skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> One thing that younger Canadians and foreigners don't seem to grasp is that Canada's economy is basically a handful of abusive corporations pretending to be a country.

I think that's a gross oversimplification. There certainly is a tiny fraction of the population that holds the vast majority of Canada's wealth, but you could say the same of the US or really a lot of other countries, and it's not like all those companies have existed since confederation, so I don't think that's really a reasonable way to define Canada's economy. The Canadian GDP is $1.6 trillion USD, and those companies certainly have a hand in a lot of it, but you'd have to make a pretty long list of companies to even get to $1 trillion...

> But that said, there's also that raising Canadian capital is historically a fool's errand. Raising loonies is so hard it's basically pointless, it's almost always better for entrepreneurs to register as American corporations, pretend to be American, and raise American money.
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> Because, at the end of the day, every party in Canada is beholden to their campaign financiers. Every party. And no money wants to flow outside of the proven channels.

It's more a function of Canadian banking and money management, at least historically, being far more conservative the the US's wild west. There's a reason Canada largely avoided the financial crisis of 2008, and it's not because Canadians are smarter than everyone else.

That said, it's fair to say there have been a number of Canadian tech startups that have done quite well for themselves, not to mention non-tech companies that have managed to be quite successful on the world stage. Maybe not at the same level as the US, but then, few countries can really measure up to that standard (and the consequences that come with it).

While I would say Canada's political parties are beholden to their campaign financiers, that hasn't exactly produced what I'd call "stability" in the political arena... and there's a fair bit of independence between the political arena and the economy (despite how inconvenient that is for some narratives). I wouldn't agree that money can't flow outside of proven channels for that reason. It's more that you have to make a much more solid case to get any significant funding from Canadian sources.
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All good until its not. Ask Zillow about betting on Real Estate algorithms, regardless of anti-competitive behavior.
Perhaps to you. You can confess your crimes here if you like. Where I live, in the United States, there is no requirement to conduct KYC to create a wallet that holds stablecoins and thus creating such a self-custody 'account' is not evidence of crime.
> The devs seemed very friendly and responsive, but are typical exclusionary Leftists that are not welcoming to people with different beliefs

What are the beliefs being excluded?
I use imgur most of the time, it's super simple and hasn't failed me yet
In the EU, bank accounts are considered a right. That's one solution to it.
My kids at least understand that "a dollar" can be exchanged for "good or services" and that if they want more they have to find another dollar. They haven't quite grasped that a coin isn't as good as a dollar, or that a 1 and a 10 are different.

A payment card would seem to either be magic (it always works!) or confusingly not consumed in its use but still not work again later (gift card).
Another term you might be looking for is "source available", meaning you can read the source code but not modify or distribute it without a license.
Krebs via a secure mechanism.
> Does cashless society discriminate against the poor and elderly?

Of course it does. But so did society that started adopting the telephone, or automobiles, for people who didn't have money to buy telephones or cars, or didn't want to get on board the technological change. And what doesn't discriminate against poor people, by the way? The poor are always getting the short end of the stick. You come up with ways to help them, but railing against a new technology because it disadvantages some has never worked.

I'm not saying I'm in favor of cashless, but whatever the technology is, life adopts it and moves on. People have to deal. Or they die and get replaced with people who do. You will never get 100.000% of the people on something that takes away what you used to rely on.
All great US-centric points!
If you're living in Venezuela, Turkey, Argentina, Russia, Poland or other country with anywhere from 15 to 167% inflation, you might just be happy to have access to USD via easy to get stablecoins.
Depends on the person I guess? Or maybe how much time they spend walking. I used to use headphones almost exclusively while walking, and generally only used stereo speakers at home. I don’t listen to anything while walking these days because I’m generally paying full attention to my pup, music would be an unwanted distraction. But I do see lots of other people wearing headphones while we’re out walking. And I don’t have that stereo anymore, I generally only use my MBP’s built in speakers at home now. I really don’t like wearing headphones at all though.
Very on topic. Here in Sweden cashless payments using smartphones have largely replaced cash for person-to-person transactions.

The proprietary payment app in turn relies on a proprietary app for electronic ID which authorises bank transactions. And those demand a relatively recent version of iOS or Android and that the phone is not rooted.
The e-ID is only available to citizens and residents, which means that people such as foreign students or guest workers can't get one.
(And then the privacy and security issues of the e-ID system is a can of worms...)
Participation in a company is not entirely at will. We all have to work for some company to survive. If all companies that I have access to are all authoritarian dictatorships, I'm forced to live under that kind of rule.

Your thinking doesn't seem to take into account the social and economic power dynamics at play. The working class has less bargaining power than the capitalist class right now in general. We are forced to live under their terms and have very little say in what the status quo is.
It's funny how we spend SO much time dealing with K8s related nuances and limitations. In practice, I'm not so sure anymore even for a large enterprise that K8s actually simplifies things in any way or adds more robustness.
Second paragraph, visible despite paywall: $101 million
Yeah. These messaging services essentially place doctors on call at zero extra compensation.
Usually I hear bad things about Jagex, I’m surprised they have a system in OSR where they don’t make changes without user approval
Front-end is where a lot of the cool kids are at today IMHO. It's a side of the stack where juniors can bring little to no value, compared to other specialization fields, but also the where I've seen GOOD devs pull real magic out of code.
Also, a lot of patterns, algorithms, techniques and paradigms are revolving around modern front-end, while in the past "algo people" would live in the darkness of the backend, leaving FE stuff to juniors and casuals.
I myself have followed a -unusual- career path which reflects my realizations on this subject: backend->fullstack->lead/architect->gamedev->frontend. Of course I'll get questioned from time to time, especially during job interviews, because sometimes that would look like the career path of somebody who's failed at upskilling himself in broader roles such lead/architect, but actually, if you interview for the right place, and prove that you're picking front-end out of respect and passion for the craft, and also show that you're perfectly aware and in control of whatever's happening in each and every part of the stack, then I've experienced it's a good signal and sets the foundation for a successful professional outlet.
Kotlin does have exceptions[1]

[1] https://kotlinlang.org/docs/exceptions.html#java-interoperab...
I think the answer is hidden in the last paragraph. It was created by Google engineers to solve Google scale problems where they run maybe hunderds of thousands of services with a dedicated SRE team and massive tooling. For a small company, give me a way to run one container in an autoscable way and we can go from there.
This drives me absolutely bonkers. We had a situation in a machine learning context where we should have been treating the output of a detector as NaN (it was deliberately opting out), but instead it was falling back to zero.

Last I checked (this was years ago) the way to deal with this is to wrap it in a sub-message (which are actually nullable), which is just kinda gross.
Having worked in IT supporing doctors, nurses, scientists, and academics for the last 23 years, in all honesty, it doesn't matter what they would have chosen it would have resulting in a percentage of them complaining. Doctors like change that they control and understand, such as research leading to new treatments and improved patient outcomes. They do NOT like having their workflows challenged, though. They have very specific prescriptive actions that they live by, and again, they only like changing those when it benefits them in some tangible way. EHRs benefit their -institutions- in tangible ways, not them. EHRs benefit billing, administrative, regulatory departments more than they benefit providers... in the eyes of the providers.

I work at an institution made up of components institutions, many of which use their own independent EHR systems. What doctors LIKE are the ones they get used to in their residency, fellowships, and first years in practice. Older doctors coming from paper straight to ANY EHR will struggle without extensive assistance from their support staff. Nurses rarely get support staff, and usually ARE the support staff to a provider in addition to their nursing duties. The overall feeling I get, though, is that most of them that have used Epic like it. Cerner as well. Some others in the institution like Meditech, less so (due to largely archaic interfaces dressed up with some more current UI). But Epic and Cerner are the big players in the game. There are many, many others, and in the end what ends up mattering is the support staff for the EHR both local and vendor. One we use has gone to a lot of off-shore tier 2 and tier 3 support staff lately, and it truly is a struggle in unforeseeable ways (such as terrible telecom infrastructure making it often impossible to communicate with vendor support staff). They are all focused on new customers and growth and then maintaining the customers, and it certainly makes you feel like an afterthought as a standing customer.
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I agree with you. It feels like we are certainly headed to a cyberpunk future for sure
> Ai music already exists but people still support mainly real artists on streaming platforms and go to concerts, because provenance matters for artists

I don't think that's what's going on. The top pop singers are generally already singing things written by other people against accompaniment written by other people. I think by far the biggest reason few people are listening to AI music is it's just not as good as human music yet?
Only one death related to radiation. All the 2,000 deaths mentioned are "disaster-related deaths" (evacuation, stress, etc.). source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fukushima_Daiichi_nuclear_disa...
Gzip streams support dictionary resets which means you can concatenate individually commuters blocks together to make a while stream.

This is what pigz is doing: shooting the input into blocks, spreading the compression of these blocks over different threads so multiple cores can be used, then joining the results together in the right order.

It is the very same property of the format that gzip's own --rsyncable option makes use of to stop small changes forcing a full file send when rsync (or similar) is used to transfer updated files.

The idea is as simple as it is clever, one of those "why did I not think about that?" ideas that are obvious once someone else has thought of it, so adds little or no extra risk. A vulnerability that uses gzip (a "compression bomb") or can cause a gzip tool to errantly run arbitrary code, is no more likely to affect pigz than it is the standard gzip builds.
So what's the final cost of fly.io + proxy VM + postgres? That was the reason this whole thing started.
Just to add another data point, I really like it! I'm an enormous fan of the Social Network's soundtrack and I feel you really captured the feel and sound that some of its pieces give (obviously particularly the main theme).

Would love to add it to some of my Spotify playlists if you're on there (but I very much understand if you're only on Soundcloud).
A good reactor design would account for the human factor, and perhaps this is the truly difficult problem with practical nuclear power.
There's a difference between cashless and technology/smartphone only.

You can have a cashless society that still uses checks, debit cards, credit cards, money orders, cashiers checks, wire transfers etc. All these can be managed or used by visiting a local branch or with a phone call.

Plenty of people still pay their rent with checks and I've never been at a sit down restaurant in the US where I could pay with Apple/Google Pay but I can of course use my CC/Debit Card.

All of the methods listed above work without power as one commenter suggested would be an issue. Its really not...

Overdraft fees are egregious but they're also something you can opt out of and is just another form of credit.

All you need to participate to this degree is a bank account that offers a debit card which is accessible and possible to the vast majority of the population including the elderly - they're not hoarding all their cash under their mattress. In the US to open an account at any major bank is an ID and maybe an initial deposit whether that be a cash/check/incoming transfer etc.

It has never been easier to go to a library/school/friend's place and sign up for a free bank account that will ship you a debit card that will also reimburse you for ATM withdrawal fees.

The group that should really be the focus is the underbanked - often those less fortunate.

Including seniors in this category of 'discrimination' feels odd - I know of some who have no problem paying their bills, shopping, living life etc without a smart phone or computer.

Society can't be beholden to the past forever - progress is made and individuals have to choose to participate if they want to use new things that are accessible only through certain tools.

This isn't any different from when we moved from the telegraph to the telephone - you had to go and buy a landline to participate. The same is true of getting a passport to fly/sail to different countries as countries also further add requirements for updated passports and IDs (a la Real ID requirements in the US).
Or Japonic? Most of kanji transliterations on the Internet are Japanese based, but since Japanese is an isolate language of unknown origin[1], they might sound weird in the bulk of East Asia where Chinese languages are predominantly spoken or otherwise not insignificant.

1: Technically not; languages in rural Japanese islands are no longer considered dialects, and as such the language is not the sole member of its family. The origin is still unknown.
From what you've told so far, I think he should just simply look for another job. If it says DevOps, SAFe, Agile or something like that in the title or job description, then chances are the company has unfortunately been swindled by these snake oil salesmen and it will be hard to find time for good engineering.

There can't really be a shortage for more support engineers if he likes that, but if he wants to do more core engineering then of course go for that. Most of the big enterprises should have room for him in many different departments and he might be comfortable and safe.

As for concrete advice: Just go looking for jobs and weigh pros and cons. You can do it on his behalf and bring a few to him for discussion.

Don't be pushy if he's not into the idea and just feels like complaining a bit. Sometimes all a person needs is a bit of acknowledgement and not a solution.
I sometimes have removed my ID or credit card from my wallet while going through TSA and I just kept it in my fingers (visible to them) while getting Terahertz scanned or going through metal detectors, so it never left my person. Protecting against the small risk of it being stolen during the process of X-raying my belongings and recovering them.
The way blockchain works is that you generate a problem based on the contents of the block. If the proof you find is in no way related to a block it cannot be a cryptocurrency.

You could make a system to reward people for finding proofs, but it would be more of a Bounty system or a Leaderboard than a cryptocurrency. Indeed people do put up prizes for those kind of things today.
Does SourceHut still have an aversion to Kubernetes and Docker? Last year I was trying to setup SourceHut on my home infra (which is Docker/SystemD based, but was Kubernetes based) and I was told I'd be banned if I asked about it, and that they don't support that kind of software. Super weird interaction from someone I otherwise used to admire.
They may also not be cashable after some length of time like 90 days.
Everything you said is correct, just wanna add that with inflation at around 8% you'll still be losing purchasing power with said money market funds.
they should really print out or email you a QR code so you can simply repeat your order by re-scanning it on next visit. this would save hours of time re-spent in their laggy UI; okay, i'll do it once, why should i do it twice?

AND they should provide a way to just type in what you want to quickly filter it from a global list of items via fuzzy match.

i'm not even suggesting to incorporate NLP and speech recognition. we have self driving cars, reusable rockets, DALL-E, and GPT-3 in 2022 and still have to waste time manually entering a fast food order?

i know, it's rocket science.
It definitely discriminates against the Salvation Army, Buskers, and Panhandlers.
I love your experiment, I concede instantly, and provisionally agree about Steven Wright[1]. Thank you for calling me out.

[1] Provisionally b/c maybe someone will bust in like you did and disprove you… I’m gunshy now
Yeah it’s good for that. The Ghosts albums and Quake soundtrack are more works in that style from them.
Only a junior developer deals in absolutes. Web workers are sometimes the answer, and if you can work within their constraints, will free up your main thread and speed up your SPA or rendering.
Yeah, my kids understand physical money and use it to buy ice cream from the ice cream man (the primary use of physical money for allowance).
All businesses are fundamentally "just" ideas that have been executed.

You are proving my point exactly. You set up some arbitrary rules that you want reality to comply too and then you make all sorts of claims from that.

And some of these I mention ARE already businesses some of them.

This is exactly what I knew would happen. "If this is reality I deny reality" is basically what you are saying.
Uber/Lyft are so much more reliable than a standard taxi. Before the ridesharing apps, I'd had several experiences of trying to call a taxi company to come pick me up (this is in San Francisco). It never arrived after repeated calls to the dispatcher, saying "it's on the way." If they're overbooked, they simply ignore the requests and you have no remedy other than to call another taxi company, which is likely similarly impacted.
Yeah, newer ones can be too smart for your own good (but not theirs) - older ones had no problem with you slamming it into reverse or park at freeway speeds - ask me how I know!
Indoor solar powered devices have existed for decades (like calculators). The article even explicitly states that these can be charged from indoor light.
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Coming to a barnes and nobles near you
Show HN: checkline: check each line you want from stdin to stdout (CLI/TUI/Rust)
I certainly agree that 2 should be "many".
The cost to dismantle a nuclear power plant is the same as for coal/gaz power plants. ~10% of the initial price. https://world-nuclear.org/information-library/nuclear-fuel-c...
I think there's either a mistake or a very very large omission here. It starts here:

>This is looking better! We have an amazing function, is_statement_true, that can tell us whether anything is true or false, given enough time!

>Read it through, and try to prove to yourself that is_collatz_true really does eventually return the truth of the Collatz conjecture.

Namely, I think the author confuses Lean theorems and metatheory theorems, where when I say metatheory, I mean the language and the system we use to talk about lean, about Godel's incompleteness theorem, and everything else - basically, the English-math language in which the chapter is written. Hence, it's wrong to say that is_statement_true can tell us whether any statement is true - it can merely tell us which of the two options it is: the statement is a theorem of Lean or its negation is a theorem of Lean. Same for is_collatz_true - sure, it must tell us what Lean thinks about the Collatz conjecture but doesn't tell us anything about the truth or falsity of the Collatz conjecture.

And finally, in the very end of Chapter 2, this problem arises as well. The chapter says that if Lean is sound and complete, then we can define a function which, for any Turing machine, returns one of two options: Lean thinks it halts, or Lean thinks it doesn't halt. But we haven't proved that what Lean thinks about that had anything to do with whether it actually halts or not.
“People want so producers responds” is a nice but candide eco theory, 2022 looks more like “producers pay for marketing that makes people want” oh and by the way,
who’s really paying for the marketing at the end ?
Has ddevault ever commented on how much build minutes will cost out of alpha? From their pricing page it seems like a fixed monthly cost for unlimited minutes, which doesn't seem sustainable to me.
This reminds me of the Jedi Mind trick of Uber of waving a smartphone to argue that labor & other laws all of a sudden don't apply to them, to the detriment of the public that'll now shoulder the costs.
OK, but efficiency at converting light into electricity doesn't mean much if the total amount of light available for conversion is very low -- which it is in almost all indoor situations.

The illumination level in a brightly-lit office is typically on the order of 300 lux, compared to 100,000 lux for direct sunlight. (Residential spaces are often even dimmer.) So if, as they claim, this device can gain 1 hour of charge in 20 minutes in direct sunlight, it would take on the order of 100 hours to collect the same amount of energy indoors.

The statement that "the panels can also create some power from artificial light" is technically true, but "some" is doing a lot of heavy lifting in that sentence.
Thanks. I was looking forward to watching that. The comments thread was mostly positive.

It’s gone now. Memory holed.
Benioff staged a fake "end of software" protest against Siebel as a marketing ploy, successfully attracting news coverage. https://entrepreneurshandbook.co/the-staged-protest-that-kic...
New York seems neat, but I sure as hell wouldn't want to live there. Pretty happy here in Vancouver. The rent and housing costs are absurd, but they'd be worse in New York. I like parts of the states quite a bit, but I don't think I'd like to live there, at least not long-term. Not my vibe.

People say the difference is much greater than $50k, but I think it's often overblown. You have the top few companies with crazy stock compensations on top of higher base salaries, but I'm not getting into those companies anyway. Some places can compete with that, but not as many as simply moving to the states, especially with no degree, and just automatically making so much more. It would be ladder climbing, and I don't care enough about hocking more bs products at people that I'd put so much of myself into that.