skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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C boring? Never a dull moment with C.

PHP has a whole sub-reddit devoted to the fun that can be had with it https://www.reddit.com/r/lolphp/

Java, I do consider boring. But in a good sense. :)
Out of curiosity, why is shorting better in that situation rather than just selling part of what you're already holding?

I mean, why is being long $100k USDT and short $50k USDT at the same time better than just being long $50k USDT?

I don't have trading experience so this is not very intuitive to me.

Edit: oh, I think I get it. So if you were short $SOMETHING/$USDT then you're effectively long $USDT so if $USDT falls/crashes (i.e. loses its peg) even though $SOMETHING remains equally as valuable (as measured in other currencies), then you could lose a lot of money even though the underlying value of $SOMETHING hasn't really changed. So you could short $USDT/$USD to mitigate $USDT crashing when you're only interested in shorting $SOMETHING. I guess that makes sense?
I work in a hazardous industry. To meet internal and regulatory standards, we really need a certain level of engineering capability.

But the company has been hellbent for several years on diminishing the number of engineers and the influence that engineers have, and we are just on a slow march towards the next major accident. But until somebody dies, nothing will really change.

The salami-slicing reduction in engineering decision-making authority also means that there is no path to escalate issues.

There's a discontentment felt by every engineer in the organisation resulting in cynicism and disengagement, and yet to hear the upper management speak, we are all bursting with excitement at what exciting times we are living in, and relishing the diversity and inclusion.
They effectively said, "The increase went down."

It would have been much clearer for them to say, "The increase has slowed."
No, not exactly, but Android is old and gnarly enough that a lot of components don't have a clear Model/View separation you'd expect in modern codebases.
The problem with java is it needs a correctly installed, configured, and versions JVM installed to run the code. All the other languages will just spit out a exe that will just run if you click it. Java is the least cross platform language in existence.
Their fix included a similarly large refactor, they just used the "security screen type" as a newly introduced parameter instead of something unique to the screen instance.

I do agree that in the real world, sometimes you have to settle for a less-than-ideal solution. I hope my post reads less like "those people are idiots", which was not my intent, but more like: this specific fix isn't ideal, and knowing this type of code is live in a device doesn't fill me with confidence, even if I can understand reasons for why it was done that way.
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> The problem will manifest itself as declining staffing, not a sudden depopulation of the hospital, and it will not go unaddressed.

Note that "declining staffing" is exactly the complaint here, and evidently it has gone unaddressed.
My heat pump comes with an app for energy monitoring and remote control and stores 2 years of energy usage. Too bad it doesn't have an API to integrate with other stuff.
> unifying around one language is far more beneficial to productivity than e.g. the small speed benefit you’ll get from using Rust

Is it? I've found that using multiple languages has a negligible effect on productivity (especially if they're being used for separate projects and there's no need for FFI), but that using a poor one has a big effect.
I fee like you're moving the goal post by saying that the well defined metric is not representative of your vision of inflation. unfortunately every person has a different vision and exposture to inflation: folks that rent are going to be affected by rent inflation while home owners won't -- how do you resolve that? well you slice and dice it and dig in. If you think the way you're looking at it has more value than the more general cpi number, then you can engage in arbitrage and make money by taking concrete action in the market (long food commodities/grocery stores short REITs or something.)

Perhaps your angle is more in the vein of Goodhart's law, in which case I'm not sure what kind of market moves one would make with that information.
The AirBnB'ing of interior decorating has spilled over into the general housing market, driven too, by too many HGTV shows. It's gotten to the point where if I see a gray floor or countertop, it just screams that this place has no character or charm, that the owners or flippers have no imagination and that I am not the target audience. Shame, because a lot of places have a nice character that just needs to be fixed up. But fixing up takes a custom solution; time, rather than money. Just so much easier to rip out the old and overprint with the factory crap that's in vogue.

Not that other time periods didn't have their fads and fashions, of course. But those fads and fashions are now kind of charming, where they've survived. Will the 2010s and 2020s interior decor induce nostalgia 50 years from now? Who knows.
Actually, it went to ~0.95 (and apparently went 0.93 on a single exchange). 0.99 is not really significant (and is usually not pointed out anyways).

Correct me if my data is incorrect, but checking on historical data it seems that (except for its early days) Tether didn't went above 1.02, so that's maybe the reason that all of reports were dips?
Thing is, most phone manufacturers will customize the lockscreen quite a bit, so it's possible (but not necessary!) it affects others.
Bear in mind; we're all on HN looking for high-quality content from strangers, rather than from our own personal network(s).

The trend across all social media is to feed us with more 'high-ranking' content from 'strangers' because it's typically what we want to see more of, based on the analytics. Twitter, Instagram, Facebook — all of them are pivoting to feed us more content from people outside of our personal networks as fast as possible.
Anyone who's ever had to numerically estimate second and higher derivatives from noisy data can appreciate how difficult the Fed's job is.
Java has its technical issues, but for a startup its biggest liability is that its vibe is the polar opposite of how startups want to see themselves and be seen by others. It's reliable, stodgy, boring, conventional. How are you going to convince people that your project is "disruptive" if you aren't willing to embrace a younger, edgier tech stack?
Considering I've had drinks crushed, and when the person in front fully reclines it is impossible to get out it is a fine line.

You might have the ability but it does impact other people. Be aware of this and it could be fine, a lot of the pro-reclining comments were definitely indifferent how their actions impacted others.
I don't get how it's safe for a pickup to have a hood at my eye level
They've also perfected the "it's only $x a month!" sales technique - combine this with anyone who dares to try to use an older Android phone just absolutely being shit on (you need to be pretty technically savvy to pick one that can stay up to date) and most people will lean into "get the new one".
Luck I guess. I originally stopped using it when I got an Amex card because of sync issues. Tried it again recently and it was still the same.

Maybe I was spoiled with near instant syncing on my debit card, I used to categorize the gas i just paid for before leaving the lot.

But again, at 15 a month, that’s a lot of effort for a gui on top of a spreadsheet.

The benefit for me was quick transaction logging and categorizing, then a weekly/monthly check up. But with sync issues, those check ups became categorizing sessions, and just took too much time.
Hahaha I can just imagine finally getting in front of the Google security team in the office, then realize that you don't have a sim ejector. You try a few things like a mechanical pencil, dental pick, jumbo paperclip, etc. that don't quite work. Then asking around, no one has one but someone fortunately has a sewing kit.

Meanwhile, the Google engineers, who were skeptical to begin with, show some signs of impatience, which you become acutely aware of, and get even more nervous. While you're shaking and pressing too hard, you ultimately stab through your hand and now there is blood everywhere. You try to hide it at first and play it off but blood is getting all over everything and a few drops hit the floor. You try with the needle some more but the blood is too slippery and you accidentally wipe some across your forehead to top it off.

It's been 25 minutes at this point and 2 of them decide it's not worth their time any more and leave, which you also notice, and begin to realize your chance is slipping away and you're spiraling internally.

Eventually, someone produces a bandaid, but your hands are shaking too much and they have to pitifully put it on for you. While contemplating if you are actually a grownup or just a large child, you realize you started sweating a lot and you forgot to put on deodorant because you're traveling and left it at home. You smell your own awful fear creeping up through the neck of your hoodie, hoping that the guy who is fixing you up doesn't notice.

Crazy intrusive thoughts start to cross your mind as you pick up the needle again, but a woman snaps you out of it with "would this work?" holding up an earring. You kick yourself for not thinking of it earlier when you actually noticed her earrings during earlier chit chat. "I'll try not to get blood on it," you chuckle, but no one really laughs beyond a murmur.

In seconds, you pop the sim out and swap it, quickly demo the vulnerability speaking faster than Eminem spitting Rap God. Everyone is quiet for an eternity (1.5) seconds as pressure builds, until the engineer who handed you the earring says "holy shit" and runs off without her earring. Those in the small crowd turn to each other to discuss, taking the pressure off you as you go totally cold from the sweat that you now realize has trickled all the way down your leg.

The rest of the day you are high as ever, like the feeling of headiness after eating an extremely spicy order of hot wings or curry.
>The company said it wouldn’t raise the prices of its other tiers like Disney+ will do when it launches its ad plan next month. Netflix rolled out Basic with Ads a month before Disney+ launches its ad-supported plan, which will cost $1 more than Netflix’s plan.

For now...
Jason Calcanis (the real one, far as I can tell) said:

I actually DON’T want to be Legacy Blue… that’s like being in the boring VIP area of the club — I want to be on the dance floor in GenPop!

Comparing the new twitter to prison feels prescient.
Reminds me of Clayton Christensen's jobs-to-be-done talk.
I love Vonnegut and need to read more of him.

I have a funny little side project languishing right now - it's a collection of the 5 short stories he wrote about a character named George Helmholtz, who is a high school band teacher. The character reminds me of my dad, who might be the best man on the planet. He was a teacher and dealt with his students in much the same way as Helmholtz - with humor, love, and empathy.

Vonnegut had this rare ability to be funny without being mean and cynical (he was cynical at times, but not mean). His work is so essentially human.

I couldn't find a good link, but if you'd like to get a sense of Mr. Helmholtz, my favorite story is probably "A Song For Selma," which was collected in "Look at the Birdie". It is both hilarious and beautiful in a way that very few authors can pull off.
There are a bunch of ways to short bitcoin - futures exchanges, canadian ETFs, shorting Grayscale as a proxy.

This is probably not a good time though. See https://www.blockchaincenter.net/en/bitcoin-rainbow-chart/

Ironically I was short Celcius Networks token (CEL) on ftx which was working well apart from one recent unexpected flaw in my scheme.
For the mathematically inclined, here is a graph of 1/p over the past year:

https://totalrealreturns.com/s/USDOLLAR?start=2021-11-10&end...

or over a longer time period: https://totalrealreturns.com/s/USDOLLAR

(this site is my side project)

If "p" is the relative price level index (CPI-U in this case), then "1/p" represents the relative purchasing power of a single dollar over time -- explained on homepage in more detail.
I guess I should clarify, "cool" would at least be:

1. Something besides strictly processing payments, and

2. something that is not better served by existing technology, and

3. something that is meaningfully decentralized.

I think the ENS is the 'coolest' of that list, and hits all three of these points.

But I think we can agree ENS is not a convincing example that cryptocurrencies aren't a scam. Auctioning off strings (which may be later sold or rented) is similar to DNS. Except, we know some domains which point to fun sites (like wikipedia.org or tvtropes.org).

A 'cool' example would be some 'cool' Etherem .eth domain. (But not wikipedia.eth, which appears to be hoarded by someone hoarding .eth domains, and not tvtropes.eth, which is actively being auctioned off for $1300 by someone else hoarding .eth domains.)
The main objective of the big Mac index is not to measure inflation, it's to measure purchase parity power by using the price of something that is available in almost every country and has a very standard quality.
I make writing mistakes constantly with a pen. My brain is multiple letters ahead and whether I'm writing in cursive or in plain old print I will be ahead of myself and be sometimes writing the wrong letter in the wrong order.

And it's not like I manually handwrite things rarely. That's my go-to thing when I need to sketch out an idea because on the computer you are constrained in ways that you just aren't with your hands. I can write anything the way I want with analog accuracy as opposed to type and write anything the way I want on a computer with digital accuracy which is more precise. Sometimes you don't want precision in a digital sense when you want things to have that analog messiness.

English is my native language and I've always been like this and I'm 34 years old.
This is dead-wrong.

Java has excellent package management and there is a giant ecosystem and excellent libraries for almost everything you can think of.
Prices are still increasing, and they are still increasing fast. It's just that recently, they increased even faster than now.
> As difficult as .NET has been

Can you elaborate on the difficulty of .NET? (Purely curious!)
On Linux this is adressed by systemd-homed, which encrypts at least your home partition in sleep mode. Attackers could still try to manipulate the rootfs & hope the user doesn't detect it before using the device again.
This post actually doesn't resonate with me at all (and I've always respected Ben). I feel like I'm constantly solving a multitude of problems and actively look for opportunities where I can introduce new tech that hits on multiple disparate streams at once (I have neither the bandwidth as an org or the personal time to operate in a different manner), typically coupled with other new tech; even that is orthogonal to running dozens of work streams concurrently, which isn't exactly outside the gist of the article. Even getting a sufficiently complex product/program off the ground necessitates solving countless problems at once, otherwise the architecture has no chance of supporting growth. Perhaps I'm at the stage where advice like this doesn't apply, but looking back over my career, I can't really identify a point at which it did.

To change my phrasing -- If someone manages a large team, let's assume that they are responsible for all that the team does and can be viewed as a single entity, synonymous with a single engineer working at high bandwidth. That entity is absolutely not solving singular problems at once. Individual engineers within that team are not working in isolation from one another and they all have interconnect impact unless their delivery is absolutely rote. In order to move at a speed necessary for on-time results on complex problems, the advice proposed in the article must be violated.
Some good points. But, keep in mind, this was in an environment with incredibly low inflation. To the point many econonomists thought the inflation problem had been permanently solved. Of course, they did not factor in future reckless spending and QE policies of future congresses.
FP is nice, but logic programming also has its niceties.

(define (zipo a b z)
(conde ((nullo a) (nullo z))
((nullo b) (pairo a) (nullo z))
((fresh (ahead atail bhead btail ztail)
(conso ahead atail a)
(conso bhead btail b)
(conso (list ahead bhead) ztail z)
(zipo atail btail ztail)))))

(run* (q) (zipo '(1 2 3) '(a b c) q))
=> (((1 a) (2 b) (3 c)))
(run* (q) (zipo '(1 2 3) q '((1 a) (2 b) (3 c)))
=> ((a b c . _.0))
I think it follows from supply/demand that capitalism applies. If the nurses cut supply then demand goes up and eventually the consumer (government) has to pay more, unless they (government) introduce artificial (socialist regulatory authority) to make the strike illegal.
> Zuck has no vision for the company

Exactly this.
This made me smile!

And also

$ rclone help flags . | grep "^ *--" | wc -l
665

(yes rclone has a command to grep its flags `rclone help flags <regex>`!)
Raspberry Pi Shortages Could Last Another Year
Twitter CISO Quits
Not really.

It means CPI_oct22 - CPI_oct21 < CPI_sep22 - CPI_sep21

d^2p/dt^2 isn't necessarily negative.
Year-over-year inflation doesn't tell us anything about whether prices are going up or down right now.
If you have FAANG level comp, you can structure your life so you are not afraid of layoffs.
I don't even have that level of comp but all the same I was a little disappointed I didn't get laid off from my last job because a severance package would've been nice.
Ye: Kanye West (recently famous for his antisemitism on twitter posts and interviews with the media)

yepost: presumably posting antisemitic comments
That's not what this is at all. It's .2% under expectations. Not a .2% drop. But inflation is steadying which is good.
You can do some weird stuff to GC in C#. I haven't looked at it in several years, but I'm pretty sure there's a way to suspend GC at runtime. There's definitely a mechanism to force immediate GC, and functions to exempt an object from GC.

C# is a lot more flexible than people give it credit for, I've seen some absolutely amazing things built this way. Of course, manipulating C# in unexpected ways is an absolute nightmare, but with enough determination you can do about anything
That sounds like a budget.
One of the commenters on the blog post stated that the bypass did not work on their Samsung device.
When I was a Java dev I never had a problem with package management (except everyone bundling Log4J with different version dependencies).

When I've used Scala, package management was hell. When I've used Node, there were a million warnings about the dependencies of my dependencies whenever I installed something. Upgrading often broke things contrary to Java. Plus many dependencies went dead over night. When I've used JS libraries in TS, many integrations/adaptors where half baked and underdocumented.

I'd say the best dependency management I've used is from Rust, but Java was no problem, even with Maven.

The ecosystem might have changed since I've left, but there were many well maintained libraries and frameworks for Java, Apache, Spring and many more. What Java lacked were some higher level frameworks back than, E.g. ready to use payment frameworks (you had to use lower level frameworks like E.g. what Stripe supplied as a library).
Not really. My sister trained as a midwife and there are extremely few cases where an MD could have possibly done a better job than people who spent their entire careers studying pregnancy and birth.

She spent a lot of that time working with poor Amish communities, not the well-off people you probably imagine hire midwives in the US.
Do you eat the same meals each week? I prefer shopping in person, because it helps me fill in the days on our bi-weekly meal plan that I just couldn't come up with anything interesting to eat for supper.
Alternate title: "Elon Musk bans Twitter employees from not-working remotely "
I think what really gets me about this is how differently Google treats its own security issues than the ones it finds in Project Zero. They have absolutely no problem enforcing deadlines around disclosures for the vendors they find vulnerabilities for, but when it comes to their own systems they seem to have no sense of urgency while also expecting security researchers to sit on their bugs for a much longer period of time than Project Zero does.

For context Project Zero used to have a strict 90 day disclosure policy, but updated it to "90+30" a year or so ago to give people more time to patch. Google took at least five months to resolve this issue, and it's possible they took longer than that because we don't know when the first report was actually made.
I would do it at 256
I keep the background of what the camera can see "sanitized" so to speak. I don't go for full on Hollywood "Programmers desk" but I make sure a prospective employer or client doesn't get any strange ideals about my personality or any of the "Taboos"(IE, politics(if your dealing with an American that includes firearms), religious views, relationship status, medical, etc) that you really shouldn't talk about at work much less bring up during a first meeting.
I only do this because some people have a hard time separating work and personal life and project that problem onto others.
Flagged, fake news. This tweet is the twitter user @tier10k making fun of the guy on TV for falling for the fake news. The first tweet is a screenshot of an account impersonating @tier10k
That works for you because nothing or anything would work for you. I am in the same boat, a budget would serve no purpose for me other than encouraging me to spend more.

For the people who need a budget, they would just run out of money completely before their next paycheck and either get kicked out of their apartment, or dip into their savings.
Many Americans are illiterate on numbers and the economy too. I still remember the classic example that a burger chain released a 1/3 pound burger to compete with another chain's 1/4 pound burger, and many people thought the 1/4 pound was bigger...

Edit: there are some people saying it's a myth, or not a complete picture. Looks like we don't have the data. But my point is that we aren't very good with numbers or economics.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/fractions-where-i...

https://www.stlouisfed.org/on-the-economy/2018/september/how...
Don't worry, and anyway I don't think you can.
Anyone notice that brand name soda (looking at you Coke) has increased almost 100% while the generic/house brand has had slight increases. I feel like Coke is testing the pricing limits of its customers especially with the smaller packaging and these prices will not come back down.
No, the issue with IRC is that it's dead as hell most the time despite like 200 people idling in the room.
1. Because they confuse Java with the standard hibernate/springboot backends that are used everywhere in the industry. Hibernate/springboot is the reason why there are so many monoliths out there that are almost impossible to refactor.

It's not Javas fault, it's Springs fault.

2. They believe Java is slow, but fail to realize that the JVM has actually one of the most optimized runtimes under the sun and can be fast than (unoptimized) C in many cases.

Long story short: Because they have no clue about Java and follow advice without researching it first.
That's a good example and they aren't overrun with spam.
I agree, I feel absolutely blessed if I can identify new tasking that can be done truly incrementally without relying on highly orchestrated changes. Most of the time, my value comes from identifying how to organize multiple work streams that come together at once to solve complex problems against tight deadlines.