007, algorithms 101.

I always figured the tool was deliberately chosen because it gave just enough support to the learner (syntax highlighting and class diagrams) but didn't offer any other safety nets or convenience. Kind of just one step away from programming in notepad.exe :)
Patagonia’s billionaire owner gives away company to fight climate crisis
I wouldn't call this poorly labeled, 'milk' and 'breasts' actually are semantically very close.
Miners need not only to spend money on hardware, but also the upkeep of earning money by mining is expensive (electricity, or the cost of electricity generation).

Thus, Proof of Stake let the rich grow their richness for doing nothing. In Proof of Work they need to continue working to make their money grow. Not to mention that they removed the miners from the equation, proving that in ETH system the poor and the people don't have power at all, whereas in BTC no one ever had any such power.
The Pine64 guys are working towards that goal I think. You can flash open source firmware on some of their boards, but I don't know if it's the default.
Interesting, thanks for the clarification. Not had but not as high as it sounds at first sight.
> Cryptocurrency works the way it works specifically because of that desire to work without a central authority.

The word works is doing a lot of work there. Every compromise, hack, scam, theft, and weird "oops I sent the crypto to an address that doesn't exist and now it's gone forever" incident screams for central authority. Even what we call Ethereum is a rage-quit to pretend the DAO thing didn't happen.
That's a very nice link. It took around 40 years for the USA to even get to that level of self-awareness to have BLM.

Think about it, Soviet Union was not just knowing what you did last summer; it knew what you would be doing a summer 40 years from back then.
This is a blatant effort at maintaining a monopoly.
> Well, you can't calculate the risk but you can get 1000000% return (the actual return over 7 years for ETH presale). Or you can calculate the risk and get 5% return. It's your choice.

"Past returns are not indicative of future performance" is a mantra you will see everywhere in the financial world. If not doing any risk calculation whatsoever gives you 1000000% return them you didn't "invest" anything, you just gambled with it.
When I first moved from Canada to the US, before I got an American credit card, I used my Canadian card to tap as I was so used to doing. More than once, the clerk looked at me as though I were a wizard.
The national hate coming from the US is getting out of hand
In Ireland I’ve had to enter a PIN for as little as 15 Euros. It’s very variable. Never run into this in Europe before and it’s been something of a pain because I don’t have a PIN on any of my personal cards. Fortunately I found I do have one on my corporate card.
> Turns out there is some pretty good architecture documentation: https://docs.broadcom.com/doc/12358545 .. but that only describes the 3D capabilities, not the whole register map.

This documentation is for the VideoCore IV. The BCM2711 SOC that is used in the Raspberry Pi 4 has a VideoCore VI.
They are not giving “everything” away presumably they have taken many millions of dollars out of the company over the years, enough to have built likely generational wealth outside of their Patagonia holding.

If own a single asset worth $1B and donate it all, I have no tax write off because I have no money

Write offs carry forward to future years - you still get the write off even if you do t apply it.

They don’t get a write off here because the organization (that they created for this) is a 501c4 non-profit. Donations to those are not considered tax deductible.
I think for a rain jacket you have to compromise on the performance. It'll be a bit heavier, maybe just water-resistent and not waterproof, and likely expensive.

E.g. https://www.manufactum.co.uk/mens-parka-etaproof-a66808/ is just 7oz, but very expensive (but is rainproof). The densely woven fabric is key.
If you scroll down on Yvon's actual letter there is a FAQ that clarifies what they are.
Okay, I don't mind.

I am not rich but I would agree to double and triple on my internet subscription if the Internet would be made significantly better (scarce and exclusively curated non-intrusive ads, no tracking, no DRMs, no forced/nudged "engagement", no automated enforcement, no paywalls, everything easy to download and or syndicate, etc.).

In fact I would already pay Google and Facebook if they would seriously stop treating me as a product and would consider me a client whom they would act in best interest of. Yet they don't even offer, even those who actually pay them get blackholed routinely.

I understand there are poor countries where people really can't pay so I don't insist the business model has to change for everybody everywhere.
It's called nation-building!!! The thing the CIA is best at, but still fail every single time ;)
> You may have had access to those existing systems (the global financial market) before Ethereum, but many of us did not.

Many you... who?

> Being able to take a risky asset, and hedge it against itself, is not a strategy that I was aware of two years ago.

That's not "leveling the playing field". It's either "financial education" (because it's something you could always do in "traditional finance"), or "let the suckers come, the more the better" (most of crypto).

> I'd not be here wasting my time talking about re-inventing the global financial system on the internet, believe you me.

Oh, I do believe you. Crypto maximalists never talk about it. They only speak vague trivialities and then disappear.

> Do you have any idea how exploitative the global financial system is for people who are not "in the know"?

Ah yes. Unlike the cryptoscams.

> It's well over time we reinvent it all. This is awful.

Ah yes. Unlike the cryptoscams.
Yeah, over the last five years illustrator has added no useful new features (at least for my use cases) and XD has wandered around with no clear direction. Meanwhile Figma has been a rocketship of features that massively improve workflows. I’m worried they’ll sink into the Adobe pit of complacent mediocrity if they’re bought out.
That's what you would think, if you couldn't reason beyond one or two variables.

It has just become more expensive to hire skilled workers that were freelancing. This means the budget for permanent employees had to be culled. So while you laugh out of envy, you will notice that your raise or bonus will not go ahead.

Companies also learn that the changed IR35 lets them decouple themselves from the responsibilities of an employer and they can no longer worry about unions if they move all their employees (except the core ones) to Umbrellas.

The fire and re-hire schemes are getting more common. My friend was terminated this year and was given an opportunity to come back through an agency and an umbrella. Of course a slight pay cut and no more career path within the company he worked at.
That seems like a bit of a stretch for a platform with uncountable "E1on Musk" style accounts going untouched.
The Netherlands is about 43k sqkm. California is 430k sqkm. You do the math :-)

It's bad development, not development itself. Car centric, bad public transport, low population densities in cities, etc.
I don't get it. If we're insisting that Crimea, Lugansk and Donetsk are Ukraine and the people are Ukranian, then why block/sanction people there who have no control over the situation?
Oof yes, this is exactly the kind of beef I would like to see on VHN.
Not ancient, but I come from indigenous folks that live Southeast Asia. Because we're from up high in the mountains, the traditional way of living is supposed to go back quite far in time.

There are still a few that live traditionally in what basically is a large, two-floor long house for a multi-generational household. The families live on the second floor in one large room, but often with a small loft area for a quasi-third floodr The bottom floor is open with no walls (just support beams) to keep the animals. So it's constantly noisy.