skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nirvana or perfect solution fallacy are at least related. Basically they’re saying they won’t take part because there isn’t a “perfect candidate” when that’s not a likely option in particular because you can use that excuse with any pairing.
Contracts are in actuality tend to be based on trust. The contract probably said the payment was due when tracks were approved. If iD drags their feet on approving the tracks, then Mick is in trouble.

If the contract were instead structured payment on delivery, then iD is in trouble if Mick delivers substandard work.

Even if Marty's side of the story were 100% true (which seems doubtful), throwing a hissy-fit on Reddit basically stating "I hired a terrible person to do the music so don't blame me" is a bad look.
How Twitter's Birdwatch fact-checking project works
Binance FTX deal is off unless FTX.US is part of the package
No that wouldn't be legal. Distinct objects can't partially overlap, unless one is a subject of the other.
To my limited understanding, yes.

But my reading of https://advertising.amazon.com/resources/ad-policy/brand-usa... says you can host the logo yourself.

> Third-party vendors and sellers on our marketplace are permitted to display the “available at Amazon” logo in their ads to promote the availability of their products and services at Amazon. No formal review or approval is needed to use this logo.
Sure, but you're acting like acknowledging a problem is less helpful than pretending that there isn't one.

That isn't the case, has never been the case and will never be the case.
I imagine that could only happen in a few areas of the East Coast, and maybe one on the West Coast. There aren't many regions of the US with density comparable to the UK (FWIW, UK is smaller than Oregon and has 16x the number of people).
My Z840 is a few years old.. almost 8 years old actually. It is a dual Xeon with 32 cores and 256GB of ECC ram which is important for the computational fluid dynamics software I use. Brand new this machine would have probably been $20k... I purchased it for just about $2000 and this was years ago, they can be had for much less now. These type of workstations for CAD, CFD, FEA engineering work are very lucrative when purchased second hand as compared to buying new.
I've used Thunderbird with GMail for years, using POP, not IMAP.

It works well. However, in the last few months, the GMail Spam filtering service has stopped working with POP. Items marked as Spam in GMail still get downloaded.

I guess Google wants us to use their web-client.
Is Thunderbird a website?

SerenityOS has a better UI than all other Linux distributions. 90s inspired. So yes I guess?
why lately I tend to lean toward using something like
Sequel and mapping my own domain entities

I'm definitely itching to use something leaner like Sequel in a project. Before coming to Rails I used some nice lean C# ORMs like PetaPoco and Dapper and I really enjoyed that approach.

I think the more I lean on "advanced" SQL features,
the more I just think I've probably outgrown Rails
personally because it doesn't easily enable the kind
of solutions that I need.

I definitely agree that the "treat the database as a dumb, interchangable storage solution" mentality that infects Rails and other development communities is misguided IMO. Leaning into more advanced database stuff quite frequently the way to go for non-trivial solutions.

In practice, I still find Rails pretty amenable to a data-first approach. Applications tend to be a mix of advanced database stuff and simple CRUD operations. Realistically, a lot of developers are good at one but not the other. So on a given team, a mix of developers is able to play to their strengths.
> And without A/B testing, every product you use would be worse. Not only would it be less profitable, but it would also be harder to use, less useful, and less productive.

Do we live in the same universe? As far as I can tell, software keeps trending worse. Usability is terrible, options and settings keep getting moved around and hidden, software is less responsive than it used to be...
An announcement on Twitter that he's not under contract to do an OST would have been amusing.
omg, that gif is triggering me.

I CANNOT STAND UI's that are interactable before they have completed their layout rendering! Or things like notifications that suddenly push everything down, right when you were about to tap on one of those elements! Why is this still a thing? Any UI element that shifts or appears should have like a user-adjustable half-second delay before it becomes interactable again
I think the truth is somewhere in between- Doctorow does seem to have overstated what Piketty said, but not by a huge margin. I don't think this error dilutes Doctorow's argument very much.

From wikipedia (the article on Capital in the 21 Century):

"The book's central thesis is that when the rate of return on capital (r) is greater than the rate of economic growth (g) over the long term, the result is concentration of wealth, and this unequal distribution of wealth causes social and economic instability."

Doctorow got a little hyperbolic and replaced "instability" with "some kind of collapse", and "capital" with "capitalism" which is, as you point out, misrepresenting what Piketty said. But not tremendously.
> I think TikTok and similar products are garbage and will lower the average IQ, especially of younger generations. I am deeply concerned when I see kids hooked on that crack, because they are burning their potential

People in 1991 were complaining about the same with regards to newspapers (https://www.firstthings.com/article/1991/10/why-the-news-mak...) and you can probably find the same sentiment around the time that the first magazines were published around the 1740s (https://www.encyclopedia.com/arts/encyclopedias-almanacs-tra...).
I'd argue that the key difference is that the public isn't having to deal with a McDonalds induced food price increase while the public is very clearly having to deal with housing price increases induced by practices of this sort, especially in big cities.
Crypto.com Halts Solana USDC and USDT Withdrawals
Like mentioned, the excalidraw plugin is a game changer
I left Facebook in March after having worked there for seven years.

It was always a struggle to hire enough engineers to accomplish my team's goals, and it only got worse as time went on. We didn't have a terrible on-call or terrible team morale, we just tended to lose out to teams working on more visible projects. We could have doubled our headcount and still had a backlog of impactful work we couldn't get to.
Reads like it might be instructions to me.
multifocal ones work for some people, but also fairly often creates halos etc because as you say they're trying to cheat physics and rely on the brain learning what to filter out.

I cannot find any place that is offering $300 toric IOLs, patient cost of tonic IOLs is generally 1100-1500 (with insurance covering the remainder, however it does make me realize that I should get the receipt so I can submit that particular bit to my insurance company directly which I realize they may not have done)
A better example is Chase's promotion with Apple this year, which involves Chase credit card holders being able to redeem Ultimate Rewards points at a higher rate of up to 1.5 cents/point on Apple products compared to the standard rate of 1 cent/point for a limited time:

https://9to5mac.com/2022/10/03/chase-apple-products-redempti...

Many of Chase's credit card sign up offers provide enough points for a cardholder to obtain an iPhone through this promotion. If the cardholder does not want the iPhone, they could resell it on a marketplace. Amazon Marketplace used to be one of these marketplaces until it started restricting listings for certain brands such as Apple.
off the top of my head:

Oracle (READ: aggregated/decentralized APIs feed) services and other infrastructure that supports decentralized protocols (network graph, etc.)

Decentralized lending, borrowing, trading.

SaaS products in on-chain analytics, portfolio management, commerce aggreggation.

Gaming

Fine Art (a tiny minority of the art scene in crypto is pretty interesting, ex. distributed multiplayer run-time art, something that can't really exist outside of the medium)

Digital Collectibles as an end consumer product or in service of the construction of lifestyle brand / gaming / etc startups. (A lot of the most boring use cases land here, imo)

Advertising

Content creation/consumption
You also are missing the point. Potentially having the mortgage paid off in 15 years is meaningless if you have a cash flow problem in 5 years and default. That is the greater concern for most consumers.

Rates going up in the future is irrelevant if you have a fixed rate mortgage, so I don't know what point you're trying to make there.
> The real issue with this situation is working as a contractor on a single project. At the point you're working for one client, full time, as a contractor...you're an employee.

I disagree. I currently work as a contractor for one company more or less fully time. Because I'm a contractor, not an employee, I get to choose my hardware and OS, my own hours, I can take vacation when I want and most importantly, the employer can't force me to work in office.

Contract renewal is coming up soon, my rate is going up, and if they don't agree to it I'll just leave (if anyone needs a senior Java dev, email in bio :)).

> If you've got no other clients, you have no ability to negotiate with the simple statement

You don't need to negotiate, you need to assert you wont do free work and then don't do it.
Some people find it helpful to fidget with something in their hands during Zoom meetings, like a pen or a small toy. This can help to keep you focused and engaged in the discussion. Other ideas include doodling or taking notes.

If you have a lot of meetings, you may want to invest in a small whiteboard that you can use to jot down ideas or doodlings. This can be a great way to stay productive and engaged during long meetings.

If you tend to get fidgety during meetings, you may also want to try sitting on a stability ball or using a standing desk. This can help to keep your body active and engaged, which can help you to focus and pay attention.
1- authentication by authority: don't give check marks to people, give check marks to organizations, and they can give to their associated humans (employees/members etc), as they fit, and they lose it if they leave the organization.

this puts the burden of the verification (and content, by proxy) on the authenticating body, not on the platform. Twitter simply cannot verify all people, but it can verify the much smaller subset of organizations or have further organization verification even.

Who is this @ElonMusk guy? I don't know, but the "?" mark next to his name says that his account is verified by @Tesla, which in turn was verified by @Nasdaq, who might provide social media to all listed companies, for a fee.

@JoeBiden? He was once Verified by the@USSenate, then @VP, and now the @POTUS.

After retirement, it's upto them if they want to continue provide authentication or pretend like @DonaldTrump doesn't exist.

Youtube could provide Authentication for youtubers, Newspapers providing authentication for its journalists, etc.

What about random ol' me? I am an unaffiliated noob, so I could maybe get authentication from my university as a part of being an Alumni... or maybe I could verify my own damn self for $8 like Elon is trying to sell... but at a lower tier to authority led verification (but higher tier than the plebs, I guess)

Twitter could sell verification packages to organization for like $X for #Y associated account verifications or whatever.

Similarly, to advertisers, offer packages of verified organizations accounts to advertise against. A bloc of all authors verified by Big 5 Publishing is $X, if you want further granularity, it costs further... and you roll the dice on their comments.

Pressure is now on the verifying authority to keep their verified accounts in check, and if an author spews shit, their account remains and comments remain, but drops out of the package after losing verification, so advertiser are not affected.

that's my $0.02, haven't thought it all through yet.

E&OE.
People tend to think of Docker as big and complex and magic. Bocker lets us take a step back and not take Docker too seriously :)
Yes, it is great.

I have to use Outlook 365 and am surprised how much better Thunderbird is than Microsoft's offering.
Soybean Car
Attempting to emulate restricted with __builtin_unreachable has been one of the first thing I tried when I learned about unreachable. I periodically try again, but generally I have been underwhelmed with trying to give gcc value range informations with it.
looks like css nesting is really coming! "Chromium as of 109.0.5394.0 is updated with the new syntax."[0]

the syntax has been finalized to allow an implied "&" so that it matches scss more closely than the initially selected syntax, to avoid copy-and-paste errors when moving from scss to plain css with nesting.

found this via "A Brief and Probably Only Partially Correct History of CSS Nesting"[1]

[0]: https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/7834#issuecomment...

[1]: https://chriscoyier.net/2022/11/09/a-brief-and-probably-only...
I'm not really describing a national scenario, but some NYC specific conditions. For example the much vaunted AOC has personally intervened to kill 2 redevelopment projects that were broadly supported by neighbors and local community boards by whipping local DSA activists up and threatening council members and bringing the NIMBYs out who were already against any new development.

Rikers is another example where the prison abolitionists are coming together with law and order types who like Rikers. It makes no sense for these leftist prions abolitionists to partner with MAGA types in Staten Island but here we are.
The Intel ax210 is a real pain because it usually doesn't reliably come back from power saving mode.
> And without A/B testing, every product you use would be worse

Imagine thinking that seriously.
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Move here to Seattle and you can't throw a rock without hitting a current or ex Amazon employee:)

But also please don't throw rocks at us.
Evans: More expressive universal gRPC client
> In this specific example, where the claim is that Amazon and Apple colluded to raise prices by only allowing authorized Apple resellers on amazon.com, I guess I'm kind of sympathetic to Apple.

This is false:

“Ultimately Apple proposed, and Amazon agreed, to limit the number of resellers in each country to no more than 20. This arbitrary and purely quantitative threshold excluded even Authorized Resellers of Apple products.”

Apple is alleged to have created an Agreement with Amazon that retroactively limited the marketplaces where Apple Authorized Resellers could sell Apple products.
They should have paid him the 300 hrs just for the Super Gore Nest track.
> probably some sort of prayer/spell/whatever for it to work better

Or its like a shampoo bottle and it's written there because the carver felt like it.
We got rid of kings in politics for a reason. Businesses will eventually learn these lessons, even if it's a hundred years later.
I'm sure there were plenty of engineering challenges in building the first!
I'm surprised that he can't issue a DCMA takedown of Doom Eternal.
1) A lot of people learned about this stuff to make money with it, which many of them did

2) A lot of people learned about this stuff because it is a very meme-able concept: mathematicians will upend the entire global system of power with... math. The kids who got their lunch money stolen in elementary school really gravitated to it
InstantXR: Instant XR Environment Using Cloud-Based NeRF with 3D Assets
Detractors seem too focused on current energy usage and lack the foresight to consider the grid impact of a carpark full of cars wanting a top-up charge during the daytime.

Yes a nuclear plant can generate all this power, but you have to ship it around. Local power sources (DC charging from DC panel arrays) could prove very effective.
One of the earlier things I tried was to encourage myself to learn using a less awful layout (DVORAK as you suggested), and it didn't go very well unfortunately :(

That's very interesting about "developing" my fingers, I'll think on that, thank you!
Thanks, it's very, very interesting read.

I guess all large organizations have similar issues. Basically, contractors game the system for maximum profitability.

As the alternative is to recruit thousands of very competent people for sometimes a few hours a month, it is even less realistic.

There is perhaps an opportunity for a YC startup to "disrupt" this market? What about instead of having multiple hospitals loosely cooperating, making patients to travel to a unique efficient clinical trial center?

Even patients can benefit from it, Internet forums are full of patients complaining of having been mistreated during a clinical trial (having to pay, having to organize the trip themselves even when with a disability, waiting for hours on a chair, waiting in a cold hallway, being asked stupid questions by someone who is obviously not interested in the task)
>Now you're talking about value, which is entirely subjective.

No it's not. When an asset prices in cash, that price is dependent on it's ability to generate future cash (Goods/Services price based on the utility from consuming that thing). If you think that model is wrong, then you are wrong.

>As far as GDP, Ethereum spawned an entire new industry with tons of companies paying actual salaries to people (in fiat, if I might add), all of whom bought lattes and cars and houses, and some, I'm sure, also bought Peloton bikes.

Oh no no no. You are not buying any of that when you buy Ethereum. We are not talking about whether or not Coinbase/Binance/etc. are Ponzi schemes. They offer services in exchange for fees. That is GDP full stop.

Again, I can argue they are bad businesses because their fees are dependent on a Ponzi Scheme, but they are not the Ponzi Schemes.

>Crypto currencies are like stock tickers. The price does not have to have any bearing on the actual value generated by the stock or the company it represents.

This is a very weird argument. When an acquirer wants to buy a company, they need to pay the stock (usually plus a premium) price to own that company. Stock prices reflect the theoretical takeout price of a company (and this is put into practice every day).

Cryptocurrencies are marketed to you as similar to stock tickers, but they are currencies (it's sort of in the name) and currencies are valued by the demand for goods/services/assets you can buy with them (i.e. this is why export economies, all else equal, have strong currencies).

I would agree that cryptocurrencies would go up in value if you could buy an increasingly large amount of things with them (and only them), but heuristics imply the exact opposite is true.

>There is a speculative element to all markets, including the stock market. And I think you know that as well.

You're really not getting that there's 'overestimate future cashflow' speculation (bad but not so bad) and 'funamental misunderstanding of the asset' speculation.

But, it's your pocketbook so good luck.
I think it was a wise decision, as it will help Twitter to monetize its platform in addition to the ads it already sells. It will also help to ensure that only those who are truly dedicated to using Twitter will be verified, which will in turn help to improve the quality of content on the site. Furthermore, it will likely bring in a significant amount of revenue for Twitter, which can be used to improve the site in various ways. Bots will also be less likely to be verified, which will help to reduce spam on the site.
What are the odds of this coming to a standalone Sunbird client?

I've never really liked my email and calendar being in the same app. Especially not the same window, makes cross referencing a PITA. One of the things Apple gets right.
Pretty sure Binance was the first exchange to socialize the losses of a hack into an aidropped token to all users - which then allowed users of the exchange to gamble on the future on whether or not they’d be made whole.

Feels like the origin story of BNB chain to me
"in 2019, it passed laws limiting minors to less than 1.5 hours of online games on weekdays and three hours on weekends, with no game playing allowed between 10 p.m. to 8 a.m. It also limited how much minors could spend on virtual gaming items each month, with maximum amounts ranging from $28 to $57, depending on the age."

How could this be done without coordination?

In addition:
"One of the first systems required by the government was launched in 2005 to regulate adolescents' Internet use, including limiting daily gaming time to 3 hours and requiring users' identification in online video games.[134] In 2007, an "Online Game Anti-Addiction System" was implemented for minors, restricting their use to 3 hours or less per day. "
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_games_in_China
Notice what makes you smile despite yourself.
Think about the things you did over and over again between the ages of six to twelve.
Think of the times when you had to choose between different problems to solve, homework to do, questions to answer, whatever, and you chose what you chose.

As I type this, I am aware it sounds bonkers. But when you pay close attention to what accomplished, creative people say when they talk about their life's work, you notice it all sounds so very, very similar.

They could be in science or art or sports or music or politics or really anything, and they'd point to some foundational behavior or event at a young age. And then they'll also talk about not WHY they love the thing they're doing, but rather how they just SEEMED TO DO the thing they're doing, and they kinda decided they may as well do more of it, or do it properly.

It's not about a big reveal. Rather, it's like a tiny voice, and the more attentively you listen, the clearer it becomes.
It's like you're in my head. I had this exact same experience as you did, word for word.
I could have hypotheses around wheel dimensions (e.g. width, diameter), materials, etc. that are absolutely great targets for A/B testing.
i've lost interest in the qubit race.

what can this machine do productively?
People are multifaceted. I'm sure he is good to
his employees, like people are describing, but that ain't it.

This is refreshing to read. I would like to see more of this rather than "Zuck good" or "Zuck bad."

Of course, for those immediately impacted and hurt/angered by his actions I certainly wouldn't blame anybody for venting.

But it would be much more productive to talk about "thing Zuck did good" or "thing Zuck did bad."
Guessing that of the words translated, "tusk" is the least likely to be correct. Betting "ivory" is closer.
I should have been more explicit. I am questioning the claim that Apple has "full control on ARM" with no restriction on the cores they make, grandfathered in from the 1980s. Nobody has ever substantiated that claim.
> "The move is in response to Motorola’s delays in reaching volume production of its 500 MHz G4 processor chip, which is now scheduled for availability early next year."

> "A full six months after its original introduction, Apple was finally shipping a 500 MHz Power Mac G4. [...] a lesson in controlling your own technology stack that Apple wouldn’t forget."

I guess this was the start of the PowerPC production (and later, performance) woes that would eventually lead to Apple transitioning to Intel, announced at WWDC 2005.