skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Enjoyment is much more important than many managers think. Attrition is real, especially nowadays. Enjoying the work, which includes the programming language among other things, plays a big part in hiring and attrition.
CA Leaders Say Legalizing Jaywalking Will Not Lead to Greater Pedestrian Deaths
Facebook reportedly laying off thousands of employees
You may be on to something here. JFK's father, Joe Kennedy, famously got out of the stock market before the 1929 crash after the kid shining his shoes gave him stock market tips. That's pretty much the equivalent of TV and radio ads for crypto.
I think this is only a way to avoid creating things because we don't focus on collaborative note taking systems. Once people start sharing notes, they will start making friends by discovering the people who care about the same topics and create things together. Tweets and blogging are a bit like that but they are curated for a public image.

Add some diffusion models that take over the creative part, and knowledge management systems become a tool to act. Of course, the risk of getting lost in knowledge not only remains but increases.
> I'm confused. How is this voter suppression? You agree the person in question had no right to vote, right? So no one's vote is being suppressed.

Arguably, it could be said that if people who have every reason to think that they are allowed to vote can later be arrested and charged with voter fraud, then every voter unwilling to risk being arrested would be better off not voting to avoid finding out the hard way that despite assurances that they can vote they were guilty of fraud.

It's still a bit of a reach though because the article highlights two cases which seem pretty specific. I don't doubt Washington believed he was eligible to vote, but that belief was based on an assumption about the law and an election worker telling him his voter card was legitimate. I don't think that situation is going to apply to very many people including people with a criminal record.

The second case, where Stribling claims she was just randomly checking boxes on her voter registration form since she can't read or write is even less likely to be a problem for others. I think these cases are unfortunate, but very unlikely to have a chilling effect on other voters.

The article however does give a quote from a Florida senator which says “Some of the individuals did check with (supervisors of elections) and believed they could register,” and that's a bit more disturbing. I think anyone who contacts election officials to make sure they can vote would have every reason to expect that they can if that's what they are told, but it's hard to say what impact that might have without more information.
From the lawsuit looks like the most clear cut evidence they have is:

- Founder publishing a private protocol definition to help in building for it

- Sales staff sending account and prospect info to their new cribl email addresses before leaving Splunk

- Engineers leaving Splunk with technical specifications, such as their newer S2S protocol versions

The patent stuff is kind of whatever, but all three of those items would be enough to establish some very clear damages. Cribls an exciting new player but they can't take shortcuts like this, if the allegations are founded.
The field was changing a lot quicker thirty years ago than it does today and the technology was much less mature. It's natural to become more conservative with technology choices over time.
The exercise inflammatory/antiinflammatory control loop is indeed wildly interesting! As are the nuances of how the interleukins work.

I deeply encourage people to read the science. And indeed all of it.

As you said: Maybe they exist. They probably do – if the substrate of under-funding things has allowed them to come into existence. There are studies that show general health benefits from intermittent fasting as I recall.

It’s also worth paying attention to one’s experience of the world, and to not discredit it. There’s a distinction between following a fad, preferring a lifestyle, wanting to feel good about it – in a social sense I guess? …versus, say, noticing a sense of clarity whole watching one’s bloodwork results improve.

Read papers. Mostly science. Not too carefully.

Mechanistic ones too. Mechanistic ones too! From personal experience, I ask you to believe me when I give insulin glargine as a clear example of the molecular biology of something clearly showing that a certain medicine is literally dangerous. The zoomed-out general health studies smooth over the substance’s obvious capacity to abruptly flow out of bolus sites and dump 24 hours’ worth of insulin into the bloodstream. It’s obvious from the molecular biology and the anecdotes of horrible blood sugar crashes and people dying in their sleep. Please don’t take too much salt with the mechanistic studies. It’s mechanics all the way down.
The scientists are becoming enormous. Even inflation fetishists are beginning to voice concern.
Solar reliability is a big unsolved problem. Even at nation-state scale, we can't store power at enough scale without having to massively overbuild and even then.

The right way to fix this of course would be to take the same technology that lays undersea fiber optics, and take REBCO superconducting tapes and lay completely efficient under-sea power cables to locations with 8 hour separations around the world, then build solar their. It becomes a very different equation if you start having reliable sunlight.

We could do this today - none of it requires new technology. What it would require is a degree of international cooperation and trust which would be more or less unprecedented.

I do kind of wish some "change the world" billionaires would get interested in this, because it's an expensive project but it can both make money and is not the sort of the thing that requires more then commercial cooperation agreements to get started. And a single, global-scale electricity grid would definitely revolutionize things.
That's what they keep saying throughout history, yet it seems that tech industry as a whole just wants to reach these highs over and over again. I wonder why ?
Could it be because it's the superior business case, which can reach global markets at ease ?

Oh noo... noo how can that be... my wood workshop in Agbogbloshie Dumpsite, Ghana has the best business model known to mankind, how can it be that it can not compete with BigTechCorpo123 ? Oh.. I don't know... maybe because BigTechCorpo123 can sell their product to the whole world at ease while your wood toys have to be shipped by vans ?
Ask HN: Why is PayPal sending me to a Chinese website?
I have a US PayPal account.

When I went to check a $10 Starbucks transaction I had made, I noticed a strange link was there saying "Get more details in your PayPal China account".

I do not have a PayPal China account as far as I know. Even stranger is the link starts with "paypa.cn/withdraw". This does not appear to be a site owned by PayPal.

A quick search shows a PayPal community forums post (https://www.paypal-community.com/t5/Managing-Account/What-does-quot-Get-more-details-in-your-Paypal-China-account/td-p/2989268), where users that have contacted support are being told that it's a "known issue". Based on the post date this has been there for at least six days.

I'm a bit skeptical though. A bug causing the link to show up when it shouldn't, as well as someone forgetting the L in paypal.cn both sounds like things that could happen, but simultaneously? Even then, it seems like they could have fixed this days ago, and should have as potentially sending users and their transaction IDs to a different website seems like a pretty big security issue.
I speak multiple languages and I was asking a question, not trying to be unkind.

I asked the question because their English seemed so good to me that it seemed intentional, it also seemed unusual.
Outsourcing to a proprietary voting system could work, if a paper trail is produced that is verified by the voter.

Still, open source is everywhere. Why don't we have open, unbreakable voting?

Really, what is wrong with us? This is not a hard problem.
More money?

Or even the same amount of money when the pay/bullshit ratio starts going in the wrong direction.

You realize all of the BigTech companies use the same “boring languages” don’t you?
As nice as the beam might be, erlang is just not a great language by the judgment of many people, including me. Elixir can't make up for it either. I refuse to use a dynamically typed language for anything bigger than a couple hundred lines.

On the JVM you have languages like Clojure and Scala, which both are top class in their domains imho. I wish there was the same for the beam.
It seems like a case of different incentives for different people.

If the incentive is to ship product then choosing the language you already have a team for makes the most sense.

If you are choosing based on hiring a new team, then the current flavors work. 20 years ago that was Java. Today it's C#. 20 years from now it'll be something else.

If you are a developer looking to grow a resume for the next job, then it's a double-edged sword. Sure it's easier to get a C# gig. But it pays less because you're in a bigger pool. It's harder to stand out. Conversely it's harder to get say a Cobol gig. But it's easier to build a profile in the Cobol community (simply by being under 80 years old) and there is a Lot of work around, and is very well paid.

Equally something that's marginally popular now will have a long tail and can be very lucrative. Erlang might be obscure, but there are plenty of shops who would love to pick up another experienced, capable, erlang developer. You're a bigger fish in a smaller pond.

So yeah, language is like most things, dependant on your point of view. That's why we gave so many of them.
> Pecora was no grandstanding politician. He was a cigar-smoking, fedora-wearing New York City prosecutor who liked to call the bank executives “banksters” because he saw them as finance gangsters.
Property is intrinsically limited. Property in desirably places is especially intrinsically limited. You’re basically lucky if you own any property at all at this point.

Just take a gander and how much property in Hong Kong or Amsterdam costs and you’ll start to think it is cheap in the US. It’s only going to get worse. Do you think that people are going to desire living in Santa Monica or Queen Anne less over the next few hundred years?

Our planet is getting smaller relative to the amount of people that live on it and relative to the habitable places that exist.
A traveling geek is an oxymoron. Geeks live in caves harassing the world from the safety of their own home. Well, it's safe until the consequences of their actions come knocking on the door. I guess at least you feel like you can outrun your problems while you're flying.
true. I thought cargo planes are often used for troop transport and this would be the same, but if they're solely using it for cargo/fuel it should be fine.
Running a reactor over the grid demand load is wasteful of fuel, but can be done whenever. You just factor that into your cost equation.

A renewable does the same thing, but when there isn't sunshine or wind you cannot just bring more in.
For me, Incognito hasn't worked for NYT or any other major news site for a very long time
Very well. Google deciding to back it for Android wasn't some bold, out there decision. Android developers could already use kotlin, because of its Java interop. Google was just responding to pre-existing demand that the community was already generating.

That's why I don't think it makes much sense to treat kotlin in the same category as the other languages. Sure, it's a programming language, but the way JetBrains executed on it with its easy upgrade path from java and really excellent design, not to mention the toolchain, mean that it's success and trajectory cannot easily be generalized to other "weird languages".
> I'm not confident they would leave a voicemail

> the caller is originating from some complex web of VOIP systems

> when I call back I get a machine asking for an extension, which the caller forgot to leave in the voicemail!

Is this really a risk? If it’s that important, they’ll leave a proper VM.

I’ve had my phone set to silence non-contacts, and aside from the occasional call where I prefer they didn’t have to leave a VM, I almost never have problems.

The few times it’s caused me problems, it’s been just an inconvenience. But about 0.1% the inconvenience of dealing with all the robo calls making it through.
So, if we followed this advice, none of these technologies should have ever been used in the first place, because popularity takes time to establish.
Last used splunk around 2010, and we ran a bunch of scripts to truncate and reformat logs before they got anywhere near our splunk data load license
Whatever you're going through, it's a good idea to do it on an international scale. That should reduce risk. You go, girl!
Only Rust and TypeScript might be considered non dull, maybe C#. Python and Golang are as dull as they go.
> Gone, thanks to EU legislation.

Sort of. Standardizing on a USB-A charger did slightly push people to use a USB form plug on the other end - but data transfer is what really killed the proprietary connectors.

The multitude of USB connectors has been pared down - mini USB was withdrawn due to its design flaws, micro USB was obnoxious for 5Gbps data transfer, as was the larger USB-B plug. The convenience and capabilities of USB-C have slowly replaced them both on the device side, as well as the capability to go higher than 5 Gbps.

If anything has slowed adoption of USB-C, I'd point at desktop PCs and the reluctance to put 'real' USB-C ports on them. This is mostly because of what I consider to be a design error on the USB-IF's part - they added backward compatibility, allowing a USB-C dongle to supply a USB-A connector, when they should have supplied forward compatibility instead. This left a lot of bundled cables as well as hardware dongles like wireless mouse adapters stuck on USB-A.
I worry that everyone across academia and industry are creating these models as if they’re burning needs without any recognition of what’s happening collectively. It’s not neutral at all, yet everyone involved seems to think they can put in an “ethics” paragraph to absolve themselves. As we’ve seen in the last 20 years with technology (and certainly many technologies in the last 200 years before that), it simply isn’t true.
Gazprom Ready to Ship Gas via Shelved Nord Stream 2 Pipeline
Finally the person has been charged that I can speak plainly about these things - elections in 2012 and 2016 had incredible amounts of fraud at the local level. These elections mean next to nothing politically for the local folks running, however, the state and national level really “appreciate” the ability of single upstarts to “get out the vote” in their party.

No true preferences for government by the governed have been revealed through elections for some time. That is the travesty for the US, and will be its ultimate downfall
For renewables to be renewable you have to make the solar panels and turbines and storage systems from the energy generated by solar panels and turbines - from raw materials to raw materials.

When you do that you find that although you may be able to build the current version of renewables cheaply, that is because we are leveraging very cheap fossil fuel energy from China, and a world full of fossil vehicles, not sustainable vehicles.

Renewables wear out - far faster than initially thought - particularly turbines. When they come to need replacing the costs will be very much higher - as the material and power requirements will be competing at that point with a world that can't use fossil power or fossil locomotion.

Nuclear, on the other hand, can go the other way. Nuclear power in a shipping container (ie the same system we use on submarines) should mean we can bring economies of scale to fission, using little more than steel pipes and a bit of wiring, with the waste transportable in the same way as submarines. After all we've been able to control nuclear plants since the 1950s using relatively simple technology.
I mean, baffles aren't free, since they add empty weight and reduce payload. The designers will be tempted to keep them to a minimum. There definitely will be at least some free surface effect and slosh.
Two good YouTube channels on this topic of the effect of mid-20th c. urban planning

Not Just Bikes https://youtube.com/c/NotJustBikes

CityNerd https://youtube.com/c/CityNerd
> the harm in that case is the embarrassment and you can achieve the same results in 10 minutes with any image editing software

The harm is not the "embarrassment" of seeing someone in the likeness of yourself (or your son, your friend, your partner, etc) doing something shameful. The harm is the fact that people are very likely to believe it is true and it's not a fake obviously edited photo or video.

You can disagree on the seriousness of the harm or risk or danger or whatever but I think the distinction between an obviously silly/embarrassing fake (a puppet, papier mache, badly done photoshop picture) and a realistic convincing deepfake video is pretty obvious. They aren't even in the same ballpark.

> IMO most of the harm from AI is likely to come from people not believing things that are real, and dismissing reality with “that’s just a deepfake”.

This is also a really good point and I agree it's a danger.
That’s not how human nature works. Show a video that fits cognitive bias, and the non-technical non-sophisticated people of the world will believe it. And that’s assuming it’s even technically feasible to solve, which it likely isn’t.
The private suite is about (among others) MCDC ie extremely stringent test coverage constraints at the binary level - what does this have to do with rust vs c?
This comment reminds me of a song by CT Dummies - God Shuffled His Feet
And I assure you that someone who needs an Android app written wouldn’t care about your distinction or are you claiming that a Java developer who never wrote an application for Android would be just as effective as one who had?

Who would you rather lead the development of your Android app? Someone with no experience with Android or someone with previous experience.
Every time someone says cryptocurrencies are 'a bubble' I know they are not paying attention.

Or for some reason think there is going to be a single event that will finally end cryptocurrencies. Or they have an agenda and want them to end.

It's not a single bubble, that stuff happened several times already. They lost more than 50% of their value in a short amount of time, several times already.

It's a boiler. Its periodic bubbles, over and over again. Price fluctuations, slow climbing, then fast climbing, then it goes down, repeats. It has happened already, and it will be happening again and again.

Every time you will be watching, thinking: this time, this is 'the big bubble' and it will burst and cryptocurrencies will be no more. Except they will continue boiling, prices will go up and down, and you will have to wait for the next time.
... but HR are bots.

90% of those on Linkedin at least.
I've seen enough of the same post for it to deserve condescension. A music producer has a "great" idea for a plug-in but won't pay for it. Just exposure.

It's telling when a poster doesn't know that VST plug-ins don't run in one of the programs listed. These folks have no idea of the cost or time investment needed to make a product.
What’s wrong with us: Pork barrel politics, corruption, money being considered speech, etc.

This is why campaign finance reform is probably my top issue as a voter. It’s just disappointing to have the two main political parties dominate to such an extent that it feels like there’s no reasonable choices WRT voting.
Every time I hear about trigraphs I think of this horror:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/53315710/ddg#53315821
The people who endorsed the repeal also successfully fought back attempts to regulate the OTC derivatives market, which arguably lead to the Great Recession.

See https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brooksley_Born#Born_and_the_...
> robocallers end up filling my voicemail within hours of clearing it out.

This does not match my experience at all. For me, I get a robo call to voicemail maybe once every 2-3 weeks.

This is compared to the maybe 3-5 per day I receive (but don’t make it to me, since I have non-contacts silenced).
> in the current century fonts handle that

Except that they can’t, because (due to the limitations of ASCII), U+0027 had an overloaded meaning, seeing that the character had to cover both opening and closing quotes (as well as being used as a prime tick). Which is why pretty much every font I’ve seen has a straight glyph at U+0027, whereas the glyph at U+2019 is the one you’d usually want for an apostrophe. You can also observe that word processors follow the Unicode standard in this regard. E.g., after typing “they're” into Libre Office, once you copy-paste it, you’ll see that the ASCII single quote has turned into U+2019.
True, wonkiness level is high. Still impressive compared to not having this emerging tech a year ago. It will get better of course.

But wate of computer power? No, not at all. You are missing the novel creative aspect of this. This level of wonkiness is absolutely perfect for music video producers, and I am betting it will not take long before we see videos in this “style”. Some time ago there was a short trend of data moshing videos. They were certainly trippy and stood out, albeit short lived.
Digital artefacts as a way of creative expression can work great, and will too in this case.
> You realize all of the BigTech companies use the same “boring languages” don’t you?

What kind of argument is that? Of course they do, you can’t get away from using JS for front, for example.

But they also use Ocaml, Haskell, Scala.
100% agree, the idea of an internal Heroku was a great one, it just didn't seem to work with how Apple was designed organizationally or something and seemed under resourced.
Yes and how popular do you think Kotlin would be without Google’s “blessing”?
I’m not sure how much Erlang he had done before he started the project… it was something in the professional group chat space, but Slack ate the world.

Yeah, there is always a balance to strike and a multitude of factors that might lean the decision this way or that…

And even in something like embedded it seems like there is movement, I have seen some posts about people using Zig or Rust or Nim for embedded programming for example.
A lot of what a cyber force would do falls under DHS
Had the software worked as intended, no one would have noticed.
Maybe not as beginner friendly as you would want but you can read my tutorial about my personnal server

https://github.com/erebe/personal-server
Is it drastically different from conventional aircraft though? The KC-135 houses a great deal of it's own fuel in the wings as well. So does most commercial air liners AFAIK.
Taking a dull job so that it's easier to change to a better paying dull job doesn't seem like a great tradeoff to me. Bullshit definitely happens but again, dealing with a crappy language's bullshit from day 1 so that it's easier for me to switch to another job that will definitely have at least that floor level of bullshit doesn't feel like a great option.

The biggest companies largely use dull languages, sure, although you sometimes find pockets within them that are doing something at least a little nicer (e.g. OCaml at Facebook). So much the worse for the big companies.
Some random advice would be to listen to Mr. Robot's soundtrack found here: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1xDNuLHKQHghKR9SmkR9pD?si=... – since the soundtrack is solely made to get people to understand the "hacker" POV, maybe it'll help you to become a hacker as well.
It's curious how every single fake profile is of a woman. Suggestive of honey trapping, perhaps, but then why so many accounts.