skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"If you default, the federal government helps itself to a chunk of your Social Security check."

This, to me, is the buried lede. This is worse than payday lending, and it's being perpetrated by our government upon desperate parents.
Correct, it's still theft. But theft isn't always morally unjustified.

Or are you here telling me Robin Hood was the villain?
This was such a delighting read for me. Not because it is a success story, but because of the way it talks about the human interactions. Thinking back, it is true that most of my very seemingly random leads came from people who were weakly connected with me and they would be considered equals.

Perhaps beyond that point of a weak connection is why SV is different than everywhere else. The author was ready to take a position in a startup out of the basic knowledge of the founder and the general idea. This is practically unheard of where I live. Yes, everyone wants to think it's like that, but in reality they will be asking for a "data room" from a week-old startup.

Yet again, you can't blame people because I don't know many intern-to-$20B-Adobe-exit around here... and there goes a cycle
Newer ones are going the way of inverter/variable drive and “always on”, but varying their duty cycle. It’s the future!

A nice bonus is they soft-start (lower breaker trip risk) and no start capacitor to go bad. But more other electronics to fail.
A bank! All the banks offer merchant accounts and will have gateways they are setup with. Authorize.net is the big gateway if you want to do heavier coding and integration with existing solutions but there are hundreds of thousands of options. Regional banks usually offer the best rates. But this is if you are a "real" business. E-proccessors like Stripe, Square, PayPal etc are going after the very low hanging fruit of what are essentially consumers more so than businesses.
Their profile claims:

>Perhaps you'll think my comments are unthinkable. My only response to that is that they were legibly written, not by a machine, but by a writer with a soul.
Sure but it’s really fun to complain about systemd though
+1000%

I'll admit to falling into the trap of thinking I'm smarter than everyone else, including domain experts outside my field of expertise, because I did well in a field very much devoid of actual, uh, engineering.
At least this system cannot be exploited, there is no security to begin with!
Except that even what you're testing them on may not be really the most useful or applicable stuff. Any such testing would need to take into account what they actually have been doing and learning. Since the point of much learning is to be able to do, looking at accomplishment is super important. And a productive evaluation of people like the subject here might be challenging to system educators with a vested interest in our factory schooling.
And the "old" way is basically Algol-60, which was what Pascal improved on.
Good call. Given the stigma and shame in the US associated with being poor, that number probably does undercount people who skipped meals but didn't want to admit it.
When folks talk about hyperinflation, they often think it is just a case of governments printing too much money. And while that's of course part of it, nearly all cases (maybe all?) of hyperinflation are marked by supply destruction - the economy is no longer able to produce the goods and services needed by the population, so you have the same amount of money chasing fewer goods, and from there things can spiral. Cases in point:

1. In the Weimar Republic, Germany's productive capacity was devastated by WWI.

2. In Zimbabwe, which was "the bread basket of Africa", farm productivity famously plummeted due to the land redistribution policies of Robert Mugabe.

3. Looking at the current crisis in Sri Lanka, the forced switch to organic farming similarly destroyed farm productivity.

4. Though I wouldn't call it "hyperinflation", the COVID pandemic clearly caused shortages throughout the economy.

My point is that hyperinflation is rarely just caused by governments living beyond their means - the trigger is nearly always a supply shock, and then it's what governments do in the face of that supply shock that gives you hyperinflation.
Yeah, that just strikes me as weird.
I call it RDD - Resume Driven Development.
Mixed DPI is basically unusable on Wayland due to X11 apps but last I checked, X doesn't even support this at all.

I gave up waiting because years later still almost every non Gnome app is electron or otherwise running in XWayland. Just changed my monitors to have the same dpi scale.
It depends on how you define "current", I suppose, but personally I'd consider Kotlin to be fairly recent.
I don’t know, given that social security will likely be totally bankrupt and unable to make payments in the future, this seems like a smart move to default early. Government won’t be able to take a chunk out of $0.
I do worry that the current political capital that African Americans have gained will likely wane with the baked in increase in Latin American voting power. I worry legitimate grievances will be pushed aside for political expediency and racial politics will get much worse - especially for African Americans. Like many I'm disappointed for the loss of what the future that could have been and worry about where we go from here.
If we're going for MacOS 8.5, it would have been cuter if this had been restyled as a Sherlock plugin.
As viewers, we know the outcome of the entire story. Why bother making it at all? Unless …
i don't have epilepsy but those colors going that fast were a bit much for me
Yet another Software Engineer Interview Guide
You ever applied for food stamps? I have. If your kids are hungry right now, you aren't getting WIC instantly. And you ever live on $50 month for food? I have, it's not easy. I guarantee you that getting nutritionally sound meals prepped on that kind of benefit is near impossible.
By "have some quirks" you mean windows will either show as 200% or 50% size on one monitor which is usually unusable. But you're right, its not anything the Wayland side can control, but as a user, you are better off just getting your monitors to have the same DPI than to wait for every single electron app to update it's base electron version.
I kinda doubt they use 20w.

I doubt my TV’s USB port pushes out 4A (@5V) and 20w in a heat-sink less enclosure like that would bake.
NICE DCV works really well as a remote Linux desktop. Not sure what it runs underneath.
I don't think deplatforming is that difficult of a step for many people.
So basically debtors prisons again? That's the solution you propose?
I can’t help but wonder why qursān ended up being the final form instead of qursāl.
:= for assignment ultimately comes from math, as do most operators in early Algol: https://www.masswerk.at/algol60/report.htm#2_3
If it's just for fun and not a lot then the enjoyment she gets is probably worth more than the thing being stolen and the negative externalities of it. Some men do martial arts to practice violence, if she wants to practice thievery and it's not really hurting anyone then it's not great, but why not? We all have thieves in our family tree.

And you can reasonably guess that the "incident" it will create will be proportionate to the value of the thing being stolen. If you cause a scene over someone else not paying for a $2 candy bar, you're the asshole.
I wrote a comment about this here a year or so ago.

It felt like everytime the film/show was a lazy one, it was suddenly 'feminist' or 'an antiracist take on XXX'. When was a Del Toro movie last depicted as antiracist?

A libertarian (not the US libertarian kind) told me when I was a young libdem (I'm not anymore) that while liberals were their objective allies in intersectional struggles, their motives were so opposite to each other that he felt they lost.
Click one of the articles from the front page. The short articles about the app are because the wiki is also used to answer questions from users of the app.
There's no value to retroactive unit testing. Retroactive tests should be end-to-end or integration level, which you certainly can do without a framework.
> I'm curious how surprising this really is.

Not really. Hyperinflation is a failure mode expected to be almost unique to fiat currency, which is relevantly recent as a norm. Other types of currencies have different problems. Plus, having data that would even detect hyperinflation is a recent thing in most of the world.

Actually, what jumps out from thaf data (especially when you look into when the inflationary spiral that spiked into hyperinflation happened in individual cases) is that hyperinflation seems overwhelmingly to have one specific cause: major, especially global, conflict, and especially losing such a conflict; the main clusters are associated with (and shortly follow) the end of WWI, the end of WWII, and the end of the Cold War (the collapse of the Russian Ruble around 1992 is by itself about 1/5 of the list, becauae each country that was using it is listed as a separate incident.)
"At times he [the author] may indulge himself with a long one, but he will make sure there are no folds in it, no vaguenesses, no parenthetical interruptions of its view as a whole; when he has done with it, it won't be a sea-serpent with half of its arches under the water; it will be a torch-light procession."

- Mark Twain (via The Economist Style Guide)
I'm surprised it sells so poorly. It seems like I see them everywhere, but obviously this is a good example of the failure of my own biases.
Was there any indication that this kid would have been happier or “better off” in any other situation?

It sounds like he thrived in the specific set of conditions that he was raised in. Would that be true if he had grown up middle class and went to a traditional public school and force-fed common core nonsense?
Plant three of everything. Feed one more nutrients than the rest, and water another one more than the rest, and then adjust base nutrition and watering to the healthiest-looking specimen.

Toss seeds of stuff you eat around your yard. Watch as plants fail to grow. I grew one potato this year, 'cause I buried one randomly backyard. It was small, but delicious.

My forest strawberry died. Wish I had another two, but only planted the one...
Wayland is not GNOME, what you describe is not Wayland problem, but GNOME problem.

It's possible in both KDE and Sway.

GNOME is probably worst DE imaginable. After 20 years, they still don't have thumbnails in filepicker and even dropped preview side pane in GTK4. I can't even.
You forget, that YT shorts appeared after TT emergence. It was a try from Google to get some part of TT success.

To be honest, I didn't use TT. Ecept when someone gives me direct link. But I am using YTshorts, coz I am already at youtube watching long vids.

Pretty addictive this shorts are.

I hate TT for trying to force me into registering.

Also I hate TT for baning porn and even erotic couple tears ago.
…and forced me to stop using some favorite iOS apps because they didn’t get updated — in one case because the developer had died. Windows is certainly more user-friendly in that respect.
They could probably get something very close but not quite as good and then there is the problem that Figma still exists. This solves two problems.

1. Provides Adobe with a product/service they don’t have

2. Eliminates a growing competitor.

For Adobe number 2 is probably more important. Adobe as a business needs to mostly just not mess up the cash cow they have and eliminate any competitor that threatens the cash cow.
I agree about Python or PHP.

However, for Java or modern C#, in my experience the performance is often fairly close. When using either of them, very often one doesn’t need C++ to be good enough.

Here’s an example, a video player library for Raspberry Pi4: https://github.com/Const-me/Vrmac/tree/master/VrmacVideo As written on that page, just a few things are in C++ (GLES integration, audio decoders, and couple SIMD utility functions), the majority of things are in C#.
Still, compared to VLC player running on the same hardware, the code uses same CPU time, and less memory.
A) A tenth of a cent on a 3 dollar item is pretty far off in scale from up to 24 cents (or 12 if nearest rounding) on a 1 dollar one cent item.

B) Correct, 99 cents would be more likely, which would make the problem worse.

I don't see "prices could go up" as a selling point either (I doubt they'd want to round down unless it let them out of sales tax). How would raising prices to make change differently benefit either of us when you can already pretend to live in your ideal world by just telling places to keep the small change?
Thanks, I did not know this existed! You saved me money, here's a virtual beverage :)
It makes it more consistent with statements, and more convenient for one-liner functions (e.g. those that just delegate to another function).

It's also something that was adopted by other languages in the curly braces family - e.g. C# originally required curly braces for function bodies, but now allows you to write:

int Sum(int x, int y) => x + y;
I've had stuff stolen. Shit sucks.

You know what though? Whoever stole that shit was in more desperate situation than I'm in. Insurance covered it, I moved on. Hardest part was the emotional burden of having someone in your stuff.

Now, Kroger? Kroger doesn't have feelings. They won't care because they can't care. They write off the loss, same as if an employee broke a bunch of jars or as if they couldn't sell the product before it expired.

Again, I'm not saying all theft is good. I'm saying some theft might not be inexcusable.
To have hyperinflation with gold you’d either have to have a massive influx of gold (orders of magnitude), or debase the currency by the same amount. It’s hard to debase metal currency that quickly, because of all the currency in circulation, and because past a certain point it stops being recognisable as gold.
Not only it works in general, it probably works on you more than you think it does.
Completely switched to eBooks. Main reason is space and also availability.
I move often and if I had all or most books that I read in paper form, it would both take too much space and be problem to move to other place.
I don't miss paper books. I read fiction on eBook reader (first Kindle, but switched to Kobo for bigger screen) and for me, feeling is same as with paper to extent that sometimes when dust or hair drops on screen I move it away before turning page as I would do with paper book so it doesn't stay between pages.
IT books I read on my computer. For them I prefer eBook format as it is easier and faster to navigate, you can do text search, copy from them etc.

Saving few trees from being converted to paper is also a motivation :)
To extend this L.O.A.D. point, the worst, most unreadable contracts are drafted by nonlawyer paraprofessionals deputized by their organizations to patchwork previous contracts that may have been somewhat readable, into a Frankenstein mess. It's somewhat akin to assigning the office manager to write software code. Businesses do it because they think contracts should be simple so anyone can write them adequately. Those organizations are half right.
Hold up a moment..

My very quick digest from skim-reading that:

1) Some recent franchise films have altered the demographic of the previously presumed cast

2) This was received very badly by a minority of the public

3) Who acted like complete and utter cunts and started whipping up controversy and abusing all people involved
BUT!! (and this is the important revelation here)

4) This was all deliberate by the movie studios, so they're the bad people, not those covered in #3 as we'd all assumed (based on the self-incriminating evidence they love to push out under their own names)

I can only hope some sort of class-action suit is launched to provide restitution to all those innocents who've damaged their throats after being forced to spew so much bile against their will for so long.
We don’t even universally require our schools to do standardized testing, so good luck getting traction.
> They don't call him a genius though

no, but about half the other posts here do - so I put down what my perception of the case is.

> with emphasis on his business acumen

To me, the business acumen of his parents seems a lot higher. On their twitter they start publishing his future books already :). Also there is a lot of financing (for example his John Deere) going on and while I can't see the full picture, I doubt that he signed those contracts...
Of course. But I'm not constantly plugging them in and out. These are a couple of headless, domestic NUC-type boxes, providing simple local services. They don't have GUIs, so notifications are irrelevant.
The history of coinage spans thousands of years. Despite the popular tales, spot barter was almost certainly not the basis of any real economies.

There is definitely some bias in the availability of data, but it was comparatively harder to end up in a hyperinflationary spiral in the era of commodity or representative currencies, and these were commonplace until the twentieth century.

There were instances of money suddenly losing all value due to the failure of the issuing state (e.g., confederate dollar banknotes), but that's probably a different story.
Wait, you’re claiming that someone needs to be able to diagram a sentence or spell perfectly to understand tax law?

That’s ridiculous.
Musk admits he announced Hyperloop to get California’s high-speed rail canceled
Some chips are well documented and some actually get decapped. There are cases where retro console cores really can be the same logic as the original. It's a lofty goal and we're certainly not there currently. Often software emulation is content to mimic the inputs and outputs and complete the task as observed. There can (and often are) strange corner cases or subtleties that are difficult to catch. Is it a big deal? Not usually, but it's an interesting challenge to pursue a perfect logical re-implementation that can survive longer than we will.

https://www.retrorgb.com/furrtek-maps-the-pc-engine-huc6270-...
I've used it successfully several years ago, it was a bit rough around the edges but already worked well; I'd imagine that's only improved since.
People are already paying companies to access the Internet. If the infrastructure (and the incentives) actually existed, I doubt the average person would have to worry much more about it than their phone bill.

Of course copyright laws make this "perfect p2p world" illegal, so there was never even a chance for it to materialize.
You know how to solder so you get all judgy about people, who I note are coming to you to learn how to do it, when they can't immediately solder well.

But then you don't worry at all about not knowing basic blacksmithing, to as you would say "perform basic repairs".

That's because knowing how to solder is about as relevant as blacksmithing. It's a neat trick. It's handy if you do know it. It has absolutely no real relevance, or even substantial economic utility, to the vast majority of people in modern society.

And you've apparently got a wholly unearned superiority complex about "the youth of today". How original.[1]

[1] https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.aav5916
Interesting, what makes you think it's a hardware defect rather than a software defect?
Did you have a specific link in mind for Shared Element Transitions?
That must have been a distinct style, the version I learned does connect capital I to the next letter, while capital D/U/W doesn't unless it's a tall letter like lowercase l: https://sciencetrends.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/800px-C...
It's not a runtime flag, you'll have to patch redhat-rpm-config to use _FORTIFY_SOURCE=3 instead of 2 and then build packages with it.

Of course if you only want to build your application with _FORTIFY_SOURCE=3, you can do it right away even on Fedora 36. The Fedora change will be to build the distribution (or at least a subset of packages) with _FORGIFY_SOURCE=3.
Some level of madness may be a required for the continued survival of our species.
This is one of very few series where I've watched each episode at least twice while waiting for the next. Yes, it's slow, but it's also stunning.

I liked the scene with Galadriel riding. Until then she'd been shown as a hardened, argumentative and strident warrior except in the very start as a child. The scene shows a different side of her, which makes her happy; she's not entirely broken even after centuries searching for Sauron.
Oh that's what this is about?
It's refreshing to see a productivity system that isn't 12 different note taking/organisational apps + Notion all strung together with Zapier.
https://xpra.org/
Could you explain the mechanism by which social security would go bankrupt, given that it is just an institution of USG? And why does such a mechanism not apply to other large institutions such as the military?
Transcoding and storage are far bigger costs than download, and people are uploading videos to YT all the time
You cannot say a developer is highly incompetent if you yourself do not have the ability to be at least as incompetent as them.

I agree there are problems with various stacks and widgets, but it isn't going to change anytime soon. At the end of the day, it requires someone who can create something from scratch, and those people are few and far between due to the amount of vision and work required. Especially if it's a non-paying task.
Because the main difference between iPhone 14 and 13 is hardware? Unless it uses the exact same camera sensor..
I don't know, but I guess that the intricacies of tax law are written down. And to study that (https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/1/112b here?) you need to be able to be quite proficient at reading. And usually proficiency at efficient reading of laws translates to an ok command over speaking/writing as well (which apparently is not the case here)... if you read weird words a 100 times, I expect a moderately intelligent person to remember how to spell them...
Thank you -- good advice to put collaboration first. I sometimes have a problem that I assume the worst right away. But I've met some true villains in my life and career so maybe that's why. I'll do my best to implement your advice.

> and the sheer length of it might be enough to bring the point across.

This one sadly hasn't been true -- I tried it but I get blank stares and sometimes grumbling about making people read long stuff that I can just summarize to them. Maybe there's a way out of this conundrum as well.
There's a hidden setting when configuring geo on campaigns.

By default it's set to "People -interested- in your target location" . You need to change it to "People who are -in- your target location".

This setting is hidden under a toggle, so it's very easy to miss. Definitely a dark pattern and results in a lot of garbage clicks if you overlook that setting.

This is just one of many dark patterns which makes Google Ads effective only for people willing to spend the time tuning and tweaking every single setting.

A big part of the problem is Google themselves - they say always use "broad" keyword matches (and of course it's the default). Broad matches are really not good for most campaigns unless you have an extremely large budget, yet if you read their documentation they heavily encourage it.

While we're at it...

1) Never enable the "auto apply recommendations" setting. If you do, it gives Google free reign to modify your campaigns (this has always resulted in worse performance and more spend in my experience)

2) Never listen to a google ads rep if they call. Once you're spending enough, they'll call you every week trying to convince you to change various settings. 95% of the time their advice is just plain bad. The quality of the advice does increase once you're spending enough and get assigned more senior reps. But even the senior reps are there to get you to spend more money, their job is not to make your campaigns more effective, "ad specialists" are simply sales people in disguise.